cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Patterns in Open String Field Theory Solutions
Creators: name: Gaiotto, Davide
name: Rastelli, Leonardo
name: Sen, Ashoke
name: Zwiebach, Barton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In open string field theory the kinetic operator mixes matter and ghost sectors, and thus the ghost structure of classical solutions is not universal. Nevertheless, we have found from numerical analysis that certain ratios of expectation values for states involving pure ghost excitations appear to be universal. We give an analytic expression for these ratios and find good evidence that they are common to all known solutions of open string field theory, including the tachyon vacuum solution, lump solutions and string fields representing marginal deformations. We also draw attention to a close correspondence between the expectation values for the pure matter components in the tachyon vacuum solution and those in the solution of a simpler equation for a ghost number zero string field. Finally we observe that the action of L_0 on the tachyon condensate gives a state that is approximately factorized into a matter and a ghost part.
description: 21 pages, LaTeX
The Taiwanese New Inhabitant Integration in Taiwan..pdf
Creators: name: Cheng-Hsiang Hsueh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This research uses the Ethnography method to analyse the integration of the so called “mail order brides” based on interviews held with eight different Southeast Asian women. These women were four Vietnamese, one Chinese, one Malaysian, one Indonesian, and one woman from Myanmar who had lived in Taiwan for more than 20 years. The interviews about their experiences were conducted in their working place or at home. Furthermore, this research includes an observation conducted during the interview placing attention on how they react to the Taiwanese society. The observation and information from the interviews were summarized in a research diary which also included a self-reflection of the researcher. A main focus is put on the marriage life of the New Inhabitant woman and their integration into the Taiwanese society. Specific questions were used as a guideline for this research: How does the arrangement of marriage through an agency work and how did it change from the 1960s until 2020? How did the government change its policy in order to help the “mail order brides” in Taiwan? How do “mail-order brides” integrate into the Taiwanese society? How do they feel and think of themselves as being the Taiwanese?
A bibliometric and meta-analysis of studies on public–private partnership in China
Creators: name: Pu, Wang
name: Xu, Fei
name: Marques, Rui Cunha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: China is one of the countries with the highest public-private partnership (PPP) experience. Although numerous studies on PPP in China have been published in different international journals in the past decades, few relevant reviews have been found. In this research, a bibliometric analysis of 139 peer-reviewed articles on PPP in China is performed to reveal the research evolution and trend. Besides, a meta-analysis of 111 empirical articles among the total 139 articles is conducted using multinomial logistic regression to examine how data characteristics and analytical features have been utilized in this area. The major findings suggest that, first, many studies are published in the subject areas of Business, Management and Accounting, and Engineering, and most topics are discussed from the micro-level perspective. Second, the issues in the procurement phase lack enough attention. Third, for studies with different research themes, how data characteristics and analytical features have been utilized significantly differ. In general, how PPP studies are approached in China contrasts with the global PPP research. Future research directions are proposed. The research contributes to the global PPP body of knowledge and methodology by providing the first quantitative review of studies on PPP in China and by combining the research methods.
Kelvin-Helmholtz versus Tearing Instability: What Drives Turbulence in Stochastic Reconnection?
Creators: name: Kowal, Grzegorz
name: Falceta-Gonçalves, Diego A.
name: Lazarian, Alex
name: Vishniac, Ethan T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the last few years it became clear that turbulent magnetic reconnection and magnetized turbulence are inseparable. It was not only shown that reconnection is responsible for violating the frozen-in condition in turbulence, but also that stochastic reconnection in 3D generates turbulence by itself. The actual mechanism responsible for this driving is still unknown. Processes such tearing mode or Kelvin-Helmholtz, among other plasma instabilities, could generate turbulence from irregular current sheets. We address the nature of driving mechanism for this process and consider a relative role of tearing and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities for the process of turbulence generation. In particular, we analyze the conditions for development of these two instabilities within three-dimensional reconnection regions. We show that both instabilities can excite turbulence fluctuations in reconnection regions. However, tearing mode has relatively slow growth rate, and at later times it becomes partially suppressed by transverse to the current sheet component of magnetic field, generated during the growth of turbulent fluctuations. On the contrary, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability establishes quickly in the outflow region, and at later times it dominates the turbulence generation comparing to the contribution from tearing mode. Our results demonstrate that the tearing instability is subdominant compared to the the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in terms of generation of turbulence in the 3D reconnection layers and therefore the self-driven reconnection is turbulent reconnection with tearing instability being important only at the initial stage of the reconnection.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures
Catalytic CO2-MEA absorptions with the aid of CaCO3, MgCO3, and BaCO3 in the batch and semi-batch processes
Creators: name: Shi, Huancong
name: Huang, Min
name: Huang, Yuandong
name: Cui, Mingqi
name: Idem, Raphael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Three solid chemicals, CaCO3, MgCO3, and BaCO3, were tested to accelerate the CO2 absorption with monoethanolamine (MEA) solvents to verify the effect of heterogeneous catalysis. The experiments were conducted in a batch process at 20 ± 0.2 °C and a semi-batch process under room temperature. For the batch process tests, CaCO3, MgCO3, and BaCO3, accelerated the CO2 absorption with MEA solutions at 1, 3, and 5 mol/L, respectively. The overall absorption periods were reduced by around 39.5%, 36.8%, and 36.8% in 3 M solution; and 31.9%, 19.1%, and 26.6% in 5 M solution. For the semi-batch process tests, CaCO3 and MgCO3 accelerated the CO2 absorption with 5 M MEA solutions by 20% and 20%, from 57 s to 45 s to reach equilibrium at loading of 0.0 mol/mol, and 16% and 12% from 75 s to 63–66 s to reach equilibrium at loading of 0.20 mol/mol. These solid chemicals were good candidates of heterogeneous catalysts of CO2–MEA absorption in an amine scrubbing process.
Using Previously Reported Cropland Acreage in Data Collection
Creators: name: Tran, HoaiNam
name: Gerling, Michael W.
name: Tran, HoaiNam
name: Gerling, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Previously Reported Data
subject: Agricultural Survey
subject: Data Collection

description: The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts surveys on the United States’ and Puerto Rico’s agriculture for the purpose of estimating crops, livestock, production practices, and farm economics. NASS’ Research and Development Division examined the agency’s June and September Agricultural Surveys to determine whether identical questions asked on both surveys could be eliminated on the September survey for June respondents, thereby reducing respondent burden. The questionnaires for these two surveys for five states (Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, and Washington) were reviewed and identical questions (cropland, land owned, land rented to, land rented from, and storage capacity) were identified. This report specifically focuses on cropland. A second report focusing on additional items is scheduled for late 2009. Initially, between-quarter differences in cropland for the same operation were measured. If the indicated variation in the answers was not statistically significant, it was concluded that the questions could be omitted in September for those operators responding in June. This initial test showed that four of the five test states could have the June cropland data carried forward to the September Agricultural Survey. The analyses were then expanded to include all states participating in the June and September Agricultural Surveys. The results indicated that if the quality of the cropland data collected in June is improved then using the June reported data in September is feasible in the following twenty-two states: Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Symbolisch generalisierte Kommunikationsmedien – ihr religiöses Problem
Creators: name: Tyrell, Hartmann
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie
Year: 2025
Subjects: Systemtheorie
Kommunikationsmedien
Religion

description: Der sehr zitierfreudige Beitrag, mit dem ich mich im Folgenden an der kollegialen Diskussion von Krechs groß angelegtem Grundriss beteiligen möchte, bezieht sich nur auf ein kleines Stück im Teil I des Buches, in dem im Anschluss an Luhmann die »Medien der Kommunikation« verhandelt werden (Krech 2023: 185 ff.: 191 ff.; 2021: 59-76). Krechs Darlegungen halten sich hier, ausgehend von der Unterscheidung von »Medium und Form«, eng an die vertrauten Begriffs- und Theorievorgaben Luhmanns. Im Zentrum steht die Dreiheit von Sprache, Verbreitungsmedien (insbesondere Schrift, Buchdruck) und symbolisch generalisierten Kommunikationsmedien (auch ›Erfolgsmedien‹) (vgl. nur Luhmann 1984: 220 ff.). Krech (insbes. 2021: 69 ff.) hat diese Dreiheit religionsbezogen aufgenommen und seinem evolutionären Forschungsprogramm integriert, wobei ihm insbesondere die Kommunikationsmedien wichtig sind. Dies einerseits, weil diese Medien ihre strukturelle Relevanz vor allem darin haben, dass sie, wie er formuliert, »zur Ausdifferenzierung gesellschaftlicher Funktionssysteme« ›disponieren‹ (Krech
2021: 70); natürlich richtet sich der Blick dabei primär auf die Religion als Funktionssystem. Andererseits ist es die Frage nach dem spezifischen Kommunikationsmedium der Religion, zu deren Klärung es Krech drängt (Krech 2021: 71 ff.). Es sei schon hier
erwähnt, dass das Kernquartett der Erfolgsmedien, das Luhmann typisch in der Form einer Kreuztabelle präsentiert, einen religiösen Teilhaber nicht vorsieht.
description: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023): Forum: Die Evolution der Religion. Schwerpunkt: Affektivitätstheorien.
Environmental Protection for Sale: Strategic Green Industrial Policy and Climate Finance
Creators: name: Fischer, Carolyn
name: Fischer, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Green Industrial Policy
subject: Emissions Leakage
subject: Externalities
subject: International Trade
subject: Renewable Energy
subject: Subsidies

description: Industrial policy has long been criticized as subject to protectionist interests; accordingly, subsidies to domestic producers face disciplines under World Trade Organization agreements, without exceptions for environmental purposes. Now green industrial policy is gaining popularity as governments search for low-carbon solutions that also provide jobs at home. The strategic trade literature has largely ignored the issue of market failures related to green goods. I consider the market for a new environmental good (like low-carbon technology) whose downstream consumption provides external benefits (like reduced emissions). Governments may have some preference for supporting domestic production, such as by interest-group lobbying, introducing a political distortion in their objective function. I examine the national incentives and global rationales for offering production (upstream) and deployment (downstream) subsidies in producer countries, allowing that some of the downstream market may lie in nonregulating third-party countries. Restraints on upstream subsidies erode global welfare when environmental externalities are large enough relative to political distortions. Climate finance is an effective alternative if political distortions are large and governments do not undervalue carbon costs. Numerical simulations of the case of renewable energy indicate that a modest social cost of carbon can imply benefits from allowing upstream subsidies.
Tridrepana maculosa Watson 1957
Creators: name: Song, Wenhui
name: Xue, Dayong
name: Han, Hongxiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Drepanidae
Tridrepana
Tridrepana maculosa

description: Tridrepana maculosa Watson, 1957
Figs 24, 70, 93
 Tridrepana maculosa Watson, 1957, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), 4: 488, fig. 137, pl.3: 10. Holotype ♂, China: Yunnan: Lijiang. (ZFMK)
 Diagnosis. The antemedial and postmedial lines of both wings are composed of largish dark spots; a series of lunate dots are present outside the postmedial line; the subterminal line is composed of dark spots between veins; the pale brown patches near the lower angle of the cell on the forewing are smaller, without dark spots inside. All of these characters are well differentiated from the other species of the sadana species group. In the male genitalia, T. maculosa is close to T. finita, but the eighth sternite is broader and shorter, with its posterior margin truncate and slightly concave posteriorly, while it is round in T. finita.
 Material examined. CHINA, Yunnan: Li-kiang, 10.VII.1935, coll. H. Höne, 1♂ (Holotype); Li-kiang, 30.VI.1935, coll. H. Höne, 1♀ (Allotype) (ZFMK). Yunnan: Li-kiang, 1.VII.1935, coll. H. Höne, 1♂ (Paratype) (BMNH, photograph examined).
 Distribution. China (Sichuan, Yunnan).
description: Published as part of Song, Wenhui, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2011, A taxonomic revision of Tridrepana Swinhoe, 1895 in China, with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae), pp. 39-62 in Zootaxa 3021 on page 47
Keeping up with the e-Joneses: Do Online Social Networks Raise Social Comparisons?
Creators: name: Sabatini, Fabio
name: Sarracino, Francesco
name: Sabatini, Fabio
name: Sarracino, Francesco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Social Networks
subject: Social Networking Sites
subject: Social Comparisons
subject: Satisfaction with Income
subject: Relative Deprivation

description: Online social networks, such as Facebook, disclose an unprecedented volume of personal information amplifying the occasions for social comparisons, which can be a cause of frustration. We test the hypothesis that the use of social networking sites (SNS) increases social comparisons as proxied by people’s dissatisfaction with their income and we compare the effect of SNS in Western and Eastern European countries. After controlling for the possibility of reverse causality, our results suggest that SNS users have a higher probability to compare their achievements with those of others. In Western countries, this leads individuals to a lower satisfaction with their economic conditions. The opposite holds in Eastern countries, where upward comparisons seemingly strengthen the hope that an improvement in individuals’ economic conditions will occur (so called “tunnel effect”). We conclude that SNS can be a strong engine of frustration for their users depending on the institutional and economic circumstances.
Measurement of the semileptonic b branching fractions and average b mixing parameter in Z decays
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abreu, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The semileptonic branching fractions for primary and cascade b decays BR(b -> lepton-), BR(b -> c -> lepton+) and BR(b -> cbar -> lepton-) were measured in hadronic Z decays collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP. The sample was enriched in b decays using the lifetime information and various techniques were used to separate leptons from direct or cascade b decays. By fitting the momentum spectra of di-leptons in opposite jets, the average b mixing parameter chi-bar was also extracted. The following results have been obtained: BR(b -> lepton-) = (10.70 +/- 0.08 (stat) +/- 0.21 (syst)_{+0.44}^{-0.30}(model))% BR(b -> c -> lepton+) = (7.98 +/- 0.22 (stat) +/- 0.21 (syst)^{+0.14}_{-0.20}(model))% BR(b -> cbar -> lepton-) = (1.61 +/- 0.20 (stat) +/- 0.17 (syst)^{+0.30}_{-0.44}(model))% chi-bar = 0.127 +/- 0.013 (stat) +/- 0.005 (syst) +/- 0.004(model)
description: 43 pages, 7 figures, Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C
Modeling the ASF (African Swine Fever) spread till summer 2017 and risk assessment for Poland
Creators: name: Jarynowski, Andrzej
name: Belik, Vitaly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: African Swine Fever (ASF) is viral infection which causes acute disease in domestic pigs and wild boar. Although the virus does not cause disease in humans, the impact it has on the economy, especially through trade and farming, is substantial. Recent rapid propagation of the (ASF) from East to West of Europe encouraged us to prepare risk assessment for Poland. The early growth estimation can be easily done by matching incidence trajectory to the exponential function, resulting in the approximation of the force of infection. With these calculations the basic reproduction rate of the epidemic, the effective outbreaks detection and elimination times could be estimated. In regression mode, 380 Polish counties (poviats) have been analysed, where 18 (located in Northeast Poland) have been affected (until August 2017) for spatial propagation (risk assessment for future). Mathematical model has been applied by taking into account: swine amount significance, disease vectors (wild boards) significance. We use pseudogravitational models of short and longrange interactions referring to the socio-migratory behavior of wild boars and the pork production chain significance. Spatial modeling in a certain range of parameters proves the existence of a natural protective barrier within boarders of the Congress Poland. The spread of the disease to the Greater Poland should result in the accelerated outbreak of ASF production chain. In the preliminary setup, we perform regression analysis, network outbreak investigation, early epidemic growth estimation and simulate landscape-based propagation.
description: conference proceedings
Religionssoziologische Theorie auf dem Prüfstand
Creators: name: Pollack, Detlef
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie
Year: 2025
Subjects: Erfahrung
Erlebnis
Kommunikationsmedien
Religion

description: Der anregende und theoriegesättigte Text von Volkhard Krech – ich habe das hier abgedruckte Resümee und Teile des Buches mit Gewinn gelesen – verdient eine kräftige Würdigung, und dies schon deshalb, weil sich die Argumentation der bequemen Zugänglichkeit entzieht, eine ungewöhnliche Dichte aufweist, sich auf einem hohen argumentativen Anspruchsniveau bewegt, als Ganzes im Grunde unleserlich ist und daher wohl auch nur von wenigen studiert wird. Es mag durchaus sein, dass jedes Argument genauer Prüfung standzuhalten vermag. Das Buch ist gleichwohl weitgehend unzugänglich und in der Vielfalt seiner Aspekte kaum erschließbar, da es sich nicht darum bemüht, die Gedanken so einfach, sondern so umfassend wie möglich zu entfalten. In dieser barocken Fülle geht die Nachvollziehbarkeit der Gedankenführung verloren, und irgendwann fragt sich der
überanstrengte Leser, ob der intellektuelle Gewinn die Mühe lohnt [...]. Die meisten, die das Buch zur Hand nehmen, werden es wohl so behandeln, wie es ein Rezensent getan hat, der es lobt, ohne auch nur eine einzige Aussage zu zitieren, zu diskutieren oder zu kritisieren. Das ist bedauerlich, denn das Buch enthält viele weiterführende Ideen, die es wert sind, weiter verfolgt zu werden. Drei davon möchte ich hier herausgreifen.
description: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023): Forum: Die Evolution der Religion. Schwerpunkt: Affektivitätstheorien.
Advances and Slowdowns in Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Development
Creators: name: D’Aprile, Aurora
name: D’Aprile, Aurora
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Climate Change
subject: Carbon Sequestration
subject: CCS
subject: Carbon Mitigation
subject: Low-carbon Technology

description: With the long term goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C and "to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C", the Paris Agreement puts renewed attention on the portfolio of technologies needed to achieve consistent emission reductions and reach "a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks” in the second half of this century. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, after having been hailed as a promising mitigation option around a decade ago, is undergoing a gruelling path to stay on top of the expectations. The opportunities and constraints in deploying large-scale carbon capture and storage systems are of the utmost actuality, as the technology promises to get rid of up to 90% of the most common greenhouse gases produced in industrial and energy plants before they reach the atmosphere (or even to achieve “negative” emissions, if combined with biomass). Despite potential benefits, CCS development and deployment proceeded at a far slower rate than what was expected and are struggling to emerge as a sound low-carbon choice for governments and investors. Based on recent existing literature, this reflection explores the main progress and deadlocks in CCS’s difficult path.
Kommunikative Omnisignifikanz und Religion als evolutionäre Notwendigkeit
Creators: name: Schnettler, Bernt
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie
Year: 2025
Subjects: Religion
Theoriebildung
Omnisignifikation
Transzendenztheorie

description: Zunächst zur Frage, was diese große Theorie charakterisiert. Denn Krech will nicht leidglich eine weitere neue Theorie der Religion kreieren, sondern eine Theoriesynthese leisten, die mit einem weitreichenden Anspruch verknüpft ist: »Mit dieser Theoriesynthese ist die Hoffnung verbunden, eine Art von Metatheorie zu erreichen« (Krech 2021 2: 354, Fn. 83). Metatheorien weisen allerdings die Tendenz auf, das gesamte Weltverständnis in ein Theoriemodell einzuschließen, in dem – im hegelianischen Sinne – alles enthalten und zugleich aufgehoben ist. Dieses Merkmal durchzieht das Projekt und könnte als allumfassender Erklärungsanspruch wahrgenommen werden, also als der Versuch, eine Weltformel zu gewinnen, mit der sich alles betrachten, verstehen und erklären lässt. Krech reklamiert, »den alten methodologischen Widerspruch von Erklären und Verstehen wenn nicht aufzulösen, so doch zu vermitteln« (ER: 169). So ist es überaus bemerkenswert, dass die von Krech entworfene Religionstheorie als definitive Theorie auftritt – wie sollte man den mitkommunizierten Anspruch dieses ambitionierten Projekts sonst verstehen?
description: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023): Forum: Die Evolution der Religion. Schwerpunkt: Affektivitätstheorien.
Comment on ``Fragmented Condensate Ground State of Trapped Weakly Interacting Bosons in Two Dimensions"
Creators: name: Kavoulakis, G. M.
name: Reimann, S. M.
name: Mottelson, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently Liu et al. [PRL 87, 030404 (2001)] examined the lowest state of a weakly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. In addition to other interesting results, using the method of the pair correlation function, they questioned the validity of the mean-field picture of the formation of vortices and stated that the vortices are generated at the center of the cloud. This is in apparent contradiction to the Gross-Pitaevskii approach, which predicts that the vortices successively enter the cloud from its outer parts as L/N (where N is the number of atoms in the trap and hbar(L) is the angular momentum of the system) increases. We have managed to reproduce the results of Liu et al. however a more careful analysis presented below confirms the validity of the mean-field approach.
description: 1 page, RevTex, 2 figures
Drei Fragen zu Volkhard Krechs »Die Evolution der Religion«
Creators: name: Eßbach, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie
Year: 2025
Subjects: Religion
Systemtheorie
Rezension

description: Nun hat Volkhard Krech, von Haus aus ein Religionswissenschaftler "Die Evolution der Religion. Ein soziologischer Grundriss" vorgelegt, der eingestandenermaßen den Leserinnen und Lesern zumutet, »zunächst die ›Trockenübungen‹ mitzumachen, bevor es ins ›Wasser‹ und ans ›Schwimmen‹ geht.« (Krech 2021: 26) Charles Sanders Peirce folgend geht es Krech dabei um die Entfaltung eines abduktiven Zusammenhangs von Theoriebildung und empirischer Analyse, bei dem vor den induktiven und deduktiven Arbeitsschritten eine Abduktion, eine erklärende Hypothese gebildet wird, die anzeigt, dass etwas sein könnte. Dies führt in der Praxis bei Krech dazu, dass es zu mehreren Anläufen kommt, die Ausdifferenzierung von Religion aufzuzeigen und einzelne empirische Sachverhalte mit einzelnen theoretischen Überlegungen in Beziehung zu setzen. Diese Vorgehensweise wird von Krech mit bewundernswerter Konsequenz beibehalten. Krech gelingt es, nach der Vorstellung seiner »Erkenntnistheorie des Religiösen« (Krech 2021: 27) einen imposanten Reichtum von religionsgeschichtlichem Material in weitreichende theoretische Reflexionen einzuflechten. Dieses im Einzelnen zu diskutieren, erfordert mehrere interdisziplinäre Tagungen, auf die sich alle, die sich der Religionsforschung widmen, freuen können.
Ich beschränke mich in diesem Beitrag auf drei Fragen:
1. Ist Volkhard Krech ein Systemtheoretiker?
2. Kann »Religion« oder »Religiosität« evolvieren?
3. Ist Transzendenz der letzte Begriff für einen wissenschaftlichen Religionsbegriff?
description: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023): Forum: Die Evolution der Religion. Schwerpunkt: Affektivitätstheorien.
Phase II single-arm study of brentuximab vedotin in Chinese patients with relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma or systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma
Creators: name: Song, Yuqin
name: Guo, Ye
name: Huang, Huiqiang
name: Li, Wei
name: Ke, Xiaoyan
name: Feng, Jifeng
name: Xu, Wei
name: Miao, Harry
name: Kinley, Judith
name: Song, Gregory
name: Dai, Yi
name: Wang, Hui
name: Zhu, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Relapsed/refractory (R/R) classical HL (cHL) and systemic anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (sALCL) treatment options are limited in China. There is a need for new therapies. This single-arm, open-label, multicenter, Phase II study assessed efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of single-agent brentuximab vedotin in Chinese patients with R/R cHL or sALCL. Patients received brentuximab vedotin 1.8 mg/kg by intravenous infusion on Day 1 of 3-week cycles (maximum 16 cycles). Patients (N = 39) received a median of 10 cycles (range: 2–16) of brentuximab vedotin. The objective response rate was 69% (95% CI: 52–83%), with 27 patients achieving objective responses (complete response: n = 11 [28%]; partial response: n = 16 [41%]). Median duration of response, progression-free survival and overall survival were 12.1 months, 13.5 months (95% CI: 6.8 months–not estimable) and not reached after a median follow-up of 16.6 months. Brentuximab vedotin was well tolerated with no on-study deaths. AEs were generally manageable and reversible. No new safety signals were identified. Pharmacokinetics were consistent with those previously described in Western populations. Brentuximab vedotin had a positive benefit–risk profile for Chinese patients with R/R cHL or sALCL, confirming it as a potential treatment option. www.clinicaltrials.gov identifier is NCT02939014.
Gaussian Thermal Operations and the Limits of Algorithmic Cooling
Creators: name: Serafini, A.
name: Lostaglio, M.
name: Longden, S.
name: Shackerley-Bennett, U.
name: Hsieh, C. -Y.
name: Adesso, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of thermal operations allows one to investigate the ultimate possibilities of quantum states and of nanoscale thermal machines. Whilst fairly general, these results typically do not apply to continuous variable systems and do not take into account that, in many practically relevant settings, system-environment interactions are effectively bilinear. Here we tackle these issues by focusing on Gaussian quantum states and channels. We provide a complete characterisation of the most general Gaussian thermal operation acting on an arbitrary number of bosonic modes, which turn out to be all embeddable in a Markovian dynamics, and derive necessary and sufficient conditions for state transformations under such operations in the single-mode case, encompassing states with nonzero coherence in the energy eigenbasis (i.e., squeezed states). Our analysis leads to a no-go result for the technologically relevant task of algorithmic cooling: We show that it is impossible to reduce the entropy of a system coupled to a Gaussian environment below its own or the environmental temperature, by means of a sequence of Gaussian thermal operations interspersed by arbitrary (even non-Gaussian) unitaries. These findings establish fundamental constraints on the usefulness of Gaussian resources for quantum thermodynamic processes.
description: 6+9 pages, 3 figures
Combination of a deep eutectic solvent and macroporous resin for green recovery of anthocyanins from Nitraria tangutorun Bobr. fruit
Creators: name: Sang, Jun
name: Liu, Kang
name: Ma, Qun
name: Li, Bing
name: Li, Cui-qin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This study aimed at extracting and separating anthocyanins from Nitraria tangutorun Bobr. fruit using deep eutectic solvent (DES) combined with macroporous resins. Choline chloride/1,2-propanediol (ChCl-Prop)-based DESs produced higher extraction yields of total anthocyanins from N. tangutorun fruit than pure water and ethanol/methanol/acetone aqueous solutions did, and LX-32 macroporous resin was used to separate total anthocyanins from the DES (recovery＞95%). Additionally, a green and efficient HPLC-DAD method was used for the analysis of total anthocyanins using ethanol and a tartaric acid aqueous solution as mobile phases, and 13 anthocyanins were identified from N. tangutorun fruit using a UPLC-Q-TOF-MS method. Abbreviations: DES, deep eutectic solvent; ChCl-Prop, choline chloride/1,2-propanediol.
Integrating Triple Bottom Line Thinking Into Primary Sector Strategic Planning and Resource Management
Creators: name: Karamysheva, Olessya
name: Esvelt, Rob
name: Karamysheva, Olessya
name: Esvelt, Rob
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Industrial Organization
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Triple Bottom Line (TBL) measuring and reporting is a useful tool for policy makers, communities and industry to capture, measure and understand the social, environmental and financial contributions made by an activity in a relatively simple and transparent manner. TBL reporting provides a focus point for industry strategic planning. This involves identifying possible future visions and scenarios for the industry to understand alternative futures, and measure and evaluate opportunities. The paper summarises the findings of the Primary Industries and Resources SA (PIRSA) ScoreCard team on the Food, Agriculture and Minerals TBL Reporting projects and demonstrates an effective tool that can be used with stakeholders to develop sustainable decision-making. In order to assist multi-criteria decision making for sustainability planning, top-ranking indicators are presented in spider diagrams across the three dimensions of social, financial and environmental criteria against alternative growth scenarios.
Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Davies, Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general introduction to lattice QCD suitable for graduate students in experimental and theoretical particle physics. Aimed at those who want to know how lattice calculations are done, and what the pitfalls are, without having to do the calculations themselves.
description: Lectures given at 55th Scottish Universities Summer School, St Andrews, August 2001
VCIOM-SPUTNIK Poll: April 2020 Coronavirus Wave 3
Creators: name: VCIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Center)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: President of Russia approval (1); Prime Minister approval (1); State Duma of Russia (1); political party preference (1); coronavirus (COVID-19) (20); concerns about coronavirus infection (3); reasons for coronavirus (3); spread of coronavirus (5); social distancing (5); work from home (1); temporarily moved to live in the countryside (1); the likelihood of contracting coronavirus (2); receive help from state and local governments (1); economic crisis (1); Internet usage (1); watch TV (1); personal financial situation (2); employment (2); sources of income (1); most important problems (5); cost of living (2); Russian ruble and US dollar exchange rate fluctuations (1); unemployment (1); loans (1); savings (1); economic policy (1); social policy (1); foreign policy (1); direction of country (1); life satisfaction (1).
MOESM1 of Effect of root exudates of Eucalyptus urophylla and Acacia mearnsii on soil microbes under simulated warming climate conditions
Creators: name: Jiahui Wu
name: Shixiao Yu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Compounds of four kinds of root exudates from A. mearnsii. Table S2. Compounds of four kinds of root exudates from E.urophylla. Figure S1. Principal component analysis of 39 compounds for Acacia mearnsii. Figure S2. Principal component analysis of 35 compounds for E.urophylla. Figure S3. PLFAs of different microbial communities of Eucalyptus urophylla soil. Figure S4. PLFAs of different microbial communities of Acacia mearnsii. (DOCX 160 kb)
Die Religion als Paradebeispiel der Selbstreferentialität – Gedanken zu Volkhard Krechs »Die Evolution der Religion«
Creators: name: Pickel, Gert
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie
Year: 2025
Subjects: Religion
Selbstreferentialität
Evolution
Rezension

description: Die Religion als Gegenstand soziologischer Theorie besitzt eine lange Tradition. Ob Emile Durkheim (1981 [1912]), ob Max Weber (1920/21) oder Georg Simmel (2004 [1906/1912]), immer erwies sich die Religion als guter Bezugspunkt grundsätzlichere Theoriegebilde von Gesellschaft zu konstruieren (Gärtner/Pickel 2019). Dieser Überzeugung war später auch Niklas Luhmann (1982, 2002), und selbst Ulrich Beck mit seinen individualisierungstheoretischen Gedanken ist nicht um die Religion als einer gewichtigen Einheit der Gesellschaft herumgekommen (Beck 2008). Danach wurde es allerdings ruhiger um die soziologische und gesellschaftstheoretische Beschäftigung mit Religion. Doch in jüngerer Zeit erfährt diese eine gewisse Wiederbelebung – und dies nicht nur mit Blick auf die internationale Auseinandersetzung, wie in Charles Taylors Säkular Age (2007). Ob in der fundamentalen Religionsgeschichte Wolfgang Essbachs (2014, 2019; auch Delitz et al. 2019), der Verbindung historischer und soziologischer Gegenwartsbeschreibung Detlef Pollacks (2020; Pollack/Rosta 2015)1 oder in dem breit angelegten Versuch Volkhard Krechs, die Entstehungsgeschichte wie Bedeutung von Religion im Sinne einer Evolution der Religion auszuarbeiten (Krech 2021). Letzterer ist Referenzpunkt des vorliegenden Aufsatzes.
description: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023): Forum: Die Evolution der Religion. Schwerpunkt: Affektivitätstheorien.
Tridrepana unispina Watson 1957
Creators: name: Song, Wenhui
name: Xue, Dayong
name: Han, Hongxiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Drepanidae
Tridrepana
Tridrepana unispina

description: Tridrepana unispina Watson, 1957
Figs 34–37, 74, 97, 116–117, 134
 Tridrepana unispina Watson, 1957, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), 4: 458, figs 78–81. Holotype ♂, China: Sichuan: Moupin. (BMNH)
 Diagnosis. T. unispina is close to T. crocea on both external and male genitalic features. It differs from the latter by the slightly sclerotized gnathos, the dorsal part of which is narrower and covered with long hairs; the ventral plate is less broad and its process is less extended than in T. crocea; the anellus is narrower than in T. crocea. For comparison with T. subunispina see under the next species.
 Material examined. CHINA, Fujian: Mt. Wuyi, Sangang, 704 m, 20.X.2005, coll. Lang Songyun, 1♂; Mt. Wuyi, Sangang, 700 m, 9.VII.2006, coll. Wang Jiashe, 1♂; Mt. Wuyi, Sangang, 700 m, 25–26.VII.2006, coll. Xie Juan, 2♂ (IZCAS). Guangdong: Shixing, Chebaling, 22–26.VII.2008, coll. Chen Fuqiang, 20♂ 1♀ (IZCAS). Sichuan [Chongqing]: Wanxian, Wang’erbao, 1200 m, 12.VIII.1993, coll. Song Shimei, 2♂; Wanxian, Wang’erbao, 1200 m, 28. V.1994, coll. Li Wenzhu, 1♂ (IZCAS). Sichuan: Mt. Emei, Qingyinge, 800–1000 m, 19. VI – 17.IX.1957, coll. Huang Keren et al., 6♂; Qingchengshan, 1000 m, 3–4. VI.1979, coll. Gao Ping, 1♂ 1♀ (IZCAS). Yunnan: Jinghong, 19.IV.1982, coll. Wang Linyao, 1♀ (IZCAS).
 Distribution. China (Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan), Japan.
description: Published as part of Song, Wenhui, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2011, A taxonomic revision of Tridrepana Swinhoe, 1895 in China, with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae), pp. 39-62 in Zootaxa 3021 on page 49
Zeichen, nichts als Zeichen?
Creators: name: Krech, Volkhard
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie
Year: 2025
Subjects: Evolutionstheorie
Systemtheorie
Kommunikationstheorie
Religion

description: Die Herausgeber:innen der Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie, Marc Mölders, Jasmin Siri und Joachim Renn, geben mir auf Anregung von Rainer Schützeichel die Möglichkeit, den Ansatz, der mit dem Buch Die Evolution der Religion. Ein soziologischer Grundriss (2021; im Folgenden: ER) vorgelegt wird, in Aufsatzform zu präsentieren und diskutieren zu lassen. Der Kollegin und den Kollegen sei dafür gedankt. Es versteht sich, dass ein Entwurf, der im besagten Buch bereits gut 300 Seiten (plus rund 140 Seiten Anmerkungen) einnimmt und dessen Ausarbeitung überdies auf drei Bände angelegt ist, nicht in der Form eines Aufsatzes dargelegt werden kann. Daher summiere ich hier nur Wesentliches und verweise im Übrigen auf die entsprechenden Stellen im Buch; außerdem mache ich von Literaturhinweisen nur sporadisch Gebrauch. Die im ersten Teil präsentierten allgemeinen sozial- und gesellschaftstheoretischen Erwägungen beziehe ich im zweiten, umfangreicheren Teil auf Religion – in der Hoffnung, dass der erste Teil, der sich auf hohem Abstraktionsniveau befindet, dadurch konkreter und ›anschaulicher‹ wird. Ein Resümee und Schlussfolgerungen runden den Beitrag ab.
description: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023): Forum: Die Evolution der Religion. Schwerpunkt: Affektivitätstheorien.
Slightly generalized Maxwell classical electrodynamics can be applied to inneratomic phenomena
Creators: name: Simulik, V. M.
name: Krivsky, I. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to extend the limits of classical theory application in the microworld some weak generalization of Maxwell electrodynamics is suggested. It is shown that slightly generalized classical Maxwell electrodynamics can describe the intraatomic phenomena with the same success as relativistic quantum mechanics can do. Group-theoretical grounds for the description of fermionic states by bosonic system are presented briefly. The advantages of generalized electrodynamics in intraatomic region in comparison with standard Maxwell electrodynamics are demonstrated on testing example of hydrogen atom. We are able to obtain some results which are impossible in the framework of standard Maxwell electrodynamics. The Sommerfeld - Dirac formula for the fine structure of the hydrogen atom spectrum is obtained on the basis of such Maxwell equations without appealing to the Dirac equation. The Bohr postulates and the Lamb shift are proved to be the consequences of the equations under consideration. The relationship of the new model with the Dirac theory is investigated. Possible directions of unification of such electrodynamics with gravity are mentioned.
description: 18 pages, LaTeX
Double-periodic blue variables in the Magellanic Clouds
Creators: name: Mennickent, R. E.
name: Pietrzynski, G.
name: Diaz, M.
name: Gieren, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery, based on an inspection of the OGLE-II database, of a group of blue variables in the Magellanic Clouds showing simultaneously two kinds of photometric variability: a short-term cyclic variability with typical amplitude $ΔI \sim$ 0.05 mag and period $P_{1}$ between 4 and 16 days and a sinusoidal, long-term cyclic oscillation with much larger amplitude $ΔI \sim$ 0.2 mag with period $P_{2}$ in the range of 150-1000 days. We find that both periods seems to be coupled through the relationship $P_{2}$ = 35.2 $\pm$ 0.8 $P_{1}$. In general, the short term variability is reminiscent of those shown by Algol-type binaries. We propose that the long-term oscillation could arise in the precession of a elliptical disc fed by a Roche-lobe filling companion in a low mass ratio Algol system.
description: submitted to A&A letters
An equation for the isosbestic point wavelength in aqueous solutions of electrolytes
Creators: name: De Ninno, A.
name: De Francesco, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of an isosbestic point in the OH bond vibration band of H2O molecules in solutions of strong electrolytes has been shown by many research groups but its physical meaning has been only recently read as the equilibrium point between two populations of water molecules where either water-ion or water-water interactions respectively prevail. Thus the isosbestic point provides useful information on the bulk displacement of water molecules in presence of solutes. Herein we show that the isosbestic point occurrence is accurately described by an equation depending on the balance of the electrostatic forces of the ion and its counter-ion. Furthermore, its wavelength is also related to the slope of the density vs. solute concentration. This support the view that the effect of the solute can be barely regulated within few hydration shells.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures, supplemental material
title: Professional Identity Formation in Becoming a GP Trainer – Barriers and Enablers
Creators: name: McConville, Kevin
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: This research concerns itself with the barriers and enablers contributing towards the professional identity formation of the General Practitioner (GP) as a GP trainer. My main research question was ‘What are the barriers and enablers that facilitate the PI formation of a General Practitioner becoming a GP trainer?’

 I adopted a qualitative case study method within a constructionist, symbolic interactionist paradigm examining the professional identity formation of the GP trainer within one programme area of the Scottish Deanery. Data were collected in the form of (a) semi- structured interviews with 16 GP trainers and (b) regulatory and policy documents. Thematic analysis was applied whilst I maintained a reflexive stance as a previous GP trainer.

 My findings indicate GPs become a GP trainer through experiences and events transitioning across three predominant identities: ‘Becoming a Doctor, ‘Becoming a GP’ and ‘Becoming a GP Trainer.’ Impediment at any of these stages can act as a barrier.

 Policy promotes medical students and doctors becoming GPs, thus GP trainers require recruitment and retention. The GP trainer role suggests tendencies for clinicians to be understated in reports of their achievements and abilities. The GP trainer dually enacts and role models that of clinician and teacher; time acts as a significant barrier regarding both. The current Scottish Prospective Educational Supervisor Course, or previous iterations, is a significant enabler. GP trainer associations with Out of Hours services have changed over time. GP trainer / trainee relationships are essential enablers to a continued GP trainer professional identity.

 My findings recommend the role of the GP trainer as a teacher needs highlighting. Processes that protect and maximise this role may enhance the positive contributions of being a teacher. Understanding these themes might enhance recruitment and retention of GP trainers. Future research regarding the Scottish Prospective Educational Supervisor Course and GP Out of Hours arrangements are recommended.