cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Structural stigma, sex work and HIV : contradictions and lessons learnt from a community-led structural intervention in southern India
Creators: name: Biradavolu, Monica Rao
name: Blankenship, Kim
name: Jena, Asima
name: Dhungana, Nimesh
Publisher: name: J Epidemiol Community Health
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Background Recent theorisation has pushed stigma research in new directions, arguing for a need to challenge the unequal power relations that impact groups most at risk for HIV-related stigma rather than locate stigma in the individual. Such a conceptualisation resonates with the growing emphasis on structural interventions for HIV prevention that attempt to alter the social context of risk. Methods The paper predominantly relies on longitudinal interviews conducted three times over a 2-year period with sex workers with varying degrees of involvement with the non-governmental organisation (NGO) and community-based organisation. Results Recognising that stigma is socially constructed and structurally reproduced, the NGO helped mobilise marginalised and hitherto scattered female sex workers to form community-based organisations to challenge their disadvantaged status in society. The authors show how stigma alleviation strategies presented a contradiction: emboldening one group of female sex workers to self-identify as sex workers while making others reluctant to access the intervention-run clinic. Conclusion The paper builds on a growing body of research that acknowledges the struggles in implementing structural interventions, particularly for NGOs working in regions with a diverse population of sex workers with varying needs. The authors argue that intervention goals of reducing stigma and increasing the use of sexually transmitted infection services do not have to conflict and, in fact, must go hand-in-hand for an implementation to be considered a structural intervention.
Bragg spectroscopy with an accelerating Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Geursen, R.
name: Thomas, N. R.
name: Wilson, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of Bragg spectroscopy performed on an accelerating Bose-Einstein condensate. The Bose condensate undergoes circular micro-motion in a magnetic TOP trap and the effect of this motion on the Bragg spectrum is analyzed. A simple frequency modulation model is used to interpret the observed complex structure, and broadening effects are considered using numerical solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in PRA. Minor changes to text and fig 2
Fractional ac Josephson effect in unconventional superconductors
Creators: name: Kwon, Hyok-Jon
name: Sengupta, K.
name: Yakovenko, Victor M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For certain orientations of Josephson junctions between two p_x-wave or two d-wave superconductors, the subgap Andreev bound states produce a 4pi-periodic relation between the Josephson current I and the phase difference phi: I ~ sin(phi/2). Consequently, the ac Josephson current has the fractional frequency eV/h, where V is the dc voltage. In the tunneling limit, the Josephson current is proportional to the first power (not square) of the electron tunneling amplitude. Thus, the Josephson current between unconventional superconductors is carried by single electrons, rather than by Cooper pairs. The fractional ac Josephson effect can be observed experimentally by measuring frequency spectrum of microwave radiation from the junction.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, RevTEX 4; v2. - minor typos corrected in proofs
Opioid agonist treatment is highly protective against overdose death among a U.S. statewide population of justice-involved adults
Creators: name: Krawczyk, Noa
name: Mojtabai, Ramin
name: Stuart, Elizabeth A.
name: Fingerhood, Michael I.
name: Agus, Deborah
name: B. Casey Lyons
name: Weiner, Jonathan P.
name: Saloner, Brendan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Persons with justice-involvement have high rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) and overdose and are a critical target of policy initiatives to improve access to evidence-based medications for OUD. However, less is known about what characteristics of justice-involved persons make them more or less likely to receive evidence-based care. Objectives: Focusing on a Maryland state-wide sample of justice-involved individuals, this study explores predictors of OUD treatment utilization and the relationship between referral source to treatment, treatment with opioid agonists, and risk of a fatal opioid overdose. Methods: Records were obtained for persons with arrests, incarcerations, and community supervision cases related to property/drug crimes in Maryland in 2015–2016 (N = 43,842). Individuals were matched to records in three state databases: admissions to specialty substance use disorder treatment, buprenorphine prescriptions for office-based OUD treatment, and opioid overdose death records. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify correlates of opioid agonist treatment utilization and overdose risk among justice-involved adults who received OUD treatment. Results: Of 43,842 justice-involved adults (80% male), nearly 20% utilized OUD treatment. Of these, 58% received agonist medications. Those with polysubstance use diagnoses or referred to treatment directly by criminal justice sources were least likely to receive medications. Agonist medications reduced odds of fatal overdose by 60%. Conclusions: Opioid agonist treatment was highly protective against overdose among justice-involved individuals receiving treatment in the community, but many still lacked access to this type of care. Policies and interventions to promote the expansion of opioid agonist treatment in community settings that serve justice-involved persons are critical.
Understanding the giant gamma-ray outburst on June 16, 2015 from the blazar 3C 279
Creators: name: Singh, K. K.
name: Meintjes, P. J.
name: Ramamonjisoa, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A very bright and fast varying gamma-ray flare has been detected from the blazar 3C 279 on June 16, 2015. We have studied the broadband spectral energy distribution of the source during the flaring episode and in the low activity state using a simple one zone leptonic model. We find that an electron energy distribution described by a broken power law can be used to reproduce the broadband emissions during the high and low activity states. The flux measurements at radio, infrared and optical frequencies are reproduced by the synchrotron emission resulting from the relativistic electrons in a jet magnetic field strength of 0.37 G. The gamma-ray emission from the blazar 3C 279 is attributed to the Comptonization of the IR seed photons from the dusty torus with a temperature of 870 K. The outburst from the source observed on June 16, 2015 can be ascribed to an efficient acceleration process associated with a sudden enhancement in the electron energy density in the emitting region with respect to the low activity state. The fast gamma-ray variability at a minute timescale implies that the emission during the flare originates from a more compact region and the size of the emission zone in the low activity state is found to be four times larger than that during the flare. We have also used the model parameters derived from the broadband spectral energy distribution modelling to investigate a few physical properties of the jet during the outburst.
description: 4 Figures, 2 Tables, Accepted for Publication in Astrophysics and Space Science (Ap&SS) Journal
A Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach for measurement of jet precession in radio-loud active galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Horton, Maya A.
name: Hardcastle, Martin J.
name: Read, Shaun C.
name: Krause, Martin G. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jet precession can reveal the presence of binary systems of supermassive black holes. The ability to accurately measure the parameters of jet precession from radio-loud AGN is important for constraining the binary supermassive black hole population, which are expected as a result of hierarchical galaxy evolution. The age, morphology, and orientation along the line of sight of a given source often result in uncertainties regarding jet path. This paper presents a new approach for efficient determination of precession parameters using a 2D MCMC curve-fitting algorithm which provides us a full posterior probability distribution on the fitted parameters. Applying the method to Cygnus A, we find evidence for previous suggestions that the source is precessing. Interpreted in the context of binary black holes leads to a constraint of parsec scale and likely sub-parsec orbital separation for the putative supermassive binary.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted for Monthly Notices
Debordering and re-bordering in the refugee crisis: a case of ‘defensive integration’
Creators: name: Kriesi, Hanspeter
name: Altiparmakis, Argyrios
name: Bojar, Abel
name: Ioana-Elena Oana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We present the reaction of the EU and eight member states to the refugee crisis 2015/16 as a case of ‘defensive integration’. In the absence of a joint EU solution, the member states were left to their own devices and took a series of national measures that varied from one country to the other, depending on their policy heritage, and the combination of problem pressure and political pressure which they were facing. As a result, debordering responses prevailed at first. Only in a second stage a set of national and EU measures aiming at internal and external re-bordering were introduced. At this stage, destination states proved to be the most important drivers of a joint solution, with Germany taking the lead. The overall outcome is an example of ‘defensive integration’, aiming squarely at joint solutions to stop the refugee flow outside the EU but not to manage it inside the EU.
The context of economic insecurity and its relation to violence and risk factors for HIV among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India
Creators: name: Reed, Elizabeth
name: Gupta, Jhumka
name: Biradavolu, Monica Rao
name: Devireddy, Vasavi
name: Blankenship, Kim
Publisher: name: Public Health Reports
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Description to be added
Clustering and light profiles of galaxies in the environment of 20 Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio sources
Creators: name: Bornancini, Carlos G.
name: Martinez, Hector J.
name: Lambas, Diego G.
name: de Vries, Wim
name: van Breugel, Wil
name: De Breuck, Carlos
name: Minniti, Dante
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed galaxy properties in the neighborhood of 20 Ultra-Steep Spectrum Radio sources (USS) taken from the WISH catalog of De Breuck et al. (2002). Galaxies in these USS fields were identified in deep observations that were carried out in the K'-band using the OSIRIS imager at the CTIO 4m telescope. We find a statistically significant signal of clustering around our sample of USS. The angular extension of the detected USS-galaxy clustering is theta_c~20" corresponding to a spatial scale ~120 h^{-1}kpc, assuming the sources are at z~1 in a Omega_m=0.3, Omega_Λ=0.7 model universe. These results are in agreement with those obtained by Best (2000) for radio galaxy-galaxy correlation, and Best et al. (2003) for radio-loud AGN-galaxy correlation. We have also analyzed the light distribution of the galaxies by fitting Sersic's law profiles. Our results show no significant dependence of the galaxy shape parameters on the projected distance to the USS.
description: Accepted for its publication in Astronomical Journal, 9 figures
Comparing Standard and Robust Serial Correlation Tests in the Presence of Garch Errors
Creators: name: Small, John P.
name: Small, John P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Recently, Diebold (1986) and Wooldridge (1991) have suggested procedures for ensuring that well known tests for serial independence have asymptotically reliable sizes in the presence of conditional heteroscedasticity. This paper uses a Monte Carlo experiment to compare the sizes and powers of several versions of these robust tests with their "non-robust" forms and with standard exact tests. The general conclusion is that both robust procedures lack power and are dominated by well specified exact tests. This conclusion is not altered when the assumption of normally distributed innovations is relaxed.
Hadronization correspondence of Hawking-Unruh radiation from rotating and electrically charged black holes
Creators: name: Yassin, Hayam
name: Elyazeed, Eman R. Abo
name: Break, Raghda E.
name: Megahed, Amira M.
name: Tawfik, Abdel Nasser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proposed correspondence between the Hawking-Unruh radiation mechanism in rotating, electrically-charged and electrically-charged-rotating black holes and the hadronization in high-energy physics is assumed. This allows us to determine the well-profound freezeout parameters of the heavy-ion collisions. Furthermore, black holes thermodynamics is found analogical to that of the high-energy collisions. We also introduce a relation expressing the dependence of the angular momentum and the angular velocity deduced from rotating black holes on the chemical potential. The novel phase diagram for rotating, electrically-charged and electrically-charged-rotating black holes are found in an excellent agreement with the phase diagrams drawn for electrically-charged black holes and also with the ones mapped out from the statistical thermal models and the high-energy experiments. Moreover, our estimations for the freezeout conditions $\langle E\rangle/\langle N\rangle$ and $s/T^3$ are in excellent good agreement with the ones determined from the hadronization process, especially at $μ\leq 0.3$ GeV.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures, submitted IJMPD
Structural Deep Clustering Network
Creators: name: Bo, Deyu
name: Wang, Xiao
name: Shi, Chuan
name: Zhu, Meiqi
name: Lu, Emiao
name: Cui, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Clustering is a fundamental task in data analysis. Recently, deep clustering, which derives inspiration primarily from deep learning approaches, achieves state-of-the-art performance and has attracted considerable attention. Current deep clustering methods usually boost the clustering results by means of the powerful representation ability of deep learning, e.g., autoencoder, suggesting that learning an effective representation for clustering is a crucial requirement. The strength of deep clustering methods is to extract the useful representations from the data itself, rather than the structure of data, which receives scarce attention in representation learning. Motivated by the great success of Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) in encoding the graph structure, we propose a Structural Deep Clustering Network (SDCN) to integrate the structural information into deep clustering. Specifically, we design a delivery operator to transfer the representations learned by autoencoder to the corresponding GCN layer, and a dual self-supervised mechanism to unify these two different deep neural architectures and guide the update of the whole model. In this way, the multiple structures of data, from low-order to high-order, are naturally combined with the multiple representations learned by autoencoder. Furthermore, we theoretically analyze the delivery operator, i.e., with the delivery operator, GCN improves the autoencoder-specific representation as a high-order graph regularization constraint and autoencoder helps alleviate the over-smoothing problem in GCN. Through comprehensive experiments, we demonstrate that our propose model can consistently perform better over the state-of-the-art techniques.
description: Published at The Web Conference (WWW) 2020, full paper
Additional file 1 of Urinary cell cycle arrest biomarkers and chitinase 3-like protein 1 (CHI3L1) to detect acute kidney injury in the critically ill: a post hoc laboratory analysis on the FINNAKI cohort
Creators: name: Hoste, Eric A.
name: Vaara, Suvi T.
name: Loor, Jorien De
name: Haapio, Mikko
name: Nuytinck, Lieve
name: Demeyere, Kristel
name: Pettilä, Ville
name: Meyer, Evelyne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Diagnostic performance of biomarkers and biomarker combinations for any stage of AKI defined by KDIGO occurring at 24 hours (n= 120, 18.2%). Table S2. Diagnostic performance of biomarkers and biomarker combinations for any stage of AKI defined by KDIGO occurring at 48 hours (n=88, 13.3%). Table S3. Diagnostic performance of biomarkers and biomarker combinations for stage 2 or 3 AKI defined by KDIGO occurring at 48 hours (n=45, 6.8%).
FastWave: Accelerating Autoregressive Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGA
Creators: name: Hussain, Shehzeen
name: Javaheripi, Mojan
name: Neekhara, Paarth
name: Kastner, Ryan
name: Koushanfar, Farinaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autoregressive convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely exploited for sequence generation tasks such as audio synthesis, language modeling and neural machine translation. WaveNet is a deep autoregressive CNN composed of several stacked layers of dilated convolution that is used for sequence generation. While WaveNet produces state-of-the art audio generation results, the naive inference implementation is quite slow; it takes a few minutes to generate just one second of audio on a high-end GPU. In this work, we develop the first accelerator platform~\textit{FastWave} for autoregressive convolutional neural networks, and address the associated design challenges. We design the Fast-Wavenet inference model in Vivado HLS and perform a wide range of optimizations including fixed-point implementation, array partitioning and pipelining. Our model uses a fully parameterized parallel architecture for fast matrix-vector multiplication that enables per-layer customized latency fine-tuning for further throughput improvement. Our experiments comparatively assess the trade-off between throughput and resource utilization for various optimizations. Our best WaveNet design on the Xilinx XCVU13P FPGA that uses only on-chip memory, achieves 66 faster generation speed compared to CPU implementation and 11 faster generation speed than GPU implementation.
description: Published as a conference paper at ICCAD 2019
title: Earth Games: The 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games, or the Failure of the Ecological Project
Creators: name: Popa, Stefan Cristian
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2019

description: The 1994 Winter Olympic Games, organised and held in Lillehammer, Norway, are often treated as a reference point for the commitment of the International Olympic Committee to sustainable development. Commentators recognised the embodiment of ecological concerns and aspirations in a unique staging of the Olympic ideal. Through an architectural analysis of Winter Olympic Games, particularly the Lillehammer edition, this thesis argues that the event did not reflect concerns for the environment. It also did not relate to material ecology as defined and debated over previous decades in the United Nations. Instead, the XVII Winter Olympics seem to have employed the environmental rhetoric of a Norwegian affiliation to Nature to affirm and re-establish the moral ideal of the Olympic Movement, which was damaged in 1992 when the Games in Albertville, France, were criticised as an ecological failure. Moreover, the event in Norway served to introduce the 1987 UN Report on sustainable development, Our Common Future, despite the geopolitical role of Norway as a leading agent in the international fossil fuel trade. This research tackles problems associated with natural resource exploitation and how architecture is instrumental in legitimising environmental destruction. It foregrounds the disjunction between action and intention, architecture and politics, which can be read between the lines of political and design agendas. The lack of intersectional points between these categories is symptomatic of the absence of critical engagement of design practices with the fundamental issues associated with sustainable development: exiling architects to the role of spectators, heavily influenced by overwhelming political and economic constraints.
An Atom Trap Relying on Optical Pumping
Creators: name: Bouyer, P.
name: Lemonde, P.
name: Dahan, M. Ben
name: Michaud, A.
name: Salomon, C.
name: Dalibard, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated a new radiation pressure trap which relies on optical pumping and does not require any magnetic field. It employs six circularly polarized divergent beams and works on the red of a $J_{g} \longrightarrow J_{e} = J_{g} + 1$ atomic transition with $J_{g} \geq 1/2$. We have demonstrated this trap with cesium atoms from a vapour cell using the 852 nm $J_{g} = 4 \longrightarrow J_{e} = 5$ resonance transition. The trap contained up to $3 \cdot 10^{7}$ atoms in a cloud of $1/\sqrt{e}$ radius of 330 $μ$m.
Debordering and re-bordering in the refugee crisis: a case of ‘defensive integration’
Creators: name: Kriesi, Hanspeter
name: Altiparmakis, Argyrios
name: Bojar, Abel
name: Oana, Nena
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We present the reaction of the EU and eight member states to the refugee crisis 2015/16 as a case of ‘defensive integration’. In the absence of a joint EU solution, the member states were left to their own devices and took a series of national measures that varied from one country to the other, depending on their policy heritage, and the combination of problem pressure and political pressure which they were facing. As a result, debordering responses prevailed at first. Only in a second stage a set of national and EU measures aiming at internal and external re-bordering were introduced. At this stage, destination states proved to be the most important drivers of a joint solution, with Germany taking the lead. The overall outcome is an example of ‘defensive integration’, aiming squarely at joint solutions to stop the refugee flow outside the EU but not to manage it inside the EU.
Cherry Tomato Backcross Breeding to Increase Sweetness by dCAPS and SNPs Markers in Assisted Selection
Creators: name: Tonsak Rojkhamlue
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tomato
Backcross breedingwith marker-assisted selection
SNP markers
Sweetness

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 11, 4, 88-101
Testing for Serial Independence in Error Components Models: Finite Sample Results
Creators: name: Small, John P.
name: Small, John P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: A popular class of tests for simple autoregressive processes is considered in the context of the error components model previously discussed by Revanker (1980) and King (1982). We show that the expected value of all such test statistics is further from the rejection region in this model, relative to the classical model. More importantly, as the degree of positive autocorrelation becomes very strong, the power of each test must decline to its level of significance, irrespective of the data.
Description of world GDP rate changes by using discrete dynamic model
Creators: name: Kilyachkov, Anatoly
name: Chaldaeva, Larisa
name: Kilyachkov, Nikolay
name: Kilyachkov, Anatoly
name: Chaldaeva, Larisa
name: Kilyachkov, Nikolay
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Economic cycles
subject: attractive fixed points
subject: periodic points
subject: strange attractor
subject: radii of convergence

description: The rate of world GDP is changing periodically. A discrete dynamic model (DDM) describes this process. The model is based on the assumption that the global economy has certain “inertia”. This allows us to describe the rate of change of global GDP in the subsequent year as a function of its change in the preceding year. This function can be approximated by using a finite number of terms of its Taylor series. A methodologically more rigorous approach is proposed for approximating the rate of world GDP change on non-overlapping time intervals. Radii of convergence were determined for approximating polynomials for these time ranges. Studies have shown the dependence of the shape of the radius of convergence from the nature of the convergence. DDM has a practical significance because it allows identifying the change in a character of economic dynamics without prior assumptions about the factors driving this trend.
Shot noise of spin polarized electrons
Creators: name: Lamacraft, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The shot noise of spin polarized electrons is shown to be generically dependent upon spin-flip processes. Such a situation represents perhaps the simplest instance where the two-particle character of current fluctuations out of equilibrium is explicit, leading to trinomial statistics of charge transfer in a single channel model. We calculate the effect of spin-orbit coupling, magnetic impurities, and precession in an external magnetic field on the noise in the experimentally relevant cases of diffusive wires and lateral semiconductor dots, finding dramatic enhancements of the Fano factor. The possibility of using the shot noise to measure the spin-relaxation time in an open mesoscopic system is raised.
description: Published version. Minor clarifications and corrections
Long memory features and relationship stability of Asia-Pacific currencies against USD
Creators: name: Sankarkumar, Amirdha Vasani
name: Selvam, Murugesan
name: Maniam, Balasundram
name: Sigo, Marxia Oli
name: Sankarkumar, Amirdha Vasani
name: Selvam, Murugesan
name: Maniam, Balasundram
name: Sigo, Marxia Oli
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Hurst exponent
subject: long memory features
subject: efficient market hypothesis
subject: Asia Pacific foreign exchange markets
subject: co-integration

description: This research study examines the behavior of currency rate, long memory features, and longterm stability in the returns of thirteen Asia-Pacific currencies (AUD, CNY, HKD, INR, IDR, JPY, KRW, MYR, NZD, PHP, SGD, TWD, and THB) against USD over a period of fourteen years (from 2nd January 2001 to 10th December 2014). The study uses descriptive statistics, ADF and PP test, Hurst exponent cointegration model, and figures to investigate the normality, stationarity, long memory features, and longterm relationship stability of sample currencies against USD. This study determined the values of the Hurst Exponent for the first window with 1,000 observations and the second window with 2,500 observations. This study provides significant evidence for the presence of long memory features and relationship stability. The findings of this study would help investors, exchange rate trade policy makers, exporters, and importers to make decisions on the investment, export, and import of goods and services.
Electroweak-scale inflation, inflaton-Higgs mixing and the scalar spectral index
Creators: name: van Tent, Bartjan
name: Smit, Jan
name: Tranberg, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a phenomenological model of electroweak-scale inflation that is in accordance with recent cosmic microwave background observations by WMAP, while setting the stage for a zero-temperature electroweak transition as assumed in recent models of baryogenesis. We find that the scalar spectral index especially poses tight constraints for low-scale inflation models. The inflaton-Higgs coupling leads to substantial mixing of the scalar degrees of freedom. Two types of scalar particles emerge with decay widths similar to that of the Standard Model Higgs particle.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures. v2: Two references added, matches version to be published in JCAP
Expanding the boundaries of compulsory citizenship behavior: Its impact on some organizational outputs
Creators: name: Ahmadian, Sevda
name: Sesen, Harun
name: Soran, Semih
name: Ahmadian, Sevda
name: Sesen, Harun
name: Soran, Semih
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Compulsory citizenship behavior
subject: intention to quit
subject: burnout
subject: job stress

description: Researches have mainly been focused on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) positive effects to organizations. On the other hand, Compulsory Citizenship Behavior (CCB) is a rather new subject in both national and international literature. Transformation of organizational citizenship behaviors, which are expected to have positive effects on the organizational success into CCB due to various administrative and social pressures, brings about numerous negative consequences for employees and the organization. But the quantity of studies conducted on this subject is very limited for the time being. In this framework, the main aim of this study is to contribute to literature by analyzing the dynamics of CCB in a different culture and different line of business. In this study, relations between CCB and some positive and negative organizational attitudes and behaviors are examined. 635 people working in various accommodation businesses have participated in this research. Findings have shown that CCB is positively correlated with negative organizational consequences; and negatively correlated with positive organizational attitudes and behaviors. According to this, manager/supervisor related CCBs increase employees’ intentions to quit work, their level of burnout, job stress, social loafing behaviors, and conflict with their colleagues; and decrease their innovative behaviors, identification with the organization, and individual oriented OCBs.
Diffusion Time-Scale Invariance, Markovization Processes and Memory Effects in Lennard-Jones Liquids
Creators: name: Yulmetyev, Renat M.
name: Mokshin, Anatolii V.
name: Hänggi, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of calculation of diffusion coefficients for Lennard-Jones liquids, based on the idea of time-scale invariance of relaxation processes in liquids. The results were compared with the molecular dynamics data for Lennard-Jones system and a good agreement of our theory with these data over a wide range of densities and temperatures was obtained. By calculations of the non-Markovity parameter we have estimated numerically statistical memory effects of diffusion in detail.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Long-Range Order and Dynamic Structure Factor of a Nematic under a Thermal Gradient
Creators: name: Rodríguez, R. F.
name: Híjar, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a fluctuating hydrodynamic approach to calculate the orientation fluctuations correlation functions of a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal in a nonequilibrium state induced by a stationay heat flux. Since in this nonequilibrium stationary state the hydrodynamic fluctuations evolve on three widely separated times scales, we use a time-scale perturbation procedure in order to partially diagonalize the hydrodynamic matrix. The wave number and frequency dependence of these orientation correlation functions is evaluated and their explicit functional form on position is also calculated analytically in and out of equilibrium. We show that for both states these correlactions are long-ranged. This result shows that indeed, even in equilibrium there is long-range orientational order in the nematic, consistently with the well known properties of these systems.We also calculate the dynamic structure of the fluid in both states for a geometry consistent with light scattering experiments experiments. We find that as with isotropic simple fluids, the external temperature gradient introduces an asymmetry in the spectrum shifting its maximum by an amount proportional to the magnitude of the gradient. This effect may be of the order of 7 per cent. Also, the width at half height may decrease by a factor of about 10 per cent. Since to our knowledge there are no experimental results available in the literature to compare with, the predictions of our model calculation remains to be assessed.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, presented at the 3rd NEXT-SigmaPhi International Conference (13-18 August 2005, Kolymbari CRETE)
The copyright permissions culture in software preservation and its implications for the cultural record
Creators: name: Aufderheide, Patricia
name: Butler, Brandon
name: Cox, Krista
name: Jaszi, Peter
Publisher: name: Association of Research Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4610
subject: Library and information studies

description: This report summarizes results from research with the professionals who make up the software preservation community about how their understanding of copyright intersects with their preservation mission. Professionals typically face significant challenges from perceived copyright barriers. They tend to assume that a license or other express permission from a copyright holder is required before embarking on a wide variety of preservation activities, and typically find that such permissions are difficult or impossible to obtain. In the absence of reliable information to guide informed risk assessment, professionals act on the reasonable assumption that high levels of legal risk could be associated with activities that potentially implicate copyright and related doctrines. As a result, they often forego and postpone essential preservation activities, and establish access policies for collection materials that strictly limit scholarship. Preservation professionals have actively explored opportunities for collaboration and resource-sharing, but their prospects are clouded by legal uncertainty. At the same time, professionals are frustrated and deeply concerned that over-conservative approaches are limiting access to software and software-dependent works, imperiling the future of digital memory. The community has so far had little access to information or expert advice about alternatives to seeking permission, and in particular about the fair use doctrine, which allows the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. Developing a shared understanding among preservation professionals of best practices around employing fair use to achieve their preservation and access mission will facilitate their work.
The copyright permissions culture in software preservation and its implications for the cultural record
Creators: name: Aufderheide, Patricia
name: Butler, Brandon
name: Cox, Krista
name: Jaszi, Peter
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This report summarizes results from research with the professionals who make up the software preservation community about how their understanding of copyright intersects with their preservation mission. Professionals typically face significant challenges from perceived copyright barriers. They tend to assume that a license or other express permission from a copyright holder is required before embarking on a wide variety of preservation activities, and typically find that such permissions are difficult or impossible to obtain. In the absence of reliable information to guide informed risk assessment, professionals act on the reasonable assumption that high levels of legal risk could be associated with activities that potentially implicate copyright and related doctrines. As a result, they often forego and postpone essential preservation activities, and establish access policies for collection materials that strictly limit scholarship. Preservation professionals have actively explored opportunities for collaboration and resource-sharing, but their prospects are clouded by legal uncertainty. At the same time, professionals are frustrated and deeply concerned that over-conservative approaches are limiting access to software and software-dependent works, imperiling the future of digital memory. The community has so far had little access to information or expert advice about alternatives to seeking permission, and in particular about the fair use doctrine, which allows the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. Developing a shared understanding among preservation professionals of best practices around employing fair use to achieve their preservation and access mission will facilitate their work.
Majorana Neutrino Masses from Anomalous U(1) Symmetries
Creators: name: Leontaris, G. K.
name: Rizos, J.
name: Psallidas, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the possibility of interpreting the solar and atmospheric neutrino data within the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model augmented by a single U(1) anomalous family symmetry spontaneously broken by non-zero vacuum expectation values of a pair of singlet fields. The symmetry retains a dimension-five operator which provides Majorana masses for left-handed neutrino states. Assuming symmetric lepton mass matrices, the model predicts inverse hierarchical neutrino mass spectrum, theta_{13}=0 and large mixing while at the same time it provides acceptable mass matrices for the charged fermions.
description: 14 pages, no figures
Effects of Colchicine on growth and morphological characteristics of genus Ficus.
Creators: name: Piriyaphattarakit, Anan
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: growth colchicine
Ficus microcarpaL.f.
Sai TISTR 1
Ficus microcarpaL.f

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 11, 4, 102-112
A possible deformed algebra and calculus inspired in nonextensive thermostatistics
Creators: name: Borges, Ernesto P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a deformed algebra related to the q-exponential and the q-logarithm functions that emerge from nonextensive statistical mechanics. We also develop a q-derivative (and consistently a q-integral) for which the q-exponential is an eigenfunction. The q-derivative and the q-integral have a dual nature, that is also presented.
description: 7 pages, no figures
Resonant thermal transport in semiconductor barrier structures
Creators: name: Hyldgaard, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I report that thermal single-barrier (TSB) and thermal double-barrier (TDB) structures (formed, for example, by inserting one or two regions of a few Ge monolayers in Si) provide both a suppression of the phonon transport as well as a resonant-thermal-transport effect. I show that high-frequency phonons can experience a traditional double-barrier resonant tunneling in the TDB structures while the formation of Fabry-Perot resonances (at lower frequencies) causes quantum oscillations in the temperature variation of both the TSB and TDB thermal conductances $σ_{\text{TSB}}$ and $σ_{\text{TDB}}$.
description: 4 pages. 4 figure.s
Coulomb Effects in Nanoscale SINIS Junction
Creators: name: Ostrovsky, P. M.
name: Feigel'man, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the system of two superconductors connected by a small normal grain. We consider the modification of the Josephson effect by the Coulomb interaction on the grain. Coherent charge transport through the junction is suppressed by Coulomb repulsion. An optional gate electrode may relax the charge blocking and enhance the current leading to the single Cooper pair transistor effect. Temperature dependences of critical current and of the minigap induced in the normal grain by the proximity to superconductor are studied. Both temperature and Coulomb interaction suppress critical current and minigap but their interplay may lead to the nonmonotonous and even reentrant temperature dependence.
description: 5 pages, 6 EPS figures, class file jetpl.cls included
Simple acoustical technique for automated measurement of drift tube anode wire tension
Creators: name: Hosack, Michael
name: Coan, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a simple and inexpensive acoustical technique that permits rapid, accurate and in-situ measurement of drift tube anode wire tensions even if the anode wire is electrically discontinuous.
description: 5 text pages, 6 figures. fixed typo, minor content change in sec 3
Additional file 1 of Disease prediction via Bayesian hyperparameter optimization and ensemble learning
Creators: name: Liyuan Gao
name: Yongmei Ding
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Information on feature selection, hyperparameter spaceand programing languages and libraries.The doc file contains two tables and one figure. The first table shows thecorrelation among the features of the breast cancer diagnosis dataset. Thefirst figure illustrates the feature selection process for the cardiovascular disease dataset. The second table shows the hyperparameter space.
Water Management And Waste Water Treatment At The University of British Columbia: A Study for Sustainable Alternatives
Creators: name: Holbrook, Caila
name: Hill, Geoff
name: Grant, Michael
name: McTavish, Alison
name: Lymburner, Peter
name: Sundby, Anna
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.”
The Team Keck Treasury Redshift Survey of the GOODS-North Field
Creators: name: Wirth, Gregory D.
name: Willmer, Christopher N. A.
name: Amico, Paola
name: Chaffee, Frederic H.
name: Goodrich, Robert W.
name: Kwok, Shui
name: Lyke, James E.
name: Mader, Jeff A.
name: Tran, Hien D.
name: Barger, Amy J.
name: Cowie, Lennox L.
name: Capak, Peter
name: Coil, Alison L.
name: Cooper, Michael C.
name: Conrad, Al
name: Davis, Marc
name: Faber, S. M.
name: Hu, Esther M.
name: Koo, David C.
name: Mignant, David Le
name: Newman, Jeffrey A.
name: Songaila, Antoinette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of an extensive imaging and spectroscopic survey in the GOODS-North field completed using DEIMOS on the Keck II telescope. Observations of 2018 targets in a magnitude-limited sample of 2911 objects to R=24.4 yield secure redshifts for a sample of 1440 galaxies and AGN plus 96 stars. In addition to redshifts and associated quality assessments, our catalog also includes photometric and astrometric measurements for all targets detected in our R-band imaging survey of the GOODS-North region. We investigate various sources of incompleteness and find the redshift catalog to be 53% complete at its limiting magnitude. The median redshift of z=0.65 is lower than in similar deep surveys because we did not select against low-redshift targets. Comparison with other redshift surveys in the same field, including a complementary Hawaii-led DEIMOS survey, establishes that our velocity uncertainties are as low as 40 km/s for red galaxies and that our redshift confidence assessments are accurate. The distributions of rest-frame magnitudes and colors among the sample agree well with model predictions out to and beyond z=1. We will release all survey data, including extracted 1-D and sky-subtracted 2-D spectra, thus providing a sizable and homogeneous database for the GOODS-North field which will enable studies of large scale structure, spectral indices, internal galaxy kinematics, and the predictive capabilities of photometric redshifts.
description: 17 pages, 18 figures, submitted to AJ; v2 minor changes; see survey database at http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/realpublic/science/tksurvey/