cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Recommendations for staff associations and unions towards ending gender-based violence
Creators: name: Mergaert, Lut
name: Wuiame, Nathalie
name: Madesi, Vasia
name: Polykarpou, Panagiota
name: Schredl, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gender based violence
Staff association
Unions
institutional policy

description: This factsheet addresses staff associations and unions in higher education and research institutions. It provides recommendations on their role towards ending gender-based violence. Recommendations are based on the findings from the EU-funded UniSAFE project.

Readers of this factsheet may want to consult UniSAFE’s toolkit section on concepts and meanings. Background information about the root causes of gender-based violence in research and academia are laid out in the White Paper for Policymakers and Institutional Managers, together with a presentation of the 7P model (Prevalence, Prevention, Protection, Prosecution, Provision of services, Partnerships, Policy).
Observation of Nonspreading Wave Packets in an Imaginary Potential
Creators: name: Stuetzle, R.
name: Goebel, M. C.
name: Hoerner, T.
name: Kierig, E.
name: Mourachko, I.
name: Oberthaler, M. K.
name: Efremov, M. A.
name: Fedorov, M. V.
name: Yakovlev, V. P.
name: van Leeuwen, K. A. H.
name: Schleich, W. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method to prepare a nonspreading atomic wave packet. Our technique relies on a spatially modulated absorption constantly chiseling away from an initially broad de Broglie wave. The resulting contraction is balanced by dispersion due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. This quantum evolution results in the formation of a nonspreading wave packet of Gaussian form with a spatially quadratic phase. Experimentally, we confirm these predictions by observing the evolution of the momentum distribution. Moreover, by employing interferometric techniques, we measure the predicted quadratic phase across the wave packet. Nonspreading wave packets of this kind also exist in two space dimensions and we can control their amplitude and phase using optical elements.
description: 4 figures
Romantic Relationship and Self Esteem: The Role of Self Esteem in Predication of Relationship Satisfaction, Romanticism, and Emophillia
Creators: name: Jaffar, Romaisa
name: Jehangir, Farhana
name: Muhammad, Israr
Publisher: name: Journal of Clinical & Developmental Psychology
Year: 2021

description: Background: The goal was to discover the relationship between the levels of self-esteem and types of romantic relationships (emophilia and romanticism) and its impact on individual’s relationship satisfaction. Methods: More specifically, the study sought to examine whether low self-esteem was related to emotional promiscuity and lower levels of romantic relationship satisfaction. Furthermore, the study also sought to examine if higher levels of self-esteem would corresponded to greater romantic relationship satisfaction and romanticism. The data was collected from 385 committed/ engaged participants. Results indicated that those with low self-esteem had lower levels of relationship satisfaction. Finding also revealed that individuals with low self-esteem scored high on romanticism than emophilia. No association was found between an increase in age and emophilia. Gender differences were also found on romanticism as females scored high than males. Moreover, the results also depicted no inverse association between emophilia, one and only love, and love can conquer all. Conclusions: Results signified that endorsement of romantic beliefs did predict relationship satisfaction.
description: Journal of Clinical & Developmental Psychology, Online First Articles
Quality Certification by Geographical Indications, Trademarks and Firm Reputation
Creators: name: Menapace, Luisa
name: Moschini, GianCarlo
name: Menapace, Luisa
name: Moschini, GianCarlo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Asymmetric Information
subject: Certification
subject: Geographical Indications
subject: Quality
subject: Reputation

description: We study firm reputation as a mechanism to assure product quality in perfectly competitive markets in a context in which both certification and trademarks are available. Shapiro’s (1983) model of reputation is extended to reflect both collective and firm-specific reputations, and this framework is used to study certification and trademarks for food products with a regional identity, known as geographical indications (GIs). Our model yields two primary results. First, in markets with asymmetric information and moral hazard problems, credible certification schemes reduce the cost of establishing reputation and lead to welfare gains compared to a situation in which only private trademarks are available. Hence, certification improves the ability of reputation to operate as a mechanism for assuring quality. Second, the actual design of the certification scheme plays an important role in mitigating informational problems. From a policy perspective, our results have implications for the current debate and negotiations on GIs at the World Trade Organization and the ongoing product quality policy reform within the European Union. With regard to the instrument of choice to provide intellectual property protection for GIs, our model favors a sui generis scheme based on appellations over certification marks. Finally, our model supports the validity of the traditional specialities guaranteed scheme of the European Union as an instrument for the provision of high-quality products that are not linked to a geographic area.
Two photon decay of neutral scalars below 1.5 GeV in a chiral model for bar{q}q and bar{q}bar{q}qq states
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Simon
name: Napsuciale, Mauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the two photon decay of neutral scalars below 1.5 GeV in the context of a recently proposed chiral model for bar{q}q and bar{q}bar{q}qq states. We find good agreement with experimental results for the a_{0}(980)->gamma gamma. Our calculations for f_{0}(980)->gamma gamma shows that further work is necessary in order to understand the structure of this meson. The model predicts Gamma(a_{0}(1450)->gamma gamma)=0.16+/-0.10KeV, Gamma(sigma->gamma gamma)=0.47+/-0.66 KeV, Gamma(f(1370)->gamma gamma)=0.07+/-0.15 KeV, Gamma(f(1500)->gamma gamma)=0.74+/-0.78 KeV.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Placing Gitxsan stories in text : returning the feathers, Guuxs Mak’am mik’aax
Creators: name: Smith, M. Jane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: As a Gitxsan child growing up in the Gitxsan territory, I was never sent away to residential school. I was able to experience a traditional Gitxsan education that involved working with Elders on the land and listening to stories. This experience had a profound effect on my way of being, both as an educator and as a storyteller, so much so that I have used this pedagogical approach in my public school teaching. This study documents my journey as I concurrently use stories as research and research as stories and drawing from narrative, autobiographical, reflective practice, and action research literature and the conception of Indigenous research offered by Linda Smith (1999). I narrate the stories and legends that reveal the depth of the Gitxsan culture. Gitxsan culture involves traditions arising from a long oral history. I explore these traditions and stories and transform them into text so that they can be used as an educational resource in order to help students think critically and understand factual content in a personalized manner. Gitxsan educational materials can and should be integrated into the common school curriculum. Gitxsan perspectives on storytelling offer useful insights that would enhance education programs within our public school systems. This thesis/dissertation captures the diversity and complexity of the Gitxsan culture and explores some of the struggles and tensions associated with an inquiry into educational change.
Phononic soft mode and strong electronic background behavior across the structural phase transition in the excitonic insulator Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$ (with Erratum)
Creators: name: Kim, Min-Jae
name: Schulz, Armin
name: Takayama, Tomohiro
name: Isobe, Masahiko
name: Takagi, Hidenori
name: Kaiser, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$ became one of the most investigated candidate materials for hosting an excitonic insulator ground state. Many studies describe the corresponding phase transition as a condensation of excitons breaking a continuous symmetry. This view got challenged recently pointing out the importance of the loss of two mirror symmetries at a structural phase transition that occurs together with the semiconductor-excitonic insulator transition. For such a scenario an unstable optical zone-center phonon at low energy is proposed to drive the transition. Here we report on the experimental observation of such a soft mode behavior using Raman spectroscopy. In addition we find a novel spectral feature, likely of electronic or joint electronic and phononic origin, that is clearly distinct from the lattice dynamics and that becomes dominant at Tc. This suggests a picture of joint structural and electronic order driving the phase transition.
description: Merged version with Erratum (1 page) in the original manuscript (21 pages, 8 figures). After publication of [Phys. Rev. Research 2, 042039 (2020), arXiv:2007.01723v2] [1] we got notified on an instrumental artifact in the low frequency part of the Raman spectrum of Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$. This erroneously led to a description of a soft phonon mode and a strong electronic background. Properly taking into account a low frequency electronic signal correctly explains the observed soft mode as Fano coupled phonon where a critical softening of an excitonic collective mode takes place as described by P.A. Volkov et al. in arXiv:2007.07344 [2] and M. Ye et al. in arXiv:2102.07912 [3]
Product Life Cycles and Innovation in the US Seed Corn Industry
Creators: name: Magnier, Alexandre
name: Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas G.
name: Miller, Douglas J.
name: Magnier, Alexandre
name: Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas G.
name: Miller, Douglas J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The purpose of this study is to evaluate potential changes in the length of product life cycles in the US seed corn industry. We use the observed survival time on the market for hybrids sold during 1997-2009 to conduct a survival analysis. Our empirical results show that the average lifetimes of conventional and biotech corn hybrids have decreased over the last twelve years at similar rates and that the rate of decline in the life cycle length increased since 2004. We also find that the shorter product life cycles are closely linked to the accelerated levels of biotech product innovation in the US seed corn industry observed over the period of the analysis.
title: Exoplanet Transit Observations with Small Aperture Ground-Based Telescopes
Creators: name: Salisbury, Mark
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: In this thesis I investigate using small aperture ground-based telescopes to contribute to transiting exoplanet science. 95 transits were obtained of three case study systems, HAT-P-23b, WASP-12b and WASP-52b over multiple seasons, using three (~0.4m) telescopes. Observations were made either side of GPS timing control installation at the OU OpenScience Observatories and its impact quantified. The transit lightcurves were analysed using open-source applications combined with published data providing precise timing and system parameters. HAT-P-23 and WASP-12 were monitored separately outside of transits. Transit timing analysis confirms and refines the linear ephemeris for HAT-P-23b and quadratic ephemeris for WASP-12b. Transit timing of WASP-52b indicates preference for a previously unreported non-linear ephemeris. HAT-P-23 monitoring revealed variability with a period of 7.015d, interpreted as stellar rotation due to surface spots. No variability was unambiguously detected for WASP-12 over 4 seasons. J0630+2942, located 2' from WASP-12 and commonly used as a comparison star for observations of WASP-12b was discovered to be variable with an amplitude that declined over four seasons. The results show OSO PIRATE telescope can achieve a monitoring precision better than 0.01Magnitude over multiple seasons. I confirm the disputed eccentricity for HAT-P-23b is consistent with zero and determine a planetary radius and mass of 1.157+0.023-0.022Rsun and 1.063+0.063-0.060Msun, 3.8% and 5.9% smaller respectively than reported at discovery. WASP-52b lightcurves exhibit no detectable spot crossings as seen in previous seasons while the star remains variable, indicating the spot latitude has likely migrated from the transit chord. The effects of different observing modes are quantified and general best practice identified for photometry of transiting exoplanets with small aperture ground-based telescopes. This includes observing transits using the CCD in 1x1 binning mode and an ideal minimum Transit SNR (TSNR) of 10-12. GPS implementation at the OSO halved the transit timing measurement scatter. The results demonstrate the capability and efficiency of small aperture ground-based telescopes to contribute to our understanding of transiting hot Jupiter systems.
Pox 186: an ultracompact galaxy with dominant ionized gas emission
Creators: name: Guseva, N. G.
name: Papaderos, P.
name: Izotov, Y. I.
name: Noeske, K. G.
name: Fricke, K. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a ground-based optical spectroscopic and HST U, V, I photometric study of the blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy Pox 186. It is found that the emission of the low-surface brightness (LSB) component in Pox 186 at radii < 3'' (< 270 pc in linear scale) is mainly gaseous in origin. We detect Halpha emission out to radii as large as 6''. At radii > 3'' the light of the LSB component is contaminated by the emission of background galaxies complicating the study of the outermost regions. The surface brightness distribution in the LSB component can be approximated by an exponential law with a scale length alpha < 120 pc. This places Pox 186 among the most compact dwarf galaxies known. The derived alpha is likely to be an upper limit to the scale length of the LSB component because of the strong contribution of the gaseous emission. The oxygen abundance in the bright HII region derived from the 4.5m Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) and 3.6m ESO telescope spectra are 12+log(O/H)= 7.76+/-0.02 and 7.74+/-0.01 (~ Zsun/15), respectively, in accordance with previous determinations. The helium mass fractions found in this region are Y=0.248+/-0.009 (MMT) and Y=0.248+/-0.004 (3.6m) suggesting a high primordial helium abundance.
description: 11 pages, 9 Postscript figures
Erfahrungshorizonte, Spuren und der Ausdruck einer "wahren ästhetischen Freiheit": Überlegungen zur nicht-puristischen Ästhetik von György Kurtág
Creators: name: Hiekel, Jörn Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neue Musik
Ästhetik
György Kurtág

description: Für die Beschäftigung mit der neueren Musikgeschichte sollte es heute selbstverständlich sein, das fruchtbare Nebeneinander verschiedenster wichtiger kompositorischer Ansätze und Kristallisationspunkte hinreichend zu berücksichtigen. Dazu gehört die Überwindung geschichtsphilosophisch grundierter Narrative, die den musikwissenschaftlichen Diskurs lange Zeit dominierten und den Blick auf viele wichtige Persönlichkeiten und Phänomene verstellten. Bei der Vermittlung der Musik der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, die früher viel zu sehr auf eine vermeintlich einfache Dichotomie zwischen Fortschritt und Restauration und dabei zwischen den vermeintlichen »Lagern« der Zweiten Wiener Schule sowie des Neoklassizismus reduziert wurde, ist die Fragwürdigkeit eindeutiger Epochen- und fester Stilbegriffe sowie linearer Musikgeschichts-Beschreibungen inzwischen wohl weithin erkannt worden. Längst zeichnet sich ab, dass die Wege, Konzepte und Ideen von Komponisten wie Alban Berg, Claude Debussy, Béla Bartók, Arnold Schönberg, Igor Strawinsky oder Anton Webern – um nur einige wenige prägende Persönlichkeiten zu nennen – sich überschneiden und sich gerade aus den Überschneidungen auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise produktive Konsequenzen ziehen lassen. Doch im Felde der Musik der zweiten Hälfte desselben Jahrhunderts besitzt das besonders im Musikjournalismus gängige (aber auch von manchen Komponisten forcierte) Hantieren mit griffigen Formeln, Labeln und Gegensätzen immer noch erhebliche Resonanz.
description: + ID: 577181 + Reihentitel: Musik-Konzepte + Serientitel: Sonderband
The Effect of Green Payments on the Diffusion of Conservation Technologies
Creators: name: Hendricks, Nathan P.
name: Hendricks, Nathan P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The benefits from green payments for the adoption of a conservation technology or practice are reduced if the technology would have eventually been adopted regardless of the green payment. This source of additionality is likely a significant concern for some technologies subsidized by EQIP.
Quantum phase slips in the presence of finite-range disorder
Creators: name: Khlebnikov, S.
name: Pryadko, Leonid P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To study the effect of disorder on quantum phase slips (QPS) in superconducting wires, we consider the plasmon-only model where disorder can be incorporated into a first-principles instanton calculation. We consider weak but general finite-range disorder and compute the formfactor in the QPS rate associated with momentum transfer. We find that the system maps onto dissipative quantum mechanics, with the dissipative coefficient controlled by the wave (plasmon) impedance Z of the wire and with a superconductor-insulator transition at Z=6.5 kOhm. We speculate that the system will remain in this universality class after resistive effects at the QPS core are taken into account.
description: 4 pages, as accepted at Phys. Rev. Letters
Schwerdtfeger-Fillmore-Springer-Cnops Construction Implemented in GiNaC
Creators: name: Kisil, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 51B25, 51N25, 68U05, 11E88, 68W30

description: This paper presents an implementation of the Schwerdtfeger-Fillmore-Springer-Cnops construction (SFSCc) along with illustrations of its usage. SFSCc linearises the linear-fraction action of the Moebius group in R^n. This has clear advantages in several theoretical and applied fields including engineering. Our implementation is based on the Clifford algebra capacities of the GiNaC computer algebra system (http://www.ginac.de/), which were described in cs.MS/0410044. The core of this realisation of SFSCc is done for an arbitrary dimension of R^n with a metric given by an arbitrary bilinear form. We also present a subclass for two dimensional cycles (i.e. circles, parabolas and hyperbolas), which add some 2D specific routines including a visualisation to PostScript files through the MetaPost (http://www.tug.org/metapost.html) or Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/) packages. This software is the backbone of many results published in math.CV/0512416 and we use its applications their for demonstration. The library can be ported (with various level of required changes) to other CAS with Clifford algebras capabilities similar to GiNaC. There is an ISO image of a Live Debian DVD attached to this paper as an auxiliary file, a copy is stored on Google Drive as well.
description: LaTeX, 82 p; 11 PS graphics in two figures, the full source files and ISO image of Live DVD are included; v9: library update for the book on Moebius transformations; v10: an ISO image of a Live DVD is attached to the paper; v11: a bug is fixed; v12: Library is uupdated, the reference to a larger project is added
The Ultimate Energy Density of Observable Cold Matter
Creators: name: Prakash, James M. Lattimer Madappa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the largest measured mass of a neutron star establishes an upper bound to the energy density of observable cold matter. An equation of state-independent expression satisfied by both normal neutron stars and self-bound quark matter stars is derived for the largest energy density inside stars as a function their masses. The largest observed mass sets the lowest upper limit to the density. Implications from existing and future neutron star mass measurements are discussed.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Fig.1(B)
Creators: name: Liwei Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111402 Obstetrics and Gynaecology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Changes in serum free and conjugated bile acid concentrations after UDCA therapy in ICP. UDCAtotal, UDCA+GUDCA+TUDCA; CAtotal, CA+GCA+TCA; CDCAtotal, CDCA+GCDCA+TCDCA; DCAtotal, DCA+GDCA+TDCA; LCAtotal, LCA+GLCA+TLCA.
The Disruption of Stellar Clusters Containing Massive Black Holes near the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Gürkan, M. Atakan
name: Rasio, Frederic A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from dynamical Monte Carlo simulations of dense star clusters near the Galactic center. These clusters sink toward the center of the Galaxy by dynamical friction. During their inspiral, they may undergo core collapse and form an intermediate-mass black hole through runaway collisions. Such a cluster can then reach within a parsec of the Galactic center before it completely disrupts, releasing many young stars in this region. This scenario provides a natural explanation for the presence of the young stars observed near the Galactic center. Here we determine the initial conditions for this scenario to work and we derive the mass distribution of cluster stars as a function of distance from the Galactic center. For reasonable initial conditions, we find that clusters massive enough for rapid inspiral would include more massive stars (m >~ 30 Msun) than currently observed in the inspiral region. We point out several possible explanations for this apparent discrepancy.
description: 28 pages in preprint style. 9 figures (1 color), 1 table. Minor modifications reflecting the version accepted by ApJ
Gap analysis for JERICO-RI technologies
Creators: name: Blauw, Anouk
name: Mészáros, Lőrinc
name: Seppälä, Jukka
name: Kuuppo, Katri
name: Frigstad, Helene
name: King, Andrew
name: Coppola, Laurent
Publisher: name: JERICO DS
Year: 2023

description: This report describes the results of a gap analysis study that was performed as part of the Technology Design work package of the JERICO Design Study project. The desired state of the future JERICO-RI, as described in the earlier Technology Outlook report (deliverable 2.1 of the JERICO Design Study project), is compared to the current situation as reported by JERICO nation representatives through a questionnaire. Furthermore, relevant results from earlier JERICO projects have been summarised: on the current spatial and temporal resolution of JERICO observations and on the current TRL-level of observation methods for key JERICO variables that have been defined in the Technology Outlook report. Relevant results on gaps from the on-going JERICO-S3 projects and earlier gap analysis reports have been reviewed. The information on current gaps in observation capacity from these different sources agreed on many overarching issues. The questionnaire results from nation representatives gave further insight into the reasons why current gaps in observation capacity and international harmonisation still exist. While sensor observations of relevant physical variables are operational at high TRL-level in most countries associated to JERICO, observations of biological, chemical and benthic variables are still in testing phase or developing phase. Partly this is due to observation methods that are still being developed. A major reason why many variables are still observed at a low TRL-level is the lack of sustained funding for these observations. The funding is currently nation-based or by European research projects. These scattered funding sources hamper the prioritisation of international harmonisation efforts and the required maintenance, quality control and data management efforts to make observation data suitable and available for stakeholders in a FAIR way. Stakeholders, such as the EEA, Regional Sea Conventions and COPERNICUS have a high demand for such high-quality FAIR observation data, but they don’t fund the required efforts. These results indicate that there is a need for a mature JERICO-RI, as described in the Technology Outlook report, based on international coordination and sustained funding. Next, we will develop a roadmap describing how a mature JERICO-RI can be achieved within 10 years.
Integrating uncertainty in deep neural networks for MRI based stroke analysis
Creators: name: Herzog, Lisa
name: Murina, Elvis
name: Dürr, Oliver
name: Wegener, Susanne
name: Sick, Beate
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: At present, the majority of the proposed Deep Learning (DL) methods provide point predictions without quantifying the models uncertainty. However, a quantification of the reliability of automated image analysis is essential, in particular in medicine when physicians rely on the results for making critical treatment decisions. In this work, we provide an entire framework to diagnose ischemic stroke patients incorporating Bayesian uncertainty into the analysis procedure. We present a Bayesian Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) yielding a probability for a stroke lesion on 2D Magnetic Resonance (MR) images with corresponding uncertainty information about the reliability of the prediction. For patient-level diagnoses, different aggregation methods are proposed and evaluated, which combine the single image-level predictions. Those methods take advantage of the uncertainty in image predictions and report model uncertainty at the patient-level. In a cohort of 511 patients, our Bayesian CNN achieved an accuracy of 95.33% at the image-level representing a significant improvement of 2% over a non-Bayesian counterpart. The best patient aggregation method yielded 95.89% of accuracy. Integrating uncertainty information about image predictions in aggregation models resulted in higher uncertainty measures to false patient classifications, which enabled to filter critical patient diagnoses that are supposed to be closer examined by a medical doctor. We therefore recommend using Bayesian approaches not only for improved image-level prediction and uncertainty estimation but also for the detection of uncertain aggregations at the patient-level.
description: 21 pages, 13 figures
Creating a Circular Economy. Abstract Coalesce Research Group Aizhan Ussenaliyeva. Save Lake Balkhash International Research Project.pdf
Creators: name: Ussenaliyeva, Aizhan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320404
subject: Cellular immunology
classificationCode: 380302
subject: Macroeconomic theory
classificationCode: 380304
subject: Microeconomic theory
classificationCode: 370201
subject: Climate change processes
classificationCode: 370202
subject: Climatology

description: Abstract. Creating Green Economy in Central Asia by Dr.Aizhan Ussenaliyeva, Founder and CEO of Save Lake Balkhash, Forests Are Us and Ash To.
Insecticide Use and Crop Selection: A South Dakota Case Study
Creators: name: McDonald, Tia Michelle
name: Keating, Ariel Ruth
name: Fausti, Scott W.
name: Li, Jing
name: Lundgren, Jonathan G.
name: Catangui, Mike
name: McDonald, Tia Michelle
name: Keating, Ariel Ruth
name: Fausti, Scott W.
name: Li, Jing
name: Lundgren, Jonathan G.
name: Catangui, Mike
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: insecticides
subject: Genetically Modified Organism
subject: target pests

description: South Dakota has recently experienced a significant increase in the proportion of acres treated with insecticide. Unfortunately, data on insecticide usage by crop at the county level is not available. The following case study seeks to uncover the reasons for this increase by analyzing county-level data in South Dakota with a fixed effects panel regression. The study links the proportion of acres planted for a specific crop to the proportion of total acres treated with insecticide. This approach provides insight on how changing cropping patterns in South Dakota have influenced insecticide use.
Big-bang nucleosynthesis in Brans-Dicke cosmology with a varying $Λ$ term related to WMAP
Creators: name: Nakamura, R.
name: Hashimoto, M.
name: Gamow, S.
name: Arai, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the big-bang nucleosynthesis in a Brans-Dicke model with a varying $Λ$ term using the Monte-Carlo method and likelihood analysis. It is found that the cosmic expansion rate differs appreciably from that of the standard model. The produced abundances of $^4$He, D, and barely Li are consistent with the observed ones within the uncertainties in nuclear reaction rates when the baryon to photon ratio $η= (5.47 - 6.64)\times 10^{-10}$, which is in agreement with the value deduced from WMAP.
description: Submitted to A&A, 5 pages, 7 figures
Trade and SPS Regulations: The Importance of Being Earnest?
Creators: name: Jouanjean, Marie-Agnes
name: Le Vernoy, Alexandre
name: Jouanjean, Marie-Agnes
name: Le Vernoy, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: SPS – Agricultural Trade – Reputation – Alerts

description: There is a pending question regarding the impact of food safety standards promulgated by governments or imposed by buyers from the private sector. Their effects on the capacity for developing countries to access developed countries’ markets for high value agricultural and food products is a vivid research theme that up-till-now provided mixed results. While some advocates that food safety standards may hamper exporting abilities, others present evidence that they enable competitiveness and act as a pro-poor growth. This paper contributes to this debate. We offer an analysis on how the intensity of trade flows in fruits and vegetables in Central American countries, Dominican Republic and the U.S. respond to both the level of Sanitary and Phytosanitary regulations and to products reputation on the U.S. market subsequent to import detention/refusal. We emphasize the specific case of non-traditional horticultural products introduced in Central American countries in the 70s and 80s under structural adjustment frameworks. To this end, we implement a gravity model of bilateral trade flows to (1) identify the effect through time of food safety standards on exports from Central America to the US, and (2) measure the degree of adaptation to detention/refusal what we define as resilience of the supply chains. First (and highly preliminary) results show that there is indeed a negative relationship between unit prices and reputation on export markets.
Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving
Creators: name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: McConnell, Margaret
name: Mullainathan, Sendhil
name: Zinman, Jonathan
name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: McConnell, Margaret
name: Mullainathan, Sendhil
name: Zinman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: intertemporal consumer choice
subject: savings
subject: attention

description: We develop and test a simple model of limited attention in intertemporal choice. The model posits that individuals fully attend to consumption in all periods but fail to attend to some future lumpy expenditure opportunities. This asymmetry generates some predictions that overlap with models of present-bias. Our model also generates the unique predictions that reminders may increase saving, and that reminders will be more effective when they increase the salience of a specific expenditure. We find support for these predictions in three field experiments that randomly assign reminders to new savings account holders.
title: Autism Spectrum Disorders in Tanzania: Awareness, Diagnosis, Risk Factors and Endophenotypes
Creators: name: Ruparelia, Kavita
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is common worldwide, but little is known of the condition in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). I set out to study the lived experiences, identification, risk factors and phenotypic expressions of ASD in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. I conducted a systematic review of the Broader Autism Phenotype (BAP) in biological parents of ASD probands. I conducted a qualitative study using 7 focus group discussions and 13 in-depth interviews to investigate the knowledge and lived experiences of 14 caregivers of children with ASD and 37 key community informants. I screened 284 children (108 had ASD, 60 had other neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) and 116 were typically developing (TD)), and used these groups of children to validate the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ), and for determining risk factors for ASD. Psychometric properties were examined, and risk factors determined in multivariable models. I further assessed BAP traits of 267 parents (of 103 children with ASD, 57 children with NDD and 107 TD children) exploring the psychometric properties of the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ). The systematic review identified social/communication deficits, rigid/aloof personality traits, and pragmatic language difficulties as useful socio-behavioural endophenotype traits. The qualitative study identified consistent emerging sub-themes: knowledge/awareness in the identification/presentation of ASD, its‘ perceived causes, and the challenges experienced by caregivers and community stakeholders. The Kiswahili SCQ showed between acceptable and excellent reliability (Cronbach‘s (α)=0.65-0.92) and supports a 2-factor model of combined social interaction and communication, and repetitive behaviours, recommended by DSM-5 criteria. Early-life malaria was associated with the greatest independent risk for ASD, being more common among the ASD (31%) than TD group (4%). The Kiswahili AQ had acceptable reliability (Cronbach‘s α=0.84) for all items. The BAP in parents of children with ASD (53%) was higher than for those with NDD (21%) or TD (16%), suggesting BAP are particularly characteristic of ASD.
2010 Outlook for the U.S. and World Corn and Soybean Industries, 2009-2019
Creators: name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: Koo, Won W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: corn
subject: soybeans
subject: production
subject: exports
subject: consumption
subject: ethanol
subject: ending stocks

description: This report evaluates the United States and world corn and soybean markets for the 2009-2019 time period using the Global Corn and Soybean Policy Simulation Model. This analysis is based on a series of assumptions about general economic conditions, agricultural policies, weather conditions, and technological change. The major influence in the corn market will be U.S. corn based ethanol production. If the production of corn based ethanol remains strong, corn prices will likely remain strong. However, if the U.S. Federal government subsidies or mandates change, the world corn market could be negatively impacted. Under the current assumptions in the model, corn price is expected to remain in a range between $3.70 and $4.10 per bushel. The level of Chinese soybean imports is the leading factor in the world soybean market. China currently imports 60% of the available soybeans, and that is expected to increase to about 65% by 2019. Major exporters will continue to be the U.S., Brazil and Argentina. However both Brazil and Argentina should increase exports while U.S. exports will remain at the current level. Soybean prices are expected to fluctuate, but remain in the $9.70 per bushel range throughout the forecast period.
title: Rule of Law Rules #12: I Don’t Think What We Understand Now is Legal Tech Will be Legal Tech Tomorrow
Creators: name: Daly, Angela
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 341

description: “Rule of Law Rules” is the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s podcast on Rule of Law in the age of digitalization. The host of the podcast is Dr Angela Daly, a socio-legal scholar of digital technology. In each episode, she will interview one international expert about the opportunities and challenges for human rights in the digital age. We will gain insights into recent developments from different parts of the world. In the last episode on legal technology and the access to justice, the podcast focuses on the region of Southeast Europe. Guest and expert Ivan Rašić works at “Start it Smart”, the biggest entrepreneurship club in Bulgaria. Their goal is to spread the entrepreneurship culture and way of thinking among the young people. In Ivan’s earlier career, he started a legal tech company after working in law firms. Ivan gives insights into the latest developments of legal tech and its influence in the region.
description: Völkerrechtsblog
MISSION ATLANTIC. Review of available data and gaps for regional case studies.
Creators: name: Lafarge, William
name: Quimbert, Erwann
name: Pedreschi, Debbi
name: Ramirez Romero, Eduardo
name: Llope, Marcos
name: Buttay, Lucie
name: Serrano, Diana
name: Majiedt, Prideel
name: Quimbayo, Juan Pablo
name: Gandra, Tiago
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2021

description: The MISSION ATLANTIC project aims to assess the status and health of the Atlantic Ocean ecosystem by performing a number of Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs) at case studies (CSs), which are preselected sites of interest, to analyse the risks caused by natural hazards and human activities to the ecosystem. To perform the IEA in CSs, data are required to assess which sectors or pressures are likely to have the most significant impact on the ecosystem. Information, i.e. results of data processing, is reused by CS experts for communication and interpretation, such as maps, products, model outputs, graphs, etc. Also, research activities are conducted for mapping, modelling and computing a suit of indicators for assessing ecosystem present status. Data requirements vary between CSs. This review is a synthesis of data knowledge and it allows CSs to understand which data and sources are used by other CSs. To carry this out, existing and available data are identified from data sources covering large marine disciplines: atmosphere, biological oceanography, chemical oceanography, cross-discipline, environment, human activities, marine geology and physical oceanography. During this process, CS leaders and data experts identified more than 200 available datasets and highlighted knowledge gaps. It has been found that research institute databases and data repositories provide the vast majority of data required. Particular attention has been directed to the suitability of data in terms of quality and accessibility by analysing metadata, i.e. information about data. Collated data are stored in a meta-database. The compilation of available data in the meta-database is important for data management. It provides information on the conditions of reusing these input data for research activities. This is needed to make output data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). However, some data are still missing. The identified data gaps are useful to guide further research and pinpoint strategies and models to fill these gaps.
$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry in compact phase space for a linear Hamiltonian
Creators: name: Valtierra, Iván F.
name: Gaeta, Mario
name: Ortega, Adrian
name: Gorin, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the time evolution of a PT-symmetric, non-Hermitian quantum system for which the associated phase space is compact. We focus on the simplest non-trivial example of such a Hamiltonian, which is linear in the angular momentum operators. In order to describe the evolution of the system, we use a particular disentangling decomposition of the evolution operator, which remains numerically accurate even in the vicinity of the Exceptional Point. We then analyze how the non-Hermitian part of the Hamiltonian affects the time evolution of two archetypical quantum states, coherent and Dicke states. For that purpose we calculate the Husimi distribution or Q function and study its evolution in phase space. For coherent states, the characteristics of the evolution equation of the Husimi function agree with the trajectories of the corresponding angular momentum expectation values. This allows to consider these curves as the trajectories of a classical system. For other types of quantum states, e.g. Dicke states, the equivalence of characteristics and trajectories of expectation values is lost.
It's anyon's game: the race to quantum computation
Creators: name: Jain, J. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 1924, Satyendra Nath Bose dispatched a manuscript introducing the concept now known as Bose statistics to Albert Einstein. Bose could hardly have imagined that the exotic statistics of certain emergent particles of quantum matter would one day suggest a route to fault-tolerant quantum computation. This non-technical Commentary on "anyons," namely particles whose statistics is intermediate between Bose and Fermi, aims to convey the underlying concept as well as its experimental manifestations to the uninitiated.
description: Invited Commentary for non-experts, in Current Science, Bangalore
Kinematic Control of the Inertiality of ICRS Catalogs
Creators: name: Bobylev, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a kinematic analysis of the Hipparcos and TRC proper motions of stars by using a linear Ogorodnikov-Milne model. All of the distant (r more than 0.2 kpc) stars of the Hipparcos catalog have been found to rotate around the Galactic y axis with an angular velocity of -0.36 +/- 0.09 mas/year. One of the causes of this rotation may be an uncertainty in the lunisolar precession constant adopted when constructing the ICRS. In this case? the correction to the IAU (1976) lunisolar precession constant in longitude is shown to be -3.26 +/- 0.10 mas/yr. Based on the TRC catalog, we have determined the main Oort constants: A = 14.9 +/- 1.0 and B = -10.8 +/- 0.3 km/s/kpc. The component of the model that describes the rotation of all TRC stars around the Galactic y axis is nonzero for all magnitudes, My= -0.86 +/- 0.11 mas/yr.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Survey of photoneutron emitted from 6MV, 10MV, and 15MV medical LINAC using nuclear track detection
Creators: name: Panatsada Awikunprasert1
name: Kamonrat Sueangamiam1
name: Thanathip Tantivatana
name: Vithit Pungkun
name: Tanapol Dachviriyakij
name: Rattapol Rangseevijitprapa
Publisher: name: Faculty of Associated Sciences, Chiang Mai University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Photoneutron
neutron
LINAC
CR-39
nuclear track detection

description: Journal of Associated Medical Sciences, 55, 1, 45-51
Improving upper extremity function in chronic stroke using occupational therapy task-oriented approach
Creators: name: Pronprapai Pongtham
name: Waranya Chingchit
name: Jananya P Dhippayom
Publisher: name: Faculty of Associated Sciences, Chiang Mai University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Task-oriented approach
occupational performance task
occupational therapy

description: Journal of Associated Medical Sciences, 55, 1, 52-59
Psychometric properties of the apraxia of speech rating scale Thai version
Creators: name: Nicha Kripanan
name: Phuanjai Rattakorn
name: Supaporn Chinchai
Publisher: name: Faculty of Associated Sciences, Chiang Mai University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Assessment
subject description
apraxia of speech

description: Journal of Associated Medical Sciences, 55, 1, 60-72
An insider’s experience of a cross-cultural exhibition : an autoethnography on the process of The Pavilion of Marital Harmony
Creators: name: Wirth Brentini, Sophie P.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This case study examines the process of mounting a collaborative exhibition of a collection of Chinese art in a European private "museum". The context and the cross-cultural process of this art exhibition, entitled The Pavilion of Marital Harmony, made it an unusual event and place this research at the cross-roads of art history, education, anthropology and museum studies. The mounting of the exhibition is examined through the literature related to cross-cultural questions, post-colonialism, and representations of other cultures. The specific commitments required by collaborations with people whose culture is being represented are tackled. In the case examined here, several factors made the collaboration between the guest curator (and author of this thesis), the Baur Collection's curator and the Chinese collection's lender very difficult. In order to understand them, the process of the exhibition is analysed from the genesis of its idea to the exhibition closure through methodologies such as autoethnography, narrative inquiry and action research. These methods are particularly adapted to this subject in which the producer, the process and the product are intertwined and never extracted from their context. They lead the author on the path of a reflexive process of understanding, on a thorough but personal examination and introspection into a single event produced by a particular group of people. The author's narrative is put in perspective through other voices: this work would not have been complete without the points of view of the two other "collaborators", and without the public's reactions to the exhibition. The author's intent is to share with the reader a personal experience, open to multiple voices that can be read through several lenses.