cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Estimation of the bispectrum for locally stationary processes
Creators: name: Paparoditis, Efstathios
name: Preuß, Philip
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: bispectrum
subject: linearity test
subject: locally stationary process
subject: non stationary processes
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: We consider the problem of estimating the bispectrum of a locally stationary process. A non- parametric, lag-window type estimator is considered and its asymptotic properties are investigated. As a possible application, a test for linearity in the framework of locally stationary processes is discussed.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;46/2013
(200495) George Cheesman
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Learning antecedents and organizational consequences of dynamic capabilities : a study of Malaysian industry
Creators: name: Ng, Sin Pei
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Dynamic capabilities explain why some firms are successful in dynamic business environments. Despite the progress in the field of dynamic capabilities, there still remains lack of understanding in terms of conceptualization, creation, and impact of dynamic capabilities. This study addresses these research gaps. Data was collected via survey from the high-tech industry of Malaysia. Using PLS path analysis of data from 138 high-tech firms, the study finds dynamic capabilities to be a multidimensional construct represented by absorptive capability, adaptive capability, and innovative capability. Market research, benchmarking, and in-house R&D are identified to be significant learning mechanisms that facilitate creation of dynamic capabilities. The results also find dynamic capabilities facilitate achievement of organizational effectiveness via product innovation and market innovation, and organizational efficiency through process innovation and behavioral innovation. This study contributes to current understanding in the field by validating a multidimensional conceptualization of dynamic capabilities, elucidating three learning mechanisms as significant antecedents in the development of dynamic capabilities, and identifying the innovation paths through which dynamic capabilities impact organizational effectiveness and organizational efficiency.
(200496) Arthur Cheesman
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
WQeMS Services Factsheets (in Spanish)
Creators: name: Manakos, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Factsheets are 1 to 2 page sheets with minimum simple text and maximum figure(s) presentation that support the dissemination towards the society, the public and private sectors, and act as teasers for the service elements of WQeMS 
Consistency of detrended fluctuation analysis
Creators: name: Løvsletten, Ola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scaling function $F(s)$ in detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) scales as $F(s)\sim s^{H}$ for stochastic processes with Hurst exponents $H$. We prove this scaling law for both stationary stochastic processes with $01$. As a final application of the new theory, we present an estimator $\hat F(s)$ that can handle missing data in regularly sampled time series without the need for interpolation schemes. Under mild regularity conditions, $\hat F(s)$ is equal in expectation to the fluctuation function $F(s)$ in the gap-free case.
Brief an [Johann Rudolf] Geigy
Creators: name: Lunge, Georg
name: Haus der Bücher
name: J. A. Stargardt
name: Kotte Autographs
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1882

description: von [Georg] Lunge
description: Briefkopf: Professor Dr. Lunge, Zürich
description: Kotte Autograph GmbH Klösterle 2, D-87672 Rosshaupten Kauf 13.1.2023 2023,01H Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel Kaufpreis: EUR 150.-
description: Deutsch
description: Wurde 1961 vom Haus der Bücher und Stargardt in Marburg versteigert.
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2023 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Katalogisierung nach Original, Auktionskatalog und Burckhardts Nachtragsliste nni
(200498) Walter Cheesman
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
37 Briefe an [Johann Caspar] Lavater
Brief an Lavater ...
Creators: name: Keller, Margaretha
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1795

description: von M[argaretha] Keller
description: Davon 1 Brief mit Beischrift ihrer Schwester Catharina Brunner-Keller (1764-1818) (Nr. 146); 1 Brief von Catharina Brunner-Keller (geb. Keller, verw. Brunner, verh. Nägeli), mitunterzeichnet von deren 2. Ehemann Rudolf Nägeli (1762-1828) (Nr. 148)
description: Davon 2 Briefe Bruchstücke (Nr. 112 und 113), wovon einer undatiert (Nr. 113)
description: Keller: 1763-1820, Tochter von Heinrich Keller (1719-1771), Pfarrer in Birmensdorf
Upper bounds on mixing time of finite Markov chains
Creators: name: Rhodes, John
name: Schilling, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E16, 20M30, 60J10 (Primary) 20M05, 60B15, 60C05 (Secondary)

description: We provide a general framework for computing upper bounds on mixing times of finite Markov chains when its minimal ideal is left zero. Our analysis is based on combining results by Brown and Diaconis with our previous work on stationary distributions of finite Markov chains. Stationary distributions can be computed from the Karnofsky--Rhodes and McCammond expansion of the right Cayley graph of the finite semigroup underlying the Markov chain. Using loop graphs, which are planar graphs consisting of a straight line with attached loops, there are rational expressions for the stationary distribution in the probabilities. From these we obtain bounds on the mixing time. In addition, we provide a new Markov chain on linear extension of a poset with $n$ vertices, inspired by but different from the promotion Markov chain of Ayyer, Klee and the last author. The mixing time of this Markov chain is $O(n \log n)$.
description: 24 pages; 6 figures; v2: incorporated comments from referees
(200500) Frederick John Gilburd
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Controlled-phase gate for photons based on stationary light
Creators: name: Iakoupov, Ivan
name: Borregaard, Johannes
name: Sørensen, Anders S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to induce strong effective interactions between photons mediated by an atomic ensemble. To achieve this, we use the so-called stationary light effect to enhance the interaction. Regardless of the single-atom coupling to light, the interaction strength between the photons can be enhanced by increasing the total number of atoms. For sufficiently many atoms, the setup can be viable as a controlled-phase gate for photons. We derive analytical expressions for the fidelities for two modes of gate operation: deterministic and heralded conditioned on the presence of two photons at the output.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures + Supplemental Material
Cartilha de Boas práticas de secagem da madeira
Creators: name: Silva, Láina Poliana Rocha da
name: Neves, Laura Beatriz Pires das
name: Yamaguti, Saly Takeshita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Esta cartilha é resultado do trabalho desenvolvido por discentes do curso de Engenharia Florestal da Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia – UFRA campus Paragominas durante a participação no Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Extensão – PIBEX (PROEX/UFRA) com o intuito de desenvolver um material didático e acessível, incentivando as boas práticas de secagem da madeira. Espera-se que a mão-de-obra que atua no setor possa realizar o processo de secagem da madeira adequado, identificar os principais defeitos que ocorrem e obter melhorias na qualidade final do produto comercializado.
Implications of a non-zero Poynting flux at infinity sans radiation reaction for a uniformly accelerated charge
Creators: name: Singal, Ashok K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study in detail the electromagnetic fields and the Poynting flux in the case of a uniformly accelerated charge, in order to examine whether such a charge does `emit' radiation, especially in view of the widely accepted fact that there is no radiation reaction on the charge. Our concern, in particular, is with the Poynting flow computed at large distances (approaching infinity!) from the time-retarded positions of uniformly accelerated charge, and taken as an evidence of radiation emitted by the charge, which we shall demonstrate to be not true. As the charge picks up speed due to a constant acceleration, the energy in its self-fields accordingly increases and the Poynting flow, usually inferred as radiation, actually forms part of the requisite energy being fed into fields, at a rate just sufficient to match the increasing energy in its self-fields at various distances from the uniformly accelerated charge, including that in the far-off regions. In fact, for the decelerating charge, the energy in its self-fields decreases, at all distances from the charge, till it comes to momentary rest with no energy in its transverse fields, and this decrease in energy is shown {\em everywhere} by an inward radial flow of the Poynting vector, toward the `present' position of the decelerating charge. Moreover, there is a convective flow of self-fields of the charge, seen as a Poynting flow component always along the `present' direction of motion of the charge. Further, we shall show that effectively the electromagnetic fields, including the acceleration fields, even when they are at large distances from the time-retarded position of the charge, they continue to be all around the `present' position of the charge which itself is moving toward infinity due to the uniform acceleration.
description: 29 pages, 10 figures, accepted in Foundations of Physics
Quasi-Locality Bounds for Quantum Lattice Systems. Part II. Perturbations of Frustration-Free Spin Models with Gapped Ground States
Creators: name: Nachtergaele, Bruno
name: Sims, Robert
name: Young, Amanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B10, 82C10, 82C20

description: We study the stability with respect to a broad class of perturbations of gapped ground state phases of quantum spin systems defined by frustration-free Hamiltonians. The core result of this work is a proof using the Bravyi-Hastings-Michalakis (BHM) strategy that under a condition of Local Topological Quantum Order, the bulk gap is stable under perturbations that decay at long distances faster than a stretched exponential. Compared to previous work we expand the class of frustration-free quantum spin models that can be handled to include models with more general boundary conditions, and models with discrete symmetry breaking. Detailed estimates allow us to formulate sufficient conditions for the validity of positive lower bounds for the gap that are uniform in the system size and that are explicit to some degree. We provide a survey of the BHM strategy following the approach of Michalakis and Zwolak, with alterations introduced to accommodate more general than just periodic boundary conditions and more general lattices. We express the fundamental condition known as LTQO by means of the notion of indistinguishability radius, which we introduce. Using the uniform finite-volume results we then proceed to study the thermodynamic limit. We first study the case of a unique limiting ground state and then also consider models with spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry. In the latter case, LTQO cannot hold for all local observables. However, for perturbations that preserve the symmetry, we show stability of the gap and the structure of the broken symmetry phases. We prove that the GNS Hamiltonian associated with each pure state has a non-zero spectral gap above the ground state.
description: Turned off `showkeys' :) and minor edits
(200505) Elizabeth Vincent
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Enabling GPU Accelerated Computing in the SUNDIALS Time Integration Library
Creators: name: Balos, Cody J.
name: Gardner, David J.
name: Woodward, Carol S.
name: Reynolds, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As part of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a recent focus of development efforts for the SUite of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers (SUNDIALS) has been to enable GPU-accelerated time integration in scientific applications at extreme scales. This effort has resulted in several new GPU-enabled implementations of core SUNDIALS data structures, support for programming paradigms which are aware of the heterogeneous architectures, and the introduction of utilities to provide new points of flexibility. In this paper, we discuss our considerations, both internal and external, when designing these new features and present the features themselves. We also present performance results for several of the features on the Summit supercomputer and early access hardware for the Frontier supercomputer, which demonstrate negligible performance overhead resulting from the additional infrastructure and significant speedups when using both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.
WQeMS Services Factsheets (in German)
Creators: name: Manakos, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Factsheets are 1 to 2 page sheets with minimum simple text and maximum figure(s) presentation that support the dissemination towards the society, the public and private sectors, and act as teasers for the service elements of WQeMS 
Consequences for the inadequately resourced expatriating family
Creators: name: Edwards, Scott
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: What is the impact of cultural adjustment on an individual's sense of coherence and how does this affect the equilibrium of the self-initiated expatriate family? What resources reinforce the cohesion and attachment within these families? In order to address the above issues the primary aim of the thesis was to investigate how expatriating family members accommodated the adjustment required of individuals and the family unit upon entering a new cultural setting. More Specifically the principal research topics examined were: • the impact of expatriation upon both an individual's sense of coherence and the equilibrium or cohesion and attachment within the expatriating family • the problems that arise from expatriation including the demands of adjusting to a new cultural setting • the coping mechanisms and resources, both internal and external, required to accommodate these problems and cultural challenges • the indirect or hidden costs of long term disturbance of an individual's sense of coherence and a family 's equilibrium and attachment.
title: Three essays on economic and political inequality in the United States
Creators: name: Parmigiani, Alberto
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2023

description: This thesis, structured in three articles, studies the interplay between economic inequality and political influence in the United States in the last four decades. By making use of campaign contributions as a proxy for political influence, the dissertation analyses the impact of rising income inequality on public policy decision. In the introduction, I discuss the relationship between the level of economic disparities and political inequality in advanced contemporary democracies and I describe in detail the system of finance of politics in the United States. The first article of the thesis analyses the concentration of campaign contributions to members of Congress in relation to their legislative behaviour. It argues that a skewed structure of political funds makes legislators more dependent from a relatively smaller number of donors, and thus less committed in representing their constituencies. In this sense, I find that legislators with a more concentrated distribution of donations are less active in sponsoring bills, delivering speeches and appearing before committees. The second article studies the effect of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on political donations. This policy involved a large cut in marginal tax rates which was disproportionately higher for richest income owners, thus increasing income inequality. I show that this landmark reform of the second Reagan administration caused an increase of contributions from the top ten percent of income owners. I conclude that the erosion of tax progressivity through this regressive tax policy, by reshaping the donor pool towards the right tail of the income distribution, has represented a crucial step in the spiral between economic inequality and uneven political influence of the last four decades. In the third paper, I use voter registration and individual campaign contributions data to study the rising ideological polarization of donors in the United States. By tracking the party affiliation of registered voters over time in a selected sample of states, I build a time-varying measure of ideology for donors. In this way, I document the rise in the ideological polarization of a very politically active part of public opinion.
Antineutrino monitoring of spent nuclear fuel
Creators: name: Brdar, Vedran
name: Huber, Patrick
name: Kopp, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Military and civilian applications of nuclear energy have left a significant amount of spent nuclear fuel over the past 70 years. Currently, in many countries world wide, the use of nuclear energy is on the rise. Therefore, the management of highly radioactive nuclear waste is a pressing issue. In this letter, we explore antineutrino detectors as a tool for monitoring and safeguarding nuclear waste material. We compute the flux and spectrum of antineutrinos emitted by spent nuclear fuel elements as a function of time, and we illustrate the usefulness of antineutrino detectors in several benchmark scenarios. In particular, we demonstrate how a measurement of the antineutrino flux can help to re-verify the contents of a dry storage cask in case the monitoring chain by conventional means gets disrupted. We then comment on the usefulness of antineutrino detectors at long-term storage facilities such as Yucca mountain. Finally, we put forward antineutrino detection as a tool in locating underground "hot spots" in contaminated areas such as the Hanford site in Washington state.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, matches published version. Antineutrino fluxes provided in the supplementary material
Leadership, engagement, and workplace behaviors: the mediating role of psychological capital
Creators: name: Robin, Mulyadi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Drawing from the positive psychology, organizational leadership and organizational behavior literature, this study explores the relationship between positive leadership behaviors, psychological capital (PsyCap), employee work engagement, as well as destructive workplace deviant behavior in Australian firms. Data were collected from Australian organizations across different industries (n=441). In the first model, the relationship between servant leadership and employee engagement as mediated by PsyCap was examined. Results suggested that PsyCap partially mediated the relationship between servant leadership and employee engagement. The second model examined the relationship between servant leadership and both interpersonal workplace deviant behavior and organizational workplace deviant behavior as mediated by PsyCap. Results suggested that the relationship between servant leadership and interpersonal workplace deviant behavior was fully mediated by PsyCap, whereby PsyCap only partially mediated the relationship between servant leadership and organizational workplace deviant behavior. In summary, the current study has addressed the gaps in the positive psychology, organizational leadership and organizational behavior literature by revealing that PsyCap is the mechanism through which servant leadership influences employee attitudes (employee engagement) and behaviors (workplace deviant behavior). The study joins the growing body of leadership literature that recognizes the distal and indirect nature of the leadership – outcome relationship. The study also provides an evidence-based case for adopting servant leadership as a framework in leadership development programs.
Our Peculiar Motion Inferred from Number Counts of Mid Infra Red AGNs and the Discordance Seen with the Cosmological Principle
Creators: name: Singal, Ashok K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dipole anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) has given a peculiar velocity vector 370 km s$^{-1}$ along $l=264^\circ,b=48^\circ$. However, some other dipoles, for instance, from the number counts, sky brightness or redshift distributions in large samples of distant Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), have yielded values of the peculiar velocity many times larger than that from the CMBR, though surprisingly, in all cases the directions agreed with the CMBR dipole. Here we determine our peculiar motion from a sample of ~0.28 million AGNs, selected from the Mid Infra Red Active Galactic Nuclei (MIRAGN) sample comprising more than a million sources. From this, we find a peculiar velocity, which is more than four times the CMBR value, although the direction seems to be within $\sim 2σ$ of the CMBR dipole. A genuine value of the solar peculiar velocity should be the same irrespective of the data or the technique employed to estimate it. Therefore, such discordant dipole amplitudes, might mean that the explanation for these dipoles, including that of the CMBR, might in fact be something else. But, the observed fact that the direction in all cases, is the same, though obtained from completely independent surveys using different instruments and techniques, by different sets of people employing different computing routines, might nonetheless indicate that these dipoles are not merely due to some systematics, otherwise why would they all be pointing along the same direction. It might instead suggest a preferred direction in the Universe, implying a genuine anisotropy, which would violate the Cosmological Principle, the core of the modern cosmology.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, accepted in Universe
Moreau-Yosida $f$-divergences
Creators: name: Terjék, Dávid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 68T07 (Primary) 46N10, 94A17 (Secondary)

description: Variational representations of $f$-divergences are central to many machine learning algorithms, with Lipschitz constrained variants recently gaining attention. Inspired by this, we define the Moreau-Yosida approximation of $f$-divergences with respect to the Wasserstein-$1$ metric. The corresponding variational formulas provide a generalization of a number of recent results, novel special cases of interest and a relaxation of the hard Lipschitz constraint. Additionally, we prove that the so-called tight variational representation of $f$-divergences can be to be taken over the quotient space of Lipschitz functions, and give a characterization of functions achieving the supremum in the variational representation. On the practical side, we propose an algorithm to calculate the tight convex conjugate of $f$-divergences compatible with automatic differentiation frameworks. As an application of our results, we propose the Moreau-Yosida $f$-GAN, providing an implementation of the variational formulas for the Kullback-Leibler, reverse Kullback-Leibler, $χ^2$, reverse $χ^2$, squared Hellinger, Jensen-Shannon, Jeffreys, triangular discrimination and total variation divergences as GANs trained on CIFAR-10, leading to competitive results and a simple solution to the problem of uniqueness of the optimal critic.
description: ICML 2021 camera ready with appendix, 38 pages, 15 figures
Asian values and democracy - evidence from the World Values Survey
Creators: name: Gu, Man Li
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis is a collection of four empirical studies that examine cross-cultural differences in social values using recent data from the World Values Survey (WVS). The WVS is a global research project which collects people’s opinion over a wide range of subjects from politics to economics to religion. Given the breadth and depth of the WVS, a comparative approach is taken in each empirical chapter to study how adherence to traditional values rooted in Islam or Confucian ideology interacts with certain liberal, Western values. The analyses are underpinned by two competing theories concerning value change. Classic modernization theory suggests that economic development has the power to transform traditional values and attitudes, whereas culturalist theory maintains that the belief system of a society is largely culture-dependent, and less susceptible to the forces of modernization. Drawing upon a sample of over 20, 000 individuals from both Western and Asian countries for which recent survey data are available, I find empirical evidence that supports the culturalist argument. Results from latent class analysis and multilevel modeling in Study 1 suggest that despite explicit widespread support for democracy, Muslim publics have a notion of democracy that is very different from the standard liberal definition in the West. The contrast is also apparent in their attitudes towards sexuality and morality issues, with many Muslims being far more conservative than the Christians from the West, as Study 2 concludes. The gap persists even after differences in the level of social development are controlled for. Muslims who believe in separating religion and state do not wholeheartedly embrace civil values that champion individual freedom of choice, such as the rights to divorce or to terminate a pregnancy. That shows that this aspect of liberal democratic thinking has yet to emerge in the Islamic culture. Turning to a group of East Asian countries, there is again a unique pattern from the survey data that suggests the enduring influence of culture. Study 3 shows that pro-democracy East Asians from modern societies such as Japan, Korea and Taiwan are no different from their Western counterparts in recognizing the importance of interpersonal trust, but they remain strong adherents of traditional family and social values such as hard work and thrift. Study 4 suggests that likewise, many Chinese, while being receptive to the idea of democracy, continue to uphold the teachings of the ancient sage Confucius on interpersonal relations.
Iterative DNA Coding Scheme With GC Balance and Run-Length Constraints Using a Greedy Algorithm
Creators: name: Park, Seong-Joon
name: Lee, Yongwoo
name: No, Jong-Seon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we propose a novel iterative encoding algorithm for DNA storage to satisfy both the GC balance and run-length constraints using a greedy algorithm. DNA strands with run-length more than three and the GC balance ratio far from 50\% are known to be prone to errors. The proposed encoding algorithm stores data at high information density with high flexibility of run-length at most $m$ and GC balance between $0.5\pmα$ for arbitrary $m$ and $α$. More importantly, we propose a novel mapping method to reduce the average bit error compared to the randomly generated mapping method, using a greedy algorithm. The proposed algorithm is implemented through iterative encoding, consisting of three main steps: randomization, M-ary mapping, and verification. The proposed algorithm has an information density of 1.8523 bits/nt in the case of $m=3$ and $α=0.05$. Also, the proposed algorithm is robust to error propagation, since the average bit error caused by the one nt error is 2.3455 bits, which is reduced by $20.5\%$, compared to the randomized mapping.
description: 19 pages
WQeMS Services Factsheets (in Greek)
Creators: name: Manakos, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Factsheets are 1 to 2 page sheets with minimum simple text and maximum figure(s) presentation that support the dissemination towards the society, the public and private sectors, and act as teasers for the service elements of WQeMS
A new Generation of Standard Solar Models
Creators: name: Vinyoles, Núria
name: Serenelli, Aldo M.
name: Villante, Francesco L.
name: Basu, Sarbani
name: Bergström, Johannes
name: Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C.
name: Maltoni, Michele
name: Peña-Garay, Carlos
name: Song, Ningqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute a new generation of standard solar models (SSMs) that includes recent updates on some important nuclear reaction rates and a more consistent treatment of the equation of state. Models also include a novel and flexible treatment of opacity uncertainties based on opacity kernels, required in the light of recent theoretical and experimental works on radiative opacity. Two large sets of SSMs, each based on a different canonical set of solar abundances with high and low metallicity (Z), are computed to determine model uncertainties and correlations among different observables. We present detailed comparisons of high- and low-Z models against different ensembles of solar observables including solar neutrinos, surface helium abundance, depth of convective envelope and sound speed profile. A global comparison, including all observables, yields a p-value of 2.7$σ$ for the high-Z model and 4.7$σ$ for the low-Z one. When the sound-speed differences in the narrow region of $0.65 < r/R_{sun} < 0.70$ are excluded from the analysis, results are 0.9$σ$ and 3.0$σ$ for high- and low-Z models respectively. These results show that: high-Z models agree well with solar data but have a systematic problem right below the bottom of the convective envelope linked to steepness of molecular weight and temperature gradients, and that low-Z models lead to a much more general disagreement with solar data. We also show that, while simple parametrizations of opacity uncertainties can strongly alleviate the solar abundance problem, they are insufficient to substantially improve the agreement of SSMs with helioseismic data beyond that obtained for high-Z models due to the intrinsic correlations of theoretical predictions. All the detailed information of the new solar models, can be found online: http://www.ice.cat/personal/aldos/Solar_Data.html
description: 20 pages, 8 figures, 8 table. Accepted in ApJ. All the detailed information of the new solar models is available online: http://www.ice.cat/personal/aldos/Solar_Data.html
Functions of class $C^\infty$ in non-commuting variables in the context of triangular Lie algebras
Creators: name: Aristov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct a certain completion $C^\infty_\mathfrak{g}$ of the universal enveloping algebra of a triangular real Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$. It is a Fréchet-Arens-Michael algebra that consists of elements of polynomial growth and satisfies to the following universal property: every Lie algebra homomorphism from $\mathfrak{g}$ to a real Banach algebra all of whose elements are of polynomial growth has an extension to a continuous homomorphism with domain~$C^\infty_\mathfrak{g}$. Elements of this algebra can be called functions of class $C^\infty$ in non-commuting variables. The proof is based on representation theory and employs an ordered $C^\infty$-functional calculus. Beyond the general case, we analyze two simple examples. As an auxiliary material, the basics of the general theory of algebras of polynomial growth are developed. We also consider local variants of the completion and obtain a sheaf of non-commutative functions on the Gelfand spectrum of $C^\infty_\mathfrak{g}$ in the case when $\mathfrak{g}$ is nilpotent. In addition, we discuss the theory of holomorphic functions in non-commuting variables introduced by Dosi and apply our methods to prove theorems strengthening some his results.
description: English translation; Russian text see version 6 and earlier; in version 4: corrections in Th.4.4 and related results; in version 2: Sections 5 and 6 rewritten, Section 3.2 removed
Microcanonical Szilárd engines beyond the quasistatic regime
Creators: name: Acconcia, Thiago V.
name: Bonança, Marcus V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the possibility of extracting energy from a single thermal bath using microcanonical Szilárd engines operating in finite time. This extends previous works on the topic which are restricted to the quasistatic regime. The feedback protocol is implemented based on linear response predictions of the excess work. It is claimed that the underlying mechanism leading to energy extraction does not violate Liouville's theorem and preserves ergodicity throughout the cycle. We illustrate our results with several examples including an exactly solvable model.
Quantum Algorithm for Fidelity Estimation
Creators: name: Wang, Qisheng
name: Zhang, Zhicheng
name: Chen, Kean
name: Guan, Ji
name: Fang, Wang
name: Liu, Junyi
name: Ying, Mingsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For two unknown mixed quantum states $ρ$ and $σ$ in an $N$-dimensional Hilbert space, computing their fidelity $F(ρ,σ)$ is a basic problem with many important applications in quantum computing and quantum information, for example verification and characterization of the outputs of a quantum computer, and design and analysis of quantum algorithms. In this paper, we propose a quantum algorithm that solves this problem in $\operatorname{poly}(\log (N), r, 1/\varepsilon)$ time, where $r$ is the lower rank of $ρ$ and $σ$, and $\varepsilon$ is the desired precision, provided that the purifications of $ρ$ and $σ$ are prepared by quantum oracles. This algorithm exhibits an exponential speedup over the best known algorithm (based on quantum state tomography) which has time complexity polynomial in $N$.
description: Final version with an improvement over the previous version. 19 pages, 2 tables, 1 algorithm
Evaluierung einer Wahrnehmungsschwelle von Kameratrackingfehlern beim Compositing realer und virtueller S3D-Videos
Creators: name: Kepplinger, Sara
name: Lagemann, Thomas
name: Seupel, Mara
name: Tittelbach, Tobias
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Dieses Paper präsentiert eine Studie zur Untersuchung der Akzeptanz von Kameratrackingfehlern in stereoskopischen Videosequenzen für den Einsatz in der Stereo-3D (S3D) Fernsehproduktion. Die klassische Betrachtungsweise von Fehlertoleranzen beim Kameratracking ist rein technisch motiviert. Im Zentrum dieser Studie wird deshalb aus zuschauerzentrierter Sicht die Fragestellung untersucht, ab welcher Ausprägung Trackingfehler in den sechs Freiheitsgraden der extrinsischen Orientierung der Kamera wahrgenommen, beziehungsweise als störend eingeschätzt werden. Dies geschieht unter Anwendung einer Variation der Methode der eben merklichen Unterschiede (Method of Limits). Die Auswertung zeigt, dass Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Parametern existieren und dass das subjektive Empfinden von Trackingfehlern weitaus toleranter ist als die harten rechnerischen Grenzen.
The clinical impact of Lumacaftor-Ivacaftor on structural lung disease and lung function in children aged 6–11 with cystic fibrosis in a real-world setting
Creators: name: McNally, Paul
name: Linnane, Barry
name: Williamson, Michael
name: Elnazir, Basil
name: Short, Christopher
name: Saunders, Clare
name: Kirwan, Laura
name: David, Rea
name: Kemner-Van de Corput, Mariette P. C.
name: Tiddens, Harm A.W.M.
name: Davies, Jane C
name: Cox, Des W
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background Data from clinical trials of lumacaftor-ivacaftor (LUM-IVA) demonstrate improvements in lung clearance index (LCI) but not in FEV1 in children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) aged 6–11 years and homozygous for the Phe508del mutation. It is not known whether LUM/IVA use in children can impact the progression of structural lung disease. We sought to determine the real-world impact of LUM/IVA on lung structure and function in children aged 6–11 years. Methods This real-world observational cohort study was conducted across four paediatric sites in Ireland over 24-months using spirometry-controlled CT scores and LCI as primary outcome measures. Children commencing LUM-/IVA as part of routine care were included. CT scans were manually scored with the PRAGMA CF scoring system and analysed using the automated bronchus-artery (BA) method. Secondary outcome measures included rate of change of ppFEV1, nutritional indices and exacerbations requiring hospitalisation. Results Seventy-one participants were recruited to the study, 31 of whom had spirometry-controlled CT performed at baseline, and after one year and two years of LUM/IVA treatment. At two years there was a reduction from baseline in trapped air scores (0.13 to 0.07, p=0.016), but an increase from baseline in the % bronchiectasis score (0.84 to 1.23, p=0.007). There was no change in overall % disease score (2.78 to 2.25, p=0.138). Airway lumen to pulmonary artery ratios (AlumenA ratio) were abnormal at baseline and worsened over the course of the study. In 28 participants, the mean annual change from baseline LCI2.5 (-0.055 (-0.61 to 0.50), p=0.85) measurements over two years were not significant. Improvements from baseline in weight (0.10 (0.06 to 0.15, p<0.0001), height (0.05 (0.02 to 0.09), p=0.002) and BMI (0.09 (0.03 to 0.15) p=0.005) z-scores were seen with LUM/IVA treatment. The mean annual change from baseline ppFEV1 (-2.45 (-4.44 to 2.54), p=0.66) measurements over two years were not significant.Conclusion In a real-world setting, the use of LUM/IVA over two years in children with CF aged 6–11 resulted in improvements in air trapping on CT but worsening in bronchiectasis scores. Our results suggest that LUM/IVA use in this age group improves air trapping but does not prevent progression of bronchiectasis over two years of treatment.
Historic wandering domains near cycles
Creators: name: Barrientos, Pablo G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We explain how to obtain non-trivial historic contractive wandering domains for a dense set of diffeomorphisms in certain type of $C^r$-Newhouse domains of homoclinic tangencies in dimension $d\geq 3$ and $r\geq 1$. In particular, this gives for the first time a contribution to Takens' last problem in the $C^1$ topology and in dimension $d>2$. We show how these Newhouse domains can be obtained arbitrarily close to diffeomorphisms exhibiting heterodimensional cycles (in dimension $d=3$) or non-transverse equidimensional cycles (in any dimension $d\ge 3$) associated with periodic points with non-real complex leading multipliers.
Deformed symmetries in noncommutative and multifractional spacetimes
Creators: name: Calcagni, Gianluca
name: Ronco, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We clarify the relation between noncommutative spacetimes and multifractional geometries, two quantum-gravity-related approaches where the fundamental description of spacetime is not given by a classical smooth geometry. Despite their different conceptual premises and mathematical formalisms, both research programs allow for the spacetime dimension to vary with the probed scale. This feature and other similarities led to ask whether there is a duality between these two independent proposals. In the absence of curvature and comparing the symmetries of both position and momentum space, we show that $κ$-Minkowski spacetime and the commutative multifractional theory with $q$-derivatives are physically inequivalent but they admit several contact points that allow one to describe certain aspects of $κ$-Minkowski noncommutative geometry as a multifractional theory and vice versa. Contrary to previous literature, this result holds without assuming any specific measure for $κ$-Minkowski. More generally, no well-defined $\star$-product can be constructed from the $q$-theory, although the latter does admit a natural noncommutative extension with a given deformed Poincaré algebra. A similar no-go theorem may be valid for all multiscale theories with factorizable measures. Turning gravity on, we write the algebras of gravitational first-class constraints in the multifractional theories with $q$- and weighted derivatives and discuss their differences with respect to the deformed algebras of $κ$-Minkowski spacetime and of loop quantum gravity.
description: 12 pages. v2: physical motivations and consequences clarified, minor typos corrected
(200489) Maud Jane Thompson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.