cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The top--Higgs coupling at the LHC
Creators: name: Kolodziej, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The factorization scale dependence of the anomalous top-Higgs coupling effects in the leading order differential cross sections and distributions of the secondary lepton in the process of associated production of the top quark pair and the Higgs boson at the LHC is discussed. It is also shown that the differential cross section as a function of the rapidity of the secondary lepton in the process is practically not sensitive to a sign of the anomalous pseudoscalar coupling.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, presented at the XXXVII International Conference of Theoretical Physics, " Matter to the Deepest", Ustron, Poland, September 1-6, 2013
A Search for Dark Matter Lines at the Galactic Center with 14 Years of Fermi Data
Creators: name: Foster, Joshua W.
name: Park, Yujin
name: Safdi, Benjamin R.
name: Soreq, Yotam
name: Xu, Weishuang Linda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way halo may annihilate or decay to photons, producing monochromatic gamma rays. We search for DM-induced spectral lines using 14 years of data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope ($\textit{Fermi}$-LAT) between $10\,\mathrm{GeV}$ and $2\,\mathrm{TeV}$ in the inner Milky Way leveraging both the spatial and spectral morphology of an expected signal. We present new constraints as strong as $\langle σv \rangle \lesssim 6\times 10^{-30}\, \mathrm{cm}^3/\mathrm{s}$ for the two-to-two annihilations and $τ\gtrsim 10^{30}\,\mathrm{s}$ for one-to-two decays, representing leading sensitivity between $10\,\mathrm{GeV}$ and $\sim$$500\,\mathrm{GeV}$. We consider the implications of our line-constraints on the Galactic Center Excess (GCE), which is a previously-observed excess of continuum $\sim$GeV gamma-rays that may be explained by DM annihilation. The Higgs portal and neutralino-like DM scenarios, which have been extensively discussed as possible origins of the GCE, are constrained by our work because of the lack of observed one-loop decays to two photons. More generally, we interpret our null results in a variety of annihilating and decaying DM models, such as neutralinos, gravitinos, and glueballs, showing that in many cases the line search is more powerful than the continuum, despite the continuum annihilation being at tree level.
description: 29 pages, 37 figures, video abstract at https://youtu.be/MWy5zHtu18A
Parsimonious Cardiac Action Potential Model of the Rabbit
Creators: name: Regulatory Catalog
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This tool represents an implementation of a rabbit action potential model derived from high-fidelity experimental data from the rabbit (both single cells and during propagation in the isolated whole heart). Cardiac electrophysiological computational models are comprised of numerous complex non-linear equations that predict the action potential in the heart at one or multiple sites. Cardiac electrophysiological modeling is a mature field which has been integrated with experimental studies to develop and test hypotheses for decades. Such models are highly modular, and equations are often reused and/or modified. This model of the ‘parsimonious’ rabbit action potential is very simple with only two currents and three variables, including a novel non-linear phenomenological model of repolarization. The novelty of this model is that it is mathematically identifiable and extremely simple. The model allows a prediction of the dynamical patterns during ventricular fibrillation in the rabbit. The tool is entirely self-contained although the cardiac model developer or user can modify the equations representing the cell kinetics, stimulation protocol, and numerical solvers to generate the corresponding output for any cardiac model. This tool presents a standalone model (no user input required) for simulating the rabbit action potential in single cardiac cells and tissue.
ПОДВОДНЫЕ ПАРКИ СКУЛЬПТУРЫ. ПРОБЛЕМЫ СОЗДАНИЯИ ФУНКЦИОНИРОВАНИЯ
Creators: name: Коляда Екатерина Михайловна
Publisher: name: Вопросы подводной археологии
Year: 2022
Subjects: ПОДВОДНЫЕ ПАРКИ
СКУЛЬПТУРА
ИСКУССТВО
ЛАНДШАФТ

description: Подводные парки скульптуры - это относительно новое явление как в искусстве скульптуры, так и в ландшафтном проектировании. В статье обозначены истоки формирования подводных парков скульптуры и создания и функционирования таких произведенийUnderwater sculpture parks are a relatively new phenomenon both in the art of sculpture and in landscape design. The article outlines the origins of the formation of underwater sculpture parks and the creation and functioning of such works
Echinomya ignobilis Rondani 1863
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Echinomya
Echinomya ignobilis

description: Echinomya ignobilis Rondani, 1863
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 15.
TYPE LOCALITY: “ Chiliae [Chile]”.
TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Tachinidei - Gen. Dejeania a Belvosia): Echinomyia [sic!] ignobilis Rnd., Chili [= Chile] / M. Zool. N° 11319.
CURRENT STATUS: Guimarães (1971) did not list it; junior synonym of Tachina scutellatus (Macquart, 1844) (Evenhuis & Pape 2020).
REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 15) described Echinomya ignobilis, without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens, from material received from R.A. Philippi, to whom he attributed the species name. Costa (1866: 32) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “659”. We also found one syntype in this study.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
LyA Scattering in T Tauri Systems: Insights from HST's ULLYSES Program
Creators: name: Arulanantham, Nicole
name: Gronke, Max
name: Fiorellino, Eleonora
name: Gameiro, Jorge Filipe
name: Green, Joel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: T Tauri Stars
Radiative Transfer
Lyman-alpha

description: T Tauri systems, the young precursors to Sun-like stars, produce broad LyA emission lines (FWHM = 500-700 km/s). The LyA photons are generated at the accretion shocks and must travel through an outflowing wind, protoplanetary disk, and the ISM before reaching the observer. This produces asymmetric features, with the blue or red sides absorbed by outflowing or infalling H I. The ratios of red to blue flux are correlated with properties of the protoplanetary disks, indicating that disk and wind evolution are linked (Arulanantham et al. 2021). By fitting accurate models to the LyA emission lines, we can quantify the kinematics at the intersection between the inner disks, wind launching regions, and accretion flows.
description: {"references": ["Arulanantham, N. et al. (2021) UV Fluorescence Traces Gas and Ly\u03b1 Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks", "Manara, C. F. et al. (2021) PENELLOPE: The ESO data legacy program to complement the Hubble UV Legacy Library of Young Stars (ULLYSES). I. Survey presentation and accretion properties of Orion OB1 and \u03c3-Orionis", "Gronke, M. et al. (2016) From Mirrors to Windows: Lyman-alpha Radiative Transfer in a Very Clumpy Medium", "McJunkin, M. et al. (2014) Direct Measurement of Interstellar Extinction toward Young Stars Using Atomic Hydrogen Ly\u03b1 Absorption", "Fiorellino, E. et al. (2022) The Accretion Process in the DQ Tau Binary System", "France, K. et al. (2014) High-resolution Ultraviolet Radiation Fields of Classical T Tauri Stars", "Bergin, E. et al. (2003) The Effects of UV Continuum and Ly\u03b1 Radiation on the Chemical Equilibrium of T Tauri Disks", "Heays, A. et al. (2017) Photodissociation and photoionisation of atoms and molecules of astrophysical interest"]}
Die Marksburg – Zum Dielenfußboden im Romanischen Palas
Creators: name: Wagner, Gerhard
name: Frank, Lorenz
name: Friedrich, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Der Bericht "Die Marksburg – Zum Dielenfußboden im Romanischen Palas" enthät: Gerhard Wagner: Vorbemerkung Lorenz Frank: Bauhistorische Untersuchungen zum romanischen Dielenfußboden der Marksburg Gerhard Wagner: Die Überbauung des historischen Dielenbodens als statisches Problem Reinhard Friedrich: Die Funde bei der Freilegung des romanischen Dielenfußbodens im Romanischen Palas
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 47 Nr. 2 (2006): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Conductance modulation in topological insulator Bi2Se3 thin films with ionic liquid gating
Creators: name: Son, Jaesung
name: Banerjee, Karan
name: Brahlek, Matthew
name: Koirala, Nikesh
name: Lee, Seoung-Ki
name: Ahn, Jong-Hyun
name: Oh, Seongshik
name: Yang, Hyunsoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Bi2Se3 topological insulator field effect transistor is investigated by using ionic liquid as an electric double layer gating material, leading to a conductance modulation of 365% at room temperature. We discuss the role of charged impurities on the transport properties. The conductance modulation with gate bias is due to a change in the carrier concentration, whereas the temperature dependent conductance change is originated from a change in mobility. Large conductance modulation at room temperature along with the transparent optical properties makes topological insulators as an interesting (opto)electronic material.
description: Appl. Phys. Lett. (2013)
Fermi-LAT upper limits on gamma-ray emission from colliding wind binaries
Creators: name: Werner, M.
name: Reimer, O.
name: Reimer, A.
name: Egberts, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Colliding wind binaries (CWBs) are thought to give rise to a plethora of physical processes including acceleration and interaction of relativistic particles. Observation of synchrotron radiation in the radio band confirms there is a relativistic electron population in CWBs. Accordingly, CWBs have been suspected sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission since the COS-B era. Theoretical models exist that characterize the underlying physical processes leading to particle acceleration and quantitatively predict the non-thermal energy emission observable at Earth. Aims: We strive to find evidence of gamma-ray emission from a sample of seven CWB systems: WR 11, WR 70, WR 125, WR 137, WR 140, WR 146, and WR 147. Theoretical modelling identified these systems as the most favourable candidates for emitting gamma-rays. We make a comparison with existing gamma-ray flux predictions and investigate possible constraints. Methods: We used 24 months of data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope to perform a dedicated likelihood analysis of CWBs in the LAT energy range. Results: We find no evidence of gamma-ray emission from any of the studied CWB systems and determine corresponding flux upper limits. For some CWBs the interplay of orbital and stellar parameters renders the Fermi-LAT data not sensitive enough to constrain the parameter space of the emission models. In the cases of WR140 and WR147, the Fermi-LAT upper limits appear to rule out some model predictions entirely and constrain theoretical models over a significant parameter space. A comparison of our findings to the CWB eta Car is made.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Recent summer precipitation trends in the Greater Horn of Africa and the emerging role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature
Creators: name: Williams, A. Park
name: Funk, Chris
name: Michaelsen, Joel
name: Rauscher, Sara A.
name: Robertson, Iain
name: Wils, Tommy H. G.
name: Eshetu, Zewdu
name: Loader, Neil J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Climatic changes
Meteorology
Atmosphere

description: We utilize a variety of climate datasets to examine impacts of two mechanisms on precipitation in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) during northern-hemisphere summer. First, surface-pressure gradients draw moist air toward the GHA from the tropical Atlantic Ocean and Congo Basin. Variability of the strength of these gradients strongly influences GHA precipitation totals and accounts for important phenomena such as the 1960s–1980s rainfall decline and devastating 1984 drought. Following the 1980s, precipitation variability became increasingly influenced by the southern tropical Indian Ocean (STIO) region. Within this region, increases in sea-surface temperature, evaporation, and precipitation are linked with increased exports of dry mid-tropospheric air from the STIO region toward the GHA. Convergence of dry air above the GHA reduces local convection and precipitation. It also produces a clockwise circulation response near the ground that reduces moisture transports from the Congo Basin. Because precipitation originating in the Congo Basin has a unique isotopic signature, records of moisture transports from the Congo Basin may be preserved in the isotopic composition of annual tree rings in the Ethiopian Highlands. A negative trend in tree-ring oxygen-18 during the past half century suggests a decline in the proportion of precipitation originating from the Congo Basin. This trend may not be part of a natural cycle that will soon rebound because climate models characterize Indian Ocean warming as a principal signature of greenhouse-gas induced climate change. We therefore expect surface warming in the STIO region to continue to negatively impact GHA precipitation during northern-hemisphere summer.
Neuere Forschungsergebnisse zu Burg Reichenberg – Vorbemerkung
Creators: name: Frein, Kurt
name: Frank, Lorenz
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 55 Nr. 2 (2014): Burgen und Schlösser. Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Consistent truncations from the geometry of sphere bundles
Creators: name: Bonetti, Federico
name: Minasian, Ruben
name: Camell, Valentí Vall
name: Weck, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present a unified perspective on sphere consistent truncations based on the classical geometric properties of sphere bundles. The backbone of our approach is the global angular form for the sphere. A universal formula for the Kaluza-Klein ansatz of the flux threading the $n$-sphere captures the full nonabelian isometry group $SO(n+1)$ and scalar deformations associated to the coset $SL(n+1,\mathbb R)/SO(n+1)$. In all cases, the scalars enter the ansatz in a shift by an exact form. We find that the latter can be completely fixed by imposing mild conditions, motivated by supersymmetry, on the scalar potential arising from dimensional reduction of the higher dimensional theory. We comment on the role of the global angular form in the derivation of the topological couplings of the lower-dimensional theory, and on how this perspective could provide inroads into the study of consistent truncations with less supersymmetry.
An open-source software application for drifter trajectory prediction in the mid-Atlantic bight
Creators: name: Anarumo, Joseph
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: There are several different types of floatables in the ocean. Some of these floating particles or drifters are of high value to people and are worth using resources to track and recover, such as people, boats, or equipment. To recover a drifting particle, the rescue party would need to have some information on where the particle may be located and where it may be headed. Lots of effort in the oceanography world in recent years has gone into providing the kind of data that is invaluable for such a task. There are many ocean and atmospheric models well suited to specific regions, as well as oceanography equipment reporting data that are translated and recorded in a format people can use. Several of these data are now freely available online, and easy to access. We test HF Radar and the regional ocean model Doppio to track a surface drifter and a glider in distress using the particle tracking framework OpenDrift. We found that HFR and Doppio do have some differences in trajectories but mostly agree in the 48-hour simulations. The tools used in this analysis are open source, and a collection of scripts is being made available for interested parties.
Pure state thermodynamics with matrix product states
Creators: name: Garnerone, Silvano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the formalism of pure state thermodynamics to matrix product states. In pure state thermodynamics finite temperature properties of quantum systems are derived without the need of statistical mechanics ensembles, but instead using typical properties of random pure states. We show that this formalism can be useful from the computational point of view when combined with tensor network algorithms. In particular, a recently introduced Monte Carlo algorithm is considered which samples matrix product states at random for the estimation of finite temperature observables. Here we characterize this algorithm as an $(ε, δ)$-approximation scheme and we analytically show that sampling one single state is sufficient to obtain a very good estimation of finite temperature expectation values. These results provide a substantial computational improvement with respect to similar algorithms for one-dimensional quantum systems based on uniformly distributed pure states. The analytical calculations are numerically supported simulating finite temperature interacting spin systems of size up to 100 qubits.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures; comments are welcome
Wind-driven mixing causes a reduction in the strength of the continental shelf carbon pump in the Chukchi Sea
Creators: name: Hauri, Claudine
name: Winsor, Peter
name: Juranek, Laurie W.
name: McDonnell, Andrew M. P.
name: Takahashi, Taro
name: Mathis, Jeremy T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biogeochemistry
Oceanic mixing
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Carbon dioxide sinks

description: The Chukchi Sea is thought to be a globally important sink of atmospheric CO2 due to the summertime drawdown of surface pCO2 by phytoplankton and subsequent shelf-to-basin transport of CO2-enriched subsurface waters into the upper halocline of the Arctic Ocean. Here we show that annually occurring storm-induced mixing events during autumn months disrupt water column stratification and stir up remineralized carbon from subsurface waters to the surface, leading to CO2 outgassing to the atmosphere. Our analysis provides a new understanding of the dynamics of carbon cycling in the region and suggests that late season wind events are strong and frequent enough to significantly decrease the carbon sink strength of the Chukchi Sea on a scale of relevance to the global carbon cycle. These results highlight the importance of obtaining data with more complete seasonal and spatial coverage in order to accurately constrain regional to basin-scale carbon flux budgets.
title: Transnational Judicial Review in Horizontal Composite Procedures: Berlioz, Donnellan, and the Constitutional Law of the Union
Creators: name: Mazzotti, Paolo
name: Eliantonio, Mariolina
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: transnational judicial review
subject: right to an effective judicial remedy
subject: composite procedures
subject: cooperation in fiscal matters
subject: autonomy of EU law
subject: uniformity of EU law

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2020 5(1), 41-70
description: I. Introduction. - II. The case of Berlioz: towards transnational judicial review. - III. Transnational judicial review and the constitutional law of the Union. - III.1. The right to an effective judicial remedy. - III.2. Other principles of constitutional law of the Union. - IV. The case of Donnellan: one step forward? - IV.1. Directive 2010/24 and the case of Donnellan. - IV.2. Assessment. - V. Concluding remarks.
description: The policy area of cooperation between fiscal authorities of Member States of the EU has historically been characterised by advanced patterns of administrative integration which, coupled with the sensitivity of the subject-matter in terms of potential impingement on taxpayers' rights, have made all the more problematic the gaps in effective judicial protection generally to be found in composite procedures set up by EU administrative law. This Article analyses two recent rulings delivered by the Court of Justice where what might be labelled as transnational judicial review has for the first time been accepted by the Court: the possibility that, in so-called horizontal composite procedures, the judiciary of the State to which the authority adopting the final act of the procedure belongs review, along with such latter act, preparatory acts adopted in earlier stages of the procedure by authorities of a different Member State. It strives to read the rulings against the broader background of the judicial dialogue currently engaged into by the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice on the principle of mutual trust, and it argues that the progressive solution reached by the Court of Justice in those cases can be applied across all areas of EU administrative law, pivoting on the right to an effective judicial remedy, but also on other general principles of EU constitutional law (and, in particular, the principles of autonomy and uniformity of EU law).
УЧАСТИЕ ИТАЛИИ В РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ КОНВЕНЦИИ ЮНЕСКО 2001 Г. ОБ ОХРАНЕ ПОДВОДНОГО КУЛЬТУРНОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ
Creators: name: Табаринцева-Романова Ксения Михайловна
Publisher: name: Вопросы подводной археологии
Year: 2022
Subjects: ПОДВОДНОЕ КУЛЬТУРНОЕ НАСЛЕДИЕ
ПОДВОДНЫЕ МУЗЕИ
ИТАЛИЯ
ЮНЕСКО
BLUEMED

description: В статье кратко рассматриваются правовые основы защиты подводного культурного наследия. Особое внимание уделяется деятельности профильных итальянских органов в области защиты и охраны культурного наследия. В качестве одного из инструментов сохранения подводных памятников подробно рассматриваются подводные музеи, находящиеся на территории Италии.The article briefly discusses the legal basis for the protection of underwater cultural heritage. Particular attention is paid to the activities of relevant Italian authorities in the field of protection and protection of cultural heritage. As one of the tools for the preservation of underwater monuments, underwater museums located in Italy are considered in detail.
Atomistic-to-Continuum Multiscale Modeling with Long-Range Electrostatic Interactions in Ionic Solids
Creators: name: Marshall, Jason
name: Dayal, Kaushik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multiscale atomistic-to-continuum method for ionic crystals with defects. Defects often play a central role in ionic and electronic solids, not only to limit reliability, but more importantly to enable the functionalities that make these materials of critical importance. Examples include solid electrolytes that conduct current through the motion of charged point defects, and complex oxide ferroelectrics that display multifunctionality through the motion of domain wall defects. Therefore, it is important to understand the structure of defects and their response to electrical and mechanical fields. A central hurdle, however, is that interactions in ionic solids include both short-range atomic interactions as well as long-range electrostatic interactions. Existing atomistic-to-continuum multi-scale methods, such as the Quasicontinuum method, are applicable only when the atomic interactions are short-range. In addition, empirical reductions of quantum mechanics to density functional models are unable to capture key phenomena of interest in these materials. To address this open problem, we develop a multiscale atomistic method to coarse-grain the long-range electrical interactions in ionic crystals with defects. In these settings, the charge density is rapidly varying, but in an almost-periodic manner. The key idea is to use the polarization density field as a multiscale mediator that enables efficient coarse-graining by exploiting the almost-periodic nature of the variation. In regions far from the defect, where the crystal is close-to-perfect, the polarization field serves as a proxy that enables us to avoid accounting for the details of the charge variation. We combine this approach for long-range electrostatics with the standard Quasicontinuum method for short-range interactions to achieve an efficient multiscale atomistic-to-continuum method.
Who is the new sheriff in town regulating boreal forest growth?
Creators: name: Williams, A. Park
name: Xu, Chonggang
name: McDowell, Nate G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Climatic changes
subject: Botany
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Climate change appears to be altering boreal forests. One recently observed symptom of these changes has been an apparent weakening of the positive relationship between high-latitude boreal tree growth and temperature at some sites (D'Arrigo et al 2008). This phenomenon is referred to as the 'divergence problem' or 'divergence effect' and is thought to reflect a non-linear relationship between temperature and tree growth, where recent warming has allowed other factors besides growing-season temperature to emerge as dominant regulators of annual growth rates.
title: The Integration of Migration Concerns into EU External Policies: Instruments, Techniques and Legal Problems
Creators: name: Poli, Sara
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: EU migration policy
subject: informal agreements
subject: EU-Jordan Compact
subject: refugees
subject: EU neighbourhood policy
subject: development cooperation policy

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2020 5(1), 71-94
description: I. Introduction. - II. The Compacts and the practical arrangements for the return of irregular migrants and their impact on the principle of institutional balance. - III. The Compacts with countries hosting refugees: the context of their adoption and their legal nature. - IV. The integration of refugees in the job market of the host country through trade incentives in the EU-Jordan Compact. - V. An assessment of the EU-Jordan Compact. - VI. The EU-Lebanon partnership priorities and the lack of a Compact with Tunisia. - VII. The integration of migration concerns into the EU relations with developing countries: legal and policy issues. - VIII. Final remarks.
description: This Article examines the recent EU practice of concluding practical arrangements designed, on the one hand, to return irregular migrants to countries of origin or transit and, on the other, to provide trade incentives to States hosting refugees, such as Jordan, in exchange for offering Syrian refugees employment opportunities. After examining the legal nature of the mentioned sui generis instruments, it is argued that preference for informal agreements with third countries is capable of affecting the external powers enjoyed by the European Parliament and the EU's accountability in its external action. The Article stresses that the Compact with Jordan has, to some extent, improved the situation of Syrians in that country. Finally, it is contended that the exceptional importance attached to the readmission of third country nationals in EU relations with developing countries has made the EU lose sight of the primary aim of development cooperation policy, which is to fight poverty.
WebAssembly Diversification for Malware Evasion
Creators: name: Cabrera-Arteaga, Javier
name: Monperrus, Martin
name: Toady, Tim
name: Baudry, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: WebAssembly has become a crucial part of the modern web, offering a faster alternative to JavaScript in browsers. While boosting rich applications in browser, this technology is also very efficient to develop cryptojacking malware. This has triggered the development of several methods to detect cryptojacking malware. However, these defenses have not considered the possibility of attackers using evasion techniques. This paper explores how automatic binary diversification can support the evasion of WebAssembly cryptojacking detectors. We experiment with a dataset of 33 WebAssembly cryptojacking binaries and evaluate our evasion technique against two malware detectors: VirusTotal, a general-purpose detector, and MINOS, a WebAssembly-specific detector. Our results demonstrate that our technique can automatically generate variants of WebAssembly cryptojacking that evade the detectors in 90% of cases for VirusTotal and 100% for MINOS. Our results emphasize the importance of meta-antiviruses and diverse detection techniques, and provide new insights into which WebAssembly code transformations are best suited for malware evasion. We also show that the variants introduce limited performance overhead, making binary diversification an effective technique for evasion.
Characterizing the progression of knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors in peer instructors: an evaluation of the general chemistry teaching interns
Creators: name: Atieh, Emily
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: At the university level, peer instruction has been widely implemented as a means to offer additional resources through mentorship and academic support for courses with high enrollments and/or high levels of attrition. Peer instructors are students themselves who have typically demonstrated a proficiency in the course for which they serve. In the present work, the peer instructors are a part of the Teaching Internship, a credit-bearing program that includes both a training component and a teaching component. Specifically, Teaching Interns, or TIs, receive training in pedagogy and best practices while providing assistance to students in General Chemistry, an introductory-level science course with notoriously high rates of attrition. While the majority of prior research in this area has examined the benefits to the students on the receiving end of peer learning, the work presented in this dissertation places the spotlight back on the peer instructors themselves. Various frameworks, methodologies, and types of data collection are explored and utilized in order to examine the research questions from multiple angles. Chapter 2 provides the context in which these studies took place and outlines the development of the Teaching Internship and the closely-related Certificate in Chemistry Education program. Chapters 3 and 4 present findings from two separate studies on the TIs following a mixed-methods and qualitative approach, respectively. The results from these chapters demonstrated positive changes in TIs’ chemistry content knowledge, learning beliefs, and verbal behaviors, stemming from their participation in the TI program. To add further context, a quantitative approach used in Chapter 5 provided validation for the use of an instrument to quickly and accurately measure deep and surface learning approaches in General Chemistry students. While the findings of this study can be used to inform the instructional practices within the General Chemistry courses themselves, these results may also provide insight as to how the TIs can encourage deeper learning approaches while working with their students. The final chapter in this compilation includes the published work from a cognate project which illustrates the network of the various components of online learning and how this network was implemented in the General Chemistry courses to enable learning through peer-to-peer interactions.
Controlling the flow of light using the inhomogeneous effective gauge field that emerges from dynamic modulation
Creators: name: Fang, Kejie
name: Fan, Shanhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the effective gauge field for photons provides a versatile platform for controlling the flow of light. As an example we consider a photonic resonator lattice where the coupling strength between nearest neighbor resonators are harmonically modulated. By choosing different spatial distributions of the modulation phases, and hence imposing different inhomogeneous effective magnetic field configurations, we numerically demonstrate a wide variety of propagation effects including negative refraction, one-way mirror, and on and off-axis focusing. Since the effective gauge field is imposed dynamically after a structure is constructed, our work points to the importance of the temporal degree of freedom for controlling the spatial flow of light.
Diagnostic systems in DEMO: engineering design issues
Creators: name: Todd, T N
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diagnostic systems of DEMO that are mounted on or near the torus, whether intended for the monitoring and control functions of the engineering aspects or the physics behaviour of the machine, will have to be designed to suit the hostile nuclear environment. This will be necessary not just for their survival and correct functioning but also to satisfy the pertinent regulatory bodies, especially where any of them relate to machine protection or the prevention or mitigation of accidents foreseen in the safety case. This paper aims to indicate the more important of the reactor design considerations that are likely to apply to diagnostics for DEMO, drawn from experience on JET, the provisions in hand for ITER and modelling results for the wall erosion and neutron damage effects in DEMO.
description: 8 pages
Report on the Barriers and Opportunities for Opening Up Sensemaking Practices
Creators: name: Ridgway, Andy
name: Milani, Elena
name: Wilkinson, Clare
name: Weitkamp, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: science communication
RRI
sensemaking

description: Sensemaking is the process by which citizens develop an understanding of a complex reality. In this report, we attempt to consider the implications of the motivations and working practices of science communicators and the ways in which citizens make sense of science for the connections between science and society. This is achieved by exploring the barriers and opportunities to open and reflexive sensemaking practices. It is through open and reflexive sensemaking practices that closer, more effective interactions can take place between science and society, thereby facilitating RRI.
title: Revisiting Art. 2 TEU: A True Union of Values?
Creators: name: Wouters, Jan
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Art. 2 TEU
subject: Union of values
subject: EU accession
subject: EU membership
subject: rule of law
subject: EU competences

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2020 5(1), 255-277
description: I. Introduction. - II. Fundamental values and the Treaties of Lisbon. - II.1. Which values, and which status or role? - II.2. The EU's limited competences to act upon, and enforce, its values. - II.3. How common and deep are the Union's values? - III. Compliance with Art. 2 TEU at the stage of accession. - IV. Enforcement of Art. 2 TEU during membership of the Union. - IV.1. The use and non-use of Art. 7 TEU. - IV.2. The Commission's Rule of Law Framework. - IV.3. The Court of Justice's increasing role. - V. Concluding remarks.
description: The Article offers a critical assessment of Art. 2 TEU, from its genesis to its implementation so far. It examines the enforcement of the Union's foundational values both in the accession stage and during EU membership. Two main weaknesses related to Art. 2 TEU are highlighted in connection with the theme of this Special Section. First, there is an asymmetry between the nature of Art. 2 TEU's values, which are foundational for the whole EU project and architecture, and the limited competences conferred upon the Union to legislate with regard to these values and to enforce their respect. Second, the EU and the Commission in particular have followed a legalistic-technocratic assessment of compliance with rule of law principles rather than endorsing a broader view of Art. 2 that combines all of its values. Under such broader view, other values like democracy, justice and solidarity could be given the same rank as the rule of law, at the time of the accession process and once membership is acquired. It is submitted that this would help the Union to connect more strongly with the citizens of the acceding countries and to reconnect with those of the Member States.
Echinomya regalis Rondani 1859
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Echinomya
Echinomya regalis

description: Echinomya regalis Rondani, 1859
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 47 (key), 50 (description).
TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Pedemontio … prope Tergestum [Piedmont … near Trieste (Italy)]”.
TYPE MATERIAL: 4 ♀♀ (only two of them are syntypes but they are not labeled as such) with the following labels: 1 ♀ (covered with mold) (MZUF: Box 9), Echinomyia [sic!] Dmrl / regalis Bll., [illegible word], Alpi, Terges. [Tergestum (= Trieste, Italy)] / 480; 2 ♀♀ (MRSN), [illegible label] / Echinomyia [sic!] Dum. / regalis Bell., Alpi, ♀; 1 ♀ (MRSN), Echinomyia [sic!] Dum. / regalis Bell., Alpi, ♀.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Nowickia marklini (Zetterstedt, 1838) (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 271).
REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 50) described Echinomya regalis from two females: “ speciei unicum exemplar foeminam legit … Prof. Bellardi, et alterum pariter foemineum nuper accepi a D. Schiner [a single female collected by Prof. Bellardi … and recently another female received from Mr. Schiner]”. Rondani attributed the species name to L. Bellardi. We found one female in the MZUF and three in the MRSN without any label indicating their type status. We are unable to single out the two females upon which Rondani based his description. We leave the recognition of the two female syntypes to a future specialist. Two MRSN males are not included in the type series because of their sex.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
NECO - A scalable algorithm for NEtwork COntrol
Creators: name: Cornelius, Sean P.
name: Motter, Adilson E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present an algorithm for the control of complex networks and other nonlinear, high-dimensional dynamical systems. The computational approach is based on the recently-introduced concept of compensatory perturbations -- intentional alterations to the state of a complex system that can drive it to a desired target state even when there are constraints on the perturbations that forbid reaching the target state directly. Included here is ready-to-use software that can be applied to identify eligible control interventions in a general system described by coupled ordinary differential equations, whose specific form can be specified by the user. The algorithm is highly scalable, with the computational cost scaling as the number of dynamical variables to the power 2.5.
description: Source codes available at http://www.nature.com/protocolexchange/system/uploads/2647/original/neco_source.zip
title: The Legitimacy of the EU in Historical Perspective: History of a Never-ending Quest
Creators: name: Rye, Lise
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: common market
subject: elitism
subject: technocracy
subject: legitimacy
subject: Spaak
subject: democratic rule

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2020 5(1), 191-207
description: I. Introduction. - II. The Treaty of Paris and the introduction of supranationality. - III. The idea of legitimacy as legality in the Treaty of Rome. - IV. Mechanisms for legitimacy through democratic rule in the Treaty of Rome. - V. Concluding remarks.
description: This Article revisits the EU's foundational decade with the view to explain the idea of legitimacy as legality that made its mark on the Treaties of Paris (1951) and Rome (1957). To the architects of these Treaties, it was the Member States' decision to create a common market that justified the creation of supranational institutions in general and the powers of the European Commission in particular. While the mechanisms for legitimacy through democratic rule in the Treaty of Rome were weak, this Treaty nevertheless included the seeds for such rule, leading to the conclusion that the legacy of the Treaty of Rome in this matter is mixed.
Alcohol Marketing to LGBTQ+ Communities: Protocol for a Scoping Review
Creators: name: Whiteley, David
name: Dimova, Elena
name: Emslie, Carol
name: Rickards-Hill, Deborah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Preventative health care
Public health not elsewhere classified

description: Objective: To understand the extent and type of evidence related to the marketing of alcohol to the LGBTQ+ community and its constituent parts.
 Introduction: A growing body of evidence demonstrates higher rates of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harms among LGBTQ+ populations compared to their cisgender/heterosexual counterparts. However, a focus on how alcohol marketing and promotion may propagate and influence LGBTQ+ drinking culture has received little attention to date.
 Inclusion criteria: The review will consider publications that explore the experiences of gender and sexually diverse individuals falling under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. The concept of ‘alcohol marketing’ will include any strategy designed to engender tangible or intangible benefits of the product to the consumer, encompassing traditional and virtual advertising, sponsorship and promotion. Original qualitative and quantitative research, peer-reviewed opinion pieces/editorials and grey literature will be included. There are no geographical restrictions.
 Methods: The search strategy will aim to locate both published studies and grey literature. The databases to be searched include MEDLINE, Web of Science, Google Scholar and CINAHL. Sources of grey literature will include WHO, European Commission, Scottish Government, Kings Fund, Alcohol Focus Scotland and SHAAP. Only literature published in English since 1980 will be included. All identified citations will be screened against the inclusion criteria by two independent reviewers. A customised version of the JBI data extraction tool will be used, and findings presented in line with PRISMA guidelines for scoping reviews. Results will be presented in tabular form, and mapped using thematic analysis to underpin a narrative discussion.
Disease progression of retinitis pigmentosa caused by PRPF31 variants in a Nordic population: a retrospective study with up to 36 years follow-up
Creators: name: Lisbjerg, Kristian
name: Bertelsen, Mette
name: Forman, Julie Lyng
name: Grønskov, Karen
name: Holtan, Josephine Prener
name: Kessel, Line
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: To investigate the natural history of PRPF31-related retinitis pigmentosa (RP11). We identified individuals with RP11 and collected retrospective data from disease onset to present date including genetics, demographic data, Goldmann visual field areas, and visual acuity measurements. Visual fields were evaluated as summed squared degrees and best-corrected visual acuity was converted to logMAR. We performed linear mixed model regression analysis to evaluate annual disease progression, and survival analysis to evaluate the age of legal blindness. We included 46 subjects with RP11. Median age of disease onset was 10 years (range 5–65). Follow-up spanned from 0 to 36 years with a median of 8 years. Median Goldmann visual field areas decreased by 10.0% per year (95% CI 7.5%−12.4%) with target IV4e, 7.9% (95% CI 4.5% − 11.2%) with target III4e, and 9.3% (95% CI: 7.0% −11.5%) when combining target sizes. Individuals with RP11 maintained good visual acuity until late stage of disease. Legal blindness was reached at a median age of 57 years (95% CI 50–75 years). PRPF31 variants cause autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa that most commonly manifests in childhood with a variable disease progression. Visual field area deteriorates faster than visual acuity and was the major cause of legal blindness in our study population. This study characterizes disease progression in retinitis pigmentosa caused by PRPF31-variants and demonstrates the importance of differentiation between specific genotypes when counselling patients and conducting natural history studies of RP.