cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Σύστημα διαχείρισης συσκευών του Διαδικτύου των Πραγμάτων
Creators: name: Γεροδήμος, Βασίλειος Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Διαδίκτυο των Πραγμάτων
Διαλειτουργικότητα
Υπολογιστική άκρου
IoT
Interoperability
Edge computing

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας αποτελεί καταρχάς η μελέτη δύο βασικών πεδίων στο χώρο του IoT,της διαλειτουργικότητας και του edge computing. Επιχειρείται η προσπάθεια να αναδειχθούν οι κατηγορίες με τις οποίες μπορούμε να αξιολογήσουμε ένα ΙοΤ σύστημα ως προς τη διαλειτουργικότητα του και με ποιες τεχνικές μπορεί να επιτευχθεί. Επιπλέον, εξετάζονται βασικές αρχιτεκτονικές του ΙοΤ edge computing και παρατίθενται τα πλεονεκτήματα της edge computing αρχιτεκτονικής για τις IoT εφαρμογές. Τέλος, επιδιώκεται η περιγραφή μιας IoT αρχιτεκτονικής που θα εξυπηρετεί αυτά τα πεδία όπως επίσης και η υλοποίηση ενός συστήματος που να είναι διαλειτουργικό σε μεγάλο βαθμό και να βασίζεται σε μια edge computing αρχιτεκτονική. Το ΙοΤ σύστημα που υλοποιήθηκε στην παρούσα εργασία το ονομάζουμε Iotify
description: The purpose of this paper is to first study two key areas in the field of IoT, interoperability and edge computing. An attempt is made to highlight the categories with which we can evaluate an IoT system in terms of its interoperability and with what techniques it can be achieved. In addition, basic IoT edge computing architectures are examined and the advantages of edge computing architecture for IoT applications are listed. Finally, the description of an IoT architecture that will serve the needs of these fields is sought, as well as the implementation of a system that is highly interoperable and based on the edge computing architecture principles. The IoT system implemented in this work is called Iotify
The Experiences of Women Regarding Sexuality and Embodiment Within a Canadian Evangelical Context: A Phenomenological Study
Creators: name: Payne, Melissa
Publisher: name: Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Women
Evangelicalism
Embodiment
Spirituality
Therapeutic context
Church
Identity
Intergenerational dialogue
Integration
Disintegration
Sexuality

description: The experiences of women regarding sexuality and embodiment within a Canadian Evangelical context is an area of limited research and the issue that this study specifically explores. For centuries, God has been depicted through a predominantly masculine framework that has left women devoid of relating to the Divine in her woman-ness. It is important to note that the role of the feminine among the monotheistic God is scarcely mentioned in the discourse of religion. How women are meant to understand their sexuality and bodies within the religious dimension can feel insurmountable. The topic of women and their experiences of sexuality and embodiment within the phenomenon of Evangelicalism is an important one, as it explores an area of women’s experience that can, and often does, get overlooked. Women’s sexuality within the Evangelical church in a Canadian context remains a topic that is often not discussed, and as seen throughout this study’s findings, has remained silenced across generations. This study looks at the convergence of three areas of human experience: sexuality, embodiment and religious/spiritual experience within this specific church context. How women experience or have experienced this religious phenomenon impacts the way they experience themselves as sexual and embodied beings. The findings of this study revealed the need for a Narrative approach to therapy when working with specific issues around sexuality, embodiment and spirituality, and an understanding of the deconstruction and reconstruction process in one’s spirituality. It also revealed the importance of embodiment practices and the need for sexuality and sexual issues to be included during the intake assessment within a therapeutic context.
Global asymptotic solutions for non-relativistic MHD jets and winds
Creators: name: Heyvaerts, J.
name: Norman, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present general and global analytical solutions, valid from pole to equator, for the asymptotic structure of non-relativistic, rotating, stationary, axisymmetric, polytropic, unconfined, perfect MHD winds. The asymptotic structure of such winds consists of field-regions virtually devoid of poloidal current. We show that an Hamilton-Jacobi equation, or equivalently a Grad-Shafranov equation, gives the asymptotic structure in the field regions.These field regions are bordered by current-carrying boundary layers around the polar axis and near null magnetic surfaces. The solution is given in the form of matched asymptotics separately valid outside and inside these boundary layers. The polar boundary layer is pressure-supported against the pinching force exerted by the axial poloidal current and has the structure of a current pinch, while the null-surface boundary layers have the structure of current sheet pinches.For winds which are kinetic-energy dominated at infinity we derive WKBJ analytic solutions whose magnetic surfaces focus into paraboloids. The current slowly weakens as the inverse of the logarithm of the distance to the wind source while the axial plasma density falls-off as a negative power of this logarithm.For winds carrying Poynting flux at large distances the solutions asymptotically approach to nested cylindrical and conical magnetic surfaces.
description: 54 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication by ApJ
Οι παιδαγωγικές θέσεις του αγίου Κοσμά του Αιτωλού
Creators: name: Μαλλιώρα, Μαρία Χαράλαμπου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Κοσμάς ο Αιτωλός
Παιδεία
Παιδαγωγικές μέθοδοι
Kosmas of Aetolia
Education
Pedagogical Methods

description: Σκοπός της διπλωματική εργασίας ήταν η μελέτη των παιδαγωγικών θέσεων του αγίου Κοσμά του Αιτωλού, οι οποίες επηρέασαν την περίοδο εκείνη το χώρο της Παιδείας, αλλά και μεγάλη μερίδα του υποταγμένου λαού. Επίσης, παρουσιάζονται οι αντιλήψεις του Πατροκοσμά για την Παιδεία και τον ρόλο του δασκάλου. Γίνεται αναφορά στον τρόπο διδασκαλίας του αγίου, στην επικοινωνία του με το λαό, στην ανάπτυξη διαπροσωπικών σχέσεων με διάφορες κατηγορίες ανθρώπων, στο ενδιαφέρον του για τα παιδιά, στη μέριμνά του για την Παιδεία του Γένους και στην προσπάθειά του για την αναμόρφωση της κοινωνίας.
description: The purpose of the dissertation was the study of the pedagogical positions of Saint Cosmas of Etolos, which at that time influenced the field of Education, but also a large portion of the submissive people. Also presented are Patrocosmas' perceptions of Education and the role of the teacher. Reference is made to the saint's way of teaching, to his communication with the people, to the development of interpersonal relationships with various categories of people, to his interest in children, to his concern for the Education of the Nation and to his effort to reform society.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών)
The effect of drifts on the decay phase of SEP events
Creators: name: Wijsen, Nicolas
name: Aran, Angels
name: Sanahuja, Blai
name: Pomoell, Jens
name: Poedts, Stefaan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of the magnetic gradient and curvature drifts on the pitch-angle dependent transport of solar energetic particles (SEPs), focusing on 3 - 36 MeV protons. By considering observers located at various positions in the heliosphere, we investigate how drifts may alter the measured intensity-time profiles and energy spectra. We focus on the decay phase of solar energetic proton events during which a temporal invariant spectrum and disappearing spatial intensity gradients are often observed; a phenomenon known as the 'reservoir effect' or the 'SEP flood'. We study the effects of drifts by solving the focused transport equation for nominal Parker solar wind configurations and for a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generated solar wind containing a corotating interaction region (CIR). The latter configuration contains a magnetic bottle structure, with one bottleneck at the Sun and the other at the CIR. It is illustrated that observers magnetically connected close to the edges of the particle injection site can experience, as a result of drifts, a sudden drop in the intensities occurring at different times for different energies such that no SEP flood phenomenon is established. In the magnetic bottle, this effect is enhanced due to the presence of magnetic field gradients strengthening the nominal particle drifts. We also show that interplanetary cross-field diffusion may mitigate these effects of drifts. We conclude that particle drifts can in some cases substantially modify the decay phase of SEP events, especially if the solar wind contains compression regions or shock waves where the drifts are enhanced. This is, for example, the case for our CIR solar wind configuration generated with a 3D MHD model, where the effect of drifts is strong. A similar decay rate in different energy channels and for different observers requires thus the mitigation of the effect of drifts.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
The physical origins of extreme cross-polarization extinction in confocal microscopy
Creators: name: Benelajla, Meryem
name: Kammann, Elena
name: Urbaszek, Bernhard
name: Karrai, Khaled
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Confocal microscopy is an essential imaging tool for biological systems, in solid-state physics and nano-photonics. Using confocal microscopes allows performing resonant fluorescence experiments, where the emitted light has the same wavelength as the excitation laser. Theses challenging experiments are carried out under linear cross-polarization conditions, rejecting laser light from the detector. In this work we uncover the physical mechanisms that are at the origin of the yet unexplained high polarization rejection ratio which makes these measurements possible. We show in both experiment and theory that the use of a reflecting surface (i.e. the beam-splitter and mirrors) placed between the polarizer and analyzer in combination with a confocal arrangement explains the giant cross-polarization extinction ratio of 10^8 and beyond. We map the modal transformation of the polarized optical Gaussian beam. We find an intensity 'hole' in the reflected beam under cross-polarization conditions. We interpret this as a manifestation of the Imbert-Fedorov effect, which deviates the beam depending on its polarization helicity. This implies that this topological effect is amplified here from the usually observed nanometer to the micrometer scale due to our cross-polarization dark field methods. We confirm these experimental findings for a large variety of commercially available mirrors and polarization components, allowing their practical implementation in many experiments.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, improved version
Outcomes of adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in melanoma: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Sarah, Fieuws
name: Margot, De Ridder
name: Valerie, Baert
name: Alexander, Decruyenaere
name: Lieve, Brochez
name: Sylvie, Rottey
name: Celine, Jacobs
name: Michael, Saerens
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Adjuvant treatment of malignant melanoma has improved the outcomes for patients. However, real-world data on efficacy and safety are limited. We investigated outcomes of melanoma patients treated with adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in the Ghent University Hospital. Patients with melanoma (stage III-IV), who received at least one cycle of ICI as adjuvant treatment between 2018 and 2021 were included in this retrospective cohort study. Primary outcomes were recurrence-free (RFS) and overall survival (OS). Other outcomes of interest were relapse patterns and safety. 59 patients were included, with a median follow-up of 36 months. Disease recurrence or death of any cause was observed in 25/59 (42.4%) of the patients. The median RFS was 56.0 months (95%CI 36.1–75.9 months). At 48 months, RFS and OS were 55.9% and 84%, respectively. 9/23 (39%) recurrences were locoregional and 14/23 (60.9%) patients developed distant metastasis as first recurrence, including 2 (3.4%) with brain metastasis. Median time to recurrence was 9 months (range 2–56 months). 35/59 (59.3%) completed one year of adjuvant treatment, 12/59 (20.3%) stopped because of recurrence and 10/59 (16.9% because of toxicity. Immune-related adverse events wereseen in 29/59 (49.4%) patients, 10/59 (16.9%) developed grade 3-4 toxicity. This study confirms the real-world efficacy and safety of adjuvant ICI for melanoma, achieving RFS and OS comparableto the pivotal clinical trials. About 40% of patients develop arelapse, mainly during the adjuvant treatment. The outcomes ofpatients progressing during adjuvant ICI are poor, emphasizing the need of prospective and real-world studies on optimal management after progression on (neo)adjuvant treatment.
Morphological and histological differences among three types of component roots and their differential contribution to water uptake in the rice root system
Creators: name: Watanabe, Yumika
name: Kabuki, Takuya
name: Kakehashi, Takahiro
name: Kano-Nakata, Mana
name: Mitsuya, Shiro
name: Yamauchi, Akira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The rice root system consists of three types of roots; main root, L-type and S-type lateral root (LR). These component roots are morphologically and histologically different, which is termed as heterorhizy. Root system hydraulic architecture is related to the unique features of component roots. We hypothesized that each component root contributes in different degrees to water uptake of the whole root system. Rice varieties IRAT 109 and Taichung 65 were grown in pots filled with soil under continuous waterlogged (CWL) and drought (CD) conditions until two weeks after heading. Morphology and histological structures of roots, which may regulate radial water movement, were compared among the three component roots. Moreover, hydraulic conductivity (Lpr) of the root system, which represents the water uptake ability, were measured with a pressure chamber. Based on a model that Lpr of the whole root system is a product of Lpr of each of the component roots and their surface areas, we found that the differences in Lpr between the two varieties and the plants grown under different soil water conditions for any of the component roots did not support the corresponding differences in the measured Lpr of the whole root system. In contrast, a significant and positive correlation was found between Lpr of the whole root system and the percentage of surface area of S-type LR but not for the other component roots. These results indicate S-type LR might have a higher contribution to Lpr of the whole root system than the other component roots.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS' BEHAVIOR UNDER PRICE AND YIELD INSTABILITY?
Creators: name: Hildreth, Clifford
name: Hildreth, Clifford
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: I interpret unstable prices and yields to imply uncertain prices and yields. One could imagine a situation where controlled prices were announced well in advance but fluctuated according to perceived circumstances at the times of the announcements. Some agricultural programs have approximated the latter, but I take it the main interest here is in supply response with price unknown at the time production and tentative marketing decisions are made.
Reviving $Z$ and Higgs Mediated Dark Matter Models in Matter Dominated Freeze-out
Creators: name: Chanda, Prolay
name: Hamdan, Saleh
name: Unwin, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is quite conceivable that dark matter freeze-out occurred during an early period of matter domination, in which case the evolution and relic abundance differ from standard freeze-out calculations which assume a radiation dominated universe. Here we re-examine the classic models in which dark matter interactions with the Standard Model are mediated via either the Higgs or $Z$ boson in the context of matter dominated freeze-out. We highlight that while these classic models are largely excluded by searches in the radiation dominated case, matter dominated freeze-out can relax these limits and thus revive the Higgs and $Z$ portals. Additionally, we discuss the distinctions between matter dominated freeze-out and decoupling during the transition from matter domination to radiation domination, and we comment on the parameter regimes which lead to non-negligible dark matter production during this transition.
description: 32 pages, 10 figures
ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FOR AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Seaver, Stanley K.
name: Holt, James S.
name: Seaver, Stanley K.
name: Holt, James S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: The purpose, of, this paper is to explore the economic implications of the extension of unemployment insurance to agriculture. In some cases research analyses or empirical data, are available, to flesh out the discussion of these implications. In other cases we must rely upon raising issues and posing questions.
Actitudes y cambios en las actitudes de los docentes extremeños hacia las altas capacidades, a través de la formación en el tratamiento educativo de estos alumnos.
Creators: name: Labrador, Carmen Mª Gómez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Altas capacidades.
Actitudes.
Formación docente.
Investigación cuasi-experimental.
Profesorado.

description: Esta investigación plantea demostrar cómo la formación específica que reciben los docentes, en este caso, sobre el alumnado con altas capacidades intelectuales, es capaz de modificar favorablemente, creencias y actitudes previas hacia estos alumnos, facilitando su identificación y la respuesta educativa que necesitan. Numerosos estudios consultados mundialmente, avalan que, entender cómo son estos alumnos y cuáles son sus necesidades, ayuda al profesorado a mejorar las actitudes hacia ellos y sus posibilidades de respuesta educativa. En este estudio, se analizaron cuáles era esas actitudes previas en los participantes, 568 maestros y profesores, para lo cuál sometimos a los docentes a un estudio descriptivo previo. Posteriormente, se realizó un segundo estudio, con un grupo experimental de 167 participantes, con los que se realizó un diseño cuasi-experimental, pretest-postest, con un curso de formación de distinta duración, para comprobar si la variable tiempo formativo, ofrecía diferencias a la hora de modificar las actitudes de estos docentes. Los resultados indicaron que efectivamente, la formación modifica favorablemente algunas actitudes que presentan los docentes, observándose una mejora en cuanto a la opinión subjetiva que tienen de los alumnos tras la formación, hacia el rechazo que se le supone inicialmente a estos alumnos y su dificultad para tener buenas relaciones sociales y sobre todo en la consideración de medidas educativas con este alumnado, mostrándose más predispuestos hacia la aceleración y flexibilización de los alumnos con AACC en el ámbito escolar. Se evidencian cambios más efectivos en los docentes sometidos a un curso formativo con más horas de duración.
description: Tesis realizada en la Universidad de Extremadura (2020)
Ποιότητα ζωής οικογενειών παιδιών με σακχαρώδη διαβήτη τύπου 1
Creators: name: Ιωαννίδου, Δήμητρα Ηρακλή Λαμπάκη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ποιότητα ζωής
Σακχαρώδης Διαβήτης τύπου 1
Παιδιά
Quality of life
Type 1 diabetes
Children

description: Σκοπό της παρούσας μεταπτυχιακής εργασίας αποτελεί η εξέταση του θέματος της ποιότητας ζωής των οικογενειών παιδιών με διαβήτη τύπου 1. Ειδικότερα, μελετά τη διαφορετικότητα των απόψεων και των αντιλήψεων των γονέων παιδιών με σακχαρώδη διαβήτη τύπου 1 αναφορικά με διάφορα ζητήματα, όπως, ποιοι τομείς της καθημερινότητάς τους επηρεάζονται και κατά πόσο από την ασθένεια του παιδιού τους, εάν θεωρούν ότι η σωματική, συναισθηματική και ψυχική τους υγεία διαταράσσεται, επίσης, από την ασθένεια, ενώ, τέλος, δίνεται έμφαση και στην κοινωνική ζωή των οικογενειών αυτών. Μέσα από την παρούσα έρευνα, λοιπόν, προκύπτει ότι οι γονείς με διαβητικό παιδί έχουν ένα μέτριο προς χαμηλό επίπεδο ψυχολογικής επιβάρυνσης λόγω της κατάστασης του παιδιού τους, αναγνωρίζουν ότι η χρήση ινσουλίνης είναι αρκετά εύκολη και είναι σε μέτριο βαθμό ικανοποιημένοι από τη θεραπεία του παιδιού τους. Επιπρόσθετα, μέσω της έρευνας διαπιστώθηκε ότι οι γονείς διαβητικών παιδιών έχουν μέτριο επίπεδο ποιότητας ζωής αναφορικά με τη σωματική υγεία και μέτριο προς χαμηλό αναφορικά με την ψυχική υγεία. Η ψυχολογική επιβάρυνση των γονέων λόγω της κατάστασης του παιδιού τους συνδέθηκε με μειωμένη ποιότητα ζωής που σχετίζεται με τη σωματική και ψυχική υγεία.
description: The aim of this thesis is to investigate the issue of quality of life of families of children with type 1 diabetes. More specifically, the purpose of this study is to quantitatively investigate the views and perceptions of parents of children with type 1 diabetes regarding various issues, such as which areas of their daily lives are affected by their child's illness, if they consider that their physical, emotional and mental health is also disturbed by the illness, and, finally, emphasis is placed on the social life of these families. The present study, therefore, shows that parents with a child with diabetes have a moderate to low level of psychological burden due to their child's condition, recognize that the use of insulin is quite easy and are moderately satisfied with their child's treatment. In addition, the study found that parents of children with diabetes have a moderate level of quality of life related to physical health and a moderate to low level of quality of life related to mental health. The psychological burden of parents due to the condition of their child was associated with a reduced quality of life related to physical and mental health.
FACTORS AFFECTING PLANT LOCATION BY TYPE OF INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY SIZE IN OKLAHOMA
Creators: name: Oehrtman, Robert L.
name: Doeksen, Gerald A.
name: Childs, Dan
name: Oehrtman, Robert L.
name: Doeksen, Gerald A.
name: Childs, Dan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Industrial Organization

description: This study is intended to develop a plant-location model capable of explaining factors associated with plant location by community size and industrial mix in Oklahoma from 1963 through 1971. Attempts to analyze and measure the relative significance of various factors on industrial location have resulted in a voluminous literature which reflects a variety of approaches to the problem.
Πίστομα: από το διήγημα στην ταινία. Μια συγκριτική προσέγγιση υπό το πρίσμα της αφηγηματολογίας
Creators: name: Γκένος, Δημοσθένης Σοφοκλή
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Αφηγηματολογία
Σημειωτική
Greimas
Narratology
Semiotic

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία αναλύονται δύο ομότιτλα έργα, το διήγημα, «Πίστομα», του Κωνσταντίνου Θεοτόκη, που αποτελεί το αρχικό κείμενο και η κινηματογραφική ταινία, Πίστομα, του Γιώργου Φουρτούνη, που αποτελεί την κινηματογραφική του μεταφορά, δύο έργα που τα χωρίζουν 120 χρόνια. Μεθοδολογικά τόσο το διήγημα όσο και η ταινία αντιμετωπίζονται ως κείμενα και η ανάλυσή τους πραγματοποιείται ακολουθώντας το μοντέλο της αφηγηματολογίας του Algirdas J. Greimas, η οποία μπορεί να εφαρμοστεί σε όλων των ειδών τα κείμενα που διαθέτουν τα βασικά στοιχεία της αφήγησης. Πιο συγκεκριμένα η έρευνα επικεντρώνεται στη διερεύνηση των διακειμενικών, διασημειωτικών σχέσεων που αναπτύσσονται κατά τη μεταφορά του λογοτεχνικού έργου στον κινηματογράφο, ο βαθμός συνάφειας των δύο κειμένων αλλά και η επιρροή των διαφορετικών δομικών συστατικών στην αφήγηση. Τα δύο κείμενα εξετάζονται παράλληλα σε όλα τα επίπεδα της γενετικής τους διαδρομής με αποτύπωση των συνταγματικών, όσο και των παραδειγματικών τους σχέσεων, με παρόμοιο τρόπο. Σύμφωνα με τα συμπεράσματα της μελέτης τα δύο κείμενα έχουν πολλά κοινά, καθώς η ταινία φαίνεται να αποτελεί περισσότερο ένα σχόλιο στην αρχική αφήγηση, αφού έχει διατηρήσει σχεδόν αυτούσια την αφηγηματική σύνταξη του διηγήματος, παρουσιάζοντας έτσι και παρόμοιες ισοτοπίες σε σημασιολογικό επίπεδο. Οι όποιες διαφορές δε οφείλονται στη νέα ανάγνωση και στο διαφορετικό μέσο.
description: In the present work, two works of the same title are analyzed, the short story, Pistoma, by Konstantinos Theotokis, which is the original text, and the film, Pistoma, by George Fourtounis, which is its cinematic version, two works that are 120 years apart. Methodologically, both the short story and the film are treated as texts and their analysis is carried out following the model of Algirdas J. Greimas narratology, which can be applied to all types of texts that have the basic elements of narration. More specifically, the research focuses on the investigation of the intertextual relationships that develop during the transfer of the literary work to the cinema, their degree of relevance but also the influence of different structural components on the narrative. The two texts are examined in parallel at all levels of their genetic path, capturing in a similar way both their syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations. According to the conclusions of the study, the two texts have a lot in common and the film seems to be more of a commentary on the original narrative as it has retained almost entirely the narrative structure of the story, thus presenting similar isotopies on a semantic level. Any differences are due to the new reading and the different medium.
FEEDLOT ECONOMIES OF SIZE REVISITED
Creators: name: Meisner, Joseph C.
name: Rhodes, V. James
name: Meisner, Joseph C.
name: Rhodes, V. James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: At the American Agricultural Economics Association meeting in 1969, Raup (17, p. 1274) noted, "With a handful of exceptions, there ate no truly large-scale firms in American Agriculture." One exception, cattle feeding, has greatly increased its scale of operations and level ~f concentration since then. Various explanations are given for this phenomenon. However, the chief focus for explaining cattle feeding concentration has been studies of economies of size of feedlots.
Optimizing Microbiome Reference Databases with PacBio Full-Length 16S rRNA Sequencing for Enhanced Taxonomic Classification and Biomarker Discovery
Creators: name: Na, Hee Sam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study aimed to determine if full-length 16S rRNA sequencing data produced by PacBio could be used to optimize reference DBs and be applied to Illumina V3-V4 targeted sequencing data for microbial study. Methods: Oral and gut microbiome data (PRJNA1049979) were retrieved from NCBI. DADA2 was applied to full-length 16S rRNA PacBio data to obtain amplicon sequencing variants (ASVs). The RDP reference DB was used to assign the ASVs, which were then used as a reference DB to train the classifier. QIIME2 was used for V3-V4 targeted Illumina data analysis. BLAST was used to analyze alignment statistics. Linear discriminant analysis Effect Size (LEfSe) was employed for discriminant analysis. Representative codes and workflow is presented.
ASTRA: High Throughput 3PC over Rings with Application to Secure Prediction
Creators: name: Chaudhari, Harsh
name: Choudhury, Ashish
name: Patra, Arpita
name: Suresh, Ajith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The concrete efficiency of secure computation has been the focus of many recent works. In this work, we present concretely-efficient protocols for secure $3$-party computation (3PC) over a ring of integers modulo $2^{\ell}$ tolerating one corruption, both with semi-honest and malicious security. Owing to the fact that computation over ring emulates computation over the real-world system architectures, secure computation over ring has gained momentum of late. Cast in the offline-online paradigm, our constructions present the most efficient online phase in concrete terms. In the semi-honest setting, our protocol requires communication of $2$ ring elements per multiplication gate during the {\it online} phase, attaining a per-party cost of {\em less than one element}. This is achieved for the first time in the regime of 3PC. In the {\it malicious} setting, our protocol requires communication of $4$ elements per multiplication gate during the online phase, beating the state-of-the-art protocol by $5$ elements. Realized with both the security notions of selective abort and fairness, the malicious protocol with fairness involves slightly more communication than its counterpart with abort security for the output gates {\em alone}. We apply our techniques from $3$PC in the regime of secure server-aided machine-learning (ML) inference for a range of prediction functions-- linear regression, linear SVM regression, logistic regression, and linear SVM classification. Our setting considers a model-owner with trained model parameters and a client with a query, with the latter willing to learn the prediction of her query based on the model parameters of the former. The inputs and computation are outsourced to a set of three non-colluding servers. Our constructions catering to both semi-honest and the malicious world, invariably perform better than the existing constructions.
description: This article is the full and extended version of an article appeared in ACM CCSW 2019
THE IMPACT OF DEVALUATION ON U.S. AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS
Creators: name: Vellianitis-Fidas, Amalia
name: Vellianitis-Fidas, Amalia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Many explanations have been offered for the exceptionally large rises in farm prices in the past two years. Some of these are: (1) rising incomes in the developed countries led to increased meat consumption and therefore increased import demand for feed grains; (2) crop short-falls in the U.S.S.R. and the People's Republic of China caused unprecedented increases in import demand thereby depleting grain reserves to an unprecedented low point; and (3) two devaluations of the dollar which reduced U.S. agricultural export prices abroad, thus causing an upward shift in demand and domestic prices because supplies of our agricultural commodities were not able to expand rapidly in the short run. In this paper, I shall test the validity of only one of these explanations the recent dollar devaluations.
Current flood mapping capabilities using synergies from radar altimetry and MODIS multi-spectral satellite imagery and the need for a SWOT mission
Creators: name: Cretaux, Jean-Francois
name: Bergé-Nguyen, Muriel
name: Leblanc, Marc J.
name: Abarca Del Rio, Rodrigo J.
name: Delclaux, Francois
name: Mognard, Nelly M.
name: Lion, Christine
name: Pandey, Rajnikant
name: Tweed, Sarah O.
name: Calmant, Stéphane
name: Maisongrande, Philippe
Publisher: name: Geographisches Institut der Universität zu Köln - Kölner Geographische Arbeiten
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Other
subject: None
subject: MODIS
subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Hydrology

description: In ungauged basins, space-based information is essential for the monitoring of the hydrological water cycle, in particular in regions undergoing large flood events where satellite data may be used as input to hydrodynamic models. A method for near 3D flood monitoring has been developed which uses synergies between radar altimetry and high temporal resolution multi-spectral satellites. Surface reflectances from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra instrument are used to map areas of open water as well as aquatic vegetation on a weekly basis, while water level variations in the inundated areas are provided by the radar altimetry from the Topex/Poseidon (T/P) and Envisat satellites. We applied this synergistic approach to several regions across the world (Diamantina Floodplain in Australia, Inner Niger Delta and Lake Chad in Africa, Andean Altiplano in South America, and Ganga River Delta in Asia). Based mainly on optical and Near Infra Red (NIR) imagery for detecting the extent of inundation, this method is well adapted for arid and semi-arid regions, but less for equatorial or boreal ones due to cloud coverage. This work emphasises the limitations of current remote sensing techniques for full 3D description of water storage variability in ungauged basins, and provides a good introduction to the need and the potential use of the future Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission.
description: Proceedings on the Workshop of Remote Sensing Methods for Change Detection and Process Modelling, 18-19 November 2010, University of Cologne, Germany, Kölner Geographische Arbeiten, 92, pp. 9-23
Bound states of 3He at the edge of a 4He drop on a cesium surface
Creators: name: Mayol, R.
name: Barranco, M.
name: Hernandez, E. S.
name: Pi, M.
name: Guilleumas, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that small amounts of 3He atoms, added to a 4He drop deposited on a flat cesium surface at zero temperature, populate bound states localized at the contact line. These edge states show up for drops large enough to develop well defined surface and bulk regions together with a contact line, and they are structurally different from the well-known Andreev states that appear at the free surface and at the liquid-solid interface of films. We illustrate the one-body density of 3He in a drop with 1000 4He atoms, and show that for sufficiently large number of impurities, the density profiles spread beyond the edge, coating both the curved drop surface and its flat base and eventually isolating it from the substrate.
description: 10 pages and 7 figures. Submitted to PRL
Au-delà de l’alternance : l’évolution du projet politique de Y’en a marre depuis 2012
Creators: name: Veilleux, Annie-Claude
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mouvement social
Sénégal
Jeunesse
Démocratisation
Participation citoyenne
Ethnographie en-ligne
Financement
ONG
Néo-traditionnalisme

description: En 2012, le mouvement Y’en a marre au Sénégal était placé sous les feux des projecteurs africains et internationaux pour avoir mené leur pays à sa deuxième alternance démocratique depuis l’Indépendance. Y’en a marre avait effectivement mené tout au long de la campagne électorale une contestation virulente au président sortant, demandant la fin des manipulations constitutionnelles et plus de transparence dans la conduite électorale et politique. Huit ans plus tard, le mouvement demeure toutefois actif et a élargi ses activités contestatrices à des programmes de participation citoyenne financées par des bailleurs de fonds extérieurs. Cette recherche cherchera à déterminer comment le rapport conflictuel au politique de ce genre d’acteur politique aura évolué depuis 2012. À l’aide d’une recherche ethnographique « en ligne », on proposera que ce rapport conflictuel est demeuré, mais qu’il se présente de manière nettement moins oppositionnelle au sein du répertoire d’action du mouvement. L’analyse de cette évolution nous montrera aussi que plusieurs obstacles structurels plus typiques des sociétés ouest-africaines limitent et conditionnent les ambitions du mouvement et sa pérennité.
Variational description of Mott insulators
Creators: name: Capello, Manuela
name: Becca, Federico
name: Fabrizio, Michele
name: Sorella, Sandro
name: Tosatti, Erio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Gutzwiller wave function for a strongly correlated model can, if supplemented with a long-range Jastrow factor, provide a proper variational description of Mott insulators, so far unavailable. We demonstrate this concept in the prototypical one-dimensional $t-t^\prime$ Hubbard model, where at half filling we reproduce all known phases, namely the ordinary Mott undimerized insulator with power-law spin correlations at small $t^\prime/t$, the spin-gapped metal above a critical $t^\prime/t$ and small $U$, and the dimerized Mott insulator at large repulsion.
description: revised version; to appear in Physical Review Letters
Additional file 4 of The structure of microbial populations in Nelore GIT reveals inter-dependency of methanogens in feces and rumen
Creators: name: Andrade, Bruno
name: Bressani, Flavia
name: Cuadrat, Rafael
name: Polyana Tizioto
name: Oliveira, Priscila
name: Mourão, Gerson
name: Luiz Coutinho
name: Reecy, James
name: Koltes, James
name: Walsh, Paul
name: Berndt, Alexandre
name: Palhares, Julio
name: Regitano, Luciana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Co-occurrence networks of interdomain ASVs (Bacteria, Archaea and Protozoa). A) rumen and B) fecal origin, based on SparCC results. ASVs are represented by their respective numbers and their taxonomic information, from family to order, by colors. Red edges represent positive correlation and blue, negative. Edges widths are related to the strength of the correlation.
Non-Linear Convergence of Solar-like Stars Chromospheres using Millimeter, Sub-millimeter, and Infrared Observations
Creators: name: Tapia-Vazquez, F.
name: De la Luz, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we present a new methodology to fit the observed and synthetic spectrum of solar-like stars at millimeter, submillimeter and infrared wavelengths through semiempirical models of the solar chromosphere. We use the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm as a Non-Linear method, PakalMPI as the semiempirical model of the solar chromosphere, and recent observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of Alpha Centauri A as a test case. Our results show that we can use solar chromospheric semiempirical models as an input model to reproduce the observed spectrum of solar-like stars. The new profiles show similarities to the solar chromosphere as a minimum of temperature (without the restriction from CO emission) and a plateau in the high chromosphere. Our method provides a new fast numerical tool to estimate the physical conditions of solar-like stars.
description: Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal Supplement
La conscription : l’obligation morale du service
Creators: name: Jackson, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Conscription
Service obligatoire

description: À travers ce projet de recherche, j’ai l’intention de postuler que tout citoyen canadien a l’obligation morale de servir son pays, en cas de menace imminente. J’avance que la défense de la nation ne devrait pas être strictement la responsabilité d’une armée professionnelle ou de volontaires. En effet, tous les citoyens canadiens ont, en cas de menace imminente, le devoir moral de servir le Canada avant eux-mêmes, selon leurs capacités et dispositions particulières. La pensée de trois auteurs majeurs sera mobilisée afin de supporter ce postulat organisé dans un cadre théorique libéral. D’abord, la théorie de justice comme équité de John Rawls fera office de justification morale. La théorie de la justice du philosophe américain justifie la notion de devoir moral et de coopération citoyenne implicite dans le contexte d’une société libérale. La pensée de Rawls n’établit pas uniquement la moralité de la conscription, la théorie de la justice comme équité propose également des balises pratiques, claires et réalisables, qui permettent l’application éthique de la conscription dans un État tel que le Canada. Ensuite, Alexis de Tocqueville offrira une piste de réflexion intéressante sur la question du manque d’enthousiasme à l’endroit du service public. Bien que l’auteur de La Démocratie en Amérique (1835) ne capte pas à lui seul toute la complexité de la question, sa critique de l’individualisme permet néanmoins de dégager adroitement les causes et répercussions possibles d’un désintéressement politique. Puis, la vision de Michael Walzer nous guidera dans l’élaboration des conditions propices à l’application d’un modèle éthique de mobilisation citoyenne (conscription).
Curriculum and pedagogy in culinary arts education : a course proposal
Creators: name: Humeniuk, Lauri J.
name: Randle, Trevor J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The intention of this joint graduating project was to outline the need for a curriculum and pedagogy course in the culinary arts. We began with our own stories of becoming chef instructors and obtaining a Bachelor degree in Education and teacher certification in the province of British Columbia. Both of us found that conventional teacher education programs currently being offered did not include coursework that prepared educators to teaching food related programs that are offered in commercial teaching kitchens or cafeteria like settings. We surveyed the current literature of culinary arts education and determined from that research what was needed to be included in a curriculum and pedagogy course. As a result of our lived experience and our literature review we created a proposal for a course that incorporates specific curriculum and suitable pedagogical practices as recommended in the literature. The course is titled Curriculum and Pedagogy in Culinary Arts Education. We have suggested that it consists of five modules which include the role of culinary arts in public education, teaching methodology incorporating the liberal and vocational aspects of education, curriculum and course development in culinary arts, current developments and practice in culinary arts and creating pedagogical connections.
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE OF COUNTRY SIZE AND WORLD TRADE: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA -- PROVISIONAL ESTIMATES
Creators: name: Tripp, Susan Daniel
name: Tripp, Susan Daniel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The point of this study is to analyze by cross-sectional data over time the import demand patterns of certain countries. The world is considered as a set of import-income patterns and countries which comprise subsets within that set are analyzed. Secondly, with the country size and world trade argument in mind, economic characteristics are shown for countries included in each subset.
TeV black hole fragmentation and detectability in extensive air showers
Creators: name: Ahn, Eun-Joo
name: Ave, Maximo
name: Cavaglia, Marco
name: Olinto, Angela V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In models with large extra dimensions, particle collisions with center-of-mass energy larger than the fundamental gravitational scale can generate nonperturbative gravitational objects. Since cosmic rays have been observed with energies above $10^{8}$ TeV, gravitational effects in the TeV energy range can, in principle, be observed by ultrahigh energy cosmic ray detectors. We consider the interaction of ultrahigh energy neutrinos in the atmosphere and compare extensive air showers from TeV black hole formation and fragmentation with standard model processes. Departures from the standard model predictions arise in the interaction cross sections and in the multiplicity of secondary particles. Large theoretical uncertainties in the black hole cross section weaken attempts to constrain TeV gravity based solely on differences between predicted and observed event rates. The large multiplicity of secondaries in black hole fragmentation enhances the detectability of TeV gravity effects. We simulate TeV black hole air showers using PYTHIA and AIRES, and find that black hole-induced air showers are quite distinct from standard model air showers. However, the limited amount of information registered by realistic detectors together with large air shower fluctuations limit in practice the ability to distinguish TeV gravity events from standard model events in a shower by shower case. We discuss possible strategies to optimize the detectability of black hole events and propose a few unique signatures that may allow future high statistics detectors to separate black hole from standard model events.
description: RevTeX 4, 31 pages, 9 color figures. Minor changes here and there to match the published version
Constraints on Standard Model Constructions in F-theory
Creators: name: Cvetic, Mirjam
name: Halverson, James
name: Lin, Ling
name: Long, Cody
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the following three statements cannot all be true: (i) our vacuum is a type IIB / F-theory vacuum at moderate-to-large $h^{1,1}$, (ii) the $α'$-expansion is controlled via the supergravity approximation, à la the KKLT and LVS scenarios, and (iii) there are no additional gauged sectors from seven-branes. Since nearly all known globally consistent F-theory models with the exact chiral spectrum of the Standard Model and gauge coupling unification occur at moderate $h^{1,1}$, this finding calls for new moduli stabilization scenarios or/and a rich seven-brane dark sector.
description: 10 pages, double column style; v2+v3: references updated, typos corrected
Bruno Maçães, O Despertar da Eurásia; no rasto da Nova Ordem Mundial Lisboa, Temas e Debates, 2018, 376 pp.
Creators: name: Henriques, Mendo Castro
Publisher: name: International Journal of Philosophy and Social Values
Year: 2020

description: International Journal of Philosophy and Social Values, v. 3 n. 1 (2020): Globalização e cosmopolitismo