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General Staff: Russia has lost 463,930 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/general-staff-russia.html

2022 retro-link! https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2022/09/09/parallel-beziers.html - Parallel curves of cubic Béziers.

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

cloudalists: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/04/12/cloudalists-our-new-cloud-based-ruling-class-project-syndicate-op-ed/

US envoy to OSCE: Russian 'double-tap' attacks have killed at least 90 first responders since April 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/us-envoy-to.html

#Gaming

Weil die #UDV gerade Horrorszenarien um 0 schwer verletzte und 0 getötete Kinder, die in Lastenrädern transportiert wurden, aufbaut, hier: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemi…

Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
"EU Voice and EU Video will be officially closed on 18 May 2024"
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publicati

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

That's the way to do it!
Spain's public prosecutor demands 3 years for ex police officer who attributed most crime to immigration, at a far right meeting, calling on Spanish people to "stop being peaceful" about it.
https://www.els…

La fiscalía pide tres años de cárcel para el excomisario que vinculó migración y delincuencia
Ricardo Ferris, en un acto organizado por Vox en el Ateneo de València en 2022, incitó a los “españoles a dejar de ser pacíficos" después de haber equiparado la inmigración con la delincuencia.

Reading the story tells you why.
First, syphilis rates are at a 70-year high, nationally. Between 2018 and 2022, syphilis rates rose about 80%.
Second, because it has to be made separately (for allergy purposes), manufacturing penicillin is comparatively resource-intensive.
Erin Fox, associate chief pharmacy officer for the University of Utah health system says
"That means you can't make other drugs on that manufacturing line.”
From:

NPR :press: (@NPR@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Surge in syphilis cases drives some doctors to ration penicillin The drug is the go-to treatment for syphilis and the only one recommended for pregnant people. But a shortage of the injectable drug has prompted some public health agencies to ration it. #press https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/26/1233049844/surge-in-syphilis-cases-drives-some-doctors-to-ration-penicillin?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

@… there was a toot going around about only searching from before 2022. It feels more and more a need recently to find credible information. It also drives me more and more to technical documentation.

Raiders select versatile pass-catcher with No. 13 pick in draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_select_versatile_pass_catcher_with_no_13_pick_in_draft/s1_14819_40283256

Raiders select versatile pass-catcher with No. 13 pick in draft
The run on offensive players continues. The Raiders are out of options with respect to quarterbacks, so they have selected Georgia tight end Brock Bowers with the 13th pick. Bowers racked up 2,538 yards and 26 touchdowns during his three-year tenure with the Bulldogs. He played a key role in the team winning the national title in 2021 and 2022, and in the latter campaign he earned first-team All-American honors. Bowers took home the John Mackey award as the nation’s top tight end in each of t…

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Broad Band X-ray Emission of the Accreting Millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816-195
Yuan You (Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Shuang-Nan Zhang (Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Zhaosheng Li (Key Laboratory of Stars and Interstellar Medium, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan University, …

A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Broad Band X-ray Emission of the Accreting Millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816-195
MAXI J1816-195 is an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) discovered in 2022. According to the Insight-HXMT data, the pulsations of this source extend all the way to over 100 keV, and its pulse profiles change from a single peak in low-energy range to double peaks in high-energy range. In this work, we simulate its energy spectra and pulse profiles with a Compton scattering Monte Carlo program. The simulation results suggest that the low energy X-ray source on the neutron star surface shou…

Stellvertretender russischer Verteidigungsminister verhaftet
Ein stellvertretender russischer Verteidigungsminister ist unter dem Verdacht der Bestechlichkeit verhaftet worden. Das teilten die russischen Behörden mit. Der 48-jährige Timur Iwanow ist einer von zwölf Stellvertretern des russischen Verteidigungsministers Sergej Schoigu. Er wurde nach der russischen Invasion in die Ukraine im Jahr 2022 …
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Korruptionsvorwürfe: Russlands Vize-Verteidigungsminister festgenommen
In Russland steht einer von zwölf Stellvertretern des Verteidigungsministers Schoigu unter Korruptionsverdacht: Timur Iwanow, der auf Sanktionslisten der EU und der USA steht, soll Bestechungsgelder im großen Stil angenommen haben.

Nu kan het nog, mensen, voordat de machines alles overnemen.
*dispereert & wanhoopt*
https://idf.social/@djoerd/112155884327150522

More Excitement Across the Horizon
Mar\'ia R. Preciado-Rivas, Manar Naeem, Robert B. Mann, Jorma Louko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14908 https://…

More Excitement Across the Horizon
An Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector falling radially into a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field that has been prepared in the Hartle-Hawking or Unruh state, has recently been shown to exhibit a local extremum in its transition probability near the black hole horizon [K.K. Ng et al., New J. Phys. 24 (2022) 103018]. We show that a similar phenomenon is present in the transition rate of a UDW detector falling radially into a spinless Bañados-Teitelboi…

I've been away since 2022 on Mastadon, didn't realize till now. Time goes by fast! Been in an out of the hospital with complications from congestive heart failure and even more importantly woke up and accepted my lord and savior Jesus Christ. All glory goes to god, without, we would not exist. God bless ya'll. Open to any questions. Still on Linux (Debian) in 2024.

ChatGPT "contamination": estimating the prevalence of LLMs in the scholarly literature
Andrew Gray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16887 https://

ChatGPT "contamination": estimating the prevalence of LLMs in the scholarly literature
The use of ChatGPT and similar Large Language Model (LLM) tools in scholarly communication and academic publishing has been widely discussed since they became easily accessible to a general audience in late 2022. This study uses keywords known to be disproportionately present in LLM-generated text to provide an overall estimate for the prevalence of LLM-assisted writing in the scholarly literature. For the publishing year 2023, it is found that several of those keywords show a distinctive and d…

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 26.03.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 35. Atombombe "Cup". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Comparison of the disk precession models with the photometric behavior of TT Ari in 2021-2023
V. F. Suleimanov, K. V. Belyakov, J. M. Perales, V. V. Neustroev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15254

Comparison of the disk precession models with the photometric behavior of TT Ari in 2021-2023
We present a comparative analysis of photometric observations of the cataclysmic variable TT Ari in its bright state, obtained by the TESS orbital observatory in 2021 and 2023 and by ground-based amateur telescopes in 2022. The light curves from 2021 and 2022 are dominated by modulations with a period slightly shorter than the orbital one (negative superhumps), 0.13293 and 0.13273$\,$d respectively. In 2023, much stronger modulations appeared on a much longer time scale of a few days with an am…

Besonders die morgendlichen und nachmittäglichen Stauspitzen an Werktagen sind laut ADAC angestiegen, was auf die Rückkehr aus dem Homeoffice hindeutet.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-9620520?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_b…

Large Language Models in Biomedical and Health Informatics: A Bibliometric Review
Huizi Yu, Lizhou Fan, Lingyao Li, Jiayan Zhou, Zihui Ma, Lu Xian, Wenyue Hua, Sijia He, Mingyu Jin, Yongfeng Zhang, Ashvin Gandhi, Xin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16303

Large Language Models in Biomedical and Health Informatics: A Bibliometric Review
Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly become important tools in Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), enabling new ways to analyze data, treat patients, and conduct research. This bibliometric review aims to provide a panoramic view of how LLMs have been used in BHI by examining research articles and collaboration networks from 2022 to 2023. It further explores how LLMs can improve Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in various BHI areas like medical diagnosis, patient engagem…

Pairing enhancement through the photography of the intermediate nucleus spectrum in a two-nucleon transfer process
G. Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14964

Pairing enhancement through the photography of the intermediate nucleus spectrum in a two-nucleon transfer process
While forming an ($A$+2) nucleus from a nucleus $A$ via a two-neutron transfer reaction, the constructive interference of the many possible reaction channels favors significant pairing enhancement through the continuum of the intermediate ($A$+1) nucleus [Phys. Lett. B 834, 137413 (2022)]. I analyse this situation in more detail, from the point of view of a varying pairing field leading to the formation of ($A$+2) nucleus $^6$He, described as housing two-neutrons in orbitals of $^5$He. The natu…

In July it was first reported that ChatGPT growth was declining.
At work, they told me "you know, it's school break", "kids are playing Minecraft now", and the like.
Today I just saw this by @…

Let's not do this again, please
OpenAI's text-to-video generator Sora is being hyped as a game-changer by an industry at a crossroads. This time we should know better

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
On 18 March, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the #east #Antarctic #plateau documented a remarkable event.
…

Lessons Learned in Performing a Trustworthy AI and Fundamental Rights Assessment
Marjolein Boonstra, Fr\'ed\'erick Bruneault, Subrata Chakraborty, Tjitske Faber, Alessio Gallucci, Eleanore Hickman, Gerard Kema, Heejin Kim, Jaap Kooiker, Elisabeth Hildt, Annegret Lamad\'e, Emilie Wiinblad Mathez, Florian M\"oslein, Genien Pathuis, Giovanni Sartor, Marijke Steege, Alice Stocco, Willy Tadema, Jarno Tuimala, Isabel van Vledder, Dennis Vetter, Jana Vetter, Magnus Westerlund…

Lessons Learned in Performing a Trustworthy AI and Fundamental Rights Assessment
This report shares the experiences, results and lessons learned in conducting a pilot project ``Responsible use of AI'' in cooperation with the Province of Friesland, Rijks ICT Gilde-part of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) (both in The Netherlands) and a group of members of the Z-Inspection$^{\small{\circledR}}$ Initiative. The pilot project took place from May 2022 through January 2023. During the pilot, the practical application of a deep learning algorithm from the p…

Mamdani: "[...] you've also described yourself as a 'Law & Order' Mayor."
Adams: "I like to believe that *chuckles*"
[describes how Adams was legally required to build 20 miles of bus lanes in 2022 but did not, and 30 miles of bus lanes in 2023, but also did not.]
Mamdani: "How can you call yourself a law & order mayor when new yorkers can't trust you to follow the law?"

Of course we end up where we expected to with this election, even though nobody wanted it. That's what plurality elections do.
All the more reason to get behind #RankedChoiceVoting
https://

Pledge To Support Ranked Choice Voting Across the U.S.
Ranked Choice Voting is taking off. Just last November, it passed in 10 places in 2022. Voters from all political backgrounds love it because it takes power away from politicians and puts it where it belongs: in the hands of voters.

Testbeam results of irradiated SiGe BiCMOS monolithic silicon pixel detector without internal gain layer
T. Moretti, M. Milanesio, R. Cardella, T. Kugathasan, A. Picardi, I. Semendyaev, M. Elviretti, H. R\"ucker, K. Nakamura, Y. Takubo, M. Togawa, F. Cadoux, R. Cardarelli, L. Cecconi, S. D\'ebieux, Y. Favre, C. A. Fenoglio, D. Ferrere, S. Gonzalez-Sevilla, L. Iodice, R. Kotitsa, C. Magliocca, M. Nessi, A. Pizarro-Medina, J. Sabater Iglesias, J. Saidi, M. Vicente Barreto Pinto,…

Testbeam results of irradiated SiGe BiCMOS monolithic silicon pixel detector without internal gain layer
Samples of the monolithic silicon pixel ASIC prototype produced in 2022 within the framework of the Horizon 2020 MONOLITH ERC Advanced project were irradiated with 70 MeV protons up to a fluence of 1 x 1016 neq/cm2, and then tested using a beam of 120 GeV/c pions. The ASIC contains a matrix of 100 μm pitch hexagonal pixels, readout out by low noise and very fast frontend electronics produced in a 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology process. The dependence on the proton fluence of the efficiency and …

Reconstructed Electronic Structure in 2D vdW 1T-Ta$S_2$ for Quantum Sensing and Information Science
S. K. Behera, P. C. Ramamurthy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14932

Reconstructed Electronic Structure in 2D vdW 1T-Ta$S_2$ for Quantum Sensing and Information Science
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials that exhibit a diverse range of electronic structures, including charge density waves (CDWs) that can lead to insulating, semiconducting, metallic, and even superconducting phases. While the formation of CDWs in these systems has been recognized in early research [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 156401 (2022); Nat. Phys. 11, 328 (2015)], the underlying mechanisms driving the commensurate CDW (CCDW) phase remain …

Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

He learned nothing.
Time I rolled this out again:
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2022/07/26/the-renewed-clamour-for-growth-ignorance-stupidity-or-immorality/
Gordon Brown: UK has to get on war fo…

The renewed clamour for growth: ignorance, stupidity or immorality?
We are currently seeing renewed calls from leading politicians for a focus on “growth”, by which they mean economic growth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. The Conservative contender…

This piece is about ostensibly about intellectual property—not my usual beat of climate, regeneration, ecology, business strategy, language, and belonging to the living world—but it holds a lesson about the processes of policy, legislation, and standards (aha, there's your clue) that may very much pertain to all the "sustainable business" and "ESG" people who are in the kitchen cooking up more alphabet soup.

Winding Down Our Latest Greenhouse Panel: The Lessons Learned From SOPA/PIPA
Ten years ago a coalition of strange bedfellows came together to thwart one of the most problematic pieces of legislation in tech policy history. In the process they made history, rekindled waning …

Assessing Human Judgment Forecasts in the Rapid Spread of the Mpox Outbreak: Insights and Challenges for Pandemic Preparedness
Thomas McAndrew, Maimuna S. Majumder, Andrew A. Lover, Srini Venkatramanan, Paolo Bocchini, Tamay Besiroglu, Allison Codi, Gaia Dempsey, Sam Abbott, Sylvain Chevalier, Nikos I. Bosse, Juan Cambeiro, David Braun
https://

Assessing Human Judgment Forecasts in the Rapid Spread of the Mpox Outbreak: Insights and Challenges for Pandemic Preparedness
In May 2022, mpox (formerly monkeypox) spread to non-endemic countries rapidly. Human judgment is a forecasting approach that has been sparsely evaluated during the beginning of an outbreak. We collected -- between May 19, 2022 and July 31, 2022 -- 1275 forecasts from 442 individuals of six questions about the mpox outbreak where ground truth data are now available. Individual human judgment forecasts and an equally weighted ensemble were evaluated, as well as compared to a random walk, autoreg…

General Staff: Russia has lost 402,430 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/18/general-staff-russia.html

Heute vor einem Jahr: Am 25. März 2023 kündigte Putin an, dass #Russland taktische #Kernwaffen in #Belarus stationieren werde. Bereits am 21.02.2023 suspendierte Putin die Teilnahme Russlands am New…

Automated Attack Synthesis for Constant Product Market Makers
Sujin Han, Jinseo Kim, Sung-Ju Lee, Insu Yun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05297 https://…

Automated Attack Synthesis for Constant Product Market Makers
Decentralized Finance enables many novel applications that were impossible in traditional finances. However, it also introduces new types of vulnerabilities, such as composability bugs. The composability bugs refer to issues that lead to erroneous behaviors when multiple smart contracts operate together. One typical example of composability bugs is those between token contracts and Constant Product Market Makers (CPMM), the most widely used model for Decentralized Exchanges. Since 2022, 23 expl…

People Are Moving Out of Areas With Poor Air Quality, Often Because They’re Too Expensive
Redfin - February 13, 2024
“Roughly 1 million more people moved out of than into U.S. metros with high risk from poor air quality in 2021-2022, while low risk metros saw 1 million more people move in than out.”
https://www.…

People Are Moving Out of Areas With Poor Air Quality, Often Because They’re Too Expensive
Some people are leaving because they’re worried about air quality, but many are moving because they’ve been priced out.

Genesis - The Final Show (London O2 Arena | March 26. 2022)
#NowPlaying

Semialgebraic Range Stabbing, Ray Shooting, and Intersection Counting in the Plane
Timothy M. Chan, Pingan Cheng, Da Wei Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12303

Semialgebraic Range Stabbing, Ray Shooting, and Intersection Counting in the Plane
Polynomial partitioning techniques have recently led to improved geometric data structures for a variety of fundamental problems related to semialgebraic range searching and intersection searching in 3D and higher dimensions (e.g., see [Agarwal, Aronov, Ezra, and Zahl, SoCG 2019; Ezra and Sharir, SoCG 2021; Agarwal, Aronov, Ezra, Katz, and Sharir, SoCG 2022]). They have also led to improved algorithms for offline versions of semialgebraic range searching in 2D, via lens-cutting [Sharir and Zahl…

Und ich höre die Wirtschaft rufen, man solle die Schuldenbremse lockern. Nun.
@… https://social.tchncs.de/@doener/111668808714527644

Impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the international staple agrifood trade networks
Yin-Ting Zhang, Mu-Yao Li, Wei-Xing Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12496

Impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the international staple agrifood trade networks
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a growing concern worldwide and poses serious threats to regional and global food security. Using monthly trade data for maize, rice, and wheat from 2016/1 to 2022/12, this paper constructs three international crop trade networks (iCTNs) and an aggregate international food trade network (iFTN). We aim to examine the structural changes following the occurrence of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. We find significant shifts in the number of edges, average degree, density…

Testbeam results of irradiated SiGe BiCMOS monolithic silicon pixel detector without internal gain layer
T. Moretti, M. Milanesio, R. Cardella, T. Kugathasan, A. Picardi, I. Semendyaev, M. Elviretti, H. R\"ucker, K. Nakamura, Y. Takubo, M. Togawa, F. Cadoux, R. Cardarelli, L. Cecconi, S. D\'ebieux, Y. Favre, C. A. Fenoglio, D. Ferrere, S. Gonzalez-Sevilla, L. Iodice, R. Kotitsa, C. Magliocca, M. Nessi, A. Pizarro-Medina, J. Sabater Iglesias, J. Saidi, M. Vicente Barreto Pinto,…

Testbeam results of irradiated SiGe BiCMOS monolithic silicon pixel detector without internal gain layer
Samples of the monolithic silicon pixel ASIC prototype produced in 2022 within the framework of the Horizon 2020 MONOLITH ERC Advanced project were irradiated with 70 MeV protons up to a fluence of 1 x 1016 neq/cm2, and then tested using a beam of 120 GeV/c pions. The ASIC contains a matrix of 100 μm pitch hexagonal pixels, readout out by low noise and very fast frontend electronics produced in a 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology process. The dependence on the proton fluence of the efficiency and …

Oriented transformations on a finite chain: another description
V\'itor H. Fernandes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12234 https://arx…

Oriented transformations on a finite chain: another description
Following the new description of an oriented full transformation on a finite chain given recently by Higgins and Vernitski in "Orientation-preserving and orientation-reversing mappings: a new description", Semigroup Forum 104 (2022), 509--514, in this short note we present a refinement of this description which is extendable to partial transformations and to injective partial transformations.

It's important to keep in mind
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/07/trans-survey-transition-gender-affirming-care

Quantitative Reducibility of $C^k$ Quasi-Periodic Cocycles
Ao Cai, Huihui Lv, Zhiguo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09132 https://ar…

Quantitative Reducibility of $C^k$ Quasi-Periodic Cocycles
This paper establishes an extreme $C^k$ reducibility theorem of quasi-periodic $SL(2, \mathbb{R})$ cocycles in the local perturbative region, revealing both the essence of Eliasson [Commun.Math.Phys.1992] and Hou-You [Invent.Math.2022] in respectively the non-resonant and resonant cases. By paralleling further the reducibility process with the almost reducibility, we are able to acquire the least initial regularity as well as the least loss of regularity for the whole KAM iterations. This, in r…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04456 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

Characterization for a generic construction of bent functions and its consequences
Recently, Li et al. presented a generic construction of bent functions in [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 2735-2751, 2022]. In this paper, we give a characterization for their construction from another perspective. This characterization enables us to obtain another efficient construction of bent functions. Based on that, we derive several infinite families of concrete bent functions and give their duals. Our results show that many known bent functions are particular cases of our b…

Russia stripped of 2022 Olympics gold medal for team figure skating after Valieva ban: https://benborges.xyz/2024/01/30/russia-stripped-of.html

Indrukwekkende documentaire "20 days in Mariuopol" , schokkende beelden. Burgerbevolking die lijdt onder de gerichte aanvallen van Rusland op burgerdoelen.
https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/2024/02/20-days-in-mariupol.html

Bekijk de documentaire '20 Days in Mariupol' nu op 2Doc.nl
Verslag van de Russische inval in de Oekraïense stad Marioepol in 2022. De beelden zijn gemaakt door de Oekraïense Associated Press-journalist Mstyslav Chernov en zijn team. Terwijl zij vastzitten in de stad gaan zij door met hun werk en doen verslag van alle vreselijke gebeurtenissen. Met uiterste moeite weet Chernov de beelden uit de van internet en elektriciteit verstoken stad te versturen. Door de bombardementen zijn de beelden schokkerig, maar kraakhelder en in de voice-over geeft Cherno…

A Science4Peace initiative: Alleviating the consequences of sanctions in international scientific cooperation
A. Ali, M. Barone, S. Brentjes, D. Britzger, M. Dittmar, T. Ekel\"of, J. Ellis, S. Fonseca de Souza, A. Glazov, A. V. Gritsan, R. Hoffmann, H. Jung, M. Klein, V. Klyukhin, V. Korbel, P. Kokkas, P. Kostka, U. Langenegger, J. List, N. Raicevic, A. Rostovtsev, A. Sabio Vera, M. Spiro, G. Tonelli, P. van Mechelen, J. Vigen

A Science4Peace initiative: Alleviating the consequences of sanctions in international scientific cooperation
The armed invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation has adversely affected the relations between Russia and Western countries. Among other aspects, it has put scientific cooperation and collaboration into question and changed the scientific landscape significantly. Cooperation between some Western institutions and their Russian and Belarusian partners were put on hold after February 24, 2022. The CERN Council decided at its meeting in December 2023 to terminate cooperation agreements with R…

Advancements and challenges in plasmon-exciton quantum emitters based on colloidal quantum dots
Adam Olejniczak, Yury Rakovich, Victor Krivenkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10613 <…

Advancements and challenges in plasmon-exciton quantum emitters based on colloidal quantum dots
The Nobel Prizes in Physics (2022) and Chemistry (2023) heralded the recognition of quantum information science and the synthesis of quantum dots, respectively. This acknowledgment has propelled colloidal quantum dots and perovskite nanocrystals to the forefront of quantum technologies. Their distinct emission properties, facilitating the efficient generation of both single photons and photon pairs, render them particularly captivating. Moreover, their adaptability to diverse structures, rangin…

Raiders Re-Signing C Andre James https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_signing_c_andre_james/s1_17039_40086990

A statistical model to identify excess mortality in Italy in the period 2011-2022
Antonino Bella, Gianluca Bonifazi, Luca Lista, Dario Menasce, Mauro Mezzetto, Daniele Pedrini, Patrizio Pezzotti, Maria Cristina Rota, Roberto Spighi, Antonio Zoccoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06111

A statistical model to identify excess mortality in Italy in the period 2011-2022
Excess mortality is defined as an increase in the number of deaths above what is expected based on historical trends, hereafter called baseline. In a previous paper, we introduced a statistical method that allows an unbiased and robust determination of the baseline to be used for the computation of excesses. A good determination of the baseline allows us to efficiently evaluate the excess of casualties that occurred in Italy in the last 12 years and in particular in the last 3 years due to the …

Social media giants’ unbalanced fight with disinformation in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/01/30/social-media-giants.html

Dimorphos orbit determination from mutual events photometry
Peter Scheirich, Petr Pravec, Alex J. Meyer, Harrison F. Agrusa, Derek C. Richardson, Steven R. Chesley, Shantanu P. Naidu, Cristina Thomas, Nicholas A. Moskovitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02804

Dimorphos orbit determination from mutual events photometry
The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully impacted the Didymos-Dimorphos binary asteroid system on 2022 September 26 UTC. We provide an update to its pre-impact mutual orbit and estimate the post-impact physical and orbital parameters, derived using ground-based photometric observations taken from July 2022 to February 2023. We found that the total change of the orbital period was $-33.240 \pm 0.072$ min. (all uncertainties are 3$σ$). We obtained the eccentricity…

Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande
K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato, K. Hiraide, K. Hosokawa, K. Ieki, M. Ikeda, J. Kameda, Y. Kanemura, R. Kaneshima, Y. Kashiwagi, Y. Kataoka, S. Miki, S. Mine, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, Y. Nakano, M. Nakahata, S. Nakayama, Y. Noguchi, K. Sato, H. Sekiya, H. Shiba, K. Shimizu, M. Shiozawa, Y. Sonoda, Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, Y. Takemoto, H. Tanaka, T. Yano, S. Han, T. Kajita, K. Okumura, T. Tashiro, T. Tomiya, X. Wang, S. Yoshida, P. Fernandez, L. La…

Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande
The first loading of gadolinium (Gd) into Super-Kamiokande in 2020 was successful, and the neutron capture efficiency on Gd reached 50\%. To further increase the Gd neutron capture efficiency to 75\%, 26.1 tons of $\rm Gd_2(\rm SO_4)_3\cdot \rm 8H_2O$ was additionally loaded into Super-Kamiokande (SK) from May 31 to July 4, 2022. As the amount of loaded $\rm Gd_2(\rm SO_4)_3\cdot \rm 8H_2O$ was doubled compared to the first loading, the capacity of the powder dissolving system was doubled. We a…