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Information encoding of a qubit into a multilevel environment
2010
I consider the interaction of a small quantum system (a qubit) with a structured environment consisting of many levels. The qubit will experience a decoherence process, which implies that part of its initial information will be encoded into correlations between system and environment. I investigate how this information is distributed on a given subset of levels as a function of its size, using the mutual information between both entities, in the spirit of the partial-information plots studied by Zurek and co-workers. In this case we can observe some differences, which arise from the fact that I am partitioning just one quantum system and not a collection of them. However, some similar featu…
Responding to the Nazi Crimes: The British Press and the Nuremberg Trial
2011
Ever since the news of the liberated concentration camps had filled the pages of British newspapers, the majority attitude of the press was that Nazi criminality, including the Final Solution, had to be recorded and remembered. Throughout the summer of 1945, the victorious Allies were wrestling with the question of how the unbelievable scenes, exposed by advancing Allied armies who liberated concentration camps, and the criminality of the Nazi regime that had made them possible, should be investigated.
Inflation, quantum fields, and CMB anisotropies
2009
Revert field Inflationary cosmology has proved to be the most successful at predicting the properties of the anisotropies observed in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In this essay we show that quantum field renormalization significantly influences the generation of primordial perturbations and hence the expected measurable imprint of cosmological inflation on the CMB. However, the new predictions remain in agreement with observation, and in fact favor the simplest forms of inflation. In the near future, observations of the influence of gravitational waves from the early universe on the CMB will test our new predictions.
Human Behavior and Urban Open Spaces in Hyper-Dense Areas: The Case of Dhiesheh Refugee Camp-Palestine
2010
Most of the world cities have hyperdense areas within its borders. Hyperdensity can appear in an informal settlement, in a slum area, in an old core, in a city center, or in a camp as in the case of Palestinian refugee camps. Hyperdensity conditions are capable to produce plenty of problems and questions related to the built up environment, quality of life, and people needs. This dissertation is based on exploring the combination between the physical form of urban open space and human behavior to investigate people's needs in urban open spaces of a hyperdense environment. The focus will be on Dheisheh refugee camp within Bethlehem city borders in the West Bank. The research is based on qual…
For a Semantics of Dark Times Narrating, Understanding and Judging the Insurmountable Past
2022
The Arendtian "notion" of narrativity is inseparable from the conception of history as a fracture and suspension of the unbroken temporal continuum, as marked always by "new beginnings" and irruptions of singularity. The context in which the theme of narrativity matures is that of the rethinking of temporality and the critique of the unilinear image of historical time at the center of the discourse of various twentieth-century philosophies that, critical of any teleological temptation of history. The questioning of the meaning of events revolves around possible ways of thinking about the connection between event and meaning once all possible faith in the rationality of history has disappear…
Louseborne relapsing fever in young migrants, sicily, Italy, july-september 2015
2016
To the Editor: During the early 20th century, at the end of World War I, and during World War II, louseborne relapsing fever (LBRF) caused by Borrelia recurrentis was a major public health problem, especially in eastern Europe and northern Africa (1,2). Currently, poor living conditions, famine, war, and refugee camps are major risk factors for epidemics of LBRF in resource-poor countries, such as those in the Horn of Africa (3,4). Increased migration from resource-poor countries and war/violence create new routes for spread of vectorborne diseases. Recently, several cases of LBRF have been reported among asylum seekers from Eritrea in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany (5–8). All of…
Combatientes de un nuevo cuño: supervivencia y comunidad en los primeros testimonios del exilio
2009
El artículo describe algunos de los núcleos de sentido que acompañaron a la publicación de los testimonios de supervivientes chilenos en los primeros años del exilio. Especialmente, el modo en que la escritura testimonial fue legitimada por la voz autorizada de importante figuras de la Unidad Popular que convirtió a los supervivientes que aportaban su testimonio de la violencia en ‘combatientes de un nuevo cuño'. El artículo analiza el modo en que los supervivientes respondieron en sus textos a esa expectativa política tratando de resguardar en ellos las concepciones de la experiencia, de la política y de la comunidad que habían vertebrado los compromisos de la ‘vía chilena al s…
Primo Levi, a critic humanist
2015
La intención de este escrito es reflexionar sobre el pensamiento del italiano Primo Levi y defender como apropiado el referirnos a él como un ‘humanista crítico’. Para ello seguimos los criterios propuestos por T. Todorov para caracterizar la doctrina humanista en tres elementos: autonomía del yo, finalidad del tú y universalidad de los ellos, y los propios del humanismo crítico, único posible tras lo ocurrido en Auschwitz y Kolyma: el reconocimiento del horror del que somos capaces los seres humanos y la afirmación de la posibilidad del bien. Palabras-clave: Humanismo crítico, Campos de concentración, Sobreviviente,Testimonio, Memoria. The aim of this research is to reflect upon the though…
Primo Levi, a critic humanist
2015
La intención de este escrito es reflexionar sobre el pensamiento del italiano Primo Levi y defender como apropiado el referirnos a él como un ‘humanista crítico’. Para ello seguimos los criterios propuestos por T. Todorov para caracterizar la doctrina humanista en tres elementos: autonomía del yo, finalidad del tú y universalidad de los ellos, y los propios del humanismo crítico, único posible tras lo ocurrido en Auschwitz y Kolyma: el reconocimiento del horror del que somos capaces los seres humanos y la afirmación de la posibilidad del bien. Palabras-clave: Humanismo crítico, Campos de concentración, Sobreviviente,Testimonio, Memoria. The aim of this research is to reflect upon the though…
Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls, 2022, Speciālizlaidums (116)
2022
Speciālizlaidums sagatavots Valsts pētījumu programmas projekta “Indivīda, sabiedrības un valsts mijiedarbība kopējā Latvijas vēstures procesā: vērtību konflikti un kopīgu vērtību veidošanās vēsturiskos lūzumu punktos / Interaction between the individual, the society and the state in process of the history of Latvia: Conflicting values and formation of shared values during historical turning points” (Nr. VPP-IZM-2018/1-0018) ietvaros (vad. G. Zemītis)