cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Leicestershire Landowners and the Railway
Creators: name: Warner, Tim
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 61, 51-61
description: On 19th May 1832 the Honourable Reverend Baptist Wriothesley Noel, one of the Noels, Earls of Gainsborough of Exton Park, Rutland, wrote to his wife, Jane, describing his recent journey on the first railway to be powered entirely by steam locomotives. This was the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which had opened just two years earlier in 1830. His initial delight at travelling 'with the capacity of lightning' at 24 mph was short-lived as in his second paragraph he contemplates the abuse to which his fellow men were already subjecting this new form of transport in their lust for profit, and the diabolical spectacle it engendered.
Subtopia: photography, architecture and the new towns programme
Creators: name: Catrica, Paulo
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: Subtopia aims to build a cognitive map of the contemporary condition of the New Towns in the United Kingdom. The written argument proposes an archaeology of the visual paradigms that inform the photographic representation of landscape and architecture. It investigates and discusses the history and the historiography of those visual paradigms through the scrutiny of content (subject) and form (aesthetics) in order to acknowledge a critical viewpoint to the photographs of Subtopia. Assuming a descriptive mood, the photographs of the visual component endorse landscape as a cultural construction. They look into urbanism and architecture as ideological epitomes, seen through the organization of public spaces. As visual fragments of a non-existent whole, the intent is to create an imaginary new town by assembling photographs from five different towns, chosen according to the different historical and political phases of the New Towns programme: Stevenage (1946), Harlow (1947), Cumbernauld (1955) Runcorn (1964) and Milton Keynes (1967). The thesis contributes to new knowledge in the history and the historiography of the New Towns in Britain. The written theory proposes a critical investigation of historical representations of architecture and the urban space, discussing the cultural environment that informed the photographs. Aiming to go beyond the sheer contextualization of the visual component, the writing examines how photographs engage with the discourses of history, architecture and urbanism. Through a dual subjective mode, as documents and as artistic representations, the photographs of the visual component Subtopia look at and trace distinctive elements of the landscape design and architecture, aiming to create an allegory of the New Towns Programme. Ultimately, the thesis proposes a new understanding in the representation of the ‘social’ landscape and the ideological expectations of the post-war urban planning in Britain.
Hiding an elephant: heavy sterile neutrino with large mixing angle does not contradict cosmology
Creators: name: Bezrukov, F.
name: Chudaykin, A.
name: Gorbunov, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a model of a keV-scale sterile neutrino with a relatively large mixing with the Standard Model sector. Usual considerations predict active generation of such particles in the early Universe, which leads to constraints from the total Dark Matter density and absence of X-ray signal from sterile neutrino decay. These bounds together may deem any attempt of creation of the keV scale sterile neutrino in the laboratory unfeasible. We argue that for models with a hidden sector coupled to the sterile neutrino these bounds can be evaded, opening new perspectives for the direct studies at neutrino experiments such as Troitsk $ν$-mass and KATRIN. We estimate the generation of sterile neutrinos in scenarios with the hidden sector dynamics keeping the sterile neutrinos either massless or superheavy in the early Universe. In both cases the generation by oscillations from active neutrinos in plasma is suppressed.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, v3: corrected important typo in formula (4.3) and updated corresponding figure, without changes to the results of the paper
(501915) Lily [Jane Webb] Pond
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Minute Book of a Leicestershire Enclosure
Creators: name: Warwick Beresford, Maurice
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 23, 293-315
description: THIS is the first enclosure minute-book to be transcribed in full. It is for the enclosure of Newbold Verdon and Newbold Heath, carried out between July, 1810 and August, 18n, and it records the work done at the meetings of the three Enclosure Commissioners, John Burcham, Samuel Stone and John Smith. An Act of Parliament (50 Geo. III) gave authority to these three men to enclose and re-allocate the open fields and commons of the parish, and a copy of the Act was bound for reference with the Minutes.
Picturing the World's news: news photography, culturalproduction, Thomson Reuters and the international processof news making
Creators: name: Ilan, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: In this research the production process of news pictures at Thomson Reuters international multimedia news agency is examined along its ‘local’ and ‘international’ key moments and sites, and the career of Reuters photographs- from the moment they are conceived as ideas to their purchase- is followed and explored at the ways that at every stage they are used, chosen, sold and processed as 'Reuters' products. Based on an extensive fieldwork that includes participant observations in the field, the Jerusalem bureau and the global pictures desk in Israel, Singapore and the UK, indepth interviews with significant Reuters pictures professionals and observations conducted at the Guardian’s pictures desk in London, the findings in this project point to a wide cultural production infrastructure hidden from- and yet also nurtured by- the consumer's eye. From the camera's lens to the daily work of the photographer, the editor, the producer, the chief of the department, administrators, graphic designers, sales and marketing, the international news agency, the different news outlets, different media and other organizations and their audiences, who are all responsible for the representation of one reality and the production of another. Focusing an ethnographic eye on the production processes of news pictures at Thomson Reuters, and drawing from cultural studies and approaches of the political economy of communication, this is an attempt to uncover what news is in its photographic form, and the ways that such unique process of production illustrates the overall production of newsworthiness.
Studies on actin polymerisation and deformability in polymorphonuclear cells and monocytes
Creators: name: Al-Mosawi, Ameena
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Leukocytes become activated in response to hazards such as bacteria, viruses and particulates, and this activation results in reduced blood flow in disease states.
 This activation is associated with assembly of the cytoskeleton, including actin polymerisation, in preparation for extravasation and phagocytosis. Cytoskeletal organisation is a major factor determining leukocyte deformability and one of the major causes of leukocyte trapping and reduced microcirculatory flow in disease.
 The aim of this thesis is to investigate the alteration in F-actin content and its association with activation and leukocyte deformability. All measurements were performed on whole blood samples of humans and Male Sprague Dawley rats using a simplified method to quantify and visualise F-actin content in leukocytes based on flow cytometric analysis and fluorescence microscopy. The Cardiff Filtrometer was used to study the association between leukocyte transit times, pore-blockers and F-actin content. Full blood counts, F-actin content and plasma viscosity were measured in rat blood after animal instillation of PM10. In addition, in vitro measurements were performed to investigate the effects of therapeutic agents that bind peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR y) on the F-actin content of leukocytes.
 The results showed an increase in leukocyte F-actin after treating blood with either Phorbol 12-Myristate 13-Acetate (PMA) or Formyl-Methionyl-Leucyl-Phenylalanine (fMLP) and this effect was inhibited by the addition of CTB. These measurements were performed simultaneously with the filtration method, and correlated significantly (r=0.217 with p=0.029) between the F-actin content of PMNs and leukocyte transit time. Another significant correlation (r=0.798 with p<0.001) was also observed between the F-actin content of PMNs and monocytes (r=0.763 with p<0.001) and the number of pore blockers. There was an apparent increase in leukocyte F-actin content in rats instilled with PM10, although these results were not statistically significant. The treatment of human blood with PPAR y agonists resulted in a rapid decrease in the F-actin content of both PMNs and monocytes, which may result from the inhibition of early signalling cascades involved in actin polymerisation.
Glebe Terriers and Open Field Leicestershire
Creators: name: Warwick Beresford, Maurice
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 24, 77-126
description: WHEN this study began, it had a very limited objective. It was to use the information contained in the glebe terriers in order to construct a survey of the open fields of the county before their enclosure. Such a survey would include the names and numbers of the fields within the village territories and would indicate how widely open fields were distributed at the beginning of the seven-teenth century-which is when the first terriers appear. But, as the work progressed, the terriers revealed themselves as a useful tool to quarry other information. The terriers were made at irregular intervals, and (for most parishes) were made and preserved from the early seventeenth, through the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries. They are records, that is, of a single holding of land through a very important and not too well documented period of agricultural change. Its first century and a half (1600-1750) covers a period when enclosure was steadily and openly progressing, but not in a way which would leave as clear a record as the next century (1750-1850), with its Private Acts of Parliament authorising enclosure and providing printed proof of the date and district concerned. Mr. Tate's county lists are evidence of the value of such printed material when accurately extracted and assembled.
The Town of Lutterworth in the Later Middle Ages
Creators: name: Watkins, Andrew
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 92, 115-146
description: In 1214 a small town was founded by the Verdons in their manor of Lutterworth. It displays many of what are now regarded as characteristic features of such settlements: with a planned layout, specialised trading areas, civic and commercial buildings, permanent shops and stalls, as well as diverse occupations. Its institutional structure based on the view of frankpledge, with a fraternal guild taking on an increasing role in the management of communal amenities by the early sixteenth century, is echoed in many similar small towns. Lutterworth was one element in an integrated network of towns and village markets across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, and it enjoyed regional links with Coventry, Leicester and Northampton, facilitating trade between the East and West Midlands. There was also a national dimension through interaction with traders from London.
(501914) Emma Simpson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Conjunctive Queries on Probabilistic Graphs: Combined Complexity
Creators: name: Amarilli, Antoine
name: Monet, Mikaël
name: Senellart, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Query evaluation over probabilistic databases is known to be intractable in many cases, even in data complexity, i.e., when the query is fixed. Although some restrictions of the queries [19] and instances [4] have been proposed to lower the complexity, these known tractable cases usually do not apply to combined complexity, i.e., when the query is not fixed. This leaves open the question of which query and instance languages ensure the tractability of probabilistic query evaluation in combined complexity. This paper proposes the first general study of the combined complexity of conjunctive query evaluation on probabilistic instances over binary signatures, which we can alternatively phrase as a probabilistic version of the graph homomorphism problem, or of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) variant. We study the complexity of this problem depending on whether instances and queries can use features such as edge labels, disconnectedness, branching, and edges in both directions. We show that the complexity landscape is surprisingly rich, using a variety of technical tools: automata-based compilation to d-DNNF lineages as in [4], \b{eta}-acyclic lineages using [10], the X-property for tractable CSP from [24], graded DAGs [27] and various coding techniques for hardness proofs.
description: 36 pages including 4 appendix sections. This is the PODS'17 article with all proofs and all reviewer feedback. Relative to the previous version and to the PODS version, this version adds details about a subtle point in Appendix D, and fixes some minor formatting issues
(501913) Lillie Copeland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Brief an [Alfred Hartmann]
Creators: name: Gotthelf, Jeremias
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1851

description: von Alb[ert] Bitzius
description: Autograf
description: Deutsch
description: Aeberhardt, Werner E.: Ein Briefwechsel zwischen Jeremias Gotthelf in Alfred Hartmann aus dem Jahre 1851, in: Jahrbuch für solothurnische Geschichte, Jg. 10 (1937), S. 185-191.
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire
Women’s participation in expatriation: the contribution oforganisational policy & practice. A case study of the oil & gasexploration & production sector
Creators: name: Shortland, Susan
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: This thesis contributes to knowledge by demonstrating how organisational policies and practices can make a difference to increasing women’s expatriate participation in the oil and gas exploration and production sector. Through a census survey of female international assignees and in-depth interviews addressing their concerns in a UK-based case study setting, it explains why women hold such a low volume (approximately one-tenth) of the sector’s expatriate roles. International assignments are a business necessity as expatriates supply specialist skills and strategic vision. Given skills shortages in the sector, the case for increasing expatriate gender diversity is strong. This study is important and timely as, thus far, we know very little about how organisational policy and practice can increase expatriate gender participation. Hence, this thesis addresses deficiencies in the extant literature and contributes new academic knowledge. It also provides practical suggestions to enable organisations to widen expatriate gender diversity. The thesis identifies the effects of horizontal and vertical segregation, assignment type and underpinning organisational policies on women’s expatriate participation. Relatively few women are suitably qualified for the majority of expatriate engineering and exploration posts. Yet, even when they hold appropriate qualifications, women experience intense competition for career-enhancing expatriation and are segregated into noninternationally mobile occupations. As international experience is a prerequisite for career development, women are disadvantaged. Women prefer long-term accompanied assignments as these provide the highest career contribution coupled with home life/ family stability, underpinned by generous remuneration/ benefits packages. Unaccompanied shortterm, rotational and commuter assignments are less attractive. As assignment lengths shorten due to cost and other pressures, career contribution and family life and, consequently, women’s expatriate participation are affected detrimentally. Organisational policy supporting expatriation is implemented formally and informally. Yet, strong reliance on high levels of networking to gain expatriate roles potentially creates and reinforces vertical segregation. While equal opportunity is espoused and diversity policy is in place, strategic and operational action to increase women’s share of expatriation is lacking. A meritocracy prevails and women compete in an expatriate ‘male game’.
Super Vertex Algebras, Meromorphic Jacobi Forms and Umbral Moonshine
Creators: name: Duncan, John F. R.
name: O'Desky, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The vector-valued mock modular forms of umbral moonshine may be repackaged into meromorphic Jacobi forms of weight one. In this work we constructively solve two cases of the meromorphic module problem for umbral moonshine. Specifically, for the type A Niemeier root systems with Coxeter numbers seven and thirteen, we construct corresponding bigraded super vertex operator algebras, equip them with actions of the corresponding umbral groups, and verify that the resulting trace functions on canonically twisted modules recover the meromorphic Jacobi forms that are specified by umbral moonshine. We also obtain partial solutions to the meromorphic module problem for the type A Niemeier root systems with Coxeter numbers four and five, by constructing super vertex operator algebras that recover the meromorphic Jacobi forms attached to maximal subgroups of the corresponding umbral groups.
description: 25 pages
The Accounts of the T. Baker, of Barlestone, 1752-1774
Creators: name: Whitby, Captain
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 6, 116-117
description: By CAPTAIN WHITBY : The Accounts (in MS.) of The T. Baker, from 1752 to 1774. "This reverend gentleman was bora at Barlestone, in this county, early in the last century. His family had held land in that parish for upwards of eight hundred years, and his lineal descendant, Miss Selina Baker, still holds the broad lands of her forefathers, and occupies the house in which Mr. Baker lived and died.
Determining rough first order perturbations of the polyharmonic operator
Creators: name: Assylbekov, Yernat M.
name: Iyer, Karthik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R30, 35J62

description: We show that the knowledge of Dirichlet to Neumann map for rough $A$ and $q$ in $(-Δ)^m +A\cdot D +q$ for $m \geq 2$ for a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n \geq 3$ determines $A$ and $q$ uniquely. This unique identifiability is proved via construction of complex geometrical optics solutions with sufficient decay of remainder terms, by using property of products of functions in Sobolev spaces.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1510.02160
The Old Leicester Corporation and The Town Almshouses
Creators: name: William Greaves, Robert
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 21, 149-173
description: "AN old stinking town, situated upon a dull river, inhabited for the most part by tradesmen". Such was the impression of Leicester recorded by a traveller in the latter part of the reign of Charles II. Until the improvements of the middle of the eighteenth century-indeed until well into the nineteenth century-the epithets of old and stinking might still be applied to the town. Yet the natives of the place, who were used to the stench, and not at all troubled by the dullness of the river, saw merits in their town, which were unnoticed by the cursory vi,ews of supercilious travellers. In 1823, even the more critical of the inhabitants could refer, with gratifying pride, to those "Noble Institutions for the Alleviation of Human Calamity in all its forms, which reflect on this Town a character pre-eminent for philanthropy''.
(501912) Florence Webb Copeland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Brief an [Albert Bitzius]
Creators: name: Hartmann, Alfred
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1851

description: von [Alfred Hartmann]
description: Autograf
description: Deutsch
description: Aeberhardt, Werner E.: Ein Briefwechsel zwischen Jeremias Gotthelf in Alfred Hartmann aus dem Jahre 1851, in: Jahrbuch für solothurnische Geschichte, Jg. 10 (1937), S. 185-191.
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire März 2022 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln HBr
(501911) Henrietta Copeland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
‘My’ self on camera: first person DV documentary filmmaking in twentyfirst century China
Creators: name: Yu, Tianqi
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: This project explores first person DV documentary filmmaking practice in China in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Building on existing studies of first person filmmaking in the West, which predominantly analyse filmic self-representation on the textual level, this study addresses two themes: the film text as an aesthetic and cultural object that constructs a self; and the filmmaking as a practice and a form of social participation, through which individual filmmakers as agents actively construct representations of their own selves and their subjectivities. Focusing on the work of nine filmmakers, including Yang Lina, Shu Haolun, Hu Xinyu, Wu Haohao, and Ai Weiwei, I argue that these films illustrate the makers’ individual selves as multi-layered and conflicted, situated in complex familial and social relationships, and in the changing relations between individuals and the state. In addition, this practice can be seen as a form of provocative social participation in the era of ‘depoliticised politics’, that stimulates important individual critical thinking and helps to form a new kind of political subjectivity, to reconstruct political value and reactivate the political space in China. These films and the filmmaking practice not only reflect some aspects of the changing concept of individual self in contemporary China, but can be seen as a generative and constructive process, that further contribute to the changing constitution of the individual subject in China. Through close textual analysis of this body of first person films and this filmmaking practice, I demonstrate features of the complex changing relations between the public (gonggong) and the private (siren) space, between the collective (jiti) and the personal (geren), and between the individual (geti) and the party-state (dangguo) in post-socialist China. The project aims to contribute to current debates in the international field of first person filmmaking, and to studies of contemporary China.
Condition for zero and non-zero discord in graph Laplacian quantum states
Creators: name: Dutta, Supriyo
name: Adhikari, Bibhas
name: Banerjee, Subhashish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This work is at the interface of graph theory and quantum mechanics. Quantum correlations epitomize the usefulness of quantum mechanics. Quantum discord is an interesting facet of bipartite quantum correlations. Earlier, it was shown that every combinatorial graph corresponds to quantum states whose characteristics are reflected in the structure of the underlined graph. A number of combinatorial relations between quantum discord and simple graphs were studied. To extend the scope of these studies, we need to generalize the earlier concepts applicable to simple graphs to weighted graphs, corresponding to a diverse class of quantum states. To this effect, we determine the class of quantum states whose density matrix representation can be derived from graph Laplacian matrices associated with a weighted directed graph and call them graph Laplacian quantum states. We find the graph-theoretic conditions for zero and non-zero quantum discord for these states. We apply these results on some important pure two qubit states, as well as a number of mixed quantum states, such as the Werner, Isotropic, and $X$-states. We also consider graph Laplacian states corresponding to simple graphs as a special case.
description: 24 pages, this version is very similar to the one published in the International Journal of Quantum Information
Volker Mergenthaler, Sehen schreiben – Schreiben sehen. Literatur und visuelle Wahrnehmung im Zusammenspiel. 2002
Creators: name: Morsch, Carsten
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 830 Deutsche Literatur und Literaturen verwandter Sprachen

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: Man muß solche Titel nicht mögen. Die Arbeit von Volker Mergenthaler jedoch trägt ihren zu Recht. Sie eröffnet in dem durch ihn markierten Untersuchungsfeld zentrale, ebenso vielfältige wie methodisch reflektierte literaturwissenschaftliche Einsichten – und zwar ohne von der Medialität der Phänomene abzusehen.
(501910) Ann F. Copeland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Two-Qubit Pure Entanglement as Optimal Social Welfare Resource in Bayesian Game
Creators: name: Banik, Manik
name: Bhattacharya, Some Sankar
name: Ganguly, Nirman
name: Guha, Tamal
name: Mukherjee, Amit
name: Rai, Ashutosh
name: Roy, Arup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement is of paramount importance in quantum information theory. Its supremacy over classical correlations has been demonstrated in numerous information theoretic protocols. Here we study possible adequacy of quantum entanglement in Bayesian game theory, particularly in social welfare solution (SWS), a strategy which the players follow to maximize the sum of their payoffs. Given a multi-partite quantum state as an advice, players can come up with several correlated strategies by performing local measurements on their parts of the quantum state. A quantum strategy is called quantum-SWS if it is advantageous over a classical equilibrium (CE) strategy in the sense that none of the players has to sacrifice their CE-payoff rather some have incentive and at the same time it maximizes the sum of all players' payoffs over all possible quantum advantageous strategies. Quantum state yielding such a quantum-SWS is called a quantum social welfare advice (SWA). We show that any two-qubit pure entangled state, even if it is arbitrarily close to a product state, can serve as quantum-SWA in some Bayesian game. Our result, thus, gives cognizance to the fact that every two-qubit pure entanglement is the best resource for some operational task.
description: Accepted in Quantum (accepted version)
Money market funds in the US and the EU: a legal and comparative analysis
Creators: name: Baklanova, Viktoria
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: The failure of the Reserve Primary Fund, a US money market fund, in September 2008 triggered a widespread withdrawal of assets from other money market funds in the US. The withdrawals led the US Government to adopt emergency measures to maintain market stability. The ability of money market funds to rapidly withdraw funding from the financial system also showed during the European sovereign debt crisis in the summer of 2011. The crisis prompted further regulatory debate on both sides of the Atlantic on how to make money market funds more resilient to investors’ runs and systemic shocks. The solutions that are currently discussed propose to eliminate the essential bank-like feature of money market funds – their ability to transact at a stable share price – and thereby reduce their attractiveness to investors seeking cash management options outside the banking system. This thesis detaches from those discussions originally enquiring on how should money market funds be regulated in the US and in the EU. As a theoretical premise, this research identifies two overarching goals for money market funds regulation, namely, investor protection and systemic stability. The prevalent proposals for regulation are thus seen as misguided because the change in money market funds pricing mechanisms and the accounting convention would demonstrably not satisfy these goals. In order to formulate the new propositions for the regulation of money market funds in the US and the EU, therefore, this thesis first critically evaluates the existing US and EU regulatory frameworks applicable to money market funds from the standpoint of the dual policy goal of investor protection and systemic stability. Secondly, it introduces an alternative path for achieving this dual goal. It is argued that the blueprint of the international money market fund regulation ought to focus on full disclosure of the funds’ assets and liabilities – portfolio holdings and fund investors – as the primary measure of investor protection. Such disclosure also addresses systemic stability concerns by empowering regulators to properly monitor the transmission channels of funding risk. While my study does not purport to do away with risk limiting rules for money market funds, it cautions against copying the US-centric view of the investment standards to the much shallower European markets under the banners of harmonisation. Instead, this thesis advocates a harmonised international approach to the transparency of money market fund activities and the creation of a global database of market 5 exposures that would subject asset managers to public scrutiny and enable regulators to monitor the major risk transmitting channels. By these means the dual regulatory goal in money market fund regulation – investor protection and systemic stability – shall be upheld.
(501909) Frances Webb Copeland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Parish Registers of St. Nicholas, Leicester [part 2, continued from Vol.6]
Creators: name: William Owen, Thomas
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 7, 31-38
description: Transcription of the Parish Registers of S. Nicholas, Leicester (Continuation of Article from the Transactions, Vol. vi., page 352).
title: Weight-regulation in karate athletes: prevalence, magnitude, and methods of weight loss, mood profiles, and eating attitudes
Creators: name: Kirby, Danielle
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: Aim: This study examined the prevalence and methods of weight loss and explored associations between self-regulation of eating in sport, mood, and eating attitudes in a sample of competitive karate athletes using self-report methods. Methods: Fifty-eight karate athletes were recruited from amateur karate clubs in England. Participants were grouped as lightweight (Female: 61 kg, n = 16; Male: >75 kg, n = 9) competitors. Participants completed a cross-sectional self-report online questionnaire survey regarding weight-loss practices, mood, self-regulation of eating in sport, and eating attitudes, measured with the Brunel Mood Scale (BRUMS), Self Regulation of Eating Attitudes in Sports Scale (SREASS), and Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26). Results: 43.1% of the athletes surveyed were trying to lose weight to compete. The most common weight loss methods were food restriction (65.5%), intense exercise/increased training (56.9%), and drink restriction/dehydration (37.9%). 48.2% reported always practicing their preferred weight-loss methods (WLMs) before competition. 63.8% of athletes either agreed or highly agreed that WLMs were effective, yet only 25.9% agreed or highly agreed that they were safe. 20.7% either agreed or highly agreed that WLMs provided them with a competitive advantage, while 46.6% reported that WLMs negatively impacted performance. The most common sources of weight-cutting advice were other athletes (44.8%), coaches (41.4%,) and teammates (34.5%). Collectively, for males, trying to lose weight before competition was characterised by a positive iceberg mood profile with high vigour; whilst females self-reported a negative mood profile characterised by higher scores for all negative mood dimensions, although mood states differed for male lightweight and female heavyweight athletes. Findings showed that depression and fatigue correlated significantly with dieting, bulimia and food preoccupation, and oral control. Anger, 8 confusion, and tension showed significant positive correlations with dieting and bulimia, and food preoccupation, but showed no significant correlation with oral control. Vigour showed a significant negative correlation with dieting and bulimia and food preoccupation but showed no significant negative correlation with oral control. Female athletes reported higher Global EAT-26 scores than males. Eleven females and one male reported EAT-26 scores >20. Conclusions: Collectively, these findings suggest that weight loss and use of weight loss methods is prevalent in karate. Such practices appear to be influenced by the club training environment and appear to be associated with negative mood responses and attitudes towards eating among female karate athletes. Gender and weight-classification differences for mood and eating attitudes warrant further investigation.
A Unifying View of Explicit and Implicit Feature Maps of Graph Kernels
Creators: name: Kriege, Nils M.
name: Neumann, Marion
name: Morris, Christopher
name: Kersting, Kristian
name: Mutzel, Petra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Non-linear kernel methods can be approximated by fast linear ones using suitable explicit feature maps allowing their application to large scale problems. We investigate how convolution kernels for structured data are composed from base kernels and construct corresponding feature maps. On this basis we propose exact and approximative feature maps for widely used graph kernels based on the kernel trick. We analyze for which kernels and graph properties computation by explicit feature maps is feasible and actually more efficient. In particular, we derive approximative, explicit feature maps for state-of-the-art kernels supporting real-valued attributes including the GraphHopper and graph invariant kernels. In extensive experiments we show that our approaches often achieve a classification accuracy close to the exact methods based on the kernel trick, but require only a fraction of their running time. Moreover, we propose and analyze algorithms for computing random walk, shortest-path and subgraph matching kernels by explicit and implicit feature maps. Our theoretical results are confirmed experimentally by observing a phase transition when comparing running time with respect to label diversity, walk lengths and subgraph size, respectively.
Duality for pathwise superhedging in continuous time
Creators: name: Bartl, Daniel
name: Kupper, Michael
name: Prömel, David J.
name: Tangpi, Ludovic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G44, 91G20, 91B24

description: We provide a model-free pricing-hedging duality in continuous time. For a frictionless market consisting of $d$ risky assets with continuous price trajectories, we show that the purely analytic problem of finding the minimal superhedging price of a path dependent European option has the same value as the purely probabilistic problem of finding the supremum of the expectations of the option over all martingale measures. The superhedging problem is formulated with simple trading strategies, the claim is the limit inferior of continuous functions, which allows for upper and lower semi-continuous claims, and superhedging is required in the pathwise sense on a $σ$-compact sample space of price trajectories. If the sample space is stable under stopping, the probabilistic problem reduces to finding the supremum over all martingale measures with compact support. As an application of the general results we deduce dualities for Vovk's outer measure and semi-static superhedging with finitely many securities.
(501908) Alfred Webb Copeland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Hausdorff dimensions for graph-directed measures driven by infinite rooted trees
Creators: name: Okamura, Kazuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A78, 28A80, 60G30

description: We give upper and lower bounds for the Hausdorff dimensions for a class of graph-directed measures when its underlying directed graph is the infinite N-ary tree. These measures are different from graph-directed self-similar measures driven by finite directed graphs and are not necessarily Gibbs measures. However our class contains several measures appearing in fractal geometry and functional equations, specifically, measures defined by restrictions of non-constant harmonic functions on the two-dimensional Sierpínski gasket, the Kusuoka energy measures on it, and, measures defined by solutions of de Rham's functional equations driven by linear fractional transformations.
description: 32 pages. major revision. Main theorem is extended. to appear in Real Analysis Exchange
(501907) Matthew Copeland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Brief an [Alfred Hartmann]
Creators: name: Gotthelf, Jeremias
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1851

description: von Alb. Bitzius
description: Autograf
description: Deutsch
description: Aeberhardt, Werner E.: Ein Briefwechsel zwischen Jeremias Gotthelf in Alfred Hartmann aus dem Jahre 1851, in: Jahrbuch für solothurnische Geschichte, Jg. 10 (1937), S. 185-191.
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Cookiescanner: An Automated Tool for Detecting and Evaluating GDPR Consent Notices on Websites
Creators: name: Gundelach, Ralf
name: Herrmann, Dominik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The enforcement of the GDPR led to the widespread adoption of consent notices, colloquially known as cookie banners. Studies have shown that many website operators do not comply with the law and track users prior to any interaction with the consent notice, or attempt to trick users into giving consent through dark patterns. Previous research has relied on manually curated filter lists or automated detection methods limited to a subset of websites, making research on GDPR compliance of consent notices tedious or limited. We present \emph{cookiescanner}, an automated scanning tool that detects and extracts consent notices via various methods and checks if they offer a decline option or use color diversion. We evaluated cookiescanner on a random sample of the top 10,000 websites listed by Tranco. We found that manually curated filter lists have the highest precision but recall fewer consent notices than our keyword-based methods. Our BERT model achieves high precision for English notices, which is in line with previous work, but suffers from low recall due to insufficient candidate extraction. While the automated detection of decline options proved to be challenging due to the dynamic nature of many sites, detecting instances of different colors of the buttons was successful in most cases. Besides systematically evaluating our various detection techniques, we have manually annotated 1,000 websites to provide a ground-truth baseline, which has not existed previously. Furthermore, we release our code and the annotated dataset in the interest of reproducibility and repeatability.
description: 8 pages. For source code, see https://github.com/UBA-PSI/cookiescanner . For dataset, see https://zenodo.org/record/7884468