cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Arranjos produtivos locais no estado do Pará: localização espacial das atividades florestal e de madeira e mobiliário
Creators: name: Filgueiras, Gisalda Carvalho
name: Santana, Antonio Cordeiro De
name: Homma, Alfredo Kingo Oyama
name: Herreros, Mario Miguel Amin Garcia
name: Barros, Paulo Luiz Contente De
name: Mendes, Fernando Antonio Teixeira
name: Filgueiras, Gisalda Carvalho
name: Santana, Antonio Cordeiro De
name: Homma, Alfredo Kingo Oyama
name: Herreros, Mario Miguel Amin Garcia
name: Barros, Paulo Luiz Contente De
name: Mendes, Fernando Antonio Teixeira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Forest economics
subject: Concetration indexes
subject: Local development

description: At the present time, the State of Pará is the third in the ranking of exports and concentrates 75% of the extracted wood from the nation’s native forests. Of the extracted wood from the Legal Amazon, 64% is directed to the national market while 36% is directed to export markets. The objective of this study was identify and to map, using the Normalized Index of Concentration (NIC), during the 1998 to 2004 period, the municipalities which are specialized in the forest, wood and furniture activities and that show significant potential to be transformed in local clusters. The results showed the existence of nine municipalities specialized, simultaneously, in the two activities, indicating the possibility of implementing public policies directed to influence the local sustainable development from those clusters with forest tradition.
Profile Pictures Across Platforms: How Identity Visually Manifests Itself among Social Media Accounts
Creators: name: Thomson, T.J.
name: Greenwood, Keith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: 190104 Visual Cultures
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Profile pictures are ubiquitous and salient parts of most online accounts and provide a window not only into individual users but also into the larger online community’s culture. Profile pictures have been called “one of the most telling pieces of self-disclosure or image construction” in online communities, and users face dizzying freedom when deciding on their selection. Such choices have been studied in discrete contexts, such as how personality type affects profile picture selection on Twitter, but they have not yet been studied across platforms to see how users stylize their representations to often distinct and segmented audiences. Informed by literature in internet studies, digital media, and visual sociology, this qualitative study offers a seminal look into how profile pictures differ across platforms and how user attributes and perceived audiences affect such decisions. It does so through personality assessments, visual analyses, and in-depth interviews. The findings reveal that the participants sampled in this study overwhelmingly prefer polychromatic images, and a majority prefer to have a unique picture on each platform. These same users are comfortable having their identifiable features in their profile pictures, and those who are more extroverted prefer to share the frame with someone else.
Supplementary Results for ‘How does landscape respond to normal fault linkage?’
Creators: name: Chuanqi He
name: Ci-Jian Yang
name: Rao, Gang
name: Duna C. Roda-Boluda
name: Yuan, Xiao-Ping
name: Yang, Rong
name: Gao, Lin
name: Zhang, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 40402 Geodynamics
subject: 40601 Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution
subject: 40604 Natural Hazards
subject: 40310 Sedimentology
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: 40312 Structural Geology
subject: 40607 Surface Processes
subject: 40313 Tectonics

description: The files go with the manuscript of He et al. How does landscape respond to normal fault linkage?. Geophysical Research Letters (Under consideration). The raw data underlying Figs. 2–4, S3–S7, S9, and S10 are provided as a Source Data file. The Source Data file, topographies in Fig. 1, and Movies 1–4 were deposited in figshare.
Phenomenological study of texture zeros of neutrino mass matrix in minimal left-right symmetric model
Creators: name: Borgohain, Happy
name: Das, Mrinal Kumar
name: Borah, Debasish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the phenomenological implications of texture zeros in the neutrino mass matrix of the minimal left-right symmetric model (LRSM). Since the possibility of maximum zeros reduces the maximum number of free parameters of the model making it more predictive, we considered only those cases with maximum possible texture zeros in light neutrino mass matrix $M_ν$, Dirac neutrino mass matrix $M_D$ and heavy right-handed (RH) neutrino mass matrix $M_{RR}$. We then computed the correlations among the different light neutrino parameters and then the new physics contributions to neutrinoless double beta decay (NDBD) for the different texture zero cases. We find that for RH neutrino masses above 1 GeV, the new physics contributions to NDBD can saturate the corresponding experimental bound.
description: TAUP19 proceedings
Precobordism and cobordism
Creators: name: Annala, Toni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this article is to compare several versions of bivariant algebraic cobordism constructed previously by the author and others. In particular, we show that a simple construction based on the universal precobordism theory of Annala--Yokura agrees with the more complicated theory of bivariant derived algebraic cobordism constructed earlier by the author, and that both of these theories admit a Grothendieck transformation to operational cobordism constructed by Luis González--Karu over fields of characteristic 0. The proofs are partly based on convenient universal characterizations of several cobordism theories, which should be of independent interest. Using similar techniques, we also strengthen a result of Vezzosi on operational derived $K$-theory. In the appendix, we give a detailed construction of virtual pullbacks in algebraic bordism, filling the gaps in the construction of Lowrey--Schürg.
description: Major revisions. Some new results added. 90 pages
Bragg-induced orbital angular-momentum mixing in paraxial high-finesse cavities
Creators: name: Foster, David H.
name: Noeckel, Jens U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical calculation of vector electromagnetic modes of plano-concave microcavities reveals that the polarization-dependent reflectivity of a flat Bragg mirror can lead to unexpected cavity field distributions for nominally paraxial modes. Even in a rotationally symmetric resonator, certain pairs of orbital angular momenta are necessarily mixed in an excitation-independent way to form doublets. A characteristic mixing angle is identified, which even in the paraxial limit can be designed to have large values. This correction to Gaussian theory is zeroth-order in deviations from paraxiality. We discuss the resulting nonuniform polarization fields. Observation will require small cavities with sufficiently high Q. Possible applications are proposed.
description: Corrected typos in Fig. 2 and text. Added Journal Ref. For higher-quality figures, see http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/papers.php#xref30
Nível tecnológico e balanço econômico de produção de mamona para obtenção do biodiesel no estado do Ceará
Creators: name: Khan, Ahmad Saeed
name: Braga, Francisco Laercio Pereira
name: Mayorga, Ruben Dario
name: Khan, Ahmad Saeed
name: Braga, Francisco Laercio Pereira
name: Mayorga, Ruben Dario
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Castor seed
subject: Technological level
subject: Biodiesel
subject: Economic feasibility
subject: Ceará

description: In order to determine technological level and economic balance of castor seed prodution (Ricinus communis) in the State of Ceará, one of the main producers of oil seed of Northeast of Brazil, the present research was coducted to verify economic feasibility and technological level of castor seed production for obtaining biodiesel. The data were collected in Boa Viagem, Tauá and Pedra Branca municipalities. For profit analysis, income and production cost per hectare of castor seed production in selected municipalities were considered. It was observed that on the average, 12,91% of the interviewed farmers are using more than 80% of the recommended techniques. The castor seed production in all the three selected municipalities is economically feasifble (profitable), without considering the cost related to family labor.
title: Применение метаструктуры на основе четырех сплит-кольцевых резонаторов
Creators: name: Лобекин, Вячеслав
name: Бичурин, Мирза
name: Зуева, Екатерина
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Представлена возможность применения метаматериалов на основе сплит-кольцевых резонаторов в качестве микрополоскового полосового фильтра. Приведена конструкция метаструктуры на основе четырех сплит-кольцевых резонаторов для разных частот и эквивалентная схема подключения резонаторов. Проведено компьютерное моделирование первоначального варианта метаструктуры, полученные амплитудно-частотные характеристики позволили подобрать оптимальные параметры и размеры метаструктуры для проведения дальнейшего моделирования с целью сведения резонансных характеристик всех резонаторов к общей резонансной характеристике. Моделирование проводилось с помощью инструмента для трехмерного моделирования ВЧ/СВЧ полей HFSS Ansoft. Полученные амплитудно-частотные характеристики для конечного варианта конструкции метаструктуры подтверждают возможность использования ее для разработки микрополоскового фильтра, а также для дальнейшего изучения данной метаструктуры с включением ферритовых элементов для электронной перестройки устройства.
Interior solutions of relativistic stars in the scale-dependent scenario
Creators: name: Panotopoulos, Grigoris
name: Rincón, Ángel
name: Lopes, Ilídio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study relativistic stars in the scale-dependent scenario, which is one of the approaches to quantum gravity, and where Newton's constant is promoted to a scale-dependent quantity. First, the generalized structure equations are derived here for the first time. Then they are integrated numerically assuming a linear equation-of-state in the simplest MIT bag model for quark matter. We compute the radius, the mass and the compactness of strange quarks stars, and we show that the energy conditions are fulfilled.
description: Minor correction, references added
Decay of Loschmidt Echo Enhanced by Quantum Criticality
Creators: name: Quan, H. T.
name: Song, Z.
name: Liu, X. F.
name: Zanardi, P.
name: Sun, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transition of a quantum system $S $ from a pure state to a mixed one, which is induced by the quantum criticality of the surrounding system $E$ coupled to it. To characterize this transition quantitatively, we carefully examine the behavior of the Loschmidt echo (LE) of $E$ modelled as an Ising model in a transverse field, which behaves as a measuring apparatus in quantum measurement. It is found that the quantum critical behavior of $E$ strongly affects its capability of enhancing the decay of LE: near the critical value of the transverse field entailing the happening of quantum phase transition, the off-diagonal elements of the reduced density matrix describing $S$ vanish sharply.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Optimal responsiveness and collective oscillations emerging from the heterogeneity of inhibitory neurons
Creators: name: di Volo, Matteo
name: Destexhe, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The brain is characterized by a strong heterogeneity of inhibitory neurons. We report that spiking neural networks display a resonance to the heterogeneity of inhibitory neurons, with optimal input/output responsiveness occurring for levels of heterogeneity similar to that found experimentally in cerebral cortex. A heterogeneous mean-field model predicts such optimal responsiveness. Moreover, we show that new dynamical regimes emerge from heterogeneity that were not present in the equivalent homogeneous system, such as sparsely synchronous collective oscillations.
Turbulent priests and millenarian protest : outside voices of religious nationalism in interwar Japan
Creators: name: Freeland, Benjamin John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines the role played by two popular religious movements - Nichirenism (Nichirenshugi) and Ōmotokyō - in the promulgation of nationalism in Japan during the years between the two World Wars. While it has long been accepted that religion played a central role in the formation and promulgation of nationalism in twentieth-century Japan, the nature of that role has been much less well understood. Specifically, Western thinking has long assumed that Shinto, in its role as state religion and ideological anchor, was unchallenged as a nationalist vehicle in Japan. This view overlooks the crucial role played by other popular religious organizations outside the framework of Shinto in the inculcation of modern Japanese nationalism. While most religious sects resigned themselves to toeing the official line, two were abnormally active in promoting themselves as champions of Japanese nationalism. These were the so-called "Nichirenists" - a firebrand group of nationalistic Buddhists of the Nichiren denomination that emerged in early-twentieth century Japan - and the enormously popular grassroots millenarian religion of Ōmotokyō. Both incorporated the pillars of State Shinto into the heart of their doctrines and championed themselves as the truest advocates of the emperor and his polity: Ōmotokyō in the form of a tightly-organized grassroots movement and Nichirenism as a powerful spiritual fountainhead for militarists and political extremists. In both cases, their adoption of nationalism as a central pillar of their doctrines was a tactical move intended to cultivate more harmonious relations with the state. This was especially true in the case of Ōmotokyō, an organization that had since its genesis been regarded by the authorities as a pariah. This strategy paradoxically drew Nichirenism and Ōmotokyō to the extremist fringe of the nationalist wing, with both movements figuring prominently in the Showa Restoration movement in Japan in the early-1930s - a movement dedicated to overthrowing the parliamentary system and creating a bona fide emperor-led dictatorship. Ultimately, their strategy failed, and somewhat ironically both movements were eventually crushed in the mid-to-late thirties by the very authoritarian political culture that they had helped create. Furthermore, in spite of their links to ultranationalist organizations involved in political terrorism, both movements were suppressed purely on ideological grounds. In the end, the suppression of Nichirenism and Ōmotokyō was not brought on by any real contradiction with the official ideology, but rather by the challenge that the mere existence of these independent voices posed to a state aspiring to totalitarianism.
Recreational Demand for Equestrian Trail-Riding
Creators: name: Blackwell, Melanie
name: Pagoulatos, Angelos
name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Auchter, Katharine
name: Blackwell, Melanie
name: Pagoulatos, Angelos
name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Auchter, Katharine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: equestrian trail-riding
subject: GIS analysis
subject: truncated negative binomial
subject: travel cost method

description: Using data collected from a combination of on-site and on-line surveys, this study examines recreational demand for equestrian trail-riding in Kentucky. A truncated, negative binomial regression is applied to analyze individuals’ visitation behavior consistent with a travel cost model. Results suggest that distance is the most significant determinant of average annual visits to a particular site. Various trail site characteristics, such as trail length, scenic overlooks, and trail markers, affect the number of visits an individual takes. Geographic information system (GIS) analysis permits the identification of equestrian population centers. Information obtained from this study offers a decision base for policymakers to use to manage existing equestrian trails and locate new ones.
Fermionic Backgrounds and Condensation of Supergravity Fields in IIB Matrix Model
Creators: name: Iso, Satoshi
name: Sugino, Fumihiko
name: Terachi, Hidenori
name: Umetsu, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous paper hep-th/0410182 we constructed wave functions and vertex operators for massless supergravity fields in type IIB matrix model by expanding supersymmetric Wilson line operators. In this paper we consider fermionic backgrounds and condensation of supergravity fields in IIB matrix model by using these wave functions. We start from the type IIB matrix model in a flat background whose matrix size is $(N+1) \times (N+1)$, or equivalently the effective action for $(N+1)$ D-instantons. We then calculate an effective action for $N$ D-instantons by integrating out one D-instanton (which we call a mean-field D-instanton) with an appropriate wave function and show that various terms can be induced corresponding to the choice of the wave functions. In particular, a Chern-Simons-like term is induced when the mean-field D-instanton has a wave function of the antisymmetric tensor field. A fuzzy sphere becomes a classical solution to the equation of motion for the effective action. We also give an interpretation of the above wave functions from the string theory side as overlaps of the D-instanton boundary state with closed string massless states in the Green-Schwarz formalism.
description: 32 pages, Latex; discussion clarified. version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Inequalities from Lorentz-Finsler norms
Creators: name: Minculete, Nicusor
name: Pfeifer, Christian
name: Voicu, Nicoleta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26D15, 30L15, 53B40

description: We show that Lorentz-Finsler geometry offers a powerful tool in obtaining inequalities. With this aim, we first point out that a series of famous inequalities such as: the (weighted) arithmetic-geometric mean inequality, Aczél's, Popoviciu's and Bellman's inequalities, are all particular cases of a reverse Cauchy-Schwarz, respectively, of a reverse triangle inequality holding in Lorentz-Finsler geometry. Then, we use the same method to prove some completely new inequalities, including two refinements of Aczél's inequality.
description: 24 pages
title: Исследование сорбционных характеристик композиций на основе гидроксиапатита
Creators: name: Мараева, Евгения
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Рассматривается серия порошков гидроксиапатита, полученных методом химического осаждения с использованием микроволнового излучения. В качестве источников кальция и фосфора выбраны нитрат кальция и ортофосфорная кислота. Обсуждается возможность применения сорбционного метода для экспресс-анализа размеров частиц формируемого гидроксиапатита. Показано, что сорбционный анализ размеров наночастиц в случае исследования наностержней гидроксиапатита позволяет приблизительно оценивать диаметр формирующихся частиц на различных этапах синтеза на основе данных о плотности и удельной поверхности. Анализ удельной поверхности производится с привлечением метода тепловой десорбции инертных газов. Определение аспектного отношения наностержней гидроксиапатита осуществляется на основе анализа данных сканирующей электронной микроскопии. Разница в результатах расчетов размеров нанострежней сорбционным методом и на основе данных сканирующей электронной микроскопии в максимальном случае составляет 70 нм.
title: Online personalised nutrition advice
Creators: name: Franco, Rodrigo Zenun
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: The Internet has considerable potential to improve health-related food choice at lowcost. In order to provide online personalised nutrition advice, a valid and user-friendly method for recording dietary intake is key. Yet, the author’s review of popular nutritionrelated mobile apps revealed that none of these apps were capable of providing personalised diet advice This work presents a web app (eNutri), which is able to assess dietary intake using a validated food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and provide personalised food-based diet advice. The initial version of this app presented the food items in a list and its usability was evaluated in Kuwait. In response to user feedback, the design was modified to present a single food item at a time. This app was deployed in an online study to assess usability with 324 participants in the UK, using different devices. The median System Usability Scale (SUS) score (n=322) was 77.5 (IQR 15.0) out of 100, illustrating high acceptance by users. Potential users were consulted during the design process, but assessing whether nutrition professionals (n=32) agree with the automated advice and collecting their insights were important in maximising the success and wider utility of this app. The mean scores for the appropriateness, relevance and suitability of the eNutri diet messages by nutritional professionals were 3.5, 3.3 and 3.3 respectively (maximum 5). Its effectiveness was evaluated during a 12-week online randomly controlled parallel blinded dietary intervention (n=210) (EatWellUK study) in which personalised dietary advice was compared with general population recommendation (control). A significant improvement in the modified Alternative Healthy Eating Index (m-AHEI) score, against which the participants’ diets were compared, of 3.06 (CI 95% 0.91 to 5.21, p=0.005), was reported following personalised compared to population advice. This work indicates the benefit of personalised dietary advice delivered online to motivate dietary change. The eNutri app’s design and source code were made publicly available under a permissive open source license, so that other researchers and organizations can benefit from this work.
XMM-Newton and Chandra Observations of the Central Region of M31
Creators: name: Takahashi, Hiromitsu
name: Okada, Yuu
name: Kokubun, Motohide
name: Makishima, Kazuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The archival XMM-Newton data of the central region of M31 were analyzed for diffuse X-ray emission. Point sources with the 0.5--10 keV luminosity exceeding $\sim 4 \times 10^{35}$ erg s$^{-1}$ were detected. Their summed spectra are well reproduced by a combination of a disk black-body component and a black-body component, implying that the emission mainly comes from an assembly of luminous low-mass X-ray binaries. After excluding these point sources, spectra were accumulated over a circular region of $6\arcmin$ (1.2 kpc) centered on the nucleus. In the energy range above 2 keV, these residual spectra are understood mainly as contributions of unresolved faint sources and spill-over of photons from the excluded point sources. There is in addition a hint of a $\sim 6.6$ keV line emission, which can be produced by a hot (temperature several keV) thin-thermal plasma. Below 2 keV, the spectra involve three additional softer components expressed by thin-thermal plasma emission models, of which the temperatures are $\sim 0.6$, $\sim 0.3$, and $\sim 0.1$ keV. Their 0.5--10 keV luminosities within 6$\arcmin$ are measured to be $\sim 1.2 \times 10^{38}$ erg s$^{-1}$, $\sim 1.6 \times 10^{38}$ erg s$^{-1}$, and $\sim 4 \times 10^{37}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in the order of decreasing temperature. The archival Chandra data of the central region of M31 yielded consistent results. By incorporating different annular regions, all the three softer thermal components were confirmed to be significantly extended. These results are compared with reports from previous studies. A discussion is presented on the origin of each thermal emission component.
description: 27 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables, accepted for ApJ
The Effects of Trivial Attributes on Choice of Food Products
Creators: name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Gong, Jian
name: Lehrke, Linda
name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Gong, Jian
name: Lehrke, Linda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: consumer choice
subject: food products
subject: product attributes
subject: promotional attributes
subject: choice set size
subject: trivial attributes

description: Trivial or irrelevant attributes are defined as attributes that do not create a meaningful difference in a brand’s performance. The objective of this paper is to determine if and how trivial attributes affect consumers in their choice of variety/brands of food products including frozen green beans, orange juice, canola oil, and frosted strawberry toaster pastries. Sixty subjects participated in the experiment. Subjects understood that trivial attributes are less important than substantive attributes. Substantive (important) quality attributes and economic variables affecting choice were all perceived equal across brands by the subjects in the experiment. Two critical driving forces in determining the presence and direction of the effect of a trivial attribute on the consumer choice are the size of the choice set and the type of trivial attribute, i.e., product versus promotional attribute.
Quantum Mott Transition and Superconductivity
Creators: name: Imada, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gas-liquid transition is a first-order transition terminating at a finite-temperature critical point with diverging density fluctuations. Mott transition, a metal-insulator transition driven by Coulomb repulsion between electrons, has been identified with this textbook transition. However, the critical temperature of the Mott transition can be suppressed, resulting in unusual quantum criticality. It accounts for non-Fermi-liquid-like properties, and strongly momentum dependent quasiparticles as in many materials near the Mott insulator. Among all, the mode-coupling theory of the density fluctuations supports d-wave superconductivity at the order of a hundred Kelvin for relevant parameters of the copper oxide superconductors.
description: 8 pages, including 3 figures
Assistant, Trainee and Qualified Psychologists’ Personal Experiences of Caring for Others and the Influence of Caring on Clinical Practice
Creators: name: Burrows, Angela
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2021
Subjects: carers
psychologists' personal experiences
unpaid caring

description: The aim of the study is to explore the relationship between the unpaid personal caring experiences of psychologists and the perceived impact on their clinical practice and sense of self. The intersection between psychologists as a staff group, their reflections on unpaid caring experiences and the relationship between informal caring and their professional practice was explored in the literature. Due to the paucity of published research in the area, the introduction explored the theoretical base of carer research, the construction of empathy in clinical practice and the lived experiences of psychologists. In this way, a theoretical context for the study was set. Using a Thematic Analysis methodology, fifteen psychologists were recruited and interviewed about their current and/or historical caring experiences. Six themes were established from analysis of the data set: personal and professional roles; the emergence of a carer identity; changing/evolving relationship with loved one; carer stress and strain; impact on professional practice; dual positioning. Within these results there was a strong sense of the heightening of empathy for clients/service users and carers, and the complexity of holding dual identities on the individuals themselves as they fulfil their clinical roles. The study’s findings suggest that psychologists’ own processed experiences of emotional pain, arising from caring experiences, may enable a closer understanding and regard for empathic connections with clients/service users and carers. Whilst undertaking these personal caring roles may also enable psychologists to feel more empathic attunement to clients and carers within the healthcare system, and this can have clinical benefits, it may also have potential drawbacks. Within this, there was also the suggestion that there may continue to be some aspects of residual emotional pain. This pain may be susceptible to being triggered within clinical practice, which psychologists were cognizant of, as they would be of any potential stimulus within their professional work.
On the structure of the body of states with positive partial transpose
Creators: name: Szarek, Stanislaw
name: Bengtsson, Ingemar
name: Zyczkowski, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the convex set of separable mixed states of the 2 x 2 system is a body of constant height. This fact is used to prove that the probability to find a random state to be separable equals 2 times the probability to find a random boundary state to be separable, provided the random states are generated uniformly with respect to the Hilbert-Schmidt (Euclidean) distance. An analogous property holds for the set of positive-partial-transpose states for an arbitrary bipartite system.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure; ver. 2 - minor changes, new proof of lemma 3
title: H Επιρροή των κριτηρίων ESG στην χρηματοοικονομική απόδοση των επιχειρήσεων
title: The impact of ESG criteria on corporate financial performance
Creators: name: Κρουσταλη Μαρια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2025

description: Σε έναν καιρό κοινωνικής, περιβαλλοντικής, αλλά και οικονομικής κρίσης, μία σύγχρονη επιχειρηματική οντότητα για να επιβιώσει, οφείλει να προσαρμοστεί στις εκάστοτε υπάρχουσες συνθήκες και να αναθεωρήσει την παραδοσιακή αντίληψη σχετικά με τον τρόπο επιδίωξης κέρδους. Έτσι, οι οικονομικοί οργανισμοί προσπαθούν να διαφοροποιηθούν, στηρίζοντας στρατηγικές αποφάσεις που έχουν ως στόχο την κοινωνική ευημερία. Οι επιχειρήσεις καλούνται να αποδείξουν έμπρακτα την κοινωνική τους ευθύνη, στρέφοντας το επενδυτικό τους ενδιαφέρον προς την βιώσιμη ανάπτυξη μέσω της υιοθέτησης Κοινωνικά Υπεύθυνων Επενδύσεων. Εκτιμώντας καλύτερα την θέση τους στο εξωτερικό περιβάλλον, οι επιχειρήσεις έχουν την ευκαιρία να βελτιώσουν την εικόνα τους προς τα ενδιαφερόμενα μέρη, αυξάνοντας την ανταγωνιστικότητα τους αλλά και την μελλοντική τους επίδοση. Σκοπός της διατριβής είναι η διερεύνηση της σχέσης της χρηματοοικονομικής αποδοτικότητας με τις διαστάσεις της Κοινωνικά Υπεύθυνης Επένδυσης μέσω των πυλώνων ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance). Ειδικότερα, η εργασία θα μελετήσει την σημασία της ενσωμάτωσης της βιωσιμότητας στην εταιρική κουλτούρα με την υιοθέτηση κριτηρίων ESG και θα εξετάσει, μέσω βιβλιογραφικής ανάλυσης, αν με την χρήση τους μπορεί να επιτευχθεί αύξηση των κερδών των επιχειρήσεων. Η διαμόρφωση των ενοτήτων γίνεται ως εξής: Αρχικά πραγματοποιείται μία αναφορά για την έννοια της Εταιρικής Κοινωνικής Ευθύνης των οικονομικών οργανισμών. Έπειτα στο 2ο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζονται τα κριτήρια και οι πρακτικές ESG. Στο 3ο κεφάλαιο γίνεται η βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση ερευνών, ώστε να διαπιστωθεί σε τι βαθμό οι ESG δραστηριότητες επηρεάζουν την χρηματοοικονομική απόδοση των επιχειρήσεων. Τέλος γίνεται μία αναφορά των βασικών συμπερασμάτων και καταγράφονται μελλοντικές προτάσεις έρευνας.
Assessing the Demand for a Functional Food Product: Is There Cannibalization in the Orange Juice Category?
Creators: name: Yuan, Yan
name: Capps, Oral
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Yuan, Yan
name: Capps, Oral
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: functional foods
subject: phytosterols
subject: orange juice industry
subject: cannibalization
subject: synthetic demand system

description: The demand for functional foods has increased notably in recent years due to growing consumer interest in diet and health issues. Currently, the food industry is introducing many types of new food products with functional attributes. Consequently, cannibalization is a critical issue for firms that offer multiple products within a certain product category. The identification and assessment of cannibalization are integral factors when making strategic decisions about new product introductions. Using scanner data from Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), pertaining to a particular functional food, namely a phytosterol-enriched product for orange juice, we find that no cannibalization effects exist with respect to its introduction. We also provide estimates of own-price and cross-price elasticities of the orange juice category using a synthetic demand system.
Coordinating vector field equations and diagrams with a serious game in introductory physics
Creators: name: Klein, Pascal
name: Burkard, Nicole
name: Hahn, Larissa
name: Dahlkemper, Merten Nicolay
name: Eberle, Kevin
name: Jaeger, Tina
name: Kuhn, Jochen
name: Herrlich, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mathematical reasoning with algebraic and graphical representations is essential for success in physics courses. Many problems require students to fluently move between algebraic and graphical representations. We developed a freely available serious game to challenge the representational fluency of introductory students regarding vector fields. Within the game, interactive puzzles are solved using different types of vector fields that must be configured with the correct mathematical parameters. A reward system implemented in the game prevents from using trial-and-error approaches and instead encourages the player to establish a mental connection between the graphical representation of the vector field and the (algebraic) equation before taking any action. For correct solutions, the player receives points and can unlock further levels. We report about the aim of the game from an educational perspective, describe potential learning scenarios and reflect about a first attempt to use the game in the classroom.
Infrared emission in radio galaxy NGC 4261
Creators: name: van Bemmel, I. M.
name: Dullemond, C. P.
name: Chiaberge, M.
name: Macchetto, F. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed the total and nuclear SED for NGC 4261 and find that the dominant process for the mid- and far-infrared emission in this object is non-thermal emission from the active nucleus. Modeling the emission from the optically detected 300 pc dust disk yields no significant disk contribution at any wavelength. To explain the observations, either the disk has an inflated inner region which partly absorbs the core, or the intrinsic core spectrum is curved. The inner 10 pc of the disk can potentially be conceived as an obscuring torus, albeit with optical depth around unity.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of: "The Spectral Energy Distribution of Gas-Rich Galaxies: Confronting Models with Data", Heidelberg, 4-8 Oct. 2004, eds. C.C. Popescu and R.J. Tuffs, AIP Conf. Ser., in press
title: Синтез компактной модели интегрального резистора
Creators: name: Петров, Михаил
name: Телина, Ирина
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Рассмотрена методика формирования компактной (SPICE) модели интегрального резистора, изготовленного с помощью биполярной технологии на базовом слое транзистора. В отличие от дискретного аналога интегральный резистор характеризуется большим числом параметров, что связано с нелинейной температурной зависимостью его номинала и наличием паразитных элементов в виде барьерной емкости. Процесс формирования макромодели интегрального резистора предполагает экстракцию пяти параметров: линейного и квадратичного температурных коэффициентов и трех параметров, необходимых для описания барьерной емкости. На базе полученной модели выполнен расчет температурной и амплитудно-частотной характеристик интегрального резистора. Предложенная процедура синтеза модели интегрального резистора может быть использована для формирования макромоделей других типов интегральных резисторов: низкоомных, выполненных на эмиттерном слое, и высокоомных — пинч-резисторов.
Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Chou, Li-Fang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pathology
subject: 60405 Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches)

description: Transcriptomic Signatures of Exacerbated Progression in Leptospirosis Subclinical Chronic Kidney Disease with Secondary Nephrotoxic Injury
Statistiques Agricoles: Production Agricole, Elevage, Superficies et Utilisation des Terres, Année Agricole 2000
Creators: name: Mpyisi, Edson
name: Nyarwaya, Jean Baptiste
name: Shingiro, Emmanuel
name: Mpyisi, Edson
name: Nyarwaya, Jean Baptiste
name: Shingiro, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Rwanda

description: Food Security Research Project (FSRP) et Division des Statistiques Agricoles (DSA); Ministère de l’Agriculture, de l’Elevage, et des Forets, MINAGRI
Teachers’ and parents’ assessments of primary school children’s intellectual investment as predictors of change in need for cognition
Creators: name: Hufer-Thamm, Anke
name: Bergold, Sebastian
name: Steinmayr, Ricarda
name: Jürgens, Rolf
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: need for cognition
subject: elementary school
subject: parental assessment
subject: teacher assessment
subject: investment traits
subject: 150
subject: Grundschulkind
subject: Grundschule
subject: Kognitive Entwicklung

description: The present study investigated whether parents’ and teachers’ evaluations of children’s intellectual investment would predict a change in children’s need for cognition (NFC) over one year. An exploratory look at how teachers’ evaluations are predicted by a range of factors was also taken. N = 565 third-graders (298 girls; Mage = 8.40, SD = 0.59) and teachers (N = 39) were surveyed in 2021 and 2022. The parents (N = 452) provided the data in 2021. Longitudinal data were analyzed by means of latent change score models (LCSMs). Changes in the teachers’ evaluations and in the children’s cognitive engagement differed between the children. However, there was no effect of the parents’ or teachers’ assessments on the development of the children’s NFC. The change in the teachers’ assessment was negatively related to their initial judgment and the children’s age; it was positively related to the pupils’ fluid intelligence. The results and implications are discussed.
description: Journal of Intelligence; 13(1)
A Biological role for GnRH I and GnRH II at the maternal-fetal interface
Creators: name: Zhou, Junshan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Remodeling of the endometrial extracellular matrix, which occurs during the early stages of pregnancy in the human, is mediated by the temporal expression of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) in both the maternal and fetal compartments and counterbalanced by their respective endogenous inhibitors, plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) in both an autocrine and paracrine manner. To date, the factors capable of regulating the expression of uPA and MMP proteolytic systems at the maternal-fetal interface remain poorly characterized. However, the direct correlation between the expression of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH I) and the activity of uPA, MMP-2 and MMP-9 in the human endometrium and placenta has led to the hypothesis that GnRH I may play a regulator of this developmental event. In these studies, we have examined the ability of GnRH I and the second mammalian form of GnRH (GnRH II), which is also expressed in the human endometrium and placenta, to regulate uPA/ PAI-1 and MMP-2, MMP-9 /TIMP-1 mRNA and protein expression levels in primary cultures of decidual stromal cells or extravillous cytotrophoblasts isolated from first trimester tissues. GnRH I and GnRH II increased uPA, MMP-2 and MMP-9 mRNA and protein expression levels in both of cell types. In contrast, GnRH I and GnRH JJ were capable of increasing TIMP-1 levels in extravillous cytotrophoblasts but had no significant effect on its expression levels in decidual stromal cell cultures. Furthermore, both forms of GnRH down-regulated PAI-1 mRNA levels in extravillous cytotrophoblasts whereas GnRH I increased and GnRH II decreased PAI-1 mRNA and protein expression levels in these decidual cell cultures. Antagonists specific for the GnRH I receptor, Cetrorelix and Antide, were capable of inhibiting the regulatory effects of GnRH I, but not GnRH II on these primary cell cultures. Collectively, these observations strengthen our hypothesis that GnRH is a key regulator of the proteolytic degradation of the endometrial ECM during implantation. However, the observed biological actions of GnRH I and GnRH II on these primary cell cultures appear to be mediated by distinct, tissue-specific molecular mechanisms, which as yet, remain to be elucidated.
Smaller world models for reinforcement learning
Creators: name: Robine, Jan
name: Uelwer, Tobias
name: Harmeling, Stefan
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Model-based reinforcement learning
subject: World models
subject: Discrete latent space
subject: VQ-VAE
subject: Atari
subject: 004
subject: Bestärkendes Lernen (Künstliche Intelligenz)
subject: Weltmodell
subject: Diskretes System
subject: Atari

description: Model-based reinforcement learning algorithms try to learn an agent by training a model that simulates the environment. However, the size of such models tends to be quite large which could be a burden as well. In this paper, we address the question, how we could design a model with fewer parameters than previous model-based approaches while achieving the same performance in the 100 K-interactions regime. For this purpose, we create a world model that combines a vector quantized-variational autoencoder to encode observations and a convolutional long short-term memory to model the dynamics. This is connected to a model-free proximal policy optimization agent to train purely on simulated experience from this world model. Detailed experiments on the Atari environments show that it is possible to reach comparable performance to the SimPLe method with a significantly smaller world model. A series of ablation studies justify our design choices and give additional insights.
description: Neural processing letters ; 55
On the nature of the circumstellar medium of the remarkable type Ia/IIn supernova, SN 2002ic
Creators: name: Kotak, Rubina
name: Meikle, Peter
name: Adamson, Andy
name: Leggett, Sandy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from the first high resolution, high S/N, spectrum of SN 2002ic. The resolved Halpha line has a P Cygni-type profile, clearly demonstrating the presence of a dense, slow-moving (100 km/s) outflow. We have additionally found a huge near-IR excess, hitherto unseen in type Ia SNe. We argue that this is due to an IR light-echo arising from the pre-existing dusty circumstellar medium. We deduce a CSM mass probably exceeding 0.3Msun produced by a mass loss rate greater than several times 10^-4 Msun/yr. For the progenitor, we favour a single degenerate system where the companion is a post-AGB star. As a by-product of our optical data, we are able to provide a firm identification of the host galaxy of SN 2002ic.
description: 5 pages, 4 figs. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
HISPANO-AMERICAN MENTALITY: SAMUEL RAMOS BEFORE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SITUATED CONCEPT OF MAN
Creators: name: Morandin-Ahuerma, Fabio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ethnic Studies
subject: 220210 History of Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The main theme of this work is rescue the Samuel Ramos proposal for a philosophical anthropology from his new humanism. Two main issues dis- cussed: the dichotomy material-spiritual world; and the sense of complexity that resizes the man as ideal being or identity in response to the Kantian question: Was ist der Mensch?
Non-Fickian Interdiffusion of Dynamically Asymmetric Species: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Creators: name: Yaneva, Jacqueline
name: Duenweg, Burkhard
name: Milchev, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use Molecular Dynamics combined with Dissipative Particle Dynamics to construct a model of a binary mixture where the two species differ only in their dynamic properties (friction coefficients). For an asymmetric mixture of slow and fast particles we study the interdiffusion process. The relaxation of the composition profile is investigated in terms of its Fourier coefficients. While for weak asymmetry we observe Fickian behavior, a strongly asymmetric system exhibits clear indications of anomalous diffusion, which occurs in a crossover region between the Cases I (Fickian) and II (sharp front moving with constant velocity), and is close to the Case II limit.
description: to appear in J. Chem. Phys
Rigorous derivation of the Oberbeck–Boussinesq approximation revealing unexpected term
Creators: name: Bella, Peter
name: Feireisl, Eduard
name: Oschmann, Florian
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 510

description: We consider a general compressible viscous and heat conducting fluid confined between two parallel plates and heated from the bottom. The time evolution of the fluid is described by the Navier–Stokes–Fourier system considered in the regime of low Mach and Froude numbers suitably interrelated. Surprisingly and differently to the case of Neumann boundary conditions for the temperature, the asymptotic limit is identified as the Oberbeck–Boussinesq system supplemented with non-local boundary conditions for the temperature deviation.
description: Communications in mathematical physics; 403(3)