cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Financing Indoor Residual Spraying for Malaria Prevention in Uganda: Options for Cost Minimization
Creators: name: Odokonyero, Tonny
name: Ahaibwe, Gemma
name: Odokonyero, Tonny
name: Ahaibwe, Gemma
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Health Economics and Policy
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Uganda is the second largest contributor of total malaria cases in East and Southern Africa. Domestically, the burden of malaria is enormous and persistent (high morbidity, mortality, and economic loss). Among other strategies, the government has proposed large-scale Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) intervention as a major component of current malaria control efforts, and recently, the political leadership voiced solidarity towards fighting malaria through the “Mass Action Against Malaria” campaign. This paper was motivated by the paucity of evidence on requisite financial resources to fund country-wide and phased IRS implementation. Additionally, given that the economy is highly resource constrained and is faced with innumerable competing development priorities and needs, it is imperative to explore low-cost options for IRS implementation. Therefore, this paper was aimed at analysing the costs of the country-wide roll out of IRS under different IRS delivery models, the cost implications of implementing IRS in a phased manner, and identifying cost-minimization strategies. We used the latest Uganda National Household Survey, market price data, and data from IRS pilot districts.
Dark energy and global rotation of the Universe
Creators: name: Godlowski, Wlodzimierz
name: Szydlowski, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the problem of universe acceleration driven by global rotation. The redshift-magnitude relation is calculated and discussed in the context of SN Ia observation data. It is shown that the dynamics of considered problem is equivalent to the Friedmann model with additional non-interacting fluid with negative pressure. We demonstrate that the universe acceleration increase is due to the presence of global rotation effects, although the cosmological constant is still required to explain the SN Ia data. We discuss some observational constraints coming from SN Ia imposed on the behaviour of the homogeneous Newtonian universe in which matter rotates relative local gyroscopes. In the Newtonian theory $Ω_{\text{r},o}$ can be identified with $Ω_{ω,0}$ (only dust fluid is admissible) rotation can exist with $Ω_{\text{r},0}=Ω_{ω,0} \le 0$. However, the best-fit flat model is the model without rotation, i.e., $Ω_{ω,0}=0$. In the considered case we obtain the limit for $Ω_{ω,0}>-0.033$ at 1σ$ level$. We are also beyond the model and postulate the existence od additional matter which scales like radiation matter and then analyse how that model fits the SN Ia data. In this case the limits on rotation coming from BBN and CMB anisotropies are also obtained. If we assume that the current estimates are $Ω_{\text{m},0}\sim 0.3$, $Ω_{\text{r},0} \sim 10^{-4}$, then the SN Ia data show that $Ω_{ω,0} \ge -0.01$ (or $ω< 2.6 \cdot 10^{-19} \text{rad}/\text{s}$). The statistical analysis gives us that the interval for any matter scaling like radiation is $Ω_{\text{r},0} in (-0.01, 0.04)$.
description: RevTeX4, 12 pages, 7 figures
Court actions and Boosting Domestic Revenue Mobilization in Uganda
Creators: name: Sserunjogi, Brian
name: Lakuma, Corti Paul
name: Sserunjogi, Brian
name: Lakuma, Corti Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Financial Economics
Political Economy

description: The study analyzed how court actions particularly with respect to the operation of the Tax Appeals Tribunal (TAT), affect domestic revenue mobilisation in Uganda. Based on time series data combined with stakeholder analysis, the study aimed to analyze the performance of TAT in settling tax disputes, examine the source of tax disputes, identify legal and non-legal factors affecting dispute resolution, and propose policy options for improving the operations of TAT. The results revealed that tax disputes are resolved slowly, resulting into a large back log of outstanding disputes, very few cases are resolved by the High Court due to the back log of cases appearing in the this Court. Moreover, tax disputes are commonly settled through mutual consent or withdrawn by taxpayers due to lengthy legal bureaucracy. Disputes generally arise out of tax exemptions and excessive or aggressive assessments by the Uganda Revenue Authority. The study recommends introduction of mediation as a dispute resolution mechanism, limiting the frequency of amendments of tax laws as this contributes to undue complexity and expanding the jurisdiction of the tribunal to allow the awarding of damages to injured parties.
4D Anomalous U(1)'s, their masses and their relation to 6D anomalies
Creators: name: Anastasopoulos, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In some four-dimensional orientifolds, U(1) gauge fields that are free of four-dimensional anomalies can still be massive. It is shown that this is due to mass-generating six-dimensional anomalies. Six-dimensional anomalies affect four-dimensional masses via decompactifications.
description: LaTeX, 26 pages (v2), final version to be published in JHEP
Additional file 1 of Coffee drinking and cancer risk: an umbrella review of meta-analyses of observational studies
Creators: name: Long-Gang Zhao
name: Zhuo-Ying Li
name: Guo-Shan Feng
name: Ji, Xiao-Wei
name: Tan, Yu-Ting
name: Li, Hong-Lan
name: Gunter, Marc
name: Yong-Bing Xiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary methods. Table S1. Excluded list through full-text review. Table S2. Description of meta-analyses of coffee consumption and cancer incidence with more than one meta-analysis. Table S3. AMSTAR score of included meta-analysis. Table S4. Description of meta-analyses only including cohort studies of coffee consumption and cancer incidence with more than one meta-analysis. Table S5. Description, evaluation of bias and heterogeneity in 34 associations of coffee intake and cancer incidence only including meta-analyses of cohort studies. Table S6. Summary of evidence grading for meta-analyses of cohort studies associating coffee intake and cancer incidence.
Lowering the Cost of Secondary Education through Strategic Public-Private Partnerships: Evidence from the PEAS programme in Uganda
Creators: name: Barungi, Mildred
name: Mwesigye, Francis
name: Barungi, Mildred
name: Mwesigye, Francis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The need to pay school fees remains a challenge for many secondary students despite the existence of the Universal Secondary Education (USE) programme in Uganda and its associated capitation grants. Due to the variety of income sources for secondary schools, the average expenditures between public and other schools differ markedly. This brief examines the drivers of secondary school expenditures and whether private schools delivering USE services offer an opportunity to reduce the overall cost of secondary education in Uganda. The brief is based on the analysis of costs of secondary education undertaken as part of the 3 year impact evaluation of the Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS) programme in Uganda—implemented under a Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) arrangement. We find that government schools on average have a total expenditure of UGX 548 million per year and this is about 60 percent more than what is spent on average in non-government schools. The large differences in expenditures between public and other schools is primarily attributed to higher teacher salaries in government schools as well as the provision to teachers of several non-salary benefits like meals and rent for accommodation —paid from the school dues. As such, the estimated per student recurrent expenditure is highest for government schools at UGX 1.4 million compared to UGX 1 million and UGX 736,000 for PEAS and private schools respectively. As such, strategic partnerships between Government and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have the potential to significantly reduce the cost to households of sending their children to school.
Asteropsis carinifera
Creators: name: Jangoux, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Asteropseidae
Asteropsis
Asteropsis carinifera

description: * carinifera Lamarck, 1816, Asterias
Asterias carinifera Lamarck, 1816: 556. — Jangoux 2021: 223.
Asteropsis carinifera ‒ Clark 1993: 320.
CURRENT STATUS. — Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816).
REMARK
Original drawings of A. carinifera holotype are presented in Jangoux (2021: 222, fig. 8).
description: Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 274, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
Short-Distance Cutoffs in Curved Space
Creators: name: Kempf, Achim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that space-time may possess the differentiability properties of manifolds as well as the ultraviolet finiteness properties of lattices. Namely, if a field's amplitudes are given on any sufficiently dense set of discrete points this could already determine the field's amplitudes at all other points of the manifold. The criterion for when samples are sufficiently densely spaced could be that they are apart on average not more than at a Planck distance. The underlying mathematics is that of classes of functions that can be reconstructed completely from discrete samples. The discipline is called sampling theory and is at the heart of information theory. Sampling theory establishes the link between continuous and discrete forms of information and is used in ubiquitous applications from scientific data taking to digital audio.
description: Talk presented at 10th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, July 20-26, 2003
[re]kindle : socio-ecologically resilient pyro-futures for the Okanagan Valley
Creators: name: Boisvert, Chloe
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: As wildfire events shift from a regular natural disturbance to a serious risk case for occupied territories in the WUI, surpassing most if not all firefighting capabilities, the need for greater resilience and improved connection to our ecosystems, both in the built form and social attitudes, is evident. [re]kindle explores the pyric landscapes and architectures of a speculative future where people and fire re-learn to coexist in the shifting edge of the Okanagan Valley’s wildland-urban interface regions.
The role of Public Private Partnerships in enhancing access to quality Education: The Case of PEAS Intervention in Uganda
Creators: name: Mwesigye, Francis
name: Barungi, Mildred
name: Mwesigye, Francis
name: Barungi, Mildred
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Despite Uganda’s efforts to enhance access to secondary education through the universal secondary education (USE) programme, access to secondary education remains a challenge—especially for poor students and girls. Also, the quality of education in USE schools remains low. In addition, the secondary school system is characterised by low transition and completion rates. Public Private Partnerships (PPP) offer an opportunity to close the gaps in access to education as well as address quality concerns. This brief summarizes the findings of a study that evaluated the Promotion of Equality in African Schools (PEAS)’s network schools—a PPP arrangement—under the Uganda USE programme.1 The results indicate that the PEAS intervention enhanced access to education for poor students and those from remote and hard to reach areas. In addition, students in PEAS schools, who hitherto had poor PLE grades, performed as well as those in private and government schools in the assessment exams suggesting that PEAS intervention improved education quality. The main pathways for quality improvement were school inspection, functionality of parents-teachers associations, effectiveness of child protection policies, and teacher motivation through timely pay and in-service training, among others. These findings have key policy implications. First, carefully selected PPPs are key in enhancing education access and quality. Second, school inspections enhance teacher performance and hence education quality. Third, teacher motivation through timely payments and trainings enhance their productivity. Finally, availability of child protection policies at schools as well as actual enforcement are critical for enhancing student concentration and performance.
Analyzing the Higgs-confinement transition with non-local operators on the lattice
Creators: name: Shimada, Yusuke
name: Yamamoto, Arata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study non-local operators for analyzing the Higgs-confinement phase transition in lattice gauge theory. Since the nature of the Higgs-confinement phase transition is topological, its order parameter is the expectation value of non-local operators, such as loop and surface operators. There exist several candidates for the non-local operators. Adopting the charge-2 Abelian Higgs model, we test numerical simulation of conventional ones, the Polyakov loop and the 't Hooft loop, and an unconventional one, the Aharonov-Bohm phase defined by the Wilson loop wrapping around a vortex line.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures
How to overcome the challenges faced by private companies engaged in agricultural research and development
Creators: name: Barungi, Mildred
name: Nakazi, Florence
name: Mwesigye
name: Barungi, Mildred
name: Nakazi, Florence
name: Mwesigye
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural Finance
Demand and Price Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: In line with their mandates, public institutions, particularly the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), have developed several improved technologies for crops, animals and fisheries. However, most of the developed technologies are yet to be adopted by the intended end-users. Some private companies are making significant contribution towards closing the gap between research, technology generation, dissemination and uptake by farmers. Nonetheless, private companies face various challenges, which limit their overall contribution. This brief recommends specific actions that could ease private sector engagement in agricultural research and development.
Limited health insurance coverage amidst upsurge of non-communicable diseases in Uganda
Creators: name: Mpuuga, Dablin
name: Mbowas, Swaibu
name: Odokonyero, Tonny
name: Mpuuga, Dablin
name: Mbowas, Swaibu
name: Odokonyero, Tonny
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: This brief uses the 2016/17 Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) and the World Development Indicators (WDI) to show the extent of health insurance coverage for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart diseases among others. Results indicate that: (i) NDCs affect people of all socio-economic groups; (ii) more Ugandans suffering from NCDs are willing to pay for health insurance, but very few are holders of insurance policies in this regard; (iii) other diseases like malaria are more easily insured compared to NCDs, an indication that the providers of health insurance services are not keen to insure sufferers of NCDs; (iv) there are regional differences in health insurance coverage as well as prevalence of NCDs, with the burden of NCDs more intense in the Bukedi, Busoga and Teso sub-regions, whereas NCDs are least prevalent in Kigezi and Ankole sub-regionsand (v) NCDs are likely to erode gains in poverty reduction at household level, because it is equally high among poor households with the least capacity to afford health insurance. We there by, recommend establishing special screening centres for NCDs in public health facilities especially health center II’s and III’s. This will promote early detection and early treatment hence curbing expensive costs for treating severe and chronic NCDs. Preventive measures need to be emphasized as well. These include regular body exercises and monitored nutrition which all lower the risk of NCDs. We further suggest incorporating and prioritizing NCDs into the proposed national health insurance scheme.
A Cross Sectional Analysis of Farm-Size Productivity Relationship in African Agriculture Evidence from Maize Farming Households in Nigeria
Creators: name: Ogunleye, A.S.
name: Akinola, A.A.
name: Bamire, A.S.
name: Alia, D.
name: Adeyeye, O.
name: Abdoulaye, T.
name: Reed, H.
name: Ogunleye, A.S.
name: Akinola, A.A.
name: Bamire, A.S.
name: Alia, D.
name: Adeyeye, O.
name: Abdoulaye, T.
name: Reed, H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Cross sectional analysis
subject: farm size
subject: productivity
subject: inverse relationship
subject: maize farming
subject: households

description: This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nigeria. The household data used has been drawn from a baseline survey conducted in Nigeria and financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations (BMGF).The relationship between farm size and productivity has long been a topic of debate in development economics. Using a cross sectional baseline data, we aimed at examining the relationship between maize yield and farm size across the selected agro-ecological zones. Specifically, it aimed at investigating the farm size–productivity relationship and its underlying determinants for maize producers in Nigeria. Findings from this study indicate that productivity measures are consistently highest among farms small farms, next highest among medium, and lowest among large farms. Gross profit per hectare and net profit per hectare on small farms are over 15% higher and 40% respectively higher than medium and large farms. The study further reveal a strong negative relationship between the value of output per hectare and own cultivated area with a doubling in cultivated area associated with a 35% or 98% decrease in the value of crop output per unit of cultivated land at the holding- or plot-level, respectively. We therefore recommended that farm size– productivity relationship and its determinants in developing countries like Nigeria should continue to be of interest to policy makers seeking to resolve the small-sized farm issue.
Complete state tomography of a quantum dot confined spin qubit
Creators: name: Cogan, Dan
name: Peniakov, Giora
name: Su, Zu-En
name: Gershoni, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semiconductor quantum dots are probably the preferred choice for interfacing anchored, matter spin qubits and flying photonic qubits. While full tomography of a flying qubit or light polarization is in general straightforward, matter spin tomography is a challenging and resource-consuming task. Here we present a novel all-optical method for conducting full tomography of quantum-dot-confined spins. Our method is applicable for electronic spin configurations such as the conduction-band electron, the valence-band hole, and for electron-hole pairs such as the bright and the dark exciton. We excite the spin qubit using short resonantly tuned, polarized optical pulse, which coherently converts the qubit to an excited qubit that decays by emitting a polarized single-photon. We perform the tomography by using two different orthogonal, linearly polarized excitations, followed by time-resolved measurements of the degree of circular polarization of the emitted light from the decaying excited qubit. We demonstrate our method on the dark exciton spin state with fidelity of 0.94, mainly limited by the accuracy of our polarization analyzers.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Aquilonastra cepheus
Creators: name: Jangoux, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Asterinidae
Aquilonastra
Aquilonastra cepheus

description: cepheus Müller & Troschel, 1842, Asteriscus
(Fig. 8)
Asteriscus cepheus Müller & Troschel, 1842: 41.
Aquilonastra cepheus ‒ O’Loughlin & Rowe 2006: 270.
CURRENT STATUS. — Aquilonastra cepheus (Müller & Troschel, 1842).
TYPE MATERIAL. — Java • holotype; Batavia (Jakarta); Reynaud leg.; 1829; MNHN-IE-2014-98.
description: Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 274, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
Probing Beyond the Epoch of Hydrogen Reionization with 21 Centimeter Radiation
Creators: name: Ciardi, B.
name: Madau, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use numerical simulations of hydrogen reionization by stellar sources in the context of LCDM cosmogonies to investigate the 21 (1+z) cm radio signal expected from the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of reionization breakthrough at redshift z_ion. Two reionization scenarios are analyzed in details: an `early reionization' case with z_ion~13, consistent with the recent discovery by the WMAP satellite of a large optical depth to Thomson scattering, and a `late reionization' case with z_ion~8. It is a generic prediction of these models that the background of Lyalpha photons produced by the early generation of stars which ultimately ionize the universe will be sufficiently intense to make intergalactic neutral hydrogen visible against the cosmic microwave background during the `grey age', i.e. z_ion
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, ApJ in press, minor revisions
Power Spectrum Sensitivity and the Design of Epoch of Reionization Observatories
Creators: name: Morales, Miguel F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent theoretical developments for observing the Epoch of Reionization (EOR) have concentrated on the power spectrum signature of redshifted 21 cm emission. These studies have demonstrated the great potential of statistical EOR observations, however, the sensitivity calculations for proposed low frequency radio arrays have been highly approximate. The formalism developed for interferometric measurements of the cosmic microwave background can be extended to three dimensions to naturally incorporate the line-of-sight information inherent in the EOR signal. In this paper we demonstrate how to accurately calculate the EOR power spectrum sensitivity of an array, and develop scaling relationships which can be used to guide the design of EOR observatories. The implications for antenna distribution, antenna size, and correlator requirements on the EOR sensitivity are detailed.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ
Marketing of Maize and Cowpea amongst Smallholder Farmers in Mozambique: A Market Participation Approach
Creators: name: Chinenyenwa Familusi, Linda
name: Chinenyenwa Familusi, Linda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Double hurdle model
subject: Market participation
subject: Trend analysis

description: In Mozambique, agricultural production is dominated by smallholder farmers with cultivation on less than two hectare of land and the use of low inputs with production mostly targeted towards own house consumption with very little for agricultural marketing. This study aim to analyze the trends of market participation of maize and cowpea, examine the socioeconomic characteristics of maize and cowpea farmers affecting market participation and determine the effect of the factors influencing the household decision to participate in maize and cowpeas’ market. The t-test and chi-square test is used to examine the socioeconomic characteristics of households affecting market participation and the analysis of factors influencing household decisions to participate in the maize and cowpea markets is achieved using the Cragg’s Independent Double Hurdle Model which is estimated using probit model for the first stage (participation decision) and truncated normal for the second stage (quantity to sale decision). This study used 2002-2012 data from Trabalho de Inquérito Agrícola (TIA). The trend analysis result showed that maize market experienced a downward trend while cowpeas’ market experienced an upward trend. The results from the t-test and chi-square test on eachvariables showed that the two groups (participants and non-participants) differ from each other except for few variables – age of household head, household size and the use of manure. The results from the double hurdle model showed that market participation and the quantities sold in the market were positively related to the production quantity, household head being a male and the use of extension services. In addition, market participation and the quantities sold in the market decreased for households who had experienced crop lost. This study concluded that male headed households’ had greater opportunity in food-crop markets and that the role of extension services is vital to agricultural market participation and on the quantities sold in the market. Therefore, it was recommended that agricultural programs should focus on male headed households and that extension services coverage should be broaden within each region in the country.
Peculiar Paradise: A Practice Led Investigation into the Allure of Collecting Kitsch Objects
Creators: name: Cole, Tiffany
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: This practice-led research in painting explores, and aims to reconcile, my experience of the conflicting values associated with the role of kitsch in the pleasures and cultural values of Australian domestic life, with the cultural and aesthetic values of high art, where kitsch has traditionally been deemed as of low cultural status. I engage with painting as a medium that can encompass and portray experiences of paradox and multiple perspectives, to investigate, represent, and resolve this collision of worlds. I focus on my family's collection of kitsch ornamental objects as a particular example of this aspect of material culture, to explore more broadly the attraction these objects hold, and the personal and cultural significance of such collections. This research is contextualised by historical and contemporary perspectives on kitsch. I argue that the traditional critiques of kitsch of Clement Greenberg, Hermann Broch and Gillo Dorfles are limited in their scope and conflict with my own experience. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, I draw from recent sociology, cultural theory, psychology and philosophy to make a case for the aesthetic, psychological and sociological value of the objects in my family collections and identify their positive and redeeming qualities. Key positive re-evaluations of kitsch I draw on include writing by Sam Binkley and Celeste Olalquiaga. Recent cultural theory on collecting as a creative and critical process as promoted by Susan Stewart, Walter Benjamin, Jean Baudrillard and Annette Money also contribute significantly to my research. My affectionate perspective on kitsch is also contextualised and compared with contemporary art practices engaged with kitsch: including the work of Jeff Koons, Pip and Pop, Audrey Flack, Ricky Swallow and Lucy Culliton. My methodology involves investigating ways to re-present the objects, through combining traditional highly realistic oil painting methods drawn from the Northern European Baroque, with contemporary modes of three-dimensional display. I engage painting's potential to evoke the material, formal and perceptual properties of specific ornamental kitsch objects, to explore their appeal and generate a heightened sensory appreciation of their characteristic qualities. In exploring a range of ways of depicting and displaying these paintings as objects, I consider the theatricality of object display, ranging from the modestly domestic to the spectacular palatial interiors of Rococo Europe. My painting practice becomes a means of resolving this aesthetic conflict by engaging in aspects of collecting and curating, and the quality of attention I bring to the depiction of the objects I portray.
title:  JAVA Animated Software for Teaching the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm for Static Traffic Network Equilibrium
Creators: name: Li, Zhi
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The popular Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm for solving the network equilibrium problems plays an important role in transportation simulation. Not only has the basic Frank Wolfe algorithm been studied, but also other variations of the FW algorithm (such as Conjugate Frank Wolfe and Bi-Conjugate Frank Wolfe algorithms) have been extensively studied by the research communities.

In this work, the basic Frank Wolfe algorithm is re-visited for the purpose of developing a useful, user-friendly, and appealing Java computer animation for enhancing the teaching effectiveness of this fundamental transportation static network equilibrium algorithm. Since the shortest path (SP) algorithms (such as the well-known Label Correcting Algorithm and Dijkstra's algorithm) are basic building blocks within the FW algorithm, they are also discussed in this thesis. Different visualization techniques were attempted to display the results of the transportation assignment.

The software tool developed in this thesis will help both students and their instructors master this technical subject and provide a valuable tool for obtaining the solutions for homework assignments, class examinations, and self-assessment studies. Engineering educators who have adopted the flipped classroom instruction mode can also utilize the developed JAVA animation software for students to self-learn these algorithms in their own time, and use valuable class-meeting time for more challenging and practical problem discussions.
Pion and kaon physics with improved staggered quarks
Creators: name: MILC Collaboration
name: Aubin, C.
name: Bernard, C.
name: DeTar, C.
name: Gottlieb, Steven
name: Gregory, E. B.
name: Heller, Urs M.
name: Hetrick, J. E.
name: Osborn, J.
name: Sugar, R.
name: Toussaint, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute pseudoscalar meson masses and decay constants using staggered quarks on lattices with three flavors of sea quarks and lattice spacings $\approx 0.12$ fm and $\approx 0.09$ fm. We fit partially quenched results to ``staggered chiral perturbation theory'' formulae, thereby taking into account the effects of taste-symmetry violations. Chiral logarithms are observed. From the fits we calculate $f_π$ and $f_K$, extract Gasser-Leutwyler parameters of the chiral Lagrangian, and (modulo rather large perturbative errors) find the light and strange quark masses.
description: Lattice2003(spectrum); 3 pages, 1 eps figure
Ocypus (Pseudocypus) pammenes Published 2007, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Published, First
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Ocypus
Ocypus pammenes

description: Ocypus (Pseudocypus) pammenes sp. nov.
(Figs. 147–150)
 Type material. Holotype (male): CHINA: Sichuan: “CHINA: Sichuan 53 km NW Lixian 2750–3000 m VII.2001 leg. S. Murzin ” (MSC).
 Diagnosis. Ocypus pammenes shares all character states with O. elpenor and differs from it mainly by the differently shaped aedoeagus.
 Description. In all character states quite similar to O. elpenor and different only by the differently shaped aedoeagus and sternite 9 of male genital segment.
Male. Genital segment with sternite 9 of different shape, with apical margin only slightly emarginate (Fig. 147). Tergite 10 as in Fig. 148. Aedoeagus smaller, shaped as in Figs. 149, 150; median lobe slightly asymmetrical, apical portion narrowed into sharp apex; paramere markedly elongate, situated on median lobe asymmetrically, middle portion subparallelsided, apical portion with broadly rounded apex (Figs. 149, 150), distinctly not reaching apex of median lobe; sensory peg setae on underside of paramere arranged along apical margin of paramere and extended markedly posteriad along right lateral margin; apical setae situated as in Fig. 150.
Female. Unknown.
Length 16. 0 mm.
 Bionomics. Nothing is known about the collecting circumstances of the holotype.
 Geographical distribution. Ocypus pammenes is at present known only from the type locality in Sichuan.
 Recognition and comments. Ocypus pammenes may be positively distinguished from O. elpenor only by the differently shaped aedoeagus (Figs. 136, 153) and sternite 9 of the male genital segment (Figs. 134, 147).
 Ocypus pammenes apparently occurs at the type locality together with O. elpenor.
 Etymology. The specific epithet is the name of Pammenes, - is m, a Greek rhetorician, instructor of Brutus, in apposition.
description: Published as part of Published, First, 2007, Contributions to the knowledge of the " Staphylinus-complex " (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part XX. The genus Ocypus Leach, 1819, subgenus Pseudocypus Mulsant & Rey, 1876. Section 1, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 1421 on pages 37-38
An Early Warning Sign of Critical Transition in The Antarctic Ice Sheet -- A Data Driven Tool for Spatiotemporal Tipping Point
Creators: name: AlMomani, Abd AlRahman
name: Bollt, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Our recently developed tool, called Directed Affinity Segmentation was originally designed for data-driven discovery of coherent sets in fluidic systems. Here we interpret that it can also be used to indicate early warning signs of critical transitions in ice shelves as seen from remote sensing data. We apply a directed spectral clustering methodology, including an asymmetric affinity matrix and the associated directed graph Laplacian, to reprocess the ice velocity data and remote sensing satellite images of the Larsen C ice shelf. Our tool has enabled the simulated prediction of historical events from historical data, fault lines responsible for the critical transitions leading to the break up of the Larsen C ice shelf crack, which resulted in the A68 iceberg. Such benchmarking of methods using data from the past to forecast events that are now also in the past is sometimes called post-casting, analogous to forecasting into the future. Our method indicated the coming crisis months before the actual occurrence.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of An assessment of Ebola-related stigma and its association with informal healthcare utilisation among Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: James, Peter
name: Wardle, Jonathan
name: Steel, Amie
name: Adams, Jon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Ebola â€“ related stigma Questionnaire.
Consistent Group and Coset Reductions of the Bosonic String
Creators: name: Cvetic, M.
name: Gibbons, G. W.
name: Lu, H.
name: Pope, C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dimensional reductions of pure Einstein gravity on cosets other than tori are inconsistent. The inclusion of specific additional scalar and p-form matter can change the situation. For example, a D-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton system, with a specific dilaton coupling, is known to admit a consistent reduction on S^2= SU(2)/U(1), of a sort first envisaged by Pauli. We provide a new understanding, by showing how an S^3=SU(2) group-manifold reduction of (D+1)-dimensional Einstein gravity, of a type first indicated by DeWitt, can be broken into in two steps; a Kaluza-type reduction on U(1) followed by a Pauli-type coset reduction on S^2. More generally, we show that any D-dimensional theory that itself arises as a Kaluza U(1) reduction from (D+1) dimensions admits a consistent Pauli reduction on any coset of the form G/U(1). Extensions to the case G/H are given. Pauli coset reductions of the bosonic string on G= (G\times G)/G are believed to be consistent, and a consistency proof exists for S^3=SO(4)/SO(3). We examine these reductions, and arguments for consistency, in detail. The structures of the theories obtained instead by DeWitt-type group-manifold reductions of the bosonic string are also studied, allowing us to make contact with previous such work in which only singlet scalars are retained. Consistent truncations with two singlet scalars are possible. Intriguingly, despite the fact that these are not supersymmetric models, if the group manifold has dimension 3 or 25 they admit a superpotential formulation, and hence first-order equations yielding domain-wall solutions.
description: Latex, 5 figures, 45 pages, minor corrections
title: Ab initio surface thermodynamics in multi component environments
Creators: name: Bailey, CL
name: Wander, A
name: Mukhopadhyay, S
name: Searle, BG
name: Harrison, N M
Publisher: name: STFC
Year: 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Materials
Physics

description: The methodology for the calculation of the phase stability of different surfaces in contact with a multi component environment of gases is presented. The evaluation of the surface free energy of a system is discussed in detail including the use of thermodynamic data tables.
Aquilonastra chantalae O'Loughlin & Mackenzie, 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: O'Loughlin, Mark
name: Mackenzie, Melanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Asterinidae
Aquilonastra
Aquilonastra chantalae

description: Aquilonastra chantalae sp. nov.
Figures 1 & 2, table 1.
Material examined. Holotype (in alcohol). Indian Ocean, Scattered Is., Europa I., station 10 Bio 90, 22°20'35''S 40°22'55''E, under rock on reef flat, C. Conand, 10 Nov 2011, MNHN IE–2013–617 (in alcohol). Paratypes. Type locality and date, MNHN IE–2013–618 (11, in alcohol); NMV F189860 (8, in alcohol).
Description. Fissiparous Aquilonastra species; rays 5–7, predominantly 6, rarely 7, largest specimens with 5; up to R = 4 mm, r = 2 mm (preserved in alcohol); rays discrete, wide basally tapering to rounded end distally; more than one inconspicuous madreporite; some abactinal contiguous spinelets over papulae possibly act as pedicellariae, spinelets not differentiated as valves; abactinal gonopores. At R = 4 mm, plates with proximal notch or indentation for papula, rarely doubly notched; single large papula per papular space; single longitudinal series of single papulae along each side of rays; abactinal spinelets glassy, rugose, predominantly digitiform, spinous distally and laterally, up to rarely 10 per plate; marginal plates in regular series, subequal; superomarginal spinelets up to about 5 per plate; inferomarginal spinelets up to about 8 per plate. Spines per actinal plate: oral 4–5, suboral 1, furrow 3 (4 rare), subambulacral 1 (2 rare), actinal inter-radial 1 (2 rare); inter-radial spines predominantly subsacciform, spinous distally.
Colour (live). Variably mottled, predominantly with green, never with red, madreporites orange (photo from C. Conand).
Distribution. Indian Ocean, Mozambique Channel, Scattered Is., Europa I., 0– 1 m.
Etymology. Named chantalae for Dr Chantal Conand, Professor Emeritus, University of La Réunion, in appreciation of Chantal’s considerable contribution to echinoderm research and provision of specimens for this study.
Remarks. The similar small fissiparous asterinid species Aquilonastra conandae O’Loughlin & Rowe, 2006 from the Mascarene Islands is distinguishing amongst western Indo-Pacific fissiparous species of Aquilonastra O’Loughlin, 2004 in O’Loughlin & Rowe 2006. Twenty nine paratypes (NMV F107412) in Museum Victoria were compared and contrasted directly with specimens of Aquilonastra chantalae sp. nov. Diagnostic characters that distinguish Aquilonastra chantalae sp. nov. from Aquilonastra conandae O’Loughlin & Rowe, 2006 are listed in the table.
description: Published as part of O'Loughlin, Mark & Mackenzie, Melanie, 2013, Asterinid seastars from the Mozambique Channel (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Asterinidae), pp. 176-180 in Zootaxa 3613 (2) on page 177, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/220440
Additional file 1 of Validation of the French version of the Vulnerable Elders Survey-13 (VES-13)
Creators: name: Belmin, Joël
name: Lyamna Khellaf
name: Pariel, Sylvie
name: Jarzebowski, Witold
name: Valembois, Lucie
name: Zeisel, John
name: Lafuente-Lafuente, Carmelo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Echelle de Vulnérabilité des Ainés-13.
Effective interactions, Fermi-Bose duality, and ground states of ultracold atomic vapors in tight de Broglie waveguides
Creators: name: Girardeau, M. D.
name: Nguyen, Hieu
name: Olshanii, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Derivation of effective zero-range one-dimensional (1D) interactions between atoms in tight waveguides is reviewed, as is the Fermi-Bose mapping method for determination of exact and strongly-correlated states of ultracold bosonic and fermionic atomic vapors in such waveguides, including spin degrees of freedom. Odd-wave 1D interactions derived from 3D p-wave scattering are included as well as the usual even-wave interactions derived from 3D s-wave scattering, with emphasis on the role of 3D Feshbach resonances for selectively enhancing s-wave or p-wave interactions. A duality between 1D fermions and bosons with zero-range interactions suggested by Cheon and Shigehara is shown to hold for the effective 1D dynamics of a spinor Fermi gas with both even and odd-wave interactions and that of a spinor Bose gas with even and odd-wave interactions, with even(odd)-wave Bose coupling constants inversely related to odd(even)-wave Fermi coupling constants. Some recent applications of Fermi-Bose mapping to determination of many-body ground states of Bose gases and of both magnetically trapped, spin-aligned and optically trapped, spin-free Fermi gases are described, and a new generalized Fermi-Bose mapping is used to determine the phase diagram of ground-state total spin of the spinor Fermi gas as a function of the even and odd-wave coupling constants.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Optics Communications for special issue "Degenerate Quantum Gases"
Aquilonastra chantalae O'Loughlin & Mackenzie 2013
Creators: name: Jangoux, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Asterinidae
Aquilonastra
Aquilonastra chantalae

description: chantalae O’Loughlin & Mackenzie, 2006, Aquilonastra
Aquilonastra chantalae O’Louglin & Mackenzie, 2013: 177, figs 1, 2.
CURRENT STATUS. — Aquilonastra chantalae O’Louglin & Mackenzie, 2013.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Mozambique Channel • holotype; Europa Island; Chantal Conand leg.; MNHN-IE-2013-617 • 11 paratypes; same as holotype; MNHN-IE-2013-618.
description: Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 275, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
Additional file 1 of Model of goal directed behavior for limiting Latino preschoolersâ€™ television viewing: validity and reliability
Creators: name: Ogren, Marissa
name: Baranowski, Tom
name: Lowry, Sarah
name: Mendoza, Jason
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Model of Goal Directed Behavior questionnaire.