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Markel Corporation, a diverse financial holding company, markets and underwrites specialty insurance products in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and internationally. Its Insurance segment offers general and professional liability, personal lines, marine and energy, specialty programs, and workers' compensation insurance products; and property coverages that consist principally of fire, allied lines, and other specialized property coverages, including catastrophe-exposed property risks, such as earthquake and wind. This segment also offers credit and surety products, and collateral protection insurance. The company's Reinsurance segment offers general liability, professional liability, workers' compensation, medical malpractice, and environmental impairment liability; property treaty products for catastrophe, per risk, and retrocessional exposures; and specialty treaty reinsurance products comprising structured and whole turnover credit, political risk, mortgage and contract, and commercial surety reinsurance programs. Its Markel Ventures segment provides equipment used in baking systems and food processing; portable dredges; over-the-road car haulers and equipment; and laminated oak and composite wood flooring, as well as ornamental plants and residential homes. This segment also provides healthcare, consulting, and others types of services to businesses and consumers, including management and technology consulting, behavioral healthcare, and retail intelligence. The company's Other segment operates as an insurance and investment fund manager offering a range of investment products, including insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds, insurance swaps, and weather derivatives; and program services. Markel Corporation was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia.

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Authors: (1) Michael Sorochan Armstrong, Computational Data Science (CoDaS) Lab in the Department of Signal Theory, Telematics, and Communications at the University of Granada; (2) Jose Carlos P´erez-Gir´on, part of the Interuniversity Institute for Research on the Earth System in Andalucia through the University of Granada; (3) Jos´e Camacho, Computational Data Science (CoDaS) Lab in the Department of Signal Theory, Telematics, and Communications at the University of Granada; (4) Regino Zamora, part of the Interuniversity Institute for Research on the Earth System in Andalucia through the University of Granada. Table of Links Abstract & Introduction Optimization of the Optical Interpolation Materials and Methods Results and Discussion Conclusion Appendix A: Proof of Hermitian Self-Adjoint product identity for Equidistant Time-Domain Measurements Appendix B: AAH ̸= MIN I in the Non-Equidistant Case Acknowledgments & References ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The proof for the equidistant case was adapted from a proof by David J. Fleet and Allan D. Jepson from the University of Toronto [18]. REFERENCES [1] C. Haley, “Missing-data nonparametric coherency estimation,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 28, pp. 1704–1708, 2021. [2] S. Dilmaghani, I. C. Henry, P. Soonthornnonda, E. R. Christensen, and R. C. Henry, “Harmonic analysis of environmental time series with missing data or irregular sample spacing,” Environmental science & technology, vol. 41, no. 20, pp. 7030–7038, 2007. [3] J. W. Cooley and J. W. Tukey, “An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex fourier series,” Mathematics of computation, vol. 19, no. 90, pp. 297–301, 1965. [4] F. Rasheed, P. Peng, R. Alhajj, and J. Rokne, “Fourier transform based spatial outlier mining,” in Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning-IDEAL 2009: 10th International Conference, Burgos, Spain, September 23-26, 2009. Proceedings 10. Springer, 2009, pp. 317–324. [5] C. Van Loan, Computational frameworks for the fast Fourier transform. SIAM, 1992. [6] H. Carslaw, “A historical note on gibbs’ phenomenon in fourier’s series and integrals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 1925. [7] J. Markel, “Fft pruning,” IEEE transactions on Audio and Electroacoustics, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 305–311, 1971. [8] J. C. Bowman and Z. Ghoggali, “The partial fast fourier transform,” Journal of Scientific Computing, vol. 76, pp. 1578–1593, 2018. [9] M. Kircheis and D. Potts, “Direct inversion of the nonequispaced fast fourier transform,” Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol. 575, pp. 106–140, 2019. [10] S. Kunis and D. Potts, “Stability results for scattered data interpolation by trigonometric polynomials,” SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1403–1419, 2007. [11] K. B. Petersen, M. S. Pedersen et al., “The matrix cookbook,” Technical University of Denmark, vol. 7, no. 15, p. 510, 2008. [12] C. M. Bishop, Neural networks for pattern recognition. Oxford university press, 1995. [13] H. Wickham, M. Averick, J. Bryan, W. Chang, L. D. McGowan, R. Franc¸ois, G. Grolemund, A. Hayes, L. Henry, J. Hester, M. Kuhn, T. L. Pedersen, E. Miller, S. M. Bache, K. Muller, J. Ooms, D. Robin- ¨ son, D. P. Seidel, V. Spinu, K. Takahashi, D. Vaughan, C. Wilke, K. Woo, and H. Yutani, “Welcome to the tidyverse,” Journal of Open Source Software, vol. 4, no. 43, p. 1686, 2019. [14] R Core Team, R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.R-project.org/ [15] C. R. Harris, K. J. Millman, S. J. van der Walt, R. Gommers, P. Virtanen, D. Cournapeau, E. Wieser, J. Taylor, S. Berg, N. J. Smith, R. Kern, M. Picus, S. Hoyer, M. H. van Kerkwijk, M. Brett, A. Haldane, J. F. del R´ıo, M. Wiebe, P. Peterson, P. Gerard-Marchant, K. Sheppard, T. Reddy, W. Weckesser, ´ H. Abbasi, C. Gohlke, and T. E. Oliphant, “Array programming with NumPy,” Nature, vol. 585, no. 7825, pp. 357–362, Sep. 2020. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 [16] P. Virtanen, R. Gommers, T. E. Oliphant, M. Haberland, T. Reddy, D. Cournapeau, E. Burovski, P. Peterson, W. Weckesser, J. Bright, S. J. van der Walt, M. Brett, J. Wilson, K. J. Millman, N. Mayorov, A. R. J. Nelson, E. Jones, R. Kern, E. Larson, C. J. Carey, ˙I. Polat, Y. Feng, E. W. Moore, J. VanderPlas, D. Laxalde, J. Perktold, R. Cimrman, I. Henriksen, E. A. Quintero, C. R. Harris, A. M. Archibald, A. H. Ribeiro, F. Pedregosa, P. van Mulbregt, and SciPy 1.0 Contributors, “SciPy 1.0: Fundamental Algorithms for Scientific Computing in Python,” Nature Methods, vol. 17, pp. 261– 272, 2020. [17] J. D. Hunter, “Matplotlib: A 2d graphics environment,” Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 90–95, 2007. [18] “Notes on fourier analysis,” http://www.cs.toronto.edu/ ∼jepson/csc320/notes/fourier.pdf, accessed: 2023-09-01. This paper is under CC 4.0 license. available on arxiv

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President Putin sees his country’s control of the internet as an important step for Russia’s technological autonomy away from his rivals the United States and China. For scores of protestors, however, this is a step too far. New Law For many, especially in the West, it comes as no surprise: Vladimir Putin, Russia’s autocratic leader, seems to be taking his rule, and policies, into an even greater authoritarian direction than in previous years, with his lawmakers trying to put through a new bill which, if successfully implemented, will reduce internet freedom within the country. In retaliation to this, activists have begun a number of demonstrations against the new legislation. They see it as their government’s attempt to curb open criticism of the regime and to gain a stronger hold on online censorship issues. Demonstrations against the proposed changes to the law, termed the ‘ ’, have sprung up from eastern Siberia to the capital, all in an attempt to stop the law being passed in the State Duma, which requires three rounds of voting (one has already passed). If these are successful, it will then go to the upper house for ratification. sovereign internet bill More protests are scheduled to take place in other cities across the country. Responsible for these is the Roskomsvoboda movement, short for Russian Freedom Committee, which gets its inspiration from Roskomnadzor, a government agency that oversees the country’s internet, communications and media activities. Nikolai Lyaskin, a top aide to Putin’s arch enemy, , leader of the progressive Russia of the Future Party, is reported to have said the bill is another effort by the authorities to crush any forms of freedom on the internet. He has also appealed to Russians to unite against it. Lyaskin, no stranger to the brutalities of the state, was attacked on the street two years ago with a metal pipe in what Navalny and other pro-democracy leaders believed was a state-sanctioned attack on him. Alexander Navalny The Internet Iron Curtain With tensions rising between Russia and the West in regard to the recent accusations of cyber attacks, western observers have commented the bill would create a firewall, dubbed the ‘internet iron curtain’ in Russia, similar to the one already found in China, creating a situation where virtual private networks (VPNs) become ineffectual. The bill would also mean all traffic on the internet would be served through Russian-based servers. For free speech and the nascent democratic movement in Russia, and especially for the likes of Navalny — whose party uses the internet and social media, above all on YouTube, to disseminate his democratic message — this could be devastating. Released from prison late last year, after spending more than fifty days behind bars for organising anti-Kremlin protests, it is surely a worrying time for Russians who support the 42-year-old Navalny, seen as a leading democratic light to those in Washington and London. Those close to President Putin, however, support the bill, believing it is the type of legislation which can help the country strike out against any future cyber attacks. The financial costs, as well as the reality of its implementation, is an ongoing debate, but in today’s threatening landscape of hacking and the weaknesses in cybersecurity, it is no surprise the Kremlin is taking such a stance. Although nonviolent so far, one journalist working for the Agence France-Presse had reported seeing a man More unpleasant things, unfortunately, will only become more common if protests escalate. ‘being dragged away from the rally…’ This is not the first time in recent years where censorship, and the repression of protestors by the state that follows it, have become an issue in Russia. Since Putin has stabilized his vertical hierarchy of power, and decreed more laws to strengthen that power, the restrictions and red-penciling of free speech in the country — not seen since the darkest days of Stalin and Brezhnev — have come to the fore once more. The FSB, the euphemistic acronym of what used to be the KGB, has been given carte blanche to use repression to exercise its power freely. The name may have changed but the methods stay the same. Anti-Russian propaganda, particular by the minority groups in the country, has been crushed by either closing down newspapers or media outlets sympathetic to their causes or, in extreme cases, the personal intimidation of guilty persons by Kremlin-hired thugs. Murders The politician , in one of the most high-profile cases, was shot dead in 2015 for his opposition to Putin. In 2006, journalist and activist was murdered in broad daylight. Nobody has ever been brought to justice for the crimes, but fingers, particularly by the western media outlets, have always pointed the guilt at the Kremlin. Boris Nemtsov Anna Politkovskaya In 2009, civil rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, along with journalist Anastasiya Baburova, was murdered, again in Moscow. . These are not isolated incidents. There have been countless others over the years Grave of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, source: Wiki Commons Journalists, more so than most other professions within the country, are finding it more difficult to do their job — if doing it properly means writing about the truth. In today’s Russia, that can get you killed, as Politovskaya’s demise has shown. Fifth Column Threat Over the nearly two decades of Putin’s control of Russia, there has been law after law decreed targeting not only the insidious threat of extremist terrorist organizations, but also those that have earmarked more innocuous areas of society, like press publications, activist groups and the gay rights movement. Many experts believe if the law is passed by the Upper house, the government will have a hard time controlling any subversive content anyway. The vast amount of material on the internet, and the sheer number of people the state will need to monitor it, is beyond the scope and resources of Roskomnadzor, the government agency in question. Source: — Own work Creative Commons Welleman With Putin and his cronies ever paranoid about a ‘fifth column’ of political activists and unrest over his policies, such a law — if passed, may go some way in him taking back control, though with reports of his popularity rating in the country from a recent VTsIOM poll, as of January 2019 at — a record low for the president — his actions, in retrospect, don’t seem surprising. 33.4% For Russian nationalists, and especially for those hardened patriots belonging to the ruling United Russia party, Rodina and et al, the idea of a sovereign Russian internet, away from the claws of American and Chinese tech dominance, could be an enticing prospect. It could mean sovereignty of the internet would enable the country’s networks to still operate if foreign countries cut off their servers to them. Many, however, see Putin’s clamour for the bill as a pipe dream. An Expensive Ambition Karen Kazaryan, the general director of the Internet Research Institute, has said: “But in the end, it won’t work. Russia is not China. It’s very complex and expensive to build a system like this and we simply don’t have the engineers to realize this project.” Kazaryan’s prognosis, accurate or not, is just one opinion of a multitude. Whether Putin can muster the manpower to go ahead with his intentions or not is another matter. What worries some experts within the country, is the fact that if their leader is successful at implementing the ‘internet iron curtain’, it will cut Russia off from developing in technology and know-how, which on a global scale is impressive, as the country has a highly developed IT industry. This decision could see all that go into decline. It is reported that at the beginning of March there were well over 10,000 on the streets protesting about Putin’s plans for online censorship. Most of those in the crowd were the young and educated — it is clear to see that the youth, Russia’s thinkers, engineers and designers in the years ahead, have very different ideas in regard to this from their leader. On 15th March 1783, General George Washington wrote in a letter to the officers of the Continental Army: “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” This, totally American in sentiment, wouldn’t have gone down well with the leader of the Russian empire at the time, Catherine the Great. And today, with all the soapbox screamings by Trump on freedom of speech sniggered at by his opposite number in the Kremlin, I can see no other course Putin can take. To tighten his grip on power, the new Tsar of Russia will go to any lengths to achieve it. And the online iron curtain is just the first of many.

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