cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of the dual-language immersion on students' academic performance
Creators: name: Steele, Jennifer
name: Slater, Robert O.
name: Zamarro, Gema
name: Miller, Trey
name: Li, Jennifer
name: Burkhauser, Susan
name: Bacon, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Arkansas
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: Using data from seven cohorts of language immersion lottery applicants in a large, urban school district, we estimate the causal effects of immersion programs on students’ test scores in reading, mathematics, and science and on English learners’ (EL) reclassification. We estimate positive intent-to-treat (ITT) effects on reading performance in fifth and eighth grades, ranging from 13% to 22% of a standard deviation, reflecting 7 to 9 months of learning. We find little benefit in terms of mathematics and science performance but also no detriment. By sixth and seventh grade, lottery winners’ probabilities of remaining classified as EL are 3 to 4 percentage points lower than those of their counterparts. This effect is stronger for ELs whose native language matches the partner language.
Additional file 4 of Neurological manifestations and complications of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yassin, Ahmed
name: Nawaiseh, Mohammed
name: Shaban, Ala
name: Alsherbini, Khalid
name: El-Salem, Khalid
name: Soudah, Ola
name: Abu-Rub, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4.
title: Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Following Severe Hand Foot and Mouth Disease in Vietnam
Creators: name: Sabanathan, Saraswathy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: In 2011, more than 160 children died in an unprecedented outbreak of Hand foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in Vietnam, predominantly associated with enterovirus 71 (EV-A71). The occurrence of encephalitis outbreaks in children at vulnerable developmental stages raised concerns of long-term consequences. Limited retrospective outcome studies in the literature lack either a healthy comparison group or a locally validated neurodevelopmental assessment tool. Brain MRI retrospective observations identified stereotypical patterns of brainstem lesions predominantly in severe EV-A71 HFMD cases with conflicting opinions on the prognostic role of MRI. I adapted the “Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (3rd edition)” for Vietnam and demonstrated that the adaptation was reliable and valid. I conducted a prospective observational cohort study to test the hypothesis that children with severe HFMD, graded per Vietnam Ministry of Health classification, would have lower cognitive, language and motor Z scores than a healthy comparison group. All HFMD cases had virological samples taken and a sample of severe HFMD cases had brain MRI scans. All Z score 95% confidence intervals were within 2 standard deviations of the comparative healthy cohort mean suggesting outcomes at six months were not significantly lower than the healthy comparative group. I identified novel nonspecific brain white matter abnormalities on MRI in all severity grades, lower motor Z scores in grade 2b children with MRI abnormalities and that Coxsackievirus A10 (CV-A10) was significantly associated with MRI abnormalities. These findings support surveillance of all enteroviruses during HFMD outbreaks and suggest MRI may be predictive of motor impairment in a subset of severe HFMD cases. No significant impairment was identified at six months follow-up, but more complex developmental skills are yet to emerge. Hence the study continues for an eighteen-month follow up to robustly determine emergence of long-term sequelae.
Supplementary Material from Explicit calculation method for cell alignment in non-circular geometries
Creators: name: Miyazako, Hiroki
name: Nara, Takaaki
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Theoretical rederivation of the defect positions in a unit disk
Gamma-Ray Dark Matter Searches in Milky Way Satellites -- A Comparative Review of Data Analysis Methods and Current Results
Creators: name: Rico, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If dark matter is composed of weakly interacting particles with mass in the GeV-TeV range, their annihilation or decay may produce gamma rays that could be detected by gamma-ray telescopes. Observations of dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies of the Milky Way (dSphs) benefit from the relatively accurate predictions of dSph dark matter content to produce robust constraints to the dark matter properties. The sensitivity of these observations for the search for dark matter signals can be optimized thanks to the use of advanced statistical techniques able to exploit the spectral and morphological peculiarities of the expected signal. In this paper, I review the status of the dark matter searches from observations of dSphs with the current generation of gamma-ray telescopes: Fermi-LAT, H.E.S.S, MAGIC, VERITAS and HAWC. I will describe in detail the general statistical analysis framework used by these instruments, putting in context the most recent experimental results and pointing out the most relevant differences among the different particular implementations. This~will facilitate the comparison of the current and future results, as well as their eventual integration in a multi-instrument and multi-target dark matter search.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures. Invited review published by Galaxies, special issue "The Role of Halo Substructure in Gamma-Ray Dark Matter Searches"
Estimation of the Error Variance after a Preliminary-Test of Homogeneity in a Regression Model with Spherically Symmetric Disturbances
Creators: name: Giles, Judith A.
name: Giles, Judith A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agribusiness
Financial Economics

description: In this paper we consider the risk (under quadratic loss) of an estimator cf the error variance after a pre-test for homogeneity of the variances in the two-sample linear regression model. We investigate the effects on risk of assuming normal disturbances when in fact the error distribution is spherically symmetric. We also broaden the standard assumption that the never-pool variance estimators are based on the least squares principle. Using the special case of multivariate Student-t regression disturbances as an illustration, our results show that in some situations we should always pre-test, even if the error variances are equal, and we provide the optimal test critical value. The evaluations also show that using the least squares technique to form the never-pool estimators may not always be the preferred strategy.
Mass Outflow of the X-ray Emission Line Gas in NGC 4151
Creators: name: Kraemer, S. B.
name: Turner, T. J.
name: Couto, J. D.
name: Crenshaw, D. M.
name: Schmitt, H. R.
name: Revalski, M.
name: Fischer, T. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analysed Chandra/High Energy Transmission Gratings spectra of the X-ray emission line gas in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151. The zeroth order spectral images show extended H- and He-like O and Ne, up to a distance $r \sim$ 200 pc from the nucleus. Using the 1st order spectra, we measure an average line velocity $\sim -230$ km s$^{-1}$, suggesting significant outflow of X-ray gas. We generated Cloudy photoionisation models to fit the 1st order spectra. We required three emission-line components, with column density, log$N_{H}$, and ionisation parameter, log$U$, of 22.5/1.0, 22.5/0.19, and 23.0/-0.50, respectively. To estimate the total mass of ionised gas and the mass outflow rates, we applied the model parameters to fit the zeroth order emission-line profiles of Ne~IX and Ne~X. We determined the total mass of $\approx 5.4 \times$ 10$^{5}$ M_sun. Assuming the same kinematic profile as that for the [O~III] gas, the peak X-ray mass outflow rate was $\approx 1.8$ M_sun yr$^{-1}$, at $r \sim 150$ pc. The total mass and mass outflow rates are similar to those determined using [O~III], implying that the X-ray gas is a major outflow component. However, unlike the optical outflows, the X-ray outflow rate does not drop off at $r >$ 100 pc, which suggests that it may have a greater impact on the host galaxy.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Linear Positivity and Virtual Probability
Creators: name: Hartle, James B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the quantum theory of closed systems based on the linear positivity decoherence condition of Goldstein and Page. A quantum theory of closed systems requires two elements; 1) a condition specifying which sets of histories may be assigned probabilities that are consistent with the rules of probability theory, and 2) a rule for those probabilities. The linear positivity condition of Goldstein and Page is the weakest of the general conditions proposed so far. Its general properties relating to exact probability sum rules, time-neutrality, and conservation laws are explored. Its inconsistency with the usual notion of independent subsystems in quantum mechanics is reviewed. Its relation to the stronger condition of medium decoherence necessary for classicality is discussed. The linear positivity of histories in a number of simple model systems is investigated with the aim of exhibiting linearly positive sets of histories that are not decoherent. The utility of extending the notion of probability to include values outside the range of 0 to 1 is described. Alternatives with such virtual probabilities cannot be measured or recorded, but can be used in the intermediate steps of calculating real probabilities. Virtual probabilities give a simple and general way of formulating quantum theory.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, revtex 4, minor correction
Configurable culture : Mainstreaming the remix, remixing the mainstream
Creators: name: Sinnreich, Aram
Publisher: name: University of Southern California
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture

description: This dissertation examines the emergence of new musical aesthetics and practices based around networked media technologies, from remix music to file sharing, and argues that these “configurable” technologies and practices compel us to reexamine our assumptions about both cultural production and social organization. The research is multi-theoretical and multi-methodological, bringing together elements of cultural studies, social network analysis, personality psychology, art history, and musicology, and drawing data primarily from personal interviews with musicians, music industry executives, and attorneys, as well as self-reported attitudes about emerging cultural practices from a survey of 1,765 American adults. I begin by reviewing the social history of musical regulation, and the resistance that this regulation has engendered. I also propose a mechanism by which musical aesthetics influence social organization, helping to explain the universality of musical regulation and resistance across a broad range of social milieus. I argue that the dialectical tension between these opposing ethics has operated as a vital engine of aesthetic innovation. However, I argue, this process is bounded by a discursive framework that overdetermines our understanding of music’s role in society, and that both sustains and is sustained by dominant social institutions. Next, I demonstrate that configurable technologies and practices undermine the discursive boundaries that have been in place for the past two centuries, which I term the “modern ontological framework.” I draw upon interview and survey data to ix explore the ways in which musicians, lawmakers, and everyday people are developing new ways to understand music and cultural production, as the definitional binaries underpinning the modern framework continue to erode into shades of gray. Finally, I analyze these data in an effort to determine whether a new discourse based on configurability may be replacing the modern framework, and what such a discourse might entail in terms of social organization. I describe five principles: Configurable Collectivism, The Reunion of Labor, The Collision of Public and Private, The Shift from Linearity to Recursiveness, and The Emergence of DJ Consciousness. Their net effect, I argue, suggests a roadmap for the emergence of new social forms and institutions in the networked age.
Agency and Emotion of Young Female Accusers in the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Creators: name: Laskaris, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: History

description: This article utilises emotions theory to explore the actions and behaviour of the young female accusers in the Salem witchcraft trials. It argues common historical interpretation of this behaviour has largely ignored the cultural context of witchcraft belief among young women, as well how agency and emotion functioned in the courtroom setting. By comparing the physical and emotional reactions of the young Salem accusers with other cases of young female bewitchment across England and New England, I argue this behaviour was a cultural response to witchcraft which imbued young female accusers with unprecedented cultural power and agency.
Configurable culture : Mainstreaming the remix, remixing the mainstream
Creators: name: Sinnreich, Aram
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines the emergence of new musical aesthetics and practices based around networked media technologies, from remix music to file sharing, and argues that these “configurable” technologies and practices compel us to reexamine our assumptions about both cultural production and social organization. The research is multi-theoretical and multi-methodological, bringing together elements of cultural studies, social network analysis, personality psychology, art history, and musicology, and drawing data primarily from personal interviews with musicians, music industry executives, and attorneys, as well as self-reported attitudes about emerging cultural practices from a survey of 1,765 American adults. I begin by reviewing the social history of musical regulation, and the resistance that this regulation has engendered. I also propose a mechanism by which musical aesthetics influence social organization, helping to explain the universality of musical regulation and resistance across a broad range of social milieus. I argue that the dialectical tension between these opposing ethics has operated as a vital engine of aesthetic innovation. However, I argue, this process is bounded by a discursive framework that overdetermines our understanding of music’s role in society, and that both sustains and is sustained by dominant social institutions. Next, I demonstrate that configurable technologies and practices undermine the discursive boundaries that have been in place for the past two centuries, which I term the “modern ontological framework.” I draw upon interview and survey data to ix explore the ways in which musicians, lawmakers, and everyday people are developing new ways to understand music and cultural production, as the definitional binaries underpinning the modern framework continue to erode into shades of gray. Finally, I analyze these data in an effort to determine whether a new discourse based on configurability may be replacing the modern framework, and what such a discourse might entail in terms of social organization. I describe five principles: Configurable Collectivism, The Reunion of Labor, The Collision of Public and Private, The Shift from Linearity to Recursiveness, and The Emergence of DJ Consciousness. Their net effect, I argue, suggests a roadmap for the emergence of new social forms and institutions in the networked age.
Ethics, evolved : An international perspective on copying in the networked age
Creators: name: Sinnreich, Aram
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This chapter examines international trends in adoption, attitudes and ethics surrounding "configurable" cultural forms, which blur the lines between traditional notions of production and consumption. In order to understand these trends, I analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the results of a survey fielded in 2014 and 2015 to 1,397 English-speaking adults in 11 different nations in Europe, North America, Africa and the Asia/Pacific region. The survey is substantially similar to earlier ones fielded by the author in 2006 and 2010. The survey combines quantitative, multiple-choice questions regarding the prevalence of configurable cultural practices and attitudes with qualitative, open-ended, questions in which respondents’ write-in responses reflect their ethical beliefs regarding these practices. As I will argue below, configurable culture has emerged as a definitively mainstream global phenomenon in the past five years, and despite global efforts to “harmonize” IP laws, residents of different nations and regions continue to employ a variety of different ethical frameworks – most of which bear very little resemblance to the contours of the law – when evaluating the validity of these emerging cultural behaviors.
Ethics, evolved : An international perspective on copying in the networked age
Creators: name: Sinnreich, Aram
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture

description: This chapter examines international trends in adoption, attitudes and ethics surrounding "configurable" cultural forms, which blur the lines between traditional notions of production and consumption. In order to understand these trends, I analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the results of a survey fielded in 2014 and 2015 to 1,397 English-speaking adults in 11 different nations in Europe, North America, Africa and the Asia/Pacific region. The survey is substantially similar to earlier ones fielded by the author in 2006 and 2010. The survey combines quantitative, multiple-choice questions regarding the prevalence of configurable cultural practices and attitudes with qualitative, open-ended, questions in which respondents’ write-in responses reflect their ethical beliefs regarding these practices. As I will argue below, configurable culture has emerged as a definitively mainstream global phenomenon in the past five years, and despite global efforts to “harmonize” IP laws, residents of different nations and regions continue to employ a variety of different ethical frameworks – most of which bear very little resemblance to the contours of the law – when evaluating the validity of these emerging cultural behaviors.
SwiftSaver: An Electric Emergency Rappelling Gear for quick Highrise Evacuation
Creators: name: Amurao, Andy Vincent
name: Leon, Marion Abbygail S. De
name: Padrinao, Juan Mattheu P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90204 Automotive Safety Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: The rapid increase in the construction of high-rise buildings were because of the strong demand for residential condominium with nearby shopping malls. Infrastructures were structured to create more investments. The train of event in continuously increasing number of high-risebuildings justified the need for community preparedness when incident happens. High rising buildings has been continuously emerging in modern cities, but emergency evacuation has still been a worldwide difficult problem (Zhang, 2017). The increasing fire incidents on high-risebuildings and the occurrence of natural calamity such as earthquake instigated the researchers astrong-will to create a life-saving device. The researchers called this device “The SwiftSaver”. An effective and safety gear that was defined to be capable to help the people trapped inside a high-rise building to evacuate the quickest possible time (Henry, 2013). The researchers aimed to develop and further enhance a safety rappelling gear – SwiftSaver that is affordable and effective for easier and faster way of evacuation. The anchor and ropes were made of steel. The winch was powered by 12Volts lithium-ion batteries. With the use of mechanical device called winch, the rappelling became easier and convenient to operate even by individuals without rappelling skills or experience. An added reflector strip aided the user to be seen even in the dark. The device was said to have better tension once upgraded with bigger motor device.SwiftSaver came to solve the increasing high-rise building evacuation mortality rate created by suffocation right after a fire started.
RNA Secondary Structure Prediction By Learning Unrolled Algorithms
Creators: name: Chen, Xinshi
name: Li, Yu
name: Umarov, Ramzan
name: Gao, Xin
name: Song, Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep learning model, called E2Efold, for RNA secondary structure prediction which can effectively take into account the inherent constraints in the problem. The key idea of E2Efold is to directly predict the RNA base-pairing matrix, and use an unrolled algorithm for constrained programming as the template for deep architectures to enforce constraints. With comprehensive experiments on benchmark datasets, we demonstrate the superior performance of E2Efold: it predicts significantly better structures compared to previous SOTA (especially for pseudoknotted structures), while being as efficient as the fastest algorithms in terms of inference time.
description: International Conference on Learning Representations 2020
The Optimal Size of a Preliminary Test of Linear Restriction in a Mis-Specified Regression Model
Creators: name: Giles, David E. A.
name: Lieberman, Offer
name: Giles, Judith A.
name: Giles, David E. A.
name: Lieberman, Offer
name: Giles, Judith A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Preliminary Test
subject: Conditional Inference
subject: F-Test
subject: Optimal Size

description: When the choice of estimator for the coefficients in a linear regression model is determined by the outcome of a prior test of the validity of restrictions on the model, Brook (1976) has shown that a mini-max (risk) regret criterion leads to the simple rule that the optimal critical value for the preliminary test is approximately two in value, regardless of the degrees of freedom. We show that this result no longer holds in the (likely) event that relevant regressors are excluded from the model at the outset.
Promoting education and awareness of local foods at UBC
Creators: name: Cai, Wendy
name: Farrell, Krista
name: Hutchings, Kate
name: Maclennan, Simone
name: Noble, Emma
name: Reichenback, Caroline
name: Uribe, Moises
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Globalization of our food system has led to many detrimental effects, including a decrease in its environmental, economic, and social sustainability. The problems faced by today’s global food system are mirrored in the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) food system. For this reason, the Faculty of Land and Food Systems has partnered with other campus organizations to implement the UBC Food System Project (UBCFSP), aimed at increasing the long term sustainability of the UBC food system through re-localization. There are many facets to this project, and creating an educational campaign to promote awareness on campus of the benefits of consuming local foods is just one. Our group defines “local” as products produced in British Columbia (BC). Drawing on research, ideas, and proposals from our colleagues in previous years of AGSC 450, we have developed a campaign to educate the UBC population about the benefits of choosing to consume local foods. We propose a set of educational pieces, including logos, a pamphlet, posters, a laminated dry-erase poster, table tents, mini-posters, and a website as tools for our campaign. The campaign also includes an interactive event, Local Food Day, to be held on October 16th, 2006, in the Student Union Building (SUB) concourse. This event will involve campus food providers and community organizations, and will promote local foods in a fun and interactive manner. In order to implement this campaign in the fall of 2006, we suggest that the Faculty of Land and Food Systems hire a work study student. This is a cost efficient strategy as wages are subsidized by the UBC Financial Assistance and Awards Office. A practical timeline for the implementation of the campaign is provided in this paper, along with recommendations to both the UBCFSP partners and our future AGSC 450 (2007) colleagues. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Spontaneous-emission suppression via multiphoton quantum interference
Creators: name: Evers, J.
name: Keitel, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spontaneous emission is investigated for an effective atomic two-level system in an intense coherent field with frequency lower than the vacuum-induced decay width. As this additional low-frequency field is assumed to be intense, multiphoton processes may be induced, which can be seen as alternative transition pathways in addition to the simple spontaneous decay. The interplay of the various interfering transition pathways influences the decay dynamics of the two-level system and may be used to slow down the spontaneous decay considerably. We derive from first principles an expression for the Hamiltonian including up to three-photon processes. This Hamiltonian is then applied to a quantum mechanical simulation of the decay dynamics of the two-level system. Finally, we discuss numerical results of this simulation based on a rubidium atom and show that the spontaneous emission in this system may be suppressed substantially.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures, latest version with minor changes
Incoded counter-conduct : What the incarcerated can teach us about resisting mass surveillance
Creators: name: Lingel, Jessa
name: Sinnreich, Aram
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper reviews penal history in order to consider forms of resistance to mass surveillance. Because experiences of surveillance are endemic to incarcerated life, identifying tactics of resistance among these populations provides valuable insights for potential forms of counter-­‐conduct in other circumstances of ubiquitous monitoring. We introduce the term incodification as a means of describing conditions of continuous surveillance ingrained into infrastructures of everyday life, even as these conditions give rise to tactics of resistance. We focus on three forms of protest: hunger strikes, alternate communication networks and viral dance videos, drawing on Foucault’s theory of askesis in order to develop our understanding of incodification. Our objective in introducing this term, and with our analysis as a whole, is to provoke and promote theoretical and activist projects that both address and subvert infrastructures of incodification.
Additional file 5 of Neurological manifestations and complications of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yassin, Ahmed
name: Nawaiseh, Mohammed
name: Shaban, Ala
name: Alsherbini, Khalid
name: El-Salem, Khalid
name: Soudah, Ola
name: Abu-Rub, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5.
Design and Development of a Electromagnetic Generator ....Amurao et al all.pdf
Creators: name: Amurao, Andy Vincent
name: Leon, Marion Abbygail S. De
name: Joscel Craig B. Sagun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: One major problem of the role of electricity is being a necessity of our daily lives; our activities often rely on the usage of electricity to power various appliances. In particular, 2.36 million Households in the Philippines don't have access to electricity. Electromagnetic induction is the process where a conductor is placed in a changing magnetic that causes electricity production. Windmills, Generators, hydroelectric dams have used this same principle to produce electricity. Magnetic dynamo was obtained to produce electromagnetic induction, thus the average voltage was obtained. Three major phases of testing were conducted onto the device where in it produced electricity with 100% success. Furthermore, results exemplify an interval of 1.8 volts up to 2.3 volts, having an observed mean of 2.03 volts. The comparison between the voltages produced by varied pressure applied was conducted with the use of ANOVA: Two-Factor without Replication wherein a statistically significant difference [F value (183.16) >F Critical (11.26)] was observed. It can be concluded that the device is capable of producing electricity by means of electromagnetic induction. Furthermore, the electricity stored is efficient in a way that the electricity is generated without other factors, but only energy cultivated from mechanical energy, thus making less dependent on non-renewable energy. The use of an ABS Sensor is recommended to have a more reliable and durable due to a simple yet strong structure instead of a magnetic dynamo, furthermore, the use of a supercapacitor is also recommended so that the device is able to store more electricity.
A tourist in wartime Cumbria, 1941-1942 The diary of Madge Martin of Oxford
Creators: name: Malcolmson, Patricia
name: Malcolmson, Robert
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 21, 239-254
description: Madge Martin of Oxford loved country holidays and took lots of them, including two in the Lake District during World War Two. This diary account offers a vivid portrait of wartime tourism in Cumbria.
Design and Development of an Arduino-based Peripheral for Extinguishing Fire
Creators: name: Amurao, Andy Vincent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90204 Automotive Safety Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Fire is one of the main causes of accident here in the Philippines. Through the implementation of safety parameters, said injuries or even death is avoided. The objective of the study was to create an intelligence machine that would automatically put out fires within a specific range. The researcher called this machine as “FireOut”. The machine uses an Arduino Uno as its central processing unit, flame, temperature, and smoke sensors. The moment the machine detects smoke/fire, the alarm sounds and the micro-servo moves. This causes the activation of the fire extinguisher thus putting the fire out. Fire detection and succession rate test were conducted. Results revealed that as the distance between the device and the fire increases, the time it takes for the fire extinguisher to put the fire out also increases. The fire-extinguishing tests showed that the speed of putting out fires is still dependent on the fire extinguisher that the device is attached to. The findings demonstrate that the “FireOut” machine needs improvements on some aspects, such as the way the servo moves against the trigger of the fire extinguisher.
Incoded counter-conduct : What the incarcerated can teach us about resisting mass surveillance
Creators: name: Lingel, Jessa
name: Sinnreich, Aram
Publisher: name: University of Pennsylvania; American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: This paper reviews penal history in order to consider forms of resistance to mass surveillance. Because experiences of surveillance are endemic to incarcerated life, identifying tactics of resistance among these populations provides valuable insights for potential forms of counter-­‐conduct in other circumstances of ubiquitous monitoring. We introduce the term incodification as a means of describing conditions of continuous surveillance ingrained into infrastructures of everyday life, even as these conditions give rise to tactics of resistance. We focus on three forms of protest: hunger strikes, alternate communication networks and viral dance videos, drawing on Foucault’s theory of askesis in order to develop our understanding of incodification. Our objective in introducing this term, and with our analysis as a whole, is to provoke and promote theoretical and activist projects that both address and subvert infrastructures of incodification.
Tunable interlayer magnetism and band topology in van der Waals heterostructures of MnBi2Te4-family materials
Creators: name: Li, Zhe
name: Li, Jiaheng
name: He, Ke
name: Wan, Xiangang
name: Duan, Wenhui
name: Xu, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Manipulating the interlayer magnetic coupling in van der Waals magnetic materials and heterostructures is the key to tailoring their magnetic and electronic properties for various electronic applications and fundamental studies in condensed matter physics. By utilizing the MnBi2Te4-family compounds and their heterostructures as a model system, we systematically studied the dependence of the sign and strength of interlayer magnetic coupling on constituent elements by using first-principles calculations. It was found that the coupling is a long-range superexchange interaction mediated by the chains of p orbitals between the magnetic atoms of neighboring septuple-layers. The interlayer exchange is always antiferromagnetic in the pure compounds, but can be tuned to ferromagnetic in some combinations of heterostructures, dictated by d orbital occupations. Strong interlayer magnetic coupling can be realized if the medial p electrons are delocalized and the d bands of magnetic atoms are near the Fermi level. The knowledge on the interlayer coupling mechanism enables us to engineer magnetic and topological properties of MnBi2Te4-family materials as well as many other insulating van der Waals magnetic materials and heterostructures.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, and 1 table
Estimating Asymmetric Information Effects in Health Care Accounting for the Transactions Costs
Creators: name: Zheng, Yan
name: Vukina, Tomislav
name: Zheng, Xiaoyong
name: Zheng, Yan
name: Vukina, Tomislav
name: Zheng, Xiaoyong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Moral hazard
subject: Adverse selection
subject: Health insurance
subject: Transaction costs

description: We use a structural approach to separately estimate moral hazard and adverse selection effects in health care utilization using hospital invoices data. Our model explicitly accounts for the heterogeneity in the transactions costs associated with hospital visits which increase the individuals' total cost of health care and dampen the moral hazard effect. A measure of moral hazard is derived as the difference between the observed and the counterfactual health care consumption. In the population of patients with non life-threatening diagnoses, our results indicate statistically significant and economically meaningful moral hazard. We also test for the presence of adverse selection by investigating whether patients with different health status sort themselves into different health insurance plans. Adverse selection is confirmed in the data because patients with estimated worse health tend to buy the insurance coverage and patients with estimated better health choose not to buy the insurance coverage.
Wigner distribution function formalism for superconductors and collisionless dynamics of the superconducting order parameter
Creators: name: Amin, M. H. S.
name: Bezuglyi, E. V.
name: Kijko, A. S.
name: Omelyanchouk, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A technique to study collisionless dynamics of a homogeneous superconducting system is developed, which is based on Riccati parametrization of Wigner distribution function. The quantum evolution of the superconductiung order parameter, initially deviated from the equilibrium value, is calculated using this technique. The effect of a time-dependent BCS paring interaction on the dynamics of the order parameter is also studied.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
The Power of the Durbin-Watson Test When the Errors are Heteroscedastic
Creators: name: Giles, David E. A.
name: Small, John P.
name: Giles, David E. A.
name: Small, John P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990

description: We. consider the robustness of the Durbin-Watson test to mis-specification via heteroscedastic disturbances. Exact powers are calculated using real and artificial regressors. We find that heteroscedasticity may dramatically alter the power of the test.
The Exact Distribution of a Least Squares Regression Coefficient Estimator After a Preliminary t-Test
Creators: name: Giles, David E. A.
name: Srivastava, Virendra K.
name: Giles, David E. A.
name: Srivastava, Virendra K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Preliminary Test
subject: Linear Regression
subject: t-Test
subject: Confidence Interval

description: The specification of a regression model is often determined in part by testing the significance of one or more potential regressors, and then including them in the model only if they are apparently significant. This paper considers such a preliminary-test strategy in a two-regressor model when a single t-test is conducted. The exact sampling distribution of the preliminary test estimator of a regression coefficient is derived and illustrated, and some implications for confidence levels are explored.
Effects of surface plasmons on spin currents in a thin film system
Creators: name: Oue, Daigo
name: Matsuo, Mamoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and analyze surface-plasmon-driven electron spin currents in a thin metallic film. The electron gas in the metal follows the transversally rotating electric fields of the surface plasmons (SPs), which leads to a static magnetization gradient. We consider herein SPs in a thin-film insulator-metal-insulator structure and solve the spin diffusion equation in the presence of a magnetization gradient. The results reveal that the SPs at the metal interfaces generate spin currents in the metallic film. For thinner film, the SPs become strongly hybridized, which increases the magnetization gradient and enhances the spin current. We also discuss how the spin current depends on SP wavelength and the spin-diffusion length of the metal. The polarization of the spin current can be controlled by tuning the wavelength of the SPs and/or the spin diffusion length.
description: Accepted for publication in New J. Phys
POTENTIAL OF CASSAVA UTILIZED AS A WINDBREAK AND CASH CROP WITH CAVENDISH BANANA RECEIVING VARYING LEVELS OF NEMATICIDES AND FERTILIZERS
Creators: name: Ramcharan, C.
name: Morris, G.
name: Ramcharan, C.
name: Morris, G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Farm Management
Production Economics

description: Local brown stick cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) provided adequate windbreak effect and gave good yields when grown with Cavendish Banana in a modified inter-crop system. Cassava cuttings were planted at an equidistance of 1.22m between pairs of banana plants that were spaced 1.8m apart. Best yields were obtained from cassava growing between banana receiving either poultry manure (5.5 kg/mat) or cattle manure (4 kg/mat). Manure and 10.10.10 treated bananas had the next best influence on cassava root production followed by Ammonium sulphate (4.2 kgms/mat). Of the nematicide treatments on banana Mocap 10%G (112 g/mat/6 months) had the best effect on cassava yields. Most other nematicide treatments and Diazinon 2E drenches did not significantly increase yields of cassava over control. In its seven months of growth, cassava crop required a total of 33 man hours/.11 ha and yielded an average of 8,000 kg/ha with a net return of $3,302/ha. Since production costs were shared between cassava and banana the cost of producing each was relatively low as opposed to separate production systems.
Additional file 6 of Neurological manifestations and complications of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yassin, Ahmed
name: Nawaiseh, Mohammed
name: Shaban, Ala
name: Alsherbini, Khalid
name: El-Salem, Khalid
name: Soudah, Ola
name: Abu-Rub, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6.
Topological calculation of the phase of the determinant of a non self-adjoint elliptic operator
Creators: name: Abanov, Alexander G.
name: Braverman, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the zeta-regularized determinant of a non self-adjoint elliptic operator on a closed odd-dimensional manifold. We show that, if the spectrum of the operator is symmetric with respect to the imaginary axis, then the determinant is real and its sign is determined by the parity of the number of the eigenvalues of the operator, which lie on the positive part of the imaginary axis. It follows that, for many geometrically defined operators, the phase of the determinant is a topological invariant. In numerous examples, coming from geometry and physics, we calculate the phase of the determinants in purely topological terms. Some of those examples were known in physical literature, but no mathematically rigorous proofs and no general theory were available until now.
description: To appear in Communications of Mathematical Physics
Investigations into the history of Waberthwaite parish church
Creators: name: Clegg, Alan
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 21, 255-294
description: This short paper discusses documentary and photographic evidence and the results of work commissioned by Waberthwaite Local History Group carried out by Eden Heritage Ltd and Nottingham Tree Ring Dating Laboratory. It concludes that there has been a church at Waberthwaite since at least the 13th century and that the earliest architectural feature of the church as it stands today dates from the 15th century. Dating of roof timbers suggests that the major part of the present roof was built in the mid 16th century and it was extended over 150 years later. Evidence found in the roof supports this suggestion. The church interior underwent significant modifications in the early 19th century and has remained substantially unchanged into the 21st century.
UBC Food System Project : scenario 2
Creators: name: Chan, Candace
name: Fetterly, Nicole
name: Ip, Christina
name: Marr, Jordan
name: Rekken, Greg
name: Smith, Rebekah
name: Van Oosten, Elaine
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Scenario two of the UBC Food System Project (UBCFSP) for 2006 looks at the feasibility of introducing local food into a UBC food retail outlet. In order to observe tangible results, we chose one food service outlet, a pizza parlour, Pie R Squared (PRS) and one producer, the UBC Farm. We examined the constraints and interests of PRS and the UBC Farm by conducting interviews. Next we developed two pizza recipes and conducted a taste-test at PRS to determine customer acceptability. Currently, PRS and the UBC Farm are in discussion regarding implementation of the UBC Farm pizza for September of 2006. Additionally, to extend the length of time that UBC Farm can provide PRS with produce, we examined the feasibility of a root cellar at the UBC Farm. A root cellar can also help the farm fulfill its mandate as an educational centre. Based on our methodology, we created a model that can be applied to food service outlets both on and off campus. Finally, we provided a list of recommendations to the groups of Scenario two for Spring 2007. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Kemeny, G., 2010. Furcsa ország jogszabályai, Jegyző és közigazgatás, 6. pp.1-2.
Creators: name: Kemeny, Gabor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law

description: The catch of the Hungarian legal system, the differentiation between misdemeanor and crime.