cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gravitational Waves from a Fissioning White Hole
Creators: name: Gomez, Roberto
name: Husa, Sascha
name: Lehner, Luis
name: Winicour, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a fully nonlinear calculation of the waveform of the gravitational radiation emitted in the fission of a vacuum white hole. At early times, the waveforms agree with close-approximation perturbative calculations but they reveal dramatic time and angular dependence in the nonlinear regime. The results pave the way for a subsequent computation of the radiation emitted after a binary black hole merger.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX4
Additional file 1: of Safety, tolerability and appropriate use of nintedanib in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Creators: name: Corte, Tamera
name: Bonella, Francesco
name: Crestani, Bruno
name: Demedts, Maurits
name: Richeldi, Luca
name: Coeck, Carl
name: Pelling, Katy
name: Quaresma, Manuel
name: Lasky, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Baseline conditions and therapies in the INPULSIS ÂŽ trials. (DOCX 15Â kb)
TA'LIM MUASSASALARIDA SOG'LOM TURMUSH TARZINI SHAKLLANTIRISH VA RIVOJLANTIRISH YO'LLARI
Creators: name: Ibraximov, S.U.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqola ta’lim muassasalarida talaba yoshlar ongida  sog’lom turmush tarzini shakllantirish va rivojlantirish masalalariga bag’ishlangan bo’lib, bu jarayonga ta’sir etuvchi obyektiv va subyektiv omillar ochib berilgan.
Gauged extended supergravity without cosmological constant: no-scale structure and supersymmetry breaking
Creators: name: Andrianopoli, L.
name: D'Auria, R.
name: Ferrara, S.
name: Lledo, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the interplay of duality symmetries and gauged isometries of supergravity models giving N-extended, spontaneously broken supergravity with a no-scale structure. Some examples, motivated by superstring and M-theory compactifications are described.
description: AMS-LaTeX, 16 pages. Invited paper to appear in the review section of the IJMPA
Scalable Semidefinite Programming
Creators: name: Yurtsever, Alp
name: Tropp, Joel A.
name: Fercoq, Olivier
name: Udell, Madeleine
name: Cevher, Volkan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C22, 65K05 (Primary), 65F99 (Secondary)

description: Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a powerful framework from convex optimization that has striking potential for data science applications. This paper develops a provably correct randomized algorithm for solving large, weakly constrained SDP problems by economizing on the storage and arithmetic costs. Numerical evidence shows that the method is effective for a range of applications, including relaxations of MaxCut, abstract phase retrieval, and quadratic assignment. Running on a laptop equivalent, the algorithm can handle SDP instances where the matrix variable has over $10^{14}$ entries.
Food Security: Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Household Behavior on Food Acquisition and Allocation, Experimental Evidence from Tibet, China
Creators: name: Huang, Yuan-Lin
name: Li, Xiang-Mei
name: Huang, Yuan-Lin
name: Li, Xiang-Mei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: household income and behavior
subject: food security
subject: aggregate food supplies
subject: Tibet Autonomous Region

description: This paper aimed to determine the magnitude of food insecurity and its determinants in rural households of Tibet, China. In this paper, a community based cross-sectional study was conducted from 2002 to 2013, whole about Tibet (this survey program was founded by Tibet Government Founding). In the study, household heads were recruited using a multistage random sampling technique. Data were collected by face-to-face interviews using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) tool after verbal informed consent. We chosen the same districts, same household, collected data every two years, totally number of the households is 736. Based on the data of sample investigation, combined with individual anthropometric estimates for children and a thorough understanding of household behavior, we moved beyond the simple head count measure of food insecurity in this paper and proposed three measures of food insecurity, along the lines of new poverty measures and explained the desirable properties of these measures that are not present in the head count measure. We then measured household living standards, compiles Tibetan poverty statistics, derives minimum dietary energy requirements, simulates the impact of food price or food supply shocks on food insecurity by population groups. We found that Tibetan foodstuff tradition is eating more meat and less grain, the annual consumption of grain is only 269.02 kg per person, which includes 46.02 kg of feedstuff. Only 42.54% of the grain was harvested in Tibet. Many households had little no-agricultural income and few livestock, nearly three quarters of the households (73.27%) had food insecurity. Households headed by females (AOR = 3.47, 93% CI:1.68, 13.21), lack of education (AOR = 2.59, 95% CI: 1.46, 4.60), family size of <2 (AOR = 2.39, 95% CI: 1.21,4.70), family size of >7 (AOR = 13.23,95% CI:6.18, 28.32), few or absence of livestock (AOR = 5.60, 95% CI:1.28, 24.43), absence of income from off-farm activities (AOR = 3.12, 95% CI:1.53, 6.36), lack of irrigation (AOR = 3.54, 95% CI:2.14, 5.18) and lack of perennial income (AOR = 3.15, 95% CI:1.88, 5.27) were factors associated with food insecurity.
Reduction of Feynman Integrals in the Parametric Representation II: Reduction of Tensor Integrals
Creators: name: Chen, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper by the author (Chen in JHEP 02:115, 2020), the reduction of Feynman integrals in the parametric representation was considered. Tensor integrals were directly parametrized by using a generator method. The resulting parametric integrals were reduced by constructing and solving parametric integration-by-parts (IBP) identities. In this paper, we furthermore show that polynomial equations for the operators that generate tensor integrals can be derived. Based on these equations, two methods to reduce tensor integrals are developed. In the first method, by introducing some auxiliary parameters, tensor integrals are parametrized without shifting the spacetime dimension. The resulting parametric integrals can be reduced by using the standard IBP method. In the second method, tensor integrals are (partially) reduced by using the technique of Gröbner basis combined with the application of symbolic rules. The unreduced integrals can further be reduced by solving parametric IBP identities.
description: 16 pages, major revision, matches published version
Acanthochitona Gray 1821
Creators: name: Dell'Angelo, Bruno
name: Gori, Sandro
name: Baschieri, Leonardo
name: Bonfitto, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Polyplacophora
Chitonida
Acanthochitonidae
Acanthochitona

description: Genus Acanthochitona Gray, 1821
 Type species: Chiton fascicularis Linnaeus, 1767, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Gori, Sandro, Baschieri, Leonardo & Bonfitto, Antonio, 2010, Chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from the Maldive islands, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 2673 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2673.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304551
Road Accident Data, 2006
Road Accident Data, 1985-
Creators: name: Department For Transport, Road Accident Statistics Branch
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: Road accident statistics are collected from information about personal injury road accidents and their consequent casualties, to a common national standard. The aim of collecting and publishing national road accident statistics is to inform public debate and to provide the basis for determining and monitoring effective road safety policies to reduce the road accident casualty toll. They are an essential requirement for monitoring targeted reductions in road accident casualties. The credible monitoring of targeted reductions requires that data are reported consistently and accurately, and both national and local government, and local reporting police forces, work closely to achieve a common reporting standard.

Users should note that for 1985-1991, and from 2002 onwards, the Vehicle Record file does not contain breath test data. This change has been made in order to protect confidentiality.

Data for 1985-1990 were deposited at the Archive at the beginning of 2006. Prior to this, the Archive only held the Road Accident Data series from 1991 onwards. No extra documentation was available for the 1985-1990 data, so users are advised to consult the documentation for the 1991 survey.

Further information about the Road Accident Data series and research based on it may be found on the government road accidents and safety statistics webpages.

These studies comprise information gathered using STATS19 and STATS20 forms.
The impact of robots on labour market transitions in Europe
Creators: name: Bachmann, Ronald
name: Gonschor, Myrielle
name: Lewandowski, Piotr
name: Madoń, Karol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries. Overall, we find
 small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job findings. Labour costs
 are shown to be a major driver of cross country differences : in countries with lower labour costs,
 robot exposure had more positive effects on hirings and more negative effects on separations.
 These effects were particularly pronounced for workers in occupations intensive in routine manual
 or routine cognitive tasks, but were insignificant in occupations intensive in non routine cognitive
 tasks. For young and old workers in countries with lower labour costs, robot exposure had a
 beneficial effect on transitions. Our results imply that robot adoption increased employment and
 reduced unemployment in most European countries, mainly through lower job separation rates.
Performance optimization of legacy HDF5 data for Web Object Stores
Creators: name: Gallagher, James
name: Quinn, Patrick
name: Potter, Nathan
name: Lloyd, Sam
name: Neumiller, Kodi
name: Yang, Kent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In this poster we examine the relative benefits of storing data in S3 using HDF5 and Zarr in the context of NASA's Earthdata cloud computing environment. We are particularly interested in supporting users who do not have prior experience with optimizing data for cloud computing systems. Many NASA datasets are stored in HDF5 files and using these files without reformatting the data would be the simplest path to use. However, HDF5 was designed long before Web Object Store (WOS) systems were developed and its API realizations have typically depended on the ability of reader software to perform rapid low-latency random access I/O operations. Zarr is a new format/API that shards data in separately addressable objects, making access to portions of data more straightforward with WOS systems. Existing studies have shown that the performance of the Zarr and HDF5 APIs are dependent on a complex stack of I/O middleware and that performance optimization is non-trivial (Kang, D., Rübel, O., Byna, S. and Blanas, S., 2019). In some cases, Zarr outperforms HDF5 and in others, the reverse is true (Pfander, I., Johnson, H. and Arms, S., 2021). If, for some use cases, data stored in HDF5 can be efficiently accessed without first reformatting them in Zarr, users can be saved the effort to learn how to optimize data organization. We extend the performance analysis of HDF5 and Zarr in the context of WOS to include the DMR++ technique OPeNDAP has developed to access HDF5 data. In particular, we examine the issue of 'chunk size' and how that affects the data access efficiency of WOS systems. We examine technology that treats a series of small and contiguous chunks in an HDF5 file as one 'super chunk' and examine the effect of that optimization on WOS data access performance.
The Spillover Effects of Public Works on Migration, Labor Allocation and Wages: Evidence from National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, India
Creators: name: Prasann, Ashesh
name: Prasann, Ashesh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Works
subject: Spillovers
subject: Spatial
subject: Labor Market

description: Rural workfare programs guaranteeing work at above market wages are intended to provide security to the unemployed during the agricultural off-season and are an increasingly used feature of labor market policy in developing countries. In recent work, India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the largest rural workfare program in the world, has been attributed with crowding out work, raising private sector wages and lowering rural-urban migration. However, the empirical literature is agnostic about the sign and magnitude of spillovers generated by the large scale program. This paper studies the spatial spillover effects of NREGS on migration, time allocation and casual wages in areas which did not receive the program over the study period. Standard economic theory predicts that wage differentials across labor markets linked by migration should lead to equalization of wages in a competitive equilibrium. This analysis exploits the plausibly exogenous variation in wage differentials introduced by the staggered rollout of NREGS across contiguous program and non-program districts. It then tests the hypothesis that the program generated labor market spillovers to non-program districts using a nationally representative employment survey. Our results show that on average, real wage for casual labor increased by 2.7% with every additional program neighbor in non-program districts. Additionally, the impact of having only program neighbors was estimated to be a 17.5% rise in real wage for casual labor in non-program districts, relative to districts without any NREGS neighbors. The effects on individual level labor supply, non-labor force participation and unemployment are not statistically significant. Together, these results provide empirical support for predicted effects from theory.
Forecast Evaluation of Quantiles, Prediction Intervals, and other Set-Valued Functionals
Creators: name: Fissler, Tobias
name: Frongillo, Rafael
name: Hlavinová, Jana
name: Rudloff, Birgit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62C05, 62F07, 62H11, 91B06

description: We introduce a theoretical framework of elicitability and identifiability of set-valued functionals, such as quantiles, prediction intervals, and systemic risk measures. A functional is elicitable if it is the unique minimiser of an expected scoring function, and identifiable if it is the unique zero of an expected identification function; both notions are essential for forecast ranking and validation, and $M$- and $Z$-estimation. Our framework distinguishes between exhaustive forecasts, being set-valued and aiming at correctly specifying the entire functional, and selective forecasts, content with solely specifying a single point in the correct functional. We establish a mutual exclusivity result: A set-valued functional can be either selectively elicitable or exhaustively elicitable or not elicitable at all. Notably, since quantiles are well known to be selectively elicitable, they fail to be exhaustively elicitable. We further show that the class of prediction intervals and Vorob'ev quantiles turn out to be exhaustively elicitable and selectively identifiable. In particular, we provide a mixture representation of elementary exhaustive scores, leading the way to Murphy diagrams. We give possibility and impossibility results for the shortest prediction interval and prediction intervals specified by an endpoint or a midpoint. We end with a comprehensive literature review on common practice in forecast evaluation of set-valued functionals.
description: 46 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1907.01306
Planet migration and gap formation by tidally-induced shocks
Creators: name: Rafikov, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gap formation in a gas disk triggered by disk-planet tidal interaction is considered. Density waves launched by the planet are assumed to be damped as a result of their nonlinear evolution leading to shock formation and its subsequent dissipation. As a consequence wave angular momentum is transferred to the disk,leading to evolution of its surface density. Planetary migration is an important ingredient of the theory; effects of the planet-induced surface density perturbations on the migration speed are considered. A gap is assumed to form when a stationary solution for the surface density profile is no longer possible in the frame of reference migrating with the planet. An analytical limit on the planetary mass necessary to open a gap in an inviscid disk is derived. The critical mass turns out to be smaller than mass M_1 for which planetary Hill's radius equals disk scaleheight by a factor of at least Q^{5/7} (Q is the Toomre stability parameter) depending on the strength of the migration feedback. In viscous disks the critical planetary mass could vary from about 0.1M_1 to M_1, depending on the disk viscosity. This implies that a gap could be formed by a planet with mass 1-10 times bigger than the Earth mass depending on the disk aspect ratio, viscosity, and planet's location in the nebula.
description: AASTeX, 31 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJ
title: The Effects of Task-Irrelevant Information on Memory: The Associative Memory Stroop Task
Creators: name: Ishikawa, Misae
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: The goal of the present thesis was to evaluate the validity of a new Stroop-like paradigm as a tool to measure paired-associate learning. Hazan-Liran and Miller (2017) developed a task to study how task-irrelevant ink colour information affects learning efficacy (see also Miller, Hazan-Liran, & Cohen, 2018). The task asks participants to learn pairs of colour concepts and numbers (e.g. blue-5) whilst the concepts are presented in a neutral ink colour (e.g. black ink) but the numbers are coloured in either congruent ink colours (e.g. the number 5 printed in blue ink), incongruent ink colours (e.g. 5 in brown ink) or neutral ink colours (e.g. 5 in black ink). The present thesis named this task the Associative Memory Stroop Task (AMST) and aimed to replicate the findings in Hazan-Liran and colleagues' studies when task-irrelevant ink colour effects on this task are measured by memory accuracy on cued-recall tests and recognition tests. Colour names (e.g. blue), colour-related words (e.g. sky) and emotional words (e.g. unhappy) were employed. It was hypothesised that more accurate memory performance would occur with congruent ink colours than neutral ink colours (i.e. facilitation) whilst poorer memory accuracy would be reported with incongruent ones compared to neutral ink colours (i.e. interference). Chapter 2 tested colour names and colour-related words with cued-recall tests and recognition tests. Chapter 3 explored the use of colour-related concepts on the AMST with recognition tests. Chapter 4 examined the emotional factor during the AMST with cued-recall tests. Overall, the analyses revealed facilitation and interference effects on cued-recall tests and interference on recognition tests when the words were colour names. Other types of colour words failed to produce the effects. The present research suggested possible explanations for these results.
Measurement of the relative $B^{\pm}_{c}/B^{\pm}$ production cross section with the ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total cross section and differential cross sections for the production of $B_{c}^{\pm}$ mesons, times their branching fraction to $J/ψπ^{\pm}$, are measured relative to those for the production of $B^{\pm}$ mesons, times their branching fraction to $J/ψK^{\pm}$. The data used for this study correspond to an integrated luminosity of $20.3\,\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV. The measurement is performed differentially in bins of transverse momentum $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ for $13$ GeV $ 22$ GeV and in bins of rapidity $y$ for $|y| <0.75$ and $0.75 13$ GeV and $|y| < 2.3$ is $(0.34\,\pm\,0.04_{\text{stat}}\,^{+0.06}_{-0.02}\,_{\text{sys}}\,\pm\,0.01_{\text{lifetime}})\%$. The differential measurements suggest that the production cross section of the $B^{\pm}_c$ decreases faster with $p_{\mathrm T}$ than the production cross section of the $B^{\pm}$, while no significant dependence on rapidity is observed.
description: 39 pages in total, author list starting page 23, 7 figures, submitted to PRD. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/BPHY-2016-03
Food versus Fuel: Examining Tradeoffs in the Allocation of Biomass Energy Sources to Domestic and Productive Uses in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Dawit
name: Bryan, Elizabeth
name: Alemu, Tekie
name: Ringler, Claudia
name: Mekonnen, Dawit
name: Bryan, Elizabeth
name: Alemu, Tekie
name: Ringler, Claudia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: agriculture
subject: energy
subject: fuelwood
subject: gender
subject: tradeoffs

description: This paper explores the tradeoffs between domestic and productive uses of biomass energy sources in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia using a non-separable farm household model where labor and other input allocations to energy collection and farming are analyzed simultaneously. We estimate a system of five structural equations using three stages least squares and find that use of dung as a domestic fuel source has a negative impact on agricultural productivity while, use of fuelwood is associated with increased productivity. In particular, on-farm production of fuelwood appears to provide many benefits for crop productivity and labor savings, by making fuelwood collection easier and more convenient for households. The results show that households remain reliant on multiple sources of traditional biomass fuels and that these are largely complementary. At the same time, rural households have limited options to meet their domestic energy needs, and most lack access to modern fuels and technologies. The discussion suggests ways of making domestic energy collection more efficient through policy interventions aimed at the promotion of agroforestry and increasing access to new energy-efficient technologies.
Model for optical forward scattering by nonspherical raindrops
Creators: name: Ross, Oliver N.
name: Bradley, Stuart G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a numerical model for the interaction of light with large raindrops using realistic nonspherical drop shapes. We apply geometrical optics and a Monte Carlo technique to perform ray traces through the drops. We solve the problem of diffraction independently by approximating the drops with areaequivalent ellipsoids. Scattering patterns are obtained for different polarizations of the incident light. They exhibit varying degrees of asymmetry and depolarization that can be linked to the distortion and thus the size of the drops. The model is extended to give a simplified long-path integration.
description: 12 pages, 16 figures
Zukunftsweisendes Branding : Zielgruppenorientiertes Corporate Design für eine effektive Markenansprache bei der Generation Z
Creators: name: Graner, Vivien
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Corporate Design
subject: Generation Z
subject: Markenansprache
subject: Zielgruppe
subject: 658
subject: 659

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit untersucht, ob ein Corporate Design (CD) Manual auf Basis der Präferenzen der Generation Z (Gen Z) eine Marke besser auf diese Zielgruppe ausrichten kann. Dafür wird die Zielgruppe Gen Z eingehend analysiert und leitfadengestützte Interviews mit Vertretenden dieser Generation durchgeführt, um Erkenntnisse bezüglich des Markenauftritts zu gewinnen. Die Erkenntnisse unterstützen die Forschungsfrage, dass ein zielgruppenorientiertes CD-Manual eine Marke besser auf die Zielgruppe Gen Z ausrichten kann. Im Praxisteil wird anschließend eine Überarbeitung des aktuellen CD‘s der Marke Spreadshop vorgenommen und ein Ausblick auf die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten gegeben.
Modelling share volume traded in financial markets
Creators: name: Gontis, Vygintas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A simple analytically solvable model exhibiting a 1/f spectrum in an arbitrarily wide frequency range was recently proposed by Kaulakys and Meskauskas (KM). Signals consisting of a sequence of pulses show that inherent origin of the 1/f noise is Brownian fluctuations of the average intervent time between subsequent pulses of the pulse sequence. We generalize the KM model to reproduce the variety of self-affine time series exhibiting power spectral density S(f) scaled as power of their frequency f. Numerical calculations with the generalized discrete model (GDM) reproduce power spectral density S(f) scaled as power of frequency 1/f^b for various values of b, including b =1/2 for applications in financial markets. The particular applications of the model proposed are related with financial time series of share volume traded.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, you can download article with fine figures from: http://www.itpa.lt/~gontis/
The impact of professional education and training strategies, and other enablers and facilitators, on the scope of practice of pharmacy, dental, and optical professionals in GB/the UK: a scoping review of the literature protocol
Creators: name: Chamberlain, Rebecca
name: James, Delyth
name: Huyton, Jan
name: Gatley, Jane
name: Brown, Sarah
name: Lewis, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390305
subject: Professional education and training
classificationCode: 321403
subject: Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice
classificationCode: 350506
subject: Workforce planning

description: Objective: The objective of this scoping review of the literature is to explore and map the existing evidence, relating to pharmacy, dental and optical professionals’ education, training and other enablers and facilitators, which impact their scope of practice.Introduction: Healthcare services in the UK are currently under significant pressure due to staff shortages, financial challenges, recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing demand. Utilising appropriate skill mix and enabling pharmacy, dental and optical professionals to optimise their roles, is crucial to maintaining service provision. This review will explore the extent to which student and registered pharmacy, dental and optical professionals in the UK, are enabled to expand their scope of practice, through education, training and other enablers and facilitators.Inclusion criteria: The review of the literature will include studies relating to the education and training of pre-registration pharmacy technicians and pharmacy technicians in Great Britain (GB), and student dental technicians, dental technicians, clinical dental technicians, student dispensing opticians, dispensing opticians and contact lens opticians in the United Kingdom (UK). Studies and other literature exploring enablers and facilitators to role development, optimisation, or expansion of scope of practice will be included. Studies and other literature conducted in any academic or professional setting will be considered.Methods: MedLine, EMBASE, ERIC, Education Research Complete, PsychINFO, and Scopus will be searched. Grey literature will be sourced from healthcare regulators, professional organisations, statutory education bodies and governments. The search will be limited to English language studies published between 2000 and 2024. Study selection and data extraction will be undertaken by the author (RC) and sampled by a second reviewer. Data analysis will include qualitative content analysis and descriptive statistics.The review will focus on student and registered pharmacy technicians, dental technicians, and dispensing opticians in Great Britain (GB) (for pharmacy) and the UK (for dental and optical professions). They will be collectively referred to as “pharmacy, dental and optical professionals” throughout. The review excludes pharmacists, dentists, other dental care professional groups, and optometrists.
Small Latin arrays have a near transversal
Creators: name: Best, Darcy
name: Pula, Kyle
name: Wanless, Ian M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B15

description: A Latin array is a matrix of symbols in which no symbol occurs more than once within a row or within a column. A diagonal of an $n\times n$ array is a selection of $n$ cells taken from different rows and columns of the array. The weight of a diagonal is the number of different symbols on it. We show via computation that every Latin array of order $n\le11$ has a diagonal of weight at least $n-1$. A corollary is the existence of near transversals in Latin squares of these orders. More generally, for all $k\le20$ we compute a lower bound on the order of any Latin array that does not have a diagonal of weight at least $n-k$.
Reproduktive Gerechtigkeit für Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten in Wohneinrichtungen in Deutschland? : Eine qualitative Studie zur Selbstbestimmung in der Schwangerschaftsverhütung
Creators: name: Wolff, Caroline
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: sexuelle Selbstbestimmung
subject: sexuelle Bildung
subject: Menschenrechte
subject: reproduktive Rechte
subject: Menschen mit Behinderung
subject: Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten
subject: geistige Behinderung
subject: Eingliederungshilfe
subject: Soziale Arbeit
subject: Familienplanung
subject: Verhütung
subject: 362
subject: 618

description: Diese Masterarbeit untersucht reproduktive Gerechtigkeit für Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten, d.h. geistiger Behinderung, insbesondere die Realisierung reproduktiver und sexueller Selbstbestimmung für Frauen*. Es wird die sexualpädagogische Praxis in Wohneinrichtungen im Umgang mit dem Thema Schwangerschaftsverhütung betrachtet. Anhand von acht leitfadengestützten Interviews mit Fachkräften werden die Möglichkeiten, Beschränkungen und Widersprüche der Praxis in Bezug auf die Realisierung rechtlicher Ansprüche sowie wünschenswerter Zielzustände herausgearbeitet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Selbstbestimmung in der Sexualität größtenteils ermöglicht wird. Im Gegensatz dazu können Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten, insbesondere Frauen*, nur beschränkt ihre Schwangerschaftsverhütung selbstbestimmt entscheiden. Insbesondere Eltern in der Rolle der gesetzlichen Betreuung, teilweise aber auch Gynäkolog*innen, beeinträchtigen hier die Selbstbestimmung. Selbstbestimmung fördernde Haltungen und individuelle Handlungsansätze existieren zwar bei den Fachkräften. Es fehlt aber an Konzepten, Leitlinien und konkreten Leitfäden für die Ausgestaltung des Beratungsprozesses zur Schwangerschaftsverhütung, mithin eine institutionelle und strukturelle Implementierung. Es werden Empfehlungen abgeleitet, um den Grad der reproduktiven Gerechtigkeit in den untersuchten Kontexten zu erhöhen.
Acanthochitona penicillata
Creators: name: Dell'Angelo, Bruno
name: Gori, Sandro
name: Baschieri, Leonardo
name: Bonfitto, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Polyplacophora
Chitonida
Acanthochitonidae
Acanthochitona
Acanthochitona penicillata

description: Acanthochitona penicillata (Deshayes, 1863)
(Figures 7A–D, 12K)
 Chiton penicillatus Deshayes 1863: 41, pl. 6, figs 8, 10.
 Acanthochitona penicillata; Strack 1993: 23, pl. 5, fig. 6; Dell’Angelo et al. 2004: 56, pl. 5, figs 10–16 (bibliography and synonymy); Anseeuw & Terryn 2004: 17, figs 56–57.
 Acanthochitona cf. A. penicillata; Ferreira 1983: 284, fig. 32.
 Type: probably lost (fide Strack 1993: 25).
 Type locality: Réunion.
 Material examined: M13: 11 valves (1 head and 10 intermediate); M17: 1 intermediate valve; M26: 1 intermediate valve; MLD02A: 4 intermediate valves; MLD04A: 1 spm (estimated length 6.5 mm, slightly curled, Fig. 12K); MLD04B: 2 intermediate valves; LB05: 102 valves (10 head, 86 intermediate and 6 tail).
 Remarks: A detailed description of this species is given by Ferreira (1983).
 Although it is difficult to reliably evaluate this species-group, we attribute the analyzed material to A. penicillata mainly on the basis of the smooth jugal area (except for discrete transversal growth rugae), shape of granules and distribution of aesthetes. The present material match with the valves reported from Madagascar (compare pl. 5, Figs 10 –16 in Dell’Angelo et al. 2004). The granules, of narrow isosceles triangle shape, show a central megalaesthete and two–three micraesthetes near the apex of the triangle, from which an irregular stem is extending towards the next granule (Figs 7B–C).
This is the first report of this species from the Maldive Islands.
 Distribution: Acanthochitona penicillata is a locally common intertidal to shallow subtidal species, widespread in the western Indian Ocean. It is known from the Red Sea, Suez Canal, Yemen, Socotra Island, Madagascar, Tanzania, Somalia, and the islands of Seychelles, Réunion, Mauritius and the Maldive Islands.
description: Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Gori, Sandro, Baschieri, Leonardo & Bonfitto, Antonio, 2010, Chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from the Maldive islands, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 2673 (1) on pages 19-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2673.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304551
Spherical complexities, with applications to closed geodesics
Creators: name: Mescher, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58E05, 55S40, 58E10

description: We construct and discuss new numerical homotopy invariants of topological spaces that are suitable for the study of functions on loop and sphere spaces. These invariants resemble the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and provide lower bounds for the numbers of critical orbits of SO(n)-invariant functions on spaces of n-spheres in a manifold. Lower bounds on these invariants are derived using weights of cohomology classes. As an application, we prove new existence results for closed geodesics on Finsler manifolds of positive flag curvature satisfying a pinching condition.
description: 35 pages, revised version, fixed typos and a mistake in Theorem 6.5 pointed out by D. Kotschick. To appear in Algebraic & Geometric Topology
Spacetime, General Covariance, Dirac-Bergmann Observables and Non-Inertial Frames
Creators: name: Lusanna, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Talk at the 25th Johns Hopkins Workshop "2001: A Relativistic Spacetime Odyssey", Firenze September 2001.
description: 23 pages
Goldstone Superfield Actions for Partially Broken AdS5 Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Bellucci, S.
name: Ivanov, E.
name: Krivonos, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explicitly construct N=1 worldvolume supersymmetric minimal off-shell Goldstone superfield actions for two options of 1/2 partial spontaneous breaking of AdS5 supersymmetry SU(2,2|1) corresponding to its nonlinear realizations in the supercosets with the AdS5 and AdS5 X S1 bosonic parts. The relevant Goldstone supermultiplets are comprised, respectively, by improved tensor and chiral N=1 superfields. The second action is obtained from the first one by duality transformation. In the bosonic sectors they yield static-gauge Nambu-Goto actions for L3-brane on AdS5 and scalar 3-brane on AdS5 X S1.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX, a few misprints have been corrected
Four-point functions in large $N$ Chern-Simons fermionic theories
Creators: name: Kalloor, Rohit R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute all four-point functions involving the operators $J_0$ and $J_1$ in large-$N$ Chern-Simons fermionic theories, in the regime where all external momenta lie along the $z$-axis. We find that our result for $\langle J_0 J_0 J_0 J_0 \rangle$ agrees with previous computations, and that the other correlators fall in line with expectations from bootstrap arguments.
description: 21 pages, updated references
ESTIMATION OF THE ADVANTAGES OF BARLEY GENOTYPE MIXTURES AND POPULATIONS FOR ORGANIC FARMING SYSTEM - SUMMARY
Creators: name: Ločmele, Indra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: spring barley
populations
variety mixtures
genotypes
organic farming
yield stability
weed competitiveness

description: The aim of the thesis  To evaluate the advantages of using the mixtures of spring barley genotypes, as well as simple, complex, and composite cross populations for the organic growing system. Research goals  1. To evaluate the advantages of mixtures of spring barley genotypes in ensuring yield and yield stability, reducing the development of foliar diseases, and improving competitiveness with weeds. 2. To evaluate the advantages of spring barley populations in ensuring yield and yield stability, reducing the development of foliar diseases, and improving competitiveness with weeds. 3. To evaluate grains quality for different types of populations and their stability in the organic and conventional growing systems. 4. To evaluate the differences in the diversity of quantitative traits of plants for three types of barley populations in organic and conventional growing systems. Hypothesis of the thesis  Mixtures of genotypes and populations in organic growing systems provide a more stable yield, better competitiveness with weeds, and lower infection with foliar diseases compared to homogenous varieties. Theses to be defended  1. Mixtures of barley genotypes have better yield stability, competitiveness with weeds, and lower foliar disease severity compared to homogenous varieties. 2. Barley populations have better yield stability, competitiveness with weeds, and lower foliar diseases severity compared to homogenous varieties. 3. Barley populations can provide grain quality at the level of homogenous varieties and better its stability. 4. Quantitative traits of populations develop differently in organic and conventional farming systems. The novelty of the thesis  With the development of organic farming, researches on genotype mixtures and genetically diverse populations of self-pollinating species have become more topical in the world over the last decade. At present, few results have been published worldwide on the researches on genotype mixtures and especially on populations. In Latvia, the creation of mixtures and populations has not been studied so far, and the advantages of populations and mixtures of genotypes in comparison to traditional pure line varieties have not been also studied yet. Approbation of study results  Based on the results of this study, 4 publications have been prepared, which are indexed in Scopus and/or Web of Science databases, 4 publications in conference proceedings, 5 oral and 6 posters presentation in conferences.
description: in English & Latvian
MOESM1 of Directional cerebrospinal fluid movement between brain ventricles in larval zebrafish
Creators: name: Fame, Ryann
name: Chang, Jessica
name: Hong, Alex
name: Aponte-Santiago, Nicole
name: Sive, Hazel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Ventricle injections do not disrupt gross ventricular morphology; Fig. S2. BDM treatment does not disrupt gross ventricular morphology over 2 hours; Fig. S3. BDM treatment disrupts CSF directional movement at early larval stage.
A Theory of Pragmatic Information and Its Application to the Quasispecies Model of Biological Evolution
Creators: name: Weinberger, Edward D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: "Standard" information theory says nothing about the semantic content of information. Nevertheless, applications such as evolutionary theory demand consideration of precisely this aspect of information, a need that has motivated a largely unsuccessful search for a suitable measure of an "amount of meaning". This paper represents an attempt to move beyond this impasse, based on the observation that the meaning of a message can only be understood relative to its receiver. Positing that the semantic value of information is its usefulness in making an informed decision, we define pragmatic information as the information gain in the probability distributions of the receiver's actions, both before and after receipt of a message in some pre-defined ensemble. We then prove rigorously that our definition is the only one that satisfies obvious desiderata, such as the additivity of information from logically independent messages. This definition, when applied to the information "learned" by the time evolution of a process, defies the intuitions of the few previous researchers thinking along these lines by being monotonic in the uncertainty that remains after receipt of the message, but non-monotonic in the Shannon entropy of the input ensemble. It then follows that the pragmatic information of the genetic "messages" in an evolving population is a global Lyapunov function for Eigen's quasi-species model of biological evolution. A concluding section argues that a theory such as ours must explicitly acknowledge purposeful action, or "agency", in such diverse fields as evolutionary theory and finance.
description: as published in BIOSYSTEMS (I fixed an error in the proof of Theorem 2)
Craspedochiton Shuttleworth 1853
Creators: name: Dell'Angelo, Bruno
name: Gori, Sandro
name: Baschieri, Leonardo
name: Bonfitto, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Polyplacophora
Chitonida
Acanthochitonidae
Craspedochiton

description: Genus Craspedochiton Shuttleworth, 1853
 Type species: Chiton laqueatus Sowerby, 1841, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Gori, Sandro, Baschieri, Leonardo & Bonfitto, Antonio, 2010, Chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from the Maldive islands, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 2673 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2673.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304551
title: Abdominal cystic lymphangioma in a child
Creators: name: Prasad, Niharika
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Paediatric radiology
subject: Abdomen
subject: Peritoneum
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Cysts
subject: Developmental disease
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: Eight months old boy was brought by his mother with complaints of progressive increase in size of the abdomen since one week. He had not passed stools since three days. He had no history of melena, jaundice, vomiting or fever. There was no loss of weight or appetite in the past. His birth history was normal. Routine blood investigations were unremarkable.

description: 8 months, male
Cryptoplax sykesi Thiele 1909
Creators: name: Dell'Angelo, Bruno
name: Gori, Sandro
name: Baschieri, Leonardo
name: Bonfitto, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Polyplacophora
Chitonida
Cryptoplacidae
Cryptoplax
Cryptoplax sykesi

description: Cryptoplax sykesi Thiele, 1909
(Figures 11M–O)
 Cryptoplax sykesi Thiele 1909: 54, pl. 6, figs 83–86; Leloup 1940: 9, fig. 3, pl. 2; Ghobashy & Kotb 2002: 6; Anseeuw & Terryn 2004: 16, fig. 55; Dell’Angelo et al. 2004: 60, pl. 6, figs 14–15 (bibliography and synonymy).
 Type: unascertained (fide Ferreira 1983: 287).
 Type locality: Red Sea, “Gimsah-Bai”.
 Material examined: M13: 1 intermediate valve; M20: 2 intermediate valves; M65: 2 intermediate valves; MLD02A: 2 intermediate valves; LB04: 1 intermediate valve; LB05: 21 valves (20 intermediate and 1 tail).
 Remarks: Detailed descriptions of this species are given by Leloup (1940) and Ferreira (1983).
 We attribute our valves to Cryptoplax sykesi on the basis of the smooth jugal area and the sculpture of the lateropleural area, with 5–6 longitudinal riblets, some broken up in granules near the apex (Fig. 11O). Our material match with the valves found in Madagascar (compare pl. 6, Figs 14 –15 in Dell’Angelo et al. 2004), only the Maldive intermediate valves seem more elevated than the Madagascar ones.
This is the first report of this species from the Maldive Islands.
 Distribution: Cryptoplax sykesi is an intertidal to shallow sublittoral species, widespread in the western Indian Ocean. It is known from the Red Sea, Somalia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Natal, Amirante Islands, Geyser Bank (North of Mozambique Channel), Madagascar and the Maldive Islands.
description: Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Gori, Sandro, Baschieri, Leonardo & Bonfitto, Antonio, 2010, Chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from the Maldive islands, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 2673 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2673.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304551