cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Demokratie und Bildung
Creators: name: Busch, Matthias
name: Grammes, Tilman
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: Im März 2010 fand in Mainz der Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE) statt. Das diesjährige Kongressthema „Bildung in der Demokratie“ berührte dabei klassische Fragestellungen und Anliegen von Lernprozessen in sozialwissenschaftlichen Domänen, also soziales, ökonomisches oder politisches Lernen. Aus diesem Grund wollen wir im vorliegenden Tagungsbericht jene Forschungstrends und Theorieprofile wiedergeben, die speziell für die sozialwissenschaftliche Bildung interessant sein dürften. Auf dem Kongress zeigten sich mit den wissensorientierten Fachdidaktiken, der beziehungsorientierten Demokratiedidaktik und einer systemisch-funktional orientierten Bildungssoziologie drei disziplinäre „Player“, die für unterschiedliche Verständnisse von sozialwissenschaftlicher Bildung stehen. Ein Austausch zwischen den Playern fand in Mainz jedoch kaum statt. Der Tagungsbericht versucht, die Zugänge der unterschiedlichen Player nachzuzeichnen und deren versäumtes Gespräch zu rekonstruieren. Eine konzeptionelle und empirische Verbindung der Player scheint notwendig und sinnvoll. Der folgende Bericht kann bereits auf einige Forschungsprojekte aufmerksam machen, die eine solche Verknüpfung versuchen und auf dem Weg zu einer empirisch fundierten Bildungstheorie in Bildungsgangstudien die Eigenlogik pädagogischer Prozesse rekonstruieren und konstruktiv orientieren.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
The homotopy groups of the algebraic K-theory of the sphere spectrum
Creators: name: Blumberg, Andrew J.
name: Mandell, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19D10

description: We calculate $π_*K(\mathbb S)[1/2]$, the homotopy groups of $K(\mathbb S)$ away from 2, in terms of the homotopy groups of $K(\mathbb Z)$, the homotopy groups of ${\mathbb C}P^\infty_{-1}$, and the homotopy groups of $\mathbb S$. This builds on the work of Waldhausen, who computed the rational homotopy groups (building on work of Quillen and Borel) and Rognes, who calculated the groups at regular primes in terms of the homotopy groups of ${\mathbb C}P^\infty_{-1}$, and the homotopy groups of $\mathbb S$.
description: Last draft version of this 2018 paper, substantially similar (but not identical to) published version. Includes a correction on p.11
The Politics of Disinvestment and Development in Gary, Indiana
Creators: name: Rapoport, Erin Devorah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014

description: For the last half century the city of Gary, Indiana, has been devastated by continued disinvestment. In 2005, the state of Indiana formed a Regional Development Authority (RDA) to attract investment to Northwest Indiana. This paper analyzes the state’s approach of fighting disinvestment with this development plan in light of Gary’s particular history. It shows why such development is unlikely to translate into jobs for Gary’s impoverished residents, and will potentially widen the economic inequality gap in the region.
Order-Guided Disentangled Representation Learning for Ulcerative Colitis Classification with Limited Labels
Creators: name: Harada, Shota
name: Bise, Ryoma
name: Hayashi, Hideaki
name: Tanaka, Kiyohito
name: Uchida, Seiichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ulcerative colitis (UC) classification, which is an important task for endoscopic diagnosis, involves two main difficulties. First, endoscopic images with the annotation about UC (positive or negative) are usually limited. Second, they show a large variability in their appearance due to the location in the colon. Especially, the second difficulty prevents us from using existing semi-supervised learning techniques, which are the common remedy for the first difficulty. In this paper, we propose a practical semi-supervised learning method for UC classification by newly exploiting two additional features, the location in a colon (e.g., left colon) and image capturing order, both of which are often attached to individual images in endoscopic image sequences. The proposed method can extract the essential information of UC classification efficiently by a disentanglement process with those features. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms several existing semi-supervised learning methods in the classification task, even with a small number of annotated images.
description: Accepted by MICCAI 2021
Gravitaxis of asymmetric self-propelled colloidal particles
Creators: name: Hagen, Borge ten
name: Kümmel, Felix
name: Wittkowski, Raphael
name: Takagi, Daisuke
name: Löwen, Hartmut
name: Bechinger, Clemens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many motile microorganisms adjust their swimming motion relative to the gravitational field and thus counteract sedimentation to the ground. This gravitactic behavior is often the result of an inhomogeneous mass distribution which aligns the microorganism similar to a buoy. However, it has been suggested that gravitaxis can also result from a geometric fore-rear asymmetry, typical for many self-propelling organisms. Despite several attempts, no conclusive evidence for such an asymmetry-induced gravitactic motion exists. Here, we study the motion of asymmetric self-propelled colloidal particles which have a homogeneous mass density and a well-defined shape. In experiments and by theoretical modeling we demonstrate that a shape anisotropy alone is sufficient to induce gravitactic motion with either preferential upward or downward swimming. In addition, also trochoid-like trajectories transversal to the direction of gravity are observed.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Rigidity for Monogamy-of-Entanglement Games
Creators: name: Broadbent, Anne
name: Culf, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a monogamy-of-entanglement (MoE) game, two players who do not communicate try to simultaneously guess a referee's measurement outcome on a shared quantum state they prepared. We study the prototypical example of a game where the referee measures in either the computational or Hadamard basis and informs the players of her choice. We show that this game satisfies a rigidity property similar to what is known for some nonlocal games. That is, in order to win optimally, the players' strategy must be of a specific form, namely a convex combination of four unentangled optimal strategies generated by the Breidbart state. We extend this to show that strategies that win near-optimally must also be near an optimal state of this form. We also show rigidity for multiple copies of the game played in parallel. We give three applications: (1) We construct for the first time a weak string erasure (WSE) scheme where the security does not rely on limitations on the parties' hardware. Instead, we add a prover, which enables security via the rigidity of this MoE game. (2) We show that the WSE scheme can be used to achieve bit commitment in a model where it is impossible classically. (3) We achieve everlasting-secure randomness expansion in the model of trusted but leaky measurement and untrusted preparation and measurements by two isolated devices, while relying only on the temporary assumption of pseudorandom functions. This achieves randomness expansion without the need for shared entanglement.
description: v2: 56 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Speckle fluctuations resolve the interdistance between incoherent point sources in complex media
Creators: name: Carminati, R.
name: Cwilich, G.
name: Froufe-Pérez, L. S.
name: Sáenz, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the fluctuations of the light emitted by two identical incoherent point sources in a disordered environment. The intensity-intensity correlation function and the speckle contrast, obtained after proper temporal and configurational averaging, encode the relative distance between the two sources. This suggests the intriguing possibility that intensity measurements at only one point in a speckle pattern produced by two incoherent sources can provide information about the relative distance between the sources, with a precision that is not limited by diffraction. The theory also suggests an alternative approach to Green function retrieval technique, where the correlations of the isotropic ambient noise detected by two receivers are replaced by a measurement at a single point of the noise due to two fluctuating incoherent sources.
Paradoxes of Social Rise. The Expansion of Middle Classes and the Financial Crisis
Creators: name: Deutschmann, Christoph
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: The article views the current financial crisis from the background of long term socio-economic changes in advanced industrial societies. Central points are the rise of middle classes, the accumulation of financial wealth in the upper strata of middle classes in combination with an increasing concentration of financial assets at the level of the top rich, and the advance of pension and investment funds as collective actors at financial markets. The paper analyses the interconnections between these developments in the framework of a multilevel model, culminating in the thesis of a collective “Buddenbrooks”-effect: a structural upward mobility of society will lead to an increasing imbalance at capital markets because a strongly rising volume of financial assets searching profitable investment opportunities will go parallel with a decline of the social reservoir of solvent entrepreneurial debtors. Therefore, advanced industrial economies are faced with chronic excess liquidity and export surpluses at capital markets, leading to the build-up of speculative bubbles and subsequent crashes. The author argues that the present crisis cannot be understood properly without taking account of these backgrounds.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Relating the Bures measure to the Cauchy two-matrix model
Creators: name: Forrester, Peter J.
name: Kieburg, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33-XX, 60B20

description: The Bures metric is a natural choice in measuring the distance of density operators representing states in quantum mechanics. In the past few years a random matrix ensemble and the corresponding joint probability density function of its eigenvalues was identified. Moreover a relation with the Cauchy two-matrix model was discovered but never thoroughly investigated, leaving open in particular the following question: How are the kernels of the Pfaffian point process of the Bures random matrix ensemble related to the ones of the determinantal point process of the Cauchy two-matrix model and moreover, how can it be possible that a Pfaffian point process derives from a determinantal point process? We give a very explicit answer to this question. The aim of our work has a quite practical origin since the calculation of the level statistics of the Bures ensemble is highly mathematically involved while we know the statistics of the Cauchy two-matrix ensemble. Therefore we solve the whole level statistics of a density operator drawn from the Bures prior.
description: 39 pages; new version contains an additional chapter about the hard edge scaling limit
Die internationale Finanzkrise als Thema im dänischen Wirtschaft-/Politikunterricht
Creators: name: Malich, Nadine
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: Spätestens die internationale Finanzkrise hat verdeutlicht, dass Unterricht für Politik und Wirtschaft in der Schule auf Entwicklungen der fortschreitenden Globalisierung reagieren muss um Schüler möglichst optimal auf ihre Rolle als Bürger der Gesellschaft vorbereiten zu können. Dänemark ist ein kleines Land mit einer bewegten Geschichte, einer langen Tradition der Demokratie und einer ursprünglich sehr homogenen Bevölkerung. Hier nimmt politische Bildung einen besonderen Stellenwert ein, denn die dänische Bevölkerung muss sich vor dem Hintergrund der Globalisierung ganz neuen Herausforderungen stellen: unter anderem der Frage nach der zukünftigen Bedeutung des Nationalstaats und der Abhängigkeit von der internationalen Wirtschaft auch in Krisenzeiten. In diesem Aufsatz wird einführend das dänische Schulsystem und das Fach für wirtschaft-politische Bildung in Dänemark vorgestellt. Dann wird der Umgang mit dem Thema Finanzkrise im Unterricht aufgezeigt und abschließend die Frage nach notwendigen, zukünftigen Veränderungen des Lehrplans bzw. der allgemeinen Zielsetzung des Faches zu beantworten versucht react to progressive globalisiation to prepare pupils as optimal as possible for their role as citizens in the global society. Denmark is a small country with a changing history, a long tradition of democracy and a very homogeneous population. Here, political education has special value, since the Danish population, viewed in the context of globalisation, has to respond to a new challenge; among others the question of future meaning of the national state and the dependence on the international economy also during times of crisis. In this article, the Danish schoolsystem and courses on political and economical education will be introduced. Then issues relating to the financial crisis in these courses will be highlighted. Finally, the question of whether the necessary changes of the syllabus or rather the overall objective of the subject in the future should be changed will be addressed.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
title: "Make no mistake, this is serious!" - Die Darstellung der Pandemie in politischer Satire.
Creators: name: Schöning, Daphne
Year: 2022

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit soll untersuchen, wie satirische Nachrichtensendungen die Pandemie im Frühjahr 2020 darstellen und welche Inhalte wie hinterfragt werden. Als Untersuchungsgegenstand werden die satirischen Nachrichtensendungen "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" und "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" herangezogen. Beide Sendungen werden wöchentlich ausgestrahlt und haben eine ähnliche Sendedauer von ca. 30 Minuten. Dabei werden jeweils vier Episoden pro Sendung analysiert, also insgesamt 8 Folgen. Da eine Folge aufgeteilt ist in mehreren Segmenten, wird sich auf die Inhalte fokussiert, die das Virus und die Pandemie thematisieren. Als Zeitraum werden die Folgen zwischen dem Beginn des Lockdowns in New York, wo beide Sendungen aufgenommen werden, und dem Höhepunkt der ersten Welle im April, gewählt. Aus "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" werden die vier Episoden zwischen dem 01. April bis 22. April 2020, aus "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" zwischen dem 29. März bis 19. April 2020, untersucht. Dabei soll erforscht werden, wie sie ihre Sendung während des Zeitraums umgesetzt haben, auf welche Art und Weise sie die Pandemie darstellen, welche Hindernisse sie wie thematisieren, aber auch wie sie sich selbst zur Pandemie positionieren.
The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Shielding Measurements for the Universal Multiplexing Module
Creators: name: Huber, Zachary B.
name: Li, Yaqiong
name: Vavagiakis, Eve M.
name: Choi, Steve K.
name: Connors, Jake
name: Cothard, Nicholas F.
name: Duell, Cody J.
name: Galitzki, Nicholas
name: Healy, Erin
name: Hubmayr, Johannes
name: Johnson, Bradley R.
name: Keller, Benjamin
name: McCarrick, Heather
name: Niemack, Michael D.
name: Wang, Yuhan
name: Xu, Zhilei
name: Zheng, Kaiwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Simons Observatory (SO) includes four telescopes that will measure the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background using over 60,000 highly sensitive transition-edge bolometers (TES). These multichroic TES bolometers are read out by a microwave RF SQUID multiplexing system with a multiplexing factor of 910. Given that both TESes and SQUIDs are susceptible to magnetic field pickup and that it is hard to predict how they will respond to such fields, it is important to characterize the magnetic response of these systems empirically. This information can then be used to limit spurious signals by informing magnetic shielding designs for the detectors and readout. This paper focuses on measurements of magnetic pickup with different magnetic shielding configurations for the SO universal multiplexing module (UMM), which contains the SQUIDs, associated resonators, and TES bias circuit. The magnetic pickup of a prototype UMM was tested under three shielding configurations: no shielding (copper packaging), aluminum packaging for the UMM, and a tin/lead-plated shield surrounding the entire dilution refrigerator 100 mK cold stage. The measurements show that the aluminum packaging outperforms the copper packaging by a shielding factor of 8-10, and adding the tin/lead-plated 1K shield further increases the relative shielding factor in the aluminum configuration by 1-2 orders of magnitude.
description: 7 pages, 4 figure, conference proceedings submitted to the Journal of Low Temperature Physics; includes updates in response to reviewer comments
Democratic Society and Education
Creators: name: Busch, Matthias
name: Grammes, Tilman
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: In March 2010 the Congress of the German Educational Research Association (GERA/DGfE) was held in Mainz. This year‘s topic “Bildung in der Demokratie” (Education in a Democratic Society) touched upon the classic questions and concerns of processes of learning in the domain of the social sciences, i.e. social, economic or political subjects. Therefore, in these conference proceedings we intend to present the research-trends and theoretical profiles that should be of interest especially for teaching the social sciences. Three major trends in the discipline were represented at the conference with their rather different understandings of education in social sciences: knowledge-oriented subject matter didactics, socially-oriented “Demokratiedidaktik” (didactics of democracy), and a systemic and function-oriented sociology of education. Unfortunately, dialogue between these trends was rare at Mainz. The congress proceedings will thus try to show the different approaches they take and to reconstruct the communication that was needed, but often absent. A conceptual and empirical linkage between these positions seems necessary and reasonable. The following report presents a number of research-projects which attempt such linkages and thereby reconstruct and constructively orient the inner logic of pedagogical processes along the road to an empirically founded theory of education.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Limitations on separable measurements by convex optimization
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Somshubhro
name: Cosentino, Alessandro
name: Johnston, Nathaniel
name: Russo, Vincent
name: Watrous, John
name: Yu, Nengkun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove limitations on LOCC and separable measurements in bipartite state discrimination problems using techniques from convex optimization. Specific results that we prove include: an exact formula for the optimal probability of correctly discriminating any set of either three or four Bell states via LOCC or separable measurements when the parties are given an ancillary partially entangled pair of qubits; an easily checkable characterization of when an unextendable product set is perfectly discriminated by separable measurements, along with the first known example of an unextendable product set that cannot be perfectly discriminated by separable measurements; and an optimal bound on the success probability for any LOCC or separable measurement for the recently proposed state discrimination problem of Yu, Duan, and Ying.
description: 22 pages, v2 includes minor corrections
Effect of Mo content on microstructure and mechanical properties of Mox(Nb3TaTi3Zr)100-x high-entropy alloys
Creators: name: Chen, Sishuo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401607
subject: Metals and alloy materials

description: This study investigates the potential suitability of refractory high-entropy alloys as aerospace high-temperature structural materials. Specifically, a series of alloys, denoted as Mox(Nb3TaTi3Zr)100-x (x= 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30), were designed and fabricated using vacuum arc melting technology.
Less Government is Good Government? Deregulation as an Undermining Principle of Financial Markets
Creators: name: Engartner, Tim
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: Since liberalization became the dominant global narrative the stock response to market shortcomings has been to “slim down” the state and deregulate. In most countries the slogan of “less government is good government” has become a constitutive feature of economic policy since the 1980s. Markets lie at the heart of every successful economy, and despite not necessarily working well on their own, the economic policy of deregulation has been one of the most persistent currents in the global economy. Based as it is on classical liberalism and – at least in its origins and leanings – neoclassical theory, deregulation aims to minimize the influence of the state. But in the context of the current financial and economic meltdown – the worst economic dislocation since the Great Crash of 1929-32 – “downsizing” the state causes growing turmoil. Global networking has made financial markets much more volatile and therefore much more susceptible to crisis.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Capillary-type boundary value problems of mean curvature flow with force and transport terms on a bounded domain
Creators: name: Jang, Jiwoong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study the forced mean curvature flows and the prescribed mean curvature equations of both graphs and level-sets with capillary-type boundary conditions on a $C^3$ bounded domain, which is not necessarily convex. We prove a priori gradient estimates locally Lipschitz in time. Under an assumption on the forcing term, we prove that the gradient estimates are globally Lipschitz in time. As a consequence, we obtain the existence theorem of solutions. In our formulation, we recover the known results of the gradient estimates on a strictly convex $C^3$ bounded domain. Next, we study the associated eigenvalue problems for mean curvature flows of both graphs and level-sets. We prove the large time behavior of the solutions of mean curvature flows of graphs on a smooth bounded domain. Finally, we compute the asymptotic speed of the solutions of level-set mean curvature flows and the large time profile of level-sets in the radially symmetric case based on optimal control formula. Examples arising in the radially symmetric case demonstrate that the additional assumption on the forcing term is optimal.
description: 59 pages
The Rationale of Crisis Management – On the Handling of Coincidence in Economic Situation
Creators: name: Bendixen, Peter
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: The subject of this essay is too complex a problem as to cover all details in depth and, thus, draws its attention only to core aspects of the handling of coincidence leaving out sophisticated studies and analytic findings as well as detailed reference to economic literature though there is not very much. On the other hand, for a lot of actual as well as general reasons, the subject is too important a matter as to ignore the serious methodological problems of crisis management, which are rooted in some politically still active bias hidden in orthodox neo-classical economics (Stiglitz 2010). If crisis management continues to follow traditional rationales, it will fail realizing the increasing dynamic of crises within the globalising economies of the world. No existing economy can be considered as an isolated system of its own embedded in a stable composition of societal surroundings. Obviously, many a critical situation has its origin in the sphere of civilization, of political discrepancies, and of administrative inflexibilities. On the other hand, any grave amplitude of markets would touch the entire social surrounding. The belief in the markets’ strength of self-regulation is a dangerous construction of orthodox economics (Bendixen 2009b, 2010). The view on crises suggested here is that of a holistic approach to understand a critical situation. Any interpretation of a situation includes empirical dates and figures based on analytic research, but solving a problem is not an act of logical derivation from findings, as if a solution can be excavated in the mud of reality by empirical studies only. Empirical figures report events of the past; the future does not reveal any empiricism. This would be a contradiction in itself. The end of a crisis as well as the search for solutions to fight the problems revealed is unavoidably a view into the future. Therefore, the rationale of crisis management cannot be made of pure empiricism but should include a far reaching vision of the future emerging from holistic understanding of the situation as a whole.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Legislature integrity systems: personal and ethical dimensions of anticorruption measures in the most senior levels of public service
Creators: name: Coghill, Ken
name: Neesham, Cristina
name: Kinyondo, Abel
name: Thornton, Julia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3503
subject: Business systems in context

description: A National Integrity System (NIS) is the system of structural and behavioural features intended to improve accountability for conduct and reduce risks of corrupt behaviour, thereby improving the efficiency and effectiveness of public administration. In a contemporary democracy Parliament is a key pillar of the NIS. The ethical conduct of a parliament's members (MPs) is fundamental to the institution's performance of its functions, including the scrutiny and oversight of executive government. This conduct in turn flows through to affect the integrity, efficiency and effectiveness of executive government's public administration. Assurance that members are conducting themselves ethically requires that they are accountable for their conduct, which in turn requires that there is transparency around that conduct. This paper reports original research into codes of conduct (and equivalents) as measures to reduce the risks of unethical conduct by MPs. A survey of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association national and subnational (state/provincial/territory) member parliaments provided basic data on codes of conduct (if any) and their major features. This data was used to select a representative sample of parliaments from which MPs and Clerks or other senior staff were requested to be interviewed at the 60th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (October 2014, Cameroon). These interviews provided rich data on the detailed features and functioning of codes and associated measures such as anti-corruption agencies. Analysis of the survey and interview data provides a comprehensive account of the operation of what is described as the Parliamentary Integrity System including factors affecting its effectiveness. Many parliaments adopt codes of conduct, including disclosure and publication of assets, liabilities and affiliations which could give rise to conflicts of interest. Wide variations in such codes are described in approaches to ethical conduct, including the nature and extent of accountability, transparency, the availability of independent ethical advice, enforcement and sanctions for breaches. The culture which prevails amongst a parliament's MPs is a key feature of a Parliamentary Integrity System, as it affects the interpretation of a code, its practical observance and hence its effectiveness. We outline some cultural influences on adoption. Benchmarks for the content, structure and implementation of codes of conduct for MPs are proposed. These form key components of the Parliamentary Integrity System and contribute to the National Integrity System, supporting the integrity, efficiency and effectiveness of executive government's public administration.
Misselling as a New Topic of Financial Education? A Didactic Analysis of Investment Advise after the Financial Crisis
Creators: name: Loerwald, Dirk
name: Retzmann, Thomas
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: Personal financial investments are, as a matter of course, a topic of economic education because they are a life situation which is inherently economical. In contrast, faulty advising in banks which has become focussed upon due to the extent it has played a part in the recent financial crisis is mentioned neither in curricula nor in educational text books. Numerous private funds have been exposed as unprofitable investments. One reason for this problem is to be found in the marketing staff of the banks who did not invest their customer’s funds securely enough – and the customers did not notice it. What conclusions can be drawn from this for general financial education after the financial crisis? The economic education has failed to address the topic of “faulty advising in banks” as well. On the basis of categorical economic didactics the following contribution will analyse whether one has an exemplary case here upon which students can win generalized, transferable insights. In this context, the topic of personal financial investments will be classified in an efficient manner and the risk of opportunism in advising situations will be analysed with the help of the positive principal-agent theory. The results of this analysis of informational asymmetries within financial markets give direction to the development and revision of curricula in the didactics of economic education. With the following article a sustainable theoretical fundament will be created to underscore the obligatory inclusion of this topic in curricula as well as its realisation for target groups in school text books.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Jet substructure and probes of CP violation in Vh production
Creators: name: Godbole, Rohini M.
name: Miller, David J.
name: Mohan, Kirtimaan A.
name: White, Christopher D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the hVV (V = W, Z) vertex in a model independent way using Vh production. To that end, we consider possible corrections to the Standard Model Higgs Lagrangian, in the form of higher dimensional operators which parametrise the effects of new physics. In our analysis, we pay special attention to linear observables that can be used to probe CP violation in the same. By considering the associated production of a Higgs boson with a vector boson (W or Z), we use jet substructure methods to define angular observables which are sensitive to new physics effects, including an asymmetry which is linearly sensitive to the presence of CP odd effects. We demonstrate how to use these observables to place bounds on the presence of higher dimensional operators, and quantify these statements using a log likelihood analysis. Our approach allows one to probe separately the hZZ and hWW vertices, involving arbitrary combinations of BSM operators, at the Large Hadron Collider.
description: 37 pages, 17 figures; v3 matches published version
Observation of antiferromagnetic correlations in the Hubbard model with ultracold atoms
Creators: name: Hart, Russell A.
name: Duarte, Pedro M.
name: Yang, Tsung-Lin
name: Liu, Xinxing
name: Paiva, Thereza
name: Khatami, Ehsan
name: Scalettar, Richard T.
name: Trivedi, Nandini
name: Huse, David A.
name: Hulet, Randall G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultracold atoms in optical lattices have great potential to contribute to a better understanding of some of the most important issues in many-body physics, such as high-$T_c$ superconductivity. The Hubbard model describes many of the features shared by the copper oxides, including an interaction-driven Mott insulating state and an antiferromagnetic (AFM) state. Optical lattices filled with a two-spin-component Fermi gas of ultracold atoms can faithfully realise the Hubbard model with readily tunable parameters, and thus provide a platform for the systematic exploration of its phase diagram. Realisation of strongly correlated phases, however, has been hindered by the need to cool the atoms to temperatures as low as the magnetic exchange energy, and also by the lack of reliable thermometry. Here we demonstrate spin-sensitive Bragg scattering of light to measure AFM spin correlations in a realisation of the 3D Hubbard model at temperatures down to 1.4 times that of the AFM phase transition. This temperature regime is beyond the range of validity of a simple high-temperature series expansion, which brings our experiment close to the limit of the capabilities of current numerical techniques. We reach these low temperatures using a unique compensated optical lattice technique, in which the confinement of each lattice beam is compensated by a blue-detuned laser beam. The temperature of the atoms in the lattice is deduced by comparing the light scattering to determinantal quantum Monte Carlo and numerical linked-cluster expansion calculations. Further refinement of the compensated lattice may produce even lower temperatures which, along with light scattering thermometry, would open avenues for achieving and characterising other novel quantum states of matter, such as the pseudogap regime of the 2D Hubbard model.
“Greedy Buyers, Amoral Speculators and Lacking State Control” - Pupils Conceptions about the Crisis and their Relevance for Political and Economic Learning
Creators: name: Klee, Andreas
name: Lutter, Andreas
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: This article exemplarily illustrates pupils‘ concepts of the Economic and Financial Crisis. It is especially interesting to examine in how far pupils assign relevance to current crisis phenomena for their daily lives and how these are perceived and explained. Diagnosing and analysing the available concepts is a prerequisite for planning Politics lessons. In the politic and economic classroom researching pupils‘ concepts and paying attention to them can help to show student orientated ways of learning.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Seismic analysis of a three span deck girder bridge
Creators: name: Tafheem, Zasiah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This paper presents seismic analysis of a three-span deck girder bridge. A finite element model to analyze the deck girder bridge has been developed by using finite element software called ANSYS. The entire work has been carried out in two steps. In the first step, a three dimensional model of the bridge has been subjected to equivalent static earthquake loading by following AASHTO guideline. In the second step, Response Spectrum analysis has been performed. Then the design forces and moments at the column bases of the bridge are obtained by using the above two methods. Finally a comparative study of the design values has been performed between those two methods mentioned above. From the entire study it has been found that the magnitude of the axial forces are almost same in those two methods but the design moments and shear forces vary significantly. In case of design moment, the result found from response spectrum method (RSM) is about 1.74 times of the design value obtained by equivalent static force method (ESFM). Therefore it can be said that there is a possibility of achieving under design of the bridge if follows the ESFM. Based on overall findings, it can be suggested that the response spectrum method should be performed for seismic load analysis of the bridge to achieve a safer design.
The maximum measure of 3-wise t-intersecting families
Creators: name: Tokushige, Norihide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05D05

description: Let $\mathcal G$ be a family of subsets of an $n$-element set. The family $\mathcal G$ is called $3$-wise $t$-intersecting if the intersection of any three subsets in $\mathcal G$ is of size at least $t$. For a real number $p\in(0,1)$ we define the measure of the family by the sum of $p^{|G|}(1-p)^{n-|G|}$ over all $G\in\mathcal G$. We prove that if $t\geq 15$ and $p\leq 2/(\sqrt{4t+9}-1)$ then $p^t$ is the maximum measure of $3$-wise $t$-intersecting families, and the bound for $p$ is sharp. We also present the corresponding stability result for shifted families.
استخدام تدريبات HIIT  لتطويـر القـوة الانفجارية وتأثيرها على بعض القدرات البدنية لاختصاص كيميتي (kumite ) Using of HIIT Training for developing explosive power and their impact on some physical abilities of the Specialty Kumite
Creators: name: ﺸنوف, ﺨﺎﻟد
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: HIIT training explosive power kumite.

description: The aim of this study was to know the effects of using the HIIT training, for developing explosive power of the Specialty Kumite, the purpose of the study was that the use of HIIT training one had a positive influence on the explosive power.The study sample consisted of (20 trainer) from junior level, the researcher used questionnaire for recollecting data and physical tests. The study concluded that the use of HIIT training are better for developing explosive power than traditional training
Orbifold melting crystal models and reductions of Toda hierarchy
Creators: name: Takasaki, Kanehisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B65, 35Q55, 81T30, 82B20

description: Orbifold generalizations of the ordinary and modified melting crystal models are introduced. They are labelled by a pair $a,b$ of positive integers, and geometrically related to $\mathbf{Z}_a\times\mathbf{Z}_b$ orbifolds of local $\mathbf{CP}^1$ geometry of the $\mathcal{O}(0)\oplus\mathcal{O}(-2)$ and $\mathcal{O}(-1)\oplus\mathcal{O}(-1)$ types. The partition functions have a fermionic expression in terms of charged free fermions. With the aid of shift symmetries in a fermionic realization of the quantum torus algebra, one can convert these partition functions to tau functions of the 2D Toda hierarchy. The powers $L^a,\bar{L}^{-b}$ of the associated Lax operators turn out to take a special factorized form that defines a reduction of the 2D Toda hierarchy. The reduced integrable hierarchy for the orbifold version of the ordinary melting crystal model is the bi-graded Toda hierarchy of bi-degree $(a,b)$. That of the orbifold version of the modified melting crystal model is the rational reduction of bi-degree $(a,b)$. This result seems to be in accord with recent work of Brini et al. on a mirror description of the genus-zero Gromov-Witten theory on a $\mathbf{Z}_a\times\mathbf{Z}_b$ orbifold of the resolved conifold.
description: 41 pages, no figure; (v2) minor change, typos corrected, accepted for publication
Latent Network Models to Account for Noisy, Multiply-Reported Social Network Data
Creators: name: De Bacco, Caterina
name: Contisciani, Martina
name: Cardoso-Silva, Jonathan
name: Safdari, Hadiseh
name: Baptista, Diego
name: Borges, Gabriela L.
name: Sweet, Tracy
name: Young, Jean-Gabriel
name: Koster, Jeremy
name: Ross, Cody T.
name: McElreath, Richard
name: Redhead, Daniel
name: Power, Eleanor A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social network data are often constructed by incorporating reports from multiple individuals. However, it is not obvious how to reconcile discordant responses from individuals. There may be particular risks with multiply-reported data if people's responses reflect normative expectations -- such as an expectation of balanced, reciprocal relationships. Here, we propose a probabilistic model that incorporates ties reported by multiple individuals to estimate the unobserved network structure. In addition to estimating a parameter for each reporter that is related to their tendency of over- or under-reporting relationships, the model explicitly incorporates a term for ``mutuality,'' the tendency to report ties in both directions involving the same alter. Our model's algorithmic implementation is based on variational inference, which makes it efficient and scalable to large systems. We apply our model to data from 75 Indian villages collected with a name-generator design, and a Nicaraguan community collected with a roster-based design. We observe strong evidence of ``mutuality'' in both datasets, and find that this value varies by relationship type. Consequently, our model estimates networks with reciprocity values that are substantially different than those resulting from standard deterministic aggregation approaches, demonstrating the need to consider such issues when gathering, constructing, and analysing survey-based network data.
Social Knowledge for Financial Markets
Creators: name: Mikl-Horke, Gertraude
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: Financial literacy is an important issue today, but it is directed/limited to improve the practical skills of people taking financial markets and their present working for granted. However, financial markets are social institutions and social processes involving network relations as well as rules and norms. Globalization has resulted in a dominating role of financial markets over the economy with importance for the transformation of capitalistic society. The sociological perspectives on financial markets have relevance also for the present crisis for which several explanations have been suggested. Most explanations overlook, however, the process of disembedding of the financial markets from the societal context, which is represented by the reliance on a specific kind of knowledge. To illustrate the need for reintegrating financial markets in the economy and making them more responsive to societal concerns, financial knowledge requires to be embedded into social knowledge about the function of financial markets for society, the importance of norms and the social character of markets Finanzerziehung ist ein wichtiges Anliegen in der Gegenwart, aber die „finanzielle Alphabetisierung“ beschränkt sich auf die Vermittlung praktischen Wissens, ohne die Finanzmärkte und ihr Funktionieren zu hinterfragen. Aber Finanzmärkte sind soziale Institutionen und soziale Prozesse, die Netzwerkbeziehungen sowie Regeln und Normen umfassen. Die Globalisierung resultierte in einer dominierenden Rolle des Finanzsystems im Verhältnis zur Wirtschaft und mit Implikationen für die Transformation der kapitalistischen Gesellschaft. Die soziologischen Perspektiven auf Finanzmärkte sind auch für die gegenwärtige Krise relevant, die verschieden zu erklären versucht wird. Diese Erklärungen übersehen jedoch vielfach den Prozess der Entbettung der Finanzmärkte aus den gesellschaftlichen Kontexten, der sich auch durch die Betonung einer spezifischen Art von Wissen darstellt. Um die Notwendigkeit für die Reintegration der Finanzmärkte in die Wirtschaft und für ihre Verantwortlichkeit für gesellschaftliche Belange verständlich zu machen, bedarf es der Einbettung des finanztechnischen Wissens in soziales Wissen über die Funktion der Finanzmärkte in der Gesellschaft, die Bedeutung von Normen und den sozialen Charakter von Märkten.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis II
Avalanches and hysteresis in frustrated superconductors and XY-spin-glasses
Creators: name: Sharma, Auditya
name: Andreanov, Alexei
name: Mueller, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study avalanches along the hysteresis loop of long-range interacting spin-glasses with continuous XY-symmetry - which serves as a toy model of granular superconductors with long-range and frustrated Josephson couplings. We identify sudden jumps in the $T=0$ configurations of the XY-phases, as an external field is increased. They are initiated by the softest mode of the inverse susceptibility matrix becoming unstable, which induces an avalanche of phase updates (or spin alignments). We analyze the statistics of these events, and study the correlation between the non-linear avalanches and the soft mode that initiates them. We find that the avalanches follow the directions of a small fraction of the softest modes of the inverse susceptibility matrix, similarly as was found in avalanches in jammed systems. In contrast to the similar Ising spin-glass (Sherrington-Kirkpatrick) studied previously, we find that avalanches are not distributed with a scale-free power law, but rather have a typical size which scales with the system size. We also observe that the Hessians of the spin-glass minima are not part of standard random matrix ensembles as the lowest eigenvector has a fractal support.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures
Perpetuating the Failure: Economic Education and the Current Crisis
Creators: name: Ötsch, Walter Otto
name: Kapeller, Jakob
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2010

description: While the current financial crisis had an overwhelming impact on the global economy, its effect on economics as an academic discipline has been negligible. This paper explores the relationship between the financial crisis, mainstream economic theory and the education of economists. In a nutshell it shows that (a) current economic education leaves students illiterate with respect to events like the financial crisis, (b) mainstream economic theory is unable to systemically explain the financial crisis and (c) this situation will be unaffected by the recent events. On the contrary economic education will stay pretty much the same, since it incorporates a set of ideas, perceived as influential, well-established and important by the economic community.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis II