Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…

Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater - complete series 🚀🎶👩‍🚀
Dramatized musical scifi adventure for kids | Total listening time: 16h 19m
Wacky outer space adventures and musical fun for kids, starring Mary Farfisa and her space-horse, Briscoe! Join Mary and Briscoe, as they travel the stars, searching for strange and beautiful music to share with the Univ...

Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater - complete series 🚀🎶👩‍🚀
Dramatized musical scifi adventure for kids | Total listening time: 16h 19m Wacky outer space adventures and musical fun for kids, starring Mary Farfisa and her space-horse, Briscoe! Join Mary and Briscoe, as they travel the stars, searching for strange and beautiful music to share with the Universe! 1 seasons, 33 episodes as of May 20, 2022.

Calling Betteridge's Law on this one..
#BetteridgesLaw

Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…

Es ist ja toll, dass Deutschland schon deutlich mehr als 50% erneuerbare Energien im Strommix hat (Februar 2024: 63,6%). Aber wir sollten definitiv nicht nur auf den Strom schauen.
Die gesamte Primärenergie sieht anders aus. Da ist noch *SEEHR* viel zu tun / einzusparen / sektorzukoppeln. 🤫
Quelle: https://

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 440,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/general-staff-russia.html

Analysis Facilities White Paper
D. Ciangottini, A. Forti, L. Heinrich, N. Skidmore, C. Alpigiani, D. Benjamin, B. Bockelman, L. Bryant, J. Catmore, M. D'Alfonso, C. Doglioni, G. Duckeck, P. Elmer, J. Eschle, M. Feickert, J. Frost, R. Gardner, V. Garonne, M. Giffels, J. Gooding, E. Gramstad, L. Gray, B. Hegner, A. Held, J. Hern\'andez, B. Holzman, F. Hu, B. K. Jashal, D. Kondratyev, E. Kourlitis, L. Kreczko, I. Krommydas, T. Kuhr, E. Lancon, C. Lange, D. Lange, J. Lange, P. Lenz…

Analysis Facilities White Paper
This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views have been collected through the High Energy Physics (HEP) Software Foundation's (HSF) Analysis Facilities forum, established in March 2022, the Analysis Ecosystems II workshop, that took place in May 2022, and the WLCG/HSF pre-CHEP workshop, that took place in May 2023. The paper attempts to cover all the aspects of an…

Officer Screamed ‘Stop Shooting Her’ While Police Killed Unarmed Teen After Car Chase https://www.404media.co/officer-screamed-stop-shooting-her-while-police-killed-unarmed-teen-after-car-chase/

#Nashville PSA: There were no trolleys (streetcars) in the 'trolley barns' at Rolling Mill Hill. Nashville's Streetcars (which is what we called them) were phased out in early 1941, the same year those buildings were opened, for use by public works. The "trolley barns" are completely made up history. The actual streetcar barns were where the Municipal Auditorium sits today. …

The Trolley Barns That Never Were
Nashville History is a blog about the people, places and events of Nashville's and Davidson County's past.

Analysis: Vietnam's share in global smartphone exports grew from less than 1% in 2010 to 12% in 2022, while India's grew from <1% to 2.5% over the same period (The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/data/who-is-winni

Schärferes Vorgehen - „Schweinerei!“ Dem Torten-Pfusch droht nun Saures #News #Nachrichten

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

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, ...

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.

The monkey’s paw curls. https://mstdn.social/@Skepticat/112329277502617703

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, ...

An alle Autoköpfe:
Hier die häufigsten #Unfallverursacher:
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Verkehrs…

Anteil des Güterverkehrs auf der Schiene wächst nur leicht
Die Eisenbahn hat ihren Anteil am Güterverkehr 2022 ausgebaut – am meisten zulasten der Binnenschifffahrt.
https://www.heise.de/news/An…

Wordle 1,035 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🎉FINALLY! 🎉 After almost 2 years (since July 2022) of using the same starter word, it finally was the word of the day! My first and only first-guess win.
(The side effect is that now I need a new starter word! 😃)
#Wordle

Versatile mixed methods for compressible flows
Edward A. Miller, David M. Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18660 https://arxiv.org…

Versatile mixed methods for compressible flows
Versatile mixed finite element methods were originally developed by Chen and Williams for isothermal incompressible flows in "Versatile mixed methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations," Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Volume 80, 2020. Thereafter, these methods were extended by Miller, Chen, and Williams to non-isothermal incompressible flows in "Versatile mixed methods for non-isothermal incompressible flows," Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Volume 125, 2022. …

The rise of Indo-German collaborative research: 1990-2022
Aasif Ahmad Mir, Nina Smirnova, Jeyshankar Ramalingam, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17171

The rise of Indo-German collaborative research: 1990-2022
The study aims to highlight the growth and development of Indo-German collaborative research over the past three decades. Moreover, this study encompasses an in-depth examination of funding acknowledgements to gain valuable insights into the financial support that underpins these collaborative endeavors. Together with this paper, we provide an openly accessible dataset of Indo-German research articles for further and reproducible research activities (the "Indo-German Literature Dataset"). The d…

Comment on "Do near-threshold molecular states mix with neighboring $\bar QQ$ states?"
George Rupp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19541 https://

Comment on "Do near-threshold molecular states mix with neighboring $\bar QQ$ states?"
I comment on a paper by Christoph Hanhart and Alexey Nefediev, published in Phys. Rev. D 106, 114003 (2022). The authors discuss the interpretation of mesons close to their lowest decay threshold and present a mechanism for the formation of molecular states. The proposed formalism is then applied to the axial-vector mesons $D_{s1}(2536)$ and $D_{s1}(2460)$, presenting two scenarios for the lighter meson, namely a $D^\star K$ molecule or a compact $c\bar{s}$ state. The authors argue that the lat…

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

The Jive Verification System and its Transformative Impact on Weather Forecasting Operations
Nicholas Loveday, Deryn Griffiths, Tennessee Leeuwenburg, Robert Taggart, Thomas C. Pagano, George Cheng, Kevin Plastow, Elizabeth Ebert, Cassandra Templeton, Maree Carroll, Mohammadreza Khanarmuei, Isha Nagpal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404…

The Jive Verification System and its Transformative Impact on Weather Forecasting Operations
Forecast verification is critical for continuous improvement in meteorological organizations. The Jive verification system was originally developed to assess the accuracy of public weather forecasts issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. It started as a research project in 2015 and gradually evolved into the operational verification system that went live in 2022. The system includes daily verification dashboards for forecasters to visualize recent forecast performance and "Evidence Tar…

Evolution of coronal mass ejections with and without sheaths from the inner to the outer heliosphere -- statistical investigation for 1975-2022
C. Larrodera, M. Temmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16653

Evolution of coronal mass ejections with and without sheaths from the inner to the outer heliosphere -- statistical investigation for 1975-2022
This study covers a thorough statistical investigation of the evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) with and without sheaths, through a broad heliocentric distance and temporal range. The analysis treats the sheath and magnetic obstacle (MO) separately to gain more insight about their physical properties. In detail, we aim to unravel different characteristics of these structures occurring over the inner and outer heliosphere. The method is based on a large statistical sampl…

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/4aE21dk

As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters
Meta’s shift away from politics is forcing campaigns to change their outreach tactics, transforming the 2024 election.

General Staff: Russia has lost 434,710 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/22/general-staff-russia.html

Thomas Rinsma got Doom working on a credit card swiper - attached here is a video of it. His blog post breaking down the process of porting it is wild: https://th0mas.nl/2022/07/18/porting-doom-to-a-payment-terminal

A small New Mexico county on the Texas border may stand alone as the only place where the 14th amendment has been used in recent times to remove a government official from the ballot.
Couy Griffin, a county commissioner until 2022 in #Otero county, which has a population of around 69,000 people, became the first official in more than a century to be removed from office under the provision in the 14th a…

Cycling on the Freeway: The Perilous State of Open Source Neuroscience Software
Britta U. Westner, Daniel R. McCloy, Eric Larson, Alexandre Gramfort, Daniel S. Katz, Arfon M. Smith, invited co-signees
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19394

Cycling on the Freeway: The Perilous State of Open Source Neuroscience Software
Most scientists need software to perform their research (Barker et al., 2020; Carver et al., 2022; Hettrick, 2014; Hettrick et al., 2014; Switters and Osimo, 2019), and neuroscientists are no exception. Whether we work with reaction times, electrophysiological signals, or magnetic resonance imaging data, we rely on software to acquire, analyze, and statistically evaluate the raw data we obtain - or to generate such data if we work with simulations. In recent years there has been a shift toward …

While the EU is forcing all social networks equally to become federated, protect user's data, delete misinformation, and stop monopolistic or gatekeeping behavior, the US is banning foreign social networks under the pretense of “national security”.
With members of congress enacting this ban only acting in their own financial interests, as they own the stock of the competing American big tech companies [

Congress’s Big Tech Stock Trading Makes Antitrust Regulation Awkward
A proposed antitrust bill has cast a spotlight on the immense portfolios of dozens of lawmakers.

2022 retro-link! https://blog.apnic.net/2022/07/22/why-the-nro-is-defending-afrinic/ - Why the NRO is defending AFRINIC.

Hands up if you think public EU money being awarded by @… / @… should be subject to a transparent process where we can see all internal discussions/comments/reasoning concerning funding decisions including who made them.

We’re already looking at this backward, upside down and in a mirror.
“… 52 percent of Americans now use an ad blocker, up from 34 percent according to 2022 Statista data.
[…]
“For the general public, the rationale for doing so tends to be more about protecting privacy (20 percent) than blocking ads (18 percent), with another 9 percent wanting faster web page loading.”

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know

South Dakota issued apology and $300,000 payment to a transgender advocacy group for abrupt cancellation of a Department of Health contract in 2022
https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/02/02/state-apologiz…

State apologizes, pays transgender advocacy group $300,000 for discrimination - South Dakota Searchlight
The state of South Dakota has issued an apology letter and a $300,000 payment to a transgender advocacy group for discriminating against it.

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/witness-the-glory-of-the-2024-european-tree-of-the-year-from-poland/

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years
Thought to be 2,000 years old, The Heart of the Garden is the third Polish tree in a row to win, following up a pair oaks in 2023 and 2022.

incredible to see the USA willingly give up the lead in what is inevitably the future of vehicles.
https://mastodon.world/@statisticsworld/112231159466440907

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…

Verteidiger spricht - Leon (6) qualvoll ertrunken: „Ermittlungspannen“ #News #Nachrichten

Today is the second anniversary of Eric Boehlert's tragic and untimely death.
Soledad O’Brien celebrated Eric as "“an awesome human being" with a "Crazy devotion to facts, context and good reporting. Enemy of BS, fake news.”
https://

Police have also systematically failed domestic violence and sexual assault survivors while perpetrating those offenses themselves or enabling the violence in prisons. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/police-defund-abo…

@… Hast du gesehen? Das scheint der Hintergrund zu den Layoffs zu sein:
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/111171019429839700

Dieser 17-Jährige lebt mit der #Bahncard100 seit eineinhalb Jahren in den Zügen der Deutschen Bahn
https://www.businessinsider…

Aawks – All Is Fine
[from «Heavy on the Cosmic», 2022]
#FediRadio

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

Joint filing: Apple and Rivos say they reached a deal to settle Apple's 2022 lawsuit accusing the SoC startup of poaching 40 engineers to steal trade secrets (Rachel Graf/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple Is Settling Chip Secrets Theft Case Against Startup Rivos
Apple Inc. said it’s reached an agreement that potentially settles its 2022 lawsuit accusing startup Rivos Inc. of poaching engineers to steal trade secrets.

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

#woodenovercoats is back on Apple’s podcast app.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/wooden-overcoats/id1039662268

‎„Wooden Overcoats“ auf Apple Podcasts
‎Fiktion · 2022

General Staff: Russia has lost 459,530 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/21/general-staff-russia.html

#Big12
Via Bunkie Perkins @BunkiePerkins
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Ahem…UNIQUE BEAVER

So, und jetzt Pssssst!, ich werde nun "Fischers Frau" [2022] von Karin #Kalisa in einem Zug durchlesen, weil es von eine*r angefordert wurde und ich es also heute bis um 19 Uhr zurückgeben werde, weil ich zu geizig für die Strafzahlungen und gleichzeitig zu geil auf lesende Druckbetankung bin!
#bookstodon

Die #AfD hat gegen den #Verfassungsschutzbericht 2022 vor dem Berliner Verwaltungsgericht geklagt, weil darin steht, daß von einem extremistischen Potenzial von ca. 10.000 Mitgliedern (etwa 1/3 der Gesamtmitgliederzahl) in der Partei auszugehen ist.
Die AfD kassierte eine klare Nieder…

Esta merda é completamente absurda. Meter milhões de euros numa cagada de blockchain como parte do PRR seria só estúpido se não fosse um crime económico porque é dinheiro que se vai acabar por evaporar sem deixar rasto nem produzir rigorosamente NADA. E pior ainda é chamarem "verde" a uma merda que consome carradas de energia para coisa nenhuma.

Mais Transparência
O portal Mais Transparência é uma plataforma digital de informação sobre vários temas de gestão e recursos públicos da responsabilidade da AMA - Agência para a Modernização Administrativa.

This unreleased live track by Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi is just out of this world! The pads!!! Would love to experience that on a big system, but for now my AKG's will do... 😍🫠
The Memoir - Page 90: Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi (Live, 2022)
https://youtu.be/lNa6MwyVJPw?si=uaupu…

Preis für Suchtpotenzial
Ende Februar bekommt das Musikcomedy-Duo Suchtpotenzial den Schwerter Kleinkunstpreis 2022 für "betörende Musik, brutale Kalauer und bittersüße Gefühle".
https://bit.ly/4bFKvq5
Foto Copyright Julia Gamez Martin & Ariane T. Müller

On the Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves at Eisenstein primes
Francesc Castella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12644 https://arxiv.org/pd…

On the Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves at Eisenstein primes
These are expanded notes for the mini-course given by the author at the 2022 ICTS workshop `Elliptic curves and the special values of $L$-functions'.

Wordle 1,035 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🎉FINALLY! 🎉 After almost 2 years (since July 2022) of using the same starter word, it finally was the word of the day! My first and only first-guess win.
(The side effect is that now I need a new starter word! 😃)
#Wordle

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Siblings are our best friends, worst critics and sometime enemies. Today, we celebrate them. Let's play!
#SiblingAShowOrBook

Bill – January 2021 on the sofa <https://photos.app.goo.gl/K2prrkre49L6d2PP6>, 17th March 2022 in a cot.
This weekend seems to be the second anniversary of his homecoming from New Priory Vets. He was an in-patient for around eleven days, with hypocalcaemia – an extrao…

This war would end in 3 days if EU countries would tell Russia they are coming with boots on the ground if they don’t roll back to their borders in those 3 first days in 2022.

How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction? | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2024/02/08/how-serious-is-greater-manchester-about-traffic-reduction/

How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction?
How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction? The streets of Greater Manchester are groaning under the weight of traffic. Between 2012 and 2022, the number of cars on the road increase…

"Sewage dumped into Scottish rivers 50 times a day, ‘disturbing’ figures reveal"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Sewage

Sewage dumped into Scottish rivers 50 times a day, ‘disturbing’ figures reveal
Scottish Water released sewage into rivers, lochs and waterways more than 14,000 times in 2022 - but the real figure is more than 19,000

Emma McIntosh, "Special project G*: Ontario government staff used code name for Greenbelt carveouts"
#onpoli <…

Special project G*: Ontario government staff used code name for Greenbelt carveouts
Ontario government staffers working on contentious changes to the Greenbelt in 2022 edited email chains to rem

Dass die Baustelle U-Bahnhof Seestraße nervt, ist klar. Aber auch der Bauzaun! Wir haben gefragt, wann er verschwindet. https://weddingweiser.de/ansichtssache-aergernisse-wie-ein-bauzaun/

From COBIT to ISO 42001: Evaluating Cybersecurity Frameworks for Opportunities, Risks, and Regulatory Compliance in Commercializing Large Language Models
Timothy R. McIntosh, Teo Susnjak, Tong Liu, Paul Watters, Raza Nowrozy, Malka N. Halgamuge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15770

From COBIT to ISO 42001: Evaluating Cybersecurity Frameworks for Opportunities, Risks, and Regulatory Compliance in Commercializing Large Language Models
This study investigated the integration readiness of four predominant cybersecurity Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) frameworks - NIST CSF 2.0, COBIT 2019, ISO 27001:2022, and the latest ISO 42001:2023 - for the opportunities, risks, and regulatory compliance when adopting Large Language Models (LLMs), using qualitative content analysis and expert validation. Our analysis, with both LLMs and human experts in the loop, uncovered potential for LLM integration together with inadequacies in LL…

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…

2022 retro-link! https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/09/bet-you-cant-solve-these-9-dependency.html - 9 puzzles to convince you you don't understand dependence.

IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377) - watchTowr Labs https://labs.watchtowr.com/ibm-qradar-when-the-attacker-controls-your-security-stack/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Fauré and Debussy in Switzerland
Mezzo soprano Isabel Pfefferkorn sings Fauré's La Bonne Chanson at the 2022 Meiringen Music Festival in Switzerland. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xw7p

Daddy daughter weekend fun in the lab.
Samples were an epoxy embedded rough-polished cross section of a rock we found in the backyard and an old Pentium 4 Willamette die that's seen better days.
She's still learning but I think is starting to get the basics of using the joystick. I don't trust her to focus quite yet, but with 5-20x LWD optics there's plenty of margin between properly focused and an objective crash so I'm not worried about her accidentally bump…

Sources detail Beijing's Document 79, issued in September 2022, directing state-owned companies to replace foreign email, HR, and other enterprise software (Liza Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/chin…

Voor iedereen in Nederland, hier kun je de aangrijpende en oscarwinnende documentaire "20 days in Mariupol" kijken, aangrijpend en beklemmend. Ook speciaal voor mensen die geen wapens meer willen leveren aan Oekraine om zich te verdedigen.
https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/2024/02/…

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 New You Tomorrow - Limited series ⭐☄️❤️
Dramatized musical sci-fi comedy | Total listening time: 1h 29m
A college drop-out, troubled by bad dreams, seeks answers at his aunt’s space-rock store in the Mojave desert. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something?
#AudioFiction #FictionPodcast

A New You Tomorrow - Limited series ⭐☄️❤️
Dramatized musical sci-fi comedy | Total listening time: 1h 29m A college drop-out, troubled by bad dreams, seeks answers at his aunt’s space-rock store in the Mojave desert. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something? 1 seasons, 7 episodes as of Jan 01, 2022.

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…

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 …

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…

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…

Protocols for Observational Studies: An Application to Regression Discontinuity Designs
Matias D. Cattaneo, Rocio Titiunik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11640

Protocols for Observational Studies: An Application to Regression Discontinuity Designs
In his 2022 IMS Medallion Lecture delivered at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Prof. Dylan S. Small eloquently advocated for the use of protocols in observational studies. We discuss his proposal and, inspired by his ideas, we develop a protocol for the regression discontinuity design.

John's blow up examples and scattering solutions for semi-linear wave equations
Louie Bernhardt, Volker Schlue, Dongxiao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12878

John's blow up examples and scattering solutions for semi-linear wave equations
In light of recent work of the third author, we revisit a classic example given by Fritz John of a semi-linear wave equation which exhibits finite in time blow up for all compactly supported data. We present the construction of future global solutions from asymptotic data given in arXiv:2204.12870(2022) for this specific example, and clarify the relation of this result of Yu to John's theorem. Furthermore we present a novel blow up result for finite energy solutions satisfying a sign condition …

Q&A with Evan Smith, Texas Tribune CEO from 2009 to 2022, on earned income in nonprofit journalism, sponsorship to fund news for marginalized people, and more (Richard J. Tofel/Second Rough Draft)
https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-texas-tribune-examp…

The Texas Tribune, Example or Exception?: A Candid Talk with Evan Smith About Earned Income
Events, sponsorship-- and why one size doesn't fit all

Daddy daughter weekend fun in the lab.
Samples were an epoxy embedded rough-polished cross section of a rock we found in the backyard and an old Pentium 4 Willamette die that's seen better days.
She's still learning but I think is starting to get the basics of using the joystick. I don't trust her to focus quite yet, but with 5-20x LWD optics there's plenty of margin between properly focused and an objective crash so I'm not worried about her accidentally bump…

SoPhAr: Solar Phased-Arrays to boost the range of electric, hydrogen and SAF airliners in a solar world
Christian Claudel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04779 …

SoPhAr: Solar Phased-Arrays to boost the range of electric, hydrogen and SAF airliners in a solar world
In late 2022, ICAO member states adopted a long-term global aspirational goal (LTAG) to achieve net zero carbon emissions from international aviation by 2050. To date however, no economically scalable solution to the aviation decarbonization problem has been proposed. Despite considerable research on potential alternative fuels including e-fuels, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), Hydrogen or Ammonia, and extensive research on purely electric propulsion, low-carbon propulsion methods are unable t…

Hubble Space Telescope images of SN 1987A: Evolution of the ejecta and the equatorial ring from 2009 to 2022
Sophie Rosu, Josefin Larsson, Claes Fransson, Peter Challis, Tuomas Kangas, Robert P. Kirshner, Stephen S. Lawrence, Peter Lundqvist, Mikako Matsuura, Jesper Sollerman, George Sonneborn, Linda Tenhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/…

Hubble Space Telescope images of SN 1987A: Evolution of the ejecta and the equatorial ring from 2009 to 2022
Supernova (SN) 1987A offers a unique opportunity to study how a spatially resolved SN evolves into a young supernova remnant (SNR). We present and analyze Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging observations of SN 1987A obtained in 2022 and compare them with HST observations from 2009 to 2021. These observations allow us to follow the evolution of the equatorial ring (ER), the rapidly expanding ejecta, and emission from the center over a wide range in wavelength from 2000 to 11 000 AA. The ER has …

Wiener Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen Ex-Chef der ukrainischen Zentralbank
Die Wiener Staatsanwaltschaft hat gegen den ehemaligen Präsidenten der ukrainischen Zentralbank, Kyrylo Schewtschenko, Ermittlungen wegen mutmaßlicher Korruption und Geldwäsche eingeleitet.
Nach zwei Jahren an der Spitze der ukrainischen Nationalbank war Schewtschenko im Oktober 2022 aus "gesundheitlichen" Gründen von seinem Amt zurückgetreten. Im …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ US-Senat lehnt neue Ukraine-Hilfe ab ++
Der US-Senat hat ein Milliarden-Paket abgelehnt, das unter anderem Hilfen für die Ukraine vorsieht. Das Ölunternehmen Rosneft Deutschland steht womöglich vor der Verstaatlichung. Die Entwicklungen vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen.

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…

2022 retro-link! https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2022/01/29/an-update-on-rust-coreutils - An update on rust/coreutils.

Sources: Founders Fund bought $100M in bitcoin and $100M in ether from late summer to early fall 2023; it sold its crypto portfolio in 2022 for $1.8B in returns (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/peter-t

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 14 nodes and 54 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Disney sells out of ad inventory for the 2024 Oscars; a source says Disney was seeking $1.7M to $2.2M for 30-second ads, similar to its 2022 pricing (Bill Bradley/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/disney-sells-out-ad-inventory-96th-oscars…

Disney Sells Out Ad Inventory for 96th Oscars With Pricing Back Up
The ceremony will have a broad range of sponsors across 17 categories.

Oceanic influence on Large-Scale Atmospheric Convection during co-occurring La Nina and IOD events
Supriya Ovhal, Mujumdar M, Swapna P, Sreenivas P, Sandeep N, Ravichandran M
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11928

Oceanic influence on Large-Scale Atmospheric Convection during co-occurring La Nina and IOD events
The ISMR profoundly impacts over a billion people across the region. ISMR extremes have been linked to the ENSO and modulated by the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). ISMR of 2022 displayed intriguing spatial patterns: above-normal precipitation over the south peninsula and central India, normal over Northwest India, and below-normal over East and NE India. In 2022, La Nina conditions associated with a negative IOD (nIOD), were prevalent over the equatorial Pacific Ocean (PO) and IO. This study invest…

Pistorius an der Grenze Norwegens zu Russland
Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius informiert sich im Norden Norwegens über die Lage an der Grenze zu Russland. Der SPD-Politiker traf am zweiten Tag seiner Skandinavienreise in der Stadt Kirkenes ein, von wo aus er einen mit Wehrdienstleistenden besetzten Grenzposten in dem NATO-Land besuchen wollte.
In dem Gebiet gab es bis zum Jahr 2022 - als Russland die Ukraine mit einer g…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ex-Schachweltmeister Kasparow auf "Terrorliste" ++
Die Behörden in Russland führen den Oppositionellen und Ex-Schachweltmeister Kasparow auf einer "Terrorliste". Deutschland wird sich an der Beschaffung Hunderttausender Artilleriegranaten für die Ukraine beteiligen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen.

The 2022 super-Eddington outburst of the source SMC X-2
Malcolm J. Coe, Jamie A. Kennea, Itumeleng M. Monageng, Lee J. Townsend, David A. H. Buckley, Maia Williams, Andrzej Udalski, Phil A. Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09822

The 2022 super-Eddington outburst of the source SMC X-2
SMC X-2 exhibits X-ray outburst behaviour that makes it one of the most luminous X-ray sources in the Small Magellanic Cloud. In the last decade it has undergone two such massive outbursts - in 2015 and 2022. The first outburst is well reported in the literature, but the 2022 event has yet to be fully described and discussed. That is the goal of this paper. In particular, the post-peak characteristics of the two events are compared. This reveals clear similarities in decay profiles, believed to…

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 58 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Cybertech Global and IVC: in 2023, Israeli cybersecurity exit deals grew by 65% YoY to $7.1B; total tech sector exits were ~$11B, down from $13.5B in 2022 (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyberse

Algorithmic Misjudgement in Google Search Results: Evidence from Auditing the US Online Electoral Information Environment
Brooke Perreault, Johanna Lee, Ropafadzo Shava, Eni Mustafaraj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04684

Algorithmic Misjudgement in Google Search Results: Evidence from Auditing the US Online Electoral Information Environment
Google Search is an important way that people seek information about politics, and Google states that it is ``committed to providing timely and authoritative information on Google Search to help voters understand, navigate, and participate in democratic processes''. In this paper, we interrogate the extent to which government-maintained web domains are represented in the online environment of electoral information of the 2022 US midterm elections, as captured through Google Search results in 3.…

Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets
Anant Telikicherla, Thomas N. Woods, Bennet D. Schwab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05992 https://<…

Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets
In this study we present the analysis of six solar flare events that occurred in 2022, using new data from the third-generation Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS), also known as the Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS). The primary focus of this study is on the flare's "onset phase", which is characterized by elevated soft X-ray emissions even before the flare's impulsive phase. We analyze the temporal evolution of plasma temperature, emission measure, and elemental abun…

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On the association of GW190425 with its potential electromagnetic counterpart FRB 20190425A
Recent work by Moroianu et al. (2022) has suggested that the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW190425 might have a potential fast radio burst (FRB) counterpart association, FRB 20190425A, at the 2.8$σ$ level of confidence with a likely host galaxy association, namely UGC10667. The authors argue that the observations are consistent with a long-lived hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) that formed promptly after the BNS merger and was stable for approximately 2.5 hours before promptly collapsing i…

Spectro-polarimetric study to constrain accretion-ejection properties of MCG-5-23-16 using IXPE and NuSTAR observations
Santanu Mondal, Rwitika Chatterjee, Vivek K. Agrawal, Anuj Nandi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14169

Spectro-polarimetric study to constrain accretion-ejection properties of MCG-5-23-16 using IXPE and NuSTAR observations
We conducted a study on the X-ray polarization properties of MGC-5-23-16 by analyzing long-term monitoring data from {\it NuSTAR} jointly with {\it IXPE} observations in May and November 2022. The re-analysis of {\it IXPE} data gives model-dependent polarization degree, PD (\%) = $1.55\pm0.99$ and $1.31\pm0.95$ in the energy band $2-8$ keV, agrees with previous studies within error bars. The model-independent analysis of PD poses an upper limit of $\leq3.8$ ($1σ$ level) for the same energy ban…