cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Insurance
Creators: name: Owens, Emer
name: Sheehan, Barry
name: MULLINS, MARTIN
name: Cunneen, Martin
name: Ressel, Juliane
name: Castignani, German
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Commerce, management, tourism and services
Economics
Information and computing sciences
Mathematical sciences

description: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) models allow for a more transparent and understandable relationship between humans and machines. The insurance industry represents a fundamental opportunity to demonstrate the potential of XAI, with the industry’s vast stores of sensitive data on policyholders and centrality in societal progress and innovation. This paper analyses current Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in insurance industry practices and insurance research to assess their degree of explainability. Using search terms representative of (X)AI applications in insurance, 419 original research articles were screened from IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, Scopus, Web of Science and Business Source Complete and EconLit. The resulting 103 articles (between the years 2000–2021) representing the current state-of-the-art of XAI in insurance literature are analysed and classified, highlighting the prevalence of XAI methods at the various stages of the insurance value chain. The study finds that XAI methods are particularly prevalent in claims management, underwriting and actuarial pricing practices. Simplification methods, called knowledge distillation and rule extraction, are identified as the primary XAI technique used within the insurance value chain. This is important as the combination of large models to create a smaller, more manageable model with distinct association rules aids in building XAI models which are regularly understandable. XAI is an important evolution of AI to ensure trust, transparency and moral values are embedded within the system’s ecosystem. The assessment of these XAI foci in the context of the insurance industry proves a worthwhile exploration into the unique advantages of XAI, highlighting to industry professionals, regulators and XAI developers where particular focus should be directed in the further development of XAI. This is the first study to analyse XAI’s current applications within the insurance industry, while simultaneously contributing to the interdisciplinary understanding of applied XAI. Advancing the literature on adequate XAI definitions, the authors propose an adapted definition of XAI informed by the systematic review of XAI literature in insurance.
(102635) Eirene Mary Ormerod
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
On the Binary Frequency of the Lowest Mass Members of the Pleiades with Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3
Creators: name: Garcia, E. V.
name: Dupuy, Trent J.
name: Allers, Katelyn N.
name: Liu, Michael C.
name: Deacon, Niall R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 imaging survey of 11 of the lowest mass brown dwarfs in the Pleiades known (25-40 Mjup). These objects represent the predecessors to T dwarfs in the field. Using a semi-empirical binary PSF-fitting technique, we are able to probe to 0.03" (0.75 pixel), better than 2x the WFC3/UVIS diffraction limit. We did not find any companions to our targets. From extensive testing of our PSF-fitting method on simulated binaries, we compute detection limits which rule out companions to our targets with mass ratios of $q\gtrsim0.7$ and separations $a\gtrsim4$ AU. Thus, our survey is the first to attain the high angular resolution needed to resolve brown dwarf binaries in the Pleiades at separations that are most common in the field population. We constrain the binary frequency over this range of separation and mass ratio of 24-40 Mjup Pleiades brown dwarfs to be <11% for 1$σ$ (<26% at 2$σ$). This binary frequency is consistent with both younger and older brown dwarfs in this mass range.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, 27 pages, 8 figures
Mass Comparativism and the Metaphysics of Quantities
Creators: name: Li, Yifan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Comparativism about quantity claims that certain physical quantities, such as mass in Newtonian Mechanics, are grounded in extrinsic relations obtained among objects instead of intrinsic features of individual objects themselves. Absolutism about quantity claims the contrary. In this paper, I raise an argument against comparativism about mass in Newtonian Mechanics. My argument proceeds by considering whether comparativism can be a part of a plausible general metaphysical theory of mass. I describe two pairs of incompatible views on two related metaphysical issues about mass: reductivism versus primitivism, and realism versus nominalism, and I show that there are serious problems for each of general metaphysical theory we can construct by combining comparativism with any of these views. My conclusion is that this shall give us a good reason to prefer absolutism over comparativism for Newtonian mass as well as other physical quantities that are similar to Newtonian mass in the relevant ways.
Edoardo Tortarolo, "Diesseits und jenseits der Alpen: Deutsche und italienische Kultur im 18. Jahrhundert", Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2011
Creators: name: Pickering, Michael
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2015

description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol. 19 (2014)
Wang Wenxing and the "Loss" of China
Creators: Lupke, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 1998

Wang Wenxing is one of the most stylistically innovative writers of fiction in Sinophone literature. His novel Family Catastrophe (Jiabian 家變) is structured like no other. Many critics have commented on this, but this article is the first to offer a reading of the structure that explains in ideological terms why it is constructed in such a fashion. The bifurcated text forms an internal contestation that places iconoclastic critique of the Chinese tradition, especially filiality, against the feeling of nostalgia and compulsion toward reconciliation. The fact that the two narrative skeins are interwoven gives the reader a sort of see-saw experience of moving back and forth between these two narrative lines and of moving from one narrative tone to its diametric opposite. The radical critique of the tradition is also carried out on the surface level of language itself, for Wang Wenxing peppers his writing with neologism, unusually written characters, and other visual devices that call attention to the fabricated nature of the text. Finally, this essay also examines supporting characters in the novel that provide counterpoints to the main character and offer different perspectives on the historical experience of displacement and dispossession.
Edward Corp, "I giacobiti a Urbino 1717-1718. La corte in esilio di Giacomo III re d’Inghilterra", (edizione italiana a cura di Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013
Creators: name: Rai, Eleonora
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2015

description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol. 19 (2014)
(102625) Reginald Bartlemore Grosvenor Birtill
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The GHOSTS survey. II. The diversity of Halo Color and Metallicity Profiles of Massive Disk Galaxies
Creators: name: Monachesi, Antonela
name: Bell, Eric F.
name: Radburn-Smith, David
name: Bailin, Jeremy
name: de Jong, Roelof S.
name: Holwerda, Benne
name: Streich, David
name: Silverstein, Grace
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stellar halo color properties of six nearby massive highly inclined disk galaxies using Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 observations in both F606W and F814W filters from the GHOSTS survey. The observed fields, placed both along the minor and major axis of each galaxy, probe the stellar outskirts out to projected distances of ~ 50-70 kpc from their galactic centre along the minor axis. The 50% completeness levels of the color magnitude diagrams are typically at two mag below the tip of the red giant branch. We find that all galaxies have extended stellar halos out to ~ 50 kpc and two out to ~ 70 kpc. We determined the halo color distribution and color profile for each galaxy using the median colors of stars in the RGB. Within each galaxy we find variations in the median colors as a function of radius which likely indicates population variations, reflecting that their outskirts were built from several small accreted objects. We find that half of the galaxies (NGC 0891, NGC 4565, and NGC 7814) present a clear negative color gradient, reflecting a declining metallicity in their halos; the other have no significant color or population gradient. In addition, notwithstanding the modest sample size of galaxies, there is no strong correlation between their halo color/metallicity or gradient with galaxy's properties such as rotational velocity or stellar mass. The diversity in halo color profiles observed in the GHOSTS galaxies qualitatively supports the predicted galaxy-to-galaxy scatter in halo stellar properties; a consequence of the stochasticity inherent in the assembling history of galaxies.
description: Accepted by MNRAS, 31 pages, 18 figures. Appendix added and some editions to match accepted version. Conclusions unchanged
Semiotic Objections to Markets: Defending Sandel against Brennan and Jaworski
Creators: name: Schwartz, Ben
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: ABSTRACT      Benjamin H. Schwartz:  Semiotic Objections to Markets: Defending Sandel against Brennan and Jaworski       (Under the direction of Luc Bovens)      	Do semiotic considerations place moral limits on the reach of markets—that is, should certain goods be kept off the market because marketizing them would express the wrong way of valuing them? Sandel argues that putting certain goods on the market can change their meaning and that this sometimes expresses bad attitudes and corrupts our values. Brennan and Jaworski argue that the meaning of markets is largely contingent, so putting goods on the market need not change their meaning in morally problematic ways.      In this paper, I argue against Brennan and Jaworski’s criticisms of semiotic objections to markets (such as Sandel’s) while concurrently defending Sandel. Specifically, I argue that Brennan and Jaworski frame the debate incorrectly; that markets necessarily express commensurability; that Brennan and Jaworski provide flawed arguments for their contingency thesis; and that one key suggestion they make (instituting ‘schmarkets’) is both unfeasible and objectionable on their own terms.
(102633) Eirene Christina Philpott
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The solution gap of the Brezis-Nirenberg problem on the hyperbolic space
Creators: name: Benguria, Soledad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35XX, 35B33, 35A24, 35J25, 35J60

description: We consider the positive solutions of the nonlinear eigenvalue problem $-Δ_{\mathbb{H}^n} u = λu + u^p, $ with $p=\frac{n+2}{n-2}$ and $u \in H_0^1(Ω),$ where $Ω$ is a geodesic ball of radius $θ_1$ on $\mathbb{H}^n.$ For radial solutions, this equation can be written as an ODE having $n$ as a parameter. In this setting, the problem can be extended to consider real values of $n.$ We show that if $20$ if $0 < θ
description: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00605-015-0861-1
COMPARISON OF OPEN BITE CLOSURE OUTCOMES: CLEAR ALIGNERS VS. SKELETAL ANCHORAGE MOLAR INTRUSION
Creators: name: Hamilton, Phillip
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: ABSTRACT      Phillip D. Hamilton:  Comparison of Open Bite Closure Outcomes: Clear Aligners vs. Skeletal Anchorage Molar Intrusion      (Under the direction of Ching-Chang Ko)      This retrospective study assessed treatment effects during open bite treatment with clear aligners versus skeletal anchorage. The sample consisted of 92 consecutive patients with anterior open bites from 3 practices. 8 measurements assessing vertical skeletal and dental relationships were calculated. Patients were divided by clear aligner and skeletal anchorage. Clear aligner patients were further divided by programmed movement: incisor extrusion, molar intrusion, or combination; and by the use of bite blocks. One-way ANOVA statistics were calculated for all comparisons. Clear aligner groups demonstrated no statistically significant difference for any variables of treatment design. Skeletal anchorage treatment compared to clear aligners demonstrated significant differences in LFH, U6-PP, and Occl plane to SN. Results demonstrate clear aligner open bite closure is effective primarily by way of incisor extrusion regardless of appliance design. This also demonstrates skeletal anchorage treatment preserves incisor position and affects skeletal change more predictably compared to clear aligners.
(102634) Ethel Alice Janet Philpott
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Robustness of Neutrino Mass Matrix Predictions
Creators: name: Rodejohann, Werner
name: Xu, Xun-Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stability of neutrino mass matrix predictions on important and currently unknown observables. Those are the octant of $θ_{23}$, the sign of $\sinδ$ and the neutrino mass ordering. Determining those unknowns is expected to be useful in order to distinguish neutrino mass models. Therefore it may be interesting to know how robust the predictions of a mass matrix for the octant of $θ_{23}$ or the neutrino mass ordering are. By applying general multiplicative perturbations we explicitly quantify how probable it is that a perturbed mass matrix predicts an octant of $θ_{23}$ different from the original mass matrix, or even a neutrino mass ordering different from the original one. Both the general case and an explicit flavor symmetry model are studied. We give the probabilities as a function of the smallest neutrino mass, showing that for values exceeding 0.1 eV the chance to switch the prediction quickly approaches $50\,\%$.
description: 8 pages,10 figures, published by NPB
Two components in charged particle production in heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Bylinkin, A. A.
name: Chernyavskaya, N. S.
name: Rostovtsev, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transverse momentum spectra of charged particle production in heavy-ion collisions are considered in terms of a recently introduced Two Component parameterization combining exponential ("soft") and power-law ("hard") functional forms. The charged hadron densities calculated separately for them are plotted versus number of participating nucleons, $N_{part}$. The obtained dependences are discussed and the possible link between the two component parameterization introduced by the authors and the two component model historically used for the case of heavy-ion collisions is established. Next, the variations of the parameters of the introduced approach with the center of mass energy and centrality are studied using the available data from RHIC and LHC experiments. The spectra shapes are found to show universal dependences on $N_{part}$ for all investigated collision energies.
description: a version as to appear in NPB after editorial comments
(102621) Frank Jewel Ormerod
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Energy-time uncertainty principle and lower bounds on sojourn time
Creators: name: Asch, Joachim
name: Bourget, Olivier
name: Cortes, Victor
name: Fernandez, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One manifestation of quantum resonances is a large sojourn time, or autocorrelation, for states which are initially localized. We elaborate on Lavine's time-energy uncertainty principle and give an estimate on the sojourn time. For the case of perturbed embedded eigenstates the bound is explicit and involves Fermi's Golden Rule. It is valid for a very general class of systems. We illustrate the theory by applications to resonances for time dependent systems including the AC Stark effect as well as multistate systems.
description: Version to appear in Annales Henri Poincar\'e
Optomechanical reference accelerometer
Creators: name: Gerberding, Oliver
name: Cervantes, Felipe Guzman
name: Melcher, John
name: Pratt, Jon R.
name: Taylor, Jacob M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an optomechanical accelerometer with high dynamic range, high bandwidth and read-out noise levels below 8 $μ$g/$\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$. The straightforward assembly and low cost of our device make it a prime candidate for on-site reference calibrations and autonomous navigation. We present experimental data taken with a vacuum sealed, portable prototype and deduce the achieved bias stability and scale factor accuracy. Additionally, we present a comprehensive model of the device physics that we use to analyze the fundamental noise sources and accuracy limitations of such devices.
Elasticity of Interfacial Rafts of Hard Particles with Soft Shells
Creators: name: Knoche, Sebastian
name: Kierfeld, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study an elasticity model for compressed protein monolayers or particle rafts at a liquid interface. Based on the microscopic view of hard-core particles with soft shells, a bead-spring model is formulated and analyzed in terms of continuum elasticity theory. The theory can be applied, for example, to hydrophobin-coated air-water interfaces or, more generally, to liquid interfaces coated with an adsorbed monolayer of interacting hard-core particles. We derive constitutive relations for such particle rafts and describe the buckling of compressed planar liquid interfaces as well as their apparent Poisson ratio. We also use the constitutive relations to obtain shape equations for pendant or buoyant capsules attached to a capillary, and to compute deflated shapes of such capsules. A comparison with capsules obeying the usual Hookean elasticity (without hard cores) reveals that the hard cores trigger capsule wrinkling. Furthermore, it is shown that a shape analysis of deflated capsules with hard-core/soft-shell elasticity gives apparent elastic moduli which can be much higher than the original values if Hookean elasticity is assumed.
(102624) Charles Symes Leslie Alford
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A passive FPAA based RF scatter meteor detector
Creators: name: Popowicz, Adam
name: Malcher, Andrzej
name: Bernacki, Krzysztof
name: Fietkiewicz, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the article we present a hardware meteor detector. The detection principle is based on the electromagnetic wave reflection from the ionized meteor trail in the atmosphere. The detector uses the ANADIGM field programmable analogue array (FPAA), which is an attractive alternative for a typically used detecting equipment - a PC computer with dedicated software. We implement an analog signal path using most of available FPAA resources to obtain precise audio signal detection. Our new detector was verified in collaboration with the Polish Fireball Network - the organization which monitors meteor activity in Poland. When compared with currently used signal processing PC software employing real radio meteor scatter signals, our low-cost detector proved to be more precise and reliable. Due to its cost and efficiency superiority over the current solution, the presented module is going to be implemented in the planned distributed detectors system.
(102629) Jane Wrightson Pass
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
From an array of quantum wires to three-dimensional fractional topological insulators
Creators: name: Sagi, Eran
name: Oreg, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupled-wires approach has been shown to be useful in describing two-dimensional strongly interacting topological phases. In this manuscript we extend this approach to three-dimensions, and construct a model for a fractional strong topological insulator. This topologically ordered phase has an exotic gapless state on the surface, called a fractional Dirac liquid, which cannot be described by the Dirac theory of free fermions. Like in non-interacting strong topological insulators, the surface is protected by the presence of time-reversal symmetry and charge conservation. We show that upon breaking these symmetries, the gapped fractional Dirac liquid presents unique features. In particular, the gapped phase that results from breaking time-reversal symmetry has a halved fractional Hall conductance of the form $σ_{xy}=\frac{1}{2}\frac{e^{2}}{mh}$ if the filling is $ν=1/m$. On the other hand, if the surface is gapped by proximity coupling to an $s$-wave superconductor, we end up with an exotic topological superconductor. To reveal the topological nature of this superconducting phase, we partition the surface into two regions: one with broken time-reversal symmetry and another coupled to a superconductor. We find a fractional Majorana mode, which cannot be described by a free Majorana theory, on the boundary between the two regions. The density of states associated with tunneling into this one-dimensional channel is proportional to $ω^{m-1}$, in analogy to the edge of the corresponding Laughlin state.
(102596) Cyril Robert Young
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Density functional formulation of the Random Phase Approximation for inhomogeneous fluids: application to the Gaussian core and Coulomb particles
Creators: name: Frydel, Derek
name: Ma, Manman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the adiabatic connection, we formulate the free energy in terms of the correlation function of a fictitious system, $h_λ({\bf r},{\bf r}')$, where $λ$ determines the interaction strength. To obtain $h_λ({\bf r},{\bf r}')$ we use the Ornstein-Zernike equation, and the two equations constitute a general liquid-state framework for treating inhomogeneous fluids. As the two equations do not form a closed set, an approximate closure relation is required and it determines a type of an approximation. In the present work we investigate the random phase approximation (RPA) closure. We determine that this approximation is identical to the variational Gaussian approximation derived within the framework of the field-theory. We then apply our generalized RPA approximation to the Gaussian core model and Coulomb charges.
Rotationally resolved spectroscopy of dwarf planet (136472) Makemake
Creators: name: Lorenzi, V.
name: Pinilla-Alonso, N.
name: Licandro, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Icy dwarf planets are key for studying the chemical and physical states of ices in the outer solar system. The study of secular and rotational variations gives us hints of the processes that contribute to the evolution of their surface. Aims. The aim of this work is to search for rotational variability on the surface composition of the dwarf planet (136472) Makemake Methods. We observed Makemake in April 2008 with the medium-resolution spectrograph ISIS, at the William Herschel Telescope (La Palma, Spain) and obtained a set of spectra in the 0.28 - 0.52 μm and 0.70 - 0.95 μm ranges, covering 82% of its rotational period. For the rotational analysis, we organized the spectra in four different sets corresponding to different rotational phases, and after discarding one with low signal to noise, we analyzed three of them that cover 71% of the surface. For these spectra we computed the spectral slope and compared the observed spectral bands of methane ice with reflectances of pure methane ice to search for shifts of the center of the bands, related to the presence of CH 4 /N 2 solid solution. Results. All the spectra have a red color with spectral slopes between 20%/1000 Å and 32%/1000 Å in accordance with previously reported values. Some variation in the spectral slope is detected, pointing to the possibility of a variation in the surface content or the particle size of the solid organic compound. The absorption bands of methane ice present a shift toward shorter wavelengths, indicating that methane (at least partially) is in solid solution with nitrogen. There is no variation within the errors of the shifts with the wavelength or with the depth of the bands, so there is no evidence of variation in the CH 4 /N 2 mixing ratio with rotation. By comparing with all the available data in the literature, no secular compositional variations between 2005 and 2008 is found.
MODELING VULNERABILITY TO MORTALITY FROM PANDEMIC INFLUENZA
Creators: name: Woodul, Rachel L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This research investigates vulnerability to mortality from a pandemic by creating a novel spatio-temporal epidemiological model that will simulate a pandemic and subsequent attempts by the population to access health care throughout the course of the simulated pandemic. Despite extensive and on-going research on pandemic influenza preparedness planning, there is a surprising dearth of literature regarding who is most at risk to dying from influenza, where this risk is concentrated, and why. The results of this study suggest that should a pandemic comparable to the 1918 Spanish Flu happen today, when the differentiating effects of receiving health care are considered, the mortality impacts of such a pandemic would be worse than what would be expected based on historical rates alone. This research provides evidence of the potential deadly impacts of a pandemic when the health care system is unable to provide care at the magnitude demanded.
Characterization of Maize Landraces from Argentina at the Phenotypic and Biochemical Levels
Creators: name: Dudzien, Tatiana L.
name: Defacio, Raquel
name: Paniego, Norma
name: Lia, Veronica V.
name: Dominguez, Pia Guadalupe
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2023
Subjects: ARG
Genomics
Landraces
Climate change
PR-154
ITPGRFA-BSF
Breeding
Maize
Adaptation
Characterization and evaluation
Conservation

description: This poster was developed by partners involved in the execution of the project PR-154-Argentina "Conservación y uso sostenible de los recursos fitogenéticos locales para la alimentación y la agricultura (RFAA) para contribuir a la seguridad alimentaria de los pequeños agricultores de Argentina" funded in the 4th cycle of the Benefit Sharing Fund (BSF) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

In Argentina, there are about 60 maize landraces, with two main diversity centres in the Andean and Mesopotamian Chaco plain regions. These landraces show high genetic diversity, which makes them a vital resource to increase the gene pool of modern cultivars with the aim of adapting agriculture to climate change. Although they have been largely characterised morphologically, the comparison of their biochemical and physiological phenological characteristics has been scarcely performed. In this work, 20 accessions of maize landraces from Argentina from the “Banco Activo de Germoplasma INTA Pergamino" were analysed in a common garden under greenhouse controlled conditions. The average number of leaves at 30 and 62 days after germination ( of the 20 accessions was 8 35 (standard deviation or SD= 0 98 and 15 18 ( 2 14 respectively. Two accessions reached 100 of male flowering at 70 DAG, eight at 77 DAG and six at 87 DAG, while the rest did not flower Female flowering showed desynchronization with respect to male flowering, with 4 entries bearing 100 flowering at 77 DAG, and 6 entries at 87 DAG. The average total biomass per plant was 42 24 g (SD 30 86 In addition, various leaf biochemical variables were measured, including chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, total chlorophyll and carotenoids, whose averages were 1583 42 µg/ml g ( 878 53 424 99 µg/ml g ( 231 21 2008 41 µg/ml g ( 1102 43 and 370 05 µg/ml g (179 13 respectively. Leaf total sugar content mean was 37 7 µg/µl g ( 22 34 while that of total protein was 7 47 µg/µl g ( 4 3 ). The combination of univariate and multivariate statistical analyses showed that there is significant phenotypic and metabolic variation among the accessions, with no clear grouping patterns in relation to geographical origin or grain type. These results highlight the importance of considering the distinctiveness of individual accessions in future conservation and utilisation programs.
title: Seeded Self-Modulation of Elliptical Beams in Plasma Wakefields
Creators: name: Perera, Thilina Aravinda
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2024

description: This thesis is concerned with investigating the effects of ellipticity on the seeded self-modulation process of long particle beams in plasma accelerators, and the implications for accelerated beams, using theoretical and computational models. Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration is a novel approach to plasma-based particle acceleration pioneered by the AWAKE experiment at CERN. The use of high-energy-content proton beams allows sustained high gradient (gigavolts per meter) plasma wakefields, allowing in principle, acceleration of witness beams over 10s or even 100s of meters. The scheme used at AWAKE relies on the seeded self-modulation (SSM) of long particle bunches, where the stability of the microbunch trains produced by SSM over tens or hundreds of meters is crucial for extrapolating this scheme as proposed for use in several high energy plasma-based linear colliders. Further, the uniformity and reproducibility of the resultant wakefields is essential for determining injection parameters and preservation of phase-space quality for witness beams during acceleration. Transverse asymmetry is often characteristic of synchrotron-generated beams. However, aside from the competing hosing instability, few works have examined other effects of transverse asymmetry in this process. In this thesis, analytical modelling and 3D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are used to characterise the impact on the SSM growth process and resultant wakefields due to elliptical transverse asymmetry in the beam. Metrics are constructed for quantifying the asymmetry of the evolving transverse beam profile in PIC simulations. Using these it is found that while beam asymmetry undergoes an order-of-magnitude increase during saturation of the SSM, the initial azimuthal complexity remains low and increases only slightly during the SSM growth stage. This allows the construction of a new analytical model for asymmetric SSM growth, from which a scaling for the reduction of the SSM growth rate with aspect ratio of the initial beam profile is obtained. A new method for estimating the SSM growth rate from simulations is developed, which allows these to be quantitatively verified. Finally, using heuristic knowledge of witness beam behaviour, the impact of azimuthal asymmetry of the longitudinal component of the wakefield on the final energy spread of an accelerated witness beam is estimated and found to be at most a few percent of the energy spread due to variation in a symmetric wakefield.
Four-body long-range interactions between ultracold weakly-bound diatomic molecules
Creators: name: Lepers, Maxence
name: Quéméner, Goulven
name: Luc-Koenig, Eliane
name: Dulieu, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the multipolar expansion of electrostatic and magnetostatic potential energies, we characterize the long-range interactions between two weakly-bound diatomic molecules, taking as an example the paramagnetic Er$_2$ Feshbach molecules which were produced recently. Since inside each molecule, individual atoms conserve their identity, the intermolecular potential energy can be expanded as the sum of pairwise atomic potential energies. In the case of Er$_2$ Feshbach molecules, we show that the interaction between atomic magnetic dipoles gives rise to the usual $R^{-3}$ term of the multipolar expansion, with $R$ the intermolecular distance, but also to additional terms scaling as $R^{-5}$, $R^{-7}$, and so on. Those terms are due to the interaction between effective molecular multipole moments, and are strongly anisotropic with respect to the orientation of the molecules. Similarly the atomic pairwise van der Waals interaction results in $R^{-6}$, $R^{-8}$, ... terms in the intermolecular potential energy. By calculating the reduced electric-quadrupole moment of erbium ground level $\langle J=6||\hat{Q}_2||J=6\rangle = -1.305$ a.u., we also demonstrate that the electric-quadrupole interaction energy is negligible with respect to the magnetic-dipole and van der Waals interaction energies. The general formalism presented in this article can be applied to calculate the long-range potential energy between arbitrary charge distributions composed of almost free subsystems.
description: Submitted to J. Phys. B, special issue "few-body physics with cold atoms"
First- and second-order error estimates in Monte Carlo integration
Creators: name: Bakx, R.
name: Kleiss, R. H. P.
name: Versteegen, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In Monte Carlo integration an accurate and reliable determination of the numerical intregration error is essential. We point out the need for an independent estimate of the error on this error, for which we present an unbiased estimator. In contrast to the usual (first-order) error estimator, this second-order estimator can be shown to be not necessarily positive in an actual Monte Carlo computation. We propose an alternative and indicate how this can be computed in linear time without risk of large rounding errors. In addition, we comment on the relatively very slow convergence of the second-order error estimate.
description: 14 pages, 16 figures
(102609) Alma Francis Eileen Teague
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
"Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)making of Gender: Historical and Cultural Perspective", ed. by Anna Foka and Jonas Liliequist, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Creators: name: Grassi, Umberto
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2017

description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 20 (2015-2016)
(102617) Terence Pakenham Kidd
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Kuliah Kerja Nyata: Pengabdian Masyarakat Melalui Pelatihan Pembukuan Sederhana Bagi Pelaku Usaha Kecil (Mikro) Di Kelurahan Sialang Munggu Pekanbaru
Creators: name: Bunga Chintia Utami, Maimunajib, Muhammad Aqsha Ramadhan, Anisa Putri Mulia, Dela Sri Agustina, Robert Frans Antonio Worabay, Dhea Theresia Puspaningrum, M. Adithya Ghautama1, Yuyun Astriani, Angel Violanita, Rahma Elviani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Keberadaan Usaha Mikro dan Usaha Kecil yang tangguh dan tahan terhadap krisis ekonomi mampu menyerap tenaga kerja, sehingga berkontribusi signifikan mengurangi pengangguran. Pelaku Usaha Kecil di kelurahan Sialang Munggu masih menganggap  pembukuan itu bukanlah hal yang penting serta tidak adanya pemisahan antara harta pribadi dengan harta usahanya. Sebagian besar pelaku usaha tersebut masih cenderung untuk mengambil keputusan berdasarkan intuisi dan pengalaman. Tujuan dari kegiatan Kuliah Kerja Nyata (KKN) pada pelatihan pembukuan sederhana bagi pelaku usaha kecil adalah mampu membuat pembukuan sendiri agar sistematis dan tertib dalam melakukan pencatatan keuangan sehingga terukur pemasukan, pengeluaran serta keuntungan yang diperoleh serta mengetahui perkembangan usahanya. Metode pelaksanaan pengabdian pada masyarakat di kelurahan Sialang Munggu ini terbagi menjadi tiga tahap, yakni tahap awal interview dan observasi lapangan, tahap kedua adalah pelaksanaan pelatihan, serta tahap akhir yaitu Pendampingan sekaligus monitoring. Hasil yang diperoleh dari kegiatan ini adalah dapat meningkatkan pengetahuan dan keterampilan dalam menjalankan usahanya melalui pembukuan/pencatatan sederhana yang mudah diaplikasikan sehingga meningkatkan motivasi dalam bekerja.
Martin Mulsow, "Enlightenment Underground: Radical Germany, 1680-1720" (translated by H.C. Erik Midelfort), Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2015
Creators: name: Mithen, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2017

description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 20 (2015-2016)
(102601) Percy Dixon Scott
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Carlo Fontanelli ad Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti, Augusto Franchetti, Niccolò Ridolfì, Gustavo Dalgas, Tommaso Corsi, Abele Morena, Ubaldino Peruzzi e Piero Bargagli (14 dicembre 1887)
Creators: name: Fontanelli, Carlo
name: Targioni Tozzetti, Adolfo
name: Franchetti, Augusto
name: Ridolfi, Niccolò
name: Dalgas, Gustavo
name: Corsi, Tommaso
name: Morena, Abele
name: Peruzzi, Ubaldino
name: Bargagli, Piero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Accademia dei Georgofili
Targioni Tozzetti, Adolfo
Franchetti, Augusto
Ridolfì, Niccolò
Dalgas, Gustavo
Corsi, Tommaso
Morena, Abele
Peruzzi, Ubaldino
Bargagli, Piero
Lettera
Letter
Carteggio
Correspondence
1887

description: Lettera di Carlo Fontanelli ad Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti, Augusto Franchetti, Niccolò Ridolfì, Gustavo Dalgas, Tommaso Corsi, Abele Morena, Ubaldino Peruzzi e Piero Bargagli (14 dicembre 1887). Segnatura dell’unità documentale: Archivio storico dell’Accademia dei Georgofili, Carteggio amministrativo, Busta 48, 1137. Natura: manoscritto. Consistenza: c. 1
description: Digitalizzato come parte della Mostra virtuale: Ubaldino Peruzzi : un percorso in rete : in occasione del bicentenario della nascita https://www.georgofili.it/contenuti/ubaldino-peruzzi-un-percorso-in-rete/17485
Raphaële Garrod, "Cosmographical Novelties in French Renaissance Prose (1550—1630) Dialectic and Discovery", Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2016
Creators: name: Primbault, Simon Dumas
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2017

description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 20 (2015-2016)
Massimo Rospocher, "Il papa guerriero: Giulio II nello spazio pubblico europeo", Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015
Creators: name: Rizzi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2017

description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 20 (2015-2016)