cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
RNTuple performance: Status and Outlook
Creators: name: Lopez-Gomez, Javier
name: Blomer, Jakob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.0; E.2; J.2

description: Upcoming HEP experiments, e.g. at the HL-LHC, are expected to increase the volume of generated data by at least one order of magnitude. In order to retain the ability to analyze the influx of data, full exploitation of modern storage hardware and systems, such as low-latency high-bandwidth NVMe devices and distributed object stores, becomes critical. To this end, the ROOT RNTuple I/O subsystem has been designed to address performance bottlenecks and shortcomings of ROOT's current state of the art TTree I/O subsystem. RNTuple provides a backwards-incompatible redesign of the TTree binary format and access API that evolves the ROOT event data I/O for the challenges of the upcoming decades. It focuses on a compact data format, on performance engineering for modern storage hardware, for instance through making parallel and asynchronous I/O calls by default, and on robust interfaces that are easy to use correctly. In this contribution, we evaluate the RNTuple performance for typical HEP analysis tasks. We compare the throughput delivered by RNTuple to popular I/O libraries outside HEP, such as HDF5 and Apache Parquet. We demonstrate the advantages of RNTuple for HEP analysis workflows and provide an outlook on the road to its use in production.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures; submitted to proceedings of 20th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT 2021)
Teacher Identity and the Marketizised Society. Discursive Constructions in Teachers’ Discussion Groups
Creators: name: Aldenmyr, Sara Irisdotter
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: In the latest decennium, there have been several and gradual changes in the Swedish and other European school systems. The steering system has become more decentralized and the entire school system is now a part of the freedom of trade. Schools are competing with each other and this has, according to previous research, an effect on how teachers think about, and carry out their everyday activities (Gerwitz et al. 1995; Irisdotter 2006). How teachers think about themselves, their students and the educational task is of great importance for the social climate of the classroom and, in the longer run, society in general. The current study dicusses how teachers‘ identities and self-understandings are influenced by the marketization of society. The material analysed consists of group discussions in three different teacher groups in compulsory school in Sweden. Questions raised are: Can teachers work within the context of marketization and yet relate to it with an attitude of self-awareness and critical reflection? And how can teachers deal with both traditional teacher values and progressive, democratic values that may be in conflict with the conditions of a marketizised school system?
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2010: Qualitative Research – Voices from Civic Education Classrooms
Structure of finite-RSB asymptotic Gibbs measures in the diluted spin glass models
Creators: name: Panchenko, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K35, 60G09, 82B44

description: We suggest a possible approach to proving the Mézard-Parisi formula for the free energy in the diluted spin glass models, such as diluted K-spin or random K-sat model at any positive temperature. In the main contribution of the paper, we show that a certain small modification of the Hamiltonian in any of these models forces all finite-RSB asymptotic Gibbs measures in the sense of the overlaps to satisfy the Mézard-Parisi ansatz for the distribution of spins. Unfortunately, what is still missing is a description of the general full-RSB asymptotic Gibbs measures. If one could show that the general case can be approximated by finite-RSB case in the right sense then one could a posteriori remove the small modification of the Hamiltonian to recover the Mézard-Parisi formula for the original model.
title: In der Regel 'weiß', cis, hetero, dünn und nicht behindert
Creators: name: Kaiser, Susanne Irina
Year: 2022

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich diskurstheoretisch mit der populärkulturellen BRAVO aus queer-feministischer Perspektive. In der Analyse der Jugendzeitschrift werden Erkenntnisse über das Zusammenspiel der Menstruation mit Körperlichkeit und Sexualität sowohl textlich als auch visuell über den Zeitraum von 1980–2020 dargelegt. Normierte Weiblichkeit, Körperlichkeit, Menstruationsprodukte, Sexualpädagogik, Werbung und christliche Moral bilden die zentralen Kategorien für die Diskussion. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass über die Menstruation ausschließlich in einem weißen, cisgeschlechtlichen, heterosexuellen Kontext gesprochen wird. Bildlich unterliegt sie dem Darstellungsverbot des Mainstreams und findet sich in erster Linie als Leerstelle im Diskurs wieder. Die filmpraktische Arbeit Regelbruch, die gemeinsam mit Anna Mayböck zum Thema Menstruation entstanden ist, stellt sich diesen Konventionen entschieden entgegen und regt zu einer differenzierten Wahrnehmung an. Der Film liegt der gebundenen Ausgabe dieser Masterarbeit als DVD bei. „Wir brechen die Regel, wir sprechen darüber!“ So lautet das Credo von Regelbruch sowie beider schriftlichen Masterarbeiten, welche für Inklusion, vielfältige Narrative, andere Darstellungsformen und ein Ende des Sprechverbotes plädieren.
description: This master’s thesis examines the popular culture magazine BRAVO from a queer-feminist perspective through the lens of discourse theory. The analysis of the youth magazine between the years 1980–2020 provides insights into the interplay of menstruation with corporeality and sexuality, both in textual and visual terms. The central themes of the discussion are normalised femininity, corporeality, menstrual products, sexual education, advertising and Christian morality. The results show that menstruation is talked about exclusively in a white, cisgender, heterosexual context. Visually, it is subject to the mainstream’s ban on representation and is primarily found as a blank space in the discourse. The film Regelbruch (lit. “Breaking the Rules/Menstruation”) on the subject of menstruation, which was created together with Anna Mayböck, firmly opposes these conventions and encourages a more nuanced and differentiated view. It is enclosed as a DVD with the bound edition of this Master’s thesis. “Let’s break the rule/menstruation [Ger. ‘Regel’], let’s talk about it!” This is the credo not only of Regelbruch but also of both written Master’s theses, which plead for inclusion, diverse narratives, other forms of representation and an end to taboos around menstruation.
Structural Polymorphism Kinetics Promoted by Charged Oxygen Vacancies in HfO$_2$
Creators: name: Ma, Liyang
name: Liu, Shi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Defects such as oxygen vacancy are widely considered to be critical for the performance of HfO2-based devices, and yet atomistic mechanisms underlying various exotic effects such as wake-up and fluid imprint remain elusive. Here, guided by a lattice-mode-matching criterion, we systematically study the phase transitions between different polymorphs of hafnia under the influences of neutral and positively charged oxygen vacancies by mapping out the minimum energy pathways using a first-principles-based variable-cell nudged elastic band technique. We find that the positively charged oxygen vacancy can substantially promote the transition of various nonpolar phases to the polar phase kinetically, enabled by a transient high-energy tetragonal phase and extreme charge-carrier-inert ferroelectricity of the polar $Pca2_1$ phase. The intricate coupling between structural polymorphism kinetics and the charge state of the oxygen vacancy has important implications for the origin of ferroelectricity in HfO$_2$-based thin films as well as wake-up, fluid imprint, and inertial switching.
Who Actually Sets the Criteria for Social Studies Literacy? The National Core Curricula and the Matriculation Examination as Guidelines for Social Studies Teaching in Finland in the 2000’s
Creators: name: Löfström, Jan
name: Virta, Arja
name: Van Den Berg, Marko
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: The issue of how to define the content of social studies literacy has become topical in Finland in the 2000’s in a new way as a result of social studies having been instituted as an independent subject in upper secondary school and in basic education. Freedom from the ties confining social studies in the role of a subdivision of the subject history has entailed a need to profile social studies and also to problematize the parametres of social studies literacy more clearly and consciously than before. However the question remains as to who defines the content of social studies literacy. In this article we will argue that in Finland today the most central role in this respect is being played not by the national core curricula where the competence aims of social studies teaching are rather vague, but by the social studies exam in the national matriculation examination. This is not necessarily a bad situation in terms of the outcome but it is noteworthy that the task of operationalizing social studies literacy is here as if “outsourced” to a small group of social science and social studies education experts who design social studies exam questions, whereas the authority responsible for developing the national core curricula only sanctions very general descriptive objectives for social studies teaching.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2010: Social Science Literacy I: In Search for Basic Competences and Basic Concepts for Testing and Diagnosing
title: TRACES
Creators: name: Peralta, Elsa
name: Szász, Lilla
Publisher: name: Universität Graz
Year: 2021

description: This visual essay is the result of a long collaboration between an anthropologist who studies
the memory of the end of the Portuguese empire and a visual artist who uses her artistic
sensibility to give expression to places of memory for which there is an absence of words. In
it we present images that convey small fragments of past experiences of violence, war and
displacement related to Portuguese colonialism and decolonisation. These include objects
found in forgotten personal archives or in Lisbon’s flea markets, together with a plethora of
material spoils of the former life of colonial Portugal, such as letters sent by soldiers to their
war godmothers, photo albums from which the images have been torn away by time and
where only captions remain, and negatives of lost and unclaimed photographs. They are no
more than traces of memory of an illegitimate history, with no place in written and spoken
memory, but that nonetheless reveal the feelings, the affect and the life of the time that has
passed.
description: Keywords:  Portugal; colonialism; decolonisation; memory; traces, photography
description: Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, Vol. 7 2021, 97–106
title: “My landscape is mute”
Creators: name: Baussant, Michèle
Publisher: name: Universität Graz
Year: 2021

description: This article focuses on artefacts lost and left behind by Egyptian Jews after their departure
from Egypt. It shows how these material artefacts and their preservation, especially those
with a collective dimension such as synagogues or objects of worship, play a key role in the
forms of continuity of the Jews of Egypt in the diaspora. Like a ‘phantom limb’, they often
take on more importance and space than the objects carried into exile. The article also
aims to grasp why the Jewish past sticks to the present, inside and outside Egypt, seemingly
more than the Greek, Italian or Shawam (Syro-Lebanese) ones. This persistence is due to
a double dynamic: one, the eagerness of certain Egyptian Jews to maintain this heritage in
situ and to gain recognition for the Jewish contribution to Egyptian culture and history,
and two, the diverse, asymmetrical interests, often resulting from different if not opposite
aims, which lead to the valorisation of this heritage in Egypt. To highlight this dynamic,
I will refer to an event in Alexandria two years ago, which reveals contradictory forces,
diverse interests and convergences, and the central role of the objects and materials left
behind in this process.
description: Keywords:  Egypt, Jews, memory, heritage, silence
description: Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, Vol. 7 2021, 107–120
The Epistemic Dimension of Competence in the Social Sciences
Creators: name: Maggioni, Liliana
name: Fox, Emily
name: Alexander, Patricia A.
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: To investigate competence in the social sciences, we propose to define competence as a particular configuration of the learner’s cognition, strategic repertoire, motivation, and orientation toward knowing. Specifically, we focus on epistemic beliefs and on the changes that a view of knowing as a complex, effortful, generative, evidence-seeking, and reflective enterprise entails. In this context, we discuss how familiarity with the processes used to justify knowledge claims within specific disciplinary communities can provide useful tools to develop the kind of adaptive and consistent thinking that characterize competence in different domains and how this focus may aid the identification of characteristics common across domains. We use our empirical exploration of adolescents’ development of competence in the domain of history to illustrate the implications of this theoretical framework, to highlight the relations between domain-specific epistemic beliefs and kind of understanding that students built as a result of reading multiple texts, and to suggest what pedagogical practices may have influenced students’ orientations toward knowing in these three history classes.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2010: Social Science Literacy I: In Search for Basic Competences and Basic Concepts for Testing and Diagnosing
Extracting particle size distribution from laser speckle with a physics-enhanced autocorrelation-based estimator (PEACE)
Creators: name: Zhang, Qihang
name: Gamekkanda, Janaka C.
name: Pandit, Ajinkya
name: Tang, Wenlong
name: Papageorgiou, Charles
name: Mitchell, Chris
name: Yang, Yihui
name: Schwaerzler, Michael
name: Oyetunde, Tolutola
name: Braatz, Richard D.
name: Myerson, Allan S.
name: Barbastathis, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extracting quantitative information about highly scattering surfaces from an imaging system is challenging because the phase of the scattered light undergoes multiple folds upon propagation, resulting in complex speckle patterns. One specific application is the drying of wet powders in the pharmaceutical industry, where quantifying the particle size distribution (PSD) is of particular interest. A non-invasive and real-time monitoring probe in the drying process is required, but there is no suitable candidate for this purpose. In this report, we develop a theoretical relationship from the PSD to the speckle image and describe a physics-enhanced autocorrelation-based estimator (PEACE) machine learning algorithm for speckle analysis to measure the PSD of a powder surface. This method solves both the forward and inverse problems together and enjoys increased interpretability, since the machine learning approximator is regularized by the physical law.
Negative $Λ$ induced by accelerated motion
Creators: name: Culetu, Hristu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A correlation between accelerated motion and a noncompact 5th dimension is proposed. The curvature invariants and the stress energy tensor in the bulk depend only on the 5th dimension $w$ and vanish asymptotically while the proper acceleration of a static observer is proportional to $1/w$. The brane (located at $w = w_{0}$) metric is conformally flat (of AdS type) with $Λ= -3/w_{0}^{2}$ and the invariant acceleration $a = \sqrt{a^{b}a_{b}} = 1/w_{0}$. Therefore, we assume that a hyperbolic observer with the rest-system acceleration $a$ is embedded in the 5th dimension at $w_{0} = 1/a$.
description: title changed, 6 pages, version published in EPJ Plus 130 (4), 2015; DOI 10.1140/epjp/i2015-15065-9
Core Concept “Political Compass”. How Kitschelt’s Model of Liberal, Socialist, Libertarian and Conservative Orientations Can Fill the Ideology Gap in Civic Education
Creators: name: Petrik, Andreas
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: International value surveys and misconception studies reveal the crucial role of individual value orientations for political judgment abilities. But in Civic Education, political opinions are generally merely asked for or remain superficial, non-committal statements that don’t get analyzed to foster identity development, perspective-taking and tolerance. Thus, this article discusses Kitschelt’s coordinate system of political preferences as an outstanding solution to fill the ideology gap in Civic Education and therefore to enhance political literacy. At first, I will explain and outline the landscape of the four political ideologies: market-liberalism, conservatism, democratic socialism and left-libertarianism. In addition, I will trace left-libertarianism to its merely known anarchist roots. After that, I will explain how our basic political values are shaped by economic and cultural developments and how they combine to become political ideologies, social milieus and party families. As a third point, I will outline possible applications of Kitschelt’s model for the subject of Civic Education. For that, I propose a map of fundamental controversial issues to help students to discover their own political position. Finally, I will introduce the “Found-a-Village-Project” as highly interactive and controversial scenario to foster political identity formation.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2010: Social Science Literacy I: In Search for Basic Competences and Basic Concepts for Testing and Diagnosing
On the asymptotic behavior of a log gas in the bulk scaling limit in the presence of a varying external potential I
Creators: name: Bothner, Thomas
name: Deift, Percy
name: Its, Alexander
name: Krasovsky, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 82B23, Secondary 33E05, 34E05, 34M50

description: We study the determinant $\det(I-γK_s), 0
description: 49 pages, 15 figures. Version 2 contains an extended introduction and corrects typos
D2.4 - Detailed description of the safety functionalities and worker notifications
Creators: name: Purhonen, Anu
name: Aihkisalo, Tommi
name: Niskanen, Ilkka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Safety, Risk, Object detection

description: Purpose of this document is to describe the BIMprove functionalities that are specific to support safety at the construction sites. This deliverable will have two releases. This first release focuses on functionalities related to automating some of the safety inspections and construction of the risk data management. More specifically, this release describes how safety barriers, safety nets and untidy places with potential fire risk can be automatically detected at the construction sites. The second release at M20 will finalise the description of the functionalities and interfaces to the other functionalities of BIMprove.
Galactic Gravitational Field Measurements Part 2: Black Hole Energy Transfer
Creators: name: Young, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Black holes
subject: quantum gravity
subject: q-epsilon
subject: quantum mechanics
subject: general relativity
subject: gravity
subject: quantum effects
subject: singularities
subject: Energy Transfer
subject: energy transfer
subject: galaxy formation
subject: non-sungular black holes
subject: gravtiational field theory
subject: inormation in black holes
subject: galaxy rotation curves

description: This paper presents a revolutionary mathematical analysis of black hole energytransfer mechanisms into the auxiliary modulation coordinate, with particular empha-sis on the extended gravitational metric incorporating field modulation and generalizedmodulation-based field equation as complementary frameworks for understanding real-ity at its most fundamental level. We establish that black holes function not as termi-nal gravitational singularities but as sophisticated dimensional interfaces that convertmatter into structured energy patterns within the auxiliary modulation coordinate.Through rigorous analysis using entropy-resolved resonance profiles, we demonstratethat information is never lost but rather transformed through specific resonance chan-nels into modulation patterns that preserve all quantum information. Our frameworktranscends conventional approaches by revealing black holes as computational nodes ina universal information processing network, with event horizons functioning as phasetransition boundaries between spacetime and the deeper dimensional structure of theauxiliary modulation coordinate. The mathematical formalism resolves longstand-ing paradoxes in physics while establishing a rigorous foundation for understandingreality as a unified informational substrate from which matter, energy, space, time,and consciousness emerge as interconnected expressions of the underlying generalizedmodulation-based field equation

Together with foundational works such as Gravitational Field Measurements, Introduction to Q-Epsilon through Quantum Mechanics, UMEC: Non-Iterative Mathematics, and Quantum Mechanics & General Relativity: The Emergence of Physics, this paper forms a key link in a broader framework: replacing speculative models with a computable, structured alternative to ΛCDM cosmology.

The upcoming Part 3 – Galaxy Clusters will scale this system beyond individual galaxies, showing how entire cluster networks, voids, and filamentary structures emerge from interacting energy fields, completing the transition from local gravitational modeling to a full cosmological framework.
СВОБОДНЫЕ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ЗОНЫ СПОСОБСТВУЮТ УСТОЙЧИВОМУ ИННОВАЦИОННОМУ РАЗВИТИЮ РЕГИОНОВ УЗБЕКИСТАНА
Creators: name: ИСМАИЛОВ САРВАР ИКРАМОВИЧ
name: РАХИМОВА ДИЛЬФУЗА НИГМАТОВНА
Publisher: name: Глобус
Year: 2020
Subjects: РЕГИОНАЛЬНАЯ ЭКОНОМИКА
ЦЕНТРЫ ИННОВАЦИОННОГО РОСТА
СВОБОДНЫЕ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ЗОНЫ
ФУНКЦИИ СЭЗ В РАЗВИТИИ РЕГИОНАЛЬНЫХ ЭКОНОМИК
МЕРЫ ИНСТИТУЦИОНАЛЬНОГО УКРЕПЛЕНИЯ СЭЗ
МЕТОДЫ ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНОГО РАЗВИТИЯ СЭЗ
БЛАГОПРИЯТНЫЙ ИНВЕСТИЦИОННЫЙ КЛИМАТ
ИНВЕСТИЦИОННАЯ ПРИВЛЕКАТЕЛЬНОСТЬ РЕГИОНОВ
REGIONAL ECONOMY
CENTERS OF INNOVATIVE GROWTH
FREE ECONOMIC ZONES (FEZ)
FUNCTIONS OF FEZS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL ECONOMIES
MEASURES OF INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING OF FEZS
METHODS OF FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF FEZS
FAVORABLE INVESTMENT CLIMATE
INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS OF REGIONS

description: Период устранения последствий эпидемии короновируса с новой силой показал, насколько важно иметь устойчивые региональные экономики для предотвращения подобных непредсказуемых явлений общественной жизни. В последние годы подлинными драйверами инновационного развития территорий Узбекистана стали свободные экономические зоны, созданные практически во всех регионах республики. Обоснованию предпосылок возникновения, анализу эффективности их функционирования и обоснованию путей повышения их воздействия на устойчивое развитие регионов Узбекистана посвящена данная статья.
From point forecasts to multivariate probabilistic forecasts: The Schaake shuffle for day-ahead electricity price forecasting
Creators: name: Grothe, Oliver
name: Kächele, Fabian
name: Krüger, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modeling price risks is crucial for economic decision making in energy markets. Besides the risk of a single price, the dependence structure of multiple prices is often relevant. We therefore propose a generic and easy-to-implement method for creating multivariate probabilistic forecasts based on univariate point forecasts of day-ahead electricity prices. While each univariate point forecast refers to one of the day's 24 hours, the multivariate forecast distribution models dependencies across hours. The proposed method is based on simple copula techniques and an optional time series component. We illustrate the method for five benchmark data sets recently provided by Lago et al. (2020). Furthermore, we demonstrate an example for constructing realistic prediction intervals for the weighted sum of consecutive electricity prices, as, e.g., needed for pricing individual load profiles.
Synthese und Entwicklung fluoreszenter Architekturen zur Visualisierung von DNA und RNA
Creators: name: Doll, Larissa
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2020

description: Die Forschung dieser Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung fluoreszenter Architekturen für die Visualisierung von Oligonukleotiden in vitro als auch in vivo. Im ersten Teil sollte eine kupferfreie, bioorthogonale Markierungsmethode entwickelt werden, die durch Licht induziert wird und somit eine räumlich und zeitlich kontrollierte Reaktion erlaubt. Hierfür sollten azirinmodifizierte Nukleoside synthetisiert und in einer Photoclick-Reaktion angewandt werden. Das zweite Projekt beschäftigte sich mit der Entwicklung und Optimierung von Fluoreszenz in-situ Hybridisierungs-Sonden zur Visualisierung und Lokalisierung von mRNA auf Einzelmolekülebene im Gewebe. Zuletzt sollte das Konzept der „siRNA Traffic Lights“ derart optimiert werden, dass deren Transport sowie Prozessierung während des RNA-Interferenz-Mechanismus nicht nur durch einen optimalen Fluoreszenzfarbwechsel, sondern auch durch die eindeutige Änderung der Fluoreszenzlebenszeit in lebenden Zellen beobachtet werden kann. Mithilfe von GFP-Genregulierungs-Experimenten sollte eine intakte, biologische Aktivität nachgewiesen werden.
title: Searching for lost Libya
Creators: name: Bottecchia, Giordano
Publisher: name: Universität Graz
Year: 2021

description: An interview with the president of the Or Shalom Centre (Centre for the Preservation and
Transmission of the Heritage of the Jews of Libya), Pedatzur Benattia. Since its foundation
in 1995, one of the centre’s objectives has been the creation of a museum of Libyan Jewry.
To achieve this, Pedatzur Benattia has worked over the years to collect a number of articles
and objects related to the history and traditions of the Jews of Libya. This initiative is
especially important given this population’s recent history. About 90% of Libyan Jews left
the country to settle in Israel on the eve of Libyan independence (1949–51). Those who
remained had to leave between 1967 and 1970 following the violence that broke out locally
during the Six-Day War and Gaddafi’s arrival in power. It was impossible for any of them
to return to Libya in the following decades. This clean break with their country of origin
explains the emergence in Israel and Italy of community initiatives aimed at preserving the
memory and history of Libyan Jews. As well as attempting to keep the intangible cultural
heritage of this community alive (traditions, prayers, songs, etc.), some people, like Pedatzur
Benattia, have devoted their lives to recovering material evidence of the life of Jews in
Libya (clothes, photos, liturgical objects, etc.). However, there were two main difficulties.
The first was the way people emigrated. Migrants were often unable to take more than
a few things with them, sometimes just one suitcase. And secondly, the impossibility of
returning to Libya after emigration meant objects could not be recovered, even for the
sole purpose of displaying them in museums. As a result, the recovery of material evidence
was of particular importance for the Jews of Libya. Through this interview, we will try to
explore the motivations that led the president of the Or Shalom Centre to undertake this
initiative, highlighting the nature of the recovered objects as well as their path and history.
description: Keywords:  Heritage, Judaism, museum, Libya, Israel
description: Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, Vol. 7 2021, 121–130
Synthetic U(1) Gauge Invariance in a Spin-1 Bose Gas
Creators: name: Gao, Chunping
name: Liu, Jinghu
name: Chang, Maolin
name: Pu, Han
name: Chen, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental realizations of the lattice Schwinger model [Nature 587, 392 (2020) and Science 367, 1128 (2020)] open a door for quantum simulation of elementary particles and their interactions using ultracold atoms, in which the matter and gauge fields are constrained by a local U(1) gauge invariance known as the Gauss's law. Stimulated by such exciting progress, we propose a new scenario in simulating the lattice Schwinger model in a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate. It is shown that our model naturally contains an interaction of the matter fields which respects the U(1) gauge symmetry but has no counterpart in the conventional Schwinger model. In addition to the Z2-ordered phase identified in the previous work, this additional interaction leads to a new Z3-ordered phase. We map out a rich phase diagram and identify that the continuous phase transitions from the disordered to the Z2-ordered and the Z3-ordered phases belong to the Ising and the 3-state Potts universality classes, respectively. Furthermore, the two ordered phases each possess a set of quantum scars which give rise to anomalous quantum dynamics when quenched to a special point in the phase diagram. Our proposal provides a novel platform for extracting emergent physics in cold-atom-based quantum simulators with gauge symmetries.
“Patriotism” as a Goal of School Education in China and Japan
Creators: name: Kondo, Takahiro
name: Wu, Xiaoyan
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2011

description: In the eyes of much of the Japanese public, “patriotism education” in China is synonymous with anti-Japanese education, and a source of friction. Much of that friction, however, can be attributed to the differing roles and functions of “patriotism” in the two countries as well as the variant connotations of the very word for “patriotism”. In China, the communist party avails itself of the strong levels of patriotism among the people in order to advance modernization of the country. Patriotism education is not designed to serve as anti-Japanese education. In Japan, however, given the country’s past role as an aggressor nation, that word has had consistently negative connotations. Debates over its own patriotism have continued and there are accordingly inexorable apprehensions over patriotism education in China. To address the recurrent frictions between these two countries, both must overcome their ignorance about the differences that Chinese and Japanese societies manifest Unter der „patriotischen Erziehung“ in China versteht man in Japan generell eine anti-japanische Erziehung. Der bilaterale Streit um diese chinesische Bildungspolitik liegt aber in der unterschiedlichen Stellung begründet, welche der Begriff „Patriotismus“ in der Gesellschaft der beiden Nationen einnimmt. In der Annahme, dass es einen ausgeprägten Patriotismus im Volk gibt, hat sich die Kommunistische Partei die patriotische Erziehung zunutze gemacht, um den Staat zu modernisieren. Die anti-japanische Erziehung war dabei zumindest nicht beabsichtigt. Andererseits bekam der Patriotismus in Japan, durch die eigene Erfahrung des Invasionskriegs, eine negative Konnotation. Dort ist die Debatte um den heimischen Patriotismus noch nicht abgeschlossen, und auch die chinesische Bildungspolitik wird sehr kritisch angesehen. Um die wiederholten Konflikte zwischen den beiden Ländern zu lösen, muss man bei der Überwindung des gegenseitigen Unwissens und der Gleichgültigkeit bezüglich der Unterschiede ihrer Gesellschaften anfangen.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2011: Patriotism, Nationalism, Citizenship and Beyond
Galactic Gravitational Field Measurements Part 2: Black Hole Energy Transfer into Q-Epsilon
Creators: name: Young, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Black holes
subject: quantum gravity
subject: q-epsilon
subject: quantum mechanics
subject: general relativity
subject: gravity
subject: quantum effects
subject: singularities
subject: Energy Transfer
subject: energy transfer
subject: galaxy formation
subject: non-sungular black holes
subject: gravtiational field theory
subject: inormation in black holes
subject: galaxy rotation curves

description: This paper, Part 2 of the Galactic Gravitational Field Measurements series, focuses on one of the most critical mechanisms in the Q-Epsilon framework: the transfer of energy and information from black holes into the Q-Epsilon field, where it becomes the source of gravitational curvature and structural organization throughout the galaxy.

Building directly on Part 1 – Galaxy Structuring & Dark Matter, which demonstrated that galactic rotation curves and spiral structure can be modeled as emergent outcomes of energy resonance and curvature (without the need for dark matter), this installment explores what happens at the center—inside the black hole.

Instead of treating black holes as singularities or endpoints, this paper presents them as active field interfaces that receive, modulate, and transmit energy into Q-Epsilon, shaping the field geometry responsible for observed galactic behavior. It introduces a reformulated black hole structure, the Môr MetriK, which replaces singularity-based reasoning with smooth resonance-based transition zones, governed by non-iterative collapse equations derived from the UMEC framework.

All modeling is consistent with quantum mechanics and general relativity but extends beyond both by treating wavefunction collapse, tunneling, and quantum behavior as resonance-based energy geometry, rather than probabilistic abstraction.

Together with foundational works such as Gravitational Field Measurements, Introduction to Q-Epsilon through Quantum Mechanics, UMEC: Non-Iterative Mathematics, and Quantum Mechanics & General Relativity: The Emergence of Physics, this paper forms a key link in a broader framework: replacing speculative models with a computable, structured alternative to ΛCDM cosmology.

The upcoming Part 3 – Galaxy Clusters will scale this system beyond individual galaxies, showing how entire cluster networks, voids, and filamentary structures emerge from interacting Q-Epsilon fields, completing the transition from local gravitational modeling to a full cosmological framework.
Well/ill posedness for the Euler-Korteweg-Poisson system and related problems
Creators: name: Donatelli, Donatella
name: Feireisl, Eduard
name: Marcati, Pierangelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q35 (35D30 35Q53 76N10 82D50)

description: We consider a general Euler-Korteweg-Poisson system in $R^3$, supplemented with the space periodic boundary conditions, where the quantum hydrodynamics equations and the classical fluid dynamics equations with capillarity are recovered as particular examples. We show that the system admits infinitely many global-in-time weak solutions for any sufficiently smooth initial data including the case of a vanishing initial density - the vacuum zones. Moreover, there is a vast family of initial data, for which the Cauchy problem possesses infinitely many dissipative weak solutions, i.e. the weak solutions satisfying the energy inequality. Finally, we establish the weak-strong uniqueness property in a class of solutions without vacuum.
description: Updated to authors' accepted manuscript
DEVELOPMENT OF PROCESSING AND JOINING TECHNIQUES FOR THE FABRICATION OF A SILICON CARBIDE HEAT EXCHANGER
Creators: name: Guerra, Rodrigo Orta
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401601
subject: Ceramics

description: The development of a high-temperature heat exchanger made of silicon carbide (SiC) required the development of processing and joining technologies for the fabrication and integration of a prototype. Traditional ceramic forming techniques such as dry powder compaction, tape casting, or injection molding cannot effectively process complex and micron-size parts such as those required by heat exchangers to generate high surface area for improved thermal efficiency. Ceramic co-extrusion has been a successful fabrication technique to produce small structures, ceramic piezoelectric, and fibrous monolithic.
 The co-extrusion process is unique in its ability to create micron-size features in two dimensions through multiple reduction steps. Using this process, the heat exchanger channels are developed to create a section with a high surface area to enhance the heat transfer between fluids.
 Ceramic co-extrusion requires the development of ceramic/polymer binder systems based on SiC powder, fugitive thermoplastic binders, and low molecular weight polymeric species as processing aids. The thermoplastic binders mixed with SiC powder provided molding and extrusion capabilities to build the heat exchanger prototype. Afterward, a binder removal process and sintering were performed to densify the final component. The presence of cracks is common when working with ceramic/polymer binder systems. Ten different SiC ceramic/polymer binder systems were developed and evaluated to understand the mechanisms that generate cracks and lower the mechanical strengths of components.
 A SiC heat exchanger is comprised of a main core where the fluids exchange energy and the manifolds that direct both cold and hot fluids to the respective set of channels. The integration of these components is challenging because of the high degree of covalent bonding and low self-diffusivity of SiC. Welding and other integration methods common in metals are not feasible due to the high melting point of SiC (2730 °C). Reaction bonding is a technique that has displayed the potential to integrate SiC parts by recreating the reaction of silicon (Si) and carbon (C) on an interlayer between SiC components. This work presents the development of a pressureless joining technique for SiC by reaction bonding using SiC/C loaded ceramic suspensions and the methodology to create a successful bonding region between SiC components. The approaches studied varied the thickness in the joint region to study its mechanical strength, and crystalline structure.
Dimensional study of the dynamical arrest in a random Lorentz gas
Creators: name: Jin, Yuliang
name: Charbonneau, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The random Lorentz gas is a minimal model for transport in heterogeneous media. Upon increasing the obstacle density, it exhibits a growing subdiffusive transport regime and then a dynamical arrest. Here, we study the dimensional dependence of the dynamical arrest, which can be mapped onto the void percolation transition for Poisson-distributed point obstacles. We numerically determine the arrest in dimensions d=2-6. Comparing the results with standard mode-coupling theory reveals that the dynamical theory prediction grows increasingly worse with $d$. In an effort to clarify the origin of this discrepancy, we relate the dynamical arrest in the RLG to the dynamic glass transition of the infinite-range Mari-Kurchan model glass former. Through a mixed static and dynamical analysis, we then extract an improved dimensional scaling form as well as a geometrical upper bound for the arrest. The results suggest that understanding the asymptotic behavior of the random Lorentz gas may be key to surmounting fundamental difficulties with the mode-coupling theory of glasses.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Quantum thermalization via percolation
Creators: name: Khripkov, Christine
name: Vardi, Amichay
name: Cohen, Doron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We highlight a dynamical anomaly in which the rate of relaxation towards thermal equilibrium in a bi-partite quantum system violates the standard linear-response (Kubo) formulation, even when the underlying dynamics is highly chaotic. This anomaly originates from an $\hbar$-dependent sparsity of the underlying quantum network of transitions. Using a minimal bi-partite Bose-Hubbard model as an example, we find that the relaxation rate acquires an anomalous $\hbar$ dependence that reflects percolation-like dynamics in energy space.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Forget Less, Count Better: A Domain-Incremental Self-Distillation Learning Benchmark for Lifelong Crowd Counting
Creators: name: Gao, Jiaqi
name: Li, Jingqi
name: Shan, Hongming
name: Qu, Yanyun
name: Wang, James Z.
name: Wang, Fei-Yue
name: Zhang, Junping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Crowd counting has important applications in public safety and pandemic control. A robust and practical crowd counting system has to be capable of continuously learning with the new incoming domain data in real-world scenarios instead of fitting one domain only. Off-the-shelf methods have some drawbacks when handling multiple domains: (1) the models will achieve limited performance (even drop dramatically) among old domains after training images from new domains due to the discrepancies of intrinsic data distributions from various domains, which is called catastrophic forgetting; (2) the well-trained model in a specific domain achieves imperfect performance among other unseen domains because of the domain shift; and (3) it leads to linearly increasing storage overhead, either mixing all the data for training or simply training dozens of separate models for different domains when new ones are available. To overcome these issues, we investigated a new crowd counting task in the incremental domains training setting called Lifelong Crowd Counting. Its goal is to alleviate the catastrophic forgetting and improve the generalization ability using a single model updated by the incremental domains. Specifically, we propose a self-distillation learning framework as a benchmark (Forget Less, Count Better, or FLCB) for lifelong crowd counting, which helps the model sustainably leverage previous meaningful knowledge for better crowd counting to mitigate the forgetting when the new data arrive. In addition, a new quantitative metric, normalized backward transfer (nBwT), is developed to evaluate the forgetting degree of the model in the lifelong learning process. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed benchmark in achieving a low catastrophic forgetting degree and strong generalization ability.
description: This paper has been accepted by Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering
D2.4 - Detailed description of the safety functionalities and worker notifications
Creators: name: Purhonen, Anu
name: Aihkisalo, Tommi
name: Niskanen, Ilkka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Safety, Risk, Object detection

description: Purpose of this document is to describe the BIMprove functionalities that are specific to support safety at the construction sites. This deliverable will have two releases. This first release focuses on functionalities related to automating some of the safety inspections and construction of the risk data management. More specifically, this release describes how safety barriers, safety nets and untidy places with potential fire risk can be automatically detected at the construction sites. The second version of this document, now available, includes the description of the functionalities and interfaces to the other functionalities of BIMprove.
title: Die Auswirkung von Pre-Editing-Methoden auf die Translationsqualität von maschinell übersetzten Texten und deren Einschätzung durch Sprachexpert*innen im Vergleich zu Lai*innen
Creators: name: Göschl, Janina
Year: 2022

description: Das Ziel der Forschung der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, zu untersuchen, welche Pre-Editing-Methoden mit einem qualitätssteigernden Effekt auf deutsche Ausgangstexte im Rahmen der maschinellen Übersetzung ins Englische angewendet werden können. Zusätzlich wird die Auffassung von Translationsqualität zwischen den Gruppen der Sprachexpert*innen und Lai*innen verglichen. Dazu wird die folgende Forschungsfrage gestellt: Welche Auswirkung auf die Einschätzung von Translationsqualität von Sprachexpert*innen und Lai*innen hat die Anwendung von Pre-Editing-Methoden auf deutsche Ausgangstexte bei der maschinellen Übersetzung ins Englische? Als Grundannahmen wird hierbei angenommen, dass die Anwendung von verschiedenen Pre-Editing-Methoden auf einen deutschen Ausgangstext zu einer unterschiedlichen Bewertung der einzelnen Zieltexte in Hinblick auf Übersetzungsqualität führt (A1) und, dass es einen Unterschied in der Auffassung von Qualität eines Zieltextes zwischen Sprachexpert*innen und Lai*innen gibt (A2). Um eine Tendenz in Richtung der Beantwortung der Forschungsfrage aufzuzeigen, wurde eine qualitative Studie in Form einer Online-Umfrage mit menschlicher Evaluierung durchgeführt. Die dadurch erhobenen Daten wurden zusätzlich quantitativ ausgewertet. Die Proband*innen der Online-Umfrage gingen nach Vorgaben der Methode des Best-Worst-Scaling vor und sollten aus Sets von je vier Übersetzungsvarianten die, ihrer Meinung nach, „beste“ und „schlechteste“ Variante auswählen. Unter den Übersetzungsvarianten befanden sich jeweils eine Übersetzung des „rohen“, unbearbeiteten Ausgangstexts und drei Zieltexte, auf deren Ausgangstexte vor der maschinellen Übersetzung manuell ausgewählte Pre-Editing-Methoden angewendet worden waren. Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen, dass sich Sprachexpert*innen und Lai*innen bei der Bewertung der „besten“ und „schlechtesten“ Pre-Editing-Methoden überraschenderweise einig waren. Die Bewertungen der Sprachexpert*innen lässt bei allen angewendeten Pre-Editing-Methoden darauf schließen, dass sie einen qualitätssteigernden oder zumindest nicht qualitätsreduzierenden Effekt auf englische Zieltexte im Rahmen der neuronalen maschinellen Übersetzung haben. Bei den Lai*innen wurde eine der sechs Methoden niedriger bewertet als die Übersetzung der jeweiligen unbearbeiteten Ausgangstexte. Bei der Anwendung dieser Methode kann also im Rahmen der vorliegenden Studie auf einen qualitätsreduzierenden Effekt auf die Zieltexte geschlossen werden.