cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering
Creators: name: Hoda, Rashina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Grounded Theory (GT), a sociological research method designed to study social phenomena, is increasingly being used to investigate the human and social aspects of software engineering (SE). However, being written by and for sociologists, GT is often challenging for a majority of SE researchers to understand and apply. Additionally, SE researchers attempting ad hoc adaptations of traditional GT guidelines for modern socio-technical (ST) contexts often struggle in the absence of clear and relevant guidelines to do so, resulting in poor quality studies. To overcome these research community challenges and leverage modern research opportunities, this paper presents Socio-Technical Grounded Theory (STGT) designed to ease application and achieve quality outcomes. It defines what exactly is meant by an ST research context and presents the STGT guidelines that expand GT's philosophical foundations, provide increased clarity and flexibility in its methodological steps and procedures, define possible scope and contexts of application, encourage frequent reporting of a variety of interim, preliminary, and mature outcomes, and introduce nuanced evaluation guidelines for different outcomes. It is hoped that the SE research community and related ST disciplines such as computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information systems, human computer/robot/AI interaction, human-centered emerging technologies (and increasingly other disciplines being transformed by rapid digitalisation and AI-based augmentation), will benefit from applying STGT to conduct quality research studies and systematically produce rich findings and mature theories with confidence.
description: Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (Aug 2021); This author preprint is 26 pages, the final IEEE version is 25 pages due to reformatting, content is same. More details: https://rashina.com/
Religious Verse in Leningrad Samizdat: Origins and Confluences
Creators: name: Von Zitzewitz, Josephine
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015
Subjects: Leningrad; poetry; samizdat; religion; 1970s

description: Religious, in particularly Christian imagery, was ubiquitous in Leningrad samizdat poetry of the 1970s. This essay addresses two main questions that are closely related: is the term «religious verse» appropriate for this kind of poetry; how are we to define «religious» in this case? Secondly, what were the common denominators of religious verse in 1970s Leningrad.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 12 (2015)
Homological mirror symmetry for toric orbifolds of toric del Pezzo surfaces
Creators: name: Ueda, Kazushi
name: Yamazaki, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53D37, 16G20

description: We formulate a conjecture which describes the Fukaya category of an exact Lefschetz fibration defined by a Laurent polynomial in two variables in terms of a pair consisting of a consistent dimer model and a perfect matching on it. We prove this conjecture in some cases, and obtain homological mirror symmetry for quotient stacks of toric del Pezzo surfaces by finite subgroups of the torus as a corollary.
description: 23 pages, 40 figures; v2:completely rewritten; v3:Incorporated suggestions by the referee
SwedeAmp—the Swedish Amputation and Prosthetics Registry: 8-year data on 5762 patients with lower limb amputation show sex differences in amputation level and in patient-reported outcome
Creators: name: Kamrad, Ilka
name: Söderberg, Bengt
name: Örneholm, Hedvig
name: Hagberg, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background and purpose — For want of national guidelines for lower limb amputation (LLA) the quality registry SwedeAmp was started in 2011 to increase knowledge around LLA and prosthetic rehabilitation. We now present data from the first 8 years of registration. Patients and methods — We present descriptive data from the first 8 years (2011–2018) of registration. Patient-reported outcome was collected at baseline and at follow-up 12 and 24 months after surgery for patients with prosthetic supply and included generic (EQ-5D-5L) and amputee-specific (e.g., LCI-5L and Prosthetic Use Score) measures. Sex differences were investigated. Results — As at December 31, 2018, 5,762 patients, 7,776 amputations, 2,658 prosthetic supplies, 1,848 baselines, and 2,006 follow-ups were registered. 61% of the patients were male, and mean age by the time of the first registered amputation was 74 years (SD 14). Women were older, more frequently had vascular disease without diabetes and more often underwent amputation at a higher level compared with men (p < 0.001). Time from amputation to fitting of first individual prosthesis was median 69 days (6–500) after transtibial amputation (TTA) and 97 days (19–484) after transfemoral amputation (TFA). The outcomes were lower after TFA than after TTA. Interpretation — SwedeAmp shows sex differences concerning amputation level, diagnosis, and age, leading to the conclusion that women have worse preconditions for successful prosthetic mobility after LLA. With increasing coverage, SwedeAmp can provide deeper knowledge with regard to patients undergoing LLA in Sweden.
Additional file 1 of CT-based radiomics features in the prediction of thyroid cartilage invasion from laryngeal and hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Guo, Ran
name: Guo, Jian
name: Zhang, Lichen
name: Qu, Xiaoxia
name: Dai, Shuangfeng
name: Peng, Ruchen
name: Chong, Vincent F. H.
name: Xian, Junfang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Details of the radiomics features are shown in Supplementary S1.
Il laboratorio infinito di Vladmir Gubin
Creators: name: Caramitti, Mario
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015
Subjects: Samizdat; avanguardia; metrizzazione; autodenigrazione; Leningrado

description: Vladimir Gubin partecipa attivamente negli anni Sessanta alla vita letteraria della Leningrado del disgelo ma, all'avvento della stagnazione brežneviana, solo limitatamente e temporanenamente si inserisce nei circoli del Samizdat, scegliendo alla fine un completo isolamento. E per più di venti anni (1976-1997) elabora, rivede, riformula, affina e cesella un unico testo in prosa completa- mente metrizzata, Illarion e il Nano, che somma il lascito di tutte le stagioni delle avanguardie e raggiunge un livello di densità della parola poetica con pochissimi eguali nel secondo Novecento russo.All'interno di un libro ancora del tutto inesplorato a livello critico, ci si sofferma in parti- colare sul fittissimo tessuto di riferimenti metaletterari, che tracciano un articolato affresco del mondo della creazione clandestina.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 12 (2015)
title: Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
Creators: name: Shedden, Rikardo
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology Moral and ethical aspects
subject: Kalinga (Philippine people) Religion
subject: Kalinga (Philippine people) Social life and customs
subject: Kalinga (Philippines) Civilization

description: This thesis examines a rural Kalinga, northern Luzon, people's contemporary religious assertions and practices. In particular it explores the cosmological principles that shape much of Kalinga quotidian domestic activity. Kalinga society is configured relative to an ethicized cosmology in which persistent sickness and serious injury are commonly taken as retribution from a transcendent Other (either indigenous spirits or God) for an individual's moral transgressions. The understanding that immorality is linked to misfortune is so tightly woven into the fabric of social life that people define this axiom as a 'commandment', linking it to biblical scripture, as well as to their own identity as Christians (Catholics and Anglicans). The plurality of religious activity at the village level encompasses trans-local Christianity, a vernacularization of Christianity in the form of an indigenous Sunday mass, and manifold local traditions including domestic animal sacrifice as reparation for moral trespass, and the expiation and propitiation of malevolent spirits. The analysis focuses on the social, moral and cosmological incongruities, tensions and gaps that can arise when people construe particular events and circumstances in their lives according to distinct and sometimes contradictory elements of an otherwise encompassing religious framework - itself informed by both long-established Kalinga as well as more recently introduced (1930s) Christian cosmology and doctrine. I ask how these historically, doctrinally and cosmologically distinct liturgical orders, Kalinga and Christian, cohere to the extent that locals participate in them more or less equally. Pursuing this question I draw on Rappaport's (1999) model of contingent sanctification, and of the interrelatedness among assertions concerning an apical divinity, cosmological axioms, and the ritual activity that affirms all of these. I build on Rappaport's work by bringing this model to bear on not just a single-religious context but the multi-religious environment of highland Kalinga. In doing so I argue that such distinct and co-occurring religious traditions are locally made to cohere, not by people's claims that the same God is their ultimate referent, but by being mutually framed by the Kalinga axiom that links morality to misfortune to other-worldly retribution. I further argue that the advantage of an approach which focuses on such axiomatic principles, separate from an analysis of ritual enactments and the apical divinities these affirm, is that it allows for a more in-depth account of the articulation between disparate forms of religious activity, local and trans-local.
Giving Voice to Our Ancestors
Creators: name: Kirkness, Verna J.
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: Verna ]. Kirkness, Director of the First Nations House of Learning, agreed to he a keynote speaker for the Mokakit Education Research Conference, "Giving Voice to Our Ancestors," held at the University of British Columbia, September 29 to October 2,1992. Her talk was taped, transcribed, then edited. The text presented here reflects timeless teachings of the Ancestors honored in various ways by people today. Verna poignantly reminds us of these important teachings and chal­ lenges us to transform these into our educational thinking and practice. ...
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 19 No. 2 (1992)
Differential distributions for Single Top Quark Production at the LHeC
Creators: name: Gao, Meisen
name: Gao, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a phenomenological study of the single top (anti-)quark production with leptonic decays at the Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) at the next-to-leading-order (NLO) in QCD. We focus on various differential distributions in a fiducial region. The NLO corrections can reduce the fiducial cross section by 14%. We find the NLO predictions exhibit strong stability under scale variations for most observables considered while the scale variations at the leading-order (LO) dominated in the theoretical uncertainties. We propose a method of determining the top-quark mass using the measurement of the average transverse momentum of the charged lepton. The scale variations at the NLO induce a theoretical uncertainty of about 1.3 GeV of the extracted top-quark mass. The statistical error of the extracted top-quark mass amounts to 1.1 GeV. We also investigate the impact of the QCD corrections and the scale variations in searches of the anomalous Wtb couplings.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables; Published version
title: Shifting Nikkeijin identities and citizenships : life histories of invisible people of Japanese descent in the Philippines
Creators: name: Ohno, Shun
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: DS666.J3O37 2005
subject: Japanese History 20th centuryPhilippines
subject: Japanese Ethnic identityPhilippines
subject: Immigrants Government policy History 20th centuryPhilippines

description: This thesis documents the 100-year life histories of pre-war Japanese migrants and their descendants in the Philippines, who are called 'Philippine Nikkeijin', across three generations, namely Issei (the first generation), Nisei (the second generation) and Sansei (the third generation), focusing on the transition of their consciousness and national/ ethnic identities. It examines the historical background of the formation of the biggest Japanese community in pre-war Southeast Asia and thousands of births of intermarried Issei's children, and reflects on the origin of their problems, which include the post-war long separation of intermarried families and ambiguous nationality/citizenship. This study also aims to clarify the causes and process of redress movements by the Philippine Nikkeijin who were stigmatized as 'collaborators' or 'children of the enemy' in post-war Philippine society, and of their collective actions to regain their once-surrendered Japanese ethnicity and even Japanese nationality. It analyzes the mechanism of these 'identity politics' that have been strengthened particularly after Japan's immigration law was revised to favor 'returned' alien Nikkei workers in 1990. In exploring Nikkeijin's life histories by ranging extensively through the literatures relevant to their lives and a substantial number of in-depth interviews with Issei, Nisei and Sansei, this study clarifies determinants such as educational background and socioeconomic status in diversifying and shifting their identities and citizenships/nationalities within a life span and across generations. It also analyses the causes and factors behind the association and dissociation between national identity and citizenship/nationality in the Philippine Nikkeijin community, both relationships that have been a crucial theme in the social sciences. Lastly, it focuses on the peculiarities of Philippine Nikkeijin's life histories, identities and citizenships in the global Nikkei context, and discusses them in connection with Philippine and Japanese ·government policies, which are found to have had a significant influence upon Philippine Nikkeijin's shifts on identity and citizenship.
Onset of glacier tables
Creators: name: Hénot, Marceau
name: Plihon, Nicolas
name: Taberlet, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A glacier table consists of a rock supported by a slender column of ice and form naturally on glaciers. We investigate the onset of their formation at a smaller scale in a controlled environment. Depending on the size and thermal conductivity of a cap, it can either form of a table standing on an ice foot, or sink into the ice block. A one-dimension conduction model shows that the differential ice melting is controlled by a competition between two effects: a geometrical amplification, and a heat flux reduction due to the higher temperature of the cap as compared to the ice. Our model captures the transition between the two regimes and identifies a dimensionless number which controls the onset of glacier tables formation.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures; final version, title corrected
Variational Integrators for Maxwell's Equations with Sources
Creators: name: Stern, Ari
name: Tong, Yiying
name: Desbrun, Mathieu
name: Marsden, Jerrold E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 78M30 (Primary); 65P10, 37K05 (Secondary)

description: In recent years, two important techniques for geometric numerical discretization have been developed. In computational electromagnetics, spatial discretization has been improved by the use of mixed finite elements and discrete differential forms. Simultaneously, the dynamical systems and mechanics communities have developed structure-preserving time integrators, notably variational integrators that are constructed from a Lagrangian action principle. Here, we discuss how to combine these two frameworks to develop variational spacetime integrators for Maxwell's equations. Extending our previous work, which first introduced this variational perspective for Maxwell's equations without sources, we also show here how to incorporate free sources of charge and current.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 2008 proceedings
title: An agroecological analysis of the adaptations of resource poor rice farmers from a Philippine barangay
Creators: name: Carpenter, David. B.
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: S471.P62C33 2005
subject: Rice farmers Philippines Campagao
subject: Sustainable agriculture Philippines Campagao
subject: Agriculture Environmental aspects Philippines Campagao

description: The search for more sustainable modes of agricultural production is one of the greatest challenges facing the modem world. Agroecologists suggest that sustainable modes of production must adopt ecological principles and restore and reinvigorate agricultural communities. Using an agroecological framework, this thesis explores the possibilities for sustainable adaptations amongst resource poor rice farmers from the Philippine barangay (village) of Campagao. The thesis explores the adaptations of Campagao's rice farmers over the last thirty years, a period which saw substantial changes in agricultural practice within the barangay. Using a reinvented agroecological approach that emphasises the importance of linking ecological and social systems, and dealing directly with the political, social and epistemological barriers to sustainable agricultural production, this thesis reviews the possibilities open to resource poor rice farmers in the Philippines. The thesis suggests that the agroecological approach needs to focus more on the development of persistent, enabling social mechanisms that support ecologically-informed practices, and that encourage new, locally renewable practices. The thesis suggests how this may occur within the context of the Philippines.
title: Designing parties out of parliaments : non-partisan chambers in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand
Creators: name: Rich, Roland
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: JQ770.R53 2010
subject: Indonesia Politics and government
subject: Philippines Politics and government
subject: Thailand Politics and government

description: Within the space of a few years, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines implemented a design for parliamentary representation that proscribed the established political parties from a parliamentary chamber or part thereof. The need to design non-partisan parts of parliament to undertake representation and deliberation responsibilities is an indirect but serious criticism of political parties. The thesis tracks the intentions behind the non-partisan designs and plots the outcomes of the designs. It also investigates the conceptual architecture underpinning the non-partisan designs identifying corporatism as one (discredited) alternative and "championship" (drawing from the Confucian concept of junzi or exemplary persons) as another. While there is a yearning for exemplary people as representatives, the designers have struggled to find a successful means of having these champions elected to office. The thesis concludes that non-partisan chambers are not viable because political parties will either infiltrate or isolate them. The three case studies demonstrate the limits of what can be achieved by institutional design. Heroic designs responding to problems also of heroic dimensions need to be tackled through an array of devices including civic education and economic reform to complement the design of governance structures. In relation to design issues, the lessons learned are the need to entrust the institutional design negotiation process to an independent body that includes representatives of affected interests to allow them to buy into the resulting compromises; the need to focus on significant and salient features that are capable of being successfully shaped by the structures under design; and the need to ratify the process by a form of public acclamation.
Additional file 1 of Australian guideline on management of diabetes-related foot infection: part of the 2021 Australian evidence-based guidelines for diabetes-related foot disease
Creators: name: Commons, Robert J.
name: Charles, James
name: Cheney, Jane
name: Lynar, Sarah A.
name: Malone, Matthew
name: Raby, Edward
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Can MRI differentiate between atypical cartilaginous tumors and high-grade chondrosarcoma? A systematic review
Creators: name: Deckers, Claudia
name: Steyvers, Maarten J
name: Hannink, Gerjon
name: Schreuder, H W Bart
name: de Rooy, Jacky W J
name: Van Der Geest, Ingrid C M
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Background and purpose — Adequate staging of chondroid tumors at diagnosis is important as it determines both treatment and outcome. This systematic review provides an overview of MRI criteria used to differentiate between atypical cartilaginous tumors (ACT) and high-grade chondrosarcoma (HGCS). Patients and methods — For this systematic review PubMed and Embase were searched, from inception of the databases to July 12, 2018. All original articles describing MRI characteristics of pathologically proven primary central chondrosarcoma and ACT were included. A quality appraisal of the included papers was performed. Data on MRI characteristics and histological grade were extracted by 2 reviewers. Meta-analysis was performed if possible. The study is registered with PROSPERO, CRD42018067959. Results — Our search identified 2,132 unique records, of which 14 studies were included. 239 ACT and 140 HGCS were identified. The quality assessment showed great variability in consensus criteria used for both pathologic and radiologic diagnosis. Due to substantial heterogeneity we refrained from pooling the results in a meta-analysis and reported non-statistical syntheses. Loss of entrapped fatty marrow, cortical breakthrough, and extraosseous soft tissue expansion appeared to be present more often in HGCS compared with ACT. Interpretation — This systematic review provides an overview of MRI characteristics used to differentiate between ACT and HGCS. Future studies are needed to develop and assess more reliable imaging methods and/or features to differentiate ACT from HGCS.
Half century of black-hole theory: from physicists' purgatory to mathematicians' paradise
Creators: name: Carter, Brandon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although implicit in the discovery of the Schwarzschild solution 40 years earlier, the issues raised by the theory of what are now known as black holes were so unsettling to physicists of Einstein's generation that the subject remained in a state of semiclandestine gestation until his demise. That turning point -- just half a century after Einstein's original foundation of relativity theory, and just half a century ago today -- can be considered to mark the birth of black hole theory as a subject of systematic development by physicists of a new and less inhibited generation, whose enthusastic investigations have revealed structures of unforeseen mathematical beauty, even though questions about the physical significance of the concomitant singularities remain controversial.
description: 30 pages latex. Contrib. to Encuentros Relativistas Espanoles: A Century of Relativity Theory, Oviedo, 2005 (ed. L. Mornas)
Thermal conductivity of CaF$_{2}$ at high pressure
Creators: name: Faraji, Somayeh
name: Allaei, S. Mehdi Vaez
name: Amsler, Maximilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the thermal transport properties of three CaF$_{2}$ polymorphs up to a pressure of 30 GPa using first-principle calculations and an interatomic potential based on machine learning. The lattice thermal conductivity $κ$ is computed by iteratively solving the linearized Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and by taking into account three-phonon scattering. Overall, $κ$ increases nearly linearly with pressure, and we show that the recently discovered $δ$-phase with $P\bar{6}2m$ symmetry and the previously known $γ$-CaF$_{2}$ high-pressure phase have significantly lower lattice thermal conductivities than the ambient-thermodynamic cubic fluorite ($Fm\bar{3}m$) structure. We argue that the lower $κ$ of these two high-pressure phases stems mainly due to a lower contribution of acoustic modes to $κ$ as a result of their small group velocities. We further show that the phonon mean free paths are very short for the $P\bar{6}2m$ and $Pnma$ structures at high temperatures, and resort to the Cahill-Pohl model to assess the lower limit of thermal conductivity in these domains.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
title: Migration and cultural interaction in Southern Coastal China, Taiwan and the Northern Philippines, 3000 BC TO AD 100 : the early history of the Austronesian-speaking populations
Creators: name: Hung, Hsiao-Chun
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: GN855.T28 H86 2008
subject: Prehistoric peoples Taiwan
subject: Prehistoric peoples Southeast Asia
subject: Prehistoric peoples Oceania
subject: Culture diffusion

description: In accordance with linguistic evidence, a current most favoured model locates a ProtoAustronesian speaking population in Taiwan, and suggests that descendants of this population dispersed fairly rapidly with languages, genes and material culture through Taiwan, into the Philippines and Indonesia, and eventually into Oceania. My research interest is focused on the origins and expansion history of these Neolithic populations into and out of Taiwan. I focus specifically on the interaction between Taiwan and the Philippines between ca. 4000 and 1500 BP, and this has led me to undertake research in an extensive region surrounding Taiwan, including coastal Southern China and surrounding islands such as Penghu, Ludao, Lanyu, Batanes, Luzon, and the Marianas. In this thesis, 304 radiocarbon dates are listed and reviewed from the overall study area between coastal southern China and the Marianas. According to the pottery assemblages, it is evident that the earliest Neolithic cultures of each region can be traced back to homelands located in northerly or westerly directions. This is confirmed by the fall off in radiocarbon dates moving out of coastal Southem China and Taiwan. This thesis also discusses the distribution of Fengtian (Taiwan) nephrite artifacts in Taiwan and beyond Taiwan, dated from 3000 BC through the first millennium AD. After Neolithic migrants settled Luzon from Taiwan approximately 4000 years ago, the export of Fengtian nephrite from Taiwan into the Philippines continued for more than 2000 years, eventually reaching Borneo, southern Vietnam and Peninsular Thailand. This trade network is not only as one of the most extensive sea-based trade networks in the prehistoric world, but also, more importantly, shows us the very complicated cultural process of human migrations and material exchanges. However, this study also observes that the commencement of the Neolithic in each region is reflected in the occurrence of a cultural complex of new traits, including advanced technology in pottery decoration, j a d e styles, burial practices, marine-oriented subsistence strategies, and other aspects of non-ceramic material culture. Several issues regarding population movements in this region, such as population intrusion, cultural continuity, cultural transitions, rates of expansion, and motives of migration are discussed here as well. Therefore, this thesis evaluates the proposed scenario of migration and human interaction beyond Taiwan, especially via issues of material culture.
Assessing variability and uncertainty in orthopedic randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Raittio, Lauri
name: Reito, Aleksi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy

description: Background and purpose — Low statistical power remains endemic in clinical medicine including orthopedics and manifests as high uncertainty and wide confidence intervals (CI). We evaluated the reporting and correspondence between power calculation and observed data on key parameters of variability and uncertainty in orthopedic randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Material and methods — RCTs with 1:1 allocation published in 8 major orthopedic journals between 2016 and 2017 with one continuous primary outcome were included in the review. The components of power calculation and observed standard deviation (SD), mean difference (MD), and confidence interval (CI) of MD between groups were assessed for primary outcome. Results — 160 RCTs were included, of which 93 (58%) and 138 (86%) studies reported the estimated SD and MD in the power calculation, respectively. The median ratio of the estimated SD and SDs observed in the data was 1.0 (IQR –0.76 to 1.32) for 69 (43%) studies. Only 31 of 138 studies reported the CI of MD in primary outcome. In 42% of the negative studies, the estimated MD was included in the CI of the observed MD. Interpretation — The key parameters of data variability, both in power analyses and in final study results, were poorly reported. Low power in orthopedics may result from too high an estimated effect size due to an overoptimistic estimate of MD between study groups. In almost half of the studies, overlap of the CI of the observed MD and estimated MD suggested that the reported results of these studies were inconclusive.
D-branes and Orbit Average
Creators: name: Yang, Peihe
name: Jiang, Yunfeng
name: Komatsu, Shota
name: Wu, Jun-Bao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study correlation functions of D-branes and a supergravity mode in AdS, which are dual to structure constants of two sub-determinant operators with large charge and a BPS single-trace operator. Our approach is inspired by the large charge expansion of CFT and resolves puzzles and confusions in the literature on the holographic computation of correlation functions of heavy operators. In particular, we point out two important effects which are often missed in the literature; the first one is an average over classical configurations of the heavy state, which physically amounts to projecting the state to an eigenstate of quantum numbers. The second one is the contribution from wave functions of the heavy state. To demonstrate the power of the method, we first analyze the three-point functions in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills and reproduce the results in field theory from holography, including the cases for which the previous holographic computation gives incorrect answers. We then apply it to ABJM theory and make solid predictions at strong coupling. Finally we comment on possible applications to states dual to black holes and fuzzballs.
description: References added, typos corrected
title: Gifaumon, Potiron :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Group identity.
New Varieties of Plants
Ifafa Lily

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
No association between waiting time to surgery and mortality for healthier patients with hip fracture: a nationwide Swedish cohort of 59,675 patients
Creators: name: Greve, Katarina
name: Modig, Karin
name: Talbäck, Mats
name: Bartha, Erzsébet
name: Hedström, Margareta
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Background and purpose — Waiting time to surgery for patients with hip fractures and its potential association with mortality has been frequently studied with the hypothesis that longer waiting time is associated with adverse outcomes. However, despite numerous studies, there is no consensus regarding which time frames are appropriate, and whether some patients are more vulnerable to waiting than others. We explored the association between waiting time to surgery and short-term mortality and whether sex, age, surgical method, and comorbidity (ASA) modified this association. Patients and methods — This is a nationwide cohort study of 59,675 patients undergoing hip fracture surgery between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2017 with a 4-month follow-up of mortality. Data were extracted from the Swedish Registry for Hip Fracture Patients and Treatment (RIKSHÖFT) and mortality was obtained from Statistics Sweden. Results — Unadjusted analyses revealed an association between waiting more than 24 hours for surgery and increased mortality, primarily for women. However, when stratifying for ASA grade, an association persisted only among patients with ASA 3 and 4. Furthermore, the absolute differences in mortality risk between those waiting less or longer than 24 hours were small. Age, fracture type, and surgical method did not modify the association between waiting time and mortality. Interpretation — This study suggests that there may be a need for new guidelines, which take into account the heterogeneity of the patient population.
Ab-initio calculations of the optical properties of the Si(113)3x2ADI surface
Creators: name: Gaal-Nagy, Katalin
name: Onida, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the stable silicon (113) surface with a 3x2ADI reconstruction by ab-initio methods. The ground state properties have been obtained using the density-functional theory. We present the dispersion of the electronic band structure, where the surface bands have been distinguished from the projected bulk bands by calculating their localization in the slab. The optical spectra, here the reflectance anisotropy (RAS), have been obtained within the independent particle random phase approximation. We identified surface features in the spectra tracing them back to the responsible electronic states and, studied their localization in the slab. A comparison with available experimental data for the band structure and the RAS shows a good agreement.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
On the law of increase of entropy for nonequililbrium systems
Creators: name: Perez-Madrid, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under the assumption of a smooth full phase-space distribution function we prove that the nonequilibrium entropy S which is considered as a functional of the distribution vector for an N-body system possesses a lower bound and therefore can not decrease. We also compute the rate of change of S, dS/dt, showing that this is non-negative and having a global minimum at equilibrium. As an aplication we obtain a generalization of the (Bhatnager-Gross-Krook) BGK relaxation model.
Tidal excitation as mixing in thermal CFT
Creators: name: Engelsöy, Julius
name: Sundborg, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use mixed correlators in thermal CFT as clean probes of the strong gravity effects in their holographic duals. The dual interpretation of mixing is an inelastic conversion of one field to another field, induced by gravity: tidal excitation. We find an enhanced mixing at high temperatures, corresponding to large AdS black holes, concentrated to small boundary momenta, dual to the deep bulk, where strong gravitational fields are expected. We also find large $\mathcal{O}(1/G_{N})$ tidal conversion in the low temperature phase of the $U(N)$ vector model, strengthening suspicions that the bulk dual of this phase also houses extremely compact objects.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure. v2: references added
Additional file 5 of A 20-year bibliometric analysis of Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy: from 2001 to 2020
Creators: name: Lin, Feng
name: Zhang, Luoli
name: Wang, Yimin
name: Fu, Dan
name: Wang, Yuliang
name: Zhou, Xingtao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Figure 4. Top 20 institutions with the highest number of publications in the field of FECD research. The x-axis represents the institution’s proportion of the total 1041 publications.
Μία Συγκριτική Μελέτη των Θεωρητικών Κατανομών Ακραίων Τιμών της Θερμοκρασίας του Αέρα στη Βόρεια και Κεντρική Ελλάδα
Creators: name: Τοπούζη, Μαντιάνα Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2020
Subjects: Δίκτυο
Ακραίες τιμές θερμοκρασίας
Θεωρητικές κατανομές
Network
Extreme values
Theoretical distributions

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματοποιήθηκε μία μελέτη των ακραίων τιμών της θερμοκρασίας του αέρα στη Βόρεια και Κεντρική Ελλάδα. Χρησιμοποιήθηκαν οι ημερήσιες τιμές της μέσης, μέγιστης και ελάχιστης θερμοκρασίας αντίστοιχα επτά σταθμών- κόμβων για τη χρονική περίοδο 1955-2003. Στο πρώτο μέρος της εργασίας προσδιορίστηκαν οι ακραίες τιμές των χρονοσειρών και επιλέχθηκαν οι βέλτιστες θεωρητικές κατανομές των ακραίων τιμών των θερμοκρασιών με τη βοήθεια των ελέγχων καλής προσαρμογής Kolmogorov- Smirnov test, Anderson-Darling test και Chi-Squared test. Στη συνέχεια δημιουργήθηκαν οι θεωρητικές κατανομές των ακραίων τιμών οι οποίες προσεγγίζουν στο βέλτιστο βαθμό τις ετήσιες και εποχιακές κατανομές των ακραίων τιμών της θερμοκρασίας του αέρα στο δίκτυο των μετεωρολογικών σταθμών των επτά πόλεων.Τέλος, οι θεωρητικές κατανομές που προέκυψαν συγκρίνονται μεταξύ τους και πραγματοποιείται μία εκτίμηση των πολύ ακραίων τιμών των θερμοκρασιών για διάφορες περιόδους επανάληψης, καθώς επίσης και εκτίμηση των περιόδων επανάληψης των εντονότερων ακραίων ημερήσιων τιμών της θερμοκρασίας της μελετώμενης περιόδου.
description: In the present thesis a study was carried out of the extreme values of air temperature in the North and Central Greece. Average, maximum and minimum daily values were used temperature corresponding to seven cities for the period 1955-2003. In the first part of the work the extreme values of time series were determined and the optimal theoretical distributions of temperature extremes were selected with the help of Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Anderson-Darling adaptation checks and Chi-Squared. Then the theoretical distributions of the extremes were created values that best approximate the annual and seasonal distributions of air temperature extremes in the meteorological station network of the seven cities.Finally, the resulting theoretical distributions are intertwined and are realized an estimate of the extreme temperature values for various recurrence periods, as well as estimation of the repetition periods of the most extreme extremes daily values of the temperature of the period considered.
Aleksandr Kondratov e le sue ipostasi: un «avanguardista accademico» nella Leningrado underground
Creators: name: Iocca, Federico
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015
Subjects: Kondratov; Filologičeskaja škola; Samizdat; grafomania

description: L’articolo porta alla luce alcuni aspetti della vita e dell’opera di Aleksandr Kondratov (1937-1993), singolare protagonista del Samizdat sovietico. Tra gli scrittori più letti in patria durante la seconda metà del secolo scorso grazie alla pubblicazione di dozzine di libri di carattere scientifico- divulgativo, Kondratov fu al contempo autore di un’enorme quantità di testi letterari, che (firmati con lo pseudonimo Sandy Conrad) circolavano negli ambienti underground dell’epoca. Tali testi, in cui lo scrittore anticipa idee e procedimenti di correnti letterarie comparse solo in anni e decenni successivi, contribuirono a creare un mito che può risultare per molti aspetti emblematico del fenomeno Samizdat.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 12 (2015)
Long-term outcomes of the hip shelf arthroplasty in adolescents and adults with residual hip dysplasia: a systematic review
Creators: name: Willemsen, Koen
name: Doelman, Christiaan J
name: Sam, Ali S Y
name: Seevinck, Peter R
name: Sakkers, Ralph J B
name: Weinans, Harrie
name: van Der Wal, Bart C H
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Background and purpose — The shelf arthroplasty was the regular treatment for residual hip dysplasia before it was substituted by the peri-acetabular osteotomy. Yet, evidence regarding the survival of shelf arthroplasty surgery has never been systematically documented. Hence, we investigated the survival time of the shelf procedure until revision to THA in patients with primary hip dysplasia. Factors that influenced survival and complications were also examined, along with the accuracy of correcting radiographic parameters to characterize dysplasia. Material and methods — The inclusion criteria were studies of human adolescents and adults (> 16 years) with primary or congenital hip dysplasia who were treated with a shelf arthroplasty procedure. Data were extracted concerning patient characteristics, survival time, complications, operative techniques, and accuracy of correcting radiographic parameters. Results — Our inclusion criteria were applicable to 9 studies. The average postoperative Center-Edge Angle and Acetabular Head Index were mostly within target range, but large variations were common. Kaplan–Meier curves (endpoint: conversion to THA) varied between 37% at 20 years’ follow-up and 72% at 35 years’ follow-up. Clinical failures were commonly associated with pain and radiographic osteoarthritis. Only minor complications were reported with incidences between 17% and 32%. Interpretation — The shelf arthroplasty is capable of restoring normal radiographic hip parameters and is not associated with major complications. When carefully selected on minimal osteoarthritic changes, hip dysplasia patients with a closed triradiate cartilage may benefit from the shelf procedure with satisfactory survival rates. The importance of the shelf arthroplasty in relation to peri-acetabular osteotomies needs to be further (re)explored.
Tra ufficialità e Samizdat: Viktor Sosnora
Creators: name: Albanese, Noemi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015
Subjects: Viktor Sosnora; Leningrado; Samizdat; sperimentalismo

description: La figura di Viktor Sosnora si presenta come una delle più particolari nel panorama letterario della Leningrado della seconda metà del Novecento. A metà tra mondo ufficiale e quello dell'underground, fu anche uno dei pochissimi autori ai quali, in epoca sovietica, fu concesso di viaggiare in Europa ed entrare in contatto con il mondo intellettuale coevo. La sua ricerca estetica e stilistica parte dalle tematiche antico russe per innovarle dall'interno grazie ad un gusto per la lingua estremamente contemporaneo;ciò si tradusse in sperimentazioni poetiche sempre più ardite che resero impossibile la pubblicazione ufficiale dei suoi testi, divenuti invece oggetto di culto negli ambienti del Samizdat.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 12 (2015)
Editorial: Giving Voice to Our Ancestors
Creators: name: Archibald, Jo-Ann
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: I thank you Great Spirit for allowing us to call upon you in our times of need, asking you to bless these beloved people who walk in this world of your creation. Oh good Creator, help us all as we stand looking toward you in our own way. (Joe Washington, cited in Gamier, 1990, p. 40) ...
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 19 No. 2 (1992)