cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Review and Prioritization of Various Advertisement Methods by Meat Products Matrix Analytic Hierarchy Method (AHP): A Case Study of Sausages Products
Creators: name: Esfandi, Sara
name: Fatahi, Ahmad
name: Esfandi, Sara
name: Fatahi, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Meat products
subject: Advertising
subject: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

description: Advertising is not only as a tool to increase company sales. Fast development of mass communication tools and added new mediums to advertising media have been introduced the advertising as a key element in the success or failure of a company. Due to the intense competition between companies and the fast growth of markets and changes in consumer behavior, advertising is taken into consideration as a major tool to create consumer awareness of products and services. Thus, in order to choose the best advertising method for meat products (sausages and salami), comments of 500 Shiraz citizens are collected by Cochran sampling and used in data analysis by Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). After gathering the data, by synthesis the comments of respondents through arithmetic mean, the pairwise comparison matrix of criteria and priorities was formed to estimate the relative weights of them to achieve the goals of "the best method of advertising". The results indicated with respect to citizen viewpoints, the media advertisement, the street billboards, the advertising brochures, the advertising kiosks, and the purchase awards have the highest degree of importance with weight 0.430, 0.238, 0.139, 0.098 and 0.096, respectively. Due to the competition of different meat products factories, to make interest and encourage for purchasing a goods toward the competitor goods, it is necessary to use the persuasive advertisement.
Does One Size Fit All? An Analysis of Tax and Expenditure Limitations in Colorado
Creators: name: Ward, Jr., Marvin
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This analysis evaluates three tax and expenditure limitation (TEL) policies in Colorado: the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights (TABOR), the Statewide Limitation on Property Tax Revenue (SLPTR), and the Gallagher Amendment (GA). It extends previous research in two novel ways. First, it enables analysis of overlapping policies while incorporating county-specific characteristics, by abstracting away from specific policies. Rather, the focus rests on the impacts of these policies on property tax levies. Second, it incorporates spatial dependency to account for overlapping populations and economic activity. Econometric and machine learning techniques are employed to analyze county-level panel data from Colorado over the 1993-2009 time period. Within this framework, the revenue and expenditure implications of TEL policies are evaluated, and TELs are found to have material impacts in both cases. TELs are associated with depressed revenues and measurable changes in expenditure behavior. With this context, the final empirical section evaluates the drivers of successful "deBrucing" efforts, in which localities are able to exempt themselves from components of TABOR and SLPTR. The analysis demonstrates that socioeconomic factors are the dominant determinant of voting outcomes.
Investigating the Effect of Variations in Irrigation Water Price on Cropping Pattern and Gross Margin under Uncertainty (Case Study: Khorasan Razavi)
Creators: name: Mardani, Mostafa
name: Ziaee, Saman
name: Kalbali, Elham
name: Soltani, Samira
name: Mardani, Mostafa
name: Ziaee, Saman
name: Kalbali, Elham
name: Soltani, Samira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Optimization
subject: Uncertainty
subject: Water price
subject: Khorasan Razavi Province

description: Water shortage crisis is an issue that has led to drastic changes in different agricultural policies, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. Uncertainty in the amount of resources, e.g. water, used for agricultural production entails risk for farmers' income and cropping pattern changes. In the present study, the robust optimization model was used for optimal allocation of arable lands of Khorasan Razavi Province under uncertainty. During the allocation, the effect of water input price variations on total gross margin and cropping pattern was considered. It was found that under certain data, both parameters of total gross margin and total acreage are more than uncertain data. Given that water price variations resulted in tangible changes in wheat acreage, it is recommended to adopt appropriate policies to reduce its production risk.
CupNet -- Pruning a network for geometric data
Creators: name: Heese, Raoul
name: Morand, Lukas
name: Helm, Dirk
name: Bortz, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Using data from a simulated cup drawing process, we demonstrate how the inherent geometrical structure of cup meshes can be used to effectively prune an artificial neural network in a straightforward way.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Exploration on Temporal-spatial Difference of Cultivated Land Pressure and Influence Factor Analysis : A Case Study of Guangxi
Creators: name: ZHAN Changgen
name: CAI Chunmei
name: YANG Rujun
name: ZHAN Changgen
name: CAI Chunmei
name: YANG Rujun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cultivated land pressure, Principal component analysis, Temporal-spatial difference, Guangxi

description: Based on related statistical data during 1980-2014, change rule of Guangxi cultivated land pressure level was studied. Taking each municipal administrative division as evaluation unit, temporal-spatial change trend of cultivated land pressure level was explored by establishing pressure index model of cultivated land, and principal component analysis was used to explore the driving force of cultivated land pressure. Results showed that from 1980 to 2014 in Guangxi, cultivated land pressure was at level one in 12 years, level two in 19 years and level three in 4 years; mean of cultivated land pressure in each city during 2005-2014 was taken as average level of cultivated land pressure in the city, in which cultivated land pressure values of Chongzuo City, Baise City, Laibin City, Liuzhou City, Fangchenggang City, Nanning City, Hechi City and Guigang City were all lower than average level in Guangxi at the same period. Driving factors of cultivated land pressure index mainly contained urbanization rate, Engel coefficient of rural households (ECRH), per capita cultivated land area, total population and rural per capita net income (RPFI).
Differentiated Community Engagement Approaches but same mission: University Outreach programs in Africa
Creators: name: Paul, Michael Nampala
name: Ronald, Kityo
name: Adipala, Ekwamu
name: Paul, Michael Nampala
name: Ronald, Kityo
name: Adipala, Ekwamu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Higher education
subject: multi-disciplinary
subject: research
subject: rural development

description: The African Journal of Rural Development (AFJRD) is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal with an ultimate purpose of sharing and increasing the depth of knowledge on aspects of sustainable rural development. The articles contained in this issue of the AFJRD, Volume 1 Issue 3 demonstrate the potential contributions of universities to uptake and diffusion of research outputs through well-structured outreach programs. Higher education is increasingly being recognised as a critical aspect of the development process, especially with the growing awareness of the role of science, technology and innovation in economic renewal. There is consensus that universities have immense potential to promote technological development and uptake through their three-fold mission of teaching, research and outreach/community engagement. These are noticeable variations in strategy and approach to outreach/community engagement mainly due to the traditional separation between research and teaching. Reforms that will entail a close linkage between the three-fold mission and promote integration of research and teaching using experiential learning approaches will no double facilitate significant attention and improvements in structuring as well as institutionalising outreach/community engagement programs.
Melanotus iranicus Platia & Gudenzi 1999
Creators: name: Nasserzadeh, Hiva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Melanotus
Melanotus iranicus

description: Melanotus iranicus Platia & Gudenzi, 1999
(Map 6)
 Material examined (HMIM). Ardabil province: 3 exs.: “ ARDABIL, Meshkinshahr, Ilându, 1800 m., 3.VII.1997, Bar./Mof.”.
 Climate types. Semi-arid, cold winters and mild summers.
description: Published as part of Nasserzadeh, Hiva, 2021, A study of the click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of northwestern Iran with three new species Reitterelater prosternalis sp. n., Melanotus borumandi sp. n. and M. kurdestanicus sp. n., pp. 338-368 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 352, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4595227
Does One Size Fit All? An Analysis of Tax and Expenditure Limitations in Colorado
Creators: name: Ward, Jr., Marvin
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: This analysis evaluates three tax and expenditure limitation (TEL) policies in Colorado: the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights (TABOR), the Statewide Limitation on Property Tax Revenue (SLPTR), and the Gallagher Amendment (GA). It extends previous research in two novel ways. First, it enables analysis of overlapping policies while incorporating county-specific characteristics, by abstracting away from specific policies. Rather, the focus rests on the impacts of these policies on property tax levies. Second, it incorporates spatial dependency to account for overlapping populations and economic activity. Econometric and machine learning techniques are employed to analyze county-level panel data from Colorado over the 1993-2009 time period. Within this framework, the revenue and expenditure implications of TEL policies are evaluated, and TELs are found to have material impacts in both cases. TELs are associated with depressed revenues and measurable changes in expenditure behavior. With this context, the final empirical section evaluates the drivers of successful "deBrucing" efforts, in which localities are able to exempt themselves from components of TABOR and SLPTR. The analysis demonstrates that socioeconomic factors are the dominant determinant of voting outcomes.
Conceptualizing the Student-Centered Outreach Model for experiential learning and community transformation
Creators: name: Kalule, Stephen Wamala
name: Odongo, Walter
name: Kule, Katya Enos
name: Ndyomugyenyi, Elly Kurobuza
name: Omara, Peter
name: Ongeng, Duncan
name: Kalule, Stephen Wamala
name: Odongo, Walter
name: Kule, Katya Enos
name: Ndyomugyenyi, Elly Kurobuza
name: Omara, Peter
name: Ongeng, Duncan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Graduates
subject: Gulu University
subject: higher education
subject: labor market

description: A dominant discourse in higher education has widely called for reviewing, redesigning and alignment of the curricula to suit the current and future skills demands in the labour market. In response, universities have over time been repositioning themselves to develop practical approaches to produce graduates with skills relevant to the job market. One such approach is the Student-Centered Outreach (S-C-O) model conceived and run at Gulu University in Uganda. However, little is known about the S-C-O model and thus this paper sought to develop and present a conceptual framework that underpins the functioning of the model. The structural set-up of the framework shows that students are centrally positioned between the faculty and the community. A key resource connecting the actors in the S-C-O model is knowledge which is gained through learning that takes place from either the top or bottom side of the S-C-O model and integrating feedback to close the learning loop. Examination of the implementation of the S-C-O model reveals that the model realizes three important outcomes: (i) enhancing experiential learning, (ii) promoting university linkage with the community, and (iii) enhancing transformation of the farming practices. The need for further studies as part of a process to develop an empirical methodology for examining the impacts of this outreach model remains apparent.
Extracting dispersion curves from ambient noise correlations using deep learning
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaotian
name: Jia, Zhe
name: Ross, Zachary E.
name: Clayton, Robert W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a machine-learning approach to classifying the phases of surface wave dispersion curves. Standard FTAN analysis of surfaces observed on an array of receivers is converted to an image, of which, each pixel is classified as fundamental mode, first overtone, or noise. We use a convolutional neural network (U-net) architecture with a supervised learning objective and incorporate transfer learning. The training is initially performed with synthetic data to learn coarse structure, followed by fine-tuning of the network using approximately 10% of the real data based on human classification. The results show that the machine classification is nearly identical to the human picked phases. Expanding the method to process multiple images at once did not improve the performance. The developed technique will faciliate automated processing of large dispersion curve datasets.
Additional file 4 of Equity, acceptability and feasibility of using polyunsaturated fatty acids in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a rapid systematic review
Creators: name: D’Alò, Gian Loreto
name: Crescenzo, Franco De
name: Minozzi, Silvia
name: Morgano, Gian Paolo
name: Mitrova, Zuzana
name: Scattoni, Maria Luisa
name: Amato, Laura
name: Davoli, Marina
name: Schünemann, Holger J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for included cross-sectional studies.
Experiential learning for agricultural students in institutions of higher learning: The case of Egerton University
Creators: name: Nancy, Wangari Mungai
name: Mary, Ambula
name: Justus, Ombati
name: Arnold, Opiyo
name: Bockline, Omedo Bebe
name: Oscar, Ingasia Ayuya
name: Tom, Wambua
name: Nancy, Wangari Mungai
name: Mary, Ambula
name: Justus, Ombati
name: Arnold, Opiyo
name: Bockline, Omedo Bebe
name: Oscar, Ingasia Ayuya
name: Tom, Wambua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Academic programmes
subject: farm attachment
subject: undergraduate students
subject: universities

description: Traditionally, many universities have majored in training and research but are increasingly under pressure to proactively engage communities through their academic programmes. The need to produce graduates with practical experience in their areas of specialization is real and urgent. Universities must therefore seek innovative approaches to provide students with experiential learning through internship programmes, among other approaches. This paper documents Egerton University’s farm attachment programme that provides agricultural students an opportunity to work with rural communities as part of their training. The paper outlines the approach used, characteristics of farms and farmers that participated in the programme, typology of students participating, lessons learnt and the impacts of the programme. Students were attached on farms for a minimum of eight weeks where they spent 3-4 days in the farm and 1-2 days at the Sub- County Agricultural offices. Since January 2014 when the programme was initiated, over 200 students and about 100 farmers have participated in the programme. Impacts and benefits of the programme include increased productivity at the farm level, increased awareness and utilization of agricultural technologies by farmers and students, lessons and experiences pointing to the need for curriculum review, as well as need for prompt, reliable and unbiased agricultural information, and ethnic integration. Integration of the farm attachment programme experiences into university-wide learning and teaching curricula and/ or approaches will go a long way in safeguarding benefits realized and thus, increasing the relevance and contribution by Egerton University to development agenda . A model for scaling up the programme for greater impact is discussed.
Additional file 3 of Equity, acceptability and feasibility of using polyunsaturated fatty acids in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a rapid systematic review
Creators: name: D’Alò, Gian Loreto
name: Crescenzo, Franco De
name: Minozzi, Silvia
name: Morgano, Gian Paolo
name: Mitrova, Zuzana
name: Scattoni, Maria Luisa
name: Amato, Laura
name: Davoli, Marina
name: Schünemann, Holger J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Quality of Health Economic Studies (QHES) instrument rating for included cost-analysis studies.
Comments on the 2001 run of the EXPLORER/NAUTILUS gravitational wave experiment
Creators: name: Astone, P.
name: Babusci, D.
name: Bassan, M.
name: Bonifazi, P.
name: Carelli, P.
name: Cavallari, G.
name: Coccia, E.
name: Cosmelli, C.
name: D'Antonio, S.
name: Fafone, V.
name: Frasca, S.
name: Giordano, G.
name: Marini, A.
name: Minenkov, Y.
name: Modena, I.
name: Modestino, G.
name: Moleti, A.
name: Pallottino, G. V.
name: Pizzella, G.
name: Quintieri, L.
name: Rocchi, A.
name: Ronga, F.
name: Terenzi, R.
name: Torrioli, G.
name: Visco, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently published analysis of the coincidences between the EXPLORER and NAUTILUS gravitational wave detectors in the year 2001 (Astone et al. 2002) has drawn some criticism (Finn 2003). We do not hold with these objections, even if we agree that no claim can be made with our data. The paper we published reports data of unprecedented quality and sets a new procedure for the coincidence search, which can be repeated again by us and by other groups in order to search for signature of possible signals. About the reported coincidence excess, we remark that it is not destined to remain an intriguing observation for long: it will be confirmed or denied soon by interferometers and bars operating at their expected sensitivity.
description: To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Dilute Fermi gas: kinetic and interaction energies
Creators: name: Shanenko, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A dilute homogeneous 3D Fermi gas in the ground state is considered for the case of a repulsive pairwise interaction. The low-density (dilution) expansions for the kinetic and interaction energies of the system in question are calculated up to the third order in the dilution parameter. Similar to the recent results for a Bose gas, the calculated quantities turn out to depend on a pairwise interaction through the two characteristic lengths: the former, $a$, is the well-known s-wave scattering length, and the latter, $b$, is related to $a$ by $b=a-m (\partial a/\partial m)$, where $m$ stands for the fermion mass. To take control of the results, calculations are fulfilled in two independent ways. The first involves the Hellmann-Feynman theorem, taken in conjunction with a helpful variational theorem for the scattering length. This way is used to derive the kinetic and interaction energies from the familiar low-density expansion of the total system energy first found by Huang and Yang. The second way operates with the in-medium pair wave functions. It allows one to derive the quantities of interest``from the scratch'', with no use of the total energy. An important result of the present investigation is that the pairwise interaction of fermions makes an essential contribution to their kinetic energy. Moreover, there is a complicated and interesting interplay of these quantities.
Contributing towards sustainable farming through synergy between student training and action research with emerging farmers
Creators: name: Ibo, Zimmermann
name: Theofilus, Shiimi
name: Alexander, Meroro
name: Lucia, Kafidi
name: Solomon, Mbai
name: Ibo, Zimmermann
name: Theofilus, Shiimi
name: Alexander, Meroro
name: Lucia, Kafidi
name: Solomon, Mbai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Agricultural extension
subject: Namibia
subject: participatory approaches
subject: students action research

description: A learning approach has evolved since 1992 at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (formerly the Polytechnic of Namibia) to expose students to hands-on extension work, while encouraging farmers to experiment with sustainable production methods and explore business opportunities. All second and third-year students of the Agriculture programme are taken together on two visits per year to a farming community, often on a resettlement farm. The courses involved are Agricultural Extension, Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Land Management and Agroecology. For each course students undertake particular activities before, during and after the visits. Students are divided into groups, with each group allocated a a broad thematic area of focus to ensure integration. Examples of thematic areas of interest are water; grazing; trees and bushes; livestock; crops; gardening; energy; transport; food storage; value addition; marketing. During the first visit many of the students facilitate the initiation of small-scale trials to be managed by farmers. These trials are then jointly evaluated during the second visit about two months later.
Post-Occupation Obligations Under The Law Of Belligerent Occupation?
Creators: name: Wolf, Dana
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation explores the issue of whether international law of belligerent occupation encompasses, or should evolve to encompass, some form of post occupation duties upon a former occupier. The most fundamental question of this dissertation is thus, who bears responsibility under the law of belligerent occupation for the protection of civilians of the formerly occupied zone with respect to public order, security, and essential services, and in particular with respect to the rights and obligations of governance of a territory following the end of occupation, given that the law of belligerent occupation is motivated by both a “civilian protection” principle and a “preserve the sovereignty of the returning sovereign” principle. This legal question arises because of a lack of “fit” between the basic paradigm of occupation underpinning the law of belligerent occupation and situations of occupation (which might be acknowledged by the parties or not) that arise in the contemporary world that are not easily assimilated to the structure of belligerent occupation law. These gaps and poor fit give rise to criticisms of the law of belligerent occupation as being inadequate for addressing the varied situations of occupation that have arisen in the past several decades. The result of the critiques is a call for either other bodies of law to provide for civilian protection in any gap of governance or protection, or else to reform belligerent occupation law, in order to impose duties toward the territory and civilian population, upon the former occupier, even after the occupation has been withdrawn. This dissertation accepts that there are important gaps and lack of fit with the law of belligerent occupation as it stands today. It concludes, however, that the law of belligerent occupation does not create an on-going regime of post occupation duties falling upon the former occupier. To fill in the vacuum, a “transitional post occupation obligation” model is proposed, grounded not in other bodies of law, but in the law of belligerent occupation itself, which should be triggered under certain circumstances when the end of occupation is approaching and gaps in essential governance and civilian protection at issue. The defining element of this model is a transfer of rights and duties of governance from the departing occupier to the returning sovereign, for the protection of the civilian population, rather than a body of legal duties falling upon the former occupier alone.
Clebsch parameterization from the symplectic point of view
Creators: name: Neves, C.
name: Oliveira, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work propose an alternative and systematic way to obtain a canonical Lagrangian formulation for rotational systems. This will be done in the symplectic framework and with the introduction of extra variables which enlarge the phase space. In fact, this formalism provides a remarkable and new result to compute the canonical Lagrangian formulation for rotational systems, {\it i.e.}, the obstruction to the construction of a canonical formalism can be solved in an arbitrary way and, consequently, a set of dynamically equivalent Lagrangian descriptions can be computed.
description: 4 pages, no figures, revtex4
Perturbo: a software package for ab initio electron-phonon interactions, charge transport and ultrafast dynamics
Creators: name: Zhou, Jin-Jian
name: Park, Jinsoo
name: Lu, I-Te
name: Maliyov, Ivan
name: Tong, Xiao
name: Bernardi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perturbo is a software package for first-principles calculations of charge transport and ultrafast carrier dynamics in materials. The current version focuses on electron-phonon interactions and can compute phonon-limited transport properties such as the conductivity, carrier mobility and Seebeck coefficient. It can also simulate the ultrafast nonequilibrium electron dynamics in the presence of electron-phonon scattering. Perturbo uses results from density functional theory and density functional perturbation theory calculations as input, and employs Wannier interpolation to reduce the computational cost. It supports norm-conserving and ultrasoft pseudopotentials, spin-orbit coupling, and polar electron-phonon corrections for bulk and 2D materials. Hybrid MPI plus OpenMP parallelization is implemented to enable efficient calculations on large systems (up to at least 50 atoms) using high-performance computing. Taken together, Perturbo provides efficient and broadly applicable ab initio tools to investigate electron-phonon interactions and carrier dynamics quantitatively in metals, semiconductors, insulators, and 2D materials.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures, submitted
Intervention Material: Enhancing oxytocin and prolactin hormones to combat oligogalactia with emotional management and massagefor working mothers
Creators: name: astuti, dwi
name: Rahfiludin, Mohammad Zen
name: Dwidiyanti, Meidiana
name: Maher Denny, Hanifa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420699
subject: Public health not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420499
subject: Midwifery not elsewhere classified

description: This is the intervention material for the research "Enhancing oxytocin and prolactin hormones to combat oligogalactia with emotional management and massage for working mothers"
Strengthening capacity building in data analysis in West African Universities and research institutions: A three-year experience of the Master Programme in Biostatistics at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Creators: name: Romain, Glèlè Kakaï
name: Romain, Glèlè Kakaï
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Biological researches
subject: innovations
subject: modern statistical and mathematical methods
subject: scientific research

description: Scientific research plays a key role in development, especially in economic growth of countries. Scientific innovations, the main outcome of scientific research, require the use of modern statistical and mathematical methods in research works. In Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, Statistics is underutilized and some situations misused in biological researches. The master programme in Statistics, major Biostatistics at the University of Abomey-Calavi has been created and implemented by the Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences in order to fill this gap. This master programme has four semesters and is taught in English with lecturers mainly coming from Benin and Togo, but also some come from United States of America (USA) and Belgium. Analysis of the three-year experience of this programme reveals an increasing trend of the number of students involved with a total of 44 students coming from 12 African countries. Defense of the first batch of students in this master programme (24-29 February, 2016) targeted some modern statistical and mathematical methods including linear and non-linear mixed effects models, matrix projection models, ordination methods, generalized linear models, survival analyses and efficiency analyses with applications in biology. The current challenges linked to this master programme can be lessened through a partnership with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), universities and research institutions in other countries in West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria), Eastern Africa (Uganda, Kenya) and Southern African (South Africa) to share and improve curricula in Biostatistics training.
title: Chronic Dysregulation of the Cerebrovasculature in a Mouse Model of Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Creators: name: Lynch, Cillian Eamonn
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2019

description: There are over 2 million reports of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) every year in the United States alone, the majority of which are classified as a mild head injury. Incidences of mild TBI (mTBI), the kind of which are sustained most routinely by contact sports athletes, active military personnel, are now well accepted as being a risk factor for development of chronic neurodegenerative disorders such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).

 To date, the diagnosis of CTE has been based on post-mortem neuropathological assessment of brain tissue, precluding the possibility of prophylactic or interventional therapy in human patients presenting with symptomatology too ambiguous for antemortem diagnosis, and ergo, appropriate clinical trial stratification.

Recently, it has been reported that military personnel and players of contact sports experiencing repetitive m-TBI (r-mTBI), as well as individuals suffering from chronic TBI-related illness, demonstrate a deficit in Cerebral Vascular Reactivity (CVR). This physiological impairment is non-invasively detected following repeat mTBI, and seen to be sustained at chronic time-points post-injury in both r-mTBI and moderate to severe TBI patients alike, implicating CVR detriment as an endophenotypic biomarker and possible in vivo diagnostic of TBI-related neuropathogenesis, and Traumatic Cerebral Vascular Injury (TCVI).

 In this thesis, I developed and validated a preclinical in vivo imaging setup to examine CVR in our CTE-like neuropathology exhibiting mouse model of r-mTBI, with an aim to characterizing the evolving pathobiology of TCVI and concurrent euro behavioral impairment, and their correlation to perturbed CVR. I demonstrated recapitulation of the CVR deficit seen in the human population in our animal model, alongside sustained memory and learning impairment, and signs of an underlying response of the cerebral vasculature to injury. These finding implicate measurement of CVR as a valid preclinical diagnostic, and the treatment of TCVI as a compelling parallel pathological target in r-mTBI.
Facilitating transformative learning for community development: Experiences from Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Precious, Tirivanhu
name: Precious, Tirivanhu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Comprehensive Community Initiative
subject: Dialogue
subject: rural development
subject: sustainable social change

description: This paper asserts problematic frames of reference among community members and the breakdown in community wide dialogue as key contributing factors towards the slow pace in rural development and social change. The frames of reference are considered problematic partly because they influence community members to view development programmes negatively. It is argued that transformative learning through dialogue enhances sustainable social change. The praxis for facilitating community wide transformational learning was explored using a mixed methods research methodology with the Mhakwe Comprehensive Community Initiative in Zimbabwe as a case study. Qualitative data were collected from action research, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. Quantitative data were collected using a structured questionnaire following a multi stage stratified sampling procedure (n=65). Based on the findings, key enablers for transformative learning include: addressing community polarity; creating communicative space; refining Frames of Reference; and developing dialogue infrastructure. Transformative learning was found to be enhanced through creating positive energy and leveraging indigenous knowledge. The study concludes that development institutions need to embrace transformative learning as a strategy for sustainable social change.
Post-Occupation Obligations Under The Law Of Belligerent Occupation?
Creators: name: Wolf, Dana
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation explores the issue of whether international law of belligerent occupation encompasses, or should evolve to encompass, some form of post occupation duties upon a former occupier. The most fundamental question of this dissertation is thus, who bears responsibility under the law of belligerent occupation for the protection of civilians of the formerly occupied zone with respect to public order, security, and essential services, and in particular with respect to the rights and obligations of governance of a territory following the end of occupation, given that the law of belligerent occupation is motivated by both a “civilian protection” principle and a “preserve the sovereignty of the returning sovereign” principle. This legal question arises because of a lack of “fit” between the basic paradigm of occupation underpinning the law of belligerent occupation and situations of occupation (which might be acknowledged by the parties or not) that arise in the contemporary world that are not easily assimilated to the structure of belligerent occupation law. These gaps and poor fit give rise to criticisms of the law of belligerent occupation as being inadequate for addressing the varied situations of occupation that have arisen in the past several decades. The result of the critiques is a call for either other bodies of law to provide for civilian protection in any gap of governance or protection, or else to reform belligerent occupation law, in order to impose duties toward the territory and civilian population, upon the former occupier, even after the occupation has been withdrawn. This dissertation accepts that there are important gaps and lack of fit with the law of belligerent occupation as it stands today. It concludes, however, that the law of belligerent occupation does not create an on-going regime of post occupation duties falling upon the former occupier. To fill in the vacuum, a “transitional post occupation obligation” model is proposed, grounded not in other bodies of law, but in the law of belligerent occupation itself, which should be triggered under certain circumstances when the end of occupation is approaching and gaps in essential governance and civilian protection at issue. The defining element of this model is a transfer of rights and duties of governance from the departing occupier to the returning sovereign, for the protection of the civilian population, rather than a body of legal duties falling upon the former occupier alone.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS AS A MODALITY OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY: AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF THE FULBRIGHT PAKISTAN PROGRAM
Creators: name: Abbas, Saba Bint
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The objective of this study is to analyze the role educational exchange programs as a public diplomacy modality using the Fulbright Foreign Student Program Pakistan as a case study. This study investigates the ways in which the Fulbright Foreign Student program has been able to achieve its legislative goal pertaining to the US public diplomacy among scholarship recipients from Pakistan, in the post 9/11 context. Although the impact of exchange programs like the Fulbright program as a public diplomacy tool has been extensively studied, excessive reliance on anecdotal evidence render their findings abstract. Official evaluations of the Fulbright program are designed to gauge participant satisfaction with the program conditions. Rigorous analysis of participant perceptions about the host society and the state of host-home country relations remain largely understudied. This paper attempts to address this gap, probing the change in perceptions of the scholarship recipients from Pakistan vis-à-vis American society, its people and the US foreign policy. Through an online questionnaire adapted from the Pew Global Images database, current Pakistani Fulbright scholars, were surveyed. Data was analyzed using cross tabulation and frequency tables. The findings of the study indicate that Fulbright scholarship has been partially successful in attaining its legislative goal among the Pakistani recipients. A majority of participants reported an increased understanding and tolerance towards American people and society due to their Fulbright experience. However, their perceptions about the US foreign policy and the state of Pakistan-US relationship remain critical.
Additional file 1 of Equity, acceptability and feasibility of using polyunsaturated fatty acids in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a rapid systematic review
Creators: name: D’Alò, Gian Loreto
name: Crescenzo, Franco De
name: Minozzi, Silvia
name: Morgano, Gian Paolo
name: Mitrova, Zuzana
name: Scattoni, Maria Luisa
name: Amato, Laura
name: Davoli, Marina
name: Schünemann, Holger J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy.
Bounds for flag codes
Creators: name: Kurz, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51E20, 94B65, 94B99, 05B25

description: The application of flags to network coding has been introduced recently by Liebhold, Nebe, and Vazquez-Castro. It is a variant to random linear network coding and explicit routing solutions for given networks. Here we study lower and upper bounds for the maximum possible cardinality of a corresponding flag code with given parameters.
description: 23 pages, 6 tables, typos corrected
MOND and Cosmology
Creators: name: Sanders, R. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review various ideas on MOND cosmology and structure formation beginning with non-relativistic models in analogy with Newtonian cosmology. I discuss relativistic MOND cosmology in the context of Bekenstein's theory and propose an alternative biscalar effective theory of MOND in which the acceleration parameter is identified with the cosmic time derivative of a matter coupling scalar field. Cosmic CDM appears in this theory as scalar field oscillations of the auxiliary "coupling strength" field.
description: 8 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures, to appear in proceedings of IAP05 in Paris: Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures, G. Mamon, F. Combes, C. Deffayet and B. Fort (eds), (EDP-Sciences 2005)
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS AS A MODALITY OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY: AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF THE FULBRIGHT PAKISTAN PROGRAM
Creators: name: Abbas, Saba Bint
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this study is to analyze the role educational exchange programs as a public diplomacy modality using the Fulbright Foreign Student Program Pakistan as a case study. This study investigates the ways in which the Fulbright Foreign Student program has been able to achieve its legislative goal pertaining to the US public diplomacy among scholarship recipients from Pakistan, in the post 9/11 context. Although the impact of exchange programs like the Fulbright program as a public diplomacy tool has been extensively studied, excessive reliance on anecdotal evidence render their findings abstract. Official evaluations of the Fulbright program are designed to gauge participant satisfaction with the program conditions. Rigorous analysis of participant perceptions about the host society and the state of host-home country relations remain largely understudied. This paper attempts to address this gap, probing the change in perceptions of the scholarship recipients from Pakistan vis-à-vis American society, its people and the US foreign policy. Through an online questionnaire adapted from the Pew Global Images database, current Pakistani Fulbright scholars, were surveyed. Data was analyzed using cross tabulation and frequency tables. The findings of the study indicate that Fulbright scholarship has been partially successful in attaining its legislative goal among the Pakistani recipients. A majority of participants reported an increased understanding and tolerance towards American people and society due to their Fulbright experience. However, their perceptions about the US foreign policy and the state of Pakistan-US relationship remain critical.
Additional file 2 of Equity, acceptability and feasibility of using polyunsaturated fatty acids in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a rapid systematic review
Creators: name: D’Alò, Gian Loreto
name: Crescenzo, Franco De
name: Minozzi, Silvia
name: Morgano, Gian Paolo
name: Mitrova, Zuzana
name: Scattoni, Maria Luisa
name: Amato, Laura
name: Davoli, Marina
name: Schünemann, Holger J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. References for included and excluded studies.
Unextendible product bases from tile structures and their local entanglement-assisted distinguishability
Creators: name: Shi, Fei
name: Zhang, Xiande
name: Chen, Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We completely characterize the condition when a tile structure provides an unextendible product basis (UPB), and construct UPBs of different large sizes in $\mathbb{C}^m\otimes\mathbb{C}^n$ for any $n\geq m\geq 3$. This solves an open problem in [S. Halder et al., Phys. Rev. A 99, 062329 (2019)]. As an application, we show that our UPBs of size $(mn-4\lfloor\frac{m-1}{2}\rfloor)$ in $\mathbb{C}^m\otimes\mathbb{C}^n$ can be perfectly distinguished by local operations and classical communications assisted with a $\lceil\frac{m}{2}\rceil\otimes\lceil\frac{m}{2}\rceil$ maximally entangled state.
Dirac spinor fields in the teleparallel gravity: comment on "Metric-affine approach to teleparallel gravity"
Creators: name: Maluf, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the coupling of a Dirac spinor field with the gravitational field in the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity is consistent. For an arbitrary SO(3,1) connection there are two possibilities for the coupling of the spinor field with the gravitational field. The problems of consistency raised by Y. N. Obukhov and J. G. Pereira in the paper {\it Metric-affine approach to teleparallel gravity} [gr-qc/0212080] take place only in the framework of one particular coupling. By adopting an alternative coupling the consistency problem disappears.
description: 8 pages, Latex file, no figures, to appear in the Phys. Rev. D as a Comment
The mediating role of emotion regulation in the relationship between trait mindfulness and posttraumatic stress symptom severity
Creators: name: Bellini, Paula G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Mindfulness, particularly nonjudgment and awareness, are associated with posttraumatic stress symptom severity (Vujanovic, Youngwirth, Johnson, & Zvolensky, 2009). However, the mechanism by which mindfulness is related to posttraumatic stress is not as well understood. Emotion regulation is associated with both mindfulness and PTSD (Tull, Barrett, McMillan, &Roemer, 2007; Vujanovic, Bonn-Miller, Bernstein, McKee, & Zvolensky, 2010). Therefore, the present study examined whether difficulties in emotion regulation mediated the relationship between mindfulness and posttraumatic stress symptom severity in a sample of 188 trauma exposed adults. Participants completed questionnaires on trait mindfulness, difficulties in emotion regulation, and posttraumatic stress symptom severity. Higher levels of nonjudgment and awareness were associated with lower levels of both PTSD symptom severity and difficulties in emotion regulation. Mediation analysis revealed overall difficulties in emotion regulation, and specifically lack of access to effective emotion regulation strategies, mediated the relationship between nonjudgment and awareness to PTSD symptom severity. Although correlational, these results provide further insight into one possible mechanism of action by which mindfulness is associated with PTSD symptom severity.
Accelerating Universes and String Theory
Creators: name: Balasubramanian, Vijay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article reviews recent developments in the study of universes with a positive cosmological constant in string theory.
description: Review based on lectures given at the PIMS Summer School, Vancouver, 2003 and the RTN Network school, Copenhagen, 2003. (1) v2: Many added references. (2) 31 pages, LaTeX, 2 eps figures, uses iopart style files. (3) mpage may have problems printing the eps figures if you try to fit multiple pages on one sheet of paper