[Rezension zu:] Witte, Markus; Alkier, Stefan (Hrsg.): Die Griechen und der Vordere Orient. Beiträge zum Kultur- und Religionskontakt zwischen Griechenland und dem Vorderen Orient im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2003. ISBN: 3-525-53048-X; X, 135 S.

Rezension des Werkes: Titel: Die Griechen und der Vordere Orient. Beiträge zum Kultur- und Religionskontakt zwischen Griechenland und dem Vorderen Orient im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Reihe: Orbis biblicus et orientalis 191 Herausgeber: Witte, Markus; Alkier, Stefan Ort: Göttingen Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Jahr: 2003 ISBN: 3-525-53048-X Umfang/Preis: X, 135 S.; € 38,90 Der Band "Die Griechen und der Vordere Orient" geht aus einem interdisziplinären Symposion hervor, welches die Projektgruppe "Altorientalisch-hellenistische Religionsgeschichte" der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main im April 2002 abgehalten hat (S. VII). Vier der Vorträge sind hier abgedruckt und von den Herausgebern, Markus Witte und Stefan Alkier, im Vorwort hilfreicherweise kurz zusammenfasst. ..

With ‘Regional Territorial Agendas’ towards territorial cohesion? The emergence of supra-regional coalitions in Europe and their future role in Cohesion Policy

This paper focuses on current trends of regionalisation with supra-regional coalitions emerging in Europe. In the context of further European integration and institutionalisation of cross-border cooperation, functional integration in cross-border areas is developing. By exploiting cross-border territorial capital these coalitions might contribute to the concept of territorial cohesion as stated and upgraded in the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon. The paper considers the right scale for these emerging supra-regional coalitions and their implications for the European Spatial Development Policy. When elaborating on the right delineation of supra- or transnational regional coalitions and about policy options, ‘territorial knowledge’ on territorial specificities, territorial capital and development potential is urgently needed. In border regions this includes cross-border functional linkages and interdependencies. The paper highlights an enhanced framework condition for cross-border functional integration and gives examples of supra-regional coalitions emerging in Europe, especially along Germany’s borders. It shows the difficulties with cross-border data availability for delineation of supra-regional coalitions in Europe and discusses the implications for European Cohesion Policy

Systematic errors in extracting nucleon properties from lattice QCD

Form factors of the nucleon have been extracted from experiment with high precision. However, lattice calculations have failed so far to reproduce the observed dependence of form factors on the momentum transfer. We have embarked on a program to thoroughly investigate systematic effects in lattice calculation of the required three-point correlation functions. Here we focus on the possible contamination from higher excited states and present a method which is designed to suppress them. Its effectiveness is tested for several baryonic matrix elements, different lattice sizes and pion masses.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure

Non-Psychiatric Nurse Self-Efficacy with Suicidality after an Educational Intervention

Lack of acute-care hospital non-psychiatric nurses’ confidence and competence with suicidality has been reported in the literature. Evidence supports multi-modal education to increase recall and improve outcomes. The theory of self-efficacy included concepts of confidence as well as competence and served as the project’s theoretical underpinning. A descriptive design was utilized to examine the effects of an education intervention using various methodologies addressing suicide risk factors, prevention, management, and safe care on nurses’ perceived level of self-efficacy. Methods included a pre-test survey, an education module intervention, and a non-matched post-test survey. The survey used consisted of 11 of the original Suicide Competency Inventory (SCI) statements arranged across three scales. Convenience sampling was used with 26 participants in the pre-survey and 40 in the post-survey groups. A shift toward positive responses was observed for nine statements (range 0.2% to 34.2%). Non-psychiatric nurse positivism concerning competency to treat/care for suicidal patients was 2.141 times more likely after completing the education module. Chi-squared testing revealed statistically significant improvements with the most significant increase in the nurses’ perceived competency scale 2 = 14.513 and p\u3c .0001. Multi-modal education regarding suicidality can improve nurses’ self-efficacy in caring for suicidal patients or those at risk for suicide to promote better outcomes and improved safety

Scale setting via the \Omega\ baryon mass

We present the first results of an ongoing effort to determine the lattice scale on the N_f=2 CLS lattice ensembles via the mass of the \Omega\ baryon. Results from different methods are compared, and various sources of systematic uncertainty are discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 4 pdf figures; talk given at LATTICE 2011, XXIX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 11-16 2011, Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, Californi

Higgs-Yukawa model on the lattice

We present results from two projects on lattice calculations for the Higgs-Yukawa model. First we report progress on the search of first-order thermal phase transitions in the presence of a dimension-six operator, with the choices of bare couplings that lead to viable phenomenological predictions. In this project the simulations are performed using overlap fermions to implement the required chiral symmetry. Secondly, our study for applying finite-size scaling techniques near the Gaussian fixed point of the Higgs-Yukawa model is presented. We discuss the analytical formulae for the Higgs Yukawa model and show results for a first numerical study in the pure $O(4)$ scalar sector of the theory.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures; Contribution to the proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 18 - 24 June 2017, Granada, Spai

A lattice study of a chirally invariant Higgs-Yukawa model including a higher dimensional Φ6\Phi^6-term

We discuss the non-thermal phase structure of a chirally invariant Higgs-Yukawa model on the lattice in the presence of a higher dimensional $\Phi^6$-term. For the exploration of the phase diagram we use analytical, lattice perturbative calculations of the constraint effectice potential as well as numerical simulations. We also present first results of the effects of the $\Phi^6$-term on the lower Higgs boson mass bounds

Meson-meson scattering lengths at maximum isospin from lattice QCD

We summarize our lattice QCD determinations of the pion-pion, pion-kaon and kaon-kaon s-wave scattering lengths at maximal isospin with a particular focus on the extrapolation to the physical point and the usage of next-to-leading order chiral perturbation theory to do so. We employ data at three values of the lattice spacing and pion masses ranging from around 230 MeV to around 450 MeV, applying Luescher's finite volume method to compute the scattering lengths. We find that leading order chiral perturbation theory is surprisingly close to our data even in the kaon-kaon case for our entire range of pion masses.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, Presented at the 9th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Sept. 17-21, 2018, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA , submitted to PoS, (C18-09-17.6). Funding acknowledgements added in v2 replacement, comma added in abstract. In v3 replacement, corrected typo in equation 6.2 which was referring to the pion-kaon reduced mass instead of the pion mas