cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of radioactive background rejection in 76Ge neutrino-less double-beta decay experiments using a highly segmented HPGe detector
Creators: name: Campbell, D.B.
name: Poon, A.W.P.
name: Hurley, D.
name: Henning, R.
name: Smith, A.R.
name: Perry, M.
name: Chan, Y.D.
name: Lesko, K.
name: Vetter, K.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2008

description: A highly segmented coaxial HPGe detector was operated in a low background counting facility for over 1 year to experimentally evaluate possible segmentation strategies for the proposed Majorana neutrino-less double-beta decay experiment. Segmentation schemes were evaluated on their ability to reject multi-segment events while retaining single-segment events. To quantify a segmentation scheme's acceptance efficiency the percentage of peak area due to single segment events was calculated for peaks located in the energy region 911-2614 keV. Single interaction site events were represented by the double-escape peak from the 2614 keV decay in 208Tl located at 1592 keV. In spite of its prototypical nature, the detector performed well under realistic operating conditions and required only minimal human interaction. Though the energy resolution for events with interactions in multiple segments was impacted by inter-segment cross-talk, the implementation of a cross-talk correlation matrix restored acceptable resolution. Additionally, simulations utilizing the MaGe simulation package were performed and found to be in good agreement with experimental observations verifying the external nature of the background radiation.
Observation of Parametric Instability in Advanced LIGO
Creators: name: Evans, Matthew
name: Gras, Slawek
name: Fritschel, Peter
name: Miller, John
name: Barsotti, Lisa
name: Martynov, Denis
name: Brooks, Aidan
name: Coyne, Dennis
name: Abbott, Rich
name: Adhikari, Rana
name: Arai, Koji
name: Bork, Rolf
name: Kells, Bill
name: Rollins, Jameson
name: Smith-Lefebvre, Nicolas
name: Vajente, Gabriele
name: Yamamoto, Hiroaki
name: Derosa, Ryan
name: Effler, Anamaria
name: Kokeyama, Keiko
name: Betzweiser, Joseph
name: Frolov, Valera
name: Mullavey, Adam
name: Dwyer, Sheila
name: Izumi, Kiwamu
name: Kawabe, Keita
name: Sigg, Daniel
name: Ballmer, Stefan
name: Massinger, Thomas J.
name: Staley, Alexa
name: Mueller, Chris
name: Grote, Hartmut
name: Ward, Robert
name: King, Eleanor
name: Thorne, Keith
name: Thomas, Michael
name: Adams, Carl
name: Aston, Stuart
name: Romie, Janeen
name: Pele, Arnaud
name: Heinze, Matthew
name: Blair, David
name: Ju, Li
name: Zhao, Chunnong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parametric instabilities have long been studied as a potentially limiting effect in high-power interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Until now, however, these instabilities have never been observed in a kilometer-scale interferometer. In this work we describe the first observation of parametric instability in an Advanced LIGO detector, and the means by which it has been removed as a barrier to progress.
Squash: A Scalable Quantum Mapper Considering Ancilla Sharing
Creators: name: Dousti, Mohammad Javad
name: Shafaei, Alireza
name: Pedram, Massoud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum algorithms for solving problems of interesting size often result in circuits with a very large number of qubits and quantum gates. Fortunately, these algorithms also tend to contain a small number of repetitively-used quantum kernels. Identifying the quantum logic blocks that implement such quantum kernels is critical to the complexity management for realizing the corresponding quantum circuit. Moreover, quantum computation requires some type of quantum error correction coding to combat decoherence, which in turn results in a large number of ancilla qubits in the circuit. Sharing the ancilla qubits among quantum operations (even though this sharing can increase the overall circuit latency) is important in order to curb the resource demand of the quantum algorithm. This paper presents a multi-core reconfigurable quantum processor architecture, called Requp, which supports a layered approach to mapping a quantum algorithm and ancilla sharing. More precisely, a scalable quantum mapper, called Squash, is introduced, which divides a given quantum circuit into a number of quantum kernels- each kernel comprises k parts such that each part will run on exactly one of k available cores. Experimental results demonstrate that Squash can handle large-scale quantum algorithms while providing an effective mechanism for sharing ancilla qubits.
Discovery of a Mid-L Dwarf Companion to the L 262-74 System
Creators: name: Gramaize, Léopold
name: Schneider, Adam C.
name: Marocco, Federico
name: Faherty, Jacqueline K.
name: Meisner, Aaron M.
name: Kirkpatrick, J. Davy
name: Popinchalk, Mark
name: Rothermich, Austin
name: Kuchner, Marc J.
name: Worlds, The Backyard
name: :
name: Collaboration, Planet 9
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the discovery of CWISE J151044.74$-$524923.5, a wide low-mass companion to the nearby ($\sim$24.7 pc) system L 262-74, which was identified through the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project. We detail the properties of the system, and we assess that this companion is a mid-L dwarf, which will need to be verified spectroscopically. With an angular separation of 74\farcs3, we estimate a projected physical separation of $\sim$1837 au from the central system.
Simulations of star formation in Ophiuchus, II: Multiplicity
Creators: name: Lomax, O.
name: Whitworth, A. P.
name: Hubber, D. A.
name: Stamatellos, D.
name: Walch, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lomax et al. have constructed an ensemble of 60 prestellar cores having masses, sizes, projected shapes, temperatures and non-thermal radial velocity dispersions that match, statistically, the cores in Ophiuchus; and have simulated the evolution of these cores using SPH. Each core has been evolved once with no radiative feedback from stars, once with continuous radiative feedback, and once with episodic radiative feedback. Here we analyse the multiplicity statistics from these simulations. With episodic radiative feedback, (i) the multiplicity frequency is ~60% higher than in the field; (ii) the multiplicity frequency and the mean semi-major axis both increase with primary mass; (iii) one third of multiple systems are hierarchical systems with more than two components; (iv) in these hierarchical systems the inner pairings typically have separations of a few au and mass ratios concentrated towards unity, whereas the outer pairings have separations of order 100 au and a flatter distribution of mass ratios. The binary statistics are compatible with observations of young embedded populations, and -- if wider orbits are disrupted preferentially by external perturbations -- with observations of mature field populations. With no radiative feedback, the results are similar to those from simulations with episodic feedback. With continuous radiative feedback, brown dwarfs are under-produced, the number of multiple systems is too low, and the statistical properties of multiple systems are at variance with observation. This suggests that star formation in Ophiuchus may only be representative of global star formation if accretion onto protostars, and hence radiative feedback, is episodic.
InfoPYME: Noticias sobre la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa en América Latina, vol. 1, julio de 1998
Creators: name: Banco Interamericano De Desarrollo
name: Palaima, Carolyn
name: Amaya, Héctor
name: Quintana, Beatriz
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1998
Subjects: Small business--Latin America
Economic development--Latin America

description: Tabla de contenido: ¿Cómo son y qué necesitan las PYME? Un punto de partida para el diseño y la implantación de políticas / por Héctor Rocha – Ecoeficiencia o cómo producir más con menos / por Azucena Garza – Empresas “verdes”, más rentables / por Carlos Humberto Barragán – Red Fundes: Hacia una nueva pequeña empresa / por Fundación para el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina (FUNDES)
Supplementary Figures S1 - S3 from Fruit flies can learn non-elemental olfactory discriminations
Creators: name: Durrieu, Matthias
name: Wystrach, Antoine
name: Arrufat, Patrick
name: GIURFA, Martin
name: Isabel, Guillaume
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Figure S1: Performance Indices from individual groups of flies trained with a Paired protocol, Unpaired protocol and the Corrected PI computed as the difference between two subsequently tested paired and unpaired groups. Paired and Corrected PI were compared to asPerformance Indices from individual groups of flies trained with a Paired protocol, Unpaired protocol and the Relative PI computed as the difference between two subsequently tested paired and unpaired groups. 1 cycle and 5 cycles PI were compared to assess the impact of repetition on flies calculated performances. Data are plotted as boxplots. the middle line represents the median, the upper and lower limits of the box are the 25 and 75 percent quantiles. The whiskers are the maximum and minimum values of the data that are respectively within 1.5 times the interquartile range over the 75th percentile and under the 25th percentile. Raw data are superimposed as jittered dots. “n.s” stands for “non-significant”, * indicates p < 0.05, ** indicates p < 0.01 after a t.test.; Figure S2: Relative performance indices (PI) of flies trained in a Negative Patterning discrimination with alternative odourants (D = Isoamyl Acetate, E = Ethyl Butyrate), computed as the difference between paired and unpaired scores. Data are plotted as boxplots. The middle line represents the median while the upper and lower limits of the box are the 25 and 75 percent quantiles. The whiskers are the maximum and minimum values of the data that are respectively within 1.5 times the interquartile range over the 75th percentile and under the 25th percentile. Raw data are superimposed as jittered dots. ** indicates p < 0.01 after a 2-ways ANOVA; Figure S3: Relative Performance indices (PI) of flies trained either with a Differential Conditioning or Negative Feature discrimination, with 1 or 5 conditioning cycles, using B (4- Methylcyclohexanol) as CS+ and A (3-Octanol) as CS-. Data are plotted as boxplots. The middle line represents the median while the upper and lower limits of the box are the 25 and 75 percent quantiles. The whiskers are the maximum and minimum values of the data that are respectively within 1.5 times the interquartile range over the 75th percentile and under the 25th percentile. Raw data are superimposed as jittered dots.
Dynamic Algorithms for Interval Scheduling on a Single Machine
Creators: name: Gavryushkin, Alex
name: Khoussainov, Bakhadyr
name: Kokho, Mikhail
name: Liu, Jiamou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate dynamic algorithms for the interval scheduling problem. Our algorithm runs in amortised time $O(\log n)$ for query operation and $O(d\log^2 n)$ for insertion and removal operations, where $n$ and $d$ are the maximal numbers of intervals and pairwise overlapping intervals respectively. We also show that for a monotonic set, that is when no interval properly contains another interval, the amortised complexity is $O(\log n)$ for both query and update operations. We compare the two algorithms for the monotonic interval sets using experiments.
InfoPYME: Noticias sobre la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa en América Latina, vol. 2, julio del 1999
Creators: name: Banco Interamericano De Desarrollo
name: Palaima, Carolyn
name: Amaya, Héctor
name: Quintana, Beatriz
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1999
Subjects: Small business--Latin America
Economic development--Latin America

description: Tabla de contenido: Los riesgos del crecimiento: Sobre los elevados índices de fracaso empresarial / por José Luiz de Santana – XIII Congreso Latinoamericano sobre Espíritu Empresarial y Creación de Empresas – Reunión Internacional de Expertos Sobre el Rol de la Pequeña y Micro Empresa en el Perú / por Pedro Reyes
title: Feasibility of an « All Electric » energy system
title: A prospective study to 2050
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Mobir, Mahmoud
name: Maïzi, Nadia
name: MAZAURIC, Vincent
name: Selosse, Sandrine
name: Samperio, Alfredo
Publisher: name: Chair Prospective Modeling for sustainable development
Year: 2022

description: In 1881, two electricians built the world's first power system in England. It supplied seven arc lamps at 250 volts and 34 incandescent lamps at 40 volts. However, supply to the lamps was intermittent and in 1882 Thomas Edison and his company, The Edison Electric Light Company, developed the first steam-powered electric power station on Pearl Street in New York City. From this first attempt, several systems started to spread across the United States and Europe. and power companies had built thousands of power systems (both direct and alternating current) in the United States and Europe. Years after, it has become possible to transport electricity over long distances. Power distribution then started to expand throughout the world, propelling the second industrial revolution, and becoming progressively a major source of energy supply.
Global electricity consumption has increased by around 70% since 2000, and it accounts for 19% of total final consumption today compared to just over 15% in 2000. The steady rise in demand for electricity means that it is now the second largest fuel by end-use, but the level of electricity consumption remains less than half the level of oil consumption. The emergence of renewable power sources over the last twenty years alongside the further digitalization of power grids are perceived to play a major role if carbon emissions are to decrease significantly. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency of an ‘all electric world’ to decarbonize energy systems. It finds that an ‘all electric’ world scenario, with 4 times more electricity in final energy consumption would require an inevitable climate policy response to support the migration of uses towards clean electricity. The steady decreasing costs of renewables would not be enough to switch to clean power systems. Furthermore, 5.3 GtCO2eq of CCS is to be installed between 2040 and 2050 to compensate CO2 emissions (2.5 GtCO2eq if electricity is to reach 49% in total final energy consumption by 2050). Our
analyses come up with massive breakthroughs in power generation, USA would see ¾ of its dispatchable power capacities switched into intermittent renewable sources. a complete redesign of the grid power system towards one that is more decentralized and more digitized is then required to accompany the transition
InfoPYME: Noticias sobre la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa en América Latina, vol. 2, octubre del 1999
Creators: name: Banco Interamericano De Desarrollo
name: Palaima, Carolyn
name: Amaya, Héctor
name: Quintana, Beatriz
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1999
Subjects: Small business--Latin America
Economic development--Latin America

description: Tabla de contenido: La rentabilidad está asociada con la calidad / por Carlos Roberto Lavandera – Mi Yo Empresario / por Julio Ross Anguizola – Centro Regional de la Calidad - CeRC / por Carlos Eduardo da Silva
Practical and Rigorous reduction of the Many-Electron Quantum-Mechanical Coulomb Problem to O(N^(2/3) Storage
Creators: name: Pederson, Mark R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is tacitly accepted that, for practical basis sets consisting of N functions, solution of the two-electron Coulomb problem in quantum mechanics requires storage of O(N^4) integrals in the small N limit. For localized functions, in the large N limit, or for planewaves, due to closure, the storage can be reduced to O(N^2) integrals. Here, it is shown that the storage can be further reduced to O(N^{2/3}) for separable basis functions. A practical algorithm, that uses standard one-dimensional Gaussian-quadrature sums, is demonstrated. The resulting algorithm allows for the simultaneous storage, or fast reconstruction, of any two-electron coulomb integral required for a many-electron calculation, on each and every processor of massively parallel computers even if such processors have very limited memory and disk space. For example, for calculations involving a basis of 9171 planewaves, the memory required to effectively store all coulomb integrals decreases from 2.8Gbytes to less than 2.4 Mbytes.
Analysis and Computation of the Joint Queue Length Distribution in a FIFO Single-Server Queue with Multiple Batch Markovian Arrival Streams
Creators: name: Masuyama, Hiroyuki
name: Takine, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K25, 60J22

description: This paper considers a work-conserving FIFO single-server queue with multiple batch Markovian arrival streams governed by a continuous-time finite-state Markov chain. A particular feature of this queue is that service time distributions of customers may be different for different arrival streams. After briefly discussing the actual waiting time distributions of customers from respective arrival streams, we derive a formula for the vector generating function of the time-average joint queue length distribution in terms of the virtual waiting time distribution. Further assuming the discrete phase-type batch size distributions, we develop a numerically feasible procedure to compute the joint queue length distribution. Some numerical examples are provided also.
Interview questions used in the study "Regulatory Requirements Engineering in Large Enterprises: An Interview Study on the European Accessibility Act"
Creators: name: Kosenkov, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Supplement to the paper “Regulatory Requirements Engineering in Large Enterprises: An Interview Study on the European Accessibility Act”. The list of the questions used during the interviews (the list does not include additional and clarifying questions that were asked when required in each particular case)
Linearly resummed hydrodynamics in a weakly curved spacetime
Creators: name: Bu, Yanyan
name: Lublinsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend our study of all-order linearly resummed hydrodynamics in a flat space~\cite{1406.7222,1409.3095} to fluids in weakly curved spaces. The underlying microscopic theory is a finite temperature $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling. The AdS/CFT correspondence relates black brane solutions of the Einstein gravity in asymptotically \emph{locally} $\textrm{AdS}_5$ geometry to relativistic conformal fluids in a weakly curved 4D background. To linear order in the amplitude of hydrodynamic variables and metric perturbations, the fluid's energy-momentum tensor is computed with derivatives of both the fluid velocity and background metric resummed to all orders. We extensively discuss the meaning of all order hydrodynamics by expressing it in terms of the memory function formalism, which is also suitable for practical simulations. In addition to two viscosity functions discussed at length in refs.~\cite{1406.7222,1409.3095}, we find four curvature induced structures coupled to the fluid via new transport coefficient functions. In ref.~\cite{0905.4069}, the latter were referred to as gravitational susceptibilities of the fluid. We analytically compute these coefficients in the hydrodynamic limit, and then numerically up to large values of momenta.
description: 24 pages + appendices, 1 table, 6 muti-figures
Modeling and simulation of a beam emission spectroscopy diagnostic for the ITER prototype neutral beam injector
Creators: name: Barbisan, M.
name: Zaniol, B.
name: Pasqualotto, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A test facility for the development of the Neutral Beam Injection system for ITER is under construction at Consorzio RFX. It will host two experiments: SPIDER, a 100 keV H-/D- ion RF source, and MITICA, a prototype of the full performance ITER injector (1 MV, 17 MW beam). A set of diagnostics will monitor the operation and allow to optimize the performance of the two prototypes. In particular, Beam Emission Spectroscopy will measure the uniformity and the divergence of the fast particles beam exiting the ion source and travelling through the beam line components. This type of measurement is based on the collection of the Hα/Dα emission resulting from the interaction of the energetic particles with the background gas. A numerical model has been developed to simulate the spectrum of the collected emissions in order to design this diagnostic and to study its performance. The paper describes the model at the base of the simulations and presents the modeled $H_α$ spectra in the case of MITICA experiment.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures. Contributed paper for the HTPD 2014 conference. Accepted manuscript
Healthcare provider perceptions of support provision for people with stroke: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Clancy, Brigid
name: Bonevski, Billie
name: English, Coralie
name: Guillaumier, Ashleigh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: This study aimed to explore healthcare providers’ perceptions of support provision for people who have experienced stroke. A qualitative descriptive study was conducted. Snowball sampling was used to recruit Australian healthcare workers providing care to people with stroke. Semi-structured one-on-one interviews were audiotaped and transcribed. An inductive thematic analysis of all transcripts was undertaken by two authors. Fourteen participants who worked across the care continuum in three Australian states were interviewed. Responses fit into three overarching themes: (1) attitudes to supports; (2) availability and accessibility of supports; and (3) awareness of supports. These themes encompassed perceptions of the support options available for people with stroke and the factors affecting support provision decision making among healthcare providers. The healthcare providers in this study thought people with stroke would benefit from a greater range of available supports. Supports should take into account the diverse experiences and acute and long-term needs of people with stroke, as well as be accessible to people from all cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Healthcare providers and people who have experienced stroke may benefit from a roadmap for post-stroke support that clearly outlines where responsibility lies for support provision. Healthcare providers across the care continuum feel that current post-stroke supports and services do not adequately serve the diversity of experiences and needs of stroke survivors.Stroke survivors who do not attend rehabilitation, including those with “mild” stroke or who do not fit within limb-focused rehabilitation services, may be missing out on key post-stroke information and support.The development of a roadmap for post stroke support that identifies minimum support provisions and where responsibility lies for provision could benefit healthcare providers, stroke survivors and their carers. Healthcare providers across the care continuum feel that current post-stroke supports and services do not adequately serve the diversity of experiences and needs of stroke survivors. Stroke survivors who do not attend rehabilitation, including those with “mild” stroke or who do not fit within limb-focused rehabilitation services, may be missing out on key post-stroke information and support. The development of a roadmap for post stroke support that identifies minimum support provisions and where responsibility lies for provision could benefit healthcare providers, stroke survivors and their carers.
Manuela Studer-Karlen, Christus Anapeson. Bild und Liturgie.
Creators: name: Warland, Rainer
Publisher: name: The Byzantine Review
Year: 2023
Subjects: Christ
iconography
liturgy

description: Manuela Studer-Karlen, Christus Anapeson. Bild und Liturgie. Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2022. 460 S., 167 farbige Abb. – ISBN 978-3-7965-4604-4 (€ 92.00)
description: The Byzantine Review, Bd. 5 (2023)
MaGe: A Monte Carlo framework for the Gerda and Majorana double beta decay experiments
Creators: name: Gehman, V.
name: Belogurov, S.
name: Di Marco, M.
name: Descovich, M.
name: Hudek, K.
name: Henning, R.
name: Chan, Y.D.
name: Tull, C.
name: Johnson, R.
name: Kazkaz, K.
name: Perry, M.
name: Klimenko, A.
name: Fujikawa, B.
name: Marino, M.
name: Pandola, L.
name: Mokhtarani, A.
name: Franco, D.
name: Jordan, D.
name: Bauer, M.
name: Knapp, M.
name: Poon, A.
name: Kroeninger, K.
name: Liu, X.
name: Lesko, K.
name: Radford, D.
name: Tomei, C.
name: Detwiler, J.
Publisher: name: Institute of Physics Publishing
Year: 2006

description: The Gerda [1] and Majorana [2] projects, both searching for the neutrinoless double beta-decay of 76Ge, are developing a joint Monte-Carlo simulation framework called MaGe. Such an approach has many benefits: the workload for the development of general tools is shared between more experts, the code is tested in more detail, and more experimental data is made available for validation.
Populismus als Parasit der Demokratie - Differenzierungstheoretische Einordnung eines semantischen Komplexes und Diskursanalyse einer Parlamentsdebatte
Creators: name: Weber, Hannes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war nach einer Durchsicht der sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur eine sozialtheoretische Definition von Populismus. Dieser wurde in der Folge als semantischer Komplex theoretisiert, der sich als Differenz Volk/Anti-Volk parasitär an die spezifische Funktionsweise und Selbstbeschreibung des ausdifferenzierten politischen Systems anheftet. Konkret besetzt er dabei die Kommunikation über das in der Demokratiesemantik eingelassene Paradox der Herrschaft des Volkes über sich selber. Aus der Perspektive der Inklusions- und Exklusionsforschung ist populistischer Kommunikation der Ansatz askriptivkollektiver Zuschreibungen und eine kollektive Definition von Freiheit gemein. Diese theoretische Grundlegung wurde mit einer Wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse der Parlamentsdebatte zur Initiative ‚Für die Stärkung der Volksrechte in der Aussenpolitik (Staatsverträge vors Volk!)’ ergänzt. Populistische Kommunikation spielte in den rekonstruierten Diskursen eine erhebliche Rolle. Es kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass sie auch in zukünftigen Debatten virulent bleibt, trotz – oder gerade wegen – zunehmender Krisen demokratischer Steuerung.
Monte Carlo simulation for the Majorana neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment
Creators: name: Henning, R.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2005

description: The Majorana experiment is a proposed HPGe detector array that will primarily search for neutrinoless double-beta decay and dark matter. It will rely on pulse-shape discrimination and crystal segmentation to suppress backgrounds following careful materials selection. A critical aspect of the design phase of Majorana is a reliable simulation of the detector response, pulse formation, and its radioactive backgrounds. We are developing an adaptable and complete simulation based on GEANT 4 to address these requirements and the requirements of a modern, large collaboration experiment. The salient aspects of the simulation are presented. The Majorana experiment is presented in a parallel poster by Kareem Kazkaz.
Helioseismic constraints on the structure of the solar tachocline
Creators: name: Larsen, R.M.
name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
name: Thompson, M.J.
name: Tomczyk, S.
name: Schou, J.
name: Charbonneau, P.
name: Henning, R.
Publisher: name: Institute of Physics Publishing
Year: 1999

description: This paper presents a series of helioseismic inversions aimed at determining with the highest possible confidence and accuracy the structure of the rotational shear layer (the tachocline) located beneath the base of the solar convective envelope. We are particularly interested in identifying features of the inversions that are robust properties of the data, in the sense of not being overly influenced by the choice of analysis methods. Toward this aim we carry out two types of two-dimensional linear inversions, namely Regularized Least-Squares (RLS) and Subtractive Optimally Localized Averages (SOLA), the latter formulated in terms of either the rotation rate or its radial gradient. We also perform nonlinear parametric least-squares fits using a genetic algorithm-based forward modeling technique. The sensitivity of each method is thoroughly tested on synthetic data. The three methods are then used on the LOWL 2 yr frequency-splitting data set. The tachocline is found to have an equatorial thickness of w/R⊙ = 0.039 ± 0.013 and equatorial central radius rc/R⊙ = 0.693 ± 3.002. All three techniques also indicate that the tachocline is prolate, with a difference in central radius Δrc/R⊙ ≃ 0.024 ± 0.004 between latitude 60° and the equator. Assuming uncorrelated and normally distributed errors, a strictly spherical tachocline can be rejected at the 99% confidence level. No statistically significant variation in tachocline thickness with latitude is found. Implications of these results for hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical models of the solar tachocline are discussed.
Dynamics in asymmetric double-well condensates
Creators: name: Cataldo, H. M.
name: Jezek, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in asymmetric double-wells is studied. We construct a two-mode model and analyze the properties of the corresponding phase-space diagram, showing in particular that the minimum of the phase-space portrait becomes shifted from the origin as a consequence of the nonvanishing overlap between the ground and excited states from which the localized states are derived. We further incorporate effective interaction corrections in the set of two-mode model parameters. Such a formalism is applied to a recent experimentally explored system, which is confined by a toroidal trap with radial barriers forming an arbitrary angle between them. We confront the model results with Gross-Pitaevskii simulations for various angle values finding a very good agreement. We also analyze the accuracy of a previously employed simple model for moving barriers, exploring a possible improvement that could cover a wider range of trap asymmetries.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures
A School of Cosmopolitanism. Experiences with Global Citizenship Education in Classroom Practice
Creators: name: Österreichische UNESCO-Kommission
Publisher: name: Austrian Commission for UNESCO
Year: 2019

description: The brochure contains a number of good practice projects and school development processes concerning Global Citizenship Education (GCED). It is targeted predominantly at schools belonging to the Austrian UNESCO school network, and is intended to serve as an example. It also provides insights into activities regarding GCED in the field of education. In addition, it contains a guide with the criteria that should be taken into account when developing GCED schools and lessons.
title: Altri corpi. Visioni e rappresentazioni della (e incursioni sulla) disabilità e diversità
Creators: name: Straniero, Alessandra M.
name: Bocci, Fabio
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2020

description: Il volume, che si compone di tre parti – Visioni, Rappresentazioni e Incursioni –, analizza le dinamiche di normalizzazione/assimilazione, così come di esclusione/incorporazione, della disabilità e della diversità, proponendo un percorso che attraversa visioni, rappresentazioni e interpretazioni dei corpi diversi da uno standard definito e riconosciuto come normale. I corpi altri (deformi, disabili, mutanti, devianti, alieni, trasgressivi, cyborg) portano, infatti, su di sé – in alcuni casi inciso nella carne – lo stigma delle interpretazioni e delle rappresentazioni che la disabilità e la diversità hanno subìto, e tuttora subiscono, nelle diverse epoche della storia occidentale. La convinzione che attraversa il volume è che sia lo sguardo di chi osserva i corpi diversi a favorire forme di discriminazione e di esclusione nei confronti delle persone con disabilità o classificate dal sistema sociale come atipiche o non ordinarie.
Connecting Entanglement in Time and Space: Improving the Folding Algorithm
Creators: name: Hastings, M. B.
name: Mahajan, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The "folding algorithm"\cite{fold1} is a matrix product state algorithm for simulating quantum systems that involves a spatial evolution of a matrix product state. Hence, the computational effort of this algorithm is controlled by the temporal entanglement. We show that this temporal entanglement is, in many cases, equal to the spatial entanglement of a modified Hamiltonian. This inspires a modification to the folding algorithm, that we call the "hybrid algorithm". We find that this leads to improved accuracy for the same numerical effort. We then use these algorithms to study relaxation in a transverse plus parallel field Ising model, finding persistent quasi-periodic oscillations for certain choices of initial conditions.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures
Construction of Vietnamese SentiWordNet by using Vietnamese Dictionary
Creators: name: Vu, Xuan-Son
name: Park, Seong-Bae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: SentiWordNet is an important lexical resource supporting sentiment analysis in opinion mining applications. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to construct a Vietnamese SentiWordNet (VSWN). SentiWordNet is typically generated from WordNet in which each synset has numerical scores to indicate its opinion polarities. Many previous studies obtained these scores by applying a machine learning method to WordNet. However, Vietnamese WordNet is not available unfortunately by the time of this paper. Therefore, we propose a method to construct VSWN from a Vietnamese dictionary, not from WordNet. We show the effectiveness of the proposed method by generating a VSWN with 39,561 synsets automatically. The method is experimentally tested with 266 synsets with aspect of positivity and negativity. It attains a competitive result compared with English SentiWordNet that is 0.066 and 0.052 differences for positivity and negativity sets respectively.
description: accepted on April-9th-2014, best paper award
A carefully characterised and tracked Trans-Neptunian survey, the size-distribution of the Plutinos and the number of Neptunian Trojans
Creators: name: Alexandersen, Mike
name: Gladman, Brett
name: Kavelaars, J. J.
name: Petit, Jean-Marc
name: Gwyn, Stephen
name: Shankman, Cory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) may preserve evidence of planet building in their orbital and size-distributions. While all populations show steep size-distributions for large objects, recently relative deficit of Neptunian Trojans and scattering objects with diameters $D<100\,\mathrm{km}$ were detected. We have investigated this deficit with a 32 square degree survey, detecting 77 TNOs to a limiting $r$-band magnitude of 24.6. Our Plutinos sample (18 objects in 3:2 mean motion resonance with Neptune) also shows a deficit of $D<100\,\mathrm{km}$ objects. We reject a single power-law size-distribution and find that the Plutinos favour a divot. The Plutinos are thus added the list of populations with a deficit of $D<100\,\mathrm{km}$ objects. The fact that three independent samples of three different populations show this trend suggests that it is a real feature, possibly shared by all hot TNO populations as a remnant of "born big" planetesimal formation processes. We surmise the existence of $9000\pm3000$ Plutinos with $H_r\leq8.66$ and $37000^{+12000}_{-10000}$ Plutinos with $H_r\leq10.0$. Our survey also discovered one temporary Uranian Trojan, one temporary Neptunian Trojans and one stable Neptunian Trojan, from which we derive populations of $110^{+500}_{-100}$, $210^{+900}_{-200}$ and $150^{+600}_{-140}$ , respectively, with $H_r\leq10.0$. The Neptunian Trojans are thus less numerous than the main belt asteroids, which has over 700 asteroids with $H_r\leq10.0$. With such numbers, the temporary Neptunian Trojans cannot be previously stable Trojans that happen to be escaping the resonance now; they must be captured from another reservoir. With three 3:1 and one 4:1 resonators, we add to the growing evidence that the high-order resonances are more populated than expected.
description: 56 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables
Facile discovery of surrogate cytokine agonists
Creators: name: Glassman, Caleb R.
name: Su, Leon L.
name: Sheahan, Timothy P.
name: Zhao, Xiang
name: Ren, Junming
name: Rustagi, Arjun
name: Liu, Qingxiang
name: Blish, Catherine A.
name: Garcia, K. Christopher
name: Moreira, Fernando R.
name: Yen, Michelle
name: Jude, Kevin M.
name: Picton, Lora K.
name: Baric, Ralph S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Cytokines are powerful immune modulators that initiate signaling through receptor dimerization, but natural cytokines have structural limitations as therapeutics. We present a strategy to discover cytokine surrogate agonists by using modular ligands that exploit induced proximity and receptor dimer geometry as pharmacological metrics amenable to high-throughput screening. Using VHH and scFv to human interleukin-2/15, type-I interferon, and interleukin-10 receptors, we generated combinatorial matrices of single-chain bispecific ligands that exhibited diverse spectrums of functional activities, including potent inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 by surrogate interferons. Crystal structures of IL-2R:VHH complexes revealed that variation in receptor dimer geometries resulted in functionally diverse signaling outputs. This modular platform enabled engineering of surrogate ligands that compelled assembly of an IL-2R/IL-10R heterodimer, which does not naturally exist, that signaled through pSTAT5 on T and natural killer (NK) cells. This “cytokine med-chem” approach, rooted in principles of induced proximity, is generalizable for discovery of diversified agonists for many ligand-receptor systems.
Equilibrium measures at temperature zero for Hénon-like maps at the first bifurcation
Creators: name: Takahasi, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37D25, 37D35, 37E30, 37G25

description: We develop a thermodynamic formalism for a strongly dissipative Hénon-like map at the first bifurcation parameter at which the uniform hyperbolicity is destroyed by the formation of tangencies inside the limit set. For any $t\in\mathbb R$ we prove the existence of an invariant Borel probability measure which minimizes the free energy associated with a non continuous geometric potential $-t\log J^u$, where $J^u$ denotes the Jacobian in the unstable direction. Under a mild condition, we show that any accumulation point of these measures as $t\to+\infty$ minimizes the unstable Lyapunov exponent. We also show that the equilibrium measures converge as $t\to-\infty$ to a Dirac measure which maximizes the unstable Lyapunov exponent.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Carbon-oxygen and oxygen-neon classical novae are Galactic7Li producers
Creators: name: Hix, W.R.
name: Iliadis, C.
name: Bose, M.
name: Starrfield, S.
name: Wagner, R.M.
name: Woodward, C.E.
Publisher: name: Societa Astronomica Italiana
Year: 2020

description: We report on studies of classical nova (CN) explosions where we follow the evolution of thermonuclear runaways (TNRs) on carbon oxygen (CO) and oxygen-neon (ONe) white dwarfs (WDs). Our simulations are guided by the results of multi-dimensional studies of TNRs in WDs which find that sufficient mixing with WD core material occurs after the TNR is well underway, reaching levels of enrichment that agree with observations of CN ejecta abundances. Our results show large enrichments of7Be in the ejected gases implying that CNe may be responsible for a significant fraction (∼ 100 M) of the7Li in the galaxy (∼1000 M). In addition, the WDs in these simulations are ejecting less material than they accrete. We, therefore, predict that the WDs can grow in mass as a consequence of the TNR and CNe may be an important channel of Supernova Ia progenitors.
The Marshall Plan and its socio ecological side effects. Conceptual and case based considerations
Creators: name: Groß, Robert
name: Wiedenhofer, Dominik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Presentation on "The Marshall Plan and its socio-ecological side effects. Conceptual and case based considerations" given at "Resources for a social ecological transformation"; Innsbruck University; February 29 th , 2019
Management and Detection System for Medical Surgical Equipment
Creators: name: Hadar, Alexandra
name: Levy, Natan
name: Winokur, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Retained surgical bodies (RSB) are any foreign bodies left inside the patient after a medical procedure. RSB is often caused by human mistakes or miscommunication between medical staff during the procedure. Infection, medical complications, and even death are possible consequences of RSB, and it is a significant risk for patients, hospitals, and surgical staff. In this paper. we describe the engineering process we have done to explore the design space, define a feasible solution, and simulate, verify, and validate a state-of-the-art Cyber-Physical System that can significantly decrease the incidence of RSB and thus increase patients' survivability rate. This system might save patients' suffering and lives and reduce medical staff negligence lawsuits while improving the hospital's reputation. The paper illustrates each step of the process with examples and describes the chosen solution in detail.
Deterministic and stochastic algorithms for resolving the flow fields in ducts and networks using energy minimization
Creators: name: Sochi, Taha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several deterministic and stochastic multi-variable global optimization algorithms (Conjugate Gradient, Nelder-Mead, Quasi-Newton, and Global) are investigated in conjunction with energy minimization principle to resolve the pressure and volumetric flow rate fields in single ducts and networks of interconnected ducts. The algorithms are tested with seven types of fluid: Newtonian, power law, Bingham, Herschel-Bulkley, Ellis, Ree-Eyring and Casson. The results obtained from all those algorithms for all these types of fluid agree very well with the analytically derived solutions as obtained from the traditional methods which are based on the conservation principles and fluid constitutive relations. The results confirm and generalize the findings of our previous investigations that the energy minimization principle is at the heart of the flow dynamics systems. The investigation also enriches the methods of Computational Fluid Dynamics for solving the flow fields in tubes and networks for various types of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
King Sebastian of Cutileiro
Creators: name: Gil, Francisco Baptista
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 360102
subject: Art history

description: Sculpture in public spaces in Portugal has not had much expression on the national art scene. For years, official commissions were tied to the aesthetic canons of the 18th and 19th centuries. However, in the second half of the 20th century, a work appeared that represented a significant paradigm shift.
Thermonuclear reaction rates and primordial nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Coc, A.
name: Iliadis, C.
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing Ltd
Year: 2020

description: Assuming the best numerical value for the cosmic baryonic density and the existence of three neutrino flavors, standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis is a parameter-free model. It is important to assess if the observed primordial abundances can be reproduced by simulations. Numerous studies have shown that the simulations overpredict the primordial 7Li abundance by a factor of ≈ 3 compared to the observations. The discrepancy may be caused by unknown systematics in 7Li observations, poorly understood depletion of lithium in stars, errors in thermonuclear rates that take part in the lithium and beryllium synthesis, or physics beyond the standard model. Here, we focus on the likelihood of a nuclear physics solution. The status of the key nuclear reaction rates is summarized. Big Bang nucleosynthesis simulations are performed with the most recent reaction rates, and the uncertainties of the predicted abundances are established using a Monte Carlo technique. Correlations between abundances and reaction rates are investigated based on the metric of mutual information. The rates of four reactions impact the primordial 7Li abundance: 3He(α,γ)7Be, d(p,γ)3He, 7Be(d,p)2α, and 7Be(n,p)7Li. We employ a genetic algorithm to search for simultaneous rate changes in these four reactions that may account for all observed primordial abundances. When the search is performed for reaction rate ranges that are much wider than recently reported uncertainties, no acceptable solutions are found. Based on the currently available evidence, we conclude that it is highly unlikely for the cosmological lithium problem to have a nuclear physics solution.