cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MULTIPLE, SHIFTING AND CONTESTED - DALIT WRITINGS.pdf
Creators: name: Oza, Preeti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 220202 History and Philosophy of Education
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Subaltern History is a very interesting mirror of the society and after being quiet for such a long time, when it speaks, it shatters many myths, many stereotypes, many positions, many perceptions, many established narratives, and viewpoints. The re-positioning of the Dalit- Buddhist equation and the role of New writings in Dalit Literature has provided a good platform to discuss the entire narrative of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar today. Dalits have been winning their battle against designator and gaining in form of reservation benefits from the days of British rule in India. By 1980s the Dalits included Sudras in their camp and began the united fight against Casteism with Bahujan identity and demanding a proportionate share in various fields. This, in turn, triggered sub-caste identity movements demanding respectable identity and equal share in fields of education employment and politics in India. Today identity politics is a special area of study attracting the attention of students, social scientists and social policy makers in India Identity politics can be defined as “the political arguments that focus upon the interest and perspectives of groups with which people identify”. This includes the ways in which people's politics may be shaped by aspects of their identity with the use of being a part of any social organizations like race, class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ideology, nation, sexual orientation, culture, information preference, history, musical or literary preference, medical conditions, professions or hobbies. Not all members of any given group are necessarily involved in identity politics.
Compilation of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization
Creators: name: Sanders, Yuval R.
name: Berry, Dominic W.
name: Costa, Pedro C. S.
name: Tessler, Louis W.
name: Wiebe, Nathan
name: Gidney, Craig
name: Neven, Hartmut
name: Babbush, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we explore which heuristic quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization might be most practical to try out on a small fault-tolerant quantum computer. We compile circuits for several variants of quantum accelerated simulated annealing including those using qubitization or Szegedy walks to quantize classical Markov chains and those simulating spectral gap amplified Hamiltonians encoding a Gibbs state. We also optimize fault-tolerant realizations of the adiabatic algorithm, quantum enhanced population transfer, the quantum approximate optimization algorithm, and other approaches. Many of these methods are bottlenecked by calls to the same subroutines; thus, optimized circuits for those primitives should be of interest regardless of which heuristic is most effective in practice. We compile these bottlenecks for several families of optimization problems and report for how long and for what size systems one can perform these heuristics in the surface code given a range of resource budgets. Our results discourage the notion that any quantum optimization heuristic realizing only a quadratic speedup will achieve an advantage over classical algorithms on modest superconducting qubit surface code processors without significant improvements in the implementation of the surface code. For instance, under quantum-favorable assumptions (e.g., that the quantum algorithm requires exactly quadratically fewer steps), our analysis suggests that quantum accelerated simulated annealing would require roughly a day and a million physical qubits to optimize spin glasses that could be solved by classical simulated annealing in about four CPU-minutes.
description: 77 pages, 19 figures, 9 tables. v2 contains new appendix on in-place binary to unary conversion
Farm Employment, Immigration, and Poverty: A Structural Analysis
Creators: name: Martin, Philip L.
name: Taylor, J. Edward
name: Martin, Philip L.
name: Taylor, J. Edward
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: farm employment
subject: immigration
subject: poverty
subject: rural communities

description: This study tests for structural change in the poverty-farm employment relationship between 1980 and 1990. Econometric findings from a partially simultaneous block triangular regression model estimated with census data reveal a circular relationship between farm employment and immigration that was associated with a significant decrease in the number of people in impoverished U.S. households in 1980. However, in 1990, the farm employment-poverty relationship reversed: an additional farm job was associated with an increase in poverty. Our findings suggest immigration to fill low-skilled farm jobs is transferring poverty from rural Mexico to communities in the United States.
Mean-field study of charge order with long periodicity in $θ$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$X
Creators: name: Kaneko, Masato
name: Ogata, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charge ordering phenomenon in $θ$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$X is studied by using 1/4-filled extended Hubbard model on an anisotropic triangular lattice through mean-field approximation. It is found that a metallic charge ordered state with 3-periodicity on lattices (3-fold type charge order) is realized in the realistic parameter region where the nearest neighbor Coulomb interaction V$_{ij}$ is nearly isotropic. This 3-fold state survives up to high temperatures by estimating the free energy. Insulating state with diagonal or vertical-type charge ordering appears as increasing anisotropy of V$_{ij}$. Considering the effect of the structural distortion observed in $θ$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$RbZn(SCN)$_4$ at low temperatures, horizontal-type charge ordered insulating phase tends to be stabilized and the region where 3-fold type exists becomes narrower. Our results are consistent with the metallic state with long periodic charge order which can be related to 3-fold type in $θ$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$RbZn(SCN)$_4$ at high temperatures and insulating state with horizontal charge order at low temperatures. For $θ$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$CsZn(SCN)$_4$, we speculate several kinds of charge-ordered states are energetically competing with each other leading to an inhomogeneous state at low temperatures.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures, some typos corrected
Groups with a solvable subgroup of prime-power index
Creators: name: Bastos, Raimundo
name: Schneider, Csaba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20D05, 20D10, 20D20

description: In this paper we describe some properties of groups $G$ that contain a solvable subgroup of finite prime-power index (Theorem 1 and Corollaries 2--3). We prove that if $G$ is a non-solvable group that contains a solvable subgroup of index $p^α$ (for some prime $p$), then the quotient $G/\mbox{rad}(G)$ of $G$ over the solvable radical is asymptotically small in comparison to $p^α!$ (Theorem 4).
Scaling of anisotropic flow in the picture of quark coalescence
Creators: name: Oldenburg, Markus D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of anisotropic flow at low (p_T < 1.5 GeV/c) and intermediate (1.5 < p_T < 5 GeV/c) transverse momentum from the STAR collaboration are reviewed. While at low p_T an ordering of elliptic flow strength with particle mass is observed, the measured signals appear to follow number-of-constituent quark scaling at intermediate p_T. The observations of higher harmonics support this picture qualitatively, and are sensitive to specific model assumptions.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures; Hot Quarks 2004 conference proceedings, to appear in J. Phys. G; revised version (small changes in wording)
Eine wichtige Urkunde über die Geschichte des Mar Hananja Klosters
Creators: name: Võõbus, Arthur
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 53 (1969): Oriens christianus, Band 53
DALIT IDENTITY POLITICS AS A HISTORY OF NATION BUILDING CONFLUENCE OF MAHATMA GANDHI AND DR.pdf
Creators: name: Oza, Preeti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Mohandas K. Gandhi's relationship with other eminent history makers of his time—whether personal friends and allies like Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, or the opponents and antagonistic rivals like Mohammed Ali Jinnah—was never straightforward, uncomplicated, or free of turbulence. But amongst this group of prominent people, one of his most controversial relationships was with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who is considered the messiah of the downtrodden and untouchables (Dalits) in India. As he served India in several capacities, He had various occasions for confrontations with Gandhi but the most famous ones are the differences in the positioning Dalits in India. This paper deliberates upon these differences and how the process of Nation-building was gradually shaped and how these differences affected today‘s Indian people.
Using Both Sociological and Economic Incentives to Reduce Moral Hazard
Creators: name: Richter, Francisca G.-C.
name: Diaz, Edgar F. Pebe
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Currier, Kevin
name: Richter, Francisca G.-C.
name: Diaz, Edgar F. Pebe
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Currier, Kevin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: grading
subject: incentives
subject: moral hazard
subject: norms
subject: social sanctions

description: Economists tend to focus on monetary incentives. In the model developed here, both sociological and economic incentives are used to diminish the apparent moral hazard problem existing in commodity grading. Training that promotes graders' response to sociological incentives is shown to increase expected benefits. The model suggests this training be increased up to the point where the marginal benefit due to training equals its marginal cost. It may be more economical to influence the grader's behavior by creating cognitive dissonance through training and rules rather than by using economic incentives alone.
Flavoured leptogenesis: a successful thermal leptogenesis with N_1 mass below 10^8 GeV
Creators: name: Vives, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that taking correctly into account the lepton flavour dependence of the CP asymmetries and washout processes, it is possible to obtain successful thermal leptogenesis from the decays of the second right-handed neutrino. The asymmetries in the muon and tau-flavour channels are then not erased by the inverse decays of the lightest right-handed neutrino, N_1. In this way, we reopen the possibility of ``thermal leptogenesis'' in models with a strong hierarchy in the right-handed Majorana masses that is typically the case in models with up-quark--neutrino Yukawa unification.
description: 5 pages, no figures. References added, referencing corrected
On the Rate-dependency of Mechanical Properties and Failure Mechanisms of a (γ + α2) - TiAl/Ti3Al-Al2O3 Cermet
Creators: Li, Haoyang
Motamedi, Pouyan
Hogan, James D.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2020

This study investigated the rate-dependent mechanical properties and failure of a self-propagating high-temperature synthesized TiAl/Ti3Al-Al2O3 cermet using mechanical testing and advanced microscopy. Quasi-static and dynamic uniaxial compression tests coupled with high-speed imaging and digital image correlation were used to determine the rate-dependency of stress-strain behavior, compressive strength, and failure strain. The stress-strain curves in the dynamic experiments exhibited a series of alternating stress relaxation and strain hardening cycles, where a ~ 1.2 times increase in compressive strength from 2780 ± 60 MPa to 3133 ± 265 MPa, and a ~ 1.6 times increase in failure strain from 0.0166 ± 0.0017 to 0.0264 ± 0.0032 were determined with an increase in strain rates from ~ 10−4 s−1 to ~ 103 s−1. It was also found that the cermet exhibits macroscopic surface texturing by examining the high-speed imaging of deformation during testing. Crystalline texturing with profound microstructural evolution in the titanium aluminide phase was found under dynamic loading using microscopy, and this was correlated with the macroscopic surface texturing observed using high-speed imaging and the cyclical stress relaxation and strain hardening behavior in the stress-strain curves. Altogether, this study presents a thorough understanding of the rate-dependency of the TiAl/Ti3Al-Al2O3 cermet with regard to mechanical properties and failure mechanisms and provides insights for modeling and improvement.
Conditional probability of actually detecting a financial fraud - a neutrosophic extension to Benford's law
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Sukanto
name: Kumar, Kuldeep
name: Smarandache, Florentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91B28, 47N30

description: This study actually draws from and builds on an earlier paper (Kumar and Bhattacharya, 2002). Here we have basically added a neutrosophic dimension to the problem of determining the conditional probability that a financial fraud has been actually committed, given that no Type I error occurred while rejecting the null hypothesis H0: The observed first-digit frequencies approximate a Benford distribution; and accepting the alternative hypothesis H1: The observed first-digit frequencies do not approximate a Benford distribution. We have also suggested a conceptual model to implement such a neutrosophic fraud detection system.
description: 9 pages
Gagged Narratives from the Margin Indian Films and the Shady Representation of Caste.pdf
Creators: name: Oza, Preeti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200202 Asian Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities

description: Popular Hindi cinema provides a fascinating account of Indian life history and cultural politics. Hindi cinema is always a mirror of the Indian society but films also have fascinated entertained the Indian public for more than a hundred years and sometimes when we analyze the history of Indian cinema we can get an amazingly interesting but actual history of the contemporary society with all its virtues and vices in different colors. This paper deliberates on the various issues pertaining to the portrayal of specific caste, especially the Dalits in Indian films- both Hindi and regional.
Technology/fractured : an inquiry into the circulation of information technology in consumer capitalism
Creators: name: Teymouri, Hamed
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This inquiry seeks to explore historical patterns connecting the development of information technology and its proliferation in the shape of goods and services in postwar America. I take the two Terminator films as case studies in these cultural relations. These films, as many others from the period between the late 1980's and early 1990's, present technology as a threat to humanity. In the case of the Terminator narrative the threat is total, in the sense that machines actually destroy the world to exterminate all humans. The survivors of this imagined war — those who were not killed by man-made weapons — face the terror of machine-made weapons. The most fearsome of these are the human-looking cyborgs, the Terminators. The central argument of this inquiry is that this narrative premise and all of its attendant effects do not produce a viable critique of the rapid proliferation of technology in culture; still less do these films stand to question the cultural and economic arrangements which underlie the production of technological commodities. Works by Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Baudrillard constitute the theoretical sources of this argument. In addition, I have borrowed the notion of "fractured identities" from Donna Haraway. I will attempt to show that this notion, very similar to the operation of the Terminator films, fails to substantiate an avenue of critique and liberation. Rather, the notion of fractured identities, appears to serve the logic of consumerism.
Analysis of Economically Optimal Nutrition and Marketing Strategies for Paylean® Usage in Hog Production
Creators: name: Li, Ning
name: Preckel, Paul V.
name: Foster, Kenneth A.
name: Schinckel, Allan P.
name: Li, Ning
name: Preckel, Paul V.
name: Foster, Kenneth A.
name: Schinckel, Allan P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Paylean®
subject: actopamine
subject: swine production

description: An approach to the development of the economically optimal dietary concentration of Paylean, duration of the Paylean feeding, and dietary lysine concentration for finishing hog production is presented. A simulation model describing daily growth of hogs under different Paylean and lysine concentration combinations was adapted for optimizing nutrition and marketing when feed is supplemented with Paylean. Net returns per pig space per day under four alternative payment schemes are maximized based on 10-year average price levels and production costs. Profitability of Paylean is investigated, and management strategies for swine production with Paylean are developed for two representative finishing operations.
Space Project for Astrophysical and Cosmological Exploration (SPACE), an ESA stand-alone mission and a possible contribution to the Origins Space Telescope
Creators: name: Burgarella, Denis
name: Bunker, Andrew
name: Bouwens, Rychard
name: Pagani, Laurent
name: Afonso, Jose
name: Atek, Hakim
name: Audard, Marc
name: Cabrit, Sylvie
name: Caputi, Karina
name: Ciesla, Laure
name: Conselice, Christopher
name: Cooray, Asantha
name: Cresci, Giovanni
name: Curti, Mirko
name: Espinosa, Jose Miguel Rodriguez
name: Ferrari, Marc
name: Kobayashi, Chiaki
name: Lagarde, Nadege
name: Maestro, Jesus Gallego
name: Maiolino, Roberto
name: Malek, Katarzyna
name: Mannucci, Filippo
name: Montillaud, Julien
name: Oesch, Pascal
name: Pearson, Chris
name: Pollo, Agnieszka
name: Reyle, Céline
name: Rosario, David
name: Sakon, Itsuki
name: Schaerer, Daniel
name: Sharples, Ray
name: Sobral, David
name: Zamkotsian, Frederic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new mission called Space Project for Astrophysical and Cosmological Exploration (SPACE) as part on the ESA long term planning Voyage 2050 programme. SPACE will study galaxy evolution at the earliest times, with the key goals of charting the formation of the heavy elements, measuring the evolution of the galaxy luminosity function, tracing the build-up of stellar mass in galaxies over cosmic time, and finding the first super-massive black holes (SMBHs) to form. The mission will exploit a unique region of the parameter space, between the narrow ultra-deep surveys with HST and JWST, and shallow wide-field surveys such as Roman Space Telescope and EUCLID, and should yield by far the largest sample of any current or planned mission of very high redshift galaxies at z > 10 which are sufficiently bright for detailed follow-up spectroscopy. Crucially, we propose a wide-field spectroscopic near-IR + mid-IR capability which will greatly enhance our understanding of the first galaxies by detecting and identifying a statistical sample of the first galaxies and the first SMBH, and to chart the metal enrichment history of galaxies in the early Universe - potentially finding signatures of the very first stars to form from metal-free primordial gas. The wide-field and wavelength range of SPACE will also provide us a unique opportunity to study star formation by performing a wide survey of the Milky Way in the near-IR + mid-IR. This science project can be enabled either by a stand-alone ESA-led M mission or by an instrument for an L mission (with ESA and/or NASA, JAXA and other international space agencies) with a wide-field (sub-)millimetre capability at wavelength > 500 microns.
description: Submitted to Experimental Astronomy as one of the proposals for the European Space Agency Voyage 2050 Programme
Learning Gains on Selected Topics in Grade Six Mathematics Using Concrete-Representational-Abstract Approach
Creators: name: Gaylo, Derren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 10399 Numerical and Computational Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Education

description: This study determined the learning gains of Grade 6 learners in Mathematics lessons using Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) approach. It was conducted in Matangpatang Elementary School, Schools Division of Malaybalay City, Philippines during the school year 2018-2019, that was participated by twenty learners. One group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research design was used in the study. Lessons incorporating the CRA approach and researcher-made performance test were validated by a panel of experts in terms of content and content accuracy, clarity, and appropriateness. The results of their evaluation were taken into consideration in the revision of the developed lessons and test. Further, the revised performance test was tested for reliability and the result was 0.863, which means that the instrument is consistent to assess the performance of learners. The data gathered were analyzed and interpreted using appropriate statistical techniques. Mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage, and paired t-test were used. Results revealed that before Grade 6 learners were taught using CRA Approach, their academic performance was at Did Not Meet Expectations level. However, after they were taught using Concrete Representational Abstract Approach, they reached Fairly Satisfactory level. In addition, there is a significant difference in the learning gains of Grade 6 learners before and after they were taught using the said approach.
Light Scalars and the Generation of Density Perturbations During Preheating or Inflaton Decay
Creators: name: Ackerman, Lotty
name: Bauer, Christian W.
name: Graesser, Michael L.
name: Wise, Mark B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reheating after inflation can occur through inflaton decay or efficient parametric resonant production of particles from the oscillation of the inflaton. If the particles produced interact with scalars that were light during inflation, then significant super-horizon density perturbations are generated during this era. These perturbations can be highly non-Gaussian.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. Clarifying discussion added. Conclusions unchanged
Agricultural Market Structure, Generic Advertising, and Welfare
Creators: name: Cardon, James H.
name: Pope, Rulon D.
name: Cardon, James H.
name: Pope, Rulon D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: advertising
subject: market structure
subject: welfare

description: This analysis begins with a definition and discussion of productive advertising. Then, following Dixit and Norman, persuasive advertising is used to study the welfare effects of generic advertising by marketing orders. The study first examines horizontal competition when the competing advertiser is a monopoly, and results show that the socially optimal level of advertising for a competitive marketing order is positive only if advertising raises monopoly output. Next, advertising choices of a marketing order which sells its output to a monopolistic distributor are considered. If the distributor is a monopolist, then marketing order advertising raises welfare. This finding is in marked contrast to the results for the horizontal case studied by Dixit and Norman.
Stellung und Bedeutung des Katholikos-Patriarchen von Seleukeia-Ktesiphon im Altertum
Creators: name: Detlef, C.
name: Müller, G.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 53 (1969): Oriens christianus, Band 53
G-image Segmentation: Similarity-preserving Fuzzy C-Means with Spatial Information Constraint in Wavelet Space
Creators: name: Wang, Cong
name: Pedrycz, Witold
name: Li, ZhiWu
name: Zhou, MengChu
name: Ge, Shuzhi Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.6
subject: 62H30

description: G-images refer to image data defined on irregular graph domains. This work elaborates a similarity-preserving Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm for G-image segmentation and aims to develop techniques and tools for segmenting G-images. To preserve the membership similarity between an arbitrary image pixel and its neighbors, a Kullback-Leibler divergence term on membership partition is introduced as a part of FCM. As a result, similarity-preserving FCM is developed by considering spatial information of image pixels for its robustness enhancement. Due to superior characteristics of a wavelet space, the proposed FCM is performed in this space rather than Euclidean one used in conventional FCM to secure its high robustness. Experiments on synthetic and real-world G-images demonstrate that it indeed achieves higher robustness and performance than the state-of-the-art FCM algorithms. Moreover, it requires less computation than most of them.
description: This paper has been withdrawn by the author since some statements are not right as raised by other researchers
Voluntary Environmental Action and Export Destinations: The Case of Forest Certification
Creators: name: Moeltner, Klaus
name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
name: Moeltner, Klaus
name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: export markets
subject: forest certification
subject: profit maximization
subject: discrete choice models

description: There is an increasing tendency for forest product firms worldwide to adopt sound environmental management practices by voluntarily agreeing to have their forest practices certified by third parties. Using a simple model of profit maximization, we illustrate that the puzzling emergence of this non-state, self-imposed governance structure is compatible with firms' profit motives. An empirical model using firm data from three countries shows firm location and export destinations play a key role in firms' decisions to seek certification, while the nature of forestland ownership has no significant impact on certification decisions.
Going too far : travel lying in Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia and The Songlines
Creators: name: Travers, Nicholas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis looks at two travel books by Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia (1977) and The Songlines (1987). Both occupy an ambiguous generic ground between fiction and non-fiction, yet critics have tended to oversimplify this key issue when discussing Chatwin's work. Responses to Chatwin's narratives have been unproductively polarized: some critics sweepingly accuse the author of "lying"; others over-intellectualize Chatwin's narrative strategies and celebrate the artistic achievement of his boundary-crossing "fictions." These two perspectives unsatisfactorily limit the debate about Chatwin's lies, and about travel writing generally. This thesis takes a middle ground, refusing the premise that Chatwin is a neo-colonial liar, and the proposition that he is an artist fictionalizing his experience to better express its complex truth. By attempting to understand Chatwin's lying/fictions more broadly, the thesis reads Chatwin's two major tracts closely - The Songlines in Chapter One and In Patagonia in Chapter Two - with an eye for narrative techniques and the author's preoccupations. Drawing on the biographical work of Nicholas Shakespeare, Susannah Clapp, and Nicholas Murray, travel literature theory and criticism, autobiography theory, ethnography, historiography, interviews, and memoirs, this thesis demonstrates that a single theoretical perspective cannot account for Chatwin's lies, but that a different kind of reading strategy will do so. Successive questions ask: What does Chatwin's lying consist of? What motivates those lies? What are the implications of his lies? This mode of critical reading acknowledges the problematics of lying within a non-fictional framework; it also elucidates the way Chatwin's fictionalizing contributes to a larger narrative design. The thesis concludes by addressing Chatwin's belated position in the history of European travel writing. A balanced critical approach, that seeks and interrogates the motivations underpinning Chatwin's lies, reveals him to be unwilling to move beyond a neo-colonialist practice of imposing fantasies upon foreign cultures. Unlike other belated travellers, Chatwin, through his self-representation as well as his representations of other characters and places, claims possession of his experience by exuberantly heightening its features. To a large extent Chatwin does not conceal his pleasure in fictionalizing, but rather displays a Camp delight in excess. Ultimately, however, Chatwin's overt playfulness cannot disguise his desire to conform characters to a naive fantasy of finding freedom elsewhere.
Differentiating Instruction in a Mathematics Classroom: Its Effects on Senior High School Learners' Academic Performance and Engagement in Calculus
Creators: name: Gaylo, Derren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 10203 Calculus of Variations, Systems Theory and Control Theory
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Education
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: A quasi-experimental study was conducted to investigate the effects of differentiated instruction, a strategy that may cater to learners' diversity, towards their academic performance and engagement in Basic Calculus. It was participated by sixty Grade 11 learners in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) strand of Bukidnon State University Secondary School, Malaybalay City during the second semester of the school year 2017-2018. Lessons on differentiation and its applications were developed. Researcher-made academic performance test and engagement scale were evaluated by a panel of experts and underwent validity and reliability analysis. The gathered data were analyzed and interpreted using appropriate statistical techniques: mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage, one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and paired t-test. The results revealed that the learners' academic performance when taught using differentiated instruction was Very Satisfactory; while learners taught with the conventional instruction was Fairly Satisfactory. There was a statistically significant difference in the academic performance between the two groups of learners, in favor of those taught with differentiated instruction. Moreover, the engagement level of the learners in the experimental group was Moderate before and after the intervention, and there was a statistically significant difference between them attributed to differentiated instruction.
A new method for calculation of traces of Dirac $γ$-matrices in Minkowski space
Creators: name: Bondarev, Alexander L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents some relations for orthonormal bases in the Minkowski space and isotropic tetrads constructed from the vectors of these bases. As an example of an application of the obtained formulae, in particular recursion relations, a new method is proposed to calculate traces of Dirac $γ$-matrices in the Minkowski space. Compared to the classical algorithms, the new method results in more compact expressions for the traces. Specifically, it may be easily implemented as a simple yet efficient computer algorithm.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX2E, version to appear in Nuclear Physics B
USDA Livestock Price Forecasts: A Comprehensive Evaluation
Creators: name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Manfredo, Mark R.
name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Manfredo, Mark R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: forecast efficiency
subject: forecast evaluation
subject: livestock prices
subject: USDA forecasts

description: One-step-ahead forecasts of quarterly live cattle, live hog, and broiler prices are evaluated under two general approaches: accuracy-based measures and classification based measures which test the ability to categorize price movements directionally or within a forecasted range. Results suggest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) price forecasts are not optimal. Broiler price forecasts are biased, and all the forecast series tend to repeat errors. While the USDA forecasts are more accurate than those of a univariate AR(4) time-series model, evidence suggests the USDA live cattle forecasts could be improved with a composite forecast that includes a time-series alternative. Despite this, the USDA correctly identifies the direction of price change in at least 70% of its forecasts over the sample period. Furthermore, actual prices fall within the USDA's forecasted range 48% of the time for broilers, but only 35% for hogs. Finally, there is some evidence that the USDA's price forecasting accuracy has improved over time for broilers, but has gotten marginally worse for hogs.
The existence phase transition for two Poisson random fractal models
Creators: name: Broman, Erik I.
name: Jonasson, Johan
name: Tykesson, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35

description: In this paper we study the existence phase transition of the random fractal ball model and the random fractal box model. We show that both of these are in the empty phase at the critical point of this phase transition.
An Empirical Analysis of the Demand for Wholesale Pork Primals: Seasonality and Structural Change
Creators: name: Parcell, Joseph L.
name: Parcell, Joseph L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: seasonality
subject: structural change
subject: wholesale pork primals

description: This study focuses on estimating wholesale pork primal demand relationships in order to determine their own-quantity flexibilities, whether these flexibilities have changed over time, and seasonal price fluctuations. A set of equations for pork loin, rib, butt, ham, pork belly, and picnic primals was estimated. Monthly data over an 11-year period were used to determine that own-quantity flexibilities varied across months, that they increased in absolute value over time for some primal cuts, and cold-storage stocks were used as an inventory control measure to reduce price variation for some primal cuts.
Explanations for Natural Language: From Theory to Practice
Creators: name: Rajagopal, Dheeraj
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Natural Language Processing

description:  Understanding the reasoning process through explanations is spontaneous, ubiquitous and fundamental to our sense of perceiving the world around us. Scientific progress often relies on explanations to facilitate discovery of hypotheses, identify applications and also identify systematic errors and correct them. An in-depth study of explanation thus help shed light on core cognitive issues, such as learning, induction and conceptual representation. Current NLP systems, despite significant advances, are usually treated as black boxes with little to no insight into how they reason. Learning with Explanations is an under-explored area in the natural language processing literature due to the lack of a unified theory. 
In this work, we propose a theory towards how models can incorporate explanation. Our results in part of this show two promising approaches and corresponding instantiations as to how we can reliably incorporate explanations in NLP systems. We also show that explanations can not only help models in downstream tasks but could help humans improve upon a task
Magnetic monopoles in 4D: a perturbative calculation
Creators: name: Khvedelidze, Arsen
name: Kovner, Alex
name: McMullan, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the question of defining the second quantised monopole creation operator in the 3+1 dimensional Georgi-Glashow model, and calculating its expectation value in the confining phase. Our calculation is performed directly in the continuum theory within the framework of perturbation theory. We find that, although it is possible to define the "coherent state" operator M(x) that creates the Coulomb magnetic field, the dependence of this operator on the Dirac string does not disappear even in the nonabelian theory. This is due to the presence of the charged fields (W^{\pm}). We also set up the calculation of the expectation value of this operator in the confining phase and show that it is not singular along the Dirac string. We find that in the leading order of the perturbation theory the VEV vanishes as a power of the volume of the system. This is in accordance with our naive expectation. We expect that nonperturbative effects will introduce an effective infrared cutoff on the calculation making the VEV finite.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
Conflicts over Water in the Upper Klamath Basin and the Potential Role for Market-Based Allocations
Creators: name: Jaeger, William K.
name: Jaeger, William K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: endangered species
subject: instream flow
subject: irrigation
subject: Klamath Basin
subject: linear programming model
subject: voluntary water transfer
subject: water market
subject: water supply reduction

description: The curtailment of irrigation on the Klamath Reclamation Project in 2001 is estimated to have cost farmers more than $35 million. This study examines how alternative water allocations among irrigators in the Upper Klamath Basin could have lowered those costs. Per acre marginal water values vary by a factor of 20 due primarily to variations in soil productivity, with the highest productivity lands concentrated in the federal Project. A linear programming model estimates costs for alternative allocations. Findings indicate that compared to the 2001 allocation, costs could be reduced by 75% with a market-based approach.
The Impact of Market Advisory Service Recommendations on Producers' Marketing Decisions
Creators: name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Isengildina, Olga
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Isengildina, Olga
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: market advisory services
subject: ordered probit model
subject: producers' marketing decisions

description: A conceptual framework is developed which provides insight into the factors affecting the impact of market advisory service (MAS) recommendations on producer pricing decisions. Data from a survey of 656 U.S. producers reveal that the perceived performance of the MAS, the way in which MAS recommendations are delivered, as well as the match between MAS and producers' marketing philosophy, are important factors explaining the impact of MAS recommendations. Risk attitude does not affect the impact of MAS recommendations on producers' decisions, suggesting producers are more interested in the price-enhancing characteristics of MAS advice than in its risk-reducing features. Key words: market advisory services, ordered probit model, producers' marketing decisions
"Martyrium sancti Petri apostoli Romae, ante octavam diem Maii"?
Creators: name: Engberding, Hieronymus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 53 (1969): Oriens christianus, Band 53
Shuffle relations for regularised integrals of symbols
Creators: name: Manchon, Dominique
name: Paycha, Sylvie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47G30; 81T15

description: We prove shuffle relations which relate a product of regularised integrals of classical symbols to regularised nested (Chen) iterated integrals, which hold if all the symbols involved have non-vanishing residue. This is true in particular for non-integer order symbols. In general the shuffle relations hold up to finite parts of corrective terms arising from renormalisation on tensor products of classical symbols, a procedure adapted from renormalisation procedures on Feynman diagrams familiar to physicists. We relate the shuffle relations for regularised integrals of symbols with shuffle relations for multizeta functions adapting the above constructions to the case of symbols on the unit circle.
description: 40 pages,latex. Changes concern sections 4 and 5 : an error in section 4 has been corrected, and the link between section 5 and the previous ones has been precised
Distributional Welfare Impacts of Public Spending: The Case of Urban versus National Parks
Creators: name: Feinerman, Eli
name: Fleischer, Aliza
name: Simhon, Avi
name: Feinerman, Eli
name: Fleischer, Aliza
name: Simhon, Avi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: budget allocation
subject: income distribution
subject: national parks
subject: urban parks

description: This study examines the optimal allocation of funds between national and urban parks. Since travel costs to national parks are significantly higher than to urban parks, poor households tend to visit the latter more frequently, whereas rich households favor the former. Therefore, allocating public funds to improving the quality of national parks at the expense of urban parks disproportionately benefits high income households. By developing a theoretical model and implementing it using Israeli data, findings indicate all households, except for the richest decile, prefer that the park authority divert a larger proportion of its budget from national to urban parks.
Interactive online and offline games: Their influence to the mathematical aptitude of secondary school learners
Creators: name: Gaylo, Derren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 10399 Numerical and Computational Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Education
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Playing interactive games, both online and offline, might pose risks leading to poor academic achievement. This alarmed parents and school authorities especially that the difference between game engagement and addiction has not been fully understood. The present study determined the influence of interactive games on the mathematical aptitude of secondary school learners. It was conducted at Halapitan National High School, Division of Bukidnon, for the school year 2018-2019, with 208 respondents from Grade 10 and 11 learners. The study utilized descriptive-comparative research design, while employing researcher-made survey questionnaire and National Career Assessment Examination results as main data gathering tools. The appropriate statistical techniques like frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to treat the data. Results revealed that the mathematical aptitude of the respondents was at Low Average, showing that the learners showed little knowledge and understanding in the mathematical concepts tested. Moreover, the extent of exposure of the learners in the study is Slightly Exposed to the different levels of interactive games. Further, there is no significant difference in the mathematical aptitude of secondary school learners when grouped according to the levels of interactivity of games they play and their extent of exposure.
High strain rate compression of epoxy micro pillars
Creators: name: Rueda-Ruiz, Mario
name: Monclús, Miguel A.
name: Beake, Ben D.
name: Gálvez, Francisco
name: Molina-Aldareguia, Jon M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of the high strain rate mechanical behaviour of materials using micropillar compression tests has been hindered so far due to the lack of suitable instrumentation. In the present study, a novel high strain rate micropillar compression set-up is introduced. The high speed tests are carried out with the impact configuration of a pendulum-based nanoindentation device that was instrumented with force-sensing capability by means of a piezoelectric load cell. This is necessary due to the considerable inertia effects that make the actual applied force on the sample much higher than the actuated one. The proposed novel technique was successfully applied to study the mechanical behaviour of an epoxy resin over a wide range of strain rates. The results reveal a significant strain rate sensitivity that correlates well with that obtained for the same material at the macroscale, validating the novel set-up.
The conspicuous gamma-ray burst of 30 May 1996
Creators: name: Ryde, Felix
name: Battelino, Milan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectra of the majority of bursts exhibit a low-energy power law index, alpha, that is either a constant or becomes softer with time. However, in the burst of 30 May 1996 alpha becomes harder. Here we show that this behavior can be explained by a hybrid model consisting of a thermal and a non-thermal component. In this burst the power-law index of the non-thermal component changes drastically from s ~ -1.5 to s ~ -0.67 at approximately 5 seconds after the trigger, thereby revealing, at low energies, the thermal component with its hard Rayleigh-Jeans tail. This leads to the large alpha-values that are found if the Band function is fitted to the spectra. We suggest that the change in s could be due to a transition from fast to slow cooling of the electrons emitting in the BATSE range. This could be due to the fact that the magnetic field strength becomes weaker.
description: Submitted to Il Nuovo Cimento (4th Workshop Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, Rome, 18-22 October 2004)