cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Quality of Family Planning Service, Bahar Dar Special Zone, Amhara Regional State: A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Tseganeh, Walle
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2005

description: Quantitative cross-sectional and qualitative studies were conducted from August 2004 to may 2005 based on J. Bruce analytical framework to assess the status of quality of family planning service in B/Dar special zone, Amhara Regional state. In this study, 412 female contraceptive users for exit interview and 209 female clients for observation were participated from eight family planning service delivery points. Eight service providers, one Regional maternal and child health team leader, and one Zonal department head were interviewed. Contraceptive supplies and logistics were generally inadequate. Injectable (51.7%) and oral contraceptive pills (47%) were the most frequently used. Most of the clients were not told relevant information on other contraceptive methods and were not popular. Three hundred eight (74.8%) clients received sufficient information on the method provided and 309(75%) of clients responded that contact time with providers was about the right. Among 133 clients who prefer this clinic from their closest site, 82(61.7%) were due to preference of that provider. Clients' mean waiting time was 48 SD + 51 minutes. Limitations in Supervisory system and staff training were identified as constraints to the quality of family planning service. There was significant difference in clients' satisfaction by Governmental and Non-Governmental health service delivery points, OR= 0.480, 95% CI (0.255,0.904). Several short falls were revealed by this study in quality of care in family planning service at B/Dar Special zone. Therefore quality should be considered as integral part of all family planning service delivery points in this Zone. Key words: - Quality, Family planning, satisfaction, Bahar-Dar
Studies on the pericardial glands (Keber's organ) of the freshwater mussel, Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi), (Mollusca, Bivalvia)
Creators: name: Lim, Phaik-sim.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Change in spin-down rate and detection of emission line in HMXB 4U 2206+54 with AstroSat observation
Creators: name: Jain, Chetana
name: Yadav, Ajay
name: Sharma, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work presents timing and spectral analysis of 4U 2206+54 using data obtained from LAXPC instrument onboard India's AstroSat mission. This source was observed with AstroSat in September 2016 and October 2016. We report detection of $5648 (4)$ s pulsations at MJD 57669 in the latter observation of 4U 2206+54. The pulse profile is sinusoidal and the inherent shape is independent of energy up to 30 keV. The pulse fraction increases with energy from $\sim 0.5$% to $\sim 0.8$%. We report an updated spin down rate of $2.95 (14) \times 10^{-7}$ s s$^{-1}$. This is about 0.40 times smaller than the previously reported long term value. The energy spectrum is best modelled with an absorbed power-law with high energy exponential cut-off. We have detected presence of broad emission line in 4U 2206+54 at an energy of $7$ keV with equivalent width of $\sim 0.4$ keV.
description: Accepted in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
Association of maternal anthropometrics with preterm birth and determine other risk factors for preterm birth among mothers who delivered in Gandhi Memorial Hospital and Tikur Anbessa Hospital, 2016/17
Creators: name: Woldesenbet, Dorka
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Background: Globally every year about 15 million newborns are born preterm and about 1.1 million of them die due to complications related to prematurity. Preterm birth is the second leading cause of under-five mortality and the first leading cause for neonatal mortality. In Ethiopia, 25% of neonates die due to prematurity. Socio demographic, medical, obstetric, fetal and behavioral factors were documented as important risk factors for prematurity. The effect of maternal nutritional status measured by anthropometrics on preterm birth is not adequately assessed in Ethiopia. Objectives: To assess the effect of maternal anthropometrics on preterm birth. Methods: The study was conducted in Gandhi Memorial Hospital and Tikur Anbessa Hospital. Facility based unmatched case control study with sample size of 507 was conducted. The main outcome measure was preterm birth and measured using either Last Menstrual Period (LMP), ultrasound for mothers with preterm labor or Ballard examination. Data was entered using Epi Info 7 and STATA 14 statistical software was used for data analysis. Binary logistic regression model was used to measure the association between preterm birth and risk factors. Result: The mean age of respondents was 26 years (±3.7). After adjustment for important risk factors for preterm birth, weight gain during pregnancy (Adj OR=3.5, 95%CI [1.12, 10.90]) and hyperemesis gravidarum (Adj OR=2.62, 95%CI [1.00, 6.85]) was associated with higher odds of having preterm birth. Height, MUAC and pre-pregnancy weight did not showed association with preterm birth when adjusted for other variables. Conclusion and Recommendation: This study found that mothers who had inadequate weight gain during pregnancy and had hyperemesis gravidarum during pregnancy had higher odds of delivering preterm birth. We recommend that further study is needed using prospective study designs, different nutritional status assessment method and on different setup. Attention should be given on identifying risky mothers, strengthen nutritional counselling and give counseling for mothers to seek early care when they see symptoms of hyperemesis gravidarum. Ethiopian FMOH may need to strength maternal nutrition education and better monitoring of weight gain during ANC visits.
Peter Dinzelbacher: Vision und Magie. Religiöses Erleben im Mittelalter
Creators: name: Tuczay, Christa Agnes
Publisher: name: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte
Year: 2024

description: .
description: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Bd. 40 (2021): Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Band 40
Sharpest possible clustering bounds using robust random graph analysis
Creators: name: Brugman, Judith
name: van Leeuwaarden, Johan S. H.
name: Stegehuis, Clara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Complex network theory crucially depends on the assumptions made about the degree distribution, while fitting degree distributions to network data is challenging, in particular for scale-free networks with power-law degrees. We present a robust assessment of complex networks that does not depend on the entire degree distribution, but only on its mean, range and dispersion: summary statistics that are easy to obtain for most real-world networks. By solving several semi-infinite linear programs, we obtain tight (the sharpest possible) bounds for correlation and clustering measures, for all networks with degree distributions that share the same summary statistics. We identify various extremal random graphs that attain these tight bounds as the graphs with specific three-point degree distributions. We leverage the tight bounds to obtain robust laws that explain how degree-degree correlations and local clustering evolve as function of node degrees and network size. These robust laws indicate that power-law networks with diverging variance are among the most extreme networks in terms of correlation and clustering, building further theoretical foundation for widely reported scale-free network phenomena such as correlation and clustering decay.
High Resolution Nonperturbative Light-Front Simulations of the True Muonium Atom
Creators: name: Lamm, Henry
name: Lebed, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through the development of a parallel code called TMSWIFT, an extensive light-front quantization study of the nonperturbative spectrum of the bound state $(μ^+μ^-)$, true muonium, has been performed. Using Padé approximants, it has been possible to extract continuum and infinite-cutoff limits for the singlet and triplet states for a range of values of the coupling constant $α$. This data set allows for an investigation of the $α$ dependence of the light-front spectra, the results of which are compared to standard calculations. Decay constants have also been obtained. Improved calculations have been undertaken for the energy shifts due to the presence of a second, lighter flavor ($e$). Finally, initial results for three-flavor ($e$, $μ$, $τ$) calculations are presented.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, Matches PRD version except for additional references
Klaus Lohrmann: Die Babenberger und ihre Nachbarn
Creators: name: Deutinger, Roman
Publisher: name: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte
Year: 2024

description: .
description: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Bd. 40 (2021): Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Band 40
β-adrenergic blockade
Creators: name: Tay, Jannie Siew Lee.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Andreev spectrum of a Josephson junction with spin-split superconductors
Creators: name: Bujnowski, B.
name: Bercioux, D.
name: Konschelle, F.
name: Cayssol, J.
name: Bergeret, F. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Andreev bound states and charge transport in a Josephson junction between two superconductors with intrinsic exchange fields are studied. We find that for a parallel configuration of the exchange fields in the superconductors the discrete spectrum consists of two pairs of spin-split states. The Josephson current in this case is mainly carried by bound states. In contrast, for the antiparallel configuration we find that there is no spin-splitting of the bound states and that for phase differences smaller than certain critical value there are no bound states at all. Hence the supercurrent is only carried by states in the continuous part of the spectrum. Our predictions can be tested by performing a tunneling spectroscopy of a weak link between two spin-split superconductors.
description: 6 pages with 5 figures
Enhanced coupling between ballistic exciton-polariton condensates through tailored pumping
Creators: name: Wang, Yuan
name: Lagoudakis, Pavlos G.
name: Sigurdsson, Helgi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to enhance the spatial coupling between ballistic exciton-polariton condensates in a semiconductor microcavity based on available spatial light modulator technologies. Our method, verified by numerically solving a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii model, exploits the strong nonequilibrium nature of exciton-polariton condensation driven by localized nonresonant optical excitation. Tailoring the excitation beam profile from a Gaussian into a polygonal shape results in refracted and focused radial streams of outflowing polaritons from the excited condensate which can be directed towards nearest neighbors. Our method can be used to lower the threshold power needed to achieve polariton condensation and increase spatial coherence in extended systems, paving the way towards creating extremely large-scale quantum fluids of light.
Richard Engl: Die verdrängte Kultur. Muslime im Süditalien der Staufer und Anjou (12.–13. Jahrhundert)
Creators: name: Eberl, Immo
Publisher: name: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte
Year: 2024

description: .
description: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Bd. 40 (2021): Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Band 40
Liquid-liquid transition in water from first principles
Creators: name: Gartner, Thomas E.
name: Piaggi, Pablo M.
name: Car, Roberto
name: Panagiotopoulos, Athanassios Z.
name: Debenedetti, Pablo G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A longstanding question in water research is the possibility that supercooled liquid water can undergo a liquid-liquid phase transition (LLT) into high- and low-density liquids. We used several complementary molecular simulation techniques to evaluate the possibility of an LLT in an ab initio neural network model of water trained on density functional theory calculations with the SCAN exchange correlation functional. We conclusively show the existence of a first-order LLT and an associated critical point in the SCAN description of water, representing the first definitive computational evidence for an LLT in water from first principles.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures. Supplemental material contains 11 pages, 8 figures
Assessment of Exposure to Sexually Explicit Materials and Other Factors as Predictors of Sexual Activity among in School Youth in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Berhanu, Lioul
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: Background: Sexually explicit media (SEM) are textual, visual, or aural materials that depict sexual acts or expose the reproductive organs of the human body. These erotic and pornographic materials usually portray sex in a risk free manner. Exposure of urban youth to such media is argued to contribute for adoption of risky sexual behavior. Objective: This study aimed to assess magnitude of exposure to SEM and factors contributing to exposure among in-school youth as well as describe sexual behavior and the role of exposure and other factors as predictors of in-school youth sexual activity. Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study involving 810 randomly selected students among 18 Addis Ababa high schools was conducted in March 2008. Pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data, which was entered and cleaned using EPI INFO 2000 version 3.3 and analyzed using SPSS version 13.0 statistical packages. Odds Ratio with 95% Confidence Interval was used and multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to assess association among variables. Tape-recorded qualitative data, from four FGDs were transcribed and analyzed into predetermined themes. Results: Magnitude of ever-exposure to sexually explicit texts and watching movies were 65.3% and 69.5% respectively. The odds of frequent exposure to SE movies increased with being male, consuming alcohol and Khat, having positive attitude towards SEM, and sexual experience while the later two and school type affected frequency of reading SE texts. Nearly eighteen percent of the participants were sexually active. Likelihood of vii being sexually active grew with frequent reading of SE texts with AOR of 3.69 (95%C.I. =1.17, 11.63), frequent viewing of SE movies, AOR 7.68 (95%C.I. =2.74, 21.57), alcohol drinking, AOR 3.77 (95%C.I. =1.54, 9.21), Khat chewing AOR 4.10 (95%C.I. =1.36, 12.32), and ever having a boy or girl friend AOR 3.43, (95%C.I. =1.65, 7.12). Probability of sexual engagement decreased among those who live with their parents AOR 0.20(95%C.I. =0.04, 0.88). Recalled attendance of school sex education by 56.5% showed no significant association. Inconsistent condom use by 60.9% and having multiple sexual partners by 57% of the sexually active youth were also reported. Conclusion and recommendation: A strong link was revealed between frequent exposure to sexually explicit materials, alcohol and Khat consumption, and sexual activity of the in-school youth. Large proportions of sexually active youth are also engaged in risk sexual behavior. Considering these, developing media criticizing skill of students, decreasing accessibility to SEM through legal measures, promotion of peer and school sex education and encouraging parental guidance were some of the recommendations forwarded.
Markus Enders, Bernd Goebel (Hrsg.): Die Philosophie der monotheistischen Weltreligionen im frühen und hohen Mittelalter
Creators: name: Ernst, Stephan
Publisher: name: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte
Year: 2024

description: .
description: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Bd. 40 (2021): Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Band 40
title: Biodegradable Amphiphilic Block Copolymers:Synthesis, Characterization and Properties Evaluation
title: Biodegradable Amphiphilic Block Copolymers:Synthesis, Characterization and Properties Evaluation
Creators: name: Assem, Yasser
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2011
Subjects: Chemie
Bioabbaubare
Polyester
Biodegradable
Blockcopolymer

description: Different biodegradable amphiphilic block copolymers were prepared by melt-polycondensation. These block copolymers are composed of different molar ratio of two segments, 1st is hydrophilic block which is methoxy poly(ethylene oxide) MPEO of two different molecular weights, (5000 and 2000 g/mol). The hydrophobic segments are aliphatic poly ester of poly hexylene adipate PHA, polybutylene succinate PBS, polyhexylene succinate PHS and polybutylene adipate PBA. Full characterization of these block copolymers have been achieved using GPC, NMR, Thermal analysis, and X-ray analysis. Hydrolytic and enzymatic degradation have been done. Loading of PHA-b-MPEO5 with pH sensitive moiety is also achieved. Values of cmc of two commercially available surfactants as well as two samples of our polymers were measured by fluorescence spectroscopy using pyrene as a probe
description: Different biodegradable amphiphilic block copolymers were prepared by melt-polycondensation. These block copolymers are composed of different molar ratio of two segments, 1st is hydrophilic block which is methoxy poly(ethylene oxide) MPEO of two different molecular weights, (5000 and 2000 g/mol). The hydrophobic segments are aliphatic poly ester of poly hexylene adipate PHA, polybutylene succinate PBS, polyhexylene succinate PHS and polybutylene adipate PBA. Full characterization of these block copolymers have been achieved using GPC, NMR, Thermal analysis, and X-ray analysis. Hydrolytic and enzymatic degradation have been done. Loading of PHA-b-MPEO5 with pH sensitive moiety is also achieved. Values of cmc of two commercially available surfactants as well as two samples of our polymers were measured by fluorescence spectroscopy using pyrene as a probe
SWAG Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 03 (November, 1989)
Creators: name: Group, Victoria Status Of Women Action
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Women--Employment--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176724
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568

description: The Victoria chapter of the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG) was formed in 1971 in response to the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. SWAG is a feminist organization that promotes economic, political and social equality and freedom for women. It is a non-profit society with several committees working on specific issues of concern to women. The group is an active member of the BC and Yukon Association of Women's Centres and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
Cooper-Frye sampling with short-range repulsion
Creators: name: Vovchenko, Volodymyr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work incorporates the effect of short-range repulsion between particles into the Cooper-Frye hadron sampling procedure. This is achieved by means of a rejection sampling step, which prohibits any pair of particles from overlapping in the coordinate space, effectively modeling the effect of hard-core repulsion. The new procedure -- called the FIST sampler -- is based on the package Thermal-FIST. It is used here to study the effect of excluded volume on cumulants of the (net-)proton number distribution in central collisions of heavy ions in a broad collision energy range in conjunction with exact global conservation of baryon number, electric charge, and strangeness. The results are compared with earlier calculations based on analytical approximations, quantifying the accuracy of the latter at different collision energies. An additional advantage of the new method over the analytic approaches is that it offers the flexibility provided by event generators, making it straightforwardly extendable to other observables.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, to be published in Physical Review C
Pulsed photoelectric coherent manipulation and detection of NV centre spins in diamond
Creators: name: Gulka, Michal
name: Bourgeois, Emilie
name: Hruby, Jaroslav
name: Siyushev, Peter
name: Wachter, Georg
name: Aumayr, Friedrich
name: Hemmer, Philip R.
name: Gali, Adam
name: Jelezko, Fedor
name: Trupke, Michael
name: Nesladek, Milos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hybrid photoelectric detection of NV magnetic resonances (PDMR) is anticipated to lead to scalable quantum chip technology. To achieve this goal, it is crucial to prove that PDMR readout is compatible with the coherent spin control. Here we present PDMR MW pulse protocols that filter background currents related to ionization of NS0 defects and achieve a high contrast and S/N ratio. We demonstrate Rabi and Ramsey protocols on shallow nitrogen-implanted electronic grade diamond and the coherent readout of ~ 5 NV spins, as a first step towards the fabrication of scalable photoelectric quantum devices.
The general Two-Higgs Doublet Model in a gauge-invariant form
Creators: name: Sartore, Lohan
name: Maniatis, Markos
name: Schienbein, Ingo
name: Herrmann, Bjoern
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the general Two-Higgs Doublet Model it has been shown that the Higgs potential can be expressed in terms of gauge-independent quantities. In particular, stability, electroweak symmetry breaking, and CP symmetry can be understood in a concise way, avoiding unphysical gauge degrees of freedom. We complete this program and show how all the masses, the trilinear and quartic scalar interactions, the gauge-boson-Higgs interactions, as well as the Yukawa couplings in the general THDM can be expressed in a gauge-invariant way.
description: 40 pages
Wolfgang Stürner: Die Staufer. Eine mittelalterliche Herrscherdynastie. Bd. 1: Aufstieg und Machtentfaltung (975 bis 1190)
Creators: name: Zotz, Thomas
Publisher: name: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte
Year: 2024

description: .
description: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Bd. 40 (2021): Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Band 40
Assessment of Pre-Marital Sexual Practice and its Concequences among Female Students in Ambo University
Creators: name: Abdissa, Bayisa
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: Background: The vulnerability of young people especially young females for many reproductive health problems made it important to assess the magnitude of premarital sexual practice and its consequences among young females. Objectives: To assess the magnitude of premarital sexual practice and its consequences among female students in Ambo University February 2012. Methods: A cross sectional study design was conducted among a randomly selected sample of Ambo University female students from January to February 2012 by using a self-administered questionnaire. Bivariate and a multiple logistic regression were employed to determine independent predictors of premarital sex and its consequences among female students. The quantitative data was supported by the qualitative data that were obtained from four Focus Group Discussions. Results A total of 650 female students were involved in the study yielding 167 (25.7%) of sexually active respondents with a mean age at first sexual debut to be 16.9±2.7 years. About 90(53.9%) of sexually active respondents reported they started sex after joining the University. Finding from both quantitative and qualitative study suggests that pre-marital sex is associated with discussing sex and related issues with family, substance use and peer influence. Those who discuss sex and related issues with their families less likely to practice premarital sex compared to those who did not. (AOR: 7.16; 95% CI 4.39-11.68). Similarly those who chew chat and consume alcohol were more likely to practice premarital sex. (AOR: 11.18; 95% CI 4.38-28.48) and (AOR: 3.70; 95% CI 2.04-6.73), respectively. Thirty one (18.6%), of the study subjects claimed they started sex before the age of 15 years. Twenty eight (16.8%) of sexually active respondents have got pregnant at least once prior to the study period out of which 15(53.6%) reported of history abortion, while 75(11.5%) of the respondents reported to have sign and symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases. From the total of 167 sexually active respondents only 5(3%) reported history of using condom consistently. Conclusion Significant number of young females had started sex very early and involved in high risk sexual behavior including non use of condom which leads to unwanted pregnancy and being infected with sexually transmitted diseases. Many factors affect the sexual behavior of young females including lack of information and cultural factors where sex and related issues are not openly discussed with families in addition to peer pressure and substance use. These kinds of findings call for family life time education including including parent-youth communication education, both while they are in school as School-based Sex and HIV/AIDS education program and while they are out of school as youth center based education.
Latent Similarity Identifies Important Functional Connections for Phenotype Prediction
Creators: name: Orlichenko, Anton
name: Qu, Gang
name: Zhang, Gemeng
name: Patel, Binish
name: Wilson, Tony W.
name: Stephen, Julia M.
name: Calhoun, Vince D.
name: Wang, Yu-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Objective: Endophenotypes such as brain age and fluid intelligence are important biomarkers of disease status. However, brain imaging studies to identify these biomarkers often encounter limited numbers of subjects and high dimensional imaging features, hindering reproducibility. Therefore, we develop an interpretable, multivariate classification/regression algorithm, called Latent Similarity (LatSim), suitable for small sample size, high feature dimension datasets. Methods: LatSim combines metric learning with a kernel similarity function and softmax aggregation to identify task-related similarities between subjects. Inter-subject similarity is utilized to improve performance on three prediction tasks using multi-paradigm fMRI data. A greedy selection algorithm, made possible by LatSim's computational efficiency, is developed as an interpretability method. Results: LatSim achieved significantly higher predictive accuracy at small sample sizes on the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort (PNC) dataset. Connections identified by LatSim gave superior discriminative power compared to those identified by other methods. We identified 4 functional brain networks enriched in connections for predicting brain age, sex, and intelligence. Conclusion: We find that most information for a predictive task comes from only a few (1-5) connections. Additionally, we find that the default mode network is over-represented in the top connections of all predictive tasks. Significance: We propose a novel algorithm for small sample, high feature dimension datasets and use it to identify connections in task fMRI data. Our work should lead to new insights in both algorithm design and neuroscience research. Code and demo are available at https://github.com/aorliche/LatentSimilarity/.
description: 12 pages
Autoren der Beiträge, Rezensionen und rezensierten Bücher
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2023

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 40 Nr. 1 (1987): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
SU(2|2) supersymmetric mechanics
Creators: name: Ivanov, Evgeny
name: Lechtenfeld, Olaf
name: Sidorov, Stepan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new kind of non-relativistic ${\cal N}{=}\,8$ supersymmetric mechanics, associated with worldline realizations of the supergroup $SU(2|2)$ treated as a deformation of flat ${\cal N}{=}\,8$, $d{=}1$ supersymmetry. Various worldline $SU(2|2)$ superspaces are constructed as coset manifolds of this supergroup, and the corresponding superfield techniques are developed. For the off-shell $SU(2|2)$ multiplets $({\bf 3,8,5})$, $({\bf 4,8,4})$ and $({\bf 5,8,3})$, we construct and analyze the most general superfield and component actions. Common features are mass oscillator-type terms proportional to the deformation parameter and a trigonometric realization of the superconformal group $OSp(4^*|4)$ in the conformal cases. For the simplest $({\bf 5, 8, 3})$ model the quantization is performed.
description: 1+36 pages; v2: comments and ref.[49] added, typos corrected, matches published version
Daniela Blum, Melanie Prange, Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg (Hrsg.): In unserer Erde. Grabfunde des frühen Mittelalters im Südwesten
Creators: name: Brather, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte
Year: 2024

description: .
description: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Bd. 40 (2021): Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Band 40
SWAG Newsletter (1990) : Special IWD Supplemental Issue
Creators: name: Group, Victoria Status Of Women Action
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Women--Employment--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176724
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970

description: The Victoria chapter of the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG) was formed in 1971 in response to the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. SWAG is a feminist organization that promotes economic, political and social equality and freedom for women. It is a non-profit society with several committees working on specific issues of concern to women. The group is an active member of the BC and Yukon Association of Women's Centres and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
The structure and cytology of the scutellum of wheat
Creators: name: Swift, Jeffrey Gordon.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Assessment of Socio-Cultural Determinants for the Spread and Prevention Of HIV/Aids in Hamer Woreda, SNNPR
Creators: name: Altaye, Samuel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2003

description: HIV/AIDS is primarily perceived as an urban problem. However, the number of people living with HIV in rural areas is considerable. In rural Ethiopia the current HIV prevalence is reckoned to be 3.7%. The available literature as well suggests that about a quarter of the farmers' report sexual relation with commercial sex workers in nearby small towns. The present study had an objective of assessing risks contributing to the spread, prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in Hamer Woreda, southern Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study was conducted using a pre-tested interviewer administered questionnaire with supplemental FGD and IDI. About 40% of adults in Hamer were found to spend nights in other locations outside home within the last one month, the commonest reasons for that being marketing trips to urban centers within and the neighboring woredas. Among those who spent nights in town, 45.9% reported having had unprotected sex with local liquor sellers. Other prevailing socio-cultural factors and rituals such as, pre-marital sexual relation ships, multiple sexual practices, extra-marital sexual activity, wife inheritance, "Ivangadi", mass circumcision seem to contribute to the risky behavioral practices to spread of the HIV virus in the community. The comprehensive knowledge of the community about HIV/AIDS was also relatively lower than the recent BSS for pastoralist communities. ix Thus, more extensive health education program through different out lets with due consideration of the deep-rooted cultural and traditional practices of the community is forwarded. Moreover, involvement of the community in the process of bringing about urgent solutions for the prevailing problems is recommended.
SWAG Newsletter (March, 2001)
Creators: name: Group, Victoria Status Of Women Action
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Women--Employment--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176724
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947

description: The Victoria chapter of the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG) was formed in 1971 in response to the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. SWAG is a feminist organization that promotes economic, political and social equality and freedom for women. It is a non-profit society with several committees working on specific issues of concern to women. The group is an active member of the BC and Yukon Association of Women's Centres and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
Critical initial-slip scaling for the noisy complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
Creators: name: Liu, Weigang
name: Täuber, Uwe C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ the perturbative field-theoretic renormalization group method to investigate the universal critical behavior near the continuous non-equilibrium phase transition in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with additive white noise. This stochastic partial differential describes a remarkably wide range of physical systems: coupled non-linear oscillators subject to external noise near a Hopf bifurcation instability; spontaneous structure formation in non-equilibrium systems, e.g., in cyclically competing populations; and driven-dissipative Bose--Einstein condensation, realized in open systems on the interface of quantum optics and many-body physics, such as cold atomic gases and exciton-polaritons in pumped semiconductor quantum wells in optical cavities. Our starting point is a noisy, dissipative Gross-Pitaevski or non-linear Schrödinger equation, or equivalently purely relaxational kinetics originating from a complex-valued Landau-Ginzburg functional, which generalizes the standard equilibrium model A critical dynamics of a non-conserved complex order parameter field. We study the universal critical behavior of this system in the early stages of its relaxation from a Gaussian-weighted fully randomized initial state. In this critical aging regime, time translation invariance is broken, and the dynamics is characterized by the stationary static and dynamic critical exponents, as well as an independent `initial-slip' exponent. We show that to first order in the dimensional expansion about the upper critical dimension, this initial-slip exponent in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is identical to its equilibrium model A counterpart. We furthermore employ the renormalization group flow equations as well as construct a suitable complex spherical model extension to argue that this conclusion likely remains true to all orders in the perturbation expansion.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
Transverse phase space tomography in the CLARA accelerator test facility using image compression and machine learning
Creators: name: Wolski, Andrzej
name: Johnson, Mark A.
name: King, Matthew
name: Militsyn, Boris L.
name: Williams, Peter H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a novel technique, based on image compression and machine learning, for transverse phase space tomography in two degrees of freedom in an accelerator beamline. The technique has been used in the CLARA accelerator test facility at Daresbury Laboratory: results from the machine learning method are compared with those from a conventional tomography algorithm (algebraic reconstruction), applied to the same data. The use of machine learning allows reconstruction of the 4D phase space distribution of the beam to be carried out much more rapidly than using conventional tomography algorithms, and also enables the use of image compression to reduce significantly the size of the data sets involved in the analysis. Results from the machine learning technique are at least as good as those from the algebraic reconstruction tomography in characterising the beam behaviour, in terms of the variation of the beam size in response to variation of the quadrupole strengths.
Andreas Bihrer, Stephan Bruhn (Hrsg.): Jenseits des Könighofs. Bischöfe und ihre Diözesen im nachkarolingischen ostfränkisch-deutschen Reich (850–1100)
Creators: name: Eberl, Immo
Publisher: name: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte
Year: 2024

description: .
description: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Bd. 40 (2021): Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, Band 40
The Influence of Social Marginalization on the Health and Nutritional Status of Women
Creators: name: T/tsadik, W/medhin
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2001

description: The impact of social marginalization on the health of certain ethnic minority populations, particularly in women is a serious problem worldwide. However, its magnitude and factors are not well explored in developing countries in general and in our context in particular. Hence cross sectional, community based study with social group comparisons was conducted in Koysha Development Area of ActionAid-Ethiopia between January and December 2001. The study aimed at assessing the influence of social marginalization on the health and nutritional status of women. The study particularly focused on the health and nutritional status differences between the Manja and Malla social groups. All peasant associations within AAE-Koysha development program area were represented in the survey. The two study populations were stratified based on their social strata and selecting villages using probability proportionate to size technique enabled us to identify the required numbers of respondents. Data were collected using structured and pre-tested questionnaire, focus group discussions, in depth interviews and anthropomery. Data entry and analysis were performed using Epi Info and SPSS statistical software. The utilization of services for reproductive health problems by minorities (Manja social group) was low compared to the dominant Malla social group. There was a statistically significant difference between the two social groups in the use of antenatal care [OR = 2.93(1.39,6.25)], median number of antenatal care visit (p<0.05), and birth attended by trained traditional birth attendants or health professionals [OR = 4.61(1.75,13.17)]. The study also revealed that Mnaja women were at a reproductive health and nutrition disadvantage than their counterparts including, history of spontaneous abortions [OR = 1.71(1.08,2.72)], too many pregnancies [OR = 1.97(1.33,2.91)], grand multiparty [OR = 1.63(1.09,2.42)], and nutritional status as measured by MUAC <22.5cm [OR=3.34(2.05,5.39)]. viii From the study it is concluded that Manja mothers are discriminated in many aspects of social, economic and political processes. Manja mothers are at a greater risk of reproductive health and malnutrition (with regard to undernutrition) compared to the majority Malla social group. Scaling up of interventions to improve the livelihood of socially marginalised groups (Manja) in general and women in particular by all pro poor partners, including AAE is an area that needs to be emphasized in the future
NNLL soft and Coulomb resummation for squark and gluino production at the LHC
Creators: name: Beneke, Martin
name: Piclum, Jan
name: Schwinn, Christian
name: Wever, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present predictions for the total cross sections for pair production of squarks and gluinos at the LHC including a combined NNLL resummation of soft and Coulomb gluon effects. We derive all terms in the NNLO cross section that are enhanced near the production threshold, which include contributions from spin-dependent potentials and so-called annihilation corrections. The NNLL corrections at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV range from up to $20\%$ for squark-squark production to $90\%$ for gluino pair production relative to the NLO results and reduce the theoretical uncertainties of the perturbative calculation to the $10\%$ level. Grid files with our numerical results are publicly available.
description: 42 pages, 17 figures. v2: published version; corrected fig. 6; generalized eq.(A.5) to arbitrary SU(N) gauge groups
Detecting resistance in imported perennial ryegrass seed lots
Creators: name: Buddenhagen, Chris
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences

description: Key points • This work studied the level of herbicide resistance in imported ryegrass seed lots to understand the risks associated with this pathway for introducing herbicide resistance onto New Zealand farms. • None of the ryegrass had resistance to glyphosate. • Twenty of the 28 Lolium perenne seed lines tested from overseas (mostly turfs) had some resistance to Group 1 and 2 herbicides. Eight had no detectable resistance to Group 1 and 2 herbicides. • It is safer to assume that resistance is present in any imported seed line.
Accelerating LHC event generation with simplified pilot runs and fast PDFs
Creators: name: Bothmann, Enrico
name: Buckley, Andy
name: Christidi, Ilektra A.
name: Gütschow, Christian
name: Höche, Stefan
name: Knobbe, Max
name: Martin, Tim
name: Schönherr, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Poor computing efficiency of precision event generators for LHC physics has become a bottleneck for Monte-Carlo event simulation campaigns. We provide solutions to this problem by focusing on two major components of general-purpose event generators: The PDF evaluator and the matrix-element generator. For a typical production setup in the ATLAS experiment, we show that the two can consume about 80% of the total runtime. Using NLO simulations of $pp\to\ell^+\ell^-+\text{jets}$ and $pp\to t\bar{t}+\text{jets}$ as an example, we demonstrate that the computing footprint of LHAPDF and Sherpa can be reduced by factors of order 10, while maintaining the formal accuracy of the event sample. The improved codes are made publicly available.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, 2 listings