cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Sandwich Likelihood Correction for Bayesian Quantile Regression based on the Misspecified Asymmetric Laplace Density
Creators: name: Sriram, Karthik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A sandwich likelihood correction is proposed to remedy an inferential limitation of the Bayesian quantile regression approach based on the misspecified asymmetric Laplace density, by leveraging the benefits of the approach. Supporting theoretical results and simulations are presented.
Feiertage zur Finanzierung der Pflegeversicherung?
Creators: name: Ötker, Martin
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (1995): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 24, Heft 2
Rechtsfortbildung durch die Gerichtsbarkeit
Creators: name: Hohn, Hannsjosef
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (1995): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 24, Heft 2
Medical Practice and Prestige: Physicians' Conduct in Renaissance Venice, Padua and Verona
Creators: name: Tait, Richard William
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 380103
subject: Economic history

description: The life of doctors in Renaissance Italy was difficult and risky. They sometimes struggled to maintain moral authority and social status against the criticism of patients, the disparagement of peers and the demands of the community. Fortunately, help was available in the form of guides to conduct. Using evidence from physicians’ accounts, urban medical regulations, court records and other historical evidence, I analyse the web of social obligations and benefits that surrounded doctors. This illuminates the motives, concerns and power relations of physicians, broadening our appreciation of the social world of early modern medicine.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of associations between asthma exacerbations and distance to roadways using geocoded electronic health records data
Creators: name: Jingyi He
name: Ghorveh, Mohsen Ghiasi
name: Hurst, Jillian H.
name: Tang, Monica
name: Alhanti, Brooke
name: Lang, Jason E.
name: Goldstein, Benjamin A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
CONTEXTUALIZING IMMIGRANT HEALTH IN AN ERA OF MIGRATION CONTROL: TIME VARIATION IN IMMIGRANT AND U.S.-BORN SELF-RATED HEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES, 1998-2018
Creators: name: Touma, Fatima
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Scholars have long found that immigrants in the United States are healthier than their U.S.-born counterparts. Since the mid-1990s the U.S. government has passed a series of exclusionary policies towards immigrants, which could be increasingly placing migrant wellbeing at risk. Using multinomial logistic regression models, I examine national trends in self-rated health between working-aged foreign-born and U.S.-born adults across the time period 1998-2018 using the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The results show that immigrants reported better health than their U.S.-born counterparts when data across the period were aggregated. Surprisingly, immigrants continued to report better self-rated health across the entire time period of 1998-2018. Additionally, immigrant women report worse health than immigrant men, but that gap did not change across the time period under study. This thesis contributes to our understanding of changes in the health of immigrants during an era characterized by pronounced changes in immigration laws and policies.
Minimal Massive 3D Gravity Unitarity Redux
Creators: name: Arvanitakis, Alex S.
name: Townsend, Paul K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A geometrical analysis of the bulk and anti-de Sitter boundary unitarity conditions of 3D "Minimal Massive Gravity" (MMG) (which evades the "bulk/boundary clash" of Topologically Massive Gravity) is used to extend and simplify previous results, showing that unitarity selects, up to equivalence, a connected region in parameter space. We also initiate the study of flat-space holography for MMG. Its relevant flat space limit is a deformation of 3D conformal gravity; the deformation is both non-linear and non-conformal, implying a linearisation instability.
description: 15 pages. Two figures. Minor corrections plus extended discussion of allowed parameter space in v2. Improved figures, additional paragraph in conclusions and additional references in v3. Spurious page headers removed in v4
Effect of Coated Nano-Aluminum Powders on the Agglomeration in Solid Propellant
Creators: name:  Y. YAVOR
Publisher: name: Proceedings of  the 9th European Conference for Aerospace Sciences. Lille, France, 27 June - 1 July, 2022
Year: 2022
Subjects: PROPULSION PHYSICS
SOLID ROCKET MOTOR

description: Aluminum powder is generally added to solid propellants in order to increase their performance, due to elevated combustion temperature and higher propellant density. Additionally, aluminum powder inhibits combustion instabilities developed during propellant combustion, due to acoustic damping of the condensed-phase particles. Nevertheless, during the combustion of aluminized solid propellants, aluminum particles accumulate and form much larger particles, i.e. agglomerates. Agglomeration may cause loss of potential chemical energy due to incomplete combustion; two-phase flow losses in the nozzle resulting from large particles in the exhaust gases; and accumulation of slag in the motor [1]. In this work, coated and uncoated nano-size aluminum particles are used in order to reduce agglomeration. Nano-powders possess larger specific surface than micron sized powders, therefore their reaction and heating rates, which relate to surface phenomena, are higher. Nano-aluminum particles ignite faster and their burning time is shorter, resulting in a higher propellant burning rate [2]. In order to further improve nano-aluminized solid propellant properties and performance, different materials have been investigated for coating nano-aluminum particles. In this work, two coated nano powders are introduced: V ALEX, a fluoropolymer (Viton) coated nano-aluminum, and L ALEX, a stearic acid coated nano-aluminum. It is believed that a thin layer of coating should protect the aluminum core from premature oxidation, as well as provide an extra exothermic source which accelerates particle ignition, resulting in reduction of agglomeration. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of replacing one third (1/3) of the micron aluminum with ALEX, V ALEX or L ALEX powders, in solid propellants containing 20% HTPB, 65% AP and 15% aluminum. Although composite HTPB/AP/Al propellants are widely used, the effect of adding V ALEX or L ALEX on the agglomeration has been studied only for relatively low pressures [3]. Strand burner experiments have been conducted in both pressurized (up to 50 atm) and atmospheric environments, in a windowed, pressure-controlled chamber. A high speed video camera (Chronos 2.1) is used, photographing at a rate of up to 5000 frames per second, which enables measurements of agglomerates size and number. Initial experiments reveal a clear trend of agglomeration reduction when using aluminum nano-powders compared to micron aluminum. Moreover, introducing L ALEX or V ALEX powders decreased even further the level of agglomeration. It is believed that the core-coating interaction within the coated nano particle generates faster local ignition, which leads to lower ignition time and temperature of neighbouring micron aluminum particles resulting in reduced aluminum aggregation prior to ignition, and hence, decreased agglomeration.
A self-consistent interpretation of the GeV-TeV emission from a distant blazar PKS 1424+240
Creators: name: Yan, Dahai
name: Kalashev, Oleg
name: Zhang, Li
name: Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scenario for self-consistent interpretation of GeV - TeV spectrum of a distant blazar PKS 1424+240. In this scenario, ultra-high energy (UHE) protons are assumed to exist in the blazar jet and produce gamma rays through synchrotron emission emitted by relativistic protons and pair cascades (resulted from $pγ$ interaction); meanwhile, some of these UHE protons may escape from the jet and are injected into intergalactic space. Therefore, we assume that UHE cosmic rays (CR) originate from relativistic protons in the jet and use energy-independent escape timescale to obtain UHECR injection spectrum. Both contributions of gamma rays injected by the source and secondary gamma rays produced in interactions of UHECRs emitted by the blazar with photon background during their propagation through intergalactic space are calculated. Our results show that this scenario is able to reproduce the GeV-TeV spectrum of PKS 1424+240 self-consistently in a broad range of redshifts $0.6
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Die Perichorese von menschlicher Freiheit und göttlichem Gesetz
Creators: name: Deinzer, Klemens
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 24 Nr. 1 (1995): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 24, Heft 1
Version of text with changes in response to comments tracked from Swimming from coast to coast: a novel fixed-gear swimming gait in fish
Creators: name: E. D. Gellman
name: T. R. Tandler
name: D. J. Ellerby
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Bluegill sunfish use intermittent propulsion during volitional swimming. The function of this propulsive mode during routine swimming has not been well quantified. At low speeds, propulsive cycle frequencies and amplitudes were constant, and average speed and power output were controlled by modulating coasting duration. This fixed-gear gait may accommodate muscle level constraints on power production. At higher speeds bluegills switched to a mixed power-modulation strategy, increasing speed and power through increased propulsive cycle frequency and reduced coasting time.
The South African Guidelines for Pharmacoeconomic Submissions’ Evidence Requirements Compared with Other African Countries and The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in England
Creators: name: Marsh, Sophia E.
name: Truter, Ilse
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives: The South African Guidelines for Pharmacoeconomic Submissions (SAGPS) were compared with other African pharmacoeconomic guidelines and the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence Methods Guide (NICE MG) to make recommendations for evidence generation and further development thereof. Methods: The European Network for HTA Core Model (version 3.0) (the Model) provided the comparative framework, using three criteria: completely, partly, or not completely requiring the same/similar information. Results: Of 45 African countries reviewed, only Egypt had a publicly accessible pharmacoeconomic guideline (EPG). The guidelines were different in respect to their intended audience, size, and content but for all the main focus are the economic evaluation, and health problem and current treatment domains. The SAGPS and EPG had few requirements for a medicine’s safety, organizational, ethical, and legal aspects. The SAGPS completely or partly required the same/similar information as the Model for 41.2% of total issues, the EPG 33.3%, and the NICE MG 63.2%. Conclusions: The SAGPS was similar to the EPG, but not as comprehensive as the NICE MG and could be strengthened for decision-making and priority setting. Evidence generation should focus on describing the medicine’s targeted disease and current treatment options, and associated cost and outcomes data.
Effect of Recess Length on Combustion Characteristics of Additive Manufactured Swirl Coaxial Injector
Creators: name:  C. KANG
name:   D. LEE
name:   S.W. HAN
name:   K. LEE
name:   H. JUNG
name:   K. AHN
name:   H.Y. LIM
Publisher: name: Proceedings of  the 9th European Conference for Aerospace Sciences. Lille, France, 27 June - 1 July, 2022
Year: 2022
Subjects: PROPULSION PHYSICS

description: Additive manufacturing can easily produce products with complex shapes and multiple components. This has advantages in terms of lead time and costs over traditional machining. In this regard, the recent trend of the launch vehicle targets to low-cost launch vehicles, and additive manufacturing is being applied to the production of the low-cost launch vehicles [1]. The fuel (LCH4) in the methane expander cycle engine cools the thrust chamber and vaporizes, so it is supplied as a gas to the injector head. Methane is also generally supplied to the bottom manifold to cool the faceplates of the injector heads (manifold and injectors). The injector mixes and atomizes propellants in the combustion chamber. The atomization/mixing performance affects the combustion performance of the rocket engine, and depends on injector design parameters such as recess length and taper angle. The propellant combination is a liquid oxidizer/gas fuel in the injector, in which case a swirl coaxial injector with good performance and stability is applied [2]. In this study, additive manufacturing was applied to manufacture a new manifold cooled by an oxidizer and the internal structure of an injector that is difficult to implement with machining. Cryogenic oxidizer (LOx) that has cooled the faceplate of the injector head passes through a tangential hole and is supplied into the central oxidizer injector with a swirl motion. The fuel (GCH4) supplied from the upper manifold is swirled by the vane and injected into the combustion chamber. The initial injector head was manufactured to have a recess length (LR) of 0 mm and a full taper angle of 7.5 by the SLM (Selective laser melting) method using UNS S31603 single material. To confirm the effect of the recess length on the combustion characteristics, the injector of the head was electric discharge machined to have LR = 2 mm and LR = 4 mm after hot firing tests. Hot-firing tests were performed at the 1 kN-class methane engine combustion test facility [3]. Each injector was tested several times in various mixture ratio ranges. The combustion efficiency of the injector with LR = 2 mm was not improved compared to the result of LR = 0 mm. On the other hand, the combustion efficiency of the injector with LR = 4 mm was improved due to the advanced atomization and mixing [4]. The average heat flux of LR = 4 mm was high due to the improvement of combustion pressure and combustion efficiency. All hot-firing tests were performed without combustion instability so that pressure fluctuations in the injector manifold was less than 0.41% of the chamber pressure. Finally, no damage was found on the faceplate and injector after a total of 300 seconds of cumulative hot-firing tests.
Pion-assisted $NΔ$ and $ΔΔ$ dibaryons, and beyond
Creators: name: Gal, Avraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental evidence for $I(J^P)=0(3^+)$ $ΔΔ$ dibaryon ${\cal D}_{03}(2370)$ has been presented recently by the WASA-at-COSY Collaboration. Here I review new hadronic-basis Faddeev calculations of $L=0$ nonstrange pion-assisted $NΔ$ and $ΔΔ$ dibaryon candidates. These calculations are so far the only ones to reproduce the relatively small ${\cal D}_{03}(2370)$ width of 70--80 MeV. Predictions are also given for the location and width of ${\cal D}_{30}$, the $I(J^P)=3(0^+)$ exotic partner of ${\cal D}_{03}(2370)$. Extensions to strangeness ${\cal S}=-1$ dibaryons are briefly discussed.
description: 8 pages, invited talk at the International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics - EXA2014, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 15-19, 2014; v2 matching published version
A new solvable complex PT-symmetric potential
Creators: name: Ahmed, Zafar
name: Ghosh, Dona
name: Nathan, Joseph Amal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new solvable one-dimensional complex PT-symmetric potential as $V(x)= ig~ \mbox{sgn}(x)~ |1-\exp(2|x|/a)|$ and study the spectrum of $H=-d^2/dx^2+V(x)$. For smaller values of $a,g <1$, there is a finite number of real discrete eigenvalues. As $a$ and $g$ increase, there exist exceptional points (EPs), $g_n$ (for fixed values of $a$) causing a scarcity of real discrete eigenvalues, but there exists at least one. We also show these real discrete eigenvalues as poles of reflection coefficient. We find that the energy-eigenstates $ψ_n(x)$ satisfy (1): PT$ψ_n(x)=1 ψ_n(x)$ and (2): PT$ψ_{E_n}(x)=ψ_{E^*_n}(x)$, for real and complex energy eigenvalues, respectively.
description: 12 pages, 5 Figures, Ref.[21] newly added, Appendix removed
title: What #Ö Read during the Mid-Year Break (Part II)
Creators: name: Polakiewicz, Alicja
name: Simon, Hendrik
name: Mahmoud, Khaled El
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Could the near-threshold $XYZ$ states be simply kinematic effects?
Creators: name: Guo, Feng-Kun
name: Hanhart, Christoph
name: Wang, Qian
name: Zhao, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the spectacular structures discovered recently in various experiments and named as $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ states cannot be purely kinematic effects. Their existence necessarily calls for nearby poles in the $S$--matrix and they therefore qualify as states. We propose a way to distinguishing kinematic cusp effects from genuine $S$--matrix poles: the kinematic threshold cusp cannot produce a narrow peak in the invariant mass distribution in the elastic channel in contrast with a genuine $S$--matrix pole.
description: Accepted by Phys. Rev. D as a rapid communication
title: Brave New World
Creators: name: Ruschemeier, Hannah
name: Quintais, João
name: Nenadic, Ivan
name: De Gregorio, Giovanni
name: Eder, Niklas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Unterwegs zur Einheit
Creators: name: Gerl-Falkovitz, Hanna-Barbara
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 24 Nr. 1 (1995): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 24, Heft 1
title: Akla
title: Γυναίκα "πρότυπο"
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ντόγρι, Μύριαμ
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Akla
Video Installation

description: Η πτυχιακή εργασία φέρει τον τίτλο «Akla», δηλαδή γυναίκα «πρότυπο». Πραγματεύεται έννοιες όπως η καταπίεση της γυναίκας στις χώρες του Ισλάμ, σωματικά, ψυχικά, θρησκευτικά. Χωρικά το έργο τοποθετείται στην Πέτρινη Αποθήκη του ΟΛΠ, στον Πειραιά. Με διττή καταγωγή (τυνησιακή-ελληνική) και έχοντας ως πηγές έμπνευσης αραβίδες καλλιτέχνες, όπως Shirin Neshat και Mona Hatoum, πραγματοποιήθηκε έκθεση 2 ημερών στην Πέτρινη Αποθήκη, όπου παρουσιάστηκαν video installations. Η εγκατάσταση έχει στόχο την αποτύπωση βιωμάτων και σκέψεων που αγγίζουν την σύνθετη μορφή της γυναικείας υπόστασης.
First order gravity on the light front
Creators: name: Alexandrov, Sergei
name: Speziale, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the canonical structure of the real first order formulation of general relativity on a null foliation. We use a tetrad decomposition which allows to elegantly encode the nature of the foliation in the norm of a vector in the fibre bundle. The resulting constraint structure shows some peculiarities. In particular, the dynamical Einstein equations propagating the physical degrees of freedom appear in this formalism as second class tertiary constraints, which puts them on the same footing as the Hamiltonian constraint of the Ashtekar's connection formulation. We also provide a framework to address the issue of zero modes in gravity, in particular, to study the non-perturbative fate of the zero modes of the linearized theory. Our results give a new angle on the dynamics of general relativity and can be used to quantize null hypersurfaces in the formalism of loop quantum gravity or spin foams.
description: 35 pages, 1 figure; minor corrections, added references
What is the relationship between assessing performance and clinical outcomes in surgery?
Creators: name: Hosny, Shady
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Modern training methods for surgery have undergone a paradigm shift in recent decades and encompasses many challenges including surgeon-specific outcome reporting, reduced staffing levels, risks of legal recourse and increased financial pressures. Validated assessment tools are not routinely utilised in surgical practice. The measure of performance changes from objective assessment in trainees to evaluation of generic clinical outcomes and local processes for experts. Research in the field of evaluating the relationship between performance assessment and clinical outcomes in general surgery is limited. Studies conducted to date are of a high variability and include relatively small numbers. Despite this, there exists a relationship between performance assessment scores and clinical outcomes using the measures of procedure duration, complication rate and length of stay. The views held by all key stakeholders including trainees, trainers and the public were examined. Novel methods of training are not being uniformly utilised. The value of simulation training is unclear due to a lack of objective evidence; however, the public believe that this is mandatory prior to a patient encounter. There also exists a desire for regular performance assessment as a quality assurance of surgical practice. An evaluation of the relationship between performance assessments, in both technical and non-technical domains, and clinical outcomes was conducted whilst controlling for various clinical and expertise-based variables. No clear relationship with clinical outcomes was found although there was a trend towards significance with composite scoring. Unit-based scores also demonstrated similar variability. Trends were observed in temporal analysis, but these were not statistically significant. Motivational factors also have an impact upon clinical performance and further research is required to evaluate the degree of impact. This thesis has highlighted key areas where more research is needed to formally identify how to assess performance amongst surgeons in a method that has an evidence-based clinical impact.
Some Results in Combinatorial Set Theory
Creators: name: Zhang, Jing
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this thesis, we present a number of results in combinatorial set theory, especially in Ramsey theory and its variations, compactness principles and dimension
theory. Chapter 2 concerns the tail cone version of the Halpern-L auchli theorem at uncountable cardinals. Relative to large cardinals, we establish the consistency of a
tail cone version of the Halpern-L auchli theorem at a large cardinal, which, roughly speaking, deals with many colorings simultaneously and diagonally. Among other
applications, we generalize a polarized partition relation on rational numbers due to Laver and Galvin to one on linear orders of larger saturation. We elaborate on how this method is helpful in separating various partition relations on generalized rational numbers.
Appalachian Coal Culture and the Residue of Fossil Capital, 1968-Present
Creators: name: Goessling, Jacob
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In "Appalachian Coal Culture and the Residue of Fossil Capital, 1968-Present," I examine literary and visual representations of coal waste in contemporary American culture. Though much has been written on energy and culture, most energy humanities scholarship emphasizes the dominant social formations of a global petroculture, a perspective which emphasizes how this culture is maintained through financial markets and consumer practices. Little scholarly attention has been given to contemporary cultural formations in regions shaped by and through extractive industries. As a result, energy humanities scholarship often fails to account for the particular experiences of communities that have long fought against social inequality and for environmental justice, much less what such perspectives contribute to human understanding of a world that rapidly warms.

I consider coal waste products such as slurry, ash, and acid mine drainage as important social processes that reproduce fossil capital. By treating waste as both product and process, I demonstrate that coal waste is a significant material force that devalues people, communities, and environments in extractive regions such as Appalachia. By engaging with documentary film, fiction, photography, studio art, and landscape design, I argue that expressions of coal waste enable audiences to see the material, social, and historical structures of fossil capital. Across these cultural texts, coal waste connects similar experiences of environmental violence across time and place. In works like the documentary film Sludge, Ann Pancake’s novel Strange as this Weather Has Been, J Henry Fair’s photography project Industrial Scars, John Sabraw’s painting series Chroma, and the AMD & Art acid mine drainage reclamation project, I show that coal waste permeates local identity and historical memory. By situating Appalachia’s particular experience of fossil capital in the context of the need for a global energy transition, my dissertation illuminates the crucial intersection of energy, waste, and contemporary environmental criticism.
"Wenn ihr nicht werdet wie die Kinder ..."
Creators: name: Pitschl, Florian
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 24 Nr. 1 (1995): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 24, Heft 1
Shake slice and shake concordant knots
Creators: name: Cochran, Tim D.
name: Ray, Arunima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25

description: A crucial step in the surgery-theoretic program to classify smooth manifolds is that of representing a middle--dimensional homology class by a smoothly embedded sphere. This step fails even for the simple 4-manifolds obtained from the 4-ball by adding a 2-handle with framing r along some knot K in S^3. An r-shake slice knot is one for which a generator of the second homology of this 4-manifold can be represented by a smoothly embedded 2-sphere. It is not known whether there exist 0-shake slice knots that are not slice. We define a relative notion of shake sliceness of knots, which we call shake concordance, which is easily seen to be a generalization of classical concordance, and we give the first examples of knots that are 0-shake concordant but not concordant; these may be chosen to be topologically slice. Additionally, for each r we completely characterize r-shake slice and r-shake concordant knots in terms of concordance and satellite operators. Our characterization allows us to construct new families of possible r-shake slice knots that are not slice.
description: 31 pages, 13 figures; updated references in second version; in third version changes to statement and proof of Propositions 6.1, 7.6, Corollaries 6.2, 6.3, 6.10, expanded the set of `suitable' knots in Remark 4.3 with new reference
Η σύνδεση των δεξιοτήτων της βιωσιμότητας με την εκπαίδευση στο σύγχρονο διεθνές οικονομικό περιβάλλον
Creators: name: Λάμπρου, Πολυξένη
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Βιωσιμότητα
subject: Εκπαίδευση
subject: Δεξιότητες

description: Η παρούσα εργασία έχει ως στόχο τη θεωρητική ανάλυση των ανθρώπινων δεξιοτήτων και ικανοτήτων, τη σύνδεσή τους με τη βιωσιμότητα και την οικονομία του επιχειρηματικού κόσμου. Αναλύονται οι γνώσεις, δεξιότητες, στάσεις και αξίες που χρειάζονται να ευδοκιμήσουν για έναν κόσμο βιώσιμο, όπως και η αποτελεσματική λειτουργία τους για ένα εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα που προάγει τις δεξιότητες με δημιουργικότητα και ενσυνειδητότητα. Πραγματοποιείται αναφορά στις μελλοντικές δεξιότητες, καθώς αποτελούν βασικό στόχο της παγκόσμιας ατζέντας του ΟΟΣΑ (OECD) έως το 2030, καθώς και στο μοντέλο της τριπλής έλικας με σκοπό να εντοπιστούν συστηματικές αλλαγές και συσχετισμοί που έχουν θεμελιώδη και συστηματική επίδραση σε οργανισμούς. Ακόμη αναλύονται ορισμένες περιπτώσεις όπως της Νέας Ζηλανδίας σχετικά με την εκπαιδευτική πρόοδο μέσα από την online μάθηση, της Νότιας Κορέας και της Κίνας που τοποθετεί την εικονική πραγματικότητα στην εκπαίδευση. Σε σχέση με τις προκλήσεις στην οικονομία, ο αυτοματισμός φαίνεται να έχει κυριαρχήσει στα επαγγέλματα και η επιχειρηματικότητα στην εκπαίδευση αποτελεί ένα μείζον ζήτημα συνδεόμενη με τη διαφορά επιλογής μεταξύ θεωρητικών και θετικών επιστημών για μελλοντική εργασιακή απορρόφηση. Τέλος, ως πρόταση για τον εκπαιδευτικό τομέα προωθείται η συνδυαστική διδασκαλία, η διαφοροποιημένη αλλά και η ανεστραμμένη τάξη, ως μέσα για τη διαμόρφωση σχολείων που στοχεύουν αποκλειστικά στις ικανότητες και απορρίπτουν τις τάξεις και τις βαθμολογίες.
Μαθησιακός σχεδιασμός με τη χρήση του εργαλείου Cadmos
Creators: name: Λάγιου, Αναστασία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cadmos
subject: Μαθησιακός σχεδιασμός
subject: Αξιολόγηση
subject: Ευχρηστία

description: Οι εκπαιδευτικοί, στο πλαίσιο της επαγγελματικής τους ανάπτυξης, καλούνται να βελτιστοποιήσουν τα παραγόμενα εκπαιδευτικά σενάρια, δημιουργώντας άρτιες δραστηριότητες με κατάλληλα μαθησιακά αντικείμενα προκειμένου να επιτευχθούν από τους εκπαιδευόμενους τα προσδοκώμενα μαθησιακά αποτελέσματα. Η αξιοποίηση ψηφιακών εργαλείων για τη ενίσχυση της διαδικασίας του Μαθησιακού Σχεδιασμού είναι ένας τομέας υπό συνεχόμενη εξέλιξη μιας και αποδεδειγμένα συμβάλει στην ανάπτυξη αποτελεσματικότερων παρεμβάσεων σε λιγότερο χρονικό διάστημα, παρέχοντας ταυτόχρονα στους δημιουργούς μεγαλύτερη ευκολία στην ενορχήστρωση. Για την εκπόνηση της συγκεκριμένης διπλωματικής εργασίας σχεδιάστηκε και αναπτύχθηκε το σεμινάριο “Μαθησιακός Σχεδιασμός με τη χρήση του εργαλείου Cadmos” στο σύνολο των φοιτητών του μεταπτυχιακού προγράμματος “Ηλεκτρονική Μάθηση” του Πανεπιστημίου Πειραιώς. Στόχοι του σεμιναρίου ήταν η εξοικείωση των συμμετεχόντων με το εργαλείο γραφικού μαθησιακού σχεδιασμού Cadmos και η ανάπτυξη μαθησιακών σχεδίων, τα οποία θα εμπεριέχουν αποτελεσματικά και καινοτόμα δομικά στοιχεία. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό σκοπός της εργασίας είναι να ερευνήσει την ευχρηστία του εργαλείου Cadmo καθώς και το βαθμό βελτίωσης της σύνθεσης και της αξιολόγησης εκπαιδευτικών σεναρίων μέσα από την διεκπεραίωση μαθησιακών ενεργειών που λαμβάνουν χώρα στην τελευταία ενότητα του διαδικτυακού σεμιναρίου.
Das vierte Gebot und die Sorge um den alten Menschen
Creators: name: Dach, Maria Margarete
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 24 Nr. 1 (1995): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 24, Heft 1
Πολιτικές και προγράμματα της ΕΕ για την προώθηση της εκπαίδευσης και κατάρτισης μετά το 2021
Creators: name: Σαμαρά, Κυριακούλα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Εκπαίδευση
subject: Κατάρτιση
subject: Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση
subject: Πολιτικές
subject: Εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα

description: Εισαγωγή: Η εκπαίδευση σε οργανισμούς διαφέρει από τη σχολική εκπαίδευση. Τα σχολεία συνήθως εκπαιδεύουν τους μαθητές να κατανοούν ένα θέμα αρκετά καλά για να ανταπεξέλθουν σε μια εξέταση. Τα σχολεία απευθύνονται σε παιδιά και τους διδάσκουν πληροφορίες που είναι καινούριες γι’ αυτούς. Το εκπαιδευτικό έργο που ασκούν οι οργανώσεις όπως η ΕΕ για τα μέλη ή για την κοινότητα είναι πολύ διαφορετικό. Ο στόχος είναι συνήθως η ενδυνάμωση των ανθρώπων ώστε να καταφέρουν να γίνουν ενεργοί συνεισφέροντες στη διαδικασία της αλλαγής. Από τη μία, η εσωτερική εκπαίδευση βοηθά τα μέλη να κατανοήσουν και να συνεισφέρουν στο έργο του οργανισμού. Από την άλλη, η κοινοτική εκπαίδευση μεταδίδει πληροφορίες ή μηνύματα εκστρατείας και μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για την ενδυνάμωση, την κινητοποίηση και την οργάνωση των ανθρώπων. Σκοπός: Η εργασία αυτή έχει ως σκοπό να παρουσιάσει τις πολιτικές και τα προγράμματα της ΕΕ για την προώθηση της εκπαίδευσης και κατάρτισης μετά το 2021. Υλικό και Μέθοδος: Χρησιμοποιήθηκαν άρθρα και συγγράμματα σχετικά με το θέμα. Συμπεράσματα: Κάθε χώρα στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση διαχειρίζεται το δικό της εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα, επομένως η Επιτροπή διαδραματίζει περισσότερο υποστηρικτικό ρόλο. Προσφέρει ένα φόρουμ συνεργασίας μεταξύ των χωρών και προσπαθεί να βελτιώσει τη συνοχή στις εκπαιδευτικές πολιτικές. Η Επιτροπή χρηματοδοτεί διάφορες πρωτοβουλίες που υποστηρίζουν την εκπαίδευση στην Ευρώπη, από τη διασφάλιση της αναγνώρισης των προσόντων στο εξωτερικό έως την προώθηση ιστοριών επιτυχίας.
title: Το ασφαλιστικό σύστημα υγείας στην Ελλάδα και προοπτικές της ιδιωτικής ασφάλισης υγείας
title: The health insurance system in Greece and perspectives of private health insurance
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Πανόπουλος, Κωνσταντίνος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ασφαλιστικό σύστημα υγείας
subject: Ιδιωτική ασφάλιση

description: Στις σύγχρονες κοινωνίες, η ασφάλιση της υγείας είναι ιδιαίτερα σημαντική αφού μπορεί να προστατεύσει τον πολίτη από οικονομικές επιβαρύνσεις, οι οποίες προκύπτουν ως συνέπεια λόγω απώλειας της υγείας ενός ατόμου είτε η απώλεια αυτή προέρχεται από κάποιο ατύχημα είτε από κάποια ασθένεια. Επιπλέον, ένα ακόμα σημαντικό πλεονέκτημα που δίνει η ασφάλιση υγείας αποτελεί η περίπτωση της μόνιμης απώλειας υγείας, όπου στην περίπτωση αυτή προσφέρει ένα αξιοπρεπές επίπεδο διαβίωσης, αφού καλύπτει την ιατροφαρμακευτική περίθαλψη της και επιπλέον καλύπτει ένα μέρος της οικονομικής ζημιάς που έχει προκληθεί στο άτομο λόγω αδυναμίας εργασίας. Κάθε σύστημα υγείας και κοινωνικής ασφάλισης θα πρέπει να χαρακτηρίζεται από την κλινική αποτελεσματικότητα, την αποδοτικότητα, την κοινωνική δικαιοσύνη αλλά και την ισότητα. Σκοπός της παρούσας βιβλιογραφικής εργασίας ήταν η εκτενής μελέτη του ασφαλιστικού συστήματος της χώρας, η σύγκριση με άλλα μοντέλα Ευρωπαϊκών χωρών αλλά και εκτός αυτής, καθώς και η περιγραφή της ιδιωτικής ασφάλισης και το πώς αυτή μπορεί να εμπλακεί στο δημόσιο σύστημα κοινωνικής ασφάλισης. Από την μελέτη αυτή προκύπτει το συμπέρασμα ότι η εξέλιξη των ασφαλιστικών συστημάτων παγκοσμίως βρίσκεται σε μια ύφεση, αφού τα προβλήματα του εκάστοτε συστήματος εντοπίζονται εδώ και πολλά χρόνια από τις διάφορες κοινωνίες και κρατικούς φορείς όμως οι αλλαγές που συμβαίνουν είναι ελάχιστες.
Intrinsic size correlations in weak lensing
Creators: name: Ciarlariello, Sandro
name: Crittenden, Robert
name: Pace, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple model for describing intrinsic correlations for galaxy sizes based on the halo model. Studying these correlations is important both to improve our understanding of galaxy properties and because it is an important potential systematic for weak lensing size magnification measurements. Our model assumes that the density field drives these intrinsic correlations and we also model the distribution of satellite galaxies. We calculate the possible contamination to measurements of lensing convergence power spectrum from galaxy sizes, and show that the cross-correlation of intrinsic sizes with convergence is potentially an important systematic. We also explore how these intrinsic size correlations may affect surveys with different redshift depth. We find that, in this simple approach, intrinsic size correlations cannot be neglected in order to estimate lensing convergence power spectrum for constraining cosmological parameters.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Multi-region comparison of immune mediators from human respiratory tract samples: baseline signatures, eigenvector analyses, and tobacco product effects
Creators: name: Payton, Alexis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Cytokine concentrations represent commonly measured endpoints in research, playing critical roles in immune cell-mediated functions. This study sought to compare baseline cytokine concentrations throughout the respiratory tract and circulation to evaluate how groups of co-expressed cytokines may change from tobacco product use. 44 human volunteers were recruited consisting of non-smokers, cigarette smokers, and e-cigarette users. Samples were collected from 4 compartments and cytokine expression was first compared across compartments. Then, cytokine clusters were identified within each compartment and evaluated for alterations across smoking status using eigenvector analyses. Cytokine signatures were found to be similar within respiratory samples showing differences from serum. Second, clustered cytokines grouped similarly across the respiratory tract and were modified in association with smoking status, with the greatest changes occurring in e-cigarette users. Third, individual cytokine analyses demonstrated less sensitivity overall and did not identify many differences between smoking status. Clustering and eigenvector analyses demonstrated changes associated with tobacco product use, yielding novel systems-level patterns not apparent through individual cytokine analyses.
Die Ehre, Kind zu werden, oder was es heißt, "Vater und Mutter zu ehren"
Creators: name: Sales, Michel
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 24 Nr. 1 (1995): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 24, Heft 1
KMS states on Pimsner algebras associated with C*-dynamical systems
Creators: name: Kakariadis, Evgenios T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L55, 46L30, 58B34

description: We examine the theory of the KMS states on Pimsner algebras arising from multivariable unital C*-dynamical systems. As an application we show that Pimsner algebras of piecewise conjugate classical systems attain the same KMS states, even though it is still an open problem whether or not they are $*$-isomorphic.
description: 28 pages; changes in the text; changes in the exposition of subsection 3.3; typos corrected; references added; with many thanks to the anonymous referee for the constructive remarks
Converting Instance Checking to Subsumption: A Rethink for Object Queries over Practical Ontologies
Creators: name: Xu, Jia
name: Shironoshita, Patrick
name: Visser, Ubbo
name: John, Nigel
name: Kabuka, Mansur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Efficiently querying Description Logic (DL) ontologies is becoming a vital task in various data-intensive DL applications. Considered as a basic service for answering object queries over DL ontologies, instance checking can be realized by using the most specific concept (MSC) method, which converts instance checking into subsumption problems. This method, however, loses its simplicity and efficiency when applied to large and complex ontologies, as it tends to generate very large MSC's that could lead to intractable reasoning. In this paper, we propose a revision to this MSC method for DL SHI, allowing it to generate much simpler and smaller concepts that are specific-enough to answer a given query. With independence between computed MSC's, scalability for query answering can also be achieved by distributing and parallelizing the computations. An empirical evaluation shows the efficacy of our revised MSC method and the significant efficiency achieved when using it for answering object queries.
The infinite derivatives of Okamoto's self-affine functions: an application of beta-expansions
Creators: name: Allaart, Pieter C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A27, 26A30 (primary), 28A78, 11A63 (secondary)

description: Okamoto's one-parameter family of self-affine functions $F_a: [0,1]\to[0,1]$, where $01/2$. For all $a$, we determine the Hausdorff dimension of the sets of points where: (i) $F_a'=0$; and (ii) $F_a$ has neither a finite nor an infinite derivative. The upper and lower densities of the digit $1$ in the ternary expansion of $x\in[0,1]$ play an important role in the analysis, as does the theory of $β$-expansions of real numbers.
description: 26 pages; more figures were added and Theorem 2.6 now includes additional statements
Minimizing the variance of flow series using a genetic algorithm for reliability-based design of looped water distribution networks
Creators: name: Rathi, Shweta
name: Gupta, Rajesh
name: Palod, Nikita
name: Ormsbee, Lindell
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A network design based on the flow uniformity in various pipes improves the reliability of the network. One way to obtain such a flow distribution is by minimizing the variance of pipe flows. The available analytical method is critically studied, and observed to fail in providing global minimum variance of flow series. The analytical method accounts for the flow directions, while a variance evaluation requires that only the magnitude of flows is considered. A general nonlinear programming approach is tried, and it is observed that it requires correct knowledge of the flow direction. This article presents a genetic algorithm-based method to avoid this limitation. A linear programming-based algorithm is then suggested for selecting the optimal pipe sizes considering reliability. The proposed method is found to provide better design solutions than those obtained using some of the methodologies previously suggested for expansion of a water main system.
Probing Entanglement in Adiabatic Quantum Optimization with Trapped Ions
Creators: name: Hauke, Philipp
name: Bonnes, Lars
name: Heyl, Markus
name: Lechner, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Adiabatic quantum optimization has been proposed as a route to solve NP-complete problems, with a possible quantum speedup compared to classical algorithms. However, the precise role of quantum effects, such as entanglement, in these optimization protocols is still unclear. We propose a setup of cold trapped ions that allows one to quantitatively characterize, in a controlled experiment, the interplay of entanglement, decoherence, and non-adiabaticity in adiabatic quantum optimization. We show that, in this way, a broad class of NP-complete problems becomes accessible for quantum simulations, including the knapsack problem, number partitioning, and instances of the max-cut problem. Moreover, a general theoretical study reveals correlations of the success probability with entanglement at the end of the protocol. From exact numerical simulations for small systems and linear ramps, however, we find no substantial correlations with the entanglement during the optimization. For the final state, we derive analytically a universal upper bound for the success probability as a function of entanglement, which can be measured in experiment. The proposed trapped-ion setups and the presented study of entanglement address pertinent questions of adiabatic quantum optimization, which may be of general interest across experimental platforms.
description: v1: 10 pages+appendix, 6 figures. v2: added explanations; accepted in Frontiers in Physics, Research Topic on Useful Quantum Simulators
Iconic places of Lake Baikal in painting
Creators: name: International journal of Indian Science and Research
Publisher: name: International Journal of Indian Science and Research (ISSN No. 2583-4584)
Year: 2025

description:            This article is devoted to the consideration of the natural objects of Lake Baikal depicted in the landscape works of local artists. The beauty and uniqueness of the nature of Lake Baikal leaves no one indifferent, its mystery and spirituality inspire artists to create very poetic images of this place. The paper considers such famous places of Lake Baikal as Olkhon Island and the Shamanka rock located near it.

This study is based on the paintings of artists: G. M. Manizer «Olkhon Island», 1977, it is located in the state budgetary cultural institution «State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan»; S. G. Zhillina «Shamanka Rock», 2014, is located in the state budgetary cultural institution «Irkutsk Regional Art Museum named after  V. P. Sukachev».

 

          Keywords: natural landscape, Lake Baikal, Olkhon Island, Shamanka rock, Eastern Siberia, landscape artists.
Widerstand: Resonanz, Rechtfertigung, Ziele
Creators: name: Lill, Rudolf
name: Oberreuter, Heinrich
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 23 Nr. 6 (1994): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 23, Heft 6
title: Die Gründung eines familiengeführten Immobilienunternehmensim Osten Österreichs. Eine empirische Untersuchung von Immobilienmärkten basierend auf dem Marktteil eines Businessplans.
Creators: name: Omerovic, Sanid
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: business plan
subject: Immobilienmarkt
subject: Marktanalyse
subject: business plan
subject: market analysis
subject: real estate industry

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