cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On competing degree morphemes in verbs of change in Southern Aymara
Creators: name: Gabriel Martínez Vera, Gabriel
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: In this paper, I address verbal predicates of change in Southern Aymara, an understudied Andean language. I concentrate on verbs that are derived with the suffix -cha. This suffix derives degree achievements and creation predicates. I propose that they should be analyzed uniformly as degree achievements. The main empirical point of this paper is that there are two degree morphemes that combine with verbs with -cha, namely, a covert positive morpheme v.POS and an overt suffix -su. The latter is a degree morpheme that restricts the standard of comparison to lexical or contextual maximal degrees. I propose an analysis in terms of Maximize Presupposition: v.POS and -su constitute lexical alternatives where the latter is preferred over the former when maximal values are reached. v.POS is thus felicitous when no maximum is reached. The discussion bears on how telicity is achieved cross-linguistically when degree achievements are considered, thus enriching our typologies on the topic. Keywords: degree achievement, creation predicate, telicity, Maximize Presupposition, Aymara.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 61 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2
Time in probabilistic causation: direct vs. indirect uses of lexical causative verbs
Creators: name: Martin, Fabienne
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: It is traditionally assumed that lexical causative verbs (e.g. kill) express direct causation only, while periphrastic (bi-clausal) causatives (e.g. cause to die) may also express indirect causation. In favour of this constraint, Fodor famously observed that the (change of) state introduced by lexical causative verbs is not accessible for separate adverbial modification by temporal (or manner) adverbials. In this paper, I present old and new arguments against the direct causation constraint under the definitions of directness of Fodor and Wolff. I then propose a new definition of directness in terms of ab-initio causal sufficiency framed in Kvart’s probabilistic account of singular causation. I argue that directness so redefined is an implicature rather than an entailment of lexical causative verbs, which enables me to account for old and new data. Furthermore, I account for why the constraint on separate modification by temporal adverbials can be relaxed with eventuality-denoting subjects. Keywords: lexical causative verbs, direct vs. indirect causation, causal sufficiency, probabilistic theories of causation, semantics/pragmatics interface.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 61 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2
A ring/disk/outflow system associated with W51 North: a very massive star in the making
Creators: name: Zapata, Luis A.
name: Ho, Paul T. P.
name: Schilke, Peter
name: Rodríguez, Luis F.
name: Menten, Karl
name: Palau, Aina
name: Garrod, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sensitive and high angular resolution ($\sim$ 0.4\arcsec) SO$_2$[22$_{2,20}$ $\to$ 22$_{1,21}$] and SiO[5$\to$4] line and 1.3 and 7 mm continuum observations made with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) towards the young massive cluster W51 IRS2 are presented. We report the presence of a large (of about 3000 AU) and massive (40 M$_\odot$) dusty circumstellar disk and a hot gas molecular ring around a high-mass protostar or a compact small stellar system associated with W51 North. The simultaneous observations of the silicon monoxide molecule, an outflow gas tracer, further revealed a massive (200 M$_\odot$) and collimated ($\sim14^\circ$) outflow nearly perpendicular to the dusty and molecular structures suggesting thus the presence of a single very massive protostar with a bolometric luminosity of more than 10$^5$ L$_\odot$. A molecular hybrid LTE model of a Keplerian and infalling ring with an inner cavity and a central stellar mass of more than 60 M$_\odot$ agrees well with the SO$_2$[22$_{2,20}$ $\to$ 22$_{1,21}$] line observations. Finally, these results suggest that mechanisms, such as mergers of low- and intermediate- mass stars, might be not necessary for forming very massive stars.
description: Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal
Degrees as nominalized properties: evidence from differential verbal comparatives in Mandarin Chinese
Creators: name: Luo, Qiongpeng
name: Xie, Zhiguo
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: Whether degrees should be modeled as simple semantic primitives or ontologically complex entities has been an issue in recent formal semantic research. This article aims to make a contribution to this scholarly enterprise by investigating the Differential Verbal Comparative (DVC) construction in Chinese. DVCs exhibit peculiar properties : (i) obligatory differentials, and (ii) DPs as differentials(e.g., liang ben xiaoshuo ‘two CL novel’). We propose that a degree is the entity correlate of a property that is formed on the basis of a measure, akin to Chierchia-style kind. This new kind of degree, coupled with a difference function-based semantics for comparatives, correctly predicts the behaviors of DVCs which would otherwise remain formally inscrutable. This article’s contributions are twofold: (i) it provides direct support for the degree-as-kind analysis by extending its empirical scope; and (ii) by combining degrees as kinds with a difference function-based semantics, it represents an improvement over the previous degree-as-kind analysis based on linear ordering. Keywords: comparatives, degrees, kinds, Mandarin Chinese, differential verbal comparatives.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 61 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2
Distinguishing coercion and underspecification in Type Composition Logic
Creators: name: Lukassek, Julia
name: Spalek, Alexandra Anna
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: This paper investigates the meaning adaptability of change of state (CoS) verbs. It argues that both coercion and underspecification are necessary mechanisms in order to properly account for the semantic adaptability observable for CoS verbs in combination with their complements. This type of meaning adaptability has received little formal attention to date, although some recent work has already led the way on this topic (Spalek, 2014; Lukassek and Spalek, 2016; Asher et al., 2017). Our paper is part of a cross-linguistic case study of German einfrieren and Spanish congelar (‘freeze’). We model the meaning adaptability of this test case within Type Composition Logic (TCL) (Asher, 2011). We build on Asher’s coercion mechanism and introduce an additional mechanism for underspecification that exploits the fine-grained type system in TCL. Keywords: lexical semantics, change of state verbs, coercion, underspecification, Type Composition Logic.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 61 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2
Ordine e cura: la legge nella concezione platonica del sé
Creators: name: Bontempi, Milena
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2013
Subjects: Milena; Bontempi; order; care; conception of the Self

description: Order and Care: the Law in Plato’s Conception of the Self
The paper focuses on the relationship between the care of the self and politics. The notions of “care” and “law” both belong to the field of techne. Plato connects them to one another through the idea of order (taxis). Epimeleia involves autonomy from nature (i.e. rationality), exercise and discipline: when the soul is the aim of the care, the proper name for the last two aspects is nomos. The laws of a city should be read as a way of modelling the souls qua exercises for them. But the laws can be considered as exercises for the soul in this sense only if you assume that the relationship with other people is the key factor setting up the individual’s identity. Hence, the laws represent an exercise for the soul also in a further sense: the consideration of the legal order enables us to acknowledge the differences in human nature; thus, if the others are a constitutive part of the identity, that consideration should be taken as an essential step in the care of the self. This leads us to consider the contemplation of good examples of virtue (s. the paideia of young people in Republic) as only one moment in this path. It must be completed with an effective, practical experience with the human beings, i.e. with both good and bad natures. This is a really political approach: the relationship with other people is seen as problematic, but also as precisely the problem which should be individually faced to reach the arete. So, we can conclude that the care of the self includes the care of the others and that of the polis (the perspective of the lawgiver). This involves some notable consequences about the theoretical and the practical side of the intellect.
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 1 (2013): Cura sui e autotrascendimento. La formazione di sé fra antico e postmoderno.
Questioning speech acts
Creators: name: Law, Jess H.-K.
name: Li, Haoze
name: Bhadra, Diti
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: We investigate the sentence-final particle ho from Cantonese, which can stack on top of other sentence-final particles indicating various types of speech acts. We argue that ho is a higher level question operator that operates at the level of speech acts. More concretely, it takes a speech act (assertion or question) and returns a new interrogative speech act asking whether the input speech act can be felicitously performed by the addressee. We take the presence of this kind of higher level question operator in natural language as novel evidence that a mechanism for operating on speech acts is needed. Building on Farkas and Bruce (2009), Rawlins (2010), Bledin and Rawlins (2017), we develop a mechanism in the style of Update Semantics for operating on speech acts. Keywords: speech acts, sentence-final particles, Cantonese, update semantics.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 61 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2
Revolving Fund Method of Financing Farmer Cooperatives
Creators: name: Hulbert, Helim H.
name: Griffin, Nelda
name: Gardner, Kelsey B.
name: Hulbert, Helim H.
name: Griffin, Nelda
name: Gardner, Kelsey B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1958
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural Finance
Financial Economics

description: Excerpts from the report: Members and patrons need a better understanding of the revolving fund method of financing and its use by farmer cooperatives. This report is designed to help meet that need. It is based on a study Farmer Cooperative Service made at the request of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives and the American Institute of Cooperation. The facts developed in this report will shed light on, and will help to clarify, the concept of revolving fund financing as used by farmer cooperatives by answering such questions as: How many farmer cooperatives are using the revolving fund method of financing in some form? In what commodity fields or areas is revolving fund financing most widely used? Are the funds actually revolving? What is the length of the revolving fund period? What types of equity or membership capital are handled on a revolving fund basis? How is revolving fund capital acquired by the owners? What rates of return, if any, do the cooperatives pay on revolving equity capital? Are cooperatives using the revolving system faced with the same financial problems as cooperatives using other systems of financing?
Hard cases of third readings in terms of the Standard Solution
Creators: name: Kusliy, Petr
name: Vostrikova, Ekaterina
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: Schwager (2011) and Sudo (2014) argued that there are cases of the so-called third readings of attitude reports, initially discovered by Fodor (1970), that cannot be accounted for in terms of a theory of indexed world variables (Percus, 2000), which is often referred to as the Standard Solution. More complicated alternatives to the Standard Solution have been recently formulated in the literature in a number of papers. We argue that all the seemingly problematic cases can be naturally accounted for in terms of the Standard Solution, if we take into account the existence of previously unrecognized elided material in these reports. Keywords: attitude reports, non-specific transparent, hard cases, Standard Solution.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 61 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2
formal pragmatic account of Double Access
Creators: name: Klecha, Peter
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: This paper argues that Double Access sentences in English (Smith, 1978) are a kind of loose talk. When the meaning of a Double Access sentence is computed literally, the result is infelicity. Double Access sentences can be used meaningfully only when rescued by pragmatics which intervenes to interpret the embedded clause loosely. A formal model for loose interpretation, building on Klecha (2018), is provided. Keywords: tense, embedding, Double Access, imprecision, defaults, embedded implicature.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 61 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2
Complement Activation via the Lectin and Alternative Pathway in Patients With Severe COVID-19
Creators: name: Niederreiter, Janina
name: Eck, Christine
name: Ries, Tajana
name: Hartmann, Arndt
name: Märkl, Bruno
name: Büttner-Herold, Maike
name: Amann, Kerstin
name: Daniel, Christoph
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: complement deposition, COVID-19, kidney, lung, autopsy, lectin pathway
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Complement plays an important role in the direct defense to pathogens, but can also activate immune cells and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. However, in critically ill patients with COVID-19 the immune system is inadequately activated leading to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and acute kidney injury, which is associated with higher mortality. Therefore, we characterized local complement deposition as a sign of activation in both lungs and kidneys from patients with severe COVID-19. Using immunohistochemistry we investigated deposition of complement factors C1q, MASP-2, factor D (CFD), C3c, C3d and C5b-9 as well as myeloperoxidase (MPO) positive neutrophils and SARS-CoV-2 virus particles in lungs and kidneys from 38 patients who died from COVID-19. In addition, tissue damage was analyzed using semi-quantitative scores followed by correlation with complement deposition. Autopsy material from non-COVID patients who died from cardiovascular causes, cerebral hemorrhage and pulmonary embolism served as control (n=8). Lung injury in samples from COVID-19 patients was significantly more pronounced compared to controls with formation of hyaline membranes, thrombi and edema. In addition, in the kidney tubular injury was higher in these patients and correlated with lung injury (r=0.361*). In autopsy samples SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was detected in 22% of the lungs of COVID-19 patients but was lacking in kidneys. Complement activation was significantly stronger in lung samples from patients with COVID-19 via the lectin and alternative pathway as indicated by deposition of MASP-2, CFD, C3d and C5b9. Deposits in the lung were predominantly detected along the alveolar septa, the hyaline membranes and in the alveolar lumina. In the kidney, complement was significantly more deposited in patients with COVID-19 in peritubular capillaries and tubular basement membranes. Renal COVID-19-induced complement activation occurred via the lectin pathway, while activation of the alternative pathway was similar in both groups. Furthermore, MPO-positive neutrophils were found in significantly higher numbers in lungs and kidneys of COVID-19 patients and correlated with local MASP-2 deposition. In conclusion, in patients who died from SARS-CoV-2 infection complement was activated in both lungs and kidneys indicating that complement might be involved in systemic worsening of the inflammatory response. Complement inhibition might thus be a promising treatment option to prevent deregulated activation and subsequent collateral tissue injury in COVID-19.
“Becoming people to each other”: How practice and meaning intersect in the delivery of aged care and disability support
Creators: name: Banks, Susan
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023
Subjects: Aged health care

description: This Australian research investigates how practice and meanings of care intersect in the delivery of support to people with disability and the frail aged. There is ambivalence surrounding ‘care’ in the literatures on ageing and disability: constructions of care differ between these fields. In the field of ageing, care tends to be understood as love and altruism, an extension of the self to give ease to another. For disabled people, care is associated with control, institutionalisation, cruelty, and abuse. Despite these differences, found in the literature, the provider organisations, physical practices, and even the individual workers in aged care and disability support frequently overlap. Furthermore, workers and clients from both fields share a sometimes stigmatised position, hidden in backstage settings, engaged in ‘dirty’ work, and socially and economically marginalised. The voices of workers are rare in the literature, as are studies that combine an empirical focus on meaning and practice. This study used interviews, observations and visual methods with aged care and disability support workers, and with clients. Participants worked or lived in residential facilities, in group and supported accommodation and in private houses. The thematic analysis explored presentation of self, worker and client practices, perceptions of the other and how these elements coalesce in the service encounter. The co-creation of a competent self was revealed as being central to the meaning and practice of care with emotion work enabling both participants to find ways to co-produce one another’s presentation of self. Such co-creation is only possible when the actors (workers and clients) recognise one another on the levels of love, rights and solidarity, and relies on emotion work. An ideal encounter between a support worker and a disabled person creates the possibility of (mutual) recognition. But interactions can also undermine individuals’ presentation of self and damage opportunities to experience recognition. I argue that all levels of recognition—love, rights and solidarity—must be present in a support interaction in order for the participants to experience enabling and satisfying working relationships. Further, recognition must be mutual. The research findings have implications for the wellbeing of workers and clients, the responsibilities of community and facility provider organisations, for future training of workers, and for policy.
A hybrid method for calculation of Ruelle-Pollicott resonances
Creators: name: Horvat, Martin
name: Veble, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical method for calculation of Ruelle-Pollicott resonances of dynamical systems. It constructs an effective coarse-grained propagator by considering the correlations of multiple observables over multiple timesteps. The method is compared to the usual approaches on the example of the perturbed cat map and is shown to be numerically efficient and robust.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
title: Combustion of non-open-flame resistant Canadian mattresses in a room environment
Creators: name: Bwalya, A. C.
name: Gibbs, E.
name: Lougheed, G. D.
name: Kashef, A.
name: Saber, H. H.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: upholstered furniture
subject: mattresses
subject: heat release rate
subject: room calorimeter
subject: design fire
subject: fire hazards
subject: Combustion
subject: Design fires/Fire modeling
subject: Conception d'incendies-types

description: This paper presents the results of fire experiments that were conducted with five twin-size mattressesin a well-instrumented room calorimeter so as to evaluate their fire characteristics and select one mattresstype that can be used in further experiments involving fully-developed post-flashover fires in realisticallyfurnished residential room settings.
description: Dans ce document, on présente les résultats d'incendies expérimentaux qui ont été réalisés avec cinq (5) matelas de lit à une place dans un calorimètre ambiant bien instrumenté, dans le but d'évaluer leurs caractéristiques de résistance au feu et de retenir un type de matelas à utiliser pour des expériences plus poussées faisant intervenir des feux à tirage actif postérieurs à l'embrasement général dans des aménagements de pièce résidentiels avec mobilier réaliste.
description: Fire and Materials 2009: 12th International Conference: 26 January 2009, San Francisco, U.S.A.
description: Fire and Materials 2009 [Proceedings], Pages 1-12
Limit measures on second countable locally compact regular spaces
Creators: name: Lin, Jung-Fang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A. Appert proved in [2] that every sequence of strong measures on a separable weakly locally compact metrizable space has a subsequence converging in the sense of Δ to a strong measure. We extend this result to a second countable locally compact regular space. A. Appert also proved that on a weakly locally compact metrizable space, a sequence of strong measures converges in the sense of Δ to a strong measure if it converges in the sense of Δ₁to that strong measure. In [3], D. J. H. Garling extended this result to a sequence of monotone set functions on a weakly locally compact Hausdorff space under certain conditions. We show that this result still holds on a locally compact regular space with the same conditions.
A Secure Variant of the Hill Cipher
Creators: name: Toorani, M.
name: Falahati, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: E.3; K.6.5; D.4.6; K.6.m
subject: 94A60

description: The Hill cipher is a classical symmetric encryption algorithm that succumbs to the know-plaintext attack. Although its vulnerability to cryptanalysis has rendered it unusable in practice, it still serves an important pedagogical role in cryptology and linear algebra. In this paper, a variant of the Hill cipher is introduced that makes the Hill cipher secure while it retains the efficiency. The proposed scheme includes a ciphering core for which a cryptographic protocol is introduced.
description: 4 Pages, 4 Figures
SN 2008iy: An Unusual Type IIn Supernova with an Enduring 400 Day Rise Time
Creators: name: Miller, A. A.
name: Silverman, J. M.
name: Butler, N. R.
name: Bloom, J. S.
name: Chornock, R.
name: Filippenko, A. V.
name: Ganeshalingam, M.
name: Klein, C. R.
name: Li, W.
name: Nugent, P. E.
name: Smith, N.
name: Steele, T. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectroscopic and photometric observations of the Type IIn supernova (SN) 2008iy. SN 2008iy showed an unprecedentedly long rise time of ~400 days, making it the first SN to take significantly longer than 100 days to reach peak optical luminosity. The peak absolute magnitude of SN 2008iy was M_r ~ -19.1 mag, and the total radiated energy over the first ~700 days was ~2 x 10^50 erg. Spectroscopically, SN 2008iy is very similar to the Type IIn SN 1988Z at late times, and, like SN 1988Z, it is a luminous X-ray source (both supernovae had an X-ray luminosity L_ X > 10^41 erg/s). The Halpha emission profile of SN 2008iy shows a narrow P Cygni absorption component, implying a pre-SN wind speed of ~100 km/s. We argue that the luminosity of SN 2008iy is powered via the interaction of the SN ejecta with a dense, clumpy circumstellar medium. The ~400 day rise time can be understood if the number density of clumps increases with distance over a radius ~1.7 x 10^16 cm from the progenitor. This scenario is possible if the progenitor experienced an episodic phase of enhanced mass-loss < 1 century prior to explosion or the progenitor wind speed increased during the decades before core collapse. We favour the former scenario, which is reminiscent of the eruptive mass-loss episodes observed for luminous blue variable (LBV) stars. The progenitor wind speed and increased mass-loss rates serve as further evidence that at least some, and perhaps all, Type IIn supernovae experience LBV-like eruptions shortly before core collapse. We also discuss the host galaxy of SN 2008iy, a subluminous dwarf galaxy, and offer a few reasons why the recent suggestion that unusual, luminous supernovae preferentially occur in dwarf galaxies may be the result of observational biases.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS accepted
Proyecto de Titulación: Creación de un centro de capacitación, diplomados y cursos en línea
Creators: name: Treviño Ceja, Arnoldo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Proyecto de titulación para la obtención del grado académico de Maestro en Administración de Negocios Área Mercadotecnia por la Universidad Tecmilenio Campus Las Torres, sobre la creación de un centro de capacitación, diplomados y cursos en línea. El Presente Proyecto está Basado Basado en la Metodología para la Administración de Proyectos PMBOK 6 Edición.
The empirical validation of house energy rating (HER) software for lightweight housing in cool temperate climates
Creators: name: Dewsbury, Mark
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023
Subjects: Building information modelling and management

description: Against a background of a recognised need to reduce Australia‘s energy consumption and hence greenhouse gas emissions, the Building Code of Australia (BCA), in 2003, introduced its first thermal performance requirements for residential buildings. It mandated a minimum performance rating of 4 Stars for new housing, when assessed by an approved rating method. While the introduction of a 4 Star requirement had a minor impact on construction practices, that of 5 Stars (from 2006) and 6 Stars (from 2010) imposed considerable changes, especially in the use of timber platform floors. The adoption of the prescribed energy efficiency measures in the BCA raised concerns from industry and manufacturing groups, as to the accuracy of AccuRate software used to model the building envelope. This software was developed by the CSIRO and as a result of the thermal performance requirements, had evolved from a design tool to a regulatory tool. Both industry and government recognised the need to validate empirically the National House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) benchmark software 'AccuRate'. The University of Tasmania, in collaboration with Forest and Wood Products Australia, the Australian Government, the CSIRO and industry, constructed three test buildings for the purpose of validating empirically the AccuRate software, in particular for cool temperate climates. The test buildings followed standard residential construction practices and represented the three most common forms of construction: unenclosed-perimeter platform-floored, enclosed-perimeter platform-floored and concrete slab-on-ground floor. An array of environmental measuring equipment was installed to measure actual thermal performance in each of the test cells. A detailed house energy rating simulation was completed and a comparison of the measured and simulated data was undertaken. This research presents the findings of the graphical and statistical analyses of variations between the measured and simulated data from the three test cells. The findings demonstrate that while the AccuRate software modelled energy flows well, discrepancies were measured between the simulated and measured temperatures of the test cells. In particular the analyses identified relationships between the discrepancies in all zones and outside air temperature, wind speed, global solar radiation and diffuse solar radiation, and possibly the ground model. Consequently, these require further investigation and resolution for the ongoing improvement and calibration of the AccuRate software.
Counteridenticals and dream reports
Creators: name: Kauf, Carina
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: Counteridenticals are counterfactual conditional sentences whose antecedent clauses contain an identity statement, e.g. If I were you, I’d buy the blue dress. Here, we argue that counteridenticals are best analyzed along the lines of dream reports. After showing that counteridenticals and dream reports exhibit striking grammatical and perceptual parallels, we suggest an analysis of counteridenticals with Percus and Sauerland’s (2003) analysis of dream reports. Following their proposal, we propose to make use of concept generators, realized as centered worlds. To this end, we argue that the presence of if licenses the presence of an imagine- operator, which constitutes the attitude the antecedent clause ‘x be-PAST y’ is taken under; The speaker predicates, in the imagine mode, the consequent property to his/her imagined self. To capture the different degrees of identification between the subject and the predicate of the identity statement of counteridenticals’ antecedents observed in the literature, we incorporate Percus and Sharvit’s (2014) notion of asymmetric be into the analysis. This proposal has several advantages over existing analyses (Lakoff, 1996; Kocurek, 2016) of counteridentical meaning, as it both explains the different degrees of identification observed for counteridenticals and correctly predicts the parallels between counteridenticals and dream reports. Keywords: Counteridenticals, counterfactuals, dream reports, pronoun movement
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 61 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2
Probing the Symmetry Energy with Heavy Ions
Creators: name: Lynch, W. G.
name: Tsang, M. B.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Danielewicz, P.
name: Famiano, M.
name: Li, Z.
name: Steiner, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Constraints on the EoS for symmetric matter (equal neutron and proton numbers) at supra-saturation densities have been extracted from energetic collisions of heavy ions. Collisions of neutron-deficient and neutron-rich heavy ions now provide initial constraints on the EoS of neutron-rich matter at sub-saturation densities. Comparisons are made to other available constraints.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, Erice 2008 proceeding
title: 28. September - 2. Oktober 2020
title: An Information Abstraction Layer for IoT Middleware
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Günter, Andrei
name: Schwarzer, Christopher
name: König, Matthias
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: internet of things
subject: iot
subject: middleware
subject: architecture
subject: abstraction layer
subject: sensor redundancy
subject: sensor networks
subject: multi modality
subject: light detection and ranging
subject: lidar

description: The internet of things is an ever-expanding world of connected devices and services. Through observation of analog and digital processes, plenty of information is continuously produced. More than often, the information thus obtained is tailored to serve one separate purpose. Existing architectures omit the fact that partial results can be enriched with meta information and can be shared among network participants while information is processed. We show that enriched and simplified information packages can be shared to facilitate cooperation between constrained and smart devices as well as to serve for system optimization. In this work, we propose an implementation of the so-called information abstraction layer which serves as collective resource for querying mechanisms to provide information. To emphasize and illustrate the need for a standardized information abstraction layer into existing middleware, we outline a realistic example of use and introduce concepts to build and evaluate shared information in networks.
Enhanced orbital electron-capture nuclear decay rate in compact medium
Creators: name: Ray, A.
name: Das, P.
name: Saha, S. K.
name: Goswami, A.
name: De, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The eigenstate energies of an atom increase under spatial confinement and this effect should also increase the electron density of the orbital electrons at the nucleus thus increasing the decay rate of an electron-capturing radioactive nucleus. We have observed that the orbital electron capture rates of 109In and 110Sn increased by (1.00+-0.17)% and (0.48+-0.25)% respectively when implanted in the small Au lattice versus large Pb lattice. These results have been understood because of the higher compression experienced by the large radioactive atoms due to the spatial confinement in the smaller Au lattice.
description: 30 pages, 3 Figures, 2 Tables
The Effect of Negative-Energy Shells on the Schwarzschild Black Hole
Creators: name: Hazboun, Jeffrey S
name: Dray, Tevian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct Penrose diagrams for Schwarzschild spacetimes joined by massless shells of matter, in the process correcting minor flaws in the similar diagrams drawn by Dray and 't Hooft, and confirming their result that such shells generate a horizon shift. We then consider shells with negative energy density, showing that the horizon shift in this case allows for travel between the heretofore causally separated exterior regions of the Schwarzschild geometry. These drawing techniques are then used to investigate the properties of successive shells, joining multiple Schwarzschild regions. Again, the presence of negative-energy shells leads to a causal connection between the exterior regions, even in (some) cases with two successive shells of equal but opposite total energy.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2
Creators: name: Sauerland, Uli
name: Solt, Stephanie
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: ZASPiL 61.2018 contains 29 articles.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 61 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 2
title: 28. September - 2. Oktober 2020
Creators: name: deMeer, Jan
name: Waedt, Karl
name: Rennoch, Axel
name: Hof, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: I4.0
subject: Security & Safety
subject: Industrial Automation and Control Systems
subject: Digital Twin
subject: Production Ontologies
subject: Smart Manufacturing
subject: Asset Administration Shell
subject: OPC-UA
subject: AutomationML
subject: OT/IT Security
subject: Syntactic and Semantic Interoperability
subject: Edge Computing

description: The 5th GI/ACM Workshop Programme on Standardization of Secure and Safe Production within Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) took place virtually at September 28, 2020 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that hosted the 50th GI's yearly assembly (GI Informatik 2020 Jahrestagung): https://informatik2020.de/programm/workshops/
Experimenting with imposters: what modulates choice of person agreement in pronouns?
Creators: name: Kaiser, Elsi
name: Nichols, Justin
name: Wang, Catherine
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: Imposters are grammatically third-person expressions used to refer to the firstperson speaker or second-person addressee (e.g. ‘the present authors’ when used to refer to the first-person writer, ‘Mommy’ or ‘Daddy’ when used by parents for self-reference in child-directed speech). Current analyses of imposters differ in whether they derive the unusual referential properties of imposters using syntactic means or attribute them to semantic and pragmatics. We aim to shed light on these competing approaches by means of a psycholinguistic experiment focusing on first-person imposters that investigates the kinds of pronouns (first-person vs. third-person) used to refer to imposter antecedents. Our results show that manipulating the prominence of the first-person speaker does not significantly boost the acceptability of first-person pronouns in imposter-referring contexts. However, our results suggest that a purely syntactic approach may not be sufficient either, as psycholinguistic processing factors also appear to be relevant. Keywords: person agreement, agreement mismatch, pronoun, imposters, psycholinguistics, accessibility, prominence.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 60 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 1
La cura di sé come ‘agatofanía’. Esperienza del Bene e autotrascendimento nell a filosofia di Platone.
Creators: name: Lavecchia, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2013
Subjects: Salvatore Lavecchia; Platone; Agathophania

description: Self-care as ‘Agathophania’. Experience of the Good and Self-transcending in Plato’s Philosophy

Plato’s notion of cura sui shows an eminently relational dimension that has not yet been adequately emphasized. The cura sui can be namely realized at its highest level only through experience of the Good, that is of the reality originating the self towards which the cura is oriented. This experience presupposes indeed a transformation of the person into an image of the Good, which implies the constitution of a radically relational identity, established beyond the opposition between the self and the other. Unrestricted self-givingness is a priority requirement in order to attain an identity so disposed. Unconditional self-giving and self-manifestation is in fact the priority connotation of the Good in Plato’s perspective. Becoming an image of the Good, which means fulfilling the cura sui, entails therefore the most profound form of self-transcendence, where the self is metamorphosed into an unlimited space for the manifestation of the other.
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 1 (2013): Cura sui e autotrascendimento. La formazione di sé fra antico e postmoderno.
title: 28. September - 2. Oktober 2020
Creators: name: Lautenbach, Sven
name: Bayer, Anita D.
name: Arneth, Almuth
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimierung
subject: Genetischer Algorithmus
subject: Zielkonflikte
subject: Landnutzung
subject: Ökologische Dienstleistungen

description: Die Art und Weise, wie Land genutzt wird hat entscheidenden Einfluss darauf, welche Güter und Dienstleistungen aus der Natur dem Menschen zur Verfügung stehen. Landwirtschaftliche Produktion nimmt weltweit große Flächen in Anspruch, um die wachsende Weltbevölkerung mit Nahrungsmitteln zu versorgen. Die damit einhergehenden Veränderungen der Vegetationsbedeckung haben bedeutende Auswirkungen auf vielfältige ökologische Dienstleistungen. Angesichts der globalen Herausforderungen scheint es daher angebracht, darüber nachzudenken, welches Optimierungspotential in der Verteilung der landwirtschaftlichen Flächen besteht. Wir untersuchen hier, welche Zielkonflikte zwischen Nahrungsmittelproduktion, Kohlenstoffspeicherung und Wasserverfügbarkeit auf globaler Ebene bestehen. Hierzu wurden Szenariorechnungen des dynamischen globalen Vegetationsmodells LPJ-GUESS genutzt, um Pareto-optimale Lösungen verschiedener Landnutzungszuweisungen hinsichtlich der drei Zieldimensionen zu schätzen. Als Optimierungsverfahren kam ein genetischer Algorithmus (NSGA-II) zum Einsatz. Die Ergebnisse zeigen deutliche Optimierungspotentiale gegenüber der heutigen Landutzungskonfiguration, die jedoch für einzelne Weltregionen nicht unerhebliche Veränderungen nach sich ziehen würden.
title: 28. September - 2. Oktober 2020
title: miteinander gestalten
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bandtel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Hochschulnetzwerk
subject: Digitalisierung
subject: Lehre & Lernen
subject: kooperative Infrastruktur

description: In diesem Beitrag werden Strategien, Strukturen und Handlungsfelder von Hochschulen zur kooperativen Weiterentwicklung digitaler Lehre diskutiert. Die Erfahrungen aus der Umstellung auf Onlineangebote im Sommersemester 2020 im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie haben die Potentiale standortübergreifender Vernetzung für die nachhaltige Entwicklung von Lehre und Lernen an Hochschulen deutlich werden lassen. Am exemplarischen Fall des Hochschulnetzwerks Digitalisierung der Lehre Baden-Württemberg (HND-BW), zu dem sich alle Landesuniversitäten zusammengeschlossen haben, um kooperative Infrastrukturen für die Digitalisierung der Lehre aufzubauen und gemeinschaftliche Dienste zu betreiben, werden Governancemodelle, Kommunikationswege und Themen hochschulübergreifender Konsortien beleuchtet. Als Ergebnis einer solchen strategischen Zusammenarbeit wird die systematische Sammlung von Handlungsfeldern der Digitalisierung der Lehre vorgestellt, in denen gemeinschaftliches Agieren als besonders wirkungsvoll erachtet wird. Anhand von vier Beispielen werden abschließend mögliche Umsetzungen eines kooperativen Vorgehens bei der gemeinsamen Gestaltung der Zukunft der Hochschulen vorgestellt.
SMEmail - A New Protocol for the Secure E-mail in Mobile Environments
Creators: name: Toorani, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: E.3; K.6.5; C.2; D.4.6; H.4.3; K.6.m
subject: 94Axx

description: The electronic mail plays an unavoidable role in the humankind communications. With the great interest for the connection via mobile platforms, and the growing number of vulnerabilities and attacks, it is essential to provide suitable security solutions regarding the limitations of resource restricted platforms. Although some solutions such as PGP and S/MIME are currently available for the secure e-mail over the Internet, they are based on traditional public key cryptography that involves huge computational costs. In this paper, a new secure application-layer protocol, called SMEmail, is introduced that provides several security attributes such as confidentiality, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation, and forward secrecy of message confidentiality for the electronic mails. SMEmail offers an elliptic curve-based public key solution that uses public keys for the secure key establishment of a symmetric encryption, and is so suitable for the resource restricted platforms such as mobile phones.
description: 6 Pages, 5 Figures
Credit Control in Selected Retail Farm Supply Cooperatives -- Area III -- Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Northern Iowa
Creators: name: Eichers, T. R.
name: Eichers, T. R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1958
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management
Financial Economics

description: Excerpts from the report: Farmers are using an increasing amount of credit at their farm supply cooperatives. Several factors that may account for this are: (1) Farmers are using more commercial feeds, fertilizer, and pesticides due to technological advances; (2) farm size is increasing; (3) farm incomes have declined in recent years in the face of rising costs; and (4) distributors of farm supplies generally grant credit as a part of their service. This study--the third in a series covering different areas--provided information on policies and practices for successful control of credit by farm supply cooperatives. It covered the operations of 22 associations, handling a diversified line of supplies, located in the upper Midwest. They were doing more than one-third of their business on credit and were above average in their control of credit. The purpose of this study is to determine (1) trends in the use of credit by local diversified farm supply cooperatives, and (2) practical policies and procedures for controlling credit.
QUD effects on epistemic containment principle
Creators: name: Jeong, Sunwoo
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: The Epistemic Containment Principle (ECP) requires that epistemic modals take wider scope than strong quantifiers such as every or most (von Fintel and Iatridou, 2003). Although fairly robust in its realization, a few systemic classes of counterexamples to the ECP have been noted. Based on these, previous work has argued for two claims: subjective modals obey the ECP, whereas objective ones don’t (Tancredi, 2007; Anand and Hacquard, 2008); and every respects the ECP, whereas each violates it (Tancredi, 2007). This paper argues that explicit Questions Under Discussion (QUDs; Roberts, 1996; Ginzburg, 1996) also systematically influence the ECP: scopal orderings that provide relevant answers to the given QUDs are preferred, and this tendency can override the ECP. To support this claim, the paper presents an experimental study. The results corroborate the existence of systematic QUD effects on the ECP, and support the view that the ECP is derived from a confluence of various pragmatic and lexical biases. Keywords: Epistemic Containment Principle (ECP), epistemic modals, Question Under Discussion (QUD), quantifiers, scopal ambiguity, experimental semantics.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 60 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 1
comparison of "fei" and "aber"
Creators: name: Hinterwimmer, Stefan
name: Ebert, Cornelia
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2018

description: This paper compares the modal particle fei (Schlieben-Lange, 1979; Thoma, 2009) with the modal particle/sentence adverb aber (not to be confused with the conjunction aber, ‘but’). Intuitively, both items express some form of contrast and correction. We will show that both are special among discourse particles in the following sense: They make a contribution that is interpreted at a level distinct from the level where at-issue content (Potts, 2005) is interpreted, as is standard for modal particles (see Gutzmann, 2015 and the references therein). But more interestingly, they exclusively relate to propositions that have not entered the Common Ground via being the at-issue content of an assertion made by the addressee. Keywords: discourse particles, assertions, at-issue content, presuppositions, conventional implicatures, conversational implicatures.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 60 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 1