cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Writing the national self: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anglo-Irish Gothic identities
Creators: name: Horgan, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2012

description: This thesis announces the special relationship that Bram Stoker's masterpiece Dracula has to its creator, taking as its focal point the startling textual reflection of Stoker's own hybridised national identity as Anglo-lrish emigré in his vampire Count. Using this paired relationship between author and antagonist as its base, it thereby proposes an original reading of the novel as a work of imaginative autobiography, as a fictional rendering of the realities of Stoker's own fragmented national existence in fin-de-siècle London, positioning Dracula as a novel that deeply engages with the complexity of its author's national identity and the place of this national self in his writing. By their very nature, discussions of nationality are articulated in the interaction between the individual and the community that constitutes the nation. Stoker's own lived experiences in London provide the immediate context for the exploration of such concerns in Dracula, but these are experiences shaped by his particular status as an Anglo-Irish writer in the metropolis. Dracula is therefore first positioned in this work as the product of a historical tradition of Anglo-Irish writing long invested in the complications of national affiliation, something that Chapters One and Two explore, interrogating in the process how the legacy of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Charles Robert Maturin and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu forms the foundations of Stoker's work. Chapter Three considers in detail how it is Stoker's migrant status that serves as a keystone in this thesis' reading of Dracula by exploring the (Anglo-) Irish migrant experience in Victorian London. Chapter Four deals with the nineteenth-century literary vampire, and asks what such a motif might offer a writer like Stoker seeking to give authentic textual life to his sense of national displacement. Chapter Five reveals the centrality of ideas of writing the (national) self in external perceptions of Stoker and in Stoker's own non-fictional work. Finally, Chapter Six completes a reading of Dracula as imaginative autobiography, as a sustained literary engagement with conflicted national identity that proves illuminating of both Stoker and the class that shaped him and his most famous literary endeavour.
Superfield Calculation of Loop Contribution in Extra Dimensional Theories
Creators: name: Truong, Minh Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superfields provide a compact description of supersymmetry representations. Loop corrections with superfield formalism are simpler and much more manageable than calculation in terms of component fields. In this paper we calculate the contribution of the Kaluza-Klein states, associated with extra dimensions, to the renormalization group beta function. These Kaluza-Klein particles circulate in the virtual loop, hence affecting the overall corrections at any order. We obtain the one-loop correction, which checks with the result previously obtained using the more laborious component field method. In addition, we calculate the two-loop correction coming from chiral KK states.
description: 38 pages, 7 figures. Added references
The Multidimensional Soft Power of Illiberal States: Russia in the Western Balkans
Creators: name: Cuppuleri, Adriana
name: Veliu Ashiku, Liridona
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft power
subject: illiberal states
subject: liberal international order
subject: Russia
subject: Western Balkans
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: This article aims to make a threefold contribution to the study of soft power. First, considering that the potential of soft power of illiberal states is both underestimated and distorted, this study presents a two-dimensional conceptualization of Russia’s soft power, distinguishing between Russia’s posture toward the liberal international order, and sources of Russia’s foreign policy. Second, it analyzes whether Russian soft power in the Western Balkan countries remains ideologically relevant beyond its hitherto conceptualizations as either the result of its historic cultural ties with the region, or a reflection of Russian foreign policy strategies. Through an analysis of elite discourses and news media as exemplified in speeches, press releases, and interviews, this article locates, challenges, and develops on Russia’s soft power indicators in the Western Balkans. Finally, it contributes to surmounting the residing liberal democratic bias in the study of soft power of illiberal states, showing that not only can they be ideologically attractive but that their scope of influence differs according to the multi-layered nature of soft power.
Weak error analysis for a nonlinear SPDE approximation of the Dean–Kawasaki equation
Creators: name: Djurdjevac, Ana
name: Kremp, Helena
name: Perkowski, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dean–Kawasaki equation
subject: Weak error analysis
subject: Laplace duality
subject: Nonlinear SPDE
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::510 Mathematik::510 Mathematik

description: We consider a nonlinear SPDE approximation of the Dean–Kawasaki equation for independent particles. Our approximation satisfies the physical constraints of the particle system, i.e. its solution is a probability measure for all times (preservation of positivity and mass conservation). Using a duality argument, we prove that the weak error between particle system and nonlinear SPDE is of the order N-1-1/(d/2+1) log N. Along the way we show well-posedness, a comparison principle, and an entropy estimate for a class of nonlinear regularized Dean–Kawasaki equations with Itô noise.
Experientially-grounded and distributional semantic vectors uncover dissociable representations of conceptual categories
Creators: name: Carota, Francesca
name: Nili, Hamed
name: Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus
name: Pulvermüller, Friedemann
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Experiential semantics
subject: symbol grounding
subject: distributional statistics
subject: language network
subject: RSA
subject: fMRI
subject: 400 Sprache::410 Linguistik::410 Linguistik

description: Neuronal populations code similar concepts by similar activity patterns across the human brain's semantic networks. However, it is unclear to what extent such meaning-to-symbol mapping reflects distributional statistics, or experiential information grounded in sensorimotor and emotional knowledge. We asked whether integrating distributional and experiential data better distinguished conceptual categories than each method taken separately. We examined the similarity structure of fMRI patterns elicited by visually presented action- and object-related words using representational similarity analysis (RSA). We found that the distributional and experiential/integrative models respectively mapped the high-dimensional semantic space in left inferior frontal, anterior temporal, and in left precentral, posterior inferior/middle temporal cortex. Furthermore, results from model comparisons uncovered category-specific similarity patterns, as both distributional and experiential models matched the similarity patterns for action concepts in left fronto-temporal cortex, whilst the experiential/integrative (but not distributional) models matched the similarity patterns for object concepts in left fusiform and angular gyrus.
Controlling the anisotropy of a van der Waals antiferromagnet with light
Creators: name: Afanasiev, D.
name: Hortensius, J. R.
name: Matthiesen, M.
name: Mañas-Valero, S.
name: Šiškins, M.
name: Lee, M.
name: Lesne, E.
name: van der Zant, H. S. J.
name: Steeneken, P. G.
name: Ivanov, B. A.
name: Coronado, E.
name: Caviglia, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic van der Waals materials provide an ideal playground for exploring the fundamentals of low-dimensional magnetism and open new opportunities for ultrathin spin processing devices. The Mermin-Wagner theorem dictates that as in reduced dimensions isotropic spin interactions cannot retain long-range correlations; the order is stabilized by magnetic anisotropy. Here, using ultrashort pulses of light, we demonstrate all-optical control of magnetic anisotropy in the two-dimensional van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS$_3$. Tuning the photon energy in resonance with an orbital transition between crystal-field split levels of the nickel ions, we demonstrate the selective activation of a sub-THz two-dimensional magnon mode. The pump polarization control of the magnon amplitude confirms that the activation is governed by the instantaneous magnetic anisotropy axis emergent in response to photoexcitation of orbital states with a lowered symmetry. Our results establish pumping of orbital resonances as a universal route for manipulating magnetic order in low-dimensional (anti)ferromagnets.
Collapsing Wormholes Sustained by Dustlike Matter
Creators: name: Kashargin, Pavel E.
name: Sushkov, Sergey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that static wormhole configurations in general relativity (GR) are possible only if matter threading the wormhole throat is "exotic"---i.e., violates a number of energy conditions. For this reason, it is impossible to construct {static} wormholes supported only by dust-like matter which satisfies all usual energy conditions. However, this is not the case for non-static configurations. In 1934, Tolman found a general solution describing the evolution of a spherical dust shell in GR. In this particular case, Tolman's solution describes the collapsing dust ball; the inner space--time structure of the ball corresponds to the Friedmann universe filled by a dust. In the present work we use the general Tolman's solution in order to construct a dynamic spherically symmetric wormhole solution in GR with dust-like matter. The solution constructed represents the collapsing dust ball with the inner wormhole space--time structure. It is worth noting that, with the dust-like matter, the ball is made of satisfies the usual energy conditions and cannot prevent the collapse. We discuss in detail the properties of the collapsing dust wormhole.
Relationships Among Parental Self-Efficacy, Home Learning Activities, and Child Skills
Creators: name: Gessulat, Juliane
name: Kluczniok, Katharina
name: Oppermann, Elisa
name: Anders, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: beliefs
subject: child skills
subject: home environment
subject: preschool
subject: self-efficacy
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::370 Bildung und Erziehung::370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: Objective To investigate relationships among parental self-efficacy, home learning activities, and children's socioemotional and language skills for preschool children. Background Higher parental self-efficacy is often related to better child skills and with more home learning activities. However, the relationships between parental self-efficacy, home learning activities, and children's skills have not yet been investigated. Method The path models draw on data from 727 parents of preschool children (full sample: 85.1% female, 50.9% employed, 24.8% non-German family language) and a subsample of 108 parents of preschool children who soon transition to elementary school in Germany. The self-report data come from the German evaluation study “Language Daycare Centers.” Results We found significant positive links among (a) general parental self-efficacy with home learning activities and children's language skills, (b) language supporting parental self-efficacy with home learning activities and children's socioemotional skills, and (c) a negative link between language supporting parental self-efficacy and children's socioemotional problems. Conclusion The more self-efficacious parents felt, the more often they offered home learning activities and the higher they rated their children's language skills at age 5 years. Implication The findings highlight the importance of parental self-efficacy for engaging with children and the positive parental assessment of children's skills. Promoting parental self-efficacy might stimulate home learning activities and improve the home learning environment.
"Public morals" and "honest practices" in German and Canadian unfair competition law : a proper means of responding to new challenge?
Creators: name: Buss, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The thesis focuses on the use of general terms in unfair competition law in the common law jurisdiction of Canada and the civil law jurisdiction of Germany. It describes how the terms "public morals" in the German Act Against Unfair Competition and "honest practices" in the Canadian Trade-marks Act are defined and interpreted by the courts in these two different jurisdictions. While the German term more or less constitutes unfair competition law alone, the Canadian term has in the field of intellectual property a very controversial and dubious residual meaning. The analysis of Canadian judgments indicates three reasons for this significant difference in the importance of both terms. The first and most important reason is the difference in both Constitutions as to the division of powers. While the German term could be defined within the whole scope of civil law, the Canadian term from the very hour of its birth was limited to the subject-matter "trade and commerce" as interpreted by the J.C.P.C. and now the Supreme Court of Canada. The second reason is the different origin of unfair competition law in both countries. Being closely connected to the protection of trade-marks, Canadian unfair competition law was never and still is not concerned with practices that have little or nothing to do with direct interference with a competitor's proprietary rights. On the other hand, unfair competition law in Germany was and still is considered to be distinctive from intellectual property protection under other acts. Although the Act Against Unfair Competition was originally understood to be an instrument to protect the trader against dishonest competitors, the term "public morals" remained open to further interpretation beyond the protection of a businesses reputation, and focuses on the consumers' interests in the first place. The third reason is the coexistence of unwritten and written law in Canada's common law jurisdiction. Some judgments support the idea that Canadian courts were not willing to go beyond well established common law principles for the interpretation of the term "honest practices". Having shown these practical ways of interpretation the thesis shifts to the more theoretical question of whether the use of general terms is a constitutional means of reacting to new phenomena of social behaviour. First, it will be pointed out that the constitutional principle of vagueness sets a limit to the legislator's decision to refrain from a detailed regulation and to use instead general and intentionally imprecise terms. Secondly, the question will be addressed as to how Charter rights can influence the courts' interpretation of general terms.
Slipping into Sleep: neurodynamics of alertness transitions in humans and fruit flies
Creators: name: Jagannathan, Sridhar Rajan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Transition to Sleep
Neurodynamics
Sleep in humans
Sleep in fruit-flies
Electroencephalography (EEG)
multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA)
local field potential (LFP)

description: The ability to react to events in the external world determines the fate of every living organism, this general state of readiness is called as ’alertness’. What happens to neurodynamics in the brain when alertness fades away as we fall asleep? How is behaviour affected? These questions will help us understand the organizing principles in the brain and functions of sleep itself. Here I use two distant animal models, the richness in behaviour and complexity of the human brain to understand how alertness transitions affects attention; and the experimental flexibility of the fruit fly, to understand its effect over longer time intervals. I first develop an objective method to track alertness using Electroencephalography (EEG). Then, I investigate the behavioural dynamics using an auditory spatial attention task while participants fall asleep. By using multilevel modelling and psychophysics, I show that participants systematically misclassify tones from the left side when drowsy, and further with a hierarchical drift diffusion model (HDDM) show how drift-rate (evidence accumulation) explains errors. Then, I show convergent evidence in the neural dynamics using multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA). Next, I probe the effect of handedness on the same task. Handedness affects behaviour only under drowsy condition and I show how neural dynamics are affected by a combination of handedness and alertness. To approach alertness transitions in a system with reduced neural complexity, I explore those dynamics in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), using both single and multichannel local field potential (LFP) data to show how alertness transitions and sleep modulate different regions of the fly brain. Further, I validate the results by converging evidence from causal manipulations. Finally, I discuss how the mapping of alertness transitions -under natural conditions- can help us understand fundamental questions in neuroscience such as the functions of sleep or the mechanisms of general anaesthesia.
description: Gates Cambridge
Chandra unveils a binary Active Galactic Nucleus in Mrk463
Creators: name: Bianchi, Stefano
name: Chiaberge, Marco
name: Piconcelli, Enrico
name: Guainazzi, Matteo
name: Matt, Giorgio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse Chandra, XMM-Newton and HST data of the double-nucleus Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy (ULIRG), Mrk463. The Chandra detection of two luminous ($\mathrm{L}_\mathrm{2-10 keV}=1.5\times10^{43}$ and $3.8\times10^{42}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$), unresolved nuclei in Mrk~463 indicates that this galaxy hosts a binary AGN, with a projected separation of $\simeq3.8$ kpc ($3.83\pm0.01$ arcsec). While the East nucleus was already known to be a Seyfert 2 (and this is further confirmed by our Chandra detection of a neutral iron line), this is the first unambiguous evidence in favour of the AGN nature of the West nucleus. Mrk463 is therefore the clearest case so far for a binary AGN, after NGC6240.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Model-based multi-sensor fusion for reconstructing wall-bounded turbulence
Creators: name: Wang, Mengying
name: Krishna, C. Vamsi
name: Luhar, Mitul
name: Hemati, Maziar S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wall-bounded turbulent flows can be challenging to measure within experiments due to the breadth of spatial and temporal scales inherent in such flows. Instrumentation capable of obtaining time-resolved data (e.g., Hot-Wire Anemometers) tends to be restricted to spatially-localized point measurements; likewise, instrumentation capable of achieving spatially-resolved field measurements (e.g., Particle Image Velocimetry) tends to lack the sampling rates needed to attain time-resolution in many such flows. In this study, we propose to fuse measurements from multi-rate and multi-fidelity sensors with predictions from a physics-based model to reconstruct the spatiotemporal evolution of a wall-bounded turbulent flow. A "fast" filter is formulated to assimilate high-rate point measurements with estimates from a linear model derived from the Navier-Stokes equations. Additionally, a "slow" filter is used to update the reconstruction every time a new field measurement becomes available. By marching through the data both forward and backward in time, we are able to reconstruct the turbulent flow with greater spatiotemporal resolution than either sensing modality alone. We demonstrate the approach using direct numerical simulations of a turbulent channel flow from the Johns Hopkins Turbulence Database. A statistical analysis of the model-based multi-sensor fusion approach is also conducted.
Hydrogen-Induced Disproportionation of Samarium-Cobalt Intermetallics Enabling Promoted Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activity and Durability in Alkaline Media
Creators: name: Chen, Ziliang
name: Mebs, Stefan
name: Mondal, Indranil
name: Yang, Hongyuan
name: Dau, Holger
name: Kang, Zhenhui
name: Haumann, Michael
name: Ghosh, Suptish
name: Cen, Wanglai
name: Driess, Matthias
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: alkaline hydrogen evolution
subject: disproportionation
subject: gaseous hydrogen engineering
subject: phase reconstruction
subject: rare earth-transition metal intermetallics
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Transition-metal nanoparticles hold great promise as electrocatalysts for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), however, addressing the simultaneous challenges of ensuring sufficient active sites, promoting favorable water dissociation, and optimizing binding energy toward hydrogen intermediates remains a formidable task. To overcome these hurdles, a novel gaseous hydrogen engineering strategy is proposed by in situ embedding cobalt nanoparticles within a samarium hydride matrix (Co/SmH2) via hydrogen-induced disproportionation of SmCo5 particles for efficient alkaline HER. The as-designed Co/SmH2 delivered an overpotential as low as 252 mV at 100 mA cm−2, surpassing the performance of pristine Co by 100 mV. Notably, this catalyst lasts remarkably long maintaining a durability at ≈500 mA cm−2 for 120 h. A combination of in situ Raman spectroscopy, in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy, density functional theory calculation and post-HER characterizations unambiguously unveiled that the surface SmH2 transforms into samarium (hydr)oxide during electrocatalysis. This transformation not only inhibits the aggregation of the ultrafine cobalt nanoparticles but also significantly enhances the water dissociation and optimizes the binding energy of active cobalt species toward hydrogen intermediate, resulting in concurrent improvement of kinetics, thermodynamics, and stability of the HER process.
Capitulation for locally free class groups of orders of group algebras over number fields
Creators: name: Greither, Cornelius
name: Johnston, Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R65; 11R33

description: We prove a capitulation result for locally free class groups of orders of group algebras over number fields. As a corollary, we obtain an "arithmetically disjoint capitulation result" for the Galois module structure of rings of integers.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, uses xy-pic. v2 covers the non-abelian case. v3 includes numerous minor corrections following referee's report. v4 corrects error in Remark 1.5
Goodness-Of-Fit Tests for Two-Dimensional Circular Normal Probability Distribution
Creators: name: Voinov Vassilly
name: Pya Natalya
name: Makarov Rashid
name: Voinov Yevgeniy
Publisher: name: Asian Forum on Business Education (AFBE)
Year: 2012
Subjects: Probability Distribution

description: 2, 5, AFBE Journal
On the importance of sequence alignment inspections in plastid phylogenomics – an example from revisiting the relationships of the water-lilies
Creators: name: Roestel, Jessica A.
name: Wiersema, John H.
name: Jansen, Robert K.
name: Borsch, Thomas
name: Gruenstaeudl, Michael
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: water-lilies
subject: plastid phylogenomics
subject: sequence alignment inspections
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::580 Pflanzen (Botanik)::580 Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: The water-lily clade represents the second earliest-diverging branch of angiosperms. Most of its species belong to Nymphaeaceae, of which the “core Nymphaeaceae”—comprising the genera Euryale, Nymphaea and Victoria—is the most diverse clade. Despite previous molecular phylogenetic studies on the core Nymphaeaceae, various aspects of their evolutionary relationships have remained unresolved. The length-variable introns and intergenic spacers are known to contain most of the sequence variability within the water-lily plastomes. Despite the challenges with multiple sequence alignment, any new molecular phylogenetic investigation on the core Nymphaeaceae should focus on these noncoding plastome regions. For example, a new plastid phylogenomic study on the core Nymphaeaceae should generate DNA sequence alignments of all plastid introns and intergenic spacers based on the principle of conserved sequence motifs. In this investigation, we revisit the phylogenetic history of the core Nymphaeaceae by employing such an approach. Specifically, we use a plastid phylogenomic analysis strategy in which all coding and noncoding partitions are separated and then undergo software-driven DNA sequence alignment, followed by a motif-based alignment inspection and adjustment. This approach allows us to increase the reliability of the character base compared to the default practice of aligning complete plastomes through software algorithms alone. Our approach produces significantly different phylogenetic tree reconstructions for several of the plastome regions under study. The results of these reconstructions underscore that Nymphaea is paraphyletic in its current circumscription, that each of the five subgenera of Nymphaea is monophyletic, and that the subgenus Nymphaea is sister to all other subgenera of Nymphaea. Our results also clarify many evolutionary relationships within the Nymphaea subgenera Brachyceras, Hydrocallis and Nymphaea. In closing, we discuss whether the phylogenetic reconstructions obtained through our motif-based alignment adjustments are in line with morphological evidence on water-lily evolution.
Workshop Pengelolaan Jurnal Menuju Terindeks DOAJ Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Adab UIN SMH Banten
Creators: name: Maulana, Asep Erlan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: DOAJ
Pengelolaan Jurnal

description: Materi ini disampaikan pada kegiatan Workshop Pengelolaan Jurnal Menuju Terindeks DOAJ Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Adab UIN SMH Banten. Tanggal 17 Maret 2022
MUSE observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: A reference for future comet observations with MUSE
Creators: name: Opitom, C.
name: Guilbert-Lepoutre, A.
name: Besse, S.
name: Yang, B.
name: Snodgrass, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were performed with MUSE at large heliocentric distances post-perihelion, between March 3 and 7, 2016. Those observations were part of a simultaneous ground-based campaign aimed at providing large-scale information about comet 67P that complement the ESA/Rosetta mission. We obtained a total of 38 datacubes over 5 nights. We take advantage of the integral field unit (IFU) nature of the instrument to study simultaneously the spectrum of 67P's dust and its spatial distribution in the coma. We also look for evidence of gas emission in the coma. We produce a high quality spectrum of the dust coma over the optical range that could be used as a reference for future comet observations with the instrument. The slope of the dust reflectivity is of 10%$/100$ nm over the 480-900 nm interval, with a shallower slope towards redder wavelengths. We use the $\mathrm{Afρ}$ to quantify the dust production and measure values of 65$\pm$4 cm, 75$\pm$4 cm, and 82$\pm$4 cm in the V, R, and I bands respectively. We detect several jets in the coma, as well as the dust trail. Finally, using a novel method combining spectral and spatial information, we detect the forbidden oxygen emission line at 630 nm. Using this line we derive a water production rate of $1.5\pm0.6 \times 10^{26} \mathrm{molec./s}$, assuming all oxygen atoms come from the photo-dissociation of water.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
High-temperature KCl-induced corrosion of high Cr and Ni alloys investigated by in-situ diffraction
Creators: name: Kingsbery, Phillip
name: Manzoni, Anna M.
name: Suarez Ocaño, P.
name: Többens, D. M.
name: Stephan-Scherb, C.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: deposit-induced corrosion
subject: high-temperature corrosion
subject: in-situ X-ray diffraction
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: High-temperature KCl-induced corrosion in laboratory air was observed in situ utilizing X-ray diffraction. High Cr-containing model alloys (Fe-13Cr, Fe-18Cr-12Ni, and Fe-25Cr-20Ni) were coated with KCl and exposed to dry air at 560°C. KCl-free alloys were studied in the equivalent atmosphere as a reference. After exposure to KCl-free environments, all alloys showed the formation of very thin oxide layers, indicating good corrosion resistance. In contrast, KCl-bearing alloys showed distinct damage after exposure.
Age, composition and spatial distribution of sandy loess in north-eastern Germany (Fläming, Brandenburg)
Creators: name: Kirsten, Fabian
name: Starke, Joris
name: Bauriegel, Albrecht
name: Müller, Robert
name: Jouaux, Jens
name: Lüthgens, Christopher
name: Sinapius, Ralf
name: Hardt, Jacob
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: coversand
subject: grain size distribution
subject: kriging
subject: luminescence dating
subject: MIS 2
subject: periglacial
subject: sandy loess
subject: source areas
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: The sandy loess deposits in the lowlands of northern Germany present a valuable sedimentary archive for late Weichselian periglacial geomorphodynamics. While other aeolian sediments from the Late Quaternary, especially loess deposits and sand dunes, have been studied and dated in some detail in the last decades, sandy loess has received less scientific attention with respect to its genesis, composition, age and provenance as well as distribution patterns. In this study, we present detailed results for three sediment sections located on the Fläming ridge in the south of the state of Brandenburg. According to our results from luminescence dating, the sandy loess deposits of this area were deposited during the late MIS 2 (19–14 ka) with a highly variable thickness of at least up to 4 m, followed by a deposition of periglacial coversands shortly thereafter. The sandy loess deposits display a homogeneous geochemical composition and grain size characteristics similar to loess sections in the main loess areas to the west and south. Furthermore, we analysed a large dataset of geological drill data and performed a spatial interpolation of sandy loess distribution in the Western Fläming. Despite the strongly dissected modern landscape of the Fläming ridge which is partly the result of intense Holocene soil erosion processes, general patterns of the original loess distribution could be deduced. Based on these findings, we were able to identify the low-lying areas to the north and north-east of the study area to be the most likely source areas for the sandy loess as a result of katabatic winds originating from the Fennoscandian Ice Shield. Thereby, this study yields important insights regarding aeolian transport and deposition patterns under periglacial conditions in the Central European Lowlands.
Pseudosuberites montiniger
Creators: name: Morozov, Grigori
name: Sabirov, Rushan
name: Zimina, Olga
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Hadromerida
Suberitidae
Pseudosuberites
Pseudosuberites montiniger

description: Pseudosuberites montiniger (Carter, 1880)
 (Figure 10 (a – d))
 suberites montiniger Carter 1880, p. 256 – 257; Vosmaer 1882, p. 31 – 32; pl. I, fig. 26; pl. IV, figs 137 – 139; Koltun 1966, p. 96 – 97, fig. 69; pl. XXIV, fig. 3; pl. XXXIII, figs 1 – 2 Pseudosuberites montiniger: Hentschel 1916, p. 6 – 7; Hentschel 1929, p. 870, 927 stylotella gorbunovi: Rezvoi 1931, p. 510 – 512, figs 3 – 5
 Description
 (Figure 10 (a – b)). Sponge massive, laterally flattened, about 5 cm in height and 4 cm in width. Surface even. The consistency is dense, but quite elastic. The single osculum, surrounded by the short spicular collar, opens at the summit. Colour ash grey. One specimen examined.
 Skeleton
(Figure 10 (c)). Skeleton of irregular form and composed of numerous disorderly scattered short spicula-bundles and single spicules. Only near the surface do bundles become arranged radially, forming a distinct brush of spicules.
 Spicules
 (Figure 10 (d)). Tylostyles often slightly sinuous, rather sharply pointed, with weakly pronounced basal swelling, dimensions: 264.7 – 313.3 – 363.7 (n = 30) × 3.9 – 5.3 – 6.5 (n = 20) µm.
 Distribution
 The Greenland and Norwegian seas, Barents Sea (south-west of Novaya Zemlya, near northern tip of Kanin Peninsula, Spitsbergen), East Siberian Sea (Bennett Island, st. A-30), Chukchi Sea, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Strait of Tartary. Depth range: 10 – 426 m.
description: Published as part of Morozov, Grigori, Sabirov, Rushan & Zimina, Olga, 2019, Sponge fauna of the New Siberian Shoal: biodiversity and some features of formation, pp. 2961-2992 in Journal of Natural History 52 (47) on pages 2961-2992, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1554166, http://zenodo.org/record/3654165
Same but different? Explaining issue agendas of right-wing parties’ Facebook campaigns to the 2019 EP election
Creators: name: Pfetsch, Barbara
name: Benert, Vivien
name: Heft, Annett
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: right-wing parties
subject: issue agendas
subject: structural topic modelling
subject: logistic regression
subject: EP election
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: Social media are important for right-wing parties to communicate with and mobilize potential voters in election campaigns. Our study focuses on the Facebook campaigns of right-wing parties in six European countries and aims to understand which issues were transnationally shared and which ones emphasize national perspectives on the agenda of the populist actors. We ask what context conditions on the party- and country-level determine the individual issue agendas. Using structural topic modelling, we analyze the communication of the Austrian FPÖ, the German AfD, the French RN, the Italian Lega, the Polish PiS, and the Swedish SD during the 2019 EP election campaign. To explain their issue agendas, we run logistic regression models testing the influence of country-specific and party-specific factors. Our analyses establish that while right-wing parties across Europe are similar in pushing a few populist issues like blaming elites and immigration, they still engage in campaigning on national politics.
AGE AND INDIVIDUAL PECULIARITIES OF LEARNING ENGLISH OF MIDDLE STAGE STUDENTS
Creators: name: Kulmagambetova, S.S.
name: Ikhsanova, B.M.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: age and individual characteristics
cognitive activity
choice of methods
education process

description: This article is devoted to the age and individual peculiarities of middle stage students learning English at the general educational school. Teaching as a process of knowledge transfer is very important, but often the teacher is faced with the problems of teaching certain age groups. Taking into account individual personality characteristics contributes to improving the effectiveness of pedagogical work, knowledge of the laws of age-related development also plays an essential role in the process of learning the English language of students, as it makes it possible to fully understand how it is necessary to build the pedagogical process and what types of activities will have the greatest impact on students at this age period of their development. Middle stage students differ from other students in that they are more difficult to control and often they defiantly show their deviant behavior to others. Today, there are many useful and effective methods that teachers can implement into their English lessons for more effective learning. Age-specific features of students' development are manifested in different ways in their individual formation. This is due to the fact that middle stage students, depending on their natural inclinations and living conditions, differ significantly from each other. That is why the development of each of them, in turn, is characterized by significant individual differences and features that must be taken into account in the process of education and upbringing
Foreign access to banking markets in China and Taiwan
Creators: name: Lin, Chia-Chi Jackie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: China and Taiwan today are both trying to become members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Recently they have committed a lot of efforts in their banking law reforms and these recent reforms in both countries have provided more opportunities for foreign financial investors. With future WTO memberships, China and Taiwan will be bound by the upcoming General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and consequently will increase their domestic banking services market to foreign banks. This thesis postulates that, while Taiwan and China have different attitudes toward their financial policy, both countries will continue to liberalize their financial markets in the context of the GATS. In time, with China's future financial reform having relevant influence on its economy, its future impact will be an important consideration for Taiwan, who is also going through financial reform and trying to establish itself as the Asia Pacific Financial Operation Center in the region. This thesis focuses on the foreign access opportunities to the banking markets in China and Taiwan. Chapter One starts with a brief introduction, followed by Chapter Two, which begins with an overview of GATS as well as its Annexes, Decision and Understanding on Financial Services. Chapter Three examines the entry conditions and business activities of foreign banks in China, followed by the assessment on the impact of China's accession to WTO. In comparison, Chapter Four further examines the entry conditions and business activities of foreign banks in Taiwan, followed by a description of Taiwan's future legislative reforms geared toward WTO membership with intents to become the Asia Pacific Financial Operation Center of the future. Finally, Chapter Five marks the conclusion for this thesis.
Beyond trade-offs: Exploring the changing interplay of public and private welfare provision in old age and health in the historical long-run
Creators: name: Horn, Alexander
name: Kohl, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: public-private trade-off
subject: insurance
subject: pension
subject: health
subject: welfare state retrenchment
subject: party ideology
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::350 Öffentliche Verwaltung, Militärwissenschaft::351 Öffentliche Verwaltung

description: Modern welfare states compete with private providers of welfare in offering economic security. This is most evident in the case of pensions competing with life insurance and private pensions as well as of public health insurance competing with private insurance providers. The common view of this public–private relationship is one of a trade-off: longitudinally, political scientists describe how retrenchment was pushed by privatized welfare, whereas economists trace the crowding-out of private to public welfare provisions. Cross-sectionally, they claim that countries have lower public spending levels because they have a large private sector. We suggest a more nuanced view. Drawing on a new long-run panel data of public pension and private life insurance expenditures and contributions in 20 OECD countries since Bismarck to the current day, we show that in the postwar years a cross-sectional trade-off emerged, which then faded. Longitudinally, complementary relationships of public and private provision growth have become the norm. We argue theoretically and show empirically that trade-offs only occur if governments still hold (waning) anti-interventionist and pro-market views.
Topological Mott transition in a Weyl-Hubbard model with dynamical mean-field theory
Creators: name: Irsigler, Bernhard
name: Grass, Tobias
name: Zheng, Jun-Hui
name: Barbier, Mathieu
name: Hofstetter, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional, topologically protected, gapless phases which show exotic phenomena such as Fermi arc surface states or negative magnetoresistance. It is an open question whether interparticle interactions can turn the topological semimetal into a topologically nontrivial Mott insulating phase. We investigate an experimentally motivated model for Weyl physics of cold atoms in optical lattices, with the main focus on interaction effects and topological properties by means of dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). We characterize topological phases by numerically evaluating the Chern number via the Ishsikawa-Matsuyama formula for interacting phases. Within our studies, we find that the Chern numbers become trivial when interactions lead to insulating behavior. For a deeper understanding of the Weyl-semimetal-to-Mott-insulator topological phase transition, we evaluate the topological properties of quasiparticle bands as well as so-called blind bands. Our study is complementary to recent studies of Weyl semimetals with DMFT.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Halichondria (Halichondria)
Creators: name: Morozov, Grigori
name: Sabirov, Rushan
name: Zimina, Olga
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Halichondrida
Halichondriidae
Halichondria

description: Halichondria (Halichondria)  sp.
(Figure 11 (a))
 Description
Body elongated, cylindrical, with peduncle. Consistency is fragile and crumbly. The surface is uneven, scabrous, and coarse-pored. Dermal membrane is a thin crust filled with a layer of disorderly scattered spicules lying tangentially; easily separated from the tissues below. The largest of the fragments examined was about 2 cm in height and 1 cm in diameter. Colour (in alcohol) is light grey.
 Skeleton
 The main skeleton consists of quite compact, more or less longitudinally arranged, branching bundles, which have a thickness of 3 – 6 spicules. Numerous disorderly scattered single spicules fill the spaces between the main bundles. Towards the surface the bundles of the main skeleton become oriented more or less perpendicular to the ectosome, supporting the superficial crust.
 Spicules
 (Figure 11 (a)) Slightly curved, rather long-pointed oxea, dimensions: 243.7 – 443 – 604.2 (n = 30) × 8.5 – 15 – 18.5 (n = 25) µm.
 Distribution
 East Greenland Shelf, north-west of the Faroe Islands, the Barents and Kara seas, north of the New Siberian Islands (st. A-57). Depth range: 18 – 494 m.
 Remarks
 This species is quite similar to H. oblonga (Hansen 1885) except for the skeletal structure. As Lundbeck noted (1902, p. 24 – 26), the main skeleton of H. oblonga consists of an irregular network of loose fibres, in which the ‘ spread spicules outside the fibres as good as none are found ’. Furthermore, examined specimens are characterised by the absence of special ectosomal skeleton. To assess these differences, additional specimens need to be examined.
description: Published as part of Morozov, Grigori, Sabirov, Rushan & Zimina, Olga, 2019, Sponge fauna of the New Siberian Shoal: biodiversity and some features of formation, pp. 2961-2992 in Journal of Natural History 52 (47) on pages 2961-2992, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1554166, http://zenodo.org/record/3654165
In-plane hole density in Ca(0.1)La(0.9)Ba(1.65)La(0.35)Cu(3)O(y) ; nuclear resonance study over the full doping range
Creators: name: Kanigel, Amit
name: Keren, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report in-plane Cu(63) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance measurements for a series of fully enriched Ca(0.1)La(0.9)Ba(1.65)La(0.35)Cu(3)O(y) powder samples, which belong to the YBCO family, but the doping could vary from very underdoped to extremely overdoped. From these measurements we determine the average nuclear quadrupole resonance frequency ν_Q, and its second moment Δ(ν_Q), both set by the in-plane hole density, n, as a function of oxygen level, y. We find that in the overdoped side n is saturated, but Δ(ν_Q) rapidly increases with increasing y. The relevance of these results to the increasing penetration depth in overdoped cuprates is discussed.
description: Accepted to PRB
FACTORS OF FORMATION OF RISKY BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Creators: name: Aborina, M.V.
name: Filshtinskaya, E.G.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: risk behavior
auto-aggression
propensity to manipulate
emotional orientation
character accentuation
values

description: The article discusses the psychological factors of the formation of risky and autoaggressive behavior of young people, such as the tendency to manipulate others, character traits, meaningful life values, personality orientation.