cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New ultracool subdwarfs identified in large-scale surveys using Virtual Observatory tools: II. SDSS DR7 vs UKIDSS LAS DR6, SDSS DR7 vs UKIDSS LAS DR8, SDSS DR9 vs UKIDSS LAS DR10, and SDSS DR7 vs 2MASS
Creators: name: Lodieu, N.
name: Contreras, M. Espinoza
name: Osorio, M. R. Zapatero
name: Solano, E.
name: Aberasturi, M.
name: Martin, E. L.
name: Rodrigo, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim at developing an efficient method to search for late-type subdwarfs (metal-depleted dwarfs with spectral types >M5) to improve the current statistics. Our objectives are: improve our knowledge of metal-poor low-mass dwarfs, bridge the gap between the late-M and L types, determine their surface density, and understand the impact of metallicity on the stellar and substellar mass function. We carried out a search cross-matching the SDSS, 2MASS, and UKIDSS using STILTS, Aladin, and Topcat. We considered different photometric and proper motion criteria for our selection. We identified 29 and 71 late-type subdwarf candidates in each cross-correlation over 8826 and 3679 square degrees, respectively. We obtained low-resolution optical spectra for 71 of our candidates with GTC, NOT, and VLT and retrieved spectra for 30 candidates from the SDSS spectroscopic database. We classified 92 candidates based on 101 optical spectra using two methods: spectral indices and comparison with templates of known subdwarfs. We confirmed 86% and 94% of the candidates as late-type subdwarfs from the SDSS vs 2MASS and SDSS vs UKIDSS cross-matches, respectively. These subdwarfs have spectral types ranging between M5 and L0.5 and SDSS magnitudes in the r=19.4-23.3 mag range. Our new late-type M discoveries include 49 subdwarfs, 25 extreme subdwarfs, six ultrasubdwarfs, one subdwarf/extreme subdwarf, and two dwarfs/subdwarfs. We derived a surface density of late-type subdwarfs of 0.040$^{+0.012}_{-0.007}$ per square degree in the SDSS DR7 vs UKIDSS LAS DR10 cross-match. We also checked the AllWISE photometry of known and new subdwarfs and found that mid-infrared colours of M subdwarfs do not appear to differ from their solar-metallicity counterparts of similar spectral types. However, the J-W2 and J-W1 colours are bluer for lower metallicity dwarfs. (abstract strongly abridged)
description: 28 pages, 4 Tables, 10 figures, 1 appendix. Accepted to A&A. Photometry and spectra available in a dedicated archive on late-type subdwarfs at http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/vocats/ltsa/
Computer modelling of a free-surface turbulent flow
Creators: name: Kowalczyk, Ewa A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Poly(aspartic acid) superabsorbent polymers as biobased and biodegradable additives for self-sealing of cementitious mortar
Creators: name: De Grave, Lauren
name: Filho, José Roberto Tenório
name: Snoeck, Didier
name: Vynnytska, Sofiya
name: De Belie, Nele
name: Bernaerts, Katrien V.
name: Van Vlierberghe, Sandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Concrete is currently the most used man-made construction material. Unfortunately it is prone to defects, such as cracks. Crack repair is possible by incorporation of superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) which can fill a crack by swelling and promote formation of healing products. However, SAPs are usually acrylate-based and not biodegradable. Present work focuses on development of SAPs based on poly(aspartic acid) (PASP), which is a biobased and biodegradable alternative of acrylate-based polymers. The developed SAP was incorporated in mortar and the effect on the mortar properties was studied. When adding 1 m% SAP, a decrease in strength was observed, similar to commercially available acrylate-based SAPs. The SAPs showed an efficient and immediate sealing effect in cracked mortar, reflected by a reduction in water permeability over 50%. Hence, the developed biobased SAP shows good sealing properties and could be used as a sustainable alternative for acrylic SAPs in concrete repair.
States and synaptic algebras
Creators: name: Foulis, David J.
name: Jencova, Anna
name: Pulmannova, Sylvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81P10, 81Q14 (46B40)

description: Different versions of the notion of a state have been formulated for various so-called quantum structures. In this paper, we investigate the interplay among states on synaptic algebras and on its sub-structures. A synaptic algebra is a generalization of the partially ordered Jordan algebra of all bounded self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space. The paper culminates with a characterization of extremal states on a commutative generalized Hermitian algebra, a special kind of synaptic algebra.
Una apuesta colectiva de colaboración interinstitucional: «La Aljaba. Segunda época: Revista de Estudios de la Mujer»
Creators: name: Lagunas, Cecilia
name: Carrario, Marta
name: Morales, Mónica
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2020

description: La «Aljaba. Segunda Época: Revista de Estudios de la Mujer» is the first Women’s Studies magazine collectively edited by three national universities in the República Argentina. It was born in 1996 with the co-direction of Nélida Bonaccorsi of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue; María Herminia Di Liscia of the Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, and Cecilia Lagunas of the Universidad Nacional de Luján. From the beginning, an annual volume has been published reflecting the results of research and actions carried out within the framework of Gender Studies and Women’s History. The articles published by the journal always aim to deconstruct validated hegemonic discourses as unique and true, and to a critical stance the dogmas legitimized by cultures and societies. Two of the journal’s important objectives are to promote studies from a perspective that rescues women’s voices, experiences and testimonies on the one hand; and on the other, to impact socially through the organization and dissemination of activities that promote the modification of sexist and patriarchal cultural patterns.
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«Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire»: 25 ans de défis surmontés
Creators: name: Thébaud, Françoise
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2020

description: The French journal «Clio, Femmes, Genre, Histoire» was founded in 1995 in a cultural milieu not very favorable to the history of women. At the time, its subtitle was «Histoire, Femmes et Sociétés». From its inception, two thematic issues of three hundred pages each have been published every year, and the journal will soon publish its 50th issue and celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2020. Its history –political, intellectual and institutional at the same time– can be read as a succession of challenges that have been overcome.
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Entire solutions of superlinear problems with indefinite weights and Hardy potentials
Creators: name: Franca, Matteo
name: Sfecci, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide the structure of regular/singular fast/slow decay radially symmetric solutions for a class of superlinear elliptic equations with an in- definite weight on the nonlinearity f (u, r). In particular we are interested in the case where f is positive in a ball and negative outside, or in the re- versed situation. We extend the approach to elliptic equations in presence of Hardy potentials. By the use of Fowler transformation we study the corresponding dynamical systems, presenting the construction of invariant manifolds when the global existence of solutions is not ensured.
Cone penetrometer and model pile testing in calcareous soils
Creators: name: Yee, Yew Weng.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A Travelogue of Women’s World: The Story of «Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan»
Creators: name: Aftab, Tahera
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2020

description: This paper presents the unique story of Pakistan’s pioneering journal of Women’s Studies «Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan» («PJWS»), and provides testimony to the dedication, commitment and resolution of a small group of scholars of Women’s Studies at the University of Karachi, who stood together to promote and generate feminist scholarship. «PJWS» first appeared in 1994 and since then it has attempted to act as a bridge between academics and activists, to produce interdisciplinary scholarship and to dialogue with similar journals worldwide. Despite several challenges that thwarted its life, the story of the twenty-five years of «PJWS» is a story of success.
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«Arenal. Revista de Historia de las Mujeres». Trayectoria e impacto en los Estudios de las Mujeres y en la historiografía feminista
Creators: name: Martínez Lópezcandidam@Ugr.Es, Cándida
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2020

description: This article addresses the origins and development of «Arenal. Journal of Women’s History» as a research journal focusing on a critical analysis and reflection on the historical experience of women, the social relations of gender and processes of social transformation. It explores the initial debates on objectives and resources, and the relationship to academic feminism and international historiographical trends. It also examines the conceptual approaches and themes that have shaped monographs and studies throughout its twenty five years of existence.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 15 No. 15 (2019): Donne in rivista
A Pair Against Oppression: June Croll, Eugene Gordon, Communism and the Forging of American Anti-Racism
Creators: name: Candee, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Communism+Race+Class+20thCentury+Black+Jewish+Working-Class

description: The twentieth century was long, and—despite its best efforts—so were the lives of June and Eugene Gordon. That they were a pairing of a Jewish woman and a Black man alone would have raised eyebrows, but to make matters worse, they were both Communists. Throughout their lives, the pair found themselves confronted by mass anti-semitic and racist violence, state surveillance and repression, and social and financial pressure, which oppressed them through identity and class. Though their personhood and partnership came under assault by legal regimes, backward social convention, and material deprivation, June and Eugene held onto each other and shared visions of a free humanity. These visions were at once profoundly universal and doggedly particularistic. Their intersecting and sometimes diverging paths towards freedom carried them through the life-world of the Communist party, the material and cultural battlefields of the twentieth century, and to one another. The pair’s participation in the labor movement, the Black liberation struggle, and the fight for Jewish freedom spans half a century. Raised in cultures of opposition, they never gave up the fight and took their place in the radical vanguard of civil society, the labor movement, and the literary world. They fought for justice on the battlefields of the Great War, in the pages of Harlem Renaissance publications, the picket lines of the Great Depression, and in the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. June and Eugene Gordon’s lives reveal a great deal about the successes and failures of the interconnected Black radical and European revolutionary traditions. Their experiences as activists in the long civil rights movement, as members of oppressed groups, organic intellectuals, and communist cadres provide a unique window into a period of intense political struggle. This struggle brought about a transition in the world history of race, empire, and capitalism, from the era of white dominion to the era of multiracial liberalism. Neither Eugene nor June fundamentally changed the trajectories of the cultures of opposition or political organizations they operated within. However, the length and breadth of their engagement with these oppositional cultures and the Communist movement mark Eugene and June as representatives of a greater whole. They are the Communist everyman and everywoman, fleeting representatives of those who lurk in single sentences within more famous radicals’ memoirs, in brief acknowledgments of their actions or arrest in newspapers, in FBI files, and in the corners of photographs. Through them, we develop a better understanding of the internal workings of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA); and, more importantly, the conjunctural and organic forces guiding the uneven transformation from the 19th-century world of white Dominion into the one we recognize today.
The snapping out Brownian motion
Creators: name: Lejay, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a probabilistic representation of a one-dimensional diffusion equation where the solution is discontinuous at $0$ with a jump proportional to its flux. This kind of interface condition is usually seen as a semi-permeable barrier. For this, we use a process called here the snapping out Brownian motion, whose properties are studied. As this construction is motivated by applications, for example, in brain imaging or in chemistry, a simulation scheme is also provided.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AAP1131 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Anomalous Dynamical Responses in a Driven System
Creators: name: Dutta, Suman
name: Chakrabarti, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay between structure and dynamics in non-equilibrium steady-state is far from understood. We address this interplay by tracking Brownian Dynamics trajectories of particles in a binary colloid of opposite charges in an external electric field, undergoing cross-over from homogeneous to lane state, a prototype of heterogeneous structure formation in non-equilibrium systems. We show that the length scale of structural correlations controls heterogeneity in diffusion and consequent anomalous dynamic responses, like the exponential tail in probability distributions of particle displacements and stretched exponential structural relaxation. We generalise our observations using equations for steady state density which may aid to understand microscopic basis of heterogeneous diffusion in condensed matter systems.
A survey of symbolic methods for establishing equivalence-based properties in cryptographic protocols
Creators: name: Delaune, Stéphanie
name: Hirschi, Lucca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.4.6; D.2.4; C.2.2

description: Cryptographic protocols aim at securing communications over insecure networks such as the Internet, where dishonest users may listen to communications and interfere with them. A secure communication has a different meaning depending on the underlying application. It ranges from the confidentiality of a data to e.g. verifiability in electronic voting systems. Another example of a security notion is privacy. Formal symbolic models have proved their usefulness for analysing the security of protocols. Until quite recently, most results focused on trace properties like confidentiality or authentication. There are however several security properties, which cannot be defined (or cannot be naturally defined) as trace properties and require a notion of behavioural equivalence. Typical examples are anonymity, and privacy related properties. During the last decade, several results and verification tools have been developed to analyse equivalence-based security properties. We propose here a synthesis of decidability and undecidability results for equivalence-based security properties. Moreover, we give an overview of existing verification tools that may be used to verify equivalence-based security properties.
description: Accepted for publication in Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming
«Revista Estudos Feministas»: uma trajetória de desafios
Creators: name: Scheibe Wolff, Cristina
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2020

description: This article presents a history and an analysis of «Revista Estudos Feministas» («REF»), published by Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil. «REF» is today the main journal in gender studies, feminisms and sexualities fields in Brazil, and one of the most important in Latin America. The article tells about its beginning, in Rio de Janeiro, and how it became published by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina since 1999. To maintain a journal like «REF», with quality and frequency, imposes challenges that encompass technical issues and political matters, especially in contemporary Brazil. Feminist struggles continue in recent years and have acquired new intensity, which is reflected in the pages of the journal.
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Quantum Correlations in NMR systems
Creators: name: Mahesh, T. S.
name: Kumar, C. S. Sudheer
name: Bhosale, Udaysinh T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In conventional NMR experiments, the Zeeman energy gaps of the nuclear spin ensembles are much lower than their thermal energies, and accordingly exhibit tiny polarizations. Generally such low-purity quantum states are devoid of quantum entanglement. However, there exist certain nonclassical correlations which can be observed even in such systems. In this chapter, we discuss three such quantum correlations, namely, quantum contextuality, Leggett-Garg temporal correlations, and quantum discord. In each case, we provide a brief theoretical background and then describe some results from NMR experiments.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures
Determination of partial load factors for fire limit state
Creators: name: Poon, Sai Leong.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Information integration from distributed threshold-based interactions
Creators: name: Barbosa, Valmir C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a collection of distributed units that interact with one another through the sending of messages. Each message carries a positive ($+1$) or negative ($-1$) tag and causes the receiving unit to send out messages as a function of the tags it has received and a threshold. This simple model abstracts some of the essential characteristics of several systems used in the field of artificial intelligence, and also of biological systems epitomized by the brain. We study the integration of information inside a temporal window as the model's dynamics unfolds. We quantify information integration by the total correlation, relative to the window's duration ($w$), of a set of random variables valued as a function of message arrival. Total correlation refers to the rise of information gain above and beyond that which the units already achieve individually, being therefore related to consciousness studies in some models. We report on extensive computational experiments that explore the interrelations of the model's parameters (two probabilities and the threshold), highlighting relevant scenarios of message traffic and how they impact the behavior of total correlation as a function of $w$. We find that total correlation can occur at significant fractions of the maximum possible value and provide semi-analytical results on the message-traffic characteristics associated with values of $w$ for which it peaks. We then reinterpret the model's parameters in terms of the current best estimates of some quantities pertaining to cortical structure and dynamics. We find the resulting possibilities for best values of $w$ to be well aligned with the time frames within which percepts are thought to be processed and eventually rendered conscious.
«Feminist Studies»
Creators: name: Tambe, Ashwini
name: Fremaux, Brittany
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2020

description: «Feminist Studies» is an interdisciplinary women’s studies journal, first published in 1972: the oldest US journal of Women’s Studies. It is an English-language, peer-reviewed journal, publishing three issues annually in print and electronic form. Although housed at the University of Maryland, it is independent, and one of the few academic journals that is not owned by a university press. «Feminist Studies» appeared when groups of feminists scholars and activists came together in order to create a scholarly journal with high scholarly standards. This feminist network believed that the women’s movement needed an analytical forum to engage the issues raised by the movement. This is still the journal’s mission. The title was chosen to indicate that the content of the journal would be both scholarly and political, and foreground women as a social group and gender as a category of analysis. The editorial board about a dozen academics strives wants to embody the feminist ideal of collectivity through shared work engagement and responsibility.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 15 No. 15 (2019): Donne in rivista
Europe against the people: does eurosceptic news exposure relate to populist attitudes? Evidence from a linkage study across nine European countries
Creators: name: Hameleers, Michael
name: Goldberg, Andreas C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The media’s attention to populism is oftentimes associated with its electoral success. In this paper, we propose that the relationship between media coverage and populist beliefs among citizens can be understood as an over-time cultivation of support for populist ideology due to the media’s attention to populist ideas and policies. The media may devote attention to ideas high on the populist agenda, such as Euroscepticism, which may prime populist worldviews among individuals. To test this expectation, we first use a comparative study in nine EU countries for which we link content analytic data on negativity toward the EU in the media to panel survey data measuring populist attitudes. Overall, we find that exposure to negative news on the EU does not trigger populist attitudes. In a more detailed case study in the Netherlands across multiple panel waves, we do find that social media exposure is more likely to be associated with populist attitudes than traditional news exposure. Together, our study offers limited support for the notion that attention to Euroscepticism in established media can fuel populist attitudes among voters.
The role of the information environment during the first COVID-19 wave in Germany
Creators: name: Stier, Sebastian
name: Weiß, Bernd
name: Hartmann, Timo
name: Flöck, Fabian
name: Breuer, Johannes
name: Schaurer, Ines
name: Kummerow, Mirjan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by intense debates about the role of the information environment. On the one hand, citizens learn from public information campaigns and news coverage and supposedly adjust their behaviours accordingly; on the other, there are fears of widespread misinformation and its detrimental effects. Analyzing the posts of the most important German information providers published via Facebook, this paper first identifies a uniform salience of subtopics related to COVID-19 across different types of information sources that generally emphasized the threats to public health. Next, using a large survey conducted with German residents during the first COVID-19 wave in March 2020 we investigate how information exposure relates to perceptions, attitudes and behaviours concerning the pandemic. Regression analyses show that getting COVID-19-related information from a multitude of sources has a statistically significant and positive relationship with public health outcomes. These findings are consistent even across the ideological left/right spectrum and party preferences. These consistent correlational results demonstrate that during the first wave of COVID-19, a uniform information environment went hand in hand with a cautious public and widely accepted mitigation measures. Nonetheless, we discuss these findings against the backdrop of an increased politicization of public-health measures during later COVID-19 waves.
A comparative study of two urban catchment models
Creators: name: Ch'ng, Yoon Seng.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Multiple stellar populations in Magellanic Cloud clusters. V. The split main sequence of the young cluster NGC1866
Creators: name: Milone, A. P.
name: Marino, A. F.
name: D'Antona, F.
name: Bedin, L. R.
name: Piotto, G.
name: Jerjen, H.
name: Anderson, J.
name: Dotter, A.
name: Di Criscienzo, M.
name: Lagioia, E. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most unexpected results in the field of stellar populations of the last few years, is the discovery that some Magellanic-Cloud globular clusters younger than ~400 Myr, exhibit bimodal main sequences (MSs) in their color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs). Moreover, these young clusters host an extended main sequence turn off (eMSTO) in close analogy with what is observed in most ~1-2 Gyr old clusters of both Magellanic Clouds. We use high-precision Hubble-Space-Telescope photometry to study the young star cluster NGC1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We discover an eMSTO and a split MS. The analysis of the CMD reveals that (i) the blue MS is the less populous one, hosting about one-third of the total number of MS stars; (ii) red-MS stars are more centrally concentrated than blue-MS stars; (iii) the fraction of blue-MS stars with respect to the total number of MS stars drops by a factor of ~2 in the upper MS with F814W
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
L’Homme. Rivista europea per le scienze storiche femministe
Creators: name: Hämmerle, Christa
name: Hafner, Michaela
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2020

description: This article embeds the thirty year old history of «L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft» / «L’Homme. European Journal of Feminist History», initiated by the well-known Austrian historian Edith Saurer in 1990, within the broader frame of similar journal founded in the 1990’s. It then explains the choice of the title «L’Homme» and describes the changing concept, aims and contents of the journal, which not only includes historical articles (often translated from other European languages) but also comments on contemporary issues of feminism, and debates on gender inequality. The journal and its accompanying book series, «L’Homme Schriften», are currently edited by 18 scholars from 8 European countries – thus indeed representing a common European publication project.
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Restoring genuine tripartite entanglement under local amplitude damping
Creators: name: Ali, Mazhar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility to restore genuine tripartite entanglement under local amplitude damping. We show that it is possible to protect genuine entanglement using CNOT and Hadamard gates. We analyze several ordering of such recovery operations. We find that for recovery operations applied after exposing qubits to decoherence, there is no enhancement in lifetime of genuine entanglement. Actual retrieval of entanglement is only possible when reversal scheme is applied before and after the decoherence process. We find that retrieval of entanglement for mixture of $|\widetilde{W}\rangle$ state with white noise is more evident than the respective mixture of $|W\rangle$ state. We also find the retrieval of entanglement for similar mixture of $|GHZ\rangle$ state as well.
description: 14 Pages, 11 Figures
‘Them’ without ‘us’: negative identities and affective polarization in Brazil
Creators: name: Areal, João
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: High levels of hostility between those on opposing sides of politics have led to a burgeoning literature on the concept of affective polarization. Though a globally widespread phenomenon, extant literature has generated theoretical expectations and empirical findings mostly inspired by the United States and Western Europe. By studying the case of Brazil, I argue and show that traditional explanations do not provide satisfactory accounts of affective polarization in contexts where politics is only weakly structured by ideology or partisan attachments. I argue and show that in such contexts the concept of negative political identities can provide a much better explanation for why politics is so divisive. Using both the 2014 and 2018 waves of the Brazilian Electoral Studies (BES) and independently collected survey data (N = 1732), I provide robust empirical findings supporting the primacy of negative political identities over traditional explanations. Negative identification with the out-party/leader has a strong effect on dislike towards out-voters even when controlling for instrumental evaluations of political elites. This paper contributes to the comparative research agenda on affective polarization outside Western contexts, as well as to the study of negative political identities.
«Awa» et autres revues féminines en Afrique francophone: par-delà les lieux communs
Creators: name: Riva, Silvia
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2020

description: The article takes into consideration women’s magazines published in French-speaking Africa during the colonial period and immediately after the Independences. In addition to offering an overview of the more or lesser-known publications (in particular «Awa: la revue de la femme noire»), it focuses on some prejudices that have so far prevented us from considering the French-speaking African women’s press as a fundamental element to understand the international feminist planetary movement. The careful reading of «Awa: la revue de la femme noire», made available thanks to the digitization and online publication of all the issues, shows in fact avant-garde positions, dissidents, and active participation in a cosmopolitan community that, in the Sixties and Seventies, had much to say to our contemporaneity.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 15 No. 15 (2019): Donne in rivista
A Preliminary Mathematical Model for the Dynamic Transmission of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika
Creators: name: Isea, Raul
name: Lonngren, Karl E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Aedes aegypti is a known vector of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika and the goal of this study is to propose the first mathematical model to describe the dynamic transmission of these three diseases. We present two preliminary models that consist of the SEIR model for the human populations and an SEI model for the vector to describe (a) the single transmission dynamics of dengue, Chikungunya or Zika, and (b) any possible coinfection between two diseases in the same population. In order to do that, we obtain an analytical solution of the system of 17 and 30 coupled differential equations for each model respectively, and later obtain the eigenvalues by analyzing the Jacobian matrix in order to begin the development of a surveillance system to prevent the spread of these three diseases.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, open access
Fathom: Reference Workloads for Modern Deep Learning Methods
Creators: name: Adolf, Robert
name: Rama, Saketh
name: Reagen, Brandon
name: Wei, Gu-Yeon
name: Brooks, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning has been popularized by its recent successes on challenging artificial intelligence problems. One of the reasons for its dominance is also an ongoing challenge: the need for immense amounts of computational power. Hardware architects have responded by proposing a wide array of promising ideas, but to date, the majority of the work has focused on specific algorithms in somewhat narrow application domains. While their specificity does not diminish these approaches, there is a clear need for more flexible solutions. We believe the first step is to examine the characteristics of cutting edge models from across the deep learning community. Consequently, we have assembled Fathom: a collection of eight archetypal deep learning workloads for study. Each of these models comes from a seminal work in the deep learning community, ranging from the familiar deep convolutional neural network of Krizhevsky et al., to the more exotic memory networks from Facebook's AI research group. Fathom has been released online, and this paper focuses on understanding the fundamental performance characteristics of each model. We use a set of application-level modeling tools built around the TensorFlow deep learning framework in order to analyze the behavior of the Fathom workloads. We present a breakdown of where time is spent, the similarities between the performance profiles of our models, an analysis of behavior in inference and training, and the effects of parallelism on scaling.
description: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2016
Drawing a Waddington landscape to capture dynamic epigenetics
Creators: name: Nicol-Benoit, Floriane
name: Goff, Pascale le
name: Michel, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Epigenetics is most often reduced to chromatin marking in the current literature, whereas this notion was initially defined in a more general context. This restricted view ignores that epigenetic memories are in fact more robustly ensured in living systems by steady state mechanisms with permanent molecule renewal. This misconception is likely to result from misleading intuitions and insufficient dialogues between traditional and quantitative biologists. To demystify dynamic epigenetics, its most famous image, a Waddington landscape and its attractors, are explicitly drawn. The simple example provided is sufficient to highlight the main requirements and characteristics of dynamic gene networks, underlying cellular differentiation, de-differentiation and trans-differentiation.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures
A microcomputer based manufacturing management system for small companies
Creators: name: Thompson, John C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Perceptions of polarization among political representatives
Creators: name: Skoog, Louise
name: Karlsson, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The aim of this article is to study why politicians in the same elected assembly perceive political polarization differently, as well as whether and how this influences perceptions of their behaviour. The findings reveals that there is a relationship between local politicians’ perceptions of polarization and winner-loser partisanship and trust. The results show that politicians who have higher levels of trust perceive a lower level of antagonistic behaviour. Being a political winner (in a ruling party coalition) or loser (in opposition) fosters a specific form of partisanship, which affects politicians’ perceptions. Politicians who are winners tend to perceive lower levels of polarization and antagonistic behaviour. More insight into how and why political actors perceive the same situation differently could potentially foster a greater understanding – a political empathy – among political combatants, facilitating interaction. The study is based on data from a survey conducted among all councillors in the 290 municipalities in Sweden.
On the Rotation of Sunspots and Their Magnetic Polarity
Creators: name: Zheng, Jianchuan
name: Yang, Zhiliang
name: Guo, Kaiming
name: Wang, Haimin
name: Wang, Shuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rotation of sunspots of 2 yr in two different solar cycles is studied with the data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the \it Solar Dynamics Observatory \rm and the Michelson Doppler Imager instrument on board the \it Solar and Heliospheric Observataory.\rm We choose the $α$ sunspot groups and the relatively large and stable sunspots of complex active regions in our sample. In the year of 2003, the $α$ sunspot groups and the preceding sunspots tend to rotate counterclockwise and have positive magnetic polarity in the northern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere, the magnetic polarity and rotational tendency of the $α$ sunspot groups and the preceding sunspots are opposite to the northern hemisphere. The average rotational speed of these sunspots in 2003 is about $0^{\circ}.65 \rm \ hr^{-1}$. From 2014 January to 2015 February, the $α$ sunspot groups and the preceding sunspots tend to rotate clockwise and have negative magnetic polarity in the northern hemisphere. The patterns of rotation and magnetic polarity of the southern hemisphere are also opposite to those of the northern hemisphere. The average rotational speed of these sunspots in 2014/2015 is about $1^{\circ}.49 \rm \ hr^{-1}$. The rotation of the relatively large and stable preceding sunspots and that of the $α$ sunspot groups located in the same hemisphere have opposite rotational direction in 2003 and 2014/2015.
description: 25 pages, 23 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Investigating prominence turbulence with Hinode SOT Dopplergrams
Creators: name: Hillier, Andrew
name: Matsumoto, Takeshi
name: Ichimoto, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quiescent prominences host a diverse range of flows, including Rayleigh-Taylor instability driven upflows and impulsive downflows, and so it is no surprise that turbulent motions also exist. As prominences are believed to have a mean horizontal guide field, investigating any turbulence they host could shed light on the nature of MHD turbulence in a wide range of astrophysical systems. In this paper we have investigated the nature of the turbulent prominence motions using structure function analysis on the velocity increments estimated from H$α$ Dopplergrams constructed with observational data from Hinode SOT. The pdf of the velocity increments shows that as we look at increasingly small spatial separations the distribution displays greater departure from a reference Gaussian distribution, hinting at intermittency in the velocity field. Analysis of the even order structure functions for both the horizontal and vertical separations showed the existence of two distinct regions displaying different exponents of the power law with the break in the power law at approximately 2000km. We hypothesise this to be a result of internal turbulence excited in the prominence by the dynamic flows of the system found at this spatial scale. We found that the scaling exponents of the p-th order structure functions for these two regions generally followed the p/2 (smaller scales) and p/4 (larger scales) laws that are the same as those predicted for weak MHD turbulence and Kraichnan-Iroshnikov turbulence respectively. However, the existence of the p/4 scaling at larger scales than the p/2 scaling is inconsistent with the increasing nonlinearity expected in MHD turbulence. Estimating the heating from the turbulent energy dissipation showed that this turbulent heating would be very inefficient, but that the mass diffusion through turbulence driven reconnection was of the order of $10^{10}$cm$^2$/s.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Nano-scale thermal transfer -- an invitation to fluctuation electrodynamics
Creators: name: Henkel, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An electromagnetic theory of thermal radiation is outlined, based on the fluctuation electrodynamics of Rytov and co-workers. We discuss the basic concepts and the status of different approximations. The physical content is illustrated with a few examples on near-field heat transfer.
description: 4 figures, special issue "Heat Transfer and Heat Conduction on the Nanoscale" edited by Svend-Age Biehs, Philippe Ben-Abdallah, and Achim Kittel
CONTACT SITES BETWEEN THE ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM AND THE PLASMA MEMBRANE CONTROL EGFR ENDOCYTOSIS
Creators: name: BARBIERI, ELISA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) can be internalized through different routes. While clathrin-mediated endocytosis destines EGFR for recycling and signaling, internalization through non-clathrin endocytosis (NCE) targets the receptor for degradation. Since NCE appears to be a major negative regulator of EGFR levels, a more complete picture of this pathway would likely reveal new insights into aberrant EGFR signaling observed in many types of cancer. By combining a candidate gene approach with an unbiased proteomic approach, we have defined EGFR-NCE as molecularly distinct from other NCE pathways, relying on functional regulators not previously implicated in endocytosis. We found that reticulon 3 (RTN3), an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-resident protein, is fundamental for NCE-mediated EGFR internalization, and that its ablation delays EGFR degradation, demonstrating that the NCE pathway is a critical regulator of the EGF-dependent cellular response. We show that, upon stimulation with high dose of EGF, RTN3 is localized in close proximity to EGFR and that it is crucial for the formation of contact sites between the ER and the plasma membrane (PM), which are needed for NCE to proceed efficiently. We also show that ER contact sites are involved in local Ca2+ release: high EGF doses induce a release of Ca2+ from the ER to the PM, which is strongly inhibited upon knockdown of RTN3. This calcium release depends on the inositol trisphosphate (IP3) cascade and is essential for the internalization of EGFR via NCE. In conclusion, we have discovered a new clathrin-independent endocytic pathway that relies on the action of RTN3. RTN3 is necessary for the formation of contact sites between the ER and EGFR-NCE sites at the PM, which are required for IP3R-dependent local calcium release and the completion of EGFR internalization through NCE.
Magnetic ratchet effect in bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Kheirabadi, Narjes
name: McCann, Edward
name: Fal'ko, Vladimir I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the orbital effect of an in-plane magnetic field on electrons in bilayer graphene, deriving linear-in-field contributions to the low-energy Hamiltonian arising from the presence of either skew interlayer coupling or interlayer potential asymmetry, the latter being tunable by an external metallic gate. To illustrate the relevance of such terms, we consider the ratchet effect in which a dc current results from the application of an alternating electric field in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field and inversion-symmetry breaking. By comparison with recent experimental observations in monolayer graphene [C. Drexler et al., Nature Nanotech. 8, 104 (2013)], we estimate that the effect in bilayer graphene can be two orders of magnitude greater than that in monolayer, illustrating that the bilayer is an ideal material for the realization of optoelectronic effects that rely on inversion-symmetry breaking.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures