cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the No-Boundary Proposal for Ekpyrotic and Cyclic Cosmologies
Creators: name: Battarra, Lorenzo
name: Lehners, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The no-boundary proposal provides a compelling theory for the initial conditions of our universe. We study the implications of such initial conditions for ekpyrotic and cyclic cosmologies. These cosmologies allow for the existence of a new type of "ekpyrotic instanton", which describes the creation of a universe in the ekpyrotic contraction phase. Remarkably, we find that the ekpyrotic attractor can explain how the universe became classical. In a cyclic context, in addition to the ekpyrotic instantons there exist de Sitter-like instantons describing the emergence of the universe in the dark energy phase. Our results show that typically the ekpyrotic instantons yield a higher probability. In fact, in a potential energy landscape allowing both inflationary and cyclic cosmologies, the no-boundary proposal implies that the probability for ekpyrotic and cyclic initial conditions is vastly higher than that for inflationary ones.
description: 46 pages, 24 figures, v3: updated with version to be published in JCAP
TASK APPROACH IN THE GENERAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE ECONOMISTS AT UNIVERSITY
Creators: name: Maslova, Ludmila S.
Publisher: name: Modern European Researches
Year: 2023
Subjects: general professional training
professional training tasks
training economists
general professional competencies (GPC)

description: This article identifies general professional training as a subsystem in professional training aimed at the formation of general professional competencies of economists by orienting the content and the learning process towards solving general professional tasks. General professional tasks determine the content and logic of economic activity in planning, cal-culation, analysis, management (justification of the effectiveness of the solution chosen, communication) and are basic for various types of training of future economists. The task approach allows university teachers to design a set of professional training tasks based on various contexts and form the ability of students to organize activities for the economic justification of making managerial decisions in various professional areas, quickly respond to changes, get to know about the processes abroad. The example of a professional train-ing task for future economists is considered.
Lagrangian approach to the physical degree of freedom count
Creators: name: Díaz, Bogar
name: Higuita, Daniel
name: Montesinos, Merced
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a Lagrangian method that allows the physical degree of freedom count for any Lagrangian system without having to perform neither Dirac nor covariant canonical analyses. The essence of our method is to establish a map between the relevant Lagrangian parameters of the current approach and the Hamiltonian parameters that enter in the formula for the counting of the physical degrees of freedom as is given in Dirac's method. Once the map is obtained, the usual Hamiltonian formula for the counting can be expressed in terms of Lagrangian parameters only and therefore we can remain in the Lagrangian side without having to go to the Hamiltonian one. Using the map it is also possible to count the number of first and second-class constraints within the Lagrangian formalism only. For the sake of completeness, the geometric structure underlying the current approach--developed for systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom--is uncovered with the help of the covariant canonical formalism. Finally, the method is illustrated in several examples, including the relativistic free particle.
description: LaTeX file, no figures
Towards the One-loop Kahler Metric of Calabi-Yau Orientifolds
Creators: name: Berg, Marcus
name: Haack, Michael
name: Kang, Jin U.
name: Sjors, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate string one-loop contributions to the Kahler metric of closed string moduli in toroidal minimally supersymmetric (Calabi-Yau) orientifolds with D-branes. We focus on the poorly understood N=1 sectors that receive contributions from all massive string states.
description: 81 pages, 7 figures, typos corrected, one appendix (M) added: Version accepted for publication in JHEP
Evolution of the atomic and molecular gas content of galaxies in dark matter haloes
Creators: name: Popping, G.
name: Behroozi, P. S.
name: Peeples, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a semi-empirical model to infer the atomic and molecular hydrogen content of galaxies as a function of halo mass and time. Our model combines the SFR-halo mass-redshift relation (constrained by galaxy abundances) with inverted SFR-surface density relations to infer galaxy H I and H2 masses. We present gas scaling relations, gas fractions, and mass functions from z = 0 to z = 3 and the gas properties of galaxies as a function of their host halo masses. Predictions of our work include: 1) there is a ~ 0.2 dex decrease in the H I mass of galaxies as a function of their stellar mass since z = 1.5, whereas the H2 mass of galaxies decreases by > 1 dex over the same period. 2) galaxy cold gas fractions and H2 fractions decrease with increasing stellar mass and time. Galaxies with M* > 10^10 Msun are dominated by their stellar content at z < 1, whereas less-massive galaxies only reach these gas fractions at z = 0. We find the strongest evolution in relative gas content at z < 1.5. 3) the SFR to gas mass ratio decreases by an order of magnitude from z = 3 to z = 0. This is consistent with lower H2 fractions; these lower fractions in combination with smaller gas reservoirs correspond to decreased present-day galaxy SFRs. 4) an H2-based star- formation relation can simultaneously fuel the evolution of the cosmic star-formation and reproduce the observed weak evolution in the cosmic HI density. 5) galaxies residing in haloes with masses near 10^12 Msun are most efficient at obtaining large gas reservoirs and forming H2 at all redshifts. These two effects lie at the origin of the high star-formation efficiencies in haloes with the same mass.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS, 20 pages, 16 figures (+ 1 figure in appendix), data files are accessible through http://www.eso.org/~gpopping/Gergo_Poppings_Homepage/Data.html
DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A DETAILED, PROCESS-BASED CROP MODEL FOR GIANT REED
Creators: name: YAMAC, SEVIM SEDA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: The aim of the thesis is the development of a process-based model for the simulation of giant reed growth and productivity under a variety of climatic and management conditions. Arundo donax L. (giant reed) is a perennial C3 grass native to Asia and naturalized to the Mediterranean area. Being part of the second generation biofuel crop (i.e., non-food, cellulosic biomass feedstock for ethanol or combustion), Arundo d. is characterized by high yield potential with low requirements in terms of soil, fertilizers, and water. Therefore giant reed is attracting interest as an alternative energy source and dedicated research studies are continuously increasing. The re-implementation of the sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) model Canegro (DSSAT v4.5) in a framework-independent component was starting point for the development of the Arundo donax L. model (i.e., Arungro). The Canegro component was effectively extended and adapted for giant reed because of several morphological and physiological features shared with sugarcane. The newly developed Arungro model was calibrated and evaluated by means of two dedicated field monitoring under a number of crop ages and management conditions. The model performed reasonably well especially for the estimation of the aboveground biomass. The investigation of the impact of climate change on Arundo donax L. production was carried out by applying the Arungro model in a case study area in the Po valley area. This was the first attempt in evaluating future non-feed and non-food crop productivity.
LE GLOSSE ALLA 'TEBAIDE' ATTRIBUIBILI A ILARIO D'ORL�ANS (LIBRI VII-XII)
Creators: name: INVERNIZZI, SIMONE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Commentary and critical edition of a twelfth century collection of glosses to Statius?s Thebais (books VII-XII), ascribable to Hilarius of Olr�ans, Abelard?s friend, author of a Virgil commentar and initiator of the classical reading?s glorious tradition (lecturae ad auctores) in the Loire?s valley. The Thebais?s glosses ascribable to Hilarius of Orl�ans had a wide and sound fortune until the late Renaissance. Giovanni Boccaccio owned a copy of this commentary and used it to write his Teseida; Francesco Petrarca copied information taken from these glosses in the margins of his copy of Vergil (Vergilius Ambrosianus).
Simulating long-distance entanglement in quantum spin chains by superconducting flux qubits
Creators: name: Zippilli, Stefano
name: Grajcar, Miroslav
name: Il'ichev, Evgeni
name: Illuminati, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the performance of superconducting flux qubits for the adiabatic quantum simulation of long distance entanglement (LDE), namely a finite ground-state entanglement between the end spins of a quantum spin chain with open boundary conditions. As such, LDE can be considered an elementary precursor of edge modes and topological order. We discuss two possible implementations which simulate open chains with uniform bulk and weak end bonds, either with Ising or with XX nearest-neighbor interactions. In both cases we discuss a suitable protocol for the adiabatic preparation of the ground state in the physical regimes featuring LDE. In the first case the adiabatic manipulation and the Ising interactions are realized using dc currents, while in the second case microwaves fields are used to control the smoothness of the transformation and to realize the effective XX interactions. We demonstrate the adiabatic preparation of the end-to-end entanglement in chains of four qubits with realistic parameters and on a relatively fast time scale.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures. Final manuscript, close to the published version
DOWN-REGULATION OF ATYPICAL CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR ACKR2/D6 EXPRESSION BY HEMATOPOIETIC PROGENITORS PROMOTES MYELOID CELL MOBILIZATION AND DIFFERENTIATION
Creators: name: BONAVITA, ORNELLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: Chemokines and chemokine receptors are key mediators of inflammation and important regulators of leukocyte migration in homeostatic conditions as well as during infection and cancer. The atypical receptor ACKR2 is a scavenger receptor for many inflammatory CC chemokines, it is expressed either by non-hematopoietic cells or by hematopoietic cells, and it has been shown to prevent the development of exacerbated inflammatory reactions. In an effort to understand the contribution of this receptor in the regulation of myeloid cell mobilization and myeloid cell effector functions, we investigated the role of ACKR2 in a murine model of myeloid cell mobilization, and in a model of experimental metastasis. The deficiency of ACKR2 was associated with increased mobilization of monocytes and neutrophils from the bone marrow (BM) and with increased number of monocytes confined to BM sinusoids compared to Wild-type (WT) mice. BM chimera experiments showed that the increased mobilization was due to the absence of ACKR2 in the hematopoietic compartment. The analysis of hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) revealed that ACKR2 is expressed by Lin?Sca-1+c-Kit+ cells (LSK) to faint thereafter in more mature myeloid progenitor cells (MPCs) in contrast with the canonical chemokine receptor CCR2. Moreover, HPCs from Ackr2-/- mice expressed higher levels of CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5, but not of CXCR4 and they had higher differentiation rate compared to ACKR2 sufficient LSK. Although neutrophils express low levels of ACKR2 compared to LSK, we found that neutrophils from Ackr2 deficient mice, as well as their HPCs, expressed higher level of CC chemokine receptors and exhibited a more activated phenotype compared to WT. Furthermore, neutrophil depletion and neutrophil adoptive transfer experiments demonstrated that only Ackr2 deficient neutrophils were sufficient to control the metastatic seeding of B16 melanoma cells into the lung. To enhance the metastatic protection observed in Ackr2-/- mice, we treated WT and Ackr2-/- tumor bearing mice with AMD3100, the competitive inhibitor of CXCR4, which is known to induce a rapid neutrophil mobilization from the BM. However, AMD3100 treatment did not further improve the metastatic protection in Ackr2-/- mice, whereas decreased the number of metastases in WT mice. Finally, by using the human promyelocytic cell line HL-60, we demonstrated that ACKR2 directly exerted a negative regulation of CC chemokine receptor expression and cell differentiation. Indeed, HL-60, when transfected with a vector overexpressing ACKR2, had decreased transcript levels of CCR2 and CD11b. These data suggest the ACKR2 is involved in the regulation of chemokine availability and leukocyte recruitment. Moreover, ACKR2 directly controls HPC differentiation, myeloid cell mobilization and their effector function through the inhibition of CC chemokine receptor expression.
PHI-CURVATURES, HARMONIC-EINSTEIN MANIFOLDS AND EINSTEIN-TYPE STRUCTURES
Creators: name: ANSELLI, ANDREA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this thesis is to study the geometry of a Riemannian manifold M, with a special structure, called Einstein-type structure, depending on 3 real parameters, a smooth map phi into a target Riemannian manifold N, and a smooth function, called potential function, on M itself. We will occasionally let some of the parameters be smooth functions. The setting generalizes various previously studied situations:, Ricci solitons, almost Ricci-solitons, Ricci-harmonic solitons, quasi-Einstein manifolds and so on. By taking a constant potential function those structures reduces to harmonic-Einstein manifolds, that are a generalization of Einstein manifolds. The main ingredient of our analysis is the study of certain modified curvature tensors on M related to the map phi, called phi-curvatures, obtaining, for instance, their transformation laws under a conformal change of metric, and to develop a series of results for harmonic-Einstein manifolds that parallel those obtained for Einstein manifolds some times ago and also in the very recent literature. Einstein-type structures may be obtained, for some special values of the parameters involved, by a conformal deformation of a harmonic-Einstein manifold or even as the base of a warped product harmonic-Einstein manifold. The latter fact applies not only in the Riemannian but also in the Lorentzian setting and thus some Einstein-type structures are connected with solutions of the Einstein field equations, which are of particular interest in General Relativity. The main result of the thesis is the locally characterization, via a couple of integrability conditions and mild assumptions on the potential function, of Einstein-type structures with vanishing phi-Bach curvature (in the direction of the potential) as a warped product with harmonic-Einstein base and with an open real interval as fibre, extending in a very non trivial way a recent result for Bach flat Ricci solitons. Moreover the map phi depends only on the base of the warped product and not on the fibre . We also consider rigidity, triviality and non-existence results, both in the compact and non-compact cases. This is done via integral formulas and, in the non-compact case, via analytical tools, like the weak maximum principle and the classical results of Obata, Tashiro, Kanai.
Optimal recruitment strategies for groups of interacting walkers with leaders
Creators: name: Martinez-Garcia, Ricardo
name: Lopez, Cristobal
name: Vazquez, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a model of interacting random walkers on a finite one dimensional chain with absorbing boundaries or targets at the ends. Walkers are of two types: informed particles that move ballistically towards a given target, and diffusing uninformed particles that are biased towards close informed particles. This model mimics the dynamics of hierarchical groups of animals, where an informed individual tries to persuade and lead the movement of its conspecifics. We characterize the success of the persuasion by the first-passage probability of the uninformed particle to the target, and we interpret the speed of the informed particle as a strategic parameter that the particle tunes to maximize its success. We find that the success probability is non-monotonic, reaching its maximum at an intermediate speed whose value increases with the diffusing rate of the uninformed particle. When two different groups of informed leaders traveling in opposite directions compete, usually the largest group is the most successful. However, the minority can reverse this situation and become the most probable winner by following two different strategies: increasing its attraction strength or adjusting its speed to an optimal value relative to the majority's speed.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures
Self-reported Oral Health and Oral Health Behaviors in Older Adults in the Last Year of Life
Creators: name: Douglas, C. E.
name: Naorungroj, S.
name: Beck, J. D.
name: Chen, X.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The complex physiological, psychological, and functional changes at the end of life may dramatically affect oral health. However, evidence regarding oral health changes at the end of life is scarce. This study’s objective was to examine self-rated oral health and oral health behaviors among community-dwelling elders in the last year of life.
Indización de documentos según Metodologia LILACS 2017: 03 - Uso de pre-codificados
Creators: name: BIREME/OPS/OMS
name: Conceição, Maria Analía da
name: Suga, Sueli Mitiko Yano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Indizacion de documentos
subject: Metodología LILACS
subject: https://decs.bvsalud.org/ths/resource/?id=56243
subject: https://decs.bvsalud.org/ths/resource/?id=46

description: Sesión 3 | 25 de Mayo de 2017 Tema Uso de pre-codificados en la indización de documentos según Metodología LILACS Público meta: bibliotecólogos responsables por la indización de documentos en la Red LILACS y BVS Documentación sobre las sesiones: http://lilacs.bvsalud.org/blog/2017/03/28/capacitacion-en-indizacion-de-documentos-segun-metodologia-lilacs/ Grupo de discusión: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/red-bvs
MPEC 2024-C36 : 2024 BD6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 BD6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Application of Artificial Neural Network to Search for Gravitational-Wave Signals Associated with Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Kim, Kyungmin
name: Harry, Ian W.
name: Hodge, Kari A.
name: Kim, Young-Min
name: Lee, Chang-Hwan
name: Lee, Hyun Kyu
name: Oh, John J.
name: Oh, Sang Hoon
name: Son, Edwin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a machine learning algorithm, the artificial neural network, to the search for gravitational-wave signals associated with short gamma-ray bursts. The multi-dimensional samples consisting of data corresponding to the statistical and physical quantities from the coherent search pipeline are fed into the artificial neural network to distinguish simulated gravitational-wave signals from background noise artifacts. Our result shows that the data classification efficiency at a fixed false alarm probability is improved by the artificial neural network in comparison to the conventional detection statistic. Therefore, this algorithm increases the distance at which a gravitational-wave signal could be observed in coincidence with a gamma-ray burst. In order to demonstrate the performance, we also evaluate a few seconds of gravitational-wave data segment using the trained networks and obtain the false alarm probability. We suggest that the artificial neural network can be a complementary method to the conventional detection statistic for identifying gravitational-wave signals related to the short gamma-ray bursts.
description: 30 pages, 10 figures
Interleukin-6 and C-Reactive Protein Levels and 9-Year Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Older Women: The Women’s Health and Aging Study II
Creators: name: Carlson, Michelle C.
name: Deal, Jennifer A.
name: Walston, Jeremy D.
name: Xue, Qian-Li
name: Palta, Priya
name: Fried, Linda P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Elevated inflammation is a proposed mechanism relating chronic diseases to cognitive dysfunction. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that greater levels of inflammation, as measured by the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) and C-reactive protein, are associated with faster rates of cognitive decline among cognitively intact community-dwelling older women.
title: Zwischen den Zielen
Creators: name: Högenauer, Annika
Year: 2022

description: Speziell im Literaturunterricht am Ende der Sekundarstufe I ist es von Bedeutung, literarische Texte einzusetzen, die den Leseinteressen der Lernenden entsprechen, um so den drohenden pubertären Leseknick ausgleichen oder zumindest abfedern zu können. Da besonders Burschen durch die Lesekrise gefährdet sind - sie lesen im Allgemeinen weniger gerne und seltener, was sich während der pubertären Entwicklungsphase noch verstärkt - wird von einigen Forscher*innen empfohlen, Lektüren einzusetzen, die besonders den männlichen Leseinteressen entsprechen. Da diese jedoch oft mit stereotypen Geschlechterrollen operieren, trifft dieser Vorschlag auf erheblichen Widerstand im Forschungsdiskurs. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde nun ein Weg erarbeitet, wie mit dem Dilemma, Leselust zu erwecken ohne dabei Genderstereotypen weiterzuverbreiten, umgegangen werden kann. Dafür wurde mit „Timeless - Retter der verlorenen Zeit” zunächst ein Text gewählt, der als Science Fiction/Abenteuerroman mit Fokus auf äußerer Handlung und fantasievollen Illustrationen die Geschmäcker von Burschen und Mädchen treffen dürfte. Außerdem ist der Text auf den ersten Blick fortschrittlich in Bezug auf Genderrollen und bietet mit gemischtgeschlechtlichen Hauptfiguren Identifikationsangebote für weibliche und männliche Schüler*innen. Allerdings zeigte die durchgeführte gender-orientierte Figurenanalyse, dass auch diesem augenscheinlich fortschrittlichen Buch internalisierte sexistische Tendenzen innewohnen, die die Thematisierung im Literaturunterricht unumgänglich machen. Als didaktischer Ansatz wurde hierfür der handlungs- und produktionsorientierte Literaturunterricht gewählt, da diesem eine schüler*innenfreundliche Herangehensweise zugestanden wird, durch die den Lernenden die Lesefreude nicht vergällt wird. Mit mehreren speziell ausgewählten Methoden wurde in Kombination mit relevanten Szenen aus dem Text schließlich exemplifiziert, wie die beiden der Arbeit zugrundeliegenden Zielsetzungen erreicht werden können: nämlich indem sowohl die Leseinteressen der männlichen und weiblichen Schüler*innen beachtet werden als auch indem Gender im Unterricht mit handlungs- und produktionsorientierten Methoden (wie zum Beispiel mit Perspektivenübernahme oder Gegentexten) leser*innenfreundlich thematisiert wird.
Maxwell's demons in multipartite quantum correlated systems
Creators: name: Braga, Helena C.
name: Rulli, Clodoaldo C.
name: de Oliveira, Thiago R.
name: Sarandy, Marcelo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the extraction of thermodynamic work by a Maxwell's demon in a multipartite quantum correlated system. We begin by adopting the standard model of a Maxwell's demon as a Turing machine, either in a classical or quantum setup depending on its ability of implementing classical or quantum conditional dynamics, respectively. Then, for an n-partite system (A_1, A_2, ..., A_n), we introduce a protocol of work extraction that bounds the advantage of the quantum demon over its classical counterpart through the amount of multipartite quantum correlation present in the system, as measured by a thermal version of the global quantum discord. This result is illustrated for an arbitrary n-partite pure state of qubits with Schmidt decomposition, where it is shown that the thermal global quantum discord exactly quantifies the quantum advantage. Moreover, we also consider the work extraction via mixed multipartite states, where examples of tight upper bounds can be obtained.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. v2: Minor corrections. Published version
Trends in Disability in Activities of Daily Living Among Chinese Older Adults, 1997–2006: The China Health and Nutrition Survey
Creators: name: Liang, Yajun
name: Guralnik, Jack M.
name: Du, Shufa
name: Song, Aiqin
name: Qiu, Chengxuan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: A decline in prevalence of late-life disability in activities of daily living (ADLs) has been reported in Western countries. We investigate the time trend of disability in basic ADLs among Chinese older people in 1997–2006, and explore the potential contribution of cardiometabolic diseases to the trend.
title: Representations of Scottishness in contemporary internet media
Creators: name: Kritsch, Theresa Katharina
Year: 2022

description: Impressionen Schottlands werden auf prominente Art und Weise, durch den von der schottischen Tourismusbranche kreierten Diskurs, verbreitet. Letzterer wirkt sich insbesondere auf die Darstellung des schottischen Kulturguts aus. Basierend auf dem Werk von McCrone, Morris und Kiely, Scotland the Brand – the Making of Scottish Heritage (1995), argumentiert diese Arbeit, dass die touristische Darstellung Schottlands in der Kommodifikation des schottischen Kulturguts resultiert. Daher untersucht diese Arbeit die Repräsentation von „Scottishness“ und dem schottischen Kulturgut durch die schottische Tourismusbranche am Beispiel von VisitScotland, Schottlands nationaler Tourismusorganisation. Die Analyse dieser Arbeit besteht aus einem Korpus von drei YouTube Videos des YouTube Kanals von VisitScotland, nämlich “Scottish Highland Games: Explained” (SHGE), “Scottish Gaelic: Explained” (SGaE), “Scotch Whisky: Explained” (SWE). Jede dieser Analysen ist nach den Aspekten Tradition, Herkunft bzw. Abstammung und natürlichen Landschaften gegliedert und wird ebendiese beleuchten. Die Resultate der Analyse bestätigen McCrone, Morris und Kielys Annahme, dass die schottische Tourismusbranche auf stereotypische, schottische Ikonographie zurückgreift, um „Scottishness“ zu repräsentieren. Zudem zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass VisitScotland auch Symbole und geschichtliche Elemente einsetzt, um Schottland als Kommodität zu bewerben.
description: Images of Scotland are prominently distributed through the discourse created by the Scottish tourism industry. The latter particularly affects the representation of Scottish heritage. Based on McCrone, Morris and Kiely’s work, Scotland the Brand – the Making of Scottish Heritage (1995), this thesis argues that the touristic narrative of Scotland results in the commodification of Scottish heritage. Therefore, this thesis investigates the representation of Scottishness and Scottish heritage by the Scottish tourism industry, by using the example of VisitScotland, Scotland’s national tourist organisation. The analysis of this thesis consists of a corpus of three YouTube video clips from VisitScotland’s YouTube channel, namely “Scottish Highland Games: Explained” (SHGE), “Scottish Gaelic: Explained” (SGaE), “Scotch Whisky: Explained” (SWE). Each video analysis is structured according to and will highlight aspects of tradition, ancestry and natural landscapes. The results of the analysis confirm McCrone, Morris and Kiely’s assumption that the Scottish tourism industry reverts back to stereotypically Scottish iconography in order to represent Scottishness. Moreover, the findings show that VisitScotland also uses symbolism and elements of history in order to advertise Scotland as a commodity.
Penser la barbarie européenne
Creators: name: Morin, Edgar
Publisher: name: Iconocrazia
Year: 2023
Subjects: Barbarism; European civilisation; domination; conquest; democracy

description: This contribution aims to reflect on the concept of barbarism by identifying it as an integral part of European civilisation, as its product. The analysis of selected historical examples (ranging from the classical age to contemporary times) and of ideologies of both political and religious matrixes (Totalitarianism, Christianity), will lead to locating the home of European barbarism at the intersection of two elements (we could also say drives) characteristic of European man: 'conquest' and 'domination'. Reflection, conducted on these parameters, will be indispensable to the objective of recognising humanism, universalism, and global consciousness as antidotes to barbarism and, therefore, as promoters and guarantors of a regenerated democracy.
description: Iconocrazia, V. 2, N. 22 (2022): Iconocrazia: 10 anni della rivista
Uncovering Sustainability Perceptions in Oil-Rich Nations
Creators: name: ABDELSATTAR, OMAR HISHAM A
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440708
subject: Public administration

description: This study investigates how people in Qatar, a wealthy oil nation, understand and act on sustainability. Through a survey and interviews, it finds that while people are aware of sustainability issues and want to learn more, they rarely enact sustainable behaviours. The study also reveals that public views on Qatar's sustainability progress don't match what academic research says. This suggests a need for a more detailed approach to promoting sustainability in Qatar.
L’Europe est sans pourquoi
Creators: name: Maffessoli, Michel
Publisher: name: Iconocrazia
Year: 2023
Subjects: Idea of Europe; modernity; post-modernity; European community; European values

description: This contribution proposes a reflection on the idea of Europe, identifying some of the elements of continuity and rupture between the ideal originally underlying the European project and the current situation. From this perspective, it is crucial to recognise the importance that the phenomenon of modernity has had in the evolution of European history and the European ideal, allowing it to inspire and/or dominate the rest of the world. On the contrary, post-democracy and the emphasis on the concept of the nation-state seem to have frozen any communitarian ideal, generating a Europe that is far removed from the federal model (capable of giving citizens a sense of European belonging) and whose stasis has stifled any impulse to believe, think and do in the name of collective values.
description: Iconocrazia, V. 2, N. 22 (2022): Iconocrazia: 10 anni della rivista
Properties of infrared extrapolations in a harmonic oscillator basis
Creators: name: Coon, Sidney A.
name: Kruse, Michael K. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue our studies of infrared (ir) and ultraviolet (uv) regulators of no-core shell model calculations. We extend our results that an extrapolation in the ir cutoff with the uv cutoff above the intrinsic uv scale of the interaction is quite successful, not only for the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian but also for expectation values of operators considered long range. The latter results are obtained with Hamiltonians transformed by the similarity renormalization group (SRG) evolution. On the other hand, a suggested extrapolation in the uv cutoff when the ir cutoff is below the intrinsic ir scale is neither robust nor reliable.
description: replaced with the version published in a special issue on "Effective Field theories for Nuclear Physics" of International Journal of Modern Physics E, includes further discussion of the running of the radius with the ir regulator, conclusions unchanged
Non luoghi a procedere
Creators: name: Abruzzese, Alberto
Publisher: name: Iconocrazia
Year: 2023
Subjects: Viaggio; società dello spettacolo; non luoghi; tecnica; journey; entertainment society; non-places; technique

description: L’Autore comincia questo saggio dedicando un’ampia analisi al film del regista Richard C. Sarafian Punto Zero (Vanishing Point) del 1971, mettendone in risalto le implicazioni che attribuisce al viaggio e la peculiarità che all’interno di esso assume il rapporto uomo-macchina. La seconda parte del saggio è dedicata al viaggio come «invenzione occidentale», facendone emergere le molteplici dimensioni e mettendolo infine in relazione alle trasformazioni che le nuove tecnologie e i nuovi media stanno imponendo alla nostra percezione dello spazio e del tempo. The author begins this essay by dedicating an extensive analysis to the 1971 film by director Richard C. Sarafian Punto Zero (Vanishing Point), highlighting the implications it attributes to travel and the peculiarity that the man-machine relationship takes on within it. The second part of the essay is dedicated to travel as a "western invention", highlighting its multiple dimensions and finally relating it to the transformations that new technologies and new media are imposing on our perception of space and time.
description: Iconocrazia, V. 2, N. 22 (2022): Iconocrazia: 10 anni della rivista
On model reduction for quantum dynamics: symmetries and invariant subspaces
Creators: name: Kumar, Akshat
name: Sarovar, Mohan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simulation of quantum dynamics is a grand challenge of computational physics. In this work we investigate methods for reducing the demands of such simulation by identifying reduced-order models for dynamics generated by parameterized quantum Hamiltonians. In particular, we first formulate an algebraic condition that certifies the existence of invariant subspaces for a model defined by a parameterized Hamiltonian and an initial state. Following this we develop and analyze two methods to explicitly construct a reduced-order model, if one exists. In addition to general results characterizing invariant subspaces of arbitrary finite dimensional Hamiltonians, by exploiting properties of the generalized Pauli group we develop practical tools to speed up simulation of dynamics generated by certain spin Hamiltonians. To illustrate the methods developed we apply them to several paradigmatic spin models.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures, 3 algorithms. Version 2 is published version and contains new results on stability of invariant subspaces to perturbations
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use as Health Self-Management: Rural Older Adults With Diabetes
Creators: name: Quandt, S. A.
name: Smith, S. L.
name: Bell, R. A.
name: Wetmore, L. K.
name: Skelly, A. H.
name: Arcury, T. A.
name: Snively, B. M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: This study describes complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among rural older adults with diabetes, delineates the relationship of health self-management predictors to CAM therapy use, and furthers conceptual development of CAM use within a health self-management framework.
Emotional and Physical Health of Informal Caregivers of Residents at the End of Life: The Role of Social Support
Creators: name: Munn, J.
name: Zimmerman, S.
name: Williams, S. W.
name: Dobbs, D.
name: Williams, C. S.
name: Sloane, P. D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The objectives of this study were to examine the relationship between selected decedent and caregiver characteristics, facility-related perceptions, and emotional and physical health of 434 informal caregivers (94% family) of recently deceased residents of residential care/assisted living facilities and nursing homes. We also examined potential mediating effects of social support (informal, staff, and spiritual).
Some new properties of the kinetic equation for the consistent Boltzmann algorithm
Creators: name: Garcia, Alejandro L.
name: Wagner, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Kinetic theory
subject: direct simulation Monte Carlo
subject: consistent Boltzmann algorithm
subject: dense gases
subject: H-theorem
subject: 65C05
subject: 82C40
subject: 76P05

description: We study properties of the consistent Boltzmann algorithm for dense gases, using its limiting kinetic equation. First we derive an H-theorem for this equation. Then, following the classical derivation by Chapman and Cowling, we find approximations to the equations of continuity, momentum and energy. The first order correction terms with respect to the particle diameter turn out to be the same as for the Enskog equation. These results confirm previous derivations, based on the virial, of the corresponding equation of state.
Giorgio Vasari’s Vulcan’s Forge, Sala degli Elementi in the Palazzo Vecchio: the Symbolism of Fire
Creators: name: De Girolami Cheney, Liana
Publisher: name: Iconocrazia
Year: 2023
Subjects: Giorgio Vasari; camera picta; Florence art; history painting; 16th century art

description: The essay proposed here analyses Giorgio Vasari's works in the Sala degli Elementi in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. He succeeded in creating what is known in Latin as a camera picta, that is literally a painted room, in which classical imagery merges with the cultural currents of the 16th century. The study in this contribution also explores Vasari's definition of 'invenzione' (invention) and its role in the development of new decorative topos.
description: Iconocrazia, V. 2, N. 22 (2022): Iconocrazia: 10 anni della rivista
title: So sind die Flüchtlinge und sie sind gefährlich
Creators: name: Vukoja, Filip
Year: 2022

description: Die hier vorliegende Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der, von der FPÖ ausgehenden, negativen Zuschreibung von Wesens- und Verhaltenszügen bei Flüchtlingen. Im Fokus des Forschungsinteresses stehen Reden von einzelnen politischen Funktionär:innen, bei Veranstaltungen, die von der Partei organisiert wurden. Der Untersuchungszeitraum erstreckt sich vom Höhepunkt der Flüchtlingskrise im Sommer 2015 bis zum Ende des Kalenderjahres 2017. Der Quellenkorpus besteht aus 36 analysierten YouTube-Videos, bei denen die relevanten Reden für Personen, mit einem internetfähigen Endgerät auf Abruf anzusehen sind. Das audiovisuelle Material wurde von den parteieignen YouTube-Kanälen „FPÖ TV“ und „Österreich zuerst“ hochgeladen. Die für diese Arbeit benutzte Methoden sind die linguistische Diskursanalyse aus der Politolinguistik und die Video-Interaktionsanalyse aus der Ethnomethodologie. Mittels diesen Methoden soll in dem Analyseteil zuerst auf häufig vorkommende Schlagwörter und die benutzten Metaphern eingegangen werden. Zuletzt werden die prototypischen Argumente für den innerparteilichen Diskurs angeführt, auf die mittels der Anführung einzelner Bespielzitate eingegangen werden soll. Dank der Video-Interaktionsanalyse werden neben dem Redeinhalt hier auch die non-verbalen Kommunikationsformen berücksichtigt.
La colonizzazione dello sguardo. L’Europa si guarda da Oriente
Creators: name: Papa, Franca
Publisher: name: Iconocrazia
Year: 2023
Subjects: Modernità; viaggio; Montesquieu; Oriente; etnocentrismo; modernity; journey; Montesquieu; East; ethnocentrism

description: Il saggio parte dalla cesura rappresentata dalla Modernità nella vicenda storica e filosofica occidentale. All’interno di questa cesura vi è anche una diversa concezione dello spazio e del tempo ed infatti l’esperienza del viaggio diventa rivelativa dello spirito dello tempo. In particolar modo il viaggio permette all’Occidente di esplorare quell’Oriente che è altro da sé, di guardarsi dall’esterno e di mettere in discussione il suo etnocentrismo. Centrale da questo punto di vista è la figura di Montesquieu e delle sue Lettere persiane, alla cui analisi è dedicata la seconda parte del saggio. The essay starts from the caesura represented by Modernity in Western history and philosophy. Within this caesura there is also a different conception of space and time, and in fact the experience of the journey becomes revelatory of the spirit of the times. In particular, the journey allows the West to explore that East which is other than itself, to look at itself from the outside and to question its ethnocentrism. Central in this respect is the figure of Montesquieu and his Persian Letters, to whose analysis the second part of the essay is devoted.
description: Iconocrazia, V. 2, N. 22 (2022): Iconocrazia: 10 anni della rivista
title: Der Friedhof als Stätte christlicher Verkündigung
Creators: name: König, Victoria
Year: 2022

description: Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit widmet sich dem Friedhof als Stätte christlicher Verkündigung und geht der Frage nach, wie die Verkündigung des christlichen Glaubens, in der Friedhofs- und Grabmalgestaltung anhand drei ausgewählter Friedhöfe im zentralen Niederösterreich sichtbar wird. Die Arbeit zielt darauf ab, Gestaltung und Symbolik auf Friedhöfen und deren Gräbern, geleitet vom christlichen Glauben an die Auferstehung, zu analysieren. Dafür wird die geschichtliche Entwicklung des christlichen Friedhofs vom frühen Christentum, über das Mittelalter und die Aufklärung bis in die heutige Zeit dargestellt und die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für die Friedhofs- und Grabmalgestaltung zusammengefasst. Der Verkündigungscharakter des Friedhofs wird anhand der Friedhofs- und Grabmalgestaltung vom Gesamten bis ins Detail beleuchtet und anhand von drei ausgewählten Friedhöfen − Herzogenburg, Engabrunn und Prinzersdorf − analysiert. Die Analyse zeigt, dass die einzelnen Gräber eine Vielfalt an christlichen Symbolen, Inschriften und Darstellungen aufweisen und Friedhöfe, wenn sie bewusst gestaltet sind, Orte der Erinnerung und der Hoffnung auf ein Leben nach dem Tod sein können. Die Arbeit soll zur bewussten christlichen Friedhofs- und Grabmalgestaltung ermutigen und als Quelle für Impulse zur Gestaltung dienen.
Localized states in periodically forced systems
Creators: name: Gandhi, Punit
name: Knobloch, Edgar
name: Beaume, Cédric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theory of stationary spatially localized patterns in dissipative systems driven by time-independent forcing is well developed. With time-periodic forcing related but time-dependent structures may result. These may consist of breathing localized patterns, or states that grow for part of the cycle via nucleation of new wavelengths of the pattern followed by wavelength annihilation during the remainder of the cycle. These two competing processes lead to a complex phase diagram whose structure is a consequence of a series of resonances between the nucleation time and the forcing period. The resulting diagram is computed for the periodically forced quadratic-cubic Swift--Hohenberg equation, and its details interpreted in terms of the properties of the depinning transition for the fronts bounding the localized state on either side. The results are expected to shed light on localized states in a large variety of periodically driven systems.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Asymptotic safety guaranteed
Creators: name: Litim, Daniel F.
name: Sannino, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the ultraviolet behaviour of four-dimensional quantum field theories involving non-abelian gauge fields, fermions and scalars in the Veneziano limit. In a regime where asymptotic freedom is lost, we explain how the three types of fields cooperate to develop fully interacting ultraviolet fixed points, strictly controlled by perturbation theory. Extensions towards strong coupling and beyond the large-N limit are discussed.
description: 31 pages, 7 figures, explanations and references added, typos corrected; to appear (JHEP)
Black Mirror o della biopolitica postdemocratica
Creators: name: Cingari, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Iconocrazia
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biopolitica; Black Mirror; neo-liberismo; controllo; meritocrazia; biopolitics; Black Mirror; neo-liberism; control; meritrocacy

description: Il presente contributo indaga, le implicazioni biopolitiche del neo-liberismo all’interno delle relazioni interpersonali, della politica ecc. In particolar modo, «questi processi di incarnazione biopolitica» vengono analizzati prendendo in esame la rappresentazione iconica di alcuni episodi della serie Black Mirror: al limite con la surrealtà e l'apocalittico, le immagini, gli effetti visivi e sonori emotivamente destabilizzanti che vengono riprodotti pongono in evidenza l'assorbimento delle emotività fisiche e psichiche di soggetti in una posizione di costrizione e ipercontrollo. This contribution investigates, the biopolitical implications of neo-liberalism within interpersonal relations, politics, etc. In particular, "these processes of biopolitical embodiment" are analysed by examining the iconic representation of certain episodes of the Black Mirror series: bordering on the surreal and apocalyptic, the emotionally destabilising images, visual and sound effects that are reproduced highlight the absorption of the physical and psychic emotionalities of subjects in a position of constraint and hypercontrol.
description: Iconocrazia, V. 2, N. 22 (2022): Iconocrazia: 10 anni della rivista