cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Food security in environmental assessment in the Northwest Territories' Mackenzie Valley
Creators: name: Mulders, Tamika
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Environmental assessment (EA) is an approvals process to determine whether large-scale resource development projects will have significant adverse impacts, and to mitigate these. Many Northwest Territories (NWT) communities and Dene and Métis Indigenous groups rely on traditional subsistence harvesting to offset high costs of store-bought foods in the north. Food security can be affected through direct environmental impacts such as contaminants, impacts to wildlife and fish habitat, and climate change. While resource development projects can have economic benefits, they can affect access to these land-based foods, and can also have cultural, social, economic and health effects, such as changed perception of the land, reduced traditional knowledge and language transmission, and a shift from traditional economy towards a wage-based economy. The research questions are: 1) how is food security currently addressed in EA processes in the NWT’s Mackenzie Valley, and 2) should food security be more explicitly addressed, and if so, how? These questions are explored using a three-step approach. A literature review describes the background and issues of food security and food sovereignty in general, and specific to the north. Through a qualitative document analysis of three Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board (MVEIRB) EA processes, I wrote three case studies and developed key themes relating to food security and common topics. Interviews with northern EA practitioners explored their experiences with food security and EA, and recommendations for improvement. Addressing food security credibly requires a holistic systems approach, evidence-based decision-making using relevant data collection and monitoring, and by listening to community concerns. Key themes included contaminants and perception of the land, food’s importance to cultural continuity, health and well-being, economic factors, environmental and climate factors, access and harvest pressure, and Indigenous sovereignty. The results highlight that while food security itself is not a major issue in EA, impacts to traditionally harvested foods affect culture, well-being and Indigenous sovereignty and autonomy. Food security is often implicit in EA in discussions of harvesting. If issues are not put in the context of food, there is a risk that project mitigations and measures may not appropriately address impacts to people.
title: Трубопроводный транспорт газонасыщенных нефтей
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Самарский государственный технический университет, ЭБС АСВ
Year: 2021

description: Рассмотрены основные характеристики газонасыщенных эмульсий и методика гидравлического расчета трубопроводов, транспортирующих газонасыщенные нефтяные эмульсии. Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по специальности 21.04.01 «Трубопроводный транспорт углеводородов» и 21.05.05 «Физические процессы горного или нефтегазового производства»
Additional file 10 of Cost-effectiveness of introducing national seasonal influenza vaccination for adults aged 60 years and above in mainland China: a modelling analysis
Creators: name: Yang, Juan
name: Atkins, Katherine E.
name: Feng, Luzhao
name: Baguelin, Marc
name: Wu, Peng
name: Yan, Han
name: Lau, Eric H. Y.
name: Wu, Joseph T.
name: Liu, Yang
name: Cowling, Benjamin J.
name: Jit, Mark
name: Yu, Hongjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S12. Epidemiological and economic impact (analyses with a discount rate of zero for QALYs loss); Figure S13. Monte Carlo simulation results (analyses with a discount rate of zero for QALYs loss); Figure S14. CEAC (analyses with a discount rate of zero for QALYs loss).
Lattices with and lattices without spectral gap
Creators: name: Bekka, Bachir
name: Lubotzky, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E40; 20E08

description: The following two results are shown. 1) Let $G$ be the $k$-rational points of a simple algebraic group over a local field $k$ and let $H$ be a lattice in $G.$ Then the regular representation of $G$ on $L^2(G/H)$ has a spectral gap (that is, there are no almost invariant unit vectors in the subspace of functions in $L^2(G/H)$ with zero mean). 2) There exist locally compact simple groups $G$ and lattices $H$ for which $L^2(G/H)$ has no spectral gap. This answers in the negative a question asked by Margulis. In fact, $G$ can be taken to be the group of orientation preserving automorphisms of a $k$-regular tree for $k>2.$
description: 17 pages; corrected typos
title: Турбины ТЭС и АЭС
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Самарский государственный технический университет, ЭБС АСВ
Year: 2022

description: Предназначен для студентов, обучающихся по дисциплинам «Турбины ТЭС и АЭС», «Паротурбинные установки», по направлениям 13.03.01 «Теплоэнергетика и теплотехника», 13.03.03 «Энергетическое машиностроение». В лабораторном практикуме 8 лабораторных работ. Работы направлены на получение практических навыков и знаний в области эксплуатации, расчёта и моделирования энергетического оборудования тепловых и атомных электрических станций. Для выполнения некоторых лабораторных работ требуется ПК с установленным программным обеспечением Microsoft Office и OpenModelica.
An Epistemic Approach to Coercion-Resistance for Electronic Voting Protocols
Creators: name: Kuesters, Ralf
name: Truderung, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Coercion resistance is an important and one of the most intricate security requirements of electronic voting protocols. Several definitions of coercion resistance have been proposed in the literature, including definitions based on symbolic models. However, existing definitions in such models are rather restricted in their scope and quite complex. In this paper, we therefore propose a new definition of coercion resistance in a symbolic setting, based on an epistemic approach. Our definition is relatively simple and intuitive. It allows for a fine-grained formulation of coercion resistance and can be stated independently of a specific, symbolic protocol and adversary model. As a proof of concept, we apply our definition to three voting protocols. In particular, we carry out the first rigorous analysis of the recently proposed Civitas system. We precisely identify those conditions under which this system guarantees coercion resistance or fails to be coercion resistant. We also analyze protocols proposed by Lee et al. and Okamoto.
description: An extended version of a paper from IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2009
The Underluminous Nature of Sgr A*
Creators: name: Yusef-Zadeh, F.
name: Wardle, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last several years, a number of observing campaigns of the massive black hole Sgr A* has been carried out in order to address two important issues: one concerns the underluminous nature of Sgr A* with its bolometric luminosity being several orders of magnitude less than those of its more massive counterparts. It turns out that the angular momentum of the ionized stellar winds from orbiting stars in one or two disks orbiting Sgr A* could be a critical factor in estimating accurately the accretion rate unto Sgr A*. A net angular momentum of ionized gas feeding Sgr A* could lower the Bondi rate. Furthermore, the recent time delay picture of the peak flare emission can be understood in the context of adiabatic expansion of hot plasma. The expansion speed of the plasma is estimated to be sub-relativistic. However, relativistic bulk motion of the plasma could lead to outflow from Sgr A*. Significant outflow from Sgr A* could then act as a feedback which could then reduce Bondi accretion rate. These uncertain factors can in part explain the underluminous nature of Sgr A*. The other issue is related to the emission mechanism and the cause of flare activity in different wavelength bands. Modeling of X-ray and near-IR flares suggests that inverse Compton scattering (ICS) of IR flare photons by the energetic electrons responsible for the submm emission can account for the X-ray flares. A time delay of minutes to tens of minutes is predicted between the peak flaring in the near-IR and X-rays, NOT due to adiabatic expansion of optically thick hot plasma, but to the time taken for IR flare photons to cross the accretion flow before being upscattered.
description: 4 pages, To appear in Proceedings of "X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives", Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini
Quasiequilibrium states of black hole-neutron star binaries in the moving-puncture framework
Creators: name: Kyutoku, Koutarou
name: Shibata, Masaru
name: Taniguchi, Keisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: General relativistic quasiequilibrium states of black hole-neutron star binaries are computed in the moving-puncture framework. We propose three conditions for determining the quasiequilibrium states and compare the numerical results with those obtained in the excision framework. We find that the results obtained in the moving-puncture framework agree with those in the excision framework and with those in the third post-Newtonian approximation for the cases that (i) the mass ratio of the binary is close to unity irrespective of the orbital separation, and (ii) the orbital separation is large enough ($m_0Ω\alt 0.02$ where $m_0$ and $Ω$ are the total mass and the orbital angular velocity, respectively) irrespective of the mass ratio. For $m_0 Ω\agt 0.03$, both of the results in the moving-puncture and excision frameworks deviate, more or less, from those in the third post-Newtonian approximation. Thus the numerical results do not provide a quasicircular state, rather they seem to have a nonnegligible eccentricity of order 0.01--0.1. We show by numerical simulation that a method in the moving-puncture framework can provide approximately quasicircular states in which the eccentricity is by a factor of $\sim 2$ smaller than those in quasiequilibrium given by other approaches.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures; minor revision
title: Управление капитальным ремонтом многоквартирных домов
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Самарский государственный технический университет, ЭБС АСВ
Year: 2021

description: Разработано для студентов, изучающих дисциплину «Капитальный ремонт объектов ЖКХ», направления 08.04.01 «Строительство», профиль «Эксплуатация и реконструкция зданий и сооружений». В учебное пособие включены необходимые теоретические положения, даны ссылки на нормативные правовые акты, представлены вопросы для самоконтроля.
Grammatophora ornata Gray liz.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Sauria
Agamidae
Grammatophora
Grammatophora ornata

description: * Grammatophora ornata Gray liz.
S.-Australia. v. F M. [2]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 713, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Colloidal gels assembled via a temporary interfacial scaffold
Creators: name: Sanz, Eduardo
name: White, Kathryn A.
name: Clegg, Paul S.
name: Cates, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The liquid-liquid phase separation of a binary solvent can be arrested by colloidal particles trapped at the interface [K. Stratford et al., Science 309, 5744 (2005)]. We show experimentally that the colloidal network so formed can remain stable after fully remixing the liquids, creating a new type of gel in which colloids in a single-phase solvent have locally planar coordination. We argue that this structure is likely maintained by primary-minimum DLVO bonding of our charged colloids, created under strong compression by capillary forces. We present simulation evidence that the combination of a short-ranged attraction with a repulsive barrier can strongly stabilize such locally planar gels.
description: 5 pages 4 figures
title: Экологический менеджмент и экономика природопользования
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Самарский государственный технический университет, ЭБС АСВ
Year: 2021

description: Рассматриваются вопросы рационального природопользования, осуществляемого промышленным предприятием, дается обширная статистика по деятельности предприятий нефтегазового комплекса в области воздействия на окружающую природную среду и компенсации этого воздействия. Даются общие сведения о принципах формирования экологического раздела выпускной квалификационной работы по направлению подготовки 38.03.02 «Менеджмент» профиля «Экономика и управление на предприятиях топливно-энергетического комплекса». Материал предназначен для студентов направления подготовки 38.03.02 «Менеджмент» профиля «Экономика и управление на предприятиях топливно-энергетического комплекса». Оно также может быть использовано при обучении студентов направлений 20.04.01 «Техносферная безопасность» профилей «Техносферная безопасность в нефтегазовой отрасли» и «Мониторинг территорий с высокой антропогенной нагрузкой», 18.03.02 «Энерго- и ресурсосберегающие процессы в химической технологии, нефтехимии и биотехнологии» профиля «Охрана окружающей среды и рациональное использование природных ресурсов».
Bubble Diagnosis and Prediction of the 2005-2007 and 2008-2009 Chinese stock market bubbles
Creators: name: Jiang, Zhi-Qiang
name: Zhou, Wei-Xing
name: Sornette, Didier
name: Woodard, Ryan
name: Bastiaensen, Ken
name: Cauwels, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: By combining (i) the economic theory of rational expectation bubbles, (ii) behavioral finance on imitation and herding of investors and traders and (iii) the mathematical and statistical physics of bifurcations and phase transitions, the log-periodic power law model has been developed as a flexible tool to detect bubbles. The LPPL model considers the faster-than-exponential (power law with finite-time singularity) increase in asset prices decorated by accelerating oscillations as the main diagnostic of bubbles. It embodies a positive feedback loop of higher return anticipations competing with negative feedback spirals of crash expectations. We use the LPPL model in one of its incarnations to analyze two bubbles and subsequent market crashes in two important indexes in the Chinese stock markets between May 2005 and July 2009. Both the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite and Shenzhen Stock Exchange Component indexes exhibited such behavior in two distinct time periods: 1) from mid-2005, bursting in Oct. 2007 and 2) from Nov. 2008, bursting in the beginning of Aug. 2009. We successfully predicted time windows for both crashes in advance with the same methods used to successfully predict the peak in mid-2006 of the US housing bubble and the peak in July 2008 of the global oil bubble. The more recent bubble in the Chinese indexes was detected and its end or change of regime was predicted independently by two groups with similar results, showing that the model has been well-documented and can be replicated by industrial practitioners. Here we present more detailed analysis of the individual Chinese index predictions and of the methods used to make and test them.
description: Revised version after reviewers' comments (28 pages, 20 figures)
title: Проектирование предприятий бродильной отрасли
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Самарский государственный технический университет, ЭБС АСВ
Year: 2022

description: Составлено в соответствии с программой дисциплины «Проектирование предприятий бродильной отрасли» и предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по направлению 19.03.02 «Продукты питания из растительного сырья» и 19.03.01 «Биотехнология» очной и заочной форм обучения. В пособии изложены термины и определения в области технологического проектирования, описаны этапы утверждения проектно-сметной документации, основные принципы подбора и размещения основного и вспомогательного оборудования, приведены продуктовые расчеты продуктов, которые предполагается выпускать на предприятии, а также расчеты расхода электроэнергии, горячего и холодного водоснабжения. Рассмотрены пути использования вторичных продуктов переработки растительного сырья и утилизации возможных отходов производства.
A personalized approach in clinical practice to identify goals and priorities of each individual patient : the personally meaningful outcomes-assessment process (PMO-AP)
Creators: name: Jaggumantri, Venkata Narendra Sravan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Determining tangible outcomes that reflect the personal goals and priorities of individual patients regarding their treatment’s effects are currently not part of the treatment evaluation in clinical practice. My doctoral research addressed one overarching question: how can clinicians provide an effective person-centered approach to clinical care that identifies what matters most to the individual patient and the expected level of change that is considered meaningful? In this dissertation, I present a new strategy to evaluate treatment effectiveness at a personal level: the Personally Meaningful Outcomes – Assessment Process (PMO-AP). PMO-AP is administered in four successive stages using an interview-based format, which includes generation of personally meaningful outcomes (PMOs) with clear indicators and a modified goal attainment scaling corresponding to the different levels of meaningful changes in PMOs expected by each individual patient described a-priori in collaboration with the clinician using a modified goal attainment scaling process. At each stage of PMO-AP from identification of PMOs to why a particular score is selected for a PMO at a follow-up visit, there is a dialogue between the clinician and the patient, which provides context and rationale for the information collected. I conducted a study with 50 participants to evaluate the test-retest reliability, validity, and ability of PMO-AP to generate information in the context of personalized medicine. The results showed that the PMO-AP is a reliable process that generates valid PMOs and meets the characteristics of a truly personalized assessment. I evaluated the feasibility of using PMO-AP in clinical practice through focus groups with staff from three separate clinics serving diverse types of patients. All participants found the PMO-AP compatible with their current clinical practice and indicated their willingness to use it in clinical practice with certain clinic-specific modifications after training. PMO-AP has the potential to be relevant for all chronic conditions as a patient-centered system that promotes trust and partnership between the patient and clinician.
Comment on "Structural Preablation Dynamics of Graphite Observed by Ultrafast Electron Crystallography"
Creators: name: Park, Hyuk
name: Zuo, Jian-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent letter (F. Carbone, P. Baum, P. Rudolf, et al., Physical Review Letters 100, 2008), graphite is reported to undergo a c-axis contraction on the time scale of few picoseconds (ps) after ultrafast pulsed laser excitation. The velocity of lattice contraction depended on the laser fluence. Furthermore, the lattice contraction is followed by large, non-thermal, lattice expansion of several picometers (pm) after few hundreds of ps. These results were interpreted based on the position of the (0014) diffraction spot in the glancing angle diffraction geometry off the graphite surface using ultrafast electron diffraction (UED). The lattice contraction and expansion corresponded to upward and downward movements of the diffraction spot respectively. Here, we show that ultrafast pulsed laser excitation of graphite produces large transient electric fields (TEFs). The TEFs deflect the electron beam in a manner similar to these reported and the neglect of TEFs likely led to erroneous conclusions.
description: 1 Figure
Bits About the Channel: Multi-round Protocols for Two-way Fading Channels
Creators: name: Aggarwal, Vaneet
name: Sabharwal, Ashutosh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most communication systems use some form of feedback, often related to channel state information. In this paper, we study diversity multiplexing tradeoff for both FDD and TDD systems, when both receiver and transmitter knowledge about the channel is noisy and potentially mismatched. For FDD systems, we first extend the achievable tradeoff region for 1.5 rounds of message passing to get higher diversity compared to the best known scheme, in the regime of higher multiplexing gains. We then break the mold of all current channel state based protocols by using multiple rounds of conferencing to extract more bits about the actual channel. This iterative refinement of the channel increases the diversity order with every round of communication. The protocols are on-demand in nature, using high powers for training and feedback only when the channel is in poor states. The key result is that the diversity multiplexing tradeoff with perfect training and K levels of perfect feedback can be achieved, even when there are errors in training the receiver and errors in the feedback link, with a multi-round protocol which has K rounds of training and K-1 rounds of binary feedback. The above result can be viewed as a generalization of Zheng and Tse, and Aggarwal and Sabharwal, where the result was shown to hold for K=1 and K=2 respectively. For TDD systems, we also develop new achievable strategies with multiple rounds of communication between the transmitter and the receiver, which use the reciprocity of the forward and the feedback channel. The multi-round TDD protocol achieves a diversity-multiplexing tradeoff which uniformly dominates its FDD counterparts, where no channel reciprocity is available.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Effective models of two-flavor QCD: from small towards large $m_q$
Creators: name: Kahara, T.
name: Tuominen, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study effective models of chiral fields and Polyakov loop expected to describe the dynamics responsible for the phase structure of two-flavor QCD. We consider chiral sector described either using linear sigma model or Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and study how these models, on the mean-field level when coupled with the Polyakov loop, behave as a function of increasing bare quark (or pion) mass. We find qualitatively similar behaviors for the cases of linear sigma model and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and, relating to existing lattice data, show that one cannot conclusively decide which or the two approximate symmetries drives the phase transitions near the physical point.
Elementary Excitation Modes in a Granular Glass above Jamming
Creators: name: Brito, Carolina
name: Dauchot, Olivier
name: Biroli, Giulio
name: Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of granular media in the jammed, glassy region is described in terms of "modes", by applying a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to the covariance matrix of the position of individual grains. We first demonstrate that this description is justified and gives sensible results in a regime of time/densities such that a metastable state can be observed on long enough timescale to define the reference configuration. For small enough times/system sizes, or at high enough packing fractions, the spectral properties of the covariance matrix reveals large, collective fluctuation modes that cannot be explained by a Random Matrix benchmark where these correlations are discarded. We then present a first attempt to find a link between the softest modes of the covariance matrix during a certain "quiet" time interval and the spatial structure of the rearrangement event that ends this quiet period. The motion during these cracks is indeed well explained by the soft modes of the dynamics before the crack, but the number of cracks preceded by a "quiet" period strongly reduces when the system unjams, questioning the relevance of a description in terms of modes close to the jamming transition, at least for frictional grains.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
title: Proof of concept: efficacy of cleaner fish, cultured juvenile cunner (Tautogolabrus adsperus), for sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) mitigation and control in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Creators: name: Chen, Zhiyu
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: A laboratory-based sea lice culture system was established for hatching and rearing Lepeophtheirus salmonis (from egg strings removed from farmed Atlantic salmon) to the copepodid stage of development, and an enumeration method for estimating the number of sea lice copepodids required for artificial sea lice parasitism was developed. Investigation of the delousing efficacy of cultured juvenile cunner against L. salmonis artificially infecting Atlantic salmon smolts under laboratory conditions indicated that there was no significant effect of cunner stocking density on mean sea lice numbers when held in cohabitation for seven days at stocking densities of 0, 4 and 10% (p=0.143) and they did not exhibit delousing activity. Fin condition (as an indicator of fish welfare) of Atlantic salmon smolts was evaluated during this period. There was no significant effect of cultured juvenile cunner stocking density on mean dorsal fin erosion scores (p=0.463) and mean caudal fin erosion scores (p=0.591) for Atlantic salmon. Additionally, there was no effect of high (18°C) and low (2°C) water temperature on the delousing efficacy of cultured juvenile cunner against Lepeophtheirus salmonis infecting Atlantic salmon smolts during a separate seven-day period of cohabitation (p=0.093), and no economically important pathogens or reportable diseases (within the Atlantic Canada region) (e.g., BKD, IPNv, ISAv, VHSv, IHNv and Nodavirus) were detected in either species during this time.
Additional file 11 of Cost-effectiveness of introducing national seasonal influenza vaccination for adults aged 60 years and above in mainland China: a modelling analysis
Creators: name: Yang, Juan
name: Atkins, Katherine E.
name: Feng, Luzhao
name: Baguelin, Marc
name: Wu, Peng
name: Yan, Han
name: Lau, Eric H. Y.
name: Wu, Joseph T.
name: Liu, Yang
name: Cowling, Benjamin J.
name: Jit, Mark
name: Yu, Hongjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S5. Comparison of baseline analysis with that using US vaccine effectiveness.
Biased Dark Energy Constraints from Neglecting Reduced Shear in Weak Lensing Surveys
Creators: name: Shapiro, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by large-scale structure is expected to become a powerful probe of dark energy. By measuring the ellipticities of large numbers of background galaxies, the subtle gravitational distortion called "cosmic shear" can be measured and used to constrain dark energy parameters. The observed galaxy ellipticities, however, are induced not by shear but by reduced shear, which also accounts for slight magnifications of the images. This distinction is negligible for present weak lensing surveys, but it will become more important as we improve our ability to measure and understand small-angle cosmic shear modes. I calculate the discrepancy between shear and reduced shear in the context of power spectra and cross spectra, finding the difference could be as high as 10% on the smallest accessible angular scales. I estimate how this difference will bias dark energy parameters obtained from two weak lensing methods: weak lensing tomography and the shear ratio method known as offset-linear scaling. For weak lensing tomography, ignoring the effects of reduced shear will cause future surveys considered by the Dark Energy Task Force to measure dark energy parameters that are biased by amounts comparable to their error bars. I advocate that reduced shear be properly accounted for in such surveys, and I provide a semi-analytic formula for doing so. Since reduced shear cross spectra do not follow an offset-linear scaling relation, the shear ratio method is similarly biased but with smaller significance.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures; submitted to ApJ
title: PentAgRam: A collaborative augmented reality application for music composition
title: PentAgrAm: συνεργατική επαυξημένη πραγματικότητα για σύνθεση μουσικής
Creators: name: Μαρινοπουλος Δημητριος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2021

description: This thesis presents a mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality application for music composition. The main focus of this implementation is to enable the remote collaboration of users on an Augmented Reality environment. This thesis acts a prototype for remote collaboration. Users are able to cooperate from anywhere in the world in order to interact with a same virtual collaboration space while on different physical areas. This application was developed using the Unity3D platform for the development of 3D interactive applications, as well as, the required programming tools in order to achieve a mobile Collaborative AR experience based on the AR Foundation API.  AR features such as, plane detection, precise 3D model spawning, device tracking etc were implemented. More over, in order to implement a stable connection between the different users and to ensure a smooth collaboration, the Photon Unity Networking (PUN) was imported and further developed. As a result, we  managed to establish a much needed real-time positional synchronization between the user's AR models and interfaces. By combining music composition and collaboration through Augmented Reality, we propose an innovative way to create a music piece, that includes the physical surrounding of the users which is digitally enhanced and enables the collaborative aspect of Augmented Reality.
description: Σε αυτή τη διπλωματική εργασία παρουσιάζουμε μια εφαρμογή συνεργατικής επαυξημένης πραγματικότητας σε κινητές πλατφόρμες για σύνθεση μουσικής. Ο κύριος στόχος αυτής της εφαρμογής είναι να επιτρέψει την εξ αποστάσεως συνεργασία χρηστών σε περιβάλλοντα επαυξημένης πραγματικότητας. Κατ' αυτόν τον τρόπο, οι χρήστες μπορούν να συνεργαστούν από οπουδήποτε στον κόσμο αλληλεπιδρώντας με τον ίδιο ψηφιακό χώρο για να συνθέσουν ένα μουσικό κομμάτι σε πραγματικό χρόνο. Η εφαρμογή αναπτύχθηκε χρησιμοποιώντας την πλατφόρμα Unity3D για την ανάπτυξη τρισδιάστατων διαδραστικών εφαρμογών, καθώς και τα απαιτούμενα εργαλεία προγραμματισμού προκειμένου να επιτευχθεί μια εμπειρία συνεργατικής επαυξημένης πραγματικότητας για κινητές πλατφόρμες βασισμένη στο API του AR Foundation. Επιπλέον, προκειμένου να εφαρμοστεί μια σταθερή σύνδεση μεταξύ των διαφόρων χρηστών και να διασφαλιστεί η ομαλή συνεργασία τους, το Photon Unity Networking (PUN) εισήχθη και αναπτύχθηκε περαιτέρω. Ως αποτέλεσμα, καταφέραμε να επιτύχουμε τον απαραίτητο συγχρονισμό , σε πραγματικό χρόνο, μεταξύ της θέσης των μοντέλων AR καθώς και των διεπαφών των χρηστών. Συνδυάζοντας τη μουσική σύνθεση με την τεχνολογία της Επαυξημένης Πραγματικότητας, προτείνουμε έναν καινοτόμο τρόπο δημιουργίας ενός μουσικού κομματιού, που περιλαμβάνει το φυσικό περιβάλλον των χρηστών, το οποίο ενισχύεται ψηφιακά και αναδεικνύει τη συνεργατική πτυχή της Επαυξημένης Πραγματικότητας.
title: Das Konzept des Social Entrepreneurship
title: The concept of Social Entrepreneurship
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Liekmeier, Frank
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 360 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen
subject: Social Entrepreneurship
subject: Soziale Dienste
subject: Organisationale Felder
subject: Soziale Arbeit
subject: Erbringungsverhältnis Sozialer Arbeit
subject: Dritter Sektor
subject: Organisationszentrierte Perspektive
subject: Social entrepreneurship

description: Die Interpretation dessen, was unter Social Entrepreneurship zu verstehen ist, unterscheidet sich stark von institutionellen Kontexten, begriffsgeschichtlicher Entwicklung und den fachwissenschaftlich geprägten Diskursen. Der aus dem angelsächsischen Raum stammende Begriff Social Entrepreneurship wird in deutschsprachigen Diskursen sehr divergent verwendet. Jedoch ist unstrittig, dass aus einer individuumszentrierten Sicht unter Social Entrepreneurship die Rolle eines Sozialunternehmers verstanden wird, der sich neben den „etablierten“ Trägern als (vermeintlich) neuer Trägertyp bildet. Dieser beansprucht für sich in der Verbindung von gesellschaftlichen Zielsetzungen und unternehmerischer Funktion zukunftsweisende Impulse für den Sozialsektor zu setzen. Ausgehend von der Hypothese der „Unmöglichkeit einer einheitlichen Definition“ von Sozialunternehmen (Social Enterprise), Social Entrepreneurship und Social Entrepreneurs, erfolgen in diesem Beitrag organisasationszentrierte Überlegungen, inwiefern eine Einlösung dieses Versprechens möglich erscheint. Abschließend erfolgen Überlegungen zu regionalen und internationalen Forschungsperspektiven dieses Forschungsfelds.
description: .
title: Бухгалтерский учет, анализ и аудит в программе «1С: Предприятие 8.3» конфигурации «Бухгалтерия предприятия» (редакция 3.0). Ч.I
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Самарский государственный технический университет, ЭБС АСВ
Year: 2021

description: Предлагаемое учебное пособие окажет помощь студентам очной и дистанционной формы обучения дисциплины «Бухгалтерский учет, анализ и аудит» как при выполнении практических, лабораторных работ, так и в процессе самостоятельного изучения программы «1С: Предприятие 8.3» конфигурации «Бухгалтерия предприятия». Понятное и пошаговое изложение материала на наглядных примерах поможет быстро и эффективно освоить самые основные и необходимые операции в программе «1С: Предприятие 8.3» конфигурации «Бухгалтерия предприятия» (редакция 3.0). Приведенные цифровые данные и название предприятия условные. Учебное пособие выполняется на основе данных компании ООО «Форм-М», что позволяет отработать весь теоретический материал на практике. Материал адресован студентам по специальностям: 38.03.03 «Управление персоналом» и 38.03.04 «Государственное и муниципальное управление».
Fragmentations Functions in Nuclear Media
Creators: name: Sassot, Rodolfo
name: Stratmann, Marco
name: Zurita, Pia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a detailed phenomenological analysis of how well hadronization in nuclear environments can be described in terms of effective fragmentation functions. The medium modified fragmentation functions are assumed to factorize from the partonic scattering cross sections and evolve in the hard scale in the same way as the standard or vacuum fragmentation functions. Based on precise data on semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering off nuclei and hadron production in deuteron-gold collisions, we extract sets of effective fragmentation functions for pions and kaons at NLO accuracy. The obtained sets provide a rather accurate description of the kinematical dependence of the analyzed cross sections and are found to differ significantly from standard fragmentation functions both in shape and magnitude. Our results support the notion of factorization and universality in the studied nuclear environments, at least in an effective way and within the precision of the available data.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
title: Бухгалтерский учёт, анализ и аудит в программе «1С: Предприятие 8.3» конфигурации «Бухгалтерия предприятия» (редакция 3.0). Ч.II
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Самарский государственный технический университет, ЭБС АСВ
Year: 2022

description: Данное учебное пособие окажет помощь студентам очной и дистанционной формы обучения дисциплины «Бухгалтерский учёт, анализ и аудит» как при выполнении практических, лабораторных работ, так и в процессе самостоятельного изучения программы «1С: Предприятие 8.3» конфигурации «Бухгалтерия предприятия». Понятное и пошаговое изложение материала на наглядных примерах поможет быстро и эффективно освоить самые основные и необходимые операции в программе «1С: Предприятие 8.3» конфигурации «Бухгалтерия предприятия» (редакция 3.0). Приведённые цифровые данные и название предприятия условные. Учебное пособие выполняется на основе данных компании ООО «Форм-М», что позволяет отработать весь теоретический материал на практике. Учебное пособие адресовано студентам, обучающимся по специальностям 38.03.03 «Управление персоналом» и 38.03.04 «Государственное и муниципальное управление».
From growth to TR-ARPES of C₆₀ : a prototypical OPV system
Creators: name: Tully, Alexandra Bennett
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have the potential to serve as flexible and transparent solar cells, comprised of inexpensive materials and created through scalable and energy efficient processes. However, poor power conversion efficiency (largely due to inefficient charge separation) prevents them from being a commercial competitor to today’s conventional solar cells. This thesis marks the first results of a collaborative research project at the University of British Columbia’s Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute investigating the physics underlying poor charge transfer in OPVs. The first step in engineering more efficient charge separation is understanding the fundamentals of the charge transfer process. When an electron is excited in an OPV, it remains coulombically bound with its hole, forming an exciton. Excitons in organic solar cells are more tightly bound with larger binding energies than those in conventional solar cells, making them harder to dissociate into free charges. The nature of these excitons plays a role in the generation of free carriers in OPVs, but it remains an open question that can benefit from the temporal and spatial information provided by time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TR-ARPES). We work with neat C60 thin films due to the material’s foundational status as a prototypical OPV electron-acceptor material and because it is a photo-absorbing excitonic semiconductor, with a manifold of optically-accessible excitonic states. The importance of long-range order to conducting spectroscopic analysis of a thin film’s electronic structure prompted our development of a generalizable growth technique that consistently results in single-domain C60 films of controllable thicknesses, using Au(111) as an epitaxially well-matched substrate. To better understand the evolution of the optically-excited carriers, we use TR-ARPES (supported by low-energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy) to investigate and to map the energy landscape of C₆₀ thin films in both space and time (with ångström and femto- to picosecond resolution, respectively). This thesis presents the time-evolution of excitonic states and their angular dispersion. Our results include what is, to our knowledge, the first angular-resolved data within the first Brillouin zone of the excited states of C₆₀.
Additional file 1 of An unbiased kinship estimation method for genetic data analysis
Creators: name: Jiang, Wei
name: Zhang, Xiangyu
name: Li, Siting
name: Song, Shuang
name: Zhao, Hongyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Technical details such as mathematical derivations and the results of simulations with 10,000 SNPs.
Semiclassical transport in nearly symmetric quantum dots I: symmetry-breaking in the dot
Creators: name: Whitney, Robert S.
name: Schomerus, Henning
name: Kopp, Marten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the semiclassical theory of transport to quantum dots with exact and approximate spatial symmetries; left-right mirror symmetry, up-down mirror symmetry, inversion symmetry or four-fold symmetry. In this work - the first of a pair of articles - we consider (a) perfectly symmetric dots and (b) nearly symmetric dots in which the symmetry is broken by the dot's internal dynamics. The second article addresses symmetry-breaking by displacement of the leads. Using semiclassics, we identify the origin of the symmetry-induced interference effects that contribute to weak-localization corrections and universal conductance fluctuations. For perfect spatial symmetry, we recover results previously found using the random-matrix theory conjecture. We then go on to show how the results are affected by asymmetries in the dot, magnetic fields and decoherence. In particular, the symmetry-asymmetry crossover is found to be described by a universal dependence on an asymmetry parameter $γ_{asym}$. However, the form of this parameter is very different depending on how the dot is deformed away from spatial symmetry. Symmetry-induced interference effects are completely destroyed when the dot's boundary is globally deformed by less than an electron wavelength. In contrast, these effects are only reduced by a finite amount when a part of the dot's boundary smaller than a lead-width is deformed an arbitrarily large distance.
description: (18pages - 9figs) This is the first of a pair of articles (v3 minor improvements to text)
Nucleosynthesis in neutrino-driven winds: influence of the nuclear physics input
Creators: name: Arcones, Almudena
name: Martinez-Pinedo, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed hydrodynamical simulations of the long-time evolution of proto-neutron stars to study the nucleosynthesis using the resulting wind trajectories. Although the conditions found in the present wind models are not favourable for the production of heavy elements, a small enhancement of the entropy results in the production of r-process elements with A $\approx$ 195. This allows us to explore the sensitivity of their production to the hydrodynamical evolution (wind termination shock) and nuclear physics input used.
description: Conference proceedings: Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics IV
Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) isohydricity and its relationship with berry growth and metabolite contents during progressive drought
Creators: name: Wilson, Nikolas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Frequency of drought events is expected to increase in many important grape-growing regions, with implications on sustainability of wine grape production. There are large differences between grapevine cultivars that have implications on effects of drought on berries, including the level of isohydricity they display and berry transpiration rates, and traits that contribute to preventing losses in yield and metabolite changes during drought are important to determine. The primary goal of this study was to quantify the degree of isohydricity of four grapevine cultivars ('Cabernet Franc', 'Semillon', 'Grenache', and 'Riesling') using different methods – predawn water potential threshold of stomatal closure, slope of the linear regression between predawn and midday water potentials, and the daily difference between predawn and midday water potentials – and determine whether degree of isohydricity has a relationship with sensitivity of berries to size and metabolite changes during progressive drought. I also sought to determine whether any relationships (if present) were dependent on phenological stage (i.e. pre- and post-veraison). It was found that the daily difference between predawn and midday water potentials has a relationship with sensitivity of changes in berry size and metabolites as predawn water potential declined. Secondly, berry transpiration rates were compared between cultivars to determine whether differences can impact berry size changes during progressive drought. It was found that 'Cabernet Franc' berries had lower rates of transpiration compared to other cultivars, and this contributed to delayed and smaller changes to berry size changes. The recently introduced “water potential curve” was also further analyzed to determine whether it can differentiate grapevine cultivars based on predawn water potential thresholds of leaf stomatal closure and turgor loss. It was found that “water potential curves” were able to accurately differentiate grapevine cultivars based on thresholds of turgor loss, but not based on thresholds of stomatal closure.
title: Minorities and Diasporas in Turkey. Public Images and Issues in Education
Creators: name: Bertuccelli, Fulvio
name: Gavrila, Mihaela
name: Grassi, Fabio L.
Publisher: name: Sapienza Università Editrice
Year: 2023

description: The Republic of Turkey was born on 29 October 1923 as the final outcome of a very troubled historical process. The Muslims of Anatolia and Eastern Thrace had faced the risk of disintegration and submission. The father and leader of the “new Turkey”, Mustafa Kemal, felt the plurality that had characterized the Ottoman world as a source of weakness and danger. In these nearly 100 years Republican Turkey has scored many admirable accomplishments, but her genesis left a permanent imprint in the political and social development of the country. Thus, the Turkish State has perpetuated a suspicious and repressive attitude towards the particular identities. This book, stemmed from a conference held in November 2021, presents two introductive papers and six specific contributions where the issues of education and public discourse are among the main topics.