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Japanese voluntary environmental agreements : political-economic stability as contributor to effectiveness
Creators: name: Trehearne, Colin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Empirical and theoretical literature on voluntary environmental agreements (VEAs) has identified numerous conditions for effectiveness. Such works are, however, primarily based on European and North American studies. Yet the Japanese experience with VEAs poses interesting challenges and opportunities for researchers. Overall, Japan's utilization of VEAs has been greater in breadth and depth than virtually any other state. Yet both this statement and understandings of environmental voluntarism depend upon careful attention to definitions. In particular, attention to the role of coercion is important to understandings of voluntarism. Ultimately, this thesis argues that the appropriate test of voluntarism is legal - any agreement not required in content or creation by law is therefore voluntary. Following this, the thesis utilizes the Japanese experience in dealing with sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide to identify major features of the two most common types of VEAs in Japan, negotiated agreements and unilateral commitments. Japan's experience with environmental voluntarism is generally regarded as highly successful despite the absence of numerous conditions specified in the existing literature for VEA effectiveness. This challenges the completeness of extant theory and contributes a negative finding for the development of future research. This thesis argues that one overlooked variable is the stability of the state's political economy. As such, the following chapter specifies the role of stability as identified by scholars of VEAs and political economy. The examination indicates that political economic stability, as a contributor to VEA effectiveness, has thus far been underappreciated by scholars of environmental voluntarism. Particular attention is paid to the role of stability in encouraging investment and making credible commitments. The following chapter addresses the stability of Japan's political economy to identify possible sources, characteristics and effects. The results and observations provided pertain primarily to large firms but share numerous commonalities with most firms in Japan. Particular emphasis is placed on four types of stability: political, policy, individual, and firm. The thesis concludes by arguing that current instability-generating trends in Japan's political economy are likely to reduce VEA effectiveness and focuses primarily on Keidanren's Voluntary Action Plan for carbon dioxide emissions reduction.
Design research incubation
Creators: name: Kulick, Gwendolyn
name: Hohl, Michael
name: Dobler, Judith
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Design Education
subject: Design Research
subject: DDC::7** Künste und Unterhaltung::72* Architektur::729 Entwurf, Gestaltung, Innenarchitektur

description: ‘Design Research Incubation’ explores the supervision of design research. The project was motivated by our observations that the nature of design research about design practice and research in other subjects often confuses students, supervisors, and colleagues. The research was a collaboration between the German University in Cairo (GUC) and Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. The project brought together six master’s students from the GUC and their peers at Anhalt University to discuss their design research projects. Workshops focused on critical reflection, including clarifying research questions and projects, relating theoretical and practical research, and visualizing research. Observations from these discussions prompted the development of a ‘speculative course book’ compiling sources to support design research supervision (...).
Phase transition of a charged AdS black hole with a global monopole through geometrical thermodynamics
Creators: name: Soroushfar, Saheb
name: Upadhyay, Sudhaker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to study the phase transition through thermodynamic geometry, we consider the charged AdS black hole with global monopole. We first introduce thermodynamics of charged AdS black hole with global monopole by discussing the dependence of Hawking temperature, specific heat and P-v curve on horizon radius and monopole parameter. By implementing various thermodynamic geometry methods, for instance, Weinhold, Ruppiner, Quevedo and HPEM formulations, we derive corresponding scalar curvatures for charged AdS black hole with a global monopole. Here, we observe that, in contrast to Weinhold and Ruppeiner methods, HPEM and Quevedo formulations provide more information about the phase transition of the charged AdS black hole with a global monopole.
description: 17 pages, 30 figures, Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
»…der nach der Tat noch mehr als nach der Erkenntnis verlangt.«. Martin Buber – ein Anarchist?
Creators: name: Wolf, Siegbert
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: »Gottes Schrift eingegraben auf den Tafeln« – lies nicht charuth: eingegraben, sondern cheruth: Freiheit. Sprüche der Väter VI,2 I Martin Buber (1878 –1965) zählt zu den bedeutendsten Denkern des 20. Jahrhunderts.3 Zugleich gilt er als ein eminent politischer, weltzugewandter Gelehrter, der »zu keiner Zeit in den philosophischen, theologischen und politischen Erörterungen abwesend war[...]«.4 TiefeSympathien hegte er für einen kommunitären Anarchismus. Dieser bis heute missverstandene Terminus bedarf der Erläuterung: So definierte der Philosoph der Aufklärung, Immanuel Kant (1724 –1804), Anarchie in seinem Spätwerk Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht als »Gesetz und Freiheit ohne Gewalt«.5 Für Bubers langjährigen engen Freund, den Kulturphilosophen, Schriftsteller und Initiator zahlreicher libertärer Projekte Gustav Landauer (1870 –1919), bedeutete Anarchie Herrschafts- und Staatslosigkeit, (gewalt-)freies Ausleben der einzelnen Individuen und solidarischer Zusammenhalt aller Menschen: »Ordnung durch Bünde der Freiwilligkeit.«6 Das Ziel, die Anarchie, lasse sich nur erreichen, »wenn das Mittel schon in der Farbe dieses Ziels gefärbt ist. Nie kommt man durch Gewalt zur Gewaltlosigkeit. Die Anarchie ist da, wo Anarchisten sind, wirkliche Anarchisten, solche Menschen, die keine Gewalt mehr [aus]üben.«7 Beizupflichten ist dem Biographen Maurice S. Friedman (1921–2012), der Buber als einen Sozialanarchisten im biblischen Sinne gewürdigt hat.8 Hierbei bezog er sich auf den Erforscher der jüdischen Mystik, Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), von dem die Charakterisierung Bubers als einem »religiösen Anarchisten« herrührt.9 Martin Buber selbst hat sich noch im hohen Alter als einen »Unangepassten, wie ich es von Ju gend auf gewesen und […] geblieben bin«10, beschrieben und sein nonkonformistisches Religionsverständnis als »religiöse Anarchie«.11 Maßgebliche Impulse zur Gleichheit und Freiheit aller Menschen empfing er nicht zuletzt aus der Ethik des mosaischen Judentums (Nächstenliebe-, Gerechtigkeits- und Brüderlichkeitsgebot) und dem messianischen Denken. Als das Besondere im Judentum erkannte er das Gemeinschaftliche, das kollektive Gedächtnis seiner Geschichte sowie das Streben nach Verwirklichung: »In der Verwirklichung sind Erkenntnis und Ethos verschmolzen: der Mensch kann die Welt nur erkennen, in dem er sie tut.«
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 01-02 (2018): Martin Buber. Neue Interpretationen
Level velocity statistics of hyperbolic chaos
Creators: name: Sankaranarayanan, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A generalized version of standard map is quantized as a model of quantum chaos. It is shown that, in hyperbolic chaotic regime, second moment of quantum level velocity is $\sim 1/\hbar$ as predicted by the random matrix theory.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Unconventional critical behaviors at the magnetic phase transition of Co3Sn2S2 kagome ferromagnet
Creators: name: Kassem, Mohamed A.
name: Tabata, Yoshikazu
name: Waki, Takeshi
name: Nakamura, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Co3Sn2S2 has generated a growing interest as a rare example of the highly uniaxial anisotropic kagome ferromagnet showing a combination of frustrated-lattice magnetism and topology. Recently, via precise measurements of the magnetization and AC susceptibility we have found a low-field anomalous magnetic phase (A-phase) with very slow spin dynamics that appears just below the Curie temperature (T_C). The A-phase hosts high-density domain bubbles after cooling through T_C as revealed in a previous in-situ Lorentz-TEM study. Here, we present further signatures of the anomalous magnetic transition (MT) at T_C revealed by a study of the critical behaviors of the magnetization and magnetocaloric effect using a high-quality single crystal. Analyses of numerous magnetization isotherms around T_C (177 K) using different approaches (the modified Arrot plot, Kouvel-Fisher method and magnetocaloric effect) result in consistent critical exponents that do not satisfy the theoretical predictions of standard second-order-MT models. Scaling analyses for the magnetization, magnetic entropy change and field-exponent of the magnetic entropy change, all consistently show low-field deviations below TC from the universal curves. Our results reveal that the MT of Co3Sn2S2 can not be explained as a conventional second-order type and suggest an anomalous magnetic state below T_C.
description: 22 pages with 6 captioned Figures and 1 table
A cluster version of the GGT sum rule
Creators: name: Hencken, Kai
name: Baur, Gerhard
name: Trautmann, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the derivation of a ``cluster sum rule'' from the Gellmann-Goldberger-Thirring (GGT) sum rule as an alternative to the Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn (TRK) sum rule, which was used as the basis up to now. We compare differences in the assumptions and approximations. Some applications of the sum rule for halo nuclei, as well as, nuclei with a pronounced cluster structure are discussed.
description: 14 pages, to be published in Nucl. Phys. A
Aphidius similis Stary and Carver
Creators: name: Akhtar, Mir Samim
name: Dey, Debjani
name: Usmani, Mohd. Kamil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Aphidius
Aphidius similis

description: 19. Aphidius similis Stary and Carver
 Aphidius similis Stary and Carver, 1979: 337-341.
 Host. Aphis gossypii on Hibiscus esculentus, A. spiraecola on Bidens pilosa (Agarwala et al. 1980); Brachycaudus helichrysi on Ageratum conyzoides (Agarwala et al. 1980) Gynura angutosa (Raychaudhuri et al. 1982); Myzus persicae on Brassica napus (Agarwala et al. 1980) Gynura angutosa (Raychaudhuri et al. 1982; Agarwala et al. 1980) Solanum tuberosum (Agarwala et al. 1980) Lysoperslicon esculentum (Subhrani et al. 2006).
 Distribution. Sikkim (Agarwala et al. 1980; Raychaudhuri et al. 1982); Manipur (Subhrani et al. 2006).
description: Published as part of Akhtar, Mir Samim, Dey, Debjani & Usmani, Mohd. Kamil, 2011, A catalogue of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from India, pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (151) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4531563
Study of Streamer Development in Resistive Plate Chamber
Creators: name: Datta, Jaydeep
name: Tripathy, Sridhar
name: Majumdar, Nayana
name: Mukhopadhyay, Supratik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work has been carried out to simulate a Resistive Plate Chamber and corroborate it with experimental measurements in order to develop a numerical tool for studying the performance of the device for any gas mixture. This will allow us to explore the feasibility of operating these chambers in their avalanche mode within the Iron Calorimeter setup at India-based Neutrino Observatory with any eco-friendly substitute. The simulation has considered a hydrodynamic model of charge transport to emulate the electronic and ionic growths in the device as a function of the applied voltage which determines its working mode as either of the avalanche or streamer. In order to validate, the simulation result has been compared with compatible experimental data available in the literature.
description: Accepted in JINST
Spectral invariance of quasi-Banach algebras of matrices and pseudodifferential operators
Creators: name: Gröchenig, Karlheinz
name: Pfeuffer, Christine
name: Toft, Joachim
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 510

description: We extend the stability and spectral invariance of convolution-dominated matrices to the case of quasi-Banach algebras p<1. As an application, we construct a spectrally invariant quasi-Banach algebra of pseudodifferential operators with non-smooth symbols that generalize Sjöstrand's results.
Phi-Meson Production at RHIC, Strong Color Fields and Intrinsic Transverse Momenta
Creators: name: Soff, Sven
name: Kesavan, Srikumar
name: Randrup, Jorgen
name: Stocker, Horst
name: Xu, Nu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of strong color fields and of the associated enhanced intrinsic transverse momenta on the phi-meson production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC. The observed consequences include a change of the spectral slopes, varying particle ratios, and also modified mean transverse momenta. In particular, the composition of the production processes of phi mesons, that is, direct production vs. coalescence-like production, depends strongly on the strength of the color fields and intrinsic transverse momenta and thus represents a sensitive probe for their measurement.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Microscopic Theory of Onset of De-Caging and Bond Breaking Activated Dynamics in Ultra-Dense Fluids with Strong Short Range Attractions
Creators: name: Ghosh, Ashesh
name: Schweizer, Kenneth S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study thermally activated elementary dynamical processes that precede full structural relaxation in ultra-dense particle liquids interacting via strong short range attractive forces. Our approach is based on a microscopic theory formulated at the particle trajectory level built on the dynamic free energy concept and an explicit treatment of how attractions control physical bonding. Mean time scales for bond breaking, the early stage of cage escape, and a fixed non-Fickian displacement are analyzed in the repulsive glass, bonded repulsive (attractive) glass, fluid, and dense gel regimes. The theory predicts a strong length-scale-dependent growth of these time scales with attractive force strength at fixed packing fraction, a much weaker slowing down with density at fixed attraction strength, and a strong decoupling of the shorter bond breaking time with the other two time scales that are controlled mainly by perturbed steric caging. All results are in good accord with simulations, and additional testable predictions are made. The classic statistical mechanical projection approximation of replacing all bare attractive and repulsive forces with a single effective force determined by pair structure incurs major errors for describing processes associated with thermally activated escape from transiently localized states.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
IR Free or Interacting? A Proposed Diagnostic
Creators: name: Intriligator, Kenneth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and discuss a conjectured criterion for determining whether a 4d quantum field theory is IR free, or flows to an interacting conformal field theory in the infrared: ``the correct infrared phase is that with the larger conformal anomaly $a$". A stronger conjecture is that ``an operator can become IR free only if that results in a larger conformal anomaly $a$". We test these conjectures in the context of N=1 supersymmetric theories. They are verified to indeed predict the correct IR phase in every tested case, for a plethora of examples for which the infrared phase could already be determined on other grounds. When applied to the still unsettled case of SU(2) with a chiral superfield in the isospin 3/2 representation, the conjecture suggest that the IR phase is conformal rather than confining.
description: 17 pages. v2: added reference
Classification and versal deformations of L_\infinity algebras on a 2|1-dimensional space
Creators: name: Bodin, Derek
name: Fialowski, Alice
name: Penkava, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: (14D15; 13D10; 14B12; 16S80; 16E40; 17B55;17B70)

description: This article explores \Z_2-graded L_\infinity algebra structures on a 2|1-dimensional vector space. The reader should note that our convention on the parities is the opposite of the usual one, because we define our structures on the symmetric coalgebra of the parity reversion of a space, so our 2|1-dimensional L_\infinity algebras correspond to the usual 1|2-dimensional algebras. We give a complete classification of all structures with a nonzero degree 1 term. We also classify all degree 2 codifferentials, which is the same as a classification of all 1|2-dimensional Z_2-graded Lie algebras. For each of these algebra structures, we calculate the cohomology and a miniversal deformation.
Vita - Martin Buber
Creators: name: - Gesellschaft, Martin Buber
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: 8. Februar 1878 Martin Buber wird in Wien geboren. 1881 Nach der Scheidung der Eltern Wechsel nach Lemberg ins Haus der Großeltern. In den folgenden Jahren Besuch des polnischen Gymnasiums, erstes Kennenlernen des Chassidismus. 1892 Rückkehr zum Vater nach dessen Übersiedlung nach Lemberg. Herbst 1896 Beginn des Studiums (Philosophie, Kunstgeschichte, Literatur, Altphilologie) an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Wien. 1897 bis 1899 Wechsel nach Leipzig, Zürich und Berlin; Studium der Mystik. Kontakte mit der zionistischen Bewegung (Theodor Herzl), Gründung einer zionistischen Ortsgruppe in Leipzig, Teilnahme am dritten zionistischen Kongress in Basel. Bekanntschaft mit seiner späteren Frau Paula Winkler (Schriftstellername: Georg Munk). Kontakte mit der »Neuen Gemeinschaft«. 1900 bis 1904 Mitwirkung in der zionistischen Bewegung (»Demokratische Fraktion«), Kontakte und Konflikte mit Theodor Herzl). Studium der Tradition des Judentums, Gründung des Jüdischen Verlages. Rückzug von parteipolitischer Tätigkeit. 1904 Dis sertation bei Friedrich Jodl, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Individualsionsproblems. ab 1905 Intensive Beschäftigung mit dem Chassidismus bei äußerer Zurückgezogenheit. Edition der Reihe Die Gesellschaft. Verkehr mit Georg Simmel und Gustav Landauer. Verschiedene Reden über das Judentum vor dem Prager jüdischen Studentenverein Bar Kochba, Bekanntschaft mit Max Brod und Franz Kafka. Aufenthalt in Florenz. 1906 bis 1916 Wohnsitz in Berlin. 1908 Die Legende des Baalschem. 1909 Ekstatische Konfessionen. 1910 Die Lehre vom Tao (Nachwort zu: Reden und Gleichnisse des Tschuang-Tse). 1913 Daniel. Gespräche von der Verwirklichung. Beginn des Übergangs zur dialogischen Periode. 1914 Mitbegründung des »Forte-Kreises«. 1916 Umzug nach Heppenheim a. d. Bergstraße. Brief Landauers an Buber über dessen Einstellung zum Krieg. Wende im Denken Bubers. Bekanntschaft mit Gershom Scholem und Leonard Ragaz. 1916 bis 1924
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 01-02 (2018): Martin Buber. Neue Interpretationen
Relationality in transaction cost economics and stakeholder theory : a new conceptual framework
Creators: name: Valentinov, Vladislav
name: Roth, Steffen J.
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 330

description: Stakeholder scholars have long explored how stakeholder relationships differ from economic transactions. We contribute to this ongoing inquiry by developing a conceptual framework of relationality in stakeholder theory that encompasses a stakeholder-theoretic extension of Williamson's contracting schema and a new typology of stakeholder relationships. Premised on understanding relationality as the need for informal human relationships beyond formal governance, our framework locates the key difference between transaction cost economics and stakeholder theory in their treatment of informal relationships. While transaction cost economics perceives informal relationships to be shaped by formal governance structures and enforced by contractual safeguards, stakeholder theory is open to the possibility that some informal relationships between stakeholders may be genuinely moral and thus irreducible to formal governance and contractual safeguards. These stakeholder relationships may lead to unique economic effects described by instrumental stakeholder theory. The difference that we identified between the two literatures shows how stakeholder theory's embrace of relationality surpasses that of transaction cost economics.
Electrostatic Discharge Performance of Surface-Mount Components
Creators: name: Streibl, Franz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 20302 Electrostatics and Electrodynamics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental investigations on the non-linear ESD behaviour of SMT ceramic capacitors - the preferred component for passive ESD protection purposes in automotive electronic circuits. The limitations and failure mechanisms of these capacitors under ESD are thoroughly described, along with respective considerations for the just as important SMT thick-film resistors. Based on these findings, outlines are given for practical transient simulations and the modeling of complete circuits on multilayer printed circuit boards.
Magnon dispersion in bilayers of two-dimensional ferromagnets
Creators: name: Ortmanns, Lara C.
name: Bauer, Gerrit E. W.
name: Blanter, Yaroslav M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine magnon spectra of an atomic bilayer magnet with ferromagnetic intra- and both ferro- and anti- ferromagnetic interlayer coupling. Analytic expressions for the full magnon band of the latter case reveal that both exchange interactions govern the fundamental magnon gap. The inter and intralayer magnetic ordering are not independent: the intralayer ferromagnetism stabilizes antiferromagnetic inter-layer order. The topology of these exchange-anisotropy spin models without spin-orbit interaction turns out to be trivial.
Aphidius smithi Sharma and Subba Rao
Creators: name: Akhtar, Mir Samim
name: Dey, Debjani
name: Usmani, Mohd. Kamil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Aphidius
Aphidius smithi

description: 20. Aphidius smithi Sharma and Subba Rao
 Aphidius (Aphidius) smithi Sharma and Subba Rao, 1959: 183-187.
 Host. Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) (Rao et al. 1969, 1970, 1971; Singh et al. 1999) on Pisum sativum (Raychaudhuri et al. 1982), Medicago sativa, Vicia faba (Singh et al. 1999) Lathyrus odoretus (Takada and Rishi 1980).
 Distribution. Himachal Pradesh (Sharma and Subba Rao 1959; Stary and Ghosh 1983); Jammu and Kashmir (Takada and Rishi 1980; Stary and Ghosh 1983); Punjab (Raychaudhuri et al. 1982); Uttar Pradesh (Rao et al. 1969, 1970, 1971; Raychaudhuri et al. 1982; Singh et al. 1999); West Bengal (Raychaudhuri et al. 1982).
description: Published as part of Akhtar, Mir Samim, Dey, Debjani & Usmani, Mohd. Kamil, 2011, A catalogue of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from India, pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (151) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4531563
Travel time stability in weakly range-dependent sound channels
Creators: name: Beron-Vera, F. J.
name: Brown, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Travel time stability is investigated in environments consisting of a range-independent background sound-speed profile on which a highly structured range-dependent perturbation is superimposed. The stability of both unconstrained and constrained (eigenray) travel times are considered. Both general theoretical arguments and analytical estimates of time spreads suggest that travel time stability is largely controlled by a property $ω^{\prime}$ of the background sound speed profile. Here, $2π/ω(I)$ is the range of a ray double loop and $I$ is the ray action variable. Numerical results for both volume scattering by internal waves in deep ocean environments and rough surface scattering in upward refracting environments are shown to confirm the expectation that travel time stability is largely controlled by $ω^{\prime}$.
description: Submitted to J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 30 June 2003
title: Calculations of Electron Inelastic Mean Free Paths. XI. Data for Liquid Water for Energies from 50 eV to 30 keV
Creators: name: SHINOTSUKA, Hiroshi
name: DA, Bo
name: Tanuma, Shigeo
name: YOSHIKAWA, Hideki
name: Powell, Cedric
name: Penn, David R.
Publisher: name: National Institute for Materials Science
Year: 2020
Subjects: liquid water
effective attenuation length
EAL
Electron Inelastic Mean Free Path
relativistic full Penn algorithm
static structure factor
relativistic TPP-2M

description: We calculated electron inelastic mean free paths (IMFPs) for liquid water from its optical energy-loss function (ELF) for electron energies from 50 eV to 30 keV. These calculations were made with the relativistic full Penn algorithm (FPA) that has been used for previous IMFP and electron stopping-power calculations for many elemental solids. We also calculated IMFPs of water with three additional algorithms: the relativistic single-pole approximation (SPA), the relativistic simplified SPA, and the relativistic extended Mermin method. These calculations were made using the same optical ELF in order to assess any differences of the IMFPs arising from choice of the algorithm. We found good agreement among the IMFPs from the four algorithms for energies over 300 eV. For energies less than 100 eV, however, large differences became apparent. IMFPs from the relativistic TPP-2M equation for predicting IMFPs were in good agreement with IMFPs from the four algorithms for energies between 300 eV and 30 keV but there was poorer agreement for lower energies. We calculated values of the static structure factor as a function of momentum transfer from the FPA. The resulting values were in good agreement with results from first-principles calculations and with inelastic X-ray scattering spectroscopy experiments. We made comparisons of our IMFPs with earlier calculations from authors who had used different algorithms and different ELF data sets. IMFP differences could then be analyzed in terms of the algorithms and the data sets. Finally, we compared our IMFPs with measurements of IMFPs and of a related quantity, the effective attenuation length (EAL). There were large variations in the measured IMFPs and EALs (as well as their dependence on electron energy). Further measurements are therefore required to establish consistent data sets and for more detailed comparisons with calculated IMFPs.
description: Surf. Interface Anal., 49: 238– 252.
Editorial
Creators: name: Schriftleitung, Verantwortliche
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: »Alles wirkliche Leben ist Begegnung.« Martin Bubers Dialogphilosophie kann für alle kommunikativen Unternehmungen menschlichen Daseins, gerade aber auch für die christlich-jüdische Verständigung sowie für den Austausch mit anderen Religionen und Weltanschauungen, als theoretische Basis verstanden werden. Denn echte Begegnung setzt ein entscheidendes Moment voraus, das die Dialogpartner verbindet: gegenseitige Anerkennung, wechselseitiger Respekt, sich ohne Bedingungen auf einen anderen Menschen einlassen können. Das dialogische Prinzip ist keine abstrakte Angelegenheit, sondern will mitten im Leben, mitten im Alltag vollzogen sein. Neben der Praxis von Begegnung steht die »Vergegnung«, wenn sich der Dialog nicht einstellen mag. Beispielhaft für diesen Zusammenhang ist Martin Bubers Rede in der Frankfurter Paulskirche (1953) (»Das echte Gespräch und die Möglichkeiten des Friedens«), in der er das Gespräch gegen den Krieg stellt: »Der Krieg hat von je einen Widerpart, der fast nie als solcher hervortritt, aber in der Stille sein Werk tut: die Sprache – die erfüllte Sprache, die Sprache des echten Gesprächs, in der Menschen einander verstehen und sich miteinander verständigen.«1 Mit Bubers Philosophie und schließlich auch mit seiner daraus resultierenden zugewandten, kommunikativen und beziehungsorientierten Pädagogik hat sich ein Wandel im abendländischen Denken vollzogen: Das Subjekt, das Individuum kann nicht mehr als solitär und unabhängig definiert werden, wie es die Subjektphilosophie seit der Aufklärung teils explizit, teils implizit verstanden hat. Der Mensch ist Beziehung, alle seine Lebensvollzüge sind Beziehung. Das gleiche gilt für Gemeinschaften, seien sie religiöse, soziale, ethnische Gruppen. Buber ist kei - neswegs nur Philosoph. Er hat sich leidenschaftlich für die Verständigung zwischen Juden und Nichtjuden, zwischen jüdischen Israelis und Palästinensern, zwischen allen Völkern eingesetzt. Das macht sein radikales Dialogdenken so hochaktuell – in Zeiten des neu aufkommenden Fundamentalismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus. Aus diesen Gründen haben wir eine Ausgabe der Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext (ZfBeg) für das Leben und Werk Martin Bubers zusammengestellt – anlässlich seines 140. Geburtstages in diesem Jahr. Aufgrund der Fülle von Beiträgen ist wieder eine Doppelnummer entstanden. Die Publikation dieser Ausgabe hat sich verzögert – aber Krankheit und Tod passen nicht in den Terminkalender und beeinträchtigten die ehrenamtliche Arbeit des Redaktionsteams. Reinhold Boschki Julia Münch-Wirtz Wilhelm Schwendemann Verantwortliche Schriftleitung 2 Ulrich Ruh Redaktion in Kooperation mit Daniel Krochmalnik Wir widmen diese Ausgabe dem Gedenken an die viel zu früh verstorbene Priska Schwendemann, deren Leben ein Leben voller Begegnungen war.
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 01-02 (2018): Martin Buber. Neue Interpretationen
Geodesic Paths for Image Segmentation with Implicit Region-based Homogeneity Enhancement
Creators: name: Chen, Da
name: Zhu, Jian
name: Zhang, Xinxin
name: Shu, Minglei
name: Cohen, Laurent D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Minimal paths are regarded as a powerful and efficient tool for boundary detection and image segmentation due to its global optimality and the well-established numerical solutions such as fast marching method. In this paper, we introduce a flexible interactive image segmentation model based on the Eikonal partial differential equation (PDE) framework in conjunction with region-based homogeneity enhancement. A key ingredient in the introduced model is the construction of local geodesic metrics, which are capable of integrating anisotropic and asymmetric edge features, implicit region-based homogeneity features and/or curvature regularization. The incorporation of the region-based homogeneity features into the metrics considered relies on an implicit representation of these features, which is one of the contributions of this work. Moreover, we also introduce a way to build simple closed contours as the concatenation of two disjoint open curves. Experimental results prove that the proposed model indeed outperforms state-of-the-art minimal paths-based image segmentation approaches.
description: Published in IEEE Trans. Image Processing
Datasets and Source Code
Creators: name: Srivastava, Atul
name: Kikuchi, Kenji
name: Ishikawa, Takuji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: It contains the data for underlying figures as well as the source code developed during the course of the research for the journal paper titled as 'On bubble induced population dynamics of fermenting yeasts'.
Task performance errors and rewards affect voluntary task choices
Creators: name: Spitzer, Markus Wolfgang Hermann
name: Musslick, Sebastian
name: Janz, Janina
name: Kiesel, Andrea
name: Dignath, David
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 150

description: Humans are remarkably flexible in adapting their behavior to current demands. It has been suggested that the decision which of multiple tasks to perform is based on a variety of factors pertaining to the rewards associated with each task as well as task performance (e.g., error rates associated with each task and/or error commission on the previous trial). However, further empirical investigation is needed to examine whether task performance still influences task choices if task choices are rewarded but task performance is not. Accordingly, we exposed participants to a novel reward-varying voluntary task switching paradigm where the reward for the performed task gradually decreased while the reward associated for the alternative task was unchanged. Importantly, we rewarded participants’ task choices before participants performed the task to investigate the effect of rewards independent from task performance. We examined the effect of (i) reward, (ii) error rates associated with each of the two tasks, and (iii) error commission in the previous trial on voluntary task choices. As expected, we found that participants’ task selection was influenced by reward differences between task choices. In addition, error rates associated with a task also influenced task selection, with participants requiring larger reward differences to switch to a task associated with relatively higher error rates, compared to switching to a task with relatively lower error rates. However, errors in n - 1 did not influence participants’ probability to switch to the alternative task. These findings contribute to an ongoing discussion on the influence of task performance on task selection.
Lyapunov Modes in Hard-Disk Systems
Creators: name: Eckmann, Jean-Pierre
name: Forster, Christina
name: Posch, Harald A.
name: Zabey, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider simulations of a 2-dimensional gas of hard disks in a rectangular container and study the Lyapunov spectrum near the vanishing Lyapunov exponents. To this spectrum are associated ``eigen-directions'', called Lyapunov modes. We carefully analyze these modes and show how they are naturally associated with vector fields over the container. We also show that the Lyapunov exponents, and the coupled dynamics of the modes (where it exists) follow linear laws, whose coefficients only depend on the density of the gas, but not on aspect ratio and very little on the boundary conditions.
description: Animated pictures are available at http://theory.physics.unige.ch/modes/ Second revised version
Purification and characterization of novel manganese peroxidase from Trichoderma parestonica and its bio-conversion study of toxic arylamine
Creators: name: Hoque, Rohida Amin
name: Yadav, Meera
name: Yadav, Hardeo Singh
name: Boruah, Rimlee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Trichoderma parestonica is a novel source of manganese peroxidase (MnP), [E.C.1.11.1.13] enzyme. The following was the sequence in which T. parestonica induced the production of MnP in the liquid culture medium: rice husk, corncob, sawdust, coir-dust and dried luffa on days 3, 4, 5, 2 and 3, respectively. The molecular weight of the enzyme was found to be 45kDa, determined from SDS-PAGE analysis which was further confirmed by mass analysis and was found to be 51.9kDa. Enzyme characterization parameters like optimum pH, temperature, Km, Kcat and catalytic efficiency are 5, 20ᵒC, 0.014mM (for Mn2+) and 0.028mM (for H2O2), 23.9 S-1 and 1.7 μM-1 S-1 respectively. Effect of various metal ions, such as bivalent Copper(Cu), Cobalt(Co), Mercury(Hg), Nickel(Ni), Cadmium(Cd), trivalent Chromium(Cr), Iron(Fe), Tetra-valent cerium(Ce), Penta-valent vanadium(V) and hexavalent molybdenum(Mo) the enzyme-catalyzed steady-state velocity was studied. The inhibition constant and nature of inhibition by these metal ions were determined. In the current investigation, MnP catalytic activities demonstrated that it could effectively catalyze the oxidation of phenols, aromatic amines and wastewater treatment. This communication suggested potential pathways for aromatic amine bioconversion mediated by MnP
Mergers of close primordial binaries
Creators: name: Andronov, N.
name: Pinsonneault, M. H.
name: Terndrup, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the production of main sequence mergers of tidally-synchronized primordial short-period binaries. The principal ingredients of our calculation are the angular momentum loss rates inferred from the spindown of open cluster stars and the distribution of binary properties in young open clusters. We compare our results with the expected number of systems that experience mass transfer in post-main sequence phases of evolution and compute the uncertainties in the theoretical predictions. We estimate that main-sequence mergers can account for the observed number of single blue stragglers in M67. Applied to the blue straggler population, this implies that such mergers are responsible for about one quarter of the population of halo blue metal poor stars, and at least one third of the blue stragglers in open clusters for systems older than 1 Gyr. The observed trends as a function of age are consistent with a saturated angular momentum loss rate for rapidly rotating tidally synchronized systems. The predicted number of blue stragglers from main sequence mergers alone is comparable to the number observed in globular clusters, indicating that the net effect of dynamical interactions in dense stellar environments is to reduce rather than increase the blue straggler population. A population of subturnoff mergers of order 3-4% of the upper main sequence population is also predicted for stars older than 4 Gyr, which is roughly comparable to the small population of highly Li-depleted halo dwarfs. Other observational tests are discussed.
description: number of pages depends on font, margins, columns etc (58 with given format), 14 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
title: Packing and Counting Permutations
Creators: name: Sliačan, Jakub
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: A permutation class is a set of permutations closed under taking subpermutations. We study two aspects of permutation classes: enumeration and packing.

 Our work on enumeration consists of two campaigns. First, we enumerate all juxtaposition classes of the form “Av(abc) next to Av(xy)”, where abc and xy are permutations of lengths three and two, respectively. We represent elements from such a juxtaposition class by Dyck paths decorated with sequences of points. Context-free grammars are then used to enumerate these decorated Dyck paths. Second, we classify as algebraic the generating functions of 1×m permutation grid classes where one cell is context-free and the remaining cells are monotone. We rely on properties of combinatorial specifications of context-free classes and use operators to express juxtapositions. Repeated application of operators resolves cases for m > 2. We provide examples to re-prove known results and give new ones. Our methods are algorithmic and could be implemented on a PC.

 Our work on packing consolidates current knowledge about packing densities of 4-point permutations. We also improve the lower bounds for the packing densities of 1324 and 1342 and provide rigorous upper bounds for the packing densities of 1324, 1342, and 2413. All our bounds are within 10-4 of the true packing densities. Together with the known bounds, we have a fairly complete picture of 4-point packing densities. Additionally, we obtain several bounds (lower and upper) for permutations of length at least five. Our main tool for the upper bounds is the framework of flag algebras introduced by Razborov in 2007. We also present Permpack — a flag algebra package for permutations.
Classical and quantum regimes of the superfluid turbulence
Creators: name: Volovik, G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that turbulence in superfluids is governed by two dimensionless parameters. One of them is the intrinsic parameter q which characterizes the friction forces acting on a vortex moving with respect to the heat bath, with 1/q playing the same role as the Reynolds number Re=UR/νin classical hydrodynamics. It marks the transition between the "laminar" and turbulent regimes of vortex dynamics. The developed turbulence described by Kolmogorov cascade occurs when Re >> 1 in classical hydrodynamics, and q << 1 in the superfluid hydrodynamics. Another parameter of the superfluid turbulence is the superfluid Reynolds number Re_s=UR/κ, which contains the circulation quantum κcharacterizing quantized vorticity in superfluids. This parameter may regulate the crossover or transition between two classes of superfluid turbulence: (i) the classical regime of Kolmogorov cascade where vortices are locally polarized and the quantization of vorticity is not important; and (ii) the quantum Vinen turbulence whose properties are determined by the quantization of vorticity. The phase diagram of the dynamical vortex states is suggested.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, version accepted in JETP Letters
Am siebten Tage aber erkannte der Mensch Gott und sich selbst. Anthropologische und heilsgeschichtliche Reflexionen zu Abraham Joshua Heschels Sabbat (1951)
Creators: name: Brooks, Patrick
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: Das Menschenbild der hebräischen Bibel istebenso spannungsreich wie wirklichkeitsnah, dennwährend die Menschenkinder bei Hiob, Koheletund anderswo als (willens)schwache, vergänglicheund gottvergessene Wesen beschrieben werden,3in die man kein eitles Vertrauen setzen sollte (Ps146,3)4, bezeichnet der Psalmist den Menschengleichsam als ein mit Ehre und Herrlichkeit ge-kröntes Geschöpf von nahezu gottgleicher Würde(Ps 8,6). Und obwohl derTanachwiederholt dengewaltigen Unterschied zwischen der ErhabenheitGottes und der Kleingeistigkeit des Menschen be-tont (u.a. Num 23,19; 1Sam 15,29; Hos 11,9; Hi 38-41), so bekräftigt er doch stets aufs Neue, dassGottes gnädige, liebevolle und freigiebige Zuwen-dung allen (frommen) Menschenkindern zuteilwird (u.a. Ps 36,8-10; 145,8-9.13-16; Jer 32,17-19).Ähnlich spannungsvoll gestaltet sich demnachauch die Erschaffung des Menschen in der Genesis,da Schöpfungsbericht und Paradieserzählung so-wohl von der Größe als auch der Unzulänglichkeitdes ersten Menschenpaars zeugen. Für die heraus-gehobene Stellung des Menschen innerhalb derSchöpfung sprechen dabei insbesondere: 1die – für Gen 1 einzigartige – AbsichtserklärungGottes, ein Ihm ähnliches Wesen bilden zu wol-len, das über die Tiere herrschen soll (Gen1,26); 2Gottes Schöpfungsbefehl an das letzte (und wohl beste)5Seiner Geschöpfe, sich die Erdeuntertan zu machen (Gen 1,28);3die – für Gen 1-2 erneut einzigartige – Fest-stellung, dass der Mensch göttlichen Odem –nach Gen 6,3: Gottes Geist – in sich trägt(Gen 2,7);4des Menschen Privileg, den Garten Eden be-bauen und erhalten zu dürfen (Gen 2,15); 5der Umstand, dass Gott dem Menschen die Aufgabe überträgt, alle Tiere mit Namen zuversehen (Gen 2,19-20); Er lässt ihn damit einStück weit an Seinem Schöpfungswerk teilha-ben, denn erst mit der Namensgebung wirktdie Entstehung der übrigen Lebewesen abge-schlossen;66die Feststellung, dass der Mensch ein soziales, auf Partnerschaft angewiesenes Wesen ist, so-wie – daraus folgend – die Erschaffung der Frauaus dem Mann (Gen 2,18.21-24).
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 03 (2020): Emmanuel Levinas. Ein epochaler Impulsgeber für Theologie, Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften
Initial characterization of a transgenic mouse with overexpression of the human D1-dopamine receptor in the heart
Creators: name: Rayo Abella, Lina Maria
name: Jacob, Hannes
name: Hesse, Christin
name: Hofmann, Britt
name: Schneider, Sarah
name: Schindler, Lisa
name: Keller, Max
name: Buchvalov, Igor' B.
name: Jin, CongYu
name: Panula, Pertti
name: Dhein, Stefan
name: Klimaszewski, Jan
name: Hadova, Katarína
name: Gergs, Ulrich
name: Neumann, Joachim
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Dopamine can exert effects in the mammalian heart via five different dopamine receptors. There is controversy whether dopamine receptors increase contractility in the human heart. Therefore, we have generated mice that overexpress the human D1-dopamine receptor in the heart (D1-TG) and hypothesized that dopamine increases force of contraction and beating rate compared to wild-type mice (WT). In D1-TG hearts, we ascertained the presence of D1-dopamine receptors by autoradiography using [3H]SKF 38393. The mRNA for human D1-dopamine receptors was present in D1-TG hearts and absent in WT. We detected by in-situ-hybridization mRNA for D1-dopamine receptors in atrial and ventricular D1-TG cardiomyocytes compared to WT but also in human atrial preparations. We noted that in the presence of 10 µM propranolol (to antagonize β-adrenoceptors), dopamine alone and the D1- and D5-dopamine receptor agonist SKF 38393 (0.1–10 µM cumulatively applied) exerted concentration- and time-dependent positive inotropic effects and positive chronotropic effects in left or right atrial preparations from D1-TG. The positive inotropic effects of SKF 38393 in left atrial preparations from D1-TG led to an increased rate of relaxation and accompanied by and probably caused by an augmented phosphorylation state of the inhibitory subunit of troponin. In the presence of 0.4 µM propranolol, 1 µM dopamine could increase left ventricular force of contraction in isolated perfused hearts from D1-TG. In this model, we have demonstrated a positive inotropic and chronotropic effect of dopamine. Thus, in principle, the human D1-dopamine receptor can couple to contractility in the mammalian heart.