cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Christlicher Antijudaismus als religiöse Form des Antisemitismus
Creators: name: Müller, Klaus
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: Am 26. April 2001 schreibt die Evangelische Kirche in Baden folgende Sätze in ihre Grundordnung: »Die Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden will im Glauben an Jesus Christus und im Gehorsam ihm gegenüber festhalten, was sie mit der Judenheit verbindet. Sie lebt aus der Verheißung, die zuerst an Israel ergangen ist, und bezeugt Gottes bleibende Erwählung Israels. Sie beugt sich unter die Schuld der Christenheit am Leiden des jüdischen Volkes und verurteilt alle Formen der Judenfeindlichkeit. « Solche Sätze verstehen sich nicht von selbst. Ein weiter, weiter Weg durch die Jahrhunderte musste gegangen werden, bis derlei Aussagen als theologische Grundlagen der Kirchenverfassung sozusagen ganz weit vorne verankert werden konnten. Die kirchliche Diktion im Blick auf das Judentum klingt über 20 Jahrhunderte hinweg sehr anders. Sie ist geprägt von einer Haltung, die wir als theologisch motivierte Judenfeindschaft verstehen können. Mit dem Begriff des Antijudaismus ist die pauschale Ablehnung des Judentums aus überwiegend christlich-religiösen Motiven bezeichnet. Der Duden weist den Begriff des Antijudaismus als traditionelle Form der Judenfeindschaft aus, als »Vor- und Nebenform des Antisemitismus«3. Antijudaismus durchzieht die Geschichte des Christentums seit den Anfängen. Er begleitet die Trennung des Christentums vom Judentum nach der Tempelzerstörung im Jahr 70, seinen Aufstieg zur Staatsreligion des Römischen Reiches im 4. Jahrhundert und weiter durch die Zeiten hindurch. Im nationalsozialistischen Judenhass schließlich gipfelt eine für die Juden mörderische Instrumentalisierung des kirchlichen Antijudaismus. Die fatale Logik hinter der antijudaistischen Haltung ist einfach: Dass die meisten Juden Jesus Christus nicht als den Messias und Sohn Gottes annehmen können, bedeutet für die frühe Kirche so etwas wie die Infragestellung ihres Wahrheitsanspruchs. Das schiere Dasein von Jüdinnen und Juden, die an ihrem Glauben festzuhalten gedenken, wird als Angriff auf das Christentum verstanden, kam doch der Herr selbst aus dem Volk Israel und wollte zeitlebens nirgendwo sonst wirken. Jüdinnen und Juden wurden daher seit dem 4. Jahr - hundert und den folgenden Jahrhunderten im christlichen Europa rechtlich, sozial und ökonomisch benachteiligt, ausgegrenzt und verfolgt, vertrieben und vielfach ermordet. Dies wiederum galt dem christlichen Verständnis als Beleg für die Strafe oder den Fluch Gottes für die angebliche Verstockung oder Gotteslästerung der Juden.
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 03 (2018): Antisemitismus. Altes Gift in neuen Schläuchen
Silence / Signification Degree Zero: Walter Benjamin’s Anti-Aesthetic of the Body
Creators: name: Rauch, Malte Fabian
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Walter Benjamin
subject: anti-aesthetics
subject: body
subject: creaturely
subject: silence
subject: Idealist aesthetics
subject: fate
subject: sublime
subject: theory of tragedy
subject: tragic
subject: impotentiality
subject: 800 Literatur und Rhetorik

description: This essay examines Walter Benjamin’s opposition against traditional aesthetics and his development of an alternative, a decidedly anti-aesthetic approach. More specifically, it focuses on how Benjamin launches a frontal attack on Idealist aesthetics in the theory of ancient tragedy expounded in the Trauerspiel book and how he develops his own alternative conception in critical delineation from it. Closely examining his engagement with Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Hegel, and Solger, the essay shows how Benjamin’s entire theory is construed as a pointed response to a long and complex discourse on tragedy. Through a reconstruction of these debates, it becomes evident that the core of Benjamin’s critique concerns the relation between universal and singular in Idealist aesthetics, spelled out in a theory of reconciliation that is directly tied to the themes of fate and sacrifice. Against this background, the essay then analyzes – drawing both on Benjamin’s reception of Franz Rosenzweig as well as the work of Giorgio Agamben – Benjamin’s notion of silence as a retreat from language and meaning, as an immersion into the body. Instead of offering an image of reconciliation, tragedy, for Benjamin, then appears as the site where bodily singularity and impotentiality fragments the totality of signification, where meaning is disrupted and reduced to degree zero.
Rbfox1 controls alternative splicing of focal adhesion genes in cardiac muscle cells
Creators: name: Zorn, Peter
name: Calvo Sánchez, Jaime
name: Alakhras, Tala
name: Schreier, Barbara
name: Gekle, Michael
name: Hüttelmaier, Stefan
name: Köhn, Marcel
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Alternative splicing is one of the major cellular processes that determine the tissue-specific expression of protein variants. However, it remains challenging to identify physiologically relevant and tissue-selective proteins that are generated by alternative splicing. Hence, we investigated the target spectrum of the splicing factor Rbfox1 in the cardiac muscle context in more detail. By using a combination of in silico target prediction and in-cell validation, we identified several focal adhesion proteins as alternative splicing targets of Rbfox1. We focused on the alternative splicing patterns of vinculin (metavinculin isoform) and paxillin (extended paxillin isoform) and identified both as potential Rbfox1 targets. Minigene analyses suggested that both isoforms are promoted by Rbfox1 due to binding in the introns. Focal adhesions play an important role in the cardiac muscle context, since they mainly influence cell shape, cytoskeletal organization, and cell–matrix association. Our data confirmed that depletion of Rbfox1 changed cardiomyoblast morphology, cytoskeletal organization, and multinuclearity after differentiation, which might be due to changes in alternative splicing of focal adhesion proteins. Hence, our results indicate that Rbfox1 promotes alternative splicing of focal adhesion genes in cardiac muscle cells, which might contribute to heart disease progression, where downregulation of Rbfox1 is frequently observed.
Study on the Influence of Farmer Social Capital on Cooperative Supply Willingness of Agricultural Disaster Reduction Public Goods——Based on the Investigation on 515 Farmers
Creators: name: XU Jiarui
name: JIANG Yi
name: WO Qi
name: XIAO Shuyhing
name: XU Jiarui
name: JIANG Yi
name: WO Qi
name: XIAO Shuyhing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Social capital, Agricultural disaster reduction public goods, Cooperative supply, Farmer’s willingness

description: Based on social capital theory, related factors of three dimensions（structure dimension, cognition dimension and relation dimension）of farmer social capital are taken as independent variables, and famer’s willingness to cooperatively supply agricultural disaster reduction public goods is taken as dependent variable. Taking 515 farmers in 27 villages of Hubei Province as investigation objects, the influence of farmer social capital on cooperative supply willingness of agricultural disaster reduction public goods is explored by Logistic regression model. Research results show that social solidarity, common value concept, social trust and reciprocal content have positive impact on farmer’s willingness of cooperative supply, while annual household income, number of agricultural disaster reduction public goods and social network have negative impact on farmer’s willingness of cooperative supply.
Convolution algebras for Relational Groupoids and Reduction
Creators: name: Contreras, Ivan
name: Moshayedi, Nima
name: Wernli, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce the notions of relational groupoids and relational convolution algebras. We provide various examples arising from the group algebra of a group $G$ and a given normal subgroup $H$. We also give conditions for the existence of a Haar system of measures on a relational groupoid compatible with the convolution, and we prove a reduction theorem that recovers the usual convolution of a Lie groupoid.
description: 27 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Pacific Journal of Mathematics
Recurrence of fidelity in near integrable systems
Creators: name: Sankaranarayanan, R.
name: Lakshminarayan, Arul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of simple perturbation theory, recurrence time of quantum fidelity is related to the period of the classical motion. This indicates the possibility of recurrence in near integrable systems. We have studied such possibility in detail with the kicked rotor as an example. In accordance with the correspondence principle, recurrence is observed when the underlying classical dynamics is well approximated by the harmonic oscillator. Quantum revivals of fidelity is noted in the interior of resonances, while classical-quantum correspondence of fidelity is seen to be very short for states initially in the rotational KAM region.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Aphidius transcaspious Telenga
Creators: name: Akhtar, Mir Samim
name: Dey, Debjani
name: Usmani, Mohd. Kamil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Aphidius
Aphidius transcaspious

description: 22. Aphidius transcaspious Telenga
 Aphedius transcaspicus Telenga, 1958: 55-56.
 Host. Aphis sp. on Prunus domestica (Bhagat and Ahmad 1991).
 Distribution. Jammu and Kashmir (Bhagat and Ahmad 1991).
description: Published as part of Akhtar, Mir Samim, Dey, Debjani & Usmani, Mohd. Kamil, 2011, A catalogue of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from India, pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (151) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4531563
Green Root Collective Action for Conservation of Agri-Bio Diversity: a Case Study in Tuscany
Creators: name: G. Stefani
name: G.V. Lombardi
name: D. Romano
name: L. Cei
name: G. Stefani
name: G.V. Lombardi
name: D. Romano
name: L. Cei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Collective action, wheat landraces, integrated food chains

description: The literature on environmental policy shows that institutional arrangements are key in designing effective environmental policies. Besides regulation and market (Coasian) solutions, grass root collective action has been advocated as a possible solution for the provision of agro-environmental public goods. We gauge that the same institutional arrangement can be found in many territorially integrated food chains that aims at re-embedding food production in the local society. Building on this literature, we present a case study - a short supply chain for bread production from ancient local wheat landraces in Tuscany – emphasizing the role played by collective action in maintaining high quality production in a context of severe information asymmetries.
Influence of spray drying conditions on the properties of whole goat milk
Creators: name: Aparecida Helena De Oliveira
name: Mata, Mario Eduardo R. M. Cavalcanti
name: Fortes, Mauri
name: Duarte, Maria Elita Martins
name: Matheus Pasquali
name: Lisboa, Hugo M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Goat milk is still an underexploited product, mainly due to technical hurdles. Conversion into powder by spray drying can ensure product quality and safety, but un-optimized processing causes losses on product value. Therefore, our work intended to study the effects of spray drying on goat milk powder using fundamental parameters. A set of 12 experiments were conducted by varying outlet temperature, and feed flow rate so different drying kinetics were tested. The process presented yields ranging from 41 to 62.5%, benefitting from lower relative humidity conditions. Also, drying gas relative humidity close to 1% in combination with smaller droplets produced powders with higher density, lower color alterations, and lower variations on the chemical content of the powdered milk. Finally, it is concluded that the feed flow rate is a critical process parameter because it influences droplet size and relative humidity.
Editorial
Creators: name: Schriftleitung, Verantwortliche
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: Israel – Land der Träume seit Jahrtausenden. Land der Sehnsucht für so viele Jüdinnen und Ju - den seit biblischen Zeiten; aber auch Heimat für Christinnen und Christen seit der Entstehung des Christentums, für Musliminnen und Muslime seit dem 7. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Wer kennt nicht das berühmte Lied des Psalmsängers: »An den Flüssen von Babylon/saßen wir und weinten,/wenn wir an Zion dachten.« (Ps 137) Die Sehnsucht nach dem Gelobten Land wurde in Zeiten der Verfolgung zur realen Notwendigkeit, ein Land zu finden, in dem Juden in Sicherheit und als freie Bürger leben können. In der zionistischen Bewegung bekam diese Vision seit Theodor Herzl eine politische Gestalt. Doch erst nach dem Schrecken der Schoah konnte 1948 aus den Träumen, Sehnsüchten und Visionen Wirklichkeit werden. Israel – das Heilige Land für Jüdinnen und Ju - den. Doch auch für das Christentum und den Is - lam hat das Land Israel – und in besonderem Ma - ße die Stadt Jerusalem – eine zentrale religiöse Bedeutung. Die Stadt des letzten Wirkens, des Todes und der Auferstehung Jesu Christi, die Stadt der Himmelfahrt des Propheten Muhammad – kann diese Stadt, kann das Land Israel für die drei großen Weltreligionen je zum Realsymbol des friedlichen Zusammenlebens, der gegenseitigen Verständigung und der Versöhnung werden?
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 01 (2019): Israel: Heiliges Land - für wen?!
Scalar field potentials for cosmology
Creators: name: Cardenas, Victor H.
name: del Campo, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss different aspects of modern cosmology through a scalar field potential construction method. We discuss the case of negative potential cosmologies and its relation with oscillatory cosmic evolution, models with a explicit interaction between dark energy and dark matter which address the coincidence problem and also the case of non-zero curvature space.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, to be published in PRD
Well-informed Consumer? How do Different Consumer Groups Handle Online Information on German Animal Welfare Initiatives?
Creators: name: Hirsch, Darya
name: Meyer, Christian H.
name: Massen, Cristina
name: Terlau, Wiltrud
name: Hirsch, Darya
name: Meyer, Christian H.
name: Massen, Cristina
name: Terlau, Wiltrud
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer behavior; Milieu-specific differences; Schwartz's portrait value questionnaire (PVQ); Social Media; Sustainability; Echo chamber; Factor- and cluster analyses

description: In January 2015, German trade and industry announced to support the national animal welfare initiative “Initiative Tierwohl” (ITW) which stands for a more sustainable and animal-friendly meat production. A web content analysis shows that the ITW initiative has been widely picked up and discussed by online media and that user comments are quite heterogeneous. The current study identifies different types of consumers through factor and cluster analysis and is based on an online survey as well as face-to-face interviews. According to our results, the identified consumer groups demonstrate a rather passive comment behaviour on the internet. In fact, the internet was hardly mentioned as an information source for meat production; consumers more frequently referred to brochures, leaflets and personal contacts with sales personnel.
Die rettende Kraft der Torah – Lerntraditionen in der Überlieferung der Hebräischen Bibel
Creators: name: Ego, Beate
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: Ein Midrasch in Bereshit Rabba 65,20 (130a) erzählt eine Anekdote, wonach sich die Völker der Welt darüber beklagten, dass es ihnen bislang nicht gelungen sei, das Volk Israel zu besiegen. Die Antwort, die diese darauf erhalten, wirkt auf den ersten Blick überraschend und entwaffnend, wenn man ihnen sagt: »Gehet und beobachtet ihre Syna - gogen und Lehrhäuser; solange ihr dort Kinder findet, die mit ihrer Stimme zwitschern – d.h. die Torah laut rezitieren –, könnt ihr ihnen nicht beikommen, denn ihr (himmlischer) Vater hat es ih - n en versprochen.«2 Lernen bildet nach dieser Überlieferung somit ein Element, das für Israel von fast fundamentaler Bedeutung ist, denn es wird geradezu zum Garan - ten seiner Existenz inmitten der feindlichen Völkerwelt. Dass das Bestehen einer Gesellschaft in enger Bezogenheit zu ihrer Fähigkeit, ihr religiöses und kulturelles Wissen der nächsten Generation zugänglich zu machen, verstanden werden muss, ist nicht überraschend, und so kann man dieses Diktum zunächst in metaphorischer Form soziologisch deuten. Ein Blick auf die Traditionen der Hebräischen Bibel zeigt darüber hinaus, dass hinter dieser Aussage auch eine Art »Lerntheologie« steht, die sich im alten Israel und frühen Judentum im Laufe von mehreren Jahrhunderten herausgebildet hat. Nicht zuletzt im Zusammenspiel mit so gravierenden geschichtlichen Ereignissen wie der Zerstörung des Jerusalemer Tempels im Jahre 70 n.Chr. hat diese dann die konkrete Gestalt und Ausformung gefunden, wie sie für das synagogale Judentum eigentlich bis heute eine tragende Rolle spielt. Lernen stellt eine Art Gottesdienst dar, der letztlich die Existenz des ganzen Volkes sichern kann. In diesem großen Rahmen soll es das Ziel dieses kleinen Beitrags sein, einige elementare Grund - linien in der Hebräischen Bibel herauszuarbeiten, die auf ein solches elementares Verständnis des Lernens hingeführt haben. Nach Ausführungen zu den biblischen Grundlagen des religiösen Lernens, wie wir sie vor allem im Deuteronomium und bei Esra (I) sowie in der prophetischen Überlieferung (II) klar greifen können, folgen Ausführungen zu eschatologischen Dimensionen des Ler - nens (III) sowie zur spätbiblischen und frühjüdischen Gebetsfrömmigkeit (IV).3 1 Die Grundlagen: Lernen im Deuteronomium und bei Esra Wenn wir einmal zu den Anfängen einer Entwicklung biblischer Lernkonzeptionen gehen wollen, so sind es verschiedene Texte im Deuteronomium, die eine wichtige Basis für das jüdische Lernverständnis bilden. An erster Stelle ist in diesem Zusammenhang Dtn 6,4–9 zu nennen, ein Text, den Norbert Lohfink einmal ganz prägnant als »Schlüsseltext zum Glaubenlernen«4 bezeichnet hat. Hier heißt es in einer Rede, die im Rahmen des Erzählsettings dieses Buches Mose kurz vor seinem Tod an der Grenze zum verheißenen Land an die Israeliten richtet.
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 03 (2017): Lernen in Judentum und Christentum - und darüber hinaus
Photon counting computed tomography in rectal cancer : associations between iodine concentration, histopathology and treatment response : a pilot study
Creators: name: Surov, Alexey
name: Diallo-Danebrock, Raihanatou
name: Radi, Amin
name: Kröger, Jan Robert
name: Niehoff, Julius Henning
name: Michael, Arwed Elias
name: Gerdes, Berthold
name: Elhabash, Saleem
name: Wienke, Andreas
name: Borggrefe, Jan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Rationale and Objectives: Common computed tomography (CT) investigation plays a limited role in characterizing and assessing the response of rectal cancer (RC) to neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy (NARC). Photon counting computed tomography (PCCT) improves the imaging quality and can provide multiparametric spectral image information including iodine concentration (IC). Our purpose was to analyze associations between IC and histopathology in RC and to evaluate the role of IC in response prediction to NARC. Materials and Methods: Overall, 41 patients were included into the study, 14 women and 27 men, mean age, 65.5 years. PCCT in a portal venous phase of the abdomen was performed. In every case, a polygonal region of interest (ROI) was manually drawn on iodine maps. Normalized IC (NIC) was also calculated. Tumor stage, grade, lymphovascular invasion, circumferential resection margin, and tumor markers were analyzed. Tumor regression grade (absence/presence of tumor cells) after NARC was analyzed. NIC values in groups were compared to Mann–Whitney-U tests. Sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve values were calculated. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated. Results: ICC was 0.93, 95%CI = (0.88; 0.96). Tumors with lymphovascular invasion showed higher NIC values in comparison to those without (p = 0.04). Tumors with response grade 2–4 showed higher pretreatment NIC values in comparison to lesions with response grade 0–1 (p = 0.01). A NIC value of 0.36 and higher can predict response grade 2–4 (sensitivity, 73.9%; specificity, 91.7%; area under the curve, 0.85). Conclusion: NIC values showed an excellent interreader agreement in RC. NIC can predict treatment response to NARC.
A novel magnetically separable BiVO4/N-rGO/CuFe2O4 hybrid photocatalyst for efficient detoxification of p-bromophenol
Creators: name: Jiang, Pei
name: Wei, Xueyu
name: Chen, Hanfei
name: Liu, Zhigang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: The present work deals with simple hydrothermal preparation of magnetically separable BiVO4/N-rGO/CuFe2O4 Z-scheme hybrid photocatalyst for efficient detoxification of p-bromophenol (p-BP). BiVO4 is one of the most efficient visible light catalyst, however, suffers with photo-corrosion and high recombination of charge carriers that restricts its applications. Addition of graphene oxide doped with nitrogen are believed to overcome these issues. Further addition of CuFe2O4 enhances the catalytic degradation and helps in separating the catalyst. With these merits BiVO4/N-rGO/CuFe2O4 could be a promising photocatalyst for detoxification of p-BP. After 60 min of irradiation 94.1 ± 1.2% degradation was achieved by the BiVO4/N-rGO/CuFe2O4 (k = 0.01749 min−1) while only 53.8 ± 2.3% was observed in BiVO4 (k = 0.00674 min−1). The catalyst could be able to recover using external magnet and showed 86.4% of degradation efficiency even after five recycles, which suggested its good stability. The degradation products identification and pathway were proposed based on LC-ESI/MS analysis. Moreover, phytotoxicity assessment of the degradation products was investigated on Phaseolus vulgaris in which the germination index (GI) was about 11.4% for pure p-BP, while it was about 83.03% for degradation products. Thus, the results suggested that more efficient p-BP detoxification was achieved during this photodegradation.
Public Acceptance of Antibiotic Use in Livestock Production Canada and Germany
Creators: name: Goddard1, Ellen
name: Hartmann2, Monika
name: Klink-Lehmann, Jeanette
name: Goddard1, Ellen
name: Hartmann2, Monika
name: Klink-Lehmann, Jeanette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Acceptance; Antibiotics; Livestock production; Animal welfare

description: The use of antibiotics in livestock production has repeatedly been in the dock over the last few years. However, reducing antibiotic treatments without increasing the suffering of animals requires changes in animal husbandry practices which will likely come at a cost. The objective of the paper is to investigate the factors influencing consumers’ willingness to consume products of animals that have been treated with antibiotics, their willingness to pay for a considerable reduction in the use of antibiotics and their willingness to consider animal welfare in the context of ‘antibiotic free’ livestock production. The study is based on an online survey of citizens in Germany and Canada, conducted in October 2016. The results reveal differences in the individual’s willingness to consume livestock products from animals treated with antibiotics between Canada and Germany with lower acceptance rates in the latter. Results also show that in both countries individuals with higher concerns about the treatment of animals more strongly reject the use of antibiotics in livestock production. This might indicate that consumers are not aware that banning antibiotics in livestock production might have negative repercussions for animal welfare.
Magmatic channelisation by reactive and shear-driven instabilities at mid-ocean ridges: a combined analysis
Creators: name: Jones, David W. Rees
name: Zhang, Hanwen
name: Katz, Richard F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is generally accepted that melt extraction from the mantle at mid-ocean ridges (MORs) is concentrated in narrow regions of elevated melt fraction called channels. Two feedback mechanisms have been proposed to explain why these channels grow by linear instability: shear flow of partially molten mantle and reactive flow of the ascending magma. These two mechanisms have been studied extensively, in isolation from each other, through theory and laboratory experiments as well as field and geophysical observations. Here, we develop a consistent theory that accounts for both proposed mechanisms and allows us to weigh their relative contributions. We show that interaction of the two feedback mechanisms is insignificant and that the total linear growth rate of channels is well-approximated by summing their independent growth rates. Furthermore, we explain how their competition is governed by the orientation of channels with respect to gravity and mantle shear. By itself, analysis of the reaction-infiltration instability predicts the formation of tube-shaped channels. We show that with the addition of even a small amount of extension in the horizontal, the combined instability favours tabular channels, consistent with the observed morphology of dunite bodies in ophiolites. We apply the new theory to MORs by calculating the accumulated growth and rotation of channels along streamlines of the solid flow. We show that reactive flow is the dominant mechanism deep beneath the ridge axis, where the most unstable orientation of high-porosity channels is sub-vertical. Channels are then rotated by the solid flow away from the vertical. The contribution of the shear-driven instability is confined to the margins of the melting region. Within the limitations of our study, the shear-driven feedback is not responsible for significant melt focusing or for shallowly dipping seismic anisotropy [abridged].
description: [32 pages, 17 figures.] This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Geophysical Journal International following peer review. The version of record is available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab112
The North-South Cline
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology

description: The kur carry a trace of the Near Eastern ancestry on the maternal side, on the paternal side they have 80% native Indian ancestry. What this means is that at some point of time, possibly around 6,000 BCE to 4,000 BCE, native males married Near Eastern females. It is difficult to visualize such a possibility, except in a situation where native males travelled to the Near East, or at least to where they came in contact with Near Eastern population. Trade could be a reason for the encounter.The Deccan kṣatrīya carry significant traces of Near Eastern ancestry on both the paternal and maternal sides. What this means is that at some point of time there was a bidirectional exchange of genes – native males travelled out and married Near Eastern females and Near Eastern males came into the peninsula marrying native females. Here again the trade could be the reason. We have indeed come across evidence, though not very strong, of such trade happening at a very early period. [The Bhil, 30 Jun 19; The 7,500 BCE Deluge, 08 Sep 19]Having said that,let us not forget that the native Indian ancestry dominates in both the kur and the Deccan kṣatrīya. And that makes it fairly difficult to distinguish between the two in practice. What complicates the task further is the fact that there still exist communities that carry almost exclusively native Indian ancestry; distinguishing them from the kur is indeed difficult.
On the Structural Differences between Disk and Dwarf Galaxies
Creators: name: Schombert, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gas-rich dwarf and disk galaxies overlap in numerous physical quantities that make their classification subjective. We report the discovery of a separation between dwarfs and disks into two unique sequences in the mass (luminosity) versus scale length plane. This provides an objective classification scheme for late-type galaxies that only requires optical or near-IR surface photometry of a galaxy. Since the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation for these samples produces a continuous relation between baryonic mass and rotational velocity, we conclude that the difference between dwarfs and disks must be because of their distribution of stellar light such that dwarfs are more diffuse than disk galaxies. This structural separation may be due to a primordial difference between low and high mass galaxies or produced by hierarchical mergers where disks are built up from dwarfs. Structural differences between dwarf and disk galaxies may also be driven by the underlying kinematics where the strong rotation in disks produces an axial symmetric object that undergoes highly efficient star formation in contrast to the lower rotation, more disordered motion of dwarfs that produces a diffuse, triaxial object with a history of inefficient star formation.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures, AJ in press, AASTeX5.2
Existence and uniqueness for a coupled parabolic-hyperbolic model of MEMS
Creators: name: Gimperlein, Heiko
name: He, Runan
name: Lacey, Andrew A.
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Local wellposedness for a nonlinear parabolic-hyperbolic coupled system modeling Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) is studied. The particular device considered is a simple capacitor with two closely separated plates, one of which has motion modeled by a semilinear hyperbolic equation. The gap between the plates contains a gas and the gas pressure is taken to obey a quasilinear parabolic Reynolds' equation. Local-in-time existence of strict solutions of the system is shown, using well-known local-in-time existence results for the hyperbolic equation, then Hölder continuous dependence of its solution on that of the parabolic equation, and finally getting local-in-time existence for a combined abstract parabolic problem. Semigroup approaches are vital for the local–in-time existence results.
Impulsando la Rentabilidad La Motivación del Talento Humano como Factor Clave para el Éxito en Empresas de Auditoría Financiera en la Ciudad de Quito
Creators: name: Ortiz, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 350503
subject: Human resources management

description: En el contexto actual de la globalización y la competencia, las empresas de auditoría financiera en la ciudad de Quito enfrentan significativos desafíos que requieren un enfoque renovado de su capital humano. La motivación del talento humano se presenta como un elemento altamente estratégico fundamental para impulsar la rentabilidad y el éxito sostenible de estas organizaciones. A medida que el mercado laboral evoluciona, se hace evidente que la capacidad de una empresa para atraer, desarrollar y retener talento altamente calificado, no solo influye en la calidad de los servicios que la misma pueda ofrecer, sino que también impacta en la satisfacción del cliente y en la reputación organizacional. Por tanto, resulta crucial entender cómo los factores motivacionales, que van desde el reconocimiento hasta las oportunidades de crecimiento profesional, pueden ser artífices de un entorno laboral productivo e inclusivo, configurando así un panorama favorable para el desarrollo de la industria de auditoría en Quito.El presente articulo busca evidenciar la importancia que tiene el mantener un personal motivado en cualquier área de trabajo, más aún en aquellas que manejan procedimientos tan sensibles para las empresas como son las finanzas, mismas que requieren de un análisis estructurado bajo normativas lo que implica un alto compromiso, competencias laborales acorde a sus funciones y autonomía para liderar procesos de análisis profundos, componentes propios del engagement como herramienta base de la influencia humana en las organizaciones.
An Estimate of the Maximal Operators Associated with Generalized Lacunary Sets
Creators: name: Karagulyan, Grigor
name: Lacey, Michael T
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $Ω$ be any set of directions (unit vectors) on the plane. In this paper we study maximal operator of the one dimensional maximal function computed in the directions of $Ω$ We are interested in extensions of lacunary sets of directions, to collections we call $N$--lacunary, for integers $N$. We proceed by induction. Say that $Ω$ is 1--lacunary iff $Ω$ is an ordinary lacunary set of vectors. Every $N+1$--lacunary set can be obtained from some $N$--lacunary $Ω_N$ adding some points to $Ω_N$. Between each two neighbor points $a,b\inΩ_N$ we can add a 1--lacunary sequence (finite or infinite). We show that for all $N$ lacunary sets $Ω$, $$ \|M_Ωf(x)\|_2\lesssim{}N \|f\|_2. $$ Observe that every set $Ω$ of $N$ points is $(C\log N)$--lacunary. We then obtain a Theorem of N. Katz \cite{Katz2}. Both the current inequality, and Katz' result are consequence of a general result of Alfonseca, Soria, and Vargas \cites{ASV2}. We offer the current proof as a succinct, self--contained approach to this inequality.
description: 10 pages
Begegnungen im schweigenden Bund mit dem ewigen Du. Impulse für die Begegnung zwischen Judentum und Christentum aus der Sprachphilosophie Martin Bubers und der Sprachpraxis Janusz Korczaks
Creators: name: Kirschner, Sebastian G.
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext
Year: 2021

description: 1 Einleitung »Wir reden mit ihm [dem ewigen Du] nur, wenn es in uns nicht mehr redet.« 2 »Das Wort ist ein Bundesgenosse, kein Stellvertreter.« 3 Zwischen diesen Zitaten spannen sich die Pole, die im Folgenden anhand eines Gesprächs 4 zwischen den jüdischen Denkern Martin Buber und Janusz Korczak herausgearbeitet werden sollen. Die Sprachphilosophie von Bubers Ich und Du soll mit der Sprachpraxis von Korczaks Wie man ein Kind lieben soll in einen Diskurs gebracht werden. Die leitende Frage lautet dabei, inwiefern Sprache von ihrer philosophischen und pädagogischen Seite für eine Begegnung zwischen Judentum und Christentum fruchtbar gemacht werden kann und ob sich damit Perspektiven ergeben, die beide Religionen sowohl in ihrer Eigenart ohne Hierarchisierungen ernst nimmt als auch die gemeinsame Heilsperspektive nicht aus dem Blick verliert. 2 Zur Bedeutung von Sprache in Martin Bubers Ich und Du 5 2.1 Zum Sitz der Sprache im Leben des Menschen In Bubers Hauptwerk Ich und Du baut sich die »Welt der Beziehung« in drei »Sphären« auf, dem »Leben mit der Natur«, dem »Leben mit den Menschen « und dem »Leben mit den geistigen Wesenheiten « (6 u. 97). Die Grenze zwischen diesen Bereichen zieht die klanghafte Sprache. Die erste Sphäre, die Kommunikation mit den Kreaturen, ist noch vorsprachlich. Es gibt zwar eine Interaktion, aber keine Innerlichkeit (vgl. 6). Die genuine Sphäre der Sprache ist die zweite, die Interaktion der Menschen untereinander. Hier kann das gesprochene ›Du‹ auf eine äquivalente Antwort treffen und sich dadurch wirkliche Beziehung ereignen (vgl. 6). Mit der dritten Sphäre tritt der Mensch in einen sprachlosen, bzw. übersprachlichen Bereich ein. Durch Offenbarung kann der Mensch von den geistigen Wesenheiten »angerufen« werden und sich »bildend, denkend, handelnd« dazu verhalten. Hier geschieht die Kom - munikation »mit [dem] Wesen« und nicht mehr mit dem Mund (vgl. 6). Allen Sphären ist gemeinsam, dass sie »den Saum des ewigen Du« (7 u. 97) erreichen, wenn sie sich von jedem materialistischen ›Ich-Es‹6-Zusammenhang befreien. Alle können sie zur »Pforte in die Präsenz des Wortes« (98) werden.
description: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, Nr. 01-02 (2018): Martin Buber. Neue Interpretationen
CRP and Sxy regulate competence gene promoters in haemophilus influenzae
Creators: name: Cameron, Andrew Dafydd Skye
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Many bacteria have the ability to bind and take up DNA from their environment through a process called natural competence. Competent species are widely distributed across the prokaryotic phylogenetic tree and inhabit disparate niches. Most of these species are thought to tightly regulate DNA uptake, suggesting that it is an important physiological response to conditions that can arise in diverse environments. To better understand some of the signals and mechanisms that regulate competence development, I have carried out molecular studies in Haemophilus influenzae and other γ-proteobacteria. In H. influenzae, transcription of natural competence genes depends on two proteins, CRP and Sxy. In Escherichia coli, CRP is a well-characterized transcription factor that stimulates gene expression in response to sugar and energy starvation; genetic studies have shown that CRP plays a similar role in H. influenzae. Although CRP preferentially binds to DNA sites with the consensus sequence TGTGA, results presented here demonstrate that CRP targets unusual "CRP-S" sites (sequence TG C GA) in competence gene promoters. Transcription initiation at CRP-S promoters absolutely requires Sxy, unlike other CRP-regulated promoters in the cell. Results from promoter mutagenesis and in vitro binding assays support a model in which CRP cannot bind CRP-S sites unless assisted by Sxy. Bioinformatic analysis identified competence genes, Sxy orthologs, and CRP-S sites in three γ-proteobacteria families (Enterobacteriaceae, Pasteurellaceae, and Vibrionaceae ), suggesting that many bacteria use CRP and Sxy to regulate competence. Studies in H. influenzae identified an extensive secondary structure in sxy mRNA that blocks translation. Culturing cells in starvation medium improved Sxy translation while independently stimulating CRP activity at the sxy promoter; however, the addition of nucleotides to starvation medium blocked Sxy translation. Thus, sxy mRNA secondary structure is responsive to conditions where exogenous DNA can be used as a source of nucleotides, and transcription of sxy is simultaneously enhanced if CRP signals that energy supplies are limited. In conclusion, nutritional signals transduced by CRP and Sxy are integrated by CRP-S sites in competence gene promoters.
Hyperbolic Mapping of Human Proximity Networks
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Flores, Marco A.
name: Papadopoulos, Fragkiskos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human proximity networks are temporal networks representing the close-range proximity among humans in a physical space. They have been extensively studied in the past 15 years as they are critical for understanding the spreading of diseases and information among humans. Here we address the problem of mapping human proximity networks into hyperbolic spaces. Each snapshot of these networks is often very sparse, consisting of a small number of interacting (i.e., non-zero degree) nodes. Yet, we show that the time-aggregated representation of such systems over sufficiently large periods can be meaningfully embedded into the hyperbolic space, using methods developed for traditional (non-mobile) complex networks. We justify this compatibility theoretically and validate it experimentally. We produce hyperbolic maps of six different real systems, and show that the maps can be used to identify communities, facilitate efficient greedy routing on the temporal network, and predict future links with significant precision. Further, we show that epidemic arrival times are positively correlated with the hyperbolic distance from the infection sources in the maps. Thus, hyperbolic embedding could also provide a new perspective for understanding and predicting the behavior of epidemic spreading in human proximity systems.
Pulmonary lesions in early response assessment in pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma : prevalence and possible implications for initial staging
Creators: name: Stoevesandt, Dietrich
name: Wohlgemuth, Walter A.
name: Steglich, Jonas
name: Ludwig, Christiane
name: Mauz-Körholz, Christine
name: Vordermark, Dirk
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Background: Disseminated pulmonary involvement in pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (pHL) is indicative of Ann Arbor stage IV disease. During staging, it is necessary to assess for coexistence of non-malignant lung lesions due to infection representing background noise to avoid erroneously upstaging with therapy intensification. Objective: This study attempts to describe new lung lesions detected on interim staging computed tomography (CT) scans after two cycles of vincristine, etoposide, prednisolone, doxorubicin in a prospective clinical trial. Based on the hypothesis that these new lung lesions are not part of the underlying malignancy but are epiphenomena, the aim is to analyze their size, number, and pattern to help distinguish true lung metastases from benign lung lesions on initial staging. Materials and methods: A retrospective analysis of the EuroNet-PHL-C1 trial re-evaluated the staging and interim lung CT scans of 1,300 pediatric patients with HL. Newly developed lung lesions during chemotherapy were classified according to the current Fleischner glossary of terms for thoracic imaging. Patients with new lung lesions found at early response assessment (ERA) were additionally assessed and compared to response seen in hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes. Results: Of 1,300 patients at ERA, 119 (9.2%) had new pulmonary lesions not originally detectable at diagnosis. The phenomenon occurred regardless of initial lung involvement or whether a patient relapsed. In the latter group, new lung lesions on ERA regressed by the time of relapse staging. New lung lesions on ERA in patients without relapse were detected in 102 (7.8%) patients. Pulmonary nodules were recorded in 72 (5.5%) patients, the majority (97%) being<10 mm. Consolidations, ground-glass opacities, and parenchymal bands were less common. Conclusion: New nodules on interim staging are common, mostly measure less than 10 mm in diameter and usually require no further action because they are most likely non-malignant. Since it must be assumed that benign and malignant lung lesions coexist on initial staging, this benign background noise needs to be distinguished from lung metastases to avoid upstaging to stage IV disease. Raising the cut-off size for lung nodules to ≥ 10 mm might achieve the reduction of overtreatment but needs to be further evaluated with survival data. In contrast to the staging criteria of EuroNet-PHL-C1 and C2, our data suggest that the number of lesions present at initial staging may be less important.
The minimal seesaw and leptogenesis models
Creators: name: Xing, Zhi-zhong
name: Zhao, Zhen-hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given its briefness and predictability, the minimal seesaw -- a simplified version of the canonical seesaw mechanism with only two right-handed neutrino fields -- has been studied in depth and from many perspectives, and now it is being pushed close to a position of directly facing experimental tests. This article is intended to provide an up-to-date review of various phenomenological aspects of the minimal seesaw and its associated leptogenesis mechanism in neutrino physics and cosmology. Our focus is on possible flavor structures of such benchmark seesaw and leptogenesis scenarios and confronting their predictions with current neutrino oscillation data and cosmological observations. In this connection particular attention will be paid to the topics of lepton number violation, lepton flavor violation, discrete flavor symmetries, CP violation and antimatter of the Universe.
description: 111 pages, 23 figures, 9 tables, final version published in Reports on Progress in Physics as a Review Article
Extreme Weather and Global Agricultural Markets: Experimental Analysis of the Impacts of Heat Waves on Wheat Markets
Creators: name: Chatzopoulos, Thomas
name: Domínguez, Ignacio Pèrez
name: Zampieri, Matteo
name: Toreti, Andrea
name: Chatzopoulos, Thomas
name: Domínguez, Ignacio Pèrez
name: Zampieri, Matteo
name: Toreti, Andrea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Extreme-weather events frequently drive production fluctuations, price volatility, and hence uncertainty on agricultural commodity markets. Simulation models of global agriculture typically assume normal weather in deterministic scenarios, contain no explicit parameterization of weather elements on the supply side, and confound multitudinous sources of yield fluctuation in exogenous yield shocks. As a part of a wider project on extreme events modelling, in this paper we present the experimental design of a first attempt to explicitly parameterize extreme weather into a partial equilibrium model of global agriculture (Aglink-Cosimo). We outline the main model additions and present preliminary estimates of wheat yield-to-heat elasticities for key regions. We also present the potential wheat market impacts from a counterfactual heat-wave scenario in Australia. Finally, we outline ongoing and future work on multi-scenario analysis in the context of extreme weather and global markets.