cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Resilienz - Konstrukt und Facetten
Creators: name: Casper, Miriam
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Mit dieser Arbeit soll ein Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung der Diskussion zum Thema Resilienz geleistet werden. Zielstellung ist es, zu einer Elaboration des Konstrukts und seiner Faktoren und Facetten beizutragen. Resilienz wird dabei als Persönlichkeitsmerkmal verstanden, das den Menschen befähigt, schwierige Lebenssituationen ohne anhaltende Beeinträchtigung zu überstehen (Duden, 2014). Die teststatistische Untersuchung der englischsprachigen RS-25 (Wagnild/Young, 1993) und der deutschsprachigen RS-25 (Schumacher u.a., 2005) zeigt, dass bisher keine überzeugenden Subskalenvorschläge vorliegen. Aus diesem Grund wird eine Vier-Subskalenlösung entwickelt (Resilienzskala RS-32). Die vier Subskalen Ich-Stärke, Lebensfreude, Hartnäckigkeit und Wirklichkeitssinn erfassen das Konstrukt Resilienz umfassend. Die RS-32 deckt die Facetten des Vier-Subskalenvorschlags ab und kann als Basis für empirische Untersuchungen dienen.
description: This paper is a contribution to the further discussion on resilience. The objective is to contribute to an elaboration of the construct and its factors and facets. Resilience is defined as a personality trait that enables man to survive difficult life situations without lasting mental impairment (Duden, 2014). The evaluation of the resilience scale RS-25 (Wagnild/Young, 1993) and the German version of the RS-25 (Schumacher et al., 2005) shows that so far is no convincing subscale structure proposed. Therefore a four subscale structure is developed (resilience scale RS-32). The four subscales ego strength, lust for live, persistence and sense of reality capture the construct resilience comprehensively. The RS-32 covers the facets of the four subscale structure and can serve as a basis for empirical studies.
New color-octet axial vector boson revisited
Creators: name: Wang, Hao
name: Wang, You-kai
name: Xiao, Bo
name: Zhu, Shou-hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we re-examine how to utilize the previous proposed color-octet axial-vector boson $Z_{\rm C}$ to explain the $3.4σ$ anomaly of $t\bar t$ forward-backward (FB) asymmetry $A_{\rm FB}$ for $m_{t\bar t}> 450$GeV observed by CDF. Our numerical results indicate that the best-fit parameters are $g_A^q=0.07$, $g_A^Q=3$, and $M_{\rm C}=440\text{GeV}$, which are obtained by fitting the mass dependent $A_{\rm FB}$ and total cross section data provided by a recent CDF measurement. Here $g_A^q (g_A^Q)$ and $M_{\rm C}$ are the axial couplings among $Z_{\rm C}$ with the first two (the third) generation quarks, and $Z_{\rm C}$ mass respectively. We also calculate one-side forward-backward asymmetry $A_{\rm OFB}$ for top and bottom quark pair production at the LHC, focusing on the new contributions from $Z_{\rm C}$. Our studies show that $A_{\rm OFB}$ can be utilized to measure the properties of new particle $Z_{\rm C}$.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, published version in PRD
Makrostyles terrifica Jaschhof, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Makrostyles
Makrostyles terrifica

description: Makrostyles terrifica Jaschhof sp. nov.
Fig. 17A–C
Diagnosis. This species is readily distinguishable from all other Diallactiini by the male genitalic characters referred to in the generic diagnosis of Makrostyles.
Male description. Body 2.7–2.9 mm long, mostly orange-yellow, antennae, scutellum and legs light brownish. Head. Genal setae 10–20, loosely clustered. Eye bridge 8–9 ommatidia long dorsally, covering all vertex. Scape and pedicel concolorous with flagellum, scape with 1 seta, pedicel unsetose. Flagellomeres 14. Neck of fourth flagellomere (Fig. C) 1.2 times longer than node; node with short setae basally, in between usually a few short hairlike translucent sensilla, a crenulate whorl with long sensory hairs with hooded alveoli medially, more such sensory hairs scattered distally, especially ventrally, numerous short hair-like translucent sensilla distally, microtrichia only basally. Clypeus usually unsetose, occasionally with 1 seta. Palpus 1.1 times longer than head height, 4 segments, translucent sensilla on first to third segments, simply hair-shaped, fourth segment longest. Thorax. Both scutal and scutellar setae sparse. Wing length / width 2.6–2.7 (Fig. B). Membrane completely covered with setae. Costal break distinct; Rs somewhat darkened; btv setose; both M1+2 and M4 absent; CuA extending to wing margin. Legs without scales. Coxae slightly darker than other segments, tarsi brighter. Basitarsi without spine. Claws slightly bent, untoothed. Empodia vestigial. Genitalia. Ninth tergite subtrapezoid, setose. Gonocoxae (Fig. A): ventral bridge unsetose, with weak transverse suture; ventral emargination small, U-shaped; medial bridges densely setose. Gonostylus (Fig. A) slightly convex laterally, somewhat swollen dorsomedially, setae sparse medially.
Etymology. The species epithet, terrifica, is the Latin word for awe-inspiring, which refers to the huge gonostylar tooth characteristic of this species.
Type material. Holotype. Male (INB0004381180), Costa Rica, province San José, Moravia, Zurquí de Moravia, 1,600 m, old-growth cloud forest, 26 Apr.–3 May 2013, Malaise trap (#1, tower path), ZADBI Project (MNCR). Paratypes. All from the type locality: 2 males (INB0004381178, INB0004381181), same data as the holotype; 2 males (INB0004431084, INB0004434629), same data, Malaise trap (#3, north pasture); male (INB0004431250), 18 Apr. 2013, CDC light trap (creek 2); male (INB0004434821), 3–10 May 2013, flight interception trap (tower path); male (INB0004436840), 14 June 2013, CDC light trap (creek 1) (all in MNCR).
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias, 2016, A review of world Diallactiini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Winnertziinae), with the description of six new genera and seventeen new species, pp. 201-244 in Zootaxa 4127 (2) on pages 234-235, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/267022
Professor Kiyoshi Kojima's Contributions to FDI Theory: Trade, Structural Transformation, Growth, and Integration in East Asia
Creators: name: Ozawa, Terutomo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Commerce

description: Professor Kojima of Hitotsubashi University is a leading Japanese economist in international economics. Two of his major ideas are reviewed: a theory of pro-trade FDI and an extended "flying-geese" theory of industrial development. Kojima's pro-trade FDI (which rests on the doctrine of comparative advantage) leads to a surprising discovery of David Ricardo's failure to see that the doctrine applies as equally to FDI flows as to trade flows. The recent phenomenon of production fragmentation is also built on the mechanism of pro-trade FDI. In Kojima's extended flying-geese theory of industrial development the sequence of imports-domestic production-exports further expands to the next phase of exports-outward FDI-imports, thereby completing a full circle from imports to imports. Its theoretical and policy implications are discussed against the backdrop of the rapid catch-up of Japan's neighboring countries that capitalize initially on inward FDI-and subsequently on outward FDI--as an engine of growth.
Monetary Policy Beyond the Zero Interest Rate Policy under Deflation
Creators: name: Ito, Takatoshi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Commerce

description: The economic growth rate has been quite low during the 1990s. General prices and wages have been declining since the late 1990s, and deflation seems to have set in. Although the nominal interest rate has been zero for the last few years, that has failed to stimulate investment and consumption. Several fiscal stimulus packages—discretionary public expenditures and tax cuts—have been employed, but they too failed to stimulate private-sector investment and consumption. Due to deficit spending and declining tax revenues, the government debt-GDP ratio has risen from 60% in the beginning of the 1990s to 140% in 2002. According to the Moody’s, the Japanese government bonds are now rated below the Botswana counterpart. With apparent ineffectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy, the Japanese economy is drifting downward. The size of the nominal GDP has shrunk by 5% between 1997 and 2003.
Scoring Millennium Goals: Economic Growth Versus the Washington Consensus
Creators: name: Noman, Akbar
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: According to the IMF and the World Bank, "on current trends, most Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will not be met by most countries." This assessment of a joint report of the staffs of the Bank and Fund issued in 2004 is widely shared, including by a UN report that came out at the beginning of 2005. The joint Bank-Fund report identifies the first of "the three essential elements" urgently needed if most countries are to reach the MDGs as: "Accelerating reforms to achieve stronger economic growth – Africa will need to double its growth rate." The other two pertained to the more and better delivery of human development and related services and of support from developed countries and international agencies. All these three elements have also been emphasized by the UN report, which paid particular attention to the case for increasing aid.
title: Distributionsformate von Open Access Publikationen
Creators: name: Blume, Iris
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Inhalt dieser Seminararbeit ist eine Untersuchung 20 großer Open-Access-Publisher zur Beantwortung der Fragen, welche der Publisher die Artikel in den von ihnen herausgegebenen Journals neben PDF auch strukturiert anbieten und welche zusätzlichen Features gegebenenfalls angeboten werden. Der Untersuchung liegen jeweils mindestens zwei Journals eines Publishers zugrunde. Die Arbeit wurde als Leistungsnachweis für die Lehrveranstaltung „Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Informationsmanagement“ im WS 2014/15 angefertigt.
description: Digitale Bibliothek - Offene Wissenschaft, 1
Tunneling transfer protocol in a quantum dot chain immune to inhomogeneity
Creators: name: Korzekwa, Kamil
name: Machnikowski, Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a quantum dot (QD) implementation of a quantum state transfer channel. The proposed channel consists of N vertically stacked QDs with the nearest neighbor tunnel coupling, placed in an axial electric field. We show that the system supports high-fidelity transfer of the state of a terminal dot both by free evolution and by adiabatic transfer. The protocol is to a large extent insensitive to inhomogeneity of the energy parameters of the dots and requires only a global electric field.
description: 3 pages, 6 figures
Multi-Particle Quantum Szilard Engine with Optimal Cycles Assisted by a Maxwell's Demon
Creators: name: Cai, C. Y.
name: Dong, H.
name: Sun, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a complete-quantum description of multi-particle Szilard engine which consists of a working substance and a Maxwell's demon. The demon is modeled as a multi-level quantum system with specific quantum control and the working substance consists of identical particles obeying Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac statistics. In this description, a reversible scheme to erase the demon's memory by a lower temperature heat bath is used. We demonstrate that (1) the quantum control of the demon can be optimized for single-particle Szilard engine so that the efficiency of the demon-assisted thermodynamic cycle could reach the Carnot cycle's efficiency; (2) the low-temperature behavior of the working substance is very sensitive to the quantum statistics of the particles and the insertion position of the partition.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Industrial Concentration, Price-Cost Margins, and Innovation
Creators: name: Flath, David
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Commerce

description: This paper explores a panel data set matching establishment-based production statistics from Japan's Census of Manufacturers with wholesale price indices from the Bank of Japan, and Herfindahl indices from the Japan Fair Trade Commission. The data include annual observations over the period 1961-1990, for 74 industries at the 4-digit s.i.c. level. We estimate Cobb-Douglas production functions and Solow residuals for each industry and then use these estimates to further analyze the determinates of industrial concentration and innovation. The industries having great capital intensity, small employment of labor, and with high price-cost margins tend to be more concentrated. Cross-section estimates reveal a U-shaped mapping from concentration to innovation.
title: Lernheft zum Seminar "Selbstmanagement" im Teilmodul "Persönlichkeit und Führung"
Creators: name: Wesely, Sabine
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Dieses Lernheft gibt Ihnen die Möglichkeit, sich umfassend über das Thema Selbstmanagement zu informieren und das Werkzeug, um Selbstmanagement anzuwenden.
description: Arbeitspapier / Hochschule Hannover, Fakultät IV, 07-2014
Mikrostyles angustilobata Jaschhof, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Mikrostyles
Mikrostyles angustilobata

description: Mikrostyles angustilobata Jaschhof sp. nov.
Fig. 18A–E
Diagnosis. The gonostylus of M. angustilobata consists of a short-subtriangular body and a tusk-shaped, apparently rigid apical tooth, which is recurved dorsolaterally (↓, Fig. A). The gonocoxal lobes are subtriangular and pointed apically (↓, Fig. A). The tegmen apex has a rounded lip that is folded dorsally, so that the apical edge appears blunt-ended; whether this is a preparation artifact I cannot decide from the single specimen available of this species.
Other characters. Body length 2.0 mm. Head. Postgenal setae about 5. Neck of fourth flagellomere 1.3 times longer than node (Fig. D). Palpus 1.1 times the head height, translucent sensilla simply hair-shaped (Fig. C). Wing length / width 2.6 (Fig. E). Genitalia. Ejaculatory apodeme clearly shorter than ventral portions of gonocoxae (Fig. A).
Etymology. The species epithet, angustilobata, is a Latin adjective meaning ‘with narrow lobe’, with reference to the outline of the gonocoxal lobe.
Type material. Holotype. Male, Brunei, Ulu Temburong National Park, Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, 27 Jan.–17 Feb 2015, lowland mixed dipterocarp forest, Malaise trap (#2), D. Kaspřák & M. Mantič (in UBDC).
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias, 2016, A review of world Diallactiini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Winnertziinae), with the description of six new genera and seventeen new species, pp. 201-244 in Zootaxa 4127 (2) on pages 236-237, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/267022
Use of confocal profilometry to quantify erosion of wood and screen chemicals for their ability to photostabilize wood
Creators: name: Liu, Chunling
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Optical confocal profilometry is a new technology for characterizing the surfaces of materials. In this thesis, I hypothesize that confocal profilometry will be able to more accurately measure the erosion of wood during weathering than optical microscopy. Confocal profilometry may be able to screen photoprotective chemicals, and in this thesis I use confocal profilometry to test the hypothesis that PF resin can photostabilize wood. Confocal profilometry was used to measure the erosion of untreated western red cedar wood exposed to natural and artificial weathering. The erosion of western red cedar specimens increased with time. Specimens exposed in a xenon-arc weatherometer eroded significantly faster than specimens exposed in a QUV weatherometer. The profilometer was able to measure the erosion of specimens exposed for only 100 h in a xenon-arc weatherometer. There was a positive correlation between the size of the area of wood exposed to weathering and the erosion of wood during artificial and natural weathering. The erosion rate was about 2-20 times faster during artificial weathering compared to natural weathering. Profilometry was able to discern differences in the erosion of untreated specimens and specimens treated with PF resin. However, profilometry was not able to detect differences in erosion of specimens treated with different PF resin formulations. In contrast, the thin strip technique, which measured weight and tensile strength losses of treated wood veneers exposed to weathering, was able to discern differences between formulations. I conclude from measurements on western red cedar that confocal profilometry is a more accurate and less labor-intensive way of measuring the erosion of wood during weathering than optical microscopy. The exposure time required to produce erosion that can be measured using the profilometer is much less than that needed when using an optical microscope. But specimens need to be flat, free of checks and have eroded areas that are distinct from unweathered areas. Low molecular weight PF resin shows great promise as a treatment for photostabilizing wood.
Zero repulsion in families of elliptic curve L-functions and an observation of S. J. Miller
Creators: name: Marshall, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M26, 11M50

description: We provide a theoretical explanation for an observation of S. J. Miller that if L(s,E) is an elliptic curve L-function for which L(1/2, E) is nonzero, then the lowest lying zero of L(s,E) exhibits a repulsion from the critical point which is not explained by the standard Katz-Sarnak heuristics. We establish a similar result in the case of first-order vanishing.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
Moral Hazard
Creators: name: Radner, Roy
name: Dutta, Prajit Kumar
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: Economics

description: "The owner of an enterprise wants to put it in the hands of a manager. The profits of the enterprise will depend both on the actions of the manager as well as the environment within which he operates. The owner cannot directly monitor the agent's action nor can he costlessly observe all relevant aspects of the environment. This situation may also last a number of successive periods. The owner and the manager will have to agree on how the manager is to be compensated, and the owner wants to pick a compensation mechanism that will motivate the manager to provide a good return on the owner's investment, net of the payments to the manager. This is the well-known "principal-agent" problem with moral hazard. Some other principal-agent relationships in economic life are: client-lawyer, customer-supplier, insurer-insured and regulator-public utility."
Symmetry classification of energy bands in graphene
Creators: name: Kogan, E.
name: Nazarov, V. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of the first principle calculations of the energy bands in graphene and their symmetry classification. The valence bands and four lowest conduction bands are classified according to their symmetry at the points $Γ$ and $K$. Merging of the bands is interpreted in the framework of the group theory.
description: LaTeX, 6 pages, 1 eps figure. A few errors are corrected, references are added. As published in PRB
Transient aerial robots for environmental monitoring
Creators: name: Wiesemüller, Fabian
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Collecting environmental data with high spatial and temporal resolution can aid studies in the environmental sciences to gain insights into ecological processes. Data collection with autonomous aerial robots can maximise accuracy, resilience, and deployment rate. Furthermore, it reduces the risk for researchers deploying sensors in inaccessible environments and can increase the cost-effectiveness of such studies. Based on this environmental data, ecological models can be developed that enable a better understanding of climate change's impact on our ecosystem and guide policymakers towards more efficient conservation methods. Current robotic platforms are typically made of non-degradable and potentially toxic materials that can compromise the sensitive environment these systems are designed to monitor. Therefore, in the event of loss of control or malfunction, the systems need to be recovered manually to prevent any contamination. In this dissertation, I introduce the concept of transient robots, which refers to biodegradable robotic devices made from non-fossil-based materials. The presented transient environmental sensing aerial robots integrate bio-based and bio-hybrid structures, as well as transient sensors and actuators. This work highlights various materials selection processes as well as their specific manufacturing techniques. Additionally, routes towards integrating the materials into fixed-wing drones, deployable grippers and gliders are discussed and demonstrated. Those platforms have been characterised on a system level, and their respective structures have been evaluated mechanically and microscopically. Biodegradable material systems with high stiffness for lightweight airframes, as well as compliant structures for flexible actuators, have been investigated. Sensing mechanisms based on carbon-conductive structures and pH-reactive chemicals have been fabricated and demonstrated. Furthermore, actuation mechanisms have been introduced to enable humidity-triggered responses for targeted environmental monitoring. This thesis will act as the basis for fellow researchers enabling them to design more sophisticated and functionally integrated transient robots for environmental monitoring.
Conformally compactified Minkowski superspaces revisited
Creators: name: Kuzenko, Sergei M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the standard supertwistor realizations for conformally compactified N-extended Minkowski superspaces in three and four space-time dimensions, we elaborate on alternative realizations in terms of graded two-forms on the dual supertwistor spaces. The construction is further generalized to the cases of 4D N=2 and 3D N-extended harmonic/projective superspaces. We present a superconformal Fourier expansion of tensor superfields on the 4D N=2 harmonic/projective superspace.
description: 29 pages; V2: typos corrected, references and comments added; V3: eqs. (5.11) and (6.10) modified, reference added
„Das ist der Wahnsinn von Salvador. So ist wohl noch nie ein Weltmeister filetiert worden“
Creators: name: Vögele, Catharina
name: Gölz, Hanna
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2018

description: Live-Kommentatoren von Fußballübertragungen ordnen das Gezeigte ein, kommentieren und bewerten es. Dadurch ist zu vermuten, dass sie eine Wirkung auf die Zuschauer haben. Doch wie wird das Fehlen des Live-Kommentars empfunden und wirkt es sich auf die Informiertheit der Rezipienten aus? Hat der Live-Kommentar Einfluss auf die Bewertung des Spiels, einzelner Spieler, der Trainer- und Schiedsrichterleistung durch die Zuschauer und auf die von ihnen erinnerten Spielszenen? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen wurde eine Methodenkombination aus quantitativer Befragung (n = 73) und quantitativer Inhaltsanalyse des Live-Kommentars am Beispiel des WM-Spiels Spanien vs. Niederlande 2014 durchgeführt. Im Rahmen des Feldexperiments sah eine Gruppe das Spiel mit Live-Kommentar und eine vergleichbare Gruppe das Spiel ausschließlich mit Stadionton. Die Ergebnisse geben Hinweise darauf, dass der Live-Kommentator Einfluss auf die Bewertung einzelner Spieler sowie der Trainer- und Schiedsrichterleistung hat und als Stichwortgeber fungiert. Darüber hinaus zeigt sich, dass visuelle Informationen an Bedeutung gewinnen, wenn kein Live-Kommentar vorhanden ist. Live commentaries on football matches do not only help recipients to understand what is going on, but they also judge scenes of the game and the actors. Hence, live commentaries might have an immediate effect on recipients. But in how far do recipients miss live commentaries when they are not available and in how far has a missing live commentary an effect on knowledge about the game? Do live commentaries really effect how recipients judge the game, players and the competencies of the head coaches and referees? In how far does its absence effect the recall of scenes from the game? In order to answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment (n = 73) in combination with a quantitative content analysis through the example of the match between Spain and the Netherlands in the course of the world championship 2014. While one group was asked to watch the game with live commentary, a second comparable group was asked to watch it without. Results show that the live commentary seems to have an effect on how recipients judge players and the performance of the head coaches and referees. Furthermore, visual information is becoming more important when live commentary is not available.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 1 Nr. 1-2 (2016)
Dimer, trimer and FFLO liquids in mass- and spin-imbalanced trapped binary mixtures in one dimension
Creators: name: Dalmonte, M.
name: Dieckmann, K.
name: Roscilde, T.
name: Hartl, C.
name: Feiguin, A. E.
name: Schollwöck, U.
name: Heidrich-Meisner, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic investigation of attractive binary mixtures in presence of both spin- and mass-imbalance in one dimensional setups described by the Hubbard model. After discussing typical cold atomic experimental realizations and the relation between microscopic and effective parameters, we study several many-body features of trapped Fermi-Fermi and Bose-Bose mixtures such as density profiles, momentum distributions and correlation functions by means of numerical density-matrix-renormalization-group and Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. In particular, we focus on the stability of Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov, dimer and trimer fluids in inhomogeneous situations, as typically realized in cold gas experiments due to the harmonic confinement. We finally consider possible experimental signatures of these phases both in the presence of a finite polarization and of a finite temperature.
description: 19 pages, 25 figures
title: Enabling performance : dyslexia and acting practice
Creators: name: Leveroy, Deborah
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: This thesis is concerned with the lived experience of dyslexic actors. It explores the role of performance in constructing dyslexic identities, actors' relationships to written and verbal language, the ways in which this might impact on their acting process and implications for teaching practice. Research into dyslexia and acting practice is needed in light of the growing interest in cognition within the field of performance theory, the legislative framework surrounding dyslexia, implications for policy and practice and the numbers of professional actors with dyslexia. The methodology draws on a range of paradigms, namely phenomenology, embodied cognition and disability theory and adopts a mixed methods approach, in order to explore the complex nature of dyslexia and address a range of research questions. The research finds that the research participants have a different intentional relationship to language and linear sequencing. Certain training and acting experiences have given them a differentexperience of being in the world, creating positive dyslexic identities and body images. Disabling training approaches predicated on linear-sequencing and literacy, are the antithesis to methods which utilise non-linear, holistic and non-verbal processing. Actors manipulate the physical environment and the objects in it, to control what is otherwise a chaotic environment. A number of examples of inclusive practice and support models exist, but evidence of disabling practices remain. The research has potential policy and pedagogical implications both for actor training institutions and the industry. It also has implications for those dyslexic learners who are not professional actors, as acting may have cognitive benefits for such people and encourage positive dyslexic identities. There are broader implications relating to theatre and performance theory as a discipline, as models of neuro-diversity (such as dyslexia) can enhance current performance theory. This research may also encourage dyslexic actors not to merely survive but to thrive in the acting profession.
CINECA Report of impact and key results D8.3
Creators: name: Garcia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: sustainability
federation
impact

description: The aim of the CINECA project is to create a federated cloud enabled infrastructure to make population scale genomic and biomolecular data accessible across national cohorts in Europe, Canada and Africa, and to support federated data analysis in the same cohorts. As a result of the work done in the project, CINECA has produced multiple outputs like standards, resources, APIs, tools, and training. In this report we will present the sustainability plans for the project key outputs to ensure the work done in the CINECA project is maintained in the long-term and can be used by the scientific community after the CINECA project’s ending. This deliverable will focus solely on the CINECA output’s sustainability. A more detailed description of the project’s achievements and impact are described in Deliverable D8.4 Report of main achievements, impacts, sustainability and exploitation.
The Malaysian Experience in Financial-Economic Crisis Management: An Alternative and Challenge the IMF-style Approach
Creators: name: Khor, Martin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: Khor finds that the Malaysian experience shows an alternative to the IMF policy package can and does exist and that it can produce results that are at least as successful. Malaysia adapted to its own peculiar circumstances, the lesson is that countries can and should consider the use of capital controls as part of the array of policy tools available.
Climate impacts and food systems planning : Austin Farms’ resilience to heat and drought
Creators: name: Patracuolla, Gabrielle Rose
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Agriculture
Urban
Climate
Heat
Drought

description: The innate human connection to nature is crucial to understanding how people interact with their food systems in the urban context. Increasing heat and drought will continue to affect the production and growth of agriculture in Austin, Texas as well as people’s ability to connect to the food system. Farmers in Austin are worried about increased impacts on production, distribution and income. Future projections show increases in heat and drought causing concern for the future of food production in the region. The City of Austin and other entities can help to create stability in an increasingly unstable climate.
An urban design for Datun Town center
Creators: name: Xue, Feng
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2006

description: Bibliography: p. 105-106
description: Missing signature page.
description: Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a relatively new topic in China. Few cities have clearly incorporated TOD concepts into their planning mandate. However, with the plan and construction of modem rapid transit systems in some metropolises, the development or revitalization of transit station areas has become a new planning issue. Thus, this research study is intended to explore the application of TOD concepts in a Chinese transit station area-Datun town center. Datun town center is a proposed 0.69-square-kilometer town center project. According to its current plans, it will be developed into an attractive urban center to provide services and amenities for its future residents and surrounding communities. Since a regional rapid transit system has also been planned to reach the town center with an express bus station, its potential for TOD should be taken into account in the process of urban planning and design. This research study seeks inspiration and education from a review of TOD theory and practices. Key learnings from the review are then applied into Datun town center's specific contexts for developing a TOD urban design solution as an alterative of its future development.
Robust machine learning against unseen distributional shifts
Creators: name: Wang, Haotao
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Machine learning robustness

description: The performance decay experienced by deep neural networks (DNNs) when confronted with distributional shifts poses a significant challenge for their deployment in real-world scenarios. The limited out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization ability of DNNs acts as a critical bottleneck, especially considering the vast diversity and unpredictable changes inherent in the real-world test data distribution. To tackle this challenge, robust training emerges as a highly effective strategy for enhancing the OOD generalization ability of DNNs, enabling them to excel in complex and unpredictable real-world environments. This dissertation revolves around my extensive research on robust training, encompassing three fundamental aspects: robust data augmentation, robust model architecture design, and robust learning algorithms. Within the realm of robust data augmentation, my research delves beyond traditional augmentation methods. I explore innovative techniques that jointly generates diverse and hard training samples. Such data augmentation strategy enhances the robustness of DNNs, equipping them with the ability to generalize effectively even in the face of unforeseen changes in the data distribution. In terms of robust model architecture design, I investigate approaches that empower DNNs with inherent resilience to distributional shifts. Specifically, I design more robust normalization layers for deep neural networks, and utilize model ensembles to increase the models' capability to encode diverse training samples and generalize to unseen test cases. Moreover, I investigate advanced training algorithms that explicitly emphasize robustness. These algorithms involve leveraging adversarial training paradigms to expose and mitigate vulnerabilities, developing novel loss functions such as contrastive loss that prioritize performance on challenging or out-of-distribution samples, and robust regularization terms to prevent the models from overfitting to non-robust features. Most importantly, I show these robust learning strategies are not mutually independent with each other. Instead, it is crucial to adapt them with each other to achieve the best performance gain.
Digitale Geschäftsmodelle im Sportjournalismus
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Anne-Christin
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2018

description: Das beliebteste Sportinformationsmedium nach dem Fernsehen ist das Internet. Um hier professionalisierten Online-Sportjournalismus zu gewährleisten, bedarf es zuverlässiger Einnahmequellen. Sinkende Printerlöse und Werbeinnahmen machen eine Diversifizierung der Geschäftsmodelle notwendig. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurden die 25 reichweitenstärksten digitalen Sportnachrichtenanbieter in Deutschland untersucht: In einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse wurden die eingebundenen Geschäftsmodelle jeweils auf der Homepage sowie auf zehn hierarchisch angegliederten Webseiten (n = 275) erfasst. Die Befunde zeigen, dass Werbung und E-Commerce die tragenden Erlösstrategien darstellen. Nahezu auf jeder Webseite wird Werbung geschaltet. Die Hälfte der Sportnachrichtenanbieter verweist auf einen eigenen oder externen Online-Shop, der vornehmlich Produkte aus publizistikfremden Märkten vertreibt. Als Werbeträger und Produktverkäufer bewegen sich die journalistischen Anbieter weg von ihrer Kernkompetenz. Der Rezipient als Zahlungskraft wird ausgeklammert, indem Paywalls, E-Paper-Abonnements sowie Apps als Einnahmequelle eine vergleichsweise geringe und Social Payment und Crowdfunding gar keine Rolle spielen. The internet is, after television, the most popular sports information medium. Reliable sources of income are highly important to ensure professional online sports journalism. The declining revenue by print and advertising necessitates the diversification of business models. In this context, 25 German highest-reach digital sports news providers are examined using quantitative content analysis to explore business models located on every homepage and – in each case – on ten hierarchically structured websites (n = 275). Regarding the results, advertising and e-commerce are the most important strategies in generating revenue. All sports news providers integrate advertising on nearly all sites. Half of them promote an own or external shop primarily selling products from markets, which are not originated from journalism. As advertising media and product seller, sports news providers are moving away from their core competence. The recipient`s financial strength is irrelevant: paywalls, e-paper subscriptions and apps play only a comparatively low role as revenue source. Social payment und crowdfunding are even ignored.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 1 Nr. 1-2 (2016)
Tagungsbericht: „Mediale Sportgroßereignisse“ – 2. Jahrestagung der Ad-hoc-Gruppe Mediensport & Sportkommunikation
Creators: name: Schallhorn, Christiana
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2016

description: Tagungsbericht „Mediale Sportgroßereignisse“ – 2. Jahrestagung der Ad-hoc-Gruppe Mediensport & Sportkommunikation, 28.-30.09.2016, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Deutschland
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 1 Nr. 1-2 (2016)
The effect of induced stress on long-term memory in lymnaea stagnalis
Creators: name: Murias, Kara Rochele
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2006

description: Bibliography: p. 139-157
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Lymnaea stagnalis is a pond snail that has proven useful for studies of learning and memory of aerial respiration. Aerial respiration is an easily quantified behaviour that is controlled by a central pattern generator whose necessity and sufficiency has been directly demonstrated. If snails are exposed to an aversive chemical stimulus ( causes a defensive behaviour without causing permanent harm) before or after conditioning, a training schedule that normally only results in intermediate-term memory, causes longÂ­term memory persisting at least 24 hours. A single application of an aversive chemical stressor is also capable of forming long-term memory if the application is contingent with pneumostome opening. Therefore training related to stress or a particularly aversive stimulus is enhanced and, therefore, results in long-term memory. This memory has many of the same characteristics as memory from more extensive training but is, in general, more resistant to manipulation after consolidation.
Spectrum and ionization rate of low energy Galactic cosmic rays
Creators: name: Nath, Biman B.
name: Gupta, Nayantara
name: Biermann, Peter L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the rate of ionization of diffuse and molecular clouds in the interstellar medium by Galactic cosmic rays (GCR) in order to constrain its low energy spectrum. We extrapolate the GCR spectrum obtained from PAMELA at high energies ($\ge 200$ GeV/ nucleon) and a recently derived GCR proton flux at $1\hbox{--}200$ GeV from observations of gamma rays from molecular clouds, and find that the observed average Galactic ionization rate can be reconciled with this GCR spectrum if there is a low energy cutoff for protons at $10\hbox{--}100$ MeV. We also identify the flattening below a few GeV as being due to (a) decrease of the diffusion coefficient and dominance of convective loss at low energy and (b) the expected break in energy spectrum for a constant spectral index in momentum. We show that the inferred CR proton spectrum of $Φ\propto E_{kin}^{-1.7\pm0.2}$ for $E_{kin} \le$ few GeV, is consistent with a power-law spectrum in momentum $p^{-2.45\pm0.4}$, which we identify as the spectrum at source. Diffusion loss at higher energies then introduces a steepening by $E^{-α}$ with $α\sim 1/3$, making it consistent with high energy measurements.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in MNRAS Letters
Intransit
Creators: name: St.Arnault, Kristin Michael
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 116
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: No signatures on signature page.
description: Our cities have changed. No longer can they be characterized as a social fabric in which interpersonal interaction plays an active and vital role in the daily experience of their inhabitants. Rather, they have evolved into a series of distinct networks tenuously linked together by the mass transportation systems which characterize and facilitate our modern existence. Although we must certainly acknowledge the benefits of these systems as they connect individuals across distance, we cannot deny that they dilute the journey of social context and rob individuals of a civic experience not only on the level of the city, but also within their local environment. This Masters Degree Project seeks to suture our fragmented local networksthroughthedevelopment of multiple transit oriented developments, and is tested through a locally specific design in south Calgary, in order to reinvest our cities with social content and civic function.
Design to reduce negative emotions: improving children's experience of the dental office
Creators: name: Houston, Georgia
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 125-132
description: Contains oversized pages.
description: The goal of this Master's Degree Project is to use an affective design approach to the issue of pediatric dental anxiety by gaining insight into children's emotional experience at the dental office and proposing a holistic design solution. This project illustrates how empathic design approaches can be useful to help identify design opportunities for children who may be experiencing negative emotions such as fear, anxiety and pain. Background literature research focuses on a context analysis of the issues from a pediatric dentistry, psychosocial, emotional and design perspective. Empathic techniques, namely key informant interviews and observation of users within the dental office environment are used as a means of determining the major issues that may affect children's experience at the dental office. The results of this research informed the development of four generative design themes that may improve a child's dental experience: aesthetics, relaxation, distraction, and empowerment. The proposed design solution to reduce children's negative emotions is a digital media system hand-controller that children can use while undergoing procedures in the dental chair, when fear and anxiety are most acute. The controller functions as a means of: relaxing children through aesthetics, distraction and empowerment, with an alarm function to communicate distress. The use scenario for the controller and digital media system is illustrated and contextualized through a final storyboard of what an ideal dental office experience may be like for pediatric patients.
Decide dish
Creators: name: Jamal, Khalil
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 109-117
description: Contains numerous blank pages.
description: Missing signature page.
description: It is my contention that dining, when enframed by social and cultural values, is an aesthetic experience. However, an emerging trend to embracing informality and convenience has degraded pleasure and the distinct experiential nature from eating. Such attitudes have given regard to meals as basic and interchangeable goods and this commoditization has marginalized the pleasure derived from dining experiences. TI1e topic of food, experience and design is an indeterminate one. Designed responses to the topic of eating, a necessity and universally familiar experience, will exist within a plurality of alternative views. The tension for design interventions here are then the designer's own conception of the problem topic. Through the use of design as a device for commentary and enquiry to engender reflection, designer ethos can be voiced and applied in the creation of fictional products that: question, subvert and challenge features of the dining experience we have grown anaesthetized to.
Quantum probabilities and violation of CHSH-inequality from classical random signals and threshold type properly calibrated detectors
Creators: name: Khrennikov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a purely wave model (based on classical random field) which reproduces quantum probabilities (given by the fundamental law of quantum mechanics, Born's rule) including probabilities for joint detection of a pair of quantum observables (e.g., spin or polarization projections). The crucial point of our approach is that the presence of detector's threshold and calibration procedure have to be treated not as simply experimental technicalities, but as the basic counteparts of the theoretical model. The presence of the background field (vacuum fluctuations) is also the key-element of our prequantum model. It is of the classical signal type and the methods of classical signal theory (including statistical radiophysics) are used for its development. We stress that our prequantum model is not objective, i.e., the values of observables (clicks of detectors) cannot be assigned in advance, i.e., before measurement. Hence, the dilemma, nonobjectivity or nonlocality, is resolved in favor of nonobjectivity (our model is local of the classical field type). In particular, we reproduce the probabilities for the EPR-experiment for photon polarization and, hence, violate CHSH inequality for classical random signals (measured by the threshold type and properly calibrated detectors acting in the presence of the background field).
description: Finally, the quantum measurement problem is solved, but by going beyond the standard quantum formalism, via theory of classical random fields interacting with threshold type detectors. In fact, this is surprising that the fundamental role of detectors in production of quantum statistics was practically neglected in works on quantum foundations