cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Rise and Fall of Rule of Law Conditionality
Creators: name: Staudinger, Isabel
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: rule of law
subject: conditionality
subject: EU Green Deal
subject: financial assistance
subject: enforcement
subject: funds

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(2), 721-737
description: I. Introduction - II. The road to rule of law conditionality - III. How the rule of law conditionality regulation became an instrument of budget conditionality - III.1. The conditionality mechanism in Regulation 2020/2092 - III.2. Article 322(1) TFEU as the correct legal basis - III.3. Sufficiently direct link - III.4. Alleged infringement of art. 7 TEU, circumvention of art. 258 TFEU, and destabilising the institutional balance - IV. Other traces of rule of law conditionality - IV.1. References to Regulation 2020/2092 - IV.2. Applying rule of law conditionality under the Recovery and Resilience Facility - V. Conclusions.
description: During the last decade, a deterioration of the respect for the EU's common values occurred. On the EU level, various procedures and instruments have been created and applied to cope with the crisis. The latest instrument, Regulation 2020/2092, was designed to establish a rule of law conditionality mechanism but has turned out as a budget conditionality mechanism. This Article examines the evolution and nature of the conditionality mechanism in said Regulation and shows why rule of law conditionality can currently rather be located in the financial instruments breathing life into the EU Green Deal than in the so-called rule of law conditionality Regulation.
Mass dependence of symmetry energy coefficients in Skyrme force
Creators: name: Wang, N.
name: Liu, M.
name: Jiang, H.
name: Tian, J. L.
name: Zhao, Y. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the semi-classical extended Thomas-Fermi approach, we study the mass dependence of the symmetry energy coefficients of finite nuclei for 36 different Skyrme forces. The reference densities of both light and heavy nuclei are obtained. Eight models based on nuclear liquid drop concept and the Skyrme force SkM* suggest the symmetry energy coefficient $a_{\rm sym}=22.90 \pm 0.15 $ MeV at $A=260$, and the corresponding reference density is $ρ_A\simeq 0.1$ fm$^{-3}$ at this mass region. The standard Skyrme energy density functionals give negative values for the coefficient of the $I^4$ term in the binding energy formula, whereas the latest Weizsäcker-Skyrme formula and the experimental data suggest positive values for the coefficient.
description: 6 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Information-Theoretic Approach to Strategic Communication as a Hierarchical Game
Creators: name: Akyol, Emrah
name: Langbort, Cedric
name: Basar, Tamer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper analyzes the information disclosure problems originated in economics through the lens of information theory. Such problems are radically different from the conventional communication paradigms in information theory since they involve different objectives for the encoder and the decoder, which are aware of this mismatch and act accordingly. This leads, in our setting, to a hierarchical communication game, where the transmitter announces an encoding strategy with full commitment, and its distortion measure depends on a private information sequence whose realization is available at the transmitter. The receiver decides on its decoding strategy that minimizes its own distortion based on the announced encoding map and the statistics. Three problem settings are considered, focusing on the quadratic distortion measures, and jointly Gaussian source and private information: compression, communication, and the simple equilibrium conditions without any compression or communication. The equilibrium strategies and associated costs are characterized. The analysis is then extended to the receiver side information setting and the major changes in the structure of optimal strategies are identified. Finally, an extension of the results to the broader context of decentralized stochastic control is presented.
description: in press, the Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Principles and Applications of Science of Information
Investigation of Adjacent Lifted Flames Interaction in an Inline and Inclined Multi-Burner Arrangement
Creators: name: Shamma, Mohamed
name: Hoffmann, Sven
name: Harth, Stefan Raphael
name: Zarzalis, Nikolaos
name: Trimis, Dimosthenis
name: Koch, Rainer
name: Bauer, Hans-Jörg
name: Langone, Leonardo
name: Galeotti, Sofia
name: Andreini, Antonio
Publisher: name: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Year: 2021

description: The main objective of this research is to assess an innovative, low nitrogen oxides emission combustor concept, which has the potential to achieve the long term European emissions goals for aircraft engines. Lean lifted spray flames and their very low nitrogen oxides emissions are combined with an inclination of burners in annular combustor leading to a more compact combustor with superior stability range. The presented combustor concept was developed in the frame of the European research project CHAIRLIFT (Compact Helical Arranged combustoRs with lean LIFTed flames). CHAIRLIFT combustor concept is based on “low swirl” lean lifted spray flames, which features a high degree of premixing and consequently significantly reduced nitrogen oxides emissions and flashback risk compared to conventional swirl stabilized flames. In the CHAIRLIFT combustor concept, the lifted flames are combined with Short Helical Combustors arrangement to attain stable combustion by tilting the axis of the flames relative to the axis of the turbine to enhance the interaction of adjacent flames in a circumferential direction. A series of experimental tests were conducted at a multi-burner array test rig consisting of up to five modular burners at different burner inclination angles (0° and 45°), equivalence ratios, and relative air pressure drop at ambient conditions. For all investigated configurations, a remarkable high lean blow out for non-piloted burners (ϕLBO = 0.29–0.37), was measured. The multi-burner configurations were observed having a superior stability range in contrast to the typical decrease in stability from single to high swirl multi-burner. The unwanted flow deflection of highly swirled flames in Short Helical Combustors arrangement, could be avoided with the investigated low swirl lifted flames. Moreover, the flame chemiluminescence (OH*) measurements were used to provide a qualitative characterization of the flame topology. Complementary numerical investigations were carried out using different numbers of burners to evaluate the effect of boundary conditions.
N=2 gauge theories, instanton moduli spaces and geometric representation theory
Creators: name: Szabo, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We survey some of the AGT relations between N=2 gauge theories in four dimensions and geometric representations of symmetry algebras of two-dimensional conformal field theory on the equivariant cohomology of their instanton moduli spaces. We treat the cases of gauge theories on both flat space and ALE spaces in some detail, and with emphasis on the implications arising from embedding them into supersymmetric theories in six dimensions. Along the way we construct new toric noncommutative ALE spaces using the general theory of complex algebraic deformations of toric varieties, and indicate how to generalise the construction of instanton moduli spaces. We also compute the equivariant partition functions of topologically twisted six-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with maximal supersymmetry in a general Omega-background, and use the construction to obtain novel reductions to theories in four dimensions.
description: 55 pages; v2: typos corrected and reference added; Final version to appear in the Special Issue "Instanton Counting: Moduli Spaces, Representation Theory and Integrable Systems" of the Journal of Geometry and Physics, eds. U. Bruzzo and F. Sala
title: Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Spannungsfeld von Weltkultur und lokaler Handlungspraxis. Narrative deutscher Enwicklungsexpert_innen in Postkonfliktgesellschaften
Creators: name: Heusinger, Judith Von
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Theoretical approaches to globalization, world society, and Western modernity analyzing fundamental structural changes in international or national contexts mostly fail to reflect the role of the individual and processes of everyday practice. Using a macro-sociological World Polity perspective to investigate micro-level actorhood and decoupling, the paper presents an innovative approach of analysis. The paper focuses on development aid workers as individual actors and norm entrepreneurs who facilitate ‚development‘ and ‚modernization‘ in societies all over the world. Development aid workers intervene in culturally differing development and post conflict societies in order to operationalize global knowledge and norms on the micro-level. Based on qualitative interviews, the Working Paper argues that development aid workers dramatize their professional self and work practice using ‚global‘ language, frames and scripts. This leads to a disappearance of ‚the local’ as well as variations in work practice from their narratives. The Working Paper points out that the assumptions of the macro-sociological World Polity theory do apply to development aid workers as individual actors who present themselves as ‚rationalized others‘. Their self-presentation is consistent with theoretical assumptions on rationalization, individualism, universalism and instrumental activism as proposed by World Polity theory. Furthermore it is shown that development aid workers clearly see limits of individual scope of action. They stress the dominance of world culture and top-down influences rather than individual bottom-up exercise of influences on policy-making, usually defined as a central character trait of modern actorhood. The development aid workers depict two options to localize global institutions: long-time interpersonal engagement ‚on the ground’ and financial incentives. Here, more research on the nature of norm localization processes is needed.
title: Why do we overeat from larger portions? Plate-clearing tendencies and food waste concerns as potential explanations
Creators: name: Sheen, Florence
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: This thesis investigated how plate-clearing tendencies and food waste concerns may contribute to overconsumption from larger portion sizes of food. Chapter 2 demonstrated that, irrespective of the portion size served, those who self-reported a tendency to plate-clear when eating consumed significantly more food than those who reported low plate-clearing tendencies. Chapter 3 demonstrated the reliability and validity of a new scale to measure food waste concerns in an eating context. Scores on this scale positively predicted self-reported plate-clearing tendencies, but were not predictive of objectively measured energy intake, BMI or the likelihood of having overweight. Chapter 4 reports on studies in which beliefs about food waste were manipulated. Across Chapters 3 and 4, there was little evidence that food waste concerns influenced objectively measured food intake. Chapter 5 showed that plate-clearing tendencies and food waste concerns moderate the influence portion size has on intended food consumption. Given that intended consumption predicts actual consumption, individuals who are concerned about wasting food and habitually clear their plate may be at risk of overeating, especially when faced with larger portions. This thesis provides further evidence for a portion size effect on intended and actual consumption, with implications for policies and interventions aimed at reducing the size of portions available in our food environment. It also provides the first thorough investigation into how plate-clearing tendencies and food waste concerns influence food intake. My findings suggest that working to create a food environment in which plate-clearing would no longer constitute a maladaptive behaviour could induce widespread reductions in food intake. I also provide further evidence that food waste concerns are associated with plate-clearing tendencies. Further investigation into how food waste concerns influence plate-clearing tendencies, and how this may influence eating behaviour, is now warranted.
Should Thermostatted Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics be used to calculate thermal reaction rates?
Creators: name: Hele, Timothy J. H.
name: Suleimanov, Yury V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply Thermostatted Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics (TRPMD), a recently-proposed approximate quantum dynamics method, to the computation of thermal reaction rates. Its short-time Transition-State Theory (TST) limit is identical to rigorous Quantum Transition-State Theory, and we find that its long-time limit is independent of the location of the dividing surface. TRPMD rate theory is then applied to one-dimensional model systems, the atom-diatom bimolecular reactions H+H$_2$, D+MuH and F+H$_2$, and the prototypical polyatomic reaction H+CH$_4$. Above the crossover temperature, the TRPMD rate is virtually invariant to the strength of the friction applied to the internal ring-polymer normal modes, and beneath the crossover temperature the TRPMD rate generally decreases with increasing friction, in agreement with the predictions of Kramers theory. We therefore find that TRPMD is approximately equal to, or less accurate than, Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics (RPMD) for symmetric reactions, and for certain asymmetric systems and friction parameters closer to the quantum result, providing a basis for further assessment of the accuracy of this method.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Minor alterations and corrections to the previous version in light of referees' comments
EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABES, TRAVEL EXPERIENCE AND THE PROBABIIITY TO RETURN TO DESTINTATION THE CASE OF FRENCH TOURISTS IN EGYPT
Creators: name: Azim, Tarek Sayed Abdel
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2010

description: This exploratory study was conducted in order to investigate the impact of sociodemographic variables “age, sex, familial situation, qualification, profession, income per capita”, travel characteristics and levels of satisfaction concerning the quality of tourist services offered to French travellers to Egypt, the prices and security in Egypt on the probability to return to Egypt in the future in period of chocks represented in the periods following the Sharm el-Sheikh attacks, Dahab attacks and during the aviant flu epidemic crisis which hit Egypt. This probability was estimated using the probit model.
description: tourismos, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2010)
title: Corruption in Caribbean Politics - Examining Cultural Tolerance
Creators: name: De Coteau, Dawn
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2022

description: This thesis examines the issue of corruption in modern Caribbean politics. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to place contemporary political and legal debates about corruption in their socio-cultural and historical context. In particular, the thesis identifies the long-term impacts of colonialism, slavery and indentureship on socio-economic conditions in the Caribbean and on its political systems and political cultures, and it explores the consequences of these issues for the dynamics of corruption in the Caribbean today. The central hypothesis is that these conditions have facilitated the emergence of a ‘cultural tolerance’ of corruption. In other words, customs and behaviours that form part of daily practices, while questionable, have become accepted, and tolerated and therefore normalised. The thesis draws on a range of secondary and primary data collected and analysed using qualitative methods. These sources include official reports, legislation, media coverage and semi-structured interviews with lawyers, politicians, journalists and academic specialists. The findings underline two key points of significance. First, acts of 'corrupt' practices are not necessarily viewed as such by those who undertake them. Second, the failure of international organisation to factor in Caribbean history has resulted in ineffective systems being introduced to address issues of corruption in the Caribbean. The original contribution made by this thesis derives both from its contextualisation of corruption with reference to history and culture and the empirical detail provided by the case studies and fieldwork findings. The resulting reframing of the study of corruption in the Caribbean has important political and legal implications. Caribbean iii countries are continuously perceived as having high levels of corruption and are criticised for failing to implement what are deemed, by ‘outsiders’, to be appropriate ‘good governance’ arrangements. A core contention of this thesis is that if Caribbean countries are to meaningfully address corruption in modern times, it will only be possible to do so if the realities of the Caribbean history and it’s impact are recognised ̶ otherwise what has been done to the Caribbean in the past will continue to limit its scope to determine its own future.
The temporal scaling of Caenorhabditis elegans ageing
Creators: name: Fontana, Walter
name: Gomez, Adam
name: Apfeld, Javier
name: Anthony, Winston E.
name: López-Moyado, Isaac F.
name: Stroustrup, Nicholas
name: Nash, Zachary M.
name: Gowda, Vivek
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The process of ageing makes death increasingly likely, but involves a random aspect that produces a wide distribution of lifespan even in homogeneous populations1,2. The study of this stochastic behaviour may link molecular mechanisms to the ageing process that determines lifespan. Here, by collecting high-precision mortality statistics from large populations, we observe that interventions as diverse as changes in diet, temperature, exposure to oxidative stress, and disruption of genes including the heat shock factor hsf-1, the hypoxia-inducible factor hif-1, and the insulin/IGF-1 pathway components daf-2, age-1, and daf-16 all alter lifespan distributions by an apparent stretching or shrinking of time. To produce such temporal scaling, each intervention must alter to the same extent throughout adult life all physiological determinants of the risk of death. Organismic ageing in Caenorhabditis elegans therefore appears to involve aspects of physiology that respond in concert to a diverse set of interventions. In this way, temporal scaling identifies a novel state variable, r(t), that governs the risk of death and whose average decay dynamics involves a single effective rate constant of ageing, kr. Interventions that produce temporal scaling influence lifespan exclusively by altering kr. Such interventions, when applied transiently even in early adulthood, temporarily alter kr with an attendant transient increase or decrease in the rate of change in r and a permanent effect on remaining lifespan. The existence of an organismal ageing dynamics that is invariant across genetic and environmental contexts provides the basis for a new, quantitative framework for evaluating how and how much specific molecular processes contribute to the aspect of ageing that determines lifespan.
ROLE OF PUBLIC PARKS/GARDENS IN ATTRACTING DOMESTIC TOURISTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM CITY BEAUTIFUL OF INDIA
Creators: name: Chaudhry, Pradeep
name: Tewari, Vindhya
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2010

description: Chandigarh-the ‘City Beautiful’ of India is known for its urban greenery and well planned landscaping in the whole world. More than 0.60 millions of domestic tourists are visiting Chandigarh city each year. In a research study undertaken during 2002-04, an assessment about the annual recreational use value of this city’s urban parks and gardens was made by using Zonal Travel Cost Method (TCM) on the domestic tourists coming to the city for tourism purpose. Though man made greenery can not compensate nature’s green cover, yet it plays a significant role in attracting domestic tourists towards a city of parks/gardens in a developing country like India.
description: tourismos, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2010)
Observational Study Using Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Exhaled Volatile Organic Compounds from Patients in Leicester Royal Infirmary Emergency Department
Creators: name: Qualey, Peter E.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study is the ‘breath component’ of the study, ‘Multi Modality Monitoring In Emergency Medicine’ (M3EM), run at Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI), Emergency Department (ED), which sought to bring research grade equipment to the patients’ bedside, to apply cardiovascular monitoring, with breath metabolic monitoring and hyperspectral imaging in concert to aid in patient diagnoses and to achieve a synergy of intersecting techniques providing a complementarity of analysis of patient condition. It is therefore an observational study which aims to determine whether breath analysis ‘at the bedside’ is a useful diagnostic tool. Its findings will be set in the context of ‘exhaled breath’ studies, instrumental techniques, the current thrust of exhaled breath metabolic profile research and the problems, and limitations of exhaled breath as a diagnostic modality. After the design and configuration of the Diagnostic Development Unit and the equipment therein, data was taken from controls and a cohort of selected patients with admitting criteria. Moreover, sub studies on Circadian rhythm and phenotyping were run. The main results of the study show that such an approach is feasible; however, it is not without difficulties due to large inter- and intra- patient variabilities present. Techniques providing greater sensitivity to lower densities of a broader range of metabolic species are also needful.
Observable Signatures of a Classical Transition
Creators: name: Johnson, Matthew C.
name: Lin, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eternal inflation arising from a potential landscape predicts that our universe is one realization of many possible cosmological histories. One way to access different cosmological histories is via the nucleation of bubble universes from a metastable false vacuum. Another way to sample different cosmological histories is via classical transitions, the creation of pocket universes through the collision between bubbles. Using relativistic numerical simulations, we examine the possibility of observationally determining if our observable universe resulted from a classical transition. We find that classical transitions produce spatially infinite, approximately open Friedman-Robertson-Walker universes. The leading set of observables in the aftermath of a classical transition are negative spatial curvature and a contribution to the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature quadrupole. The level of curvature and magnitude of the quadrupole are dependent on the position of the observer, and we determine the possible range of observables for two classes of single-scalar field models. For the first class, where the inflationary phase has a lower energy than the vacuum preceding the classical transition, the magnitude of the observed quadrupole generally falls to zero with distance from the collision while the spatial curvature grows to a constant. For the second class, where the inflationary phase has a higher energy than the vacuum preceding the classical transition, the magnitude of the observed quadrupole generically falls to zero with distance from the collision while the spatial curvature grows without bound. We find that the magnitude of the quadrupole and curvature grow with increasing centre of mass energy of the collision, and explore variations of the parameters in the scalar field lagrangian.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures
title: Temporality, Subjectivity, Capitalism: The Kantian Grounds for Deleuze’s Theory of the Subject
Creators: name: Burrell, Liam
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2022

description: This thesis traces the theme of subjectivity across the work of Gilles Deleuze, using the theory of Kantian temporality as a grounding idea through which to link together the potentially-disparate periods of Deleuze's work. Derived from Kant's three syntheses of the imagination in the Critique of Pure Reason, in Difference and Repetition, Deleuze proposes a genetic theory of time as a foundation on which to build a theory of the subject. I argue that this Kantian idea is evident also in Deleuze and Guattari's description of both the genesis of the subject in Anti-Oedipus as well as their theory of the state in A Thousand Plateaus, which I read as constituting a problem ultimately given the name 'control'. I read Deleuze's The Fold and Cinema 2 in light of his theory of control societies, as well as a reaction to the work of Foucault as both a contemporary but also somewhat of a rival working in the post-Kantian tradition. In these latter works, I see Deleuze attempting to construct a solution for the problems generated in the Guattari collaborations and through encounters with Foucault, where Deleuze returns to concerns around the subject and its emancipation from the strictures engendered by being a subject in a capitalist world.
Anthropogenic threats to wetland resources and its implication on carbon sequestration in Southwestern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Abera, Alemayehu
name: Assefa, Tekalign
name: Adugna, Zelalem
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2023

description: Even though wetlands have been valued for their numerous ecosystem services and hydrological, ecological and habitat functions, its services have been threatened by its sudden losses. Nevertheless, the losses along its driving factors and the effects brought due to the loss have not been scientifically investigated. The study is geared to scrutinize anthropogenic threats to wetland and its implication on carbon sequestration in southwestern Ethiopia. A combination of geospatial and socioeconomic data were utilized to attain the intended objectives. A total of 384 households were selected using simple random sampling technique from sample kebeles to assess the drivers of wetland degradation. Besides, to address the experimental work, the wetland was stratified, and soil samples were taken from three classes of wetlands viz., permanent wetlands (intact wetlands), semi disturbed wetlands and wetlands converted to agricultural land. From the total category of wetlands, 24 composite soil samples in five replications at a depth of 0-20 cm were collected. The result of Landsat imageries revealed that Wichi wetland area has been shrinking. It was 17.4% of the area in 2001, while it declined into 3.1% in 2021. There is a significant difference (p < 0.05) in soil Organic Content in between different classes of wetlands. The organic carbon content of soils converted to agricultural land is very low. In intact/undisturbed wetlands, there is better carbon content than other states of wetlands. This triggers the wetlands to lack their pristine nature. To reverse these problems, integrated problem-solving approach through collaboration of stakeholders from policy level down to grassroots community is found to be essential for sustainable wetland management in the area.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 52 (2022)
The heavy metal biomonitoring study using lichen Xanthoria parietina (L.) Th. Fr. in Ankara province (Turkey)
Creators: name: Işik, Volkan
name: Yildiz, Atila
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2023

description: For the purpose of biomonitoring air pollution level in Ankara (capital of Turkey) in terms of heavy metals, Xanthoria parietina (L.) Th. Fr. lichen samples were collected at 30 stations on different tree species, 29 of which are located in city center and 1 outside the city as a control station, between November 2020 and April 2021. After drying and cleaning dust and bark materials from the lichen thallus, the analysis of heavy metals (Al, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, Pb) was performed using ICP-MS and the amaount of chlorophyll-a and chlorophyll-b was measured with UV-Spectrophotometer. When mean of the heavy metal measurement results was compared with lichen reference values of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the ranking was as follows: Cr˃Fe˃Al˃Co˃V˃Cu˃As˃Ni˃Zn˃Pb˃Cd˃Mn. As expected, the station in Çamlıdere district, which was selected as a control station 98 km from the city center of Ankara, has lower heavy metals concentration compared to the other stations. According to the results of heavy metals concentration from other stations, the main sources of air pollution in Ankara are motor vehicles, fossil fuels, and industrial activities, respectively.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 52 (2022)
Practice and challenges of implementing vital event registration: the case of selected Woreda of Wolaita zone, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Labiso, Tadele
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2023

description: A vital events registration system is comprehensive, continuous, compulsory and the main source of vital statistics. This study aimed at investigating the practices and challenges of implementing vital events registration system in the selected Woredas of Wolayta zone, Ethiopia. The study employed mixed research method and descriptive research design on the practices and challenges of VRS among communities and government of the nation. Both primary and secondary sources of data would be used. To make the sample area manageable and representative, four Woreda were included through purposive sampling method. The sample size of the respondents for each site would be determined by non-probability and proportional sampling technique and in each site. Quantitative data was processed, cleaned and analyzed using SPSS version 21.0 and Binary Logistic Regression analysis would be used to fit a model and to check independent effect of selected exposure variables by using Adjusted Odds Ratio (Forward Stepwise Procedure) at 95% Confidence Interval. Lack of awareness on presence of birth registration is contributing factor for the low rate of birth registration practices. The study also confirms high prevalence of forgery cases in their working and resident area. Knowledge and attitude of respondents were eligible variables having power to affect the practice and trends of vital event registration system.Community awareness activities at all level through effective utilization of the existing community structures for sensitization of the communities, local media, and organized forums and via strong collaboration with all stakeholders should be accelerated.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 52 (2022)
QSAR model for pka prediction of phenols
Creators: name: Hamada, Hakim
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2023

description: Descriptors (topological, mathematical and quantum) were used to generate quantitative construction property connections (QSPR) for the pKa of 80 phenols. The informational index was divided into 56 preparation and 24 test sets, and models were built using the preparation set's incomplete least squares (PLS) relapse. The consistency and predictive power of the best acquired QSAR models were achieved through internal approval, Y randomization, and external approval, and their pertinence area was confirmed by the influence technique. The benefits of the various direct relapse investigations' measurable boundaries. Standard deviation (S), standard deviation error of prediction (SDEP, External validation coefficient test), determination coefficient R², cross-validated R² (Q²) (SDEPext). The cross-validated R² (test Q²ext) values (95.68%, 95.22%, 0.304, 0.312, 0.292, and 96.24%, respectively) attest to the model's good fit.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 52 (2022)
THE USE OF ETHNOGRAPHY TO EXPLORE TOURIST SATISFACTION ANTECEDENTS
Creators: name: Christou, Prokopis
name: Saveriades, Alexis
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this paper is to provide insights concerning the use of ethnographic techniques to explore the antecedents of tourist satisfaction; otherwise referred to as the needs and expectations which precede tourist satisfaction. By revealing the relevance of both needs and expectations in the tourist satisfaction process, the authors proceed in justifying the use of this approach for such exploration. This is based on a thorough review of the global literature as well as on a prolonged ethnographic study undertaken in Cyprus which aimed to investigate holistically the rural tourist satisfaction process. Based on the results of the study, the authors encourage future researchers in the respective tourism field to adopt and make use of the aforementioned approach for similar investigations.
description: tourismos, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2010)
Evaluating the ecological capability of urban, rural and industrial development and estimating the current settlement of these areas using GIS in Larestan County, Iran
Creators: name: Khanbazi, Mohammad Reza
name: Masoudi, Nima
name: Masoudi, Masoud
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2023

description: The importance of using rational and systematic methods in the management and optimal use of resources, especially natural resources, is clear to everyone. Improper development of residential and industrial areas leads to the destruction of agricultural lands and natural resources and expansion towards vulnerable areas, such as flood basins and inappropriate slopes, which in fact causes the ecological balance and stability of the land to be disrupted. The necessity of evaluating the ecological capability of urban, rural and industrial development is to objectify the capability of the expected land. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the ecological capability of Larestan County for urban, rural and industrial development. In this regard, the county of Larestan was evaluated using information layers and summarizing them using GIS technology. The evaluation results were presented in two relatively suitable (2) and unsuitable (3) classes. In addition, in this research, the percentage of suitability classes in the estimation of the current establishment of urban, rural and industrial uses was done by superimposing urban polygonal layers, points of villages and industrial areas of the county on the ecological suitability map, and the status of these areas was determined. According to the obtained results, most of the urban, rural and industrial areas are in the third or unsuitable class. In the survey conducted in the rural areas of Larestan county, a large number of villages (83.33%) are placed in the third or unsuitable class, which are scattered throughout the county. 57.3% of the area of urban areas are placed in the 3rd or unsuitable class. The industries of Larestan county are mostly placed in the third or unsuitable class (76.92%), this actually shows that the establishment of industries in Larestan county has not been paid attention to the ecological capability and this can lead to environmental damage. This improper establishment shows that both the industries themselves may be harmed and the industries can cause serious harm to the environment.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 52 (2022)
On 1-Laplacian Elliptic Equations Modeling Magnetic Resonance Image Rician Denoising
Creators: name: Martin, Adrian
name: Schiavi, Emanuele
name: de Leon, Sergio Segura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modeling magnitude Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) rician denoising in a Bayesian or generalized Tikhonov framework using Total Variation (TV) leads naturally to the consideration of nonlinear elliptic equations. These involve the so called $1$-Laplacian operator and special care is needed to properly formulate the problem. The rician statistics of the data are introduced through a singular equation with a reaction term defined in terms of modified first order Bessel functions. An existence theory is provided here together with other qualitative properties of the solutions. Remarkably, each positive global minimum of the associated functional is one of such solutions. Moreover, we directly solve this non--smooth non--convex minimization problem using a convergent Proximal Point Algorithm. Numerical results based on synthetic and real MRI demonstrate a better performance of the proposed method when compared to previous TV based models for rician denoising which regularize or convexify the problem. Finally, an application on real Diffusion Tensor Images, a strongly affected by rician noise MRI modality, is presented and discussed.
IIoT-based Instrumentation and Control System for a Lateral Micro-drilling Robot Using Machine Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognosis
Creators: name: Solorio Cervantes, Jose A.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400702
subject: Automation engineering
classificationCode: 400705
subject: Control engineering
classificationCode: 400802
subject: Electrical circuits and systems
classificationCode: 400799
subject: Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 409902
subject: Engineering instrumentation
classificationCode: 400907
subject: Industrial electronics
classificationCode: 401907
subject: Petroleum and reservoir engineering
classificationCode: 400607
subject: Signal processing
classificationCode: 461199
subject: Machine learning not elsewhere classified

description: This project aimed to develop an instrumentation and control system for a micro-drilling robot based on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies. The automation system integrated IIoT technological tools to create a robust automation system capable of being used in drilling operations. The system incorporated industrial-grade sensors, which carried out direct measurements of the critical variables of the process. The indirect variables relevant to the control of the robot were calculated from the measured parameters. The system also considered the telemetry architecture necessary to reliably transmit data from the down-the-hole (DTH) robot to a receiver on the surface. Telemetry was based on wireless communication through long-range radio frequency (LoRa). The system developed had models based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for determining the mode of operation, detecting changes in the process, and changes in drilling variables in critical hydraulic components for the drilling process. Algorithms based on AI and ML models also allowed the user to make better decisions based on the variables' correlation to optimize the drilling process (e.g., dynamic change of flow, pressure, and RPMs based on automatic rock identification). A user interface (UI) was developed, and digital tools to perform data analysis were implemented. Safety assessment in all robot systems (e.g., electrical, hardware, software) was contemplated as a critical design component. The result of this research project provides innovative micro-drilling robots with the necessary technological tools to optimize the drilling process. The system made drilling more efficient, reliable, and safe, providing diagnostic and prognostic tools that allowed planning maintenance based on the actual health of the devices. The system that was developed was tested in a test bench under controlled conditions within a laboratory to characterize the system and collect data that allowed ML models' development, training, validation, and testing. The prototype of a micro-drilling robot installed on the test bench served as a case study to assess the implemented models' reliability and the proposed telemetry.
title: Disentangling the Different Factors that Contribute to the Production of 3rd Person Singular Errors in Spanish
Creators: name: Martin, Joseph
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: The objective of this thesis is to explain a type of error that is commonly observed in the speech of children in a number of languages – the tendency to frequently deploy a particular person-number form of a verb in contexts where another form is appropriate, a pattern that has been referred to as “defaulting”. In particular we focus on the tendency of Spanish-learning children to “default” to the third person singular (3sg) form of verbs. For example, a child speaking Spanish frequently produces the 3sg form -a when the 3rd person plural (3pl) form -an is the target. We seek to understand what factors – e.g. the frequency with which the different forms occur, the way the different forms sound (phonology) or what the different forms mean (semantics) – cause children to produce this error. In particular we test an existing proposal that defaulting is the result of the relative frequency of the form in question. We employ a novel training study approach designed to establish a causal link between linguistic experience and language development and disentangle different explanatory factors. This thesis begins with an overview of the previous literature, establishing the role that frequency, phonology and semantics play in morphological development. Chapter 3 investigates how much of an effect frequency has on the acquisition of present tense Spanish inflections by manipulating the input frequency in English-speaking monolingual adults (Experiment 1: Mean age - 19;4, Range - 18;3-25;1 – Experiment 2: Mean age – 19;6, Range – 18:3-24;8). Chapter 4 explores the role of phonology and semantics in the acquisition of the semantic 3sg form and the phonological -a form, by permuting forms across meanings using a sample of English-speaking monolingual adults (Mean age – 20;6 – Range – 18:4-35;2) . Chapter 5 explores the role of frequency in the acquisition of Spanish inflections using the same methodology as Chapter 3 but using an monolingual sample of English-speaking children (Experiment 4: Mean age – 9;2 - Range – 8;4-10;4 – Experiment 5: Mean age – 9;4 – Range – 8;4-10;8). Chapter 6 aims to improve on the methodology from Chapter 3 by introducing a physical “teacher” that the child can interact with. Again we tested monolingual English-speaking children (Experiment 6: Mean age – 9;4 –Range – 8:1-10:7 – Experiment 7: Mean age– 9;4 – Range – 8;1-10;1). iv The results from these studies demonstrate that, while input frequency does affect the production of the 3sg form, its contribution differs from that previously proposed. We propose that the defaulting that has been found previously is at least partially a product of phonology and semantics. While input frequency does result in an overall increase in rate of 3sg production, it also contributes to increased overall performance (including on other forms) and in some cases, contrary to prior proposals, reduces rather than increases the rate of 3sg errors.
A contribution to the Aleksandrov conservative distance problem in two dimensions
Creators: name: Gehér, György Pál
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 46B04, 46B20, 52A10. Secondary: 51M05, 52C25

description: Let $E$ be a two-dimensional real normed space. In this paper we show that if the unit circle of $E$ does not contain any line segment such that the distance between its endpoints is greater than 1, then every transformation $ϕ\colon E\to E$ which preserves the unit distance is automatically an affine isometry. In particular, this condition is satisfied when the norm is strictly convex.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
In memoriam Dr. Gottfried Leuch, Zürich
Creators: name: Keller, C.
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1933
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Walzenhausen
subject: Leuch, Gottfried

description: Sonderabdruck aus der Schweizerischen medizinischen Wochenschrift, 63. Jahrgang 1933, Nr. 18, Seite 435
Novel Augmented Reality Objects and Virtual Avatars for Learning of Clinical Skills
Creators: name: LIM, ZHAN YI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Graphics, augmented reality and games not elsewhere classified
Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
Clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Clinical skills learning is usually conducted with mannequins, standardized patients (SP) or real patients. However, these learning mediums have several limitations such as discomfort of SP, transmission of infectious diseases especially during pandemics, only applicable for a limited range of clinical signs, and potential ethical issues. This research aims to resolve these existing issues in the field of medical education by employing Augmented Reality (AR) technology and virtual patients. We developed AR clinical signs and subsequently integrated them into an AR virtual patient application, and discovered that these learning tools have positive learning impacts.