cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R): A Baseline Study of Climate Resilience in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Zaman, Farrukh
name: Dale, Dr. Lisa
name: Held, Jonathan
name: Ratte, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: The United Nations Climate Resilience Initiative: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R) is a global, UN-led, multi-stakeholder initiative that strengthens climate resilience for vulnerable countries and people. A2R addresses the urgent needs of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Africa and other vulnerable regions. The initiative accelerates action on key aspects of climate resilience under its three pillars: 1) Anticipate – Increased capacity to better anticipate and act on climate hazards and stresses through early warning and early action; 2) Absorb – Increased capacity to absorb shocks by increasing access to climate risk insurance and social protection systems; and 3) Reshape – Increased capacity to reshape development pathways by transforming economies to reduce risks and root causes of vulnerabilities and support the sound management of physical infrastructure and ecosystems to foster climate resilience. This report outlines the current status of key indicators relevant to the three pillars. It also identifies some of the challenges faced in this analysis and suggests ways of overcoming them, so that we may, in the future, be able to provide a fuller picture of progress on these three key capacities for climate resilience.
description: Consilience, No 19 (2018): Issue Nineteen: 2018
A Means to Alleviate the Bushmeat Crisis? The Feasibility of Establishing Sustainable Grasscutter Farms in Kenya
Creators: name: Menz, Alyssa
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: In Africa, the unsustainable, illegal hunting of wild animals for food, commonly referred to as the bushmeat crisis, causes multiple problems for ecosystems and human health. Given the lack of management of bushmeat hunting and rapidly expanding human population densities, the potential for overharvesting, driving populations of native species to local extinction, is of major concern unless effective and feasible alternatives can be developed. The farming of desirable native species offers one solution to reducing the demand for bushmeat, but farms must be economically viable, environmentally sustainable, and socially acceptable. This research uses Geographic Information Systems to examine the feasibility of establishing large native rodent (Thyronomys swinderianus) farms in Kenya. Given their high protein content, these rodents, commonly known as grasscutters, are a highly sought bushmeat species and have been successfully farmed in West and Central Africa. I performed an extensive literature review and consulted with grasscutter and sustainable livestock farm experts located in sub-Saharan Africa to determine physical and socio-political geographic factors most likely to constrain the development of sustainable grasscutter farms in Kenya, before using ArcGIS to map these criteria and a weighted overlay analysis to identify potentially favorable locations for establishing future farms. These maps identified three suitable geographic locations: the Western and Nyanza provinces; the Central province; and the southeastern tip of the Coastal province. The majority of Kenya reflects moderately suitable locations that are feasible for establishment as grasscutters are adaptive, low-intensity livestock, and previous studies have identified some of these moderately suitable locations as accepted livestock centers. These results are encouraging for the implementation of sustainable grasscutter farming in Kenya and the diversification of protein sources and economic development opportunities for rural dwellers. While the maps created are specific to Kenya, the methodology developed in this study is useful to global stakeholders attempting to alleviate the bushmeat crisis, combat food insecurity in a sustainable manner, and/or provide means of economic development to developing countries.
description: Consilience, No 13 (2015): Issue Thirteen: 2015
Additional file 2 of Clinical incident reporting behaviors and associated factors among health professionals in Dessie comprehensive specialized hospital, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a mixed method study
Creators: name: Yalew, Zemen Mengesha
name: Yitayew, Yibeltal Asmamaw
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2.
The 3-dimensional random walk with applications to overstretched DNA and the protein titin
Creators: name: Van der Straeten, Erik
name: Naudts, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the three-dimensional persistent random walk with drift. Then we develop a thermodynamic model that is based on this random walk without assuming the Boltzmann-Gibbs form for the equilibrium distribution. The simplicity of the model allows us to perform all calculations in closed form. We show that, despite its simplicity, the model can be used to describe different polymer stretching experiments. We study the reversible overstretching transition of DNA and the static force-extension relation of the protein titin.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 2 of γ-Enolase enhances Trk endosomal trafficking and promotes neurite outgrowth in differentiated SH-SY5Y cells
Creators: name: Pišlar, Anja
name: Kos, Janko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Figures.
Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Weak Links
Creators: name: Grove-Rasmussen, Kasper
name: Jørgensen, Henrik Ingerslev
name: Lindelof, Poul Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have reproducibly contacted gated single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) to superconducting leads based on niobium. The devices are identified to belong to two transparency regimes: The Coulomb blockade and the Kondo regime. Clear signature of the superconducting leads is observed in both regimes and in the Kondo regime a narrow zero bias peak interpreted as a proximity induced supercurrent persist in Coulomb blockade diamonds with Kondo resonances.
description: Proceeding for International Symposium on Mesoscopic Superconductivity and Spintronics 2006, NTT BRL, Atsugi, Japan
Low temperature ferromagnetism in perovskite SrIrO$_3$ films
Creators: name: Chaurasia, Rachna
name: Asokan, K.
name: Kumar, Kranti
name: Pramanik, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 5$d$ based SrIrO$_3$ represents prototype example of nonmagnetic correlated metal which mainly originates from a combined effect of spin-orbit coupling, lattice dimensionality and crystal structure. Therefore, tuning of these parameters results in diverse physical properties in this material. Here, we study the structural, magnetic and electrical transport behavior in epitaxial SrIrO$_3$ film ($\sim$ 40 nm) grown on SrTiO$_3$ substrate. Opposed to bulk material, the SrIrO$_3$ film exhibits a ferromagnetic ordering at low temperature below $\sim$ 20 K. The electrical transport data indicate an insulating behavior where the nature of charge transport follows Mott's variable-range-hopping model. A positive magnetoresistance is recorded at 2 K which has correlation with magnetic moment. We further observe a nonlinear Hall effect at low temperature ($
description: 12 pages, 10 figures. To be published in Phys. Rev. B
Hospital to home : perceived need for care and support
Creators: name: Galloway, Sharon Eleanor
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Falls are a major health problem for older women. In British Columbia, women aged 75 years and older comprise 85% of the total number of individuals admitted to hospital with a fall. Falls result in physical and psychological consequences. A review of the literature indicates that most studies on falls are epidemiological in nature. There are no studies that deal with the consequences of the fall and their effect on the older woman's perceptions of her need for care and support after hospitalization for a fall. The purpose of this study is to describe the need for care and support as perceived by women aged 75 years and older returning home to live alone after a hospitalization for a fall. Phenomenology is the chosen research method. This method describes human experience as it is lived. Subjects were recruited through the liaison nurses and home care coordinators from the Health Department. Eight women participated in the repeated interviews guided by trigger questions. Certain themes emerged from data analysis and were coded accordingly. These themes were verified, validated, and/or discounted in subsequent interviews. The findings indicated that the elderly women perceived the fall as both a significant and unpredictable event in their life. It resulted in a change of routine as they returned home to live alone. In response to this change, the women described threats to their self-esteem, particularly to their feelings of independence, activity, and autonomy. A variety of behaviours were used to cope with the threats to their self-esteem. Use of social support was one behaviour used by all the women. In describing this behaviour, reciprocity was important in the friendships of elderly women. This study also concluded that there were numerous difficulties in using social supports from a formal program. The implications for nursing research, practice, and education were discussed in light of these findings.
Issues women identify during their first three years of recovery from alcohol and drug addiction
Creators: name: Hardin, Melinda McKernan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Research targeting the chemically dependent woman has received little attention, even though the research indicates a convergence of male and female drinking norms. Research centered on the special issues of the chemically dependent woman also needs to be extended beyond the scope of actual alcohol and drug abuse and resulting treatment to include information on what issues women face in their recovery process. The findings would help treatment providers design more successful interventions for this population. This study used qualitative methods to investigate issues that 12 chemically dependent women, ranging in actual time in recovery from first to third year post inpatient treatment, discussed as part of a 16 week therapy group. Their recorded responses were transcribed and analyzed, using Glaser and Strauss' methods of comparative analysis, comparing the women between three groups desiginated by the divisions of first, second, and third year post inpatient treatment. The findings indicate that all share many of the same issues, however there are marked differences between the groups. All the women had difficulties with intra- and interrelationships, finding it difficult to maintain a healthy recovery in spite of the problems they confronted in experiencing reality without mind-altering substances. Many issues were influenced by the subjects' family of origin history and sex-role orientation. Conflicts in role obligations resulting in work, family, parenting, and relationship problems surfaced. All the women were aware of additional substance and compulsive dependencies that they would like to eliminate; however, avoiding relapse of their alcohol/drug addiction was the major concern for most. The findings reveal that the longer women spent time actively undertaking a concerted program of recovery, the more they experienced integration into the rest of society, and that the acquisition of life skills and resolution of the past were important factors to the success of this integration. The categories and theme issues that emerged from the analysis have implications for social work practice, policy, and further research.
DAVID HUME E IL CARATTERE: TRA CRITICA DELL’IDENTITÀ PERSONALE E RIFLESSIONE SULLA MORALE
Creators: name: LECALDANO, EUGENIO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2013
Subjects: Modern Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; David Hume; Character

description: Hume never develops the concept of character in any systematic way, but the following text maintains that this concept is very fruitful for giving a general interpretation of Hume’s «science of man». The character’s conceptual space in not the same of «personal identity» that Hume criticizes in Treatise’s book I. The character has a central part in morality and in social life and it is a methodological instrument to show the prevailing role of passions and sentiments in human nature.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume I, numero 2, 2013
Dynamical Effects and Phase Separation in Thin Films
Creators: name: Naraigh, Lennon O
name: Thiffeault, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study phase separation in thin films using the Navier--Stokes Cahn--Hilliard equations in the lubrication approximation, modeling substrate-film interactions with a van der Waals potential. We investigate the thin-film equations numerically and compare them with experimental results. We find that the model captures the qualitative features of real phase-separating fluids, in particular the tendency of concentration gradients to produce film thinning and surface roughening. The ultimate outcome of the phase separation depends strongly on the dynamical backreaction of concentration gradients on the flow, as we demonstrate when a shear stress is applied at the film's surface. When the backreaction is small, the phase domain boundaries align with the direction of the imposed stress, while as the backreaction is made larger, the domains begin to align in the perpendicular direction.
description: 4 pages, 13 figures. RevTex4 macros
EDUCAZIONE ESTETICA E PROGRESSO MORALE. LE FORME DEL CARATTERE
Creators: name: GATTI, ANDREA
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2013
Subjects: Philosophy; Aesthetics; Ethics; Taste

description: Since the very beginning of the modern age, a relationship has been held between aesthetic education and moral progress, taste and virtue, kalòs kai agathòs. This essay aims at focussing on the practical effects of eighteenth-century theories on «aesthetic culture», this being conceived not only as an amount of knowledges in the artistic field or as an active participation in the philosophical debate on the main aesthetic categories (beauty, sublime, picturesque, genius and so on) but, also, as a peculiar and essential form of spiritual and moral improvement.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume I, numero 2, 2013
Electronic structure and transport properties of atomic NiO spinvalves
Creators: name: Jacob, David
name: Fernández-Rossier, J.
name: Palacios, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ab-initio quantum transport calculations show that short NiO chains suspended in Ni nanocontacts present a very strong spin-polarization of the conductance. The generalized gradient approximation we use here predicts a similiar polarization of the conductance as the one previously computed with non-local exchange, confirming the robustness of the result. Their use as nanoscopic spinvalves is proposed.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure; accepted in JMMM (Proceedings of ICM'06, Kyoto)
LA FORMAZIONE DELLE VIRTÙ NATURALI NELL’ETICA RELAZIONALE HUMEANA
Creators: name: VACCARI, ALESSIO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2014
Subjects: Modern Philosophy; David Hume; Ethics; Character

description: In this article I want to suggest a new interpretation of the role of moral sentiments in forming the natural virtues. I want to claim that the transition from pre-moral traits to authentic individual virtues is guided and sustained by a kind of reflection in which each agent considers their own qualities, starting from how they make their possessor fit to participate in the various spheres of social and affective interaction that constitute their life or towards which it tends. I shall claim that this form of reflection is not merely an enquiry aimed at verifying if one or more characters traits of the agent are useful or immediately agreeable to those who possess them or to others, but involves a recognition of which traits are important to make the kinds of relation that are the agent’s centre of interest thrive. I shall claim that although this reflective process is aware of the situated and contingent aspects of the individual’s existence, it preserves some elements of impartiality and idealization typical of the common point of view, and may therefore be regarded as a form of reflection that produces moral sentiments – sentiments that, in turn, influence the agent’s behaviour.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume II, numero 1, 2014
S_3 Symmetry and Neutrino Masses and Mixings
Creators: name: Koide, Yoshio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a universal seesaw mass matrix model with three scalars ϕ_i, and by assuming an S_3 flavor symmetry for the Yukawa interactions, the lepton masses and mixings are investigated systematically. In order to understand the observed neutrino mixing, the charged leptons (e, μ, τ) are regarded as the 3 elements (e_1, e_2, e_3) of S_3, while the neutrino mass-eigenstates are regarded as the irreducible representation (ν_η, ν_σ, ν_π) of S_3, where (ν_π, ν_η) and ν_σare a doublet and a singlet, respectively, which are composed of the 3 elements (ν_1, ν_2, ν_3) of S_3.
description: 16 pages, no figure, version to appear in EPJ-C
GOLDONI E LA CRITICA AI COSTUMI BORGHESI
Creators: name: CARDINALI, SANDRO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2014
Subjects: History of Ideas; Italian Literature; Carlo Goldoni; Character

description: A fundamental element of Goldoni’s work is personality or “character”, which is conceived not as an ensemble of abstract qualities, but as an expression of the complexity of real life. This view is funded on a representation of the Venetian society considered in its middle level, closer to low-rank people than to high social classes. Goldoni builds a dramatic language that completely changes the rules and practice of the comic genre; he no more bases his comedies on simple plots and easy effects of extemporaneous acting, but on the personality of characters and verisimilitude of the situations on stage. Theater becomes thus the representation of the bourgeois world depicted in its internal contradictions and irreducible clash between old and new generations.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume II, numero 1, 2014
IL CARATTERE DEI CARATTERI: SISTEMI DI CLASSIFICAZIONE E NUOVE TENDENZE NELLA TIPOGRAFIA
Creators: name: ROSSI, FABRIZIO M.
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2014
Subjects: Hisotry of Typography; Typographical Characters; Typefaces; Aesthetics

description: This essay aims at considering the following questions concerning typographical “characters”: 1) questions of meaning, distinguishing between “typefaces” (short etymological route) and “typography” (common, specialized and international meaning); 2) Latin alphabet: uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers, fonts variants (shape and weight), along with a case of study, i.e. the first page of «The Times», 22 June 1815; 3) classifying typefaces: the classification of Thibeaudeau and the typefaces classification of Bringhurst; 4) the current crisis of typefaces classification systems.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume II, numero 1, 2014
Wilson Loops in 2D Noncommutative Euclidean Gauge Theory: 2. 1/θExpansion
Creators: name: Ambjorn, Jan
name: Dubin, Andrei
name: Makeenko, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the $1/θ$ and 1/N expansions of the Wilson loop averages $_{U_θ(N)}$ in the two-dimensional noncommutative $U_θ(N)$ gauge theory with the parameter of noncommutativity $θ$. For a generic rectangular contour $C$, a concise integral representation is derived (non-perturbatively both in the coupling constant $g^{2}$ and in $θ$) for the next-to-leading term of the $1/θ$ expansion. In turn, in the limit when $θ$ is much larger than the area $A(C)$ of the surface bounded by $C$, the large $θ$ asymptote of this representation is argued to yield the next-to-leading term of the $1/θ$ series. For both of the expansions, the next-to-leading contribution exhibits only a power-like decay for areas $A(C)>>σ^{-1}$ (but $A(C)<
description: LaTex, 50pp., 9 PostScript figures
The Environmental Paradox of the City, Landscape, Urbanism, and New Urbanism
Creators: name: Kelbaugh, Douglas
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: “The City Council, as you can well imagine, swallowed this line whole. Who wouldn’t? Landscape is good; building is landscape; therefore building is good. One hears this three-car train of logic constantly in architectural discourse today…Nothing sells like landscape. It’s our sex” (Heymann, 2011). “If you love nature, live in the city” (Glaeser, 2011). As the first quote above suggests, the proponents of Landscape Urbanism have been winning design competitions and commissions, as well as gaining professional and academic acclaim. Closely associated with hallowed ecological values, it has been given a wide berth in the media and public process. However, it has received limited analysis and criticism in the professional and academic worlds. New Urbanism, on the other hand, is an older and more organized movement whose agenda has been repeatedly dissected and critiqued. A critical comparison of the two is illuminating and timely in an era of increasing ecological degradation and climate disruption, as well as of rapid urbanization. Before comparing the two, the environmental merits and demerits of urbanism in general will be discussed.
description: Consilience, No 13 (2015): Issue Thirteen: 2015
Phase coherence of conduction electrons below the Kondo temperature
Creators: name: Birge, Gassem M. Alzoubi Norman O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the phase decoherence rate, $τ_ϕ^{-1}$ of conduction electrons in disordered Ag wires implanted with 2 and 10 parts per million Fe impurities, by means of the weak localization magnetoresistance. The Kondo temperature of Fe in Ag, $T_K \approx 4$ K, is in the ideal temperature range to study the progressive screening of the Fe spins as the temperature $T$ falls below $T_K$. The contribution to $τ_ϕ^{-1}$ from the Fe impurities is clearly visible over the temperature range 40 mK -- 10 K. Below $T_K$, $τ_ϕ^{-1}$ falls rapidly until $T/T_K \approx 0.1$, in agreement with recent theoretical calculations. At lower $T$, $τ_ϕ^{-1}$ deviates from theory with a flatter $T$-dependence. We speculate that this latter behavior is due to incomplete screening of the s=2 Fe impurities by the conduction electrons.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
A Technical and Behavioural Energy Efficiency Assessment of McGill Cafeteria Operations at Bishop Mountain Hall and Royal Victoria College
Creators: name: Cantor, Tal
name: Hadziosmanovic, Maida
name: Kim, Harriet
name: Marsh, Elizabeth
name: Secules, Chiara
name: Wright, Kirk
name: Zastavniouk, Carol
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: McGill Food and Dining Services (MFDS) have, over the past three years, progressed as a leader in sustainable practices at McGill University. Increased expectations for sustainable management have pushed Executive Chef Oliver deVolpi to assess energy efficiency at the Bishop Mountain Hall (BMH) and Royal Victoria College (RVC) cafeterias. This project aims to determine which technical and behavioural modifications should be made in the Royal Victoria College (RVC) and Bishop Mountain Hall (BMH) cafeterias in order to increase energy efficiency. Two key aspects determining energy consumption were addressed: the required energy input of the appliances and the frequency and manner of appliance usage. The technical approach assessed the sustainability of energy sources, including natural gas, electricity, and steam. The behavioural approach identified necessary improvements in mealtimes, the operation and availability of appliances, and staff practices. Using this data and appliance specification data, priority lists of suggested appliance replacements were made.
description: Consilience, No 13 (2015): Issue Thirteen: 2015
S2Engine: A Novel Systolic Architecture for Sparse Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Yang, Jianlei
name: Fu, Wenzhi
name: Cheng, Xingzhou
name: Ye, Xucheng
name: Dai, Pengcheng
name: Zhao, Weisheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in performing cognitive tasks. However, execution of CNNs requires a large amount of computing resources and generates heavy memory traffic, which imposes a severe challenge on computing system design. Through optimizing parallel executions and data reuse in convolution, systolic architecture demonstrates great advantages in accelerating CNN computations. However, regular internal data transmission path in traditional systolic architecture prevents the systolic architecture from completely leveraging the benefits introduced by neural network sparsity. Deployment of fine-grained sparsity on the existing systolic architectures is greatly hindered by the incurred computational overheads. In this work, we propose S2Engine $-$ a novel systolic architecture that can fully exploit the sparsity in CNNs with maximized data reuse. S2Engine transmits compressed data internally and allows each processing element to dynamically select an aligned data from the compressed dataflow in convolution. Compared to the naive systolic array, S2Engine achieves about $3.2\times$ and about $3.0\times$ improvements on speed and energy efficiency, respectively.
description: 13 pages, 17 figures
The Role of Training Programs in the Sustainability of Potable Water Projects
Creators: name: Carty, Monica
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: In rural regions around the world, 1.7 billion people rely on public taps, hand-pumps, protected wells, protected springs, and rainwater for clean drinking water. Up to the present, there has been little focus on how training programs in communities receiving the water points fit into the overall picture of sustainability. Many factors of sustainability such as financial management and operation, and governance of the water point are dependent on human skill, which are often first exposed to a community through training programs. To understand better how trainings affect the sustainability of water points, I sent surveys to personnel from NGOs who have worked as trainers in water development projects in Senegal, Malawi, Honduras, and India. I also conducted surveys and focus groups with NGO personnel and the community members who went through their trainings in three villages in Senegal. I then compared perspectives of trainers and community members using Grounded Theory, facilitated by using Nvivo 10. The results of all four countries’ results from NGO personnel showed that the central themes found in responses were management, community, knowledge, NGO and community relations, and the trainer-learner relationship. Comparing the central themes of the trainers and learners in Senegal, the two groups’ responses showed that mutually tied themes were knowledge, management, mechanical, and profits/finances. In order to improve training to make water points more sustainable, I recommend that NGOs consider how people trained will relate to the rest of the community, and furthermore, see how the trainings and information learned will function in the community after the NGO leaves the community.
description: Consilience, No 13 (2015): Issue Thirteen: 2015
Economic Survey of Oil Palm Products’ Processing and Marketing in Kogi State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Ojonimi Onoja, Anthony
name: Ogali, T. U.
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: This study was designed to ascertain the level of profitability and inherent problems derivable from oil palm products’ processing and marketing in Kogi State of Nigeria. Primary data used for the study was obtained through the use of structured questionnaire and oral interviews. From the six agricultural Zones in Kogi State a total sample size of 60 was finally drawn to form the sampling frame from 3 Agricultural Zones. Descriptive statistics were used to attain objectives 1 and 3; while objective 2 was attained by the use of gross margin analysis. Majority of the farmers obtained their Fresh Fruit Bunches for processing from the village or open market (50%); oil palm processing and marketing is profitable business in the area with a gross margin of N603,320.00K and gross margin ratio of 2.72 from an average enterprise; problems identified in the enterprises included fluctuating prices, lack of basic infrastructure and inputs such as capital and processing machines. The study recommended the need for government to hasten the supply of rural infrastructure, reduce taxes and let processors/marketers be encouraged to form cooperatives so as to access credit.
description: Consilience, No 13 (2015): Issue Thirteen: 2015
GORGON E VIS LAPIDIFICATIVA. ELEMENTI DI MINERALOGIA TRA ALBERTO MAGNO E DANTE
Creators: name: MESCHIARI, CRISTINA
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2014
Subjects: History of Italian Literature; Dante; Albertus Magnus; Gorgon; mineralogy

description: In his Mineralogy (I, ii, 8) Albertus Magnus writes that the virtus fortis mineralium or vis lapidificativa is called Gorgon. Possibly Dante builds up a correspondence between petrification of natural elements as it can be seen in the infernal landscape and persistency in the fault, which is the petrification of the sinner’s Hearth, as suggested by the Speculum morale. The threat of petrifying the poet rapped out by the Furies is, in a sense, the ostentation of the power of transforming spirit and matter. Perhaps Dante is alluding to alchemy by this episode. In this way the poet strengthens his accusation to the human presumptuous self-confidence and underlines the value of the Lord’s grace. The resemblance between Mercury and the messo from Heaven, who descends to help Dante and Virgil, and the natural phenomena that surround him are coherent with this interpretation. Alchemy is probably involved in the retrospective vision of the whole poem.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume II, numero 1, 2014
The massless irreducible representation in E theory and how bosons can appear as spinors
Creators: name: Glennon, Keith
name: West, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study in detail the irreducible representation of E theory that corresponds to massless particles. This has little algebra Ic(E9) and contains 128 physical states that belong to the spinor representation of SO(16). These are the degrees of freedom of maximal supergravity in eleven dimensions. This smaller number of the degrees of freedom, compared to what might be expected, is due to an infinite number of duality relations which in turn can be traced to the existence of a subaglebra of Ic(E9) which forms an ideal and annihilates the representation. We explain how these features are inherited into the covariant theory. We also comment on the remarkable similarity between how the bosons and fermions arise in E theory.
Risk, Resilience, and Sustainability: How Governance in Zimbabwe Countervails this Nexus
Creators: name: Shumba, Dorcas
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: This paper supports the view that there is a strong correlation between risk, resilience, and sustainability and that governance has a bearing on the outcome of each of these concepts. This is to suggest that, when the nexus is unstable, there is a greater chance that poor governance will be at play and vice versa. To demonstrate this premise using evidence from Zimbabwe, the paper embarks on a socio-historical analysis of the style of governance taken by the country from its independence in 1980 till the present day, highlighting how this may have played a major role towards heightening situations of risk, decreasing the resilience of the people, subsequently stalling sustainability. The ideas conveyed in this paper will help strengthen the vision for good governance that was set by the UN as part of the post 2015 development agenda.
description: Consilience, No 17 (2017): Issue Seventeen: 2017
An extreme rotation measure in the high-redshift radio galaxy PKS B0529-549
Creators: name: Broderick, J. W.
name: De Breuck, C.
name: Hunstead, R. W.
name: Seymour, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a radio polarimetric study of the high-redshift radio galaxy PKS B0529-549 (z=2.575), based on high-resolution 12 mm and 3 cm images obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The source is found to have a rest-frame Faraday rotation measure of -9600 rad m^{-2}, the largest seen thus far in the environment of a z > 2 radio galaxy. In addition, the rest-frame Faraday dispersion in the screen responsible for the rotation is calculated to be 5800 rad m^{-2}, implying rotation measures as large as -15400 rad m^{-2}. Using supporting near-IR imaging from the Very Large Telescope (VLT), we suggest that the rotation measure originates in the Ly-alpha halo surrounding the host galaxy, and estimate the magnetic field strength to be ~10 microGauss. We also present a new optical spectrum of PKS B0529-549 obtained with the New Technology Telescope (NTT), and propose that the emission-line ratios are best described by a photoionization model. Furthermore, the host galaxy is found to exhibit both hot dust emission at 8.0 microns and significant internal visual extinction (~1.6 mag), as inferred from Spitzer Space Telescope near/mid-IR imaging.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of The impact on renal function after long-term use of anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation patients
Creators: name: Lee, Wei-Chieh
name: Lee, Pai-Wei
name: Wu, Po-Jui
name: Fang, Yen-Nan
name: Chen, Huang-Chung
name: Lin, Yu-Sheng
name: Fang, Hsiu-Yu
name: Chang, Shang-Hung
name: Liu, Ping-Yen
name: Chen, Mien-Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Fig. 1 Comparison of the change in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) between 2-year eGFR and baseline eGFR between warfarin and DOAC groups after propensity score matching. In the subgroups analyses, including age ≥ 70 (A) or
A World of Activities by Cambridge Data Champions
Creators: name: Busse-Wicher, Marta
name: Martinez Cuesta, Sergio
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2017

description: Dr Marta Busse-Wicher and Sergio Martinez Cuesta of the University of Cambridge discuss the Data Champions programme. Delivered at the Engaging Researchers with Good Data Management event held at St Catharine's College, Cambridge on the 15th of November 2017
Taushiro Field Materials
Creators: name: García García, Amadeo
name: O'Hagan, Zachary
name: Alicea Ortiz, Nectalí
name: Pérez Ríos, Juanita
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2017

description: Audio recordings of elicitation sessions targeting lexicon, grammar, and history; texts; field notes; previously published materials
The old spheroid at the center of the  Milky Way as traced by RR Lyrae variables
Creators: name: Zoccali, Manuela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Galactic bulge
Milky Way Galaxy

description: This is a short presentation given at the Conference "STARS (across the Universe)" held in Naples, Italy, on October 16-20, 2023
Additional file 1 of The prevalence of substance use disorders and substance use in anorexia nervosa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Devoe, Daniel J.
name: Dimitropoulos, Gina
name: Anderson, Alida
name: Bahji, Anees
name: Flanagan, Jordyn
name: Soumbasis, Andrea
name: Patten, Scott B.
name: Lange, Tom
name: Paslakis, Georgios
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Review Material.
Accelerating Geothermal Development in Indonesia: A Case Study in the Underutilization of Geothermal Energy
Creators: name: Fan, Kevin
name: Nam, Sang
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: Geothermal energy is a clean, reliable, and domestic source of energy that offers constant electricity while emitting relatively few emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants. Despite these benefits, its development globally has not been as rapid in recent years as that of other renewable energy sources. We examine Indonesia as a case study— while home to over a third of the world’s geothermal resources, the country exploits only 5.8% of it. Moreover, as a rapidly developing economy with projected electricity growth of 8.5% per year until 2025, Indonesia must harness its geothermal potential if it is to meet electricity needs without requiring the fossil fuels upon which it has historically been reliant. However, significant roadblocks impede geothermal development in Indonesia, primarily in the geoscientific, financial, and political spheres. Firstly, there is a lack of geologic data crucial to preliminary geothermal potential assessment, rendering it difficult to locate available resources. Financial issues also deter investment in geothermal development by private companies due to the high up-front cost of preliminary resource exploration. Lastly, an uncertain political and regulatory environment create uncertainty for geothermal investors. Cognizant of these problems, we examine solutions and policies effectively implemented by other countries and industries that can be applied to Indonesian geothermal energy development. While specific to Indonesia, our recommendations for collaborations amongst governments, development agencies, and private companies bear implications for accelerating the development of geothermal energy resources worldwide.
description: Consilience, No 19 (2018): Issue Nineteen: 2018
Unusual competition of superconductivity and charge-density-wave state in a compressed topological kagome metal
Creators: name: Yu, F. H.
name: Ma, D. H.
name: Zhuo, W. Z.
name: Liu, S. Q.
name: Wen, X. K.
name: Lei, B.
name: Ying, J. J.
name: Chen, X. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the competition between superconductivity and other ordered states (such as antiferromagnetic or charge-density-wave (CDW) state) is a central issue in condensed matter physics. The recently discovered layered kagome metal AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, and Cs) provides us a new playground to study the interplay of superconductivity and CDW state by involving nontrivial topology of band structures. Here, we conduct high-pressure electrical transport and magnetic susceptibility measurements to study CsV3Sb5 with the highest Tc of 2.7 K in AV3Sb5 family. While the CDW transition is monotonically suppressed by pressure, superconductivity is enhanced with increasing pressure up to P1~0.7 GPa, then an unexpected suppression on superconductivity happens until pressure around 1.1 GPa, after that, Tc is enhanced with increasing pressure again. The CDW is completely suppressed at a critical pressure P2~2 GPa together with a maximum Tc of about 8 K. In contrast to a common dome-like behavior, the pressure-dependent Tc shows an unexpected double-peak behavior. The unusual suppression of Tc at P1 is concomitant with the rapidly damping of quantum oscillations, sudden enhancement of the residual resistivity and rapid decrease of magnetoresistance. Our discoveries indicate an unusual competition between superconductivity and CDW state in pressurized kagome lattice.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Periodic boundary conditions on the pseudosphere
Creators: name: Sausset, François
name: Tarjus, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a framework to build periodic boundary conditions on the pseudosphere (or hyperbolic plane), the infinite two-dimensional Riemannian space of constant negative curvature. Starting from the common case of periodic boundary conditions in the Euclidean plane, we introduce all the needed mathematical notions and sketch a classification of periodic boundary conditions on the hyperbolic plane. We stress the possible applications in statistical mechanics for studying the bulk behavior of physical systems and we illustrate how to implement such periodic boundary conditions in two examples, the dynamics of particles on the pseudosphere and the study of classical spins on hyperbolic lattices.
description: 30 pages, minor corrections, accepted to J. Phys. A
Positive association between experimental cortisol increases and cage-measures of feeding behavior in wild-caught gerbils
Creators: name: Sargunaraj, Franklin
name: Juliana, Justin R. St.
name: Downs, Cynthia J.
name: Khokhlova, Irina S.
name: Koren, Lee
name: Matas, Devorah
name: Wynne-Edwards, Katherine E.
name: Kotler, Burt P.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Glucocorticoid hormone levels vary within a forager based upon environmental stressors such as illumination and riskier habitats, and a forager’s response to environmental variables depends upon its glucocorticoid levels. Here, we report on a laboratory experiment in which we manipulated cortisol in Allenbyi’s gerbils (Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi) to test the relationship between cortisol and behavior. We then quantified the resulting blood cortisol levels and feeding behavior in gerbils. Thirty gerbils were injected with 21-day slow-release cortisol pellets drawn from 5 different dosages. We quantified the physiological response to pellet implantation in gerbils by measuring cortisol level in blood serum using ELISA (Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay). We fed gerbils daily by mixing millet seeds into the sand inside rodent cages and measured the remaining seeds the following day to quantify feeding efforts. Some evidence supports that subcutaneous supplementation of glucocorticoids (GCs) in the gerbils led to higher blood serum levels. Cortisol levels varied according to time period of measurement. Gerbils that received lower dosages consumed most of the food presented to them when compared to those receiving the highest doses. In this manner, we delineate a pattern on cortisol hormone level variation over time following dosing and consequences in feeding behavior.
MACHIAVELLI E HUME TRA SCRITTOIO E TAVOLO DA GIOCO
Creators: name: COSPITO, GIUSEPPE
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2014
Subjects: History of Philosophy; History of Ideas; David Hume; Machiavelli; Game and Play

description: In his famous letter of 10 December 1513 to Francesco Vettori, Machiavelli depicts his own life as a political exile. After spending his day in trivial business – including the game of triche-trach – he devotes 4 hore di tempo to studying history and politics. This shows remarkable analogies with the Conclusion of the first book of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature. Hume, at the end of his day of abstruse philosophical meditations, spends three or four hour’s amusement: he dines, talks with his friends and plays a game of back-gammon, which is the functional equivalent of the triche-trach. Hume did not read Machiavelli’s letter: this rules out then the possibility such analogies can be explained thus; yet, they can be explained through an analysis of the peculiar nature of the game they both play, a mixture of ability and luck depending on probability. It has also to be said that, to Machiavelli, studying history is a consolation for his life’s miseries he had been forced in; while Hume’s closet is the source of melancholy reflections.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume II, numero 1, 2014
Multiple Quantum Well AlGaAs Nanowires
Creators: name: Chen, C.
name: Braidy, N.
name: Couteau, C.
name: Fradin, C.
name: Weihs, G.
name: LaPierre, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This letter reports on the growth, structure and luminescent properties of individual multiple quantum well (MQW) AlGaAs nanowires (NWs). The composition modulations (MQWs) are obtained by alternating the elemental flux of Al and Ga during the molecular beam epitaxy growth of the AlGaAs wire on GaAs (111)B substrates. Transmission electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy performed on individual NWs are consistent with a configuration composed of conical segments stacked along the NW axis. Micro-photoluminescence measurements and confocal microscopy showed enhanced light emission from the MQW NWs as compared to non-segmented NWs due to carrier confinement and sidewall passivation.