Supermembrane with Non-Abelilan Gauging and Chern-Simons Quantization

We present non-Abelian gaugings of supermembrane for general isometries for compactifications from eleven-dimensions, starting with Abelian case as a guide. We introduce a super Killing vector in eleven-dimensional superspace for a non-Abelian group G associated with the compact space B for a general compactification, and couple it to a non-Abelian gauge field on the world-volume. As a technical tool, we use teleparallel superspace with no manifest local Lorentz covariance. Interestingly, the coupling constant is quantized for the non-Abelian group G, due to its generally non-trivial mapping \pi_3(G).Comment: 16 pages, no figures. The content has been considerably changed with non-Abelian generalizatio

A cylindrical Penning trap for capture, mass selective cooling, and bunching of radioactive ion beams

A Penning trap ion accumulator, cooler, and buncher for low energy ion beams has been developed for the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometer at ISOLDE/CERN. A cylindrical electrode configuration is used for the creation of a nested trapping potential. This is required for efficient accumulation of externally produced ions and for high mass selectivity by buffer gas cooling. The design goal of a mass resolving power of about $1\cdot 10^{5}$ has been achieved. Isobar separation has been demonstrated for radioactive rare earth ion beams delivered by the ISOLDE on-line mass separator

Inter-Rater Agreement and Usability: A Comparative Evaluation of Annotation Tools for Sentiment Annotation

We present the results of a comparative evaluation study of five annotation tools with 50 participants in the context of sentiment and emotion annotation of literary texts. Ten participants per tool annotated 50 speeches of the play Emilia Galotti by G. E. Lessing. We evaluate the tools via standard usability and user experience questionnaires, by measuring the time needed for the annotation, and via semi-structured interviews. Based on the results we formulate a recommendation. In addition, we discuss and compare the usability metrics and methods to develop best practices for tool selection in similar contexts. Furthermore, we also highlight the relationship between inter-rater agreement and usability metrics as well as the effect of the chosen tool on annotation behavior

Cluster values for algebras of analytic functions

[EN] The Cluster Value Theorem is known for being a weak version of the classical Corona Theorem. Given a Banach space X, we study the Cluster Value Problem for the ball algebra A(u)(B-X), the Banach algebra of all uniformly continuous holomorphic functions on the unit ball B-X; and also for the Frechet algebra H-b(X) of holomorphic functions of bounded type on X (more generally, for H-b(U), the algebra of holomorphic functions of bounded type on a given balanced open subset U subset of X). We show that Cluster Value Theorems hold for all of these algebras whenever the dual of X has the bounded approximation property. These results are an important advance in this problem, since the validity of these theorems was known only for trivial cases (where the spectrum is formed only by evaluation functionals) and for the infinite dimensional Hilbert space. As a consequence, we obtain weak analytic Nullstellensatz theorems and several structural results for the spectrum of these algebras. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.This work was partially supported by projects CONICET PIP 11220130100329CO, ANPCyT PICT 2015-2299, ANPCyT PICT-2015-3085, ANPCyT PICT-2015-2224, UBACyT 20020130300057BA, UBACyT 20020130300052BA, UBACyT 20020130100474BA and MINECO and FEDER Project MTM2014-57838-C2-2-P.Carando, D.; Galicer, D.; Muro, S.; Sevilla Peris, P. (2018). Cluster values for algebras of analytic functions. Advances in Mathematics. 329:157-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2017.08.030S15717332

Philosophie der Lebenswissenschaften

This paper summarizes (in German) recent tendencies in the philosophy of the life sciences

Philosophie der Lebenswissenschaften: Entwicklungen und Tendenzen

Bauer S, Huber L, Kaiser MI, et al. Philosophie der Lebenswissenschaften: Entwicklungen und Tendenzen. Information Philosophie. 2013;4:14-27.Eine gemeinsame Publikation des Netzwerks Philosophie der Lebenswissenschaften über Entwicklungen und Trends in der philosophischen Auseinandersetzung mit den Lebenswissenschaften. Gegenstand sind v.a. neue Debatten zu Begriffen aus der allgemeinen Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Hinwendung zur Praxis, Hinwendung zu neuen Feldern. Dabei kommen folgende Themen v.a. zur Sprache: natural kinds, Reduktion, synthetische Biologie, Robustheit von Daten, Anthropologie

Über Leben: Der Lebensbegriff in Lebenswelt, Biologie und Ethik

Abstract Der Lebensbegriff ist ein schillernder Begriff, der in verschiedenen Verwendungszusammenhängen gebraucht wird. In diesem Beitrag wird versucht, den vorwissenschaftlichen und den wissenschaftlichen Begriff des Lebens und des Lebewesens miteinander zu vermitteln. Dazu wird auf die aristotelische Konzeption von Leben und Lebewesen zurückgegriffen. Die auf diese Weise entfaltete Konzeption von Leben und Lebewesen wird schließlich gegen Einwände verteidigt und auf ihre Konsequenzen in ontologischer und ethischer Hinsicht untersucht.</jats:p