cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Learning Event-triggered Control from Data through Joint Optimization
Creators: name: Funk, Niklas
name: Baumann, Dominik
name: Berenz, Vincent
name: Trimpe, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a framework for model-free learning of event-triggered control strategies. Event-triggered methods aim to achieve high control performance while only closing the feedback loop when needed. This enables resource savings, e.g., network bandwidth if control commands are sent via communication networks, as in networked control systems. Event-triggered controllers consist of a communication policy, determining when to communicate, and a control policy, deciding what to communicate. It is essential to jointly optimize the two policies since individual optimization does not necessarily yield the overall optimal solution. To address this need for joint optimization, we propose a novel algorithm based on hierarchical reinforcement learning. The resulting algorithm is shown to accomplish high-performance control in line with resource savings and scales seamlessly to nonlinear and high-dimensional systems. The method's applicability to real-world scenarios is demonstrated through experiments on a six degrees of freedom real-time controlled manipulator. Further, we propose an approach towards evaluating the stability of the learned neural network policies.
Requiem for peace
Creators: name: Nickel, Lawrence Kenneth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Requiem for Peace is a large-scale musical composition in fifteen movements for chorus, chamber choir, symphonic orchestra and three soloists. This thesis honors the suffering civilians of this world who have been caught in the crossfire between warring nations. Integrating poetry from various parts of the world, in twelve languages, it is an international call for forgiveness and reconciliation. The original vision for this composition is presented in the Introduction, followed by a discussion on influences and techniques which permeate my compositional process. The first part o f the document contains chapters on musical style, orchestration, text, form and overall structure. Subsequently, each of the fifteen movements is given a brief summative description. The conclusion, which provides a personal aesthetic statement, is followed by the full orchestral score of Requiem for Peace.
Additional file 1 of Depleted circulatory complement-lysis inhibitor (CLI) in childhood cerebral malaria returns to normal with convalescence
Creators: name: Abah, Samuel Eneọjọ
name: Burté, Florence
name: Howell, Steven A.
name: Ikeoluwa Lagunju
name: Wuraola A. Shokunbi
name: Wahlgren, Mats
name: Olugbemiro Sodeinde
name: Biobele J. Brown
name: Holder, Anthony A.
name: Fernandez-Reyes, Delmiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material.
Leveraging Vision and Kinematics Data to Improve Realism of Biomechanic Soft-tissue Simulation for Robotic Surgery
Creators: name: Wu, Jie Ying
name: Kazanzides, Peter
name: Unberath, Mathias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Purpose Surgical simulations play an increasingly important role in surgeon education and developing algorithms that enable robots to perform surgical subtasks. To model anatomy, Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations have been held as the gold standard for calculating accurate soft-tissue deformation. Unfortunately, their accuracy is highly dependent on the simulation parameters, which can be difficult to obtain. Methods In this work, we investigate how live data acquired during any robotic endoscopic surgical procedure may be used to correct for inaccurate FEM simulation results. Since FEMs are calculated from initial parameters and cannot directly incorporate observations, we propose to add a correction factor that accounts for the discrepancy between simulation and observations. We train a network to predict this correction factor. Results To evaluate our method, we use an open-source da Vinci Surgical System to probe a soft-tissue phantom and replay the interaction in simulation. We train the network to correct for the difference between the predicted mesh position and the measured point cloud. This results in 15-30% improvement in the mean distance, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach across a large range of simulation parameters. Conclusion We show a first step towards a framework that synergistically combines the benefits of model-based simulation and real-time observations. It corrects discrepancies between simulation and the scene that results from inaccurate modeling parameters. This can provide a more accurate simulation environment for surgeons and better data with which to train algorithms.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, to be published in IJCARS IPCAI special edition 2020
Chandra Observations of the Optically Dark GRB030528
Creators: name: Butler, N.
name: Dullighan, A.
name: Ford, P.
name: Ricker, G.
name: Vanderspek, R.
name: Hurley, K.
name: Jernigan, J.
name: Lamb, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-ray-rich GRB030528 was detected by the HETE satellite and its localization was rapidly disseminated. However, early optical observations failed to detect a counterpart source. In a 2-epoch ToO observation with Chandra, we discovered a fading X-ray source likely counterpart to GRB030528. The source brightness was typical of X-ray afterglows observed at similar epochs. Other observers detected an IR source at a location consistent with the X-ray source. The X-ray spectrum is not consistent with a large absorbing column.
description: 4 pages, 1 figures, to appear in Santa Fe GRB Conference Proceedings, 2003
Can't go on another day
Creators: name: Arobateau, Red Jordan
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Depression, Mental
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/890931
subject: Lesbians--Health and hygiene
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996557
subject: Transgender people's writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743060
subject: Lesbians--Mental health
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996566
subject: Gay people--Health and hygiene
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/939275
subject: Lesbians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996540
subject: Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people
subject: Lesbian fiction
subject: Mental disorders
subject: Lesbians
subject: Transgender authors

description: From author's foreward: "I remember wanting to write a book on the subject of depression—with an eventual triumph thru much struggle."
Comparison of entangling protocols in ABC-type spin chains
Creators: name: Estarellas, M. P.
name: Spiller, T. P.
name: D'Amico, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contribution we consider an advantageous building block with potential for various quantum applications: a device based on coupled spins capable of generating and sharing out an entangled pair of qubits. Our model device is a dimerised spin chain with three weakly coupled embedded sites (defects). Three different entangling protocols were proposed for this chain in [1] and [2], one producing a Cluster state and two generating a Bell state, depending on the initial state injection. Here we compare the robustness of such protocols as quantum entangling gates against different types of fabrication (static energy fluctuations) and operation (timing injection delays) errors.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
EEG-based Auditory Attention Decoding: Towards Neuro-Steered Hearing Devices
Creators: name: Geirnaert, Simon
name: Vandecappelle, Servaas
name: Alickovic, Emina
name: de Cheveigné, Alain
name: Lalor, Edmund
name: Meyer, Bernd T.
name: Miran, Sina
name: Francart, Tom
name: Bertrand, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: People suffering from hearing impairment often have difficulties participating in conversations in so-called `cocktail party' scenarios with multiple people talking simultaneously. Although advanced algorithms exist to suppress background noise in these situations, a hearing device also needs information on which of these speakers the user actually aims to attend to. The correct (attended) speaker can then be enhanced using this information, and all other speakers can be treated as background noise. Recent neuroscientific advances have shown that it is possible to determine the focus of auditory attention from non-invasive neurorecording techniques, such as electroencephalography (EEG). Based on these new insights, a multitude of auditory attention decoding (AAD) algorithms have been proposed, which could, combined with the appropriate speaker separation algorithms and miniaturized EEG sensor devices, lead to so-called neuro-steered hearing devices. In this paper, we provide a broad review and a statistically grounded comparative study of EEG-based AAD algorithms and address the main signal processing challenges in this field.
Notonyx nitidus A. Milne-Edwards 1873
Creators: name: Castro, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Goneplacidae
Notonyx
Notonyx nitidus

description: Notonyx nitidus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
 Notonyx nitidus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873: 269, pl. 12, figs 3, 3 a- 3 c [New Caledonia]. — Miers 1886: 236 [New Guinea]. — Alcock 1900: 319 [Persian Gulf]. — Tesch 1918: 219 [in key], 219 [Indonesia]. — Balss 1938: 74 [Fiji]. — Stephensen 1946: 172, fig. 47A, B [Indonesia]. — Serène & Umali 1972: 82, figs 90-95, pl. 8, figs 9, 10 [Philippine Is]. — Serène & Soh 1976: fig. 16E [Thailand]. — Clark & Ng 2006: 541, figs 1- 3, 6A [Indonesia, New Guinea, Chesterfield Is, New Caledonia].
TYPE MATERIAL. — M. Balansa coll., ♀ holotype, cl 9.2 mm, cw 6.6 mm (MNHN-B 10220).
TYPE LOCALITY. — New Caledonia.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. LAGON, stn 322, 22°30’S, 166°58’E, 71 m, 27.XI.1984, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (ZRC 2005.0139).
DISTRIBUTION. — Indo-West Pacific region from the Persian Gulf (Alcock 1900) to Fiji (Balss 1938). Depth: 13-82 m (Clark & Ng 2006).
REMARKS
 The variation in the morphology of the G1 observed by Clark & Ng (2006) among specimens identified as N. nitidus from the Philippine Is, Indonesia, and New Caledonia seems to indicate that they are not conspecific.
description: Published as part of Castro, Peter, 2007, A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of 10 new genera and 18 new species, pp. 609-774 in Zoosystema 29 (4) on page 755, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525564
Additional file 9 of Pattern and timing of diversification in the African freshwater fish genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae)
Creators: name: Arroyave, Jairo
name: Denton, John S. S.
name: Stiassny, Melanie L. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 9: Figure S9. A time-scaled phylogeny of Distichodus. Chronogram resulting from BEAST2 analysis 4. Same contextual information as in Fig. 6.
Manicure Mixer: Design Lessons from the Black Beauty Salon
Creators: name: Martins, Nimi
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2024
Subjects: Women, Black
Women, Black--Vancouver (B.C.)
Community-based research

description: This research challenges the conventional approach to inclusive design by challenging the notion of universalism and placing emphasis on understanding the unique perspectives and values of diverse communities. Through community engagement, interviews, and theoretical exploration, this research aims to explore alternative approaches to designing-with communities. At the core of this research is a culturally sensitive approach to designing-with the Black community, intertwining elements of Black cultural heritage (hair, nails, lashes) with Pluriversal design concepts that transcend traditional inclusivity notions, acknowledging diverse worldviews, experiences, and cultural perspectives. In Vancouver, a city where spaces for vital communal discussions within the Black community are limited, this project seeks to empower Black women in Vancouver while deeply respecting and ethically engaging with their communities. The project aims to bring together and foster a deeper understanding of how to respectfully and ethically 'design with' the Black community, filling a critical gap in communal spaces and services. The primary objective is to uncover alternative approaches for designing-with and prioritizing the needs of these communities, emphasizing the significance of culturally informed design processes and highlighting the essential skills, time, and community building required for ethical engagement.
description: Interaction design
description: Pluriversal design
description: Designing-with-communities
description: Community engagement
description: Manicure mixer
description: Community building
Additional file 1 of Occurrence of anterior uveitis in patients with spondyloarthritis treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors: comparing the soluble receptor to monoclonal antibodies in a large observational cohort
Creators: name: Khoury, Gisèle
name: Morel, Jacques
name: Combe, Bernard
name: Lukas, Cédric
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary figure 1: Flowchart of the study.
Performance of the upgraded PreProcessor of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The PreProcessor of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger prepares the analogue trigger signals sent from the ATLAS calorimeters by digitising, synchronising, and calibrating them to reconstruct transverse energy deposits, which are then used in further processing to identify event features. During the first long shutdown of the LHC from 2013 to 2014, the central components of the PreProcessor, the Multichip Modules, were replaced by upgraded versions that feature modern ADC and FPGA technology to ensure optimal performance in the high pile-up environment of LHC Run 2. This paper describes the features of the new Multichip Modules along with the improvements to the signal processing achieved.
description: 49 pages in total, author list starting page 33, 19 figures, 1 table, submitted to JINST. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TDAQ-2019-01
The impact of government subsidies on the olive and vineyard sectors of Albanian agriculture
Creators: name: Skreli, Engjell
name: Imami, Drini
name: Jámbor, Attila
name: Zvyagintsev, Dmitry
name: Çera, Gentjan
name: Skreli, Engjell
name: Imami, Drini
name: Jámbor, Attila
name: Zvyagintsev, Dmitry
name: Çera, Gentjan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: agricultural subsidies
subject: impact assessment
subject: propensity score matching

description: This study analyses the impact of government subsidy schemes on farm production capacity, technical effi ciency and use of idle production factors (land and labour) in the olive and vineyard sectors of Albanian agriculture. The paper uses a quasiexperimental design by applying a propensity score matching method based on a structured survey conducted in 2013. The results show that the government subsidy scheme had a net positive impact on areas planted with olives and grapevines, and on part-time on-farm employment. On the other hand, no signifi cant net impact was observed regarding farm size and crop yields. This is the fi rst time that such an in-depth impact assessment of government subsidies in the agriculture sector has been carried out in Albania, thus the results will be useful both for scientists and policy makers in agriculture and rural development.
description: http://dx.doi.org/10.7896/j.1525
Thermodynamic properties of the phase transitions in a class of spin-triplet ferromagnetic superconductors
Creators: name: Shopova, D. V.
name: Uzunov, D. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic susceptibility, entropy and specific heat are calculated at the equilibrium points of phase transition to a phase of coexistence of ferromagnetic order and superconductivity in a new class of spin-triplet ferromagnetic superconductors. The results are discussed in view of application to metallic ferromagnets as UGe$_2$, ZrZn$_2$, URhGe.
description: 7 pages, 1 fig, LaTex; corrected math. formula
Notonyx gigacarcinus Clark & Ng 2006
Creators: name: Castro, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Goneplacidae
Notonyx
Notonyx gigacarcinus

description: Notonyx gigacarcinus Clark & Ng, 2006
 Notonyx gigacarcinus Clark & Ng, 2006: 544, figs 4, 5, 6B, 7 [colour] [Thailand].
TYPE MATERIAL. — P. Clark & P. K. L. Ng coll., ♂ holotype, cl 12.1 mm, cw 8.7 mm; ♀ paratype cl 13.7 mm, cw 8.9 mm (ZRC 2000.0981).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Thailand, Andaman Sea coast, Phuket I.
DISTRIBUTION. — Known only from the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand.
REMARKS
 Notonyx gigacarcinus has so far only been collected living deep in coral rubble.
description: Published as part of Castro, Peter, 2007, A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of 10 new genera and 18 new species, pp. 609-774 in Zoosystema 29 (4) on page 755, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525564
Impressum - Ziele - Verantwortliche Schriftleitung - Heftbezug
Creators: name: Schriftleitung, Verantwortliche
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: Ziele Die »Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext« will die Beziehung und das Verständnis zwischen Christen und Juden fördern, Antisemitismus und Rassismus auf allen Ebenen bekämpfen, die Erinnerung an den Holocaust wach halten, die Freundschaft zwischen Christen und Juden vertiefen, Menschenrechte fördern und den Dialog öffnen für andere Religionen und Gruppen, insbesondere mit Muslimen. Die Zeitschrift will in Kirchen, Theologie, Religionsgemeinschaften und in die gesellschaftliche Öffentlichkeit wirken, insbesondere in den Bereich der Bildung. [...]
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 03 (2021): Hannah Arendt. Ihr Denken, unsere Gegenwart
Characterization of RNA viruses from the coastal waters of British Columbia
Creators: name: Culley, Alexander Ian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: RNA viruses are major pathogens o f animals and plants and include viruses that are of enormous economic and public-health concern. In the ocean, RNA viruses infect organisms from bacteria to whales, but RNA virus communities in the sea remain essentially unknown. Although what we know of marine RNA viruses is restricted to a limited number of isolates, emerging data suggest that RNA viruses might be more abundant, and are more ecologically important, than has been suggested. Therefore the hypothesis of this dissertation is that RNA viruses comprise a detectable and diverse fraction of the marine virus community. Towards testing this premise, the research objectives were to sequence a marine RNA virus isolate, Heterosigma akashiwo RNA virus (HaRNAV) , evaluate the diversity of picorna-like viruses, a superfamily of positive-sense single-stranded (ss) RNA viruses, and construct whole-genome shotgun libraries to characterize two complete RNA virus assemblages. The results of all three studies underline the novelty of the marine RNA virus community. For example, HaRNAV is related to picorna-like viruses, but does not belong within any currently defined virus family and has therefore been classified in the Marnaviridae, a newly established virus family. Furthermore, on the basis of analysis of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase sequences amplified from marine virus communities from the Strait of Georgia, a diverse array of picorna-like viruses exists in the ocean. All of the sequences amplified were divergent from known picorna-like viruses, and fell within four monophyletic groups. Finally, analysis of reverse transcribed whole-genome shotgun libraries revealed a diverse assemblage of RNA viruses, including a broad group of marine picorna-like viruses and distant relatives of viruses infecting arthropods and higher plants. Moreover, the genomes of several hitherto undiscovered viruses were completely assembled. These data are among the first characterizations of the in situ marine RNA virus community and represent a preliminary step in the elucidation of their role in the marine environment. The discovery of novel groups of viruses that are significantly divergent from established taxa should be of interest to virologists, oceanographers, and microbial ecologists.
Hubble Space Telescope Search for Activity in High Perihelion Objects
Creators: name: Li, Jing
name: Jewitt, David
name: Mutchler, Max
name: Agarwal, Jessica
name: Weaver, Harold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar system objects with perihelia beyond the orbit of Jupiter ($q >$ 5 AU) are too cold for water ice to generate an appreciable coma via sublimation. Despite this, numerous high perihelion objects (HPOs) including many comets and recently escaped Kuiper belt objects (``Centaurs'') are observed to be active out at least to the orbit of Saturn ($q \sim$ 10 AU). Peak equilibrium temperatures at 10 AU ($\sim$125 K), while far too low to sublimate water ice, are sufficient to sublimate super-volatiles such as CO and CO$_2$ ice. Temperatures at 10 AU are also high enough to trigger the rapid crystallization of exposed amorphous ice, thus constituting another possible driver of distant activity. While supervolatile ices can sublimate strongly (as $r_H^{-2}$) to at least Kuiper belt (30 AU) distances, crystallization is an exponential function of temperature that cannot be sustained much beyond $\sim$10 AU. The heliocentric dependence of the activity thus suggests an observational test. If activity in high perihelion objects is triggered by crystallization, then no examples of activity should be found with perihelia $q >>$ 10 AU. If, on the other hand, activity is due to free sublimation of exposed supervolatile ices, or another cause, then distant activity might be detected. We obtained sensitive, high resolution Hubble Space Telescope observations of HPOs to search for activity beyond the crystallization zone. No examples of activity were detected in 53 objects with $q >$ 15 AU, consistent with the crystallization trigger hypothesis. However, sensitivity limits are such that we cannot reject the alternative hypothesis that mass loss is driven by the sublimation of supervolatile ices. We also searched for binary companions in our sample, finding none and setting an empirical 3$σ$ limit to the binary fraction of $<8$\%.
description: 30 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables. Accepted by AJ
Efficient and Flexible Approach to Simulate Low-Dimensional Quantum Lattice Models with Large Local Hilbert Spaces
Creators: name: Köhler, Thomas
name: Stolpp, Jan
name: Paeckel, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum lattice models with large local Hilbert spaces emerge across various fields in quantum many-body physics. Problems such as the interplay between fermions and phonons, the BCS-BEC crossover of interacting bosons, or decoherence in quantum simulators have been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally. In recent years, tensor network methods have become one of the most successful tools to treat lattice systems numerically. Nevertheless, systems with large local Hilbert spaces remain challenging. Here, we introduce a mapping that allows to construct artificial $U(1)$ symmetries for any type of lattice model. Exploiting the generated symmetries, numerical expenses that are related to the local degrees of freedom decrease significantly. This allows for an efficient treatment of systems with large local dimensions. Further exploring this mapping, we reveal an intimate connection between the Schmidt values of the corresponding matrix-product-state representation and the single-site reduced density matrix. Our findings motivate an intuitive physical picture of the truncations occurring in typical algorithms and we give bounds on the numerical complexity in comparison to standard methods that do not exploit such artificial symmetries. We demonstrate this new mapping, provide an implementation recipe for an existing code, and perform example calculations for the Holstein model at half filling. We studied systems with a very large number of lattice sites up to $L=501$ while accounting for $N_{\rm ph}=63$ phonons per site with high precision in the CDW phase.
description: updated to version published in SciPost Phys. 10, 058 (2021)
Khorchide, Mouhanad; Homolka, Walter (2021): Umdenken! |Wie Islam und Judentum unsere Gesellschaft besser machen Freiburg: Herder, 192 Seiten.
Creators: name: Jansen, Heike
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: Umdenken soll sie! – unsere pluralistische Gesellschaft. Walter Homolka, seit 2002 Rektor des Abraham Geiger Kollegs an der Universität Potsdam, und Mouhanad Khorchide, seit 2010 Professor für Islamische Religionspädagogik an der Universität Münster, wollen einen Beitrag leisten zu Begegnung auf der Basis freiheitlich-demokratischer Grundwerte, denn diese »einen uns in der Vielfalt unserer Religionen, Ethnien, Kulturen und Weltanschauungen« (S.191). Das Buch widmet sich auch heute noch bestehenden Problemen im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs. (S. 10) Geschwister im Glauben – Umdenken in den Religionen Judentum und Islam verbinden religiöse und historische Bezüge (S. 14), skizziert Homolka in einer Gesprächsgrundlage für Juden, Muslime und Christen. (S.13–23) [...]
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 03 (2021): Hannah Arendt. Ihr Denken, unsere Gegenwart
title: Determinants Of Drug Utilisation During Childhood
Creators: name: Piovani, Daniele
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: Paediatric pharmacology is a neglected area in terms of rational use of drugs. Wide differences have been observed in children’s exposure to drugs between and within countries and regions. The aim of the current thesis is to investigate the determinants of drug prescription in paediatrics. Pharmacoepidemiology and the use of administrative databases can be a useful tool for this scope. Data collected in regional and multiregional administrative prescription databases were analysed. Prevalence data by sex and age were calculated by dividing the number of drug users by the total number of male and female residents in each age group. Univariable and multivariable analyses were performed with the aim to identify the determinants of drug prescriptions. The studies showed quantitative and qualitative differences in drug prescription to children and adolescents among Italian regions and within regions. The prescription of a great number of different, redundant, active substances, even among experienced paediatricians, was found. A North-South trend was found in antiasthmatic and antibiotic prevalence, with an important association with average income at the area level. A confirmation of the high prevalence of these drugs and poor qualitative profile was also found. Large heterogeneity was found in psychotropic drug prevalence among different Italian regions. Psychotropic drugs were scantly prescribed and some of the most used drugs were prescribed off-label. The analyses of the prescription of generic antibiotics showed that generic formulations are scantly prescribed by Italian paediatricians, and the lowest prescription rate of generic drugs was found in paediatricians who prescribe more antibiotics. Some quality indicators for antibiotic prescribing were developed at the paediatrician level. The youngest paediatricians and those who were not exposed to educational interventions showed a significantly worse quality of prescribing. The thesis provide some useful data for policy makers in order to improve the rational drug use in children.
CPT Violating Decoherence and LSND: a possible window to Planck scale Physics
Creators: name: Barenboim, Gabriela
name: Mavromatos, Nick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Decoherence has the potential to explain all existing neutrino data including LSND results, without enlarging the neutrino sector. This particular form of CPT violation can preserve the equality of masses and mixing angles between particle and antiparticle sectors, and still provide seizable differences in the oscillation patterns. A simplified minimal model of decoherence is sufficient to explain the existing neutrino data quite neatly, while making dramatic predictions for the upcoming experiments. Some comments on the order of the decoherence parameters in connection with theoretically expected values from some models of quantum-gravity are given. In particular, the quantum gravity decoherence as a primary origin of the neutrino mass differences scenario is explored, and even a speculative link between the neutrino mass-difference scale to the dark energy density component of the Universe today is drawn.
description: Discussion and parametrisation extended to ensure positivity; conclusions unchanged. Version to appear in jhep, with discussion extended to include Kamland distortion data
The POlarised GLEAM Survey (POGS) II: Results from an All-Sky Rotation Measure Synthesis Survey at Long Wavelengths
Creators: name: Riseley, C. J.
name: Galvin, T. J.
name: Sobey, C.
name: Vernstrom, T.
name: White, S. V.
name: Zhang, X.
name: Gaensler, B. M.
name: Heald, G.
name: Anderson, C. S.
name: Franzen, T. M. O.
name: Hancock, P. J.
name: Hurley-Walker, N.
name: Lenc, E.
name: Van Eck, C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low-frequency linearly-polarised radio source population is largely unexplored. However, a renaissance in low-frequency polarimetry has been enabled by pathfinder and precursor instruments for the Square Kilometre Array. In this second paper from the POlarised GaLactic and Extragalactic All-Sky Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) Survey -- the POlarised GLEAM Survey, or POGS -- we present the results from our all-sky MWA Phase I Faraday Rotation Measure survey. Our survey covers nearly the entire Southern sky in the Declination range $-82^{\circ}$ to $+30^{\circ}$ at a resolution between around three and seven arcminutes (depending on Declination) using data in the frequency range 169$-$231 MHz. We have performed two targeted searches: the first covering 25,489 square degrees of sky, searching for extragalactic polarised sources; the second covering the entire sky South of Declination $+30^{\circ}$, searching for known pulsars. We detect a total of 517 sources with 200 MHz linearly-polarised flux densities between 9.9 mJy and 1.7 Jy, of which 33 are known radio pulsars. All sources in our catalogues have Faraday rotation measures in the range $-328.07$ rad m$^{-2}$ to $+279.62$ rad m$^{-2}$. The Faraday rotation measures are broadly consistent with results from higher-frequency surveys, but with typically more than an order of magnitude improvement in the precision, highlighting the power of low-frequency polarisation surveys to accurately study Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields. We discuss the properties of our extragalactic and known-pulsar source population, how the sky distribution relates to Galactic features, and identify a handful of new pulsar candidates among our nominally extragalactic source population.
description: Replacement of previous version. Only change is minor updates to catalogues (see ancillary files) which now contain bib code of finalised manuscript (published in PASA). Manuscript has 31 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables. Four Appendices are included in the ancillary material, showing further Figures, continuum spectra for a handful of selected sources, and RM spectra for all 517 sources
MIGNEX Handbook Chapter 10 - Documentation of survey data
Creators: name: Hagen-Zanker, Jessica
name: Carling, Jørgen
name: Caso, Nicolás
name: Hennessey, Gemma
name: Rubio, Marcela
Publisher: name: Peace Research Institute Oslo
Year: 2024

description: This chapter documents the survey data collection process, including experiences in the field that inform interpretation of the data. It recounts survey execution and challenges and shows response rates. It also describes how the data was cleaned and prepared for use for analysis, as well as the preparation of other important variables like weights.

Key Takeaways

The MIGNEX survey was overwhelmingly executed as planned, despite the challenges related to the Covid-19 pandemic and insecurity in some of the contexts.

The information included here ensures transparency of survey implementation, data cleaning and preparation.

We also document the steps taken to ensure representativeness of the MIGNEX sample at the research area level, weight calculations and potential sampling bias.
Correlation of accommodation and lens location with higher-order aberrations and axial length elongation during orthokeratology lens wear
Creators: name: Liang, Jy-Been
name: Lin, Wen-Pin
name: Wu, Richard
name: Chen, Connie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study examined the effects of overnight orthokeratology (OK) on higher-order wavefront aberrations (HOA), axial length elongation, and accommodation. Low to moderate myopic subjects with healthy eyes wore OK lenses nightly for 9 months. Corneal topography wavefront aberrations and accommodation were measured approximately monthly. Linear mixed-effects models were used to examine the association between the change in peripheral corneal parameters relative to the central cornea with HOA, and the association of accommodation and axial length elongation with HOA. Thirty-three participants (mean age 19.61 years) were included. Mean baseline refraction was −2.97 D (range, −1.0 to −5.0 D). The level of spherical aberration (SA) was associated with a change in relative superior-central corneal thickness (β = −0.21, SE = 0.10, p p
La Implementación de la Economía Circular en Empresas: Un Camino hacia la Sostenibilidad Ambiental
Creators: name: Ortiz, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 339999
subject: Other built environment and design not elsewhere classified

description: La economía circular (EC) representa un modelo de desarrollo económico basado en la maximización de la eficiencia de los recursos, la reducción de residuos y la prolongación del ciclode vida de los productos. Este artículo explora la implementación de la economía circular en las empresas como un camino hacia la sostenibilidad ambiental. Se analizan las principales estrategias y prácticas adoptadas por las organizaciones para integrar los principios de la EC, tales como el reciclaje, la reutilización, la reparación y el rediseño de productos. A través de un enfoque holístico, la EC promueve un cambio en los modelos de negocio tradicionales, donde el ciclo de vida de los productos se extiende más allá de su uso y disposición final.El estudio revela que la transición hacia la economía circular puede generar beneficios significativos, no solo para el medio ambiente, sino también para las empresas, al reducir costos operativos, optimizar la cadena de suministro y mejorar la competitividad. Sin embargo, la implementación de estas prácticas presenta desafíos, tales como la falta de infraestructura adecuada, la resistencia cultural al cambio y la necesidad de políticas públicas que apoyen la transición.Este artículo concluye que la economía circular es una vía clave para avanzar hacia la sostenibilidad empresarial, alentando a las empresas a adoptar modelos de negocio circulares para contribuir tanto al bienestar ambiental como a la rentabilidad a largo plazo.
Direct Measurement of Supernova Neutrino Emission Parameters with a Gadolinium-Enhanced Super-Kamiokande Detector
Creators: name: Yuksel, Hasan
name: Ando, Shin'ichiro
name: Beacom, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The time-integrated luminosity and average energy of the neutrino emission spectrum are essential diagnostics of core-collapse supernovae. The SN 1987A electron antineutrino observations by the Kamiokande-II and IMB detectors are only roughly consistent with each other and theory. Using new measurements of the star formation rate history, we reinterpret the Super-Kamiokande upper bound on the electron antineutrino flux from all past supernovae as an excluded region in neutrino emission parameter space. A gadolinium-enhanced Super-Kamiokande should be able to jointly measure these parameters, and a future megaton-scale detector would enable precision studies.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; minor revisions, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Seamless Group Trip Planning: Connecting Personal Inspirations to Unified Decisions
Creators: name: Patel, Dhanvi
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2024
Subjects: Travel--Planning
Decision making
Artificial intelligence
User interfaces (Computer systems)

description: This study aims to conceptualise a digitally collaborative trip planning experience for travellers seeking personalised recommendations and assistance in group decision-making before and while travelling. The proposed outcome uses AI-generated preferences gathered from their selected social media posts to make personalised recommendation and an AI-chatbot to facilitate group trip planning. To achieve this objective, key users were defined as tech-savvy, Gen Z individuals who prefer group trips and their behaviour and preferences were studied through literature review, participatory research, and auto-ethnographic observations. The key issues identified for the defined users before and during their trip included finding personalised recommendations and decision-making in a group while being remotely connected. Based on the insights of this research one of the outcomes is an interactive prototype of the key features that are potential solutions for relevant recommendations with AI and an example case of AI chat-bot facilitation for ease of navigating the group planning process. This prototype includes the following key features:
1. Integration of saved social media posts to create a personalised itinerary, serving as a starting point. Furthermore, same data can serve as a resource for AI-chatbot to provide relevant suggestions;
2. An AI-chatbot that facilitates group discussion for encouraging diverse opinions, even participation and unbiased conflict resolutions;
3. Ability to modify itinerary by adding options and facilitating voting with a map view.
Travel-related service providers can benefit from insights gained through this study, enabling them to better understand and engage with the users. Furthermore, the design process and interface design decisions can serve as a valuable reference for anyone in the field of user-centric application development which involves AI.
description: User experience design
description: Trip planning
description: Asynchronous communication
description: Group decision-making
Squeezed lasing
Creators: name: Muñoz, Carlos Sánchez
name: Jaksch, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the concept of a squeezed laser, in which a squeezed cavity mode develops a macroscopic photonic occupation due to stimulated emission. Above the lasing threshold, the emitted light retains both the spectral purity inherent of a laser and the photon correlations characteristic of a photonic mode with squeezed quadratures. Our proposal, which can be implemented in optical setups, relies on the parametric driving of the cavity and dissipative stabilization by a broadband squeezed vacuum. The squeezed laser can find applications that go beyond those of standard lasers thanks to the squeezed character, such as the direct application in Michelson interferometry beyond the standard quantum limit, or its use in atomic metrology.
description: Additions to second version: effects of intra-cavity losses; symmetry-broken solutions; spectrum of squeezing; operation in a Michelson interferometer
Wengst, Klaus (2021): Wie das Christentum entstand Eine Geschichte mit Brüchen im 1. und 2. Jahrhundert Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 351 Seiten.
Creators: name: Schwendemann, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: Jesus war der erste Christ (S. 17) – so irritiert Klaus Wengst mit diesem Zitat einer Religionslehrerin die Lesenden. Eigentlich, ganz klar: Jesus war Jude, ebenso stammten die Evangelisten und Paulus oder der Johannes der Offenbarung aus einer jüdischen Tradition. Spätere Briefe, wie zum Beispiel die Pastoralbriefe, der 1. Clemensbrief und der Barnabasbrief, hatten jedoch mit der jüdischen Bibeltradition nichts mehr zu tun oder lehnten sie strikt ab: Das Judentum wurde dann von einem antijüdischen Christentum ersetzt (S. 303ff). Das Buch gliedert sich nach drei historischen Epochen des Christentums: I. Der Anfang ist jüdisch: Von Jesus bis zum ersten jüdisch-römischen Krieg, S. 21–160, II. Bruchstellen: Vom jüdisch-römischen Krieg bis ca. 100 d. Z., S. 161–274, III. Im und nach dem Bruch: Von der Zeit um 100 bis zur Zeit um 150 d. Z., S. 275–345.
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 03 (2021): Hannah Arendt. Ihr Denken, unsere Gegenwart
Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards 1880
Creators: name: McLAUGHLIN, Patsy A.
name: Rahayu, Dwi Listyo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Paguridae
Catapagurus

description: Genus Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
 TYPE SPECIES. — Catapagurus sharreri A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 by monotypy.
description: Published as part of McLAUGHLIN, Patsy A. & Rahayu, Dwi Listyo, 2008, Pteropagurus and Catapagurus (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae): resource sharing or " any port in a storm "?, pp. 899-916 in Zoosystema 30 (4) on page 909, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525838
Fereidooni, Karim; Hößl, Stefan E. (Hg.) (2021): Rassismuskritische Bildungsarbeit Reflexionen zu Theorie und Praxis Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau Verlag, 191 Seiten.
Creators: name: Schwendemann, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem rassistischen Alltagswissen der deutschen Zivilgesellschaft und mit den damit verbundenen Machtkämpfen um gesellschaftliche Ressourcen. Mit dem Blick auf Rassismusperspektiven und -einstellungen eröffnen sich jedoch auch Möglichkeiten rassismuskritischer Bildung. Als zentrales Element des gegenwärtigen kollektiven Rassismus identifizieren die beiden Herausgebenden das »Konzept des Weißseins«, das nicht nur mit der Hautfarbe, sondern mit Zusicherung von Privilegien und dem Anspruch auf gesellschaftliche Ressourcen verbunden sei. (S. 8) Rassismuskritische Bildungsarbeit, so Shadi Kooroshy, Paul Mecheril und Saphira Shure, werde neuerdings als Querschnittsaufgabe der Sozialen Arbeit definiert (S. 15); Rassismus sei als »natio-ethnokulturelles Wir – Nicht-Wir« identifiziert; die Zugehörigkeitszuordnungen in Bezug zum Beispiel auf Migration verschwimmen – dem jeweils »Anderen« würden Bildungsferne, Rückständigkeit und Gefährlichkeit attestiert und so die Wir-Gruppe privilegiert als die Gebildeten, Fortschrittlichen und Nicht-Gefährlichen (S. 16): »Rassismus kann als eine Praxis beschrieben werden, die von einem symbolischen Schema der hierarchisierten oppositionellen Unterscheidung getragen wird und mit den Mitteln verknüpft ist, diese Unterscheidungen praktisch wirksam werden zu lassen.« (S. 17) [...]
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 03 (2021): Hannah Arendt. Ihr Denken, unsere Gegenwart
Additional file 7 of Pattern and timing of diversification in the African freshwater fish genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae)
Creators: name: Arroyave, Jairo
name: Denton, John S. S.
name: Stiassny, Melanie L. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 7: Figure S7. A time-scaled phylogeny of Distichodus. Chronogram resulting from BEAST2 analysis 2. Same contextual information as in Fig. 6.
Additional file 8 of Pattern and timing of diversification in the African freshwater fish genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae)
Creators: name: Arroyave, Jairo
name: Denton, John S. S.
name: Stiassny, Melanie L. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 8: Figure S8. A time-scaled phylogeny of Distichodus. Chronogram resulting from BEAST2 analysis 3. Same contextual information as in Fig. 6.