cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: City of Sanctuary: A State of Deferral
Creators: name: Bagelman, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: Over the last decade, sanctuary has been evoked as an alternative to the problems associated with an exclusionary statist asylum regime. In Canada, the United States and Europe the ‘cities of sanctuary’ movement, which is articulated through various political vocabularies, has emerged. This movement conceives of sanctuary not simply as a church-based space where asylum seekers may be secured, but offers a host of welcoming practices within and beyond cities. This thesis specifically explores the UK-based City of Sanctuary movement, with a focus on the case of Glasgow, which has widely been read as exemplifying hospitality towards and empowerment of asylum seekers. Whilst a statist discourse of fear, a ‘politics of unease,’ positions migrants as a threat to be policed the City of Sanctuary aims to stimulate a softer approach. Yet this thesis illustrates how the City of Sanctuary is also mobilizing a deeply troubling ‘politics of ease.’ Based on a genealogical-ethnographic investigation, which traces an array of ancient and modem practices, I show how the politics of ease renders intractable the serious problem of protracted waiting that many asylum seekers face. In so doing, I demonstrate how the seemingly hospitable City of Sanctuary in fact contributes to a hostile asylum regime by indefinitely deferring and even extending a temporality of waiting. Although the City of Sanctuary may serve to smooth over and ease away this serious problem, this thesis also explores a myriad of minor practices that I indicate as challenging this waiting state.
Sowerbyceras Parona & Bonarelli 1895
Creators: name: Cecca, Fabrizio
name: Savary, Bérengère
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Ammonitida
Phylloceratidae
Sowerbyceras

description: Genus Sowerbyceras Parona & Bonarelli, 1895
 TYPE SPECIES. — Ammonites tortisulcatus d’Orbigny, 1841.
description: Published as part of Cecca, Fabrizio & Savary, Bérengère, 2007, Palaeontological study of Middle Oxfordian- Early Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) ammonites from the Rosso Ammonitico of Monte Inici (north-western Sicily, Italy), pp. 507-548 in Geodiversitas 29 (4) on page 514, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651042
WATER-USE MANAGEMENT ON CULTIVATOR'S FIELD- (A STUDY OF KANGRA FARMS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH)
Creators: name: Sharma, Ashwani K.
name: Moorti, T. V.
name: Sharma, R. K.
name: Sharma, Ashwani K.
name: Moorti, T. V.
name: Sharma, R. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The study takes into account three important sources of irrigation viz. Kuhl, lift irrigation and tube-well irrigation. The Blaney Criddle procedure was followed to estimate evapotranspiration to work out month-wise requirements of water for different crops. The analysis showed that crop growth coefficients for paddy and maize were highest during July while for rabi crops it was highest during March and April. The results further indicated that with lift and tube-well irrigation, the water use pattern had become more homogeneous round the year as compared to Kuhl irrigation. During June, May and November the water requirements were higher than water availability on Kuh/ irrigated farms. While on lift irrigation and tube-well irrigated farms, the deficit was highest in June and May respectively. This deficit in water availability was synchronous with critical periods like sowing, transplanting, etc. The study suggests that creation of storage facilities on kuhl irrigated farms, is likely to help in water management practices to a greater extent. Similarly the storage facilities for lift irrigation areas is also required since the ground water availability during summer is greatly restricted.
Investigating disk evolution: A high spatial resolution mid-infrared survey of T Tauri stars
Creators: name: McCabe, C.
name: Ghez, A. M.
name: Prato, L.
name: Duchene, G.
name: Fisher, R. S.
name: Telesco, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a high spatial resolution, 10-20 micron survey of 65 T Tauri binary stars in Taurus, Ophiuchus, and Corona Australis using the Keck 10 m telescopes. Designed to probe the inner ~1 AU region of the circumstellar disks around the individual stellar components in these binary systems, this study increases the number of binaries with spatially resolved measurements at 10 micron by a factor of ~5. Combined with resolved near-infrared photometry and spectroscopic accretion diagnostics, we find that ~10% of stars with a mid-infrared excess do not appear to be accreting. In contrast to an actively accreting disk system, these passive disks have significantly lower near-infrared colors that are, in most cases, consistent with photospheric emission, suggesting the presence of an inner disk hole. In addition, there appears to be a spectral type/mass dependence associated with the presence of a passive disk, with all passive disks occurring around M type stars. The possibility that the passive disks are caused by the presence of an as yet undetected companion at a small separation (0.3-3 AU) is possible for any individual system, however, it cannot account for the spectral type dependence of the passive disk sample as a whole. We propose that these passive disks represent a subset of T Tauri stars that are undergoing significant disk evolution. The fraction of observed passive disks and the observed spectral type dependence can both be explained by models of disk evolution that include disk photoevaporation from the central star. (abridged).
description: 51 pages, 3 figures, to be published in ApJ, January 2006
title: Obligation As Ethics: The Power of Roman óϕϵιλη As the Key to Conflict Resolution in Romans 14:1-15:13
Creators: name: Duncan, John D.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: One weakness in some contemporary New Testament studies involves examining a word meaning without considering the depth of its meaning in light of historical, social, and customary first-century usage. The challenge comes in reading a word in contemporary twenty-first-century language, but understanding its full meaning from the first-century culture. New Testament studies of Paul in his Epistle to the Romans tend to focus on his theology as a theological treatise or to focus on certain social theories that limit the scope of cultural underpinnings in the Greek text. Obligation as ethics, the power of óϕϵιλη(obligation) as the key to conflict resolution, aims to examine Romans 14:1-15:13 in its historical-sociological context with an emphasis on Roman law.

 Rome was a peculiar society where its inhabitants were required to fulfil obligations and duties as a vital part of daily living. Therefore, obligation in Roman society filters through Roman law, character, customs, and a path of duty in daily life. Obligation in the Christian community required rethinking the customary standards in obligation to Jesus Christ. Roman law influenced custom, determined a course of social interactions, and reinforced behaviour patterns. It was founded on Roman law and its legal basis set forth a map, a plan, a nexus of social ties in relationships, and clear expectations in daily social practice. Roman law itself was structured in a framework of Graeco-Roman virtues and vices which influenced the character and societal customs (mores) of its citizens and non-citizens.

 The construct of virtue, as practiced in the first century, accentuated a long history of aristocratic rules and defined social roles that solidified a Roman social hierarchy that polarized two social classes: the strong and the weak. The strong were the aristocratic superiors based on rank, status, wealth, and prestige. The weak were social inferiors who, according to Roman law and the mores, were obligated to submit to the power of the strong. Roman obligation, a critical tool for Roman social practice, order, harmony, and conflict resolution, served in society as a lubricant to order society and to relieve social tensions.

 The textual evidence of Romans 14:1-15:13, and the context underpinning it, indicate that the social distinctions of ‘the strong’ and ‘the weak’ were reflected in the early church in Rome. Their tendency, based upon Roman law and social custom, was to relate as the superior strong and the inferior weak with the weak obliged to submit. However, Paul plunders this concept and makes use of the conventional tool of Roman obligation in a new way. His countercultural solution aimed to resolve the tension that threatened to split the church.
Tornquistes Lemoine 1910
Creators: name: Cecca, Fabrizio
name: Savary, Bérengère
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Ammonoidea
Pachyceratidae
Tornquistes

description: Genus Tornquistes Lemoine, 1910
 TYPE SPECIES. — Macrocephalites helvetiae Tornquist, 1894.
description: Published as part of Cecca, Fabrizio & Savary, Bérengère, 2007, Palaeontological study of Middle Oxfordian- Early Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) ammonites from the Rosso Ammonitico of Monte Inici (north-western Sicily, Italy), pp. 507-548 in Geodiversitas 29 (4) on page 516, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651042
Calliphylloceras Spath 1927
Creators: name: Cecca, Fabrizio
name: Savary, Bérengère
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Ammonitida
Phylloceratidae
Calliphylloceras

description: Genus Calliphylloceras Spath, 1927
 TYPE SPECIES. — Phylloceras disputabile Zittel, 1869.
description: Published as part of Cecca, Fabrizio & Savary, Bérengère, 2007, Palaeontological study of Middle Oxfordian- Early Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) ammonites from the Rosso Ammonitico of Monte Inici (north-western Sicily, Italy), pp. 507-548 in Geodiversitas 29 (4) on page 514, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651042
IDENTIFICATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF RESOURCES IN SOME MAJOR FARMING SYSTEMS IN SONITPUR DISTRICT OF ASSAM
Creators: name: Bhowmick, B. C.
name: Mazumdar, D. K.
name: Das, R.
name: Bhowmick, B. C.
name: Mazumdar, D. K.
name: Das, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Farm Management
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: In the present study att:mPt has been made to identify different types of farming systems in Sonitpur district and optimise the resource use among different size groups of farms using deterministic linear programming technique. Capital appeared to be an important resource constraint While the supply of human and bullock labour were in surplus. Optimization led to better utilization of resources, increase in gross cropped area and higher net returns. However, the optimal plans can be made effective only when the constraints in resource availability like timely supply and liberalization of credit, creation of irrigation potentialities and supply of other farm inputs are eliminated.
Equation of State of Four- and Five-Dimensional Hard-Hypersphere Mixtures
Creators: name: de Haro, Mariano López
name: Santos, Andrés
name: Yuste, Santos B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New proposals for the equation of state of four- and five-dimensional hard-hypersphere mixtures in terms of the equation of state of the corresponding monocomponent hard-hypersphere fluid are introduced. Such proposals (which are constructed in such a way so as to yield the exact third virial coefficient) extend, on the one hand, recent similar formulations for hard-disk and (three-dimensional) hard-sphere mixtures and, on the other hand, two of our previous proposals also linking the mixture equation of state and the one of the monocomponent fluid but unable to reproduce the exact third virial coefficient. The old and new proposals are tested by comparison with published molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation results and their relative merit is evaluated
description: 18 pages, 8 figures; this article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Liquids and Crystals
Exploring the binding pocket of quinone/inhibitors in mitochondrial respiratory complex I by chemical biology approaches
Creators: name: Murai, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: NADH-quinone oxidoreductase (respiratory complex I) is a key player in mitochondrial energy metabolism. The enzyme couples electron transfer from NADH to quinone with the translocation of protons across the membrane, providing a major proton-motive force that drives ATP synthesis. Recently, X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy provided further insights into the structure and functions of the enzyme. However, little is known about the mechanism of quinone reduction, which is a crucial step in the energy coupling process. A variety of complex I inhibitors targeting the quinone-binding site have been indispensable tools for mechanistic studies on the enzyme. Using biorationally designed inhibitor probes, the author has accumulated a large amount of experimental data characterizing the actions of complex I inhibitors. On the basis of comprehensive interpretations of the data, the author reviews the structural features of the binding pocket of quinone/inhibitors in bovine mitochondrial complex I. ATP: adenosine triphosphate; BODIPY: boron dipyrromethene; complex I: proton-translocating NADH-quinone oxidoreductase; DIBO: dibenzocyclooctyne; EM: electron microscopy; FeS: iron-sulfur; FMN: flavin adenine mononucleotide; LDT: ligand-directed tosylate; NADH: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; ROS: reactive oxygen species; SMP: submitochondrial particle; TAMRA: 6-carboxy-N,N,N’,N’-tetramethylrhodamine; THF: tetrahydrofuran; TMH: transmembrane helix Chemical modification of respiratory complex I. The author focuses on structural features of the binding pocket of quinone/inhibitors in complex I.
Lissoceras Bayle 1879
Creators: name: Cecca, Fabrizio
name: Savary, Bérengère
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Ammonitida
Haploceratidae
Lissoceras

description: Genus Lissoceras Bayle, 1879
 TYPE SPECIES. — Ammonites psilodiscus Schloenbach, 1879.
description: Published as part of Cecca, Fabrizio & Savary, Bérengère, 2007, Palaeontological study of Middle Oxfordian- Early Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) ammonites from the Rosso Ammonitico of Monte Inici (north-western Sicily, Italy), pp. 507-548 in Geodiversitas 29 (4) on page 517, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651042
An Evaluation of Monte Carlo-Based Hyper-Heuristic for Interaction Testing of Industrial Embedded Software Applications
Creators: name: Ahmed, Bestoun S.
name: Enoiu, Eduard
name: Afzal, Wasif
name: Zamli, Kamal Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hyper-heuristic is a new methodology for the adaptive hybridization of meta-heuristic algorithms to derive a general algorithm for solving optimization problems. This work focuses on the selection type of hyper-heuristic, called the Exponential Monte Carlo with Counter (EMCQ). Current implementations rely on the memory-less selection that can be counterproductive as the selected search operator may not (historically) be the best performing operator for the current search instance. Addressing this issue, we propose to integrate the memory into EMCQ for combinatorial t-wise test suite generation using reinforcement learning based on the Q-learning mechanism, called Q-EMCQ. The limited application of combinatorial test generation on industrial programs can impact the use of such techniques as Q-EMCQ. Thus, there is a need to evaluate this kind of approach against relevant industrial software, with a purpose to show the degree of interaction required to cover the code as well as finding faults. We applied Q-EMCQ on 37 real-world industrial programs written in Function Block Diagram (FBD) language, which is used for developing a train control management system at Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB. The results of this study show that Q-EMCQ is an efficient technique for test case generation. Additionally, unlike the t-wise test suite generation, which deals with the minimization problem, we have also subjected Q-EMCQ to a maximization problem involving the general module clustering to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
description: 37 Pages
title: Higher Education Governance in England: Governing Body Members' Perceptions of Their Roles and the Effectiveness of Their Governing Bodies
Creators: name: Buck, David John
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: Much attention has been paid in recent years to issues associated with corporate governance and there have been significant changes and developments in the governance arrangements in the UK higher education sector. In this context, the research reported here explores the perceptions held by governing body members in English higher education institutions of the roles of their governing bodies. Governing body members’ perceptions of the effectiveness of their governing bodies are also considered. The research uses a series of case studies, involving the collection and analysis of data gathered in interviews with governing body members and senior staff in seven English higher education institutions. These data are used to explore the views of governing body members with regard to the roles and effectiveness of their governing bodies, and to compare their perceptions with external expectations. The predictions of governance theory with regard to the roles of boards and board members are also considered and compared to the lived experience of those roles as perceived by governing body members. The study reveals some degree of variability in the approaches to governance at different types of institution, but also many common features. The latter include marked differences between the roles undertaken by governing body members and the roles envisaged for them in formal guidance. Governing body members are shown to be content to delegate their responsibilities for educational character to academics. Effectiveness in higher education governance is revealed to be complex and multi-faceted. The particular importance to effectiveness of board processes and interaction between governing body members is demonstrated. It is shown that no single governance theory offers a full explanation for the described behaviour and approaches of governing body members, but that aspects of different theoretical positions offer useful explanatory insights when taken together.
The Student Union Building Renewal – Light Bulb Sustainability
Creators: name: Chan, Harry
name: Weymark, Ryan
name: Campbell, Taylor
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
On the Possibility of Measuring the Lense--Thirring Effect with a Lageos-Lageos II-Optis Mission
Creators: name: Iorio, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of performing post-Newtonian gravitoelectromagnetic measurements with a joint LAGEOS-LAGEOS II-OPTIS space-based mission is investigated
description: LaTex2e, 3 pages, 1 Table, no figures. Paper presented at X Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, 20-26 July 2003
title: Why Are We Here? The Changing Nature of Administrative Middle Management at an English HEI
Creators: name: Mienczakowski, Sandra Elaine
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: It is recognised that in recent years, radical changes have taken place within Higher Education. In addition to increased national government intervention, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) need to take account of national and international developments. Universities are complex organisations and the roles and experiences of those who work within them have changed overtime. There is general agreement that the nature and scope of both academic and non-academic roles have changed and continue to change to meet the challenges facing universities in the 21st century. The literature reveals an agreement that these changes in university work lend themselves to new working practices; more team-working; and a blurring of the boundaries between academic and non-academic work. However, debate exists as to how far these changes have been achieved at the current time in English universities. Increased accountability to a number of both external and internal stakeholders, and the need for more effective working practices to deal with increased numbers of students and complexity of roles, have implications for professional identity, organisational culture and work intensification. The purpose of this small-scale investigation was to gain an understanding of administrators' experiences in relation to change within an English civic university and the implications for the professional practice of middle managers. Taking a Grounded Theory approach, the research was supported by the use of semistructured interviews with administrative and academic staff employed in the case study Higher Education Institution, together with analysis of documentary evidence and observation. The findings from this research take us towards a theory of the nature of administrative middle management in an English HEI from the administrators' perspectives. The picture that emerges is of administrative middle managers who are part of a group of staff recognised as growing in professionalism. Providing an insight into how, by speaking the 'right' language, 'knowing the rules' and understanding the environment within which they operate, administrative middle managers may become facilitators and influencers using negotiation and persuasion, their ability to effect strategic change within an organisational hierarchy typified by a professional bureaucracy where academics form the professional elite is also considered. Recommendations for further work are outlined including a call for more research into the daily lives of middle managers and their experiences. In the light of findings from this research, recommendations for middle, junior and senior management are also outlined.
Lynx D2.8 Final Report of Data Management Activities
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Doncel, Víctor
name: Bernardos, Socorro
name: Martín-Chozas, Patricia
name: Kernerman, Ilan
name: Casanovas, Pompeu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: data management plan

description: This deliverable reports on all the data management activities of the Lynx project. The contents of this document summarize and integrate the Data Management Plan (D2.1, D2.4), the deliverables on the acquired vocabularies and corpora (D2.5, D2.6) and the catalogue of relevant and regulatory datasets (D2.7).
Determinants of Participation and Intensity for Commercial-based Activities in Coastal Louisiana
Creators: name: Wang, Hua
name: Keithly, Walter
name: Caffey, Rex
name: Wang, Hua
name: Keithly, Walter
name: Caffey, Rex
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: commercial-based activities
subject: double-hurdle model
subject: private land
subject: intensity

description: This study investigates the determinants of participating commercial-based activities for a sample of wetland owners in coastal Louisiana. A double-hurdle model is used to accounts for both participation and the intensity of participation decisions. The empirical results suggest that variables such as age, participating in other commercial-based activities, hunting lodge/camp, active management, and land_type_one were found to significantly influence the participation decision while the variables education, land ownership, years of ownership, and total acreage of other type of land were found to significantly influence the intensity of participation. In addition, the variables total acreage of freshwater marsh and total acreage of brackish marsh were found to be significant in both decision equations. The information gathered from this study confirmed that decisions to participate in commercial-based activities and the intensity of participation are related to physical characteristics of the property and socioeconomic characteristics of the landowner.
Time and classical and quantum mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. discontinuity
Creators: name: Lynds, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is postulated there is not a precise static instant in time underlying a dynamical physical process at which the relative position of a body in relative motion or a specific physical magnitude would theoretically be precisely determined. It is concluded it is exactly because of this that time (relative interval as indicated by a clock) and the continuity of a physical process is possible, with there being a necessary trade off of all precisely determined physical values at a time, for their continuity through time. This explanation is also shown to be the correct solution to the motion and infinity paradoxes, excluding the Stadium, originally conceived by the ancient Greek mathematician Zeno of Elea. Quantum Cosmology, Imaginary Time and Chronons are also then discussed, with the latter two appearing to be superseded on a theoretical basis.
description: 7 pages, no figures, for related paper please see http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001197/
An Investigation into Biodegradable Utensils
Creators: name: Elvidge, Chris
name: Chou, Kevin
name: Hsieh, Derick
name: Uppal, Jagjit
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Fractional magnetic Schrödinger-Kirchhoff problems with convolution and critical nonlinearities
Creators: name: Liang, Sihua
name: Repovš, Dušan D.
name: Zhang, Binlin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B99, 35J10, 35J60, 47G20

description: In this paper we are concerned with the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the fractional Choquard-type Schrödinger-Kirchhoff equations with electromagnetic fields and critical nonlinearity: \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{cases} \varepsilon^{2s}M([u]_{s,A}^2)(-Δ)_{A}^su + V(x)u = (|x|^{-α}*F(|u|^2))f(|u|^2)u + |u|^{2_s^\ast-2}u,\ \ \ x\in \mathbb{R}^N,\\ u(x) \rightarrow 0,\ \ \quad \mbox{as}\ |x| \rightarrow \infty, \end{cases} \end{eqnarray*} where $(-Δ)_{A}^s$ is the fractional magnetic operator with $0 0$ is a positive parameter. The electric potential $V\in C(\mathbb{R}^N, \mathbb{R}^+_0)$ satisfies $V(x) = 0$ in some region of $\mathbb{R}^N$, which means that this is the critical frequency case. We first prove the $(PS)_c$ condition, by using the fractional version of the concentration compactness principle. Then, applying also the mountain pass theorem and the genus theory, we obtain the existence and multiplicity of semiclassical states for the above problem. The main feature of our problems is that the Kirchhoff term $M$ can vanish at zero.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1803.05694
title: Environmental Storytelling: Negotiating Travelling Norms in Post-Socialist Journalism
Creators: name: Antonov, Pavel P.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: This thesis explores the ways in which professional journalists in Bulgaria balance their normative commitments to society and democracy, and the increasing dominance of economic and market priorities over their work, when covering issues of collective interest - such as environmental change. It studies the advance of a liberal Anglo-American model that is influenced significantly by economic and market priorities into the post-socialist region of Central and Eastern Europe. After more than two decades of domesticating neoliberalism, post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe offers a suitable setting in which to study the effects of market and business influence over journalism. By means of participant observation in the newsrooms of opinion setting weekly Capital and Bulgaria’s leading commercial television channel BTV, this thesis establishes how journalistic norms shift in favour of business and commercial interests and weaken journalists’ commitment to collective public interests and democracy, as defined by ‘Fourth Estate’ theory.

A theoretical framework is applied which examines journalists’ engagement with democracy, pluralism, public interest, diversity and equal participation of citizens in political decision making, conceptualised as ‘voice’ and ‘dialogue’, and compares those with their engagements with market and business imperatives. Tensions arising out of the implementation of practical journalistic norms such as neutrality, bias, objectivity, novelty, authority order and ‘the wall’ between advertising and editorial are explored in detail. The research finds that professional journalism in Bulgaria is evolving to accommodate media owner interference, market and business oriented occupational and editorial practices, and loss of pluralism and diversity in media production formats. Steady processes of detachment from commitments to storytelling about collective public interests are explained in terms of the neoliberal logics dominating the Bulgarian media. Potential corrections are also identified that arise from the interaction of mainstream media and citizen journalism and social media.
Lissoceras (Lissoceratoides) Spath 1923
Creators: name: Cecca, Fabrizio
name: Savary, Bérengère
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Ammonitida
Haploceratidae
Lissoceras

description: Subgenus Lissoceratoides Spath, 1923
 TYPE SPECIES. — Ammonites erato d’Orbigny, 1850.
description: Published as part of Cecca, Fabrizio & Savary, Bérengère, 2007, Palaeontological study of Middle Oxfordian- Early Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) ammonites from the Rosso Ammonitico of Monte Inici (north-western Sicily, Italy), pp. 507-548 in Geodiversitas 29 (4) on page 517, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651042
A consistent quantum model for continuous photodetection processes
Creators: name: de Oliveira, M. C.
name: Mizrahi, S. S.
name: Dodonov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are modifying some aspects of the continuous photodetection theory, proposed by Srinivas and Davies [Optica Acta 28, 981 (1981)], which describes the non-unitary evolution of a quantum field state subjected to a continuous photocount measurement. In order to remedy inconsistencies that appear in their approach, we redefine the `annihilation' and `creation' operators that enter in the photocount superoperators. We show that this new approach not only still satisfies all the requirements for a consistent photocount theory according to Srinivas and Davies precepts, but also avoids some weird result appearing when previous definitions are used.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Taramelliceras Del Campana 1904
Creators: name: Cecca, Fabrizio
name: Savary, Bérengère
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Ammonitida
Oppeliidae
Taramelliceras

description: Genus Taramelliceras Del Campana, 1904
 TYPE SPECIES. — Ammonites trachinotus Oppel, 1863.
description: Published as part of Cecca, Fabrizio & Savary, Bérengère, 2007, Palaeontological study of Middle Oxfordian- Early Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) ammonites from the Rosso Ammonitico of Monte Inici (north-western Sicily, Italy), pp. 507-548 in Geodiversitas 29 (4) on page 517, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651042
Non-Hermitian mobility edges in one-dimensional quasicrystals with parity-time symmetry
Creators: name: Liu, Yanxia
name: Jiang, Xiang-Ping
name: Cao, Junpeng
name: Chen, Shu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate localization-delocalization transition in one-dimensional non-Hermitian quasiperiodic lattices with exponential short-range hopping, which possess parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry. The localization transition induced by the non-Hermitian quasiperiodic potential is found to occur at the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry-breaking point. Our results also demonstrate the existence of energy dependent mobility edges, which separate the extended states from localized states and are only associated with the real part of eigen-energies. The level statistics and Loschmidt echo dynamics are also studied.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Blemished Fresh Produce and Its Implications for Food Waste
Creators: name: Henson, Chloe'
name: Collart, Alba J.
name: Interis, Matthew
name: Maples, Joshua G.
name: Henson, Chloe'
name: Collart, Alba J.
name: Interis, Matthew
name: Maples, Joshua G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Blemished produce
subject: food waste
subject: environmental education

description: In recent years, food waste has become an increasingly discussed topic in both developed and developing countries. In developed countries, approximately 222 million tons of food is wasted at the consumer level per year (FAO, 2011). These amounts of food waste have large social, economic, and environmental impacts. Studies have shown that one of the main causes of food waste in developed countries is consumer preferences toward food appearances. In fresh fruit and produce, consumers have elevated expectations for appearances and will reject those that are blemished. In this study, we estimate consumer willingness to pay for sweet potatoes with five different skinning injury levels in a Vickrey 2nd price non- hypothetical auction. Our experimental controls include treatments designed to test whether consumer knowledge (1) about the relationship between blemished produce and food waste and (2) about the environmental impacts of food waste influence willingness to pay for blemished produce. We find that consumer bids increased after gaining knowledge about food waste and its environmental implications. This study has implications for governmental agencies as they further research methods and opportunities to mitigate food waste at various sources of the supply chain system, most specifically, at the consumer and farmer levels.
Newborns safety at neonatal intensive care units are they exposed to excessive noise during routine health care procedures.pdf
Creators: name: Carvalhais, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111705 Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110310 Intensive Care
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) noise may be stressful to preterm infants.This research evaluated the newborns exposure to noise during several health care activities of two NICU. The measurements of the equivalent continuous A-weighted sound pressure level and peak sound pressure level were carried were performed with a sound level meter, as close as possible of the newborn.The results showed that sound pressure levels were excessive in all the evaluated tasks, exceeding international guidelines. The levels ranged between 46.6 dBA to74.6 dBA. There is a need for more research in order to verify the effectiveness of specific strategies to reduce the impact of noise in NICU.
Correlation functions on the lattice and twisted cocycles
Creators: name: Weinzierl, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study linear relations among correlation functions on a lattice obtained from integration-by-parts identities. We use the framework of twisted cocycles and determine for a scalar theory a basis of correlation functions, in which all other correlation functions may be expressed.
description: 11 pages, version to be published
Relating Green-Schwarz and Extended Pure Spinor Formalisms by Similarity Transformation
Creators: name: Aisaka, Yuri
name: Kazama, Yoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to gain deeper understanding of pure-spinor-based formalisms of superstring, an explicit similarity transformation is constructed which provides operator mapping between the light-cone Green-Schwarz (LCGS) formalism and the extended pure spinor (EPS) formalism, a recently proposed generalization of the Berkovits' formalism in an enlarged space. By applying a systematic procedure developed in our previous work, we first construct an analogous mapping in the bosonic string relating the BRST and the light-cone formulations. This provides sufficient insights and allows us to construct the desired mapping in the more intricate case of superstring as well. The success of the construction owes much to the enlarged field space where pure spinor constraints are removed and to the existence of the ``B-ghost'' in the EPS formalism.
description: 37pages, no figure
title: Sugar Beet Damage Detection during Harvesting Using Different Convolutional Neural Network Models
Creators: name: Nasirahmadi, Abozar
name: Wilczek, Ulrike
name: Hensel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: convolutional neural network
subject: damage
subject: deep learning
subject: harvester
subject: sugar beet
subject: 600
subject: 630
subject: Convolutional Neural Network
subject: Zuckerrübe
subject: Schaden
subject: Erntemaschine
subject: Deep learning
subject: Fehlererkennung

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Magnetic phase diagram and magneto-elastic coupling of NiTiO3
Creators: name: Dey, Kaustav
name: Sauerland, Sven
name: Werner, Johannes
name: Skourski, Yurii
name: Abdel-Hafiez, Mahmoud
name: Bag, Rabindranath
name: Singh, Surjeet
name: Klingeler, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report high-resolution dilatometry on high-quality single crystals of NiTiO3 grown by means of the optical floating-zone technique. The anisotropic magnetic phase diagram is constructed from thermal expansion and magnetostriction studies up to B=15T and magnetization studies in static (15T) and pulsed (60T) magnetic fields. Our data allow to quantitatively study magneto-elastic coupling and to determine uniaxial pressure dependencies. While the entropy changes are found to be of magnetic nature, Grüneisen analysis implies only one relevant energy scale in the whole low-temperature regime. Thereby, our data suggest that the observed structural changes due to magneto-elastic coupling and previously reported magnetodielectric coupling[1] are driven by the same $magnetic$ degrees of freedom that lead to long-range magnetic order in NiTiO3, which in turn, establishes a linear magnetodielectric coupling in this compound.
Brane Cosmology and the self-tuning of the cosmological constant in the presence of bulk black holes
Creators: name: Betzios, Panagiotis
name: Papadoulaki, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the holographic self-tuning proposal of the cosmological constant, we generalize and study the cosmology of brane-worlds embedded in a higher-dimensional bulk black hole geometry. We describe the equations and matching conditions in the case of flat, spherical and hyperbolic slicing of the bulk geometry and find the conditions for the existence of a static solution. We solve the equations that govern dynamical geometries in the probe brane limit and we describe in detail the resulting brane-world cosmologies. Of particular interest are the properties of solutions when the brane-world approaches the black hole horizon. In this case the geometry induced on the brane is that of de Sitter, whose entropy and temperature is related to those of the higher dimensional bulk black hole.
description: 36 pages, added references
Taramelliceras Del Campana 1904
Creators: name: Cecca, Fabrizio
name: Savary, Bérengère
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Ammonitida
Oppeliidae
Taramelliceras

description: Taramelliceras cf. hauffianum ? (Oppel, 1863) (Fig. 5A, B)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MI4W 8b/c/3.
STRATIGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. — The specimen has been collected in bed 8c of section Monte Inici West. It must be stressed that the tentative identification of this specimen also makes tentative the assignment of this bed to the Hauffianum Subzone.
DESCRIPTION
The specimen is a fragment of an inner mold. It shows the venter and the upper third of the flank of a portion of the shell that corresponds to the last part of the phragmocone and the beginning of the body chamber.The venter is large and rounded; it gradually passes to the flanks due to the lack of clear ventrolateral shoulders. Rounded tubercles are visible at the transition between the venter and the flanks. One or two ribs spring from the tubercles; three to four simple ribs are intercalated between two tubercles.
description: Published as part of Cecca, Fabrizio & Savary, Bérengère, 2007, Palaeontological study of Middle Oxfordian- Early Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) ammonites from the Rosso Ammonitico of Monte Inici (north-western Sicily, Italy), pp. 507-548 in Geodiversitas 29 (4) on page 517, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651042
Profitability and Economic Feasibility Analysis of Small Scale Irrigation Technologies in northern Ghana
Creators: name: Balana, Bedru
name: Bizimana, Jean-Claude
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Lefore, Nicole
name: Adimassu, Zenebe
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Balana, Bedru
name: Bizimana, Jean-Claude
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Lefore, Nicole
name: Adimassu, Zenebe
name: Herbst, Brian K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Economic analysis
subject: ILSSI
subject: Northern Ghana
subject: Profitability
subject: Small scale irrigation
subject: Smallholders

description: Small-scale irrigation (SSI) technologies can be a useful tool not only to increase crop productivity and income but also to mitigate against climate variability in Ghana given the recent frequent dry spells. Profitability and economic feasibility of investing in the SSI technologies are analysed using a farm simulation model (FARMSIM) and based on farm-plot level data on selected SSI technologies piloted in northern Ghana under the Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI). The aim is to identify profitable and economically feasible sets of ‘crop type–SSI technology’ combinations that would prove viable in “real world” farm conditions. Four dry season irrigated cash crop (corchorus, onion, and amaranths) grown under four SSI technologies (pump-tank-hose, watering can, and rain/roof water harvesting and drip irrigation) were considered. Results showed that rainwater-harvesting using poly tank storage and a drip system is not economically feasible at the current yield level and market prices of irrigated cash crops in northern Ghana. SSI technology options using river water or shallow wells with motorized pumps or watering cans were profitable. The watering can is relatively more profitable than motorized pumps because of fuel and upfront investment costs in pumps. However, affordable credit schemes could mitigate the cost constraint to afford motor pumps and enable smallholders to participate in market-oriented production.
The Use of Information Criteria for Model Selection Between Models with Equal Numbers of Parameters
Creators: name: Grose, Simone D.
name: King, Maxwell L.
name: Grose, Simone D.
name: King, Maxwell L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Information criteria (IC) are used widely to choose between competing alternative models. When these models have the same number of parameters, the choice simplifies to the model with the largest maximized loglikelihood. By studying the problem of selecting either first-order autoregressive or first-order moving average disturbances in the linear regression model, we present clear evidence that a particular model can be unfairly favoured because of the shape or functional form of its log-likelihood. We also find that the presence of nuisance parameters can adversely affect the probabilities of correct selection. The use of Monte Carlo methods to find more appropriate penalties and the application of IC procedures to marginal likelihoods rather than conventional likelihoods is found to result in improved selection probabilities in small samples.
Perisphinctes Waagen 1869
Creators: name: Cecca, Fabrizio
name: Savary, Bérengère
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Ammonitida
Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctes

description: Genus Perisphinctes Waagen, 1869
 TYPE SPECIES. — Ammonites variocostatus Buckland, 1836.
description: Published as part of Cecca, Fabrizio & Savary, Bérengère, 2007, Palaeontological study of Middle Oxfordian- Early Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) ammonites from the Rosso Ammonitico of Monte Inici (north-western Sicily, Italy), pp. 507-548 in Geodiversitas 29 (4) on page 518, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651042
Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) Buckman 1926
Creators: name: Cecca, Fabrizio
name: Savary, Bérengère
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Ammonitida
Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctes

description: Subgenus Dichotomosphinctes Buckman, 1926
 TYPE SPECIES. — Perisphinctes antecedens Salfeld, 1914.
description: Published as part of Cecca, Fabrizio & Savary, Bérengère, 2007, Palaeontological study of Middle Oxfordian- Early Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) ammonites from the Rosso Ammonitico of Monte Inici (north-western Sicily, Italy), pp. 507-548 in Geodiversitas 29 (4) on page 518, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651042