cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
Creators: name: Kalisch, Michael
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: American
Fiction
Contemporary
Friendship

description: Exploring the traffic between U.S. literary culture and political philosophy, this thesis surveys works by a range of leading male contemporary American novelists alongside the recent resurgent interest in friendship as a political concept. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, friendship returned as a crucial term in late twentieth-century communitarian debates about citizenship. Friendship also became integral to continental philosophy’s exploration of the ontology of democracy, and, in a different guise, to histories of sexuality. Across these disciplines, friendship has been invoked as a pliable figure of affiliation, and often idealised as modelling equality. This thesis probes the origins of friendship’s re-emergence in American political thought, and analyses how this far-reaching revival has registered in American fiction. The Introduction outlines how friendship has played a central role in the theory and practice of democratic politics since Aristotle suggested philia as fundamental to citizenship. In the U.S. context, male friendship in particular functioned as model for civic association in the nascent republic, and continued to be employed as a figure of egalitarian association in canonical works of nineteenth-century fiction. Yet despite its prominence historically in the U.S. civic imaginary, friendship was sidelined from American political culture for much of the twentieth century, until its rediscovery in the 1980s and 1990s as part of a wide-ranging critique of liberal individualism. The Introduction analyses how this renewal of critical commentary within mainstream liberal thought mirrored continental philosophy’s contemporaneous exploration of democratic theory, wherein friendship was similarly examined as a vexed yet evocative site for the contestation of forms of political community. Marshalling this history, the thesis’ main chapters argue that contemporary U.S. fiction continues to look to male friendship to explore questions of civic affiliation, political agency, and community, and to probe the history of these concepts in twentieth-century American liberalism. Chapter One focuses on Philip Roth’s I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2000), and analyses how Roth connects the political culture of the 1940s to the 1990s through the male friendships framing each narrative. Chapter Two draws on the anthropology of the gift to examine forms of reciprocity between male friends in Paul Auster’s fiction. Chapter Three considers how novels by Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem contextualise their portrayals of interracial male friendship within the legacies of 1960s political radicalism. A Conclusion considers how some of the key themes emerging in previous chapters are reflected in Benjamin Markovits’ You Don’t Have to Live Like This (2015).
Additional file 2 of VISPR-online: a web-based interactive tool to visualize CRISPR screening experiments
Creators: name: Cui, Yingbo
name: Wang, Zihang
name: Köster, Johannes
name: Liao, Xiangke
name: Peng, Shaoliang
name: Tang, Tao
name: Huang, Chun
name: Yang, Canqun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. VISPR-online installation instructions and usages.
Eikan shiryaku, 3
瀛環志略 三
Creators: name: Inoue, Shunyō.
Publisher: name: Tokushima : Konishi Kichibei and Miyajimaya Izaemon
Year: 2021

description: Roads, towns and provinces indicated. Chinese title: Ying huan zhi lue, by Xu Ji Yu (Chinese) published in 1849; 43 maps, based on western cartography.
title: An experimental Study on the Social Identity and Trust Behaviors of North Korean Refugees
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Cho, Seo-Young
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: Cooperation
Social Trust
Identity
Economics
Wirtschaft
Confidence, Integration
North Korean Refugees

description: Many of North Korean refugees in South Korea struggle to reconcile their different identities of: being a Korean who shares ethnicity with South Koreans vs. being a North Korean who fled from an estranged neighboring country. This paper shows that emphasizing the Korean unity can help their integration in South Korea, despite considerable differences caused by seven-decade long separation between the North and the South. The results of a behavioral
experiment with 130 North Korean refugees conducted in this study suggest that the unified Korean identity stimulates the refugees’ social trust with South Koreans, cooperation in South Korea, and their self-confidence.
title: Die strukturelle Besserung der Länderfinanzen in der Niedrigzinsphase: die trügerische Leichtigkeit des Scheins
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Gebhardt, Heinz
name: Siemers, Lars-H.
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: Niedrigzinsphase; Normalzins
Schuldenbremse der Länder
Economics
Wirtschaft
nachhaltige Finanzpolitik
Haushaltskonsolidierung
Strukturelle Finanzlage

description: Nach den Berechnungen der Autoren mit dem vom Stabilitätsrat verwendeten Aggregierten Quotierungsverfahren (AQV) konnten im Jahr 2017 schon 14 Bundesländer strukturell mindestens ausgeglichene Haushalte erzielen. In der aktuellen Niedrigzinsphase überzeichnet das AQV jedoch die erzielten Konsolidierungsfortschritte und verdeckt den vielfach noch bestehenden Konsolidierungsbedarf – die „strukturelle“ Besserung der Länderfinanzen ist wesentlich dem derzeit historisch niedrigen Zinsniveau zu verdanken und damit zum Teil nur temporärer Natur. Um die nachhaltigen Konsolidierungsfortschritte zu ermitteln, haben die Autoren die Länderfinanzen daher nicht nur um konjunkturelle Einflüsse, sondern auch um vorübergehende Einsparungen beim Schuldendienst bereinigt. Sie berechnen drei, auf unterschiedlichen Annahmen zum „normalen“ Zinsniveau basierende Szenarien und zeigen, dass im Jahr 2017 nicht 14, sondern – je nach Szenario – nur acht bis zehn Länder einen strukturell mindestens ausgeglichenen Haushalt erzielten. Die verbleibenden Länder wiesen teilweise noch hohe strukturelle Fehlbeträge auf, so dass bei ihnen bis zum Start der „Schuldenbremse“ im Jahr 2020 weiterhin Konsolidierungsbedarf besteht. Die Autoren empfehlen, die Methoden zur Ermittlung der strukturellen Finanzlage um eine Bereinigung nicht nachhaltiger Einsparungen beim Schuldendienst zu erweitern.
Predicting machine uncertainties from logfile data of a radiotherapy system using machine learning
Creators: name: Loebner, H.A.
name: Mackeprang, S.
name: Mueller, S.
name: Bertholet, J.
name: Manser, P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Poster: Predicting machine uncertainties from logfile data of a radiotherapy system using machine learning
Understanding the Information needs of Social Scientists in Germany
Creators: name: Kern, Dagmar
name: Hienert, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The information needs of social science researchers are manifold and almost studied in every decade since the 1950s. With this paper, we contribute to this series and present the results of three studies. We asked 367 social science researchers in Germany for their information needs and identified needs in different categories: literature, research data, measurement instruments, support for data analysis, support for data collection, variables in research data, software support, networking/cooperation, and illustrative material. Thereby, the search for literature and research data is still the main information need with more than three-quarter of our participants expressing needs in these categories. With comprehensive lists of altogether 154 concrete information needs, even those that are only expressed by one participant, we contribute to the holistic understanding of the information needs of social science researchers of today.
The most toxic group of Dota 2 players
Creators: name: Hawk.live LLC
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Video games
subject: Video Games
subject: Video Games/trends
subject: Dota 2

description: Finnish researchers from the University of Tampere, Topias Mattinen and JosephMacey studied the influence of the age group of Dota 2 players on the tendency toabusive behavior. The results of the study are analyzed to identify the most toxicgroup of Dota 2 players.Source: Hawk.live
Chaos in a double driven dissipative nonlinear oscillator
Creators: name: Adamyan, H. H.
name: Manvelyan, S. B.
name: Kryuchkyan, G. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an anharmonic oscillator driven by two periodic forces of different frequencies as a new time-dependent model for investigating quantum dissipative chaos. Our analysis is done in the frame of statistical ensemble of quantum trajectories in quantum state diffusion approach. Quantum dynamical manifestation of chaotic behavior, including the emergence of chaos, properties of strange attractors, and quantum entanglement are studied by numerical simulation of ensemble averaged Wigner function and von Neumann entropy.
description: 9 pages, 18 figures
Age, Metallicity and Star Formation History of Cluster Galaxies at z~0.3 F
Creators: name: Merluzzi, P.
name: La Barbera, F.
name: Massarotti, M.
name: Busarello, G.
name: Capaccioli, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the color-magnitude distribution in the rich cluster AC 118 at z=0.31. The sample is selected by the photometric redshift technique, allowing to study a wide range of properties of stellar populations, and is complete in the K-band, allowing to study these properties up to a given galaxy mass. We use galaxy templates based on population synthesis models to translate the physical properties of the stellar populations - formation epoch, time-scale of star formation, and metallicity - into observed magnitudes and colors. In this way we show that a sharp luminosity-metallicity relation is inferred without any assumption on the galaxy formation scenario (either monolithic or hierarchical). Our data exclude significant differences in star formation histories along the color-magnitude relation, and therefore confirm a pure metallicity interpretation for its origin, with an early (z~5) formation epoch for the bulk of stellar populations. The dispersion in the color-magnitude diagram implies that fainter galaxies in our sample (K~18) ceased to form stars as late as z~0.5, in agreement with the picture that these galaxies were recently accreted into the cluster environment. The trend with redshift of the total stellar mass shows that half of the luminous mass in AC 118 was already formed at $z~2, but also that 20% of the stars formed at z<1.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures. ApJ in press
Extraction of Superelastic Parameter Values from Instrumented Indentation Data
Creators: name: Roberto-Pereira, Francisco Fernando
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: NiTi
FEM Simulation
Superelastic Parameter Values
Indentation

description: Interest in superelastic (and shape memory) materials continues to rise, and there is a strong incentive to develop techniques for monitoring of their superelastic characteristics. This is conventionally done via uniaxial testing, but there are many advantages to having a capability for obtaining these characteristics (in the form of parameter values in a constitutive law) via indentation testing. Specimens can then be small, require minimal preparation and be obtainable from components in service. Interrogation of small volumes also allows mapping of properties over a surface. On the other hand, the tested volume must be large enough for its response to be representative of behaviour. Precisely the same arguments apply to more “mainstream” mechanical properties, such as yielding and work hardening characteristics. Indeed, there has been considerable progress in that area recently, using FEM simulation to predict indentation outcomes, evaluating the “goodness of fit” for particular sets of parameter values and converging on a best-fit combination. A similar approach can be used to obtain superelastic parameters, but little work has been done hitherto on sensitivities, uniqueness characteristics or optimal methodologies and the procedures are complicated by limitations to the constitutive laws in current use. The current work presents a comprehensive examination of the issues involved, using experimental (uniaxial and indentation) data for a NiTi Shape Memory Alloy. It was found that it is possible to obtain the superelastic parameter values using a single indenter shape (spherical). Information is also presented on sensitivities and the probable reliability of such parameters obtained in this way for an unknown material.
description: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - Brazil
Understanding High-Temperature Chemical Reactions on Metal Surfaces
Creators: name: Li, Pai
name: Zeng, Xiongzhi
name: Li, Zhenyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chemical reactions on metal surfaces are important in various processes such as heterogeneous catalysis and nanostructure growth. At moderate or lower temperatures, these reactions generally follow the minimum energy path and temperature effects can be reasonably described by a harmonic oscillator model. At a high temperature approaching the melting point of the substrate, general behaviors of surface reactions remain elusive. In this study, by taking hydrocarbon species adsorbed on Cu(111) as a model system and performing extensive molecular dynamics simulations powered by machine learning potentials, we identify several important high-temperature effects, including local chemical environment, surface atom mobility, and substrate thermal expansion. They affect different aspects of a high-temperature surface reaction in different ways. These results deepen our understanding of high-temperature reactions.
title: Should We Trust Math Preparatory Courses? Am Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Students’ Participation and Attendance on Short- and Medium-Term Effects
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Büchele, Stefan
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: Math Remediation
Higher Education; Math Skills
Freshmen Students
Program Evaluation
Economics
Wirtschaft

description: Remedial courses, particularly in math, have become indispensable in today's higher education landscape. However, large scale evaluation studies investigating the effectiveness of such courses find mixed results which is only one reason why remedial courses should not be trusted as a functional instrument in general. Besides the unclear impact on students' skills, research mostly does not control properly for the students' attendance in these courses. This study gives an insight into the differences in students' participation, attendance and the resulting consequences for short-, and medium term effects. Therefore, over three periods of time, data on several variables and standardized skill-test outcomes was raised, leading to a sample of N=1,236 students enrolled in subjects of economics to investigate short term effects, while a sub- sample of N=501 students could be matched to measure a medium term effect using a fixed-effects approach.
Phase-space representation of Landau and electron coherent states for uniaxially strained graphene
Creators: name: Díaz-Bautista, Erik
name: Betancur-Ocampo, Yonatan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental advances in the reconstruction of the Wigner function (WF) for electronic systems have led us to consider the possibility of employing this theoretical tool in the analysis of electron dynamics of uniaxially strained graphene. In this paper, we study the effect of strain on the WF of electrons in graphene under the interaction of a uniform magnetic field. This mechanical deformation modifies drastically the shape of the Wigner function of Landau and coherent states. The WF has a different behavior straining the material along the zigzag direction in comparison with the armchair one and favors the creation of electron coherent states. The time evolution of the WF for electron coherent states shows fluctuations between classical and quantum behavior around a closed path as time increases. The phase-space representation shows more clearly the effect of nonequidistant relative Landau levels in the time evolution of electron coherent states compared with other approaches. Our findings may be useful in establishing protocols for the realization of electron coherent states in graphene as well as a bridge between condensed matter and quantum optics.
description: 31 pages, 7 figures
Remarks on Weyl invariant p-branes and Dp-branes
Creators: name: Nieto, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A mechanism to find different Weyl invariant p-branes and Dp-branes actions is explained. Our procedure clarifies the Weyl invariance for such systems. Besides, by considering gravity-dilaton effective action in higher dimensions we also derive a Weyl invariant action for p-branes. We argue that this derivation provides a geometrical scenario for the Weyl invariance of p-branes. Our considerations can be extended to the case of super-p-branes.
description: 18 pages, Latex
Study of the Largest Multiwavelength Campaign of the Microquasar GRS 1915+105
Creators: name: Ueda, Y.
name: Yamaoka, K.
name: Sanchez-Fernandez, C.
name: Dhawan, V.
name: Chaty, S.
name: Grove, J. E.
name: McCollough, M.
name: Castro-Tirado, A. J.
name: Mirabel, F.
name: Kohno, K.
name: Feroci, M.
name: Casella, P.
name: Trushkin, S. A.
name: Castaneda, H.
name: Rodriguez, J.
name: Durouchoux, P.
name: Ebisawa, K.
name: Kotani, T.
name: Swank, J.
name: Inoue, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results from a multiwavelength campaign of GRS 1915+105 performed from 2000 April 16 to 25. This is one of the largest coordinated set of observations ever performed for this source, covering the wide energy band in radio (13.3-0.3 cm), near-infrared (J-H-K), X-rays and Gamma-rays (from 1 keV to 10 MeV). During the campaign GRS 1915+105 was predominantly in the "plateau" (or low/hard) state but sometimes showed soft X-ray oscillations: before April 20.3, rapid, quasi-periodic (~= 45 min) flare-dip cycles were observed. The radio flares observed on April 17 shows frequency- dependent peak delay, consistent with an expansion of synchrotron-emitting region starting at the transition from the hard-dip to the soft-flare states in X-rays. On the other hand, infrared flares on April 20 appear to follow (or precede) the beginning of X-ray oscillations with an inconstant time delay of ~= 5-30 min. This implies that the infrared emitting region is located far from the black hole by >~ 10E13 cm, while its size is
description: 31 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ, vol. 571, 2002. Minor corrections. Figure 2 is revised (numbers on the top axis are corrected). References are updated
Perceptions of Peoples in Early Medieval Wales
Creators: name: Thomas, Rebecca Lynne
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Celtic Studies
Wales
Medieval History
Latin
Identity

description: This PhD dissertation investigates the construction of identities in the early Middle Ages, focusing on three key texts conventionally dated to the ninth and tenth centuries: Historia Brittonum, Asser’s Life of King Alfred, and Armes Prydein Vawr. I examine the way these writers constructed ideas of Welsh identity in the wider context of their perception of peoples more broadly. Particular attention is paid to the texts that may have influenced the three sources, investigating, for example, Historia Brittonum’s use of the works of writers such as Orosius, Jerome, and Prosper. This thesis also examines the possibility of wider trends through placing the Welsh material alongside evidence from across Europe. I compare, for example, the construction of a Trojan origin legend for the Britons in Historia Brittonum with similar accounts of the Trojan origins of the Franks. In Chapter 1 I investigate the names used for Wales and the Welsh, and suggest that, whilst these texts continued to view the Welsh as Britons, the rightful inhabitants of all Britain, there is nevertheless an indication of the construction of a specifically Welsh identity, focused on the geographical unit roughly equivalent to modern-day Wales. Chapter 2 discusses the relationship between language and identity, considering the use of Welsh place- and river-names in the Life of King Alfred, and the use of English loan-words in both Historia Brittonum and Armes Prydein Vawr. Contrary to the tendency in scholarship to downplay the role of language, I argue that it is a crucial component in the construction of identity. Chapter 3 focuses on the presentation of origin legends in Historia Brittonum and Armes Prydein Vawr. I compare the origins of the Saxons as presented in the two sources to illustrate the recycling and adaptation of material to suit varying agendas, and place Historia Brittonum’s origin legend of the Britons in a wider context, examining both the sources used in its construction and its relationship with the origin legends of the Franks. Chapter 4 investigates the writing of history more broadly in Historia Brittonum and Asser’s Life of King Alfred, examining the adaptation of material to create a past which suited the construction of a specific group identity. Particular attention is paid to Asser’s depiction of the vikings as pagans, in contrast to the Christian Anglo-Saxons. These chapters combine into a coherent whole, offering significant new insights into the construction of identities in early medieval Wales.
description: Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship
Scholarship without Humanism is more dangerous than Illiteracy
Creators: name: Hilary Chimezie Ngwoke, PhD
name: Anayochukwu Kingsley Ugwu, PhD*
name: Aloysius Uchechukwu Anyanwu, M.A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Humanism, Illiteracy, Scholarship, Inhumanity, Logical, Intellect, Critical.

description: Abstract: It is an expectation from scholars to positively lead exemplary lifestyles following the fact (assumption?) that their intellects have received purification and nurture to identify the ‘good’; and subsequently, walk in the way that leads to the ‘good’. That should be the nature of scholarship for its process enlightens the minds, after which one could be referred to as an intellectual, a scholar. But it is unfortunate that this expectation has not been realized, as scholars, in the process of exercising their scholarship, lose the essence which gears towards humanism, and become beasty in nature. This calls for a re-evaluation of the nature of scholarship and the expectations of scholars. Where has scholarship or scholarly process got it wrong to inculcate the very opposite of what is expected of its onus, in people participating in it? Is the factor responsible for this, in the process, or environmental dependent, or what scholars have constituted as the nature of scholarship? In addressing these questions, this paper finds out that it is the emphasis on living a logical and critical life as scholars, and influences from the intellectual products of scholars, expressed in their philosophies of life, theories and ideologies that have encouraged this opposite development of inhumanism. The results or expectations from this paper include: (1) To unravel the already experiencing dangers of this anomaly, (2) To advise scholars to toe more, the way of humanism than the extremist life of criticality and logicality in the process of displaying their scholarship, and (3) To postulate a more humanistic model as an essential scholarly exercise. The paper shall adopt conceptual analysis and a humanistic approach as methods.
Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Contextual Gene Expression Data
Creators: name: Arnol, Damien
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Gaussian Processes
Factor Analysis
Gene Expression
Machine Learning
Bayesian Modelling

description: Technological advances have enabled profiling gene expression variability, both at the RNA and the protein level, with ever increasing throughput. In addition, miniaturisation has enabled quantifying gene expression from small volumes of the input material and most recently at the level of single cells. Increasingly these technologies also preserve context information, such as assaying tissues with high spatial resolution. A second example of contextual information is multi-omics protocols, for example to assay gene expression and DNA methylation from the same cells or samples. Although such contextual gene expression datasets are increasingly available for both popu- lation and single-cell variation studies, methods for their analysis are not established. In this thesis, we propose two modelling approaches for the analysis of gene expression variation in specific biological contexts. The first contribution of this thesis is a statistical method for analysing single cell expression data in a spatial context. Our method identifies the sources of gene expression variability by decomposing it into different components, each attributable to a different source. These sources include aspects of spatial variation such as cell-cell interactions. In applications to data across different technologies, we show that cell-cell interactions are indeed a major determinant of the expression level of specific genes with a relevant link to their function. The second contribution is a latent variable model for the unsupervised analysis of gene expression data, while accounting for structured prior knowledge on experimental context. The proposed method enables the joint analysis of gene expression data and other omics data profiled in the same samples, and the model can be used to account for the grouping structure of samples, e.g. samples from individuals with different clinical covariates or from distinct experimental batches. Our model constitutes a principled framework to compare the molecular identities of these distinct groups.
description: Fellowship from the EMBL international PhD program
Scholarship without Humanism is more dangerous than Illiteracy
Creators: name: Anayochukwu Kingsley Ugwu, PhD*
name: Hilary Chimezie Ngwoke, PhD
name: Aloysius Uchechukwu Anyanwu, M.A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Humanism, Illiteracy, Scholarship, Inhumanity, Logical, Intellect, Critical.

description: Abstract: It is an expectation from scholars to positively lead exemplary lifestyles following the fact (assumption?) that their intellects have received purification and nurture to identify the ‘good’; and subsequently, walk in the way that leads to the ‘good’. That should be the nature of scholarship for its process enlightens the minds, after which one could be referred to as an intellectual, a scholar. But it is unfortunate that this expectation has not been realized, as scholars, in the process of exercising their scholarship, lose the essence which gears towards humanism, and become beasty in nature. This calls for a re-evaluation of the nature of scholarship and the expectations of scholars. Where has scholarship or scholarly process got it wrong to inculcate the very opposite of what is expected of its onus, in people participating in it? Is the factor responsible for this, in the process, or environmental dependent, or what scholars have constituted as the nature of scholarship? In addressing these questions, this paper finds out that it is the emphasis on living a logical and critical life as scholars, and influences from the intellectual products of scholars, expressed in their philosophies of life, theories and ideologies that have encouraged this opposite development of inhumanism. The results or expectations from this paper include: (1) To unravel the already experiencing dangers of this anomaly, (2) To advise scholars to toe more, the way of humanism than the extremist life of criticality and logicality in the process of displaying their scholarship, and (3) To postulate a more humanistic model as an essential scholarly exercise. The paper shall adopt conceptual analysis and a humanistic approach as methods.
title: Risk, Asset Pricing and Monetary Policy transmission in Europe: Evidence from a Threshold-VAR approach
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Schmidth, Jörg
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: asset pricing
state-dependency
monetary policy
Economics
Wirtschaft

description: This paper investigates in how far monetary policy shocks impact Euro- pean asset markets, conditional on different risk states. It focuses on four different asset classes: equity of industrial firms, equity of banks, high-grade corporate bonds, and high-yielding corporate bonds. We distinguish between macroeconomic risk, political risk, and financial risk. In a first step, we separately extract three factors via principal component analysis from a set of candidate variables that are assumed to be driven by these latent types of risk. Next, these factors augment a threshold-VAR model that contains assets and a short-rate. Our model is estimated with Bayesian techniques and identified recursively. We illustrate that during periods of severe crisis, different risk regimes coincide. This impedes a clear delimitation among these three types of risk. Further on, impulse responses show that we indeed see state-dependency in the reaction of asset prices to monetary policy shocks. AA-rated corporate bond yields only show minor state-dependency if we distinguish between states of high and macroeconomic or financial risk, but show very pronounced state- dependency for political risk. Their sensitivity to monetary policy shocks is highest if political risk is . Non-investment-grade corporate bond yields as well as equity of industrial _rms face the strongest state-dependency when we differentiate between macroeconomic or financial risk. If these risks are high, junk bond yields are very sensitive to monetary policy shocks while the opposite holds for equity of industrial corporations. Surprisingly, financial equity in general reacts positively or insignificant to hikes in short-rates. The positive reaction is most pronounced for states of high financial risk. As a consequence, monetary policy transmission via distinct asset markets highly depends on the degree of these different kinds of risk inherent in Euro- pean asset markets. This also has strong implications for investors: they have to be aware of this varying degree of sensitivity of asset prices to changes in policy rates as they highly depend on the respective prevailing risk-regime.
MOESM1 of Female sexual dysfunction associated with idiopathic cerebellar ataxia: A case report
Creators: name: López-Sosa, Carmen
name: Gámez-Zapata, Jorge
name: Iglesias-De-Sena, Helena
name: Alonso-Sardón, Montserrat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. CARE Checklist (2013) of information to include when writing a case report.
Dolce far niente? Non-compliance and blame avoidance in the EU
Creators: name: Kriegmair, Lisa
name: Rittberger, Berthold
name: Zangl, Bernhard
name: Heinkelmann-Wild, Tim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The politicisation of the EU renders blame avoidance for unpopular EU policies an essential task for governments. This article looks at one particular blame avoidance strategy, which governments have at their disposal in the EU policy process: the threat of non-compliance. In order to gauge its effectiveness, we present two competing arguments. According to the blame avoidance hypothesis, non-compliance enables governments to shift responsibility for unpopular policies to the EU, because the public lacks knowledge about EU policy-making. Conversely, the blame attraction hypothesis posits that threats of non-compliance will backfire and blame will stick with the government, because non-compliance mobilises constituents favouring compliance with EU rules. We test these hypotheses by analysing blame attributions in the news media covering the Italian government’s threat not to comply with the EU budget provisions in 2018. The findings support the blame attraction hypothesis, suggesting that domestic compliance constituents can impede governments’ blame-shifting attempts. Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2021.1909938 .
title: The Opportunity Cost of the Islamic Revolution and War for Iran
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft
Iran
synthetic control method
war
treatment effect
revolution

description: We estimate the opportunity cost for Iran due to the Islamic revolution and eight years’ war with Iraq (1978/79-1988). We apply the synthetic control method in order to compare Iran with a synthetic Iran and answer this counterfactual question. Our results show that, in total, an average Iranian has lost $34,660 (in constant 2010 US$) from 1978 to 1988. This loss is equivalent to 40% of income per capita, which an Iranian could reach at the absence of revolution and war.
Dynamical Coarse-Graining of Highly Fluctuating Membranes under Shear Flow
Creators: name: Marlow, Simon W.
name: Olmsted, Peter D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of strong shear flow on highly fluctuating lamellar systems stabilized by intermembrane collisions via the Helfrich interaction is studied. Advection enters the microscopic equation of motion for a single membrane via a non-linear coupling. Upon coarse-graining the theory for a single bilayer up to the length scale of the collision length, at which a hydrodynamic description applies, an additional dynamical coupling is generated which is of the form of a wavevector-dependent tension that is non-linear in the applied shear rate. This new term has consequences for the effects of strong flow on the stability and dynamics of lamellar surfactant phases.
description: 17 pages, 6 figure, submitted to Phys Rev E
Verlinde formula from entanglement
Creators: name: Shi, Bowen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We derive the Verlinde formula from a recently advocated set of axioms about entanglement entropy [B. Shi, K. Kato, I. H. Kim, arXiv:1906.09376 (2019)]. For any state that obeys these axioms, we can define a quantity that can be identified as the topological $S$-matrix of an abstract anyon theory. We show that the $S$-matrix is unitary and that it recovers the fusion multiplicities of the underlying anyon theory through the Verlinde formula. Importantly, we rigorously prove the modularity of the theory, which further implies that the mutual braiding statistics of anyons are nontrivial. The key to the proof is a generalized quantum state merging technique, which generates a topology beyond that of any subsystem of the original physical system.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, v3, close to the published version
Comment on "First-principles calculation of the superconducting transition in MgB2 within the anisotropic Eliashberg formalism"
Creators: name: Mazin, I. I.
name: Andersen, O. K.
name: Jepsen, O.
name: Golubov, A. A.
name: Dolgov, O. V.
name: Kortus, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Choi et al. [Phys. Rev. B 66, 020513 (2002)] recently presented first principles calculations of the electron-phonon coupling and superconductivity in MgB2, emphasizing the importance of anisotropy and anharmonicity. We point out that (1) variation of the superconducting gap inside the sigma- or the pi-bands can hardly be observed in real samples, and (2) taking the anisotropy of the Coulomb repulsion into account influences the size of the small gap, Delta_pi.
description: 3 pages, 2 color figures
title: Währungswettbewerber Facebook: Ökonomische Implikationen der Corporate Cryptocurrency Libra
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Hanl, Andreas
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: Facebook
Cryptocurrency
Monetary Policy
Economics
Wirtschaft
Libra

description: Nach dem Versuch unzähliger Kryptowährungen das Finanzwesen zu revolutionieren und den ersten Schritten nationaler Notenbanken in Richtung einer Digitalisierung des Geldwesens, folgen nun privatwirtschaftliche Großprojekte. Das maßgeblich von Facebook vorangetriebene Libra will den Zugang zu Finanzdienstleistungen vereinfachen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die währungspolitische Dimension des Corporate Cryptocurrency Projekts. Mit den klassischen Kryptowährungen hat Libra nur die kryptographische Grundlage gemein. Durch vollständige Besicherung der Libra-Tokens durch eine Reserve aus niedrig-volatilen Wertpapieren soll ein " Stable Coin\ entstehen, dessen Wechselkursvolatilität deutlich unter dem typischer Kryptowährungen liegen dürfte. Obwohl Libra keine eigene Geldpolitik verfolgt, wird es mit den bestehenden Zentralbanken interagieren, indem es einen von diesen nicht kontrollierten Transmissionskanal schafft. Damit erodiert der Wirkungskreis klassischer Geldpolitik, was letztlich in Versuchen münden wird, den neuen Marktakteur zu regulieren.
From canyons to valleys: Numerically continuing sticky hard sphere clusters to the landscapes of smoother potentials
Creators: name: Trubiano, Anthony
name: Holmes-Cerfon, Miranda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the energy landscapes of particles with short-range attractive interactions as the range of the interactions increases. Starting with the set of local minima for $6\leq N\leq12$ hard spheres that are "sticky", i.e. they interact only when their surfaces are exactly in contact, we use numerical continuation to evolve the local minima (clusters) as the range of the potential increases, using both the Lennard-Jones and Morse families of interaction potentials. As the range increases, clusters merge, until at long ranges only one or two clusters are left. We compare clusters obtained by continuation with different potentials and find that for short and medium ranges, up to about 30\% of particle diameter, the continued clusters are nearly identical, both within and across families of potentials. For longer ranges the clusters vary significantly, with more variation between families of potentials than within a family. We analyze the mechanisms behind the merge events, and find that most rearrangements occur when a pair of non-bonded particles comes within the range of the potential. An exception occurs for nonharmonic clusters, those that have a zero eigenvalue in their Hessian, which undergo a more global rearrangement.
title: Oil Price Shocks and Unemployment Rate: New Evidence from the MENA Region
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Cheratian, Iman
name: Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza
name: Goltabar, Saleh
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: NARDL.
MENA region
Economics
Wirtschaft
Unemployment rate
Oil price shocks

description: We examine the effects of oil price shocks on unemployment rates in the MENA oil-exporting and oil-importing countries over the period 1991-2017. Using the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model, the results show that in the short-run, the positive changes of oil prices only exert a positive (increasing) impact on the unemployment rate for oil-exporting countries. However, in the long-run, positive changes in oil prices have a significant increasing effect on the unemployment rate for oil-exporting and oil-importing countries in the MENA region. We also find that the negative changes in oil prices do not show a significant effect on the unemployment rate. Our findings are in line with predictions of the Dutch disease hypothesis.
Spin-Locality of Higher-Spin Theories and Star-Product Functional Classes
Creators: name: Gelfond, O. A.
name: Vasiliev, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analysis of spin-locality of higher-spin gauge theory is formulated in terms of star-product functional classes appropriate for the $β\to -\infty$ limiting shifted homotopy proposed recently in arXiv:1909.04876 where all $ω^2 C^2$ higher-spin vertices were shown to be spin-local. For the $β\to -\infty$ limiting shifted contracting homotopy we identify the class of functions ${\mathcal H}^{+0}$, that do not contribute to the r.h.s. of HS field equations at a given order. A number of theorems and relations that organize analysis of the higher-spin equations are derived including extension of the Pfaffian Locality Theorem of arXiv:1805.11941 to the $β$-shifted contracting homotopy and the relation underlying locality of the $ω^2 C^2$ sector of higher-spin equations. Space-time interpretation of spin-locality of theories involving infinite towers of fields is proposed as the property that the theory is space-time local in terms of original constituent fields $Φ$ and their local currents $J(Φ)$ of all ranks. Spin-locality is argued to be a proper substitute of locality for theories with finite sets of fields for which the two concepts are equivalent.
description: 51 pages, no figures; V2 minor corrections: typos fixed, clarifications and affiliation added; V3 55 pages, Section 3 extended to clarify the notions of spin-locality and ultra-locality. Matches the published version
Genome diversity and evolution in canine transmissible venereal tumour
Creators: name: Strakova, Andrea
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: canine transmissible venereal tumour
cancer
veterinary
transmissible cancer
canine
dog
genetics
DNA sequencing
evolution
CTVT
worldwide distribution
histology
mitochondrial genome
contagious cancer
CTVT distribution and prevalence
historical spread
genetic diversity
phenotypic diversity

description: The canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT) is a contagious cancer that is naturally transmitted between dogs by the allogeneic transfer of living cancer cells during coitus. CTVT first arose several thousand years ago and has been reported in dog populations worldwide. The goals of this Thesis were (1) to gain further understanding of CTVT distribution patterns and prevalence around the world, (2) to use genetics to trace the historical spread of CTVT and (3) to map the genetic as well as phenotypic diversity of CTVT tumours around the world. To understand the distribution patterns of CTVT, I obtained information from 645 veterinarians and animal health workers in 109 countries, and generated a snapshot of the locations in which this disease is found. Additionally, as preparation for further genetic analysis, I collected samples from over one thousand CTVT cases from more than 50 countries, optimised methods for high-throughput DNA extraction and quantification and optimised a qPCR-based assay for CTVT diagnosis and host contamination detection. With the goal of tracing the historical spread of CTVT and learning about the genetic diversity of this disease, I sequenced complete mitochondrial genomes of 449 CTVT tumours and their matched hosts. The analysis of the CTVT mitochondrial diversity revealed that CTVT has captured mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) through horizontal transfer events at least five times during the history of the lineage, delineating five tumour clades. CTVT appears to have spread rapidly around the world within the last 2,000 years, perhaps transported by dogs travelling along historic maritime trade routes. This work indicated that negative selection has operated to prevent accumulation of deleterious mutations in captured mtDNA, and that recombination has caused occasional mtDNA re-assortment. A histology-based screen of CTVT clades did not show any significant phenotypic differences between groups. In order to determine how the five mtDNA clades relate to each other, I analysed data from 539 CTVT exomes. This revealed that a single canine mtDNA haplogroup has recurrently and recently undergone multiple horizontal transfer events. Analysis of this haplotype highlighted a number of candidate genetic variants which may be conferring a selective advantage to this haplotype in CTVT, possibly by influencing mtDNA transcription or replication. Overall, genetic and phenotypic analysis of CTVT tumours from across the globe has broadened our understanding of CTVT diversity, and provided important insights into the biology of a unique transmissible cancer.