cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Litigating extraterritorial corporate crimes in Canadian courts
Creators: name: Nwapi, Chilenye
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This study investigates whether and how Canadian courts may assume jurisdiction (both criminal and civil) over extraterritorial crimes/wrongs committed by Canadian corporations operating overseas. It examines the current state of international law to see whether there is any international legal rule prohibiting a state from assuming jurisdiction over conduct occurring outside its territory. It finds that no such positive rule is in existence, whether in customary international law or in treaty law, and that the only concern is the likelihood of diplomatic protests by states which believe that the jurisdiction sought to be assumed is a threat to their territorial integrity. It argues that although the type of jurisdiction envisaged in this study is not widespread among states, the absence of widespread state practice is not tantamount to prohibition, at least in principle. The study then looks at the Canadian domestic jurisdictional bases, both criminal and civil. On the criminal front, it finds that the real and substantial link test has enough flexibility to reach the extraterritorial conduct of Canadian corporations and that the expansion of the substantive bases of corporate criminal liability that occurred in Canada in 2003 bolstered the criminal jurisdiction of Canadian courts over extraterritorial corporate crimes. On the civil front, it finds that Canadian courts may assume extraterritorial jurisdiction under three distinct theories: the real and substantial connection test, necessity jurisdiction and the recently enacted Torture Victims Protection Act. It examines the bases for declining jurisdiction under the doctrine of forum non conveniens and calls for a reformulation of the doctrine to require a Canadian court to decline jurisdiction only when it finds that it is a “clearly inappropriate” forum, in contrast to the current rule that requires the existence of a “clearly more appropriate alternative” forum. The question of choosing the applicable law in tort cases is also interrogated. A call is made for the adoption of a rule that considers the nature of the conduct in litigation as an important element in the determination of the applicable law. On the whole, this study concludes that Canada holds prospects for transnational litigation.
Axisymmetric Nonlinear Waves And Structures in Hall Plasmas
Creators: name: Islam, Tanim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a general equation for the evolution of an axisymmetric magnetic field in a Hall plasma is derived, with an integral similar to the Grad-Shafranov equation. Special solutions arising from curvature -- whistler drift modes that propagate along the electron drift as a Burger's shock, and nonlinear periodic and soliton-like solutions to the generalized Grad-Shafranov integral -- are analyzed. We derive analytical and numerical solutions in a classical electron-ion Hall plasma, in which electrons and ions are the only species in the plasmas. Results may then be applied to the following low-ionized astrophysical plasmas: in protostellar disks, in which the ions may be coupled to the motion of gases; and in molecular clouds and protostellar jets, in which the much heavier charged dust in a dusty Hall plasma may be collisionally coupled to the gas.
description: prepared for submission to the Physics of Plasmas, after referees' comments
The Effects of Particulate Matter on Global Crop Yields
Creators: name: Wolffe, Mike
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023

description: Particulate Matter (PM) is understood to harm human health, but little research has assessed its impact on crop yields. Emerging evidence suggests PM may have a sizeable effect on crops. PM reduces yields through indirect and direct mechanisms. In the indirect mechanism, airborne PM intercepts incoming photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) through absorption or scattering. In the direct mechanism, PM deposition on crop surfaces directly blocks PAR transmission. Using the JULES-crop model, this thesis finds PM reduces maize yield by 3.5% on the North China Plains (NCP) via the indirect mechanism. PM deposition is responsible for a further 2.4% maize yield loss in the same area, with rice and wheat crops less affected at 2.0% and 0.3% average yield losses, respectively. India is also particularly affected by PM deposition, with average maize, rice, and wheat losses of 1.2, 0.7, and 0.3%. Specificlocations suffer losses as high as 8%, attributable to a combination of meteorological factors, the black carbon content of bulk PM, and crop-specific factors. Despite these high local impacts, average global cereal crop yield losses to PM deposition circa 1%. The timing of PM perturbations within the crop development cycle also affects yield outcomes. The combined effects of the direct and indirect mechanisms are additive, and most negatively affect crop yields during the early reproductive stage for maize and wheat, and the early vegetative stage for rice. Uncontrolled future PM emissions are found to have particularly substantial effects on crop yields in India, with expected losses of up to 20% on the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The thesis also explores the effects of PM timing in relation to crop development stage, and how this may predict future crop yield losses attributable to PM pollution. Overall, this work highlights the role of airborne PM in limiting PAR availability for photosynthesis, particularly in highly polluted areas of China and India. The effects of PM deposition on cereal crop yields are quantified here for the first time, and are noted as potentially limiting future food supply in India. Identifying the potential impacts of PM highlights the urgency of PM emission reductions for policy makers. The thesis contributes to our understanding of the impacts of PM pollution on food supply, and highlights the need for further experimental studies to better comprehend the scale of threat that this pollution may pose in the future.
The Growth of the Stellar Seeds of Supermassive Black Holes
Creators: name: Johnson, Jarrett L.
name: Whalen, Daniel J.
name: Fryer, Christopher L.
name: Li, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The collapse of baryons into extremely massive stars with masses exceeding 10^4 M_Sun in a small fraction of protogalaxies at z > 10 is a promising candidate for the origin of supermassive black holes, some of which grow to a billion solar masses by z ~ 7. We determine the maximum masses such stars can attain by accreting primordial gas. We find that at relatively low accretion rates the strong ionizing radiation of these stars limits their masses to M_* ~ 10^3 M_Sun (dM_acc/dt / 10^-3 M_Sun yr^-1)^8/7, where dM_acc/dt is the rate at which the star gains mass. However, at the higher central infall rates usually found in numerical simulations of protogalactic collapse (>~ 0.1 M_Sun yr^-1), the lifetime of the star instead limits its final mass to >~ 10^6 M_Sun. Furthermore, for the spherical accretion rates at which the star can grow, its ionizing radiation is confined deep within the protogalaxy, so the evolution of the star is decoupled from that of its host galaxy. Lyman alpha emission from the surrounding H II region is trapped in these heavy accretion flows and likely reprocessed into strong Balmer series emission, which may be observable by the James Webb Space Telescope. This, along with strong He II 1640 Angstrom and continuum emission, are likely to be the key observational signatures of the progenitors of supermassive black holes at high redshift.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures; now accepted for publication in ApJ
Recursive Braid Theory and the Meltdown Monopoles in Hopf Fluid PDEs
Creators: name: Kirjonen, Miikka Markus
name: Kirjonen, Miikka Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Monopoles
subject: recursive fractal dynamics
subject: vortex braiding
subject: hopf algebra
subject: Dirac fluid–crystal recursion
subject: braiding
subject: meltdown synergy
subject: Granular
subject: granular fluid
subject: CSF
subject: LIQUID CRYSTAL
subject: Liquid crystals
subject: Liquid Crystals
subject: Liquid Crystals/analysis

description: This paper establishes a comprehensive theoretical framework that blends recursive fractal dynamics, vortex braiding, and topological obstructions under the Resonance Synchronization Model (RSM). We illuminate the phenomenon of monopoles, defining them not as stable particle states but rather as manifestations of failures in recursive harmony within a braided vortex fluid. Through a carefully constructed generalized partial differential equation (PDE) that incorporates shape potentials and feedback mechanisms, we demonstrate the emergence and decay of coherent structures influenced by braid classes and recursion depth. This framework provides novel interpretations of various physical and biological phenomena, potentially elucidating dark matter illusions, neural synchrony, and the dynamics near black hole horizons.

The interplay between topology and dynamics has resurfaced as a pivotal theme within modern theoretical physics, particularly in the investigation of emergent phenomena. Monopoles, traditionally conceived as discrete entities in gauge theories, take on a new role within our framework as failures of coherence rather than fundamental particles. The Resonance Synchronization Model serves as an overarching theory that embodies these complexities, allowing us to explore the dynamics of recursive fractal structures and their profound implications on various scales in physics and biology.

We present a unified theoretical framework blending recursive fractal dynamics, vortex braiding, and topological obstructions under the Resonance Synchronization Model (RSM). Extending prior work on infinite adjacency and 0D coherence, we show how “monopoles” arise not as genuine particle states but as failures of recursive harmony within a braided vortex fluid. These ephemeral anomalies emerge when vantage‐limited observers interpret a deeper, fully synchronized wavefunction through stroboscopic sampling and partial meltdown illusions.

By embedding semi‐Dirac fluid–crystal recursion into a generalized PDE featuring shape potentials, synergy feedback, and fractal overtone fields, we demonstrate how coherent lumps, phase vortices, and negentropic islands appear or decay based on braid class and recursion depth. Our results offer a fresh lens to interpret phenomena spanning dark matter illusions, neural synchrony, and ringdown states near black hole horizons – all produced by one recursively expanding, braid‐stabilized Hopf‐fluid PDE.
title: Zum Einsatz von Daten aus FOLK und DeReKo für die Untersuchung und Didaktisierung der Formen nach dem Motto und von wegen
Creators: name: Moroni, Manuela
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2021

description: Ausgehend von Bückers (2008, 2009, 2013) Studien zu den Formen nach dem Motto und von wegen wird eine Korpusuntersuchung zu deren Verwendungsmöglichkeiten in gesprochen-sprachlichen Daten aus dem Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus für gesprochenes Deutsch und in schriftlichen Daten aus dem Deutschen Referenzkorpus (Pressetexten der Süddeutschen Zeitung) durchgeführt. Daraus ergeben sich textsortenspezifische Verwendungsmuster, die in der DaF-Didaktik nutzbar gemacht werden können. Insbesondere wird gezeigt, wie die Ergebnisse der Korpusanalyse als Grundlage zur Erstellung von illustrativen korpusbasierten Unterrichtsmaterialien dienen können.
On the Maximal Excess Charge of the Chandrasekhar-Coulomb Hamiltonian in Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Handrek, Michael
name: Siedentop, Heinz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that for the straightforward quantized relativistic Coulomb Hamiltonian of a two-dimensional atom -- or the corresponding magnetic quantum dot -- the maximal number of electrons does not exceed twice the nuclear charge. It result is then generalized to the presence of external magnetic fields and atomic Hamiltonians. This is based on the positivity of $$|\bx| T(\bp) + T(\bp) |\bx| $$ which -- in two dimensions -- is false for the non-relativistic case $T(\bp) = \bp^2$, but is proven in this paper for $T(\bp) = |\bp|$, i.e., the ultra-relativistic kinetic energy.
Ambidexter symmetricus Manning & Chace 1971
Creators: name: Herrera-Barquín, Hiram
name: Leija-Tristán, Antonio
name: Favela-Lara, Susana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Alpheidae
Ambidexter
Ambidexter symmetricus

description: Ambidexter symmetricus Manning & Chace, 1971 Material examined. 8 March 2014 (UANL-FCB-C23- 8164), S1 (24°29.1000ʹ N, 097°41.4500ʹ W), 1 specimen (♀); in seagrass meadows of Syringodium filiforme and Halodule wrightii. Distribution. Gulf of Mexico, to Trinidad (Chace 1972); western Atlantic from Florida to Brazil (Christoffersen 1998); Tamaulipas, Mexico; Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Trinidad (Abele 1972). Previous records from Laguna Madre. Barba-Macías (1999); Laguna Madre of Texas (Sheridan and Minello 2003); Barba-Macías et al. (2005). Remarks. The features observed agreed with those included in Abele and Kim (1986).
description: Published as part of Herrera-Barquín, Hiram, Leija-Tristán, Antonio & Favela-Lara, Susana, 2018, Updated checklist of estuarine caridean shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea) from the southern region of Laguna Madre, Tamaulipas, Mexico, with new records and a key for taxonomic identification, pp. 479-494 in Check List 14 (2) on page 487, DOI: 10.15560/14.2.479
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One class, two modes of participation: Fully integrating online students into residential classes via web conferencing
Creators: name: Marquart, Matthea S.
name: Englisher, Martin G.
name: Tokieda, Kathryn J.
name: Telfair-Garcia, Alexis
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Web-based instruction
Telecommunication in education
Classroom environment
Social work education

description: What if online and residential students could have an expanded choice of electives, more scheduling options, and greater opportunities for networking with a larger group of peers by offering courses that online and residential students can take together, at the same time?

At Columbia University’s School of Social Work, in our Master’s of Science in Social Work program, we are piloting a new type of hybrid course that uses Zoom to bring online students into residential courses.  The pilot is an opportunity to figure out how to set up, design, and teach this type of course, and in this poster, we propose to share our lessons learned while we prepared for our courses during the fall semester and have begun to teach during the spring semester.

While it is early to evaluate the pilot’s outcomes, we have already learned a great deal about how to plan for technical logistics and how to design engaging class sessions, and the first week of class included breakout discussions in groups that combined online and residential students, as well as whole-class discussions in which both types of students participated equally.

We propose to share our work towards the goal of creating one cohesive classroom community rather than two parallel communities or a situation in which the online students simply watched the residential students through a virtual window.  We will share our lessons learned around logistics, and considerations for designing lessons plans and assignments that fully integrate the online and residential students, including small-group breakout activities, group presentations, lectures, guest speakers, whole-class discussions, homework assignments, and potentially field trips off campus.

This poster will draw from the presenters’ experiences teaching and preparing to teach two Spring 2018 pilot seminar courses:  Staff Development, Training, and Coaching, and Managing NGOs.
Origin of strange metallic phase in cuprate superconductors
Creators: name: Arulsamy, Andrew Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of strange metallic phase is shown to exist due to these two conditions---(i) the electrons are strongly interacting such that there are no band and Mott-Hubbard gaps, and (ii) the electronic energy levels are crossed in such a way that there is an electronic energy gap between two energy levels associated to two different wave functions. The theory is also exploited to explain (i) the upward- and downward-shifts in the $T$-linear resistivity curves, and (ii) the spectral weight transfer observed in the soft X-ray absorption spectroscopic measurements of the La-Sr-Cu-O Mott insulator.
description: To be published in J. Supercond. Nov. Magn
Hard X-ray spectral variability of the brightest Seyfert AGN in the Swift/BAT sample
Creators: name: Caballero-Garcia, M. D.
name: Papadakis, I. E.
name: Nicastro, F.
name: Ajello, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: We used data from the 58 month long, continuous Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) observations of the five brightest Seyfert galaxies at hard X-rays, to study their flux and spectral variability in the 20-100 keV energy band. The column density in these objects is less than 10^24 cm-2, which implies that the Swift/BAT data allow us to study the "true" variability of the central source. Results: All objects show significant variations, with an amplitude which is similar to the AGN variability amplitude at energies below 10 keV. We found evidence for an anti-correlation between variability amplitude and black hole mass. The light curves in both bands are well correlated, with no significant delays on time scales as short as 2 days. NGC 4151 and NGC 2110 do not show spectral variability, but we found a significant anti-correlation between hardness ratios and source flux in NGC 4388 (and NGC 4945, IC 4329, to a lesser extent). This "softer when brighter" behaviour is similar to what has been observed at energies below 10 keV, and cannot be explained if the continuum varies only in flux; the intrinsic shape should also steepen with increasing flux. Conclusions: The presence of significant flux variations indicate that the central source in these objects is intrinsically variable on time scales as short as 1-2 days. The intrinsic slope of the continuum varies with the flux (at least in NGC 4388). The positive "spectral slope-flux" correlation can be explained if the temperature of the hot corona decreases with increasing flux. The lack of spectral variations in two objects, could be due to the fact that they may operate in a different "state", as their accretion rate is less than 1% of the Eddington limit (significantly smaller than the rate of the other three objects in the sample).
description: Accepted (29/10/11) for publication in A&A (12 pages, containing 14 figures and 2 tables). (Abstract shortened --see link for the complete one)
title: Zum Einsatz des GeWiss-Korpus im Rahmen einer mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktischen Vermittlung der gesprochenen Wissenschaftssprache
Creators: name: Salzmann, Katharina
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2021

description: Im vorliegenden Beitrag soll der Frage nachgegangen werden, wie das GeWiss Korpus, ein Vergleichskorpus zur gesprochenen Wissenschaftssprache, im Rahmen des mehrsprachig angelegten, universitären DaF-Unterrichts eingesetzt werden kann, um zum Auf- und Ausbau von meta- und zwischensprachlicher Bewusstheit beizutragen und um Fähigkeiten des kompetenten Sprachvergleichs zu fördern. Zu diesem Zweck sollen zwei exemplarische Korpusanalysen durchgeführt werden, anhand derer ein typisches Nomen der Wissenschaftssprache (dt. Begriff / Konzept, it. concetto, engl. concept) sowie ein Diskursmarker (dt. entschuldigung, it. scusate, engl. sorry) unter die Lupe genommen werden, um anschließend jeweils das spezifische Lernpotential einer solchen Korpusrecherche herauszuarbeiten.
Model selection applied to reconstruction of the Primordial Power Spectrum
Creators: name: Vazquez, J. Alberto
name: Bridges, M.
name: Hobson, M. P.
name: Lasenby, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The preferred shape for the primordial spectrum of curvature perturbations is determined by performing a Bayesian model selection analysis of cosmological observations. We first reconstruct the spectrum modelled as piecewise linear in \log k between nodes in k-space whose amplitudes and positions are allowed to vary. The number of nodes together with their positions are chosen by the Bayesian evidence, so that we can both determine the complexity supported by the data and locate any features present in the spectrum. In addition to the node-based reconstruction, we consider a set of parameterised models for the primordial spectrum: the standard power-law parameterisation, the spectrum produced from the Lasenby & Doran (LD) model and a simple variant parameterisation. By comparing the Bayesian evidence for different classes of spectra, we find the power-law parameterisation is significantly disfavoured by current cosmological observations, which show a preference for the LD model.
description: Minor changes to match version accepted by JCAP
Additional file 1 of Tackling the escalating burden of care in Uganda: a qualitative exploration of the challenges experienced by family carers of patients with chronic non-communicable diseases
Creators: name: Montgomery, Lorna
name: Misinde, Cyprian
name: Komuhangi, Alimah
name: Kawooya, Angela N.
name: Agaba, Peninah
name: McShane, Charlene M.
name: Santin, Olinda
name: Apio, Judith
name: Jenkins, Christopher
name: Githinji, Florence
name: MacDonald, Mandi
name: Nakaggwa, Florence
name: Nanyonga, Rose C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
An Alternative Method for the Undetermined Coefficients and the Annihilator Methods
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Oswaldo Rio Branco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34A30

description: This paper exhibits a very simple formula for a particular solution of a linear ordinary differential equation with constant real coefficients, P(d/dt)x = f, f a function given by a linear combination of polynomials, trigonometrical and exponential real functions products. This is done by solving lower triangular linear systems with constant coefficients. Two examples are given.
description: 7 pages; 2 examples; corrected typos; added references
KZ Characteristic Variety as the Zero Set of Classical Calogero-Moser Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Mukhin, Evgeny
name: Tarasov, Vitaly
name: Varchenko, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a relation between the characteristic variety of the KZ equations and the zero set of the classical Calogero-Moser Hamiltonians.
title: Korpora gesprochener Sprache als Quelle für die Erstellung von Mikro-Hörübungen mit authentischen Hörmaterialien im DaZ-/DaF-Unterricht
Creators: name: Dietz, Gunther
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2021

description: Mein Beitrag möchte dem Desiderat eines Hörtrainings mit authentischen Texten Rechnung tragen und dabei die Möglichkeiten der Nutzung von Korpora gesprochener Sprache zum Zweck der Förderung des fremd- und zweitsprachlichen Hörverstehens ausloten. Hierzu erfolgt zunächst ein kurzer Abriss der auditiven Perzeption in der Fremdsprache. Sodann werden Problemstellen der traditionellen Hörverstehensdidaktik benannt und neuere didaktische Ansätze skizziert. Nach einem Überblick über relevante Korpora gesprochener Sprache werden zwei unterschiedlich fokussierte Zugangsweisen zu den Korpora vorgestellt: (1) die Suche nach Belegen für auditiv relevante Phänomene mündlicher Sprache wie Verschmelzungen, Intonationsmuster, regionale Varianten, schwierige Lautkontraste u.a. und (2) die didaktische Aufbereitung konkreter Diskursexemplare. Beide Zugriffe werden exemplarisch an Übungssequenzen veranschaulicht, die sich am Ansatz des „Mikro-Hörens“ (Field 2008) orientieren. Der Beitrag schließt mit einer Diskussion der Verwendung von Mikro-Hörübungen, einem Fazit zur Nutzung von Korpora in der Hörverstehensdidaktik und der Benennung von Perspektiven für die weitere Hörverstehensforschung und -praxis.
title: “Non-standard” writings in Hong Kong
title: A mini-ethnographic multiple-case study of Hongkongers
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wong, Nick
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Kongish
Translanguaging
Writing Variations

description: Despite the promotion of biliterate and trilingual language education policy in Hong Kong since the 1997 Handover, Hongkongers have developed their own unique ways of writing to suit their communicative needs. This study examines these “non-standard” writing practices, focusing on both linguistic patterns and the process of translanguaging. The primary research method used is a mini-ethnographic case study, utilizing Androutsopoulos' Discourse-Centred Online Ethnography and Herring's Computer-mediated discourse analysis. The study aims to understand the implications of these practices, including the positive and negative affordances, and to gain insight into the nature of translanguaging space and practices by studying five distinctive cases of writing practices used in Hong Kong. The findings contribute to the field of sociolinguistics of orthographic variations and Applied Linguistics on translanguaging, and provide insight into named languaging practices, such as Kongish and Kong-girl Language in Hong Kong.
Ceramics and Cultural Change in Medieval (14th-15th Century) Portugal: The Case of Post-Reconquista Santarém
Creators: name: Manuel Casimiro, T�Nia
name: Boavida, Carlos
name: Silva, Telmo
name: Neves, D�Rio
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 37-38, 21-36
description: Archaeological excavations in Santarem have uncovered many domestic structures as well as dozens of storage pits, dated to the 12th-15th centuries and filled with domestic rubbish, including ceramics. Most of this material is clearly of local production and is similar to many other finds within the city and its region. This pottery was used for many different activities relating to the preparation, storage and consumption of food and drink. An examination of the morphological and decorative characteristics of this pottery indicates an Islamic tradition for the 13th-century wares, while the 14th- and 15th-century products appear to reflect a Christian identity. It is argued that this transition relates to wider cultural, social and economic changes in medieval Santarem.
Safety, efficacy and health impact of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS): an umbrella review protocol
Creators: name: Goel, Sonu
name: Shabil, Muhammed
name: Kaur, Jagdish
name: Chauhan, Anil
name: Vashishta Rinkoo, Arvind
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), commonly known as e-cigarettes or vapes, have witnessed a rise in popularity, particularly among the youth. Although they were initially introduced as an alternative to traditional smoking, the design and function of ENDS vary. The potential health effects of ENDS, especially in comparison to traditional cigarettes, are a matter of ongoing debate. Given the increasing number of clinical studies and systematic reviews on this topic, there exists a demand for an umbrella review that offers a comprehensive assessment. The goal of this study is to perform an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses to assess the safety, efficacy, health implications and potential gateway effect associated with ENDS. Methods and analysis This umbrella review will adhere to the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) framework and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis guidelines. A planned literature search will be executed across databases such as OVID, PubMed/ MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library and Web of Science. The inclusion criteria are systematic reviews that discuss ENDS and e-liquids in the context of safety, efficacy and health outcomes. The exclusion criteria include narrative reviews, non-systematic reviews and studies not in English. Quality of the selected studies will be evaluated using the AMSTAR V.2 Scale. An overlap assessment will be done using the Corrected Covered Area, and data synthesis will be presented both narratively and in tabulated forms Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval is not required for this study, as it does not involve the collection of original data. The results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publication. The findings will offer crucial insights for stakeholders, policy-makers and the general public, underlining the health implications and the role of ENDS in tobacco cessation.
Judith Oexle (Hrsg.), Sachsen: archäologisch 12.000 v. Chr. - 2.000 n. Chr.
Creators: name: Hänsel, Alix
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Judith Oexle (Hrsg.), Sachsen: archäologisch 12.000 v. Chr. - 2.000 n. Chr. Katalog zur Ausstellung „Die Sächsische Nacht“ 26.5. - 30.12.2000. Landesamt fur Archäologie mit Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Dresden. Dresden 2000
description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 32 (2000)
McGenus: A Monte Carlo algorithm to predict RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots
Creators: name: Bon, M.
name: Micheletti, C.
name: Orland, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present McGenus, an algorithm to predict RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots. The method is based on a classification of RNA structures according to their topological genus. McGenus can treat sequences of up to 1000 bases and performs an advanced stochastic search of their minimum free energy structure allowing for non trivial pseudoknot topologies. Specifically, McGenus employs a multiple Markov chain scheme for minimizing a general scoring function which includes not only free energy contributions for pair stacking, loop penalties, etc. but also a phenomenological penalty for the genus of the pairing graph. The good performance of the stochastic search strategy was successfully validated against TT2NE which uses the same free energy parametrization and performs exhaustive or partially exhaustive structure search, albeit for much shorter sequences (up to 200 bases). Next, the method was applied to other RNA sets, including an extensive tmRNA database, yielding results that are competitive with existing algorithms. Finally, it is shown that McGenus highlights possible limitations in the free energy scoring function. The algorithm is available as a web-server at http://ipht.cea.fr/rna/mcgenus.php .
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Bernadette Schnitzler: A l’Aube du Moyen Age. L’Alsace mérovingienne
Creators: name: Neumayer, Heino
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Bernadette Schnitzler: A l’Aube du Moyen Age. L’Alsace mérovingienne. Les collections du Musée Archéologique 5 (Strasbourg 1997). 140 Seiten. Zahlreiche Farb- und Schwarzweißabbildungen
description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 32 (2000)
B->3munu at LHCb
Creators: name: Braun, Svende Annelies
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: A search for the decay B^+ -> 3 mu nu is presented using LHCb data based on 4.7 fb^-1. The search is performed in a region where the minimum of the two oppositely charged muon mass combinations is below 980 MeV/c. No signal is found and an preliminary upper limit of 1.4 x 10^-8 at 95% confidence level is set on the branching fraction.
Crystalline chiral condensates off the tricritical point in a generalized Ginzburg-Landau approach
Creators: name: Abuki, Hiroaki
name: Ishibashi, Daisuke
name: Suzuki, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an extensive study on inhomogeneous chiral condensates in QCD at finite density in the chiral limit using a generalized Ginzburg-Landau (GL) approach. Performing analyses on higher harmonics of one-dimensionally (1D) modulated condensates, we numerically confirm the previous claim that the solitonic chiral condensate characterized by Jacobi's elliptic function is the most favorable structure in 1D modulations. We then investigate the possibility of realization of several multidimensional modulations within the same framework. We also study the phase structure far away from the tricritical point by extending the GL functional expanded up to the eighth order in the order parameter and its spatial derivative. On the same basis, we explore a new regime in the extended GL parameter space and find that the Lifshitz point is the point where five critical lines meet at once. In particular, the existence of an intriguing triple point is demonstrated, and its trajectory consists of one of those critical lines.
description: 17 pages, 20 eps figures; (v2) corrected an error in computation of eighth order coefficients; (v3) typos corrected, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
β2-Adrenoceptor Dysfunction in Severe Asthma
Creators: name: Hakeem, Jameel Z. J.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Rationale: Accumulating evidence suggests an impaired β2-AR function in airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells as a possible mechanism for poor efficacy of β2-agonist therapy in severe asthma. We here tested this hypothesis by comparing ASM cell responsiveness to β2-agonists in both healthy and severe asthmatic subjects. Methods: ASM cell responsiveness to β2-agonists in both healthy and severe asthmatic subjects was investigated by their ability to i) inhibit chemokine production and induce STC-1 induction, ii) promote collagen gel relaxation, iii) produce cAMP accumulation, iv) induce phosphorylation of VASP, v) modulate transcriptome response using RNA-seq. Finally, we assessed whether manipulating β2-AR expression would rescue the impaired response to β2-agonists seen in ASM in severe asthma. Results: In healthy ASM cells with albuterol dose-dependently inhibited CCL5, PTX3 and CXCL-10 production induced by TNF, reaching a maximum inhibition of 47%, 49% and 48% at 10-5M, respectively. In contrast, albuterol failed to inhibit chemokine production in severe asthma ASM cells treated with TNF. Albuterol-induced STC-1 production was significantly reduced in ASM cells from severe asthmatics when compared to healthy ASM cells. Both albuterol and isoproterenol reduced the spontaneous contraction of healthy cell-embedded collagen gels by 50.1% and 62%, respectively, while no effect was seen in severe asthmatic cell-embedded collagen gels. In addition, 2-agonists-induced cAMP production and VASP phosphorylation at ser157 or ser239 were reduced in ASM cells from severe asthmatics when compared to cells from healthy subjects. The RNA-seq analysis uncovered a profound difference in the transcriptomic response associated with β2-AR activation in ASM cells severe asthmatic compared to healthy controls, with a number of genes and associated different pathways being absent or reduced in severe asthma. Interestingly, overexpressing β2-AR in severe asthmatic ASM cells rescued their responsiveness to β2-agonists to inhibit chemokine production and induce cAMP production.
States and societies in the digital arena : ICT, state capacity, and political change in Asia
Creators: name: Wand, Itay
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: How does adoption of information communication technology (ICT) alter the balance of power between state and society in Asia? There is no question that these tools – the Internet, mobile phones, and social media – are transforming the political communications landscape across the region. Since political science views power as zero-sum, a central question is how its distribution is altered between digitally-strengthened states and digitally-empowered societal actors. On the one hand, societal actors are empowered through increased information access and dissemination, as well as decreased costs of mobilization and organization. At the same time, the state's digital capacity is greatly enhanced through increased information collection, monitoring, and control. This study hypothesizes that adoption of ICT in Asian states empowers societal actors over time enhancing non-electoral democratic processes subject to regime legitimacy and the digital state capacity governments build and apply. It first develops a theory for how ICT empowers both societal actors and states before testing this across Asian states through a quantitative analysis. The results suggest that Asian state policy determines whether and how ICT empowers societal actors and net political change. It then develops this policy concept through the lens of digital state capacity - how states control and manage digital information. Finally it conducts a qualitative analysis for China on the interaction of ICT adoption, regime legitimacy, and digital state capacity policy to determine net political change. The results demonstrate that while ICT adoption has strengthened the Chinese state through digital state capacity this has come at the loss of state control over a range of political issues. For these issues, the net result in China has been empowered-societal actors and enhanced transparency and accountability.
Strange Adventures in A City Made of Marble: Exploring Pottery Production in Estremoz, Portugal
Creators: name: Newstead, Sarah
name: Manuel Casimiro, T�Nia
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 37-38, 37-46
description: This paper discusses recent research exploring early modern pottery production associated with Estremoz, Portugal. Estremoz has played a prominent role in the historical narrative of Portuguese earthenwares stretching back to the 16th century, influencing research on both domestic and export consumption of Portuguese wares. New information presented here on the physical nature of Estremoz earthenware helps to deconstruct the area's role in the production and distribution of ceramics in the early modern period.
Stefan Flindt / Christian Leiber: Kulthöhlen und Menschenopfer im Harz, Ith und Kyffhäuser
Creators: name: Peter-Röcher, Heidi
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Stefan Flindt / Christian Leiber: Kulthöhlen und Menschenopfer im Harz, Ith und Kyffhäuser. Mit Beiträgen von Tobias Schultes, Wolf-Dieter Steinmetz und Diethard Walter. Archäologische Schriften des Landkreises Osterode am Harz 2. Verlag Jörg Mitzkat (Holzminden 1998). 128 S., 140 meist farbige Abb.
description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 32 (2000)
Theory of Spin Relaxation in Two-Electron Lateral Coupled Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Raith, Martin
name: Stano, Peter
name: Baruffa, Fabio
name: Fabian, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A global quantitative picture of the phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in GaAs double quantum dots is presented using highly accurate numerical calculations. Wide regimes of interdot coupling, magnetic field magnitude and orientation, and detuning are explored in the presence of a nuclear bath. Most important, the unusually strong magnetic anisotropy of the singlet-triplet relaxation can be controlled by detuning switching the principal anisotropy axes: a protected state becomes unprotected upon detuning, and vice versa. It is also established that nuclear spins can dominate spin relaxation for unpolarized triplets even at high magnetic fields, contrary to common belief. These findings are central to designing quantum dots geometries for spin-based quantum information processing with minimal environmental impact.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Trésors d’Italie du Sud. Treasures from the South of Italy. Tesori dell’Italia del Sud
Creators: name: Brönner, Melitta
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Trésors d’Italie du Sud. Treasures from the South of Italy. Tesori dell’Italia del Sud. Grecs et Indigènes en Basilicate. Greeks and Indigenous People in Basilicata. Greci e Indigeni in Basilicata. Milano 1998. 260 Seiten, 35 Textabbildungen, 72 Farbtafeln
description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 32 (2000)
Additional file 1 of Symptom structure of complex posttraumatic stress disorder among Chinese young adults with childhood trauma: a network analysis
Creators: name: Yang, Luxi
name: Wei, Chenguang
name: Liang, Yiming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1: Additional Figures. Figure S1. Bootstrapped confidence intervals (CIs) of the edge weights of the CPTSD symptom network. Figure S2. Subsetting bootstrap for the CPTSD network. Figure S3. Edge weight difference tests for the CPTSD symptom network. Figure S4. Node strength centrality difference tests for the CPTSD symptom network. Figure S5. Regularized partial correlation network of CPTSD symptoms among participants who experienced 2 or more trauma types. Figure S6. Standardized node strength centrality and bridge strength of CPTSD symptoms among participants who experienced 2 or more trauma types
Götter und Helden der Bronzezeit. Europa im Zeitalter des Odysseus
Creators: name: Hänsel, Alix
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Götter und Helden der Bronzezeit. Europa im Zeitalter des Odysseus. Begleitbuch zur 25. Ausstellung des Europarats in Kopenhagen, Bonn, Paris und Athen. Hrsg. National Museum of Denmark, Kopenhagen, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, Association Française d’Action Artistique / Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Paris, Hellenic Ministry of Antiquities, Athen. Bonn 1999. 301 Seiten, zahlreiche zumeist farbige Abbildungen
description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 32 (2000)
Klima@Reha: Entwicklung und Erprobung edukativer Inhalte und Tools zur Förderung der klimabezogenen Gesundheitskompetenz von Rehabilitand:innen
Creators: name: Schwarz, Betje
name: Sänger, Nadine
name: Jandl, Michelle
name: Wilke, Annika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: klimabezogene Gesundheitskompetenz
Rehabilitation
Schulung

description: Der Klimawandel hat vielfältige Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit und damit auch auf die Arbeits- und Erwerbsfähigkeit insbesondere vorerkrankter Menschen (Romanello et al., 2022). Träger und Einrichtungen der medizinischen Rehabilitation sind nicht nur aufgerufen, selbst zum Klimaschutz beizutragen, sondern auch dazu, Kompetenzen und Konzepte zu entwickeln, die den sich verändernden Bedarfen entsprechen (Worringen et al., 2023). Es gilt unter anderem, Rehabilitand:innen gezielt dabei zu unterstützen, klimabezogene Gesundheitsrisiken wahrzunehmen und im Alltag mit geeigneten Verhaltensweisen und Strategien zu begegnen (Ludewig et al., 2025).An dieser Stelle setzt das Projekt „Klima@Reha“ an. Es eruiert im Kontext des Klimawandels sich verändernde Reha-Bedarfe, entwickelt und erprobt edukative Ansätze, Inhalte und Tools, mit denen die klimabezogene Gesundheitskompetenz von Rehabilitand:innen gezielt gefördert werden kann und adressiert zudem die für die Umsetzung dieser Ansätze benötigte klimabezogene Schulungskompetenz der Reha-Praktiker:innen.
The Documentary Evidence for Pottery and Tile Production in Medieval (14th-15th Century) Portugal
Creators: name: Patr�Cia Alho, Ana
name: Trindade, Rui
name: Coentro, Susana
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 37-38, 47-52
description: Unpublished documents held in the National Archives of Portugal (ANTT) and the Lisbon City Archive (AML), derived from the monasteries of Chelas and Santos-o-Novo, are examined. These documents provide important information about Lisbon potters in the 14th and 15th centuries and offer a new perspective on the craft developed by Christian and Moorish potters working in the greater Lisbon area. The work was undertaken as part of the Medieval Tiles in Portugal - a study of provenance (PTDC/CPC-EAT/4719/2012) project.
Geheimnis des Bernsteincolliers. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung
Creators: name: Hänsel, Alix
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Das Geheimnis des Bernsteincolliers. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung. Hrsg. Stadt Ingolstadt, Kulturreferat Ingolstadt. Nordlingen 1998. 101 Seiten, 73 teils farbige Abbildungen
description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 32 (2000)
Kupfer für Europa Bergbau und Handel auf Zypern
Creators: name: Brönner, Melitta
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Kupfer für Europa Bergbau und Handel auf Zypern. Veröffentlichungen des Helms-Museums, Hamburger Museum für Archäologie und Geschichte Harburgs, Stiftung d.R., Nr. 83. Hrsg. von Ralf Busch anläßlich der Ausstellung „Kupfer für Europa - Bergbau und Handel auf Zypern“. Wachholtz Verlag Neumünster 1999. 183 Seiten, 84 Farb-, 69 Schwarzweißabbildungen
description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 32 (2000)