cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Zur religionsphilosophischen Entwicklungslinie bei Jürgen Habermas
Creators: name: Menezes, Milton
Year: 2014

description: Als einer der wirkmächtigsten Denker der Gegenwart ist Jürgen Habermas mittlerweile auch unter Theologen ein gefragter Gesprächspartner. Denn seit einigen Jahren setzt sich Habermas intensiv mit der Rolle und Bedeutung von Religionsgemeinschaften in den modernen, säkularen Gesellschaften auseinander. Erstaunlich ist der Umstand, dass Habermas sich bis in die 1990er Jahre kaum systematisch über Religionen  geäußert hat, und nun religiöse Glaubensgemeinschaften als eine nicht zu vernachlässigende Ressource im Bereich der Sinnfindung betrachtet. In der Frühphase seines Werkes war dies noch anders: In knappen Hinweisen skizziert Habermas eine „Versprachlichung des Sakralen“, die besagt, dass religiöse Weltbilder im Zuge der voranschreitenden gesellschaftlichen Rationalisierung in  einer säkularen Ethik aufgehen werden. Habermas verbindet in den 1980er Jahren also gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt mit sinkender Bedeutung von Religionsgemeinschaften, und diagnostiziert den Verfall religiöser Traditionen in der Moderne. Dieses Religionsverständnis wird Habermas in den folgenden Jahren korrigieren, und um die Jahrtausendewende durch neue Motive ergänzen. Da nun offensichtlich ist, dass Religionen nicht so schnell verschwinden werden, muss ein neuer Modus gefunden werden, indem Glaubensgemeinschaften und eine nachmetaphysische Philosophie ihre Beziehung zueinander gestalten. Habermas plädiert für eine „Kooperative Übersetzung“, da Religionen als sinnstiftende Ressource auch für den Staat in Erwägung gezogen werden müssen. Gefordert werden „komplementäre Lernprozesse“, die den Dialog zwischen „Glaube“ und „Vernunft“ vertiefen soll. In diesem Kontext führt Habermas auch den Begriff der „postsäkularen Gesellschaften“ ein, der enorme Reaktionen zur Folge hatte. Die Diplomarbeit ist daher thematisch in zwei Teile getrennt: In einem ersten Teil soll die Konzeption der „Versprachlichung des Sakralen“ vorgestellt werden, während im zweiten Teil die Überlegungen zur „Kooperativen Übersetzung“ im Vordergrund stehen. Ziel der Diplomarbeit ist daher eine Entwicklungslinie des Religionsverständnisses von Jürgen Habermas nachzuzeichnen.
A Novel Watermarking Approach for Protecting Image Integrity based on a Hybrid Security Technique
Creators: name: Nagm, Ahmad M.
name: Torky, Mohamed
name: Youssef, Khaled Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Digital Photo images are everywhere around us in journals, on walls, and over the Internet. However we have to be conscious that seeing does not always imply reality. Photo images become a rich subject of manipulations due to the advanced digital cameras as well as photo editing software. Accordingly, image forgery is becoming much easier using the existing tools in terms of time and accuracy, and thus the forensics of detecting an image forgery case is becoming difficult and needs more and more time and techniques to prove the image originality especially as crime evidences and court related cases. In this paper, a framework with associated algorithms and methodologies is proposed to ensure the authenticity of the image and the integrity of the content in addition to protecting the photo image against forgery suspects. The framework depends on developing new generation of certified digital cameras that could produce authenticated and forgery-proof photos. The proposed methodology generates an irreversible hash integrity code from the image content based on color matrix calculations and steganography algorithms. The simulation results proved the capability of the proposed technique to detect image forgery cases in more than 16 scenarios of manipulation.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 178, No.30, 14-22 July 2019, ISSN 0975-8887
Bottom-Up Innovation in the Electricity Sector
Creators: Jules Kortenhorst
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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While public policies influence innovation in many ways, over the years new technologies have emerged chiefly from the private sector. The same can be said for innovation in the electricity field. Rather than top-down government mandates, or utility-driven central generation developments, most innovation in electricity is about customer-sited, distributed energy solutions that empower customers. The accelerating pace at which improved technologies and new business models are emerging is bringing the transition to a low-carbon economy within reach. There are three specific areas that in combination promise to be powerful enablers for the shift to a sustainable energy future.
What''s Next for Energy Storage?
Creators: Dr. Ralph D. Masiello
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Prospects for wide integration of energy storage into grid systems will be enhanced with the development of market mechanisms that allow for coordinated trading of charge and discharge time. However, introduction of such mechanisms represent a challenge to traditional thinking and require added complexity and computation. Conceptually, energy storage straddles our conventional categories of transmission, distribution and generation.
Formation of X-Ray Cavities by the Magnetically Dominated Jet-Lobe System in a Galaxy Cluster
Creators: name: Xu, H.
name: Li, H.
name: Collins, D.
name: Li, S.
name: Norman, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present cosmological magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the formation of a galaxy cluster with magnetic energy feedback from an active galactic nuclei (AGN). We demonstrate that X-ray cavities can be produced by the magnetically dominated jet-lobe system that is supported by a central axial current. The cavities are magnetically dominated and their morphology is determined jointedly by the magnetic fields and the background cluster pressure profile. The expansion and motion of the cavities are driven initially by the Lorentz force of the magnetic fields, and the cavities only become buoyant at late stages ($> 500$ Myr). We find that up to $80%-90%$ of the injected magnetic energy goes into doing work against the hot cluster medium, heating it, and lifting it in the cluster potential.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, minor corrections
The effect and mechanism of cypermethrin-induced hippocampal neurotoxicity as determined by network pharmacology analysis and experimental validation
Creators: name: Li, Jianan
name: Bi, Haoran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Cypermethrin (CMN) is a widely used artificial synthetic pesticide that causes neurotoxicity in the hippocampus. However, the underlying toxicological targets and mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, network pharmacology analysis and in vitro models were integrated to investigate the effect and mechanism of CMN-induced hippocampal neurotoxicity. A total of 88 targets of CMN-induced hippocampal neurotoxicity were predicted. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes enrichment (KEGG) analyses suggested that these targets were related to multiple GO terms and signaling pathways. To further investigate underlying mechanism, the top 10 hub targets (Akt1, Tnf, Ptgs2, Casp3, Igf1, Sirt1, Jun, Cat, Il10, and Bcl2l1) were screened. Furthermore, cell viability and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) assays demonstrated that CMN was toxic to HT22 cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) staining revealed that treatment with CMN increased the proportion of apoptotic cells. In addition, the real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) results indicated that CMN altered the mRNA expression levels of most of the hub targets, with the exceptions of Igf1 and Jun. The results demonstrated that multiple targets and signaling pathways were involved in CMN-induced hippocampal neurotoxicity. These findings provided reference values for subsequent studies of the toxicological mechanism of CMN.
Ariadne: PyTorch Library for Particle Track Reconstruction Using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Goncharov, Pavel
name: Schavelev, Egor
name: Nikolskaya, Anastasia
name: Ososkov, Gennady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: H.3; F.3; B.4
subject: 6804, 68M10, 97R40

description: Particle tracking is a fundamental part of the event analysis in high energy and nuclear physics. Events multiplicity increases each year along with the drastic growth of the experimental data which modern HENP detectors produce, so the classical tracking algorithms such as the well-known Kalman filter cannot satisfy speed and scaling requirements. At the same time, breakthroughs in the study of deep learning open an opportunity for the application of high-performance deep neural networks for solving tracking problems in a dense environment of experiments with heavy ions. However, there are no well-documented software libraries for deep learning track reconstruction yet. We introduce Ariadne, the first open-source library for particle tracking based on the PyTorch deep learning framework. The goal of our library is to provide a simple interface that allows one to prepare train and test datasets and to train and evaluate one of the deep tracking models implemented in the library on the data from your specific experiment. The user experience is greatly facilitated because of the system of gin-configurations. The modular structure of the library and abstract classes let the user develop his data processing pipeline and deep tracking model easily. The proposed library is open-source to facilitate academic research in the field of particle tracking based on deep learning.
description: 5pages, 1 figures, The XXIV International Scientific Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists (AYSS-2020)
Schlüsselfaktoren der Adhärenz bei COPD
Creators: name: Brucker, Viktoria
Year: 2014

description: Einleitung: COPD (engl.: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) nimmt derzeit Platz 4 der häufigsten Todesursachen ein und wird von der WHO bis 2030 auf Platz 3 prognostiziert. In der Therapie chronischer Krankheiten stellt die Adhärenz einen wesentlichen Erfolgsfaktor dar. Insbesondere bei COPD wurde jedoch wiederholt mangelnde Adhärenz beobachtet.
Zahlreiche Studien und Kampagnen der letzten Jahre in Österreich unterstreichen die zunehmende Bedeutung und öffentliche Wahrnehmung von COPD.
Methoden: Im Zeitraum von Oktober 2013 bis Jänner 2014 wurden COPD PatientInnen des LKH Villach mittels teilstandardisiertem Fragebogen interviewt und die Adhärenz durch Verwendung der MMAS-8 (Morisky Medication Adherence Scale-8) gemessen. Zusätzlich wurden COPD relevante medizinische Daten aus den Patientenakten erfasst.
Resultate: Die beobachtete Stichprobe zeigte mit einer durchschnittlichen Anzahl von 1,81 Punkten auf der MMAS-8 Skala mittlere Adhärenz. Positiven Einfluss auf die Adhärenz hatten Familienstand (verheiratet), zunehmende Haushaltsgröße, Wissen über Krankheit und Therapie, Selbsteinschätzung des Wissens zu Krankheit und Therapie, Wissen über korrekte Anwendung der verordneten Arzneimittel, Teilnahme an Patientenschulungen (Teilnahmequote=23%), als brauchbar empfundene Informationsquellen (vorwiegend Lungenfacharzt und Krankenhaus genannt), Guidelinekonforme Therapie sowie AECOPD (akute Exazerbation einer chronisch obstruktiven Lungenerkrankung) als Grund der stationären Aufnahme. Negativen Einfluss auf die Adhärenz hatten die Faktoren zunehmendes Alter, Familienstand (geschieden, verwitwet), Angst vor Nebenwirkungen, Auftreten von Nebenwirkungen und steigende Anzahl an Arzneimittel zur Therapie der COPD (durchschnittliche Anzahl=3,7) und der Komorbiditäten (durchschnittliche Anzahl=6,18). Ergänzend konnte eine hohe Anzahl (N=188) an unbekannten Stadien der COPD erfasst werden (43,09%). An Komorbiditäten litten 90% der PatientInnen (N=188).
Schlussfolgerung: Die Haupteinflussfaktoren der  Adhärenz (positiv und negativ) konnten identifiziert werden und zur Erstellung von Handlungsempfehlungen herangezogen werden. Somit besteht klinischer Handlungsbedarf in der Einteilung der COPD in Stadien nach GOLD, da noch immer ein großer Anteil an Stadien undiagnostiziert ist. Die Therapie der COPD erfolgt gerade in leichteren Schweregraden nicht immer guidelinekonform. Es sollte Wert auf die Schulung der PatientInnen hinsichtlich des Wissens über Ihre Medikation, weitere Aufklärung über die Grundlagen der Erkrankung sowie Früherkennung der COPD gelegt werden.
An AzTEC 1.1 mm Survey of the GOODS-N Field I: Maps, Catalogue, and Source Statistics
Creators: name: Perera, T. A.
name: Chapin, E. L.
name: Austermann, J. E.
name: Scott, K. S.
name: Wilson, G. W.
name: Halpern, M.
name: Pope, A.
name: Scott, D.
name: Yun, M. S.
name: Lowenthal, J. D.
name: Morrison, G.
name: Aretxaga, I.
name: Bock, J. J.
name: Coppin, K.
name: Crowe, M.
name: Frey, L.
name: Hughes, D. H.
name: Kang, Y.
name: Kim, S.
name: Mauskopf, P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have conducted a deep and uniform 1.1 mm survey of the GOODS-N field with AzTEC on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Here we present the first results from this survey including maps, the source catalogue, and 1.1 mm number-counts. The results presented here were obtained from a 245 sq-arcmin region with near uniform coverage to a depth of 0.96-1.16 mJy/beam. Our robust catalogue contains 28 source candidates detected with S/N >= 3.75, only 1-2 of which are expected to be spurious detections. Of these source candidates, 8 are also detected by SCUBA at 850 um in regions where there is good overlap between the two surveys. The major advantage of our survey over that with SCUBA is the uniformity of coverage. We calculate number counts using two different techniques: the first using a frequentist parameter estimation, and the second using a Bayesian method. The two sets of results are in good agreement. We find that the 1.1 mm differential number counts are well described in the 2-6 mJy range by the functional form dN/dS = N' (S'/S) exp(-S/S') with fitted parameters S' = 1.25 +/-0.38 mJy and dN/dS = 300 +/- 90 per mJy per sq-deg at 3 mJy.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Submitted revision to MNRAS 23 June 2008
Der Wahlrechtsausschluss
Creators: name: Adamek, Theresa
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation investigates the right to vote and the right to be elected and describes the importance of these principles in a democratic society on the basis of the legal doctrine, as currently there is little written on the subject. The paper analyses fundamental rights in general and also covers the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in order to give a profound overview of this complex topic.

The study particularly examines the exclusion from the right to vote  before and after the Austrian electoral law amendment of 2011 and subsequently compares the results with the causes for an exclusion from the eligibility to stand for elections.

It aims to determine the constitutionality of the amendment and its accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights. The dissertation points out possible areas of concern  and suggests solutions for an appropriate planning for the future from the point of view of legal policy and legal philosophy.
description: In dieser Dissertation wird der Inhalt des aktiven und passiven Wahlrechtes rechtsdogamtisch untersucht und die Bedeutung der genannten politischen Grundrechte innerhalb einer demokratischen Gesellschaft aufgezeigt. Die Verwirklichung eines umfassenden Überblickes über diese komplexe Materie wird vor allem durch eine grundrechtliche Analyse, sowie einschlägige Judikatur des EGMR vertieft. Innerhalb der unterschiedlichen Möglichkeiten, eine Beschränkung des Wahlrechtes vorzunehmen, nimmt der Wahlrechtsausschluss einen besonderen Stellenwert ein.

Insbesondere der Ausschluss vom aktiven Wahlrecht, welcher durch die am 1. Oktober 2011 in Kraft getretene Wahlrechtsnovelle 2011 eine grundlegende Änderung erfahren hat, steht dabei im Fokus der Arbeit. Neben einer eingehenden Gegenüberstellung der Neuerungen betreffend das aktive Wahlrecht mit der alten Rechtslage, erfolgt zusätzlich auch ein Vergleich der dadurch gewonnenen Ergebnisse mit den Gründen für einen Ausschluss vom passiven Wahlrecht.

Die Neugestaltung der gesetzlicher Grundlage des Wahlrechtsausschlusses wird schließlich auf die Übereinstimmung mit den verfassungsrechtlichen Prinzipien des B-VG und den völkerrechtlichen Vorgaben der EMRK überprüft, zugleich werden mögliche Problemstellungen dargelegt und etwaige Lösungsvorschläge für eine zukünftig bessere Gestaltung im Rahmen rechtspolitischer oder rechtsphilosophischer Überlegungen herausgearbeitet.
Pennsylvania''s Large-Scale Pilot Project
Creators: Steve Gelatko
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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The initial focus is on improved distribution management in the area around Harrisburg. Ultimately, monitoring devices and wireless communications will be installed throughout the utility's operating area to improve reliability and efficiency and allow for more flexible and capable management. The U.S. Department of Energy, which has provided support for the project with funds from the 2009 stimulus bill, is being kept closely informed of progress.
Additional file 1 of The OxyR and SoxR transcriptional regulators are involved in a broad oxidative stress response in Paraburkholderia xenovorans LB400
Creators: name: Méndez, Valentina
name: Rodríguez-Castro, Laura
name: Durán, Roberto E.
name: Padrón, Gabriel
name: Seeger, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Oligonucleotides used as primers for oxidative stress genes of P. xenovorans LB400. Table S2. Identification of oxidative stress resistance and iron metabolism proteins in P. xenovorans LB400 genome. Table S3. Proteins upregulated in P. xenovorans LB400 during exposure to oxidizing agents. Table S4. Proteins downregulated in P. xenovorans LB400 during exposure to oxidizing agents.
Entanglement in the adiabatic limit of a two-atom Tavis-Cummings model
Creators: name: Lazarou, C.
name: Garraway, B. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the adiabatic limit for the sequential passage of atoms through a high-Q cavity, in the presence of frequency chirps. Despite the fact that the adiabatic approximation might be expected to fail, we were able to show that for proper choice of Stark-pulses this is not the case. Instead, a connection to the resonant limit is established, where the robust creation of entanglement is demonstrated. Recent developments in the fabrication of high-Q cavities allow fidelities for a maximally entangled state up to 97%.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to Physica Scripta as part of the Proceedings of the 15th CEWQO 2008
History of the gas fuelling star formation in eagle galaxies
Creators: name: Scholz-Diaz, L.
name: Almeida, J. Sanchez
name: Vecchia, C. Dalla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theory predicts that cosmological gas accretion plays a fundamental role fuelling star formation in galaxies. However, a detailed description of the accretion process to be used when interpreting observations is still lacking. Using the state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulation eagle, we work out the chemical inhomogeneities arising in the disk of galaxies due to the randomness of the accretion process. In low-mass systems and outskirts of massive galaxies, low metallicity regions are associated with enhanced star-formation, a trend that reverses in the centers of massive galaxies. These predictions agree with the relation between surface density of star formation rate and metallicity observed in the local spiral galaxies from the MaNGA survey. Then, we analyse the origin of the gas that produces stars at two key epochs, z simeq 0 and z simeq 2. The main contribution comes from gas already in the galaxy about 1 Gyr before stars are formed, with a share from external gas that is larger at high redshift. The accreted gas may come from major and minor mergers, but also as gravitationally unbound gas and from mergers with dark galaxies (i.e., haloes where more than 95 % of the baryon mass is in gas). We give the relative contribution of these sources of gas as a function of stellar mass (8 < log Mstar < 11). Even at z = 0, some low-mass galaxies form a significant fraction of their total stellar mass during the last Gyr from mergers with dark galaxies.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 12 figures, 14 pages. Fig. 8 compares simulations with observations
Zufriedenheits- und Bedarfsanalyse von Sportvereinen der SPORTUNION Wien
Creators: name: Tscherne, Christoph
Year: 2014

description: In großen Organisationen, wo nicht jeder mit jedem kommunizieren kann, sind Zufriedenheits- und Bedarfsanalysen ein wichtiges Instrument für den Informationsaustausch. Nur wenn man weiß, wo Zufriedenheit herrscht und wo noch Bedarf an Veränderungen besteht, kann man versuchen, das momentane Empfinden der Vertreter/innen der Vereine zu verstehen und gegebenenfalls auch Dinge zu verändern und zu verbessern. Die Sportuniversität Wien wurde von der SPORTUNION Wien beauftragt, eine Zufriedenheits- und Bedarfsanalyse an den 200 Mitgliedsvereinen durchzuführen, 82 Vertreter/innen haben an der Umfrage teilgenommen.
Die vorliegenden Arbeit soll Aufschluss geben, inwiefern die Obmänner und Obfrauen mit der derzeitigen Situation in Bezug auf diverse Serviceleistungen und Rahmenbedingungen, Sportstätten, Organisation etc. zufrieden sind bzw. wo noch Handlungsbedarf besteht.
Sie gliedert sich in einen theoretischen und in einen empirisch-praktischen Teil.
Der theoretische Teil soll zu einem besseren Verständnis der Inhalte des Fragebogens führen. Er beschäftigt sich unter anderem mit diversen Projektbeschreibungen, Subventionen, der Sportfachmappe und mit Ausschussarbeit, sowie mit Öffentlichkeitsarbeit.
Der empirisch-praktische Teil beschäftigt sich hauptsächlich mit der Frage, in welchen Bereichen allgemeine Zufriedenheit, bzw. Handlungsbedarf besteht. So wird beispielsweise beschrieben, ob sich die Mitglieder mit dem aktuellen Zustand der Sportstätten zufrieden sind, oder ob sich die Vereinsgröße auf verschiedene Vereinsziele auswirkt, oder ob Angebote und Unterstützungen von der SPORTUNION Wien genutzt werden oder nicht.
Viele der Ergebnisse zeigen deutlich, dass einige der Serviceleistungen nicht genutzt werden.
Abschließend sollen anhand der Ergebnisse einige Handlungsempfehlungen an die SPORTUNION Wien weitergegeben werden.
A robust watermarking algorithm for medical images
Creators: name: Nagm, Ahmed
name: Safy, Mohammed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Integrated healthcare systems require the transmission of medical images between medical centers. The presence of watermarks in such images has become important for patient privacy protection. However, some important issues should be considered while watermarking an image. Among these issues, the watermark should be robust against attacks and does not affect the quality of the image. In this paper, a watermarking approach employing a robust dynamic secret code is proposed. This approach is to process every pixel of the digital image and not only the pixels of the regions of non-interest at the same time it preserves the image details. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated using several performance measures such as the Mean Square Error (MSE), the Mean Absolute Error (MAE), the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), the Universal Image Quality Index (UIQI) and the Structural Similarity Index (SSIM). The proposed approach has been tested and shown robustness in detecting the intentional attacks that change image, specifically the most important diagnostic information.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures, 5 tables, Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 20, No. 3, December 2020, pp. 1601~1612, ISSN: 2502-4752, pp1601-1612
The impossibility of heavy neutrino dark matter in the Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity: constraints from direct search
Creators: name: Dey, Paramita
name: Gupta, Sudhir Kumar
name: Mukhopadhyaya, Biswarup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity (LHT), in the parameter region where a heavy neutrino is the lightest T-odd particle (LTP). Having emphasized that this corresponds to a sizable region in the parameter space of the theory, we show that both the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) and Xenon10 experiments disallow the entire region where the masses of the new particles in LHT can lie within several TeV. Therefore, any observation of the signals of a heavy neutrino LTP is likely to seriously reopen the issue of cold dark matter in the universe.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
spectra, supporting materials.zip
Creators: name: Rashid, Sher Wali Khan, Saira Nayab, Muhammad Naveed Umar, Anila Iqbal, Nasir Ahmad, Haroon ur
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Chemistry

description: NMR and FTIR spectra of the target compounds
Miyamoto Yuriko : imagery and thematic development from Mazushiki hitobito no mure to Banshū Heiya
Creators: name: Phillips, Susan Patricia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Miyamoto Yuriko is generally seen as belonging to the proletarian literary movement which reached its height in Japan around 1930. Brought up amid the comforts and intellectual stimulation of a middle class background, Miyamoto actually began her writing career in 1916. She continued to write for thirty-five years until her premature death in 1951. Her personal life/and the novels which were born from it, passed through several stages of development. Her participation in the proletarian literary movement was merely one of these stages. From the time of her first published novel, Miyamoto Yuriko was concerned with the plight of oppressed people within her own society. As she matured, her attention became focused in turn on women's issues, working class struggles and, finally, the problems facing the Japanese nation in the early post-war years. Concern for the effect of the social environment on the quality of human life, and the concept of positive action to change that which restricts human potential, were not features of Miyamoto Yuriko's novels which emerged solely through the stimulation of the proletarian literary movement in which she took part during the middle years of her career. They were features which appeared in her earliest published works and which continued to be features years after the demise of the proletarian literary movement. The novels of Miyamoto Yuriko show consistency in their development, rather than a radical departure from the concerns of the years before her overt political commitment. Through an analysis of imagery and thematic development in four novels from the most representative stages in her career, one hopes that the restrictive label of "proletarian writer" will be reconsidered, and that the scope and accomplishment of Miyamoto Yuriko's novels will be seen in a new light.
Cluster Assembly Times as a Cosmological Test
Creators: name: Amoura, Yuba
name: Drakos, Nicole E.
name: Berrouet, Anael
name: Taylor, James E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The abundance of galaxy clusters in the low-redshift universe provides an important cosmological test, constraining a product of the initial amplitude of fluctuations and the amount by which they have grown since early times. The degeneracy of the test with respect to these two factors remains a limitation of abundance studies. Clusters will have different mean assembly times, however, depending on the relative importance of initial fluctuation amplitude and subsequent growth. Thus, structural probes of cluster age such as concentration, shape or substructure may provide a new cosmological test that breaks the main degeneracy in number counts. We review analytic predictions for how mean assembly time should depend on cosmological parameters, and test these predictions using cosmological simulations. Given the overall sensitivity expected, we estimate the cosmological parameter constraints that could be derived from the cluster catalogues of forthcoming surveys such as Euclid, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, eROSITA, or CMB-S4. We show that by considering the structural properties of their cluster samples, such surveys could easily achieve errors of $Δσ_8$ = 0.01 or better.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures
A search for a dark matter annihilation signal towards the Canis Major overdensity with H.E.S.S
Creators: name: HESS Collaboration
name: Aharonian, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for a dark matter (DM) annihilation signal into $γ$-rays toward the direction of the Canis Major (CMa) overdensity is presented. The nature of CMa is still controversial and one scenario represents it as a dwarf galaxy, making it an interesting candidate for DM annihilation searches. A total of 9.6 hours of high quality data were collected with the H.E.S.S. array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) and no evidence for a very high energy $γ$-ray signal is found. Upper limits on the CMa dwarf galaxy mass of the order of 10$^{9}$ M$_{\odot}$ are derived at the 95% C.L. assuming neutralino masses in the range 500 GeV - 10 TeV and relatively large annihilation cross-sections. Constraints on the velocity-weighted annihilation cross section $$, are calculated for specific WIMP scenarios, using a NFW model for the DM halo profile and taking advantage of numerical simulations of hierarchical structure formation. 95% C.L. exclusion limits of the order of 5 $\times$ 10$^{-24}$ cm$^{3}$ s$^{-1}$ are reached in the 500 GeV - 10 TeV DM particle mass interval, assuming a total halo mass of 3 $\times$ 10$^{8}$ M$_{\odot}$.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Storage: An Indispensable Ingredient in Future Energy
Creators: Francesco A. Amoroso and Gregorio Cappuccino
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Energy storage can contribute to the smart grid by facilitating integration of renewable sources and provision of important ancillary services. At the same time, energy storage cannot really be exploited to its fullest potential without a smart grid infrastructure capable of managing bidirectional energy flows. Because of that reciprocal relationship, energy storage and the smart grid represent an indispensable synergy.
Q-balls, Integrability and Duality
Creators: name: Bowcock, Peter
name: Foster, David
name: Sutcliffe, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is concerned with the dynamics and interactions of Q-balls in (1+1)-dimensions. The asymptotic force between well-separated Q-balls is calculated to show that Q-balls can be attractive or repulsive depending upon their relative internal phase. An integrable model with exact multi-Q-ball solutions is investigated and found to be of use in explaining the dynamics in non-integrable theories. In particular, it is demonstrated that the dynamics of small Q-balls in a generic class of non-integrable models tends towards integrable dynamics as the charge decreases. Long-lived oscillations of a single Q-ball can also be understood in terms of a deformation of an exact breather solution in the integrable model. Finally, we show that any theory with Q-ball solutions has a dual description in which a stationary Q-ball is dual to a static kink, with an interchange of Noether and topological charges.
description: Version to appear in J. Phys. A
Zero Sound from Holography
Creators: name: Karch, A.
name: Son, D. T.
name: Starinets, A. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum liquids are characterized by the distinctive properties such as the low temperature behavior of heat capacity and the spectrum of low-energy quasiparticle excitations. In particular, at low temperature, Fermi liquids exhibit the zero sound, predicted by L. D. Landau in 1957 and subsequently observed in liquid He-3. In this paper, we ask a question whether such a characteristic behavior is present in theories with holographically dual description. We consider a class of gauge theories with fundamental matter fields whose holographic dual in the appropriate limit is given in terms of the Dirac-Born-Infeld action in AdS_{p+1} space. An example of such a system is the N=4 SU(N_c) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with N_f massless N=2 hypermultiplets at strong coupling, finite baryon number density, and low temperature. We find that these systems exhibit a zero sound mode despite having a non-Fermi liquid type behavior of the specific heat. These properties suggest that holography identifies a new type of quantum liquids.
description: 10 pages
Real-Time Ampacity and Ground Clearance Software
Creators: Kevin M. Klein
Paul L. Springer and W.Z. Black
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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The temperatures of transmission lines have traditionally been estimated by means of ampacity tables that are calculated from expected average weather conditions and values that have been considered valid for a whole season. But in reality, a conductor's position and temperature vary greatly with weather conditions over much shorter time intervals. One solution is to base real-time estimates on instrument readings, but an even better method uses software to calculate the mechanical and thermal status of the conductor.
Transforming Smart Grid Devices from Products to Platforms
Creators: Michael Howard
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Advancements in integrated circuit technology have made it possible for expanded flexibility in grid devices such as advanced meters, smart switches, reclosers, capacitor controllers and voltage regulators by building them as platforms for applications instead of products with built-in, limited functionality. Utilities could gain a new degree of control and manageability over their systems, and distributed resources, such as PV smart inverters, energy storage controls and electric vehicle charging stations are also good candidates for these open application platforms.
Integrated and Collaborative Building Energy Management System
Creators: Dr. Milos Manic
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Buildings consume a significant portion of the overall energy produced. Over 20 percent of global energy production is consumed by buildings alone. In the U.S., buildings account for 40 percent of total energy production, and more specifically, buildings consume 70 percent of total electricity and 50 percent of total natural gas production. Thus, buildings are a significant and fluctuating load on the power grid that needs to be maintained. Furthermore, building energy usage surpasses other industries in many countries, and these numbers are projected to increase.
Islamistischer Terrorismus
Creators: name: Wimmer, Raphael
Year: 2014

description: Der islamistische Terrorismus stellt im 21. Jahrhundert, gemessen an seiner Qualität und Quantität seiner Anschläge die mit Abstand gefährlichste Form des Terrorismus dar. Mit der Transformation hin zu einem transnationalen Terrorismus – manifestiert in transnationalen Terrornetzwerken wie al-Qaida  - ist das „unverstandene Phänomen“ Terrorismus letztendlich zu einem Phänomen und einer Gefahr für die gesamte Weltgesellschaft geworden. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, die Prämissen für die Entstehung terroristischer Netzwerke genauer zu durchleuchten. Auf Grundlage der Monotheismustheorie, welche monotheistischen Religionen eine intrinsische Gewalttätigkeit attribuiert, soll die geschichtliche Entwicklung des islamischen Fundamentalismus nachgezeichnet werden. Ohne das Grundgerüst eines radikalisierten islamischen Fundamentalismus kann islamistischer Terrorismus nicht entstehen. Doch neben einer breiten Basis benötigt er hierzu eine radikalisierte Ideologie. Wie wir, anhand von historischen Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre sehen werden, besitzt der Dschihad als Radikalisierungsinstrumentarium eine große Anziehungskraft, nicht zuletzt auf im Westen sozialisierte Muslime.
Vor diesem Hintergrund soll vor allem der sogenannte home-grown terrorism, also Terrorismus ausgeübt durch Personen, welche im Zielland aufgewachsen sind und sich dort radikalisiert haben, untersucht werden. Dies geschieht, in dem verschiedene Kategorien – wie etwa Rekrutierungsmaßnahmen, Finanzierung oder territoriale Rückzugsgebiete - evaluiert und als Maske auf den transnationalen islamistischen Terrorismus angewandt werden.
Short-term gradient imperfections in  high resolution EPI leads to a Fuzzy  Ripple artifact
Creators: name: Huber, Renzo
name: Stirnberg, Rüdiger
name: Morgan, A Tyler
name: Feinberg, David A
name: Ehses, Philipp
name: Knudsen, Lasse
name: Gulban, Omer Faruk
name: Koiso, Kenshu
name: Gephart, Isabel
name: Swegle, Stephanie
name: Wardle, Susan G
name: Persichetti, Andrew
name: Beckett, Alexander JS
name: Stöcker, Tony
name: Boulant, Nicolas
name: Poser, Benedikt A.
name: Bandettini, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Purpose: High resolution fMRI is a rapidly growing research field focused on capturing functional signal changes across cortical layers. However, the data acquisition is limited by low spatial frequency EPI artifacts; termed here as Fuzzy Ripples. These artifacts limit the practical applicability of acquisition protocols with higher spatial resolution, faster acquisition speed, and they challenge imaging in lower brain areas.

Methods: We characterize Fuzzy Ripple artifacts across commonly used sequences and distinguish them from conventional EPI Nyquist ghosts and off-resonance effects. To investigate their origin, we employ dual polarity readouts.Results: Our findings indicate that Fuzzy Ripples are primarily caused by readout-specific imperfections in k-space trajectories, which can be exacerbated by short term eddy current, and by inductive coupling between third-order shims and readout gradients. We also find that these artifacts can be mitigated through complex-valued averaging of dual polarity EPI or by disconnecting the third-order shim coils.

Conclusion: The proposed mitigation strategies allow overcoming current limitations in layerfMRI protocols: (1) Achieving resolutions beyond 0.8mm is feasible, and even at 3T, we achieved 0.53mm voxel functional connectivity mapping. (2) Sub-millimeter sampling acceleration can be increased to allow sub-second TRs and laminar whole brain protocols with up to GRAPPA 8. (3) Sub-millimeter fMRI is achievable in lower brain areas, including the cerebellum.
Radio Bursts Associated with Flare and Ejecta in the 13 July 2004 Event
Creators: name: Pohjolainen, S.
name: Hori, K.
name: Sakurai, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate coronal transients associated with a GOES M6.7 class flare and a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 13 July 2004. During the rising phase of the flare, a filament eruption, loop expansion, a Moreton wave, and an ejecta were observed. An EIT wave was detected later on. The main features in the radio dynamic spectrum were a frequency-drifting continuum and two type II bursts. Our analysis shows that if the first type II burst was formed in the low corona, the burst heights and speed are close to the projected distances and speed of the Moreton wave (a chromospheric shock wave signature). The frequency-drifting radio continuum, starting above 1 GHz, was formed almost two minutes prior to any shock features becoming visible, and a fast-expanding piston (visible as the continuum) could have launched another shock wave. A possible scenario is that a flare blast overtook the earlier transient, and ignited the first type II burst. The second type II burst may have been formed by the same shock, but only if the shock was propagating at a constant speed. This interpretation also requires that the shock-producing regions were located at different parts of the propagating structure, or that the shock was passing through regions with highly different atmospheric densities. This complex event, with a multitude of radio features and transients at other wavelengths, presents evidence for both blast-wave-related and CME-related radio emissions.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures; Solar Physics Topical Issue, in press
Die Beschränkung der variablen Vergütung von "Risikopersonal" im BWG
Creators: name: Fischer, Patricia
Year: 2013

description: Die infolge der Finanzkrise ab 2007 zuerst auf europäischer Ebene und in weiterer Folge im österreichen Bankwesengesetz eingeführten Vergütungsbestimmungen wollen das Eingehen übermäßiger Risiken verhindern und eine Ausrichtung der Arbeitsleistung an langfristigen Erfolgen der Kreditinstitute erreichen. Die sich hierbei ergebenden Probleme und Fragen in der Anwendung dieser Bestimmungen werden in der Arbeit näher beleuchtet.
Quasinormal spectrum and the black hole membrane paradigm
Creators: name: Starinets, A. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The membrane paradigm approach to black hole physics introduces the notion of a stretched horizon as a fictitious time-like surface endowed with physical characteristics such as entropy, viscosity and electrical conductivity. We show that certain properties of the stretched horizons are encoded in the quasinormal spectrum of black holes. We compute analytically the lowest quasinormal frequency of a vector-type perturbation for a generic black hole with a translationally invariant horizon (black brane) in terms of the background metric components. The resulting dispersion relation is identical to the one obtained in the membrane paradigm treatment of the diffusion on stretched horizons. Combined with the Buchel-Liu universality theorem for the membrane's diffusion coefficient, our result means that in the long wavelength limit the black brane spectrum of gravitational perturbations exhibits a universal, purely imaginary quasinormal frequency. In the context of gauge-gravity duality, this provides yet another (third) proof of the universality of shear viscosity to entropy density ratio in theories with gravity duals.
description: 8 pages. An (updated) Essay submitted to 2006 Gravity Research Foundation competition
Coupling of the phase field approach to the Armstrong-Frederick model for the simulation of ductile damage under cyclic load
Creators: name: Aygün, Serhat
name: Wiegold, Tillmann
name: Klinge, Sandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The present contribution proposes a thermodynamically consistent model for the simulation of the ductile damage. The model couples the phase field method of fracture to the Armstrong-Frederick plasticity model with kinematic hardening. The latter is particularly suitable for simulating the material behavior under a cyclic load. The model relies on the minimum principle of the dissipation potential. However, the application of this approach is challenging since potentials of coupled methods are defined in different spaces: The dissipation potential of the phase field model is expressed in terms of rates of internal variables, whereas the Armstrong-Frederick model proposes a formulation depending on thermodynamic forces. For this reason, a unique formulation requires the Legendre transformation of one of the potentials. The present work performs the transformation of the Armstrong-Frederick potential, such that final formulation is only expressed in the space of rates of internal variables. With the assumption for the free energy and the joint dissipation potential at hand, the derivation of evolution equations is straightforward. The application of the model is illustrated by selected numerical examples studying the material response for different load constellations and sample geometries. The paper provides a comparison with the experimental results as well.
Optimal design and operation of reactive extrusion processes: modeling, model validation, and optimization algorithm
Creators: name: Cegla, Maximilian
name: Engell, Sebastian
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: extrusion
subject: memetic algorithm
subject: modeling
subject: reactive extrusion
subject: simulations
subject: 660

description: In this work, a methodology for the optimal design and operation of reactive extrusion processes in twin-screw extruders is presented. As a process model, a very accurate mechanistic finite volume twin-screw extruder model is used which is adapted to the reactive extrusion case. In the model, in contrast to other models, the pressure is described as a differential state in order to have a consistent set of equations. The model is compared to other models and advantages and disadvantages with respect to accuracy and computation time are discussed. For optimization, a memetic optimization algorithm (MA) that consists of a combination of a local optimization for the continuous operating parameters and an evolutionary algorithm (EA) for the global optimization of the discrete decision variables is employed to overcome the drawback of the longer model simulation time compared to simpler models. A reduction of optimization time by 90% for the MA compared to the EA was observed. The presented modeling and optimization methodology is validated on the widely investigated reactive extrusion process for ε-Caprolactone. The methodology is very flexible and the underlying model has good prediction characteristics, thus it is applicable to a wide range of reactive extrusion processes of industrial interest.
description: Polymer engineering & science; 63(12)