cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Psychiatrische Themen in den Reichstagsdebatten des Deutschen Kaiserreichs 1871 - 1918
Creators: name: Rose-Hunstig, Gesine Henrike Barbara
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Gesundheitsrecht
subject: Psychiatrie
subject: 344.04

description: Die Arbeit geht der Frage nach, wie sich die allgemeine Situation und Entwicklung der Psychiatrie im Deutschen Kaiserreich in den Debatten des Reichstages nachvollziehen lässt und möglicherweise von diesen beeinflusst wurde, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die psychiatriekritische Irrenrechtsreformbewegung. Die systematische Quellenanalyse der Reichstagsprotokolle 1871 – 1918 zeigt, dass sich überwiegend jene Themen wiederfinden, die auch allgemein die Entwicklungen der Psychiatrie im Kaiserreich kennzeichneten. Zwei inhaltlich jeweils abgeschlossene Diskussionen zur Geisteskrankheit bei Richtern sowie zur Geisteskrankheit als möglichem Ehescheidungsgrund zeigten vor allem eine parteipolitische Instrumentalisierung einer psychiatrischen Problematik. Den größten Umfang in den Reichstagsdebatten nahmen die Diskussionen zur Irrenrechtsreform ein, oftmals auf die Initiative einzelner Parlamentarier hin. Zunächst ging es um die Kritik an der aktuellen Anstaltsunterbringung von Geisteskranken, es herrschte große Zustimmung zu den Forderungen der auch außerparlamentarisch aktiven Irrenrechtsreformbewegung nach Verbesserungen durch eine gesetzliche Regelung. Später wurde auch eine Gesetzesregelung gefordert, um die Öffentlichkeit besser vor geisteskranken Straftätern zu schützen. Die Ziele der Irrenrechtsreformbewegung wurden im Untersuchungszeitraum trotz der breiten Zustimmung der Reichstagsabgeordneten nicht erreicht. Dies muss im Zusammenhang gesehen werden mit der Rolle des Parlaments innerhalb des Verfassungsgefüges des Deutschen Kaiserreichs. Zwar war der Reichstag eine gewählte Volksvertretung, doch innerhalb der konstitutionellen Monarchie besaß er nur eingeschränkte Machtkompetenzen.
NeRF-Tex: Neural Reflectance Field Textures
Creators: name: Baatz, Hendrik
name: Granskog, Jonathan
name: Papas, Marios
name: Rousselle, Fabrice
name: Novák, Jan
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies --> Neural networks
Ray tracing

description: We investigate the use of neural fields for modeling diverse mesoscale structures, such as fur, fabric, and grass. Instead of using classical graphics primitives to model the structure, we propose to employ a versatile volumetric primitive represented by a neural reflectance field (NeRF-Tex), which jointly models the geometry of the material and its response to lighting. The NeRF-Tex primitive can be instantiated over a base mesh to ''texture'' it with the desired meso and microscale appearance. We condition the reflectance field on user-defined parameters that control the appearance. A single NeRF texture thus captures an entire space of reflectance fields rather than one specific structure. This increases the gamut of appearances that can be modeled and provides a solution for combating repetitive texturing artifacts. We also demonstrate that NeRF textures naturally facilitate continuous level-of-detail rendering. Our approach unites the versatility and modeling power of neural networks with the artistic control needed for precise modeling of virtual scenes. While all our training data is currently synthetic, our work provides a recipe that can be further extended to extract complex, hard-to-model appearances from real images.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Neural Rendering
description: 1
description: 13
description: Hendrik Baatz, Jonathan Granskog, Marios Papas, Fabrice Rousselle, and Jan Novák
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Neural networks; Ray tracing
title: Unruh, Fritz von
title: Unruh, Fritz von
Creators: name: Beaupré, Nicolas
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Unruh, Fritz von
subject: Unruh, Fritz von, 1885-1970

description: Fritz von Unruh was a German cavalry officer and a pacifist writer who, in his writings, tried to reflect the experience of the First World War, but served instead to transform it into modern literature.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Lässt sich durch ein vorheriges Training gezielt das Empathieverhalten von Medizinstudierenden in einem Arzt-Patienten-Gespräch verbessern? : Eine prospektive, randomisierte, videoanalysierte Untersuchung
Creators: name: Clasen, Kai Claus
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Arzt
subject: Patient
subject: Einfühlung
subject: Interpersonale Kommunikation
subject: 610.696

description: Empathie ist ein wichtiges Element in der Patientenversorgung und aktueller Gegenstand von Forschung und Diskussion. Sie lässt sich als objektiver Einflussparameter auf die Arzt-Patienten- Beziehung messen. Patienten wünschen sich einen empathischen Arzt und geben nach empathischen Gesprächen eine höhere Zufriedenheit an. Obwohl Empathie daher im Medizinstudium gezielt vermittelt werden müsste, scheint dies nicht der Fall zu sein. Studien hierzu zeigen im Verlauf des Medizinstudiums eine sinkende, bzw. gleichbleibende Empathie der Studierenden. Keine der vorliegenden Untersuchungen zeigt eine Zunahme der Empathiefähigkeit. Das Medizinstudium scheint in diesem Punkt die Erwartungen und Ansprüche von Patienten nicht zu erfüllen. Empathie muss trainiert werden, um eine Abnahme zu verhindern. Diese Studie hat daher das Ziel, die Auswirkung einer Kommunikationsschulung auf das Empathieverhalten von Medizinstudierenden zu erheben. Studierende wurden in zwei Gruppen randomisiert. Die Interventionsgruppe bekam ein Kommunikationstraining. In Folge führen die Studierenden ein Interview mit einem Patienten. Diese wurden auf Video aufgenommen. Begleitend wurden Fragebögen verwendet. Die Videos wurden verblindet nach empathischen Chancen ausgewertet. Es erfolgte eine statistische Analyse und eine Einbettung und Diskussion der Ergebnisse im Kontext der aktuellen Literatur. Im Sinne der Fragestellung konnte unsere Studie keinen signifikanten Vorteil der Schulung nachweisen. Im Sinne einer „Proof of Concept“- Studie konnte jedoch gezeigt werden, dass eine Schulung inklusive Überprüfung auch mit Messverfahren, die mehrere Perspektiven abbilden, möglich ist. Dies und die positiven Ergebnisse der Literatur lassen annehmen, dass eine Schulung zum empathischen Verhalten im Arzt-Patienten Gespräch sinnvoll ist. So könnte ein Abfall der Empathie verhindert werden.
Zero-variance Transmittance Estimation
Creators: name: D'Eon, Eugene
name: Novák, Jan
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies --> Reflectance modeling

description: We apply zero-variance theory to the Volterra integral formulation of volumetric transmittance.We solve for the guided sampling decisions in this framework that produce zero-variance ratio tracking and next-flight ratio tracking estimators. In both cases, a zero-variance estimate arises by colliding only with the null particles along the interval. For ratio tracking, this is equivalent to residual ratio tracking with a perfect control. The next-flight zero-variance estimator is of the collision type and can only produce zero-variance estimates if the random walk never terminates. In drawing these new connections, we enrich the theory of Monte Carlo transmittance estimation and provide a new rigorous path-stretching interpretation of residual ratio tracking.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Integration
description: 15
description: 20
description: Eugene d'Eon and Jan Novák
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Reflectance modeling
Sommerfeld Enhancement from Multiple Mediators
Creators: name: McDonald, Kristian L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Sommerfeld enhancement experienced by a scattering object that couples to a tower of mediators. This can occur in, e.g., models of secluded dark matter when the mediator scale is generated naturally by hidden-sector confinement. Specializing to the case of a confining CFT, we show that off-resonant values of the enhancement can be increased by ~ 20% for cases of interest when (i) the (strongly-coupled) CFT admits a weakly-coupled dual description and (ii) the conformal symmetry holds up to the Planck scale. Larger enhancements are possible for lower UV scales due to an increase in the coupling strength of the tower.
description: 17p, 2 figures; v2 JHEP version (inconsequential typo fixed, references added)
title: Urban Societies and Cities
title: Urban Societies and Cities
Creators: name: Lees, Andrew
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Stadt
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: Cities and towns

description: Cities — with their comparatively large and dense but also vulnerable populations — went from being theaters of mass mobilization in favor of the political status quo to being sites of domestic hardship and conflict and, in several cases, stages for the performance of political revolution. Initial enthusiasm among many city dwellers for going to war was followed by efforts to maintain pro-war patriotism and by growing hostility to ethnic aliens. Increasingly, however, difficulties caused both by aerial bombardments and by food shortages (together with casualties on fields of battle) aroused popular discontent and undermined national unity. Officials sought to maintain civilian morale by working to alleviate civilian suffering; but, food riots and strikes helped to prepare the way for vast regime changes in defeated states.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Stochastic Generation of (t, s) Sample Sequences
Creators: name: Helmer, Andrew
name: Christensen, Per
name: Kensler, Andrew
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mathematics of computing --> Stochastic processes
Computations in finite fields
Mathematical software performance
Computing methodologies --> Rendering
Ray tracing

description: We introduce a novel method to generate sample sequences that are progressively stratified both in high dimensions and in lower-dimensional projections. Our method comes from a new observation that Owen-scrambled quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) sequences can be generated as stratified samples, merging the QMC construction and random scrambling into a stochastic algorithm. This yields simpler implementations of Owen-scrambled Sobol', Halton, and Faure sequences that exceed the previous state-of-the-art sample-generation speed; we provide an implementation of Owen-scrambled Sobol' (0,2)-sequences in fewer than 30 lines of C++ code that generates 200 million samples per second on a single CPU thread. Inspired by pmj02bn sequences, this stochastic formulation allows multidimensional sequences to be augmented with best-candidate sampling to improve point spacing in arbitrary projections. We discuss the applications of these high-dimensional sequences to rendering, describe a new method to decorrelate sequences while maintaining their progressive properties, and show that an arbitrary sample coordinate can be queried efficiently. Finally we show how the simplicity and local differentiability of our method allows for further optimization of these sequences. As an example, we improve progressive distances of scrambled Sobol' (0,2)-sequences using a (sub)gradient descent optimizer, which generates sequences with near-optimal distances.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Integration
description: 21
description: 33
description: Andrew Helmer, Per Christensen, and Andrew Kensler
description: CCS Concepts: Mathematics of computing --> Stochastic processes; Computations in finite fields; Mathematical software performance; Computing methodologies --> Rendering; Ray tracing
Klinische Untersuchungen zur Charakterisierung der amiodaroninduzierten pulmonalen Toxizität
Creators: name: Romancik, Annekatrin
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Lungenkrankheit
subject: Amiodaron
subject: 616.24

description: Die amiodaroninduzierte pulmonale Toxizität (APT) ist eine potenziell lebensbedrohliche Komplikation der Amiodaroneinnahme. Entsprechend sind Strategien bzw. Parameter zur frühzeitigen Detektion dieser Erkrankung wichtig. Im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit wurden 60 Patienten mit neu begonnener Amiodarontherapie über einen Zeitraum von sechs Monaten prospektiv hinsichtlich der Änderung der Diffusionskapazität zu Beginn, nach drei und sechs Monaten untersucht. Es sollte geprüft werden, ob sich diese unter Real-Life-Bedingungen zur frühzeitigen Erkennung einer amiodaroninduzierten Lungenerkrankung eignete. Ebenso wie Parameter zur Therapiekontrolle bei Amiodaroneinnahme sind Kenntnisse über anamnestische, diagnostische und krankheitsspezifische Merkmale dieser medikamenteninduzierten Lungenerkrankung von Bedeutung. Demnach erfolgte im zweiten Teil der Arbeit die Charakterisierung einer retrospektiv untersuchten Patientengruppe mit bereits diagnostizierter amiodaroninduzierter Lungenerkrankung anhand deren anamnestischen, radiologischen, zytologischen und histopathologischen Merkmalen, mit dem Ziel Muster und gegebenenfalls Subtypen dieser Erkrankung zu erfassen. Der Zeitraum bis zur Diagnosestellung betrug in 70 % der Fälle 24 Monate. Es ließen sich Zusammenhänge zwischen den einzelnen Merkmalen erkennen, welche sich mit den in der Literatur beschriebenen Erkenntnissen deckten. Die Untersuchungen zeigten, dass jüngere Patienten häufiger ein gemischtes Zeichnungsmuster in der Bildgebung entwickelten als ältere Patienten. Jüngere Patienten wiesen eher ein histopathologisches Muster auf, welches einer BOOP anmutete, als ältere. Demgegenüber wiesen ältere Patienten signifikant häufiger eine Lungenfibrose auf als jüngere. Zudem ließ sich eine stärkere Einflussnahme der Dauer der Amiodarontherapie auf den Ausprägungsgrad der schaumzellig transformierten Makrophagen und den Anteil der Alveolarmakrophagen in der Lavage beobachten als durch die kumulative Dosis des Amiodarons. Weiterhin ist erkennbar gewesen, dass ältere Patienten häufiger einen progredienten Verlauf entwickelten. In Hinblick auf das Therapievorgehen führte eine längere Dauer der Prednisolonbehandlung eher eine Restitutio ad integrum herbei als eine kürzere Behandlungszeit.
Classical Orbital Magnetic Moment in a Dissipative Stochastic System
Creators: name: Kumar, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analytical treatment of the dissipative-stochastic dynamics of a charged classical particle confined bi-harmonically in a plane with a uniform static magnetic field directed perpendicular to the plane. The stochastic dynamics gives a steady state in the long-time limit. We have examined the orbital magnetic effect of introducing a parametrized deviation ($η$ -1) from the second fluctuation-dissipation (II-FD) relation that connects the driving noise and the frictional memory kernel in the standard Langevin dynamics. The main result obtained here is that the moving charged particle generates a finite orbital magnetic moment in the steady state, and that the moment shows a crossover from para-to dia-magnetic sign as the parameter $η$ is varied. It is zero for $η= 1$ that makes the steady state correspond to equilibrium, as it should. The magnitude of the orbital magnetic moment turns out to be a non-monotonic function of the applied magnetic field, tending to zero in the limit of an infinitely large as well as an infinitesimally small magnetic field. These results are discussed in the context of the classic Bohr-van Leeuwen theorem on the absence of classical orbital diamagnetism. Possible realization is also briefly discussed.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure replacement version
title: Panslavism
title: Panslavism
Creators: name: Stergar, Rok
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Panslawismus
subject: Panslavism

description: Panslavism was a movement based on the conviction that all speakers of Slavic languages belong to a single nation. This was a starting point for the activities that aimed to bring Slav cultures and languages closer and for the development of Panslav nationalism, a movement that wanted to establish a unified Slav state or a Slav federation.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Sampling Clear Sky Models using Truncated Gaussian Mixtures
Creators: name: Vitsas, Nick
name: Vardis, Konstantinos
name: Papaioannou, Georgios
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies --> Ray tracing
Image
based rendering
Mixture modeling

description: Parametric clear sky models are often represented by simple analytic expressions that can efficiently generate plausible, natural radiance maps of the sky, taking into account expensive and hard to simulate atmospheric phenomena. In this work, we show how such models can be complemented by an equally simple, elegant and generic analytic continuous probability density function (PDF) that provides a very good approximation to the radiance-based distribution of the sky. We describe a fitting process that is used to properly parameterise a truncated Gaussian mixture model, which allows for exact, constant-time and minimal-memory sampling and evaluation of this PDF, without rejection sampling, an important property for practical applications in offline and real-time rendering. We present experiments in a standard importance sampling framework that showcase variance reduction approaching that of a more expensive inversion sampling method using Summed Area Tables.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Sampling
description: 35
description: 44
description: Nick Vitsas, Konstantinos Vardis, Georgios Papaioannou
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Ray tracing; Image-based rendering; Mixture modeling
title: Press/Journalism (Russian Empire)
title: Press/Journalism (Russian Empire)
Creators: name: Zhdanova, Irina
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Russland
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Russia
subject: Press

description: Tsarist censorship strictly limited the information about military operations that could appear in the press. However, it could not stem the increasing criticism of the government. One of the main features of the Russian press during the First World War was the search for an internal enemy. The press understood the aim of the war to be the transformation of the world in accordance with, depending on the publication’s politics, Slavophile, liberal-democratic, or socialist ideals.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Importance Sampling of Glittering BSDFs based on Finite Mixture Distributions
Creators: name: Chermain, Xavier
name: Sauvage, Basile
name: Dischler, Jean-Michel
name: Dachsbacher, Carsten
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies --> Reflectance modeling

description: We propose an importance sampling scheme for the procedural glittering BSDF of Chermain et al. [CSDD20]. Glittering BSDFs have multi-lobe visible normal distribution functions (VNDFs) which are difficult to sample. They are typically sampled using a mono-lobe Gaussian approximation, leading to high variance and fireflies in the rendering. Our method optimally samples the multi-lobe VNDF, leading to lower variance and removing firefly artefacts at equal render time. It allows, for example, the rendering of glittering glass which requires an efficient sampling of the BSDF. The procedural VNDF of Chermain et al. is a finite mixture of tensor products of two 1D tabulated distributions. We sample the visible normals from their VNDF by first drawing discrete variables according to the mixture weights and then sampling the corresponding 1D distributions using the technique of inverse cumulative distribution functions (CDFs). We achieve these goals by tabulating and storing the CDFs, which uses twice the memory as the original work. We prove the optimality of our VNDF sampling and validate our implementation with statistical tests.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Sampling
description: 45
description: 53
description: Xavier Chermain, Basile Sauvage, Jean-Michel Dischler, and Carsten Dachsbacher
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Reflectance modeling
Anisotropic intrinsic spin relaxation in graphene due to flexural distortions
Creators: name: Fratini, S.
name: Gosálbez-Martínez, D.
name: Cámara, P. Merodio
name: Fernández-Rossier, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an intrinsic spin scattering mechanism in graphene originated by the interplay of atomic spin-orbit interaction and the local curvature induced by flexural distortions of the atomic lattice. Starting from a multiorbital tight-binding Hamiltonian with spin-orbit coupling considered non-perturbatively, we derive an effective Hamiltonian for the spin scattering of the Dirac electrons due to flexural distortions. We compute the spin lifetime due to both flexural phonons and ripples and we find values in the microsecond range at room temperature. Interestingly, this mechanism is anisotropic on two counts. First, the relaxation rate is different for off-plane and in-plane spin quantization axis. Second, the spin relaxation rate depends on the angle formed by the crystal momentum with the carbon-carbon bond. In addition, the spin lifetime is also valley dependent. The proposed mechanism sets an upper limit for spin lifetimes in graphene and will be relevant when samples of high quality can be fabricated free of extrinsic sources of spin relaxation.
description: extended version with 7 pages, 4 figures and several new results; a numerical error has been corrected leading to longer spin lifetimes than in the previous version
Practical Product Sampling for Single Scattering in Media
Creators: name: Villeneuve, Keven
name: Gruson, Adrien
name: Georgiev, Iliyan
name: Nowrouzezahrai, Derek
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies --> Rendering

description: Efficient Monte-Carlo estimation of volumetric single scattering remains challenging due to various sources of variance, including transmittance, phase-function anisotropy, geometric cosine foreshortening, and squared-distance fall-off. We propose several complementary techniques to importance sample each of these terms and their product. First, we introduce an extension to equi-angular sampling to analytically account for the foreshortening at point-normal emitters. We then include transmittance and phase function via Taylor-series expansion and/or warp composition. Scaling to complex mesh emitters is achieved through an adaptive tree-splitting scheme. We show improved performance over state-of-the-art baselines in a diversity of scenarios.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Sampling
description: 55
description: 60
description: Keven Villeneuve, Adrien Gruson, Iliyan Georgiev, and Derek Nowrouzezahrai
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Rendering
The importance of haptics in sensory marketing
Creators: name: Kühn, Frauke
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Experimental setting
subject: Haptic condition
subject: Need for touch
subject: Rubicon model of action phases
subject: Systematic literature review
subject: 330

description: This research presents a systematic literature overview of previous studies in top-tier journals that analyzed need for touch (NFT) in the marketing and psychology fields. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the literature research results in 42 articles that highlight the relevance of NFT in consumer behavior. This study emphasizes NFT’s importance in all psychological phases of consumer’s decision making process by applying the Rubicon model of action phases. By identifying the haptic conditions and the experimental settings used in NFT literature, one can categorize each article according to its decision making process. Second, with respect to the systematic overview, this paper establishes further research directions for NFT that are highly relevant for both research and practice.
Third party reactions to justice failure : an empirical test
Creators: name: Zhu, Lei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: I propose a model that explores the consequences of justice failure. I conceptualize justice failure as a threat to meaning and propose that one way third party observers could react to justice failure is by engaging in fluid compensation. I also propose that identity influences individuals’ reaction to justice failure such that for individuals high in moral identity, compensation is more likely to occur in the moral domain than in other domains. Finally, as a result of affirming the moral domain, individuals high in moral identity are more likely to (a) engage in more ethical behavior (b) judge morally ambiguous behaviors as more immoral and (c) more supportive of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs than individuals low in moral identity. Five experiments were conducted to partially test this model. In Chapter 1, I present an experiment demonstrating that not everyone is equally threatened by justice failure; rather, those who strongly endorse belief in just world are more threatened by justice failure than those who endorse such belief less strongly (Experiment 1). In Chapter 2, I present two experiments demonstrating the effect of moral identity on third parties’ reaction to justice failure (Experiments 2a, 2b, and 3). In Chapter 3, I present two additional experiments demonstrating that exposure to justice failure led third parties to 1) purchase more green products 2) support a fellow university student for a job promotion if they were high in environmental (Experiment 4) and university identity (Experiment 5). Finally, in Chapter 5, I discuss the implications of my theory and findings for research on third party justice and meaning maintenance.
Semantic-Aware Generative Approach for Image Inpainting
Creators: name: Chanda, Deepankar
name: Kalantari, Nima Khademi
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies --> Computational photography
Image processing

description: We propose a semantic-aware generative method for image inpainting. Specifically, we divide the inpainting process into two tasks; estimating the semantic information inside the masked areas and inpainting these regions using the semantic information. To effectively utilize the semantic information, we inject them into the generator through conditional feature modulation. Furthermore, we introduce an adversarial framework with dual discriminators to train our generator. In our system, an input consistency discriminator evaluates the inpainted region to best match the surrounding unmasked areas and a semantic consistency discriminator assesses whether the generated image is consistent with the semantic labels. To obtain the complete input semantic map, we first use a pre-trained network to compute the semantic map in the unmasked areas and inpaint it using a network trained in an adversarial manner. We compare our approach against state-of-the-art methods and show significant improvement in the visual quality of the results. Furthermore, we demonstrate the ability of our system to generate user-desired results by allowing a user to manually edit the estimated semantic map.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Image and Video Editing
description: 61
description: 72
description: Deepankar Chanda and Nima Khademi Kalantari
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Computational photography; Image processing
Material and Lighting Reconstruction for Complex Indoor Scenes with Texture-space Differentiable Rendering
Creators: name: Nimier-David, Merlin
name: Dong, Zhao
name: Jakob, Wenzel
name: Kaplanyan, Anton
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies --> Reconstruction
Mixed / augmented reality
Virtual reality
Ray tracing

description: Modern geometric reconstruction techniques achieve impressive levels of accuracy in indoor environments. However, such captured data typically keeps lighting and materials entangled. It is then impossible to manipulate the resulting scenes in photorealistic settings, such as augmented / mixed reality and robotics simulation. Moreover, various imperfections in the captured data, such as missing detailed geometry, camera misalignment, uneven coverage of observations, etc., pose challenges for scene recovery. To address these challenges, we present a robust optimization pipeline based on differentiable rendering to recover physically based materials and illumination, leveraging RGB and geometry captures. We introduce a novel texture-space sampling technique and carefully chosen inductive priors to help guide reconstruction, avoiding low-quality or implausible local minima. Our approach enables robust and high-resolution reconstruction of complex materials and illumination in captured indoor scenes. This enables a variety of applications including novel view synthesis, scene editing, local & global relighting, synthetic data augmentation, and other photorealistic manipulations.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Differentiable Rendering
description: 73
description: 84
description: Merlin Nimier-David, Zhao Dong, Wenzel Jakob, Anton Kaplanyan
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Reconstruction; Mixed / augmented reality; Virtual reality; Ray tracing
Appearance-Driven Automatic 3D Model Simplification
Creators: name: Hasselgren, Jon
name: Munkberg, Jacob
name: Lehtinen, Jaakko
name: Aittala, Miika
name: Laine, Samuli
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies --> Mesh geometry models
Reflectance modeling

description: We present a suite of techniques for jointly optimizing triangle meshes and shading models to match the appearance of reference scenes. This capability has a number of uses, including appearance-preserving simplification of extremely complex assets, conversion between rendering systems, and even conversion between geometric scene representations. We follow and extend the classic analysis-by-synthesis family of techniques: enabled by a highly efficient differentiable renderer and modern nonlinear optimization algorithms, our results are driven to minimize the image-space difference to the target scene when rendered in similar viewing and lighting conditions. As the only signals driving the optimization are differences in rendered images, the approach is highly general and versatile: it easily supports many different forward rendering models such as normal mapping, spatially-varying BRDFs, displacement mapping, etc. Supervision through images only is also key to the ability to easily convert between rendering systems and scene representations. We output triangle meshes with textured materials to ensure that the models render efficiently on modern graphics hardware and benefit from, e.g., hardware-accelerated rasterization, ray tracing, and filtered texture lookups. Our system is integrated in a small Python code base, and can be applied at high resolutions and on large models. We describe several use cases, including mesh decimation, level of detail generation, seamless mesh filtering and approximations of aggregate geometry.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Differentiable Rendering
description: 85
description: 97
description: Jon Hasselgren, Jacob Munkberg, Jaakko Lehtinen, Miika Aittala, and Samuli Laine
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Mesh geometry models; Reflectance modeling
Matrix Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities
Creators: name: Moslehian, Mohammad Sal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A63, 15A42, 47A30

description: We present several matrix and operator inequalities of Hermite-Hadamard type. We first establish a majorization version for monotone convex functions on matrices. We then utilize the Mond-Pecaric method to get an operator version for convex functions. We also present some applications. Finally we obtain an Hermite-Hadamard inequality for operator convex functions, positive linear maps and operators acting on Hilbert spaces.
description: 13 pages, revised version
Selected conceptual and methodological contributions on influencer marketing and partial least squares structural equation modeling
Creators: name: Pick, Mandy
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 330

description: Preface This doctoral thesis consists of three essays, each a self-contained unit which presents research in the field of social media-based influencer marketing (hereafter: influencer marketing) and partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in marketing research. The first essay uses a comprehensive bibliometric analysis to give an overview of and to analyze the published research on influencer marketing and its effects on consumer behavior between the years 2011 and 2020. In addition, it introduces influencer marketing as a counterstrategy to marketing communication commoditization, which has become increasingly challenging for marketers. The second essay focuses particularly on the methodological analysis PLS-SEM. This essay examines publications in the top 30 ranked marketing journals, ranked according to Hult et al. (2009) between 2011 and 2020. Based on the analysis of these publications, the essay considers the use and application of PLS-SEM in detail. Finally, the third essay shows a conjunction of the two previously investigated topics. This research paper examines the impact of psychological ownership on influencer marketing and evaluates the study results with PLS-SEM.
Sicurezza nei cantieri post-sisma e prevenzione cadute dall'alto
Creators: name: Bragadin, Marco Alvise
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: ICAR/11 Produzione edilizia

description: Si considerano i rischi presenti nei cantieri della ricostruzione delle aree colpite dal sisma dell’Emilia del 2012. Il rischio dovuto a crolli improvvisi e a cadute dall’alto a causa di eventuali scosse sismiche, anche di assestamento, è considerato dal punto di vista della sicurezza degli operatori di cantiere. La strategia proposta per la mitigazione dei rischi per la sicurezza dei lavoratori è basata sulla pianificazione dell’emergenza e sulla programmazione delle fasi di cantiere. Il metodo di programmazione proposto è quello dei diagrammi tempo/spazio, integrato con la contestuale definizione dei rischi con il metodo del Risk Mapping. Il programma operativo delle opere che ne deriva, quale ad esempio il programma delle demolizioni, consente di definire per le aree di lavoro i fondamentali rischi presenti in ogni fase costruttiva, come ad esempio quello dei collasso intempestivo e quello di caduta dall’alto, e permette quindi la tempestiva azione preventiva e protettiva.
Groundstates of nonlinear Choquard equations: existence, qualitative properties and decay asymptotics
Creators: name: Moroz, Vitaly
name: Van Schaftingen, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J61 (Primary) 35B09, 35B33, 35B40, 35Q55, 45K05 (Secondary)

description: We consider a semilinear elliptic problem [- Δu + u = (I_α\ast \abs{u}^p) \abs{u}^{p - 2} u \quad\text{in (\mathbb{R}^N),}] where (I_α) is a Riesz potential and (p>1). This family of equations includes the Choquard or nonlinear Schrödinger-Newton equation. For an optimal range of parameters we prove the existence of a positive groundstate solution of the equation. We also establish regularity and positivity of the groundstates and prove that all positive groundstates are radially symmetric and monotone decaying about some point. Finally, we derive the decay asymptotics at infinity of the groundstates.
description: 23 pages, updated bibliography
THE FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
Creators: name: Abdugafforova, Nozima
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Language, as an essential conduit of human understanding and expression, frames the very fabric of our narratives, shaping our interactions, perceptions, and experiences. The journey into the realms of language learning unfurls as an odyssey of transformation—nurturing cognitive adeptness, fostering cross-cultural appreciation, and engendering a profound sense of interconnectedness. As we navigate the expanse of language learning, we embark upon a profound exploration, underscoring not only its immediate impacts on communication and comprehension but also its profound and timeless implications that resonate across generations and societies.
Fast Polygonal Splatting using Directional Kernel Difference
Creators: name: Moroto, Yuji
name: Hachisuka, Toshiya
name: Umetani, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies --> Image processing
Rasterization
Image
based rendering
Massively parallel algorithms

description: Depth-of-field (DoF) filtering is an important image-processing task for producing blurred images similar to those obtained with a large aperture camera lens. DoF filtering applies an image convolution with a spatially varying kernel and is thus computationally expensive, even on modern computational hardware. In this paper, we introduce an approach for fast and accurate DoF filtering for polygonal kernels, where the value is constant inside the kernel. Our approach is an extension of the existing approach based on discrete differenced kernels. The performance gain here hinges upon the fact that kernels typically become sparse (i.e., mostly zero) when taking the difference. We extended the existing approach to conventional axis-aligned differences to non-axis-aligned differences. The key insight is that taking such differences along the directions of the edges makes polygonal kernels significantly sparser than just taking the difference along the axis-aligned directions, as in existing studies. Compared to a naive image convolution, we achieve an order of magnitude speedup, allowing a real-time application of polygonal kernels even on high-resolution images.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: High Performance Rendering
description: 99
description: 109
description: Yuji Moroto, Toshiya Hachisuka, and Nobuyuki Umetani
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Image processing; Rasterization; Image-based rendering; Massively parallel algorithms
Training and Product Quality in Unionized Oligopolies
Creators: name: Bacchiega, Emanuele
name: Minniti, Antonio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: In this paper we analyze the private and public incentives towards skill acquisition when the skill level of workers determines the quality level of goods, and both labor and product markets are non competitive. We delve into the mechanisms that determine the equilibrium skill acquisition outcomes and show that both "pure" (training set by either firms or unions only) and "mixed" (training set by firms and unions) training scenarios may emerge at equilibrium. We show that firms have generally greater training incentives than unions, resulting in a higher product quality. In line with empirical evidence, we also find that the wage differential between high-skill workers and low-skill workers is lower when the training levels of the workforce are selected by unions than by firms. Finally, we analyze the optimal public training skill levels and demonstrate that both unions and firms under-invest in training in comparison with the social optimum. Yet, in this case the skill premium is the lowest.
An analytic technique for the estimation of the light yield of a scintillation detector
Creators: name: Segreto, Ettore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple model for the estimation of the light yield of a scintillation detector is developed under general assumptions and relying exclusively on the knowledge of its optical properties. The model allows to easily incorporate effects related to Rayleigh scattering and absorption of the photons.The predictions of the model are benchmarked with the outcomes of Monte Carlo simulations of specific scintillation detectors. An accuracy at the level of few percent is achieved. The case of a real liquid argon based detector is explicitly treated and the predicted light yield is compared with the measured value.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
The formation mechanism and forecasting of earthquakes
Creators: name: Liu, Huan
Publisher: name: Jiangxi Province ChengZhu Environmental Engineering Company Ltd
Year: 2024

description: DOI: 10.58473/JAES0008    Retrieval from official database: www.crossref.org

 

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Fast Analytic Soft Shadows from Area Lights
Creators: name: Kt, Aakash
name: Sakurikar, Parikshit
name: Narayanan, P. J.
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Visibility
Ray tracing

description: In this paper, we present the first method to analytically compute shading and soft shadows for physically based BRDFs from arbitrary area lights.We observe that for a given shading point, shadowed radiance can be computed by analytically integrating over the visible portion of the light source using Linearly Transformed Cosines (LTCs). We present a structured approach to project, re-order and horizon-clip spherical polygons of arbitrary lights and occluders. The visible portion is then computed by multiple repetitive set difference operations. Our method produces noise-free shading and soft-shadows and outperforms raytracing within the same compute budget. We further optimize our algorithm for convex light and occluder meshes by projecting the silhouette edges as viewed from the shading point to a spherical polygon, and performing one set difference operation thereby achieving a speedup of more than 2x. We analyze the run-time performance of our method and show rendering results on several scenes with multiple light sources and complex occluders. We demonstrate superior results compared to prior work that uses analytic shading with stochastic shadow computation for area lights.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: High Performance Rendering
description: 111
description: 120
description: Aakash Kt, Parikshit Sakurikar, and P. J. Narayanan
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Visibility; Ray tracing
Programmazione delle attivita’ connesse alla procedura di valutazione di impatto ambientale relativa alla realizzazione di grandi opere infrastrutturali
Creators: name: Bragadin, Marco Alvise
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2003
Subjects: ICAR/11 Produzione edilizia

description: Si analizza l’uso di strumenti di Project Management per la progettazione di grandi opere infrastrutturali. 
Si approfondisce in particolare la problematica della procedura di Valutazione di Impatto Ambientale (VIA), che rappresenta una fase decisiva per il buon esito dell’intero processo costruttivo. La VIA è caratterizzata da una elevata complessità gestionale a causa delle molteplici variabili in gioco per la definizione delle attività del team di progetto. 
La VIA comporta l’effettuazione di un insieme di attività di carattere progettuale che rappresentano un sistema decisionale. Il sistema di pianificazione, programmazione e controllo delle attività può quindi essere fondato su modelli realizzati con l’impiego di Reticoli per Attività Elementari.
Si evidenziano i fondamentali vantaggi e aspetti critici della modellizzazione della procedura di VIA per la programmazione delle attività.
Firefly Removal in Monte Carlo Rendering with Adaptive Median of meaNs
Creators: name: Buisine, Jérôme
name: Delepoulle, Samuel
name: Renaud, Christophe
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Monte Carlo Techniques
Rendering
Global Illumination
Sampling and Reconstruction

description: Estimating the rendering equation using Monte Carlo methods produces photorealistic images by evaluating a large number of samples of the rendering equation per pixel. The final value for each pixel is then calculated as the average of the contribution of each sample. The mean is a good estimator, but not necessarily robust which explains the appearance of some visual artifacts such as fireflies, due to an overestimation of the value of the mean. The MoN (Median of meaNs) is a more robust estimator than the mean which allows to reduce the impact of outliers which are the cause of these fireflies. However, this method converges more slowly than the mean, which reduces its interest for pixels whose distribution does not contain outliers. To overcome this problem we propose an extension of the MoN based on the Gini coefficient in order to exploit the best of the two estimators during the computation. This approach is simple to implement whatever the integrator and does not require complex parameterization. Finally, it presents a reduced computational overhead and leads to the disappearance of fireflies.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Path Tracing, Monte Carlo Rendering
description: 121
description: 132
description: Jérôme Buisine, Samuel Delepoulle, and Christophe Renaud
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Monte Carlo Techniques; Rendering --> Global Illumination; Sampling and Reconstruction