cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Sustainable Visual Merchandising Practices and its impact on Retail Store Loyalty
Creators: name: Mishra, Raj Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401102
subject: Environmentally sustainable engineering

description: This study, explains Indian retail scenario, concept of visual merchandising and analyse the sustainable visual merchandising practices and its impact on consumers' store loyalty. Indian retail is one of the fastest growing markets in the world. Modern and online retail business is growing enormously with growing lifestyle of Indians. There are large number of international brands entering the country and national brands penetrating the market. Consumers are becoming savvy in terms of their purchase decision. There is a trend that consumers see the product in physical channel compare price online and buy through channel which offers same product at lesser price. Omni channel makes it more difficult for retailers especially in physical channels to hold customers in their stores and lead them to buy. Hence, this study was conducted to find out the sustainable visual merchandising practices and its impact on consumers' store loyalty. An online survey of 437 people was conducted and major findings suggest that consumers' attitude toward sustainable visual merchandising practices is a strong indicator of their willingness to buy and intention to patronize such retailers, which ultimately results in multiple shopping visits or also known as store loyalty.
Geodesic completeness of diagonal $G_2$ metrics
Creators: name: Fernández-Jambrina, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk a sufficient condition for a diagonal orthogonally transitive cylindrical $G_2$ metric to be geodesically complete is given. The condition is weak enough to comprise all known diagonal perfect fluid cosmological models that are non-singular.
description: 4 pp. Proceedings of ERE'98
ОБСЕМЕНЕННОСТЬ ГЕЛЬМИНТО-ПРОТОЗОЙНЫМИ ИНВАЗИЯМИ РАЗЛИЧНЫХ ОБЪЕКТОВ ОКРУЖАЮЩЕЙ СРЕДЫ
Creators: name: Сообщество рецензентов Международного научно-исследовательского журнала
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2023
Subjects: helminths
protozoa
ascarids
strongylids
toxocara
soil
water
swabs
гельминты
простейшие
аскариды
стронгилиды
токсокары
почва
вода
смывы

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал, Выпуск 12 (138) 2023
title: An historical exploration of the development of Calvin's biblical doctrine of divine providence
Creators: name: Chan, Suk Yu
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2020

description: Calvin’ doctrine of divine providence is generally discussed in the realm of nature and the realm of human history, which are also known as general providence and special providence respectively. Some studies explore this topic by relying on one or two of Calvin’s works, but they cannot give an in-depth critical evaluation of Calvin’s doctrine of divine providence as his thoughts were developing throughout his life. This thesis adopts an historical approach to explore Calvin’s works from 1534–1559, and it argues that from 1534–1541, Calvin uses the image of the fountain to portray God as the source of everything, who has power to preserve and give life to all the creatures on earth. Between the Latin edition of the Institutes in 1539 and the French translation of that work in 1541, Calvin is indecisive about the definition of special providence, articulating a fitful relationship between providence and soteriology in these two texts. In 1552, Calvin gradually ceased using the image of the fountain to portray God as the source of everything, and he also delivered three definitions of divine providence: general providence, special providence, and the very presence of God. Based on the theological understanding of divine providence which he developed from 1534–1552, Calvin presented his exegesis on the Book of Job and the Book of Psalms through his sermons and commentaries. He contrasts two biblical figures, Job and David, to support his exegesis and to present a more detailed elaboration of providence through the doctrine of heavenly providence. Furthermore, Calvin also discusses the importance of the human role in God’s providence. While Calvin’s theological understanding of God’s providence was inherited by his successor, Theodore Beza, Beza applied it differently in his exegesis on the Book of Job. This thesis argues that through an historical analysis, a full picture of the spectrum of Calvin’s development of the doctrine God’s providence from 1534–1559 can be appreciated. While God’s providence is gradually less associated with soteriological matters for the ungodly, salvation in heavenly providence for the godly is increasingly assured. Calvin conveys the message that divine providence is truly heavenly providence from the point of view of the faithful.
Rotating magnetic field separation of minerals
Creators: name: Allen, NR
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The behaviour of particles in a rotating magnetic field can be used as a basis for a new mineral separation method, where particles are separated on the basis of their relative ability Ito rotate in a rotating magnetic field. Both particle attraction and particle rotation separations may be combined in a single separation process, to offer previously impossible magnetic mineral separations, such as the separation of high-Mg ilmenites (picro-ilmenites) from other ilmenites of the same magnetic susceptibility, or to produce separations which are more precise than those currently available, such as the low-entrapment separation of magnetite or monoclinic pyrrhotite. Whereas mineral separation by particle attraction involves the use of material properties such as the number of unpaired electron spins and their relative orientations, separation by particle rotation adds the properties of magnetic anisotropy and such dynamic magnetisation processes as domain wall velocity in ordered magnetic compounds. The use of a continuously rotating magnetic field also generates eddy currents in particles, in proportion to particle electrical conductivity, which allow conductive particles to be rotated by eddy current effects, and extends the same separation process into the practical separation of small particles of non-magnetic metallic compounds. Particle rotational characteristics may be estimated using similar equipment to that used for practical rotating field mineral separations, so that these characteristics may be readily applied to practical separations. These estimations are presented in the form of a \rotation index\" which relates the actual particle rotation strength to the maximum possible rotation strength indicated by particle magnetisation. Although the measurement of particle rotational characteristics by these methods is only approximate it is accurate enough to demonstrate the presence of and estimate the magnitude of such dynamic magnetisation processes as domain wall velocities in small particles of natural ordered magnetic compounds. Particle rotation by magnetisation is also shown as being able to cause particle rotations for which the particle rotation axis is at right angles to the field rotation axis and which are of sufficient strength to play a part in a rotating magnetic field mineral separation process."
Entanglement Theory and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Brandao, Fernando G. S. L.
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement is central both to the foundations of quantum theory and, as a novel resource, to quantum information science. The theory of entanglement establishes basic laws, such as the non-increase of entanglement under local operations, that govern its manipulation and aims to draw from them formal analogies to the second law of thermodynamics. However, while in the second law the entropy uniquely determines whether a state is adiabatically accessible from another, the manipulation of entanglement under local operations exhibits a fundamental irreversibility which prevents the existence of such an order. Here we show that a reversible theory of entanglement and a rigorous relationship with thermodynamics may be established when one considers all non-entangling transformations. The role of the entropy in the second law is taken by the asymptotic relative entropy of entanglement in the basic law of entanglement. We show the usefulness of this new approach to general resource theories and to quantum information theory.
description: Published in Nature Physics as advanced online publication (October 2008). This is the original submitted version
On the Lebesgue measure of sum-level sets for continued fractions
Creators: name: Kesseböhmer, Marc
name: Stratmann, Bernd O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A45, 11J70

description: In this paper we give a detailed measure theoretical analysis of what we call sum-level sets for regular continued fraction expansions. The first main result is to settle a recent conjecture of Fiala and Kleban, which asserts that the Lebesgue measure of these level sets decays to zero, for the level tending to infinity. The second and third main result then give precise asymptotic estimates for this decay. The proofs of these results are based on recent progress in infinite ergodic theory, and in particular, they give non-trivial applications of this theory to number theory. The paper closes with a discussion of the thermodynamical significance of the obtained results, and with some applications of these to metrical Diophantine analysis.
description: 1 figure
A Chandra Survey of the X-ray Properties of Broad Absorption Line Radio-Loud Quasars
Creators: name: Miller, B. P.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Gibson, R. R.
name: Garmire, G. P.
name: Shemmer, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work presents the results of a Chandra study of 21 broad absorption line (BAL) radio-loud quasars (RLQs). We conducted a Chandra snapshot survey of 12 bright BAL RLQs selected from SDSS/FIRST data and possessing a wide range of radio and CIV absorption properties. Optical spectra were obtained nearly contemporaneously with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope; no strong flux or BAL variability was seen between epochs. We also include in our sample 9 additional BAL RLQs possessing archival Chandra coverage. We compare the properties of (predominantly high-ionization) BAL RLQs to those of non-BAL RLQs as well as to BAL radio-quiet quasars (RQQs) and non-BAL RQQs for context. All 12 snapshot and 8/9 archival BAL RLQs are detected, with observed X-ray luminosities less than those of non-BAL RLQs having comparable optical/UV luminosities by typical factors of 4.1-8.5. (BAL RLQs are also X-ray weak by typical factors of 2.0-4.5 relative to non-BAL RLQs having both comparable optical/UV and radio luminosities.) However, BAL RLQs are not as X-ray weak relative to non-BAL RLQs as are BAL RQQs relative to non-BAL RQQs. While some BAL RLQs have harder X-ray spectra than typical non-BAL RLQs, some have hardness ratios consistent with those of non-BAL RLQs, and there does not appear to be a correlation between X-ray weakness and spectral hardness, in contrast to the situation for BAL RQQs. RLQs are expected to have X-ray continuum contributions from both disk-corona and small-scale jet emission. While the entire X-ray continuum in BAL RLQs cannot be obscured to the same degree as in BAL RQQs, we calculate that the jet is likely partially covered in many BAL RLQs. We comment briefly on implications for geometries and source ages in BAL RLQs.
description: 48 pages, 5 tables, 14 figures, accepted by ApJ
Cheat sheet on Persistent Identifiers (PIDs)
Creators: name: Lauscher, Marco
name: Vandendorpe, Justine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is a cheat sheet on persistent identifiers (PIDs) for researchers at all qualification levels. It includes a definition of PIDs, examples of PIDs, and an example of syntax using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Additional file 1 of Emerging healthy lifestyle factors and all-cause mortality among people with metabolic syndrome and metabolic syndrome-like characteristics in NHANES
Creators: name: Niu, Mengying
name: Chen, Jiahao
name: Hou, Rongyao
name: Sun, Yu
name: Xiao, Qi
name: Pan, Xudong
name: Zhu, Xiaoyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Detailed definition of a healthy lifestyle. Table S2. HEI–2015 Components and Scoring Standards.
HEJ 2.1: High-energy Resummation with Vector Bosons and Next-to-Leading Logarithms
Creators: name: Andersen, Jeppe R.
name: Ducloué, Bertrand
name: Brooks, Helen
name: Black, James
name: Heil, Marian
name: Maier, Andreas
name: Smillie, Jennifer M.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: energy: high
lepton: final state
invariance: gauge
vector boson
jet: multiple production
resummation
Monte Carlo

description: We present version 2.1 of the High Energy Jets (HEJ) Monte Carlo event generator. With the new version, high-energy logarithms can now be summed to all orders in processes with final-state leptons originating from a charged or neutral vector boson together with multiple jets, in addition to processes available in earlier versions. Furthermore, the resummation is extended to include an additional gauge-invariant class of next-to-leading logarithmic corrections. HEJ 2.1 can be obtained from https://hej.hepforge.org.
Number and Entropy of Halo Black Holes
Creators: name: Frampton, Paul H.
name: Ludwick, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on constraints from microlensing and disk stability, both with and without limitations from wide binary surveys, we estimate the total number and entropy of intermediate mass black holes. Given the visible universe comprises $10^{11}$ halos each of mass $\sim 10^{12} M_{\odot}$, typical core black holes of mean mass $\sim 10^7 M_{\odot}$ set the dimensionless entropy ($S/k$) of the universe at a thousand googols. Identification of all dark matter as black holes sets the dimensionless entropy of the universe at ten million googols, implying that dark matter can contribute over 99% of entropy, which favors all dark matter as black holes in the mass regime of $ \sim 10^{5} M_{\odot}$.
description: 9 pages latex
Ferromagnetomechanics
Creators: name: Bulte, Daniel
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The effect of applied external stress on the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic materials has been recognised as one of the most important ferromagnetic phenomena for over a century. Research into the field has been driven by investigations of non-destructive testing, degaussing, and maritime applications. A comprehensive investigation of the magnetomechanical behaviour of mild steel under static biaxial stresses was undertaken with the intention of adapting and improving techniques of obtaining magnetic and strain data, producing accurate data for analysis, and developing insights into a tentative alternative theory of stress and magnetism. A method of obtaining Initial Magnetisation Curves is presented which equates them with Normal Magnetisation Curves. A conceptual mechanism by which applied stress and magnetism interact is introduced in order to explain coincident points and kinks on hysteresis loops obtained at different, static biaxial stresses. Finally the set of biaxial strain and magnetisation data is presented for a mild steel cruciform specimen.
Lattice continuum-limit study of nucleon quasi-PDFs
Creators: name: Alexandrou, Constantia
name: Cichy, Krzysztof
name: Constantinou, Martha
name: Green, Jeremy R.
name: Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos
name: Jansen, Karl
name: Manigrasso, Floriano
name: Scapellato, Aurora
name: Steffens, Fernanda
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 530
subject: parton: distribution function
subject: fermion: mass: twist
subject: effect: discrete
subject: momentum: high
subject: pi: mass
subject: lattice
subject: continuum limit
subject: nucleon
subject: lattice field theory
subject: isovector
subject: antiquark
subject: helicity

description: The quasi-PDF approach provides a path to computing parton distribution functions (PDFs) using lattice QCD. This approach requires matrix elements of a power-divergent operator in a nucleon at high momentum and one generically expects discretization effects starting at first order in the lattice spacing $a$. Therefore, it is important to demonstrate that the continuum limit can be reliably taken and to understand the size and shape of lattice artifacts. In this work, we report a calculation of isovector unpolarized and helicity PDFs using lattice ensembles with $N_f=2+1+1$ Wilson twisted mass fermions, a pion mass of approximately 370 MeV, and three different lattice spacings. Our results show a significant dependence on $a$, and the continuum extrapolation produces a better agreement with phenomenology. The latter is particularly true for the antiquark distribution at small momentum fraction $x$, where the extrapolation changes its sign.
Bone circulation in hemorrhagic shock.
Creators: name: Yu, William Yan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Bone circulation in Hemorrhagic Shock was studied in 35 male mongrel dogs. The term hemorrhagic shock is defined in this thesis as persistent profound hypotensive syndrome, due to acute hemorrhage of more than one third of blood volume. The method of induction of shock consisted of removal of one third of estimated blood volume (8% of body weight) at a rate of 25 - 50 ml/min, and subsequently dropping the systemic blood pressure in a stepwise manner until the maintaining level of 30 - 35 mmHg is reached. The central venous pressure, pulse and respiratory rates were also recorded. Bone circulation was studied by (1) recording the blood flow through a cannula inserted into the tibial nutrient vein or artery and (2) recording the intramedullary pressure of tibia. When one third of estimated blood volume was removed, the bone blood flow through the nutrient vessel decreased to 22.5 ± 3.4% of control level. The decreased bone blood flow persisted as long as the hemorrhagic shock was maintained for 4-18 hours. The decreased bone blood flow was also evidenced by a profound and persistent fall of the intramedullary pressure of bone. Reinfusion into the animal of lost blood within fifteen minutes to six hours after hemorrhage resulted in a complete or partial recovery of the control systemic blood pressure as well as the control rate of bone blood flow and the control level of intramedullary pressure of bone. The curve showing relationship between the changes in bone blood flow and the systemic blood pressure is an exponential one with concavity towards the flow axis. This indicates that bone has a vasomotor control mechanism of increasing peripheral resistance during hemorrhagic shock. This was substantiated by the following observations: (1) The severity of decrease in bone blood flow on the side of lumbar sympathectomy was much milder (16% less) compared to the side of the intact sympathetic nerve; (2) Dibenzyline (phenoxybenzamine) a sympatholytic drug or alpha-receptor blocking agent alters the pressure-flow curve of bone circulation in chock to a linear pattern which indicates that the drug blocks the bone vasoconstricting mechanism(s). It is concluded that bone blood flow decreases in hemorrhagic shock and is not merely due to a decrease in circulatory blood volume, but also due to sympathetic and catecholamine hormonal vasoconstrictor mechanisms.
On the over-concentration problem of strong lensing clusters
Creators: name: Sereno, M.
name: Jetzer, Ph.
name: Lubini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lambda cold dark matter paradigm predicts that galaxy clusters follow an universal mass density profile and fit a well defined mass-concentration relation, with lensing clusters being preferentially triaxial haloes elongated along the line of sight. Oddly, recent strong and weak lensing analyses of clusters with a large Einstein radius suggested those haloes to be highly over-concentrated. Here, we investigate what intrinsic shape and orientation an halo should have to account for both theoretical predictions and observations. We considered a sample of 10 strong lensing clusters. We first measured their elongation assuming a given mass-concentration relation. Then, for each cluster we found the intrinsic shape and orientation which are compatible with the inferred elongation and the measured projected ellipticity. We distinguished two groups. The first one (nearly one half) seems to be composed of outliers of the mass-concentration relation, which they would fit only if they were characterised by a filamentary structure extremely elongated along the line of sight, that is not plausible considering standard scenarios of structure formations. The second sample supports expectations of N-body simulations which prefer mildly triaxial lensing clusters with a strong orientation bias.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, in press on MNRAS
title: Aufgaben im Dorfmanagement
title: Eine Handreichung für die Praxis
Creators: name: Matzke, Felix Leo
name: Henjes, Miriam
name: Kolocek, Michael
Publisher: name: ILS – Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02cyskn39
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5.7
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Dorfmanager*innen haben ein offenes Ohr für die Anliegen der Menschen vor Ort, sind Bindeglied zwischen Bewohnerschaft und Politik und entwickeln gemeinsam mit ihnen neue Ideen.

Die Handreichung „Aufgaben im Dorfmanagement“ stellt die verschiedenen Arbeitsbereiche vor und formuliert Handlungsempfehlungen für Kommunen, die eine solche Position etablieren wollen.

Für die Veröffentlichung haben die Autor*innen Interviews mit vier Dorfmanager*innen aus Dorsten (Kreis Recklinghausen), Erkelenz (Kreis Heinsberg), Merzenich (Kreis Düren) und dem Kreis Lippe geführt. Darüber hinaus flossen Ergebnisse des Projekts „Zusammenhalt hoch drei (Zhoch3)“ in die Handreichung ein.

Nach wie vor ist ein*e hauptamtliche*r Dorfmanager*in eher die Ausnahme. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich die dauerhafte Etablierung solch einer Position lohnt.
Unbiased Elimination of Negative Weights in Monte Carlo Samples
Creators: name: Andersen, Jeppe R.
name: Maier, Andreas
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: higher-order, 1
W, production
Monte Carlo
performance
perturbation theory

description: We propose a novel method for the elimination of negative Monte Carlo event weights. The method is process-agnostic, independent of any analysis, and preserves all physical observables. We demonstrate the overall performance and systematic improvement with increasing event sample size, based on predictions for the production of a W boson with two jets calculated at next-to-leading order perturbation theory.
Trophic ecology and food web modelling of mid-slope demersal fishes off southern Tasmania, Australia
Creators: name: Bulman, Cathy
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The trophic ecology and food web dynamics of the mid-slope demersal fish community (700-1200 m) off southern Tasmania were investigated. The top predators in the community were orange roughy, the oreos and squalids. Orange roughy Hoplostethus atlanticus is dominant on the flat ground but even more so on the seamounts, and consequently fishing has been intense on these seamounts. Oreos are also fished on the seamounts. During 10 research cruises around south-eastern Australia, more than 9000 stomachs from orange roughy and 23 other species were collected and examined. Orange roughy ate predominantly mesopelagic and benthopelagic fish, crustaceans and squid as adults, and mainly crustaceans as juveniles suggesting resource partitioning between juveniles and adults. Orange roughy, warty dory Allocyttus verrucosus, squalids and macrourids are benthopelagic omnivores. In contrast, the smooth oreo Pseudocyttus maculatus, and the alepocephalids ate pyrosomes. Daily rates of food consumption for adult orange roughy were 1.15% body weight and for juveniles were 0.91%. The metabolism of orange roughy estimated from a mass balance model, was similar to that of active, migratory mesopelagic fishes and greater than non-migratory bathypelagic fishes. The use of enzyme activity rates of white muscle as proxies for oxygen consumption was investigated for orange roughy and seven other dominant species in the community. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), malate dehydrogenase (MDH) & citrate synthase (CS) activities were assayed. The fishes were all anaerobically poised, with LDH activities greater than CS activities. The LDH activities of smooth oreo, dogfish Centroscymnus crepidater and orange roughy were higher than the majority of deepliving species studied previously. The oxygen consumption rate for orange roughy, estimated from the bioenergetic model, was best estimated from LDH activities. Oxygen consumption for the seamount-associated fish similar to orange roughy, might also be best predicted from LDH activities. Food web models using Ecopath with Ecosim models were developed to examine scenarios of fishing impacts and pelagic inputs to the community through advection. Diet composition, species composition, biological and physiological parameters for each food web group, collected from the research cruises, as well as fishery catch statistics, were used in construction of the models. After simulating a decade of fishing, orange roughy declined to about 60% of the starting biomass but recovered to 99% of starting biomass over the next 40 years once fishing ceased. The oreos declined more and only recovered to 57% once fishing ceased. Advection of prey was the most important mechanism by which the community biomass on the seamounts could be sustained. High rates allowed the orange roughy stocks to recover in less than 20 years and oreos in 55 years While low advection rates would allow recovery to only two-thirds pre-fishing biomass for both fisheries.
Early russian theatre and commedia dell'arte
Creators: name: Yawney, Marshall James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Italian commedia dell'arte in 18th century Russia is a phenomenon which demands careful attention from students of the Russian theatre, particularly since comedy was the most important dramatic development of this century. It is significant that Russian dramaturgy vaulted from infancy to maturity in the short space of a century. This remarkable literary feat was contingent upon the influence of commedia dell'arte on Russian comedy. One hundred years, before the Italian Comics first graced the Russian stage, commedia dell'arte-inspired interludes which came from Poland with the Church School Theatre entertained the Slavic indigenes. Later, German players offered the Russian public their adaptations of Italian improvised comedy, and finally, the Comic Masks accepted an invitation to animate the court. The Masks quickly won a large appreciative, audience and, as a result, distinguished Italian comic artists were attracted to Russia. In their wake followed a host of minor comic performers who flooded the country with productions of commedia dell'arte, opera buffa and intermezzi. This cultural 'invasion' which lasted well into the next century, left a permanent impression on the Russian comic repertory. Works of 18th century Russia's most typical comic dramatists, Ya. B. Knyazhnin and I. A. Krylov, have been selected for analysis since they harbour the key principles of Italian commedia dell'arte and therefore facilitate a fruitful comparison. The inclusion of a short section dealing specifically with commedia dell'arte is intended to outline briefly its artistry in order to make more evident the relationship between the Russian comedy and the Italian Comedy of Masks. The comprehensive bibliography presents a spectrum of works concerning this topic but not necessarily referred to in the thesis.
Precision $B^*B\pi$ coupling from three-flavor lattice QCD
Creators: name: Gérardin, Antoine
name: Heitger, Jochen
name: Kuberski, Simon
name: Simma, Hubert
name: Sommer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: meson, chiral
pi, mass
meson, heavy
perturbation theory, chiral
quantum chromodynamics
lattice field theory
SU(2)
quark
lattice
flavor

description: We consider three-flavor QCD and perform a determination of the low-energy coupling $\hat{g}_\chi$ of SU(2) Heavy Meson Chiral Perturbation Theory. It is the $B^*B\pi$ coupling in the limit of static heavy and chiral light quarks and has not been determined with precision thus far. The calculation is performed on a large set of the $2+1$ flavor CLS ensembles with pion masses from 420 MeV down to 130 MeV. This allows us to significantly reduce the systematic uncertainty from the chiral extrapolation compared to previous works. Only a weak dependence on the lattice spacing is visible in our results.
Urban dreaming : art and the psychology of place
Creators: name: Campbell, Gavin Roy
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Australia's urban and suburban environments continue to attract the attention of visual artists such as Jeffrey Smart and social commentators such as Elizabeth Grosz, (Space, Time and Perversion, 1995) and Chris McAuliffe, (Art and Suburbia, 1996). The complexities and patterns within these environments encourage scientific and artistic investigation. This project explores the links between the body and the built environment of post industrial Launceston through painting, and a supporting exegesis. Rather than being simply an observation, this project has evolved with and is very much a part of the post-industrial redevelopment of the Inveresk Railyards, situated just outside Launceston's Central Business District, into a cultural precinct. The exegesis is of two parts. The first is reflective, and explores my psychological response to living in an artificial, constructed environment. The second is factual, looking at the history and development of the Western City. Between the two parts I ask, 'Is the city a place that is good for us... is it where we want to be?' My intent has been to create images that represent the contemplation of people and place. The images I create are generated from the feelings I experience living within the contemporary urban environment. The stylized, constructed nature of my work mirrors a rigid permanency encountered in our urban and suburban spaces and attempts to fully experience an elusive state of being. Through painting, I explore the built environment as thought ‚ÄövÑvÆ as an idea or a feeling made visual. These images are a new interpretation and evoke new perspectives on the Inveresk precinct. It is important for human beings to constantly check their relationship to place in order to understand the intricacies of the body/ city interface. My work presents a personal visualisation of our body/ city relation.
Antiferromagnetic Correlation and the Pairing Mechanism of the Cuprates and Iron Pnictides : a View From the Functional Renormalization Group Studies
Creators: name: Wang, Fa
name: Zhai, Hui
name: Lee, Dunghai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the one-loop functional renormalization group results for the cuprates and the iron pnictides. Interestingly a coherent picture suggesting that antiferromagnetic correlation causes pairing for both materials emerges.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures. Proposal for detecting out of phase s-wave pairing symmetry via STM is added
Alternaria poae H. F. Liu & J. X. Deng 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Liu, Hai-Feng
name: Liu, Feng-Yin
name: Ke, Hai-Yan
name: Shi, Qing-Xiao
name: Deng, Jian-Xin
name: Sang, Hyunkyu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Pleosporales
Pleosporaceae
Alternaria
Alternaria poae

description: Alternaria poae H. F. Liu & J. X. Deng sp. nov.
Fig. 3
Etymology.
Name refers to its host family Poaceae.
Type.
China • Hainan Province, Lingshui County, diseased leaves of Oryza sativa, July 2023, J. L. Yin, holotype YZU-H-2023056 B (permanently preserved in a metabolically inactive state), ex-type culture YZU 231197.
Description.
On PDA, colonies sub-rounded, fluffy, cottony, white to pale green or yellow-green, reverse side pale yellow to light yellow, 55–56 mm in diameter (Fig. 3 a). On PCA, conidiophores unbranched, curved or straight, 15–77 × 3–4 μm in size, with 1–5 septa (Fig. 3 f). Conidiogenous cells 5–9 × 3–4 μm, integrated, terminal, cylindrical, thin-walled, smooth, apically doliiform, with 1 conidiogenous locus. Conidia borne single or in chain with at least 2–4 conidia per chain, unbranched, narrow-ovoid, subellipsoid, or obclavate, smooth, 20–42 × 10–19 μm, with 1–4 transverse septa. basal rounded, apical beak 6–26 × 3–4 μm (Fig. 3 b, c, g). On V 8 A, conidiophores unbranched, smooth, 30–96 × 3–4 μm, with 2–7 septa. Conidia produced in chain with at least 2–4 conidia per chain, subellipsoid, obclavate, or narrow-ovoid, 20–45 × 10–17 μm, 1–4 transverse septa, beak 5–17 × 3–4 μm (Fig. 3 d, e, h).
Additional isolated examined.
China • Hainan Province, Lingshui County, diseased leaves of Oryza sativa, July 2023, J. L. Yin, living culture YZU 231198.
Notes.
In phylogenetic analysis using concatenated sequences of ITS, GAPDH, RPB 2, TEF 1, Alt a 1, EndoPG, and OPA 10-2, strains of Alternaria poae (YZU 231197 and YZU 231198) fell into a separate clade close to clades of A. zeae and A. burnsii. Based on nucleotide sequences, A. poae differs from A. zeae in five loci (3 bp in GAPDH with 1 gap, 5 bp in RPB 2, 3 bp in TEF 1, 3 bp in Alt a 1, and 7 bp in OPA 10-2), and differs from A. burnsii in six loci (2 bp in GAPDH, 2 bp in RPB 2, 3 bp in TEF 1, 2 bp in Alt a 1, 2 bp in EndoPG, and 4 bp in OPA 10-2). In morphology, A. poae can be distinguished from A. zeae by its shorter beak length, and from A. burnsii by its wider conidia bodies (Table 2).
description: Published as part of Liu, Hai-Feng, Liu, Feng-Yin, Ke, Hai-Yan, Shi, Qing-Xiao, Deng, Jian-Xin & Sang, Hyunkyu, 2025, Three novel species of Alternaria (Pleosporales, Pleosporaceae) from cereal crops (Poaceae) in China, pp. 167-183 in MycoKeys 116 on pages 167-183, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.116.145681
Measurement-Based Variational Quantum Eigensolver
Creators: name: Ferguson, Ryan R.
name: Dellantonio, Luca
name: Jansen, Karl
name: Balushi, Abdulrahim Al
name: Dür, Wolfgang
name: Muschik, Christine A.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: computer: quantum
variational
translation
coherence
costs
General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

description: Variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs) combine classical optimization with efficient cost function evaluations on quantum computers. We propose a new approach to VQEs using the principles of measurement-based quantum computation. This strategy uses entangled resource states and local measurements. We present two measurement-based VQE schemes. The first introduces a new approach for constructing variational families. The second provides a translation of circuit- to measurement-based schemes. Both schemes offer problem-specific advantages in terms of the required resources and coherence times.
Topology and shape optimization of induced-charge electro-osmotic micropumps
Creators: name: Gregersen, Misha Marie
name: Okkels, Fridolin
name: Bazant, Martin Z.
name: Bruus, Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a dielectric solid surrounded by an electrolyte and positioned inside an externally biased parallel-plate capacitor, we study numerically how the resulting induced-charge electro-osmotic (ICEO) flow depends on the topology and shape of the dielectric solid. In particular, we extend existing conventional electrokinetic models with an artificial design field to describe the transition from the liquid electrolyte to the solid dielectric. Using this design field, we have succeeded in applying the method of topology optimization to find system geometries with non-trivial topologies that maximize the net induced electro-osmotic flow rate through the electrolytic capacitor in the direction parallel to the capacitor plates. Once found, the performance of the topology optimized geometries has been validated by transferring them to conventional electrokinetic models not relying on the artificial design field. Our results show the importance of the topology and shape of the dielectric solid in ICEO systems and point to new designs of ICEO micropumps with significantly improved performance.
description: 18 pages, latex IOP-style, 7 eps figures
Physical activity monitoring during hospital stay: a validation study
Creators: name: Valkenet, Karin
name: Bor, Petra
name: Reijneveld, Elja
name: Veenhof, Cindy
name: Dronkers, Jaap
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The primary aim of this study was to investigate the concurrent validity of the PAM AM400 accelerometer for measuring physical activity in usual care in hospitalized patients by comparing it with the ActiGraph wGT3X-BT accelerometer. This was a prospective single centre observational study performed at the University Medical Centre Utrecht in The Netherlands. Patients admitted to different clinical wards were included. Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICCs) were computed using a two-way mixed model with random subjects. Additionally, Bland-Altman plots were made to visualize the level of agreement of the PAM with the ActiGraph. To test for proportional bias, a regression analysis was performed. In total 17 patients from different clinical wards were included in the analyses. The level of agreement between the PAM and ActiGraph was found strong with an ICC of 0.955. The Bland-Altman analyses showed a mean difference of 1.12 min between the two accelerometers and no proportional bias (p = 0.511). The PAM is a suitable movement sensor to validly measure the active minutes of hospitalized patients. Implementation of this device in daily care might be helpful to change the immobility culture in hospitals.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONPhysical inactivity is common during hospital admission and the main cause of loss of muscle mass and physical fitness.The PAM AM400 is a suitable movement sensor to validly measure the active minutes of hospitalized patients.Implementation of this device in daily care might be helpful to change the immobility culture in hospitals. Physical inactivity is common during hospital admission and the main cause of loss of muscle mass and physical fitness. The PAM AM400 is a suitable movement sensor to validly measure the active minutes of hospitalized patients. Implementation of this device in daily care might be helpful to change the immobility culture in hospitals.
AWiMA: An architecture for Adhoc Wireless Mobile internet Access
Creators: name: Krishnaswamy, Dilip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper suggests a system architecture for wireless widearea- networking access using adhoc networking between a mobile Client node without direct connectivity to a wirelesswide- area-network and a mobile Service Provider node with connectivity to a wireless-wide-area-network. It provides a means for securely providing such adhoc wireless networking services using a Server for tunneling and routing, registration and authentication. The architecture also provides support for handoff of a Client node from one Service Provider to another with persistence of a tunnel between the Client and the Server enabling a soft-handoff. Different wireless protocols may be used for adhoc networking, with filtered interconnection of authenticated Clients implemented at a Service Provider node. The architecture is applicable across different wide-areanetwork protocols, and provides simultaneous support for multiple wide-area-network protocols.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to IEEE Globecom 2008
An investigation into the nationally funded ICT-related initiatives in Tasmania: 1996 to 2005
Creators: name: Steer, DR
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Over the past twenty years regional Australia has been the recipient of publicly funded development and stimulus initiatives that are premised on assumptions about the benefits that Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) can bring to a region. In Tasmania, the Australian Federal Government, through projects such as the Intelligent Island Board, and the Launceston Business Development fund, has made funding available to stimulate and encourage existing and new service providers to develop innovative, new, high tech business applications, content, and infrastructure. The objective of this research is to seek to gain an understanding of the perceptions, motivations and actions of key people involved in establishing and administering these publically funded ICT-related programs within Tasmania during the ten year period of 1996 to 2005. The research methodology adopts an interpretivist epistemology and employs qualitative analysis of a series of case studies of a single timeframe and related programs; extracting data interpretively from a series of distinct interviews to derive a series of effect-outcome models, and to gain a rich, deep interpretation of the intentions of the key people involved in the process of establishing and administering these programs. The research is exploratory, in that is based on raw data gained from interviews with experts, and is theory building, because it seeks to build models of relationships between the input factors and outputs of these research programs. This research seeks to gain insight into the motivations and actions of these key individuals as they implemented these programs in an Australian region, and to identify the key factors that influenced decision making in these programs. The outcomes of this research are relevant to both academics and practitioners interested in the process of establishing and administering programs designed to stimulate and encourage ICTrelated programs within an Australian regional economy.
An oxide thermal rectifier
Creators: name: Kobayashi, W.
name: Teraoka, Y.
name: Terasaki, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have experimentally demonstrated thermal rectification as bulk effect. According to a theoretical design of a thermal rectifier, we have prepared an oxide thermal rectifier made of two cobalt oxides with different thermal conductivities, and have made an experimental system to detect the thermal rectification. The rectifying coefficient of the device is found to be 1.43, which is in good agreement with the numerical calculation.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, Appl. Phys. Lett. (in press)
Calculation of the P-T phase diagram and tendency toward decomposition in equiatomic TiZr alloy
Creators: name: Trubitsin, V. Yu.
name: Dolgusheva, E. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic, structural and thermodynamic properties of the equiatomic alloy TiZr are calculated within the electron density functional theory and the Debye-Gruneisen model. The calculated values of the lattice parameters a and c/a agree well with the experimental data for the alpha, omega and beta phases. The omega phase is shown to be stable at atmospheric pressure and low temperatures; it remains energetically preferable up to T=600K. The alpha phase of the TiZr alloy becomes stable in the range 600K
description: 6 pages, 8 figures
Guardian dogs for livestock and protection in Australia
Creators: name: van Bommel, L
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Wild predators can form a threat to livestock production all over the world. Lethal methods are often used to control predators, however, lethal control has many disadvantages. Livestock Guardian Dogs (LGDs) offer a non-lethal alternative to lethal predator control. There is increasing evidence that LGDs can be highly effective for stock protection, and are able to protect many types of livestock from many different types of predators. In Australia, wild dogs (including dingoes and hybrids) cause the most damage to the livestock industry. LGDs are a relatively new predator control method in Australia, and little research has been done on their use. In this PhD project, the effectiveness of LGDs for stock protection in Australia was investigated. In particular, I examined the effects of scale of management ‚Äö- the size of property and number of livestock ‚Äö- on LGD effectiveness, movements and behaviour. A critical evaluation of existing literature on non-lethal predator control methods showed that, of all existing methods, LGDs are likely the most suitable method for Australian farm conditions. A telephone survey among 150 users of LGDs further showed that these dogs are apparently highly effective in Australia, with 66% of respondents stating LGDs had eliminated all predation, and an additional 30% stating the LGDs significantly decreased predation. Scale of management did not influence their effectiveness; the main factor influencing LGD effectiveness was the number of stock per LGD. In order to investigate LGD movements and behaviour, GPS collars were deployed on Maremma Sheepdogs on three research properties, where the dogs were free-ranging over large areas with their livestock. The results show that LGDs spend between 82% and 100% of their time with their livestock, but movements away from stock do occur. On two properties, simulated wild dog incursions were used to test the Maremmas' response to a predator challenge. These experiments showed that LGDs exhibit territorial behaviour, and suggest that free ranging LGDs can use territorial exclusion of predators to protect their livestock. Movements away from livestock are then to be expected, as the LGDs need to spend some time away from stock to patrol and maintain territorial boundaries. LGDs can be a very effective predator control method in Australia, on both small properties and extensive livestock operations, as long as the appropriate number of dogs is used for the property situation. On extensive livestock operations, LGDs are often free-ranging, and can set up and maintain territories around stock. This is likely a highly effective method of predator control because it creates a buffer zone around livestock from which predators are repelled. By reducing or eliminating predation, LGDs have great potential in reducing conflict between livestock producers and predators. In Australia this can benefit dingo conservation and biodiversity, if lethal predator control is reduced when LGDs are used.