cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A general framework for solving convex optimization problems involving the sum of three convex functions
Creators: name: Tang, Yu-Chao
name: Wu, Guo-Rong
name: Zhu, Chuan-Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C25, 65K10

description: In this paper, we consider solving a class of convex optimization problem which minimizes the sum of three convex functions $f(x)+g(x)+h(Bx)$, where $f(x)$ is differentiable with a Lipschitz continuous gradient, $g(x)$ and $h(x)$ have a closed-form expression of their proximity operators and $B$ is a bounded linear operator. This type of optimization problem has wide application in signal recovery and image processing. To make full use of the differentiability function in the optimization problem, we take advantage of two operator splitting methods: the forward-backward splitting method and the three operator splitting method. In the iteration scheme derived from the two operator splitting methods, we need to compute the proximity operator of $g+h \circ B$ and $h \circ B$, respectively. Although these proximity operators do not have a closed-form solution in general, they can be solved very efficiently. We mainly employ two different approaches to solve these proximity operators: one is dual and the other is primal-dual. Following this way, we fortunately find that three existing iterative algorithms including Condat and Vu algorithm, primal-dual fixed point (PDFP) algorithm and primal-dual three operator (PD3O) algorithm are a special case of our proposed iterative algorithms. Moreover, we discover a new kind of iterative algorithm to solve the considered optimization problem, which is not covered by the existing ones. Under mild conditions, we prove the convergence of the proposed iterative algorithms. Numerical experiments applied on fused Lasso problem, constrained total variation regularization in computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction and low-rank total variation image super-resolution problem demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed iterative algorithms.
description: 37 pages, 10 figures
Impact Evidence - Letter outlining impact on elite coach education provision in NZ
Creators: name: Admin, CardiffMet
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440710
subject: Research, science and technology policy

description: Director of New Zealand’s High Performance Coach Accelerator Programme (CAP) in relation to Jones’s work in directing elite coach education provision in Aotearoa New Zealand.
(501897) Esther Pinkney
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 refined estimates for spherical harmonics to a sharp multiplier theorem on the Grushin sphere
Creators: name: Casarino, Valentina
name: Ciatti, Paolo
name: Martini, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C55, 42B15 (primary), 53C17, 58J50 (secondary)

description: We prove a sharp multiplier theorem of Mihlin-Hörmander type for the Grushin operator on the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and a corresponding boundedness result for the associated Bochner-Riesz means. The proof hinges on precise pointwise bounds for spherical harmonics.
description: 32 pages
(501896) Mary Pinkney
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 Computational Model of Systems Memory Consolidation and Reconsolidation
Creators: name: Helfer, Peter
name: Shultz, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In the mammalian brain, newly acquired memories depend on the hippocampus for maintenance and recall, but over time the neocortex takes over these functions, rendering memories hippocampus-independent. The process responsible for this transformation is called systems memory consolidation. However, reactivation of a well-consolidated memory can trigger a temporary return to a hippocampus-dependent state, a phenomenon known as systems memory reconsolidation. The neural mechanisms underlying systems memory consolidation and reconsolidation are not well understood. Here, we propose a neural model based on well-documented mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and stability and describe a computational implementation that demonstrates the model's ability to account for a range of findings from the systems consolidation and reconsolidation literature. We derive several predictions from the computational model and suggest experiments that may test its validity.
(501895) Elizabeth Pinkney
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 simplex-type algorithm for continuous linear programs with constant coefficients
Creators: name: Shindin, Evgeny
name: Weiss, Gideon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C05, 49N05, 65K05

description: We consider continuous linear programs over a continuous finite time horizon $T$, with a constant coefficient matrix, linear right hand side functions and linear cost coefficient functions, where we search for optimal solutions in the space of measures or of functions of bounded variation. These models generalize the separated continuous linear programming models and their various duals, as formulated in the past by Anderson, by Pullan, and by Weiss. In previous papers we have shown that these problems possess optimal strongly dual solutions. We also have presented a detailed description of optimal solutions and have defined a combinatorial analogue to basic solutions of standard LP. In this paper we present an algorithm which solves this class of problems in a finite bounded number of steps, using an analogue of the simplex method, in the space of measures.
Estimates of complex eigenvalues and an inverse spectral problem for the transmission eigenvalue problem
Creators: name: Xu, Xiao-Chuan
name: Yang, Chuan-Fu
name: Buterin, Sergey A.
name: Yurko, Vjacheslav A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35P25, 34L15, 34A55

description: This work deals with the interior transmission eigenvalue problem: $y'' + {k^2}η\left( r \right)y = 0$ with boundary conditions ${y\left( 0 \right) = 0 = y'\left( 1 \right)\frac{\sin k}{k} - y\left( 1 \right)\cos k},$ where the function $η(r)$ is positive. We obtain the asymptotic distribution of non-real transmission eigenvalues under the suitable assumption for the square of the index of refraction $η(r)$. Moreover, we provide a uniqueness theorem for the case $\int_0^1\sqrt{η(r)}dr>1$, by using all transmission eigenvalues (including their multiplicities) along with a partial information of $η(r)$ on the subinterval. The relationship between the proportion of the needed transmission eigenvalues and the length of the subinterval on the given $η(r)$ is also obtained.
Uneven encounters and paradoxical rights: embodiment and difference in sexual orientation rights and activism
Creators: name: Lalor, Kay
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: My thesis takes the intersection of sexual orientation and human rights and the increased tendency towards the expression of the concerns of sexual minorities in rights based terminology in international law as a Deleuzian ‘problem’ to be explored and unpicked. Sexual orientation is a singular expression of a complex multifaceted virtuality, yet the term -­‐ understood as a static and relatively unchanging denotation of a particular identity and mode of action -­‐ holds increasing purchase as a human rights issue. I explore the way in which rights shape the expression of sexuality within institutional and activist practices in international arenas and suggest that the complex and contested encounter between sexuality and human rights in international law exposes the problems, limits and temporality of both. By taking seriously the problems inherent to the encounters between sexuality and rights, as they are expressed in different material circumstances, we can explore sexuality as a mutliplicitous and changing flux and rights as a dual sided paradox, acting simultaneously machines of territorialisation and machines of deteritorialisation. Thus, I suggest that in their engagement with questions of 'sexual orientation', rights act as both modes of control, restriction and exclusion and as modes of communication and connection, challenge and escape, depending upon the particular circumstances within which they are expressed. As such, I attempt to engage with the embeddedness of ‘sexuality’ within particular material contexts and through this engagement, explore different potentialities that are implicated within divergent enactments of rights and sexuality in order to critique a mode of action that remains fixed upon abstract discussion of ossified ‘sexualities’ and transcendental rights. Furthermore, my aim is to approach the encounter not only as a means of critique but also as a moment of uncertainty and a site of productive engagement, vitality and becoming. Thus, the key question to be asked of the encounter between sexual orientation and rights is not one of which rights have been violated or of how a perceived violation can be expressed in relation to an already conceived and fixed discourse of rights, but instead, which material circumstances have facilitated the expression of injustice suffered by a sexual minority as a rights violation and in expressing the violation in this way, which possibilities, problematics and discourses are activated, and which others are ignored.
(501894) Catherine Pinkney
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.
Over-Approximation of Fluid Models
Creators: name: Tschaikowski, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Fluid models are a popular formalism in the quantitative modeling of biochemical systems and analytical performance models. The main idea is to approximate a large-scale Markov chain by a compact set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Even though it is often crucial for a fluid model under study to satisfy some given properties, a formal verification is usually challenging. This is because parameters are often not known precisely due to finite-precision measurements and stochastic noise. In this paper, we present a novel technique that allows one to efficiently compute formal bounds on the reachable set of time-varying nonlinear ODE systems that are subject to uncertainty. To this end, we a) relate the reachable set of a nonlinear fluid model to a family of inhomogeneous continuous time Markov decision processes and b) provide optimal and suboptimal solutions for the family by relying on optimal control theory. The proposed technique is efficient and can be expected to provide tight bounds. We demonstrate its potential by comparing it with a state-of-the-art over-approximation approach.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE-TAC
(501893) Harriett Pinkney
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.
Orm the Serpent: A Tale of Viking Leicestershire
Creators: name: Wood, Michael
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 87, 41-58
description: it is a real pleasure, and a great honour, to be elected President of the Society - an undeserved honour given such distinguished predecessors. local history is the root of history, and leicester is the home of local history. Almost at the start of British writing on local history, following lambarde in kent, came Burton's Description of Leicestershire (which went through Ned Blunt's printing shop at the same time as the first folio). Burton planned no less than three village histories - lindley, Theddingworth and Dadlington - and his notebooks are a still untapped source of material, including his transcripts of lost leicestershire Hundred Rolls in the Bodleian library which would be a very valuable and exciting task for a local historian with latin, following the model of the kent Hundred Rolls Project. later, as local studies burgeoned the london printer John Nichols compiled perhaps the greatest local history ever written, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, which is still a gold mine for the local historian. That impetus continued throughout the nineteenth century when this society was founded in 1855. Then from the 1930s came a new golden age (a long one - for we are still in it!) when frank Attenborough brought the Devonian Bill Hoskins here (there are photos of young David counting hedgerows around Oadby!). from then on the Transactions contain a roll call of the great historians who have shaped every generation of students since and opened local studies to a far wider public, nationally and internationally. it is no disrespect to the others if i single out Hoskins in particular. His books have a wonderful feel for landscapes and the people who have shaped them over the centuries; it seems almost like a magic trick when he conjures the past from, say, an ancient cornish sunken lane, or a decaying Devon seaport;2 the way he draws human stories from the most unpromising documentary evidence: the life of an Elizabethan butcher, a Harborough grocer, or a Domesday sheep farmer in upland Devon. i remember in particular his essay on gaulby and frisby with their 'cold cottages' on the windswept wolds, where farmers from the Viking Age to the Black Death toiled to keep their families alive and make a bit of surplus:3the unremitting existence of working people conjured more recently by chris Dyer in his books on working lives.
On powers of Plücker coordinates and representability of arithmetic matroids
Creators: name: Lenz, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 05B35, 14M15, Secondary: 14T05

description: The first problem we investigate is the following: given $k\in \mathbb{R}_{\ge 0}$ and a vector $v$ of Plücker coordinates of a point in the real Grassmannian, is the vector obtained by taking the $k$th power of each entry of $v$ again a vector of Plücker coordinates? For $k\neq 1$, this is true if and only if the corresponding matroid is regular. Similar results hold over other fields. We also describe the subvariety of the Grassmannian that consists of all the points that define a regular matroid. The second topic is a related problem for arithmetic matroids. Let $\mathcal{A} = (E, rk, m)$ be an arithmetic matroid and let $k\neq 1 $ be a non-negative integer. We prove that if $\mathcal{A}$ is representable and the underlying matroid is non-regular, then $\mathcal{A}^k := (E, rk, m^k)$ is not representable. This provides a large class of examples of arithmetic matroids that are not representable. On the other hand, if the underlying matroid is regular and an additional condition is satisfied, then $\mathcal{A}^k$ is representable. Bajo-Burdick-Chmutov have recently discovered that arithmetic matroids of type $\mathcal{A}^2$ arise naturally in the study of colourings and flows on CW complexes. In the last section, we prove a family of necessary conditions for representability of arithmetic matroids.
description: 36 pages, 1 figure, minor corrections, same content as journal version
(501892) Joseph William Pinkney
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.
Essays on Mutual Fund Flows, Value Corrections and Price Pressure in Global Real Estate Stocks
Creators: name: Schiller, Alexander
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: Zugl.: Regensburg, Univ. Regensburg, Diss., 2024
Reversible time travel with freedom of choice
Creators: name: Baumeler, Ämin
name: Costa, Fabio
name: Ralph, Timothy C.
name: Wolf, Stefan
name: Zych, Magdalena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: General relativity allows for the existence of closed time-like curves, along which a material object could travel back in time and interact with its past self. This possibility raises the question whether certain initial conditions, or more generally local operations, lead to inconsistencies and should thus be forbidden. Here we consider the most general deterministic dynamics connecting classical degrees of freedom defined on a set of bounded space-time regions, requiring that it is compatible with arbitrary operations performed in the local regions. We find that any such dynamics can be realised through reversible interactions. We further find that consistency with local operations is compatible with non-trivial time travel: Three parties can interact in such a way to be all both in the future and in the past of each other, while being free to perform arbitrary local operations.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
The Palace of the Bishops of Lincoln at Lyddington
Creators: name: Woodfield, Charmian
name: Woodfield, Paul
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 57, 1-16
description: This paper seeks to put the remains of the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Lyddington in context, and to review the interpretation of the standing structure in the light of archaeological evidence exposed during drainage works carried out in 1976 and 1980. This evidence is set out in a paper shortly to appear in the Archaeological Reports Series by Charmian C. Woodfield, and published by the Leicester Museums Service.
Molecular and cellular insights into iron regulation
Creators: name: Mehta, Kosha
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: The iron hormone hepcidin is regarded as the main iron homeostatic regulator in the human body. It is predominantly produced by hepatocytes in response to systemic iron excess. However, since the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in hepcidin expression are not fully understood, this project involved studying hepcidin expression and the role of the pro-region of the hepcidin prohormone in regulation of iron homeostasis. Iron overdose in Chinese hamster ovary-transferrin receptor variant (CHO TRVb1) cells resulted in increased hepcidin peptide secretion after 30 min and 2 hours (p<0.03) as well as 24 and 48 hours (p<0.01). Also, partial characterisation of the previously unknown CHO-gene sequences of Hfe, Slc40-a1 and Irp2, was achieved. To determine the effect of intracellular iron overload on hepcidin expression, recombinant transferrin receptor 1 (rec-TfR1) HepG2 cells were created which express modified TfR1 to maximise iron uptake. Upon holotransferrin (5 g/L) treatment these cells showed significantly increased iron uptake which was in contrast to the response by Wt HepG2 cells. Also, it was shown for the first time that hepcidin peptide secretion increased upon iron overdose to HepG2 cells after 30 min, 2,4,24 and 48 hours (p<0.05). Also, holotransferrin treatment (5 g/L) increased hepcidin mRNA levels; in Wt HepG2 cells by 0.6 fold (on average) after 30 min, 2,4,6 and 24 hours and in rec-TfR1 HepG2 cells by 0.5 fold after 2 h (p<0.02). Gene expression studies of TfR1, SLC40-A1, and HFE upon iron overdose showed opposing functionalities of TfR1 and SLC40-A1 in maintaining intracellular iron homeostasis and emphasised the significance of HFE in hepcidin induction. Additionally, localisation studies with the pre-pro derivative of preprohepcidin identified its presence in the nucleus, suggesting its involvement in the gene regulation process and thus possible participation in maintaining iron homeostasis. In conclusion, rec-TfR1 HepG2 cells partially resemble haemochromatotic cells and the findings indicate that hepcidin regulation involves the interaction between several iron-related genes and the extracellular and intracellular iron levels.
Do we need more urban green space to alleviate PM2.5 pollution? : a case study in Wuhan, China
Creators: name: Chen, Yuanyuan
name: Ke, Xinli
name: Min, Min
name: Zhang, Yue
name: Dai, Yaqiang
name: Tang, Lanping
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 555

description: Urban green space can help to reduce PM concentration by absorption and deposition processes. However, few studies have focused on the historical influence of green space on PM at a fine grid scale. Taking the central city of Wuhan as an example, this study has analyzed the spatiotemporal trend and the relationship between green space and PM in the last two decades. The results have shown that: (1) PM concentration reached a maximum value (139 μg/m) in 2010 and decreased thereafter. Moran’s I index values of PM were in a downward trend, which indicates a sparser distribution; (2) from 2000 to 2019, the total area of green space decreased by 25.83%. The reduction in larger patches, increment in land cover diversity, and less connectivity led to fragmented spatial patterns of green space; and (3) the regression results showed that large patches of green space significantly correlated with PM concentration. The land use/cover diversity negatively correlated with the PM concentration in the ordinary linear regression. In conclusion, preserving large native natural habitats can be a supplemental measure to enlarge the air purification function of the green space. For cities in the process of PM reduction, enhancing the landscape patterns of green space provides a win-win solution to handle air pollution and raise human well-being.
(501891) Frederick Pinkney
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.
Sound shape modelling, interaction and prototyping for virtual pottery
Creators: name: Dashti, Sarah
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Art theory
Computer gaming and animation
Interactive media
Visual arts not elsewhere classified
Ceramics
Modelling and simulation
Computer graphics
Virtual and mixed reality

description: Introduction: Virtual Pottery (VP) using creative technologies is a multi-faceted challenge. This thesis addresses the key challenges and makes novel research contributions. This research explores how Virtual Pottery (VP) has evolved and competed with traditional making.
 Problem: Traditional research related to Virtual Pottery (VP) shows that the main contribution of applications and 3D modelling software focuses on creating a vessel on a Virtual Reality (VR) potter's wheel or 3D sculpting tools with limitations. Moreover, the available applications may not support the whole experience of traditional making and hold many challenges. 3D modelling is expensive, labour-intensive and time-consuming, especially when modelling in detail on a complex organic object. Some of the available Virtual Reality (VR) applications use a set of unprintable pattern images as a texture. Volumetric pattern modelling with high resolution may affect the application performance and cannot be used in real-time.
 Aim: This research aims to overcome the limitations mentioned above, including the following: surface texturing on VP objects, the functionality of 3D modelling tools, physical making experience, organic shape complexity, visual limitations, print limitations and real-time interactivity.
 Contributions & Thesis overview: The research aims are accomplished through the innovation of the surface texture of VP and the conceptual design. It is a systematic process demonstrated through a workflow system that employs modelling, interaction and rapid prototyping. The modelling is demonstrated by using VR for base-shape 3D modelling and embedding the detailed sound shape on the base object. The overview of the thesis captures an introduction, literature review, background, methodology, conclusion and future work.
Two Medieval Celtic Enamelled Buckles from Leicestershire
Creators: name: Youngs, Susan M
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 67, 15-22
description: Two unusual enamelled buckles found at the same site in Leicestershire are described and discussed in relation to similar buckles from Ireland, all dating from the early middle ages. The occurrence of these pieces in the county is briefly considered.
Impact Evidence - UEFA Pro Licence Final Report
Creators: name: Admin, CardiffMet
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440710
subject: Research, science and technology policy

description: Report - ‘Candidates experience of the UEFA Pro Licence – Tracking the journey’. Final report for the FA on the suitability of the Pro Licence (July, 2014); (ii) ‘Tracking the journey of the UEFA Pro Licence – The tutor experience: mentoring in action’: Final report for the FA on the suitability of the Pro Licence (July, 2014).
Uncovering the Flop of the EU Cookie Law
Creators: name: Trevisan, Martino
name: Traverso, Stefano
name: Metwalley, Hassan
name: Mellia, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In 2002, the European Union (EU) introduced the ePrivacy Directive to regulate the usage of online tracking technologies. Its aim is to make tracking mechanisms explicit while increasing privacy awareness in users. It mandates websites to ask for explicit consent before using any kind of profiling methodology, e.g., cookies. Starting from 2013 the Directive is mandatory, and now most of European websites embed a "Cookie Bar" to explicitly ask user's consent. To the best of our knowledge, no study focused in checking whether a website respects the Directive. For this, we engineer CookieCheck, a simple tool that makes this check automatic. We use it to run a measurement campaign on more than 35,000 websites. Results depict a dramatic picture: 65% of websites do not respect the Directive and install tracking cookies before the user is even offered the accept button. In few words, we testify the failure of the ePrivacy Directive. Among motivations, we identify the absence of rules enabling systematic auditing procedures, the lack of tools to verify its implementation by the deputed agencies, and the technical difficulties of webmasters in implementing it.
description: An updated version of this study has been accepted at PoPETS 2019 and it is available at: https://petsymposium.org/2019/files/papers/issue2/popets-2019-0023.pdf
(501890) John Robert Pond
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.
Perspective-taking and belief in a just world matter : adolescents’ role experiences in bullying processes
Creators: name: Wolgast, Anett
name: Donat, Matthias
name: Liesen, Johanna
name: Rüprich, Claudia
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Bullying is a serious problem around the world, especially among adolescents. Evidence exists that low levels of social perspective-taking as well as belief in a just world played an important role in bullying. Both dispositions function as psychological resources that may help students behave appropriately in social life. Previous research identified distinct bullying roles such as perpetrator, victim, assistant, reinforcer, defender, and bystander experiences. Although this participant-role approach has been extensively investigated in the last years, a simultaneous examination of students’ perspective-taking and belief in a just world in relation to their experiences in these roles is still missing. This study’s objective was to examine a differential approach of school students’ visuospatial and dispositional social perspective-taking, emotional concern, and personal belief in a just world in relation to their experiences in bullying roles. We tested these relations in a sample of n = 1309 adolescents (50.6% female, Mage = 13.73, SDage = 0.85) from 38 schools in Germany. The results from a latent structural-equation model suggested that experiences as a perpetrator, assistant, reinforcer but also as defender related to low visuospatial social perspective-taking. Emotional concern was positively related to defender experiences. Personal belief in a just world was negatively associated with experiences as a perpetrator and a victim. The results underline the importance of disentangling concurrent contributions of perspective-taking and belief in a just world related to the bullying roles. We conclude that adolescents’ visuospatial social perspective taking seems to be a further mental resource against antisocial behavior in bullying.
Conditioning of implicit Runge-Kutta integration for finite element approximation of linear diffusion equations on anisotropic meshes
Creators: name: Huang, Weizhang
name: Kamenski, Lennard
name: Lang, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.3; G.1.8
subject: 65M60, 65M50, 65F35, 65F15

description: The conditioning of implicit Runge-Kutta (RK) integration for linear finite element approximation of diffusion equations on general anisotropic meshes is investigated. Bounds are established for the condition number of the resulting linear system with and without diagonal preconditioning for the implicit Euler and general implicit RK methods. Two solution strategies are considered for the linear system resulting from general implicit RK integration: the simultaneous solution (the system is solved as a whole) and a successive solution which follows the commonly used implementation of implicit RK methods to first transform the system into smaller systems using the Jordan normal form of the RK matrix and then solve them successively. For the simultaneous solution in case of a positive semidefinite symmetric part of the RK coefficient matrix and for the successive solution it is shown that . If the smallest eigenvalue of the symmetric part of the RK coefficient matrix is negative and the simultaneous solution strategy is used, an upper bound on the time step is given so that the system matrix is positive definite. The obtained bounds for the condition number have explicit geometric interpretations and take the interplay between the diffusion matrix and the mesh geometry into full consideration. They show that there are three mesh-dependent factors that can affect the conditioning: the number of elements, the mesh nonuniformity measured in the Euclidean metric, and the mesh nonuniformity with respect to the inverse of the diffusion matrix. They also reveal that the preconditioning using the diagonal of the system matrix, the mass matrix, or the lumped mass matrix can effectively eliminate the effects of the mesh nonuniformity measured in the Euclidean metric. Numerical examples are given.
description: Accepted manuscript. \copyright 2019. Licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)
On Popov's formula involving the Von Mangoldt function
Creators: name: Patkowski, Alexander E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We offer a generalization of a formula of Popov involving the Von Mangoldt function. Some commentary on its relation to other results in analytic number theory is mentioned as well as an analogue involving the m$\ddot{o}$bius function.
description: Added some more details
Asymmetric synthesis of dihydroartemisinic acid through intramolecular Stetter reaction
Creators: name: Rej, RK
name: Acharyya, RK
name: Nanda, S
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2016
Subjects: Antimalarial compounds
Asymmetric synthesis
Intramolecular Stetter reaction
Ring closing metathesis

description: A short and concise formal synthesis of enantiopure dihydroartemisinic acid from (R)-citronellal is described in this article. Intramolecular version of asymmetric Stetter reaction using Rovis aminoindane based NHC catalyst was explored to access the core substituted cyclohexanone framework which on functional group manipulation and late stage ring closing metathesis (RCM) reaction afforded an advanced intermediate for dihydroartemisinic acid.
(501889) Frederick Webb Pond
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.
Migration in West Africa : a visual analysis of motivation, causes, and routes
Creators: name: Schürmann, Alina
name: Kleemann, Janina
name: Teucher, Mike
name: Fürst, Christine
name: Conrad, Christopher
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 304

description: Migration in West Africa has been taking place for centuries for different reasons. Many dimensions of migration remain insufficiently documented and poorly understood. In particular, factors of migration in destination areas and areas of origin are still lacking comprehensive analysis. In this paper, we bring a new perspective to the model of push and pull factors of migration in West Africa by reviewing and analyzing interview-based case studies of migration related to Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria, as well as to the associated migration routes. The overall aim of this study was to determine the areas that individuals historically chose as destinations for migration and what they perceived to be the distinctive conditions in those areas. Hence, characteristic features about destination areas and areas of origin were identified and located in maps, whereas interrelationships among push and pull factors were illustrated by means of Sankey diagrams. With these tools, we provide a novel combination for visualizing the reasons for migration. The literature review emphasizes the complex relationships between different drivers of migration, with environmental and economic factors emerging as the most important drivers of migration in the focus countries. Moreover, the identified and mapped migration patterns suggest that individuals migrate mainly from the northern part of a particular country to its center or southern regions. This scientific approach shows that the spatial allocation of migratory movements can facilitate assessments on how to meet specific Sustainable Development Goals and to improve regional policies.
Asymmetric synthesis of naturally occurring nonenolide xyolide through cross metathesis and macrolactonization reaction
Creators: name: Rej, RK
name: Jana, A
name: Nanda, S
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2014

description: Asymmetric total synthesis of xyolide, a small ring macrolide is presented in this article. The synthesis is achieved through an 'E' selective cross metathesis (CM) reaction between two appropriate fragments followed by lactonization by Shiina method. One of the fragments containing 7S,8S,9R stereocenters of xyolide is accessed from n-nonanal by adopting an organocatalytic asymmetric α-aminooxylation, Z-selective Ando olefination, and substrate directed dihydroxylation reaction. The other fragments containing 4S stereocenter was prepared by ME-DKR (metal enzyme combined dynamic kinetic resolution) method. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Public & Patient Involvement for in silico medicine
Creators: name: Thinnes, Cyrille C.
name: Raphaelle Lesage
name: Mengoni, Marlène
name: Rousseau, Cécile F.
name: Thorez, Anne
name: Staumont, Bernard
name: De Cunha Maluf-Burgman, Martha
name: Liesbet Geris
name: Marchal, Thierry
name: Serigado, Alexandre
name: Voisin, Emmanuelle
name: Levine, Steven M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Patient
Patient awareness
PPI
Public & Patient

description: The Avicenna Public & Patient Involvement (PPI) task force present their first position paper with focus on assessing the status quo and proposing an action plan for establishing PPI within in silico medicine. While PPI has gained significant momentum in the wider biomedical community, it is currently underserved in the in silico medicine domain. The task force therefore aims to create awareness, support implementation, and enable a culture change within the in silico medicine community to maximise societal impact together with patients and the public. This position paper shall serve as a beacon for establishing the PPI task force within the AA and beyond.
Regularity of FI-modules and local cohomology
Creators: name: Nagpal, Rohit
name: Sam, Steven V
name: Snowden, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D45, 20C30

description: We resolve a conjecture of Li and Ramos that relates the regularity of an FI-module to its local cohomology groups. This is an analogue of the familiar relationship between regularity and local cohomology in commutative algebra.
description: 10 pages; v2: corrected statement of main result
On the p-adic Stark conjecture at s=1 and applications
Creators: name: Johnston, Henri
name: Nickel, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R23, 11R42

description: Let E/F be a finite Galois extension of totally real number fields and let p be a prime. The `p-adic Stark conjecture at s=1' relates the leading terms at s=1 of p-adic Artin L-functions to those of the complex Artin L-functions attached to E/F. We prove this conjecture unconditionally when E/Q is abelian. We also show that for certain non-abelian extensions E/F the p-adic Stark conjecture at s=1 is implied by Leopoldt's conjecture for E at p. Moreover, we prove that for a fixed prime p, the p-adic Stark conjecture at s=1 for E/F implies Stark's conjecture at s=1 for E/F. This leads to a `prime-by-prime' descent theorem for the `equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture' (ETNC) for Tate motives at s=1. As an application of these results, we provide strong new evidence for special cases of the ETNC for Tate motives and the closely related `leading term conjectures' at s=0 and s=1.
description: 35 pages; v5 accepted version to appear in Journal of the London Mathematical Society; v4 minor revisions and appendix by Tommy Hofmann, Henri Johnston and Andreas Nickel added; v3 minor revisions; v2 minor revisions; comments welcome
"Do not disrupt me". Homo ludens und KI in Interaktion in "The Captain"
Creators: name: Bärtl, Alexander
name: Lasch, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Einer der Wesenskerne von Science Fiction ist, dass Modelle von (humanoiden) Gesellschaften konfiguriert und auserzählt werden können, ohne dass diese Denkmodelle und Gedankenspiele Konsequenzen für unser heutiges Miteinander hätten – häufig werden deshalb für uns geltende Regeln & Gesetzmäßigkeiten bewusst außer Kraft gesetzt und/oder disruptiv ver- und gestört. Gleiches gilt für das Spiel. Auch dessen Eigengesetzlichkeit macht es möglich, Disruptionen zu erleben, ohne selbst davon betroffen zu sein, selbst wenn man als handelnder Agent in hohem Maße involviert und für seine Entscheidungen verantwortlich ist. Deshalb ist vielleicht das Science-Fiction-Spiel der Ort, an dem in besonderem Maße disruptives Potential schlummert.

 In unserem Talk auf der Tagung Disruptive Imaginations (15. bis 19. August 2023, TUD) setzen wir uns mit dem Spiel The Captain auseinander. Wir konzentrieren uns dabei auf die allgegenwärtige KI, die menschliches Leben prägt, unterstützt, stört, und die durch den Menschen genutzt, geprägt und zerstört wird. Über allem steht eine Ethik, deren moralische Prinzipien der Spieler als Akteur selbst bestimmt – allein im All ist es auch einfacher, verantwortlich oder verantwortungslos zu sein.
Topological Noetherianity of polynomial functors
Creators: name: Draisma, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that any finite-degree polynomial functor is topologically Noetherian. This theorem is motivated by the recent resolution of Stillman's conjecture and a recent Noetherianity proof for the space of cubics. Via work by Erman-Sam-Snowden, our theorem implies Stillman's conjecture and indeed boundedness of a wider class of invariants of ideals in polynomial rings with a fixed number of generators of prescribed degrees.
description: Final version