cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Migrant civic engagement
Creators: name: Fox, Jonathan
name: Bada, Xóchitl
Publisher: name: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: The spring, 2006 wave of immigrant rights mobilizations represents a watershed in the history of civic engagement in the US. Never before had so many foreign born literally “come out” for the right to be included in the US. Indeed, in many cities, never before had so many taken to the streets for any cause. Practitioners involved in the policy debate, scholars who measure immigrant political opinion, as well as migrant leaders themselves were all caught off guard. This raises questions about the social foundations of the marches – what kinds of social and civic practices, networks and organizations made them possible? To provide at least part of the answer, this chapter introduces the concepts of “civic binationality” and “migrant civil society,” which provide frameworks for understanding the already-existing patterns of migrant organization that came together at this unusual historical turning point. “Civic binationality” refers to practices that are engaged both with US civic life and with migrants’ communities and countries of origin. The related concept of “migrant civil society” refers to migrant-led membership organizations and public institutions (which may not be engaged with communities of origin). The goal of this latter concept is to underscore the significance of migrant capacity for self-representation. The recognition of practices of migrant civic binationality, grounded in an emerging migrant civil society, helps us to understand the patterns of civic engagement and repertoires of action that inform migrant participation in US society. The point of departure here is that, at least for many adult migrants, their initiation into civic life either takes place in their country of origin, or is oriented toward their country of origin. As many analysts of civic engagement have long noted, the best predictor of civic involvement of any kind is past involvement –even if in a completely different arena. 1Apparently, some people are more likely to be joiners than others – across cultures. From this perspective, the kind of civic engagement witnessed on a mass scale in the spring of 2006 was in part grounded in longstanding, often low profile practices of migrant civic binationality. At the same time, the 2006 marches constitute a powerful indicator that millions of immigrants have also been fully transplanted into the US public sphere, followed by subsequent increases in naturalization and voter turnout among “new Americans”in 2008.
Giant Molecular Clouds are More Concentrated to Spiral Arms than Smaller Clouds
Creators: name: Stark, Antony A.
name: Lee, Youngung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From our catalog of Milky Way molecular clouds, created using a temperature thresholding algorithm on the Bell Laboratories 13CO Survey, we have extracted two subsets:(1) Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), clouds that are definitely larger than 10^5 solar masses, even if they are at their `near distance', and (2) clouds that are definitely smaller than 10^5 solar masses, even if they are at their `far distance'. The positions and velocities of these clouds are compared to the loci of spiral arms in (l, v) space. The velocity separation of each cloud from the nearest spiral arm is introduced as a `concentration statistic'. Almost all of the GMCs are found near spiral arms. The density of smaller clouds is enhanced near spiral arms, but some clouds (~10%) are unassociated with any spiral arm. The median velocity separation between a GMC and the nearest spiral arm is 3.4+-0.6 km/s, whereas the median separation between smaller clouds and the nearest spiral arm is 5.5+-0.2 km/s.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Clustering structure effect on Hanbury-Brown-Twiss correlation in $^{12}$C + $^{197}$Au collisions at 200 GeV}
Creators: name: He, Junjie
name: Zhang, Song
name: Ma, Yu-Gang
name: Chen, Jinhui
name: Zhong, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through $^{12}$C + $^{197}$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 200 GeV using a multiphase transport (AMPT) model, the azimuthal angle dependences of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) radii relative to the second- and third-order participant plane from $π$-$π$ correlations are discussed. Three initial geometric configurations of $^{12}$C, namely three-$α$-cluster triangle, three-$α$-cluster chain and Woods-Saxon distribution of nucleons, are taken into account, and their effects on the correlations are investigated. The ratio of the third- to the second-order HBT radii $R_{o(s),3}^2/R_{o(s),2}^2$ is shown to be a clear probe for three configurations. In addition, this work presents the hadronic rescattering time evolution of the azimuthally dependent HBT radii. From the present study, one can learn that the HBT correlation from identical particles at freeze-out is able to provide the information of different initial configurations as collective flow proposed before.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
title: Radiation Induced Processes in Biomolecules and Clusters in Controlled Beams
Creators: name: Ryszka, Michal Stanislaw
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: The fundamental nanoscale processes that initiate radiation damage in biological material have not yet been fully elucidated. This represents a significant barrier to developing multidimensional simulations of radiation effects that can lead to advances in radiotherapy and radioprotection. This thesis explores UV- and electron-induced processes in DNA and RNA bases. Pure and hydrated clusters are studied in order to better understand the effects of the chemical environment on the radiation response of these important biomolecules.

Although extensive research has been carried out on the relaxation pathways of UV-excited nucleobases, no previous experiments have investigated bond breaking in neutral electronic excited states. This thesis reveals a new fragment ion from uracil (C3H4N2O+) that can be accessed by multi-photon ionization (MPI) but not by electron impact ionization (ElI). This provides the first experimental demonstration that neutral excited state dynamics in a nucleobase can lead to bond breaking in the aromatic ring, as predicted in recent theoretical studies. The specific excited state dynamics have not yet been identified definitively and are the subject of on-going ultrafast pump-probe experiments in collaboration with Townsend and co-workers (Heriot-Watt University). The time-resolved measurements provide new evidence supporting a theoretically predicted relaxation pathway into long-lived triplet states.

Dissociative ionization of hydrated nucleobases and uracil-adenine clusters has been studied experimentally for the first time. Evidence for deamination reactions is observed in hydrated adenine complexes. The production of C3H4N2O+ fragments from uracil is strongly suppressed by clustering with water whereas the channel remains open in uracil-adenine complexes. To unravel the specific cluster-mediated dynamics and reactions responsible for these effects, further experiments are required with greater control over the cluster targets. Indeed the range of monomers and cluster configurations in neutral beams currently limits interpretations and direct comparisons with calculations. In response to this challenge, a new experiment has been built that enables radiation effects to be studied on molecules and clusters in Stark-deflected beams (MPI, ElI, and future electron attachment measurements). Early results on nitromethane beams include a demonstration that studying ElI as a function of the Stark deflector voltage can be used to deduce whether certain product ions came from monomers or from clusters.
Kemeny, G., Kemeny, P., 2005. A spanyol Guardia Civil családon belül elkövetett bűncselekményekkel kapcsolatos feladatai. Magyar Rendészet, (5)1, pp.87-95.
Creators: name: Kemeny, Gabor
name: Kemény, Péter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law

description: The research introduces the role and the ask of the Spanish Guardia Civil in the fight against domestic violence focusing on the institution of the restrain order and provide suggestion to the adaptation into the Hungarian legal system.
Non-Compact QED_3 with N_f=1 and N_f=4
Creators: name: Hands, S. J.
name: Kogut, J. B.
name: Scorzato, L.
name: Strouthos, C. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present numerical results for non-compact three-dimensional QED for numbers of flavors N_f=1 and N_f=4.In particular, we address the issue of whether chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken in the continuum limit, and obtain a positive answer for N_f=1, with a dimensionless condensate estimated to be beta^2 ~= O(10^-3), implying that the critical number of flavors N_fc>1. We also compare the N_f=1 and N_f=4 models by analysing the transition from strong to weak coupling behaviour using an equation of state based on a continuous phase transition. While some qualitative differences emerge, it appears difficult to determine whether N_f=4 lies above or below N_fc.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures
Sustainable Seafood Project - Phase II: As Assessment of the Sustainability of Trout Purchasing at UBC
Creators: name: Winter, Laura
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Data Rescue Workflow Model (revised version)
Creators: name: Patterton, Louise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: This item comprises figures/diagrams illustrating a model for the rescue of data at risk. This is the revised version of the model and supercedes the initial Data Rescue Workflow Model. In turn, the revised Data Rescue Workflow Model is superceded by the recommended Data Rescue Workflow Model. This revised version of the model should be viewed as an early draft only, and is not the recommended workflow model to be used when rescuing data.
Additional file 2 of Characteristics of persons who died by suicide in prison in France: 2017–2018
Creators: name: Vanhaesebrouck, Alexis
name: Tostivint, Amélie
name: Lefèvre, Thomas
name: Melchior, Maria
name: Khireddine-Medouni, Imane
name: Chee, Christine Chan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table 1 Sociodemographic, penal characteristics and circumstances of suicide of cases according to the collection of health data.
The Grover algorithm with large nuclear spins in semiconductors
Creators: name: Leuenberger, Michael N.
name: Loss, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show a possible way to implement the Grover algorithm in large nuclear spins 1/2
description: 11 pages, 18 EPS figures, REVTeX
title: The Role of Wall Shear Stress in the Failure of Arteriovenous Fistula for Hemodialysis Vascular Access
Creators: name: Franzoni, Marco
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: Native arteriovenous fistulas created in the forearm between the radial artery and the cephalic vein are currently considered the best vascular access for hemodialysis in terms of outcome and safety. However, this type of access is associated with a significant failure rate that is generally caused by intimal hyperplasia development and consequent stenosis. Computational studies have shown that intimal hyperplasia is preferentially localized in regions of the fistula that are exposed to disturbed wall shear stresses. This thesis reports the development and testing of a novel, real-time controlled cone-and-plate device to assess the role of changes in shear stress induced by fistula creation on the activation state of endothelial cells and paracrine signalling in vitro. The selected shear stress waveforms were representative of the pulsatile/unidirectional waveforms in zones that are generally not affected by hyperplasia or the disturbed/reciprocating waveforms present in the high-risk stenosis areas. Experimental results showed that after 48 hours of flow exposure, these stimuli elicited differential effects on human umbilical vein endothelial cells monolayers. Pulsatile waveforms induced major cellular shape remodeling and upregulation of the transcription factor KLF2 mRNA expression. On the contrary cells exposed to reciprocating flows showed a lack of cytoskeletal remodeling, upregulation of the enzyme PLDl , the integrin subunit ITGA4 and RASA1 (coding for the protein activator p120RasGAP) mRNA expression and an increased production of chemoattractant cytokines MCP-1 and IL-8. Furthermore, it was observed that human smooth muscle cells incubated for 24 hours with medium conditioned by endothelial cells exposed to reciprocating shear stress stimuli, had an increased rate of proliferation compared to smooth muscle cells cultured in medium conditioned by endothelial cells exposed to pulsatile waveforms. These results confirm potential links between disturbed wall shear stress and arteriovenous fistula failure.
Robustly detecting changes in warm Jupiters' transit impact parameters
Creators: name: Dawson, Rebekah I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Torques from a mutually inclined perturber can change a transiting planet's impact parameter, resulting in variations in the transit shape and duration. Detection of and upper limits on changes in impact parameter yield valuable constraints on a planetary system's three dimensional architecture. Constraints for warm Jupiters are particularly interesting because they allow us to test origins theories that invoke a mutually inclined perturber. Because of warm Jupiters' high signal-to-noise transits, changes in impact parameter are feasible to detect. However, here we show that allowing the impact parameter to vary uniformly and independently from transit to transit leads to incorrect inferences about the change, propagating to incorrect inferences about the perturber. We demonstrate that an appropriate prior on the change in impact parameter mitigates this problem. We apply our approach to eight systems from the literature and find evidence for changes in impact parameter for warm Jupiter Kepler-46b. We conclude with our recommendations for light curve fitting, including when to fit impact parameters vs. transit durations.
description: Accepted by AJ
Tris-pyridyl cyclic hexapeptides as new gate-keeper receptors for metal recognition and diammonium encapsulation
Creators: name: Haxel Lionel Ozores
name: Fuertes, Alberto
name: Calvelo, Martin
name: López-Corbalán, Victoria
name: Troncoso, Ezequiel
name: García-Fandiño, Rebeca
name: Amorín, Manuel
name: Granja, Juan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: A cyclic hexapeptide having three pyridyl moieties attached to its backbone and projected towards the same face self-assembles into versatile dimeric capsules that allow the selective recognition of ions and small diammonium salts of appropriated length. Here, the DFT optimized structures are available in pdb format.
description: All calculations have been carried out in CESGA. This work was supported by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) (PID2019-111126RB-100), the Xunta de Galicia (ED431C 2017/25 and Centro singular de Investigación de Galicia accreditation 2019-2022, ED431G 2019/03), and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund - ERDF). We also thank the ORFEO-CINCA network and Mineco (CTQ2016-81797-REDC).
Transnational civil society coalitions and the World Bank : Lessons from project and policy influence campaigns
Creators: name: Brown, L. David
name: Fox, Jonathan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper draws on case studies of efforts by transnational civil society coalitions to influence projects and policies of the World Bank to develop lessons about policy influence campaigns. The paper argues that transnational coalitions that succeed in influencing multilateral institutions (1) fit campaigns to their targets, (2) open up the cracks in the system, (3) recognize various forms of impact, and (4) create footholds that give a leg up to those who follow. Accountability within coalitions depends on (5) building local bases, (6) building interorganizational chains to bridge gaps among coalition members, (7) using face-to-face negotiations to build trust and shared expectations, and (8) recognizing the power of small actors in the right chains.
Continuous Measurement of Atom-Number Moments of a Bose-Einstein Condensate by Photodetection
Creators: name: Prataviera, G. A.
name: de Oliveira, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a measurement scheme that allows determination of even-moments of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) atom number, in a ring cavity, by continuous photodetection of an off-resonant quantized optical field. A fast cavity photocounting process limits the heating of atomic samples with a relatively small number of atoms, being convenient for BECs on a microchip scale applications. The measurement back-action introduces a counting-conditioned phase damping, suppressing the condensate typical collapse and revival dynamics.
description: Replaced with final published version
Transnational civil society coalitions and the World Bank : Lessons from project and policy influence campaigns
Creators: name: Brown, L. David
name: Fox, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Institute for Development Research
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: This paper draws on case studies of efforts by transnational civil society coalitions to influence projects and policies of the World Bank to develop lessons about policy influence campaigns. The paper argues that transnational coalitions that succeed in influencing multilateral institutions (1) fit campaigns to their targets, (2) open up the cracks in the system, (3) recognize various forms of impact, and (4) create footholds that give a leg up to those who follow. Accountability within coalitions depends on (5) building local bases, (6) building interorganizational chains to bridge gaps among coalition members, (7) using face-to-face negotiations to build trust and shared expectations, and (8) recognizing the power of small actors in the right chains.
The Response of Broilers and Cost Implications When Starter, Grower and Finisher Diets Feeding Durations are Varied for Broilers Grown to 49 Days
Creators: name: Williams, Dwight E.
name: Lallo, Cicero H.O.
name: Bekele
name: Williams, Dwight E.
name: Lallo, Cicero H.O.
name: Bekele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Changing Broiler Diets
subject: Performance Response
subject: Marginal Cost Analysis

description: A study was conducted to evaluate the response of broilers to changes in the duration of feeding starter, grower and finisher diets when grown to 49 days. A total of 2560 day-old commercial broiler chicks of mixed sex (straight run) were assigned to 32 pens and sixteen (16) treatments were randomly assigned resulting in a completely randomized design. Diets were formulated to meet nutrient levels typical of the current local industty. Diets were changed from starter (222g CP/kg, 12.77 MJ ME/kg) at 10, 15, 20, 25, or 28 days to grower (202 g CP/kg, 12.76 MJ ME/kg) and from grower to finisher (198g CP/kg, 12.77 MJ ME/kg) at 36, 41, 43, 46 days of age or not at all. Broilers grown to 49 days attained the desired weight of 2400g on all feeding programs evaluated. Feed consumption responses over time were quadratic for the durations of feeding starter diet (R2.99.9%), grower diet (R2=87.5%) and finisher diet (R2=99.2%). Similarly responses of live body weight gain were quadratic for the durations of feeding starter diet (R2=99.9%), grower diet (R2=96.1%) and finisher diet (R2=99.2%). Feed conversion and calorie conversion showed significant (p<0.001) linear trends for the duration of feeding starter diet (R2=91.08 and 93.6%) and finisher diet (R2.81.2 and 81.1%), respectively but not the grower diet (R2=1.4%). Abdominal fat (AF) as a percentage of body weight at slaughter showed a quadratic (R2=87.3%) response to the duration of feeding starter diet, peaking at 20 days and then declined. AF showed an inverse linear response (R2=78.4%) as a function of duration of finisher diet The cost of starter, grower, and finisher diets showed significant differences (p<0.001) between treatments. However, total feed cost per bird was not significantly (p>0.506) affected by the different treatments. Margin over feed cost (MOFC), marginal physical product (MPP), and the value of the marginal product (VMP) were not significantly affected (p>0.325) by treatments. However, it was noted that utilising a program consisting of starter 1-20d and grower 21-49 days as an alternative to the current industry program can improve the industry MOFC by approximately 10%.
Spherically symmetric and static solutions in $f(R)$ gravity coupled with EM fields
Creators: name: Hurtado, Roger A.
name: Arenas, Jose R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solutions of field equations in $f(R)$ gravity are found for a spherically symmetric and static spacetime in the Born-Infeld (BI) non-linear electrodynamics. It is found that the models supported in this configuration must have the parametric form $f'(R)|_{r}=m+n r$, with $m,n$ constants, whose value and sign have a strong impact on the solutions, as well as in the form and range of $f(R)$. When $n=0$, $f(R)=m R+m_0$ and the Einstein-BI solution is found. When $m\neq 0$ and $n\neq0$, $f(R)$ is asymptotically equivalent to GR and the Schwarzschild and $f(R)$-Reissner-Nordström solutions are written in some limits, likewise if $n>0$ and $r\gg1$, $f(R)$ can be found as a series approximation and as a particular case, when $R_S=-\frac{m^2}{3n}$, explicitly $f(R)=m R+2n\sqrt{R}+m_0$. Finally, the solutions, scalar curvature and parametric function $f(r)$ in the non-linear ($m=0$) regime of $f(R)$ are found, and some models for specific values of $m$ and $n$ are plotted.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures
Coupled oscillators as models of phantom and scalar field cosmologies
Creators: name: Faraoni, Valerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a toy model for phantom cosmology recently introduced in the literature and consisting of two oscillators, one of which carries negative kinetic energy. The results are compared with the exact phase space picture obtained for similar dynamical systems describing, respectively, a massive canonical scalar field conformally coupled to the spacetime curvature, and a conformally coupled massive phantom. Finally, the dynamical system describing exactly a minimally coupled phantom is studied and compared with the toy model.
description: 18 pages, LaTeX, to appear in Physical Review D
title: Shiatsu Practitioners: Forging a Path Through a Landscape of Practice
Creators: name: Spurr, Susan Margaret
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: This thesis is an exploratory study of Shiatsu as a distinct type of healthcare practice. Situated within the sociology of the professions as the wider academic context, this study focuses on Shiatsu practitioners and the process of professionalisation in relation to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Neo-Weberian theory is used to examine the field of CAM, highlighting its marginalisation by the medical profession. What counts as legitimate knowledge is raised as an important question in relation to the process of professionalisation and CAM. Ethnography and narrative inquiry form the basis of the methodological approach. My experiences as a Shiatsu practitioner gave me ‘deep familiarity’ in the field of my research and I examine the challenges in this respect and discuss reflexivity as a methodological tool. The recruitment strategy led to a spectrum of participants’ experiences across a broad temporal dimension and I argue this is a particular strength of the study. Concepts of ‘social positioning’ and ‘turning points’ provide important theoretical considerations of the analytic framework. The data-led chapters collectively form a trajectory of participants’ pathways through a ‘landscape of practice’. These chapters highlight key tensions and turning points in relation to the trajectory of ‘Getting into Shiatsu’ and ‘Getting out there to practise Shiatsu’, particularly in respect of the status of knowledge and earning a living as a Shiatsu practitioner. These tensions are discussed in the context of professionalisation, and highlight some of the wider structural factors -for example the interface of Shiatsu with the NHS, other CAM practices as well as society in general. The issue of marginalisation provides a connection between Etienne Wenger-Trayner’s concept of landscapes of practice and neo-Weberian theory in relation to CAM practices. The experiences of participants in this study are potentially relevant to other practitioners not only in other marginalised emerging professions but also practitioners in more established professions.
Robustness of principal component analysis on harmonic flow in heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Liu, Ziming
name: Behera, Arabinda
name: Song, Huichao
name: Jia, Jiangyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The principal component analysis (PCA), a mathematical tool commonly used in statistics, has recently been employed to interpret the $p_T$-dependent fluctuations of harmonic flow $v_n$ in terms of leading and subleading flow modes in heavy ion collisions. Using simulated data from AMPT and HIJING models, we show that the PCA modes are not fixed, but depend on the choice of the particle weight and the $p_T$ range. Furthermore, the shape of the leading mode is affected by the presence of non-flow correlations, and fake subleading mode may arise from the mixing of non-flow correlations with leading flow mode with a magnitude that could be larger than the genuine subleading flow mode. Therefore, the meaning of PCA modes and their relations to physical leading and subleading flow modes associated initial state eccentricities need to be further clarified/validated in realistic model simulations.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 3 of Characteristics of persons who died by suicide in prison in France: 2017–2018
Creators: name: Vanhaesebrouck, Alexis
name: Tostivint, Amélie
name: Lefèvre, Thomas
name: Melchior, Maria
name: Khireddine-Medouni, Imane
name: Chee, Christine Chan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Tables 2 and 3 Ligature points and ligature for cases deceased by hanging/self-strangulation.
Factors influencing attrition among learners : Faculty of Applied Social Sciences in OUM
Creators: name: Mohamed, Noor Hassline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130101 Continuing and Community Education
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 50203 Environmental Education and Extension
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This study examined factors affecting the attrition rate among learners in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institution. The main focus of the study is to explore what factors cause the attrition, and what are the best ways or strategies to prevent the attrition rate among adult learners. There were 15 adult learners from the Faculty of Applied and Social Sciences (FASS) at Open University Malaysia (OUM) were taken from the population of dormant learners which were not registered for three concurrent semesters. The study found that the main factor of attrition was learners were overextended with too many responsibilities. The three ways to prevent attrition among learners were learners’ communication, learners’ mentoring, and learners’ awareness. It is recommended that the best practice for prevention learners’ attrition was learner itself. This study offered two benefits, factors affecting the attrition rate among adult learners and offered some ways in preventing attrition among adult learners from learners’ own perspective. Therefore, this study can be used as a benchmark for the faculty to handle the attrition cases for adult learners in open and distance learning institutions.
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Creators: name: Kara, Burak Can
name: Şahin, Alperen
name: Dirsehan, Taşkın
name: Demir, Selcuk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
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Perturbative Heavy Quark Fragmentation Function through O(alpha_s^2)
Creators: name: Melnikov, Kirill
name: Mitov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the initial condition for the perturbative fragmentation function of a heavy quark through order O(alpha_s^2) in the MS-bar scheme. This initial condition is useful for computing heavy quark (or lepton, in case of QED) energy distributions from calculations with massless partons. In addition, the initial condition at O(alpha_s^2) can be used to resum collinear logarithms ln(Q^2/m^2) in heavy quark energy spectrum with next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy by solving the DGLAP equation.
description: 14 pages, uses axodraw.sty; minor clarifications in the text; Fig(1,2) corrected; references added
FARMLAND CONCENTRATION AND RURAL INCOME GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM TANZANIA
Creators: name: Chamberlin, Jordan
name: Jayne, T. S.
name: Chamberlin, Jordan
name: Jayne, T. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Tanzania
subject: rural income growth
subject: farmland concentration

description: This study attempts to evaluate the impact of farmland concentration on rural income growth among smallholder households in Tanzania. Conceptually, farmland concentration occurs when relatively few farms have relatively large shares of the arable land resources in a given area. Based on the pioneering structural transformation work of Mellor, Johnston and others, the distribution of productive assets in primarily agrarian areas might influence the strength of agricultural growth multiplier effects on both farm and off-farm economic activity and hence on household incomes. Land is the most important productive non-labor asset in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. If large farms bring benefits that spill over to surrounding smallholders, then we might expect positive impacts of greater land concentration on household incomes. If, on the other hand, a small set of large farms dominates production, then growth multipliers may be lower than for areas with more egalitarian land distributions.
When does ICT-enabled citizen voice lead to government responsiveness?
Creators: name: Peixoto, Tiago
name: Fox, Jonathan
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.); World Bank
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: This paper reviews evidence on the use of 23 information and communication technology (ICT) platforms to project citizen voice to improve public service delivery. This meta-analysis focuses on empirical studies of initiatives in the global South, highlighting both citizen uptake (‘yelp’) and the degree to which public service providers respond to expressions of citizen voice (‘teeth’). The conceptual framework further distinguishes between two trajectories for ICT-enabled citizen voice: Upwards accountability occurs when users provide feedback directly to decision-makers in real time, allowing policy-makers and program managers to identify and address service delivery problems – but at their discretion. Downwards accountability, in contrast, occurs either through real time user feedback or less immediate forms of collective civic action that publicly call on service providers to become more accountable and depends less exclusively on decision- makers’ discretion about whether or not to act on the information provided. This distinction between the ways in which ICT platforms mediate the relationship between citizens and service providers allows for a precise analytical focus on how different dimensions of such platforms contribute to public sector responsiveness. These cases suggest that while ICT platforms have been relevant in increasing policymakers’ and senior managers’ capacity to respond, most of them have yet to influence their willingness to do so.
A spanyol Guardia Civil családon belül elkövetett bűncselekményekkel kapcsolatos feladatai
Creators: name: Kemeny, Gabor
name: Kemény, Péter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law

description: The research introduces the role and the ask of the Spanish Guardia Civil in the fight against domestic violence focusing on the institution of the restrain order and provide suggestion to the adaptation into the Hungarian legal system.
Noncontextuality in multipartite entanglement
Creators: name: Svozil, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss several multiport interferometric preparation and measurement configurations and show that they are noncontextual. Generalizations to the n particle case are discussed.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 4 of Characteristics of persons who died by suicide in prison in France: 2017–2018
Creators: name: Vanhaesebrouck, Alexis
name: Tostivint, Amélie
name: Lefèvre, Thomas
name: Melchior, Maria
name: Khireddine-Medouni, Imane
name: Chee, Christine Chan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table 4 Suicide incidence rates according to some characteristics of the prisoners.
Lifting Grains by the Transient Low Pressure in a Martian Dust Devil
Creators: name: Bila, Tetyana
name: Wurm, Gerhard
name: Onyeagusi, Florence Chioma
name: Teiser, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lifting dust and sand into the thin Martian atmosphere is a challenging problem. Atmospheric pressure excursions within dust devils have been proposed to support lifting. We verify this idea in laboratory experiments. Pressure differences up to a few Pa are applied along particle layers of 50 to 400 $\rm μm$. As samples we used glass beads of $\sim$50 $\rm μm$ diameter and irregular basalt grains of $\sim$20 $\rm μm$ in size. The total ambient pressure of air was set to 600 Pa. Particles are ejected at pressure differences as low as 2.0 $\rm \pm$ 0.8 Pa. In the case of glass beads, the ejected grains returning to the particle bed can trigger new particle ejections as they reduce cohesion and release the tension from other grains. Therefore, few impacting grains might be sufficient to sustain dust lifting in a dust devil at even lower pressure differences. Particle lift requires a very thin, $\sim$100 $\rm μm$, low permeability particle layer on top of supporting ground with larger pore space. Assuming this, our experiments support the idea that pressure excursions in Martian dust devils release grains from the ground.
Agricultural Diversification in St. Kitts - Opportunities and Challenges
Creators: name: Thomas, Jerome
name: Thomas, Jerome
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: Up until fairly recently the economy of St. Kills was dominated by sugar production. Sugarcane has been cultivated on SL Kills for over 300 years on the best agricultural lands while in the past non-sugar agriculture only occupied marginal lands. However within recent years the sugar industry has accumulated significant annual deficits and alternatives for economic development are being examined. Agricultural diversification away from sugar is one option that is currently being considered. St. Kitts is a significant net importer of food and increasing non-sugar agriculture production appears to be an option for examination. There also appears to be opportunities for enhancing linkages with the growing tourism market. Markets for agricultural produce also appear to exist in the nearby islands. However diversification of the agricultural sector is faced with a number of challenges including trade liberalization, limited water access, weak farm management practices, insecure land tenure and competition from other economic activities for the limited available land. The opportunities and challenges for agricultural diversification in St. Kills are examined in this paper.
Cheyletus carnifex Zachvatkin 1935
Creators: name: Ardeshir, Fariba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Cheyletidae
Cheyletus
Cheyletus carnifex

description: Cheyletus carnifex Zachvatkin, 1935
 World Distribution – Holarctic: Tadjikistan, Mongolia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia (Zachvatkin 1935; Fain and Bochkov 2001); Egypt (Zaher and Soliman 1967); Czech, USA (Hughes 1976).
 Distribution in Iran – Mazandaran (Faraji 1993); Fars (Ostovan 1993); E. Azarbijan; (Mirfakhraii 1994); Guilan (Hajizadeh et al. 2011); Alborz (Seiedy et al. 2012).
 Material examined – Alborz province (Karaj), 2005-2006 (flour-mills: grain, broken wheat, dust and chaff). Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari (Shahr-e Kord), 2006-2007 (flour-mill: dust). Guilan province (Rasht and Rudsar), 2006-2007 (rice-mill, barn: rice, paddy, brass scrap). Golestan province (Gonbad-e Kavus, Gorgan and Galikesh), 2005-2006 (Silos and flour-mill: broken wheat and dust); (Gorgan, Gonbad-e Kavus), 2006-2007 (flour-mill and animal food factory: grain). Khorasan-e Razavi and Soud Khorasan provinces (Mashhad, Fariman and Birjand), 2005-2006 (silos: grain and broken wheat). Khuzestan province (Ahvaz), 2006-2007 (flour-mill: grain). Mazandaran province (Sari, Nur, Mahmoud Abad, Tenekabon, Babol and Ghaemshahr), 2006-2007 (flour-mill and ricemills: broken wheat, bran, brass scarp and paddy). Tehran province (Tehran and Varamin), 2005- 2006 (silo, mills and flour-mill: grain, broken wheat, dust and chaff) and West Azarbijan province (Uromia, Shahin Dezh, Sardasht and Mako) 2005-2006 (silo and flour-mills: grain, dust and chaff).
 Remarks – This species is very abundant in Iran and both sexes can easily collect from different provinces.
description: Published as part of Ardeshir, Fariba, 2017, Cheyletid mites (Acari: Trombidiformes) in stored grains in Iran, pp. 11-24 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i1.14307, http://zenodo.org/record/4634035
Consumption Patterns of Roots and Tubers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Creators: name: Iton, Ardon
name: Ragbir, Sarojini
name: Pemberton, Carlisle
name: Iton, Ardon
name: Ragbir, Sarojini
name: Pemberton, Carlisle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Root Crop Production
subject: Consumption and Exports
subject: St. Vincent and the Grenadines

description: The generalization that the consumption of indigenous root crops is on the decline in the Caribbean is widespread. However, in the absence of baseline data empirically testing this generalization is difficult. This study attempts to use the food balance sheet approach to look at the consumption of the commonly grown root crops-Dasheen, Tannia, Eddo, Sweet Potato and Yam-in St. Vincent and the Grenadines over the period 1997 to 2003. Using the simple trend analysis technique no support for the generalization was found. On the contrary, over the period there was an upward trend in the availability of the root crops for consumption. The suggestion that younger people consume fewer root crops than older people was also tested, by dividing the respondents into two groups, under 45 years and over 46 years old. A Chi-Square-Value of 0.167 was obtained which suggests that there is no dependence between age and the consumption of the root crops. The study also identified some of the key attributes considered in the consumption and purchase decision of the root crops and how the respondents ranked them in comparison to other starchy foods such as Rice, Irish Potato and Wheat/bread. It is recommended that the production and consumption of the root crops should be promoted in the Region as on means of reducing the Region's dependency on imported carbohydrates. However, the nutritional benefits that can be derived from their consumption must be clearly identified and where possible every effort must be made to add value to the raw commodities.
The Future of CARICOM Sugar under a Liberalized Trading Regime
Creators: name: Seepersad, Govind
name: Rankine, Lloyd B.
name: Singh, Ranjit H.
name: Seepersad, Govind
name: Rankine, Lloyd B.
name: Singh, Ranjit H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: The primary objective of this study was to assess and analyse the implications of liberalization of the European Union (EU) and United States of America (USA) sugar markets on CARICOM producers. Traditionally the EU has been the major market for CARICOM sugar, traded under the EU/ACP Sugar Protocol (SP) and Special Preferential Sugar (SPS) quota arrangement. Additionally, sugar is also sold to the USA through a quota arrangement under the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). Currently Brazil, Thailand and Australia have requested a WTO panel against the EU, challenging the special arrangements for sugar imports from a number of ACP countries as agreed in the Uruguay Round. This has caused sugar exporting ACP countries to express strong concerns and opposition to this action which runs the risk of undermining this preferential market. But the challenge does not stop there. There are also efforts to change what is considered as "market-distorting sugar regimes" in the United States and Japan through both bilateral and multilateral channels. Much like the case of banana, the outcome of these challenges can pose serious problems for CARICOM economies. This study therefore sought to assess the possible impact of loss of these preferential sugar markets on CARICOM's raw centrifugal sugar industry. In order to do this, an econometric single commodity static market model was constructed and partial equilibrium analysis was used for the impact analysis. Regression models were constructed for the demand and supply equations in order to derive the respective elasticities to be used in the partial equilibrium model. It was found that if the EU and the USA were to discontinue the preferential sugar marketing arrangements and CARICOM producers were required to sell their sugar at the world 'free' market equilibrium price, such a measure will have negative quantity, financial and welfare effects.
When does ICT-enabled citizen voice lead to government responsiveness?
Creators: name: Peixoto, Tiago
name: Fox, Jonathan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper reviews evidence on the use of 23 information and communication technology (ICT) platforms to project citizen voice to improve public service delivery. This meta-analysis focuses on empirical studies of initiatives in the global South, highlighting both citizen uptake (‘yelp’) and the degree to which public service providers respond to expressions of citizen voice (‘teeth’). The conceptual framework further distinguishes between two trajectories for ICT-enabled citizen voice: Upwards accountability occurs when users provide feedback directly to decision-makers in real time, allowing policy-makers and program managers to identify and address service delivery problems – but at their discretion. Downwards accountability, in contrast, occurs either through real time user feedback or less immediate forms of collective civic action that publicly call on service providers to become more accountable and depends less exclusively on decision- makers’ discretion about whether or not to act on the information provided. This distinction between the ways in which ICT platforms mediate the relationship between citizens and service providers allows for a precise analytical focus on how different dimensions of such platforms contribute to public sector responsiveness. These cases suggest that while ICT platforms have been relevant in increasing policymakers’ and senior managers’ capacity to respond, most of them have yet to influence their willingness to do so.
Nucleon-number scalings of anisotropic flows and nuclear modification factor for light nuclei in the squeeze-out region
Creators: name: Wang, T. T.
name: Ma, Y. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The number of nucleon (NN) scaling of the directed flow $v_1$ and elliptic flow ($v_{2}$) as well as the nuclear modification factor ($R_{cp}$) are tested for light nuclei which are produced in 0.4$A$ GeV $^{197}Au + ^{197}Au$ collisions at different impact parameters with two different in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections in the framework of an isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics (IQMD) model. In that energy domain, the emission of light nuclei can be well described by the squeeze-out phenonomenon. The results show a nice NN scaling behavior for flow parameters $v_{1}$, $v_{2}$ and ${R_{cp}}$. These results demonstrate that the nucleon coalescence mechanism is responsible for nucleon-number scaling of above physical observables in squeeze-out region in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energy.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures