cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Wolfgang Schefflers historisches Rechtsgutachten im österreichischen Nachkriegsprozess gegen den Transportoffizier Franz Novak
Creators: name: Wiesmann, Richard
Year: 2021

description: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist eine Analyse des historischen Rechtsgutachtens Wolfgang Schefflers in einem österreichischen Nachkriegsverfahren. Der Historiker wurde für den dritten Schwurgerichtsprozess 1969 gegen den Transportoffizier Franz Novak beim Reichssicherheitshauptamt als Sachverständiger zur Klärung der Frage eines Befehlsnotstands nach Wien geladen. Es entstand ein umfangreiches Gutachten, das im Rahmen des Beweisverfahrens mündlich vorgetragen wurde und in der Strafakte schriftlich vorliegt. Untersucht wurden die Gesichtspunkte der Entstehung, Aufbau- und Gestaltungsweise, Argumentationsstrategie, gerichtliche Rezeption sowie schließlich Einfluss auf das Urteil. Es stellte sich heraus, dass der Gutachter die Annahme eines allgemeinen Befehlsnotstands für Angehörige der SS, des SD und der Polizei ablehnte, die Expertise antisemitischen Angriffen ausgesetzt war und knapp einen Freispruch verhindern konnte. Zudem wurden weitere Gutachten zur Frage des Befehlsnotstands vergleichend in den Blick genommen, um ein größeres Bild über die gutachterliche Zeitgeschichte in österreichischen Nachkriegsverfahren zu gewinnen. In der Gesamtbetrachtung zeigte sich, dass Gutachten und ihre Verwendung hierzulande nur eine untergeordnete Rolle spielten. Ihre Ergebnisse wurden meist nicht wahrgenommen oder bewusst ausgeklammert. Trotz materieller Indizien und zeitgeschichtlicher Expertise wurde zwischen 1956 und 1975 eine Handvoll österreichischer Täter wegen Befehlsnotstands freigesprochen.
Capacitively coupled singlet-triplet qubits in the double charge resonant regime
Creators: name: Srinivasa, V.
name: Taylor, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a method for entangling two singlet-triplet qubits in adjacent double quantum dots via capacitive interactions. In contrast to prior work, here we focus on a regime with strong interactions between the qubits. The interplay of the interaction energy and simultaneous large detunings for both double dots gives rise to the double charge resonant regime, in which the unpolarized (1111) and fully polarized (0202) four-electron states in the absence of interqubit tunneling are near degeneracy, while being energetically well-separated from the partially polarized (0211 and 1102) states. A rapid controlled-phase gate may be realized by combining time evolution in this regime in the presence of intraqubit tunneling and the interqubit Coulomb interaction with refocusing $π$ pulses that swap the singly occupied singlet and triplet states of the two qubits via, e.g., magnetic gradients. We calculate the fidelity of this entangling gate, incorporating models for two types of noise -- charge fluctuations in the single-qubit detunings and charge relaxation within the low-energy subspace via electron-phonon interaction -- and identify parameter regimes that optimize the fidelity. The rates of phonon-induced decay for pairs of GaAs or Si double quantum dots vary with the sizes of the dipolar and quadrupolar contributions and are several orders of magnitude smaller for Si, leading to high theoretical gate fidelities for coupled singlet-triplet qubits in Si dots. We also consider the dependence of the capacitive coupling on the relative orientation of the double dots and find that a linear geometry provides the fastest potential gate.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures (revised)
Scattering of two photons from two distant qubits: Exact solution
Creators: name: Laakso, Matti
name: Pletyukhov, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the inelastic scattering of two photons from two qubits separated by an arbitrary distance $R$ and coupled to a one-dimensional transmission line. We present an exact, analytical solution to the problem, and use it to explore a particular configuration of qubits which is transparent to single-photon scattering, thus highlighting non-Markovian effects of inelastic two-photon scattering: Strong two-photon interference and momentum dependent photon (anti-)bunching. This latter effect can be seen as an inelastic generalization of the Hong--Ou--Mandel effect.
description: 5 pages + 11 pages in the supplement, v2: published version
Foreign Trade of the United States, Annual, 1790-1929: Fruits
Creators: name: Gries, Caroline G.
name: Gries, Caroline G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1930
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Contents: Analysis of Foreign Trade; Explanation of Terms; Sources; Fig. 1. Fruits, total: Value of United States exports and imports, by classes, fresh, dried and canned, 1900-1929; Fig. 2. Apples, fresh and dried: Volume of net exports of the United States, 1900-1929; Fig. 3. Citrus fruit: Volume of net imports of lemons and net exports of oranges and grapefruit of the United States, 1900-1929; Fig. 4. Bananas: Volume of net imports of the United States, 1906-1929; Fig. 5. Raisins and currants, dried: Volume of United States exports of raisins and imports of currants and raisins, 1900-1929; Fig. 6. Prunes, apricots and peaches, dried: Volume of net exports of the United States, 1900-1929; Foreign Trade - Annual exports, imports, reexports and net balance, quantity and value, 1790-1929; FRUITS – Apples: Table 1. Fresh – 1790-1929, Table 2. Dried – 1864-1929, Table 3. Canned -- 1924-1929; Apricots: Table 4. Dried - 1902-1929, Table 4. Canned - 1923-1929; Table 5. Bananas - 1861-1929; Table 6. Berries, fresh - 1913-1929; Cherries: Table 7. Fresh - 1924-1929, Table 8. Canned - 1922-1929; Table 9. Citron and citron peel - 1898-1929; Table 10. Currants - 1804-1929; Table 11. Dates -1843-1929; Table 12. Figs - 1804-1929; Table 13. Grapefruit - 1919-1929; Table 14. Grapes - 1862-1929; Table 15. Lemons - 1858-1929; Table 16. Limes - 1858-1929; Table 17. Olives, green, ripe or prepared - 1860-1929; Table 18. Oranges – 1855-1929; Peaches: Table 19. Fresh - 1922-1929, Table 19. Dried - 1906-1929, Table 19. Canned- 1918-1929; Pears: Table 20. Fresh - 1906-1929, Table 20. Canned- 1921-1929; Pineapples: Table 21. Fresh - 1910-1929, Table 22. Canned and prepared or preserved, 1921-1929; Prunes and plums: Table 23. Dried - 1904-1929, Table 23. Prunes, canned - 1924-1929, Table 23. Plums, canned - 1924-1929; Table 24. Raisins and other dried grapes, 1790-1929; Table 25. Other fruit preparations, 1920-1929; Table 26. Fresh fruit, total, 1790-1929; Table 27. Dried fruit, total, 1790-1929; Table 28. Canned fruit, total, 1870-1929; Table 29. Preserved fruit, total, 1855-1929; Table 30. Fruit, total, 1790-1929; Shipments from the United States to Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico: Table 31. Alaska, 1903-1929, Table 32. Hawaii, 1903-1929, Table 33. Porto Rico, 1903-1929; Shipments to the United States from Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico: Table 34. Alaska, 1903-1929, Table 35. Hawaii, 1903-1929, Table 36. Porto Rico, 1903-1929.
Flat Majorana bands in 2-d lattices with inhomogeneous magnetic fields: topology and stability
Creators: name: Sedlmayr, N.
name: Aguiar-Hualde, J. M.
name: Bena, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show that for a range of configurations of inhomogeneous magnetic fields it is possible to create flat bands of Majorana states localized on the edges of 2-d lattices. Majorana bound states have been predicted to exist in both one dimensional and two dimensional systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, magnetic fields, and placed in proximity to a superconductor. For the proposed systems we present the bulk topological phase diagrams, and we study the conditions for weak topology which predicts the formation of bands of Majorana states. The Majorana bands are demonstrated to be relatively stable with respect to a variety of different perturbations on both square and hexagonal lattices.
description: 13 pages, 17 figures
Spin-resolved entanglement spectroscopy of critical spin chains and Luttinger liquids
Creators: name: Laflorencie, Nicolas
name: Rachel, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum critical chains are well described and understood by virtue of conformal field theory. Still the meaning of the real space entanglement spectrum -- the eigenvalues of the reduced density matrix -- of such systems remains in general elusive, even when there is an additional quantum number available such as spin or particle number. In this paper we explore in details the properties and the structure of the reduced density matrix of critical XXZ spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ chains. We investigate the quantum/thermal correspondence between the reduced density matrix of a $T=0$ pure quantum state and the thermal density matrix of an effective entanglement Hamiltonian. Using large scale DMRG and QMC simulations, we investigate the conformal structure of the spectra, the entanglement Hamiltonian and temperature. We then introduce the notion of spin-resolved entanglement entropies which display interesting scaling features.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
Data-Driven Query by Vocal Percussion
Creators: name: Delgado Luezas, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Alejandro Delgado's PhD thesis as part of the MIP-frontiers European programme (MSCA grant). Abstract: The imitation of percussive sounds via the human voice is a natural and effective tool for communicating rhythmic ideas on the fly. Query by Vocal Percussion (QVP) is a subfield in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) that explores techniques to query percussive sounds using vocal imitations as input, usually plosive consonant sounds. In this way, fully automated QVP systems can help artists prototype drum patterns in a comfortable and quick way, smoothing the creative workflow as a result. This project explores the potential usefulness of recent data-driven neural network models in two of the most important tasks in QVP. Algorithms relative to Vocal Percussion Transcription (VPT) detect and classify vocal percussion sound events in a beatbox-like performance so to trigger individual drum samples. Algorithms relative to Drum Sample Retrieval by Vocalisation (DSRV) use input vocal imitations to pick appropriate drum samples from a sound library via timbral similarity. Our experiments with several kinds of data-driven deep neural networks suggest that these achieve better results in both VPT and DSRV compared to traditional data-informed approaches based on heuristic audio features. We also find that these networks, when paired with strong regularisation techniques, can still outperform data-informed approaches when data is scarce. Finally, we gather several insights relative to people’s approach to vocal percussion and how user-based algorithms are essential to better model individual differences in vocalisation styles.
IBSync: Intra-body synchronization and implicit contextualization of wearable devices using artificial ECG landmarks
Creators: name: Wolling, Florian
name: Van Laerhoven, Kristof
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 004 Informatik
subject: Intra-body communication (IBC)
subject: Synchronization
subject: Context awareness
subject: Electrocardiography (ECG)
subject: Wearable devices
subject: Zellkommunikation
subject: Synchronisierung
subject: Elektrokardiografie

description: With a smaller form factor and a larger set of applications, body-worn devices have evolved into a collection of simultaneously deployed hardware units, rather than into a single all-round wearable. The sensor data, logged by such devices across the user's body, contains a wealth of information but is often difficult to synchronize. Especially the application of machine learning techniques, e.g., for activity recognition, suffers from the inaccuracy of the devices' internal clocks. In recent years, intra-body communication emerged as a promising alternative to the traditional wired and wireless communication techniques. Distributed wearable systems will notably benefit from its advantages, such as a superior energy efficiency. However, due to the absence of commercially available platforms, applications using this innovative technique remain rare and underinvestigated. With IBSync, we present a novel concept in which artificial landmark signals are received by body-worn devices on touching, approaching, or passing certain areas, surfaces, or objects with embedded transmitter beacons. The landmark signals enable both the wearables' intentional or incidental synchronization as well as the implicit contextualization using supplementary information about the beacons' situational context. For the detection of the landmarks, we propose to repurpose the on-board ECG sensor front-end available in recent commercial wearable devices. Evaluated on a total of 215 min of recordings from two devices, we demonstrate the concept's feasibility and a promising synchronization error of 0.80±1.79 samples or 6.25±14.00 ms at a device's sampling rate of 128 Hz.
title: Geburtshilfliche Interventionen, Qualität der Interaktion mit den Geburtshelfer*innen und verschiedene Dimensionen des Geburtserlebens
Creators: name: Dorsch, Alina Elisabeth
Year: 2021

description: Hintergrund: Die Geburt eines Kindes stellt ein besonderes Ereignis für Frauen und Paare dar, das körperliche, soziale, emotionale und psychische Veränderungen mit sich bringt. Das subjektive Geburtserleben von Frauen spielt eine zentrale Rolle für die erfolgreiche Anpassung an die neue Situation und Rolle als Eltern, die psychische Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden der jungen Mutter sowie den Bindungsaufbau zum Säugling und die Entscheidung für/gegen weitere Kinder. Derzeit bringen im deutschsprachigen Raum nahezu 100% aller Frauen ihre Kinder in einem Krankenhaus zur Welt, wo Geburten häufig von einer starken Pathologisierung und Medikalisierung gekennzeichnet sind, was hohe Interventionsraten mit sich bringt. Dies kann sich negativ auf das Geburtserleben von Frauen auswirken. Gleichzeitig trägt auch die Qualität der Interaktionserfahrung (QPI), die eine Frau mit ihren Geburtshelfer*innen macht, wesentlich zu ihrem Erleben bei. Methodik: Um die Auswirkungen der Anzahl an geburtshilflichen Interventionen und der QPI (erfasst mittels Quality of Provider Interactions Inventory, QPI-I) sowie eine mögliche Interaktion der beiden Größen auf verschiedene Dimensionen des Geburtserlebens zu beleuchten, wurden N = 120 erstgebärende Frauen über einen Online-Fragebogen befragt. Dieser erfasste das umfassende Geburtserleben mittels der Salmon´s Item List (SIL-Ger). Weiters wurden folgende spezifische Facetten abgefragt: das eigene Bewältigungsvermögen und Sicherheitsgefühl der Frau (mittels Childbirth Experience Questionnaire, CEQ) und ihr externes und internes Kontrollerleben (mittels Support and Control in Birth Scale, SCIB). Zudem wurden 24 Items zu geburtshilflichen Interventionen und einigen Kontrollvariablen vorgegeben. Ergebnisse: Frauen, die bei der Geburt viele geburtshilfliche Interventionen erfahren hatten, gaben auf allen Skalen ein negativeres Erleben an als Frauen mit weniger Interventionen. Für die Skalen des CEQ und der SCIB zeigte sich zudem eine Interaktion zwischen der Anzahl an Interventionen und der QPI-I. Eine hohe Anzahl an Interventionen wirkte sich vor allem bei hohen Werten im QPI-I negativ auf die genannten Facetten des Geburtserlebens aus. Für den Summenscore der SIL-Ger ergab sich keine signifikante Interaktion der Prädiktoren. Schlussfolgerungen: Die Qualität der Interaktionserfahrung scheint wesentlich zu einem positiven Geburtserleben beizutragen und bedeutsamer zu sein als die Anzahl an geburtshilflichen Interventionen. Bei Berücksichtigung beider Größen war eine hohe Rate an geburtshilflichen Eingriffen nicht zwangsläufig mit einem negativeren Erleben assoziiert, eine negative Interaktionserfahrung dagegen schon. Frauen, die ihre Interaktionserfahrung bereits als durchschnittlich gut oder positiv einschätzen, würden jedoch auch von einer Reduktion unnötiger Interventionen profitieren, was ihr Sicherheitsgefühl, ihr Bewältigungsvermögen sowie ihr Kontrollerleben zusätzlich verbessern ließe.
Helical Majorana surface states of strongly disordered topological superconductors with time-reversal symmetry
Creators: name: Queiroz, Raquel
name: Schnyder, Andreas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Noncentrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling and the B phase of ${}^3$He are possible realizations of topological superconductors with time-reversal symmetry. The nontrivial topology of these time- reversal invariant superconductors manifests itself at the material surface in the form of helical Majorana modes. In this paper, using extensive numerical simulations, we investigate the stability and properties of these Majorana states under strong surface disorder, which influences both bulk and surface states. To characterize the effects of strong disorder, we compute the level spacing statistics and the local density of states of both two- and three-dimensional topological superconductors. The Majorana surface states, which are located in the outermost layers of the superconductor, are protected against weak disorder, due to their topological characteristic. Sufficiently strong disorder, on the other hand, partially localizes the surface layers, with a more pronounced effect on states with energies close to the gap than on those with energies close to zero. In particular, we observe that for all disorder strengths and configurations there always exist two extended states at zero-energy that can carry thermal current. At the crossover from weak to strong disorder the surface state wave functions and the local density of states show signs of critical delocalization. We find that at this crossover the edge density of states of two-dimensional topological superconductors exhibits a zero-energy divergence, reminiscent of the Dyson singularity of quasi-one-dimensional dirty superconductors.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
MPEC 2023-R75 : 2023 QG13
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 QG13

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Foreign Trade of the United States, Annual, 1790-1929: Sheep, Mutton, Lamb and Wool
Creators: name: Gries, Caroline G.
name: Gries, Caroline G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1930
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Contents: Analysis of Foreign Trade; Explanation of Terms; Sources; Fig. 1, Wool, Unmanufactured: Imports, by classes, into the United States, 1870-1929; Foreign Trade - Annual exports, imports, reexports and net balance quantity and value, 1790-1929; Table 1. Sheep, live, 1790-1929; Table 2. Sheep, live: Shipments from the United States to Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, 1903-1929l Table 3. Sheep, live, inspected: Imports, quarantined and not quarantined, number, 1891-1929; Table 4. Sheep, live: Imports, inspected and classified according to purpose for which imported, 1928 and 1929; Table 5. Mutton and lamb, 1869-1929; Table 6. Mutton and lamb: Shipments from the United States to Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, 1903-1929; Table 7. Wool, unmanufactured, 1818-1929.
Measurement of the $B_s^0$ lifetime in the flavor-specific decay channel $B_s^0 \to D_s^- μ^+νX$
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an updated measurement of the $B_s^0$ lifetime from the D0 collaboration using the semileptonic decays $B_s^0\rightarrow D_s^-μ^+νX$, with $D_s^- \to ϕπ^-$ and $ϕ\to K^+K^-$ (and the charge conjugate process). This measurement uses the full Tevatron Run II sample of proton-antiproton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$~TeV, comprising an integrated luminosity of 10.4~fb$^{-1}$. We find a flavor-specific lifetime $τ_{\mathrm{fs}}(B_s^0)=1.479\pm0.010\thinspace{\rm(stat)}\pm0.021\thinspace{\rm(syst)}\thinspace\rm{ps}$. This technique is also used to determine the $B^0$ lifetime using the analogous $B^0\to D^-μ^+νX$ decay with $D^-\toϕπ^-$, yielding $τ(B^0)=1.534\pm0.019\thinspace{\rm(stat)}\pm0.021\thinspace{\rm(syst)}\thinspace\rm{ps}$. Both measurements are consistent with the current world averages, and the $B_s^0$ lifetime measurement is one of the most precise to date. Taking advantage of the cancellation of systematic uncertainties, we determine the lifetime ratio $τ_{\mathrm{fs}}(B_s^0)/τ(B^0) = 0.964\pm0.013\thinspace{\rm(stat)}\pm0.007\thinspace{\rm(syst)}$.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, published in Phys. Rev. Lett
Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei Using Chiral Potentials
Creators: name: Lynn, J. E.
name: Carlson, J.
name: Epelbaum, E.
name: Gandolfi, S.
name: Gezerlis, A.
name: Schwenk, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first Green's function Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei with nuclear interactions derived from chiral effective field theory up to next-to-next-to-leading order. Up to this order, the interactions can be constructed in a local form and are therefore amenable to quantum Monte Carlo calculations. We demonstrate a systematic improvement with each order for the binding energies of $A=3$ and $A=4$ systems. We also carry out the first few-body tests to study perturbative expansions of chiral potentials at different orders, finding that higher-order corrections are more perturbative for softer interactions. Our results confirm the necessity of a three-body force for correct reproduction of experimental binding energies and radii, and pave the way for studying few- and many-nucleon systems using quantum Monte Carlo methods with chiral interactions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables. Updated references. Cosmetic changes to figures, tables, and equations; added a sentence clarifying the correspondence between our real-space cutoffs and momentum-space cutoffs. Other sentences were reworded for clarity
On the Relaxation of Turbulence at High Reynolds Numbers
Creators: name: Sinhuber, Michael
name: Bodenschatz, Eberhard
name: Bewley, Gregory P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulent motions in a fluid relax at a certain rate once stirring has stopped. The role of the most basic parameter in fluid mechanics, the Reynolds number, in setting the relaxation rate is not generally known. This paper concerns the high-Reynolds-number limit of the process. In a classical grid-turbulence wind-tunnel experiment that both reached higher Reynolds numbers than ever before and covered a wide range of them ($10^4 < Re = UM/ν< 5\times10^6$), we measured the relaxation rate with the unprecedented precision of about 2\%. Here $U$ is the mean speed of the flow, $M$ the forcing scale, and $ν$ the kinematic viscosity of the fluid. We observed that the relaxation rate was Reynolds-number independent, which contradicts some models and supports others.
Chiral SU(2)_k currents as local operators in vertex models and spin chains
Creators: name: Bondesan, R.
name: Dubail, J.
name: Faribault, A.
name: Ikhlef, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The six-vertex model and its spin-$S$ descendants obtained from the fusion procedure are well-known lattice discretizations of the SU$(2)_k$ WZW models, with $k=2S$. It is shown that, in these models, it is possible to exhibit a local observable on the lattice that behaves as the chiral current $J^a(z)$ in the continuum limit. The observable is built out of generators of the su$(2)$ Lie algebra acting on a small (finite) number of lattice sites. The construction works also for the multi-critical quantum spin chains related to the vertex models, and is verified numerically for $S=1/2$ and $S=1$ using Bethe Ansatz and form factors techniques.
description: 31 pages, 7 figures; published version
The shield of legitimacy : strategic decoupling of sanction compliance programs in global firms
Creators: name: Lu, Zhizhen
name: 0000-0003-2323-6676
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Multination corporations
Economic sanctions
Decoupling

description: The compliance of multinational corporations (MNCs) is critical to effective economic sanctions in a globalized era. While the literature on economic statecraft increasingly emphasizes the importance of firm-level theories, there is insufficient attention to business management strategies and consequent firm-level behaviors. Bringing strategic management and compliance theories, I enrich the understanding of business compliance with economic sanctions. Regulators are increasingly reliant on business self-regulation through corporate compliance programs, including the enforcement of economic sanctions. However, there is an empirical puzzle where many MNCs violating sanctions have compliance programs in place. I argue that conventional theories of compliance insufficiently address the strategic dynamic between firms and the states. Bringing the institutional and strategic perspectives, I advance a novel theory of costly signaling where firms use the sanction compliance programs to communicate their dedication to self-regulation, reducing investigation efforts from the regulator. As the regulator is constrained by investigative resources and information on the actual business operations, it takes the presence of compliance programs as a signal for deciding the most efficient enforcement level. I build a formal model to test the logic of this theory and find support for these two hypothesized mechanisms. The budget constraint that confronts the regulator is critical to a separating equilibrium where the low-profit firm can distinguish itself from the high-profit one. The regulator’s uncertainty over on-the-ground business practices enables firms to separate formal compliance structures and informal practices. While focusing on economic sanctions, this report has broader implications for the governance and regulation of global firms.
Der Terroranschlag in Halle und die diskursive Aushandlung der Rassifizierung von Religion. Eine Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse zu Antisemitismus und antimuslimischem Rassismus
Creators: name: Chilinski, Jacob
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Antiislamismus
subject: Antisemitismus
subject: Rassismus
subject: Wissensanalyse
subject: Religionsdiskurse
subject: Terrorismus
subject: 200

description: Das Thema Rassismus ist zweifellos im öffentlichen Diskurs angekommen. Allerdings ist eine verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit für Rassismus nicht immer auch mit einer tiefergehenden inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzung gleichzusetzen. Gerade in der öffentlichen Aushandlung der Rassifizierung von Religion sind einige Defizite und Konfliktlinien zu beobachten. In diesem Buch werden zentrale Wissensvorräte und Theorien zu Rassismus, Antisemitismus sowie antimuslimischem Rassismus diskutiert. Dabei wird gezeigt, dass die Fokussierung auf spezifische Symbiosen von verschiedenen Rassifizierungen bisher marginal ist. Antworten auf die Frage, warum und wie dieses spezifische Verständnis der Wirkweise des Systems Rassismus exkludiert wird, liefert eine Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse von drei Online-Medien. Mit einer Untersuchung der Berichterstattung zum Terroranschlag in Halle am 9. Oktober 2019 wird die öffentliche Diskussion von Antisemitismus und antimuslimischem Rassismus beleuchtet. Dabei werden nicht nur blinde Flecken, Leerstellen und Herausforderungen im öffentlichen Diskurs über Rassismus entdeckt, sondern auch die positiven Errungenschaften und diskursivierten Lösungsansätze besprochen. Durch diese Analyse wird sichtbar, dass die Zusammenschau verschiedener Rassismen ein detaillierteres Bild der Mechanismen von Rassifizierung ermöglicht.
The quest for neutrinoless double beta decay: Pseudo-Dirac, Majorana and sterile neutrinos
Creators: name: Meroni, A.
name: Peinado, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyze the neutrinoless double beta decay predictions in some scenarios with admixture of pseudo-Dirac and Majorana neutrinos in the 3 and 3+1 neutrino frameworks. We found that some of the cases can be falsifiable in near-term and future generations of neutrinoless double beta decay experiments even for the normal neutrino mass hierarchy. In the 3+1 framework we consider the sterile neutrino with a mass of the order of 1 eV. The complementarity between cosmological constraints and the future sensitivity for the next generations of the neutrinoless double beta decay searches is exploited.
description: 10 pages, 40 figures, added references
X-ray diffraction data for the C5a-peptidase mutant with modified activity and specificity
Creators: name: Kagawa, Todd
name: Jain, Monica
name: COONEY, JAKKI
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The Streptococcal C5a peptidase (ScpA) specifically inactivates the human complement factor hC5a, a potent anaphylatoxin recently identified as a therapeutic target for treatment of COVID-19 infections. Engineering of ScpA to enhance its potential as a therapeutic will require detailed examination of the basis for its highly selective activity. The emerging view of ScpA and related subtilases is that selection of their substrates is a dynamic two-step process involving flexibility in the domains around the active site and in the C-ter of the substrate. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analyses of the ScpA-hC5a interaction have shown that high affinity binding of the substrate is driven by electrostatic interactions between an exosite on the Fn2 domain of the enzyme and the bulky N-ter cleavage product (PN, ’core’ residues 1-67) of C5a [1]. Introduction of a D783A mutation in the Fn2 exosite, located approximately 50 Å from the catalytic serine, was shown to significantly reduce substrate binding affinity and kcat of the enzyme. X-ray crystallographic studies on the D783A mutant (ScpAD783A) were undertaken to better interpret the impact of this mutation on the specificity and activity of ScpA. Here we present the 1.9 Å X-ray diffraction data for ScpAD783A and the molecular replacement solution for the structure. Both raw diffraction images and coordinates have been made available on public databases. Additional details on the related SPR and enzyme kinetics analyses on ScpAD783A reported in Jain et al. [2].
Numerical detection of symmetry enriched topological phases with space group symmetry
Creators: name: Wang, Ling
name: Essin, Andrew
name: Hermele, Michael
name: Motrunich, Olexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topologically ordered phases of matter, in particular so-called symmetry enriched topological (SET) phases, can exhibit quantum number fractionalization in the presence of global symmetry. In Z_2 topologically ordered states in two dimensions, fundamental translations T_x and T_y acting on anyons can either commute or anticommute. This property, crystal momentum fractionalization, can be seen in a periodicity of the excited-state spectrum in the Brillouin zone. We present a numerical method to detect the presence of this form of symmetry enrichment given a projected entangled pair state (PEPS); we study the minima of spectrum of correlation lengths of the transfer matrix for a cylinder. As a benchmark, we demonstrate our method using a modified toric code model with perturbation. An enhanced periodicity in momentum clearly reveals the anticommutation relation {T_x,T_y}=0$ for the corresponding quasiparticles in the system.
description: 7 figs, 8 pages. Accepted by PRB rapid communication
Understanding long-time vacancy aggregation in iron: a kinetic activation-relaxation technique study
Creators: name: Brommer, Peter
name: Béland, Laurent Karim
name: Joly, Jean-François
name: Mousseau, Normand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vacancy diffusion and clustering processes in body-centered-cubic (bcc) Fe are studied using the kinetic activation-relaxation technique (k-ART), an off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo method with on-the-fly catalog building capabilities. For monovacancies and divacancies, k-ART recovers previously published results while clustering in a 50-vacancy simulation box agrees with experimental estimates. Applying k-ART to the study of clustering pathways for systems containing from one to six vacancies, we find a rich set of diffusion mechanisms. In particular, we show that the path followed to reach a hexavacancy cluster influences greatly the associated mean-square displacement. Aggregation in a 50-vacancy box also shows a notable dispersion in relaxation time associated with effective barriers varying from 0.84 to 1.1 eV depending on the exact pathway selected. We isolate the effects of long-range elastic interactions between defects by comparing to simulations where those effects are deliberately suppressed. This allows us to demonstrate that in bcc Fe, suppressing long-range interactions mainly influences kinetics in the first 0.3 ms, slowing down quick energy release cascades seen more frequently in full simulations, whereas long-term behavior and final state are not significantly affected.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures. Updated to post-review manuscript
Foreign Trade of the United States, Annual, 1790-1929: Nuts -- Domestic Exports, Imports, Reexports and Net Balance, Quantity and Value
Creators: name: Gries, Caroline G.
name: Gries, Caroline G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1930
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Contents: Analysis of Foreign Trade; Explanation of Terms; Sources; Fig. 1. Peanuts: Domestic exports and imports, quantity 1900-1929; Fig. 2. Almonds, Walnuts and Filberts: Net imports, quantity 1900-1929; NUTS -- Table 1. Almonds - 1793-1929, Table 2. Cream and Brazil - 1873-1929, Table 3. Filberts - 1910-1929, Table 4. Peanuts - 1860-1929, Table 5. Pecans - 1908-1929, Table 5. Chestnuts, including marrons, 1910-1929, Table 6. Pignolia - 1923-1929, Table 6. Pistache - 1923-1929, Table 7. Walnuts - 1865-1929, Table 8. Nuts, total value 1834-1929; Shipments from the United States to Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico: Table 9. Peanuts, 1903-1929, Table 10. All other nuts, 1903-1929; Shipments to the United States from Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico Table 11. Nuts, total 1903-1929.
A Morse-Smale index theorem for indefinite elliptic systems and bifurcation
Creators: name: Portaluri, Alessandro
name: Waterstraat, Nils
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We generalise the semi-Riemannian Morse index theorem to elliptic systems of partial differential equations on star-shaped domains. Moreover, we apply our theorem to bifurcation from a branch of trivial solutions of semilinear systems, where the bifurcation parameter is introduced by shrinking the domain to a point. This extends recent results of the authors for scalar equations.
description: 31 pages; v2: final version, minor changes
Single atom impurity in a Single Molecular Transistor
Creators: name: Ray, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of an impurity atom on the electrostatic behaviour of a Single Molecular Transistor (SMT) was investigated through Ab-initio calculations in a double-gated geometry. The charge stability diagram carries unique signature of the position of the impurity atom in such devices which together with the charging energy of the molecule could be utilised as an electronic fingerprint for the detection of such impurity states in a nano-electronic device. The two gated geometry allows additional control over the electrostatics as can be seen from the total energy surfaces (for a specific charge state) which is sensitive to the positions of the impurity. These devices which are operational at room temperature can provide significant advantages over the conventional Silicon based single dopant devices functional at low temperature. The present approach could be a very powerful tool for the detection and control of individual impurity atoms in a single molecular device and for applications in future molecular electronics.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
RADIATUS: Report of dissemination actions of project results
Creators: name: ITI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: 2019
RADIATUS
ecloud
bdaas
big data
data analytics
streaming
exploratory analysis

description: RADIATUS3 (elastic infrastructure for Big Data analysis in the cloud) is a project funded by the Valencian Institute for Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER).
The objectives of the project are the creation of a prototype of distributed architecture for the commissioning of machine learning and deep learning services, as well as the design and development of an orchestrator of distributed services for Big Data analysis in an ECloud environment.
This deliverable is part of the work package "Dissemination", which aims to disseminate the scientific and technical results of the project, once the dissemination strategy has been defined at the beginning of the project, the results of the different dissemination activities carried out have been evaluated out and adapting the plan according to the results of it.
description: RADIATUS3. Project funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the public grant program adressed to Technological Institutes of the Valencian Community for the development of non-economic R&D projects carried out in cooperation with companies during 2019 with 246.070,40€. File number: IMDEEA/2019/77
The Quantum Pair of Pants
Creators: name: Klimek, Slawomir
name: McBride, Matt
name: Rathnayake, Sumedha
name: Sakai, Kaoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We compute the spectrum of the operator of multiplication by the complex coordinate in a Hilbert space of holomorphic functions on a disk with two circular holes. Additionally we determine the structure of the $C^*$-algebra generated by that operator. The algebra can be considered as the quantum pair of pants.
Purification and many-body localization in cold atomic gases
Creators: name: Andraschko, F.
name: Enss, T.
name: Sirker, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to observe many-body localization in cold atomic gases by realizing a Bose-Hubbard chain with binary disorder and studying its non-equilibrium dynamics. In particular, we show that measuring the difference in occupation between even and odd sites, starting from a prepared density-wave state, provides clear signatures of localization. As hallmarks of the many-body localized phase we confirm, furthermore, a logarithmic increase of the entanglement entropy in time and Poissonian level statistics. Our numerical density-matrix renormalization group calculations for infinite system size are based on a purification approach; this allows us to perform the disorder average exactly, thus producing data without any statistical noise and with maximal simulation times of up to a factor 10 longer than in the clean case.
description: published version
Foreign Trade of the United States, Annual, 1790-1929: Rice and Rice Products
Creators: name: Gries, Caroline G.
name: Gries, Caroline G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1931
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Contents: Analysis of Foreign Trade; Explanation of Terms; Sources; Fig. 1. Rice, rice flour, meal and broken rice, net exports, net imports, quantity, 1860-1930; Foreign Trade - Annual exports, imports, reexports and net balance, quantity and value, 1790-1930: Table 1, Rice, 1790-1930, Table 1. Rice flour, meal and broken rice, 1860-1930, Table 1. Patna, 1926-1930; Table 2. Shipments from the United States to Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, 1903-1930; Table 3. Shipments to the United States from Hawaii, 1903-1930.
Foreign Trade of the United States, Annual, 1790-1929: Honey and Beeswax
Creators: name: Gries, Caroline G.
name: Gries, Caroline G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1930
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Contents: Analysis of Foreign Trade; Explanation of Terms; Sources; Foreign Trade - Annual exports, imports, reexports and net balance, quantity and value, 1790 – 1929, Table 1. Honey - 1855-1929, Table 2. Beeswax - 1790-1929; Shipments from the United States to Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, Table 3. Honey - 1903-1929, Table 4. Beeswax - 1905-1929; Shipments to the United States from Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico Table 5. Honey - 1903-1929, Table 6. Beeswax - 1905-1929.
Maximally Symmetric Two Higgs Doublet Model with Natural Standard Model Alignment
Creators: name: Dev, P. S. Bhupal
name: Pilaftsis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Higgs mass spectrum as predicted by a Maximally Symmetric Two Higgs Doublet Model (MS-2HDM) potential based on the SO(5) group, softly broken by bilinear Higgs mass terms. We show that the lightest Higgs sector resulting from this MS-2HDM becomes naturally aligned with that of the Standard Model (SM), independently of the charged Higgs boson mass and $\tan β$. In the context of Type-II 2HDM, SO(5) is the simplest of the three possible symmetry realizations of the scalar potential that can naturally lead to the SM alignment. Nevertheless, renormalization group effects due to the hypercharge gauge coupling $g'$ and third-generation Yukawa couplings may break sizeably this SM alignment, along with the custodial symmetry inherited by the SO(5) group. Using the current Higgs signal strength data from the LHC, which disfavour large deviations from the SM alignment limit, we derive lower mass bounds on the heavy Higgs sector as a function of $\tanβ$, which can be stronger than the existing limits for a wide range of parameters. In particular, we propose a new collider signal based on the observation of four top quarks to directly probe the heavy Higgs sector of the MS-2HDM during the run-II phase of the LHC.
description: 36 pages, 12 figures; corrected typos in Appendix B
A symmetric scalar constraint for loop quantum gravity
Creators: name: Lewandowski, Jerzy
name: Sahlmann, Hanno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of loop quantum gravity, we define a new Hilbert space of states which are solutions of a large number of components of the diffeomorphism constraint. On this Hilbert space, using the methods of Thiemann, we obtain a family of gravitational scalar constraints. They preserve the Hilbert space for every choice of lapse function. Thus adjointness and commutator properties of the constraint can be investigated in a straightforward manner. We show how the space of solutions of the symmetrized constraint can be defined by spectral decomposition, and the Hilbert space of physical states by subsequently fully implementing the diffeomorphism constraint. The relationship of the solutions to those resulting from a proposal for a symmetric constraint operator by Thiemann remains to be elucidated.
description: 10 pages, v2: added some references and explanations. This version is identical to the published one up to cosmetics
MSPlayer: Multi-Source and multi-Path LeverAged YoutubER
Creators: name: Chen, Yung-Chih
name: Towsley, Don
name: Khalili, Ramin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2; C.2.1; C.4

description: Online video streaming through mobile devices has become extremely popular nowadays. YouTube, for example, reported that the percentage of its traffic streaming to mobile devices has soared from 6% to more than 40% over the past two years. Moreover, people are constantly seeking to stream high quality video for better experience while often suffering from limited bandwidth. Thanks to the rapid deployment of content delivery networks (CDNs), popular videos are now replicated at different sites, and users can stream videos from close-by locations with low latencies. As mobile devices nowadays are equipped with multiple wireless interfaces (e.g., WiFi and 3G/4G), aggregating bandwidth for high definition video streaming has become possible. We propose a client-based video streaming solution, MSPlayer, that takes advantage of multiple video sources as well as multiple network paths through different interfaces. MSPlayer reduces start-up latency and provides high quality video streaming and robust data transport in mobile scenarios. We experimentally demonstrate our solution on a testbed and through the YouTube video service.
description: accepted to ACM CoNEXT'14
The first non-zero Neumann $p-$fractional eigenvalue
Creators: name: Del Pezzo, Leandro M.
name: Salort, Ariel M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work we study the asymptotic behavior of the first non-zero Neumann $p-$fractional eigenvalue $λ_1(s,p)$ as $s\to 1^-$ and as $p\to\infty.$ We show that there exists a constant $\mathcal{K}$ such that $\mathcal{K}(1-s)λ_1(s,p)$ goes to the first non-zero Neumann eigenvalue of the $p-$Laplacian. While in the limit case $p\to \infty,$ we prove that $λ_1(1,s)^{1/p}$ goes to an eigenvalue of the Hölder $\infty-$Laplacian.
description: 18 pages