cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Talking to Strangers: The Use of Stories as Guides to Intercultural Encounters by the Archaic Greeks and the Hudson’s Bay Cree
Creators: name: Osborne, Carla
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Language--Ancient
subject: Literature--Classical
subject: Native American Studies
subject: Archaic Greek
subject: Hudson's Bay Cree
subject: Odyssey
subject: Intercultural Encounters
subject: Oral Tradition
subject: Strangers
subject: Hospitality Protocols
subject: Guest Friendship

description: The Archaic Greeks and Hudson’s Bay Cree alike lived in a world without writing, sharing and maintaining social memory through oral storytelling. Since both were enterprising, well-travelled peoples, they became involved in meetings with other groups of completely unfamiliar language and culture: strange others. To manage these intercultural encounters, the Archaic Greeks and Hudson’s Bay Cree each used their own ideas of appropriate behaviour between guests and hosts, drawing on stories shared within their communities. They used the level of conformity with their own hospitality protocols that they observed in the strange other as an index of “us-ness,” a measure of the possibility of ongoing social relationship with them. Despite this common measure of “us-ness,” the Hudson’s Bay Cree and Archaic Greeks differed in how they used it, as shown by the lessons encoded in their traditional stories about the unfamiliar other.
Information, Utility & Bounded Rationality
Creators: name: Ortega, Pedro A.
name: Braun, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Perfectly rational decision-makers maximize expected utility, but crucially ignore the resource costs incurred when determining optimal actions. Here we employ an axiomatic framework for bounded rational decision-making based on a thermodynamic interpretation of resource costs as information costs. This leads to a variational "free utility" principle akin to thermodynamical free energy that trades off utility and information costs. We show that bounded optimal control solutions can be derived from this variational principle, which leads in general to stochastic policies. Furthermore, we show that risk-sensitive and robust (minimax) control schemes fall out naturally from this framework if the environment is considered as a bounded rational and perfectly rational opponent, respectively. When resource costs are ignored, the maximum expected utility principle is recovered.
description: 10 pages. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
title: Échanges en noir et blanc: les enjeux double dans le film Renaissance de Christian Volckman
Creators: name: Calvo, Samir Elias Avendaño
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: The film Renaissance, a feature black and white science fiction animated film, proves the
 power of the image exploited by the cinema, in particular that of animation. Released in 2006, this
 film, directed by Christian Volckman, combines a series of technical and scriptwriting elements
 from various moments in the history of cinema, in particular a scenario which makes a link with
 classical cinema, particularly with the American Black Film of the fifties, with thrillers, and their
 archetypes. Additionally, the film uses an animation technique which combines both traditional 2D
 animation with modern 3D animation, which is based on capturing movements by creating a work
 where the visual aesthetics reminds us of video games. From this perspective, Renaissance is a
 unique film that fits into a new type of cinema: transludic cinema. The analysis presented here
 considers three perspectives: intermedial, video game and narratological, which aim to demonstrate
 how in Renaissance, various media elements intersect with the objective of producing a hybrid that
 generates a new aesthetic. All of this is encompassed in the exploration of the central theme of
 duality within the narrative of this fictional black and white animated film.
A spatial-temporal-map-based traffic video analytic model for large-scale cloud-based deployment
Creators: name: Ge, Yi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: The CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) traffic surveillance systems are one critical part of traffic operations and management at state and local DOTs (Departments of Transportation). In this thesis, a multi-lane traffic detection model based on the spatial-temporal map (STMap) is proposed, which is a few longitudinal scanlines instead of the entire video frame to detect vehicle trajectories. The proposed model is built based on a prior STMap-based aerial video analytic method but with significant improvement addressing issues with roadside CCTV traffic cameras. A motion-flow-based direction determination method, a bi-section occlusion detection and splitting algorithm, and the lane-changing track method are proposed for determining the directions, splitting vehicles from occlusions, and identifying lane-changes. The model evaluation is conducted by using videos from multiple cameras from the NJDOT (New Jersey DOT)’s 511 traffic video surveillance system. The results show promising performance in both accuracy and computational efficiency for potential large-scale cloud deployment.
title: Общение в городском транспорте в аспекте культуры речи
Creators: name: Григорьева, Татьяна
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Представлены результаты наблюдений за речью в ситуации общественного транспорта на материале Красноярска. Конкретно рассмотрены три составляющих речевой ситуации в транспорте: печатные тексты в плане их соответствия действительности и речевым жанрам предписания или просьбы; радиоинформация с точки зрения ее содержания, жанрового соответствия и требований современной орфоэпии, включая интонационный рисунок высказываний; а также речь пассажиров в плане отступления от мобильного этикета, которые создают в общественном транспорте атмосферу дискомфорта. Анализ этих сторон речи в транспорте приводит к выводу о том, что необходима работа по повышению качества всех трех видов текстов, что послужит созданию атмосферы высокой речевой и общей культуры в городском транспорте.
MIMO capacity for deterministic channel models: sublinear growth
Creators: name: Bentosela, Francois
name: Cornean, Horia D.
name: Marchetti, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the second paper of the authors in a series concerned with the development of a deterministic model for the transfer matrix of a MIMO system. Starting from the Maxwell equations, we have described in \cite{BCFM} the generic structure of such a deterministic transfer matrix. In the current paper we apply the results of \cite{BCFM} in order to study the (Shannon-Foschini) capacity behavior of a MIMO system as a function of the deterministic spread function of the environment, and the number of transmitting and receiving antennas. The antennas are assumed to fill in a given, fixed volume. Under some generic assumptions, we prove that the capacity grows much more slowly than linearly with the number of antennas. These results reinforce previous heuristic results obtained from statistical models of the transfer matrix, which also predict a sublinear behavior.
description: 12 pages, to appear in Math. Meth. Appl. Sci
Physical Activity, Smoking, and Other Health-Related Behaviours in Canadians with Epilepsy: Are Behaviours Changing Over Time?
Creators: name: Roberts, Jodie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Public Health
subject: Epilepsy
subject: Health Related Behaviors

description: Previous studies have indicated that people with epilepsy (PWE) are more likely to smoke cigarettes and less likely to engage in physical activity or consume fruits and vegetables. It is unknown whether improvements have occurred following updated guidelines and public health interventions. This project aimed to explore patterns of health related behaviors (HRBs) such as smoking and physical activity in Canadians with epilepsy and examine whether behaviors have changed over time using data from a series of five national population-based surveys spanning from 2001 to 2011. In total, 522,722 Canadians were included in the dataset, including 3,220 PWE. The proportion of PWE who did not participate in any physical activity decreased over time (2001=17.2%, 2010/2011=8.5%), as did the proportion of PWE who currently smoked (2001=32.3%, 2010/2011=18.0%). However, fruit and vegetable consumption was consistently inadequate among PWE. Physicians should continue to counsel epilepsy patients on the importance of healthy lifestyle choices.
Uncovering hidden modes in RR Lyrae stars
Creators: name: Molnár, L.
name: Kolláth, Z.
name: Szabó, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kepler space telescope revealed new, unexpected phenomena in RR Lyrae stars: period doubling and the possible presence of additional modes. Identifying these modes is complicated because they blend in the rich features of the Fourier-spectrum. Our hydrodynamic calculations uncovered that a 'hidden' mode, the 9th overtone is involved in the period doubling phenomenon. The period of the overtone changes by up to 10 per cent compared to the linear value, indicating a very significant nonlinear period shift caused by its resonance with the fundamental mode. The observations also revealed weak peaks that may correspond to the first or second overtones. These additional modes are often coupled with period doubling. We investigated the possibilities and occurrences of mutual resonances between the fundamental mode and multiple overtones in our models. These theoretical findings can help interpreting the origin and nature of the 'hidden' modes may be found in the high quality light curves of space observatories.
description: In proceedings of "20th Stellar Pulsation Conference Series: Impact of new instrumentation & new insights in stellar pulsations", 5-9 September 2011, Granada, Spain
Análise e Melhoria dos Processos de Trabalho do Psicólogo na Assistência Estudantil
Creators: name: Chaves, Jussara De Lourdes Ferreira
name: Farias, Maria Da Salete Barboza De
name: Lima-Nunes, Aline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Applied Psychology

description: A Gestão de Processos de Negócios tem sido aplicada nos diversos órgãos, tendo em vista vantagens em melhorias para a organização e para a operacionalização de serviços, mantendo o necessário ao funcionamento dos fluxos de trabalho. A Coordenação de Apoio ao Discente, da Escola Técnica de Saúde (ETS) da UFPB, não tem seus processos de trabalho definidos, tornando suas atividades inseguras para todos os envolvidos, sejam profissionais ou alunos e, por vezes, desconexas, impedindo que haja uma execução alinhada para finalidades próprias do campo da Assistência Estudantil, refletindo na inadequada execução das ações preconizadas pela Resolução CONSEPE/UFPB nº 38/2018, que trata da Política de Assistência Estudantil da ETS. O presente Relatório Técnico Conclusivo tem como objetivo analisar os fluxos de trabalho em que a Psicóloga está diretamente envolvida na Assistência Estudantil. Os Processos de Atendimento Individual e em Equipe e o Processo de Acompanhamento ao Discente não possuem estrutura definida, sendo realizados conforme as possibilidades no momento em que ocorrem. Para esse fim, inicialmente procedeu-se a modelagem e a descrição dos processos com o Bizagi Modeler, de acordo com o BPMN e SIPOC. Foram realizadas duas análises qualitativas, o questionário da ISO/TR 26122 adaptado e Análise de Causa-raiz com o Diagrama da Árvore. A ISO/TR 26122 indicou a junção dos Processos de Atendimento ao Aluno (Individual e em Equipe) e inclusão de atividades como requisitos do processo, a obediência às legislações dos Conselhos de Classe, com os registros adequados dos atendimentos, a definição de responsabilidades nos processos multiprofissionais e a transformação em processos formais, evitando as variações e proporcionando a produção de dados. A análise de Causa-raiz com o Diagrama da Árvore indicou que há dois caminhos para solucionar o problema da falta de processo formal, sendo um o amparo legal para a regulamentação dos processos e outro a criação de um campo no SIGAA para operacionalização dos processos. Os resultados propostos pelo Relatório Técnico indicam que a implantação das melhorias é apenas o começo das formalizações, sendo necessário ainda desenvolver o campo do SIGAA e as regulamentações necessárias para a execução destes em futuros estudos.
A Tribute to Charles Stein
Creators: name: George, Edward I.
name: Strawderman, William E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In 1956, Charles Stein published an article that was to forever change the statistical approach to high-dimensional estimation. His stunning discovery that the usual estimator of the normal mean vector could be dominated in dimensions 3 and higher amazed many at the time, and became the catalyst for a vast and rich literature of substantial importance to statistical theory and practice. As a tribute to Charles Stein, this special issue on minimax shrinkage estimation is devoted to developments that ultimately arose from Stein's investigations into improving on the UMVUE of a multivariate normal mean vector. Of course, much of the early literature on the subject was due to Stein himself, including a key technical lemma commonly referred to as Stein's Lemma, which leads to an unbiased estimator of the risk of an almost arbitrary estimator of the mean vector.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-STS385 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
High potential : how a framework of criteria for an integrated energy system can initiate a sustainable electricity grid and transportation system
Creators: name: Elias, Arnold Lindsay
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: We are facing a global crisis in our energy generation and transportation sectors. Coalescing environmental and social problems are caused primarily by inappropriate fossil fuel use and land-use practices. Electrification of urban vehicles can help to solve these problems in conjunction with novel policies. However, the full dimensions of integrating plug-in vehicles into existing grid and transportation systems are inadequately considered to substantially address the critical issues we face. This problem is the result of entangled economic, cultural and technological issues that have not been considered in an integrated manner, together with the varying potential of emerging vehicle technologies. Technologies must meet social uptake and socio-environmental needs as well as the usual economic, efficiency and emissions requirements. I contend that evaluating the electricity grid and the transportation system as an integrated energy system can lead to increased efficacy of renewable energy solutions and help to avoid inappropriate policy and investment choices. I advance a framework of critical attributes to identify the enabling technologies required to sustainably integrate the electricity grid and transportation system. The alternative, I maintain, is a monolithic and disconnected system that will be expensive and ultimately unsustainable. In this dissertation I consider the transportation pathways that lead towards a sustainable energy system. Two important systems emerge from the comprehensive requirements for an integrated and sustainable energy system: the hydrogen fuel cell and the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle model. I utilize economic, social and environmental criteria to compare these two approaches to identify the appropriate technology pathway. The result, from a transportation perspective, is a credible path towards a sustainable energy system. My analysis shows that a plug-in model demonstrates crucial techno-economic, social and environmental advantages over the hydrogen model. Utilizing an appropriate policy structure, the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle model, in combination with intelligent grid systems, can initiate a cultural paradigm shift that can naturally evolve into a sustainable and integrated energy system.
Population-level determinants of obesity in Canada: application of econometric techniques
Creators: name: Dutton, Daniel James
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Public Health
subject: Obesity
subject: Canada
subject: population health

description: Obesity is a significant public health problem in Canada. Increasingly, factors that are beyond the individual are being identified as important drivers of the current obesity epidemic. Drivers like prices, taxes, and government policy are jointly identified as population-level determinants of obesity that have resulted in its rapid growth. While these population-level determinants have been identified as important, their impact has not been explicitly quantified in Canada. The geographic distribution of obesity prevalence in Canada is one issue that could potentially highlight the important role that population-level determinants of obesity play. This dissertation’s objective is to assess the importance of population-level determinants of obesity in Canada by quantifying their impact on individuals living in different regions of the country. Canada has, roughly, an east to west gradient of obesity, with the Atlantic provinces exhibiting the highest prevalence of obesity. I characterize the difference between the Atlantic provinces and other regions of Canada (Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies, and British Columbia) in two ways: the difference in average body mass index (BMI) and the difference in BMI distributions. To estimate the contribution of the population-level determinants to these differences I apply Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions and quantile regression to national level data from the Canadian Community Health Survey. I show that the population-level determinants are important in describing cross-regional differences in obesity in Canada and their importance becomes larger at high percentiles of the BMI distribution, especially in females. I explain how this is consistent with the ecological model of obesity’s portrayal of the population-level determinants of obesity. Parallel to meeting the overall objective of this dissertation, I assess the added value of corrected BMI values in obesity research. Correction equations are generally used to adjust self- iii reported BMI values so they resemble measured BMI values on aggregate. I assess their usefulness by establishing a new correction equation and comparing that correction to established Canadian correction equations, measured BMI, and self-reported BMI. I determine that corrected BMI is not always superior to self-reported BMI and discuss the settings where corrected BMI is useful.
Measurement of the Physical Properties of MacKay River Bitumen and Solvent Mixtures
Creators: name: Khan, Adeem
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Bitumen
subject: Diluent
subject: Viscosity and density
subject: Asphaltene Precipitation

description: Bitumen, with its high asphaltene content, has a much higher viscosity than conventional crude oils. The high viscosity of bitumen represents the greatest obstacle to both efficient recoveries by conventional processes and transportation to the refinery for upgrading. To produce bitumen, its viscosity must be reduced using techniques such as solvent aided processes (SAP). Solvent aided processes, such as LASER (Liquid addition to steam to enhance recovery), significantly reduce the viscosity of bitumen by adding a liquid solvent to the injected steam. This process increases the production rate and reduces the ratio of required steam to oil. To improve oil recovery prediction, it is essential to have accurate measurements the physical properties of the bitumen-solvent system at conditions similar to those encountered in situ and in transport. Measurements of the viscosity of complex bitumen-solvent systems can be used to develop an appropriate model for predicting the viscosity of diluted bitumen/solvent mixtures. This study aimed to accurately measure the physical properties (viscosity and density) of bitumen diluted with liquid solvents (hexane and toluene) over a wide range of pressures (up to 10 MPa), temperatures (ambient to 345 K), and solvent mass compositions (0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.35, 0.5, 0.70, and 0.80) for several bitumen-solvent systems. In addition to density and viscosity measurements, the possibility of asphaltene formation at high solvent concentration was visually investigated. The viscosity and density of the raw bitumen, pure solvents (toluene and hexane), and toluene and hexane diluted bitumen were also measured. Additional solvent mixtures were prepared by mixing hexane with toluene in different mass fractions (0.25, 0.5, and 0.75). The physical properties of bitumen diluted with these mixtures were recorded. The experimental results for all bitumen/solvents mixtures were evaluated using prediction schemes and correlation models from the literature. The experimental results showed that the viscosity and density of the solvent diluted bitumen decreased as the temperature and mass fraction of solvents was increased, and increased as the pressure was increased. Asphaltene precipitation was detected in hexane-diluted bitumen at 0.5 mass fraction of hexane and increased significantly when the mass fraction of hexane was increased to 0.7. The addition of aromatic solvent i.e. toluene to hexane delayed the critical concentration in case of bitumen/mixture (hexane 75 mass % + toluene 25 mass %) resulting in asphaltene precipitation at only ws= 0.80.
title: Просеминарий в программе подготовки преподавателя филологии (работа с источниками)
Creators: name: Заика, Владимир
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Описывается опыт формирования исследовательских умений и увеличения исследовательских возможностей студентов в ходе освоения дисциплины «Просеминарий» в современных условиях: цифровизации и интернета, низких предпосылочных компетенций студентов, распространения эдьютейнмента, сокращения времени контактной работы и др. Просеминарий отличается от предметных дисциплин исследовательской составляющей, обеспечивающей индивидуализацию образовательных траекторий, и направленностью на воспитание академической грамотности в процессе обучения академическому письму. Обосновываются и описываются задания, формирующие умения и навыки, необходимые на разных фазах создания самостоятельного исследования: от отбора источников и определения их пригодности до создания обзорного реферата, от сбора материала, до описания результатов поиска нового знания, оформления текста курсовой и выпускной работы, а также подготовки ее защиты.
Quantum quenches and driven dynamics in a single-molecule device
Creators: name: Vinkler, Yuval
name: Schiller, Avraham
name: Andrei, Natan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonequilibrium dynamics of molecular devices is studied in the framework of a generic model for single-molecule transistors: a resonant level coupled by displacement to a single vibrational mode. In the limit of a broad level and in the vicinity of the resonance, the model can be controllably reduced to a form quadratic in bosonic operators, which in turn is exactly solvable. The response of the system to a broad class of sudden quenches and ac drives is thus computed in a nonperturbative manner, providing an asymptotically exact solution in the limit of weak electron-phonon coupling. From the analytic solution we are able to (1) explicitly show that the system thermalizes following a local quantum quench, (2) analyze in detail the time scales involved, (3) show that the relaxation time in response to a quantum quench depends on the observable in question, and (4) reveal how the amplitude of long-time oscillations evolves as the frequency of an ac drive is tuned across the resonance frequency. Explicit analytical expressions are given for all physical quantities and all nonequilibrium scenarios under study.
description: 23 pages, 13 figures
MPEC 2023-X51 : 2023 XP
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 XP

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКИЙ РЫНОК РЕСПУБЛИКИ УЗБЕКИСТАН В УСЛОВИЯХ ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ
Creators: name: Қувандиков, А.Н.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В последние годы в Узбекистане происходят большие изменения на потребительском рынке, связанные с обширным внедрением цифровизации в развитии этого направления национальной экономики, которое несомненно приобретает важную роль в реформировании политики государства. Для того, чтобы Республика Узбекистан была более открытой в мировой экономике необходимы кардинальные реформы во всех направлениях экономики и конечно же в области потребительского рынка, что немаловажно для радикальной трансформации.
ANALISE E MELHORIA NO PROCESSO DE RECRUTAMENTO E SELEÇÃO EM UMA EMPRESA DE SEMIJOIAS DA CIDADE DE JOÃO PESSOA
Creators: name: FERNANDES, SAMARA DOS SANTOS
name: Araújo, Wagner Junqueira De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80799 Library and Information Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Diante das cobranças do ambiente externo, as empresas precisam se adequar constantemente a todas as mudanças. Necessitam de agilidade para se antecipar e responder as demandas de seus clientes. Apesar das diferenças as atividades e setores de atuação das organizações, algumas destas são comuns à maioria, como recrutamento, seleção e contratação de pessoal. O objetivo geral desse trabalho foi analisar o processo de recrutamento e seleção de pessoal em uma empresa do ramo de semijoias. O presente trabalho apresenta o mapeamento do processo de recrutamento e seleção. Foram utilizadas aporte metodológico o BMP com o BPMN e a ferramenta Bizagi Modeler, a coleta dos dados foi realizada por meio de observação participante. Na análise foi utilizado o método de AVA (Análise de Valor Agregado), assim como também o questionário de validação desenvolvido por Araujo et al.(2018) com base no RT ISO 26122, no qual foi possível realizar a identificação de etapas ao longo do processo que poderiam ser eliminadas e até mesmo redefinidas. Por fim, através do mapeamento de processos foi possível realizar sugestões de melhorias e propor um modelo de processo mais ágil, otimizado, assertivo e atual.
STRUCTURE SCHEME OF CREATION OF A LARGE DATABASE IN THE PROCESS OF CONVERGENCE OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
Creators: name: Olimova, Bahоra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this article, the importance and relevance of creating a large database in the process of convergence of educational services, as well as their theoretical and practical aspects, are highlighted, and opinions are expressed on this topic.within the framework of the approach based on the economic directions of the knowledge economy, specific theoretical information is given on the formation of competencies for the purpose of training future specialists in the economic direction.
Uncloaking globular clusters in the inner Galaxy
Creators: name: Alonso-García, Javier
name: Mateo, Mario
name: Sen, Bodhisattva
name: Banerjee, Moulinath
name: Catelan, Márcio
name: Minniti, Dante
name: von Braun, Kaspar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extensive photometric studies of the globular clusters located towards the center of the Milky Way have been historically neglected. The presence of patchy differential reddening in front of these clusters has proven to be a significant obstacle to their detailed study. We present here a well-defined and reasonably homogeneous photometric database for 25 of the brightest Galactic globular clusters located in the direction of the inner Galaxy. These data were obtained in the B, V, and I bands using the Magellan 6.5m telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. A new technique is extensively used in this paper to map the differential reddening in the individual cluster fields, and to produce cleaner, dereddened color-magnitude diagrams for all the clusters in the database. Subsequent papers will detail the astrophysical analysis of the cluster populations, and the properties of the obscuring material along the clusters' lines of sight.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ
IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCES ON BRAND AWARENESS FOR GOTAK
Creators: name: Parthiban J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study examines the impact of social media influencers on GOTAK's brand awareness. It analyzes how different occupational groups perceive influencer marketing compared to traditional advertising and whether social media usage influences consumer awareness. The research also explores how factors like trust and authenticity affect purchasing decisions. Data collected from respondents provide insights into how influencer marketing strengthens brand recognition. Findings reveal that while influencers play a key role, content relevance and audience interaction also influence consumer perception. The study highlights the importance of selecting the right influencers and platforms to maximize marketing effectiveness. These insights help businesses refine their digital marketing strategies for improved engagement and visibility.
ANALISE E MELHORIA NO PROCESSO DE RECRUTAMENTO E SELEÇÃO EM UMA EMPRESA DE SEMIJOIAS DA CIDADE DE JOÃO PESSOA
Creators: name: Araújo, Wagner Junqueira De
name: FERNANDES, SAMARA DOS SANTOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80799 Library and Information Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Diante das cobranças do ambiente externo, as empresas precisam se adequar constantemente a todas as mudanças. Necessitam de agilidade para se antecipar e responder as demandas de seus clientes. Apesar das diferenças as atividades e setores de atuação das organizações, algumas destas são comuns à maioria, como recrutamento, seleção e contratação de pessoal. O objetivo geral desse trabalho foi analisar o processo de recrutamento e seleção de pessoal em uma empresa do ramo de semijoias. O presente trabalho apresenta o mapeamento do processo de recrutamento e seleção. Foram utilizadas aporte metodológico o BMP com o BPMN e a ferramenta Bizagi Modeler, a coleta dos dados foi realizada por meio de observação participante. Na análise foi utilizado o método de AVA (Análise de Valor Agregado), assim como também o questionário de validação desenvolvido por Araujo et al.(2018) com base no RT ISO 26122, no qual foi possível realizar a identificação de etapas ao longo do processo que poderiam ser eliminadas e até mesmo redefinidas. Por fim, através do mapeamento de processos foi possível realizar sugestões de melhorias e propor um modelo de processo mais ágil, otimizado, assertivo e atual.
Quark matter nucleation with a microscopic hadronic equation of state
Creators: name: Logoteta, Domenico
name: Providência, Constança
name: Vidana, Isaac
name: Bombaci, Ignazio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nucleation process of quark matter in cold (T = 0) stellar matter is investigated using the microscopic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach to describe the hadronic phase, and the MIT bag model, the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio, and the Chromo Dielectric models to describe the deconfined phase of quark matter. The consequences of the nucleation process for neutron star physics are outlined. Hyperonic stars are metastable only for some of the quark matter equations of state considered. The effect of an hyperonic three body force on the metastability of compact stars is estimated, and it is shown that, except for the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and the MIT bag model with a large bag pressure, the other models predict the formation of hybrid stars with a maximum mass not larger than \sim 1.62 M\odot .
title: Культурные коды в современной рекламе
Creators: name: Иванова, Александра
name: Ягодкина, Марьяна
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Статья посвящена описанию понятия «культурный код» в рекламном дискурсе. Авторы констатируют, что качественный рекламный текст включает культурные коды определённых сообществ и целевых аудиторий. В статье анализируются примеры международной рекламы известных брендов, уделяется внимание теории высококонтекстуальных и низкоконтекстуальных культур. Культурные коды в современной рекламе всегда связаны с национальной исторической памятью, национальным характером, особенностями представлений о родной земле, религией и мифологией. Необходимая рефлексия адресата обуславливает понимание специфики поведенческих стереотипов и адаптационных механизмов, которые представлены в рекламном сообщении и являются обязательным компонентом расшифровки основы рекламного сообщения. В результате делается вывод о том, что рекламные материалы отражают национальные особенности и дают представление о культуре и о ценностях, потребностях и интересах общества, поскольку реклама несет в себе культурный код страны-производителя.
Emotional intelligence and social skill abilities in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Creators: name: Climie, Emma
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
subject: Emotional Intelligence
subject: children

description: Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are at risk for a number of negative outcomes, especially those within the social domain. They often struggle to interact appropriately with their peers, resulting in social rejection or isolation. Previous research surrounding the concept of emotional intelligence (EI), or the ability to understand one’s own and others’ emotions, has highlighted the relationship between social competence and EI, whereby those who are more emotionally “intelligent” are typically more socially-able. However, this relationship has not yet been examined in a population known to be at-risk for poor social outcomes, such as those with ADHD. Additionally, little is known about the EI abilities of children with ADHD. The current project explores the EI profile of children with ADHD-Combined type and incorporates both ability- and trait-based EI measures. Further exploration of the predictive relationship between EI and social outcomes is reported. Overall, children with ADHD demonstrate comparable EI abilities to the standardization sample in a number of areas. There is a positive, although weak, relationship between EI abilities and social skills ratings. Implications for practice and future research directions are discussed.
Soviet Intelligence on the Eve of War, 1939-1941
Creators: name: Czak, Steven
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: History--Military
subject: History--Russian and Soviet
subject: Intelligence
subject: GRU
subject: NKVD

description: This thesis, relying on primary source documents and several secondary sources, addresses an important gap in the field of intelligence history. It is often thought that Soviet intelligence on German preparations to attack the USSR in June 1941 was excellent and pointed unambiguously toward the truth. In fact, this thesis demonstrates that while Soviet intelligence organizations before 22 June 1941 collected numerous signals of an impending German attack, the collective intelligence picture was muddled, conflicting, and often easy to discount. It analyzes the structures and processes of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Red Army, the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), and, from February 1941, the People’s Commissariat for State Security (NKGB) as independent entities that separately struggled to alert Soviet leadership of Operation Barbarossa. A plethora of reporting from the sources of all three organizations shows that the confusion evaporated by the beginning of June 1941. While intelligence from the GRU, NKVD and NKGB demonstrated that Germany was on the verge of invading, they failed to convince Stalin of its veracity. Even if they had done so, the warning was likely too late to react without Germany’s knowledge. By that point in the final weeks of peace, the Soviet Union was in the unfortunate position of being a victim of strategic surprise.
A high phase-space density mixture of $^{87}$Rb and $^{133}$Cs: towards ultracold heteronuclear molecules
Creators: name: Cho, H. W.
name: McCarron, D. J.
name: Jenkin, D. L.
name: Köppinger, M. P.
name: Cornish, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the production of a high phase-space density mixture of $^{87}$Rb and $^{133}$Cs atoms in a levitated crossed optical dipole trap as the first step towards the creation of ultracold RbCs molecules via magneto-association. We present a simple and robust experimental setup designed for the sympathetic cooling of $^{133}$Cs via interspecies elastic collisions with $^{87}$Rb. Working with the $|F=1, m_F=+1 >$ and the $|3, +3 >$ states of $^{87}$Rb and $^{133}$Cs respectively, we measure a high interspecies three-body inelastic collision rate $\sim 10^{-25}-10^{-26} \rm{cm}^{6}\rm{s}^{-1}$ which hinders the sympathetic cooling. Nevertheless by careful tailoring of the evaporation we can produce phase-space densities near quantum degeneracy for both species simultaneously. In addition we report the observation of an interspecies Feshbach resonance at 181.7(5) G and demonstrate the creation of Cs$_{2}$ molecules via magneto-association on the 4g(4) resonance at 19.8 G. These results represent important steps towards the creation of ultracold RbCs molecules in our apparatus.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Why people help : motivations and barriers for stewardship volunteering
Creators: name: Wahl, Veronica
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Community-based environmental stewardship organizations (or ‘stewardship groups’) provide vital opportunities for individuals to become involved in local environmental issues and to help rehabilitate local habitats. Community members, in turn, provide vital volunteer support to stewardship groups. The main purpose of this research is to contribute to the literature on motivations and barriers for stewardship volunteering, and in doing so support the work of environmental stewardship organizations by making recommendations on strategies to increase participation while avoiding the barriers for this type of volunteering. A second, and minor, purpose of the research is to examine theories that relate environmental citizenship and stewardship volunteering. Firsthand knowledge on a variety of aspects of stewardship volunteering was gained through a survey of the volunteers in eleven stewardship groups based in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia. Coordinator interviews provided information that supplemented the survey data. Findings from the study indicate stewardship volunteers are generally not strongly motivated by reasons that one might expect from the general volunteering literature. Instead, stewardship volunteers seem most likely to become involved in their groups’ activities through the ‘big four’ environmental motivators of: i) accomplishment, ii) group solidarity, iii) learning and skills, and iv) personal welfare. Additionally, the volunteers in this study were generally more constrained by personal factors, like feeling unappreciated, than by more practical matters, like difficulty reaching the worksites. Finally, the enjoyment of the activities seems to play a key role in the development of an environmental ethic in hands on stewardship volunteers. Based on the research findings, a number of recommendations are made to stewardship group coordinators and beyond-group supporters, like umbrella organizations and governmental agencies, as well as to the volunteers themselves. The dissertation also contains a list of ‘serendipitous’ findings, an outline of research limitations, and suggestions for future research. This research makes several contributions. The main one is to both the literature and to the ‘on the ground’ management of stewardship volunteers. It is the proposition of the ‘big four’ motivators that may act as the basis for a model of volunteer motivations in an environmental context.
Translation in Language Documentation Archives: Translating cultural terms from endangered languages into languages of wider communication.
Creators: name: Holly Drayton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: language documentation
translation

description: Translation in Language Documentation Archives: Translating cultural terms from endangered languages into languages of wider communication.

Holly Drayton

Presented 5 October 2022 at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities at the Conference Where Do We Need to Go From Here? - Language Documentation and Archiving,  in the UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages
title: Русский феминитив: широкий взгляд
Creators: name: Кобяков, Александр
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Статья посвящена анализу различных способов образования номинаций женщин по профессии и роду деятельности. Автор отмечает узость существующего подхода к определению состава лексической группы феминитивов, когда исследователи рассматривают в качестве таких слов только номинации, образованные путём аффиксальной деривации. В статье затрагивается проблема соответствия получающихся в процессе словообразования феминитивов профессионально-этическим характеристикам. Даётся оценка существующей медиапрактики и распространения различных групп женских номинаций в текстах средств массовой информации. Автор фиксирует различия в подходе разных редакций к оценке существующих словоформ в плане их соответствия профессионально-этическим характеристикам и литературным нормам. В статье доказывается, что задача выражения принадлежности к женскому грамматическому роду решается не только средствами аффиксальной деривации, но и субстантивации и аналитического словообразования, предлагая тем самым широкий взгляд на феминитивы.
Very fast photometric and X-ray observations of the intermediate polar V2069 Cygni (RX J2123.7+4217)
Creators: name: Nasiroglu, I.
name: Słowikowska, A.
name: Kanbach, G.
name: Haberl, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 85-05

description: We present fast timing photometric observations of the intermediate polar V2069 Cygni (RX J2123.7+4217) using the Optical Timing Analyzer (OPTIMA) at the 1.3 m telescope of Skinakas Observatory. The optical (450-950 nm) light curve of V2069 Cygni was measured with sub-second resolution for the first time during July 2009 and revealed a double-peaked pulsation with a period of 743.38 +0.25. A similar double-peaked modulation was found in the simultaneous Swift satellite observations. We suggest that this period represents the spin of the white dwarf accretor. Moreover, we present the results from a detailed analysis of the XMM-Newton observation that also shows a double-peaked modulation, however shifted in phase, with 742.35 +0.23 s period. The X-ray spectra obtained from the XMM-Newton EPIC (European Photon Imaging Camera) instruments were modelled by a plasma emission and a soft black body component with a partial covering photo-electric absorption model with covering fraction of 0.65. An additional Gaussian emission line at 6.385 keV with an equivalent width of 243 eV is required to account for fluorescent emission from neutral iron. The iron fluorescence (~6.4 keV) and FeXXVI lines (~6.95 keV) are clearly resolved in the EPIC spectra. In the Porb-Pspin diagram of IPs, V2069 Cyg shows a low spin to orbit ratio of ~0.0276 in comparison with ~0.1 for other intermediate polars.
description: 11 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables
Clostridium difficile infection susceptibility is controlled by alterations to the gut microbiota before and after antibiotic exposure
Creators: name: Schenck, Louis Patrick
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: clostridium
subject: difficile
subject: parabacteroides
subject: distasonis
subject: mouse vendor
subject: microbiota
subject: Gut Microbiota

description: Clostridium difficile (Cdif) infections (CDI) cause devastating diarrheal disease. Small clinical trials have generated excitement for the use of fecal microbial transplants as a therapeutic option; however, the exact components of the microbiota needed for protection against CDI have remained elusive. C57Bl/6 mice from two vendors, Jackson (JAX) and Charles River (CRV), were exposed to antibiotics before gavage with Cdif spores. JAX mice developed severe CDI as evidenced by weight loss, histological damage, and increased pro-inflammatory cytokines, whereas CRV mice were resistant to CDI. There were significant differences in the gut microbiota between the mice, but CRV mice retained a high abundance of Parabacteroides after antibiotics. Following cohousing, JAX mice had less severe CDI and CRV mice had more severe CDI. Transfer of P. distasonis, a CRV commensal bacteria, was able to dampen effects of CDI in JAX mice. This study may lead to more targeted bacteriotherapy for the treatment and prevention of CDI.