cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CBS News/New York Times Poll: Iowa Poll
Creators: name: CBS News
name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Barack Obama job performance (1); quality of life for next generation (1); enthusiasm toward federal government (1); voter registration (1); party registration (1); attending Republican caucus (2); paying attention to presidential campaigns (1); voter enthusiasm (1); Republican candidate preferences (5); favorability of Republican candidates (8); most important election issue (1); direction of Republican party (1); Tea Party influence (1); Herman Cain support (1); best candidate for various problems (12); enthusiasm of candidate support (8); basis for judging candidates (1); economic vs. social issues (1); defeating Obama (1); continuing past policies (1); candidate flexibility (1); voting for candidates with opposing views on various issues (3); importance of candidate religious beliefs (1); seriousness of illegal immigration (1); candidate experience (1); truthfulness of candidates (8); support for Mormon candidate (2); abortion availability (1); gay marriage (1); illegal immigrant citizenship (1); repealing health care law (1); distribution of wealth (1); raising taxes on wealthy (1); involvement in Afghanistan (1); candidate's time in Iowa (1); concern about losing job (1); personal financial situation (1); 2008 election (2); Republican candidate debates (1); attending campaign events (1); hosting campaign events (1); contacted by candidates (8); Occupy Wall Street support (1); Tea Party support (1).
Entanglement swapping with quantum-memory-compatible photons
Creators: name: Jin, Jeongwan
name: Puigibert, Marcel. li Grimau
name: Giner, Lambert
name: Slater, Joshua A.
name: Lamont, Michael R. E.
name: Verma, Varun B.
name: Shaw, M. D.
name: Marsili, Francesco
name: Nam, Sae Woo
name: Oblak, Daniel
name: Tittel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report entanglement swapping with time-bin entangled photon pairs, each constituted of a 795 nm photon and a 1533 nm photon, that are created via spontaneous parametric down conversion in a non-linear crystal. After projecting the two 1533 nm photons onto a Bell state, entanglement between the two 795 nm photons is verified by means of quantum state tomography. As an important feature, the wavelength and bandwidth of the 795 nm photons is compatible with Tm:LiNbO3-based quantum memories, making our experiment an important step towards the realization of a quantum repeater.
description: Accepted in Phys. Rev. A
Temporal distributions, habitat associations and behaviour of the green lizard (Lacerta bilineata) and wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) on roads in a fragmented landscape in Western France
Creators: name: Meek, Roger
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: Observations of the green lizard (Lacerta bilineata) and wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) on roads in Western France indicated that basking close to the road edge was the predominant activity in L. bilineata but P. muralis mostly foraged. Spatial locations of road mortalities in both species reflected this with the median distances from the road edge greater in P. muralis. Temporal differences in road presence, based on mortality counts and those of live lizards, indicated significantly more lizards were present on roads during late summer and autumn, especially in P. muralis. A significant correlation was found between the monthly presence of live lizards and monthly road mortalities in P. muralis (r = 0.73) but not in L. bilineata (r = 0.64). Numbers of L. bilineata found on roads bisecting low-density urban areas and roads bordered by hedgerows were higher than expected in relation to the occurrence of these habitats at roadsides. In P. muralis higher than expected numbers were found alongside low-density urban areas and roads bisecting woodland. Generally both species were less commonly seen on roads alongside agricultural areas with no hedgerow border.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
A New Resistive Adaptive Gate-Driving Concept with Automated Identification of Operational Parameters
Creators: name: Swoboda, Philipp
name: Kolb, Johannes
name: Brodatzki, Matthias
name: Humbert, Andreas
name: Hiller, Marc
Publisher: name: VDE Verlag
Year: 2023

description: This paper proposes a new adaptive gate-driving concept based on parallel-connected resistive driving stages, which allows the modification of the effective gate-resistance for every turn-on and turn-off event during operation. By selecting the appropriate gate-resistance, the switching behavior can be optimized individually for each specific operating point (Vsw, Isw, Tj). As a result, higher efficiency under partial load can be achieved. The selection of effective gate-resistance is based on the results of a here introduced automatic optimization method, which takes constraints such as dv/dt- and di/dt-limits into account. Subject of this paper is also the comparison of the new approach with the widely used single-stage resistive driver.
Head shape variation in eastern and western Montpellier snakes
Creators: name: Mangiacotti, Marco
name: Limongi, Laura
name: Sannolo, Marco
name: Sacchi, Roberto
name: Zuffi, Marco
name: Scali, Stefano
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: The Montpellier snake Malpolon monspessulanus is a wide-ranging species that inhabits Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa and Middle East. Four clades have been recognised as two species, M. insignitus and M. monspessulanus, each with two subspecies. Clades have been substantially identified on the basis of molecular data, pholidosis and colouration, while morphometric traits have been ignored. We compared head shape of 54 specimens belonging to three out of the four clades (M. insignitus insignitus, M. i. fuscus, and M. monspessulanus monspessulanus) by means of geometric morphometrics. We found a significant differentiation: the supraocular and frontal area showed the largest amount of variation, being respectively much thinner in M. i. insignitus, a bit less thin in M. i. fuscus and definitely wider in M. m. monspessulanus. Our findings are fully in agreement with the genetic studies and phylogeny explains more than 20% of the observed variation, supporting the taxonomic distinction inside the genus Malpolon. The functional and/or adaptive meaning of the observed differences is not clear, but it seems unlikely that it may be related to diet. Combining morphological data with phylogeography and environmental features, we formulated an explanatory hypothesis that allowed a precise and testable prediction.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Incenting Medicare STARS Clinical Health Measures: Evaluation of Part C HEDIS Measures
Creators: name: Kus, Martin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Background: Medicare Advantage (MA) health Plans provide health insurance to a large portion of Medicare recipients. Since passage of the Affordable Care Act, MA Plans have received substantial bonus payments based on their STAR rating, a measure of the quality of health care delivered by the Plan. Part C of the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) provides the clinical measures used to assign a STAR rating to the clinical performance of a MA health care Plan. Objective: To evaluate the clinical measures listed in Part C of the HEDIS set to determine which measures would be best incentivized by a MA Plan in physician contracts. Methods: The measures listed in Part C of the HEDIS data set were assessed to identify those with the potential to change physicians' practice towards a higher STAR rating. Eight measures were selected: breast cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening, osteoporosis management, diabetic eye exam, diabetic kidney disease monitoring, diabetic glucose control, blood pressure management, and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) management. Individual measures were evaluated from the framework of the relevant stakeholder perspectives involved in performance of the measure: the patient, the insurance provider, the physician, and society. Result tables were used to report each measure's performance and feasibility for physician-contract incentives by each of the four relevant perspectives. Each clinical measure was assigned a score based on its performance within the four selected perspectives. Results: Of the eight relevant clinical measures of the Part C HEDIS data set, blood glucose control and RA management offered the greatest benefit to the patient based on the magnitude of improved health and avoidance of disease complications. Diabetic kidney disease management was found to be the most favorable candidate from the insurer's perspective owing to the low cost of testing and treating, while avoiding expensive complications. The physicians' perspective received most benefit from diabetic eye and kidney disease measures due to the absence of significant barriers in completing the measure and the ease of reporting measure completion. Societal benefits were greatest in colorectal cancer screening based on their ability to both reduce a significant societal disease burden and the potential to improve health care disparities. Conclusion: This evaluation of the clinical measures of Part C HEDIS data plan found that diabetic kidney disease monitoring benefitted all stated perspectives and is a good measure to incentivize in physician - MA carrier contracts.
Macro deformation twins in single-crystal aluminum
Creators: name: Zhao, F.
name: Wang, L.
name: Fan, D.
name: Bie, B. X.
name: Zhou, X. M.
name: Suo, T.
name: Li, Y. L.
name: Chen, M. W.
name: Liu, C.
name: Qi, M. L.
name: Zhu, M. H.
name: Luo, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deformation twinning in pure aluminum has been considered to be a unique property of nanostructured aluminum. A lingering mystery is whether deformation twinning occurs in coarse-grained or single-crystal aluminum, at scales beyond nanotwins. Here, we present the first experimental demonstration of macro deformation twins in single-crystal aluminum formed under ultrahigh strain-rate ($\sim$10$^6$ s$^{-1}$), large shear strain (200$\%$) via dynamic equal channel angular pressing. Deformation twinning is rooted in the rate dependences of dislocation motion and twinning, which are coupled, complementary processes during severe plastic deformation under ultrahigh strain rates.
description: 4 pages and 4 figures
The Minnesota Poll # 31
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Franklin Roosevelt birthday holiday (1); atomic bomb testing (5); veteran influence (2); building new home (2); prefabricated houses (2); program for future peace (1); Hawaii as state (1); Alaska as state (1); Philippines independence (1); food for starving countries (2); bread purchases (4); bread eating habits (6); government rationing (1); greatest president (2); car ownership (1); eliminating automobile accidents (1); auto insurance (1); illnesses (2).
Modeling and analysis of social phenomena: challenges and possible research directions
Creators: name: Vazquez, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This opening editorial aims to interest researchers and encourage novel research in the closely related fields of sociophysics and computational social science. We briefly discuss challenges and possible research directions in the study of social phenomena, with a particular focus on opinion dynamics. The aim of this special issue is to allow physicists, mathematicians, engineers and social scientists to show their current research interests in social dynamics, as well as to collect recent advances and new techniques in the analysis of social systems.
description: Editorial letter for the special issue "Statistical Physics of Opinion Formation and Social Phenomena" of Entropy (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/Opin_Form_Soc_Phenom). 3 pages
Maximum body size and age distribution in the Italian Stream Frog, Rana italica Dubois 1987 (Amphibia: Anura)
Creators: name: Buono, Vincenzo
name: Guarino, Fabio
name: Vignoli, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: Data on mean longevity and age structure of Rana italica are very scanty. Skeletochronological data comparisons with other European brown frogs showed that life span of R. italica is similar to those of other congeneric species. In this study we report the age structure of a population of R. italica from Central Italy with a new record of species maximum size. The study population inhabits a perennial stream in a lowland oak wood. All the individuals were marked by means of toe clipping. Skeletochronological analyses showed that adult age ranged from 3 to 5 years in males and from 2 to 6 years in females with no intersexual difference. In our study, the oldest individual (estimated age was 6 years) was also the biggest (68 mm), representing the new body size record for the species. Previous skeletochronological studies on R. italica have shown that the mean longevity for this species is four years but the maximum age recorded is 5 and 8 years in low and high elevation populations, respectively. The ages recorded for the study population inhabiting a hilly area showed higher average and maximum values than those found in lowland populations.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Frangula protocrenata Doweld 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Doweld, Alexander B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rhamnaceae
Frangula
Frangula protocrenata

description: 3.7. Frangula protocrenata (Suzuki) Doweld, comb. nov.
 Basionym:— Rhamnus protocrenata Suzuki (1960: 322).
Type:— IGF 5218 (Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan) – figured by Suzuki (1960: pl. 33, fig. 8).
Geography:—Az-29 locality, road-cutting about 300 m northwest of Fujitoge, Yanaizu-machi, Kawanuma-gun, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
Stratigraphy:—Upper Miocene (Fujitoge Formation).
Status:—Leaves.
IFPNI registration record:— B8DF14F7-18AD-4ED1-A278-ABFB8CADA045.
 Note:—The fossil-species is compared with extant Frangula crenata.
description: Published as part of Doweld, Alexander B., 2017, New names of fossil Atadinus, Endotropis and Frangula (Rhamnaceae), pp. 194-200 in Phytotaxa 321 (2) on page 197, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.321.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13697436
Records of introduced stripe-necked terrapins (Mauremys species) in Italy
Creators: name: Panzeri, Mattia
name: Mori, Emiliano
name: Mazza, Giuseppe
name: Menchetti, Mattia
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: Freshwater turtles belong to the most popular pets and are often introduced outside their native range. Some species are highly invasive and may compete with native species. Three Mauremys species are naturally distributed in the Mediterranean region, but none is native to Italy. In this work we summarize records of Mauremys spp. in Italy. Records exist for 9 regions, but there are no verified breeding records. Reproduction could have happened in southern Tuscany for M. leprosa.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Smear correction of highly-variable, frame-transfer-CCD images with application to polarimetry
Creators: name: Iglesias, Francisco A.
name: Feller, Alex
name: Nagaraju, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Image smear, produced by the shutter-less operation of frame transfer CCD detectors, can be detrimental for many imaging applications. Existing algorithms used to numerically remove smear, do not contemplate cases where intensity levels change considerably between consecutive frame exposures. In this report we reformulate the smearing model to include specific variations of the sensor illumination. The corresponding desmearing expression and its noise properties are also presented and demonstrated in the context of fast imaging polarimetry.
description: Article accepted for publication in Applied Optics on 08 Jun 2015
Quantum and Spectral Properties of the Labyrinth Model
Creators: name: Takahashi, Yuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Labyrinth model, which is a two-dimensional quasicrystal model. We show that the spectrum of this model, which is known to be a product of two Cantor sets, is an interval for small values of the coupling constant. We also consider the density of states measure of the Labyrinth model, and show that it is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure for almost all values of coupling constants in small coupling regime.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Role of MicroRNA in Canine Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
Creators: name: IV, Nelly O Elshafie
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300904
subject: Veterinary diagnosis and diagnostics

description: Lymphoma is a prevalent malignancy in dogs. Diffuse large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) is the common subtype that represents about 50% of the clinically seen lymphoma cases. DLBCL diagnosis relies on cytological examination of a fine needle aspirate and histological evaluation by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in most common practices. This workflow is sufficient to confirm the diagnosis; however, it may be challenging to differentiate reactive and neoplastic forms in some controversial cases. In such cases, PCR-based clonality assays and flow cytometry (FC) can help with more conclusive diagnoses. So, finding more biomarkers that can detect and track DLBCL early and over time is a must for a final diagnosis and helps us learn more about how DLBCL starts at the molecular level. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), the small non-coding RNAs, regulate gene expression by binding to the 3'-untranslated region of protein-coding RNAs, leading to either RNA degradation or translational repression. They can switch on and off genes to regulate physiological and pathological processes. MicroRNA stability features and tissue availability make them promising biomarkers for identifying and sub-classifying patients and sequentially evaluating the disease status or the response toward a specific medicine. This dissertation investigates the small RNA sequence analysis, the differentially expressed miRNAs between healthy and DLBCL-affected lymph nodes, and the miRNA profile in DLBCL cases with different outcomes.
Anticoherence of spin states with point group symmetries
Creators: name: Baguette, D.
name: Damanet, F.
name: Giraud, O.
name: Martin, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate multiqubit permutation-symmetric states with maximal entropy of entanglement. Such states can be viewed as particular spin states, namely anticoherent spin states. Using the Majorana representation of spin states in terms of points on the unit sphere, we analyze the consequences of a point-group symmetry in their arrangement on the quantum properties of the corresponding state. We focus on the identification of anticoherent states (for which all reduced density matrices in the symmetric subspace are maximally mixed) associated with point-group symmetric sets of points. We provide three different characterizations of anticoherence, and establish a link between point symmetries, anticoherence and classes of states equivalent through stochastic local operations with classical communication (SLOCC). We then investigate in detail the case of small numbers of qubits, and construct infinite families of anticoherent states with point-group symmetry of their Majorana points, showing that anticoherent states do exist to arbitrary order.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
The Minnesota Poll # 38
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Price controls (1); rising prices (3); Henry Wallace resignation (1); Wallace foreign policy (3); Averell Harriman approval (2); future war (2); Russia's interest (1); Nuremberg trials (4); voter participation (2); party affiliation (2); senator candidate preferences (1); governor candidate preferences (1); Congressional candidate preferences (1); life insurance (5); life insurance companies (3); European refugees (2); trouble obtaining meat (3); trouble obtaining soap (2); Harry Truman job performance (1); illness (2).
NORC Survey #1954-0365: Foreign Affairs
Creators: name: NORC
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Greatest danger (1); possible war with Russia (2); Russian/American relations (1); foreign affairs (2); parties handling foreign affairs (2); Korean War (1); policy toward Chinese Nationalist government (3); defending Formosa (4); Southeast Asian Defense Treaty (2); economic aid to Japan (2); cooperation with certain countries (5); treaties for West German independence (1); John Foster Dulles (3); attention paid to Central/South American countries (1); aiding South/Central American countries (4); trust most people (1); peacetime free speech (1); groups not to be trusted in America (2); American Communism (3); soft on Communism (2); Senator McCarthy (3); likely Communists (2); groups threatening America (2); Catholic criticism (2); criticism of Jews (2); opinion of certain statements (2); American leaders (1).
NORC Survey: Foreign Affairs
Creators: name: NORC
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: War with Russia (2); criticism of Stalin (1); getting along with Russia (1); keeping countries from falling under communist influence (1); foreign affairs (1); exchange programs with Russia (1); visiting Russia (1); exchanging musicians and athletes (1); exchanging scientists (1); groups being exchanged with Russia (14); Russian top leaders visiting America (10); membership with the United Nations (1); satisfaction with United Nations (12); usefulness of United Nations (1); agreements on disarmament (1); doing enough to bring about disarmament (1); Israeli-Arab conflict (2); Arab-Israeli war (1); preventing Arab-Israeli war (13); involvement in Arab-Israeli war (1); aiding allied countries (1); providing technical assistance to less developed countries (1); economic aid to allies against communism (2); long-term aid projects (1); providing arms to Israel (1); defense alliances between certain countries (4); John Foster Dulles job performance (12); racial segregation (2); racial equality (1).
Nondegenerate and almost hexagonal skyrmion lattices
Creators: name: Martinez, J. C.
name: Jalil, M. B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the lowest energy solutions for the skymion field equations and their corresponding vortex structures. Two nondegenerate solutions emerge with their vortex swirls in opposite directions. The solutions are associated with an extremum property, which favors an array of almost hexagonal shape. We predict that a regular hexagonal lattice must have a mix of skyrmions of both swirls. Although our solutions could not keep the norm of the magnetization constant at unity, their greatest deviation from unity occurred in regions where the spins are far from planar; we show how to improve this situation.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Molecular assessment of Podarcis sicula populations in Britain, Greece and Turkey reinforces a multiple-origin invasion pattern in this species
Creators: name: Silva-Rocha, Iolanda
name: Salvi, Daniele
name: Harris, D. James
name: Freitas, Susana
name: Davis, Chris
name: Foster, Jim
name: Deichsel, Guntram
name: Adamopoulou, Chloe
name: Carretero, Miguel
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: Biological invasions are a challenge to conservation and constitute a threat to biodiversity worldwide. The Italian wall lizard Podarcis sicula has been widely introduced, and seems capable of adapting to most of the regions where it is established and to impact on native biota. Here we construct a phylogenetic framework to assess the origin of the introduced populations in the United Kingdom, Greece and Turkey comparing cytochrome-b gene sequences of lizards from five locations to published sequences from the native range and other non-native locations. The results support an origin from central Italy for the United Kingdom population, from the Adriatic region for the Greek population and from Calabria for the population from Turkey. These results emphasise the multiple-source pattern of introduction of this species identified in previous studies. The improvement in the knowledge of the origin and pathways by which invaders arrive in new areas, as well as the monitoring of their populations, are crucial for successful strategies to deal with exotic species.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Localization and mass spectrum of $q-$form fields on branes
Creators: name: Fu, Chun-E
name: Zhong, Yuan
name: Xie, Qun-Ying
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate localization of a bulk massless q-form field on codimension-one brane by using a new Kaluza-Klein (KK) decomposition, for which there are two types of KK modes for the bulk q-form field, the q-form and (q-1)-form modes. The first modes may be massive or massless while the second ones are all masselss. These two types fo KK modes satisfy twy Schrodinger-like equations. For a five-dimensional brane model with a finite dimension, the spectrum of a bulk 3-form field on the brane consists of some massive bound 3-form KK modes as well as some massless bound 2-form ones with different configuration along the extra dimension. These 2-form modes are different form those obtained from a bulk 2-form field. For a five-dimensional degenerated Bloch brane model with an infinite extra dimension, some massive 3-form resonant KK modes and corresponding massless 2-form resonant ones are obtained for a bulk 3-form field.
description: 7 pages, 20 figures
Implementation of the Wake Continuum of Care Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
Creators: name: Rogers, Anne B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: According to Dr. Carol Caton, professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, "Homelessness is a social problem of enormous public health significance." Dr. Caton states, "As research on homelessness moves into its third decade, what we know about it and the causes of its widespread prevalence among different groups of America's most impoverished is overshadowed by our inability to prevent it." The National Alliance to End Homelessness webpage states that "approximately 3.5 million individuals experience homelessness each year." Martha Burt, researcher at The Urban Institute, estimates that "440,000 to 840,000 people are homeless at any one given time" in the US and that "one in ten poor people experience at least one night of homelessness in the course of a year." From a "Point in Time" count of North Carolina's homeless in January 2005, the NC Department of Health and Human Services reports, "More than 11,000 people were homeless and more than 2,300 of them were children." During a Wake County "Point in Time" survey, "1,235 homeless persons were counted in December 2003." In January 2005, the point in time count in Wake County showed 1,106 homeless persons. In order to address the increasing problem of homelessness in the US, Congress passed the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, which was signed into law on July 22, 1987. This legislation created the Interagency Council on Homelessness and designated the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as the agency to administer grant funding in support of homeless service providers. "In the mid-1990's, HUD announced a new paradigm for distributing its homeless assistance funding called the 'continuum of care."'. The concept behind the community-based continuum of care model is "a homeless service delivery system that included prevention, emergency shelter, transitional housing, support services and permanent housing." In response to HUD's requirement for the establishment of a group of local caregivers to prioritize their community's needs and activities around homelessness, Wake Continuum of Care (CoC) Collaborative was formed in 1996 and has grown to approximately 30 public and private agencies providing homeless services. The Wake CoC continues to function as the coordinating organization for homeless services in the county.
Public Opinion on the Oil Industry
Creators: name: Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX)
name: Prospectiva Estrategica (PEAC)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1992

description: Current and future economic situation(2); media habits(4); opinion of state owned enterprises(13); attitudes towards foreign investment in oil industry(3); opinion of PEMEX(17); opinion of oil industry workers and of industry trade union(8); Mexican-US issues(4); free trade agreement(3).
High efficiency phase flattening based Laguerre-Gauss (LG) spectrometer using variable focus lenses
Creators: name: Sheikh, Mumtaz
name: Rathore, Haad Yaqub
name: Rehman, Sohaib Abdul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel high-efficiency no-moving-parts Laguerre-Gauss (LG) spectrometer using two variable focus lenses and a variable sized pinhole that overcomes the limitations of the classical, projective, phase flattening technique for measuring the Laguerre-Gauss (LG) spectrum of light beams. Simulation results show that the coupling losses are virtually zero and the only losses are ring losses which are mode-dependent but beam waist-independent. Hence, the detection efficiency for all modes is simultaneously the maximum possible irrespective of the beam waist of the LG modes chosen for the decomposition. The losses can also be easily pre-calibrated to remove the efficiency bias amongst different modes.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Structures and dynamics of transnational cooperation networks: evidence based on Local Action Groups in the Veneto Region, Italy
Creators: name: Pisani, Elena
name: Burighel, Laura
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2014

description: The paper assesses the structures and dynamics of transnational cooperation projects promoted by Local Action Groups (LAGs) in different periods (from LEADER II to LEADER Axis) using Social Network Analysis (SNA) in a specific case study: the Veneto Region in Italy. The classical indexes of SNA have been critically examined, and the paper also presents innovative indexes that can capture the peculiarity of transnational cooperation: disaggregated densities of the network and transnational centrality of the node. These indexes are useful in order to quantify how transnational a network actually is, and to measure the power-information that each actor (LAG) can acquire through its transnational contacts. The methodology can become a tool for Managing Authorities to implement new forms of evaluation of transnational cooperation of LAGs.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 3 No 3 (2014): Feeding the Planet and Greening Agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the bio-economy
Hot electron relaxation in metals within the Götze-Wölfle memory function formalism
Creators: name: Das, Nabyendu
name: Singh, Navinder
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider non-equilibrium relaxation of electrons due to their coupling with phonons in a simple metal. In our model electrons are living at a higher temperature than that of the phonon bath, mimicking a non-equilibrium steady state situation. We study the relaxation of such hot electrons proposing a suitable generalization of the memory function formalism formulated by Götze and Wölfle[Phys. Rev. B 6, 1226 (1972)]. We derive analytical expressions for both dc and optical scattering rates in various temperature and frequency regimes. Limiting cases are in accord with the previous studies. An interesting feature, that the dc scattering rate at high temperatures and optical scattering rate at high frequencies, are independent of the temperature difference between the electrons and the phonons is found in this study. The present formalism forms a basis which can also be extended to study hot-electron relaxation in more complex situations
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, Revised Version
Digital Quantum Simulation, Learning of the Floquet Hamiltonian, and Quantum Chaos of the Kicked Top
Creators: name: Olsacher, Tobias
name: Pastori, Lorenzo
name: Kokail, Christian
name: Sieberer, Lukas M.
name: Zoller, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The kicked top is one of the paradigmatic models in the study of quantum chaos~[F.~Haake et al., \emph{Quantum Signatures of Chaos (Springer Series in Synergetics vol 54)} (2018)]. Recently it has been shown that the onset of quantum chaos in the kicked top can be related to the proliferation of Trotter errors in digital quantum simulation (DQS) of collective spin systems. Specifically, the proliferation of Trotter errors becomes manifest in expectation values of few-body observables strongly deviating from the target dynamics above a critical Trotter step, where the spectral statistics of the Floquet operator of the kicked top can be predicted by random matrix theory. In this work, we study these phenomena in the framework of Hamiltonian learning (HL). We show how a recently developed Hamiltonian learning protocol can be employed to reconstruct the generator of the stroboscopic dynamics, i.e., the Floquet Hamiltonian, of the kicked top. We further show how the proliferation of Trotter errors is revealed by HL as the transition to a regime in which the dynamics cannot be approximately described by a low-order truncation of the Floquet-Magnus expansion. This opens up new experimental possibilities for the analysis of Trotter errors on the level of the generator of the implemented dynamics, that can be generalized to the DQS of quantum many-body systems in a scalable way. This paper is in memory of our colleague and friend Fritz Haake.
title: Quelles pratiques infirmières instaurées au sein d’un milieu psychiatrique contribuent à diminuer les phases d’auto et hétéro agressivité ?
title: Quelles pratiques infirmières instaurées au sein d’un milieu psychiatrique contribuent à diminuer les phases d’auto et hétéro agressivité ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mebrhatu, Wintana
name: Osmanovic, Edina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Milieu psychiatrique
subject: Violence
subject: Agressivité
subject: Alliance thérapeutique
subject: Fonctions du milieu
subject: Équipe soignante
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Problématique La population étudiée correspond aux adultes vivant avec des problèmes de santé mentale hospitalisés en unité de soins hospitalières psychiatriques et présentant des attitudes auto et hétéro agressives. Objectif L’objectif visé est d’apporter les outils de compréhension et les attitudes à adopter face aux situations de passage à l’acte afin d’analyser l’impact de ceux-ci sur la gestion d’une prise en charge infirmière au sein d’un service de psychiatrie. Méthode Les recherches ont été effectuées à l’aide des bases de données CINHAL et PubMed. Les critères d’inclusion sont les suivants : adultes entre 18 et 65 ans, hommes et femmes, patients atteints de troubles psychiatriques avec des comportements agressifs, professionnels de la santé, stratégies adaptatives comportementales non intrusives et le milieu hospitalier psychiatrique. Ces dernières ont permis de retenir cinq articles significatifs. Résultats Les résultats analysés des études sélectionnées mettent en évidence la nécessité d’un bon climat d’équipe, d’une mise à niveau concernant la gestion de la violence ainsi que de l’agressivité, de travailler l’alliance thérapeutique, d’acquérir une connaissance suffisante sur les pathologies des patients rencontrés. Discussion La discussion a pour but d’associer les résultats avec les cadres théoriques et de les lier avec les concepts principaux afin de mettre en valeur les différentes ressources proposées. Les réflexions suscitées entre la revue de la littérature et les théories infirmières permettent de développer des interventions infirmières dans la prévention du risque d’auto et hétéro agressivité en unité de soins psychiatrique.
Assessing the Social Determinants of Health in a Rural Primary Care Setting: A Card Study in the San Joaquin Valley of California
Creators: name: Navarro, Isaac
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Abstract The Social Determinants of Health (SDH) are "the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age" (World Health Organization, 2014). Since its inception, the World Health Organization (WHO) has encouraged health professionals to consider the SDH of the utmost importance in order to improve quality of care and reduce health disparities. Over time, public health officials have approached SDH from many different angles including ways to improve utilization of problem specific interventions, such as immunizations, and population based care (Irwin & Scali, 2007). The focus on SDH culminated in 2005 with the formation of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (Jong-wook, 2005). The commission's work resulted in the development of a set of recommendations that would shape the focus of SDH for public health entities and lead to opportunities to focus on SDH in implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Under the ACA, Community Health Centers will be allotted more than $11 Billion for expansion and will service approximately 20 million additional patients by the year 2019 (National Conference of States Legislatures, 2014). Community Health Centers serve as safety net organizations and are responsible for servicing not only individuals with newly acquired Medicaid or private Health Exchange coverage, but also those individuals who may be left out of health care expansion for one reason or another. Community Health Centers will serve as a model for overall health care reform. This paper summarizes key concepts related to the Social Determinants of Health and how social factors can be used as a tool for successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Given the opportunity for community health centers to play a key role in ACA implementation, this paper presents a pilot study that explores the feasibility of implementing Card Studies as a method for identifying SDH focus needs within a community health center. This pilot study was completed at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in the central San Joaquin Valley of California. As a result of this pilot study, evidence suggests that while health center staff members are engaged in the SDH concept, and willing to focus on SDH at the point of care, these activities are being poorly documented. Furthermore, the health center is not being adequately reimbursed for the time investment of their professional staff. This paper also demonstrates that Card Studies may be an effective tool for examining activities of professional staff and evaluating health center systems and resources related to addressing social factors.
Global governance of biofuels: a case for public-private governance?
Creators: name: Mukhtarov, Farhad
name: Osseweijer, Patricia
name: Pierce, Robin
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2014

description: With this paper, we examine the current state of global governance of biofuels and assess the potential regulatory and non-regulatory mechanisms for such governance. We ask two questions: a) what are the current efforts and initiatives towards the global governance of biofuels; and b) which form of global governance is more likely to emerge in the field of bioenergy. We come to the conclusion that institution building through private governance and non-state actor partnerships can offer a viable and effective means of governance. However, the primacy of partnerships and networks in global governance also means a number of pitfalls to avoid, especially with regard to legitimacy and inclusion. Drawing lessons from the fields of forest and marine policy, we close with a number of policy recommendations for better private initiatives and partnerships for global governance of biofuels.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 3 No 3 (2014): Feeding the Planet and Greening Agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the bio-economy
Becoming a Soviet citizen: migration, citizenship, and the politics of belonging in the USSR, 1960-1990
Creators: name: Nicorici, Irina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Citizenship policies in the USSR promised universal acceptance of all immigrants. In a global context of hardened border controls and increasing exclusions by other countries, these policies were a radical departure from prior domestic and international conventions. Yet when considered today, these policies are overlooked or disparaged as nothing more than “propaganda talk.” Drawing on a wide range of original archival sources and interviews, this dissertation investigates how Soviet laws were understood and actually implemented on the ground, offering an important counterpoint to conclusions that emphasize insularity. This research covers nearly three decades of immigration management activity in Soviet Moldavia and documents the dynamics of decision-making in response to hundreds of applications for permanent residence and citizenship. It examines how governmental agents granted the right of entry to diverse groups of migrants and how officials changed their practices, enabling ordinary citizens to participate in the requirements and processes for resettlement to Moldavia. The dissertation examines the practical logics guiding international admissions to the USSR and thus expands our understanding of local Soviet politics, which were less state-directed than previously thought. The dissertation traces multiple trajectories of global movement toward Moldavia between 1960 and 1990, a historical space and time usually described as inert, provincial, and stagnant. This study highlights the two most significant yet complex migratory streams: repatriations and foreigners seeking entry. Sponsorship by private citizens – family members, colleagues, and others – emerged as a focal point for competing ideas about the role of the Soviet state and non-state agencies in immigration. The efforts of Soviet Jews to return were less successful than any other group, especially between 1970 and 1986, when transnational activism on their behalf failed, and domestic structural conditions prevented the restoration of their formal citizenship status. The unexpected discovery of Soviet citizenship-by-investment scheme during the Gorbachev era highlights the blurred line between the imperatives of justice and profit seeking. The conclusion considers the broader legacies of Soviet citizenship and migration policies. These findings indicate the need to revise conventional scholarship on Soviet governance as a top-down, elite-driven, and recognize a wider, practical collaboration between the Soviet state and the Soviet people. In its place, I propose a new conceptual tool: “relational arithmetic,” grounded in the understanding of citizenship laws in action as an opportunity for interconnection rather than social closure.
ASQC/Gallup Poll: Public Opinion on the Quality of American, German and Japanese Products
Creators: name: American Society For Quality Control (ASQC)
name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1992

description: Determination of product quality(1); influences on purchase decisions(11); willingness to pay for quality(4); determination of service quality(1); rating the quality of certain service industries(7); rating the quality of American/Japanese/German products(3); effort of business to deliver quality(4); importance of quality to American/Japanese/German workers(3); American/ Japanese product purchases(7); foreign product purchases(1); rating product quality by country of origin(7).
Markov Chain Analysis of Cumulative Step-size Adaptation on a Linear Constrained Problem
Creators: name: Chotard, Alexandre
name: Auger, Anne
name: Hansen, Nikolaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper analyzes a (1, $λ$)-Evolution Strategy, a randomized comparison-based adaptive search algorithm, optimizing a linear function with a linear constraint. The algorithm uses resampling to handle the constraint. Two cases are investigated: first the case where the step-size is constant, and second the case where the step-size is adapted using cumulative step-size adaptation. We exhibit for each case a Markov chain describing the behaviour of the algorithm. Stability of the chain implies, by applying a law of large numbers, either convergence or divergence of the algorithm. Divergence is the desired behaviour. In the constant step-size case, we show stability of the Markov chain and prove the divergence of the algorithm. In the cumulative step-size adaptation case, we prove stability of the Markov chain in the simplified case where the cumulation parameter equals 1, and discuss steps to obtain similar results for the full (default) algorithm where the cumulation parameter is smaller than 1. The stability of the Markov chain allows us to deduce geometric divergence or convergence , depending on the dimension, constraint angle, population size and damping parameter, at a rate that we estimate. Our results complement previous studies where stability was assumed.
description: Evolutionary Computation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press): STM Titles, 2015
Biotechnologies and agrifood strategies: opportunities, threats and economic implications
Creators: name: Wesseler, Justus
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2014

description: The production of food employs different kinds of biotechnologies, some of which are more controversial than others. The public and the agrifood sector have developed a number of responses to address their concerns about biotechnologies considered controversial. In this contribution the different strategies chosen by the agrifood sector in the EU in response to the introduction of new biotechnologies in the agrifood complex will be discussed. The contribution concentrates on the example of the introduction of genetically engineered crops and the strategic responses by the EU food industry, namely food processors and food retailers. The contribution concludes with an outlook on the future of the EU agrifood complex.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 3 No 3 (2014): Feeding the Planet and Greening Agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the bio-economy