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A Freedom that Makes the Difference: Feminist Thought and Critique of Modernity
Una libertà che fa la differenza: pensiero femminista e critica della modernità
Creators: name: Baritono, Raffaella; Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: feminism; power; freedom; rights; political modernity
femminismo; potere; libertà; diritti; modernità politica

description: This introduction emphasises the relevance of the theoretical feminist reflection presented by Wendy Brown in her Politics Out of History. The Italian translation of the
book, which introduces Brown’s thought to the Italian public for the first time, provides the opportunity to deepen the understanding of her feminist contribution to the comprehension of the crisis of sovereignty. The book, in fact, could be investigated as a sort of link between, on the one hand, 1990s Brown’s reflection on the crisis of liberal
universalism, political modernity and on the gendered constructions of such concepts as State and citizenship and, on the other, her more recent analysis on the reconfiguration of power and sovereignty in the age of globalization as expressed in her 2010 Walled States, Waning Sovereignty. At the core of her reflection, a crucial role has been played by the deconstruction of the nexus freedom-power-rights that enlightens the ambiguities, the semantic ambivalences and the political-theoretical traps inherent in
the linear and progressive narration of political modernity.
description: L’intervento introduce la discussione sulla traduzione italiana del libro di Wendy Brown, Politics Out of History, mettendo in evidenza i nodi teorici e politici che rendono la riflessione della studiosa americana particolarmente interessante per leggere, a partire da una prospettiva femminista, la crisi della sovranità nel contesto contemporaneo. Il libro, infatti, costituisce la tappa intermedia di una riflessione che dalla critica all’universalismo liberale, alle categorie della modernità politica e alla costruzione
gendered dello stato e del soggetto degli anni ’90 è approdata a un’analisi sulle riconfigurazioni del potere e della sovranità a livello globale espresse nel volume Walled States, Waning Sovereignty del 2010. Al cuore di questa riflessione è l’analisi del nesso libertà-potere-diritti che mette in luce gli elementi di ambiguità, gli scivolamenti semantici e le trappole insite in una narrazione progressiva e lineare.
Die Transformationswerkstatt
Creators: name: Jacob, Klaus
name: Paulick-Thiel, Caroline
name: Teebken, Julia
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fortbildung
subject: Verwaltung
subject: transformation
subject: Weiterbildung
subject: Change Management
subject: Agilität
subject: Transformative Literacy
subject: Transition Management
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Die Transformationswerkstatt ist ein Weiterbildungsformat für Mitarbeitende öffentlicher Verwaltungen. Es soll ihre Kompetenzen bei der Gestaltung gesellschaftlicher Transformationen stärken. Das Format wurde 2020/21 im Umweltressort erprobt. Es kombiniert praxisorientiert die Vermittlung von Grundlagenwissen und methodischen Fähigkeiten. Diese Handreichung fasst die wichtigsten Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen aus dem Erprobungslauf im Umweltressort zusammen. Die Transformationswerkstatt soll als Format konstant weiterentwickelt werden. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Transformationswerkstatt ist ein Weiterbildungsformat für Mitarbeitende öffentlicher Verwaltungen. Es soll ihre Kompetenzen bei der Gestaltung gesellschaftlicher Transformationen stärken. Das Format wurde 2020/21 im Umweltressort erprobt. Es kombiniert praxisorientiert die Vermittlung von Grundlagenwissen und methodischen Fähigkeiten. Diese Handreichung fasst die wichtigsten Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen aus dem Erprobungslauf im Umweltressort zusammen. Die Transformationswerkstatt soll als Format konstant weiterentwickelt werden.
The Primacy of Political Freedom
Il primato della libertà politica
Creators: name: Casalini, Brunella; Università Di Firenze
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Wendy Brown; freedom; morality; women studies; political theory
Brown; libertà; moralità; women studies; teoria politica

description: Casalini reconstructs Politics out of History by Wendy Brown by taking into particular consideration the dialogue between Brown and the works of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. The emphasis placed on the nexus between individual and political freedom and on the distinction between “moralism” and “morality” leads the way to the exploration of the relationship between theory and politics. In the light of the contemporary crisis of the American left, the role of the theorist is that of introducing elements of discontinuity in the common-sense discourse which, on the other hand, tends to be crystallized by politics. According to Brown this gap must be taken into consideration by Women Studies, since this field of study sometimes risks relying on static and institutionalized identities which can be an obstruction to its exercise of a «homeopathic function» inside democratic regimes.
description: Casalini ripercorre Politics out of History di Wendy Brown soffermandosi in particolare sul dialogo che Brown intrattiene con il pensiero di Marx, Nietzsche e Freud. L’accento posto sul nesso tra libertà individuale e libertà politica e sulla distinzione tra “moralismo” e “moralità” apre alla problematizzazione del nodo teoria-politica. Alla luce della crisi contemporanea della sinistra americana il ruolo del teorico è quindi quello di introdurre tratti di discontinuità in quel discorso di senso comune che la politica tende invece a cristallizzare. In conclusione, secondo Brown, questo scarto deve essere recepito anche dai Women Studies che, restando ancorati a identità statiche, rischiano di non riuscire a svolgere una necessaria «funzione omeopatica» all’interno dei regimi democratici.
The VSOP 5 GHz Active Galactic Nucleus Survey III: imaging results for the first 102 sources
Creators: name: Scott, William K.
name: Fomalont, E. B.
name: Horiuchi, Shinji
name: Lovell, J. E.
name: Moellenbrock, G. A.
name: Dodson, R. G.
name: Edwards, Philip G.
name: Coldwell, G. V.
name: Fodor, S.
name: Frey, S.
name: Gurvitz, L. I.
name: Hirabayashi, Hisashi
name: Lister, Matthew L.
name: Mosoni, L.
name: Murata, Yasuhiro
name: Paragi, Z.
name: Piner, B. Glenn
name: Shen, Z. Q.
name: Taylor, A. Russell
name: Tingay, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) mission is a Japanese-led project to study radio sources with sub-milliarcsecond angular resolution using an orbiting 8 m telescope, HALCA, and global arrays of Earth-based telescopes. Approximately 25% of the observing time has been devoted to a survey of compact active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at 5 GHz that are stronger than 1 Jy—the VSOP AGN Survey. This paper, the second in a series, describes the data calibration, source detection, self-calibration, imaging, and modeling and gives examples illustrating the problems specific to space VLBI. The VSOP Survey Web site, which contains all results and calibrated data, is described.
Politics out of the History of Politics
La politica fuori dalla storia della politica
Creators: name: Sartori, Diana; Università Di Verona
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Brown; Arendt; freedom; wounded attachments; sexual difference
Brown; Arendt; libertà; attaccamenti feriti; differenza sessuale

description: Wendy Brown’s approach in Politics out of History is characterized by an attempt to analyze the presence of the past which can be read not only under the light of Nietzsche’s legacy, but also through a comparison with Hannah Arendt’s conception of the gap between the past and the future. Like Arendt, Brown aims to look at the present as the site of politics and freedom, even though the former conceives the break with tradition as the unavoidable starting point, while the latter assumes that that break is not fully accomplished because it was not recognized. Rather, it produces Wounded Attachments whose effect is that of limiting the possibility of left criticism. Moving from this parallel, Brown’s analysis is compared to the Italian philosophy of sexual difference, stressing their common interest in thinking freedom beyond a female identity built on a presumed common oppression.
description: L’approccio di Wendy Brown in La politica fuori dalla storia è caratterizzato dallo sforzo di pensare il peso del passato nel presente. Questo sforzo può essere letto non solo attraverso l’esplicita eredità di Nietzsche, ma anche attraverso un confronto con Hannah Arendt e la sua concezione della lacuna tra il passato e il futuro. Come Arendt, Brown cerca di considerare il presente come il luogo dell’azione politica e della libertà, ma mentre la prima pensa la rottura con la tradizione come un punto di partenza inevitabile, la seconda ritiene che quella rottura non si sia pienamente compiuta, perché non viene riconosciuta. Perciò, essa produce attaccamenti feriti il cui effetto è quello di limitare le possibilità della critica di sinistra. Muovendo da questo parallelo Brown viene letta accanto alla filosofia della differenza sessuale italiana, per mostrare il loro comune interesse a pensare la libertà al di là di un’identità femminile basata su di una presunta comune oppressione.
Judging in the genomic era: judges’ genetic knowledge, confidence and need for training
Creators: name: Selita, Fatos
name: Smereczynska, Vanessa
name: Chapman, Robert
name: Toivainen, Teemu
name: Kovas, Yulia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 180107 Conflict of Laws (Private International Law)
subject: 180103 Administrative Law
subject: 180102 Access to Justice
subject: 220305 Ethical Theory
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220104 Human Rights and Justice Issues
subject: Law
subject: 180119 Law and Society
subject: 189999 Law and Legal Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 220105 Legal Ethics
subject: 180122 Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation
subject: 180121 Legal Practice, Lawyering and the Legal Profession

description: Genetic information is increasingly used in many contexts, including health, insurance, policing and sentencing—with numerous potential benefits and risks. Protecting from the related risks requires updates to laws and procedures by justice systems. These updates depend to a large extent on what the key stakeholders—the judiciary—know and think about the use of genetic information. This study used a battery of 25 genetic knowledge items to collect data from 73 supreme court judges from the same country (Romania) on their knowledge of genetic information. Their responses were compared with those of two other groups: lawyers (but not judges; N = 94) and non-lawyers (N = 116) from the same country. The data were collected at approximately the same time from the three groups. The judges’ results were also compared to the results obtained from a general population data collection (N = 5310). The results showed that: (1) judges had overall better knowledge of genetics than the other groups, but their knowledge was uneven across different genetic concepts; (2) judges were overall more confident in their knowledge than the other two groups, but their confidence was quite low; and (3) the correlation between knowledge and confidence was moderate for judges, weak for lawyers and not significant for non-lawyers. Finally, 100% of the judges agreed that information on gene-environment processes should be included in judges’ training. Increasing genetic expertise of the justice stakeholders is an important step towards achieving adequate legal protection against genetic data misuse.
Simple model accounting for the soil resonance phenomenon
Creators: name: Venkatesan, Srikanth
name: Lam, Nelson T. K.
name: Wilson, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The site natural period as a parameter for site classification has the attribute of providing an objective, and direct, representation of the risk of a soil site developing resonance behaviour. This parameter has definite advantages over the conventional approach of classifying soil based mainly on description of the sediments close to the ground surface (eg. the upper 30m of the sediment). This is particularly so if the site is characterised by high impedance contrast at the rock-soil interface, and more so in regions of low and moderate seismicity where non-ductile, lightly damped, systems are particularly prone to resonance behaviour. However, site natural period alone will not be able to accurately characterise potential soil amplification behaviour. This paper presents the recently developed Extended Component Attenuation Model (ECAM) which incorporates component factors to account for the effects of the shear wave velocity profile of the soil, damping properties of the soil, impedance contrasts with the bedrock (ie. radiation damping) and the frequency content of the earthquake excitation as transmitted from the bedrock. The presented model, due to its simplicity and generality, could potentially become standard manual calculation procedures that can be codified for widespread practical applications.
Edward R. Hoehl to Ward Melville, July 11, 1955
Creators: name: Hoehl, Edward R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: Stony Brook
Concerts
Electric generators
Noise pollution
Correspondence

description: This letter is written by Edward R. Hoehl to Ward Melville on July 11, 1955, in regards to generator noise pollution during concerts times.
title: Parameter Identification in Cahn-Hilliard Systems
Creators: name: Habrich, Oliver André
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a mathematical model used to study phase separation processes within physics, chemistry or biology. Due to its phenomenological flavour, the model parameters are not known in real-world applications, and a calibration is needed to derive a quantitative agreement with data obtained from experiments. In this thesis, we address the problem of identifying three model parameters within the Cahn-Hilliard equation, i.e. the interface parameter, the double well potential function, and the mobility function from spatially resolved measurements of the phase fraction. We derive identifiability results and establish a linear and a non-linear approach to solve the parameter identification problems numerically.
In the first part of this work, we identify an inherent non-uniqueness of the inverse problem, leading to the exclusion of the interface parameter in the following considerations. We establish the identifiability of the mobility and the potential up to certain scaling invariances under realistic observability conditions. In the second part, we consider an equation error approach to solve the identification problems. Therefore, measurements are directly inserted into the Cahn-Hilliard equation, leading to linear operator equations in Hilbert spaces with perturbed operators. We use Tikhonov regularisation to derive stable approximations for the solutions of the ill-posed problems and show that this approach is well-posed. Numerical experiments demonstrate the feasibility of the method.
The equation error method requires high assumptions on the regularity of the data. We address this issue in the third part of our investigations by considering an output least squares approach. This leads to non-linear inverse problems in Hilbert spaces. Again, Tikhonov regularisation is employed to derive stable approximations for the solution. We show the well-posedness and continuity properties of the non-linear forward operator and establish the existence of solutions to the Tikhonov minimisation problem. A Gauss-Newton iteration is applied to solve the resulting minimisation problem. We show the differentiability of the forward operator and derive a representation for the adjoint operator of the derivative. The results regarding the output least squares approach are established by considering auxiliary variational problems. The existence of unique solutions to those problems is derived by Galerkin approximation and energy estimates. Afterwards, we discuss the discretisation of this approach using a Petrov-Galerkin method and present numerical results.
In the final part of this work, we consider more complex models and present numerical tests, which indicate that the output least squares approach can also be applied to those problems.
The Uncomfortable Feminism of a "Political Theorist"
Il femminismo scomodo di una "Political Theorist"
Creators: name: Rudan, Paola; Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Brown; rights; sexual difference; power
Brown; diritti; differenza sessuale; potere

description: Moving from the publication of the Italian translation of Wendy Brown’s Politics out of History, the essay discusses of two crucial issues for contemporary feminist political theory: the demand for rights and the politics of sexual difference. Concerning the first one, Brown’s peculiar position – her well known critique of rights and her conception of rights as an empty signifier that historically did and still could catalyze powerful political instances – is read through a close understanding of her conception of the relationship between theory and politics. Concerning the second one, it is argued that Brown’s discourse allows to point out the risks implied by the politics of sexual difference both when it does not understand that difference could be a lever for the reproduction of contemporary political power, most of all when “the subject”, however “different”, is conceived as the unavoidable premise of political discourse.
description: A partire dalla pubblicazione della traduzione italiana di La politica fuori dalla storia, di Wendy Brown, il saggio discute due questioni centrali per la teoria politica femminista contemporanea: la rivendicazione di diritti e la politica della differenza sessuale. Rispetto al primo tema, la peculiare posizione di Brown – la sua ben nota critica e la sua concezione dei diritti come significanti vuoti che hanno storicamente e ancora possono catalizzare potenti istanze politiche – è letta attraverso la sua articolazione del rapporto tra teoria e politica; quanto al secondo tema, si suggerisce che il discorso di Brown permetta di sottolineare i rischi impliciti nella politica della differenze sessuale quando essa non si misuri con la capacità del potere contemporaneo di alimentarsi di differenze, e in particolare quando “il soggetto” – per quanto “differente” – continua a essere pensato come presupposto inevitabile del discorso politico.
Cervical Cancer Screening in Immunocompromised Women
Creators: name: McClymont, Elisabeth
name: Lee, Marette
name: Elwood, Chelsea
name: Mitchell-Foster, Sheona
name: Van Schalkwyk, J.
name: Ogilvie, Gina
name: Money, Deborah M.
Publisher: name: Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
Year: 2020

description: In the context of changing recommendations for cervical cancer screening, differing recommendations in each province, and a lack of guidance for cervical screening of immunocompromised women, this article provides specific recommendations for cervical cancer screening of immunocompromised women in Canada.
A Tale of Two Paines
Un racconto di due Paine
Creators: name: Battistini, Matteo; Università Di Bologna
name: Griffo, Maurizio; Università Federico II – Napoli
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Paine; constitution; state; rights; american revolution
Paine; costituzione; stato; diritti; rivoluzione americana

description: On the occasion of the almost contemporary publication of two interesting books on Thomas Paine, SCIENZA & POLITICA has addressed the two authors – Matteo Battistini and Maurizio Griffo – with some questions about the different approaches of their works. The result is a long-distance dialogue, which explores not only the significance of the American revolutionary and constitutional events, but also the influence that the English legacy and the French revolutionary experience have exercised on the American political thinker. A Tale of Two Paines handles the problem of its attribution either to liberalism or to democratic radicalism; it also faces the preoccupation with the defence of liberty in the historical reconstruction of the State in the light of the affirmation of the sovereignty of society.
description: Cogliendo l’occasione della pubblicazione quasi contemporanea di due interessanti volumi su Thomas Paine, SCIENZA & POLITICA ha rivolto ai due autori – Matteo Battistini e Maurizio Griffo – alcune domande sulle diverse impostazioni delle loro opere. Ne è uscito un dialogo a distanza sul peso che la vicenda rivoluzionaria e costituzionale americana, ma anche il retaggio inglese e l’esperienza della rivoluzione in Francia hanno avuto sull’opera di questo classico del pensiero politico. Un racconto di due Paine affronta il problema della sua attribuzione al liberalismo o al radicalismo democratico, della sua preoccupazione per la difesa della libertà nella ristrutturazione storica dello Stato di fronte all’affermazione della sovranità della società.
kiz Jahresbericht 2016
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Jahresbericht
subject: kiz
subject: DDC 020 / Library & information sciences
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Kommunikations- und Informationszentrum
subject: Universität Ulm

description: Jahresbericht 2016 des Kommunikations- und Informationszentrums (kiz)
The Ghost of Blanco: A Note to Ugo Mattei
Lo spettro di Blanco: una nota a Ugo Mattei
Creators: name: Surdi, Michele; Università “La Sapienza”, Roma
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Public Law; Constitution; Administration; New Forms of Property
Diritto pubblico; Costituzione; Amministrazione; Nuove forme proprietarie

description: By noting the end of the dualism between public and private law, between state and international law and between goods and services, the article comments and interprets Ugo Mattei’s doctrine about new forms of property. Cognitive transformations, both technological and social, do not prelude to a new and different juridical intermediation as guarantee of the communal regime of goods. These new forms of property, when confronted with the domain that private economic property continues to exercise, do not announce neither the dissolution of the monopoly of state coercion, nor the advent of a merely administrative management.
description: Registrando la fine del dualismo tra diritto pubblico e privato, tra diritto statale e internazionale e tra beni e servizi, il saggio glossa la dottrina di Ugo Mattei sulle nuove forme di proprietà. Le trasformazioni cognitive tecnologiche e sociali non preludono a una nuova e diversa mediazione giuridica come garanzia del regime comune di alcuni beni.
Le nuove forme proprietarie confrontate con il dominio che continua a manifestare la proprietà privata economica non annunciano perciò il dissolvimento del monopolio della coazione statale e tanto meno la sua conseguente gestione solo amministrativa.
Optimal electric design of condenser graded high voltage AC bushings
Creators: name: Hesamzadeh, Mohammad Reza
name: Hosseinzadeh, Nasser
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The application of Genetic Algorithm for optimal electrical design of high voltage bushing concentric foils in transformers is investigated. Condenser-bushings contain concentric conductive foils which are isolated against another. By adjusting the number, diameter and length of these cylinders as well as the electrical strength of insulating material between foils, the voltage drop and also electrical stress in the core and along the surface can be affected by variation of partial capacitances between the conducting cylinders. This paper aims to find optimal design of concentric conductive foils for having lower maximum and well-distributed electric stress and also a constant voltage drop for different layers subject to some practical constrains by using Genetic Algorithm optimization method.
e il rapporto governanti/governati: un’analisi multidimensionale The “Arab Spring” and the Relationship Ruling Class / Ruled: A Multidimensional Analysis
La “primavera araba” e il rapporto governanti/governati: un’analisi multidimensionale
Creators: name: Ciranda, Marta; Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: arab spring; youth; Middle East and North Africa; authoritarian regimes; revolution
primavera araba; giovani; Medio Oriente e Nord Africa; regimi autoritari; rivoluzione

description: Analyses on the so-called “Arab Spring” mainly focus on its possible consequences. But which are its causes? In attempting to provide an answer to this question, the author evaluates the multifaceted relationship between authorities and citizens – especially the youngest ones – underlining the occurrence of specific phenomena (youth bulge, high educational levels, widespread ICTs, unemployment, pervasive corruption, human rights violations) in the countries involved. The conclusion which is reached is that the wave of protests might have been generated by the complete detachment existing between citizens and institutions, detachment which, paradoxically, might have been created and nourished by those in power themselves, through the “modernizing” reforms they have imposed in recent years.
description: Le analisi sulla “primavera araba” si concentrano soprattutto sulle conseguenze. Cosa dire delle cause? Per rispondere a questa domanda, l’autrice scandaglia vari aspetti del rapporto tra governanti e governati nei Paesi in questione, analizzando elementi quali la demografia, l’accresciuta scolarizzazione della popolazione, la diffusione delle nuove tecnologie, il problema della disoccupazione, la corruzione endemica, l’ancora persistente violazione dei diritti umani. La conclusione cui perviene è che tale fenomeno sia stato generato dalla presenza di uno iato non più colmabile tra le istituzioni e i cittadini – iato che, paradossalmente, proprio i Governi avrebbero contribuito a creare e ad alimentare tramite l’imposizione di riforme “modernizzatrici”.
EGFR-binding peptides: from computational design towards tumor-targeting of adeno-associated virus capsids
Creators: name: Feiner, Rebecca C.
name: Kemker, Isabell
name: Krutzke, Lea
name: Allmendinger, Ellen
name: Mandell, Daniel J.
name: Sewald, Norbert
name: Kochanek, Stefan
name: Müller, Kristian M.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: VDEPT
subject: VP protein
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Cyclic peptides
subject: Protein engineering
subject: Synthetic biology
subject: Oncolytic Viruses
subject: Cyclopeptide
subject: Proteindesign
subject: Synthetische Biologie

description: The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) plays a central role in the progression of many solid tumors. We used this validated target to analyze the de novo design of EGFR-binding peptides and their application for the delivery of complex payloads via rational design of a viral vector. Peptides were computationally designed to interact with the EGFR dimerization interface. Two new peptides and a reference (EDA peptide) were chemically synthesized, and their binding ability characterized. Presentation of these peptides in each of the 60 capsid proteins of recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAV) via a genetic based loop insertion enabled targeting of EGFR overexpressing tumor cell lines. Furthermore, tissue distribution and tumor xenograft specificity were analyzed with systemic injection in chicken egg chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assays. Complex correlations between the targeting of the synthetic peptides and the viral vectors to cells and in ovo were observed. Overall, these data demonstrate the potential of computational design in combination with rational capsid modification for viral vector targeting opening new avenues for viral vector delivery and specifically suicide gene therapy.
Heterodyne determination of the width of the emission lines of injection lasers in the beat frequency stabilization regime
Creators: name: Akulshin, A. M
name: Basov, N. G.
name: Velichanskii, V. L.
name: Zibrov, A. S.
name: Zverkov, M. V.
name: Nikitin, V. V.
name: Okhotnikov, O. G.
name: Senkov, N. V.
name: Sautenkov, V. A.
name: Tyurikov, D. A.
name: Yurkin, E. K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A servo system was used to lock the beat frequency of injection lasers operating under conditions of self-stabilization of single-frequency emission in an anomalously wide continuous tuning range. The width of the beat spectrum was found to be ~500 Hz.
Thoracic trauma promotes alpha-Synuclein oligomerization in murine Parkinson's disease
Creators: name: Ruf, Wolfgang P.
name: Palmer, Annette
name: Dörfer, Lena
name: Wiesner, Diana
name: Buck, Eva
name: Grozdanov, Veselin
name: Kassubek, Jan
name: Dimou, Leda
name: Ludolph, Albert C.
name: Huber-Lang, Markus
name: Danzer, Karin M.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Parkinson's disease
subject: Peripheral lesion
subject: Dendritic spines
subject: Head injury
subject: Expression
subject: Model
subject: Risk
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Parkinson disease
subject: Lung injury
subject: Craniocerebral trauma
subject: Microglia
subject: Inflammation
subject: alpha-Synuclein
subject: Parkinson-Krankheit
subject: Entzündung
subject: Trauma
subject: Lungenverletzung
subject: Schädel-Hirn-Trauma
subject: Synuclein
subject: Mikroglia
subject: Stress

description: Background Systemic and neuroinflammatory processes play key roles in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD). Physical trauma which induces considerable systemic inflammatory responses, represents an evident environmental factor in aging. However, little is known about the impact of physical trauma, on the immuno-pathophysiology of PD. Especially blunt chest trauma which is associated with a high morbidity and mortality rate in the elderly population, can induce a strong pulmonary and systemic inflammatory reaction. Hence, we sought out to combine a well-established thoracic trauma mouse model with a well-established PD mouse model to characterize the influence of physical trauma to neurodegenerative processes in PD. Methods To study the influence of peripheral trauma in a PD mouse model we performed a highly standardized blunt thorax trauma in a well-established PD mouse model and determined the subsequent local and systemic response. Results We could show that blunt chest trauma leads to a systemic inflammatory response which is quantifiable with increased inflammatory markers in bronchoalveolar fluids (BALF) and plasma regardless of the presence of a PD phenotype. A difference of the local inflammatory response in the brain between the PD group and non-PD group could be detected, as well as an increase in the formation of oligomeric pathological alpha-Synuclein (asyn) suggesting an interplay between peripheral thoracic trauma and asyn pathology in PD. Conclusion Taken together this study provides evidence that physical trauma is associated with increased asyn oligomerization in a PD mouse model underlining the relevance of PD pathogenesis under traumatic settings.
Hypotheses on Communism. Notes for a Discussion / 2
Ipotesi sul comunismo. Note per una discussione / 2
Creators: name: Raimondi, Fabio; Università Di Salerno
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Badiou; Žižek; Communism; State; Marxism
Badiou; Žižek; comunismo; Stato; marxismo

description: The essay reconstructs the political discourses of Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, concerning communism and its actuality for the contemporary debate. Both philosophers have a main role in the global philosophical scene in which they maintain different but partially complementary positions. Except for some philosophical divergences, they both affirm the necessity to reopen a theoretical effort, which could eventually develop an idea of communism and communist practices able to face new challenges imposed by capitalistic globalization. Badiou intends to spread the idea of communism through a theoretical and political procedure called "ideation", which should create new militants and followers to the communist revolutionary event. According to this view the State remains the main enemy to this possibility. Žižek, on the contrary, seems to look with favour on the Lacanian dynamic of denegation which could recreate the necessary conditions for the repetition of the communist revolution; which, this time, instead of ending up in tragedy or in farce, should produce a sort of enlightened new statism.
description: Il saggio ricostruisce i discorsi politici di Alain Badiou e Slavoj Žižek a proposito del comunismo e della sua attualità all'interno del dibattito contemporaneo. I due filosofi, protagonisti della scena filosofica globale, sostengono posizioni diverse ma in parte complementari che si attestano, di là dalle differenze filosofiche, nel ritenere indispensabile la riapertura di uno sforzo teorico che elabori un'idea del comunismo e delle pratiche comuniste all'altezza delle sfide imposte dalla globalizzazione capitalistica. Il proposito di Badiou è ricominciare a diffondere l'idea di comunismo attraverso una procedura teorica e politica chiamata "ideazione", che dovrebbe produrre i nuovi militanti fedeli all'evento rivoluzionario. Mentre per Badiou lo Stato è il nemico principale di questa possibilità, Žižek al contrario sembra puntare sulla dinamica lacaniana della denegazione per ricreare le condizioni per una ripetizione della rivoluzione comunista che non finisca né in tragedia né in farsa, ma produca una sorta di neostatalismo illuminato.
Satisfaction with in‑patient child and adolescent psychiatric treatment: development and psychometric properties of the BEST questionnaires for adolescents and for parents
Creators: name: Keller, Ferdinand
name: Naumann, Alexander
name: Fegert, Jörg M.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Scale development
subject: Exploratory factor analysis
subject: Bifactor model
subject: Children’s rights
subject: Treatment participation
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Child psychiatry
subject: Adolescent psychiatry
subject: Inpatients
subject: Patient satisfaction
subject: Surveys and questionnaires
subject: Kinderpsychiatrie
subject: Jugendpsychiatrie
subject: Stationäre Behandlung
subject: Patient
subject: Zufriedenheit

description: Background Interest in the assessment of patient satisfaction with in-patient psychiatric treatment has steadily increased and several measurement tools are available for the quantification of patients’ experience. However, they are often uni-dimensional or focus mainly on therapeutic relationship and environment, and neglect other important issues such as information about treatment and participation. The BEST questionnaires were developed as comprehensive instruments that include items on all of the mentioned topics. The present study evaluates the psychometric properties of the BEST in a version for adolescents and for parents. Furthermore, the dimensionality of the satisfaction ratings is analyzed. Method Descriptive statistics were applied to data of 1582 adolescents (mean age = 15.0 years, SD = 1.65; 62.4% female) and 1998 parents/guardians assessed in seven in-patient units across Germany. The factorial structure of the BEST questionnaires was determined by exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, including a bifactor model. Results The psychometric quality of the scales was strong. Correlations with another assessment instrument of patient satisfaction were good to high, indicating good convergent validity. Exploratory factor analyses revealed three factors in adolescents that were labelled as: Therapeutic relationship, environment, and general satisfaction and treatment success. For parents, the same three factors could be distinguished. Confirmatory bifactor models suggested that the vast majority of variance was accounted for by the general factor; the three specific factors provided some additional information. Agreement between the subscales of adolescents and their parents was only moderate. Parents were usually more satisfied. Conclusions The BEST questionnaires can be considered as reliable and valid instruments to not only assess the “classical” aspects of patient satisfaction, but to also assess newer fundamental topics such as children’s rights and treatment participation. For scientific usage, the total score seems superior because of the high explained variance by the general factor, but the subscale scores provide further information. The use of single items seems advantageous for quality management purposes.
Testing the circumplex model of emotions in a consumer setting
Creators: name: Darbyshire, Penny
name: Bell, Richard
name: McDonald, Heath
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There is widespread belief that more positive emotional reactions to consumption situations will lead to positive business outcomes such as increased market share through the combination of increased loyalty, repeat purchase and strengthened reputation. However, most of the psychological work on emotions has not dealt directly with consumption experiences, but rather broader everyday experiences. In this study, psychological models of emotion were tested using magazine subscribers, specifically looking at their emotional responses to the magazine and the overall subscription package. The aim was to determine whether one of the major theories on emotional structure, the circumplex model, is relevant and consistent when applied specifically to a consumption experience. The results are positive, with the model being supported, and they provide insight into the structure and relations of different emotional responses (e.g., satisfaction, delight) consumers might have to a consumption experience.
Supplementary document for Enhancing the Efficiency of Solution-Processed Inverted Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes via Ligand Modification with 6-mercaptohexanol - 5082539.pdf
Creators: name: Chae, Heeyeop
name: Lee, Woosuk
name: Lee, Changmin
name: KIM, BO
name: Choi, Yonghyeok
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

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Assessment of a millimeter-wave antenna system for MIMO radar applications
Creators: name: Vasanelli, Claudia
name: Batra, Rahul
name: Di Serio, Adolfo
name: Bögelsack, Frank
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: MIMO radar
subject: Millimeter-wave antennas
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Millimeter wave communication systems
subject: MIMO systems
subject: Antenna arrays
subject: Radar
subject: MIMO
subject: Radar
subject: Antennengruppen

description: Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radars show improved angular resolution compared to traditional phased-array radar systems. Exploiting the advantages of MIMO radars could thus significantly improve the performances of the next generation of automotive radar sensors. The placement and the characteristics of the antenna arrays affect the performance of the MIMO system. For such applications, different metrics like the ambiguity function of the antenna system must be accurately evaluated. This letter presents a detailed characterization of an MIMO antenna configuration at millimeter-wave frequencies. To prove the effectiveness of this method, a five-element nonuniform antenna configuration based on cavity antenna arrays has been designed and tested.
How entrepreneurship influences an engineering faculty at a newly formed university of technology
Creators: name: Esbach, Johan
name: Campbell, Alistair
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: South Africa (SA) has an unemployment rate of 30-40% and especially in Engineering, new employment opportunities are critically needed. Existing higher education channels do not cater for the addition of Entrepreneurship to allow students this option. The Cape Peninsula University of Technology came into being in January 2005 through the merging of two former institutions, and the re-organising of the Engineering Faculty thus presented an opportunity to include a strategic new emphasis on entrepreneurship. This research proposes that if a concerted effort is made to expose engineers to an environment conducive to entrepreneurship, then universities of technology could contribute to the SA economy by producing innovative engineers who can create wealth and jobs for themselves and other South Africans. In a situation of proposed change such as this, it is encouraging to note that Moss-Kanter (1983) asserts that change is constant, and that only the degree of change is variable. Wheatley (1992) agrees that one needs to adopt radical steps to properly mobilise entrepreneurship. Bygrave and Hofer (1991) focus on the entrepreneur as the centre of entrepreneurship, and by implication in this context, not the engineer. Moss-Kanter (1983) adds that engineers need to 'leapfrog' their thinking and realise that by nature they are also capitalist, and thus inherently entrepreneurial to some degree. Shaver & Scott's work (1991) points to Mischel (1968) who views behaviour as a function of both person and environment. By extension, the engineer-entrepreneur can therefore be modelled as an integrated person-environment pair. All of these sources therefore confirm that a stronger sense of entrepreneurship is more than appropriate among the engineering fraternity.
A methodology for dynamic material characterizations via terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.
Creators: name: Lesack, Nikolai
name: Fredeen, Naomi V.
name: Jirasek, Andrew
name: Holzman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

description: In this work, the challenges of terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy on complex (multilayer) samples with time-varying (dynamic) characteristics are addressed. The challenges appear in characterizations of the refractive index and extinction coefficient, as etalon artifacts due to internal reflections, and are accentuated in multilayer structures having dynamic and low-loss materials, such as biomolecular materials. This is because nonidealities may form as airgaps at the interfaces and as inhomogeneity in the bulk. The proposed methodology addresses the challenges by introducing a generalized model that accommodates dynamic formation of airgaps and inhomogeneity. It is shown that the generality of the model allows it to mitigate etalon artifacts and yield a highly accurate representation of the material characteristics, with low systematic error, even for low-loss materials. The methodology is applied to characterizations of quartz and glucose in the THz spectrum to see fine detail in the characteristics of quartz and the crystallization of glucose.
MPEC 2024-V78 : 2016 JW5
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

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.
Supplementary document for Enhancing the Efficiency of Solution-Processed Inverted Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes via Ligand Modification with 6-mercaptohexanol - 5082539.pdf
Creators: name: Chae, Heeyeop
name: Lee, Woosuk
name: Lee, Changmin
name: KIM, BO
name: Choi, Yonghyeok
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

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Machine learning techniques for the segmentation of tomographic image data of functional materials : CT and 3DXRD measurements of an Al-5 wt. % Cu alloy
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: CT, 3DXRD, labeled grain boundaries
subject: DDC 000 / Computer science, information & general works
subject: DDC 500 / Natural sciences & mathematics

description: This data set contains CT image data of the microstructure of an AlCu-sample with poorly visible grain boundaries and matched 3DXRD with true grain boundary information. The data set can be used for training neural networks for predicting grain boundaries from CT data.
CSKG: The CommonSense Knowledge Graph
Creators: name: Ilievski, Filip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Commonsense reasoning is an important aspect of building robust AI systems and is receiving significant attention in the natural language understanding, computer vision, and knowledge graphs communities. At present, a number of valuable commonsense knowledge sources exist, with different foci, strengths and weaknesses. I will present an overview of existing sources of commonsense knowledge, including commonsense knowledge graphs, lexical resources, and visual commonsense sources. I will discuss how these can be harmonized in a single Commonsense Knowledge Graph (CSKG), organized into high-level dimensions of common sense, and enriched with logical axioms and preconditions. I will discuss our neuro-symbolic models that combine CSKG with neural language models to reason in question answering, natural language inference, and story understanding tasks. I will conclude with a list of remaining fundamental challenges for organizing commonsense knowledge and using it in combination with today’s neural techniques.