cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Educating students about AIDS through art
Creators: name: Grosso, Ashley
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation evaluates the effects and implementation of an education program aimed at increasing knowledge and changing attitudes about HIV and AIDS among high school students. Using a quasi-experimental pretest posttest design and process and outcome evaluation, the research was conducted in four Newark, New Jersey public high schools. Students in the intervention group attended an art exhibit related toAIDS consisting of the AIDS Museum’s collection, participated in a discussion with an artist living with HIV, and created their own art projects about HIV. Students in the comparison group participated in the standard of care, consisting of the usual HIV education provided through health classes. Quantitative questionnaires from 325 students and qualitative individual interviews with 15 students were conducted in order to evaluate the impact of the program on students’ knowledge and attitudes about AIDS. The quantitative findingsindicated that increases in student knowledge were associated with participating in the AIDS Museum program, but changes in attitudes were not significantly related to the intervention. The interviews revealed that after the program, students felt more empathetic toward people with HIV and learned they could overcome challenges in their lives. The second phase of the study examined factors that facilitated and impeded theimplementation of this intervention and other HIV education programs in the Newark Public Schools through participant observation, individual interviews with seven school and district-level administrators, and two focus group interviews with health teachers.Findings indicated that, at the city-level, economic, political, policy, and social issues influenced implementation, especially in the climate of an economic recession. At the school-level, organizational factors as well as the individual behaviors of employeesaffected program implementation and quality. School leaders, particularly health education department chairs, were influential in determining whether their school participated in the study. Teachers’ cooperation was important for program implementation. The program was particularly challenging to implement in schools with less structured environments in which students experienced more social and behavioralproblems. A combined top-down and bottom-up approach to implementation and arational/technocratic and political/cultural framework help explain facilitators and barriers to implementation of HIV education programs in this context.
III Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Edukacja wobec wyzwań i zadań współczesności i przyszłości
Creators: name: Szempruch, Jolanta
Publisher: name: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Year: 2020

description: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca, Nr 19 (2020): Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
User Friendly Line CAPTCHAs
Creators: name: Karunathilake, A. K. B.
name: Balasuriya, B. M. D.
name: Ragel, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: CAPTCHAs or reverse Turing tests are real-time assessments used by programs (or computers) to tell humans and machines apart. This is achieved by assigning and assessing hard AI problems that could only be solved easily by human but not by machines. Applications of such assessments range from stopping spammers from automatically filling online forms to preventing hackers from performing dictionary attack. Today, the race between makers and breakers of CAPTCHAs is at a juncture, where the CAPTCHAs proposed are not even answerable by humans. We consider such CAPTCHAs as non user friendly. In this paper, we propose a novel technique for reverse Turing test - we call it the Line CAPTCHAs - that mainly focuses on user friendliness while not compromising the security aspect that is expected to be provided by such a system.
description: 6 pages
Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa Rodzicielstwo i rodzina (Re)konstrukcje życia codziennego
Creators: name: Trzos, Paweł
name: Lewicka, Monika
Publisher: name: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Year: 2020

description: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca, Nr 19 (2020): Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Games for the Strategic Influence of Expectations
Creators: name: Godo, Lluís
name: Marchioni, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.11, I.2.4

description: We introduce a new class of games where each player's aim is to randomise her strategic choices in order to affect the other players' expectations aside from her own. The way each player intends to exert this influence is expressed through a Boolean combination of polynomial equalities and inequalities with rational coefficients. We offer a logical representation of these games as well as a computational study of the existence of equilibria.
description: In Proceedings SR 2014, arXiv:1404.0414
IV Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Uniwersalizm pracy ludzkiej Wyzwania dla edukacji
Creators: name: Pikuła, Norbert G.
Publisher: name: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Year: 2020

description: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca, Nr 19 (2020): Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Measuring the effectiveness of an alternative education collaborative in improving student outcomes in Newark, New Jersey
Creators: name: Genao, Soribel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: An increasing concern in public administration is the development of effective collaborative approaches to public problems through partnerships between government, private and nonprofit organizations. To address this concern, this research evaluated the relative efficacy of a newly developed collaborative alternative education initiative in the Newark public schools in comparison to the existing drop-out prevention program and the elements of the collaboration that may have contributed to these outcomes. In 2007, Newark's graduation rate was 63% according to the new graduation calculation method approved by the National Governors Association, Graduation Counts Compact of 2005 (NPS, 2008). In 1999, The Newark Public Schools initiated The Twilight Program, a drop-out prevention program designed to meet academic, social and emotional needs of students that could not be met in the traditional high school setting. However, in 2003, when Newark's Office of Alternative Education (OAE) determined that the existing Twilight Programs had not fully addressed student needs, the Newark Public Schools added a research-based alternative education model built through a partnership with the City of Newark, local and state government agencies, Essex County College, private foundations, and local community organizations. There is a broad consensus that collaboration can mobilize a broad array of expert experience and broaden a program's political basis of legitimacy. In practice, however, these partnerships are developing ahead of empirical research supporting their efficacy or delineating which specific elements of collaboration are most critical to observed outcomes. Informed by principles of process outcome and organizational collaboration, this dissertation compares the relative efficacy of alternative education placements in two Newark-based initiatives and evaluates the collaborative process among stakeholders in these initiatives. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, this dissertation answers research questions: Does participating in an alternative high school initiative program make a quantifiable difference in the path of a student's academic career? and Was the AHSI collaboration successful? The findings from the quantitative and qualitative study suggest that overall performance of the AHSI students is significantly higher than in the Twilight program. However, the achievement had less to do with the collaborative process and more to do with the resources.
Diversity management and its organizational outcomes
Creators: name: Ma, Jia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The effects of workforce diversity and diversity management have received much attention in recent years. These studies share the concern that without empirical data to support their positive outcomes, workforce diversity and diversity management cannot be widely accepted by public managers. The objective of this dissertation is thus to examine the relationship between workforce diversity, diversity management and minority employee turnover rate, one of the most important organizational outcomes. With this objective, it seeks to address the following issues: 1. How does a strategic diversity management system (SDM) affect workforce diversity and minority employee turnover rate? 2. Which diversity management practices among SDM contribute to the above results? 3. How does workforce diversity affect minority employee turnover rate? 4. Does workforce diversity differ between entry-level employees and professional employees? 5. If there is such a difference between these two groups' diversity, how does this difference affect their minority employee turnover rates respectively? This dissertation also recommends applying strategic human resources management theory to diversity management. It argues that diversity management would achieve its best results when implemented as a synergetic system. Accordingly, it suggests a strategic diversity management framework and discusses its outcomes. ANOVA and regression analysis were conducted on a sample of 24 agencies in New Jersey state government. The overall findings demonstrate that agencies with better diversity management systems tend to have higher workforce diversity and lower minority turnover rate. The findings also show that diversity management practices as a whole generate positive organizational outcomes, even though some of these practices may not be effective individually. The findings indicate that there is more diversity in entry-level job positions than in professional-level positions. Moreover, at the entry level the minority employee turnover rate is negatively affected by workforce diversity, while at the professional level there is no noticeable effect on the turnover rate.
Young stars in an old bulge: a natural outcome of internal evolution in the Milky Way
Creators: name: Ness, M.
name: Debattista, Victor. P.
name: Bensby, T.
name: Feltzing, S.
name: Roskar, R.
name: Cole, D. R.
name: Johnson, J. A.
name: Freeman, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The center of our disk galaxy, the Milky Way, is dominated by a boxy/peanut-shaped bulge. Numerous studies of the bulge based on stellar photometry have concluded that the bulge stars are exclusively old. The perceived lack of young stars in the bulge strongly constrains its likely formation scenarios, providing evidence that the bulge is a unique population that formed early and separately from the disk. However, recent studies of individual bulge stars using the microlensing technique have reported that they span a range of ages, emphasizing that the bulge may not be a monolithic structure. In this letter we demonstrate that the presence of young stars that are located predominantly near the plane is expected for a bulge that has formed from the disk via dynamical instabilities. Using an N-body+SPH simulation of a disk galaxy forming out of gas cooling inside a dark matter halo and forming stars, we find a qualitative agreement between our model and the observations of young metal-rich stars in the bulge. We are also able to partially resolve the apparent contradiction in the literature between results that argue for a purely old bulge population and those which show a population comprised of a range in ages; the key is where to look.
description: Submitted to ApJL, 8 Pages, 5 Figures
title: Study of the Feasibility of a Virtual Environment for Home User Cybersecurity
Creators: name: Powell, Sean
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This research focuses on the average home computer user’s ability to download, install and manage a virtual machine software program. The findings of this research is to be used as a foundation to the possibility of using a virtual machine software program as another form of defense for the home user’s computer. Virtual machines already have various uses, some in the cybersecurity field; this possibility could add another useful application for the software program. This research is conducted by monitoring volunteers’ ability to download, install, set up, and perform basic instructions on the virtual environment. It was from the volunteers’ experience that I hoped to gain an understanding on if more people could be able to manage a virtual environment. The findings point towards that it is possible for an average home computer user to be able to handle a virtual environment. There are steps that could help the user become more familiar with the virtual environment, but there is an openness demonstrated by the volunteers towards using a virtual machine software program as another layer of their computer cybersecurity.
V Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa "Pomoc – wsparcie społeczne – poradnictwo. Między teorią a praktyką wspierania jednostki w życiu osobistym, edukacji i pracy"
Creators: name: Piorunek, Magdalena
name: Nawój-Połoczańska, Joanna
name: Dolata, Dorota
Publisher: name: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Year: 2020

description: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca, Nr 19 (2020): Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
On Defendability of Security Properties
Creators: name: Jamroga, Wojciech
name: Melissen, Matthijs
name: Schnoor, Henning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the security of interaction protocols when incentives of participants are taken into account. We begin by formally defining correctness of a protocol, given a notion of rationality and utilities of participating agents. Based on that, we propose how to assess security when the precise incentives are unknown. Then, the security level can be defined in terms of defender sets, i.e., sets of participants who can effectively "defend" the security property as long as they are in favor of the property. We present some theoretical characterizations of defendable protocols under Nash equilibrium, first for bijective games (a standard assumption in game theory), and then for games with non-injective outcomes that better correspond to interaction protocols. Finally, we apply our concepts to analyze fairness in the ASW contract-signing protocol.
description: In Proceedings SR 2014, arXiv:1404.0414
Dynamic Move Chains -- a Forward Pruning Approach to Tree Search in Computer Chess
Creators: name: Greer, Kieran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a new mechanism for pruning a search game-tree in computer chess. The algorithm stores and then reuses chains or sequences of moves, built up from previous searches. These move sequences have a built-in forward-pruning mechanism that can radically reduce the search space. A typical search process might retrieve a move from a Transposition Table, where the decision of what move to retrieve would be based on the position itself. This algorithm stores move sequences based on what previous sequences were better, or caused cutoffs. This is therefore position independent and so it could also be useful in games with imperfect information or uncertainty, where the whole situation is not known at any one time. Over a small set of tests, the algorithm was shown to clearly out-perform Transposition Tables, both in terms of search reduction and game-play results.
description: Published
Recenzja książki Anny Frąckowiak, Moniki Gromadzkiej, Józefa Półturzyckiego „Samokształcenie w edukacji całożyciowej”
Creators: name: Ludwikowska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Year: 2020

description: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca, Nr 19 (2020): Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Recenzja książki Waldemara Furmanka „Człowiek w badaniach współczesnej pedagogiki zorientowanej personalistycznie”
Creators: name: Gerlach, Ryszard
Publisher: name: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Year: 2020

description: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca, Nr 19 (2020): Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Unterstützen die Bürger*innen die Einführung von Quoten und anderen Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen in Deutschland?
Creators: name: Coffé, Hilde
name: Reiser, Marion
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2020

description: Ausgehend von den vielfältigen Debatten um Quoten und weitere Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen zur Erhöhung des Anteils unterrepräsentierter Gruppen in den Parlamenten untersucht der Beitrag die Einstellungen der Bürger*innen in Deutschland zu diesen Maßnahmen für Frauen und Personen mit Migrationshintergrund. Insgesamt befürwortet nur eine Minderheit Quoten, wobei insbesondere gesetzliche Quoten und Maßnahmen für Personen mit Migrationshintergrund nur eine sehr geringe Unterstützung erfahren. Frauen und Anhänger*innen linker Parteien unterstützen signifikant häufiger positive Maßnahmen. Die Verbesserung der deskriptiven Repräsentation im Parlament wird von den Befragten als wichtigster Grund für die Unterstützung von Maßnahmen genannt.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2020): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Zwischen Basisdemokratie und Uniformität
Creators: name: Pohlmann, Simon
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2020

description: Wahlen sind essenziell für das politische System Deutschlands. Auch wenn die Öffentlichkeit vor allem die Phase des Wahlkampfs und den Wahltag wahrnimmt, sind von der Einteilung der Wahlkreise bis zur Wahlprüfung viele Schritte zu gehen. Einer dieser Schritte ist das Wahlvorschlagsverfahren, in dem die Bewerber ermittelt werden, welche die Bürger am Wahltag dann auf den Stimmzetteln finden. Im Zentrum des Wahlvorschlagsverfahrens stehen dabei Entscheidungen der Mitglieder der Parteien auf Aufstellungsversammlungen. Entgegen dem Gebot innerparteilicher Demokratie stehen höheren Parteigliederungen gegen Wahlvorschläge für Kommunalwahlen und Wahlkreisbewerber bei Bundestagswahlen Einspruchsrechte zu. Dieser Beitrag gibt unter besonderer Betrachtung des nordrhein-westfälischen Kommunalwahlrechts und des Bundestagswahlrechts Antworten auf die Fragen, was ein Einspruch im Wahlvorschlagsverfahren ist, welche Voraussetzungen zu erfüllen sind und wie sowie gegenüber wem er sich auswirkt.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2020): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
All-Optical Routing of Single Photons by a One-Atom Switch Controlled by a Single Photon
Creators: name: Shomroni, Itay
name: Rosenblum, Serge
name: Lovsky, Yulia
name: Bechler, Orel
name: Guendelman, Gabriel
name: Dayan, Barak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The prospect of quantum networks, in which quantum information is carried by single photons in photonic circuits, has long been the driving force behind the effort to achieve all-optical routing of single photons. Here we realize the most basic unit of such a photonic circuit: a single-photon activated switch, capable of routing a photon from any of its two inputs to any of its two outputs. Our device is based on a single 87Rb atom coupled to a fiber-coupled, chip-based microresonator, and is completely all-optical, requiring no other fields beside the in-fiber single-photon pulses. Nonclassical statistics of the control pulse confirm that a single reflected photon toggles the switch from high reflection (65%) to high transmission (90%), with average of ~1.5 control photons per switching event (~3 including linear losses). The fact that the control and target photons are both in-fiber and practically identical makes this scheme compatible with scalable architectures for quantum information processing.
Healthcare Record Management System
Creators: name: Meghana Bhandari, Prarthana Y Aradhya, Rakshitha G K, Sagar M, Chethan H S
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Blockchain technology has emerged as a transformative tool for ensuring security,transparency, and immutability in various domains, including healthcare. This paper introduces a Healthcare Record ManagementSystem (HRMS) built on blockchain, designed to address the challenges of data integrity, security, and accessibility in patient record management. The system empowers authorized doctors to edit patient recordswhile maintaining a transparent log of changes using timestamps. By leveraging the decentralized nature of blockchain, the proposed system ensures that patient data remains tamper-proof, enhancing trust amongstakeholders. Additionally, the timestamp functionality provides users, including patientsand healthcare providers, with a detailed history of record modifications, fostering accountability and facilitating better decisionmaking. This study explores the design, implementation, and evaluation of the system, highlighting its potential to revolutionise healthcare data management by offering asecure, transparent, and efficient solution.
Operation and performance of the CMS tracker
Creators: name: Veszpremi, Viktor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CMS silicon tracker consists of two tracking devices utilizing semiconductor technology: the inner pixel and the outer strip detectors. They operate in a high-occupancy and high-radiation environment presented by particle collisions in the LHC. The tracker detectors occupy the region around the center of CMS, where the LHC beams collide, between 4 cm and 110 cm in radius and up to 280 cm along the beam axis. The pixel detector consists of 66 million pixels, covering about 1 m2 total area. It is surrounded by the strip tracker with 10 million read-out channels covering about 200 m2 total area. The proceedings describe the operational experience collected during the first three years of LHC running. Results include operational challenges encountered during data taking that influence the active fraction and read-out efficiency of the detectors. Details are given about the performance of the tracker at high occupancy with respect to local observables such as signal to noise ratio and hit reconstruction efficiency. Studies of radiation effects are presented with respect to the evolution of sensor bias, read-out thresholds in the inner pixels, and leakage current.
description: accepted for publication in Journal of Instrumentation
GUIA CURRICULAR PROTECCION DE LOS POLINIZADORES
Creators: name: Almodovar, Wanda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Los jardines de polinizadores nos ofrecen la oportunidad de promover la protección de los polinizadores por niños, jóvenes y adultos.   La información contenida en esta guía se ha obtenido de diferentes fuentes bibliográficas, de la adaptación de diferentes guias y curriculos educativos y de la experiencia de las autoras.  Esta informacion ha sido adaptada y actualizada al área del Caribe. Se incluye información que les permitirá educar en la protección de los polinizadores y cómo mantener un jardín de polinizadores en el hogar o en áreas urbanas.  Esta guía incluye información general, lecciones y actividades que pueden adaptarse para diferentes edades.  Se pretende una mayor unión de las personas con la naturaleza para que valoren los jardines, reconozcan y aprendan como estos contribuyen a la protección de los polinizadores y en la producción de alimentos.  Aprenderán las técnicas básicas para instalar un jardín polinizador, cómo reconocer especies de plantas nativas, tipos de polinizadores y flores que prefieren, factores que los amenazan y las estrategias que se pueden llevar a cabo para  su protección.
Fraktionsgeschäftsordnungen als unbestelltes Feld der Politikwissenschaft
Creators: name: Schindler, Danny
name: Kannenberg, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2020

description: Fraktionsgeschäftsordnungen regeln die Binnenorganisation parteilicher Gruppierungen im Parlament. Als „Verfassungen“ der Fraktionen sind sie sowohl funktional als auch demokratietheoretisch von großer Relevanz, wenn man nach der Arbeitsweise und Willensbildung der Fraktionen sowie des Parlaments insgesamt fragt. Im Gegensatz zu den aktuell verstärkt erforschten Parlamentsgeschäftsordnungen sind die Fraktionsstatuten allerdings ein politikwissenschaftlich kaum bestelltes Forschungsfeld, dem zuvorderst die Rechtswissenschaft einige Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt hat. In dem neu eingerichteten Forschungsprojekt „Standing Orders of Parties in Parliament“ (SOPiP) werden Fraktionsgeschäftsordnungen sowohl im Zeitverlauf als auch international vergleichend untersucht. In diesem Beitrag werden bestehende Untersuchungsdesiderate sowie Grundzüge des Forschungsprogramms vorgestellt. Eine erste Kurzanalyse geht Veränderungen hinsichtlich Umfang und Inhalt der Regelungen nach. Darin werden Statuten aus der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung bis hin zum 19. Deutschen Bundestag sowie Beispiele aus Armenien, Finnland, Italien, Tschechien oder der Schweiz berücksichtigt.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2020): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Performance comparison between federated and centralized learning with a deep learning model on Hoechst stained images
Creators: name: Alouges Damien
name: Wölflein Georg
name: Um In Hwa
name: David, Harrison
name: Arandjelovic Ognjen
name: Christophe, Battail
name: Gazut Stéphane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Medical data is not fully exploited by Machine Learning (ML) techniques because the privacy concerns restrict the sharing of sensitive information and consequently the use of centralized ML schemes. Usually, ML models trained on local data are failing to reach their full potential owing to low statistical power.
 Federated Learning (FL) solves critical issues in the healthcare domain such as data privacy and enables multiple contributors to build a common and robust ML model by sharing local learning parameters without sharing data. FL approaches are mainly evaluated in the literature using benchmarks and the trade-off between accuracy and privacy still has to be more studied in realistic clinical contexts.
 In this work, we evaluate this trade-off for a CD3/CD8 cells labeling model from Hoechst stained images. Wölflein et al. developed a deep learning GAN model that labels CD3 and CD8 cells from kidney cancer tissue slides stained with Hoechst. The GAN model was trained on 475,000 patches (256x256 pixels) from 8 whole slide images.
 We modified the training to simulate a FL approach by distributing the learning across several clients and aggregating the parameters to create the overall model. We present the performance comparison between FL and centralized learning.
Reasoning about Knowledge and Strategies: Epistemic Strategy Logic
Creators: name: Belardinelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we introduce Epistemic Strategy Logic (ESL), an extension of Strategy Logic with modal operators for individual knowledge. This enhanced framework allows us to represent explicitly and to reason about the knowledge agents have of their own and other agents' strategies. We provide a semantics to ESL in terms of epistemic concurrent game models, and consider the corresponding model checking problem. We show that the complexity of model checking ESL is not worse than (non-epistemic) Strategy Logic
description: In Proceedings SR 2014, arXiv:1404.0414
D mesons in non-central heavy-ion collisions: fluctuating vs. averaged initial conditions
Creators: name: Nahrgang, Marlene
name: Aichelin, Jörg
name: Gossiaux, Pol Bernard
name: Werner, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The suppression of D mesons in non-central heavy-ion collisions is investigated. The anisotropy in collisions at finite impact parameter leads to an ordering of all-angle, in- and out-of-plane nuclear modification factors due to the different in-medium path lengths. Within our MC@sHQ+EPOS model of heavy-quark propagation in the QGP we demonstrate that fluctuating initial conditions lead to an effective reduction of the energy loss of heavy quarks, which is seen in a larger nuclear modification factor at intermediate and high transverse momenta. The elliptic flow at small transverse momenta is reduced.
description: Contribution to the Hard Probes 2013 Conference
In der Geheimschutzstelle
Creators: name: Wimmel, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2020

description: Nach dem EZB-Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 5. Mai 2020 war der Bundestag aufgefordert und angehalten, die Verhältnismäßigkeit von Anleihekäufen und weiterer Maßnahmen zur Stabilisierung der Eurozone zu prüfen. Dieser Kurzbeitrag zeichnet nach, ob und inwieweit die Abgeordneten dieser Verpflichtung nachgekommen sind. Das Ergebnis offenbart erhebliche Mängel in der parlamentarischen Kontrolltätigkeit, insbesondere auf Seiten der regierungstragenden Fraktionen. Aufgrund dieser Praxis wäre es wenig überraschend, wenn der Bundestag seiner Integrationsverantwortung auch im zweiten Anlauf nicht gerecht geworden sein sollte.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2020): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Kandidatenspenden: Einblicke in eine Grauzone
Creators: name: Merten, Heike
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2020

description: Die Regulierung von Zuwendungen jeglicher Art an Kandidaten, die sich zur Wahl stellen, sind sowohl für den Spender als auch für den Spendenempfänger juristisch undurchsichtig und für den Wähler intransparent. Für Spenden an Mandatsträger, also an Wahlbewerber, die sich aus einem Amt heraus erneut zur Wahl stellen, schafft eine große Regelungsdiversität auch nur bedingt mehr Klarheit. Die Rahmenbedingungen für Spenden an Mandatsträger und Kandidaten ohne Amt und solche, die parteigetragen oder parteilos antreten, offenbaren jedenfalls eine erhebliche Ungleichbehandlung. Der Beitrag zeigt die Mängel bei der Transparenz von Kandidatenspenden auf und plädiert für ein umfassendes Regelwerk zur Spendenfinanzierung insb. von Wahlkämpfen.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2020): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Interface Dipole : Effects on Threshold Voltage and Mobility for both Amorphous and Poly-crystalline Organic Field Effect Transistors
Creators: name: Celle, C.
name: Suspene, C.
name: Ternisien, M.
name: Lenfant, S.
name: Guerin, D.
name: Smaali, K.
name: Lmimouni, K.
name: Simonato, J. P.
name: Vuillaume, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a detailed comparison on the role of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of dipolar molecules on the threshold voltage and charge carrier mobility of organic field-effect transistor (OFET) made of both amorphous and polycrystalline organic semiconductors. We show that the same relationship between the threshold voltage and the dipole-induced charges in the SAM holds when both types of devices are fabricated on strictly identical base substrates. Charge carrier mobilities, almost constant for amorphous OFET, are not affected by the dipole in the SAMs, while for polycrystalline OFET (pentacene) the large variation of charge carrier mobilities is related to change in the organic film structure (mostly grain size).
description: Full paper and supporting information
Comunicación y divulgación frente a los incendios forestales
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: comunicación
incendio
forestal
Ecuador
Loja
prevención

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Uncertainty in Crowd Data Sourcing under Structural Constraints
Creators: name: Amarilli, Antoine
name: Amsterdamer, Yael
name: Milo, Tova
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.2.8

description: Applications extracting data from crowdsourcing platforms must deal with the uncertainty of crowd answers in two different ways: first, by deriving estimates of the correct value from the answers; second, by choosing crowd questions whose answers are expected to minimize this uncertainty relative to the overall data collection goal. Such problems are already challenging when we assume that questions are unrelated and answers are independent, but they are even more complicated when we assume that the unknown values follow hard structural constraints (such as monotonicity). In this vision paper, we examine how to formally address this issue with an approach inspired by [Amsterdamer et al., 2013]. We describe a generalized setting where we model constraints as linear inequalities, and use them to guide the choice of crowd questions and the processing of answers. We present the main challenges arising in this setting, and propose directions to solve them.
description: 8 pages, vision paper. To appear at UnCrowd 2014
Parteienfinanzierung durch die Liechtensteiner Gemeinden – Vielfalt auf kleinstem Raum
Creators: name: Schiess Rütimann, Patricia M.
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2020

description: Das liechtensteinische Gesetz über die Parteienfinanzierung regelt nur die Alimentierung der nationalen Parteien. Es macht den Gemeinden keine Vorgaben zur Unterstützung der lokalen Parteisektionen. Die ersten Gemeinden begannen in den späten 1980er Jahren mit der Finanzierung der Ortsgruppen. Mehrere Gemeinden änderten im Laufe der Jahre die Modalitäten. Heute finden sich in den elf Gemeinden vier verschiedene Modelle. Der Beitrag stellt die von den Gemeinden gewählten Varianten vor und analysiert die dort geführten Diskussionen zur Festlegung der Verteilschlüssel.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2020): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Non-professional CMAS Scientific Specialty Courses (SSC), Administrative text
Creators: name: CMAS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Marine biology
Freshwater biology
Conservation biology
Underwater geology
Underwater cultural heritage

description: The non-professional CMAS Scientific Specialty Courses (SSC) combines the expertise of marine and freshwater scientists, underwater geologists and archaeologists, diving officers, administrators, legislators, individual divers, from different parts of the world scientific diving community. Therefore we revised the last version with the colleagues in the CMAS Scientific & Sustainability Committee (SC) mentioned below, who helped to produce this new standards, and acknowledges the help and advice given by many other people through letters or oral comments.
description: {"references": ["CMAS ( 2018) The Scientific and sustainability Committee of CMAS, Non-professional CMAS, Scientific Specialty Courses (SSC), Administrative text. 7pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7698345"]}
Importance of Hypothesis Testing, Type I, and Type II Errors – A Study of Statistical Power
Creators: name: Dash, Bibhu
name: Ali, Azad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Hypothesis Testing, Type I error, Type II error, Statistical Power, Effect Size, Inference, Statistical Significance

description: The statistical interpretation of data is crucial to research techniques and scientific studies. To infer something statistically, one must estimate and test a hypothesis. This is known as statistical inference and the 'Testing of Hypothesis' discussion is crucial when doing a statistical observation. The null and alternative hypotheses used in hypothesis testing result in Type I and Type II errors depending on whether they are accepted or rejected. We focus more on Type II mistakes when discussing statistical power since they are less likely to occur as statistical power increases. This study offers fresh perspectives and a thorough examination of each of these statistical variables, as well as how statistical power affects daily statistical inference and decision-making.
Importance of Hypothesis Testing, Type I, and Type II Errors – A Study of Statistical Power
Creators: name: Dash, Bibhu
name: Ali, Azad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Hypothesis Testing, Type I error, Type II error, Statistical Power, Effect Size, Inference

description: The statistical interpretation of data is crucial to research techniques and scientific studies. To infer something statistically, one must estimate and test a hypothesis. This is known as statistical inference and the 'Testing of Hypothesis' discussion is crucial when doing a statistical observation. The null and alternative hypotheses used in hypothesis testing result in Type I and Type II errors depending on whether they are accepted or rejected. We focus more on Type II mistakes when discussing statistical power since they are less likely to occur as statistical power increases. This study offers fresh perspectives and a thorough examination of each of these statistical variables, as well as how statistical power affects daily statistical inference and decision-making.
Evaluation of the diagnostic capacity for leprosy and other skin NTDs of health care workers in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania
Creators: name: Abdoulaye Marega
name: Rassolo, Helder
name: Stakteas, Yuki.P
name: Dreva, Domingos
name: Mitano, Fernando
name: Muloliwa, Artur.M
name: Schoenmakers, Anne
name: Wijk, Robin van
name: Hambridge, Tomas
name: Richardus, J.H
name: Raimond, Litos
name: Mamo, E
name: Bobosha, K
name: Legesse, M
name: Kasang, C
name: Debelo, K
name: Mwageni, N
name: Mshana, S.E
name: Njako, B
name: Nyakato, P
name: Mieras, L
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The prevalence of skin-related neglected tropical diseases (skin NTDs) is in many regions accompanied by a dermatologist shortage, underscoring the significance of skilled community health workers (CHWs). This study aims to evaluate the knowledge level of CHWs in leprosy and skin disease identification. This abstract reports on the first two (out of four) tests included in the PEP4LEP project.
An Epistemic Strategy Logic (Extended Abstract)
Creators: name: Huang, Xiaowei
name: van der Meyden, Ron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper presents an extension of temporal epistemic logic with operators that quantify over strategies. The language also provides a natural way to represent what agents would know were they to be aware of the strategies being used by other agents. Some examples are presented to motivate the framework, and relationships to several variants of alternating temporal epistemic logic are discussed. The computational complexity of model checking the logic is also characterized.
description: In Proceedings SR 2014, arXiv:1404.0414
Telegraph noise effects on two charge-qubits in double quantum dots
Creators: name: Ayachi, A.
name: Chouikha, W. Ben
name: Jaziri, S.
name: Bennaceur, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze theoretically the decoherence of two interacting electrons in a double self-assembled quantum dot due to a random telegraph noise. For this purpose we have examined the pure dephasing rate by evaluating the decoherence factor. This latter has been shown to be different from that calculated within the Gaussian approximation in the strong coupling regime. In order to determine the influence of the random telegraph noise on the entanglement of the system states, the concurrence, the populations and the entropy are evaluated as well. Our results show that telegraph noise can severely impact the coherence of charges qubits.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Die Stimmenverrechnung bei den Wahlen zum Landtag des Landes Hessen
Creators: name: Jungkind, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2020

description: Der Beitrag widmet sich der Frage, wie die Parlamentsgröße und der dazugehörige Mandatsausgleich im Falle des Auftretens von Quasi-Überhangmandaten bei den Wahlen zum Hessischen Landtag zu berechnen sind. In den Fokus geriet die Thematik durch eine Klage der AfD-Fraktion des Hessischen Landtags, die aktuell vor dem Hessischen Staatsgerichtshof verhandelt wird. Aufbauend auf der Darstellung der Methode zur Stimmenverrechnung des Wahlsystems zum Hessischen Landtag wird die gesetzliche Grundlage für den Ausgleich im hessischen Landeswahlgesetz näher analysiert und sowohl die vom Landeswahlleiter für Hessen wie auch der AfD-Fraktion für anwendbar erachteten Berechnungsmethoden kritisch beleuchtet. Der Autor gelangt dabei zu dem Ergebnis, dass beide Vorgehensweisen fehlerhaft sind und stellt abschließend eine Berechnungsmethode vor, die den gestellten Anforderungen des hessischen Wahlrechts und -systems entspricht.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2020): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
An approximate approach to the nonlinear DGLAP evaluation equation
Creators: name: Boroun, G. R.
name: Zarrin, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determined the effects of the first nonlinear corrections to the gluon distribution using the solution of the QCD nonlinear Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (NLDGLAP) evolution equation at small x. By using a Laplace-transform technique, the behavior of the gluon distribution is obtained by solving the Gribov, Levin, Ryskin, Mueller and Qiu (GLR-MQ) evolution equation with the nonlinear shadowing term incorporated. We show that the strong rise that is corresponding to the linear QCD evolution equations at small x can be tamed by screening effects. Consequently, the nonlinear effects for the gluon distributions are calculated and compared with the results for the integrated gluon density from the Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation. The resulting analytic expression allows us to predict the shadowing correction to the logarithmic derivative $F_{2}(x,Q^{2})$ with respect to $ln Q^{2}$ and to compare the results with H1 data and a QCD analysis fit.
description: 9pages,4figures
All-optical control of ferromagnetic thin films and nanostructures
Creators: name: Lambert, Charles-Henri
name: Mangin, Stephane
name: Varaprasad, B. S. D. Ch. S.
name: Takahashi, Y. K.
name: Hehn, M.
name: Cinchetti, M.
name: Malinowski, G.
name: Hono, K.
name: Fainman, Y.
name: Aeschlimann, M.
name: Fullerton, Eric E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay of light and magnetism has been a topic of interest since the original observations of Faraday and Kerr where magnetic materials affect the light polarization. While these effects have historically been exploited to use light as a probe of magnetic materials there is increasing research on using polarized light to alter or manipulate magnetism. For instance deterministic magnetic switching without any applied magnetic fields using laser pulses of the circular polarized light has been observed for specific ferrimagnetic materials. Here we demonstrate, for the first time, optical control of ferromagnetic materials ranging from magnetic thin films to multilayers and even granular films being explored for ultra-high-density magnetic recording. Our finding shows that optical control of magnetic materials is a much more general phenomenon than previously assumed. These results challenge the current theoretical understanding and will have a major impact on data memory and storage industries via the integration of optical control of ferromagnetic bits.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures
Nash Equilibria in Symmetric Games with Partial Observation
Creators: name: Bouyer, Patricia
name: Markey, Nicolas
name: Vester, Steen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D2.4

description: We investigate a model for representing large multiplayer games, which satisfy strong symmetry properties. This model is made of multiple copies of an arena; each player plays in his own arena, and can partially observe what the other players do. Therefore, this game has partial information and symmetry constraints, which make the computation of Nash equilibria difficult. We show several undecidability results, and for bounded-memory strategies, we precisely characterize the complexity of computing pure Nash equilibria (for qualitative objectives) in this game model.
description: In Proceedings SR 2014, arXiv:1404.0414
Rechtspopulistischer Protest – eine Folge lokaler politischer Kultur?
Creators: name: Reuband, Karl-Heinz
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2020

description: Dresden ist zum Ort des migranten- und islamfeindlichen Protests geworden. Untersucht wird, wie sehr dies über die Einstellungen der Bevölkerung und die soziale Lage der Bürger erklärt werden kann. Der Vergleich stützt sich auf mehrere repräsentative Bevölkerungsumfragen in Dresden und anderen Städten in der Zeit zwischen 1995 und 2014. Es zeigt sich, dass die Entstehung von PEGIDA weder über einen Anstieg ausländerfeindlicher Einstellungen noch über ein Gefühl zunehmender sozialer Deprivation erklärt werden kann. Stattdessen ist eher von zufälligen Konstellationen auszugehen, die Dresden zum Ort des Protests werden ließen. Als Katalysator des Protests kann die Etablierung des Islamischen Staats in Syrien und die beginnende „Flüchtlingskrise“ gesehen werden. Seitdem hat der Protest eine Eigenentwicklung genommen, die durch eine wiederkehrende soziale Teilnahme seitens der PEGIDA-Anhänger an den wöchentlichen Protestveranstaltungen mit bekräftigt wird.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2020): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Can Charge Exchange Explain Anomalous Soft X-ray Emission in the Cygnus Loop?
Creators: name: Cumbee, Renata S.
name: Henley, David B.
name: Stancil, Phillip C.
name: Shelton, Robin L.
name: Nolte, Jeff L.
name: Wu, Yong
name: Schultz, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent X-ray studies have shown that supernova shock models are unable to satisfactorily explain X-ray emission in the rim of the Cygnus Loop. In an attempt to account for this anomalously enhanced X-ray flux, we fit the region with a model including theoretical charge exchange (CX) data along with shock and background X-ray models. The model includes the CX collisions of $O^{8+}$, $O{7+}$, $N^{7+}$, $N^{6+}$, $C^{6+}$, and $C^{5+}$ with H with an energy of 1 keV/u (438 km/s). The observations reveal a strong emission feature near 0.7 keV that cannot fully be accounted for by a shock model, nor the current CX data. Inclusion of CX, specifically $O^{7+} + H$, does provide for a statistically significant improvement over a pure shock model.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL, 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table