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A new strain energy function for the hyperelastic modelling of ligaments and tendons based on fascicle microstructure
Creators: name: Shearer, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new strain energy function for the hyperelastic modelling of ligaments and tendons based on the geometrical arrangement of their fibrils is derived. The distribution of the crimp angles of the fibrils is used to determine the stress-strain response of a single fascicle, and this stress-strain response is used to determine the form of the strain energy function, the parameters of which can all potentially be directly measured via experiments - unlike those of commonly used strain energy functions such as the Holzapfel-Gasser-Ogden (HGO) model, whose parameters are phenomenological. We compare the new model with the HGO model and show that the new model gives a better match to existing stress-strain data for human patellar tendon than the HGO model, with the average relative error in matching this data when using the new model being 0.053 (compared with 0.57 when using the HGO model), and the average absolute error when using the new model being 0.12 MPa (compared with 0.31 MPa when using the HGO model).
title: The Impact of US-Russian Security Competition on the Development of a Common European Energy Security Policy
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Mavromati, Ioanna
Publisher: name: University of Dundee
Year: 2021

description: Important questions about the development of a common European energy security policy have been unexplored in the literature. The literature on European energy security focuses on the EU’s internal and external energy policy and explores issues ranging from the importance of speaking with one voice to who is leading European energy policy. Other studies focus on how much progress has been made towards the development of a common European energy security policy, what factors have delayed the creation of a common European energy approach, and what could explain the progress made in that direction in more recent times. These publications often attribute the development of the common European Energy security policy to the deterioration of relations between the EU and Russia and, more specifically, to Russia’s aggressive foreign and energy policy towards Europe. However, these studies often ignore other factors that might affect the EU’s energy politics. For example, despite the available empirical evidence, political scientists researching European energy security policy have apparently not been worried about the heavy US involvement in the EU’s energy politics and the impact the deterioration of US-Russian relations might have on European energy security policy. This thesis aims to fill the gap in the literature by answering the following research question: To what extent has US-Russian security competition affected the development of a common European energy security policy?

To shed light on this question, this study developed and employed a new variant of Neoclassical Realism, the Two-Level Model.

The three case studies used in this thesis demonstrate that Great Power competition has affected the creation of the common European energy security policy. More concretely, the cases showed that as the competition between the US and Russia intensified, Washington and Moscow adopted measures that have both accelerated and delayed the development of the common energy security policy in the EU. However, this thesis also showed that other important factors played a significant role in establishing the Energy Union.
Το πρόβλημα του κακού στην Πανούκλα του Αλμπέρ Καμύ
Creators: name: Μηνά, Ευαγγελία Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Κακό
Υπαρξισμός
Φασισμός
Evil
Existentialism
Fascism

description: Η εργασία με τίτλο «Η πηγή του κακού στην Πανούκλα του Αλμπέρ Καμύ» αποτελεί μια ανασκόπηση της υπάρχουσας βιβλιογραφίας, με σκοπό την εξαγωγή ορισμένων φιλοσοφικών συμπερασμάτων σχετικά με την φύση του κακού στο μυθιστόρημα του Καμύ. Το ερευνητικό ερώτημα συνοψίζεται στο πώς αποτυπώνεται η φύση του κακού σε μια κοινωνία εμποτισμένη από ένα ανυπέρβλητο φυσικό κακό. Παρατηρήθηκε ένα κενό στην υπάρχουσα βιβλιογραφία αναφορικά με την φύση και την προέλευση του κακού ως φιλοσοφική έννοια και ακριβώς ο στόχος της παρούσας εργασίας ήταν να αναζητήσει αυτά τα ερωτήματα. Η έρευνα προσανατολίστηκε σε τρεις άξονες. Αρχικά η σχέση του Οράν με την πανούκλα και το κακό, πώς ακριβώς η πόλη συνδέεται με την επιδημία αυτού του κακού. Κατά δεύτερον, αναζητήθηκαν οι φιλοσοφικές προεκτάσεις του έργου και πώς αυτές συνθέτουν και αναδεικνύουν το πρόβλημα. Τέλος, η έρευνα στράφηκε στην πρώτη ερμηνεία του βιβλίου, ως μια αλληγορία του φασιστικού κύματος στην Ευρώπη στα μέσα του 20ου αιώνα. Δεν είναι λίγες οι αναλύσεις του μυθιστορήματος που υπογραμμίζουν ακριβώς αυτές τις αναφορές.
description: The paper titled "The Source of Evil in Albert Camus The Plague" is a review of the existing literature, intending to draw some philosophical conclusions about the nature of evil in Camus's novel. The research question is summed up in how the nature of evil is reflected in a society imbued with an insurmountable natural evil. A gap was observed in the existing literature regarding the nature and origin of evil as a philosophical concept and it was precisely the aim of the present work to seek out these questions. The research focused on three axes. First Oran's relationship with the plague and evil, and how exactly the city is connected to the epidemic of this evil. Secondly, the philosophical extensions of the work and how they compose and highlight the problem were sought. Finally, the research turned to the first interpretation of the book, as an allegory of the fascist wave in Europe in the mid-20th century. There is an abundance of existing literature that underline exactly these references.
Σχολιασμένη μετάφραση από τα αγγλικά στα ελληνικά αποσπασμάτων του βιβλίου «Language Disorders from Infancy through Adolescence» των Rhea Paul και Courtenay Norbury
Creators: name: Νικηφορίδου, Σταυρούλα Ιορδάνη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Σχολιασμένη μετάφραση
Γλωσσικές διαταραχές
Αξιολόγηση
Παρέμβαση
Προγλωσσική περίοδος
Annotated translation
Language disorders
Assessment
Intervention
Prelinguistic period

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αποτελεί τη σχολιασμένη μετάφραση από τα αγγλικά στα ελληνικά αποσπασμάτων από το έκτο κεφάλαιο του βιβλίου «Language Disorders from Infancy through Adolescence» (4η έκδοση) των Rhea Paul και Courtenay F. Norbury. Στα αποσπάσματα εξετάζονται οι γλωσσικές διαταραχές και, πιο συγκεκριμένα, η αξιολόγηση και η παρέμβαση που λαμβάνει χώρα κατά την προγλωσσική περίοδο. Στόχος της εργασίας, εκτός από τη μετάφραση, είναι η παράθεση των όρων του κειμένου και η τεκμηρίωσή τους, καθώς και η παρουσίαση της έρευνας που διεξήχθη και η ανάλυση των προκλήσεων που ανέκυψαν κατά τη μεταφραστική διαδικασία.
description: The present master’s thesis is an annotated translation from English into Greek of excerpts from the sixth chapter of the book "Language Disorders from Infancy through Adolescence" (4th edition) by Rhea Paul and Courtenay F. Norbury. Language disorders as well as assessment and intervention in the prelinguistic period are discussed in the excerpts in question. The aim of the paper is to provide the translation and the terms extracted from the text along with their documentation and, also, to present the research conducted and analyze the challenges encountered during the translation process.
“To those who choose to follow in our footsteps”: making women/LGBT+ soldiers (in)visible through feminist “her-story” theater
Creators: name: Dolan, Emma
name: Danilova, Nataliya
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education

description: Building on Judith Butler’s understanding of visibility as “the object of continuous regulation and contestation,” art/aesthetics studies in international relations, and feminist theater studies, we identify feminist “her story” theater as a unique site where Western “gender-/sexuality-inclusive” soldiering is visibilized, contested, and subverted. Drawing on ethnographic observations of two award-winning dramas, interviews with artists and military hosts, and findings from a wider research project on contemporary British military culture, we reveal the key role of heteronormative and patriarchal cultural discourses in reproducing the ambivalent positionalities of women/LGBT+ soldiers. We argue that the very visibility of women/LGBT+ soldiers on the stage paradoxically operates to make the complexities of – and struggles against – masculinized heteronormative military cultures invisible. Furthermore, despite artists’ attempts to dissociate empowerment through soldiering from the problematic context of modern conflicts, “her story” theater ultimately entrenches gendered/racialized hierarchies that normalize Western military interventions. We conclude that only through sustained feminist reflection on the contours of “imagined” futures of female/ LGBT+ soldiering can this persistently problematic (in)visibility be productively disrupted.
Elevated eosinophil levels observed in infantile hemangioma patients from Kaifeng, China
Creators: name: Li, Xianglei
name: Ma, Chunyan
name: Xu, Jiaoyang
name: Gao, Biao
name: Steele, Michael
name: Idris, Adi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Infantile hemangioma (IH) is one of the most common soft-tissue neoplasm of infancy. Although clinical diagnosis for IH is well-established, the haematological parameters associated with IH have is not well explored. In this short study, we observed significantly higher eosinophil (EO) numbers in IH patient blood compared to healthy control. This contributed to the observed higher EO % in the peripheral blood of IH patients and was irrespective of age. This new haematological finding could carry a potential diagnostic/prognostic relevance for IH.
Labelling of intravenous drugs administered in critical patients: scoping review protocol
Creators: name: da Silva, Rodrigo
name: de Kassio Nunes, Geovane
name: da Silva, Rafael
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Emergency Medicine
subject: Critical Care Nursing
subject: Anesthesiology
subject: Perioperative, Operating Room and Surgical Nursing
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Critical Care
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: drug labelling

description: An scoping review protocol on the labelling of intravenous drugs administered in critical patients
Systematic Review Protocol
Creators: name: Steinert, Janina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: On 30 January 2020, COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) and, 40 days later, a pandemic. In this time, numerous reviews have been rapidly generated to summarise the potential impacts of COVID-19 on widening gender inequalities around the world (e.g., Fraser, 2020; Peterman et al., 2020; Wenham et al., 2020). To continue the advancement of a research agenda that mitigates the impacts of COVID-19 and future public health emergencies on increasing gender inequalities, this review aims to synthesise the evidence on the gender-based impacts of interventions and policies implemented in the wake of previous public health emergencies. We define public health emergencies as situations where an imminent threat of harm to public health necessitates immediate and non-routine action, including disease outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, and natural disasters (WHO, 2016). For the purposes of this review, we draw on the Sustainable Development Goals (specifically Goal No. 5) and the UN Women framework developed to measure gender impacts in response to COVID-19. Based on these frameworks, the review will synthesise the existing evidence of programme impacts on the following targets: ● Discrimination of women and girls ● Violence against women and girls ● Harmful practices (e.g., forced marriage) ● Unpaid domestic work and shared responsibility of domestic burdens ● Equal opportunities in political, economic, public life, and leadership in response efforts ● Access to sexual and reproductive health services ● Access to enabling information and communication technologies ● Access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
Interpolating Helicity Spinors Between the Instant Form and the Light-front Form
Creators: name: Li, Ziyue
name: An, Murat
name: Ji, Chueng-Ryong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the helicity spinors interpolating between the instant form dynamics (IFD) and the front form dynamics, or the light-front dynamics (LFD), and present the interpolating helicity amplitudes as well as their squares for the scattering of two fermions, and the annihilation of fermion and anti-fermion. We parametrize the interpolation between the two dynamics, IFD and LFD, by an interpolation angle and derive not only the generalized helicity spinors in the $(0,J)\oplus(J,0)$ chiral representation that links naturally the two typical IFD vs. LFD helicity spinors but also the generalized Melosh transformation that relates these generalized helicity spinors to the usual Dirac spinors. Analyzing the directions of the particle momentum and spin with the variation of the interpolation angle, we inspect the whole landscape of the generalized helicity intermediating between the usual Jacob-Wick helicity in the IFD and the light-front helicity in the LFD. Our analysis clarifies the characteristic difference of the helicity amplitudes between the IFD and the LFD. In particular, we find that the behavior of the angle between the momentum direction and the spin direction bifurcates at a critical interpolation angle and the IFD and the LFD separately belong to the two different branches bifurcated at this critical interpolation angle. This finding further clarifies any conceivable confusion in the prevailing notion of the equivalence between the infinite momentum frame and the LFD. The existence of the universal J-curve found in our previous works of scalar field theory and the sQED theory is confirmed in the present work of interpolating helicity amplitudes for the fermion scattering and annihilation processes. In conjunction with the bifurcation of branches, the two boundaries appear in the interpolating helicity amplitudes and interestingly the J-curve persists within these two boundaries.
Begonia subvillosa Klotzsch 1854
Creators: name: Martín, Claudia M.
name: Ospina, Juan C.
name: Zanotti, Christian A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Cucurbitales
Begoniaceae
Begonia
Begonia subvillosa

description: Begonia subvillosa Klotzsch (1854: 152)
 Lectotype:— BRASIL. Without locality, F. Sellow s.n. [lectotype B 10 0247925! designated here, isolectotypes B 10 0247926!, B 10 0247924!, F0BN020903 (photo)!].
 Taxonomic notes: — Three specimens were found in B that correspond to Sellow’s collection cited by Klotzsch (1854) in the protologue, ‘Von Sello in Brasilien entdeckt’. The specimens B 10 0247925! was chosen as a lectotype, because it is the most complete specimen.
description: Published as part of Martín, Claudia M., Ospina, Juan C. & Zanotti, Christian A., 2017, Nomenclature issues into southern of South American species of Begonia (Begoniaceae), pp. 129-134 in Phytotaxa 314 (1) on page 133, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.314.1.13, http://zenodo.org/record/13686341
The physical principles underpinning self-organization in plants
Creators: name: Turner, Philip
name: Nottale, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on laboratory based growth of plant-like structures from inorganic materials, we present new theory for the emergence of plant structure at a range of scales dictated by levels of ionization (charge density), which can be traced directly back to proteins transcribed from genetic code and their interaction with external sources of charge (such as CO2) in real plants. Beyond a critical percolation threshold, individual charge induced quantum poten- tials (driven by dissipative systems) merge to form a complex, interconnected geometric web, creating macroscopic quantum potentials, which lead to the emergence of macroscopic quantum processes. The assembly of molecules into larger, ordered structures operates within these charge-induced coherent bosonic fields, acting as a structuring force in competition with exterior potentials. Within these processes many of the phenomena associated with standard quantum theory are recovered, including quantization, non-dissipation, self-organization, confinement, structuration conditioned by the environment, environmental fluctuations leading to macroscopic quantum decoherence and evolutionary time described by a time dependent Schrodinger-like equation, which describes models of bifurcation and duplication. The work provides a strong case for the existence of quintessence-like behaviour, with macroscopic quantum potentials and associated forces having their equivalence in standard quantum mechanics and gravitational forces in general relativity. The theory offers new insight into evolutionary processes in structural biology, with selection at any point in time, being made from a wide range of spontaneously emerging potential structures (dependent on conditions), which offer advantage for a specific organism. This is valid for both the emergence of structures from a prebiotic medium and the wide range of different plant structures we see today.
description: 47 pages, 19 figures
Circuit topology of linear polymers: a statistical mechanical treatment
Creators: name: Mashaghi, Alireza
name: Ramezanpour, Abolfazl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Circuit topology refers to the arrangement of interactions between objects belonging to a linearly ordered object set. Linearly ordered set of objects are common in nature and occur in a wide range of applications in economics, computer science, social science and chemical synthesis. Examples include linear bio-polymers, linear signaling pathways in cells as well as topological sorts appearing in project management. Using a statistical mechanical treatment, we study circuit topology landscapes of linear polymer chains with intra-chain contacts as a prototype of linearly sorted objects with interactions. We find generic features of the topological space and study the statistical properties of the space under the most basic constraints on the occupancy of arrangements and topological interactions. We observe that a set of correlated contact sites (a sector) could nontrivially influence the entropy of circuits as the number of involved sites increases. Finally, we discuss how constraints can be inferred from the information provided by local contact distributions in presence of a sector.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, 3 appendixes
Ο μεταβυζαντινός ναός του Αγίου Αθανασίου στο Δοξάτο Δράμας (1869) και οι δυνατότητες προβολής του
Creators: name: Τζιτζιμπάση, Αντιγόνη Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ναός Αγίου Αθανασίου
Δοξάτο
Περιηγητές
Church of St. Athanasius
Doxato
Τravelers

description: Οι στόχοι της διπλωματικής εργασίας ήταν η μελέτη του μεταβυζαντινού ναού του Αγίου Αθανασίου στο Δοξάτο Δράμας (1869) και η παρουσίαση της μόνιμης έκθεσης των δημοσιευμένων κειμηλίων στον γυναικωνίτη του. Η έρευνα που πραγματοποιήθηκε ήταν ποιοτική. Συγκεντρώθηκαν επίσης και σχολιάστηκαν γραπτές πηγές - κυρίως περιηγητικά κείμενα – που σχετίζονται με την ιστορία του Δοξάτου και της περιοχής του από τον 12ο αι. έως τον 20ο αι. και ιδιαίτερα με το εξεταζόμενο μνημείο. Ακόμη, μελετήθηκε η τοπική ιστορία και διερευνήθηκαν οι κοινωνικοοικονομικές και θρησκευτικές συνθήκες που επικρατούσαν την εποχή ανέγερσης του μνημείου και οδήγησαν στην άνθηση της ελληνορθόδοξης κοινότητας του Δοξάτου. Επίσης, κατατέθηκαν προτάσεις για την ένταξη του μνημείου στην τοπική κοινωνία και σε διαδρομή θρησκευτικού τουρισμού, έχοντας ως αφετηρία τους γειτονικούς Φιλίππους, αρχαιολογικό χώρο ενταγμένο στον κατάλογο των μνημείων της παγκόσμιας πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς της UNESCO (2016).
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of the post-Byzantine church of St Athanasius in Doxato, Drama (1869) and the presentation of the permanent exhibition and the published relics in its gallery. A qualitative research was conducted. Written sources were gathered and commented, as well. These were mainly travel texts related to the history of Doxato and its area from the 12th century until the 20th century and more specifically with the monument in question. Also, the local history was studied in connection with the prevailing socio-economic and religious conditions at the time the monument was constructed leading to the flourishing of the Greek Orthodox community of Doxato. Finally, proposals were submitted regarding the inclusion of the monument in the local community and on a religious route, starting from neighboring Philippi, an archaeological site inscribed on UNESCO᾽s World Heritage List (2016).
Spectral-Line Survey at Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelengths toward an Outflow-Shocked Region, OMC 2-FIR 4
Creators: name: Shimajiri, Yoshito
name: Sakai, Takeshi
name: Kitamura, Yoshimi
name: Tsukagoshi, Takashi
name: Saito, Masao
name: Nakamura, Fumitaka
name: Momose, Munetake
name: Takakuwa, Shigehisa
name: Yamaguchi, Takahiro
name: Sakai, Nami
name: Yamamoto, Satoshi
name: Kawabe, Ryohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed the first spectral-line survey at 82--106 GHz and 335--355 GHz toward the outflow-shocked region, OMC 2-FIR 4, the outflow driving source, FIR 3, and the northern outflow lobe, FIR 3N. We detected 120 lines of 20 molecular species. The line profiles are found to be classifiable into two types: one is a single Gaussian component with a narrow ($$ 3km s$^{-1}$) widths. The narrow components for the most of the lines are detected at all positions, suggesting that they trace the ambient dense gas. For CO, CS, HCN, and HCO$^{+}$, the wide components are detected at all positions, suggesting the outflow origin. The wide components of C$^{34}$S, SO, SiO, H$^{13}$CN, HC$^{15}$N, H$_2^{13}$CO, H$_2$CS, HC$_3$N, and CH$_3$OH are detected only at FIR 4, suggesting the outflow-shocked gas origin. The rotation diagram analysis revealed that the narrow components of C$_2$H and H$^{13}$CO$^+$ show low temperatures of 12.5$\pm$1.4 K, while the wide components show high temperatures of 20--70 K. This supports our interpretation that the wide components trace the outflow and/or outflow-shocked gas. We compared observed molecular abundances relative to H$^{13}$CO$^+$ with those of the outflow-shocked region, L1157 B1, and the hot corino, IRAS 16293-2422. Although we cannot exclude a possibility that the chemical enrichment in FIR 4 is caused by the hot core chemistry, the chemical compositions in FIR 4 are more similar to those in L1157 B1 than those in IRAS 16293-2422.
description: ApJS accepted for publication
From conformal invariance towards dynamical symmetries of the collisionless Boltzmann equation
Creators: name: Stoimenov, Stoimen
name: Henkel, Malte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical symmetries of the collisionless Boltzmann transport equation, or Vlasov equation, but under the influence of an external driving force, are derived from non-standard representations of the $2D$ conformal algebra. In the case without external forces, the symmetry of the conformally invariant transport equation is first generalised by considering the particle momentum as an independent variables. This new conformal representation can be further extended to include an external force. The construction and possible physical applications are outlined.
description: Latex2e, 18 pages, no figures
Multiple origins of asteroid pairs
Creators: name: Jacobson, Seth A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotationally fissioned asteroids produce unbound daughter asteroids that have very similar heliocentric orbits. Backward integration of their current heliocentric orbits provides an age of closest proximity that can be used to date the rotational fission event. Most asteroid pairs follow a predicted theoretical relationship between the primary spin period and the mass ratio of the two pair members that is a direct consequence of the YORP-induced rotational fission hypothesis. If the progenitor asteroid has strength, asteroid pairs may have high mass ratios with possibly fast rotating primaries. However, secondary fission leaves the originally predicted trend unaltered. We also describe the characteristics of pair members produced by four alternative routes from a rotational fission event to an asteroid pair. Unlike direct formation from the event itself, the age of closest proximity of these pairs cannot generally be used to date the rotational fission event since considerable time may have passed.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, submitted to IAU Proceedings
Locking of electron spin coherence over fifty milliseconds in natural silicon carbide
Creators: name: Simin, D.
name: Kraus, H.
name: Sperlich, A.
name: Ohshima, T.
name: Astakhov, G. V.
name: Dyakonov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that silicon carbide (SiC) with natural isotope abundance can preserve a coherent spin superposition in silicon vacancies over unexpectedly long time approaching 0.1 seconds. The spin-locked subspace with drastically reduced decoherence rate is attained through the suppression of heteronuclear spin cross-talking by applying a moderate magnetic field in combination with dynamic decoupling from the nuclear spin baths. We identify several phonon-assisted mechanisms of spin-lattice relaxation, ultimately limiting quantum coherence, and find that it can be extremely long at cryogenic temperature, equal or even longer than 8 seconds. Our approach may be extended to other polyatomic compounds and open a path towards improved qubit memory for wafer-scale quantum techmologies.
description: Added extended data analysis based on quantum process tomography, discussion of spin-lattice relaxation mechanisms
title: Методика воспитательной работы в профессиональной школе
title: Учебно-методическое пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Завадская Ж.Е.
name:  Баранова Л.И.
name:  Полякова Т.М.
Publisher: name: Республиканский институт профессионального образования (РИПО)
Year: 2016

description: Учебно-методическое пособие окажет методическую помощь в организации и проведении воспитательной работы в учреждении образования с учетом социально-экономических факторов, творческого потенциала педагогического коллектива, контингента учащихся. Предназначено для педагогических работников учреждений общего среднего, среднего специального, профессионально-технического образования: преподавателей, классных руководителей, кураторов, воспитателей общежитий.
description: Teaching manual will provide methodological assistance in the organization and conduct of educational work in educational institutions taking into account socio-economic factors of the creative potential of the teaching staff, pupils. Designed for teachers of institutions of General secondary, secondary special, vocational education teachers, class teachers, curators, educators of dormitories.
73 GHz Wideband Millimeter-Wave Foliage and Ground Reflection Measurements and Models
Creators: name: Rappaport, Theodore S.
name: Deng, Sijia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents 73 GHz wideband outdoor foliage and ground reflection measurements. Propagation measurements were made with a 400 Megachip-per-second sliding correlator channel sounder, with rotatable 27 dBi (7 degrees half- power beamwidth) horn antennas at both the transmitter and receiver, to study foliage-induced scattering and de-polarization effects, to assist in developing future wireless systems that will use adaptive array antennas. Signal attenuation through foliage was measured to be 0.4 dB/m for both co- and cross-polarized antenna configurations. Measured ground reflection coefficients for dirt and gravel ranged from 0.02 to 0.34, for incident angles ranging from 60 degrees to 81 degrees (with respect to the normal incidence of the surface). These data are useful for link budget design and site-specific (ray-tracing) models for future millimeter-wave communication systems.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), ICC Workshops
Preserved low level visual gain control in autistic adults
Creators: name: Sandhu, Tim
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: autism
subject: divisive normalization
subject: gain control
subject: precision
subject: surround suppression

description: This project contains all the data, analysis scripts and example output to reproduce the results and figures in the following paper : Preserved low level visual gain control in autistic adults. Sandhu et al, 2019, DOI :
Upstream Polling Protocols for Flow Control in PON/xDSL Hybrid Access Networks
Creators: name: Mercian, Anu
name: Gurrola, Elliot I.
name: Aurzada, Frank
name: McGarry, Michael P.
name: Reisslein, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In a hybrid PON/xDSL access network, multiple Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) nodes connect over individual Digital Subscriber Lines (DSLs) to a drop-point device. The drop-point device, which is typically reverse powered from the customer, is co-located with an Optical Network Unit (ONU) of the Passive Optical Network (PON). We demonstrate that the drop-point experiences very high buffer occupancies when no flow control or standard Ethernet PAUSE frame flow control is employed. In order to reduce the buffer occupancies in the drop-point, we introduce two gated flow control protocols that extend the polling-based PON medium access control to the DSL segments between the CPEs and the ONUs. We analyze the timing of the gated flow control mechanisms to specify the latest possible time instant when CPEs can start the DSL upstream transmissions so that the ONU can forward the upstream transmissions at the full PON upstream transmission bit rate. Through extensive simulations for a wide range of bursty traffic models, we find that the gated flow control mechanisms, specifically, the ONU and CPE grant sizing policies, enable effective control of the maximum drop-point buffer occupancies.
Covertly attending to colors
Creators: name: Vilotijević, Ana
name: Mathot, Sebastiaan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: It has been shown the pupil is not just a simple reactant triggered by the external world’s stimulation, but that pupillary light response (PLR) can be modulated also by cognitive factors such as mental imagery (Laeng & Sulutvedt, 2014; Mathôt et al., 2017) or covert attention (Mathôt et al., 2013; Binda et al., 2013a). In the study by Mathôt and colleagues (2013), participants were constantly exposed to a screen that was divided into black and white half, whereas they had to covertly attend only to one of them. The results showed that, despite the same visual input, participants’ pupil mimicked the pupillary light response depending on the side of the screen which they had attended to. This being said, one question that remains unanswered is whether covertly attending to red and blue color would induce the same response of ipRGCs (photoreceptors that take over once the activation of rodes and cones wears off), that is, sustained constriction for blue color relative to red. In order to answer this question, we designed the experiment in which we vary the color (red/blue) and the brightness (dim/red) of the area that is to-be-covertly-attended.
Energy and linear and angular momenta in simple electromagnetic systems
Creators: name: Mansuripur, Masud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present examples of simple electromagnetic systems in which energy, linear momentum, and angular momentum exhibit interesting behavior. The systems are sufficiently simple to allow exact solutions of Maxwell's equations in conjunction with the electrodynamic laws of force, torque, energy, and momentum. In all the cases examined, conservation of energy and momentum is confirmed.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures, 81 equations, 34 references
Weak measurements and the joint estimation of phase and phase diffusion
Creators: name: Altorio, Matteo
name: Genoni, Marco G.
name: Vidrighin, Mihai D.
name: Somma, Fabrizia
name: Barbieri, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weak measurements offer the possibility of tuning the information acquired on a system, hence the imposed disturbance. This suggests that it could be a useful tool for multi-parameter estimation, when two parameters can not be measured simultaneously at the quantum limit. Here we discuss their use for phase estimation in the presence of phase diffusion in the context of polarimetry, a scenario which is conveniently cast in terms of a two-level quantum system in many relevant cases.
A non-symmetric coupling of the finite volume method and the boundary element method
Creators: name: Erath, Christoph
name: Of, Günther
name: Sayas, Francisco-Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N08, 65N38, 65N12, 65N15

description: As model problem we consider the prototype for flow and transport of a concentration in porous media in an interior domain and couple it with a diffusion process in the corresponding unbounded exterior domain. To solve the problem we develop a new non-symmetric coupling between the vertex-centered finite volume and boundary element method. This discretization provides naturally conservation of local fluxes and with an upwind option also stability in the convection dominated case. We aim to provide a first rigorous analysis of the system for different model parameters; stability, convergence, and a~priori estimates. This includes the use of an implicit stabilization, known from the finite element and boundary element method coupling. Some numerical experiments conclude the work and confirm the theoretical results.
description: finite volume method, boundary element method, non-symmetric coupling, convection dominated, existence and uniqueness, convergence, a priori estimate
Evidence for unidimensional low-energy excitations as the origin of persistent spin dynamics in geometrically frustrated magnets
Creators: name: Yaouanc, A.
name: de Reotier, P. Dalmas
name: Bertin, A.
name: Marin, C.
name: Lhotel, E.
name: Amato, A.
name: Baines, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report specific heat, magnetic, and muon spin relaxation measurements performed on a polycrystalline sample of the normal spinel CdHo2S4. The rare-earth ions sit on a lattice of corner-sharing regular tetrahedra as in pyrochlore compounds. Magnetic ordering is detected at Tc ~ 0.87 K. From spin-lattice relaxation rate measurements on both sides of Tc we uncover similar magnetic excitation modes driving the so-called persistent spin dynamics at T < Tc. Unidimensional excitations are argued to be at its origin. Often observed spin loop structures are suggested to support these excitations. The possibility of a generic mechanism for their existence is discussed.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Development of Non-linear Two-Terminal Mass Components for Application to Vehicle Suspension Systems
Creators: name: Yang, Shuai
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Two-terminal
Non-linear
Adaptive flywheel
Car suspension

description: To achieve passive vibration control, an adaptive flywheel design is proposed and fabricated from two different materials. The corresponding mathematical models for the adaptive flywheels are developed. A two-terminal hydraulic device and a two-terminal inverse screw device are introduced to analyze the two adaptive flywheels. Experiments are carried out to identify key parameters for both the two-terminal hydraulic system and the inverse screw system. The performance of three different suspension systems are evaluated; these are the traditional suspension system, the suspension system consisting of an ideal two-terminal device with constant flywheel and the suspension system consisting of an ideal two-terminal device with an adaptive flywheel (AFW suspension system). Results show that the AFW suspension system can outperform the other two suspension systems under certain conditions. The performance of a suspension system with the adaptive flywheel under different changing ratio is evaluated, and an optimal changing ratio is identified under certain circumstances. To obtain the steady-state response of the two-terminal device with adaptive flywheel, three different methods have been applied in this thesis. These methods are the single harmonic balance method, the multi-harmonic balance method and the scanning iterative multi-harmonic balance method, respectively. Compared to the single harmonic balance method, the multi-harmonic balance method provides a much more accurate system response. However, the proposed scanning iterative multi-harmonic balance method provides more accurate system response than the single harmonic balance method with much less computational effort.
A Subsequence Interleaving Model for Sequential Pattern Mining
Creators: name: Fowkes, Jaroslav
name: Sutton, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent sequential pattern mining methods have used the minimum description length (MDL) principle to define an encoding scheme which describes an algorithm for mining the most compressing patterns in a database. We present a novel subsequence interleaving model based on a probabilistic model of the sequence database, which allows us to search for the most compressing set of patterns without designing a specific encoding scheme. Our proposed algorithm is able to efficiently mine the most relevant sequential patterns and rank them using an associated measure of interestingness. The efficient inference in our model is a direct result of our use of a structural expectation-maximization framework, in which the expectation-step takes the form of a submodular optimization problem subject to a coverage constraint. We show on both synthetic and real world datasets that our model mines a set of sequential patterns with low spuriousness and redundancy, high interpretability and usefulness in real-world applications. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the quality of the patterns from our approach is comparable to, if not better than, existing state of the art sequential pattern mining algorithms.
description: 10 pages in KDD 2016: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Approaching the Pollinator Problem Through Human-Bee Relations: Perspectives & Strategies in Beekeeping
Creators: name: Bero, Ursula
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Beekeeper capacity
Honeybees
Wild bees
Pollinator conservation
Human-bee relations
Social-ecological systems
Agro-ecology
Ecosystem services

description: Beekeepers help to secure the pollination capacity of bees by mediating bee-stressors. This study argues that beekeeper strategies are best conceptualized as a series of specialized practices for bettering bee-health, which are mobilized by a variety of actors, including those who are not traditionally considered ‘beekeepers’. The aim of this paper is to explore those human beliefs and practices which are most relevant for gaining insight into the current pollinator problem. Farmers, bee-conservationists, bee-researchers and honeybee-keepers all play an important role in securing bee health. The paper draws on the social-ecological perspective to consider alternative definitions of caring for bees, what shapes these conceptualizations and how these are reflected in beekeeper strategies, which inevitably contribute to the overall functioning of human-bee constituted systems. In the context of rising honeybee colony losses in Canada and of wild bee decline around the world, understanding the diversity of approaches for bettering bee-health is exceedingly important for initiating long-term, sustainable and multi-level bee-pollinator conservation.
‘The Gateway to Everything’: The Relationship Between Gender Safety, Gender Violence and Learning Processes in Two Primary Schools in Kirinyaga County, Kenya
Creators: name: Vanner, Catherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Gender violence
Gender safety
Primary school
Kenya

description: The ways in which gender violence in schools (GVS) relate to teaching and learning processes and the extent to which aspects of gender safety in school (GSS) create an empowering, protective learning environment form this study’s central topics of investigation. Using a multiple qualitative case study of two primary schools in Kirinyaga County, Kenya, this dissertation explores the elements of gender safety and gender violence that exist within each school and relate to student learning. The following qualitative methods were used over seven months in 2015: participant observation, individual teacher interviews, individual art-based student interviews and member-check interviews with teachers and students. GSS is promoted within the national policy framework and through teacher and student actions but is prevented from flourishing by a prioritization of discipline, authority, and examinations that reinforce traditional hierarchies, power discrepancies and competition. These practices define a school culture that enables GVS to continue and undermine efforts to promote GSS. Findings show that efforts to eradicate GVS cannot be designed in isolation from broader teaching and learning processes. Ensuring school safety and equality requires collaboration between education and child protection systems and reflection on current and historical power structures that shape school cultures. Efforts to eradicate GVS should build on existing opportunities for enhancing GSS and thus learning for girls and boys and address the systemic constraints that limit teachers’ ability to promote protection and equality for their students.
title: Основы права
title: Учебник
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Барков А.В.
name:  Бондаренко Н.Л.
name:  Василевич Г.А.
name:  Василевич Д.Г.
name:  Греченков А.А.
name:  Григорьева Е.Н.
name:  Кучинский В.А.
name:  Рябцев Л.М.
name:  Скрипченко Д.Г.
name:  Тарасевич Н.И.
name:  Чичина Е.В.
name:  Шингель Н.А.
name:  Шишко Г.Б.
Publisher: name: Республиканский институт профессионального образования (РИПО)
Year: 2014

description: Учебник написан в соответствии с программой учебной дисциплины «Основы права» с учетом действующего законодательства Республики Беларусь. В нем рассмотрены сущность и значение общей теории государства и права, основы конституционного, административного, гражданского, трудового, жилищного, семейного, экологического, уголовного и международного права. Основная задача учебника – просвещение учащихся в области правовых знаний, необходимых им для выполнения своих профессиональных обязанностей после завершения обучения. Адресуется учащимся учреждений профессионально-технического и среднего специального образования, также будет полезен преподавателям, аспирантам, магистрантам, государственным служащим и профсоюзным работникам.
description: The textbook is written in accordance with the program of the discipline "basics of law" subject to the current legislation of the Republic of Belarus. It examines the nature and significance of the General theory of state and law, basics of constitutional, administrative, civil, labor, housing, family, environmental, criminal and international law. The main objective of this tutorial is to educate students in the field of legal knowledge they need to perform their professional duties after graduation. Addressed to students of institutions of vocational and secondary special education, will also be useful to teachers, graduate students, undergraduates, civil servants and trade Union workers.
Value Based Assessment Frameworks for Oncology: implications for valuing the outcomes for watch-and-wait after clinical complete response in rectal cancer (ValCoRe)
Creators: name: Thapa, Shabnam
name: Payne, Katherine
name: Thokala, Praveen
name: Malcomson, Lee
name: Renehan, Andrew G
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: value based framework, consequences, rectal cancer, interventions

description: There are several factors that influence whether patients with a clinical complete response in rectal cancer are managed by watch-and-wait . These include patient-related (including their preferences), health professional-related, and policy maker-related. Here, we specifically addressed the latter using value based assessment frameworks (VBAFs). Value based assessment frameworks (VBAFs) are a structured set of methods and/or processes developed to assess the value of healthcare interventions when used in healthcare systems. The goal of the VBAFs is to show a structured approach to identify, quantify and value interventions in terms of benefits and harms and in some situations consideration of opportunity cost.