cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"Embedding Innovation in State Systems: Lessons from Pratham in India"
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Bano, Masooda
name: Oberoi, Zeena
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This paper studies Pratham's intervention in India to understand what factors facilitate adoption of NGO-led innovations by senior bureaucracy and political elites; and how to incentivise district-level field staff and school principals and teachers to implement such innovations.
From Galaxy Clusters to Ultra-Faint Dwarf Spheroidals: A Fundamental Curve Connecting Dispersion-supported Galaxies to Their Dark Matter Halos
Creators: name: Tollerud, Erik J.
name: Bullock, James S.
name: Graves, Genevieve J.
name: Wolf, Joe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine scaling relations of dispersion-supported galaxies over more than eight orders of magnitude in luminosity by transforming standard fundamental plane parameters into a space of mass (M1/2), radius (r1/2), and luminosity (L1/2). We find that from ultra-faint dwarf spheroidals to giant cluster spheroids, dispersion-supported galaxies scatter about a one-dimensional "fundamental curve" through this MRL space. The weakness of the M1/2-L1/2 slope on the faint end may imply that potential well depth limits galaxy formation in small galaxies, while the stronger dependence on L1/2 on the bright end suggests that baryonic physics limits galaxy formation in massive galaxies. The mass-radius projection of this curve can be compared to median dark matter halo mass profiles of LCDM halos in order to construct a virial mass-luminosity relationship (Mvir-L) for galaxies that spans seven orders of magnitude in Mvir. Independent of any global abundance or clustering information, we find that (spheroidal) galaxy formation needs to be most efficient in halos of Mvir ~ 10^12 Msun and to become inefficient above and below this scale. Moreover, this profile matching technique is most accurate at the high and low luminosity extremes (where dark matter fractions are highest) and is therefore quite complementary to statistical approaches that rely on having a well-sampled luminosity function. We also consider the significance and utility of the scatter about this relation, and find that in the dSph regime observational errors are almost at the point where we can explore the intrinsic scatter in the luminosity-virial mass relation. Finally, we note that purely stellar systems like Globular Clusters and Ultra Compact Dwarfs do not follow the fundamental curve relation. This allows them to be easily distinguished from dark-matter dominated dSph galaxies in MRL space. (abridged)
description: 27 pages, 18 figures, ApJ accepted. High-res movies of 3D figures are available at http://www.physics.uci.edu/~bullock/fcurve/movies.html
Estimating river sediment discharge in the upper Mississippi river using landsat imagery
Creators: name: Flores, Jonathan Acero
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023

description: Excessive sediment transport adversely affects the hydrologic regime and water quality
description: of a river and its drainage basin. With the decline of operational gauges monitoring sediments,
description: establishing viable means of quantifying sediment transport is pressingly needed. In this study, I
description: developed an alternative approach to address this issue where I applied the relationships between
description: hydraulic geometry of river channels, river discharge, water-leaving surface reflectance (SR), and
description: suspended sediment concentration (SSC) to quantify sediment discharge with the aid of spacebased observations. I investigated the approach with nine USGS gauging stations along the
description: Upper Mississippi River — an important river system comprising almost half of the entire
description: Mississippi River. I took advantage of the use of recent advances in remote sensing such as
description: RivWidthCloud, Bayesian discharge inference coupled with at-many-stations hydraulic
description: geometry (AMHG), and SSC-SR retrieval models.
description: I examined 5,490 Landsat scenes to estimate the water discharge, SSC levels, and
description: sediment discharge at nine locations along the Upper Mississippi River. Results showed that
description: RivWidthCloud can be effectively used for Bayesian-AMHG discharge inference while the relationships between the SSC and Landsat SR are statistically significant at significance level α
description: = 0.01 for all the study sites except in Clinton, IA. Acceptable gauge-specific SSC-SR model was
description: obtained in the downstream having coefficients of determination R
description: 2
description: > 0.50. Similarly, acceptable
description: regional-scale model was developed with R
description: 2
description: = 0.50. Further, results suggest that the three study
description: sites at St. Louis, MO, Chester, IL, and Thebes, IL, in the downstream portion of the river, were
description: the best locations for Q and SSC estimation with Landsat imagery. Estimations of Q were
description: sensitive to the center of Q prior, which induces bias when inadequately estimated. Relatively,
description: estimations of SSC were likely influenced by low reflectance of sediments during low flows due
description: to chlorophyll and algae mixing in the water column. Lastly, I established in this study that
description: combining the discharge and SSC retrieval from Landsat imagery can yield reasonable sediment
description: discharge estimates having an average relative bias of 0.23, RRMSE of 0.95, and NSE of 0.40 for
description: certain river segments in the Upper Mississippi River.
Pulsar Outer-gap Electrodynamics: Hardening of Spectral Shape in the Trailing Peak in Gamma-ray Light Curve
Creators: name: Hirotani, Kouichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectral characteristics of the pulsed gamma-ray emission from outer-magnetospheric particle accelerators are investigated. Either positrons or electrons are accelerated outwards by the magnetic-field-aligned electric field to emit gamma-rays via curvature process. Since the particles move along relatively straight paths in the trailing side of a rotating magnetosphere, they attain higher Lorentz factors to emit more energetic gamma-rays than those in the leading side. It is first demonstrated that the cutoff energy of the curvature radiation evolves with the rotation phase owing to the variation of the curvature radii of the particle paths and maximizes at a slightly later phase of the trailing peak in the gamma-ray light curve.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, ApJ Letters in press
Complex Networks: effect of subtle changes in nature of randomness
Creators: name: Goswami, Sanchari
name: Biswas, Soham
name: Sen, Parongama
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In two different classes of network models, namely, the Watts Strogatz type and the Euclidean type, subtle changes have been introduced in the randomness. In the Watts Strogatz type network, rewiring has been done in different ways and although the qualitative results remain same, finite differences in the exponents are observed. In the Euclidean type networks, where at least one finite phase transition occurs, two models differing in a similar way have been considered. The results show a possible shift in one of the phase transition points but no change in the values of the exponents. The WS and Euclidean type models are equivalent for extreme values of the parameters; we compare their behaviour for intermediate values.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures, to be published in Physica A
Aharonov-Bohm effect in relativistic and nonrelativistic 2D electron gas: a comparative study
Creators: name: Slobodeniuk, A. O.
name: Sharapov, S. G.
name: Loktev, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a comparative study of electronic properties of 2D electron gas (2DEG) in a magnetic field of an infinitesimally thin solenoid with relativistic dispersion as in graphene and quadratic dispersion as in semiconducting heterostructures. The problem of ambiguity of the zero mode solutions of the Dirac equation is treated by considering of a finite radius flux tube which allows to select unique solutions associated with each $\mathbf{K}$ point of graphene's Brillouin zone. Then this radius is allowed to go to zero. On the base of the obtained in this case analytical solutions in the Aharonov-Bohm potential the local and total density of states (DOS) are calculated. It is shown that in the case of graphene there is an excess of LDOS near the vortex, while in 2DEG the LDOS is depleted. This results in excess of the induced by the vortex DOS in graphene and in its depletion in 2DEG. We discuss the application of the results for the local density of states for the scanning tunneling spectroscopy done on graphene.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures; final version published in PRB
Recursive algorithm and branching for nonmaximal embeddings
Creators: name: Lyakhovsky, Vladimir
name: Nazarov, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B67 (Primary) 17B10 (Secondary)

description: Recurrent relations for branching coefficients in affine Lie algebras integrable highest weight modules are studied. The decomposition algorithm based on the injection fan technique is developed for the case of an arbitrary reductive subalgebra. In particular we consider the situation where the Weyl denominator becomes singular with respect to the subalgebra. We demonstrate that for any reductive subalgebra it is possible to define the injection fan and the analogue of the Weyl numerator - the tools that describe explicitly the recurrent properties of branching coefficients. Possible applications of the fan technique in CFT models are considered.
description: LaTeX, 23 pages, 13 figures, section 2 is clarified, new lemma and theorem are introduced, figures are improved, submitted to Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Investigating item parameter drift across computer- and paper-based assessment modes in pisa 2015 mathematics
Creators: name: Ceylan, Mehriban
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022

description: International large-scale assessments (LSAs) are important for educational comparisons
description: among the countries. Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an effective
description: international LSA. It assesses educational changes by country every three years since 2000. The
description: results inform policy makers about the development of 15-year-old students’ performance in
description: reading, mathematics, and science literacy. The validity of the test scores has gained more attention
description: in PISA 2015, because it included a transition from paper-based assessment (PBA) to computerbased assessment (CBA) in most countries. In order to make valid comparisons, an essential task
description: is to ensure measurement and test score equivalence between assessment modes. This study
description: investigated the item parameter drift (IPD) across the two assessment modes in the PISA 2015
description: mathematics test. The data consist of all participant students from PISA 2015 participating
description: countries and their responses to the 81 mathematics items administered via both assessment modes.
description: The analyses were performed using the iterative hybrid ordinal-logistic regression-IRT (OLR/IRT)
description: method.
description: The chi-square from the Likelihood ratio test, ∆β, and ∆R
description: 2
description: criteria flagged as IPD items
description: and IPD forms. Based on the chi-square significance value, flagged 70 out 81 items uniform IPD, and 60 out of 81 items had non-uniform IPD. With the ∆β criterion, three dichotomous items out
description: of 81 mathematics revealed uniform IPD across the assessment modes. The ∆R
description: 2
description: criteria did not
description: flag any item as an IPD item. These results revealed that assessment mode is one of the reasons
description: for IPD, which need to be considered in detail for the LSAs implementation process. The findings
description: indicate potential reasons of a reduced validity in test score interpretation with regarding to
description: assessment modes. The study provides useful information to consider for the item parameter
description: invariance when transition occurs between assessment modes. It suggests that item types and item
description: content domains should be considered while making transition of assessment modes.
description: Key Words: Item-parameter drift, Validity, Computer-based assessment, Paper-based
description: assessment, International large-scale assessments, PISA
Optimal solutions to matrix-valued Nehari problems and related limit theorems
Creators: name: Frazho, A. E.
name: ter Horst, S.
name: Kaashoek, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A57, 47B35 (Primary) 93B15, 93B36 (Secondary)

description: In a 1990 paper Helton and Young showed that under certain conditions the optimal solution of the Nehari problem corresponding to a finite rank Hankel operator with scalar entries can be efficiently approximated by certain functions defined in terms of finite dimensional restrictions of the Hankel operator. In this paper it is shown that these approximants appear as optimal solutions to restricted Nehari problems. The latter problems can be solved using relaxed commutant lifting theory. This observation is used to extent the Helton and Young approximation result to a matrix-valued setting. As in the Helton and Young paper the rate of convergence depends on the choice of the initial space in the approximation scheme.
description: 22 pages
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title: Application for analysis of the effectiveness of advertising
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Year: 2023
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dispersion analysis
marketing
analysis module
application for analysis of the effectiveness of advertising
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description: Ð¢ÐµÐ¼Ð° Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ: Â«ÐÐ¾Ð´ÑÐ»Ñ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð° Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð¾ÑÐµÐ½ÐºÐ¸ ÑÑÑÐµÐºÑÐ¸Ð²Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ ÑÐµÐºÐ»Ð°Ð¼ÑÂ».Ð¦ÐµÐ»Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ Ð·Ð°ÐºÐ»ÑÑÐ°Ð»Ð°ÑÑ Ð² ÑÐ¾Ð·Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð¸ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÑÐ»Ñ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð° Ð´Ð»Ñ ÑÐ²ÐµÐ»Ð¸ÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÑÑÐµÐºÑÐ¸Ð²Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ ÑÐµÐºÐ»Ð°Ð¼Ñ, Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ»ÐµÐ´ÑÑÑÐ¸Ð¼ Ð²Ð½ÐµÐ´ÑÐµÐ½Ð¸ÐµÐ¼ Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÑÐ»Ñ Ð² ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð¾ÑÐ³Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð¸ÐÐ°Ð´Ð°ÑÐ¸, ÑÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð½ÑÐµ Ð² ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐµ:ÐÐ·ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¾Ð² ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð°.ÐÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð° Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½ÑÑ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¾Ð² Ð¸ Ð²ÑÐ±Ð¾Ñ Ð½Ð°Ð¸Ð±Ð¾Ð»ÐµÐµ Ð¿Ð¾Ð´ÑÐ¾Ð´ÑÑÐµÐ³Ð¾ÐÐ±Ð¾Ð·Ð½Ð°ÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½ÑÑ ÑÑÐµÐ±Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð¹ Ðº Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸ÑÐ Ð°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐºÐ° Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸Ð¿Ð° Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¸ ÐµÐ³Ð¾ Ð°Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð°ÑÐ¸Ñ.ÐÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð±ÑÐ»Ð¾ ÑÐ°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°Ð½Ð¾ Ð½Ð° ÑÐ·ÑÐºÐµ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð³ÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¼Ð¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Java, ÑÐ°Ðº ÐºÐ°Ðº Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½ÑÐ¹ ÑÐ·ÑÐº Ð½Ð°Ð¸Ð±Ð¾Ð»ÐµÐµ ÑÐ¾Ð¾ÑÐ²ÐµÑÑÑÐ²Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð» Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð½ÑÐ¼ Ð·Ð°Ð´Ð°ÑÐ°Ð¼. ÐÐ»Ñ ÑÐµÐ´Ð°ÐºÑÐ¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ°Ð¹Ð»Ð¾Ð² ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ° FXML Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÐ·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð»Ð¾ÑÑ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð³ÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¼Ð½Ð¾Ðµ Ð¾Ð±ÐµÑÐ¿ÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Scene Builder.ÐÑÐ°ÐºÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð·Ð½Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð¼Ð¾ÑÑÑ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÑÐµÑÑÑ Ð²Ð¾Ð·Ð¼Ð¾Ð¶Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÑÑ Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐµÐ°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¼Ð°ÑÐºÐµÑÐ¾Ð»Ð¾Ð³Ð°Ð¼Ð¸ Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð²ÑÐ±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð½Ð°Ð¸Ð±Ð¾Ð»ÐµÐµ ÑÐ´Ð°ÑÐ½ÑÑ ÑÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾ ÑÐµÐ°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð¸ ÑÐµÐºÐ»Ð°Ð¼Ñ.
description: The topic of the final qualifying work: âApplication for analysis of the effectiveness of advertisingâThe purpose of this work is to create an application for analysis the effectiveness of advertising.Tasks solved in the work:1. Statistical analysis methods were scrutinized2. The most useful (for our purpose) analysis method was detected3. The technologies and tools used to create the application have been studied4. An application has been developed that fulfills all the conditions set.The application was developed in the Javaprogramming languagesince this language most corresponded to the tasks set. Scene Builder software was used to edit XML format files.The practical significance of the work is determined by the possibility of using the implemented application by marketers to analyze the effectiveness of advertising.
Isospin mixing in the vicinity of the N=Z line
Creators: name: Satula, W.
name: Dobaczewski, J.
name: Nazarewicz, W.
name: Borucki, M.
name: Rafalski, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the isospin- and angular-momentum-projected nuclear density functional theory (DFT) and its applications to the isospin-breaking corrections to the superallowed beta-decay rates in the vicinity of the N=Z line. A preliminary value obtained for the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element, |V_{ud}|=0.97463(24), agrees well with the recent estimate by Towner and Hardy [Phys. Rev. C{\bf 77}, 025501 (2008)]. We also discuss new opportunities to study the symmetry energy by using the isospin-projected DFT.
description: Presented at the 17th Nuclear Physics Conference "Maria & Pierre Curie" on "Symmetry and symmetry breaking in nuclear physics", Kazimierz Dolny, 22-25 September, 2010, Poland
Finance in Compact
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Hwa, Yue-Yi
name: Spivack, Marla
name: Belafi, Carmen
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This page states that financing can be incoherent with other elements of the education system and argues that the magnitude of finance is inadequate for delegated tasks and that tied financing leads to a focus on tangible, measurable and mostly quantifiable goals and little to no space for goals that are harder to measure but still crucial for overall success
Re-mapping Mansfield Park: decolonizing nineteenth-century British canonical fiction through digital visualization tools
Creators: name: IDRIS, NAZUA
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022

description: In “Decolonizing the Digital Humanities in Theory and Practice,” Roopika Risam prompts
description: the DH practitioners to use digital tools to deconstruct Western epistemological structures, recover
description: the data hidden or silenced by those structures, re-centralize the marginalized narratives, and create
description: counter-narratives that challenge the existing forms of misrepresentation. Echoing Risam, I argue
description: that digital tools can open up alternative ways of representing and teaching canonical literature to
description: help students understand more covert forms of colonial structure sustained by the ways canonical
description: texts are circulated, perceived, and taught. My thesis presents a Scalar project currently in
description: development, titled Re-Mapping Mansfield Park: In Search of the Silenced Spaces of Slave
description: History, as well as provides a critical analysis of its development. The project re-frames Jane
description: Austen’s novel Mansfield Park by developing an alternative story universe that juxtaposes
description: Austen’s story and parallel historical incidents in the nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Using
description: this project as an example, I argue how technologically-enhanced critical frameworks contribute
description: to enhancing the experience of reading canonical texts, while providing new directions in
description: understanding these texts as part of global historical process. I also demonstrate the findings of a study that I conducted at Washington State University to test the potential of my project as a
description: decolonial pedagogical tool.
Foundational Skills
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Hwa, Yue-Yi
name: Amstrup, Alexander
name: Spivack, Marla
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This paper discusses the importance of foundational skills (literacy and numeracy) and analyses universal, early, conceptual and procedural mastery of these skills in the context of the learning crisis stating that the overwhelming majority of children in the world attend schooling, but large proportions of these children do not receive a quality of education that equips them with even the most foundational literacy and numeracy skills.
Deliverable D-IA.2.2.OH-Harmony-Cap.3.1, Technical Report: Sampling and testing of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), Cryptosporidium and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Salmonella and Campylobacter spp. in the European Union
Creators: name: Bolton, Declan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: OH-Harmony-Cap, technical report, sampling and testing

description: This is a public deliverable of One Health EJP Joint Research Project, Integrative Action-2.2, OH-HARMONY-CAP: One Health Harmonisation of Protocols for the Detection of Foodborne Pathogens and AMR Determinants. https://onehealthejp.eu/jip-oh-harmony-cap/. This document, the first in a series of three reports, covers ‘sampling and testing’ procedures for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), Cryptosporidium spp. and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Salmonella spp. and Campylobacter spp. in the EU. Future reports will cover ‘characterisation’ and ‘data management and harmonised reporting’. The report is divided in sections covering each of the target microorganisms with subsections on current practices, best practices, detection methods and the latest sampling technological developments. The information provided on current practices is based on the responses to a questionnaire completed by European public health, veterinary and food testing institutions and National Reference Laboratories reached via the European Union Reference Laboratory (EURL), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Zoonoses networks, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Food and Waterborne diseases network, among others. The other sections were prepared by experts in the respective areas, with reference to the peer reviewed and other relevant technical literature.
description: Other contributors: Prof. Annemarie Kaesbohrer, Dr. Rosangela Tozzoli, Dr. Nadia Boisen, Dr. Flemming Scheutz, Dr. Hugo Guedes, Dr. Mónica Oleastro, Dr. Pikka Jokelainen, Dr. Karin Troell, Dr. Tryntsje Cuperus, Dr. Leonor Silveira, Dr. Miranda Kirchner, Catarina Flink, Dr. Gro Johannessen, Dr. Angela Pista, Dr. Angela van Hoeck, Dr. Robert Soderlund, Dr. C. Rune Stensvold, Dr. Jacinto Gomes & Dr. Marco Lalle. Collaboration with One Health EJP JRP PARADISE and EFSA project IMPACT.
Infinity in computable probability
Creators: name: McKubre-Jordens, Maarten
name: Wilson, Phillip L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Does combining a finite collection of objects infinitely many times guarantee the construction of a particular object? Here we use recursive function theory to examine the popular scenario of an infinite collection of typing monkeys reproducing the works of Shakespeare. Our main result is to show that it is possible to assign typing probabilities in such a way that while it is impossible that no monkey reproduces Shakespeare's works, the probability of any finite collection of monkeys doing so is arbitrarily small. We extend our results to target-free writing, and end with a broad discussion and pointers to future work.
Stability of Calabi flow near an extremal metric
Creators: name: Huang, Hongnian
name: Zheng, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that on a Kähler manifold admitting an extremal metric $ω$ and for any Kähler potential $φ_0$ close to $ω$, the Calabi flow starting at $φ_0$ exists for all time and the modified Calabi flow starting at $φ_0$ will always be close to $ω$. Furthermore, when the initial data is invariant under the maximal compact subgroup of the identity component of the reduced automorphism group, the modified Calabi flow converges to an extremal metric near $ω$ exponentially fast.
description: Improved presentation
Modeling the Time Variability of SDSS Stripe 82 Quasars as a Damped Random Walk
Creators: name: MacLeod, C. L.
name: Ivezić, Ž.
name: Kochanek, C. S.
name: Kozłowski, S.
name: Kelly, B. C.
name: Bullock, E.
name: Kimball, A.
name: Sesar, B.
name: Westman, D.
name: Brooks, K.
name: Gibson, R.
name: Becker, A. C.
name: de Vries, W. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the time variability of ~9,000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars in SDSS Stripe 82 as a damped random walk. Using 2.7 million photometric measurements collected over 10 years, we confirm the results of Kelly et al. (2009) and Kozłowski et al. (2010) that this model can explain quasar light curves at an impressive fidelity level (0.01-0.02 mag). The damped random walk model provides a simple, fast [O(N) for N data points], and powerful statistical description of quasar light curves by a characteristic time scale (tau) and an asymptotic rms variability on long time scales (SF_inf). We searched for correlations between these two variability parameters and physical parameters such as luminosity and black hole mass, and rest-frame wavelength. We find that tau increases with increasing wavelength with a power law index of 0.17, remains nearly constant with redshift and luminosity, and increases with increasing black hole mass with power law index of 0.21+/-0.07. The amplitude of variability is anti-correlated with the Eddington ratio, which suggests a scenario where optical fluctuations are tied to variations in the accretion rate. The radio-loudest quasars have systematically larger variability amplitudes by about 30%, when corrected for the other observed trends, while the distribution of their characteristic time scale is indistinguishable from that of the full sample. We do not detect any statistically robust differences in the characteristic time scale and variability amplitude between the full sample and the small subsample of quasars detected by ROSAT. Our results provide a simple quantitative framework for generating mock quasar light curves, such as currently used in LSST image simulations. (abridged)
description: 39 pages, accepted to ApJ
Ribbon drawing in VR : brushes and applications
Creators: name: Rosales Ruiz, Enrique Alberto
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Virtual reality drawing applications let users draw 3D shapes using brushes that form ribbon-shaped, or ruled-surface, strokes. Each ribbon is uniquely defined by its user-specified ruling length, path, and the ruling directions at each point along this path. A collection of these virtual ribbons with proper normal orientations can communicate complex surfaces; thus, artists frequently describe their envisioned 3D surfaces by drawing dense brush strokes that cover the surface of the intended shapes. In this thesis, we analyze these ribbon brushes, and propose ways to expand the scope of their applications and improve their usability. Currently, the practical use of these drawings is limited since most geometry processing algorithms and downstream applications such as 3D printing require manifold meshes. Furthermore, existing brushes use the trajectory of a handheld controller in 3D space as the ribbon path, and compute the ruling directions using a fixed mapping from a specific controller coordinate-frame axis. This fixed mapping requires users to rotate the controller and thus their wrists to change ribbon normal or ruling directions, which requires substantial physical effort to draw even medium complexity ribbons. As people have limited ability to rotate their wrists continuously, the range of ribbon geometries they can comfortably draw with these brushes is limited. We solve these problems by first developing SurfaceBrush, a surfacing method that converts such VR drawings into user-intended manifold free-form 3D surfaces. We then present AdaptiBrush, a ribbon brush system that dramatically extends the space of ribbon geometries users can comfortably draw while enabling them to accurately predict the ribbon shape that a given hand motion produces. Our work expands the range of applications of VR drawing and makes VR drawing a viable alternative to 3D modeling for inexperienced users.
A new analysis strategy for detection of faint gamma-ray sources with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
Creators: name: Becherini, Yvonne
name: Djannati-Ataï, Arache
name: Marandon, Vincent
name: Punch, Michael
name: Pita, Santiago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new background rejection strategy for gamma-ray astrophysics with stereoscopic Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT), based on Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and real background data from the H.E.S.S. [High Energy Stereoscopic System, see [1].] experiment, is described. The analysis is based on a multivariate combination of both previously-known and newly-derived discriminant variables using the physical shower properties, as well as its multiple images, for a total of eight variables. Two of these new variables are defined thanks to a new energy evaluation procedure, which is also presented here. The method allows an enhanced sensitivity with the current generation of ground-based Cherenkov telescopes to be achieved, and at the same time its main features of rapidity and flexibility allow an easy generalization to any type of IACT. The robustness against Night Sky Background (NSB) variations of this approach is tested with MC simulated events. The overall consistency of the analysis chain has been checked by comparison of the real gamma-ray signal obtained from H.E.S.S. observations with MC simulations and through reconstruction of known source spectra. Finally, the performance has been evaluated by application to faint H.E.S.S. sources. The gain in sensitivity as compared to the best standard Hillas analysis ranges approximately from 1.2 to 1.8 depending on the source characteristics, which corresponds to an economy in observation time of a factor 1.4 to 3.2.
description: 26 pages, 13 figures
"From Cheating to Learning"
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Berkhout, Emilie
name: Pradhan, Menno
name: Rahmawati
name: Suryadarma, Daniel
name: Swarnata, Arya
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This page summarizes the findings of the researchers regarding the impact of computer-based testing (CBT) on national exams in Indonesia. The paper shows that CBT enabled a shift in local norms that cause transitions from a cheating to a learning culture.
Girls in education systems
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Panzer, Taylor
name: Hwa, Yue-Yi
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This paper explores gender inequality in schooling and compares it with the global learning gaps, by analysing the specific challenges faced by girls in low- and middle-income and their impact.
Density slope of the nuclear symmetry energy from the neutron skin thickness of heavy nuclei
Creators: name: Chen, Lie-Wen
name: Ko, Che Ming
name: Li, Bao-An
name: Xu, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Expressing explicitly the parameters of the standard Skyrme interaction in terms of the macroscopic properties of asymmetric nuclear matter, we show in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach that unambiguous correlations exist between observables of finite nuclei and nuclear matter properties. We find that existing data on neutron skin thickness $Δr_{np}$ of Sn isotopes give an important constraint on the symmetry energy $E_{sym}({ρ_{0}})$ and its density slope $L$ at saturation density ${ρ_{0}}$. Combining these constraints with those from recent analyses of isospin diffusion and double neutron/proton ratio in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies leads to a more stringent limit on $L$ approximately independent of $E_{sym}({ρ_{0}})$. The implication of these new constraints on the $Δr_{np}$ of $^{208}$Pb as well as the core-crust transition density and pressure in neutron stars is discussed.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Significantly expanded to include a number of details and discussions. Title shortened. Accepted version to appear in PRC
Tunnelling matrix elements with antiferromagnetic Gutzwiller wave functions
Creators: name: Di Ciolo, Andrea
name: Tocchio, Luca F.
name: Gros, Claudius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a generalized Gutzwiller Approximation (GA) elaborated to evaluate matrix elements with partially projected wave functions and formerly applied to homogeneous systems. In the present paper we consider projected single-particle (hole) excitations for electronic systems with antiferromagnetic (AFM) order and obtain the corresponding tunnelling probabilities. The accuracy and the reliability of our analytical approximation is tested using the Variational Monte Carlo (VMC). Possible comparisons with experimental results are also discussed.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
title: Indigenous risk perceptions and land-use in Yellowknife, NT
Creators: name: Degray, Amanda
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: For over 50 years, industrial gold mining in Wı̨ìlı̨ìcheh polluted and poisoned Dene bodies and lands with seemingly no care or concern for the First Nation’s subsistence lifestyles, spiritual, or cultural practices. This thesis captures the voices, experiences, and memories of the Yellowknives Dene related to the legacy effects of industrial mining on their traditional territory. By intersecting the literatures of environmental justice, settler colonialism, and risk perception, this thesis creates a spatial narrative of environmental injustice based on the unique histories and experiences of Dene land-users living and engaging in one of Canada’s most contaminant landscapes. By drawing on Indigenous land-use studies specifically, this thesis documents Dene lived experiences, perceptions of, and responses to locally sourced industrial pollution, and addresses Dene concerns and land-use practices beyond the borders of the Giant Mine Remediation Site (GMRP) site.
To govern the state and bring peace to the realm : Qiu Jun's (1421-1495) geographic statecraft thought in 15th century Ming China
Creators: name: Throness, Aaron Wesley
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This thesis examines the statecraft thought of one particularly important scholar-official, Qiu Jun (1421-1495), who lived and thought during China’s Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It does not set out to examine the general contours of his statecraft thought, but instead focuses on one of its substrains: it is Qiu Jun’s geographic statecraft thought that this thesis studies, and in particular connection to his views on foreign relations. This research argues that Qiu conceived of geography as an indispensable tool of government, both in doctrinal and practical terms, for managing Ming China’s deeply troubled relationship with non-Chinese peoples within and without dynastic borders. Chapter 1 offers an introduction to the subject at hand and establishes the historiographical ecology within which this thesis operates and to which it hopes to contribute. It also addresses concerns of methodology in relation to geography and the formulation of worldviews. Chapter 2 sets the stage for the inquiries to follow by provisioning for Qiu a concise biography, after which point it sketches the intellectual trends against which Qiu’s statecraft preferences developed, the underlying principles and designs of his statecraft thought, and the impact of the Tumu Incident on both his and the Ming court’s political consciousness. Chapter 3 looks into the theoretical patterns of Qiu Jun’s geographic statecraft thought and how these patterns gave shape to his historico-political views on how the Ming state should manage non-Chinese in a geo-demographic context. Chapter 4 then investigates how he applied the principles of geography in formulating Ming military policies vis-à-vis non-Chinese peoples. This chapter also pays particular attention to Song precedents of geo-military statecraft, and in so doing attempts to situate Qiu within an extensive lineage of Chinese thinkers who found recourse in geographic thinking when faced with crises involving non-Chinese peoples. Chapter 5 reviews the overall findings of this thesis and seeks to position them in dialogue with a number of critical issues, including: divergences between theory and practice in Qiu Jun’s geographic statecraft thought, implications of his conservative geo-politics for contemporary trends in Ming sinology, and lineages of geographic statecraft thought in late imperial China.
RF/microwave analog Hilbert transformer and its applications in real-time analog signal processing
Creators: name: Islam, Rakibul
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021

description: Real-time analog signal processing on the passband modulated signals in the radio frontend system can support the ever-desired demand for faster, reliable, and ubiquitous radio systems
description: for application in microwave and millimeter-wave engineering. Microwave analog signal
description: processing is defined as the manipulation of signals in their pristine analog form in real-time.
description: RF/Microwave Hilbert transformer is one of many blocks to support real-time analog signal
description: processing on passband modulated signals. In this thesis, a uniplanar microstrip line
description: RF/microwave real-time analog signal processing unit has been proposed to operate concurrently
description: at two frequencies for spectrum aggregation applications. First, a fundamental building block -
description: novel microstrip line dual-band Hilbert transformer (DBHT) is developed by integrating a dualband 180° coupler and a dual-band delay line. The theoretical analysis is carried out to determine
description: the relation of coupler and delay line forming closed loop resonance in proposed circuit topology.
description: Instead of working at dual-band only, a varactor-based tunable microstrip line Hilbert transformer
description: have also been proposed making the 180° coupler and the delay line tunable at the same time. Then, a dual-band edge detector from DBHT and a dual-band single-sideband (DBSSB) modulator
description: composed of dual-band power divider/ combiner, DBHT, and dual-band delay line are developed
description: for dual-band real-time RF/microwave signal processing applications. To verify the proposed
description: concept, a prototype of microstrip line DBHT working at 0.9 GHz and 1.98 GHz is designed, and
description: the measurement and simulation results agree well with theoretical analysis. A frequency
description: reconfigurable varactor-based tunable Hilbert transformer has been simulated within 2.25 GHz to
description: 2.7 GHz frequency range. To demonstrate the real-time RF/microwave analog signal processing,
description: a dual-band edge detector composed of DBHT is verified in experiment. Furthermore, a prototype
description: of microstrip line DBSSB modulator is fabricated and validated in experiment to demonstrate the
description: real-time single sideband modulation at concurrent two RF/microwave frequencies.
Kinetic equations for ultrarelativistic particles in a Robertson-Walker Universe and isotropization of relict radiation by gravitational interactions
Creators: name: Ignat'ev, Yu. G.
name: Popov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70E55, 70F45, 70S05, 70K65, 70S20, 82B40, 83C55, 85A30

description: Kinetic equations for ultrarelativistic particles with due account of gravitational interactions with massive particles in the Robertson-Walker universe are obtained. On the basis of an exact solution of the kinetic equations thus obtained, a conclusion is made as to the high degree of the uniformity of the relict radiation on scales with are less than $10'$.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures, 13 references
Ultrasensitive force and displacement detection using trapped ions
Creators: name: Biercuk, M. J.
name: Uys, H.
name: Britton, J. W.
name: VanDevender, A. P.
name: Bollinger, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ability to detect extremely small forces is vital for a variety of disciplines including precision spin-resonance imaging, microscopy, and tests of fundamental physical phenomena. Current force-detection sensitivity limits have surpassed 1 $aN/\sqrt{Hz}$ (atto $=10^{-18}$) through coupling of micro or nanofabricated mechanical resonators to a variety of physical systems including single-electron transistors, superconducting microwave cavities, and individual spins. These experiments have allowed for probing studies of a variety of phenomena, but sensitivity requirements are ever-increasing as new regimes of physical interactions are considered. Here we show that trapped atomic ions are exquisitely sensitive force detectors, with a measured sensitivity more than three orders of magnitude better than existing reports. We demonstrate detection of forces as small as 174 $yN$ (yocto $=10^{-24}$), with a sensitivity 390$\pm150$ $yN/\sqrt{Hz}$ using crystals of $n=60$ $^{9}$Be$^{+}$ ions in a Penning trap. Our technique is based on the excitation of normal motional modes in an ion trap by externally applied electric fields, detection via and phase-coherent Doppler velocimetry, which allows for the discrimination of ion motion with amplitudes on the scale of nanometers. These experimental results and extracted force-detection sensitivities in the single-ion limit validate proposals suggesting that trapped atomic ions are capable of detecting of forces with sensitivity approaching 1 $yN/\sqrt{Hz}$. We anticipate that this demonstration will be strongly motivational for the development of a new class of deployable trapped-ion-based sensors, and will permit scientists to access new regimes in materials science.
description: Expanded introduction and analysis. Methods section added. Subject to press embargo
d-wave Holographic Superconductor Vortex Lattice and Non-Abelian Holographic Superconductor Droplet
Creators: name: Zeng, Hua-Bi
name: Fan, Zhe-Yong
name: Zong, Hong-Shi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A d-wave holographic superconductor is studied under a constant magnetic field by perturbation method, we obtain both droplet and triangular vortex lattice solution. The results are the same as the s-wave holographic superconductor. The non-Abelian holographic superconductor with $p+ip$-wave background is also studied under magnetic field, unlike the d-wave and s-wave models, we find that the non-Abelian model has only droplet solution.
description: Version2, 12 pages,2 figures. Accepted by PRD
"Human Capital Accumulation and Disasters: Evidence from the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005"
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Andrabi, Tahir
name: Daniels, Benjamin
name: Das, Jishnu
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This paper aims to examine what happens to people in the medium term after a large-scale disaster such as the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005, when it is immediately followed up with substantial monetary compensation. Outcomes of interest include children's academic performance, children's physical and cognitive development, school enrolment, grade attainment, household wealth, and public infrastructure.
Constraints on a hadronic model for unidentified off-plane galactic gamma-ray sources
Creators: name: Domainko, Wilfried F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently the H.E.S.S. collaboration announced the detection of an unidentified gamma-ray source with an off-set from the galactic plane of 3.5 degrees: HESS J1507-622. If the distance of the object is larger than about one kpc it would be physically located outside the galactic disk. The density profile of the ISM perpendicular to the galactic plane, which acts as target material for hadronic gamma-ray production, drops quite fast with increasing distance. This fact places distance dependent constraints on the energetics and properties of off-plane gamma-ray sources like HESS J1507-622 if a hadronic origin of the gamma-ray emission is assumed. For the case of this source it is found that there seems to be no simple way to link this object to the remnant of a stellar explosions.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in AdSpR