cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Liquid sensations : evoking sensory experiences with interactive video installation art
Creators: name: Petterd, RA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This project has developed methodologies for evoking sensations using interactive video installation art. The research has resulted in three interrelated video installations about the experiences of entering the sea, shallow breath diving and floating under the surface of the water. The installations have been developed through studio-based methods by a solo artist working on all aspects of the process. The project's methods have been focused on the imagery and sounds and the placement of these elements in the gallery, the development of a system where interaction is an integral part of the viewer's engagement with the works. The exegesis and accompanying CD-rom summarise this process. The physical sensations associated with water were chosen because they are immersive experiences that have a personal resonance for the investigator. Suggesting the sensory experience of submersion in water has many challenges. Interactive video installations can meet some of the these challenges. Our bodies are more than ninety percent water; we wash in it; we play in it; we need it to survive. While our bodies are mostly water, it is an environment with which we have an uneasy physical relationship as there is always the risk of drowning. Humans find pleasure in this struggle with an alien environment. The contrasting aspects of the experience are what this project seeks to suggest. This project is part of the tradition of depicting water in the history of visual arts. Other contemporary artists use water as part of their practice. The exegesis examines some of these contemporary artists' works and related practices with timebased media that have informed the studio-based experiments. New technology offers unprecedented means of making art. Technological development has been rapid and there exists a gap between the pioneering use of new technology and later detailed exploration. This has created a need for research to be undertaken. The approach this project has taken is to apply the well-tried technologies of interactive video and to explore the application of those technologies and related methods in detail. This has resulted in an exhibition of works that contribute to the area of interactive video installation art as a medium to evoke sensory experiences. The contribution this project has made is to create experiential art that evokes sensory experiences related to being in aquatic environments. It has enhanced the viewer's engagement with the works by using unobtrusive sensing and temporal sampling techniques and has developed methodologies for producing interactive video installations to evoke sensations.
Critical target duration and cognitive load
Creators: name: Pirkis, Jane E
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In a series of three experiments, it was shown that a masking measure of mental speed was not capable of indexing cognitive load in a levels of processing task based on that of Craik and Tulving (1975). Since a number of other studies have found it possible to index cognitive load with this dependent variable, differences between the current task and those employed in other studies were considered. It was concluded that the masking procedure may only be capable of interrupting processing on a serial continuum, and that the current task may demand processing of a different nature.
ANDIJON VILOYATIDA 1946-1970 YILLARDA FAOLIYAT OLIB BORGAN SANOAT KORXONALARINING ISHCHI VA XIZMATCHILARINING MEHNAT MUHOFAZASI DOIRASIDA SOG'LIKLARINI SAQLASH VA QAYTA TIKLASH YUZASIDAN AMALGA OSHIRILGAN TADBIRLAR BO'YICHA AYRIM MULOHAZALAR. ( ANDDIJON VILOYAT DAVLAT ARXIVI MATERIALLARI ASOSIDA)
Creators: name: Turg'unov, Sherzod
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada 1946- 1970- yillarda Andijon viloyatida faoliyat olib borgan sanoatning turli tarmoqlariga oid bo’lgan sanoat korxonalarida mehnat qilgan muhandis va texnik xodimlar va ishchilarning mehnat sharoitlarini yaxshilash borasida amalga oshirilgan amaliy ishlar, ishchi va xizmatchilarning mehnat muhofazasi doirasida sog’liklarini saqlash va tiklash maqsadida ular uchun dam olish uylari, sanatoriyalar, kurortlarga berilgan yo’llanmalar, ishchi va xizmatchilar uchun ajratilgan moddiy yordam turlari va ishchi va xizmatchilarning farzandlari uchun tashkil etilgan bolalar bog’chalari,dam olish lagerlari haqida ma’lumotlar keltirilgan.Bundan tashqari ushbu maqolada Andijon viloyatidagi sanoat korxonalarida mehnat qilayotgan mehnatkashlarning turmush tarzi va mehnat sharoitlarini yahshilash va mehnat muhofazasini amalga oshirish uchun mas’ul bo’lgan tashkilotlarning faoliyati haqida ayrim ma’lumotlar berib o’tilgan.
The effect of the development of secondary industries on the rural labour supply in Tasmania.
Creators: name: Pitchford, J D
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Productive activity may be grouped according to the nature of its output into primary, secondary, and tertiary activity. Primary activities include rural and mining industries, and cover all those activities which are concerned with the production and extraction of raw materials of all kinds: Secondary activity covers all lines of manufacturing, and tertiary activity takes in those industries which are neither primary nor secondary, and includes such industries as commerce, trade, transport and communication\ amusements and education. The results of population censuses in many countries have established that in growing economies with rising real national incomes there has been a decline in the importance of primary relative to secondary and tertiary industries as a field for employment. In the words of AG.B: Fisher : \" ... we may say that in every progressive economy there has been a steady shift of employment and investment from the essential 'primary' activities without whose products life in even its most primitive forms would be impossible to secondary activities of all kinds and to a still greater extent into tertiary production.\" It is this phenomenon which we shall study with two differences. First we shall not use the classification \"primary and secondary\" to any great extent but shall work with the classes \"rural and secondary\". Rural activities are generally deemed to include agricultural pastoral and horticultural pursuits. The majority of rural activities are concerned with the production of raw materials for certain foodstuffs fibres and certain by-products such as leather. Rural and farming are for our purposes interchangeable terms. Primary differs from rural in that it includes mining hunting and fishing forestry and certain other non-farming activities. Secondly we shall not deal specifically with the shift of employment towards tertiary industries but shall concentrate on the shift away from primary industries."
title: Breast Reconstruction with DIEP Flap: The Learning Curve at a Breast Reconstruction Center and a Single-Surgeon Study
Creators: name: Varnava, Charalampos
name: Wiebringhaus, Philipp
name: Hirsch, Tobias
name: Dermietzel, Alexander Frederik
name: Kückelhaus, Maximilian
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Although microsurgical breast reconstruction represents a very interesting and rewarding field of plastic surgery, appropriate microsurgical training is not possible in every plastic surgery department. In this retrospective study, we present the learning curve of our plastic surgery department as a whole and of a single microsurgeon assessing breast reconstruction procedures with a deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap between July 2018 and June 2021. The present study included 115 patients and 161 flaps. Cases were stratified into single DIEP/double DIEP groups and into early and late groups based on the flap order. Surgery times and postoperative complications were analyzed. Regarding the institution, the length of hospital stay was lower in the late group than in the early group (single 7.1 ± 1.8 vs. 6.3 ± 1.5 days, p = 0.019; double 8.5 ± 3.8 vs. 6.6 ± 1.4 days, p = 0.043). Apart from that, no statistically significant differences were found between the start and end of our study. In terms of the single surgeon, there was a significant improvement in the total surgery time (single 296.0 ± 78.7 vs. 227.5 ± 54.7 min, p = 0.018; double 448.0 ± 85.6 vs. 341.2 ± 43.1 min, p = 0.008), flap ischemia time (53.6 ± 15.1 vs. 40.9 ± 9.5 min, p = 0.007) and length of stay among the compared groups. There was no significant difference in flap loss rate or other complications between the early and late groups. Further performance of surgeries seemed to improve the surgeon’s skills as well as the overall experience of the medical institution.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Universität Münster.
Form and function : the image on the inside of the eggshell : an investigation of GE technology, its applications, the ethics involved and the possible physical and psychological impact of such procedures
Creators: name: Pitchford, Jo
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: My research examines the techniques of GE and its many applications, from GE food crops and animals, xenotransplantation, stem cell research, cloning and eugenics. My project focuses on the possible effects these research practices could have on the environment and all ecosystems, the effects regarding the consequences to people exposed to these practices and the ethical issues involved. The visual components of my work express my concepts of the aberrant life forms that could possibly occur as the result of the misuse of GE technology. I have used photographic images and actual (as opposed to metaphoric) images on the inside of eggshells to express these concepts in a 'literal' form. The bone shadow installation is a metaphor indicating the 'foreshadowing' of the jumbled results of the mixing of genetic material from many different species. The installation could also be interpreted as a glimpse of future life forms; formed, but not yet functioning.
Cold gas and young stars in tidally-disturbed ellipticals at z=0
Creators: name: Serra, Paolo
name: Oosterloo, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the neutral hydrogen and stellar populations of elliptical galaxies in the Tal et al. (2009) sample. Our aim is to test their conclusion that the continuing assembly of these galaxies at z~0 is essentially gas-free and not accompanied by significant star formation. In order to do so, we make use of HI data and line-strength indices available in the literature. We look for direct and indirect evidence of the presence of cold gas during the recent assembly of these objects and analyse its relation to galaxy morphological fine structure. We find that >25% of ellipticals contain HI at the level of M(HI)>10^8 M(Sun), and that M(HI) is of the order of a few percent of the total stellar mass. Available data are insufficient to establish whether galaxies with a disturbed stellar morphology are more likely to contain HI. However, HI interferometry reveals very disturbed gas morphology/kinematics in all but one of the detected systems, confirming the continuing assembly of many ellipticals but also showing that this is not necessarily gas-free. We also find that all very disturbed ellipticals have a single-stellar-population-equivalent age <4 Gyr. We interpret this as evidence that ~0.5-5% of their stellar mass is contained in a young population formed during the past ~1 Gyr. Overall, a large fraction of ellipticals seem to have continued their assembly over the past few Gyr in the presence of a mass of cold gas of the order of 10% of the galaxy stellar mass. This material is now observable as neutral hydrogen and young stars.
description: 5 pages, 1 table, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
title: A Comparison of the Impact of Two Different Levels of Item Response Effort Upon the Return Rate of Mailed Questionnaires
Creators: name: Rodgers, Philip L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: Mail questionnaires are a popular and valuable method of data collection. Nonresponse bias is, however, a potentially serious threat to their validity. The best way to combat this threat is to obtain the highest possible return rate. To this end, many factors that are believed to influence return rates have been empirically studied. One factor that has not been empirically examined is the impact of item response effort on return rates, where response effort is defined as the amount of effort that is required by a respondent to answer questionnaire items.
The purpose of this study was to determine if the type of item response effort required to complete a questionnaire had any differential impact on the response rate of a mailed questionnaire. For this study, two questionnaires that differed only in the level of item response effort were sent to two randomly selected and assigned groups. The first group received a mailed questionnaire with seven questions that were answered by a simple item response type (5-point Likert scale). The second group received a mailed questionnaire with seven questions that required a more difficult item response type (short answer).
A large difference between the return rates of the two questionnaires was observed, with the questionnaire containing questions that could be answered on a Likert scale having a higher return rate (56%) than the questionnaire containing questions requiring a short written response (30%). The results of this study provide evidence that the difficulty of item response effort affects the response rate of mailed questionnaires. The practical application of this finding is that researchers should endeavor to keep the types of item response on mailed questionnaires as simple as possible, to maximize response rates (unless, of course, the needed information can only be elicited by providing written responses).
title: Differences in Creative Thinking Between American and Japanese College Students in Education
Creators: name: Saeki, Noriko
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: Fifty-one American and 54 Japanese college students in education were tested to investigate whether there were any cross-cultural differences in creative thinking. No gender differences were found in both cultures, but the American college students had higher scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) figural test than the Japanese college students. The difference was statistically significant and the effect size was large. Very low correlations were found between the TTCT and the American 111 College Testing (ACT) for the American college students and between the TTCT and the Center Test for the Japanese college students.
title: Problem Solving Communication and Interpersonal Power Among Latino Adolescent Couples
Creators: name: Cordero, Annel
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Few studies exist that examine Latino romantic relationships; even fewer assess interpersonal power among romantically involved Latino adolescent couples. This observational study investigated interaction, negotiation of power, and communication styles of Latino adolescents in current romantic relationships. Twenty-nine participating couples (ages 14-21) were recruited from a small Rocky Mountain community; all identified as being of Latino decent. Couples were digitally videotaped during problem solving conversations and completed a video recall procedure administered directly 11 following the recording. The Quality of Relationship Inventory (QRI) was completed by all couple members as a measure of their overall relationship quality. In addition to this, the Global Assessment Scale (GAS), which measured feelings of honesty, being attacked, misunderstood, and conversation control was administered to each couple member after videotaping. The video recall procedure captured positive and negative aspects of interaction, negotiation of power, and skillfulness in problem solving. Power dynamics for each conversation were also rated by an outside observer on dominance through talking and dominance through not listening scale. Overall, these couples rated their relationship quality positively and viewed their own and partner's behavior positively as well. Low levels of dominance through talking and dominance through not listening were observed to be used by couple members as a means to handle conflict during the conversation. The majority of the couples were observed to be mutually engaged in the conversations and appear to have good problem solving skills. However, higher ratings of power inequity by both couple members and observers were linked to lower overall relationship quality, with differing patterns of correlation for male and female couple members.
title: The Relationship Between Guilt- and Shame-Proneness and Rorschach Indices of Psychological Functioning
Creators: name: Shiffler, Julie Bingham
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the degrees of proneness to the self-conscious emotions of nonruminative guilt, ruminative guilt, and shame and several indices of psychological functioning, including depression, narcissism, anger, dysphoric affect, cooperation, need for affection, and self-inspection, in a college population. Gender differences were also examined.
A measure of psychological functioning (the Rorschach) and a measure of guilt- and shame-proneness (the Test of Self-Conscious Affect--Modified) were administered to 91 college students (43 males and 48 females). Females reported higher levels of all three self-conscious emotions. The only gender difference found among the psychological functioning variables was higher levels of narcissism for males. For the total sample, cooperation was related to nonruminative guilt, whereas an unhealthy level of need for affection was related to ruminative guilt and shame. When males and females were considered separately, depression was related to ruminative guilt in males, but not in females. Narcissism was related to all three emotions for males, but not for females. An absence of dysphoric affect was associated with nonruminative guilt in females. Cooperation and self-inspection both correlated with nonruminative guilt for females, but not for males. The predominant emotion related to unhealthy levels of need for affection was shame for males but ruminative guilt for females. Preliminary results from 21 subjects with positive DEPI scores differed from the results of the entire sample in the relationships between the self-conscious emotions and dysphoric affect, self-inspection, and cooperation.
Study results were discussed in light of the different levels of awareness at which the Rorschach and the TOSCA--M assess emotions and psychological functioning. Socialization of gender differences in guilt- and shame-proneness was also discussed. Implications for treatment, future research, and creation of future assessments of guilt- and shame-proneness were examined.
Some problems on mountain climbing
Creators: name: Hung, Patrick Chia-Ling
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Let f and g be two continuous, real-valued functions defined on [0,1] with f(0) = g(0) and f(l) = g(l). The main result of this thesis is to characterize the property that (0,0) and (1,1) are in the same connected component of G(f,g) = {(x,y)|f(x)=g(y)}. In Chapter I, we study conditions implying that (0,0) and (1,1) are in the same connected component of G(f,g), where f and. g are not necessarily real-valued functions. We obtain theorems to characterize [0,1], In Chapter II, we give a simple proof of a theorem by Sikorski and Zarankiewicz. In Chapter III, we obtain our main result. In Chapter IV, we study pathwise connectedness in G(f,g) and give some applications. In Chapter V, we study the question of sliding a chord of given length along a path. An example is given to show that this is not always possible.
title: An Assessment of the Reliability and Validity of Scores Obtained by Six Popular Learning Styles Instruments
Creators: name: Snyder, Renee
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: Learning style refers to the cognitive, physiological, emotional, environmental, sociological, and perceptual manner in which people learn. In order to provide students with an optimal learning environment, it is necessary to match instruction with students' learning style. To do this, student learning style must be assessed by a learning style instrument.
Of the learning style instruments that are currently available, most do not have much evidence of reliability and validity. Additionally, evidence that does exist is weak. Therefore, more psychometric data are needed regarding these instruments. This study provided psychometric evidence for six popular learning styles instruments, including the Learning Style Inventory, the Productivity Environmental Preferences Survey, the Learning Styles Profile, the Grasha-Riechmann's Student Learning Style Scale, the Edmonds Learning Style Identification Exercise, and the Group Embedded Figures Test.
Test-retest reliability was found to be good for the Group Embedded Figures Test and moderate for all other instruments. Internal structure validity of the instruments was good, indicating that the instruments do measure unique learning style constructs. However, convergent and discriminant validity evidence indicates that the instruments either do not measure the same constructs, or measure the learning style constructs in different ways.
title: The Effects of Shock-induced Attack on Bar Pressing for Liquid Food Reinforcement
Creators: name: Hayes, Joseph G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Induced attack was studied under three conditions: (1) paired experimentally naive rats were exposed to intense electrical shock; (2) experimental subjects, previously trained to respond on a fixed vii ratio of six responses for liquid food reinforcement, were paired with target animals with the reinforcement contingency in effect; (3) experimental subjects were given a history of responding on a fixed ratio of six responses for positive reinforcement in the presence of shock, and finally this group was paired with experimentally naive targets when both the reinforcement and shock variables were present.
Pairing experimental animals without shock did not cause attack, nor was bar-pressing behavior appreciably disrupted. Only when electrical shock was imposed upon pairs did attack occur. Furthermore, attack behavior severely reduced operant responding and there appeared to be no recovery of response rates over several sessions.
Contemporary furniture design : exploring the iconography of a technological aesthetic
Creators: name: Prasil, PRJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The project explores the implications of preceding and diverse new technologies, as applied to furniture and object design, and researches new and innovative applications to contemporary design. The central theme of the study is to find a way to humanise our ever advancing technological age, to counterpoint the vast sweep of mass markets and mass production, through the rediscovery of craft in conceiving and making of the objects we use. Coming to design from a technical-engineering background, my work is influenced by the morphological aspects of technology with an emphasis on techniques and workmanship. The work is related to the Machine Aesthetic and styles like Streamlining and Biodesign. The forms, while attempting to express specific signs of the electronic age, recall the iconographies determined by preceding styles or movements. However, the work, except for its execution is not serious. Rather the conceptual idea, being a parody or even a travesty of Ronald Reagan's 'Star Wars' \Strategic Defence Initiative\". It is an interpretation of the sociological sociopolitical symbolic and morphological aspects of technology providing historical context by defining and detailing a body of work embedded in the machine aesthetic."
On chain maps inducing isomorphisms in homology
Creators: name: Nicollerat, Marc Andre
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Let A be an abelian category, I the full subcategory of A consisting of injective objects of A, and K(A) the category whose objects are cochain complexes of elements of A, and whose morphisms are homotopy classes of cochain maps. In (5), lemma 4.6., p. 42, R. Hartshorne has proved that, under certain conditions, a cochain complex X˙ ε. |KA)| can be embedded in a complex I˙ ε. |K(I)| in such a way that I˙ has the same cohomology as X˙. In Chapter I we show that the construction given in the two first parts of Hartshorne's Lemma is natural i.e. there exists a functor J : K(A) → K(I) and a natural transformation [formula omitted] (where E : K(I) → K(A) is the embedding functor) such that [formula omitted] is injective and induces isomorphism in cohomology. The question whether the construction given in the third part of the lemma is functorial is still open. We also prove that J is left adjoint to E, so that K(I) is a reflective subcategory of K(A). In the special case where A is a category [formula omitted] of left A-modules, and [formula omitted] the category of cochain complexes in [formula omitted] and cochain maps (not homotopy classes), we prove the existence of a functor [formula omitted] In Chapter II we study the natural homomorphism [formula omitted] where A, B are rings, and M, L, N modules or chain complexes. In particular we give several sufficient conditions under which v is an isomorphism, or induces isomorphism in homology. In the appendix we give a detailed proof of Hartshorne's Lemma. We think that this is useful, as no complete proof is, to our knowledge, to be found in the literature.
A comparison study of medium-modified QCD shower evolution scenarios
Creators: name: Renk, Thorsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The computation of hard processes in hadronic collisions is a major success of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD). In such processes, pQCD not only predicts the hard reaction itself, but also the subsequent evolution in terms of parton branching and radiation, leading to a parton shower and ultimately to an observable jet of hadrons. If the hard process occurs in a heavy-ion collision, a large part of this evolution takes place in the soft medium created along with the hard reaction. An observation of jets in heavy-ion collision thus allows a study of medium-modified QCD shower evolution. In vacuum, Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations are well established tools to describe such showers. For jet studies in heavy-ion collisions, MC models for in-medium showers are currently being developed. However, the shower-medium interaction depends on the nature of the microscopic degrees of freedom of the medium created in a heavy-ion collision which is the very object one would like to investigate. This paper presents a study in comparison between three different possible implementations for the shower-medium interaction, two of them based on medium-induced pQCD radiation, one of them a medium-induced drag force, and shows for which observables differences between the three scenarios become visible. We find that while single hadron observables such as R_AA are incapable of differentiating between the scenarios, jet observables such as the longiudinal momentum spectrum of hadrons in the jet show the potential to do so.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, minor changes
Coexistence of incommensurate magnetism and superconductivity in Fe_{1+y}Se_xTe_{1-x}
Creators: name: Khasanov, R.
name: Bendele, M.
name: Amato, A.
name: Babkevich, P.
name: Boothroyd, A. T.
name: Cervellino, A.
name: Conder, K.
name: Gvasaliya, S. N.
name: Keller, H.
name: Klauss, H. -H.
name: Luetkens, H.
name: Pomjakushina, E.
name: Roessli, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an investigation into the superconducting and magnetic properties of Fe_{1+y}Se_{x}Te_{1-x} single crystals by magnetic susceptibility, muon spin rotation, and neutron diffraction. We find three regimes of behavior in the phase diagram for 0\leq x\leq 0.5: (i) commensurate magnetic order for x< 0.1, (ii) bulk superconductivity for $x\lesssim 0.1$, and (iii) a range \sim 0.25\leq x\leq 0.45 in which superconductivity coexists with static incommensurate magnetic order. The results are qualitatively consistent with a two-band mean-field model in which itinerant magnetism and extended s-wave superconductivity are competing order parameters.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Viscous Quark-Gluon Plasma in the Early Universe
Creators: name: Tawfik, A.
name: Wahba, M.
name: Mansour, H.
name: Harko, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the evolution of a flat, isotropic and homogeneous Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe, filled with a causal bulk viscous cosmological fluid, that can be characterized by an ultra-relativistic equation of state and bulk viscosity coefficient obtained from recent lattice QCD calculations. The basic equation for the Hubble parameter is derived under the assumption that the total energy in the Universe is conserved. By assuming a power law dependence of bulk viscosity coefficient, temperature and relaxation time on energy density, an approximate solution of the field equations has been obtained, in which we utilized equations of state from recent lattice QCD simulations QCD and heavy-ion collisions to derive an evolution equation. In this treatment for the viscous cosmology, we found no evidence for singularity. For example, both Hubble parameter and scale factor are finite at $t=0$, $t$ is the comoving time. Furthermore, their time evolution essentially differs from the one associated with non-viscous and ideal gas. Also thermodynamic quantities, like temperature, energy density and bulk pressure remain finite as well. In order to prove that the free parameter in our model does influence the final results, qualitatively, we checked out other articular solutions.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures including 7 eps graphs
Central Europe's way to a market economy, 1000-1800
Creators: name: Volckart, Oliver
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: 940 Geschichte Europas

description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: This article presents a model of the transformation of the Central European economy between the years 1000 and 1800. On the basis of assumptions about the social environment, the actors, and the relations between them, deductions are made that are compared to actual historical developments. The model explains why competitive markets emerged in the high Middle Ages, why anti-competitive corporations and states developed in the period up to the seventeenth century, and why institutions safeguarding market exchange began to be introduced in the course of the eighteenth century.
An updated survey of globular clusters in M 31. III. A spectroscopic metallicity scale for the Revised Bologna Catalog
Creators: name: Galleti, S.
name: Bellazzini, M.
name: Buzzoni, A.
name: Federici, L.
name: Pecci, F. Fusi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new homogeneous set of metallicity estimates based on Lick indices for 245 old globular clusters of the M31 galaxy comprised in the Revised Bologna Catalog. The metallicity distribution of the M31 globular clusters is briefly discussed and compared with that of the Milky Way. Simple parametric statistics suggests that the [Fe/H] distribution is likely not unimodal. The strong correlation between metallicity and kinematics found in previous studies is confirmed. The most metal-rich GCs tend to be packed at the center of the system and share the galactic rotation as traced by the HI disk. Although the velocity dispersion around the curve increases with decreasing metallicity, also clusters with [Fe/H]
description: 25 pages with 17 figures and 2 Appendices - To appear on Astronomy & Astrophysics
Additional file 2 of Development of type 2 diabetes mellitus quality indicators in general practice by a modified Delphi method in Beijing, China
Creators: name: Jin, Guanghui
name: Wei, Yun
name: Liu, Yanli
name: Wang, Feiyue
name: Wang, Meirong
name: Zhao, Yali
name: Du, Juan
name: Cui, Shuqi
name: Lu, Xiaoqin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Results of ratings in the Delphi survey and consensus meeting
Applied Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Creators: name: Kerr, Elenor
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis details projects undertaken during my 22-month field placement in Australia and Cambodia. From February to December 2019, I undertook my MAE field placement at the Queensland Health Communicable Diseases Branch, which is responsible for the surveillance, prevention, and control of communicable diseases in Queensland. From January until late March 2020 I was based in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia, and undertook field placement with the Institut Pasteur Cambodia (IPC). IPC is a not-for-profit French foundation and manages one of only two laboratories in Cambodia. During this time, I was also seconded to support the Cambodian Ministry of Health COVID-19 response. On return to Australia in late March 2020, I was placed at the Doherty Institute in Melbourne and from July onwards was subsequently seconded on a part-time basis to the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) COVID-19 Public Health Intelligence team. My projects comprised: a multi-jurisdictional outbreak investigation of Salmonella Heidelberg, 2018-2019; investigating trends in the epidemiology of inter-seasonal influenza in Queensland, 2009-2019; exploring the feasibility of a surveillance mechanism for rapid viral suppression among those newly diagnosed with HIV in Queensland; and analysis of a malaria re-infection in a child cohort in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, 2013. This thesis also describes other experiences and public health activities undertaken during my placements: involvement in trachoma screening and a sero-prevalence research project in Doomadgee, Northern Queensland; involvement in measles outbreak support activities in South Brisbane; data analysis support for a human leptospirosis case-control study in the Yangon Region, Myanmar; field epidemiological support to the Cambodian Ministry of Health in response to COVID-19; and involvement in COVID-19 outbreaks at the Victorian DHHS. These projects and experiences fulfil the core requirements of the Australian National University Master of Philosophy (Applied Epidemiology) program.tional University Master of Philosophy (Applied Epidemiology) program.
CP-odd weak basis invariants and texture zeros
Creators: name: Dev, S.
name: Kumar, Sanjeev
name: Verma, Surender
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the CP-odd weak basis invariants from the neutrino mass matrix in a weak basis in which the charged lepton mass matrix is diagonal and find the necessary and sufficient conditions for CP conservation. We study the interrelationships between different CP-odd weak basis invariants to examine their implications for the Dirac and Majorana type CP violating phases for the phenomenologically allowed Frampton-Glashow-Marfatia texture zero structures of the neutrino mass matrix.
description: 9 pages, three tables, Phys. Rev. D (to appear)
Matroids on domains of functions.
Creators: name: Prendergast, Kevin
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Any integer-valued function with finite domain E defines, by means of an associated submodular function on 2E , a matroid M(E). The class pi of matroids so obtained is closed under restriction, contraction, and is self dual. We show it consists precisely of those transversal matroids having a presentation in which the sets of the presentation are nested. We give an excluded minor characterisation of M . We count the members of M on an n-set and exhibit explicitly those on a 6-set. We extend the above investigation, using Rado's Selection Principle, and permitting E to be infinite, to pregeometries. Finally, by examining some integer-valued functions on Er with r possibly greater than 1, we discuss some of the properties of the class of matroids so obtained.
A solvable group isospectral to S(4,3)
Creators: name: Zavarnitsine, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20D06, 20D60

description: We construct a solvable group G of order 5648590729620 such that the set of element orders of G coincides with that of the simple group S(4,3). This completes the determination of finite simple groups isospectral to solvable groups.
Renormalized field theory of collapsing directed randomly branched polymers
Creators: name: Janssen, Hans-Karl
name: Wevelsiep, Frank
name: Stenull, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a dynamical field theory for directed randomly branched polymers and in particular their collapse transition. We develop a phenomenological model in the form of a stochastic response functional that allows us to address several interesting problems such as the scaling behavior of the swollen phase and the collapse transition. For the swollen phase, we find that by choosing model parameters appropriately, our stochastic functional reduces to the one describing the relaxation dynamics near the Yang-Lee singularity edge. This corroborates that the scaling behavior of swollen branched polymers is governed by the Yang-Lee universality class as has been known for a long time. The main focus of our paper lies on the collapse transition of directed branched polymers. We show to arbitrary order in renormalized perturbation theory with $\varepsilon$-expansion that this transition belongs to the same universality class as directed percolation.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
End-to-end design framework for compressed on-chip pixel-wise spectro-polarimeters
Creators: name: Stockmans, T. A.
name: Snik, F.
name: Smit, J. M.
name: Rietjens, J. H. H.
name: Esposito, M.
name: van Dijk, C.
name: Keller, C. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern detector manufacturing allows spectral and polarimetric filters to be directly integrated on top of separate detector pixels. This enables the creation of CubeSat-sized spectro-polarimetric instruments that are not much larger than the detector and a lens. Redundancy inherent to the observed scene, offers the opportunity for sparse sampling in the form of not scanning all filters at every location. However, when there are fewer pushbroom steps than filters, data are missing in the resulting data cube. The missing, largely redundant data can be filled in with interpolation methods, often called demosaicers. The choice of filters and their precise layout influences the performance of the instrument after the demosaicing process. In these proceedings we describe a part of a design toolbox for both the filter layout and the optimum parameters for the reconstruction to a full spectro-polarimetric data cube. The design tool is based on training a (neural) network and jointly updating the values of the filters and demosaicer. We optimized a filter layout by training on spectro-polarimetric remote observations of the Earth acquired by SPEX airborne. This optimised filter layout could reconstruct a validation scene from five overlapping snapshots (pushbroom steps), which would take 109 pushbroom steps when measuring with a classical layout and no reconstruction.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings
Structure and control of self-sustained target waves in excitable small-world networks
Creators: name: Qian, Yu
name: Huang, Xiaodong
name: Hu, Gang
name: Liao, Xuhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small-world networks describe many important practical systems among which neural networks consisting of excitable nodes are the most typical ones. In this paper we study self-sustained oscillations of target waves in excitable small-world networks. A novel dominant phase-advanced driving (DPAD) method, which is generally applicable for analyzing all oscillatory complex networks consisting of nonoscillatory nodes, is proposed to reveal the self-organized structures supporting this type of oscillations. The DPAD method explicitly explores the oscillation sources and wave propagation paths of the systems, which are otherwise deeply hidden in the complicated patterns of randomly distributed target groups. Based on the understanding of the self-organized structure, the oscillatory patterns can be controlled with extremely high efficiency.
description: 16 pages 5 figures
Evaluation of the student nurse on the application of theory
Creators: name: Persyn, Marie
Publisher: name: University of Oregon
Year: 1932
Subjects: Students, Nursing
Education, Nursing

description: The term nursing is very difficult to define because it does not mean merely caring for the sick but contains many more problems. Technically, nursing is the performance of procedure. Adding to this are various factors such as a clear understanding of the physical, mental and societal attitudes of the life of the individual and helping the patient to adjust to the new environment in which he finds himself due to his illness. There must be quality in nursing and to obtain this it depends on a sound scientific background correlated during the work with ward teaching.
PKS 0537-286, carrying the information of the environment of SMBHs in the early Universe
Creators: name: Bottacini, E.
name: Ajello, M.
name: Greiner, J.
name: Pian, E.
name: Rau, A.
name: Palazzi, E.
name: Covin, S.
name: Ghisellini, G.
name: Krühler, T.
name: Yoldas, A. Küpcü
name: Cappelluti, N.
name: Afonso, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a multifrequency campaign on the high-redshift (z = 3.1) blazar PKS 0537-286. The source was observed at different epochs from 2006 to 2008 with INTEGRAL and Swift, and nearly simultaneously with ground-based near-IR/optical telescopes. The SEDs are compatible with a model based on synchrotron radiation and external inverse Compton scattering. The campaign gives an insight into the physical environment of the blazar.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
title: A Study of the Relationships Between Hemispheric Asymmetries and Intellectual Abilities
Creators: name: McShane, Anne
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1987

description: This study investigated the functional significance of cerebral asymmetries. Width measurements of the human brain were derived from computerized tomographic (CT) films and related to intellectual variables as determined by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Revised (WAIS-R). Subjects were adults of both sexes who had been referred for neurologic examination and were diagnosed as having no abnormalities (N=28). Reasons for referral included headache, dizziness, or to rule out central nervous system damage following various types of trauma. The asymmetry of hemispheric widths (left minus right) in the frontal, temporoparietal, and occipital areas was correlated with Verbal IQ minus Performance IQ scores within subjects. The difference between verbal and performance IQ scores was used because it reflected an IQ imbalance (IQ-I). Correlations obtained were -.30, -.26, and .06 (respectively). None of these correlations were significant by means of a two-tailed test. There were relationships between particular width asymmetries and individual subtest scores (p≤.05). The Verbal 1 (V1) subtest (Information) was correlated -.50, -.39 and -.47 with brain width asymmetries at 25%, 33% and 50% of the AP distance respectively. V1 correlated .39 with width asymmetry at 80%. Verbal 3 (Vocabulary), verbal 4 (Arithmetic) and verbal 5 (Comprehension) correlated .53 .38, and .39 with width asymmetry at 60% of the AP distance. Performance 1 (Picture Completion) correlated .46 with the width asymmetry at 20% of the AP length. In summary, there does appear to be some specific correlation between individual variation in brain asymmetry and cognitive processing. Relative size of the area of the brain that is involved in a key aspect of a particular cognitive processing may be a factor in the effectiveness of that processing. Further research appears warranted to confirm and clarify a possible relation between anatomical asymmetry and patterns of intellectual ability.
EL CAMPO DE LA DIRECCIÓN INTERNACIONAL: LA INVESTIGACIÓN DESARROLLADA EN LAS ULNIVERSIDADES ESPAÑOLAS 2023
Creators: name: Hurtado Torres, Nuria Esther
name: GARCÍA CABRERA, Antonia M.
name: HERNANDEZ PAZ, VIRGINIA
name: García-Soto, M. Gracia
name: Dejo Oricain, Natalia María
name: Gutierrez Pérez, FRANCISCO JAVIER
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Hurtado Torres N.E.; García Cabrera A.M.; Hernández Paz V.; Dejo Oricain N.; García Soto M.G.; Gutiérrez Pérez F.J.(2023):El Campo de la Dirección Internacional: La Investigación Desarrollada en las Universidades Españolas, Sección Dirección Internacional, Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa.

OBJETIVOS:

Conocer el perfil de los investigadores/as que desarrollan su investigación en el campo de estudio de Dirección Internacional.

Identificar cuáles son las principales fuentes de financiación y el nivel de colaboración en las investigaciones desarrolladas en el campo de estudio de Dirección Internacional.

Observar las principales metodologías, bases de datos y temáticas de investigación en el campo de estudio de Dirección Internacional.
Nucleon Resonances and Quark Structure
Creators: name: Londergan, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A pedagogical review of the past 50 years of study of resonances, leading to our understanding of the quark content of baryons and mesons. The level of this review is intended for undergraduates or first-year graduate students. Topics covered include: the quark structure of the proton as revealed through deep inelastic scattering; structure functions and what they reveal about proton structure; and prospects for further studies with new and upgraded facilities, particularly a proposed electron-ion collider.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures