cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rapid instrumentation for debug and verification of circuits on FPGAs
Creators: name: Eslami, Fatemeh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology is rapidly gaining traction in a wide range of applications. Nonetheless, FPGA debug productivity is a key challenge. For FPGAs to become mainstream, a debug ecosystem which provides the ability to rapidly debug and understand designs implemented on FPGAs is essential. Although simulation is valuable, many of the most elusive and troublesome bugs can only be found by running the design on an actual FPGA. However, debugging at the hardware level is challenging due to limited visibility. To gain observability, on-chip instrumentation is required. In this thesis, we propose methods which can be used to support rapid and efficient implementation of on-chip instruments such as triggers and coverage monitoring. We seek techniques that avoid large area overhead, and slow recompilation of the user circuit between debug iterations. First, we explore the feasibility of implementation of debug instrumentation into FPGA circuits by applying incremental compilation techniques to reduce the time required to insert trigger circuitry. We show that incremental implementation of triggers is constrained by the mapping of the user circuits. Second, we propose a rapid triggering solution through the use of a virtual overlay fabric and mapping algorithms that enables fast debug iterations. The overlay is built from leftover resources not used by the user circuit, reducing the area overhead. At debug time, the overlay fabric can quickly be configured to implement desired trigger functionalities. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can speed up debug iteration runtimes by an order of magnitude compared to circuit recompilation. Third, to support rapid and efficient implementation of complex triggering capabilities, we design and evaluate an overlay fabric and mapping tools specialized for trigger-type circuits. Experimental evaluation shows that the specialized overlay can be reconfigured to implement complex triggering scenarios in less than 40 seconds, enabling rapid FPGA debug. The final contribution is a scalable coverage instrumentation framework based on overlays that enables runtime coverage monitoring during post-silicon validation. Our experiments show that using this framework to gather branch coverage data is up to 23X faster compared to compile-time instrumentation with a negligible impact on the user circuit.
Pulsar Discovery by Global Volunteer Computing
Creators: name: Knispel, B.
name: Allen, B.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Deneva, J. S.
name: Anderson, D.
name: Aulbert, C.
name: Bhat, N. D. R.
name: Bock, O.
name: Bogdanov, S.
name: Brazier, A.
name: Camilo, F.
name: Champion, D. J.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Crawford, F.
name: Demorest, P. B.
name: Fehrmann, H.
name: Freire, P. C. C.
name: Gonzalez, M. E.
name: Hammer, D.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Jenet, F. A.
name: Kasian, L.
name: Kaspi, V. M.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Lazarus, P.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
name: Lorimer, D. R.
name: Machenschalk, A. G. Lyne B.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Messenger, C.
name: Nice, D. J.
name: Papa, M. A.
name: Pletsch, H. J.
name: Prix, R.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Siemens, X.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Stappers, B. W.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Venkataraman, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Einstein@Home aggregates the computer power of hundreds of thousands of volunteers from 192 countries to "mine" large data sets. It has now found a 40.8 Hz isolated pulsar in radio survey data from the Arecibo Observatory taken in February 2007. Additional timing observations indicate that this pulsar is likely a disrupted recycled pulsar. PSR J2007+2722's pulse profile is remarkably wide with emission over almost the entire spin period; the pulsar likely has closely aligned magnetic and spin axes. The massive computing power provided by volunteers should enable many more such discoveries.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Computing the Effective Hamiltonian of Low-Energy Vacuum Gauge Fields
Creators: name: Millo, Raffaele
name: Faccioli, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A standard approach to investigate the non-perturbative QCD dynamics is through vacuum models which emphasize the role played by specific gauge field fluctuations, such as instantons, monopoles or vortexes. The effective Hamiltonian describing the dynamics of the low-energy degrees of freedom in such approaches is usually postulated phenomenologically, or obtained through uncontrolled approximations. In a recent paper, we have shown how lattice field theory simulations can be used to rigorously compute the effective Hamiltonian of arbitrary vacuum models by stochastically performing the path integral over all the vacuum field fluctuations which are not explicitly taken into account. In this work, we present the first illustrative application of such an approach to a gauge theory and we use it to compute the instanton size distribution in SU(2) gluon-dynamics in a fully model independent and parameter-free way.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Nonlinear Kinetic Dynamics of Magnetized Weibel Instability
Creators: name: Palodhi, L.
name: Califano, F.
name: Pegoraro, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kinetic numerical simulations of the evolution of the Weibel instability during the full nonlinear regime are presented. The formation of strong distortions in the electron distribution function resulting in formation of strong peaks in it and their influence on the resulting electrostatic waves are shown.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Counsellors' attitudes towards working with clients with substance use disorders
Creators: name: Cornfield, Zachary Alexander Denney
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) are a significant and growing problem for Canadians; low rates of SUD treatment entry and retention suggest that our SUD treatment system requires improvement. Fear of being stigmatized by healthcare professionals is a barrier for treatment-seeking and, despite recent changes in societal attitudes towards substance use, individuals with SUDs continue to be stigmatized. Most counsellors are likely to see clients with SUDs during their careers and their attitudes towards these clients will strongly influence the therapeutic value of these encounters, which can range from helpful to harmful. Little is known about counsellors’ attitudes towards working with clients with SUDs and even less is known about the factors that contribute to them, thus providing a rationale for the current study. Counsellors were recruited from an online Canadian directory (n = 263) and data were collected using an online survey. To measure attitudes, the Medical Condition Regard Scale, modified for use with counsellors, was completed twice: once for clients with SUDs and once for clients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Attitudes were mostly positive towards clients with SUDs, although 11 participants reported negative attitudes. A one-way repeated measures ANOVA found that overall scores were significantly more positive for the MCRS-MDD. However, the items of the MCRS-MDD that yielded more positive responses were all related to the difficulty of treating the disorder. We used one-way between-groups ANOVAs as well as bivariate correlation coefficients to determine which factors had significant bivariate relationships with MCRS-SUD scores. A standard ordinary least squares multiple regression was run to determine which of these variables still had an effect in the presence of the other statistically significant variables. Frequency of contact with clients with SUDs, workplace situational constraints, feelings of anger towards people with SUDs, and age remained as significant variables. The implications of these findings for research and counselling training and practice are discussed.
Σύγχρονες καταναλωτικές συνήθειες και καινοτόμα προϊόντα
Creators: name: Μαραγκάκη, Σωτηρία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Βιγκανισμός
subject: Veganism

description: Η παρούσα πτυχιακή εργασία εκπονήθηκε στα πλαίσια της απόκτησης μεταπτυχιακού τίτλου του Προγράμματος Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών στην Διοίκηση Επιχειρήσεων για Στελέχη του Τμήματος Οργάνωσης και Διοίκησης επιχειρήσεων του Πανεπιστημίου Πειραιά. Στόχος της είναι να εξετάσει πόσο το κίνημα της μη κατανάλωσης ζωικών προϊόντων, δηλαδή του βεγκανισμού, έχει καταφέρει να εισχωρήσει στην καθημερινότητα των ατόμων και να επηρεάσει τις καταναλωτικές και αγοραστικές τους συνήθειες. Αρχικά, πραγματοποιήθηκε μια βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση στην επιστήμη του Μάρκετινγκ. Αναλύθηκαν οι βασικές αρχές του, οι νέες τάσεις που επικρατούν πλέον στον 21ο αιώνα με την επέλαση των social media στην καθημερινότητα και αναφέρθηκαν αναλυτικά οι Καταναλωτικές Συμπεριφορές των ατόμων. Επιπλέον, παρουσιάστηκε το κίνημά του βεγκανισμού, κάνοντας μια ανάλυση των αρχών καθώς επίσης και των προϊόντων που υπάρχουν στην Ελληνική αγορά και μπορούν να αντικαταστήσουν την ζωική πρωτεΐνη Τέλος, προκειμένου να εκπονηθεί η έρευνα, δημιουργήθηκε ένα ερωτηματολόγιο το οποίο μοιράστηκε σε ένα δείγμα 210 ατόμων. Το ερωτηματολόγιο ήταν κατάλληλα δομημένο έτσι ώστε οι ερωτήσεις να ανταποκρίνονται στις καταναλωτικές συνήθειες των ερωτηθέντων. Πιο αναλυτικά, οι ερωτήσεις χωρίζοντας σε τρεις υποκατηγορίες, ανάλογα με την συχνότητα ή μη κατανάλωσης κρέατος. η έρευνα ήταν ανώνυμη και το δείγμα τυχαίο. Το αποτέλεσμα έδειξε ένα πολύ μικρό ποσοστό ατόμων έχει καταργήσει τα ζωικά προϊόντα από το διατροφολόγιο του ενώ η πλειονότητα επιλέγει να καταναλώνει κρέας, γνωρίζοντας πως η κατάργηση αλλά ακόμα και η δραστική μείωση της κατανάλωσης βοηθά τόσο σε επίπεδο ατομικό (υγεία), περιβαλλοντολογικό και ηθικό (δικαιώματα των ζώων).
The competition numbers of Hamming graphs with diameter at most three
Creators: name: Park, Boram
name: Sano, Yoshio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C99

description: The competition graph of a digraph D is a graph which has the same vertex set as D and has an edge between x and y if and only if there exists a vertex v in D such that (x,v) and (y,v) are arcs of D. For any graph G, G together with sufficiently many isolated vertices is the competition graph of some acyclic digraph. The competition number k(G) of a graph G is defined to be the smallest number of such isolated vertices. In general, it is hard to compute the competition number k(G) for a graph G and it has been one of important research problems in the study of competition graphs. In this paper, we compute the competition numbers of Hamming graphs with diameter at most three.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Didymium infundibuliforme D. Wrigley, Lado & Estrada 2009
Creators: name: Treviño-Zevallos, Italo
name: García-Cunchillos, Iván
name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
name: Lado, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Physarales
Physaraceae
Didymium
Didymium infundibuliforme

description: 69. Didymium infundibuliforme D. Wrigley, Lado & Estrada, in Wrigley de Basanta, Lado, Estrada-Torres & Stephenson, Mycologia 101(35): 708 (2009)
 Specimens examined. PERU. Arequipa: Arequipa, Yura, route PE-34A, km 69,800, 3015 m, 16º12′14.5”S, 71º39′11”W, 12 Apr 2016, leaves of Puya densiflora, Lado 24227 (MA-Fungi 95574). Tacna: Tacna, Chulpapalca, route PE-40, km 63,700, east of Palca, 3220 m, 17º46′07.2”S, 69º56′23.7”W, 5 Oct 2012, debris of Corryocactus brevistylus, Lado 22098 (MA-Fungi 94694).
description: Published as part of Treviño-Zevallos, Italo, García-Cunchillos, Iván, Basanta, Diana Wrigley De & Lado, Carlos, 2023, Diversity of Myxomycetes from Peru Part III: The high Andes and the altiplano, pp. 1-92 in Phytotaxa 624 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.624.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10150721
Critical Test of Simulations of Charge-Exchange-Induced X-Ray Emission in the Solar System
Creators: name: Ali, R.
name: Neill, P. A.
name: Beiersdorfer, P.
name: Harris, C. L.
name: Schultz, D. R.
name: Stancil, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental and theoretical state-selective X-ray spectra resulting from single-electron capture in charge exchange (CX) collisions of Ne^10+ with He, Ne, and Ar are presented for a collision velocity of 933 km s^-1 (4.54 keV nucleon^-1), comparable to the highest velocity components of the fast solar wind. The experimental spectra were obtained by detecting scattered projectiles, target recoil ions, and X-rays in coincidence; with simultaneous determination of the recoil ion momenta. Use and interpretation of these spectra are free from the complications of non-coincident total X-ray measurements that do not differentiate between the primary reaction channels. The spectra offer the opportunity to test critically the ability of CX theories to describe such interactions at the quantum orbital angular momentum level of the final projectile ion. To this end, new classical trajectory Monte Carlo calculations are compared here with the measurements. The current work demonstrates that modeling of cometary, heliospheric, planetary, and laboratory X-ray emission based on approximate state-selective CX models may result in erroneous conclusions and deductions of relevant parameters.
description: 4 figures
Structure and optical properties of high light output halide scintillators
Creators: name: Singh, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structural and optical properties of several high light output halide scintillators and closely related materials are presented based on first principles calculations. The optical properties are based on the Engel-Vosko generalized gradient approximation and the recently developed density functional of Tran and Blaha. The materials investigated are BaBr$_2$, BaIBr, BaCl$_2$, BaF$_2$, BaI$_2$, BiI$_3$, CaI$_2$, Cs$_2LiYCl$_6$, CsBa$_2$Br$_5$, CsBa$_2$I$_5$, K$_2$LaBr$_5$, K$_2$LaCl$_5$,K$_2$LaI$_5$, LaBr$_3$, LaCl$_3$, SrBr$_2$, and YI$_3$. For comparison results are presented for the oxide CdWO$_4$. We find that the Tran Blaha functional gives greatly improved band gaps and optical properties in this class of materials. Furthermore, we find that unlike CdWO$_4$, most of these halides are highly isotropic from an optical point of view even though in many cases the crystal structures and other properties are not. This general result is rationalized in terms of halide chemistry. Implications for the development of ceramic halide scintillators are discussed.
From Environmental Awareness to Environmental Responsibility- Towards a Stewardship Curriculum.pdf
Creators: name: Onnoghen, Usang  Nkanu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160507 Environment Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160605 Environmental Politics
subject: 160802 Environmental Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The period of environmentalism heightened environmental concern and subsequently environmental Education that is anchored on awareness. It is thought that increase in environmental awareness will reverse the misuse of environment and its resources...
On a Conjecture of a Bound for the Exponent of the Schur Multiplier of a Finite $p$-Group
Creators: name: Mashayekhy, Berooz
name: Hokmabadi, Azam
name: Mohammadzadeh, Fahimeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 20C25, 20D15, Secondary: 20E10, 20F12

description: Let $G$ be a $p$-group of nilpotency class $k$ with finite exponent $\exp(G)$ and let $m=\lfloor\log_pk\rfloor$. We show that $\exp(M^{(c)}(G))$ divides $\exp(G)p^{m(k-1)}$, for all $c\geq1$, where $M^{(c)}(G)$ denotes the c-nilpotent multiplier of $G$. This implies that $\exp(M(G))$ divides $\exp(G)$ for all finite $p$-groups of class at most $p-1$. Moreover, we show that our result is an improvement of some previous bounds for the exponent of $M^{(c)}(G)$ given by M. R. Jones, G. Ellis and P. Moravec in some cases.
description: 8 pages, to appear in Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society
Rotation-invariant relations in vector meson decays into fermion pairs
Creators: name: Faccioli, Pietro
name: Lourenco, Carlos
name: Seixas, Joao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rotational properties of angular momentum eigenstates imply the existence of a frame-independent relation among the parameters of the decay distribution of vector mesons into fermions. This relation is a generalization of the Lam-Tung identity, a result specific to Drell-Yan production in perturbative QCD, here shown to be equivalent to the dynamical condition that the dilepton always originates from a transversely polarized photon.
Emotional labeling and attribute framing on pro- environmental product decision making
Creators: name: Tonetto, Leandro Miletto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Consumption
Emotion
Attribute framing effect
Pro-environmental product
Decision making

description: Attribute framing effect refers to the fact that different descriptions of the same element can cause different reactions in people. This paper describes an experiment that was aimed at investigating attribute framing on pro-environmental product decision-making, having the consumer ́s socially responsible behavior as a moderating effect. Framing effect was detected, but not as a universal response, since the type of evaluated product and the consumer ́s level of socially responsible behavior can interfere in people ́s judgements, by not producing the effect.
The Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey -- A 700-Square-Degree, Multi-Epoch Radio Dataset -- II: Individual Epoch Transient Statistics
Creators: name: Croft, Steve
name: Bower, Geoffrey C.
name: Keating, Garrett
name: Law, Casey
name: Whysong, David
name: Williams, Peter K. G.
name: Wright, Melvyn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our second paper on the Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey (ATATS), a multi-epoch, ~700 sq. deg. radio image and catalog at 1.4 GHz. The survey is designed to detect rare, bright transients as well as to commission the ATA's wide-field survey capabilities. ATATS explores the challenges of multi-epoch transient and variable source surveys in the domain of dynamic range limits and changing (u,v) coverage. Here we present images made using data from the individual epochs, as well as a revised image combining data from all ATATS epochs. The combined image has RMS noise 3.96 mJy / beam, with a circular beam of 150 arcsec FWHM. The catalog, generated using a false detection rate algorithm, contains 4984 sources, and is >90% complete to 37.9 mJy. The catalogs generated from snapshot images of the individual epochs contain between 1170 and 2019 sources over the 564 sq. deg. area in common to all epochs. The 90% completeness limits of the single epoch catalogs range from 98.6 to 232 mJy. We compare the catalog generated from the combined image to those from individual epochs, and from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS), a legacy survey at the same frequency. We are able to place new constraints on the transient population: fewer than 6e-4 transients / sq. deg., for transients brighter than 350 mJy with characteristic timescales of minutes to days. This strongly rules out an astronomical origin for the ~1 Jy sources reported by Matsumura et al. (2009), based on their stated rate of 3.1e-3 / sq. deg.
description: 28 pages, 12 figures, ApJ accepted
Magnetization dynamics in the inertial regime: nutation predicted at short time scales
Creators: name: Ciornei, M. -C.
name: Rubí, J. M.
name: Wegrowe, J. -E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamical equation of the magnetization has been reconsidered with enlarging the phase space of the ferromagnetic degrees of freedom to the angular momentum. The generalized Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation that includes inertial terms, and the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, are then derived in the framework of mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics theory. A typical relaxation time $τ$ is introduced describing the relaxation of the magnetization acceleration from the inertial regime towards the precession regime defined by a constant Larmor frequency. For time scales larger than $τ$, the usual Gilbert equation is recovered. For time scales below $τ$, nutation and related inertial effects are predicted. The inertial regime offers new opportunities for the implementation of ultrafast magnetization switching in magnetic devices.
"The secret ingredient" : speech-language pathologists' perspectives on confidence in communication for people with aphasia
Creators: name: Tonello, Alicia Claire
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Background: Confidence, particularly in the domain of communication, has recently emerged as a factor which may influence people with aphasia’s (PWA) psychosocial well-being. However, PWA’s psychosocial needs, including their confidence in communication, are often neglected. Moreover, increasing confidence post-stroke has been identified as a research priority by stroke survivors, including PWA. Therefore, investigating how to increase confidence in communication for PWA is of clinical importance to speech-language pathologists (S-LPs) and their clients with aphasia. Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of S-LPs on the meaning of confidence in communication for PWA, factors which help with it, factors which detract from it, and what SLPs’ role in this area might be. Methods and Procedures: Based on the constructivist paradigm, and using a qualitative descriptive approach, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 S-LPs who had worked with PWA for at least one year. Qualitative content analysis was used to derive codes and categories from the interview transcripts in relation to each of the four research aims. To increase rigour, member-checking and peer debriefing were used. Results: Analysis of the semi-structured interviews generated the following: 56 codes for the meaning of confidence in communication for PWA, grouped into 12 categories (e.g., PWA being willing to put themselves out there and participate/try to communicate); 93 codes for factors which help with it, grouped into 14 categories (e.g., PWA practicing communication and experiencing success/improvement in the clinic and beyond); 62 codes for what detracts from confidence in communication for PWA, grouped into 13 categories (e.g., lack of social/communication support for PWA); and 88 codes for the role of S-LPs in working on this with PWA, grouped into 14 categories (e.g., educating others about aphasia and training communication partners on how to support PWA’s communication). Conclusion: S-LPs perceive working on confidence in communication with PWA to be part of their clinical role. Factors such as communication and social support from others may be important for SLPs to consider in relation to PWA’s confidence in communication and could ultimately have an impact on PWA’s life participation and psychosocial well-being.
Effectiveness of a teaching unit on the willingness to consume insect-based food – An intervention study with adolescents from Germany
Creators: name: Szczepanski, Lena
name: Dupont, Jacqueline
name: Schade, Fenja
name: Hellberg, Henrike
name: Büscher, Milan
name: Fiebelkorn, Florian
Publisher: name: Universität Osnabrück
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: entomophagy
subject: edible insects
subject: novel food
subject: alternative protein
subject: meat alternative
subject: teenagers
subject: schools
subject: information
subject: 570 - Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: This study investigated the effect of a four-lesson teaching unit titled “Entomophagy and Sustainability” on the willingness of adolescents in Germany to consume insect-based food (N = 114; MAge = 15.77 years; SDAge = 1.12 years; female = 58.8%). The main aim of the study was to test whether the teaching unit can induce long-term changes in selected nutritional-psychological factors (food disgust, food neophobia, food technology neophobia), attitudes, knowledge, and the willingness to consume insect-based food. For this purpose, a paper-pencil questionnaire was conducted immediately before (pre-test), immediately after (post-test), and approximately six weeks after (follow-up test) the teaching unit. Although significant changes in food disgust, food neophobia, food technology neophobia, attitudes, and knowledge were recorded, adolescents’ willingness to consume insect-based food was not significantly increased. Attitudes were identified as the strongest predictor of adolescents’ willingness to consume, while knowledge was not a significant predictor. Conclusions and recommendations that can be applied to other educational interventions are provided to increase the effectiveness of the teaching unit.
32194: Exercise - the new normal
Creators: name: Project, Lockdown2020 and Beyond
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 479999
subject: Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified

description: As we reach 3 months in lockdown, I realise that I've adopted a new normal pattern of exercise. During the week I'd race home from work to try to get to one evening run. Now I join in with a socially distant social run (for a maximum of six people, including the run leader) each Wednesday, and a running fitness class on a Saturday morning (with no equipment or pairing-up allowed). The organised races are all delayed until the autumn, or next year. Seeing running friends at 9am on a Saturday morning at my beloved local parkrun is a distant memory, and my goal of touring 20 different locations in 2020 now seems impossible. To keep us motivated, clubs invent virtual challenges around racing against one another, finding something wooden or a painted stone, or writing in your Strava route. With no gyms or swimming pools open, I'm lucky that both lakes near me have started outdoor swimming again. We have to book in now, we can't chat over tea or cake afterwards, and there are less spaces to be had, but the feeling of freedom is just joyous. Sailing and water-skiing has started back up too, but there's no loan equipment for canoeing or paddle-boarding, although it looks like more people are using their own. I sometimes see them on the rivers and canals as I'm out running or walking one of my dogs, who are enjoying their longer walks now I'm no longer commuting. Sales of bikes have increased too. The queue outside our local Halfords is longer than the one outside Boots the Chemist. The only time my husband and I exercise together is on a Sunday morning, when we've got into the habit of heading out across Surrey and Hampshire, at first for our allotted hour. Now that exercise is unrestricted, we venture further afield each week. We're delighted to see so many other families and friends riding out together. This Sunday we reach Woking and find a Pret A Manger open selling take-out coffee and croissants. We sit on a bench in the town centre square, separated out like everyone else, enjoying our treat. British cycling hasn't permitted organised rides again yet, but a few of us from my Breeze women's club meet up and ride out to a care home to deliver a pair of slippers. The skipping rope I bought was abandoned. I only managed one Joe Wicks workout and a Zoom yoga session, but didn't really get much out of them being live. Zoom running was fun for a change, despite lost signals and headphones. I miss my Sunday night yoga class, but tried to do some every day whilst I listen to the government briefing. My best pre-lockdown purchase has been the hula-hoop that sits under my desk, reminding me to have a quick go when i'm losing concentration. Something I couldn't have done in the office. My next goal is to be able to hula for as long as it takes to heat-up my soup for lunch.
Trends, patterns and determinants of biodiversity conservation outcomes in Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India
Creators: name: Das, Uttam
name: Behera, Bhagirath
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper analyses the trends, patterns and determinants of biodiversity conservation in the Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR), India. Temporal remote sensing data from 1990 to 2020 shows a loss of 27.69 km2. The results show that the total forest area has seen a significant decline from 1990 to 2020, whereas non-forest and degraded forest areas have been on the rise. The decline of forest area is observed more in fringe and lower altitude areas where accessibility is easy for humans to extract forest resources. The secondary data shows a decline in the wildlife population including the flagship species, the Bengal tiger. The decline in natural resources due to human activities in the BTR is likely to continue unless a participatory biodiversity conservation programme is established. The establishment of the Joint Forest Management Committee (JFMC), a formal local institution where local communities and forest departments (FDs) jointly share the rights and responsibility towards the use and management of the forest, seems to be effective in reducing negative forest activities. The sustainability of the BTR is possible if the local people abandon the ‘tragedy of the commons’ activities and work together, with government guidance for the promotion of livelihoods and biodiversity conservation.
Thermodynamics of third order Lovelock anti-de Sitter black holes revisited
Creators: name: Zou, Decheng
name: Yue, Ruihong
name: Yang, Zhanying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the mass and the temperature of third order Lovelock black holes with negative Gauss-Bonnet coefficient $α_2<0$ in anti-de Sitter space and perform the stability analysis of topological black holes. When $k=-1$, the third order Lovelock black holes are thermodynamically stable for the whole range $r_+$. When $k=1$, we found that the black hole has an intermediate unstable phase for $D=7$. In eight dimensional spacetimes, however, a new phase of thermodynamically unstable small black holes appears if the coefficient $\tildeα$ is under a critical value. For $D\geq 9$, black holes have similar the distributions of thermodynamically stable regions to the case where the coefficient $\tildeα$ is under a critical value for $D=8$. It is worth to mention that all the thermodynamic and conserved quantities of the black holes with flat horizon don't depend on the Lovelock coefficients and are the same as those of black holes in general gravity.
description: 15 pages, 22 figures
Envolvimento participativo de famílias no processo de apoio em Intervenção Precoce na Infância
Participatory involvement in Early Childhood Intervention
Creators: name: Maia Machado, Marisa Alexandra
name: Coelho Henriques Dos Santos, Paula Ângela
name: Espe-Sherwindt, Marilyn
Publisher: name: Escola Superior de Educação de Paula Frassinetti - CIPAF
Year: 2017
Subjects: Intervenção Precoce na Infância; Práticas de ajuda eficaz; Abordagem centrada na família; Envolvimento participativo; Inclusão

description: Data de Submissão: 12-10-2017 Data de Aceitação: 22-12-2017

A influência que a família exerce sobre o desenvolvimento da criança conduz à importância da adoção de práticas que promovam o envolvimento participativo da família. Daí a dimensão participativa, caracterizadora de inclusão, se relevar como componente diferenciadora no processo de apoio em Intervenção Precoce na Infância.

Assim, este estudo exploratório utilizou o triângulo das práticas de ajuda eficaz, com enfoque no vetor envolvimento participativo, como quadro teórico, para obter uma melhor compreensão acerca as oportunidades proporcionadas à participação das famílias apoiadas; e as suas expectativas quanto às práticas participativas.

Encontrámos evidências congruentes com os princípios da abordagem centrada na família, emergindo passíveis implicações, essencialmente, sobre redes de suporte.

The child’s development process occurs in the context of her/his involvement in meaningful relationships with "reference persons" - those who, by responding in a contingent, regular and consistent manner to the child's basic needs, become "special", unique to her/him; in most cases, they’re the child's family, and their involvement and participation in the Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) process is an essential component for its success, and a key in the path towards the child’s educational and social inclusion.

This exploratory study, based on the framework of the “ECI effective help-giving practices” advocated in the literature, aims to obtain a better understanding of (i) families’ perception about the opportunities they are offered to participate in the process of supporting their children, and (ii) about their expectations regarding the professional practices providing this participation.

The generated data indicate that the inquired families (represented by three mothers) experience a family centred approach that they recognize as a way for the social and educational inclusion of their children, and stress the importance of identifying support networks - formal and informal - in their lives and their children’s.

Keywords: Early Childhood Intervention; Help-giving practices; Family centred practices; Participatory involvement; Social and Educational Inclusion
description: Saber & Educar, n. 23 (2017): Contornos da EDUCAÇÃO INCLUSIVA na perspetiva da lei e das respostas educativas
Observational constraints on the spin of the most massive black holes from radio observations
Creators: name: Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo
name: Rawlings, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use recent progress in simulating the production of magnetohydrodynamic jets around black holes to derive the cosmic spin history of the most massive black holes, with masses >~10^8 Msol. Assuming the jet efficiency depends on spin a, we can approximately reproduce the observed `radio loudness' of quasars and the local radio luminosity function. Using the X-ray luminosity function and the local mass function of supermassive black holes, SMBHs we can reproduce the individual radio luminosity functions of radio sources showing high- and low-excitation narrow emission lines. The data favour spin distributions that are bimodal, with one component around spin zero and the other close to maximal spin. In the low-excitation galaxies, the two components have similar amplitudes. For the high-excitation galaxies, the amplitude of the high-spin peak is typically much smaller than that of the low-spin peak. A bimodality should be seen in the radio loudness of quasars. We predict that the low-excitation galaxies are dominated by SMBHs with masses >~10^8 Msol, down to radio luminosity densities ~10^21 W Hz-1 sr-1 at 1.4~GHz. Our model is also able to predict the radio luminosity function at z=1, and predicts it to be dominated by high-excitation galaxies above luminosity densities >~10^26 W Hz-1 sr-1, in full agreement with the observations. From our parametrisation and using the best fitting jet efficiencies there is marginal evidence for evolution in spin: the mean spin increases slightly from ~0.25 at z=1 to ~0.35 at z=0, and the fraction of SMBHs with a>=0.5 increases from 0.16+-0.03 at z=1 to 0.24+-0.09 at z=0. Our results are in excellent agreement with the mean radiative efficiency of quasars, as well as recent cosmological simulations. We discuss the implications in terms of accretion and SMBH mergers, and galactic black holes (Abridged).
description: Accepted for publication by MNRAS. 30 Pages, 14 Figures, 5 Tables
Didymium melanospermum T. Macbr., N. Amer.
Creators: name: Treviño-Zevallos, Italo
name: García-Cunchillos, Iván
name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
name: Lado, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Physarales
Physaraceae
Didymium
Didymium melanospermum

description: 71. Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T. Macbr., N. Amer. Slime-moulds, ed. 1, 88 (1899)
 Specimens examined. PERU. Ancash: Bolognesi, Conococha, route PE-16, km 117, 4019 m, 10º09′10.2”S, 77º18′48.0”W, 24 Apr 2013, leaves of grasses, Lado 23161 (MA-Fungi 95314), Lado 23162b (MA-Fungi 95316). Cusco: Canchis, Marangani, Aguas calientes, route PE-3S, Km 1137, 4057 m, 14º27′01”S, 71º04′36”W, 22 Apr 2016, leaves of Baccharis sp., Lado 24643b (MA-Fungi 95912).
description: Published as part of Treviño-Zevallos, Italo, García-Cunchillos, Iván, Basanta, Diana Wrigley De & Lado, Carlos, 2023, Diversity of Myxomycetes from Peru Part III: The high Andes and the altiplano, pp. 1-92 in Phytotaxa 624 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.624.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10150721
Interface solitons in one-dimensional locally-coupled lattice systems
Creators: name: Hadzievski, Lj.
name: Gligoric, G.
name: Maluckov, A.
name: Malomed, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fundamental solitons pinned to the interface between two discrete lattices coupled at a single site are investigated. Serially and parallel-coupled identical chains (\textit{System 1} and \textit{System 2}), with the self-attractive on-site cubic nonlinearity, are considered in one dimension. In these two systems, which can be readily implemented as arrays of nonlinear optical waveguides, symmetric, antisymmetric and asymmetric solitons are investigated by means of the variational approximation (VA) and numerical methods. The VA demonstrates that the antisymmetric solitons exist in the entire parameter space, while the symmetric and asymmetric modes can be found below some critical value of the coupling parameter. Numerical results confirm these predictions for the symmetric and asymmetric fundamental modes. The existence region of numerically found antisymmetric solitons is also limited by a certain value of the coupling parameter. The symmetric solitons are destabilized via a supercritical symmetry-breaking pitchfork bifurcation, which gives rise to stable asymmetric solitons, in both systems. The antisymmetric fundamental solitons, which may be stable or not, do not undergo any bifurcation. In bistability regions stable antisymmetric solitons coexist with either symmetric or asymmetric ones.
description: 9 figures
แนวทางการพัฒนาคุณภาพชีวิตของประชาชนชุมชนเขากบเอราวัณ จังหวัดนครสวรรค์
Creators: name: อุทัยวรรณ ภู่เทศ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาจุฬาลงกรณราชวิทยาลัย วิทยาเขตนครสวรรค์
Year: 2023
Subjects: รูปแบบ
ผู้นำเชิงนวัตกรรม
ผู้บริหารสถานศึกษา

description: The Journal of Research and Academics, 6, 3, 293-308
รูปแบบภาวะผู้นำเชิงนวัตกรรมของผู้บริหารสถานศึกษา สังกัดสำนักงานคณะกรรมการการศึกษาขั้นพื้นฐาน
Creators: name: สาธร ทรัพย์รวงทอง
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาจุฬาลงกรณราชวิทยาลัย วิทยาเขตนครสวรรค์
Year: 2023
Subjects: รูปแบบ
ผู้นำเชิงนวัตกรรม
ผู้บริหารสถานศึกษา

description: The Journal of Research and Academics, 6, 3, 309-324
Heavy Quark Spin Symmetry and Heavy Baryons: Electroweak Decays
Creators: name: Albertus, C.
name: Amaro, J. E.
name: Hernandez, E.
name: Nieves, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heavy quark spin symmetry is discussed in the context of single and doubly heavy baryons. A special attention is paid to the constraints/simplifications that this symmetry imposes on the non-relativistic constituent quark model wave functions and on the b->c semileptonic decays of these hadrons.
description: Presented at the 21st European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Salamanca, Spain, 30 August - 3 September 2010
Alignments of Galaxy Group Shapes with Large Scale Structure
Creators: name: Paz, Dante J.
name: Sgró, Mario A.
name: Merchán, Manuel
name: Padilla, Nelson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyse the alignment of galaxy groups with the surrounding large scale structure traced by spectroscopic galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. We characterise these alignments by means of an extension of the classical two-point cross-correlation function, developed by Paz et al. 2008 (arXiv:0804.4477, MNRAS 389 1127). We find a strong alignment signal between the projected major axis of group shapes and the surrounding galaxy distribution up to scales of 30 Mpc/h. This observed anisotropy signal becomes larger as the galaxy group mass increases, in excellent agreement with the corresponding predicted alignment obtained from mock catalogues and LCDM cosmological simulations. These measurements provide new direct evidence of the adequacy of the gravitational instability picture to describe the large-scale structure formation of our Universe.
description: 12 pages,7 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Monte-Carlo Simulations of Radio Emitting Secondaries in Gamma-Ray Binaries
Creators: name: Bosch-Ramon, Valenti
name: Khangulyan, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several binary systems that contain a massive star have been detected in both the radio band and at very high energies. In the dense stellar photon field of these sources, gamma-ray absorption and pair creation are expected to occur, and the radiation from these pairs may contribute significantly to the observed radio emission. We aim at going deeper in the study of the properties, and in particular the morphology, of the pair radio emission in gamma-ray binaries. We apply a Monte-Carlo code that computes the creation location, the spatial trajectory and the energy evolution of the pairs produced in the binary system and its surroundings. The radio emission produced by these pairs, with its spectral, variability and spatial characteristics, is calculated as it would be seen from a certain direction. A generic case is studied first, and then the specific case of LS 5039 is also considered. We find that, confirming previous results, the secondary radio emission should appear as an extended radio structure of a few milliarcseconds size. This radiation would be relatively hard, with fluxes up to ~ 10 mJy. Modulation is expected depending on the gamma-ray production luminosity, system eccentricity, and wind ionization fraction, and to a lesser extent on the magnetic field structure. In gamma-ray binaries in general, the pairs created due to photon-photon interactions can contribute significantly to the core, and generate an extended structure. In the case of LS 5039, the secondary radio emission is likely to be a significant fraction of the detected core flux, with a marginal extension.
description: 13 pages, 12 Figures, 2 Tables, to be published in PASJ (Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan), in press
Statistical mechanics of money, debt, and energy consumption
Creators: name: Yakovenko, Victor M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We briefly review statistical models for the probability distribution of money developed in the econophysics literature since the late 1990s. In these models, economic transactions are modeled as random transfers of money between the agents in payment for goods and services. We focus on conceptual foundations for this approach, on the issues of money conservation and debt, and present new results for the energy consumption distribution around the world.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, invited paper to the journal "Science and Culture" for a special issue on Econophysics; located at http://www.scienceandculture-isna.org/sep-oct-2010.htm
Characterization of autophagy in retinal rod photoreceptor cells in Xenopus laevis
Creators: name: Wen, Runxia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder that causes progressive cell death of the rod and cone photoreceptors, eventually leading to blindness. The light-sensitive protein in rods, rhodopsin, is composed of the chromophore 11-cis retinal and the protein rod opsin. Mutations in the rhodopsin gene are common causes of RP. Autophagy is a lysosomal-turnover pathway for degrading dysfunctional proteins, organelles or other cellular components that is necessary for maintaining cellular homeostasis. We observed an increase of autophagy structures in rods expressing the misfolding-prone rhodopsin mutant P23H (Bogéa et al. 2015). However, the role autophagy plays in RP is not clearly understood. To examine the role of autophagy in normal and diseased rods, I generated transgenic Xenopus laevis tadpoles expressing the autophagy reporter mRFP-eGFP-LC3. My results demonstrate that the autophagy process lasts for about 34 h in normal rods. Early autophagic structures persist for 6 to 8 h before fusing with lysosomes and acidification; acidified autolysosomes persist for about 28 h before complete digestion. Autophagy in normal rods is diurnally regulated, with more autophagic structures generated in light and fewer in darkness; this regulation is non-circadian. Autophagy also increased in rods co-expressing P23H rhodopsin. The rhodopsin chromophore, a pharmacological chaperone for rhodopsin, absorbs photons to initiate phototransduction, and is consumed in this process; it also promotes proper rhodopsin folding. To determine whether increased autophagy in light-exposed normal rods is caused by increased misfolding of wildtype rhodopsin due to lack of chromophore, I used CRISPR/Cas9 to knock out the gene RPE65, which is essential for chromophore biosynthesis. I observed that eliminating chromophore does not promote autophagy in dark-reared rods, but prevents induction of autophagy in light-exposed rods. This combination of outcomes suggests that, although rhodopsin misfolding can induce autophagy, light-induced autophagy is not due to misfolding of rhodopsin, but rather due to phototransduction. Further, I found that a group of compounds called histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, valproic acid (VPA), sodium butyrate (NaBu) and CI-994, consistently promote autophagy in rods; these compounds were previously demonstrated to ameliorate retinal degeneration associated with P23H rhodopsin (Vent-schmidt et al. 2017).
Now Normal to Next Normal ของพระสงฆ์ในการปฏิบัติศาสนกิจ
Creators: name: พระครูสังฆรักษ์ศุภณัฐ ภูริวฑฺฒโน
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาจุฬาลงกรณราชวิทยาลัย วิทยาเขตนครสวรรค์
Year: 2023
Subjects: ชีวิตวิถีใหม่
ชีวิตวิถีถัดไป
พระสงฆ์
การปฏิบัติศาสนกิจ

description: The Journal of Research and Academics, 6, 3, 325-340