cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effective continuum threshold in dispersive sum rules
Creators: name: Lucha, Wolfgang
name: Melikhov, Dmitri
name: Simula, Silvano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the accuracy of the bound-state parameters obtained with the method of dispersive sum rules, one of the most popular theoretical approaches in nonperturbative QCD and hadron physics. We make use of a quantum-mechanical potential model since it provides the only possibility to probe the reliability and the accuracy of this method: one obtains the bound-state parameters from sum rules and compares these results with the exact values calculated from the Schrödinger equation. We investigate various possibilities to fix the crucial ingredient of the method of sum rules -- the effective continuum threshold -- and propose modifications which lead to a remarkable improvement of the accuracy of the extracted ground-state parameters compared to the standard procedures adopted in the method. Although the rigorous control of systematic uncertainties in the method of sum rules remains unfeasible, the application of the proposed procedures in QCD promises a considerable increase of the actual accuracy of the extracted hadron parameters.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; modified abstract and introduction
Scene Understanding in Pick-and-Place Tasks: Analyzing Transformations Between Initial and Final Scenes
Creators: name: Ghasemi, Seraj
name: Hosseini, Hamed
name: Koosheshi, MohammadHossein
name: Masouleh, Mehdi Tale
name: Kalhor, Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Systems and Control (eess.SY)

description: With robots increasingly collaborating with humans in everyday tasks, it is important to take steps toward robotic systems capable of understanding the environment. This work focuses on scene understanding to detect pick and place tasks given initial and final images from the scene. To this end, a dataset is collected for object detection and pick and place task detection. A YOLOv5 network is subsequently trained to detect the objects in the initial and final scenes. Given the detected objects and their bounding boxes, two methods are proposed to detect the pick and place tasks which transform the initial scene into the final scene. A geometric method is proposed which tracks objects' movements in the two scenes and works based on the intersection of the bounding boxes which moved within scenes. Contrarily, the CNN-based method utilizes a Convolutional Neural Network to classify objects with intersected bounding boxes into 5 classes, showing the spatial relationship between the involved objects. The performed pick and place tasks are then derived from analyzing the experiments with both scenes. Results show that the CNN-based method, using a VGG16 backbone, outscores the geometric method by roughly 12 percentage points in certain scenarios, with an overall success rate of 84.3%.
description: Conference Paper, ICEE 2024, 7 pages, 5 figures
Exploration of Ghana's Older People's Life-Sustaining Needs in the 21st Century and the Way Forward
Creators: name: Delali Adjoa Dovie
name: Ohemeng, Fidelia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Economics

description: This chapter investigates older people's needs in contemporary Ghana using the analyses of quantitative and qualitative data sets. The findings identified eight distinct patterns of needs, namely basic needs, care, and domestic help; sociability, emotional and affective support; information; counseling; spiritual needs, free bus rides, and rights. These needs highlight older adults' social and personal requirements regarding daily living and healthcare in their desire to age with dignity. Their provision may avert problems related to population ageing, including old-age dependency. These needs can be addressed through the following measures. First, the facilitation of the informational needs of older people is attainable through the introduction of initiation for adults and/or older people into the social structure and/or life course. Second, the provision of houses through the mediation of government on behalf of pension contributors, payable in installments. These may ensure appropriate adjustment to life in old age, albeit longevity. The life-sustaining needs of older people have existed since time immemorial. However, these needs are now taking a new dimension in the era of population ageing and increased life expectancy, economic hardships, and weakening extended family support system. We, therefore, argue that these require interventions at both the family and institutional or state levels or formal and informal levels, particularly needs satisfying programs and policies should be instituted by the government in addition to the existing ones.
D2.3 - Report on Data Population
Creators: name: Rakić, Branimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: food safety
big data
standards
certification

description: In the current document we present the progress of the Data Population task of Work Package 2
 of the development of TheFSM platform. A total of three data population reports will be presented
 during the course of the project, this document presenting the first one which focuses on
 methodology, observed data models and the upcoming timeline for the data population task
 within the project.
The Science Case for PILOT I: Summary and Overview
Creators: name: Lawrence, J. S.
name: Ashley, M. C. B.
name: Bailey, J.
name: Navascues, D. Barrado y
name: Bedding, T.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Bond, I.
name: Boulanger, F.
name: Bouwens, R.
name: Bruntt, H.
name: Bunker, A.
name: Burgarella, D.
name: Burton, M. G.
name: Busso, M.
name: Coward, D.
name: Cioni, M. -R.
name: Durand, G.
name: Eiroa, C.
name: Epchtein, N.
name: Gehrels, N.
name: Gillingham, P.
name: Glazebrook, K.
name: Haynes, R.
name: Kiss, L.
name: Lagage, P. O.
name: Bertre, T. Le
name: Mackay, C.
name: Maillard, J. P.
name: McGrath, A.
name: Minier, V.
name: Mora, A.
name: Olsen, K.
name: Persi, P.
name: Pimbblet, K.
name: Quimby, R.
name: Saunders, W.
name: Schmidt, B.
name: Stello, D.
name: Storey, J. W. V.
name: Tinney, C.
name: Tremblin, P.
name: Wheeler, J. C.
name: Yoc, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed 2.5 m optical/infrared telescope to be located at Dome C on the Antarctic plateau. Conditions at Dome C are known to be exceptional for astronomy. The seeing (above ~30 m height), coherence time, and isoplanatic angle are all twice s good as at typical mid-latitude sites, while the water-vapour column, and the atmosphere and telescope thermal emission are all an order of magnitude better. These conditions enable a unique scientific capability for PILOT, which is addressed in this series of papers. The current paper presents an overview of the optical and instrumentation suite for PILO and its expected performance, a summary of the key science goals and observational approach for the facility, a discussion of the synergies between the science goals for PILOT and other telescopes, and a discussion of the future of Antarctic astronomy. Paper II and Paper III present details of the science projects divided, respectively, between the distant Universe (i.e., studies of first light, and the assembly and evolution of structure) and the nearby Universe (i.e., studies of Local Group galaxies, the Milky Way, and the Solar System).
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in PASA
The use of aerial photographs to distinguish between stocking and density of western hemlock stands on the University of British Columbia Research Forest, Haney, B.C.
Creators: name: Chiam, Yeow Chin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Quantitative measures of stand density and stocking are very important because only with full knowledge of the growing stock can a forest be managed efficiently. Stocking is concerned with fraction of area occupied with trees. Density is related to the degree of crowding within the area occupied. These quantitative values are determined by parameters that could be measured on the ground and on aerial photographs. The methods used to estimate height, crown width, and crown closure from aerial photographs are thoroughly described. The writer also describes the stocking and density conditions under which trees grow, with illustrations by both theoretical models and actual sample plot crown models. Forty-seven sets of ground and photo-measurements were taken and analysed by simple and multiple regression methods. A comparison of photo and ground values was then made to evaluate the usefulness of aerial photographs for density and stocking measurements. The correlation of the ratio of height (Ht) to crown width (CW) from the ground and photo data to age, site index, crown closure, basal area, adjusted basal area, crowding factor and adjusted crowding factor were also studied. Eight assumptions regarding normality of density and full stocking were made so that the interrelationship between the individual density and stocking measurements could be studied more effectively. It is concluded that Ht/CW ratios are measurable from aerial photographs and shown that they are useful as a measure of stand density and stocking.
Statistisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Zürich 1907
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Kommissionsverlag Rascher & Co.
Year: 1908
Subjects: subject: 314 Allgemeine Statistiken zu Europa
subject: Amtliche Statistik
subject: Bevölkerungsstatistik
subject: Wirtschaftsstatistik
subject: Baustatistik
subject: Stadtleben
subject: Zürich

description: Die in dieser Ausgabe publizierten Daten beziehen sich zum grössten Teil auf folgenden Zeitabschnitt: 1907
description: Auch der dritte Jahrgang des Statistischen Jahrbuchs der Stadt Zürich erschien wieder später im Jahr. Grund dafür war hauptsächlich der Ausbau der statistischen Umgebung Zürichs. So konnte neu nebst den leer stehenden Wohnungen und der im Bau befindlichen Gebäude nun auch die Handänderungen von Liegenschaften und die Bautätigkeit einbezogen werden. Die Handänderungen konnten sogar für 15 Nachbarorte angegeben werden. Der restliche Inhalt des Jahrbuches wurde ebenfalls erweitert. Neu sind dabei unter anderem die Lebensmittelpreise sowie Informationen zum Strassenbahn- und Seilbahnverkehr. Auch flossen erstmals Angaben von externen Quellen wie zum Beispiel von anderen Amtsstellen und Vereinen mit ein.
Entanglement and Composite Bosons
Creators: name: Chudzicki, Christopher
name: Oke, Olufolajimi
name: Wootters, William K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We build upon work by C. K. Law [Phys. Rev. A 71, 034306 (2005)] to show in general that the entanglement between two fermions largely determines the extent to which the pair behaves like an elementary boson. Specifically, we derive upper and lower bounds on a quantity that governs the bosonic character of a pair of fermions when N such pairs approximately share the same wavefunction. Our bounds depend on the purity of the single-particle density matrix, an indicator of entanglement, and demonstrate that if the entanglement is sufficiently strong, the quantity in question approaches its ideal bosonic value.
description: 10 pages
X-rayLCs: Data and code from Polzin et al. (2023)
Creators: name: Polzin, Ava
name: Margutti, Rafaella
name: Coppejans, Deanne L.
name: Auchettl, Katie
name: Page, Kim L.
name: Vasilopoulos, Georgios
name: Bright, Joe S.
name: Esposito, Paolo
name: Williams, Peter K. G.
name: Mukai, Koji
name: Berger, Edo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: X-ray astronomy
X-ray telescopes
X-ray transient sources
High energy astrophysics
Transient sources
Time domain astronomy

description: Release of data (and code!) from Polzin et al. (2023).

If using data/code included here please cite both Polzin et al. (2023) and this Zenodo DOI. For data, please also cite the original paper (as specified in the accompanying READMEs and Polzin et al.).

Package to view the DLPS and classify light curves is xraydlps, which can be installed via GitHub or PyPI.
Successful Ageing: State of the Art and Criticism
Creators: name: Evseeva, Yaroslava
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This chapter reviews the history of the major ideas of successful ageing, their current state, and criticism. The original concept of successful ageing understood as life satisfaction continuing into later maturity, was developed by Havighurst in the early 1960s. Afterward, it was associated with active, healthy, positive, or productive ageing. For contemporary gerontology, successful ageing was rediscovered in the late 1980s by Rowe and Kahn who regarded it as good physical and mental health as well as social engagement. Today, one can speak of three major trends in the development of ideas of successful ageing. On the one hand, considerable numbers of scientists and specialists around the world in an uncritical way elaborate projects and programs of successful ageing as a useful research and practice framework. On the other hand, over the past two decades, ideas of successful ageing have tended to embrace more than implied in the classical Rowe-Kahn model. For quite a large group of researchers, successful ageing is an umbrella term for a positive world outlook and a respective lifestyle in old age, not limited to one theory and potentially encompassing all older people who are relatively content with themselves and their life, which can be facilitated through altruistic behavior (e.g., volunteering) and spiritual growth (lifelong learning and creativity). Finally, quite influential is the trend that denies the importance of successful ageing and regards it as a reflection of current neoliberal values. This approach is typical of critical gerontological branches, post-Marxist, feminist, postmodern gerontology among them. Authors sharing this view believe that concepts of successful ageing individualize and psychologize ageing and ignore power relations and structural inequalities in society (which do not allow all the population groups to age equally "successfully").
History of Supersymmetric Extensions of the Standard Model
Creators: name: Rodriguez, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recall the many obstacles which seemed, long ago, to prevent supersymmetry from possibly being a fundamental symmetry of Nature. We also present their solutions, leading to the construction of the supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. Finally we discuss briefly the early experimental searches for Supersymmetry.
description: 40 pages, 10 figures, 3 Tables
D2.3 - Report on Data Population
Creators: name: Rakić, Branimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: food safety
big data
standards
certification

description: In the current document we present the progress of the Data Population task of Work Package 2 of the development of TheFSM platform. A total of three data population reports will be presented during the course of the project, this document presenting the first one which focuses on methodology, observed data models and the upcoming timeline for the data population task within the project
The Older Farm Family and Medical Costs
Creators: name: Cowhig, James D.
name: Stewart, Emily O.
name: Cowhig, James D.
name: Stewart, Emily O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1960
Subjects: Financial Economics
Health Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: The primary purpose of the report is to examine the medical expenditures of farm-operator families in which the head of the household was 65 years of age or older, and to determine the social and demographic characteristics associated with expenditures for various types of medical care. The data on which this report is based were obtained in a nation-wide survey conducted in 1956 in which information was obtained on the types of farm-operator family expenditures during the calendar year 1955. Expenditures for medical care are discussed from two perspectives: (1) the proportion of farm-operator families reporting selected types of medical expenditures in 1955, and (2) the average amount of money spent by families reporting such types of medical care.
title: Luftsichel sign in upper lobe collapse
Creators: name: Lima Coelho, Filipa
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chest imaging
subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 65-year-old woman, without relevant background history, was admitted to the emergency department due to recent onset of dyspnea and pleuritic pain. Physical examination was normal. Chest radiograph and computed tomography (CT) scan was then performed.

description: 65 years, female
Comparison of absolute and relative standard errors and estimates of tree volumes
Creators: name: Hejjas, Joseph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A great many kinds and forms of volume equations can be found in any review of the literature on this topic. At least four procedures are available for comparing volume equations to judge which one gives the best estimate of volume. These procedures are evaluated in this thesis for seven volume equation forms: [equation forms omitted] and two new methods are introduced: (l) Taylor's series for estimating errors and (2) sum of absolute deviations. Comparisons of above equations with different procedures were carried out for two species, lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. var. latifolia Engelm.) and white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss.). Merchantable volumes of both species were described by three subsets of data which were grouped according to the following Girard form quotients for 32 foot logs: 1. 80+ 2. 70-79 3. <69. It was found that none of the presently available procedures, including the two new ones, can by itself indicate the best tree volume equation, which led to the conclusion that whenever more than a quick approximation is required, at least two of the methods should be used simultaneously. Both relative and absolute measures of residual variation must be considered. It is concluded that choice of equation form depends very much on the specific requirements of the research or operational project involved.
Analytical results on the Muller's ratchet effect in growing populations
Creators: name: Maia, Leonardo P
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Fontanari et al introduced [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 218101 (2003)] a model for studying the Muller's ratchet phenomenon in growing asexual populations. They studied two situations, either including or not a death probability for each newborn, but were able to find analytical (recursive) expressions only in the no-decay case. In this paper a branching process formalism is used to find recorrence equations that generalize the analytical results of the original paper besides confirming the interesting effects their simulations revealed.
description: accepted in Physical Review E
The Austrian Pension System: History, Development and Today
Creators: name: Stadler, Sabine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Economics

description: The Austrian system for pensions and care is dated back to the monarchy and was established in the year 1848 when the future empire ensured the whole country. In the settlement with Hungary, the Hungarians got their own system, and now there is a guarantee for the wellbeing of older persons in Austria. As most of the people remember, the only introduction was after the First World War in Austria, between 1918 and 1920 the social assurance system was created by persons such as Ferdinand Hanusch or members of the social-democratic party. Now the whole system has three pillars: the assurance of health; the assurance of accidents; and the assurance for older persons and care, which is covering the risks after the age of 60. It was a class-struggle when people go into a pension, but as far as we can see, the development was similar in the whole of Europe. The changes were done after the Second World War when some of the countries became communist regimes, while Austria became a flower of diversity in the systems of social assurances. There were no private assurances, those who existed were plus-payers, so the state allowed the assurance according to professions and qualifications. As we see, the results are different from the communist states of the Warsaw Pact, and this chapter focuses on explaining the social system of today and the changes of it as it is perceived.
Proposition d'une methode de qualification et de selection d'un logiciel d'analyse et de suivi du referencement dans les moteurs de recherche
Creators: name: Bruyere, Sebastien
name: Pillet, Vincent
name: Quoniam, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In order to measure website visibility in search engines, there are softwares for analytics and referencing follow-up. They permit to quantify website's efficacity of referencing and optimize its positionning in search engines. With regard to search engines' algorithms' evolution and centralization of Key Performance Indicators for Marketing decision making, it becomes hard to find solutions to effectively lead a lot of projects for referencing. That's why we have built a methodology in order compare, evaluate and choose a software for analytics and referencing follow-up in search engines.
description: 10 pages, exposed on 5th International Conference "Actualities and Perspectives on Hardware and Software" - APHS2009, Timisoara, Romania
Disordered insulator in an optical lattice
Creators: name: Pasienski, M.
name: McKay, D.
name: White, M.
name: DeMarco, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disorder can profoundly affect the transport properties of a wide range of quantum materials. Presently, there is significant disagreement regarding the effect of disorder on transport in the disordered Bose-Hubbard (DBH) model, which is the paradigm used to theoretically study disorder in strongly correlated bosonic systems. We experimentally realize the DBH model by using optical speckle to introduce precisely known, controllable, and fine-grained disorder to an optical lattice5. Here, by measuring the dissipation strength for transport, we discover a disorder-induced SF-to-insulator (IN) transition in this system, but we find no evidence for an IN-to-SF transition. Emergence of the IN at disorder strengths several hundred times the tunnelling energy agrees with a predicted SF--Bose glass (BG) transition from recent quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) work. Both the SF--IN transition and correlated changes in the atomic quasimomentum distribution--which verify a simple model for the interplay of disorder and interactions in this system--are phenomena new to the unit filling regime explored in this work, compared with the high filling limit probed previously. We find that increasing disorder strength generically leads to greater dissipation in the regime of mixed SF and Mott-insulator (MI) phases, excluding predictions of a disorder-induced, or "re-entrant," SF (RSF). While the absence of an RSF may be explained by the effect of finite temperature, we strongly constrain theories by measuring bounds on the entropy per particle in the disordered lattice.
Bleeding, blistering and observations of the bowel : a comparative analysis of hospital treatment in the mid-nineteenth century
Creators: name: Kamphuis, AR
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Contributions to the extensive array of research on nineteenth-century medical history must surmount stereotyped images by placing emphasis not so much on the achievements of doctors or the acquisition of knowledge, but on the events and issues important to those experiencing life within the institutions ‚Äö- the patients themselves. Using the experiences of patients recorded in medical case histories, this thesis provides a comparison of care provided to inmates both before and after death at three very different nineteenth-century hospitals ‚Äö- the New Norfolk Hospital, located in rural Van Diemen‚ÄövÑvºs Land, the Royal Naval Hospital, set in the isolated location of Bermuda, and St Bartholomew‚ÄövÑvºs Hospital, situated in the bustling metropolis of London. By examining the traditional perceptions of medical institutions and their staff through the filter of inmates‚ÄövÑvº own experiences, it explores the evolving role of the patient in an increasingly medicalised society. Through an examination of the physical environments of each of these institutions, and the methods of diagnosis and treatment utilised within them, this thesis dispels the notion that advancement originated in urban centres of learning and gradually seeped out to colonial peripheries. Indeed, the innovative research and treatment delivered by colonial surgeons in response to the peculiar nature of the convict state demonstrates that patients at New Norfolk Hospital benefited from the practical implementation of developments and advances in medical science which were transforming the wider provision of medical care in the period 1830-1850.
Research on the Development of the Elderly Care Policies in China
Creators: name: Feifan Yang
name: Dawei Gao
name: Haisong Nie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The population ageing of Chinese society is deepening. The elderly care policy is a policy standard formulated by the government to protect the rights and interests of older people in the process of actively coping with the population ageing. It has crucial guiding significance for improving the elderly care services and carrying out pension practice. Since the reform and opening-up , China's elderly care policy system has gone through three stages of initial construction, development, and transformation, showing a development direction from aid to service, from one to multiple, from unique to general. In general, China has primarily formed a complete framework of the elderly care policy system, the rights, and interests of older people have been strongly guaranteed, the elderly care service industry has developed rapidly, and the quality of elderly care service has been effectively improved. However, in the process of policy development, there are still problems such as difficulty in implementing policies, low effectiveness, vague content, and fragmentation of policies. In the future, it is urgent to establish a complete, scientific, reasonable, and effective elderly care policy system. It should further expand the scope of benefits of old-age care policies, promote the coordinated development of the elderly care policies between urban and rural areas and among regions, strengthen the guiding and leading role of the government, and refine policies on personnel training, so as to form a powerful driving force for old-age care.
The effects of charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) on galaxy shape measurements
Creators: name: Rhodes, Jason
name: Leauthaud, Alexie
name: Stoughton, Chris
name: Massey, Richard
name: Dawson, Kyle
name: Kolbe, William
name: Roe, Natalie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We examine the effects of charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) during CCD readout on galaxy shape measurements required by studies of weak gravitational lensing. We simulate a CCD readout with CTI such as that caused by charged particle radiation damage. We verify our simulations on data from laboratory-irradiated CCDs. Only charge traps with time constants of the same order as the time between row transfers during readout affect galaxy shape measurements. We characterize the effects of CTI on various galaxy populations. We baseline our study around p-channel CCDs that have been shown to have charge transfer efficiency up to an order of magnitude better than several models of n-channel CCDs designed for space applications. We predict that for galaxies furthest from the readout registers, bias in the measurement of galaxy shapes, Delta(e), will increase at a rate of 2.65 +/- 0.02 x 10^(-4) per year at L2 for accumulated radiation exposure averaged over the solar cycle. If uncorrected, this will consume the entire shape measurement error budget of a dark energy mission within about 4 years. Software mitigation techniques demonstrated elsewhere can reduce this by a factor of ~10, bringing the effect well below mission requirements. CCDs with higher CTI than the ones we studeied may not meet the requirements of future dark energy missions. We discuss ways in which hardware could be designed to further minimize the impact of CTI.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in PASP
Effect of eyestalk removal on linear growth and water uptake during the molt cycle of the crab, Hemigrapsus nudus (DANA)
Creators: name: Baldwin, Mary Frances
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: When eyestalks are removed from Hemigrapsus nudus at least 10 days before ecdysis, linear growth of the destalked animals, measured as an increase in carapace width after ecdysis, is significantly higher than the linear growth of the unoperated control animals. The amount of water that control and destalked H. nudus absorb during ecdysis (stage E) is not significantly different; however, during early postecdysis the destalked animals show a significantly greater increase in wet weight than the controls. The greater linear growth calculated for destalked animals must be realized during early postecdysis. To investigate one possible mechanism to account for the large increase in wet weight characteristic of destalked animals during postecdysis, total osmotic pressure of the blood was measured throughout the molt cycle for control and destalked animals. The osmotic pressure measured from destalked animals is not significantly different from the measurements of osmotic pressure from control animals during the short period of ecdysis, however determinations of osmotic pressure from destalked animals during pro- and postecdysis are significantly lower than those from control animals. There is postulated a water balance-regulating principle located in the eyestalk which regulates the early postecdysial absorption of water. The absorbent surface of the destalked crab may become more permeable to water just after ecdysis, thus causing an increase in wet weight and an increase in size.
Annual Cotton Quality Survey: Summary of Results of Fiber and Processing Tests from Selected Market Areas, Crop of 1960
Creators: name: Agricultural Marketing Service
name: Agricultural Marketing Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1961
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: This is one of a series of annual reports containing information on fiber characteristics and spinning performance of cotton from all major commercial production areas of the united States. The annual quality surveys are designed to facilitate planned production and orderly marketing of cotton. The data provide farmers and breeders with basic quality information of cottons produced under field conditions, and help cotton merchants and manufacturers locate sources of cotton having fiber characteristics and spinning performance desired for specific end uses. The surveys also provide historical data for use in studying the relationships between various fiber property measurements and processing performance.
Weak lensing signal in Unified Dark Matter models
Creators: name: Camera, Stefano
name: Bertacca, Daniele
name: Diaferio, Antonaldo
name: Bartolo, Nicola
name: Matarrese, Sabino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for studying both the geometry and the dynamics of the Universe. Its power spectrum contains information on the sources emitting photons and on the large--scale structures that these hotons cross. We calculate the weak lensing cosmic convergence and shear power spectra, in linear theory and Limber's approximation, for two different classes of cosmological models: the standard \LambdaCDM and Unified Dark Matter (UDM) models. The latter models attempt to solve the problems of the dark matter in the dynamics of galaxies and galaxy clusters and of the late-time acceleration of the Universe expansion by introducing a scalar field that mimics both dark matter and dark energy. A crucial feature of the UDM models is the speed of sound c_\infty, that is the value of the sound speed at late times, on which structure formation depends. In this paper, we provide the predictions of the UDM models for the weak lensing signal,with various values of c_\infty. We consider both the Cosmic Microwave Background and background galaxies at different redshifts as sources for the weak lensing power spectra. We find that the power spectra in UDM models are more sensitive to the variations of c_\infty for sources located at low redshifts. Moreover, we find that for c_\infty>10^{-3} (in units of the speed of light), the UDM weak lensing convergence power spectrum C^{κκ}(l) for background galaxies is strongly suppressed with respect to the \LambdaCDM spectrum, particularly at small angular scales l\gtrsim100.
description: MNRAS in press; revised according to reviewer's suggestions; 10 pages, 9 figures
Compact gauge K vortices
Creators: name: Adam, C.
name: Klimas, P.
name: Sanchez-Guillen, J.
name: Wereszczynski, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a version of the abelian Higgs model with a non-standard kinetic term (K field theory) in 2+1 dimensions. The existence of vortex type solutions with compact support (topological compactons) is established by a combination of analytical and numerical methods. This result demonstrates that the concept of compact solitons in K field theories can be extended to higher dimensions.
description: 30 pages, 12 figures
From the Lifshitz tail to the quenched survival asymptotics in the trapping problem
Creators: name: Fukushima, Ryoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K37, 60G17, 82D30, 82B44

description: The survival problem for a diffusing particle moving among random traps is considered. We introduce a simple argument to derive the quenched asymptotics of the survival probability from the Lifshitz tail effect for the associated operator. In particular, the upper bound is proved in fairly general settings and is shown to be sharp in the case of the Brownian motion in the Poissonian obstacles. As an application, we derive the quenched asymptotics for the Brownian motion in traps distributed according to a random perturbation of the lattice.
description: 13 pages
Following their lead - Transnational connectivity and mobility along family figurations in displacement
Creators: name: Christ, Simone
name: Isikozlu, Elvan
name: Etzold, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: displaced families
transnational families
family separation
family reunification
humanitarian admission
volunteerism
bureaucracy of asylum
Germany

description: Transnational lives are not the exception but rather a reality of displaced peoples’ everyday lives. This became obvious in our research with refugees in Germany, in which we used a figurational approach to better understand their situation and how they overcome protracted displacement. By focussing on the social constellations in displacement, a figurational approach can offer practitioners a new way to identify how to best support displaced people.
description: TRAFIG Practice Note No. 10
Intimate partner violence : the impact of discourse on a coordinated response
Creators: name: Winter, Rosmarie
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The nature of domestic violence service provision has been changing in recent years as a result of the shift towards criminalisation and multi-agency responses. Tasmania introduced criminal justice legislation and an associated policy framework to address intimate partner violence in 2004 which was recognised as best practice. This thesis provides an Australian context to the international debate on the criminalisation of intimate partner violence. The research demonstrates that professional ideologies and organisational discourses influence the implementation of multi-agency responses to intimate partner violence. Using a grounded theory approach with semi-structured interviews and field observations, I explore the discourses employed by police, the legal fraternity and victim advocates to identify three major categories. These are the 'justice' discourse; the 'risk management' discourse; and the 'genuine victim' discourse. This research introduces the work of Hajer into sociology and criminology via an exploration of Hajer's concepts of discourse institutionalisation and discourse coalitions. The contribution of this thesis to the literature is the demonstration that discursive and material practices around justice, risk management and victimisation both converge and diverge to a degree between the government agencies involved in a particular discourse coalition; providing insights on the way in which agents construct the cultural conditions that support or countervail an attempt to manifest widespread social change through legislation. While both the justice discourse and the risk management discourse satisfy the conditions for discourse institutionalisation, the power of the genuine victim is more subtle and rhizomatic and it achieves significant influence through its insinuation into the other two discourses, effectively providing a gatekeeping mechanism for access to justice. In addition to the findings around discourse, the research has also highlighted issues relating to the implementation of Tasmania's Safe at Home policy. The results suggest that the risk framework as practiced by Tasmania police is not universally accepted by all members of the policy network around intimate partner violence. Furthermore, the way in which victims are constructed by police and legal professionals in combination with additional ideological discourses around evidence and legal processes may in fact compromise victim safety.
Small Numbers of Vortices in Anisotropic Traps
Creators: name: McEndoo, S.
name: Busch, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the appearance of vortices and vortex lattices in two-dimensional, anisotropic and rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. Once the anisotropy reaches a critical value, the positions of the vortex cores in the ground state are no longer given by an Abrikosov lattice geometry, but by a linear arrangement. Using a variational approach, we determine the critical stirring frequency for a single vortex as well as the equilibrium positions of a small number of vortices.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Adjuvant music therapy for patients with hypertension: a meta-analysis and systematic review
Creators: name: Cao, Min
name: Zhang, Zhiyuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health
Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary 1. PubMed search strategy table
Farm Production: Trends, Prospects, and Programs
Creators: name: Farm Economics Research Division, Agricultural Research Service
name: Farm Economics Research Division, Agricultural Research Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1961
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: Excerpts from the report Preface: This report gives a broad view of the current situation in agricultural production and the prospects for the 1960's. It discusses such questions as: What is the present production situation? What are the origins of the present situation? What are the production prospects in the decade ahead? What have we tried to do about our production and how well have our actions worked? What alternative courses of action should be considered? In attempting to foresee the farm environment in the next decade, we need first to appraise the current situation in the light of major trends and in terms of its underlying causes. In this report, primary emphasis is on production prospects and programs; available information on the demand phase of the farm problem has been marshalled as a general background against which to examine production changes and prospects. Production is emphasized because, apparently, farm production has outrun the ability of expanding markets to absorb farm products.
Curved manifolds with conserved Runge-Lenz vectors
Creators: name: Ngome, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: van Holten's algorithm is used to construct Runge-Lenz-type conserved quantities, induced by Killing tensors, on curved manifolds. For the generalized Taub-NUT metric, the most general external potential such that the combined system admits a conserved Runge-Lenz-type vector is found. In the multi-center case, the subclass of two-center metric exhibits a conserved Runge-Lenz-type scalar.
description: 20 pages
Gaugino mass in AdS space
Creators: name: Gripaios, Ben
name: Kim, Hyung Do
name: Rattazzi, Riccardo
name: Redi, Michele
name: Scrucca, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study supersymmetric QED in AdS4 with massless matter. At 1-loop the ultra-violet regulator of the theory generates a contribution to the gaugino mass that is naively inconsistent with unbroken supersymmetry. We show that this effect, known in flat space as anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking, is required to cancel an infra-red contribution arising from the boundary conditions in AdS space, which necessarily break chiral symmetry. We also discuss an analogous UV/IR cancellation that is independent of supersymmetry.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure
Abducted in Iraq: A Priest in Baghdad
Creators: name: Hanna, Saad Sirop
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: \u000aHow do we respond in the face of evil, especially to those who inflict grave evil upon us? _Abducted in Iraq_ is Bishop Saad Sirop Hanna's firsthand account of his abduction in 2006 by a militant group associated with al-Qaeda. As a young parish priest and visiting lecturer on philosophy at Babel College near Baghdad, Fr. Hanna was kidnapped after celebrating Mass on August 15 and released on September 11. Hanna's plight attracted international attention after Pope Benedict XVI requested prayers for the safe return of the young priest.\u000a \u000aThe book charts Hanna's twenty-eight days in captivity as he struggles through threats, torture, and the unknown to piece together what little information he has in a bid for survival. Throughout this time, he questions what a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq means for the future, as well as the events that lead the country on that path. Through extreme hardship, the young priest gains a greater knowledge both of his faith and of remaining true to himself.\u000a \u000aThis riveting narrative reflects the experience of persecuted Christians all over the world today, especially the plight of Iraqi Christians who continue to live and hold their faith against tremendous odds, and it sheds light on the complex political and spiritual situation that Catholics face in predominantly non-Christian nations. More than just a personal story, _Abducted in Iraq_ is also Hanna's portrayal of what has happened to the ancient churches of one of the oldest Christian communities and how the West's reaction and inaction have affected Iraqi Christians. More than just a story of one man, it is also the story of a suffering and persecuted people. As such, this book will be of great interest to those wanting to learn more about the violence in the Middle East and the threats facing Christians there, as well all those seeking to strengthen their own faith.\u000a
Magnetization switching driven by spin-transfer-torque in high-TMR magnetic tunnel junctions
Creators: name: Aurelio, D.
name: Torres, L.
name: Finocchio, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes a numerical experiment of magnetization switching driven by spin-polarized current in high-TMR magnetic tunnel junctions (TMR>100%). Differently from other works, the current density distribution throughout the cross-sectional area of the free-layer is here computed dinamically, by modeling the ferromagnet/insulator/ferromagnet trilayer as a series of parallel resistances. The validity of the main postulated hypothesis, which states that the current density vector is perpendicular to the sample plane, has been verified by numerically solving the Poisson equation. Our results show that the nonuniform current density distribution is a source of asymmetry for the switching. Furthermore, we found out that the switching processes are characterized by well defined localized pre-switching oscillation modes.
description: 19 pages and 8 figures, submmitted to JMMM