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Um seinen Service zu verbessern, ließ der FWF im November/Dezember 2002 eine groß angelegte Umfrage unter den wissenschaftlich tätigen Personen durchführen. Mit dieser internetbasierten Umfrage wurde das Linzer Meinungsforschungsinstitut SPECTRA beauftragt. Um eine möglichst lückenlose Abdeckung zu gewährleisten, richtete sich die Befragung an folgende drei Gruppen: wissenschaftliches Personal der Universitäten und anderer Forschungseinrichtungen; AntragstellerInnen beim FWF, die in den letzten fünf Jahren einen Antrag gestellt haben; ProjektmitarbeiterInnen, deren wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit vom FWF finanziert wird oder wurde. Von 12.887 kontaktierten Wissenschafterinnen und Wissenschaftern haben sich 3.147 beteiligt, was einer Rücklaufquote von 24 % entspricht. ; Die Publikation umfasst ein executive summary, eine Kernauswertung sowie einen Tabellenband

Abstract. The Metropolitan District of Quito is located on or very close to segments of reverse blind faults, Puengasí, Ilumbisí–La Bota, Carcelen–El Inca, Bellavista–Catequilla and Tangahuilla, making it one of the most seismically dangerous cities in the world. The city is divided into five areas: south, south-central, central, north-central and north. For each of the urban areas, elastic response spectra are presented in this paper, which are determined by utilizing some of the new models of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) NGA-West2 program. These spectra are calculated considering the maximum magnitude that could be generated by the rupture of each fault segment, and taking into account the soil type that exists at different points of the city according to the Norma Ecuatoriana de la Construcción (2015). Subsequently, the recurrence period of earthquakes of high magnitude in each fault segment is determined from the physical parameters of the fault segments (size of the fault plane and slip rate) and the pattern of recurrence of type Gutenberg–Richter earthquakes with double truncation magnitude (Mmin and Mmax) is used.

This review charts the substantive theoretical import, diagnostic utility, as well as the conceptual and stylistic limits of Wendy Browns Undoing the Demos. Brown adamantly charts the destructive effects of contemporary neoliberalism, construed largely as an insidious form of rationality rather than simply an economic system, and the hollowing out of democratic political life which has ensued from its ascension. The account of neoliberalism supplied by Undoing the Demos presents an indispensable tool with which to forge modalities of both analysis and resistance yet also contains important limitations which circumscribe some of the books utility and gesture toward the need for critical supplement. ; Published version

This brief essay uses several works of fiction and nonfiction to illustrate the profound character of evil that obtains when individuals lose their capacity to empathize with the circumstances and situation of others. W.H. Auden explored the contours of human evil throughout much of his career and argued that it inhered, even at its most vicious, in all of humankind. The persistent challenge for nations particularly and civilization more generally is to acknowledge that fact and to ensure that this omnipresent and often apparently unspectacular force is not unleashed. The paper provides several examples aimed at illustrating that observers should consider current trends in American policy and politics carefully as they signal a sharp decline in empathy for major groups within the polity, an inauspicious sign for United States democratic politics. ; Published version

For the first issue within our tenure as editors, we decided to not release a call with a defined theme. Instead, we chose to let those researchers whose work fits within the scope of SPECTRA (the Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives) to develop the direction(s) of issue 6.1. The contributions are current and insightful both on their own terms and, we think, in juxtaposition with one another. In typical SPECTRA fashion, the present issue features integrative theoretical explorations, innovative philosophical analyses, imaginative empirical research, and pertinent political science. We find the articles to be especially timely, given the current political and social atmosphere. We are proud that SPECTRA continues to draw a wide array of researchers who apply critical lenses to ongoing concerns. ; Published version

We present a method to derive the complete spectrum of the lift Γα of a base digraph Γ , with voltage assignment α on a (finite) group G. The method is based on assigning to Γ a quotient-like matrix whose entries are elements of the group algebra C[G] , which fully represents Γα . This allows us to derive the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the lift in terms of those of the base digraph and the irreducible characters of G. Thus, our main theorem generalizes some previous results of Lovász and Babai concerning the spectra of Cayley digraphs. ; The first author has also received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 734922. Research of the first two authors is supported by AGAUR under Project 2017SGR1087. The third author acknowledges support from the research Grants APVV 0136/12, APVV-15-0220, VEGA 1/0026/16, and VEGA 1/0142/17.

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Physicists routinely need probabilistic models for a number of tasks such as parameter inference or the generation of new realizations of a field. Establishing such models for highly non-Gaussian fields is a challenge, especially when the number of samples is limited. In this paper, we introduce scattering spectra models for stationary fields and we show that they provide accurate and robust statistical descriptions of a wide range of fields encountered in physics. These models are based on covariances of scattering coefficients, i.e. wavelet decomposition of a field coupled with a pointwise modulus. After introducing useful dimension reductions taking advantage of the regularity of a field under rotation and scaling, we validate these models on various multiscale physical fields and demonstrate that they reproduce standard statistics, including spatial moments up to fourth order. The scattering spectra provide us with a low-dimensional structured representation that captures key properties encountered in a wide range of physical fields. These generic models can be used for data exploration, classification, parameter inference, symmetry detection, and component separation.

Margarethe von Trottas Hannah Arendt (2012) does not represent well the life and work of its protagonist. The focus on thinking in the film fails to reflect how Arendt connected it to judging, especially in the midst of modern mass society and in light of political catastrophes. Arendts reflections on statelessness are not explored in the film. Finally, the elimination of Karl Jaspers from the storyline results in an incomplete picture of Arendts stance toward the jurisdiction of the Jerusalem court. A politically relevant Arendt is obscured in the making of a personal Arendt. ; Published version