cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quasiperiodic surface Maryland models on quantum graphs
Creators: name: Pankrashkin, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum graphs corresponding to isotropic lattices with quasiperiodic coupling constants given by the same expressions as the coefficients of the discrete surface Maryland model. The absolutely continuous and the pure point spectra are described. It is shown that the transition between them is governed by the Hill operator corresponding to the edge potential.
description: 12 pages
title: Converging mothers' employment trajectories between East and West Germany? A focus on the 2008‐childcare‐reform
Creators: name: Fauser, Sophia
name: Struffolino, Emanuela
name: Levanon, Asaf
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: child care
subject: employment
subject: longitudinal research
subject: mothers
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Objective: Aiming to generate evidence on how contextual conditions shape individuals' opportunities and constraints and, ultimately, life courses, we focus on a period of childcare expansion in reunified Germany. We investigate differences in employment trajectories around mothers' first childbirths to identify potential East–West convergence. Background: During Germany's division (1949–1990), universal public childcare and female full‐time employment were the norm in East Germany, while the male breadwinner model was dominant in the West. These differences, although declining, persisted even decades after reunification. In 2008, a reform aimed at expanding childcare availability to facilitate mothers' employment throughout the country. Methods: We measure East–West differences in employment trajectories around childbirth pre‐ (1990–2007) and post‐reform (2008–2021) in terms of timing, order, and duration of events over time. We use data on 359 East and 986 West German first‐time‐mothers from the German Socio‐Economic Panel and sequence analysis tools. Results: Before the reform, employment trajectories between East and West German mothers differed both in timing and duration of employment states. After the reform, these differences decreased, showing a general convergence in the prevalence of post‐birth part‐time employment. Nonetheless, longer maternity leave is still more prevalent among West German mothers, while East German mothers are more likely to maintain full‐time jobs. Conclusion: Our findings show how policy settings and reforms shape life courses in a context‐dependent fashion. They illustrate the importance of a methodological approach that focuses on process outcomes and supports a theoretical perspective that highlights how historical time and place shape life courses.
title: No. 124 (2019): Decoding the Chinese Puzzle
title: Rapid Economic Growth and Social Development Despite a High Level of Corruption
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Heberer, Thomas
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications Online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2019
Subjects: developmental corruption
predatory corruption
developmental state
strong state
anti-corruption drive

description: This paper examines why despite increasing corruption since the 1980s, China’s development has

advanced so rapidly. The author argues that a strong developmental state, the prevalence of “developmental

corruption” over “predatory corruption” and a temporary and relative acceptance of leading

local cadres’ corrupt practices by the Chinese leadership contributed to a high level of economic

development.

The development model of purely quantitative growth has meanwhile been replaced by one in favor

of more sustainable development. However, social groups benefitting from corrupt practices or having

invested heavily in social relationships are opposing such a step. Therefore, the central political

leadership resorts to a combination of fighting at the same time both political corruption and political

opposition of individuals and organizations against its new development policies and anti-corruption

drive. Thus, combating corruption is also a mechanism to enforce the new reform and development

program.
Neural Clustering for Prefractured Mesh Generation in Real-time Object Destruction
Creators: name: Kim, Seunghwan
name: Park, Sunha
name: Lee, Seungkyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Prefracture method is a practical implementation for real-time object destruction that is hardly achievable within performance constraints, but can produce unrealistic results due to its heuristic nature. To mitigate it, we approach the clustering of prefractured mesh generation as an unordered segmentation on point cloud data, and propose leveraging the deep neural network trained on a physics-based dataset. Our novel paradigm successfully predicts the structural weakness of object that have been limited, exhibiting ready-to-use results with remarkable quality.
Gravitational Wave Signal from Assembling the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes
Creators: name: Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
name: Micic, Miroslav
name: Sigurdsson, Steinn
name: Rubbo, Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the gravitational wave signal from the growth of 10 million solar mass supermassive black holes (SMBH) from the remnants of Population III stars. The assembly of these lower mass black holes is particularly important because observing SMBHs in this mass range is one of the primary science goals for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a planned NASA/ESA mission to detect gravitational waves. We use high resolution cosmological N-body simulations to track the merger history of the host dark matter halos, and model the growth of the SMBHs with a semi-analytic approach that combines dynamical friction, gas accretion, and feedback. We find that the most common source in the LISA band from our volume consists of mergers between intermediate mass black holes and SMBHs at redshifts less than 2. This type of high mass ratio merger has not been widely considered in the gravitational wave community; detection and characterization of this signal will likely require a different technique than is used for SMBH mergers or extreme mass ratio inspirals. We find that the event rate of this new LISA source depends on prescriptions for gas accretion onto the black hole as well as an accurate model of the dynamics on a galaxy scale; our best estimate yields about 40 sources with a signal-to-noise ratio greater than 30 occur within a volume like the Local Group during SMBH assembly -- extrapolated over the volume of the universe yields roughly 500 observed events over 10 years, although the accuracy of this rate is affected by cosmic variance.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, accepted in the Astrophysical Journal
A comparision of land use changes in Richmond, British Columbia; a study of urban expansion upon an agricultural area in a rural-urban fringe.
Creators: name: Ulmer, Arno Leopold
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: As a metropolitan area expands, fringe areas are influenced by the growing number of people and urban functions. Agricultural and vacant areas are converted into residential, industrial, commercial and institutional sites. In recent years a greater concern has arisen over the manner in which land is converted and the effects of such conversion upon an agricultural region. This study describes and analyses the land use pattern of one such region, Richmond, British Columbia, for the years 1930, 1949 and 1958. The land use data is represented cartographically and statistically. Changes which occurred during the intervening years and after 1958 are noted and reasons for them either explained or suggested, depending upon the availability of information. The major emphasis is on the effect of increasing urban expansion upon the character of the agricultural land use pattern, and upon Richmond's role as an agricultural and suburban area within the Greater Vancouver region. Since the 1958 analysis is based upon a detailed land use survey conducted by the author, more specific information is given on the character of land use than for any other period. Regional differences in field crops, amounts of agriculture per section and problems resulting from wastage of land in subdivisions are examples of the factors considered in the thesis. The effect of the past haphazard manner of urban development, especially residential, has created a jumbled land use pattern with large, unproductive or unused areas. Little consideration has been given to the consequences of this increased sporadic urbanization upon agriculture and the municipality. In the future an ever-growing population in the Greater Vancouver area will create further demands for more urban land in the fringe areas, such as Richmond. Sound planning will be needed to ensure a more orderly and less wasteful development of the region's valuable land resources.
Chemoinformatics based investigation of plant metabolites for their medicinal and crop protection values - Introduction and Review of Literature
Creators: name: Karade, Divya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cheminformatics, Review

description: Secondary metabolites produced by plants are valuable for their essential roles in food, medicine, and agrochemicals. Several of them have positive effects on health, such as reducing the risks of many chronic diseases like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer. They also show a wide range of pest control activities and have long been used to produce pesticides. However, the information about the classification of secondary metabolites and their known protein targets in human diseases is scattered in many publications. Furthermore, large data of published findings are available, which needs to be analyzed and managed for the best use and efficacy of the available products. Chemoinformatics techniques can use the vast chemical and bioactivity experimental data of various compounds and convert it into valuable knowledge for drug or lead design. Chemoinformatics tools and other in-silico drug designing software play an important role in designing novel drugs with no or fewer side effects and other drug interactions. We performed chemoinformatic analysis for ligand-based drug designing from secondary metabolites of plants. The analysis revealed that several bioactive compounds could serve as scaffolds for developing novel drugs, which can be analyzed further by experimental methods. Lipinski’s “Rule of Five” approach was quickly adopted in the field of agrochemical discovery and led to the establishment of rules for pesticide-likeness. The challenges identified in this study will serve as a useful reference for future intensive research in drug and pesticide discovery.
description: Supplementary data
Global Optical Potential for the Elastic Scattering of $^{6}$He at Low Energies
Creators: name: Kucuk, Y.
name: Boztosun, I.
name: Topel, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A set of global optical potential has been derived to describe the interactions of $^{6}$He at low energies. The elastic scattering angular distribution data measured so far for many systems, ranging from $^{12}$C to $^{209}$Bi, have been considered within the framework of the optical model in order to find a global potential set to describe the experimental data consistently. We report that very good agreement between theoretical and experimental results has been obtained with small $χ^{2}/N$ values by using the derived potential set. The reaction cross section and volume integrals of the potentials have been deduced from the theoretical calculations for all studied systems at relevant energies.
description: 22 pages with 9 figures
Exorcizing the Ex-Gay Body: The Politics of Ex-Gay Testimony
Creators: name: Kizza-Besigye, Anselm
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Gender and sexuality
subject: Political economy
subject: Africa
subject: Ex-gay movements
subject: Pentecostalism

description: This thesis explores the discursive and performative practices of Uganda’s “ex-gay” movement, focusing on the public testimonies of two prominent members of the movement, in which they narrate their sexual histories. In these narratives, they describe being enticed by money or lured into homosexuality in schools or by internationally funded NGOs. These testimonies are performative rituals that seek to intervene in relations of domination and dependence that undermine individual and collective aspirations for the good life, generating publics in which these social anxieties can be named, known, and discussed. The thesis shows how the testimonies act as ritual performances of a paradoxical disavowal that animates queerphobic political discourses and the routine repression of queer people in everyday life.
Learning Styles and Cultural Differences: A comparative study of cultural differences in Austrian and Mongolian Students
Creators: name: Khaskhuu, Ariunaa
name: Chimed-Ochir, Nyambayar
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: This study shows the relationship between the types of cultural differences and learning styles of Kolb's learning model. Although several cross-cultural studies on learning styles suggest that learning styles may differ from one culture to another, the question of which cultures are associated with which learning styles and abilities has been less explored. This study focuses on the empirical findings of comparative studies on past cross-cultural differences in learning styles and considers how the propositions generated by the theory tests may reflect their past empirical findings. This research shows that culture is associated with specific learning styles and abilities.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 7 (2023): Special Issue - Proceedings of ISCSET 2023
Design of Novel Drug-like Molecules using Informatics Rich Secondary Metabolites Analysis of Indian Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Creators: name: Karade, Divya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cheminformatics, Indian medicinal plants, secondary metabolites, virtual screening, virtual library, text mining

description: Several medicinal plants are being used in Indian medicine systems since ancient times. However, in most cases, the specific molecules or the active ingredients responsible for the medicinal or therapeutic properties are not yet known. The objective of this study was to develop a computational protocol as well as a tool for generating novel potential drug candidates from the bioactive molecules of Indian medicinal and aromatic plants through the chemoinformatics approach. We employed chemoinformatics approaches to in-silico screened metabolites from 104 Indian medicinal and aromatic plants and designed novel drug-like bioactive molecules. For this purpose, 1665 ring-containing molecules were identified by text mining of literature related to the medicinal plant species, which were later used to extract 209 molecular scaffolds for building a focused virtual library. Virtual screening was performed with cluster analysis to predict drug-like and lead-like molecules from these plant molecules in the context of drug discovery. The predicted drug-like and lead-like molecules were evaluated using chemoinformatics approaches and statistical parameters, and only the most significant molecules were proposed as the candidate molecules to develop new drugs. A supra network of molecules and scaffolds identifying the relationships between the plant molecules and drugs was developed. Cluster analysis of virtual library molecules showed that the novel molecules had more pharmacophoric properties than toxicophoric and chemophoric properties. These predicted molecules need to be subjected to biological screening to identify potential molecules for drug discovery research. We also developed a Java-based open-source toolkit-cum-database called DoMINE (Database of Medicinally Important Natural products from plantaE) to advance the natural product-based drug discovery through chemoinformatics approaches. This study will be useful in developing new drug molecules from the known medicinal plant molecules. We hope that this work will encourage experimental organic chemists to synthesize these molecules based on the predicted values.
description: Supplementary data
Additional file 8 of Identification of microbial signatures linked to oilseed rape yield decline at the landscape scale
Creators: name: Hilton, Sally
name: Picot, Emma
name: Schreiter, Susanne
name: Bass, David
name: Norman, Keith
name: Oliver, Anna E.
name: Moore, Jonathan D.
name: Mauchline, Tim H.
name: Mills, Peter R.
name: Teakle, Graham R.
name: Clark, Ian M.
name: Hirsch, Penny R.
name: Gast, Christopher J. Van Der
name: Bending, Gary D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7: Supplementary Figure 2. Correlogram showing significant Spearman correlations (FDR P ≤ 0.05) among metadata parameters. Circles are coloured according to the R2 value on the sliding scale (blue = positive correlation, red = negative correlation). Suffixes for nutrients, T = total nutrient, A = available nutrient.
Composite powerful flare of extremely short duration in IRAS 16293-2422
Creators: name: Volvach A.E., Volvach L.N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: stars: formation – H II regions – ISM: molecules – radio lines: ISM.

description: We performed detailed monitoring, over about 1 yr, of the water-vapour maser of the protostellar, nearly solar mass object, IRAS 16293. We examine a composite powerful flare of extremely short duration (∼12 d). An unusual powerful short maser flare occurred on top of a longer duration but less powerful flare, possibly initiating a powerful maser radiation of the shorter flare. The unsaturated state of the two most powerful maser flares have been confirmed and some significant water maser parameters were obtained.
Roughening and pinning of interface cracks in shear delamination of thin films
Creators: name: Zaiser, M.
name: Moretti, P.
name: Konstantinidis, A.
name: Aifantis, E. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the roughening of shear cracks running along the interface between a thin film and a rigid substrate. We demonstrate that short-range correlated fluctuations of the interface strength lead to self-affine roughening of the crack front as the driving force (the applied shear stress/stress intensity factor) increases towards a critical value. We investigate the disorder-induced perturbations of the crack displacement field and crack energy, and use the results to determine the crack pinning force and to assess the shape of the critical crack. The analytical arguments are validated by comparison with simulations of interface cracking.
description: 7 figures
title: Survey Reveals Public Open to Ban on Hand-Held Cell Phone Use and Texting
Creators: name: Guarino, Jenny
name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2013
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97433
subject: Surveys
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91545
subject: Public opinion
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89565
subject: Cellular telephones
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89661
subject: Text messaging
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91865
subject: Attitudes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91917
subject: Distraction
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90602
subject: Highway safety

description: A study performed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reveals that the public is open to a ban on hand-held cell phone use while driving. The study is based on data from 2009's Omnibus Household Survey (OHS), which is administered by BTS to a national sample of approximately 1,000 households. The OHS assesses the public's satisfaction with the U.S. transportation system. In October 2009, the survey examined public perceptions1 of several activities related to distracted driving, including cell phone use (see table 1).
Mesopelagic fish reference specimen photographic library
Creators: name: Govindarajan, Annette
name: Llopiz, Joel
name: Caiger, Paul
name: Jech, Michael
name: Lavery, Andone
name: McMonagle, Helena
name: Wiebe, Peter
name: Zhang, Gordon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: mesopelagic
Fish
reference library
biodiversity
Barcoding

description: Mesopelagic fishes are a crucial component of the world's oceans in terms of their abundance, biomass, and ecosystem function. These fishes are important contributors to the biological carbon pump via their feeding and behaviors, whereby they facilitate the transfer of carbon from shallow waters to the deep sea. Several species undertake diel vertical migration, feeding in shallower waters at night and moving to deeper waters during the day. This process actively expedites the downward flux of carbon. However, carbon budgets and climate models require accurate information regarding the depth distributions and migration patterns of these fishes, and environmental DNA (eDNA) analyses can provide this information. Here, we utilize eDNA approaches, generating taxonomically-informative COI and 12S reference barcodes for 80 species of mesopelagic fishes, which can be used to for species-level identification of eDNA sequences. Using these, along with a publicly available barcode database, we compare results from eDNA analysis with traditional net sampling and explore the ability of eDNA techniques to detect diel vertical migration in fishes from samples collected in Northwest Atlantic Slope Water. We found that eDNA and net samples often resulted in different species identifications, demonstrating that eDNA can detect species that would otherwise be missed with traditional methods. In our eDNA samples, we also detected more species (12) in our shallowest depth category (0–100 m) from nighttime samples than from daytime samples (3). This is consistent with increased diversity in shallow waters at night due to diel vertical migration. Based on the variability observed in sample duplicates, we suggest that future mesopelagic eDNA studies incorporate larger sample volumes and scaled-up sampling efforts. We also note the potential for eDNA analysis to address ecological questions such as predator-prey relationships and identification of foraging hotspots, yielding insights into carbon flow through the ocean's midwaters.
description: The images are .jpg files that can be opened with any standard image software.Funding provided by: The Audacious Project Housed at TED*
Crossref Funder Registry ID:
Award Number: Funding provided by: Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100018609
Award Number:
description: The data are photographs of mesopelagic fish specimens that were used to obtain COI and 12S DNA barcodes. The barcodes have been deposited in GenBank and the GenBank accession numbers are provided in a supplementary metadata file. The file name includes the fish species and the source identification numbers, which are also provided in the associated manuscript supplementary data, as well as in the GenBank records.
Planets across space and time (PAST)
Creators: name: Chen, Di-Chang
name: Yang, Jia-Yi
name: Xie, Ji-Wei
name: Zhou, Ji-Lin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Exoplanet catalogs; Stellar kinematics; Stellar age; Planetary evolution

description: To date over 4000 exoplanets have been identified and thousands of candidates are to be confirmed. Our knowledge of exoplanets is expanding in the Galaxy, from the solar neighborhood (~0.1 kpc) to several kpc away. What are the differences between planetary systems in different galactic environments, and how do they evolve with time? To address these questions, we conduct a research project, dubbed Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). In this talk, we present some first results of the PAST. We revisit the kinematic method for classification of Galactic components and extend the applicable range of velocity ellipsoid from ∼100 pc to ∼1500 pc from the Sun. Furthermore, we revisited the age–velocity dispersion relation (AVR), which allows us to derive kinematic ages with a typical uncertainty of 10–20%. Applying the above revised methods, we present catalogs of kinematic properties as well as other basic stellar parameters for 2174 host stars of 2872 planets and 35,864 Kepler stars by combining data from Gaia, LAMOST, APOGEE, RAVE, Kepler, and the NASA exoplanet archive. We find that the fraction of thin (thick) disk stars increases (decreases) with the transiting planet multiplicity (Np = 0, 1, 2 and 3+) and the kinematic age decreases with Np, which could be a consequence of the dynamical evolution of planetary architecture with age. The revised kinematic method and AVR, as well as the kinematic catalogs, lay the foundation for future studies of exoplanets in space and time in the Galactic context.
description: {"references": ["Chen et al. 2021a, ApJ, 909,115", "Chen et al. 2021b, AJ, 162,100"]}
Coordinate space proton-deuteron scattering calculations including Coulomb force effects
Creators: name: Ishikawa, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a practical method to solve the proton-deuteron scattering problem at energies above the three-body breakup threshold, in which we treat three-body integral equations in coordinate space accommodating long-range proton-proton Coulomb interactions. The method is examined for phase shift parameters, and then applied to calculations of differential cross sections in elastic and breakup reactions, analyzing powers, etc. with a realistic nucleon-nucleon force and three-nucleon forces. Effects of the Coulomb force and the three-nucleon forces on these observables are discussed in comparing with experimental data.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, submitted to PRC
Synergy between asteroseismology and exoplanetary science
Creators: name: Campante, Tiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Over the past decade, space-based asteroseismology has played an important role in the characterization of host stars and their planetary systems. The future looks even brighter, with space missions such as TESS and PLATO ready to take on this legacy. In this talk, I start by introducing the main observational features of convection-driven, or solar-like, oscillations. I then review current key synergies between asteroseismology and exoplanetary science, after which I present an outlook on potential future synergies. And now that TESS science data have been available for a few years, I find it relevant to talk about the prospects of conducting asteroseismology of exoplanet-host stars with TESS and also to look at some of the mission's early results in this regard.
Additional file 9 of Identification of microbial signatures linked to oilseed rape yield decline at the landscape scale
Creators: name: Hilton, Sally
name: Picot, Emma
name: Schreiter, Susanne
name: Bass, David
name: Norman, Keith
name: Oliver, Anna E.
name: Moore, Jonathan D.
name: Mauchline, Tim H.
name: Mills, Peter R.
name: Teakle, Graham R.
name: Clark, Ian M.
name: Hirsch, Penny R.
name: Gast, Christopher J. Van Der
name: Bending, Gary D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 8: Supplementary Figure 3. Phylogenetic tree of 18S rRNA sequences a) including the 18S sequence of the fungi (a) F9 and (b) F17 and the novel protist (c) P14. Other closely related less abundant OTUs found in this study are also included and highlighted in blue. The hosts the lineages are associated, or which environments they were sequenced from are in parenthesis.
The Fundamental Constants in Physics
Creators: name: Fritzsch, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the fundamental constants of physics in the Standard Model and possible changes of these constants on the cosmological time scale. The Grand Unification of the strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions implies relations between the time variation of the finestructure constant and of the QCD scale. An experiment in quantum optics at the MPQ in Munich, which was designed to look for a time variation of the QCD scale, is discussed.
description: 18 pages, Invited lecture at the Landau Conference in Moscow, 2008
NIRPS joining HARPS for further characterization of planetary systems
Creators: name: Bouchy, F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Radial velocity
near-infrared spectroscopy
exoplanets

description: The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) will soon join HARPS on the 3.6m. Combing visible and near-infrared spectroscopy and radial velocity will provide new diagnostics as well as new key parameters for a deeper and further characterization of both exoplanets and their host stars. Extending the spectral range of HARPS to the near infrared with NIRPS will allow a better disentangling of stellar activity, a better spectroscopic characterization of the host star, a better identification of any possible diluted and blended stellar companions, as well as a better characterization of exoplanet atmosphere. We will present the status of NIRPS instrument and its expected capability to characterize exoplanetary systems as a whole.
Restitution of indigenous bodies: The ethics of what remains
Creators: name: Sardi, Marina L
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: human remains
restitution
Indigenous people
anatomical collections

description: Over the last decades, it has been increasingly accepted that human remains, in particular the remains of Indigenous people that were collected under colonial rule, should be returned to their communities and/or territories. One of the claims made by Indigenous peoples argues that these should not be considered objects available to the scrutiny of science. The objective is to discuss the ethical issues and difficulties that are faced throughout restitution processes and after these have been completed, in order to reconcile the demands of indigenous people and of researchers. The experience developed at the Museo de La Plata (Argentina) is debated, along with claims expressed by Indigenous people in different forums. In the Museo de La Plata, some protocols have been developed to the end of preserving images and DNA samples of the returned body. However, informed consent has been obtained to perform computed tomography of the skulls. Restitutions are not straightforward processes. Several claimants may be in dispute over the same remains and/or their interests may be in opposition to some scientific research. Even when informed consent can be obtained, the research of what remains (for instance, images) must be open to dialogue and new permissions.
Role of the attractive intersite interaction in the extended Hubbard model
Creators: name: Mancini, F.
name: Mancini, F. P.
name: Naddeo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the extended Hubbard model in the atomic limit on a Bethe lattice with coordination number z. By using the equations of motion formalism, the model is exactly solved for both attractive and repulsive intersite potential V. By focusing on the case of negative V, i.e., attractive intersite interaction, we study the phase diagram at finite temperature and find, for various values of the filling and of the on-site coupling U, a phase transition towards a state with phase separation. We determine the critical temperature as a function of the relevant parameters, U/|V|, n and z and we find a reentrant behavior in the plane (U/|V|,T). Finally, several thermodynamic properties are investigated near criticality.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures. EPJB Topical Issue on Novel Quantum Phases and Mesoscopic Physics in Quantum Gases
A study of the significance of the Chinese People's Communes in the Sino-Soviet dispute
Creators: name: Marson, Derek Brian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: With the introduction of the people’s communes in the People’ s Republic of China in 1958, a far-reaching ideological dispute arose between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of China. In the years following the death of Stalin, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had embarked upon a domestic policy which largely ignored many of the directives laid down by the fathers of Communism, and which often subordinated ideological considerations to pragmatic economic considerations. The people's communes embodied an attempt by the Chinese communists to realize all the prerequisites to Communism which the Soviet Union had forsaken in their drive to increase production and thus constituted a challenge to the "revisionist" policies of the Soviet Union. This was especially true in the light of the specific rejection of communes by the Soviet leaders a few months before the Chinese communes were introduced. Moreover, because "anti-party" groups existed both within the Chinese and Soviet parties, and were given ideological support by the opposing party, the dispute over the principles involved in the communes was turned from a theoretical dispute into a concrete struggle with in the separate parties. Besides being an ideological dispute over the correct policies to follow during the transition to Communism, the commune controversy also related directly to the more predominant issues of the Sino-Soviet dispute. The military significance of the communes provided one such link; the detrimental effect of the communes on the world's image of Communism provided another such link, and the existence of pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese factions within the two parties, provided the other link; the latter situation was especially significant in the commune controversy since the C.P.S.U.’s support for the anti-commune faction of Marshall Peng Teh-huai and Chang Wen-tian, was at the same time support for a faction more in sympathy with the "revisionist" foreign policy of the Soviet Union. In a broader perspective, the commune controversy also raised important issues concerning ideological authority, particularly over questions of domestic policy during the transition to Communism. Since the Chinese party remains determined to proceed with their commune program as soon as economic conditions allow, and since the C.P.S.U. continues to make a more and more liberal interpretation of Communist society, it can be expected that the issues embodied in the commune controversy will continue to be strongly contended by the two parties. Moreover, the fact that the commune issue is related to the more predominant issues of the Sino-Soviet dispute, suggests that the debate over the communes will continue as long as differences remain between the two giants of the Communist world.
Developing Information Competences of the Students in Technical Direction with Helping the Technology of “Network Boomerang” Principles
Creators: name: Zaripova, Dilnoza
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: The article discusses ways of increasing students' engagement, motivation and participation in higher education using "Network Boomerang" technology, as an example of pre-service IT teacher training. With the onset of the global pandemic, the role of digital technologies has significantly increased, highlighting the importance of digital transformation, particularly for developing countries, including Uzbekistan. Indeed, digital transformation has the potential to further modernize society and integrate the national economy into global processes. In this context, within the framework of ongoing reforms and the Development Strategy of the New Uzbekistan for the next five years, special attention is being given to the digitization of key areas of activity and the establishment of a genuine information society in the country.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 7 (2023): Special Issue - Proceedings of ISCSET 2023
Some Results and Evaluation of Training for the Development of Students’ Spatial Visualization
Creators: name: Erdenechimeg, Suvd
name: Danaa, Ganbat
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: This article discusses the results and evaluation of a training course focused on developing spatial visualization using interactive dynamic tools. The course aims to effectively integrate technology with the Descriptive Geometry course by combining content, pedagogy, and technology while considering the course's characteristics. The training course consists of three phases: seeing, imagining, and drawing. Each phase has different tasks that involve manipulating 3D objects in a virtual environment, corresponding to the level of geometric thinking and cognitive steps of mental rotation. The results of the organized training showed a statistically significant increase in student's spatial skills, and the evaluation of students using the SURE (Structure-Oriented Evaluation) model was deemed sufficient.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 7 (2023): Special Issue - Proceedings of ISCSET 2023
Electrostatic theory for designing lossless negative permittivity metamaterials
Creators: name: Zeng, Yong
name: Wu, Qi
name: Werner, Douglas H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter, we develop an electrostatic theory for designing bulk composites with effective lossless negative permittivities. The theory and associated design procedure are validated by comparing their predictions with those of rigorous full-wave simulations. It is demonstrated that the excitation of the Frohlich mode (the first-order surface mode) of the constitutive nanoparticles plays a key role in achieving negative permittivities with compensated losses.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
An alternative interpretation of the Weinberg-Salam model
Creators: name: Faddeev, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A problem of mass generation in the Unified EM+W theory is discussed. Two hypothetical possibilities for the nature of Higgs field are proposed.
description: Talk at the conference "New Trends in High Energy Physics", Yalta, Crimea, Sept.27-Oct.4 2008; v2: added address, one formula and several misprints were corrected
Influence Rate Evaluation by Students’ Opinion: University, Library, Courses and Professors
Creators: name: Tudevdagva, Uranchimeg
name: Delgerkhuu, Narantsatsral
name: Osorkhuu, Gansaikhan
name: Davaagombo, Batdorj
name: Galbadrakh, Yeruulbat
name: Sergelen, Serjmyadag
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: This paper describes a cooperative study of university lecturers with a focus on figuring out influence factors of students’ achievements in higher education. The evaluation survey is applied as the main method for research. Several lecturers (research team) who teach different courses in the university together developed influence factors in the form of survey questions, which are divided into four core groups: university, library, courses, and professors. The research team plans to collect as much data periodically from all universities in the country which is open to supporting this study. This paper showed the analyses of the first step of the study. 291 students from eight different universities voluntarily sent responses to an online survey.
The collected data is processed by structure-oriented evaluation (SURE) model and by standard statistic function. The SURE evaluation score was calculated as 0.88 which we can read that all defined influence factors received evaluation scores from students with very high positive answers. The statistic maximum scores emphasized some factors that influence a lot to students’ achievement and students confirmed by their responses that some factors are very important for them. Further statistic ANOVA test was made for the case of the university group with 13 factors.
For the ANOVA test, the null hypothesis. H0 – Null hypothesis stands for no difference between groups. No influence of study years on evaluation scores. By the ANOVA test, the null hypothesis isn’t proven. This concludes first step analyses as not significant statistically. Therefore, the research
team needs to continue data collection and may apply some other statistical methods to compare the first results.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 7 (2023): Special Issue - Proceedings of ISCSET 2023
The Function of Gesture in an Architectural Design Meeting
Creators: name: Visser, Willemien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This text presents a cognitive-psychology analysis of spontaneous, co-speech gestures in a face-to-face architectural design meeting (A1 in DTRS7). The long-term objective is to formulate specifications for remote collaborative-design systems, especially for supporting the use of different semiotic modalities (multi-modal interaction). According to their function for design, interaction, and collaboration, we distinguish different gesture families: representational (entity designating or specifying), organisational (management of discourse, interaction, or functional design actions), focalising, discourse and interaction modulating, and disambiguating gestures. Discussion and conclusion concern the following points. It is impossible to attribute fixed functions to particular gesture forms. "Designating" gestures may also have a design function. The gestures identified in A1 possess a certain generic character. The gestures identified are neither systematically irreplaceable, nor optional accessories to speech or drawing. We discuss the possibilities for gesture in computer-supported collaborative software systems. The paper closes on our contribution to gesture studies and cognitive design research.
Is Non-minimal Inflation Eternal?
Creators: name: Feng, Chao-Jun
name: Li, Xin-Zhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility that the non-minimal coupling inflation could be eternal is investigated. We calculate the quantum fluctuation of the inflaton in a Hubble time and find that it has the same value as in the minimal case in the slow-roll limit. Armed with this result, we have studied some concrete non-minimal inflationary models including the chaotic inflation and the natural inflation while the inflaton is non-minimally coupled to the gravity and we find that these non-minimal inflations could be eternal in some parameter regions.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
Polarization and ellipticity of high-order harmonics from aligned molecules generated by linearly polarized intense laser pulses
Creators: name: Le, Anh-Thu
name: Lucchese, R. R.
name: Lin, C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical calculations for polarization and ellipticity of high-order harmonics from aligned N$_2$, CO$_2$, and O$_2$ molecules generated by linearly polarized lasers. Within the rescattering model, the two polarization amplitudes of the harmonics are determined by the photo-recombination amplitudes for photons emitted parallel and perpendicular to the direction of the {\em same} returning electron wave packet. Our results show clear species-dependent polarization states, in excellent agreement with experiments. We further note that the measured polarization ellipse of the harmonic furnishes the needed parameters for a "complete" experiment in molecules.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
On vacuum density, the initial singularity and dark energy
Creators: name: Carneiro, Saulo
name: Tavakol, Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standard cosmology poses a number of important questions. Apart from its singular origin, it possesses early and late accelerating phases required to account for observations. The vacuum energy has been considered as a possible way to resolve some of these questions. The vacuum energy density induced by free fields in an early de Sitter phase has earlier been estimated to be proportional to $H^4$, while more recently it has been suggested that the QCD condensate induces a term proportional to H at late times. These results have been employed in models which are non-singular and inflationary at early times and accelerating at late times. Here we cast these models in terms of scalar fields and study the corresponding spectrum of primordial perturbations. At early times the spectrum is found to be not scale-invariant, thus implying that slow-roll inflation is still required after the phase transition induced by the vacuum. At late times the corresponding scalar-field potential is harmonic, with a mass of the order of the Hubble scale, a result that may be understood in the light of the holographic conjecture.
description: Second Award in the 2009 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation
Synergy between stellar physics and planetology, a pathway for high-resolution spectroscopy of exoplanet atmosphere
Creators: name: Chiavassa, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres at high-resolving power is a determinant technique for remote atmospheric characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres. However, the non-stationary stellar spectrum affects the position and/of shift of line profiles and creates a non-negligible source of noise that can alter or even prevent detection. I will present three examples of transmission and emission spectroscopy for HD 189733-b and 51 Pegasi b for which the correction for the stellar convection-related activity is included in the analysis. There is a significant improvement in planet detectability when removing the stellar spectrum with this method. Moreover, I will also introduce a new approach based on realistic synthetic observables whose innovation and uniqueness is based on the use of 3D hydrodynamical simulations for the atmosphere of both the host star and the planet during the transit.
Prostatic abscess: multidetector CT findings and role
Creators: name: Tonolini, Massimo
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: CT
subject: Abscess delineation
subject: Infection

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 61 years
description: Clinical History: Man with history of non-Hodgkin lymphoma treated with chemo- and radiotherapy, cardiac pacemaker, ischemic heart disease treated with coronary stenting one year earlier, recurrent urinary infections over 6 months. Currently presents with fever (38ÃÂ°... Final Diagnosis: Prostatic abscess