cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pierre Fütterer, Wege und Herrschaft. Untersuchungen zu Raumerschließung und Raumerfassung in Ostsachsen und Thüringen im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert
Creators: name: Blaich, Markus C.
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Pierre Fütterer, Wege und Herrschaft. Untersuchungen zu Raumerschließung und Raumerfassung in Ostsachsen und Thüringen im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert. Palatium – Studien zur Pfalzenforschung in Sachsen-Anhalt 2, Regensburg, Verlag Schnell+Steiner, 2016, 2 Bde., zus. 1112 S., 1 DVD, über 142 größtenteils farbige Karten u. Graphiken. ISBN 978-3-7954-3064-1
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 86 (2017): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
A fast Monte Carlo algorithm for studying bottle-brush polymers
Creators: name: Hsu, Hsiao-Ping
name: Paul, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Obtaining reliable estimates of the statistical properties of complex macromolecules by computer simulation is a task that requires high computational effort as well as the development of highly efficient simulation algorithms. We present here an algorithm combining local moves, the pivot algorithm, and an adjustable simulation lattice box for simulating dilute systems of bottle-brush polymers with a flexible backbone and flexible side chains under good solvent conditions. Applying this algorithm to the bond fluctuation model, very precise estimates of the mean square end-to-end distances and gyration radii of the backbone and side chains are obtained, and the conformational properties of such a complex macromolecule are studied. Varying the backbone length (from $N_b=67$ to $N_b=1027$), side chain length (from N=0 to N=24 or 48), the scaling predictions for the backbone behavior as well as the side chain behavior are checked. We are also able to give a direct comparison of the structure factor between experimental data and the simulation results.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Eike Henning Michl, Castellum, Curia, Palatium?! Die mittelalterliche Besiedlungsgeschichte eines mainfränkischen Zentralortes auf dem Kapellberg bei Gerolzhofen
Creators: name: Blaich, Markus C.
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Eike Henning Michl, Castellum, Curia, Palatium?! Die mittelalterliche Besiedlungsgeschichte eines mainfränkischen Zentralortes auf dem Kapellberg bei Gerolzhofen. Bamberger Schriften zur Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit 50, Bonn, Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2015, 680 Seiten, 357 Abbildungen, Graphiken und Tabellen, 1 DVD. ISBN 978-3-7749-3960-8
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 86 (2017): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Kinetics of the CuBr vapor active medium under non-typical excitation conditions
Creators: name: Kulagin, Anton E.
name: Trigub, Maxim V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a non-typical excitation mode of the copper bromide active medium using the kinetic model. The active medium is pumped by the pulse train and the laser generation is obtained in the subsequent single excitation pulse. Such mode allows one to obtain the laser generation pulse with the extended duration by increase in the pause duration after the pulse train. The relaxation processes during the pause are studied in order to explain such effect. It is shown that this operation mode can also be used to obtain the superradiance and amplification pulses of the extended duration that is of interest for active optical systems. Based on the comparison with the experimental results, new fundamental results are obtained regarding the copper bromide kinetics in the active medium.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures, minor improvements
Holographic Calculations of Renyi Entropy
Creators: name: Hung, Janet
name: Myers, Robert C.
name: Smolkin, Michael
name: Yale, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the approach of Casini, Huerta and Myers to a new calculation of the Renyi entropy of a general CFT in d dimensions with a spherical entangling surface, in terms of certain thermal partition functions. We apply this approach to calculate the Renyi entropy in various holographic models. Our results indicate that in general, the Renyi entropy will be a complicated nonlinear function of the central charges and other parameters which characterize the CFT. We also exhibit the relation between this new thermal calculation and a conventional calculation of the Renyi entropy where a twist operator is inserted on the spherical entangling surface. The latter insight also allows us to calculate the scaling dimension of the twist operators in the holographic models.
description: 71 pages, 6 figures
Book Review: The Field of Culture at Historical Crossroads
Creators: name: Hansson, Leeni
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013
Subjects: culture; early 200s; generational testimonies

description: Nullindate kultuur: Teise laine tulemine [Culture of the Early 2000s I: The Coming of the Second Wave] and Nullindate kultuur: Põlvkondlikud pihtimused [Culture of the Early 2000s II: Generational Testimonies] by Aili Aarelaid-Tart & Anu Kannike (eds.), 2012, Tartu: Tartu University Press.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 4, No 2 (2012)
Isostaticity, auxetic response, surface modes, and conformal invariance in twisted kagome lattices
Creators: name: Sun, Kai
name: Souslov, Anton
name: Mao, Xiaoming
name: Lubensky, T. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Model lattices consisting of balls connected by central-force springs provide much of our understanding of mechanical response and phonon structure of real materials. Their stability depends critically on their coordination number $z$. $d$-dimensional lattices with $z=2d$ are at the threshold of mechanical stability and are isostatic. Lattices with $z<2d$ exhibit zero-frequency "floppy" modes that provide avenues for lattice collapse. The physics of systems as diverse as architectural structures, network glasses, randomly packed spheres, and biopolymer networks is strongly influenced by a nearby isostatic lattice. We explore elasticity and phonons of a special class of two-dimensional isostatic lattices constructed by distorting the kagome lattice. We show that the phonon structure of these lattices, characterized by vanishing bulk moduli and thus negative Poisson ratios and auxetic elasticity, depends sensitively on boundary conditions and on the nature of the kagome distortions. We construct lattices that under free boundary conditions exhibit surface floppy modes only or a combination of both surface and bulk floppy modes; and we show that bulk floppy modes present under free boundary conditions are also present under periodic boundary conditions but that surface modes are not. In the the long-wavelength limit, the elastic theory of all these lattices is a conformally invariant field theory with holographic properties, and the surface waves are Rayleigh waves. We discuss our results in relation to recent work on jammed systems. Our results highlight the importance of network architecture in determining floppy-mode structure.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Welfare State Development in Central and Eastern Europe: A State of the Art Literature Review
Creators: name: Adascalitei, Dragos
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013
Subjects: Central and Eastern Europe; welfare; reform; post-communism

description: The welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have undergone massive changes since the beginning of the 1990s. This paper reviews the literature on welfare state development in CEE in light of the theories that have been used to study advanced capitalist democracies. Its purpose is to critically assess the extent to which diﬀ erent theories can explain changes in the welfare state during and after transition. It argues that until now two strands of literature have crystallised: institutionalism and actorcentred explanations. Institutionalists agree that welfare reforms are limited by the path dependence of the national welfare state structures though this framework is biased towards explaining stability. Recent literature seeks to overcome this bias by adding variables that traditionally belong to the actorcentred paradigm. This essay will argue that the gains from such an approach are exceeded by losses in the accuracy and parsimony of explanations. Further, in the actor-centred camp the welfare state is seen as a product of bargaining between various national and international actors. Yet the debate about who is responsible for the present welfare state arrangements is far from over. Unanswered questions revolve around the impact of political parties and ideologies on welfare reforms, the role of bureaucracies, the eﬃ ciency of international ﬁ nancial institutions in advocating retrenchment and the precise mechanisms through which all the above actors defend their interests.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 4, No 2 (2012)
Derivative relations between electrical and thermoelectric quantum transport coefficients in graphene
Creators: name: Liu, Xinfei
name: Ma, Zhongshui
name: Shi, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that the empirical relation between the longitudinal and Hall resistivities (i.e. Rxx and Rxy) and its counterpart between the Seebeck and Nernst coefficients (i.e. Sxx and Sxy), both originally discovered in two-dimensional electron gases, hold remarkably well for graphene in the quantum transport regime except near the Dirac point. The validity of the relations is cross-examined by independently varying the magnetic field and the carrier density in graphene. We demonstrate that the pre-factor, α_s, does not depend on carrier density in graphene. By tuning the carrier mobility therefore the degree of disorders, we find that the pre-factor stays unchanged. Near the Dirac point, different mechanisms at low densities such as carrier localization may be responsible for the breakdown of these relations.
Where is the ‘State’ in Albania? The Unresolved Contradictions Confronting Civil Society in the ‘Transition’ from Communism to Free Markets
Creators: name: Amy, Lori E.
name: Gjermeni, Eglantina
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013
Subjects: Albania; civil society; democratisation; gender; nongovernmental organisations.

description: Twenty years after transition, the political sphere in Albania is becoming increasingly authoritarian despite the extensive development agendas promoted by many international organisations. This paper analyses the problems confronting civil society, one of the sacred pillars of democracy promotion, and the reasons it has been largely unable to facilitate early hopes of a democratic transformation. Three primary components converge to inhibit the impact civil society has so far been able to exercise on the political sphere: 1) The un-addressed legacy of a brutal totalitarian dictatorship; 2) the parallel, non-intersecting, distinctly gendered tracks along which civil society and government have developed; 3) the complicity of international structures in inhibiting the deeply analytical culture of knowledge production necessary to shift the relation of the individual to the state.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
Escaping the Kmara Box: Reframing the Role of Civil Society in Georgia’s Rose Revolution
Creators: name: Angley, Robyn E.
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013
Subjects: Civil society; Kmara; Georgia; Rose Revolution; Colour Revolutions.

description: This article examines the role of civic groups in Georgia’s Rose Revolution using Larry Diamond’s framework of the democratic functions of civil society. The author argues that the contribution of civil society to the peaceful transfer of power in 2003 is best understood by expanding the analytical focus out from the Kmara youth movement to include a larger set of organisations. Rather than focusing on the Kmara youth movement as the primary civil society actor in 2003, the author contends that Kmara was, in fact, a product of the coordinated involvement of a cohort of NGOs. The article stresses the highly interconnected nature of Georgian civic leaders and organisations, particularly regarding networks with other NGOs, opposition politicians, and journalists from the Rustavi 2 television station.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
Teoria Gravitazionale e Applicazioni Cosmologiche: Possibili Sviluppi Futuri
Creators: name: Gasperini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A very short, non-technical review of the main problems which are presently open in the context of the gravitational theory and of its cosmological applications, and which are currently under investigation and deep discussion. We will talk in particular about the equivalence principle, the dark matter and dark energy contributions, the cosmological constant, the quantisation of gravity, the dynamics of the very early Universe.
description: 5 pages, no figures. To be published (in Italian language) on "Ithaca: Sfide", XXI (2023) ISSN: 2282-8079, ESE (Salento University Publishing), http://ithaca.unisalento.it/
Programming EU funds in Bulgaria: Challenges, Opportunities and the Role of Civil Society
Creators: name: Hristova Kurzydlowski, Desislava
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013
Subjects: EU Structural funds; principle of partnership; Europeanisation; civil society.

description: While expectations were high for Bulgaria’s EU membership, it has been marked by numerous domestic challenges. This article explores the application of the principle of partnership in Bulgaria in programming EU funds for 2007-2013 as a litmus test for the capacity of the civil society and the preparedness of the state’s institutions for full-fledged membership. The article displays evidence that unsuitable adaptation and the remnants of the previous institutional establishment filter the EU leverage in the country. Furthermore, the article maps the role of civil society organisations in the process and identifies the main challenges and opportunities for their inclusion.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
A novel type of spiral wave with trapped ions
Creators: name: Li, Yuting
name: Li, Haihong
name: Zhu, Yun
name: Zhang, Mei
name: Yang, Junzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pattern formation in ultra-cold quantum systems has recently received a great deal of attention.In this work, we investigate a two-dimensional model system accounting for the dynamics of trapped ions. We find a novel spiral wave which is rigidly rotating but with a peculiar core region in which adjacent ions oscillate in anti-phase. The formation of this novel spiral wave is ascribed to the novel excitability reported by Lee and Cross. The breakup of the novel spiral wave is probed and, especially, one extraordinary scenario of the disappearance of spiral wave caused by spontaneous expansion of the anti-phased core is unveiled.
description: 4 pages,4 figures
Designing Social Inquiry in Central Asia – A Case Study of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Creators: name: Kevlihan, Robert
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013
Subjects: comparative politics; research design; Central Asia; democratisation; Colour Revolutions

description: Central Asia offers a potential smorgasbord for researchers engaged in comparative analysis. Common shared characteristics of these states have provided and continue to provide opportunities for advances in our understanding of political and social phenomena of global importance, including state building, democratisation, nationalism and economic development. However, in conducting comparative case study research in Central Asia, researchers should be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of different comparative approaches. This article reviews and critiques one approach to comparative analysis that has become increasingly dominant in social science research, particularly in the US. Comparing events in two Central Asian countries during 2005, a period of heightened risk of colour revolution, the article highlights both strengths and weaknesses of this increasingly dominant approach, arguing instead for a more inclusive and pragmatic approach to comparative analysis both in Central Asia and to case study comparisons more generally as the best way to advance our understanding of important social and political phenomena.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
XploreNAS: Explore Adversarially Robust & Hardware-efficient Neural Architectures for Non-ideal Xbars
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Abhiroop
name: Moitra, Abhishek
name: Panda, Priyadarshini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Compute In-Memory platforms such as memristive crossbars are gaining focus as they facilitate acceleration of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with high area and compute-efficiencies. However, the intrinsic non-idealities associated with the analog nature of computing in crossbars limits the performance of the deployed DNNs. Furthermore, DNNs are shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks leading to severe security threats in their large-scale deployment. Thus, finding adversarially robust DNN architectures for non-ideal crossbars is critical to the safe and secure deployment of DNNs on the edge. This work proposes a two-phase algorithm-hardware co-optimization approach called XploreNAS that searches for hardware-efficient & adversarially robust neural architectures for non-ideal crossbar platforms. We use the one-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approach to train a large Supernet with crossbar-awareness and sample adversarially robust Subnets therefrom, maintaining competitive hardware-efficiency. Our experiments on crossbars with benchmark datasets (SVHN, CIFAR10 & CIFAR100) show upto ~8-16% improvement in the adversarial robustness of the searched Subnets against a baseline ResNet-18 model subjected to crossbar-aware adversarial training. We benchmark our robust Subnets for Energy-Delay-Area-Products (EDAPs) using the Neurosim tool and find that with additional hardware-efficiency driven optimizations, the Subnets attain ~1.5-1.6x lower EDAPs than ResNet-18 baseline.
description: Accepted to ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems in April 2023
Russian Liberalism in Crisis? Khodorkovsky Revisited
Creators: name: White, David
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013
Subjects: Khodorkovsky; liberal; Yabloko; SPS; electoral authoritarianism.

description: The electoral decline of liberal parties has been a key feature of post-Soviet politics in Russia. Using Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s critique of Russian liberalism as a starting point for analysis, it is argued that a lack of cohesion and unity has undermined support for liberal-democratic forces. Ultimately, however, exogenous factors over which the liberal parties have had no control (the marginalisation of opposition, the restriction of media access and the huge imbalance of resources available to political parties in Russia) have played the major determining role in the liberals’ decline. It is argued that Russia’s two main liberal parties during the Putin years were targeted by the regime because they were opposition parties. In Russia’s electoral authoritarian system, political opposition has been systematically excluded and fragmented, the aim being not just to restrict but to close off any potential opportunities.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
Mixed $\mathcal{H}_2/\mathcal{H}_\infty$-Policy Learning Synthesis
Creators: name: Molu, Lekan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A robustly stabilizing optimal control policy in a model-free mixed $\mathcal{H}_2/\mathcal{H}_\infty$-control setting is here put forward for counterbalancing the slow convergence and non-robustness of traditional high-variance policy optimization (and by extension policy gradient) algorithms. Leveraging Itô's stochastic differential calculus, we iteratively solve the system's continuous-time closed-loop generalized algebraic Riccati equation whilst updating its admissible controllers in a two-player, zero-sum differential game setting. Our new results are illustrated by learning-enabled control systems which gather previously disseminated results in this field in one holistic data-driven presentation with greater simplification, improvement, and clarity.
Orbital polarization, charge transfer, and fluorescence in reduced valence nickelates
Creators: name: Norman, M. R.
name: Botana, A. S.
name: Karp, J.
name: Hampel, A.
name: LaBollita, H.
name: Millis, A. J.
name: Fabbris, G.
name: Shen, Y.
name: Dean, M. P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a simple formalism for calculating X-ray absorption (XAS) and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) that has as input orbital-resolved density of states from a single-particle or many-body \textit{ab initio} calculation and is designed to capture itinerant-like features. We use this formalism to calculate both the XAS and RIXS with input from DFT and DFT+DMFT for the recently studied reduced valence nickelates $R_4$Ni$_3$O$_8$ and $R$NiO$_2$ ($R$ a rare earth), and these results are then contrasted with those for the cuprate CaCuO$_2$ and the unreduced nickelate $R_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$. In contrast to the unreduced $R_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$, the reduced valence nickelates as well as the cuprate show strong orbital polarization due to the dominance of $x^2-y^2$ orbitals for the unoccupied $3d$ states. We also reproduce two key aspects of a recent RIXS experiment for $R_4$Ni$_3$O$_8$: (i) a charge transfer feature between $3d$ and oxygen $2p$ states whose energy we find to decrease as one goes from $R$NiO$_2$ to $R_4$Ni$_3$O$_8$ to the cuprate, and (ii) an energy-dependent polarization reversal of the fluorescence line that arises from hybridization of the unoccupied $z^2$ states with $R$ 5d states. We end with some implications of our results for the nature of the $3d$ electrons in reduced valence nickelates.
Softening Fuzzy Knowledge Representation Tool with the Learning of New Words in Natural Language
Creators: name: Omri, Mohamed Nazih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The approach described here allows using membership function to represent imprecise and uncertain knowledge by learning in Fuzzy Semantic Networks. This representation has a great practical interest due to the possibility to realize on the one hand, the construction of this membership function from a simple value expressing the degree of interpretation of an Object or a Goal as compared to an other and on the other hand, the adjustment of the membership function during the apprenticeship. We show, how to use these membership functions to represent the interpretation of an Object (respectively of a Goal) user as compared to an system Object (respectively to a Goal). We also show the possibility to make decision for each representation of an user Object compared to a system Object. This decision is taken by determining decision coefficient calculates according to the nucleus of the membership function of the user Object.
The IMF from Low to High Redshift
Creators: name: Greggio, Laura
name: Renzini, Alvio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From time to time, and quite more frequently in recent years, claims appear favoring a variable Initial Mass Function (IMF), one way or another, either in time or space. In this chapter we add our two pennies of wisdom, illustrating how the IMF affects various properties of galaxies and galaxy clusters. We start by showing that even relatively small variations of the IMF slope have large effects on the demography of stellar populations, moving the bulk of the stellar mass from one end to the other of the distribution. We then point out how the slope of the IMF in different mass ranges controls specific major properties of galaxies and clusters. The slope of the IMF below ~1 solar mass controls the M/L ratio of local ellipticals, whereas the slope between ~1 and ~1.4 solar masses controls the evolution with redshift of such ratio, hence of the fundamental plane of elliptical galaxies. Similarly, the slope between ~1 and ~40 solar masses drives the ratio of the global metal mass in clusters of galaxies to their total luminosity. While we believe that it is perfectly legitimate to entertain the notion that the IMF may not be universal, our message is that when proposing IMF variations to ease a specific problem then one should not neglect to explore the full consequences of the invoked variations. This paper is integrally reproduced from Chapter 8 of the book by L. Greggio and A. Renzini: Stellar Populations. A User Guide from Low to High Redshift (2011, Wiley-VHC Verlag-GmbH & Co., ISBN 9783527409181), whose index is also appended.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Book Review: How to Survive the Western Democratising Pressure?
Creators: name: Raun, Alo
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013

description: Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War by Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, 2010, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
Evaluation Plan for the Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) Program in Kentucky
Creators: name: Green, Eric R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Kentucky State Police Division of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement in cooperation with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has started a concentrated education and enforcement campaign in an effort to increase the safety and awareness of drivers around commercial vehicles. The University of Kentucky Transportation Center has evaluated this campaign and reported the effectiveness of this effort. This study is a follow‐up to a 2007 study that focused on two high volume, high crash interstate areas: one in northern Kentucky on I‐75, and one in the Louisville area on I‐65. This study’s focus was moved to I‐75 around Fayette County (Lexington) and I‐65 around Hardin County (Elizabethtown). Several blitzes (including a media and enforcement component) were conducted throughout the year. This evaluation measured the success of the campaign by analysis of before and after surveys, traffic speed, headway measurements (distance between moving vehicles) and crash data. The blitzes focused on public awareness, driver behavior and roadway safety. Public awareness was measured using phone surveys. The data show that the media (and in some ways law enforcement efforts) helped to inform motorists about the campaign as more respondents indicated that they changed their behavior around trucks compared to the data from the pre‐evaluation survey. The traffic headway measurements show that larger vehicles leave more space around trucks than smaller vehicles. There were observed decreases in crashes in the TACT corridors, in particular, the original TACT corridors that had two‐years of TACT exposure.
Evaluation of the Locations of Kentucky’s Traffic Crash Data
Creators: name: Green, Eric R.
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This research study evaluated the current accuracy of the location information provided in Kentucky‟s crash data. Since the year 2000, the Kentucky Open Portal System‟s (KYOPS) eCrash form has included latitude and longitude data as well as the more traditional County, Route and Milepoint data (CRMP). The Kentucky Transportation Center conducted a research report in 2004 that evaluated the effectiveness of using latitude and longitude, or GPS, as a means to locate traffic crash data.1 This previous study found that both the CRMP and GPS location data had substantial problems resulting in the location data only being accurate about 50 percent of the time using either method. This research aimed to follow up that study since KYOPS has added a mapping system called MapIt that generates CRMP data as well as GPS data using a GIS-based interface allowing the user to click on a map using roadway names and milepoints as reference.  An evaluation of a random sample of crashes from 2009 was performed to assess the current accuracy of the crash data‟s location information. The location of the crash was compared to the presumed location using several report data elements such as nearest city, street address, roadway descriptions and the crash narrative. A second evaluation was performed on crash data since the MapIt system was introduced (in late 2007) through 2009. This analysis calculated the distance between the locations plotted by CRMP and by the GPS data and summarized the data by several factors.  The evaluation of the random sample of crash data revealed that the location information is accurate in a substantially higher number of records compared to the study five years ago (92 percent accuracy compared to about 50 percent). Furthermore, the evaluation of the 2007 through 2009 crash data yielded results that aided in making recommendations that will address the most egregious and frequent errors related to location data. For instance, some problems in the MapIt system were found that can greatly affect the CRMP and GPS location data. Finally a literature review based on national consensus was summarized to better describe where a crash should be located when a police report is completed.
Zur Anthropologie der fränkischen Bevölkerung von Rübenach
Creators: name: Henke, Winfried
name: Nedder, Karl-Heinz
name: Ament, Hermann
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 181.1981: Bonner Jahrbücher
International Migration and Labour Turnover: Workers’ Agency in the Construction Sector of Russia and Italy
Creators: name: Morrison, Claudio
name: Sacchetto, Devi
name: Cretu, Olga
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013
Subjects: labour; international migration; post-socialism; construction sector.

description: This article focuses on migrant workers’ agency through exploring the relationship between working and employment conditions, on one side, and labour mobility, on the other. The study is based on qualitative research involving workers from Moldova and Ukraine working in the Russian and Italian construction sector. Fieldwork has been carried out in Russia, Italy and Moldova to investigate informal networks, recruitment mechanisms and employment conditions to establish their impact on migration processes. Overcoming methodological nationalism, this study recognises transnational spaces as the new terrain where antagonistic industrial relations are rearticulated. Labour turnover is posited as a key explanatory factor and understood not simply as the outcome of capital recruitment strategies but also as workers’ agency.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 5, No 2 (2013)
The power of the rings: the GRB 221009A soft X-ray emission from its dust-scattering halo
Creators: name: Tiengo, Andrea
name: Pintore, Fabio
name: Vaia, Beatrice
name: Filippi, Simone
name: Sacchi, Andrea
name: Esposito, Paolo
name: Rigoselli, Michela
name: Mereghetti, Sandro
name: Salvaterra, Ruben
name: Siljeg, Barbara
name: Bracco, Andrea
name: Bosnjak, Zeljka
name: Jelic, Vibor
name: Campana, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GRB 221009A is the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever detected and occurred at low Galactic latitude. Owing to this exceptional combination, its prompt X-ray emission could be detected for weeks in the form of expanding X-ray rings produced by scattering in Galactic dust clouds. We report on the analysis of 20 rings, generated by dust at distances ranging from 0.3 to 18.6 kpc, detected during two XMM-Newton observations performed about 2 and 5 days after the GRB. By fitting the spectra of the rings with different models for the dust composition and grain size distribution, we reconstructed the spectrum of the GRB prompt emission in the 0.7-4 keV energy range as an absorbed power law with photon index 1-1.4 and absorption in the host galaxy nHz=(4.1-5.3)E21 cm-2. Taking into account the systematic uncertainties on the column density of dust contained in the clouds producing the rings, the 0.5-5 keV fluence of GRB 221009A can be constrained between 1E-3 and 7E-3 erg cm-2.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJL
Gerhard Neumann, Probleme des griechischen Weihreliefs
Creators: name: Clairmont, Christoph
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Gerhard Neumann, Probleme des griechischen Weihreliefs. Tübinger Studien zur Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte 3. Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 1979. 84 Seiten, 48 Tafeln
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 181.1981: Bonner Jahrbücher
Income Inequality Decomposition, Russia 1992-2002: Method and Application
Creators: name: Jansen, Wim
name: Dessens, Joe
name: Verhoeven, Willem-Jan
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013
Subjects: income inequality; decomposition; Russia; market transition.

description: Decomposition methods for income inequality measures, such as the Gini index and the members of the Generalised Entropy family, are widely applied. Most methods decompose income inequality into a between (explained) and a within (unexplained) part, according to two or more population subgroups or income sources. In this article, we use a regression analysis for a lognormal distribution of personal income, modelling both the mean and the variance, decomposing the variance as a measure of income inequality, and apply the method to survey data from Russia spanning the first decade of market transition (1992-2002). For the first years of the transition, only a small part of the income inequality could be explained. Thereafter, between 1996 and 1999, a larger part (up to 40%) could be explained, and ‘winner’ and ‘loser’ categories of the transition could be spotted. Moving to the upper end of the income distribution, the self-employed won from the transition. The unemployed were among the losers.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 5, No 2 (2013)
Johann Nothdurfter, Die Eisenfunde von Sanzeno im Nonsberg
Creators: name: Gaitzsch, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Johann Nothdurfter, Die Eisenfunde von Sanzeno im Nonsberg. Römisch-Germanische Forschungen 38. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1980. 166 Seiten, 90 Tafeln und 2 Beilagen
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 181.1981: Bonner Jahrbücher
Assisted quantum simulation of open quantum systems
Creators: name: Liang, Jin-Min
name: Lv, Qiao-Qiao
name: Wang, Zhi-Xi
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Universal quantum algorithms (UQA) implemented on fault-tolerant quantum computers are expected to achieve an exponential speedup over classical counterparts. However, the deep quantum circuits makes the UQA implausible in the current era. With only the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices in hand, we introduce the quantum-assisted quantum algorithm, which reduces the circuit depth of UQA via NISQ technology. Based on this framework, we present two quantum-assisted quantum algorithms for simulating open quantum systems, which utilize two parameterized quantum circuits to achieve a short-time evolution. We propose a variational quantum state preparation method, as a subroutine to prepare the ancillary state, for loading a classical vector into a quantum state with a shallow quantum circuit and logarithmic number of qubits. We demonstrate numerically our approaches for a two-level system with an amplitude damping channel and an open version of the dissipative transverse field Ising model on two sites.
description: 19 pages,5 figures
Karin Goethert-Polaschek, Katalog der römischen Gläser des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier
Creators: name: Van Lith, Sophia M. E.
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Karin Goethert-Polaschek, Katalog der römischen Gläser des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier. Trierer Grabungen und Forschungen 9. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977. XV und 352 Seiten, 67 Textabbildungen, 4 Farbtafeln, 81 Schwarzweißtafeln, 5 Formentafeln, Fundortkarte
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 181.1981: Bonner Jahrbücher
Guiding structures with multiply connected cross-sections: evolution of propagation in external fields at complex Robin parameters
Creators: name: Olendski, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Properties of the two-dimensional ring and three-dimensional infinitely long straight hollow waveguide with unit width and inner radius $ρ_0$ in the superposition of the longitudinal uniform magnetic field $\bf B$ and Aharonov-Bohm flux are analyzed within the framework of the scalar Helmholtz equation under the assumption that the Robin boundary conditions at the inner and outer confining walls contain extrapolation lengths $Λ_{in}$ and $Λ_{out}$, respectively, with nonzero imaginary parts. It is shown that, compared to the disk geometry, the annulus opens up additional possibilities of varying magnetization and currents by tuning imaginary components of the Robin parameters on each confining circumference; in particular, the possibility of restoring a lossless longitudinal flux by zeroing imaginary part $E_i$ of the total transverse energy $E$ is discussed. The energy $E$ turns real under special correlation between the imaginary parts of $Λ_{in}$ and $Λ_{out}$ with the opposite signs what physically corresponds to the equal transverse fluxes through the inner and outer interfaces of the annulus. In the asymptotic case of the very large radius, simple expressions are derived and applied to the analysis of the dependence of the real energy $E$ on $Λ_{in}$ and $Λ_{out}$. New features also emerge in the magnetic field influence; for example, if, for the quantum disk, the imaginary energy $E_i$ is quenched by the strong intensities $B$, then for the annulus this takes place only when the inner Robin distance $Λ_{in}$ is real; otherwise, it almost quadratically depends on $B$ with the corresponding enhancement of the reactive scattering. Closely related problem of the hole in the otherwise uniform medium is also addressed for real and complex extrapolation lengths with the emphasis on the comparative analysis with its dot counterpart.
description: 37 pages, 9 figures
Post-Socialist Dynamics of Value Patterns in Estonia
Creators: name: Raudsepp, Maaris
name: Tart, Indrek
name: Heinla, Eda
Publisher: name: Studies of Transition States and Societies
Year: 2013
Subjects: value orientations; structure of values; value patterns; 1985-2008.

description: The article focuses on the dynamics of value patterns in Estonia over a period spanning late socialism to liberal market capitalism. The research data is derived from five population surveys ‘Work, family and leisure’ (WFL), in which value orientations were measured on the basis of Clyde Kluckhohn’s conception. The same instrument of life values was used in 1985 (just before the perestroika of Soviet socialist system), in 1993, 1998 and 2003 (during the transition period of post-socialism) and in 2008 (just before the economic crisis in capitalist society). The aim of the study is to differentiate value patterns and observe the trends of their change during this period. The results of hierarchical cluster analysis reveal a clear tendency of structural change: a dichotomy of value profiles on the ethno-linguistic basis in 1985 and 1993 was replaced by a dichotomy of value profiles on the basis of age in 2003 and 2008. The results of multidimensional analysis show a relative stability of the value structure and a change in the meaning of some life values (professional work, close friends). The results are discussed in the context of post-socialist societal transformation.
description: Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 5, No 2 (2013)
Change Orders and Lessons Learned
Creators: name: Goodrum, Paul M.
name: Taylor, Timothy R. B.
name: Lester, William
name: McCoy, Alex
name: Uddin, Mohammed M.
name: Shan, Yongwei
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Many times, change is necessary for the success of a project. “Change, defined as any event that results in a modification of the original scope, execution time, or cost of work, happens on most projects due to the uniqueness of each project and the limited resources of time and money available for planning” (Hanna, Camlic, Peterson,& Nordheim, 2002). While change orders are necessary to address unforeseen conditions and other unavoidable or unanticipated occurrences, they tend to negatively affect construction. In most public works, change orders are the main reason for construction delays and cost overruns (Wu, Hsieh, & Cheng, 2005). Change orders also lead to a decline in labor efficiency, loss of man hours, and costly disputes (Moselhi, Assem, & El- Rayes, 2005). It is important to understand the impact change orders have on project performance, but it is also important to understand the cause of change orders. Before change orders can be handled properly, owners must be aware of the reasons behind change orders. This research examines change orders on Kentucky Transportation Cabinet projects and focuses on identifying the leading cause of change orders, identifying the types of changes orders that produce the highest risk, and developing a procedure for pricing change orders. This research is intended to help the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet better manage change orders on highway construction projects. From hereafter, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is referred to as the Cabinet.
Martin Heinzelmann, Bischofsherrschaft in Gallien. Zur Kontinuität römischer Führungsschichten vom 4. bis zum 7. Jahrhundert
Creators: name: Nonn, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Martin Heinzelmann, Bischofsherrschaft in Gallien. Zur Kontinuität römischer Führungsschichten vom 4. bis zum 7. Jahrhundert. Soziale, prosopographische und bildungsgeschichtliche Aspekte. Francia Beiheft 5. Artemis Verlag, München 1976. 281 Seiten
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 181.1981: Bonner Jahrbücher
A Bayesian approach to compatibility, improvement, and pooling of quantum states
Creators: name: Leifer, M. S.
name: Spekkens, R. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In approaches to quantum theory in which the quantum state is regarded as a representation of knowledge, information, or belief, two agents can assign different states to the same quantum system. This raises two questions: when are such state assignments compatible? and how should the state assignments of different agents be reconciled? In this paper, we address these questions from the perspective of the recently developed conditional states formalism for quantum theory [arXiv:1107.5849]. Specifically, we derive a compatibility criterion proposed by Brun, Finkelstein and Mermin from the requirement that, upon acquiring data, agents should update their states using a quantum generalization of Bayesian conditioning. We provide two alternative arguments for this criterion, based on the objective and subjective Bayesian interpretations of probability theory. We then apply the same methodology to the problem of quantum state improvement, i.e. how to update your state when you learn someone else's state assignment, and to quantum state pooling, i.e. how to combine the state assignments of several agents into a single assignment that accurately represents the views of the group. In particular, we derive a pooling rule previously proposed by Spekkens and Wiseman under much weaker assumptions than those made in the original derivation. All of our results apply to a much broader class of experimental scenarios than have been considered previously in this context.
description: 30 pages, revTeX