cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Character sums over Bohr sets
Creators: name: Hanson, Brandon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11L40, 11T24, 11T23

description: We prove character sum estimates for additive Bohr subsets modulo a prime. These estimates are analogous to classical character sum bounds of Polya-Vinogradov and Burgess. These estimates are applied to obtain results on recurrence mod $p$ by special elements.
description: 15 pages. To appear in the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin
The European Cooperation is Facing New Challenges - Some Impact on Citizenship Education in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Oonk, Henk
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: The crisis in Europe constitutes a major test for the very pursuit of European integration and for its legitimacy in the eyes of the citizens. In this paper a number of striking economic aspects of the crisis will be discussed next to political tensions concerning sensitive issues. Given the decline in the support for the European integration among the public over the past years it is necessary to improve the quality of citizenship education on European issues and to use a more critical approach. Teaching and learning in a balanced manner is necessary about issues like migration, free movement, populist political parties, enlargement and other themes, besides other regular topics. In contrast to current opinions we argue that to reach not only the higher levels of secondary schools but also the lower levels a too strong social-constructivist approach is not effective. Complicated European issues need a good instruction by the teacher in combination with an attractive didactical approach that builds on a common core European orientation curriculum improving students’ knowledge and skills and thus enhancing opinions and attitudes.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2014 Young Europeans in an Era of Crises: Citizenship Education in a New Perspective
title: Understanding energy security in the EU
Creators: name: Barsan Moigradean, Maria-Augusta
Year: 2022

description: Die Literatur zur Energiesicherheit hat sich in den letzten Jahren stark erweitert, wobei die Debatten über dieses Konzept von der theoretischen bis zur praktischen Anwendung reichen. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit befasst sich mit verschiedenen Konzeptualisierungen der Energiesicherheit und konzentriert sich auf ihre drei Hauptdimensionen: Versorgungssicherheit, Erschwinglichkeit und Nachhaltigkeit. Diese dreifaltige energietheoretische Konzeptualisierung wird verwendet, um einerseits zu verstehen, wie die Europäische Union ihre Energiesicherheitspolitik gewählt und umgesetzt hat, sowie andererseits, um das Potenzial für eine EU-Energiekooperation zu verdeutlichen. Darüber hinaus wird eine vergleichende Fallstudie durchgeführt, um ein tieferes Verständnis dieser Probleme zu vermitteln. Für die Analyse wurden Deutschland und Polen ausgewählt, da sie während der laufenden Debatte über Energiesicherheit in der Europäischen Union stark gegensätzliche Ansichten vertreten haben.
description: The literature on energy security has seen a lot of expansion in recent years, the debates on this concept varying from the theoretical to its practical application. This research looks at different conceptualisations of energy security, and will focus on its three major dimensions: security of supply, affordability, and sustainability. Firstly, this energy theoretical “trifecta” will be used to understand the way in which the European Union has chosen and implemented its energy security policies and the potential for EU energy cooperation. Furthermore, a comparative case study will be carried out to provide a deeper understanding on these issues. As a result, Germany and Poland were chosen for this analysis as they have held strong opposite views during their ongoing debate for energy security in the European Union.
The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. XII. Extending Strong Lensing to Lower Masses
Creators: name: Shu, Yiping
name: Bolton, Adam S.
name: Brownstein, Joel R.
name: Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.
name: Koopmans, Léon V. E.
name: Treu, Tommaso
name: Gavazzi, Raphaël
name: Auger, Matthew W.
name: Czoske, Oliver
name: Marshall, Philip J.
name: Moustakas, Leonidas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present observational results from a new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Snapshot program to extend the methods of the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey to lower lens-galaxy masses. We discover 40 new galaxy-scale strong lenses, which we supplement with 58 previously discovered SLACS lenses. In addition, we determine the posterior PDFs of the Einstein radius for 33 galaxies (18 new and 15 from legacy SLACS data) based on single lensed images. We find a less-than-unity slope of $0.64\pm0.06$ for the $\log_{10} σ_*$-$\log_{10} σ_{\rm SIE}$ relation, which corresponds to a 6-$σ$ evidence that the total mass-density profile of early-type galaxies varies systematically in the sense of being shallower at higher lens-galaxy velocity dispersions. The trend is only significant when single-image systems are considered, highlighting the importance of including both "lenses" and "non-lenses" for an unbiased treatment of the lens population when extending to lower mass ranges. By scaling simple stellar population models to the HST I-band data, we identify a strong trend of increasing dark-matter fraction at higher velocity dispersions, which can be alternatively interpreted as a trend in the stellar initial mass function (IMF) normalization. Consistent with previous findings and the suggestion of a non-universal IMF, we find that a Salpeter IMF is ruled out for galaxies with velocity dispersion less than $180$ km/s. Considered together, our mass-profile and dark-matter-fraction trends with increasing galaxy mass could both be explained by an increasing relative contribution on kiloparsec scales from a dark-matter halo with a spatial profile more extended than that of the stellar component.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures, revision accepted for publication in the ApJ after incorporating referee's comments
Can Resilience be built Through a Citizenship Education Curriculum?
Creators: name: Print, Murray
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: The global financial crisis has impacted upon the way of life of young Europeans with great severity. Across most European countries youth unemployment has remained stubbornly high for many years, compounding the effects of the crisis on the social and psychological well-being of young people. Given that crises are highly likely to occur in the future are there ways to help prepare young people to build resilience to meet an unpredictable future? For a long-term approach to building youth resilience the role of the school is highly significant. Consequently this article asks - what are the elements in a school curriculum that can build resilience for times of crisis? The article explores the case of the Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship as a possible approach to building resilience amongst school students. The curriculum identifies knowledge, skills and values that students may acquire through this curriculum that build resilience.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2014 Young Europeans in an Era of Crises: Citizenship Education in a New Perspective
A Posteriori Subcell Limiting of the Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Creators: name: Dumbser, Michael
name: Zanotti, Olindo
name: Loubere, Raphael
name: Diot, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this work is to propose a novel a posteriori finite volume subcell limiter technique for the Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for nonlinear systems of hyperbolic conservation laws in multiple space dimensions that works well for arbitrary high order of accuracy in space and time and that does not destroy the natural subcell resolution properties of the DG method. High order time discretization is achieved via a one-step ADER approach that uses a local space-time discontinuous Galerkin predictor method. Our new limiting strategy is based on the so-called MOOD paradigm, which aposteriori verifies the validity of a discrete candidate solution against physical and numerical detection criteria. Within the DG scheme on the main grid, the discrete solution is represented by piecewise polynomials of degree N. For those troubled cells that need limiting, our new limiter approach recomputes the discrete solution by scattering the DG polynomials at the previous time step onto a set of N_s=2N+1 finite volume subcells per space dimension. A robust but accurate ADER-WENO finite volume scheme then updates the subcell averages of the conservative variables within the detected troubled cells. The choice of N_s=2N+1 subcells is optimal since it allows to match the maximum admissible time step of the finite volume scheme on the subgrid with the maximum admissible time step of the DG scheme on the main grid. We illustrate the performance of the new scheme via the simulation of numerous test cases in two and three space dimensions, using DG schemes of up to tenth order of accuracy in space and time (N=9). The method is also able to run on massively parallel large scale supercomputing infrastructure, which is shown via one 3D test problem that uses 10 billion space-time degrees of freedom per time step.
description: With updated bibliographyc information
Education in Responsibility in Order to Secure Human Rights in Times of Crisis
Creators: name: Merrigan, Michaël
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: Education in and awareness about human rights is generally seen as one of the less contentious elements of citizenship education. However, it would seem that, for the concept of human rights to have a real impact in today's world, theoretical knowledge of human rights standards should be complemented by an understanding of the ethical concept of individual responsibility. This concept could, moreover, prove to be a valuable tool in conceiving creative answers to some of the consequences of the crisis Europe has been facing. This crisis has affected especially the protection and realisation of socio-economic rights, as many States were left with increasingly less budgetary space to meet increasingly urgent societal demands. Over the last few decades, and already prior to the current crisis, many have called for a greater stress on ‘duties and responsibilities’, as it was perceived that ‘rights-talk’ alone did not provide all the answers. From a legal perspective, as well as from the side of human rights advocacy groups, however, these appeals were often met with scepticism and hostility. In answer to the often justified criticism, it is essential to make a distinction between the ‘legal’, the ‘moral’ and the ‘ethical’ realms. While an unnuanced greater focus on moral duties is potentially dangerous, education based on the proposed notion of ethical ‘responsibility’ would seem, on the contrary, essential for the survival of human rights and, hence, of the democratic society.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2014 Young Europeans in an Era of Crises: Citizenship Education in a New Perspective
Taming the off-shell Higgs boson
Creators: name: Azatov, Aleksandr
name: Grojean, Christophe
name: Paul, Ayan
name: Salvioni, Ennio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the off-shell Higgs data in the process $pp\to h^{(*)} \to Z^{(\ast)}Z^{(\ast)}\to 4\ell$, to constrain deviations of the Higgs couplings. We point out that this channel can be used to resolve the long- and short-distance contributions to Higgs production by gluon fusion and can thus be complementary to $pp\to ht\bar t$ in measuring the top Yukawa coupling. Our analysis, performed in the context of Effective Field Theory, shows that current data do not allow one to draw any model-independent conclusions. We study the prospects at future hadron colliders, including the high-luminosity LHC and accelerators with higher-energy, up to 100 TeV. The available QCD calculations and the theoretical uncertainties affecting our analysis are also briefly discussed.
description: 30 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables; v2: small improvements in discussion, references added, typos corrected. Version submitted to JETP for a special issue in honor of the 60th birthday of V. Rubakov; v3: matches version published in JETP
title: Discourse, power and hegemony - a post-development critique of the dominant EU development discourse
Creators: name: Rottensteiner, Cilla
Year: 2022

description: Zu den wichtigsten Akteuren des Entwicklungsprojekts gehört die Europäische Union (und ihre Vorgänger), die sich nach wie vor als einer der größten Spender Öffentlicher Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (ODA) rühmt. Das Konzept der "Entwicklung" ist jedoch seither zunehmend in die Kritik geraten (vor allem von Seiten der Post-Development-Schule), und zwar nicht nur in Bezug auf seine Politik, sondern auch auf den Diskurs, der sie im umgibt. Der bestehende EU Entwicklungsdiskurs wird wegen seines angeblich ungleichen Charakters kritisiert, was erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die enorme hegemoniale Macht hat, die er durch seine jahrelange Wiederholung hat. Um die Art der Beziehungen, welche durch den eurozentrischen, asymmetrischen und modernistischen Charakter in vergangenen und gegenwärtigen Diskursen konstruiert worden sind, wurde eine Kritische Diskursanalyse durchgeführt. Indem die Hegemonietheorie von Gramsci mit der Diskurstheorie von Foucault in Beziehung gesetzt wird, wird argumentiert, dass durch bestimmte diskursive Mechanismen Machtverhältnisse zwischen den verschiedenen beteiligten Akteuren postuliert werden.
description: Among the most important actors of the development project has been the European Union and its predecessors which continues to proud itself as one of the largest donors of Official Development Assistance (ODA). However, the concept of 'development' has since come under increasing criticism (among which the post-development school of thought has been especially important), not only in terms of its policies, but also the discourse surrounding it. The existing EU development discourse faces criticism regarding its supposed unequal character which has significant implications for the enormous hegemonic power it has through its years of repetition. To shed light on the nature of the relations, which have been and continue to be constructed by a Eurocentric, asymmetric and modernist character of the discourse, a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was conducted. By relating Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to Foucault’s theory of discourse it is argued that through certain discursive mechanisms, power relations between the different actors involved are postulated.
Condensati di Bose-Einstein
Creators: name: Angelis, Roberto De
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Bose-Einstein
Physics

description: A dissertation on the fundamental theoretical principles and phenomenological nature of the Bose-Einstein condensation. The thesis, structured in three chapters, shows a model to describe the behavior and the features of an ideal Bose gas in the regime of ultra-low temperatures, and gives an overview of the main experimental techniques used to obtain the condensate. In the first chapter, some fundamental concepts of statistical thermodynamics are introduced to deduce the Bose-Einstein and the Fermi-Dirac distribution functions. The second chapter presents a theoretical model whereby the properties of a bosonic system harmonically trapped are analyzed, followed by a treatise of a few atomic cooling and atomic trapping techniques; particularly laser cooling, evaporative cooling and magneto-optical trapping. The concluding chapter focuses on some remarkable experimental observations, as the first realization of the condensate in rubidium atoms and other application prospects.
Measurement of magic wavelengths for the 40Ca+ clock transition
Creators: name: Liu, Peiliang
name: Huang, Yao
name: Bian, Wu
name: Shao, Hu
name: Guan, Hua
name: Tang, Yongbo
name: Li, Chengbin
name: Mitroy, J.
name: Gao, Kelin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate experimentally the existence of magic wavelengths and determine the ratio of the oscillator strengths for a single trapped ion. For the first time, two magic wavelengths for the 40Ca+ clock-transition are measured simultaneously with high precision, giving Lamda|mj|=1/2 = 395.7992(7) nm and Lamda|mj|=3/2 = 395.7990(7) nm. By tuning a laser to an intermediate wavelength between two transitions (4s1/2-4p1/2 and 4s1/2-4p3/2) of 40Ca+, the sensitivity of the clock transition Stark shift to the oscillator strengths for the resonance transition has been greatly enhanced. With the measured magic wavelengths, we determine the ratio of the oscillator strengths to sub-0.5% accuracy. Our experimental method may be applied to measure magic wavelengths for other ion clock-transitions, and, promisingly, the measurement of these magic wavelengths paves the way to building lattice ion clocks.
description: Physical Review Letters(accepted )
What does Political Participation Mean to Spanish Students?
Creators: name: Sant, Edda
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2015

description: This article explores how a group of Spanish students (aged 11–19) understand the meaning of ‘political participation’ in society and discusses the implications of their views for debates and practices in citizenship education. The ways in which these students (n=112) describe and interpret political participation are analysed using an in-depth and interpretative approach employing open questionnaires and interviews. The results suggest that most students value political participation in positive terms and that ‘activist’ students have a more optimistic view of the effectiveness of participation and especially of new forms of participation such as protests.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2014 Civic Activism, Engagement and Education: Issues and Trends
Boletin CEAZAMar - Enero 2023 (2023). Análisis de las Condiciones Atmosféricas y Oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo (Septiembre 2022 - Noviembre 2022)
Creators: name: CEAZAMar, CEAZA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370803
subject: Physical oceanography
classificationCode: 370802
subject: Chemical oceanography
classificationCode: 370801
subject: Biological oceanography

description: El Boletín CEAZAMar surge del quehacer científico desarrollado en el borde costero y del océano de la Región de Coquimbo por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA). Este boletín busca constituirse como una herramienta de orientación y consulta para las múltiples actividades productivas y no-productivas que tienen lugar en las costas de la Región de Coquimbo. Para tal efecto, el Boletín proveerá información de variables del sistema atmosférico y oceanográfico que resultan clave para la planificación de las actividades en el mar, con el fin de mejorar la toma de decisiones de los usuarios, y aportar a la capacidad adaptativa de las comunidades costeras frente a la variabilidad ambiental y climática. A través de información satelital y de equipos de monitoreo desplegados a lo largo de la costa de la Región, este Boletín provee información relativa al viento, Temperatura Superficial del Mar (TSM), nivel del mar, entre otras, las cuales se relacionan con el estado del mar y la ocurrencia de surgencia costera (viento), productividad (concentración de clorofila), y presencia o ausencia de distintas facetas de El Niño. Este análisis atmosférico y oceanográfico trata de representar la heterogeneidad espacial y temporal de las condiciones hidrográficas costeras que alberga la Región de Coquimbo. Esto a través del uso de mapas y series de tiempo y análisis trimestrales de dichas variables ambientales, para múltiples localidades de la Región, tales como Chañaral de Aceituno, Punta de Choros, Bahía de Coquimbo, Bahía de Tongoy, Punta Lengua de Vaca, La Cebada, Huentelauquén y Los Vilos. Finalmente, se vincula el diagnóstico de las condiciones atmosféricas y oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo con los indicadores de productividad acuícola disponibles para el periodo de interés.
Massive MIMO with Non-Ideal Arbitrary Arrays: Hardware Scaling Laws and Circuit-Aware Design
Creators: name: Björnson, Emil
name: Matthaiou, Michail
name: Debbah, Mérouane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas, deployed on co-located or distributed arrays. Huge spatial degrees-of-freedom are achieved by coherent processing over these massive arrays, which provide strong signal gains, resilience to imperfect channel knowledge, and low interference. This comes at the price of more infrastructure; the hardware cost and circuit power consumption scale linearly/affinely with the number of BS antennas $N$. Hence, the key to cost-efficient deployment of large arrays is low-cost antenna branches with low circuit power, in contrast to today's conventional expensive and power-hungry BS antenna branches. Such low-cost transceivers are prone to hardware imperfections, but it has been conjectured that the huge degrees-of-freedom would bring robustness to such imperfections. We prove this claim for a generalized uplink system with multiplicative phase-drifts, additive distortion noise, and noise amplification. Specifically, we derive closed-form expressions for the user rates and a scaling law that shows how fast the hardware imperfections can increase with $N$ while maintaining high rates. The connection between this scaling law and the power consumption of different transceiver circuits is rigorously exemplified. This reveals that one can make the circuit power increase as $\sqrt{N}$, instead of linearly, by careful circuit-aware system design.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 16 pages, 8 figures. The results can be reproduced using the following Matlab code: https://github.com/emilbjornson/hardware-scaling-laws
Topological Index Theorem on the Lattice through the Spectral Flow of Staggered Fermions
Creators: name: Azcoiti, V.
name: Di Carlo, G.
name: Follana, E.
name: Vaquero, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate numerically the spectral flow introduced by Adams for the staggered Dirac operator on realistic (quenched) gauge configurations. We obtain clear numerical evidence that the definition works as expected: there is a clear separation between crossings near and far away from the origin, and the topological charge defined through the crossings near the origin agrees, for most configurations, with the one defined through the near-zero modes of large taste-singlet chirality of the staggered Dirac operator. The crossings are much closer to the origin if we improve the Dirac operator used in the definition, and they move towards the origin as we decrease the lattice spacing.
description: References added. Slight changes to the text
Social Conformity Despite Individual Preferences for Distinctiveness
Creators: name: Smaldino, Paul E.
name: Epstein, Joshua M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: J.4

description: We demonstrate that individual behaviors directed at the attainment of distinctiveness can in fact produce complete social conformity. We thus offer an unexpected generative mechanism for this central social phenomenon. Specifically, we establish that agents who have fixed needs to be distinct and adapt their positions to achieve distinctiveness goals, can nevertheless self-organize to a limiting state of absolute conformity. This seemingly paradoxical result is deduced formally from a small number of natural assumptions, and is then explored at length computationally. Interesting departures from this conformity equilibrium are also possible, including divergence in positions. The effect of extremist minorities on these dynamics is discussed. A simple extension is then introduced, which allows the model to generate and maintain social diversity, including multimodal distinctiveness distributions. The paper contributes formal definitions, analytical deductions, and counterintuitive findings to the literature on individual distinctiveness and social conformity.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, appendix
Is Student Participation in School Governance a “Mission impossible”?
Creators: name: Leung, Wing
name: Yuen, Timothy Wai Wa
name: Cheng, Eric Chi Keung
name: Chow, Joseph Kui Foon
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: The civic mission of schools in nurturing political literature, critical thinking and participatory citizens has always been played down in Hong Kong schools. On one hand, teaching civic education has never been ranked high in the education agenda. On the other hand, because of the conservative nature of schools, students are rarely encouraged to participate in school governance for the enhancement of their citizenship development. Funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) in Hong Kong, the authors conducted a quantitative survey on students’ participation in school governance and their citizenship development in 2013 to explore 1) students’ conception of “good citizens”; 2) the level and scope of student participation in school governance; and 3) the facilitating and hindering factors influencing student participation. This paper is a report on the simple statistical results of the survey findings. With reference to Westheimer and Kahne’s typologies, the findings revealed that the students had an eclectic understanding of citizenship, with higher scores for Personally Responsible Citizen and lower scores for Participatory, Justice Oriented and Patriotic Citizen, reflecting a conservative orientation. Concerning the implementation of school civic mission through student participation in school governance, it was found that students were rarely allowed to engage in important school matters, such as formulation of school rules and discussion of the school development plan. Our findings also revealed that schools were more inclined to inform students and consult them rather than confer real participation and powers to them. The paper concludes that the current practice of student participation in school governance does not facilitate the nurturing of active participatory citizens, particularly of a Justice Oriented nature, and this is urgently needed for the democratic development of Hong Kong.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2014 Civic Activism, Engagement and Education: Issues and Trends
title: Эффективность ботулинотерапии постуральных нарушений при болезни Паркинсона
title: The Eff ectiveness of Botulinum Therapy for Postural Abnormality in Parkinson’s Disease
Creators: name: Смертина, Любовь Порфирьевна
name: Кабанов, Алексей Александрович
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2022

description: Цель – представить анализ клинического случая двигательных нарушений у пациентки с болезнью Паркинсона и методы ее эффективного лечения с применением ботулотоксина. Материалы и методы.
Представлен клинический случай болезни Паркинсона, проанализированы двигательные нарушения, описан
протокол введения ботулотоксина в мышцы-мишени посредством компьютерно-томографической навигации,
оценены результаты лечения. Результаты. Применение ботулинотерапии оказалось эффективным методом лечения постуральной аномалии в приведенном клиническом случае.
description: The study aims to analyze a clinical case of movement disorders in a patient with Parkinson’s disease
and a method for its treatment using botulinum toxin. Materials and methods. A clinical case of Parkinson’s
disease is presented, movement disorders are analyzed, a protocol for the introduction of botulinum toxin into
target muscles by means of computed tomography navigation is described, and the results of treatment are
evaluated. Results. The use of botulinum toxin therapy proved to be an effi cient treatment for postural anomalies
in the clinical case presented.
Review of the Book: Ali A. Abdi and Paul R. Carr (Eds.), Educating for Democratic Consciousness: Counter-Hegemonic Possibilities
Creators: name: Pluim, Gary W.J.
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2014 Civic Activism, Engagement and Education: Issues and Trends
title: The role of roles
Creators: name: Hennings, Pauline Sophie
Year: 2022

description: Das Europäische Sicherheitsumfeld befindet sich im Wandel und dementsprechend auch die Rolle Deutschlands darin. Infolgedessen ist es essenziell das militärpolitische Entscheidungsverhalten Deutschlands besser nachvollziehen und erfassen zu können. Die vorliegende Arbeit strebt es an, die Lücken in der bestehenden Literatur zu füllen und zu einem breiteren Verständnis über die Militärpolitik Deutschlands im bisherigen 21. Jahrhunderts beizutragen. Dafür werden Elemente aus der Rollentheorie auf die Argumentation der Entscheidungsträger für oder gegen Militäreinsätze in Afghanistan in 2001, in Libyen in 2011 und in Syrien in 2015 angewandt. Das Ergebnis dieser Arbeit ist, dass sich Deutschland weg von der vorgeschriebenen Rolle der Zivilmacht und hinein in die Rolle einer Normalmacht entwickelt hat, welche einzelne Zivilmachtmaxime verfolgt wenn es in ihrem Interesse liegt. Diese Erkenntnis bietet eine gewisse Erwartbarkeit für das militärpolitische Handeln der Regierung und des Bundestags in sehr unkalkulierbaren Zeiten für die Sicherheit Europas.
description: Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Brexit, and a weakening transatlantic relationship – Europe’s security environment is changing dramatically, and so is Germany’s role in it. It is thus imperative to better comprehend the ‘puzzle’ that has been Germany’s security and military policy since the turn of the century. This thesis aims to extend the current understanding of Germany’s military policy by applying role theory to the three distinctive German military policy debates leading to engagement in Afghanistan in 2001 and Syria in 2015, as well as non participation in Libya in 2011. More precisely, it establishes if and how role theoretical elements, most importantly self-perceived national role conceptions, have been used by members of the German parliament and government to justify decisions on military engagements abroad in the three cases. The research method is a qualitative content analysis of debates of the German Bundestag, government statements, answers to interpellations, and requests and motions by members of parliament. The thesis finds that German decision-makers justified decisions on military missions based on their self-perceived national role conceptions. Moreover, it concludes that the narrative of such role conceptions as bases of justifications has shifted away from Germany as the ideal type of a civilian power, which had been the ascribed role of Germany ever since the commencement of its independent military policy, to Germany as a normal power picking civilian power maxims as they fit its interests. The three cases reveal Germany as a faithful ally when it wanted to participate militarily, and as an anti-militarist agent when it did not wish to participate militarily, but always as a normal power. Such an understanding of Germany’s self-perceived role regarding military policy offers predictability as it limits the possibility for action in highly uncertain times for the security of Europe.
Physics at the entangling surface
Creators: name: Ohmori, Kantaro
name: Tachikawa, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To consider the entanglement between the spatial region $A$ and its complement in a QFT, we need to assign a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_A$ to the region, by making a certain choice on the boundary $\partial A$. We argue that a small physical boundary is implicitly inserted at the entangling surface. We investigate these issues in the context of 2d CFTs, and show that we can indeed read off the Cardy states of the $c=1/2$ minimal model from the entanglement entropy of the critical Ising chain.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures; v2: discussions clarified; version to be published in a journal
Boletin CEAZAMar - Enero 2023 (2023). Análisis de las Condiciones Atmosféricas y Oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo (Septiembre 2022 - Noviembre 2022)
Creators: name: CEAZAMar, CEAZA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370803
subject: Physical oceanography
classificationCode: 370802
subject: Chemical oceanography

description: El Boletín CEAZAMar surge del quehacer científico desarrollado en el borde costero y del océano de la Región de Coquimbo por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA). Este boletín busca constituirse como una herramienta de orientación y consulta para las múltiples actividades productivas y no-productivas que tienen lugar en las costas de la Región de Coquimbo. Para tal efecto, el Boletín proveerá información de variables del sistema atmosférico y oceanográfico que resultan clave para la planificación de las actividades en el mar, con el fin de mejorar la toma de decisiones de los usuarios, y aportar a la capacidad adaptativa de las comunidades costeras frente a la variabilidad ambiental y climática. A través de información satelital y de equipos de monitoreo desplegados a lo largo de la costa de la Región, este Boletín provee información relativa al viento, Temperatura Superficial del Mar (TSM), nivel del mar, entre otras, las cuales se relacionan con el estado del mar y la ocurrencia de surgencia costera (viento), productividad (concentración de clorofila), y presencia o ausencia de distintas facetas de El Niño. Este análisis atmosférico y oceanográfico trata de representar la heterogeneidad espacial y temporal de las condiciones hidrográficas costeras que alberga la Región de Coquimbo. Esto a través del uso de mapas y series de tiempo y análisis trimestrales de dichas variables ambientales, para múltiples localidades de la Región, tales como Chañaral de Aceituno, Punta de Choros, Bahía de Coquimbo, Bahía de Tongoy, Punta Lengua de Vaca, La Cebada, Huentelauquén y Los Vilos. Finalmente, se vincula el diagnóstico de las condiciones atmosféricas y oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo con los indicadores de productividad acuícola disponibles para el periodo de interés.
Boletin CEAZAMar - Abril 2023 (2023). Análisis de las Condiciones Atmosféricas y Oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo (Diciembre 2022 - Febrero 2022)
Creators: name: CEAZAMar, CEAZA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370803
subject: Physical oceanography
classificationCode: 370802
subject: Chemical oceanography

description: El Boletín CEAZAMar surge del quehacer científico desarrollado en el borde costero y del océano de la Región de Coquimbo por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA). Este boletín busca constituirse como una herramienta de orientación y consulta para las múltiples actividades productivas y no-productivas que tienen lugar en las costas de la Región de Coquimbo. Para tal efecto, el Boletín proveerá información de variables del sistema atmosférico y oceanográfico que resultan clave para la planificación de las actividades en el mar, con el fin de mejorar la toma de decisiones de los usuarios, y aportar a la capacidad adaptativa de las comunidades costeras frente a la variabilidad ambiental y climática. A través de información satelital y de equipos de monitoreo desplegados a lo largo de la costa de la Región, este Boletín provee información relativa al viento, Temperatura Superficial del Mar (TSM), nivel del mar, entre otras, las cuales se relacionan con el estado del mar y la ocurrencia de surgencia costera (viento), productividad (concentración de clorofila), y presencia o ausencia de distintas facetas de El Niño. Este análisis atmosférico y oceanográfico trata de representar la heterogeneidad espacial y temporal de las condiciones hidrográficas costeras que alberga la Región de Coquimbo. Esto a través del uso de mapas y series de tiempo y análisis trimestrales de dichas variables ambientales, para múltiples localidades de la Región, tales como Chañaral de Aceituno, Punta de Choros, Bahía de Coquimbo, Bahía de Tongoy, Punta Lengua de Vaca, La Cebada, Huentelauquén y Los Vilos. Finalmente, se vincula el diagnóstico de las condiciones atmosféricas y oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo con los indicadores de productividad acuícola disponibles para el periodo de interés.
Boletin CEAZAMar - Julio 2023 (2023). Análisis de las Condiciones Atmosféricas y Oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo (Marzo - Mayo 2022)
Creators: name: CEAZAMar, CEAZA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370803
subject: Physical oceanography
classificationCode: 370802
subject: Chemical oceanography
classificationCode: 370801
subject: Biological oceanography

description: El Boletín CEAZAMar surge del quehacer científico desarrollado en el borde costero y del océano de la Región de Coquimbo por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA).Este boletín busca constituirse como una herramienta de orientación y consulta para las múltiples actividades productivas y no-productivas que tienen lugar en las costas de la Región de Coquimbo.Para tal efecto, el Boletín proveerá información de variables del sistema atmosférico y oceanográfico que resultan clave para la planificación de las actividades en el mar, con el fin de mejorar la toma de decisiones de los usuarios, y aportar a la capacidad adaptativa de las comunidades costeras frente a la variabilidad ambiental y climática.A través de información satelital y de equipos de monitoreo desplegados a lo largo de la costa de la Región, este Boletínprovee información relativa al viento, Temperatura Superficial del Mar (TSM), nivel del mar, entre otras, las cuales se relacionan con el estado del mar y la ocurrencia de surgencia costera (viento), productividad (concentración de clorofila), y presencia o ausencia de distintas facetas de El Niño.Este análisis atmosférico y oceanográfico trata de representar la heterogeneidad espacial y temporal de las condiciones hidrográficas costeras que alberga la Región de Coquimbo. Esto a través del uso de mapas y series de tiempo y análisis trimestrales de dichas variables ambientales, para múltiples localidades de la Región, tales como Chañaral de Aceituno, Punta de Choros, Bahía de Coquimbo, Bahía de Tongoy, Punta Lengua de Vaca, La Cebada, Huentelauquén y Los Vilos.Finalmente, se vincula el diagnóstico de las condiciones atmosféricas y oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo con los indicadores de productividad acuícola disponibles para el periodo de interés.
Empowering Teaching for Participatory Citizenship. Evaluating Alternative Civic Education Pedagogies in Secondary School in Mexico
Creators: name: Reimers, Fernando M.
name: Ortega, Maria Elena
name: Cardenas, Mariali
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: Experimental evaluation of three approaches to civic education with low income students in Mexico. Sixty eight grade teachers of ‘Civic Education’ and 2,529 students were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: Lesson Planning, Participatory Learning, Lesson Planning and Participatory Learning. All treatment groups had significant effects in a range of civic dimensions, such as conceptions of gender equity, trust in future, knowledge and skills, participation in school and in the community. There is limited evidence of transfer of impact to dimensions not explicitly targeted in the curriculum. There is no impact in attitudinal dimensions, tolerance and trust.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2014 Civic Activism, Engagement and Education: Issues and Trends
Performing Citizenship Down Under: Educating the Active Citizen
Creators: name: Wood, Bronwyn E.
name: Black, Rosalyn
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: In democracies such as Australia and New Zealand, education policy increasingly seeks to foster active citizens who are committed to social justice and change. Whilst many aspects of these initiatives are to be applauded for their commitment to empowering young people, in this paper we describe some of the ambiguities that attend young people’s experiences of civic engagement and active citizenship. In doing so, we draw on Isin’s (2008) reconceptualization of citizenship as something that is, above all, performed or enacted. Isin’s focus is upon ‘acts of citizenship’ which he argues are best understood by examining their grounds, effects and consequences. Drawing on illustrations of young people’s global and local citizenship actions in schools in Australia and New Zealand, we examine some of the contradictions and tensions that lie within the enactment of such ‘performed’ curricula. We conclude by reflecting on the opportunities that exist within school and community spaces for the active citizen to perform acts of citizenship.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2014 Civic Activism, Engagement and Education: Issues and Trends
Effect of Loss on Multiplexed Single-Photon Sources
Creators: name: Bonneau, Damien
name: Mendoza, Gabriel J.
name: O'Brien, Jeremy L.
name: Thompson, Mark G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An on-demand single-photon source is a key requirement for scaling many optical quantum technologies. A promising approach to realize an on-demand single-photon source is to multiplex an array of heralded single-photon sources using an active optical switching network. However, the performance of multiplexed sources is degraded by photon loss in the optical components and the non-unit detection efficiency of the heralding detectors. We provide a theoretical description of a general multiplexed single-photon source with lossy components and derive expressions for the output probabilities of single-photon emission and multi-photon contamination. We apply these expressions to three specific multiplexing source architectures and consider their tradeoffs in design and performance. To assess the effect of lossy components on near- and long-term experimental goals, we simulate the multiplexed sources when used for many-photon state generation under various amounts of component loss. We find that with a multiplexed source composed of switches with ~0.2-0.4 dB loss and high efficiency number-resolving detectors, a single-photon source capable of efficiently producing 20-40 photon states with low multi-photon contamination is possible, offering the possibility of unlocking new classes of experiments and technologies.
description: Journal version
Assessment of Rheological Properties of Round Gourd Under Different Storage Conditions
Creators: name: Abhishek Mishra, Raj Narayan Pateriya, Vishnu Ji Awasthi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The study was conducted to ascertain rheological properties of round gourd under cold storage conditionsand was compared with the normal conditions. The cold storage developed at the Department of FarmMachinery and Power Engineering, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology(GBPUAT), Pantnagar and was employed for the effective storage of round gourd. Some samples ofround gourd were stored under cold storage (control) conditions and some were stored under normal(ambient) conditions. The study involved the evaluation of rheological properties viz. physiologicalweight loss, volume shrinkage, total soluble salts (TSS), firmness, stiffness and pH. The volumeshrinkage (%) of round gourd ranged from 0% during initial to 58% for sample A and 0% to 63% forsample B at ambient temperature condition, whereas, it ranged from 0% during initial to 33% for both thesamples at control condition. TSS ranged from 3.00 to 5.30 and from 3.50 to 4.10 for ambient and controlcondition respectively. pH ranged from 7.80 to 8.50 and from 7.10 to 7.65 for ambient and controlcondition respectively. It was investigated that the physiological weight loss of round gourd wassubstantially maximum at ambient temperature compared to the weight loss at cold storage temperature.The effect of storage period of round gourd on the weight loss was highly significant. The storage daysexhibit a highly significant effect on volume shrinkage of round gourd samples. The l, a, b values dependson the color change of fruits and vegetables, the sample color changes significantly from initial day to12th day of storage period. The ripening stage was faster in ambient condition as compared to cold storagecondition.
Discovering Argument: Linking Literacy, Citizenship Education, and Persuasive Advocacy
Creators: name: Brett, Peter
name: Thomas, Damon
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: This paper explores persuasive writing and what more might be done to help equip young people with the written literacy tools to be effective participants in civic activism. Firstly, we argue from an Australian (and Tasmanian) context that there may be merit in teachers and students re-visiting some of the advice from classical rhetoric around the discovery of arguments. Secondly, we analyse challenges that 14 year old students face in responding to Australia’s national literacy tests which include a persuasive writing task – and exemplify this section with evidence drawn from a data source of outstanding student responses. We conclude by critically reviewing and augmenting the literacy strategies suggested in a representative citizenship education teaching text, and suggest a tentative stepped model for supporting high quality persuasive writing in the context of active citizenship and democratic engagement.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2014 Civic Activism, Engagement and Education: Issues and Trends
Finding a Place in the Discourse: Film, Literature and the Process of Becoming Politically Subject
Creators: name: McDonnell, Jane
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: This paper reports on the role of the narrative arts in young people’s political subjectivity and democratic learning. Drawing on theoretical insights into the process of subjectification and the relationship between politics and aesthetics, the paper discusses a number of findings from an empirical research project carried out with young people in two arts contexts. Interpreting these in the light of a theoretical framework that privileges a performative understanding of subjectivity, the paper argues that narrative art forms such as literature, film and television play an important role in the ways young people construct and perform their political subjectivity, and that this is an important part of their overall democratic learning. The implications of this for democratic education are discussed and the paper concludes with the suggestion that we need to rethink political literacy, civic engagement and democratic learning in aesthetic and imaginative terms.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2014 Civic Activism, Engagement and Education: Issues and Trends