cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Embracing Complexity: Human Rights in Critical Race Feminist Perspective
Creators: name: Lewis, Hope
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: Is feminist human rights scholarship prepared to address the current crisis in international law and politics? Globalization, the reassertion of deep cultural divides, war, armed conflict, terrorism,’ the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the appalling economic status of women in the Global South, desperate flows of migrants willing to risk death for economic opportunity, violence against women who resist traditional (or modern) behavioral norms, and violence against women for simply being women-all seem to indicate increasing complexity in the challenges facing feminist legal scholarship. If international feminist approaches to human rights exist only as part of a static, hegemonic, and imperialist framework, they would indeed be unable to engage the contemporary needs and aspirations of women cross-culturally. In my view, however, the voices of “women of all colors” have enriched the objectives and norms of feminist human rights scholarship and have embraced complex challenges from the beginning. Nonetheless, the voices of women at the margins-women of color and Third World women among them-have too often been rejected out of hand, ignored, or otherwise made invisible. Critical Race Feminist and other multicultural approaches to legal scholarship attempt continually to recenter such voices and unearth their experiences and perspectives in the search for effective social justice strategies. As we collectively reflect on the successes and challenges facing feminist scholarship in this dangerous and critical time, the particularities of culture, race, nation, and other forms of identity must be fully recognized as important aspects of feminist human rights discourse. This brief essay argues, therefore, that Critical Race Feminist and other multicultural approaches will make important, although ambivalent, contributions to the overall international human rights agenda.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
Scaling a Variant Calling Genomics Pipeline with FaaS
Creators: name: Arjona, Aitor
name: Gabriel-Atienza, Arnau
name: Lanuza-Orna, Sara
name: Roca-Canals, Xavier
name: Bourramouss, Ayman
name: Chafin, Tyler K.
name: Marcello, Lucio
name: Ribeca, Paolo
name: García-López, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the escalating complexity and volume of genomic data, the capacity of biology institutions' HPC faces limitations. While the Cloud presents a viable solution for short-term elasticity, its intricacies pose challenges for bioinformatics users. Alternatively, serverless computing allows for workload scalability with minimal developer burden. However, porting a scientific application to serverless is not a straightforward process. In this article, we present a Variant Calling genomics pipeline migrated from single-node HPC to a serverless architecture. We describe the inherent challenges of this approach and the engineering efforts required to achieve scalability. We contribute by open-sourcing the pipeline for future systems research and as a scalable user-friendly tool for the bioinformatics community.
description: 6 pages, published at 9th International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC '23), December 11-15, 2023, Bologna, Italy
From #metoo to #prolife : reviewing theories of social movement mobilization in the digital age
Creators: name: Mortell, Marianne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This thesis argues that the internet impacts social movement mobilization in multiple ways which diverge from the expectations of traditional theories, necessitating the revision of theories to account for these effects. I conduct a comparative case study analysis of gender-based violence and anti-abortion movements over time, as they emerged and resurged in different phases in the United States in the 1970s and 2010s respectively. Drawing on various data sources, from historical news articles to Twitter and Instagram posts, I qualitatively analyze the grievances, resources, political opportunities, and cultural frames which characterize each phase of each movement. The findings demonstrate that in the digital age, the internet may be used as an organizational resource, as a means of circumventing political constraints to mobilize in challenging political contexts, as a way for movements to appeal to broader audiences beyond traditional support bases, and as a tool for audiences to engage in the construction of cultural frames alongside professional movement leaders and organizations. These effects differ across movements, suggesting that future research could investigate under which conditions online tools can lead to particular effects.
Questionnaire Data Stewardship LCRDM Task Group 201811
Creators: name: Ploeg, Jan-Lucas van der
name: Mordant, Annemie
name: Pronk, Martine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: RDM
Data Stewardship
Questionnaire

description: This document is cited in the LCRDM Task Group Data Stewardship report, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.2642066  (Dutch) and DOI 10.5281/zenodo.2669150(English) (April 2019)
Optical and submillimetre observations of Bok globules -- tracing the magnetic field from low to high density
Creators: name: Ward-Thompson, D.
name: Sen, A. K.
name: Kirk, J. M.
name: Nutter, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical and submillimetre polarimetry data of the Bok globule CB3 and optical polarimetry data of the Bok globule CB246. We use each set of polarimetry data to infer the B-field orientation in each of the clouds. The optical data can only be used in the low density, low extinction edge regions of clouds. The submillimetre data can only be used in the high column-density, central regions of the clouds. It has previously been found that near-infrared polarisation mapping of background stars does not accurately trace the magnetic field in dense cloud regions. This may be due to a lack of aligned grains in dense regions. We test this by comparing the field orientations measured by our two independent polarimetry methods. We find that the field orientation deduced from the optical data matches up well with the orientation estimated from the submillimetre data. We therefore claim that both methods are accurately tracing the same magnetic field in CB3. Hence, in this case, there must be significant numbers of aligned dust grains in the high density region, and they do indeed trace the magnetic field in the submillimetre. We find an offset of 40$\pm$14 degrees between the magnetic field orientation and the short axis of the globule. This is consistent with the mean value of 31$\pm$3 degrees found in our previous work on prestellar cores, even though CB3 is a protostellar core. Taken together, the six prestellar cores that we have now studied in this way show a mean offset between magnetic field orientation and core short axis of $\sim30\pm$3 degrees, in apparent contradiction with some models of magnetically dominated star formation.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The effects of flux transport on interface dynamos
Creators: name: Mason, J.
name: Hughes, D. W.
name: Tobias, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The operation of an interface dynamo (as has been suggested for the Sun and other stars with convective envelopes) relies crucially upon the effective transport of magnetic flux between two spatially disjoint generation regions. In the simplest models communication between the two regions is achieved solely by diffusion. Here we incorporate a highly simplified anisotropic transport mechanism in order to model the net effect of flux conveyance by magnetic pumping and by magnetic buoyancy. We investigate the influence of this mechanism on the efficiency of kinematic dynamo action. It is found that the effect of flux transport on the efficiency of the dynamo is dependent upon the spatial profile of the transport. Typically, transport hinders the onset of dynamo action and increases the frequency of the dynamo waves. However, in certain cases there exists a preferred magnitude of transport for which dynamo action is most efficient. Furthermore, we demonstrate the importance of the imposition of boundary conditions in drawing conclusions on the role of transport.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, published in Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc
Additional file 5 of Profile and determinants of delayed care-seeking and diagnosis among patients with imported malaria: a retrospective study in China, 2014–2021
Creators: name: Zhang, Tao
name: Wang, Duoquan
name: Qian, Yingjun
name: Ruan, Wei
name: Liu, Ying
name: Xia, Jing
name: Yan, Hui
name: Sui, Yuan
name: Lu, Shenning
name: Xu, Xian
name: Jiang, Jingjing
name: Lyu, Xiaofeng
name: Wang, Shuqi
name: Li, Shizhu
name: Li, Weidong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Appendix S5. Delayed care-seeking and diagnosis among imported malaria in China, 2014–2021.
TT-RecS: The Taxonomic Trace Recommender System
Creators: name: Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traditional trace links are established directly between source and target artefacts. This requires that the target artefact exists when the trace is established. We introduce the concept of indirect trace links between a source artefact and a knowledge organization structure, e.g. a taxonomy. This allows the creation of links (we call them taxonomic traces) before target artefacts are created. To gauge the viability of this concept and approach, we developed a prototype, TT-RecS, that allows to create such trace links either manually or with the help of a recommender system.
description: IEEE Seventh International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE 2020)
Tomography of correlation functions for ultracold atoms via time-of-flight images
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei
name: Duan, L. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to utilize density distributions from a series of time-of-flight images of an expanding cloud to reconstruct single-particle correlation functions of trapped ultra-cold atoms. In particular, we show how this technique can be used to detect off-diagonal correlations of atoms in a quasi-one-dimensional trap, where both real- and momentum- space correlations are extracted at a quantitative level. The feasibility of this method is analyzed with specific examples, taking into account finite temporal and spatial resolutions in experiments.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Two “Colored” Women’s Conversation About the Relevance of Feminist Law Journals in the Twenty-First Century
Creators: name: Banks, Taunya Lovell
name: Andrews, Penelope
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: The invitation to participate in the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law symposium on the relevance of feminist law journals provided an ideal opportunity for us to reassess our collective endeavors as teachers, scholars, and advocates committed to social justice. Feminist methodology and epistemology have been instrumental in shaping our conceptual frameworks. So, too, have other theories of law that seek to unearth the structural impediments, hidden biases, and methodological limitations of the law in redressing injustice. As black women (one from the United States and the other from South Africa), the concerns of race have been central to our analysis of the world and in our decisions to be lawyers. It is through the prism of racial discrimination that we confronted injustice, and our early endeavors, both academic and practical, used law as an instrument to eliminate injustice. Feminism came into our lives later, but it served to enrich our analysis about overcoming all impediments to equality. This was particularly important as the focus of equality both in the United States and South Africa served to privilege racial equality while ignoring the intersection of race and gender on the status of women. Feminist law journals have been an indispensable part of our intellectual journeys-one that we plan to continue on as the nature and forms of discrimination alter. We embarked on the conversation that follows in an attempt to assess the influence of feminist law journals on our lives and scholarship, and where we would like to see feminist law journals go in the future.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
Women Law Journals in the New Millenium: How Far Have They Evolved? And Are They Still Necessary?
Creators: name: Vaughns, Katherine L.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: It is no secret that women are entering law school and the legal academy in significant numbers in the new millennium. And their numbers have been on the rise since the early 1970s. For those of us entering law school around that time, inspired by the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s, we firmly believed that the legal profession would become, in effect, more caring-for want of a better expression-because women were entering the profession in greater numbers. But alas, we could not have been more naYve. Male orientation of the law and male domination of the legal profession has relentlessly persisted into the twenty-first century. On a more sanguine note, emerging voices have found expression in the proliferation of specialty journals being published in the latter part of the twentieth century. These journals are in sharp contrast to general or “flagship” journals which have traditionally been viewed as male oriented and, more particularly, white male oriented. In fact, some have always perceived the law in general to be white and male, not gender- or race- neutral as others in the profession, the academy, and even the judiciary would have us believe.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
Cultivating Feminist Critical Inquiry
Creators: name: Dailey, Anne C.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: This short essay offers two observations regarding the continuing importance of feminist journals to the broader law school enterprise. I first address how feminist journals help to foster a culture of critical inquiry on law school campuses that is at the core of our ideal of liberal democratic life. Second, I examine briefly how feminism, and feminist law journals in particular, are central to this educational endeavor. The goal of these few pages is to make a liberal argument for the continuing importance of these distinctly illiberal journals in the legal academy. Feminist journals clearly do not fit comfortably with prevailing liberal democratic values. Contemporary liberalism defines membership in the political community in strictly gender-neutral terms. One might even say that this principle of gender neutrality reflects liberalism’s core mission to eliminate group-based exclusions to citizenship in favor of a principle of universal equal treatment. Because feminist law journals define themselves around a principle of gender difference, they inevitably run up against the basic liberal norms of individual equality and gender neutrality. Yet reconciling feminist law journals with liberal values certainly can be done. These arguments will sound very familiar. A liberal argument for feminist journals can emphasize the journals’ remedial aim of rectifying the effects of gender inequality, thus putting feminist law journals in the same category as affirmative action policies or other remedial programs and institutions. Another solution is to fit feminist law journals within the long tradition of liberal interest group pluralism. In the interest group account, individual feminists come together to form an association that reflects the pre-existing commitments and values of its individual members. From this perspective, feminist law journals are no different from the other voluntary partisan associations that sustain liberal democratic life, such as political parties, neighborhood associations, environmental clubs, and religious groups.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
Why a Duck? Are Feminist Legal Journals an Endangered Species, and If So, Are They Worth Saving?
Creators: name: Kornhauser, Marjorie E.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: “Why a duck?” you may be thinking when this symposium asks “Why a Feminist Law Journal?” The answer is not quite as absurd as you may think (and the dialogue may indicate). The development needs viaducts (and horses as well as Fords) because no one method of transportation works best in all situations. Similarly, legal scholarship needs feminist law reviews because a variety of journals can best transport ideas to people. Nevertheless, the symposium’s invitational letter asked whether feminist legal journals h ave become “a v ictim o f t heir own s uccess” and whether “they [have] outlived their usefulness?” These questions imply two facts. First, that feminist legal scholarship is no longer marginal; second, that its marginal status is (or was) the raison d’etre for the existence of feminist journals.2 Both “facts” do not hold up under scrutiny. In other words, marginalization may be a reason for the existence of feminist journals, but it is not the only one. Even if it were however, that justification would still exist because feminist scholarship has not yet been fully accepted into the mainstream of legal scholarship. Indeed, the simple act of asking questions indicates feminist legal scholarship’s continuing marginal status. Let us start with the second question first and assume for the moment that feminist law journals have been successful. Success in this context presumably means that these journals have established (or helped to establish) feminist legal scholarship as a full member of the legal scholarship family with access to publishing in general law reviews equal to that available to other types of legal scholarship.3 In other words, assume that it is no harder to publish feminist legal scholarship in prestigious general journals than it is to publish, for example, articles on criminal law. Why would success in these terms lead to the second question: have feminist journals outlived their usefulness?
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
Moving the Margins
Creators: name: Rivera, Jenny
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: Thank you to the symposium organizers for inviting me to speak. The symposium theme, an exploration o f the justification and need for a feminist law journal, and the panel I participated in focusing on the concept of marginalization, strike me as familiar and somewhat heavily-explored areas of discourse. Surely when the founders of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (“JGL”) proposed this scholarly endeavor, there were those who questioned the need for such a publication. While those early doubters probably included those who challenged the concept of sex discrimination, as well as the need for remediation, I assume there were those who genuinely wondered what role JGL could play in the development of feminist legal theory and discourse. As such, it is not merely an academic exercise to revisit this question of JGL’s relevance, but rather an important stage of the development of feminist doctrine and feminism itself. My answer to the question “Why a feminist law journal?” is simply “Why not?” My response is not intended to trivialize or avoid the underlying concerns of our inquiry, but rather to elevate what I consider the critical issue behind the inquiry. In my opinion, to ask “Why a feminist law journal?” is to ask “Why is feminism important? Why is feminism relevant to today’s world? Why does anyone still consider it important to focus closely on the status of women and on gender issues?” Our panel, “Moving the Margins,” similarly leads to several important questions. Due to limited time, I will focus on how a feminist law journal can serve as a “mover” in its own right and as a facilitator of “movers.”
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
Diversity, Discourse, and the Mission of the Feminist Law Journal
Creators: name: Perry, Twila L.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: Why a feminist law journal? In recent years, there has been a proliferation of law school journals. At present many schools have, in addition to the traditional “law review,” journals which focus on race, environmental law, gay and lesbian issues, or international law. In such a context, there seems little need to feel that one has to offer a specific justification for a feminist law journal. In some ways, all law school journals serve similar functions. The most obvious purpose is to publish articles aimed at advancing legal theory and practice. A second function for these journals is to provide a context in which students can work together on areas of common interest while they enhance their substantive knowledge, improve their research and writing skills, and enhance their resumes. However, while the prestige of traditional law reviews attracts students without regard to political perspectives, special interest journals may be more likely to attract students who have at least some ideological or political commitment to a substantive area. Thus students with an interest in advancing women’s interests often join journals that address women’s issues. For such students, work on the journal may represent more than an academic exercise or a credential. It can be a context in which the student can act on and affirm a commitment to an area in which he or she hopes to have some long-term involvement. For some women students, the feminist journal may also provide a context that helps them to process gender issues relevant to their law school experience.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
X-ray Astronomy in the Laboratory with a Miniature Compact Object Produced by Laser-Driven Implosion
Creators: name: Fujioka, Shinsuke
name: Takabe, Hideaki
name: Yamamoto, Norimasa
name: Salzmann, David
name: Wang, Feilu
name: Nishimura, Hiroaki
name: Li, Yutong
name: Dong, Quanli
name: Wang, Shoujun
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Rhee, Yong-Joo
name: Lee, Yong-Woo
name: Han, Jae-Min
name: Tanabe, Minoru
name: Fujiwara, Takashi
name: Nakabayashi, Yuto
name: Zhao, Gang
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Mima, Kunioki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laboratory spectroscopy of non-thermal equilibrium plasmas photoionized by intense radiation is a key to understanding compact objects, such as black holes, based on astronomical observations. This paper describes an experiment to study photoionizing plasmas in laboratory under well-defined and genuine conditions. Photoionized plasma is here generated using a 0.5-keV Planckian x-ray source created by means of a laser-driven implosion. The measured x-ray spectrum from the photoionized silicon plasma resembles those observed from the binary stars Cygnus X-3 and Vela X-1 with the Chandra x-ray satellite. This demonstrates that an extreme radiation field was produced in the laboratory, however, the theoretical interpretation of the laboratory spectrum significantly contradicts the generally accepted explanations in x-ray astronomy. This model experiment offers a novel test bed for validation and verification of computational codes used in x-ray astronomy.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures are included. This is the original submitted version of the manuscript to be published in Nature Physics
Diffusive motion of C60 on a graphene sheet
Creators: name: Neek-Amal, M.
name: Abedpour, N.
name: Rasuli, S. N.
name: Naji, A.
name: Ejtehadi, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The motion of a C60 molecule over a graphene sheet at finite temperature is investigated both theoretically and computationally. We show that a graphene sheet generates a van der Waals laterally periodic potential, which directly influences the motion of external objects in its proximity. The translational motion of a C60 molecule near a graphene sheet is found to be diffusive in the lateral directions. While, in the perpendicular direction, the motion may be described as diffusion in an effective harmonic potential which is determined from the distribution function of the position of the C60 molecule. We also examine the rotational diffusion of C60 and show that its motion over the graphene sheet is not a rolling motion.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
The evolution of Protostellar Outflows and molecular bullets in Orion A
Creators: name: Hsieh, Cheng Han
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: We present the first study of the evolution of outflow properties, including morphology, outflow mass (M), momentum (P), and energy (E) ejection rates, using multi-line ALMA observations. Our high-sensitivity data allow us to accurately estimate the outflow mass and we device a novel way to obtain more precise estimates of the M, P and E ejection rates. We show that maps of these ejection rates can be used to reveal jets and reveal jet substructures (bullets, oscillations). Our ALMA outflow survey of 21 sources at varying evolutionary stages show a clear trend of increasing outflow cavity opening angle, and an even higher rate of increase in the opening angle of the outflow momentum and energy distribution --clear evidence that outflows can effectively inject energy and momentum to their surroundings. We argue that the evolution of the angular distribution of energy and momentum is more important than the traditional (outflow cavity) opening angle in determining how much core material is impacted by the outflow. Moreover, our outflow survey shows a nearly 100% detection rate of molecular jets in Class 0 sources, and low detection rates in more evolved Class I and flat-spectrum sources. This strongly suggests that there is an evolution in the gas content in the high-velocity jets from molecular to atomic.
Meta-survey on outlier and anomaly detection
Creators: name: Olteanu, Madalina
name: Rossi, Fabrice
name: Yger, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The impact of outliers and anomalies on model estimation and data processing is of paramount importance, as evidenced by the extensive body of research spanning various fields over several decades: thousands of research papers have been published on the subject. As a consequence, numerous reviews, surveys, and textbooks have sought to summarize the existing literature, encompassing a wide range of methods from both the statistical and data mining communities. While these endeavors to organize and summarize the research are invaluable, they face inherent challenges due to the pervasive nature of outliers and anomalies in all data-intensive applications, irrespective of the specific application field or scientific discipline. As a result, the resulting collection of papers remains voluminous and somewhat heterogeneous. To address the need for knowledge organization in this domain, this paper implements the first systematic meta-survey of general surveys and reviews on outlier and anomaly detection. Employing a classical systematic survey approach, the study collects nearly 500 papers using two specialized scientific search engines. From this comprehensive collection, a subset of 56 papers that claim to be general surveys on outlier detection is selected using a snowball search technique to enhance field coverage. A meticulous quality assessment phase further refines the selection to a subset of 25 high-quality general surveys. Using this curated collection, the paper investigates the evolution of the outlier detection field over a 20-year period, revealing emerging themes and methods. Furthermore, an analysis of the surveys sheds light on the survey writing practices adopted by scholars from different communities who have contributed to this field. Finally, the paper delves into several topics where consensus has emerged from the literature. These include taxonomies of outlier types, challenges posed by high-dimensional data, the importance of anomaly scores, the impact of learning conditions, difficulties in benchmarking, and the significance of neural networks. Non-consensual aspects are also discussed, particularly the distinction between local and global outliers and the challenges in organizing detection methods into meaningful taxonomies.
Proliferation
Creators: name: Silbaugh, Katharine B.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: In the spirit of intellectual inquiry, the editors have chosen to hold a symposium asking how the unique mission of the journal is to be justified. Self-assessment is a courageous undertaking. Here we see exemplified one of the great benefits of journals with a well-defined perspective: student editors take the mission of the journal seriously. They are not self-satisfied. They have chosen this perspective, not fallen into it, and they are willing to investigate whether it is worth their commitment. From this comes the simple answer-as long as there are students dedicated to the mission of feminist law journals, authors who seek to publish their work in feminist law journals, and individuals who are interested in reading that work, feminist law journals have a rightful place in the range of institutions that deepen learning. Let me consider two of the objections to women’s law journals, one from feminists, and one more broadly suggested. The first, and most common amongst feminists,’ is a concern about drawing scholarly work away from the mainstream. By separating scholarship from the mainstream we lose the chance to influence and reform it; we do not reach the people who need our perspective the most.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
Spherical Collapse and Cluster Counts in Modified Gravity Models
Creators: name: Martino, Matthew C.
name: Stabenau, Hans F.
name: Sheth, Ravi K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modifications to the gravitational potential affect the nonlinear gravitational evolution of large scale structures in the Universe. To illustrate some generic features of such changes, we study the evolution of spherically symmetric perturbations when the modification is of Yukawa type; this is non-trivial, because we should not and do not assume that Birkhoff's theorem applies. We then show how to estimate the abundance of virialized objects in such models. Comparison with numerical simulations shows reasonable agreement: When normalized to have the same fluctuations at early times, weaker large scale gravity produces fewer massive halos. However, the opposite can be true for models that are normalized to have the same linear theory power spectrum today, so the abundance of rich clusters potentially places interesting constraints on such models. Our analysis also indicates that the formation histories and abundances of sufficiently low mass objects are unchanged from standard gravity. This explains why simulations have found that the nonlinear power-spectrum at large k is unaffected by such modifications to the gravitational potential. In addition, the most massive objects in CMB-normalized models with weaker gravity are expected to be similar to the high-redshift progenitors of the most massive objects in models with stronger gravity. Thus, the difference between the cluster and field galaxy populations is expected to be larger in models with stronger large-scale gravity.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures Accepted by Phys. Rev. D
Roots of diversity relations
Creators: name: Wurtz, Peter
name: Annila, Arto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The species-area relationship is one of the central generalizations in ecology however its origin has remained a puzzle. Since ecosystems are understood as energy transduction systems, the regularities in species richness are considered to result from ubiquitous imperatives in energy transduction. From a thermodynamic point of view, organisms are transduction mechanisms that distribute an influx of energy down along the steepest gradients to the ecosystem's diverse repositories of chemical energy, i.e., populations of species. Transduction machineries, i.e. ecosystems assembled from numerous species, may emerge and evolve toward high efficiency on large areas that hold more matter than small ones. This results in the well-known logistic-like relationship between the area and the number of species. The species-area relationship is understood, in terms of thermodynamics, to be the skewed cumulative curve of chemical energy distribution that is commonly known as the species-abundance relationship.
description: 10, 3 figures
A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups
Creators: name: Klotins, Eriks
name: Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
name: Chatzipetrou, Panagiota
name: Gorschek, Tony
name: Prikladnicki, Rafael
name: Tripathi, Nirnaya
name: Pompermaier, Leandro Bento
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context: Software start-ups are emerging as suppliers of innovation and software-intensive products. However, traditional software engineering practices are not evaluated in the context, nor adopted to goals and challenges of start-ups. As a result, there is insufficient support for software engineering in the start-up context. Objective: We aim to collect data related to engineering goals, challenges, and practices in start-up companies to ascertain trends and patterns characterizing engineering work in start-ups. Such data allows researchers to understand better how goals and challenges are related to practices. This understanding can then inform future studies aimed at designing solutions addressing those goals and challenges. Besides, these trends and patterns can be useful for practitioners to make more informed decisions in their engineering practice. Method: We use a case survey method to gather first-hand, in-depth experiences from a large sample of software start-ups. We use open coding and cross-case analysis to describe and identify patterns, and corroborate the findings with statistical analysis. Results: We analyze 84 start-up cases and identify 16 goals, 9 challenges, and 16 engineering practices that are common among start-ups. We have mapped these goals, challenges, and practices to start-up life-cycle stages (inception, stabilization, growth, and maturity). Thus, creating the progression model guiding software engineering efforts in start-ups. Conclusions: We conclude that start-ups to a large extent face the same challenges and use the same practices as established companies. However, the primary software engineering challenge in start-ups is to evolve multiple process areas at once, with a little margin for serious errors.
Feminist Legal Scholarship: Charting Topics and Authors, 1978-2002
Creators: name: Rosenbury, Laura A.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: In their call for papers, the organizers of this symposium posed several questions, including: “Are feminist law journals a victim of their own success? Have they outlived their usefulness?” and “What is the state of feminist legal scholarship today? What constitutes feminist scholarship?” As a new member of the legal academy, my answers to their questions depend on answers to two more basic questions: What has been published in feminist law journals? And, how do those articles relate to feminist articles published in non-specialty, or flagship, law journals? After searching the legal literature and finding no easy answers to my questions, I decided to do the work myself. The following essay describes what I found and proposes some tentative answers to the symposium organizers’ questions.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
The finite-dimensional Witsenhausen counterexample
Creators: name: Grover, Pulkit
name: Park, Se Yong
name: Sahai, Anant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recently, a vector version of Witsenhausen's counterexample was considered and it was shown that in that limit of infinite vector length, certain quantization-based control strategies are provably within a constant factor of the optimal cost for all possible problem parameters. In this paper, finite vector lengths are considered with the dimension being viewed as an additional problem parameter. By applying a large-deviation "sphere-packing" philosophy, a lower bound to the optimal cost for the finite dimensional case is derived that uses appropriate shadows of the infinite-length bound. Using the new lower bound, we show that good lattice-based control strategies achieve within a constant factor of the optimal cost uniformly over all possible problem parameters, including the vector length. For Witsenhausen's original problem -- the scalar case -- the gap between regular lattice-based strategies and the lower bound is numerically never more than a factor of 8.
description: 32 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Presented at ConCom 2009, Seoul, Korea. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
I Know It When I See It, or What Makes Scholarship Feminist: A Cautionary Tale
Creators: name: Fisher, Linda E.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: Before we can intelligently discuss the significance of feminist law journals, it is important, as a preliminary matter, to identify and define what makes scholarship feminist. While we may have an intuitive sense of which writings are feminist and which are not (hence, the “I Know It When I See It” phrase in the title), it can be quite difficult in practice to identify the common features of a piece of writing that allow us to label it as feminist. I discovered this difficulty as I prepared this symposium paper and presentation and reluctantly concluded that I should append to the title the phrase “A Cautionary Tale.” My original intent in this piece was to take an empirical approach to the question, examining classics of the feminist legal literature of the past twenty years or so to discern common features. I planned, somewhat facetiously, to refer to the articles I reviewed as the “Top Forty Feminist Law Review Articles of All Time” or the “Greatest Hits of Feminist Scholarship. Of course, I knew all along the impossibility of compiling the authoritative list or even an authoritative list, but I did not realize exactly how difficult the task was until I began. I was walking into a quagmire.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
A Journal of One’s Own? Beginning the Project of Historicizing the Development of Women’s Law Journals
Creators: name: Batlan, Felice
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: Since the 1970s, feminism has helped transform the university and the production of knowledge. Not only have increasing numbers of female students, professors, and administrators entered universities, they have also created women’s studies programs and courses, which have been slowly integrated into the various disciplines and university curricula. Further, feminism has spurred scholars to question traditional ways of knowing and teaching, academic disciplines, categorizations of knowledge, scholarly methodologies, and the university’s separation from the broader community. One component in this production and distribution of new knowledge has been the establishment of feminist academic journals such as Feminist Studies (1972), Women’s Studies (1972), Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1975), and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies (1975). These journals created a space for the development of a body of literature that was oppositional but also sanctioned, institutionalized, and eventually legitimated. Feminism has also entered legal academia and had far-reaching effects on it, though these have been slower to take shape and often have faced resistance. Within legal academia, somewhat later than the development of the major feminist academic journals, women’s law journals were founded-not by established scholars but rather by law students. Leaving aside the peculiar origins and development of law reviews and law journals as a whole, there are unique features of the story of women’s law journals-of their origin, evolution, and problematic status–that deserve study.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
A Brief History of Gender Law Journals: The Heritage of Myra Bradwell’s Chicago Legal News
Creators: name: Chused, Richard H.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: In the front of the first issue of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law published twelve years ago, the members of the staff inserted a brief statement of purpose. Claiming that their “working job titles confer[red] no greater or lesser power, but serve[d] only to define primary responsibilities,” they hoped “to publish legal and interdisciplinary writings on feminism and gender issues and to expand feminist jurisprudence., For its moment in history, this was a fairly radical statement of purpose. Eschewing most aspects of hierarchy and viewing their primary audience as students and academics, the members aimed “to promote an expansive view of feminism embracing women and men of different colors, classes, sexual orientations, and cultures. A brief comment by Ruth Bader Ginsburg followed immediately after the journal members’ statement of purpose. She focused not on theoretical and philosophical questions, but on events preceding her rise to a position of power and authority. Harking back to the lament of a 1922 Barnard graduate who was denied admission to Columbia Law School, recalling the faculty decision to reverse that result and accept women as students in 1928, recollecting (with a certain perverse glee I am sure) that Harvard declined to accept women until 1950, and recognizing the enormous legal and cultural changes of the 1970s, Justice Ginsburg dwelled on the sorts of practical steps taken by courageous women and men to alter the landscape of the legal academy and the legal profession.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)
The Siegel-Bruno linearization Theorem
Creators: name: Bernard, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this paper is to provide a short and self-contained account on Siegel's Theorem, as improved by Bruno, which states that a holomorphic map f of C which fixes 0 can be locally linearized, under certain conditions on the multiplier.
Fundamental thickness limit of itinerant ferromagnetic SrRuO$_3$ thin films
Creators: name: Chang, Young Jun
name: Kim, Choong H.
name: Phark, S. -H.
name: Kim, Y. S.
name: Yu, J.
name: Noh, T. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a fundamental thickness limit of the itinerant ferromagnetic oxide SrRuO$_3$ that might arise from the orbital-selective quantum confinement effects. Experimentally, SrRuO$_3$ films remain metallic even for a thickness of 2 unit cells (uc), but the Curie temperature, T$_C$, starts to decrease at 4 uc and becomes zero at 2 uc. Using the Stoner model, we attributed the T$_C$ decrease to a decrease in the density of states (N$_o$). Namely, in the thin film geometry, the hybridized Ru-d$_yz,zx$ orbitals are terminated by top and bottom interfaces, resulting in quantum confinement and reduction of N$_o$.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures
Why a Feminist Law Journal? Introduction to the Issue
Creators: name: Note, Editor's
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2003

description: The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (JGL) editorial board formed in 1989, and we produced our first issue in 1991. But fourteen years after our conception, we found ourselves wondering, “Why a Feminist Law Journal?”-questioning both whether we are a feminist journal, and whether there should be feminist journals. We invited members of the legal academy to help us scrutinize the role of journals like ours by asking the following questions: Is our purpose still relevant? Considering how theory and practice look today, is a journal focused on the intersection b etween law and gender, women, or feminism still a useful forum? Do we have clear goals? Are journals devoted to gender or women even feminist? What does “feminist” mean, and is that a worthy mission? The answers came pouring in from legal scholars across the nation. The participants at our April 4, 2003, symposium and the contributors to this special issue offer a dizzying array of opinions about whether we and our sister journals at schools around the country continue to provide a valuable academic space. They question the relationship between feminism and journals focusing on women or gender. They examine the interplay between students who produce law journals and authors who publish in them, highlighting how our power to select and edit articles may dramatically affect professors’ quests for tenured positions, while also contributing to our own education as feminists and lawyers. They contemplate the varied needs not only of our diverse audience of students, scholars, and practitioners, but also of the diverse women and men who can benefit concretely from feminist legal analysis.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2003)