cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Magellanic Cloud Calibration of the Galactic Planetary Nebula Distance Scale
Creators: name: Stanghellini, Letizia
name: Shaw, Richard A.
name: Villaver, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galactic planetary nebula (PN) distances are derived, except in a small number of cases, through the calibration of statistical properties of PNe. Such calibrations are limited by the accuracy of individual PN distances which are obtained with several non-homogeneous methods, each carrying its own set of liabilities. In this paper we use the physical properties of the PNe in the Magellanic Clouds, and their accurately known distances, to recalibrate the Shklovsky/Daub distance technique. Our new calibration is very similar (within 1 percent) of the commonly used distance scale by Cahn et al. (1992), although there are important differences. We find that neither distance scale works well for PNe with classic ("butterfly") bipolar morphology, and while the radiation bounded PN sequences in both the Galactic and the Magellanic Cloud calibration have similar slopes, the transition from optically thick to optically thin appears to occur at higher surface brightness and smaller size than that adopted by Cahn et al. The dispersion in the determination of the scale factor suggests that PN distances derived by this method are uncertain by at least 30 percent, and that this dispersion cannot be reduced significantly by using better calibrators. We present a catalog of Galactic PN distances using our re-calibration which can be used for future applications, and compare the best individual Galactic PN distances to our new and several other distance scales, both in the literature and newly recalibrated by us, finding that our scale is the most reliable to date.
description: The Astrophysical Journal, in press
Szlachta - społeczeństwo - państwo między Warmią a Rugią w XVIII-XX wieku
Creators: name: Hackmann, Jörg
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 1 (2001)
Competitiveness vs. Cooperation 4.0: The War of the Worlds?
Creators: name: Liebart, Deborah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: competitiveness, cooperation 4.0, overproduction, productivism, distributed system, commons

description: Classical economists, with the possible exception of Malthus, were sure that the human being was able to create on earth an idyllic utopia based on the idea that the acceleration of economic activity would lead to material abundance and equilibrium, and not one could imagine that this acceleration pushed to the extreme, can have such a heavy environmental impact. The concepts developed and defended by the classics have had the effect, of introducing at a paroxysmic point the competition between economic agents by developing at an unprecedented rate production and especially productivity. The market mechanism, which has become Smith's "invisible hand", regulates supply and demand, self-interest leading to a steady improvement in well-being and the general interest. Free competition and competitiveness are at the center of the prevailing economic theory of the century.
Le travail de soudure pour l’ingénierie nucléaire / Il lavoro di saldatura per l’ingegneria nucleare
Creators: name: Maggi, Bruno
name: Faïta, Daniel
name: Rulli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2014
Subjects: L-LIN/01 Glottologia e linguistica
M-FIL/02 Logica e filosofia della scienza
M-PSI/06 Psicologia del lavoro e delle organizzazioni
MED/44 Medicina del lavoro
SECS-P/08 Economia e gestione delle imprese
SECS-P/10 Organizzazione aziendale
SPS/09 Sociologia dei processi economici e del lavoro

description: A welding work process in a plant for the production of heavy components for the nuclear industry is analyzed through two different methodologies. The first analysis concerns the work of welders, according to the Méthode de l’Auto-confrontation, proposed by Daniel Faïta and widely utilized in France. An organizational analysis, extended to a biomedical analysis of health and safety conditions of workers, concerns the whole welding process, according to the Method of Organizational Congruences, proposed by Bruno Maggi, and adopted for three decades within the Interdisciplinary Research Program “Organization and Well-being”. The two methods’ complementarity and synergy, already discussed in previous publications, are emphasized both in diagnostic terms and in relation to possible work transformations aimed at improving effectiveness, efficiency and workers’ well-being.
Self-injury of convicts in conditions of prison isolation
Creators: name: Mazur, Eliza
name: Forma, Paulina
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2021

description: Prison isolation forces a person serving a sentence of imprisonment to comply with the organizational regulations of the penitentiary unit and to adapt to completely different, previously unknown living conditions. The conditions prevailing in the prison make it impossible to meet many mental and social needs related to freedom, sex, social contacts or preferences. Many studies on self-injury emphasize that the reality of prison and the fact of losing freedom adversely affects the behaviour and well-being of people serving prison sentences. Marking, standardization and degradation are related to the process of depersonalization. Behaviours directed against oneself concern all groups of convicts, especially juveniles, remand prisoners and penitentiary recidivists. The aim of the article, apart from presenting the theoretical aspect of self-injury, is, inter alia, to determine what kind of self-harm is committed by people serving a sentence of imprisonment and what are their reasons. The authors look for answers to the research problems in the results of the research carried out in the Kielce Remand Prison in a group of a total of 120 convicted men and women (penitentiary recidivists, people convicted for the first time). In the light of the obtained research results, the convicts perform various self-injuries of the body. The most characteristic are: skin and subcutaneous tissue incisions on the abdomen, chest, forearms, swallowing objects, refusal to eat, inserting objects under the skin, eye powders, oral poisoning. Psychologists see the determinants of this phenomenon in personality disorders, which are characterized by: aggressiveness, irritability, tendency to impulsive and primitive behaviour, the predominance of emotionality over intellectual reactions, low self-esteem and guilt. On the other hand, practitioners working in a prison on a daily basis believe that the deprivation of needs and frustration in conditions of prison isolation are the main source of this type of behaviour. In this way, people who commit acts of self-harm deal with enormous psychological tension. For them, it is also a form of survival in conditions of penitentiary isolation.
A genome-wide association study of IVGTT-based measures of first-phase insulin secretion refines the underlying physiology of type 2 diabetes variants
Creators: name: Van Haeften, T.W.
name: Bergman, R.N.
name: Pedersen, O.
name: Wang, N.
name: Nijpels, G.
name: Wood, A.R.
name: T'Hart, L.M.
name: Natali, A.
name: Norris, J.M.
name: Eekhoff, E.M.W.
name: Xiang, A.H.
name: De Geus, E.J.C.
name: Wagenknecht, L.E.
name: Pearson, E.R.
name: Taylor, K.D.
name: Eiberg, H.
name: Collins, F.S.
name: Palmer, N.D.
name: Walker, M.
name: Fritsche, A.
name: Boehnke, M.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Bowden, D.W.
name: Grarup, N.
name: Kobes, S.
name: Hansen, T.
name: Deelen, J.
name: Mohlke, K.L.
name: Van Leewen, N.
name: Baier, L.
name: Boomsma, D.I.
name: Stancáková, A.
name: Watanabe, R.M.
name: Chen, Y.-D.
name: Jonsson, A.
name: Banasik, K.
name: Mari, A.
name: Mahajan, A.
name: McCarthy, M.I.
name: Smith, U.
name: Frayling, T.M.
name: Simonis-Bik, A.
name: Paananen, J.
name: Jackson, A.U.
name: Groves, C.J.
name: Boquete-Vilarino, L.
name: Tuomilehto, J.
name: Laakso, M.
name: Buchanan, T.A.
name: Hanson, R.L.
name: Gjesing, A.P.
Publisher: name: American Diabetes Association Inc.
Year: 2017

description: Understanding the physiological mechanisms by which common variants predispose to type 2 diabetes requires large studies with detailed measures of insulin secretion and sensitivity. Here we performed the largest genomewide association study of first-phase insulin secretion, as measured by intravenous glucose tolerance tests, using up to 5,567 individuals without diabetes from 10 studies. We aimed to refine the mechanisms of 178 known associations between common variants and glycemic traits and identify new loci. Thirty type 2 diabetes or fasting glucose-raising alleles were associated with a measure of first-phase insulin secretion at P < 0.05 and provided new evidence, or the strongest evidence yet, that insulin secretion, intrinsic to the islet cells, is a key mechanism underlying the associations at the HNF1A, IGF2BP2, KCNQ1, HNF1B, VPS13C/C2CD4A, FAF1, PTPRD, AP3S2, KCNK16, MAEA, LPP, WFS1, and TMPRSS6 loci. The fasting glucose-raising allele near PDX1, a known key insulin transcription factor, was strongly associated with lower first-phase insulin secretion but has no evidence for an effect on type 2 diabetes risk. The diabetes risk allele at TCF7L2 was associated with a stronger effect on peak insulin response than on C-peptide-based insulin secretion rate, suggesting a possible additional role in hepatic insulin clearance or insulin processing. In summary, our study provides further insight into the mechanisms by which common genetic variation influences type 2 diabetes risk and glycemic traits.
Solar wind current sheets and deHoffmann-Teller analysis: First results of DC electric field measurements by Solar Orbiter
Creators: name: Steinvall, K.
name: Khotyaintsev, Yu. V.
name: Cozzani, G.
name: Vaivads, A.
name: Yordanova, E.
name: Eriksson, A. I.
name: Edberg, N. J. T.
name: Maksimovic, M.
name: Bale, S. D.
name: Chust, T.
name: Krasnoselskikh, V.
name: Kretzschmar, M.
name: Lorfèvre, E.
name: Plettemeier, D.
name: Souček, J.
name: Steller, M.
name: Štverák, Š.
name: Vecchio, A.
name: Horbury, T. S.
name: O'Brien, H.
name: Evans, V.
name: Fedorov, A.
name: Louarn, P.
name: Génot, V.
name: André, N.
name: Lavraud, B.
name: Rouillard, A. P.
name: Owen, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar Orbiter was launched on February 10, 2020 with the purpose of investigating solar and heliospheric physics using a payload of instruments designed for both remote and in-situ sensing. Similar to the recently launched Parker Solar Probe, and unlike earlier missions, Solar Orbiter carries instruments designed to measure the low frequency DC electric fields. In this paper we assess the quality of the low-frequency DC electric field measured by the Radio and Plasma Waves instrument (RPW) on Solar Orbiter. In particular we investigate the possibility of using Solar Orbiter's DC electric and magnetic field data to estimate the solar wind speed. We use deHoffmann-Teller (HT) analysis based on measurements of the electric and magnetic fields to find the velocity of solar wind current sheets which minimizes a single component of the electric field. By comparing the HT velocity to proton velocity measured by the Proton and Alpha particle Sensor (PAS) we develop a simple model for the effective antenna length, $L_\text{eff}$ of the E-field probes. We then use the HT method to estimate the speed of the solar wind. Using the HT method, we find that the observed variations in $E_y$ are often in excellent agreement with the variations in the magnetic field. The magnitude of $E_y$, however, is uncertain due to the fact that the $L_\text{eff}$ depends on the plasma environment. We derive an empirical model relating $L_\text{eff}$ to the Debye length, which we can use to improve the estimate of $E_y$ and consequently the estimated solar wind speed. The low frequency electric field provided by RPW is of high quality. Using deHoffmann-Teller analysis, Solar Orbiter's magnetic and electric field measurements can be used to estimate the solar wind speed when plasma data is unavailable.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Jörg K. Hoensch, Geschichte Polens. Dritte neubearb. Und erw. Aufl
Creators: name: Kersken, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 4 (2001)
D0 - D0bar mixing: theory basics
Creators: name: Guadagnoli, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I discuss how the novel experimental data on D0 - D0bar mixing can be combined to provide information on the fundamental theoretical quantities describing the mixing itself. I then discuss the theoretical impact of the new data, focusing in particular on the MSSM.
description: Proceedings of the EPS-HEP 2007 Conference, Manchester (UK). 3 pages, 1 table, 1 figure
Aleksander Wat, Jenseits von Wahrheit und Lüge. Mein Jahrhundert. Gesprochene Erinnerungen 1926-1945
Creators: name: Friedrich, Klaus-Peter
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 2 (2001)
Sustainability and effectiveness of social force activated under the participation in social and cultural projects implemented in Warmia and Mazury
Creators: name: Kurkowski, Cezary
name: Białobrzeska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2021

description: Warmia and Masuria is a young region in the social and cultural sense, creating a post-immigrant community that was formed as a result of the influx of various population groups to these areas. The article describes the process of creating a cultural identity in Warmia and Masuria and the role of social activation in building social forces in local communities. This article aimed to show the role played by socio-cultural project activities in the context of stimulation and sustainability of social forces conducted in local communities in the areas of Warmia and Masuria in the opinion of the participants of these activities. These analyses were based on empirical studies.
Genetic risk scores in the prediction of plasma glucose, impaired insulin secretion, insulin resistance and incident type 2 diabetes in the METSIM study
Creators: name: Boehnke, M.
name: Collins, F.S.
name: Mohlke, K.L.
name: Stančáková, A.
name: Laakso, M.
name: Kuulasmaa, T.
name: Kuusisto, J.
Publisher: name: Springer Verlag
Year: 2017

description: Aims/hypothesis: Many SNPs have been associated with glycaemic traits and type 2 diabetes, but their joint effects on glycaemic traits and the underlying mechanisms leading to hyperglycaemia over time are largely unknown. We aimed to investigate the association of six genetic risk scores (GRSs) with changes in plasma glucose, insulin sensitivity, insulin secretion and incident type 2 diabetes in the prospective METabolic Syndrome In Men (METSIM) study. Methods: We generated weighted GRSs for fasting plasma glucose ([FPG] GRSFPG, 35 SNPs), 2 h plasma glucose ([2hPG] GRS2hPG, 9 SNPs), insulin secretion (GRSIS, 17 SNPs), insulin resistance (GRSIR, 9 SNPs) and BMI (GRSBMI, 95 SNPs) and a non-weighted GRS for type 2 diabetes (GRST2D, 76 SNPs) in up to 8749 non-diabetic Finnish men. Linear regression was used to test associations of the GRSs with changes in glycaemic traits over time. Results: GRST2D, GRSFPG and GRSIS were associated with an increase in FPG, GRST2D with an increase in glucose AUC and a decrease in insulin secretion, and GRS2hPG with an increase in 2hPG during the follow-up (p < 0.0017 for all models). GRST2D, GRSFPG and GRSIS were associated with incident type 2 diabetes (p < 0.008 for all models). GRSBMI and GRSIR were not significantly associated with any changes in glycaemic traits. Conclusions/interpretation: In the METSIM follow-up study, GRST2D, GRSFPG and GRSIS were associated with the worsening of FPG and an increase in incident type 2 diabetes. GRST2D was additionally associated with a decrease in insulin secretion, and GRS2hPG with an increase in 2hPG.
The conditioning of hermeneutic competences of students of pedagogy
Creators: name: Kaliszewska, Małgorzata
name: Klasińska, Barbara
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2021

description: The main purpose of the research studies presented in the article was first to determine the essence of the hermeneutic competences of students of pedagogy, and then the factors affecting their improvement in the conditions of the university. At the basis of the belief in the need to introduce this type of competences to academic teaching were the contemporary discourses about the new - strong professionalism, additionally enlightened by hermeneutics to improve the quality and depth of the work performed and the postulate that the teaching should focus not only on the measurable competences, but also hermeneutic capabilities, related to the responsibility and ability to understand, interpret and form oneself and the world as meaningful wholes constituted by sense. When analysing contemporary society and education the general conclusion does emphasize the meaning and necessity of specific formation of hermeneutical competences for students of pedagogy (as well as any other social professions) in the course of carefully thought-out process of studying and teaching at universities and as part of learning under the self-education process. The study consists of three complementary parts, the first one explains the origins and meaning of hermeneutical competences, the second - the structure and levels of these competences, and the third - the factors deciding on the formation of hermeneutical competences of students of pedagogy in the light of our studies in action.
Evaluating the contribution of rare variants to type 2 diabetes and related traits using pedigrees
Creators: name: DePristo, M.
name: Duggirala, R.
name: Williams, A.L.
name: Mazur, A.
name: Teslovich, T.M.
name: Locke, A.E.
name: Park, T.
name: Dyer, T.
name: Tearle, R.G.
name: Manning, A.
name: Kim, Y.J.
name: Boehnke, M.
name: Akolkar, B.
name: Gaulton, K.J.
name: Rivas, M.A.
name: Fingerlin, T.
name: Kim, J.
name: Burtt, N.P.
name: Wilson, J.G.
name: Chines, P.S.
name: Feng, S.
name: Frayling, T.M.
name: Altshuler, D.
name: Morris, A.P.
name: Choi, S.
name: Li, H.
name: Liu, X.
name: Chen, H.
name: Atzmon, G.
name: Florez, J.C.
name: McKeon, C.s
name: Hanis, C.L.
name: Cingolani, P.
name: Nicolae, D.L.
name: Trubetskoy, V.
name: Reich, D.
name: Sim, X.
name: Fuchsberger, C.
name: Won, S.
name: Peralta, J.
name: Bell, G.I.
name: Churchhouse, C.
name: Laramie, J.
name: Blangero, J.
name: Blackwell, T.W.
name: Dupuis, J.
name: Grundstad, J.
name: Abecasis, G.R.
name: Jun, G.s
name: Mohlke, K.L.
name: Ragona, D.
name: Zawistowski, M.
name: Lincoln, S.E.
name: Lee, J.
name: Livne, O.
name: Lehman, D.
name: Wood, A.R.
name: Below, J.E.
name: King, R.
name: McCarthy, M.I.
name: Maller, J.
name: Curran, J.E.
name: Sladek, R.
name: Lee, S.
name: Pollin, T.I.
name: Heath, A.
name: Fontanillas, P.
name: Seielstad, M.
name: Almeida, M.
name: Grossman, R.
name: Zöllner, S.
name: Cox, N.J.
name: Scott, L.J.
name: Teo, Y.Y.
Publisher: name: National Academy of Sciences
Year: 2017

description: A major challenge in evaluating the contribution of rare variants to complex disease is identifying enough copies of the rare alleles to permit informative statistical analysis. To investigate the contribution of rare variants to the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and related traits, we performed deep whole-genome analysis of 1,034 members of 20 large Mexican-American families with high prevalence of T2D. If rare variants of large effect accounted for much of the diabetes risk in these families, our experiment was powered to detect association. Using gene expression data on 21,677 transcripts for 643 pedigree members, we identified evidence for large-effect rare-variant cis-expression quantitative trait loci that could not be detected in population studies, validating our approach. However, we did not identify any rare variants of large effect associated with T2D, or the related traits of fasting glucose and insulin, suggesting that large-effect rare variants account for only a modest fraction of the genetic risk of these traits in this sample of families. Reliable identification of large-effect rare variants will require larger samples of extended pedigrees or different study designs that further enrich for such variants.
Bell-inequality violation with a triggered photon-pair source
Creators: name: Young, R. J.
name: Stevenson, R. M.
name: Hudson, A. J.
name: Nicoll, C. A.
name: Ritchie, D. A.
name: Shields, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we demonstrate, for the first time, violation of Bell's inequality using a triggered quantum dot photon-pair source without post-selection. Furthermore, the fidelity to the expected Bell state can be increased above 90% using temporal gating to reject photons emitted at times when collection of uncorrelated light is more probable. A direct measurement of a CHSH Bell inequality is made showing a clear violation, highlighting that a quantum dot entangled photon source is suitable for communication exploiting non-local quantum correlations.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Barriers to the activation of social forces stimulated by participation in social and cultural projects
Creators: name: Kurkowski, Cezary
name: Białobrzeska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2021

description: This article presents the factors that motivate participation in socio-cultural projects and analyses barriers to the stimulation and durability of social forces among participants of these projects, residents of Warmia and Masuria. The key category depicting discovery, activation and support processes are social forces in local communities.
Linkage disequilibrium between microsatellite markers extends beyond 1 cM on chromosome 20 in Finns
Creators: name: Boehnke, M.
name: Bergman, R.N.
name: Valle, T.T.
name: Collins, F.S.
name: Chines, P.S.
name: Tuomilehto, J.
name: Silander, K.
name: Magnuson, V.L.
name: Watanabe, R.M.
name: Lange, E.M.
name: Ghosh, S.
name: Mohlke, K.L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is a proven tool for evaluating population structure and localizing genes for monogenic disorders. LD-based methods may also help localize genes for complex traits. We evaluated marker-marker LD using 43 microsatellite markers spanning chromosome 20 with an average density of 2.3 cM. We studied 837 individuals affected with type 2 diabetes and 386 mostly unaffected spouse controls. A test of homogeneity between the affected individuals and their spouses showed no difference, allowing the 1223 individuals to be analyzed together. Significant (P < 0.01) LD was observed using a likelihood ratio test in all (11/11) marker pairs within 1 cM, 78% (25/32) of pairs 1-3 cM apart, and 39% (7/18) of pairs 3-4 cM apart, but for only 12 of 842 pairs more than 4 cM apart. We used the human genome project working draft sequence to estimate kilobase (kb) intermarker distances, and observed highly significant LD (P < 10 -10) for all six marker pairs up to 350 kb apart, although the correlation of LD with cM is slightly better than the correlation with megabases. These data suggest that microsatellites present at 1-cM density are sufficient to observe marker-marker LD in the Finnish population.
Developing Virtual Reality Design Guidelines for Efficient Depth Perception
Creators: name: Singh, Ankit
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Virtual Reality (VR) has become a fast-growing technology that is being utilized by different sectors of industries with a plethora of applications. With the growing popularity, this device has presented some challenges for VR application designers while placing objects in the 3-D VR environment. The optimal distance of objects from the users, or intended viewing distance as explained in the text, becomes a factor of paramount importance. This study focuses on helping designers overcome this difficulty by providing some guidelines following which, they can decide the intended viewing distance for their users. Eye-tracking data from users while they performed a visual search task was utilized and this data was utilized to provide the guidelines. Different variables were evaluated for this purpose. The effect of variables ‘Distance between Two points on the Same Plane’ (DTSP) and ‘Plane Distance’ was studied on ‘Time to Navigate’ variable. Machine learning models were utilized to predict the ‘Time to Navigate’ for points kept at different ‘DTSP’ at different ‘Plane Distances’ from the user. ‘Plane Distance’ in the dataset used by the study was in the range of 1 m – 2 m with 25 cm interval between each plane distance. Results showed that the ‘DTSP’ variable had a significant positive effect on ‘Time to Navigate’ and ‘Plane Distance’ had a weak negative effect on ‘Time to Navigate’. The intended viewing distance was found to be at a ‘Plane Distance’ of 2 m.
Brief, Erzählung, Tagebuch. Autobiographische Dokumente als Quellen zu Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen in und aus dem östlichen Europa
Creators: name: Löneke, Regina
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 1 (2001)
Der Beitrag der Deutschbalten und der städtischen Rußlanddeutschen zur Entwicklung des Russischen Reiches von der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg (1850-1917)
Creators: name: Pistohlkors, Gert Von
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 4 (2001)
Elżbieta Alabrudzińska, Der Protestantismus in den Ostgebieten Polens in den Jahren 1921-1939
Creators: name: Maser, Peter
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 2 (2001)
Kulturtransfer Polen - Deutschland. Wechselbeziehungen in Sprache, Kultur und Gesellschaft
Creators: name: Trepte, Hans-Christian
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 1 (2001)
Akta wizytacji generalnej diecezji inflanckiej i kurlandzkiej czyli piltyńskiej z 1761 roku
Creators: name: Wörster, Peter
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 4 (2001)
John Paul Himka, Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine. The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galivia, 1867-1900
Creators: name: Lorenz, Torsten
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2002

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 51 Nr. 1 (2002)
Ryszard Michalski, Polska między Niemcami a Rosją. Obraz świata, Rzeczypospolitej i jej sąsiadów na łamach prasy pomorskiej w latach 1920-1939 oraz 1945-1948
Creators: name: Friedrich, Klaus-Peter
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 2 (2001)
Reimund Meffert, Schulreform in Pommern 1815-1933. Studien zur Bildungsgeschichte einer preußischen Provinz
Creators: name: Hesse, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 4 (2001)
Marian Paluszkiewicz, Jerzy Szews, Słownik biograficzny członków tajnych towarzystw gimnazjalnych w Wielkim Ksiąstwie Poznańskim 1850-1918
Creators: name: Schröder, Christoph
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 2 (2001)
Martin Walde, Gestaltung sorbischer katholischer Lebenswelt. Eine Diskursanalyse der religiösen Zeitschrift "Katolski Posoł" zwischen 1863 und 1939
Creators: name: Krampen, Nele
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 4 (2001)
LHC Phenomenology of an Extended Standard Model with a Real Scalar Singlet
Creators: name: Barger, Vernon
name: Langacker, Paul
name: McCaskey, Mathew
name: Ramsey-Musolf, Michael J.
name: Shaughnessy, Gabe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gauge singlet extensions of the Standard Model (SM) scalar sector may help remedy its theoretical and phenomenological shortcomings while solving outstanding problems in cosmology. Depending on the symmetries of the scalar potential, such extensions may provide a viable candidate for the observed relic density of cold dark matter or a strong first order electroweak phase transition needed for electroweak baryogenesis. Using the simplest extension of the SM scalar sector with one real singlet field, we analyze the generic implications of a singlet-extended scalar sector for Higgs boson phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We consider two broad scenarios: one in which the neutral SM Higgs and singlet mix and the other in which no mixing occurs and the singlet can be a dark matter particle. For the first scenario, we analyze constraints from electroweak precision observables and their implications for LHC Higgs phenomenology. For models in which the singlet is stable, we determine the conditions under which it can yield the observed relic density, compute the cross sections for direct detection in recoil experiments, and discuss the corresponding signatures at the LHC.
description: 39 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables
The small business deduction and a Canadian tax on unreasonable accumulations
Creators: name: Dent, Douglas Edward
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In its treatment of "small" business at the time of Tax Reform, the government of the day chose not to attempt to achieve the ephemeral goal of strict adherence to concepts such as neutrality and horizontal equity. On the contrary, in implementing the "small business deduction" for Canadian-controlled private corporations its stated intention was to provide "direct assistance to small business — but only to incorporated small business. Conventional wisdom justifies such a policy of providing assistance to small business on the theory that in the absence of special tax concessions (or other assistance) for small business imperfections in the capital markets, which are alleged to reduce significantly the funding available to small business, would limit the ability of small business to fulfil what is seen by adherents to this theory to be its traditional entrepreneurial role in the Canadian economy. The thesis proposed herein does not attempt to assess the validity of a policy of providing assistance to small business through fiscal measures (assuming that it does in fact exist) but rather focuses on a potential inefficiency inherent in one aspect of its (apparent) implementation: there is presently no control mechanism to ensure that the funds made available to incorporated small business through the "small business deduction" are used in furtherance of the purported goal of this tax credit, i.e. "direct assistance to small business." It is suggested in this thesis that the restoration of some form of tax on unreasonable accumulations to replace the departed Part V tax would provide appropriate pressure upon the Canadian-controlled private corporation in terms of guiding the tax deferral benefits available through the small business deduction towards their stated object. Such a tax would, of course, have the complementary function of depriving those corporations which failed to reinvest the deferral benefits of same. Chapter one of the thesis introduces the topic and defines its basic parameters. As a means of laying a foundation for exploring the suggestion that a tax on unreasonable accumulations may be desirable, chapter two reviews the relevant statutory context into which such a tax would have to be placed. Chapter three considers aspects of the justification for such a tax. In the interest of learning such lessons as history might offer in this realm, chapters four, five and six examine specific variations on such a tax which have already found expression in legislative form: chapter four dealing with Canadian experiences in this area, chapter five looking at the American example and chapter six reviewing its British manifestation. Chapter seven analysis the possibilities as to the form which a tax on unreasonable accumulations might in fact take were it to be instituted in Canada. Finally, chapter eight contains some conclusions.
Ultrastructural Analysis of Proteins Implicated in Synaptic Vesicle Docking and Priming in C. elegans
Creators: name: Sheoran, Seema
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Neurotransmitter release at synapses is mediated by the fusion of neurotransmitter containing synaptic vesicles (SV) with the presynaptic membrane. As neurotransmitter release is critical for integrating sensory inputs and for the subsequent cognitive and behavioral outcomes, it is highly regulated at every stage by cellular and molecular players. Research over the years have established SNARE (soluble-N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment receptor) complex as the core synaptic vesicle fusion machinery. There are several other neuronal proteins that regulate SV fusion by directly or indirectly affecting SNARE complex assembly and its function. My thesis focuses on understanding the role of three such neuronal proteins: UNC-13 (Uncoordinated), SAX-7 (Sensory Axon Guidance), and VPS-39 (Vacuolar Protein Sorting). By studying the ultrastructural changes at the synapses, I contributed to the understanding of the function of these regulators in the critical SV fusion stage of neurotransmission.
Quark and lepton masses at the GUT scale including SUSY threshold corrections
Creators: name: Antusch, Stefan
name: Spinrath, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of supersymmetric (SUSY) threshold corrections on the values of the running quark and charged lepton masses at the GUT scale within the large $\tanβ$ regime of the MSSM. In addition to the typically dominant SUSY QCD contributions for the quarks, we also include the electroweak contributions for quarks and leptons and show that they can have significant effects. We provide the GUT scale ranges of quark and charged lepton Yukawa couplings as well as of the ratios $m_μ/m_s$, $m_e/m_d$, $y_τ/y_b$ and $y_t/y_b$ for three example ranges of SUSY parameters. We discuss how the enlarged ranges due to threshold effects might open up new possibilities for constructing GUT models of fermion masses and mixings.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures; comments added, figure 5 extended; version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
title: Externalisierung, Othering, Rassismus. Fallstricke im (visuellen) Kampf gegen Antisemitismus
Creators: name: Axster, Felix
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History: Visual History
Year: 2019

description: Dieser Text handelt nicht von antisemitischen Bildern, sondern von Bildern, die im Kampf gegen Antisemitismus eingesetzt werden. Genauer gesagt, geht es um das Plakat der internationalen Tagung „An End to Antisemitism“, die vom 18. bis zum 22. Februar 2018 in Wien stattfand. Auf diesem Plakat ist eine Grafik zu sehen, die das Sündenbock-Motiv visualisiert und somit die Funktions- und Wirkungsweise von Antisemitismus kritisch zu veranschaulichen versucht.
Celestial Diamonds: Conformal Multiplets in Celestial CFT
Creators: name: Pasterski, Sabrina
name: Puhm, Andrea
name: Trevisani, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the structure of global conformal multiplets in 2D celestial CFT. For a 4D bulk theory containing massless particles of spin $s=\{0,\frac{1}{2},1,\frac{3}{2},2\}$ we classify and construct all SL(2,$\mathbb{C}$) primary descendants which are organized into 'celestial diamonds'. This explicit construction is achieved using a wavefunction-based approach that allows us to map 4D scattering amplitudes to celestial CFT correlators of operators with SL(2,$\mathbb{C}$) conformal dimension $Δ$ and spin $J$. Radiative conformal primary wavefunctions have $J=\pm s$ and give rise to conformally soft theorems for special values of $Δ\in \frac{1}{2}\mathbb{Z}$. They are located either at the top of celestial diamonds, where they descend to trivial null primaries, or at the left and right corners, where they descend both to and from generalized conformal primary wavefunctions which have $|J|\leq s$. Celestial diamonds naturally incorporate degeneracies of opposite helicity particles via the 2D shadow transform relating radiative primaries and account for the global and asymptotic symmetries in gauge theory and gravity.
description: 61 pages, 10 figures
X-ray observations of the galaxy cluster PKS 0745-191: To the virial radius, and beyond
Creators: name: George, Matthew R.
name: Fabian, Andrew C.
name: Sanders, Jeremy S.
name: Young, Andrew J.
name: Russell, Helen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure X-ray emission from the outskirts of the cluster of galaxies PKS 0745-191 with Suzaku, determining radial profiles of density, temperature, entropy, gas fraction, and mass. These measurements extend beyond the virial radius for the first time, providing new information about cluster assembly and the diffuse intracluster medium out to ~1.5 r_200, (r_200 ~ 1.7 Mpc ~ 15'). The temperature is found to decrease by roughly 70 per cent from 0.3-1 r_200. We also see a flattening of the entropy profile near the virial radius and consider the implications this has for the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium when deriving mass estimates. We place these observations in the context of simulations and analytical models to develop a better understanding of non-gravitational physics in the outskirts of the cluster.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, accepted to MNRAS; expanded discussion of analysis and uncertainties, results qualitatively unchanged
Belief in life as a zero-sum game in terms of stress and the social world perception
Creators: name: Potaczała- Perz, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2021

description: Perceiving the world as a zero-sum game can intensify the level of stress associated with current life situation, and may condition adaptation of some coping strategies that are used by the people who are in stressful situation and have such understanding of the surrounding environment. In addition, perceived stress and coping strategies may explain people's belief that life is a zero-sum game. The purpose of this article is the attempt to answer the question whether there is a relationship between belief in life as a zero-sum game, perceived stress and the use of specific coping strategies. It also aims at checking whether perceived stress and coping strategies are predictors for belief in life as a zero-sum game.
First-order nonlinear eigenvalue problems involving functions of a general oscillatory behavior
Creators: name: Komijani, Javad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eigenvalue problems arise in many areas of physics, from solving a classical electromagnetic problem to calculating the quantum bound states of the hydrogen atom. In textbooks, eigenvalue problems are defined for linear problems, particularly linear differential equations such as time-independent Schrödinger equations. Eigenfunctions of such problems exhibit several standard features independent of the form of the underlying equations. As discussed in Bender \emph{et al} [\href{http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/47/23/235204}{J.~Phys.~A 47, 235204 (2014)}], separatrices of nonlinear differential equations share some of these features. In this sense, they can be considered eigenfunctions of nonlinear differential equations, and the quantized initial conditions that give rise to the separatrices can be interpreted as eigenvalues. We introduce a first-order nonlinear eigenvalue problem involving a general class of functions and obtain the large-eigenvalue limit by reducing it to a random walk problem on a half-line. The introduced general class of functions covers many special functions such as the Bessel and Airy functions, which are themselves solutions of second-order differential equations. For instance, in a special case involving the Bessel functions of the first kind, i.e., for $y'(x)=J_ν(xy)$, we show that the eigenvalues asymptotically grow as $2^{41/42} n^{1/4}$. We also introduce and discuss nonlinear eigenvalue problems involving the reciprocal gamma and the Riemann zeta functions, which are not solutions to simple differential equations. With the reciprocal gamma function, i.e., for $y'(x)=1/Γ(-xy)$, we show that the $n$th eigenvalue grows factorially fast as $\sqrt{(1-2n)/Γ(r_{2n-1})}$, where $r_k$ is the $k$th root of the digamma function.
description: 17 pages and 7 figures
Iterative estimation of mutual information with error bounds
Creators: name: Vollmer, M.
name: Böhm, K.
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2019

description: Mutual Information (MI) is an established measure for linear and nonlinear dependencies between two variables. Estimating MI is nontrivial and requires notable computation power for high estimation quality. While some estimation techniques allow trading result quality for lower runtimes, this tradeoff is fixed per task and cannot be adjusted. If the available time is unknown in advance or is overestimated, one may need to abort the estimation without any result. Conversely, when there are several estimation tasks, and one wants to budget computation time between them, there currently is no efficient way to adjust it dynamically based on certain targets, e.g., high MI values or MI values close to a constant. In this article, we present an iterative estimator of MI. Our method offers an estimate with low quality near-instantly and improves this estimate in fine grained steps with more computation time. The estimate also converges towards the result of a conventional estimator. We prove that the time complexity for this convergence is only slightly slower than non-iterative estimation. Additionally, with each step our estimator also tightens statistical guarantees regarding the convergence result, i.e., confidence intervals, progressively. These also serve as quality indicators for early estimates and allow to reliably discern between attribute pairs with weak and strong dependencies. Our experiments show that these guarantees can also be used to execute threshold queries faster compared to non-iterative estimation.
Interacting Binaries with Eccentric Orbits. Secular Orbital Evolution Due To Conservative Mass Transfer
Creators: name: Sepinsky, J. F.
name: Willems, B.
name: Kalogera, V.
name: Rasio, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the secular evolution of the orbital semi-major axis and eccentricity due to mass transfer in eccentric binaries, assuming conservation of total system mass and orbital angular momentum. Assuming a delta function mass transfer rate centered at periastron, we find rates of secular change of the orbital semi-major axis and eccentricity which are linearly proportional to the magnitude of the mass transfer rate at periastron. The rates can be positive as well as negative, so that the semi-major axis and eccentricity can increase as well as decrease in time. Adopting a delta-function mass-transfer rate of $10^{-9} M_\sun {\rm yr}^{-1}$ at periastron yields orbital evolution timescales ranging from a few Myr to a Hubble time or more, depending on the binary mass ratio and orbital eccentricity. Comparison with orbital evolution timescales due to dissipative tides furthermore shows that tides cannot, in all cases, circularize the orbit rapidly enough to justify the often adopted assumption of instantaneous circularization at the onset of mass transfer. The formalism presented can be incorporated in binary evolution and population synthesis codes to create a self-consistent treatment of mass transfer in eccentric binaries.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal
Formalne i nieformalne uwarunkowania roli zawodowej wychowawcy świetlicy szkolnej
Creators: name: Kaczor, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2021

description: Celem artykułu jest ukazanie formalnych i nieformalnych uwarunkowań roli zawodowej wychowawcy świetlicy szkolnej. Osadzone w założeniach światopoglądu aktywistycznego, badania empiryczne zmierzały do określenia postrzegania przez osoby badane pracy w świetlicy szkolnej i przygotowania do niej. Do gromadzenia, analizy i interpretacji danych zastosowano ujęcie jakościowe. Uzyskana w wyniku wywiadów wiedza na temat stażu pracy, powodów podjęcia zatrudnienia w świetlicy szkolnej oraz predyspozycji do pracy w tym właśnie miejscu, odsłoniła niski prestiż roli zawodowej wychowawcy świetlicy. Biorąc pod uwagę unikalne warunki pracy panujące w świetlicy szkolnej, ustalono, że wychowawcy świetlicy powinni być przygotowani do podejmowania pracy w tym właśnie miejscu. Baza, jaką stanowi nabyta w czasie studiów wiedza i umiejętności z zakresu metodyki pracy w świetlicy szkolnej, może znacząco ułatwić wychowawcom świetlicy identyfikację zawodową, a także stać się podstawą dla budowania świadomości pełnionej roli zawodowej, by w perspektywie czasu wychowawca mógł rozwijać refleksyjność wobec siebie w roli wychowawcy świetlicy oraz planować rozwój osobowy i profesjonalny.
Ludwik Hass, Inteligencji polskiej dole i niedole. XIX i XX wiek
Creators: name: Schröder, Christoph
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 2 (2001)
Flux Distribution in Superconducting Films with Holes
Creators: name: Vestgarden, J. I.
name: Shantsev, D. V.
name: Galperin, Y. M.
name: Johansen, T. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flux penetration into type-II superconducing films is simulated for transverse applied magnetic field and flux creep dynamics. The films contain macroscopic, non-conducting holes and we suggest a new method to introduce the holes in the simulation formalism. The method implies reconstruction of the magnetic field change inside the hole. We find that in the region between the hole and the edge the current density is compressed so that the flux density is slightly reduced, but the traffic of flux is significantly increased. The results are in good agreement with magneto-optical studies of flux distributions in YBCO films.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures (low resolution)
"Und vielleicht überlebte ich nur deshalb, weil ich sehr jung war". Verschleppt ins KZ Neuengamme: Lebensschicksale polnischer Jugendlicher
Creators: name: Reuter, Ursula
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2001

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 50 Nr. 1 (2001)