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NEGOTIATION WITH TRANSNORMATIVITY IN TRANSGENDER AND GENDER-EXPANSIVE PERSONAL NARRATIVES
Creators: name: Lugo, Noël R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: transgender
gender-expansive
genderqueer
non-binary
transnormativity
gender euphoria

description: Master narratives are culturally shared stories which guide individuals in how to be a “good” member of a given group. Cisnormativity, the belief that it is normative and desirable for individuals to internally embrace and externally express their genders assigned at birth across their lifespan, can be conceptualized as a cultural master narrative. Those who cannot or do not want to align themselves with cultural master narratives may instead construct or adopt alternative narratives. Transnormativity, acting as an alternative narrative to cisnormativity, refers to the normative pressures experienced by transgender and gender-expansive individuals to align their gender identities and external gender expressions with a binary psycho-medical model of transgender identity. Using a social constructionist grounded theory approach, this qualitative study explored trans* individuals’ engagement within psycho-medical contexts in open-ended survey responses from an online sample of 173 transgender and gender-expansive participants. Three central themes emerged: invocation of the transnormative master narrative, invocation of a fluid, gender euphoria-focused narrative, and strategies for engagement with a transnormative psycho-medical establishment. Findings suggest the emergence of a fluid, gender-euphoric-centered alternative transgender narrative emphasizing a self-determinist approach to trans* identity, gender identity labels, and social and/or medical transition trajectories.
Rotating Strings in Confining AdS/CFT Backgrounds
Creators: name: Armoni, A.
name: Barbon, J. L. F.
name: Petkou, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study semiclassical rotating strings in AdS/CFT backgrounds that exhibit both confinement and finite-size effects. The energy versus spin dispersion relation for short strings is the expected Regge trajectory behaviour, with the same string tension as is measured by the Wilson loop. Long strings probe the interplay between confinement and finite-size effects. In particular, the dispersion relation for long strings shows a characteristic dependence on the string tension and the finite-size scale.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures. v2: minor changes, refs. added
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Creators: name: Estherrbarak@Gmail.Com Estherrbarak@Gmail.Com
name: Oliver, John
name: Lubelihle Mantula
name: Warak, Hamza
name: Nweyilobu, Anthony
name: Elshobokshky, Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Construction as a whole suffers from many difficulties and problems (i.e. productivity, quality,cost etc.) worldwide. Understanding these problems and the degree of their implications on a project is crucial. North Cyprus has a budding construction industry and is seeing some very significant growth. This is as a result of the increase in the overall population in Cyprus having gathered international attention. This increase also garners a demand for more construction works and projects to accommodate the needs of the overall population.The purpose of this project is to come up with a suitable cost evaluation guide and costevaluation index in order to standardize the quality of work in direct translation to a moreproductive industry.
On the Koszul formula in noncommutative geometry
Creators: name: Bhowmick, Jyotishman
name: Goswami, Debashish
name: Landi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove a Koszul formula for the Levi-Civita connection for any pseudo-Riemannian bilinear metric on a class of centered bimodule of noncommutative one-forms. As an application to the Koszul formula, we show that our Levi-Civita connection is a bimodule connection. We construct a spectral triple on a fuzzy sphere and compute the scalar curvature for the Levi-Civita connection associated to a canonical metric.
description: To appear in Reviews in Mathematical Physics
The evolution of pitch angles of spiral arms
Creators: name: Pringle, J. E.
name: Dobbs, C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In spiral galaxies, the pitch angle, $α$, of the spiral arms is often proposed as a discriminator between theories for the formation of the spiral structure. In Lin-Shu density wave theory, $α$ stays constant in time, being simply a property of the underlying galaxy. In other theories (e.g tidal interaction, self-gravity) it is expected that the arms wind up in time, so that to a first approximation $\cot α\propto t$. For these theories, it would be expected that a sample of galaxies observed at random times should show a uniform distribution of $\cot α$. We show that a recent set of measurements of spiral pitch angles (Yu & Ho 2018) is broadly consistent with this expectation.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
On the geometry of Riemannian manifolds with a Lie structure at infinity
Creators: name: Ammann, Bernd
name: Lauter, Robert
name: Nistor, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A manifold with a ``Lie structure at infinity'' is a non-compact manifold $M_0$ whose geometry is described by a compactification to a manifold with corners M and a Lie algebra of vector fields on M, subject to constraints only on $M \smallsetminus M_0$. The Lie structure at infinity on $M_0$ determines a metric on $M_0$ up to bi-Lipschitz equivalence. This leads to the natural problem of understanding the Riemannian geometry of these manifolds. We prove, for example, that on a manifold with a Lie structure at infinity the curvature tensor and its covariant derivatives are bounded. We also study a generalization of the geodesic spray and give conditions for these manifolds to have positive injectivity radius. An important motivation for our work is to study the analysis of geometric operators on manifolds with a Lie structure at infinity. For example, a manifold with cylindrical ends is a manifold with a Lie structure at infinity. The relevant analysis in this case is that of totally characteristic operators on a compact manifold with boundary equipped with a ``b-metric.'' The class of conformally compact manifolds, which was recently proved of interest in the study of Einstein's equation, also consists of manifolds with a Lie structure at infinity.
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Griffiths Variational Multisymplectic Formulation for Lovelock Gravity
Creators: name: Capriotti, Santiago
name: Gaset, Jordi
name: Román-Roy, Narciso
name: Salomone, Leandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary: 49S05, 70S05, 83D05, Secondary: 35Q75, 35Q76, 53D42, 55R10

description: This work is mainly devoted to constructing a multisymplectic description of Lovelock's gravity, which is an extension of General Relativity. We establish a Griffiths variational problem for the Lovelock Lagrangian, obtaining the geometric form of the corresponding field equations. We give the unified Lagrangian--Hamiltonian formulation of this model and we study the correspondence between the unified formulations for the Einstein--Hilbert and the Einstein--Palatini models of gravity.
description: 37 pp. Some shorts comments are added. Minor corrections. The bibliography is updated and a reference has been added
Are Starburst Galaxies the Hosts of Gamma-Ray Bursts ?
Creators: name: Chary, R.
name: Becklin, E. E.
name: Armus, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present deep 2.2 micron imaging of twelve gamma-ray burst host galaxies. Template spectral energy distributions are fit to the multiband photometry between visible and near-infrared wavelengths to derive a better constraint on the stellar mass of these galaxies. The internal extinction in the host galaxies is estimated using the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) slope. We find that the extinction corrected star-formation rates (SFRs) of the galaxies are significantly larger than rates derived from emission lines in the visible or the UV continuum. The ratio between the extinction corrected SFRs and stellar mass for 7 of the host galaxies is high compared to local starbursts and 3 of the hosts have derived far-infrared luminosities comparable to infrared luminous galaxies. In addition, existing observational data reveal that at least 6 of the 11 putative hosts seem to be disturbed or have companion galaxies within a projected angular separation of about 2.5 arcsec. If we assume that the host and the companion are at similar redshifts, this corresponds to a physical separation of less than 20 kpc, providing some evidence for an ongoing/recent tidal encounter. We conclude that tidally-induced starbursts such as those found in infrared luminous galaxies might be popular birthplaces for gamma-ray bursts. The age of the stellar population in 4 out of 6 galaxies is rather young, of order 10 Myr. This favors models where gamma-ray bursts are due to the core-collapse of isolated, massive stars and explosion of the resultant black hole-accretion disk system.
description: 25 pages, 2 figures-one has 10 sub-figures, appearing in ApJ, refereed
Neutral Higgs H^0 \to h^0 (A^0) l_i^- l_j^+ decay
Creators: name: Iltan, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the lepton flavor violating H^0 \to h^0 (A^0) l_i^- l_j^+ and the lepton flavor conserving H^0 \to h^0 (A^0) l_i^- l_i^+ (l_i=τ, l_j=μ) decays in the framework of the general two Higgs doublet model, the so-called model III. We estimate the decay width of LFV (LFC) process at the order of magnitude of 10^{-5} GeV$ (10^{-4} GeV), for m_{H^0}= 150 GeV, and the intermediate values of the coupling \barξ^{E}_{N,τμ}\sim 5 GeV (\barξ^{E}_{N,ττ}\sim 30 GeV). The experimental result of the process under consideration can ensure comprehensive information about the standard model Higgs boson $H^0$ and the model III free parameters.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Systems Approach to the Economic Impact of Technical Performance in the Sheep Sector
Creators: name: Kilcline, Kevin
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
name: Hennessy, Thia
name: Hynes, Stephen
name: Kilcline, Kevin
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
name: Hennessy, Thia
name: Hynes, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Sheep Production
subject: Technical Performance
subject: Gross Margin
subject: Random Effects
subject: Simulation.

description: This paper investigates the structure and characteristics of the full distribution of sheep farms achieving various levels of financial and technical performance. Analysing data from the Irish panel dataset, the Teagasc National Farm Survey (NFS) shows Irish sheep farms exhibit relatively low level of technical performance and that on-farm technical advances have been stagnant over the past 20 years. NFS data files not previously manipulated for research purposes are used to capture monthly animal data flows for the full sample of NFS sheep farms for the 3 year period 2008 – 2010. Utilising this data we identify and analyse key flock performance indicators including reproduction, mortality rates. These “Livestock Demographic” variables are important indicators for estimating and modelling flock dynamics and production, combining two drivers of flock performance: the biological characteristics of the stock on the farm and the farmers’ flock management practices. Results indicate the potential impacts on farm output and gross margins of improved animal performance which is achievable through specific technology adoptions.
ОБ ОРГАНИЗАЦИОННО-ПРАВОВОМ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИИ ФУНКЦИОНИРОВАНИЯ ИНСТИТУТА ЧАСТНЫХ СУДЕБНЫХ ПРИСТАВОВ-ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЕЙ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ
Creators: name: МИРОНОВА ЛАРИСА ЮРЬЕВНА
name: РОГАЧЕВ ЕЛИСЕЙ СЕРГЕЕВИЧ
name: ТУМАКОВ АЛЬБЕРТ ВЛАДИСЛАВОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник экономической безопасности
Year: 2020
Subjects: ЧАСТНЫЕ СУДЕБНЫЕ ПРИСТАВЫ-ИСПОЛНИТЕЛИ
ФССП РОССИИ
ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬНО ПРОИЗВОДСТВО
АЛЬТЕРНАТИВНАЯ СИСТЕМА ИСПОЛНЕНИЯ

description: Анализируется возможность повышения эффективности процесса исполнения судебных решений через внедрение института частных судебных приставов-исполнителей, рассматривается международный опыт интеграции элементов частного исполнения в государственную систему принудительного исполнения, формулируется вывод о полезности института частного исполнения, призванном разрешить актуальную проблему неэффективности действующего механизма принудительного исполнения актов судебных и иных юрисдикционных органов.
СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЕ МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЙ СИСТЕМЫ ПОДГОТОВКИ БУДУЩИХ УЧИТЕЛЕЙ ИНФОРМАТИКИ В УСЛОВИЯХ РЕФОРМИРОВАНИЯ СИСТЕМЫ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
Creators: name: СМИРНОВА ИННА НИКОЛАЕВНА
Publisher: name: Вестник экономической безопасности
Year: 2020
Subjects: МЕТОДИЧЕСКАЯ СИСТЕМА
ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ
ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКАЯ ПРАКТИКА
ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫЕ КОМПЕТЕНЦИИ
ПРОЦЕСС ОБУЧЕНИЯ
СИСТЕМНО-ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТНЫЙ ПОДХОД

description: В статье рассматриваются предпосылки к изменениям в методической системе обучения будущих учителей информатики, механизм использования совокупности педагогических технологий для формирования у них профессиональных компетенций.
ФАКТОРЫ УСПЕШНОСТИ ИЗУЧЕНИЯ ИНОСТРАННЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ ПОДРОСТКАМИ И ЮНОШАМИ
Creators: name: БАЛАКИРЕВА ЮЛИЯ АЛЕКСАНДРОВНА
name: ЮРКИНА ЛЕРА ВАЛЕРЬЕВНА
Publisher: name: Вестник экономической безопасности
Year: 2020
Subjects: УСПЕШНОСТЬ ОБУЧЕНИЯ
ИНОСТРАННЫЙ ЯЗЫК
ЮНОШЕСКИЙ ВОЗРАСТ
ПОДРОСТКОВЫЙ ВОЗРАСТ
ТРЕВОЖНОСТЬ
НАСТОЙЧИВОСТЬ

description: Современные концепции обучения как в школе, так и в вузе, подчеркивают особую важность изучения иностранного языка для использования его в общении и профессиональной деятельности. В свете внедрения стандартов нового поколения необходимо разработать инновационные формы и методы преподавания иностранного языка, обеспечивающие достаточное качество его усвоения. Рассмотрены факторы успешности изучения иностранных языков подростками и юношами. В качестве таковых представлены базовые личностные характеристики: тревожность и настойчивость. Эмпирическое исследование на подростковой и юношеской группах выявило корреляционную связь личностных характеристик с успешностью изучения иностранных языков. Предложены психолого-педагогические рекомендации учителям и школьным психологам по индивидуализации работы с обучающимися исследуемых возрастных групп.
State-selective coherent motional excitation as a new approach for the manipulation, spectroscopy and state-to-state chemistry of single molecular ions
Creators: name: Meir, Ziv
name: Hegi, Gregor
name: Najafian, Kaveh
name: Sinhal, Mudit
name: Willitsch, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical and experimental progress towards a new approach for the precision spectroscopy, coherent manipulation and state-to-state chemistry of single isolated molecular ions in the gas phase. Our method consists of a molecular beam for creating packets of rotationally cold neutrals from which a single molecule is state-selectively ionized and trapped inside a radiofrequency ion trap. In addition to the molecular ion, a single co-trapped atomic ion is used to cool the molecular external degrees of freedom to the ground state of the trap and to detect the molecular state using state-selective coherent motional excitation from a modulated optical-dipole force acting on the molecule. We present a detailed discussion and theoretical characterization of the present approach. We simulate the molecular signal experimentally using a single atomic ion indicating that different rovibronic molecular states can be resolved and individually detected with our method. The present approach for the coherent control and non-destructive detection of the quantum state of a single molecular ion opens up new perspectives for precision spectroscopies relevant for, e.g., tests of fundamental physical theories and the development of new types of clocks based on molecular vibrational transitions. It will also enable the observation and control of chemical reactions of single particles on the quantum level. While focusing on N$_2^+$ as a prototypical example in the present work, our method is applicable to a wide range of diatomic and polyatomic molecules.
Consumer Behaviour of CBA Students of Polytechnic University of the Philippines in the Online Environment
Creators: name: Maximus Labampa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The goal of this quantitative research is to analyze and describe the behaviour of the students inside the campus in the online environment. The researches gathered data through questionnaires with the use of stratified sampling technique. In a more precise manner, the analysis is based on the answer of 337 respondents given by College of Business Administration students of the Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesSta.Mesa campus. The essence of this paper consists in identifying the behaviour in online environment of the respondents by using the five factors (i) the initiation of the purchase (ii) data collection (iii) data analysis (iv)purchasing (v) purchasing behaviour. The results at the end of the research showed that CBA students of Polytechnic University of the Philippines Sta. Mesa get attracted by pop-up ad, different types of product advertisements, at an average rate. The results also showed that the rate of the students buying products that they don’t need is also at an average rate. In regards that if the students consider the quality of the online marketing environment before purchasing the results showed that they do consider this factor at an above average rate. The student were also asked that if they always buy products after considering all the alternatives, and the results showed that they often buy after considering all the alternatives which is also an above average rate.The research findings states that the 2 null hypotheses has been rejected.
ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ГОТОВНОСТИ СОТРУДНИКОВ ПОЛИЦИИ К ПРЕСЕЧЕНИЮ ПРОТИВОПРАВНЫХ ДЕЙСТВИЙ: ПРАВОВОЙ, ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЙ И ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТЫ
Creators: name: ТОРОПОВ ВИКТОР АЛЕКСЕЕВИЧ
name: РОЖКОВ АНТОН АЛЕКСЕЕВИЧ
name: БАЛАХОНСКИЙ ВИТАЛИЙ ВИТАЛЬЕВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник экономической безопасности
Year: 2020
Subjects: МЕРЫ ПРЕСЕЧЕНИЯ
ГОТОВНОСТЬ К ПРЕСЕЧЕНИЮ ПРОТИВОПРАВНЫХ ДЕЙСТВИЙ
МОДЕЛЬ ГОТОВНОСТИ
ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНО-ВОЛЕВАЯ УСТОЙЧИВОСТЬ
КОНФЛИКТОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТЬ

description: Статья посвящена исследованию правовых, педагогических и психологических аспектов формирования готовности сотрудников полиции к пресечению противоправных действий. Авторами представлена структура модели «готовности сотрудника полиции к пресечению противоправных действий», представлены результаты эмпирического исследования, в рамках которого осуществлена оценка сформированности каждого элемента модели «готовности» у курсантов и слушателей образовательных организаций МВД России.
Fast magma ascent, revised estimates from the deglaciation of Iceland
Creators: name: Jones, David W. Rees
name: Rudge, John F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Partial melting of asthenospheric mantle generates magma that supplies volcanic systems. The timescale of melt extraction from the mantle has been hotly debated. Microstructural measurements of permeability typically suggest relatively slow melt extraction (1 m/yr) whereas geochemical (Uranium-decay series) and geophysical observations suggest much faster melt extraction (100 m/yr). The deglaciation of Iceland triggered additional mantle melting and magma flux at the surface. The rapid response has been used to argue for relatively rapid melt extraction. However, this episode must, at least to some extent, be unrepresentative, because the rates of magma eruption at the surface increased about thirty-fold relative to the steady state. Our goal is to quantify this unrepresentativeness. We develop a one-dimensional, time-dependent and nonlinear (far from steady-state), model forced by the most recent, and best mapped, Icelandic deglaciation. We find that 30 m/yr is the best estimate of the steady-state maximum melt velocity. This is a factor of about 3 smaller than previously claimed, but still relatively fast. We translate these estimates to other mid-ocean ridges accounting for differences in passive and active upwelling and degree of melting. We find that fast melt extraction greater than about 10 m/yr prevails globally.
description: Accepted for publication in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2020). Total 17 pages and 5 figures (including Supplementary Material)
Controlling Gold Nanoclusters with Atomic Precision for Catalytic Applications
Creators: name: Anindita Das
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The major goal of this thesis is synthesis and structure determination of stable, ligand-protected, gold nanoclusters in the ~ 1 nm size regime. These structurally well-characterized clusters are then tested as catalysts in probe
chemical reactions to gain an atomic-level understanding of size- and/or structure-dependent catalytic pathways.
Chapter 2 describes the synthesis and structure determination of a new mixed phosphine/thiolate-protected [Au24(PPh3)10(SC2H4Ph)5X2]+ (where, X= Cl/Br) nanocluster. This cluster, which differs by a single Au atom, shows drastic differences in properties from the previously reported biicosahedral [Au25(PPh3)10(SC2H4Ph)5X2]2+ nanocluster protected by the same type and number of phosphine and thiolate ligands. Chapter 3 describes the synthesis and atomic structures of some of the smallest members of the crystallographically characterized thiolate-protected Aun(SR)m clusters, where n and m represent the number of metal atoms and thiolate ligands respectively. These ultra-small nanoclusters lie at the interface between organo-gold complexes and plasmonic gold nanoparticles, i.e. the origin of the first metallic bonds and the nucleation of clusters from organometallic precursors occur in this domain. Total structure determination of thiolateprotected
small Au24, Au23 and Au18 clusters has revealed new types of Au core packing structures and surface ligand binding motifs, which offer mechanistic insights into nucleation and size evolution of gold clusters. Chapter 4 discusses the role of protecting ligands in dictating the size and structure of gold clusters. Here, the electronic and steric effects of ligands on the structure and properties of a nanocluster are illustrated, through the case study of a Au36(SR)24 nanocluster. These insights are expected to offer some new standpoints in terms of structural and size control in nanoclusters, as well as the factors dictating the stability of nanoclusters. In chapter 5, the newly synthesized Au nanoclusters mentioned above have been tested as catalysts in the model catalytic reaction involving reduction of 4-nitrophenol by NaBH4. Preliminary results suggest that the detailed atomic structures, rather than the nominal size (n) in AunLm clusters, dictate their catalytic properties. Finally, chapter 6 summarizes the major achievements of this thesis and some future directions in this field.
Unconstrained Monotonic Neural Networks
Creators: name: Wehenkel, Antoine
name: Louppe, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Monotonic neural networks have recently been proposed as a way to define invertible transformations. These transformations can be combined into powerful autoregressive flows that have been shown to be universal approximators of continuous probability distributions. Architectures that ensure monotonicity typically enforce constraints on weights and activation functions, which enables invertibility but leads to a cap on the expressiveness of the resulting transformations. In this work, we propose the Unconstrained Monotonic Neural Network (UMNN) architecture based on the insight that a function is monotonic as long as its derivative is strictly positive. In particular, this latter condition can be enforced with a free-form neural network whose only constraint is the positiveness of its output. We evaluate our new invertible building block within a new autoregressive flow (UMNN-MAF) and demonstrate its effectiveness on density estimation experiments. We also illustrate the ability of UMNNs to improve variational inference.
Factors Affecting Consumers’ Buying Decision in the Selection of an Instant Coffee Brand
Creators: name: Ong, Matthew Rouwie
name: Kaharian, Katherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this research is to study how the different factors of consumer behavior affect the consumers’ decision-making process during the selection of instant-coffee brand/s. Consumer behavior consists of four factors: cultural, social, personal and psychological. In this study the focus was limited only to social, personal and psychological factors. The thesis was able to discuss important parts such as the theories and the empirical part of the research. The theoretical part discusses the basics of factors affecting purchase decision, decision-making process and brands. The empirical part of the thesis includes a survey that was carried out through the Internet. The data used were collected through the use of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to 78 Office Administration, 56 Entrepreneurship, 101 Human Resources Management, 102 Marketing Management students; A total of 337 students under the College of Business Administration. The quantitative research method was applied in this study. Research has shown that consumers are taking different steps in the decision-making process of buying. The results of the study give the general view that social, personal and psychological variables are somewhat affected, but not strong statistical accuracy. The result shows that the most significant factors influencing decision-making when choosing instant coffee product, family and friends. Nevertheless, consumers also rely on psychological factors, beliefs and attitudes to influence their choices.
Strong polygamy and monogamy relations for multipartite quantum systems
Creators: name: Jin, Zhi-Xiang
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monogamy and polygamy are the most striking features of the quantum world. We investigate the monogamy and polygamy relations satisfied by all quantum correlation measures for arbitrary multipartite quantum states. By introducing residual quantum correlations, analytical polygamy inequalities are presented, which are shown to be tighter than the existing ones. Then, similar to polygamy relations, we obtain strong monogamy relations that are better than all the existing ones. Typical examples are presented for illustration.
Australozethus occidentalis Giordani Soika 1969
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Australozethus
Australozethus occidentalis

description: occidentalis Giordani Soika
Australozethus occidentalis Giordani Soika 1969: 30 (key), 37, female—“ W. Australia: Mundaring” (Brisbane).— Cardale 1985: 169 (cat.).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 88 (list).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
К ВОПРОСУ О ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ ВЫСШЕГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ В РОССИИ
Creators: name: БЕРЕЗИНА АННА АЛЕКСАНДРОВНА
Publisher: name: Вестник экономической безопасности
Year: 2020
Subjects: ВЫСШЕЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ
ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИЯ
ИНФОРМАЦИОННО-КОММУНИКАЦИОННЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ
ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОЕ ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕ
МОДЕЛИ ДИСТАНЦИОННОЙ ФОРМЫ ОБУЧЕНИЯ

description: В статье приводится краткая характеристика реалий современной системы образования; цифровизация высшего образования в России соотносится с применением информационно-коммуникационных технологий; обосновывается важнейшая задача образовательной системы современного общества; охарактеризованы основы педагогического использование информационных технологий; приводится авторское понятие информатизации образования; рассмотрены основы педагогического проектирования в условиях дистанционного образования при пандемии.
Critical Heegaard Surfaces
Creators: name: Bachman, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M99

description: In this paper we introduce "critical surfaces", which are described via a 1-complex whose definition is reminiscent of the curve complex. Our main result is that if the minimal genus common stabilization of a pair of strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings of a 3-manifold is not critical, then the manifold contains an incompressible surface. Conversely, we also show that if a non-Haken 3-manifold admits at most one Heegaard splitting of each genus, then it does not contain a critical Heegaard surface. In the final section we discuss how this work leads to a natural metric on the space of strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings, as well as many new and interesting open questions.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Transactions of the AMS
EV-based Smart E-mobility System -- Part I: Concept
Creators: name: Pavić, I.
name: Pandžić, H.
name: Capuder, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The first of this two-paper series proposes and elaborates a concept of electric vehicle (EV)-based e-mobility system. To this end, models designed to reap the benefits of EVs' flexibility in the literature almost exclusively consider charging stations as active players exploiting the EVs' flexibility. Such stations are seen as static loads able to provide flexibility only when EVs are connected to them. However, this standpoint suffers from two major issues. First, the charging stations need to anticipate some important parameters of the incoming EVs, e.g. time of arrival and departure, state-of-energy of the EV's battery at arrival and the required state-of-energy at its departure. Second, it observes the EVs only when they are connected to these charging stations, thus overlooking the arbitrage and charging opportunities when the EVs are connected to other charging stations. This paper proposes a new viewpoint, where EVs are observed as dynamic movable storage systems which can provide flexibility at any charging station. The paper defines both systems, the existing one, where the flexibility is viewed from the standpoint of charging stations, and the proposed one, where the flexibility is viewed from the EVs' standpoint.
Reversible bootstrap percolation: Fake news and fact checking
Creators: name: Di Muro, M. A.
name: Buldyrev, S. V.
name: Braunstein, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bootstrap percolation has been used to describe opinion formation in society and other social and natural phenomena. The formal equation of the bootstrap percolation may have more than one solution, corresponding to several stable fixed points of the corresponding iteration process. We construct a reversible bootstrap percolation process, which converges to these extra solutions displaying a hysteresis typical of discontinuous phase transitions. This process provides a reasonable model for fake news spreading and the effectiveness of fact checking. We show that sometimes it is not sufficient to discard all the sources of fake news in order to reverse the belief of a population that formed under the influence of these sources.
BUSINESS ANALYTICS.docx
Creators: name: Ong, Matthew Rouwie
name: Kaharian, Katherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this research is to study how the different factors of consumer behavior affect the consumers’ decision-making process during the selection of instant-coffee brand/s. Consumer behavior consists of four factors: cultural, social, personal and psychological. In this study the focus was limited only to social, personal and psychological factors. The thesis was able to discuss important parts such as the theories and the empirical part of the research. The theoretical part discusses the basics of factors affecting purchase decision, decision-making process and brands. The empirical part of the thesis includes a survey that was carried out through the Internet. The data used were collected through the use of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to 78 Office Administration, 56 Entrepreneurship, 101 Human Resources Management, 102 Marketing Management students; A total of 337 students under the College of Business Administration. The quantitative research method was applied in this study. Research has shown that consumers are taking different steps in the decision-making process of buying. The results of the study give the general view that social, personal and psychological variables are somewhat affected, but not strong statistical accuracy. The result shows that the most significant factors influencing decision-making when choosing instant coffee product, family and friends. Nevertheless, consumers also rely on psychological factors, beliefs and attitudes to influence their choices.
Investigation of factors affecting arable farming profit, crop complexity and risk under the single farm payment policy
Creators: name: Ahodo, Kwadjo
name: Freckleton, Robert P.
name: Oglethorpe, David
name: Ahodo, Kwadjo
name: Freckleton, Robert P.
name: Oglethorpe, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Single farm payment
subject: sensitivity analysis
subject: nitrogen vulnerable zones
subject: arable farming
subject: mixed integer programming.

description: The paper investigates the effect of variations in soil type, rainfall, N fertilizer amount and crop prices on the objectives of arable farms operating in Nitrogen Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) and receiving the Single Farm Payment (SFP). Sensitivity analysis was carried out using a mixed-integer programming (MIP) arable farm model (farmR). The farmR model estimates the arable farming objectives of interest: farm profit, crop complexity and risk minimization. Applying the 2014 SFP flat rate and the maximum N limits (N max) values (prescribed in the NVZ guidelines) to each crop, N max was varied under different soil types and rainfall interactions. Crop prices were also varied to illustrate the effectiveness of the SFP under a scenario of high crop prices. The results showed that even though applying N above N max increases farm productivity under all soil and rainfall interactions, doing so and forgoing the SFP reduces farm productivity and increases risk. The SFP thus acts as a payment for the opportunity cost to farms for not being able to apply N above N max. However under a scenario of crop price increases, applying above N max and forfeiting the SFP could generate higher productivity than at the N max level.
The Scientific-Military State, Science and the Making of American Government, 1776-1855
Creators: name: Jóhannesson, Sveinn Máni
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Government
Science
Power

description: This dissertation explores the intertwined formations of the American state and American science. It argues that, from the founding of the republic, scientific knowledge was at the heart of the formation of the federal government, and the federal government was an important force in the development of science in America. Most scholarship on American history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ignores questions of government and science. Scholars usually assume that government had little place in the organisation and promotion of science until the Second World War. This study fundamentally changes this interpretation. It argues that Jeffersonian and Jacksonian statebuilders harnessed science to create a new kind of a central state—what I call ‘the scientific-military state’—that was capable of projecting great power in accordance with liberty, limited government, and states’ rights. Drawing on French statebuilding theories, these statemakers grasped that science constituted an innovative governing technique, one which promised to offset the need for large standing armies, sprawling bureaucracies, and heavy taxes. It was a force-multiplier of coercion, conquest and wealth, an effective alternative to a ‘fiscal-military state’. Science achieved dominance within the military sphere in the wake of the War of 1812, and, then, also in the civilian domain with the electoral victory of Andrew Jackson in 1828. By placing science at the centre of public councils, the Jeffersonians and Jacksonians transformed the federal government into America’s largest employer of scientists and technical experts. Americans did not reject a purposeful central state. Nor did they adopt a ‘strong state’ or a ‘fiscal-military state’ like much recent scholarship suggests. Rather, as this dissertation shows, they created a ‘scientific-military state’, a form of government that has hitherto been hidden from scholars who write about nineteenth-century America.
description: Mellon Fund Scholarship
ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ ПРОЕКТНОЙ МЕТОДИКИ В ПРОЦЕССЕ ПОВЫШЕНИЯ ПОЗНАВАТЕЛЬНО-ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ИНТЕРЕСА КУРСАНТОВ ВУЗОВ ФСИН РОССИИ
Creators: name: БРЫЗГАЛОВА ИРИНА ВИКТОРОВНА
Publisher: name: Вестник экономической безопасности
Year: 2020
Subjects: ПОЗНАВАТЕЛЬНО-ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ИНТЕРЕС
ПРОЕКТНАЯ МЕТОДИКА
КУРСАНТЫ ВУЗОВ ФСИН РОССИИ
ИСТОРИЯ ГОСУДАРСТВА И ПРАВА РОССИИ
"КВАЗИ-ПРОЕКТ"
СКРИНКАСТ
МУЛЬТИМЕДИЙНАЯ ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ
ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОЕ НАБЛЮДЕНИЕ

description: Статья посвящена проблеме повышения познавательно-профессионального интереса курсантов вузов ФСИН России. Проводится эксперимент по выявлению первоначального уровня познавательно-профессионального интереса курсантов, внедрению в учебный процесс проектной методики и исследованию уровня профессионально-познавательного интереса после применения активных методов обучения. Представлены краткие методические описания учебных занятий с применением метода проектов по курсу История государства и права России.
Australozethus tasmaniensis subsp. montanus Giordani Soika 1969
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Australozethus
Australozethus tasmaniensis
Tasmaniensis montanus

description: tasmaniensis montanus (Giordani Soika)
Pseudozethus [!] tasmaniensis montanus Giordani Soika 1969: 35, female—“ Queensland: Bunya Mountains, 3000 piedi” (Sydney); also from Mt. Glorious.
Australozethus tasmaniensis montanus; Cardale 1985: 169.— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 97 (list).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Hamiltonian Formalism for Nonlocal Gravity Models
Creators: name: Joshi, Pawan
name: Kumar, Utkarsh
name: Panda, Sukanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlocal gravity models are constructed to explain the current acceleration of the universe. These models are inspired by the infrared correction appearing in Einstein Hilbert action. Here we develop the Hamiltonian formalism of a nonlocal model by considering only terms to quadratic order in Ricci tensor and Ricci scalar. We also show how to count the degree of freedom using Hamiltonian formalism in this model.
description: 19 pages
AFeSe2 (A=Tl, K, Rb, or Cs): Iron-based superconducting analog of the cuprates
Creators: name: Zhao, Xinlei
name: Ma, Fengjie
name: Lu, Zhong-Yi
name: Xiang, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has long been a challenging task to find compounds with similar crystal and electronic structures as cuprate superconductors with low dimensionality and strong antiferromagnetic fluctuations. The parent compounds of cuprate superconductors are Mott insulators with strong in-plane antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between Cu moments. Here we show, based on first-principles density functional calculations, that AFeSe2 (A=Tl, K, Rb, or Cs) exhibit many of the physical properties common to the cuprate parent compounds: (1) the FeSe2 layer in AFeSe2 is similar in crystalline and electronic structures to the CuO2 plane in cuprates, although Se atoms are not coplanar to the square Fe-lattice; (2) they are antiferromagnetic insulators, but with relatively small charge excitation gaps; (3) their ground states are Neel antiferromagnetic ordered, similar as in cuprates; and (4) the antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between Fe moments are larger than in other iron-based superconducting materials, but comparable to those in cuprates. Like cuprates, these compounds may become high-Tc superconductors upon doping of charge carriers either by chemical substitution or intercalation or by liquid or solid gating.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
ЗНАЧИМОСТЬ ВОЛЕВЫХ КАЧЕСТВ И ИХ ЗАВИСИМОСТЬ ОТ НАВЫКОВ ФИЗИЧЕСКОЙ ПОДГОТОВКИ В ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ СОТРУДНИКА ПОЛИЦИИ, СВЯЗАННОЙ С ПРИМЕНЕНИЕМ ФИЗИЧЕСКОЙ СИЛЫ ДЛЯ ПРЕСЕЧЕНИЯ ПРОТИВОПРАВНЫХ ПОСЯГАТЕЛЬСТВ ПРАВОНАРУШИТЕЛЯ
Creators: name: БЫЧКОВ МИХАИЛ ВАСИЛЬЕВИЧ
name: КАЛАШНИКОВ КОНСТАНТИН ПАВЛОВИЧ
name: БЫЧКОВ ВАДИМ МИХАЙЛОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник экономической безопасности
Year: 2020
Subjects: ВОЛЕВЫЕ КАЧЕСТВА
ФИЗИЧЕСКАЯ СИЛА
ИНОСТРАННЫЙ ГРАЖДАНИН
ЗАЩИТА ЖИЗНИ
ФИЗИЧЕСКОЕ УТОМЛЕНИЕ

description: В статье раскрывается значимость волевых качеств в процессе подготовки в профессиональной деятельности сотрудника полиции.
Australozethus tasmaniensis subsp. tasmaniensis Giordani Soika 1969
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Australozethus
Australozethus tasmaniensis
Tasmaniensis tasmaniensis giordani soika

description: tasmaniensis tasmaniensis Giordani Soika
Discoelius elongatus; Meade Waldo, 1914: 460 (“Eaglehawk Neck, S.E. Tasmania ”; Vic.).
Australozethus tasmaniensis Giordani Soika 1969: 31, figs. 5, 9, 12–13, 15–16, female, male—“ Tasmania: Eaglehawk Neck” (holotype female London); also from Hobart, “Lauceston” [Launceston]; Vic.: “Monte Buffalo, 4850 ft. ”; 1974: 294, 301 (colouration).— Cardale 1985: 169 (cat.).—Borsato 1994 [1993]: 245 (Vic.: Melbourne).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 97 (list).— Borsato 2003: 513 (N. S. W.: “Beakon Blue Mts.”; Vic.: “Mt. Dandenong, 300 mt,” “Melbourne (Yarra River)”).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Deflection of Light by a Rotating Black Hole Surrounded by "Quintessence"
Creators: name: Sharma, Prateek
name: Nandan, Hemwati
name: Gannouji, Radouane
name: Uniyal, Rashmi
name: Abebe, Amare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of a rotating black hole surrounded by "quintessence". This solution represents a fluid with a constant equation of state, $w$, which can for example describe an effective warm dark matter fluid around a black hole. We clarify the conditions for the existence of such a solution and study its structure by analyzing the existence of horizons as well as the extremal case. We show that the deflection angle produced by the black hole depends on the parameters $(c,w)$ which need to obey the condition $cw<0$ because of the weak energy condition, where $c$ is an additional parameter describing the hair of the black hole. In this context, we found that for $w\simeq 0.1$ (consistent with warm dark matter) and $c<0$, the deviation angle is larger than that in the Kerr spacetime for direct and retrograde orbits. We also derive an exact solution in the case of $w=-1/3$.
Fast, exact CMB power spectrum estimation for a certain class of observational strategies
Creators: name: Wandelt, Benjamin D.
name: Hansen, Frode K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a class of observational strategies for probing the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) where the instrument scans on rings which can be combined into an n-torus, the {\em ring torus}. This class has the remarkable property that it allows exact maximum likelihood power spectrum estimation in of order $N^2$ operations (if the size of the data set is $N$) under circumstances which would previously have made this analysis intractable: correlated receiver noise, arbitrary asymmetric beam shapes and far side lobes, non-uniform distribution of integration time on the sky and partial sky coverage. This ease of computation gives us an important theoretical tool for understanding the impact of instrumental effects on CMB observables and hence for the design and analysis of the CMB observations of the future. There are members of this class which closely approximate the MAP and Planck satellite missions. We present a numerical example where we apply our ring torus methods to a simulated data set from a CMB mission covering a 20 degree patch on the sky to compute the maximum likelihood estimate of the power spectrum $C_\ell$ with unprecedented efficiency.
description: RevTeX, 14 pages, 5 figures. A full resolution version of Figure 1 and additional materials are at http://feynman.princeton.edu/~bwandelt/RTM