cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Learning Outcomes as a Social Construct and Example of Boundary Crossing Between Societal Sectors
Creators: name: Ure, Odd Björn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: school/work interactions
education and training projects
skills needs
learning outcomes
EU policy

description: The article looks for signs of Learning Outcomes transforming or modifying vocational and occupational practices in a manner that facilitates boundary crossing between education and the labour market. This topic is approached by analysing 22 projects from three strands of EU programmes. The partnerships responded to call for proposals with a varying degree of obligation to outline Learning Outcomes, yet this variation is not systematically mirrored in how the projects were designed. Another finding is a tendency to hint at Learning Outcomes by handling them as an obligatory reference at the planning phase. When this reference is not followed up in later stages of project implementation, particularly in the design of training courses or materials, Learning Outcomes tend to be used for boosting the policy relevance of the projects but leaving fewer traces in their outputs and outcomes. We conclude that boundary crossing is particularly manifest in projects where the partners jointly analyse skills gaps at the beginning of a project, for example by means of the descriptors Knowledge-Skills-Competence. In this way, Learning Outcomes are being aligned with training needs in the labour markets constituting the trade or occupation under scrutiny. After these initial analyses, the projects clearly addressing Learning Outcomes are able to utilise this framework for assessing the produced training materials and their benefits for the learners.
Long-time asymptotics of non-degenerate non-linear diffusion equations
Creators: name: Christov, Ivan C.
name: Ibraguimov, Akif
name: Islam, Rahnuma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the long-time asymptotics of prototypical non-linear diffusion equations. Specifically, we consider the case of a non-degenerate diffusivity function that is a (non-negative) polynomial of the dependent variable of the problem. We motivate these types of equations using Einstein's random walk paradigm, leading to a partial differential equation in non-divergence form. On the other hand, using conservation principles leads to a partial differential equation in divergence form. A transformation is derived to handle both cases. Then, a maximum principle (on both an unbounded and a bounded domain) is proved, in order to obtain bounds above and below for the time-evolution of the solutions to the non-linear diffusion problem. Specifically, these bounds are based on the fundamental solution of the linear problem (the so-called Aronson's Green function). Having thus sandwiched the long-time asymptotics of solutions to the non-linear problems between two fundamental solutions of the linear problem, we prove that, unlike the case of degenerate diffusion, a non-degenerate diffusion equation's solution converges onto the linear diffusion solution at long times. Select numerical examples support the mathematical theorems and illustrate the convergence process. Our results have implications on how to interpret asymptotic scalings of potentially anomalous diffusion processes (such as in the flow of particulate materials) that have been discussed in the applied physics literature.
description: 25 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX 4.1; v2: minor updates/improvements
Tinotus major Pace 1986
Creators: name: Hanley, Rodney S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tinotus
Tinotus major

description: Tinotus major Pace
 Tinotus major Pace, 1986:107 [description].
 Holotype. FMNH, male [‘‘Natal, Erere, 2.IV.1910, Marshall leg’’].
 Paratype. HNHM, 1 male [‘‘ Tanganyka, Mt. Meru, W slope, Olkokole, 8,700 ft., 26.IX.1965, Dr. Szunyoghy leg.’’].
 Type Locality. SOUTH AFRICA: Natal, Erere.
description: Published as part of Hanley, Rodney S., 2002, A New Species Of Mexican Tinotus From The Refuse Piles Of Atta Ants, Including An Annotated World Catalog Of Tinotus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Aleocharini), pp. 453-471 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 56 (4) on page 463, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0453:ANSOMT]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900473
Culture, conflict resolution and the legacy of colonialism
Creators: name: Gang, Melissa Lauren
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Colonialism impacted local cultures far beyond their infrastructure, government and geography. In addition to eroding indigenous power structures, the structural violence inflicted during colonialism left native populations with lasting self-doubt and rejection of traditional practices. Among these rejected traditions are informal processes of resolving conflict. Conflict resolution methods in different cultures often vary greatly in underlying values and perceptions. Western judicial systems reflect individualistic, highly uncertainty avoidant, low-context tendencies, while indigenous conflict resolution methods reflect collectivistic, minimally uncertainty avoidant, high-context tendencies. Research into the current state of formal courts and informal justice forums in present-day rural Cameroon and Vanuatu provides case study-based evidence arguing that the transition from restorative justice to retributive justice catalyzed by colonialism has effectively crippled both systems of justice. Due to impacted value systems, neither the restorative, social harmony focus of traditional processes, nor the retributive, compensatory justice focus of the formal judicial system make the available forums wholly appropriate or adequate resources.
Localization of Energy and Momentum in an Asymptotically Reissner-Nordström Non-singular Black Hole Space-time Geometry
Creators: name: Radinschi, I.
name: Sahoo, P. K.
name: Grammenos, Th.
name: Chattopadhyay, S.
name: Cazacu, M. M.
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
subject: 83C40, 83C57

description: The space-time geometry exterior to a new four-dimensional, spherically symmetric and charged black hole solution that, through a coupling of general relativity with a non-linear electrodynamics, is everywhere non-singular, for small $r$ it behaves as a de Sitter metric, and asymptotically it behaves as the Reissner-Nordström metric, is considered in order to study the energy-momentum localization. For the calculation of the energy and momentum distributions, the Einstein, Landau-Lifshitz, Weinberg and Møller energy-momentum complexes have been applied. The results obtained show that in all prescriptions the energy depends on the mass $M$ of the black hole, the charge $q$, two parameters $% a\in \mathbb{Z}^+$ and $γ\in \mathbb{R}^+$, and on the radial coordinate $r$. The calculations performed in each prescription show that all the momenta vanish. Additionally, some limiting and particular cases for $r$ and $q$ are studied, and a possible connection with strong gravitational lensing and micro lensing is attempted.
description: To appear in Universe
Suppressing Decoherence in Quantum Plasmonic Systems by Spectral Hole Burning Effect
Creators: name: You, Jia-Bin
name: Xiong, Xiao
name: Bai, Ping
name: Zhou, Zhang-Kai
name: Yang, Wan-Li
name: Png, Ching Eng
name: Kwek, Leong Chuan
name: Wu, Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum plasmonic systems suffer from significant decoherence due to the intrinsically large dissipative and radiative dampings. Based on our quantum simulations via a quantum tensor network algorithm, we numerically demonstrate the mitigation of this restrictive drawback by hybridizing a plasmonic nanocavity with an emitter ensemble with inhomogeneously-broadened transition frequencies. By burning two narrow spectral holes in the spectral density of the emitter ensemble, the coherent time of Rabi oscillation for the hybrid system is increased tenfold. With the suppressed decoherence, we move one step further in bringing plasmonic systems into practical quantum applications.
Tinotus natalensis Pace 1986
Creators: name: Hanley, Rodney S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tinotus
Tinotus natalensis

description: Tinotus natalensis Pace
 Tinotus natalensis Pace, 1986:107 [description]; Pace, 1996:252 [additional locality].
 Holotype. FMNH, male [‘‘ S. Africa, Natal, Kloof, 1,500 ft, IX.1926, Turner leg.’’].
 Paratype. FMNH, 1 female (same label data as holotype).
 Type Locality. SOUTH AFRICA: Natal, Kloof, 1,500 ft.
description: Published as part of Hanley, Rodney S., 2002, A New Species Of Mexican Tinotus From The Refuse Piles Of Atta Ants, Including An Annotated World Catalog Of Tinotus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Aleocharini), pp. 453-471 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 56 (4) on page 464, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0453:ANSOMT]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900473
From Practice to Theory and Back Again: Experiences of VET Students in the Tension Between Vocational and Scientific Learning Processes
Creators: name: Vötsch, Mario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: learning experience
teacher training
program evaluation
professional development

description: purpose: The paper discusses the tension between vocational and scientific knowledge, which often presents itself as a question of theory-practice transfer. The context of the study are VET programs in the initial teacher training in Tyrol, Austria. One dimension of the research question focuses on the students’ perspective: How do they perceive and evaluate the different forms of knowledge? A second dimension concerns the integration of learning experiences into the process of professionalization. methods: Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, the paper analyses material from different sources (questionnaires, focus groups transcripts, observation protocols), in which a total of 21-29 students from three VET programs were consulted over a period of four years. findings: The findings display the students’ expectations as well as their assessment of the relevance of theory. While the evaluation of scientific knowledge depends on the students (professional) background, the importance of reflection is being emphasized for the development of teacher professionalization. The connection to prior professional experience is expressed less through vocational knowledge or skills, but rather through social competencies. conclusions: While the integration of learning experiences into the process of professionalization can be explained through reflective competence, the tension between vocational and scientific knowledge remains ambiguous at several levels of the VET programs. The results provide insights into the potentials that can be activated by the VET programs for creating transitions to past or future learning pathways. While many in-service students already are part of a "community of practice" in their professional field, they now become immersed into a new one without completely uncoupling from the old.
Vocational Teachers' Experiences in Enacting of Competence-Based Curricula in Lithuania and Italy
Creators: name: Vaitkute, Lina
name: Perini, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: competence-based education
curriculum
enactment

description: The focus of this paper is the enactment of competence-based VET curriculum in Italy and in Lithuania from the point of view of VET actors. It is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with vocational teachers and trainers and administration staff. In both countries orientation of VET curricula on competencies remains the core curriculum formation principle. CBE approach is in particular salient in Lithuania. In the paper we explore teachers’ practices in curriculum making, training and learning organization, instruction and assessment and present their challenges. We also give first insights into the emerging broadening teachers’ competencies demands.
Challenges Skilled Migrants Face in Accessing Their Previous Vocation in a New Country
Creators: name: Teräs, Marianne
name: Eliasson, Eva
name: Osman, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: migration
integration
access to vocation

description: The purpose of this short paper is to introduce factors that can facilitate or hinder skilled migrants’ access to their previous vocation. The approach employed was based on the literature review and some preliminary interviews with the skilled migrants. The results indicate that the factors are located on different levels, there are individual, organisational and societal factors, which interplay with each other. In addition, the factors have dual nature, they can both facilitate and/or hinder access to vocations. Interviewees have experienced several pathways to their vocation and to the labour market in Sweden. Some have chosen another vocation and some have continued their studies to become vocational teachers in their area. To face challenges and to support skilled migrants’ access to their previous vocation and to the labour market, actions are needed on different levels.
Pre-Apprenticeship for Refugees in Switzerland
Creators: name: Stalder, Barbara E.
name: Kammermann, Marlise
name: Lehmann, Sabine
name: Schönbächler, Marie-Theres
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: refugees
learning
resources
pre-entry VET-programme

description: This paper explores a new pre-vocational programme (Integrationsvorlehre, INVOL) that aims to prepare refugees and temporarily admitted persons aged 16 to 35 for an apprenticeship. Using a sample of 552 INVOL-participants, it was tested whether situational (workplace and school characteristics) and individual resources (language proficiency at the beginning of the INVOL, self-efficacy, and persistency) predict participants’ learning outcomes at the end of the programme. We found that workplace resources were related to participants practical and transferable competencies, while school-related resources and language skills predicted language proficiency levels at the end of the programme. Self-efficacy and persistency were not related to learning outcomes. Overall, the programme seems to contribute successfully to refugees’ competence development and preparation for subsequent VET programmes; however, learning across the boundaries of workplaces and schools needs to be strengthened.
Acceptance Corrections and Extreme-Independent Models in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Tannenbaum, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kopeliovich's suggestion [nucl-th/0306044] to perform nuclear geometry (Glauber) calculations using different cross sections according to the experimental configuration is quite different from the standard practice of the last 20 years and leads to a different nuclear geometry definition for each experiment. The standard procedure for experimentalists is to perform the nuclear geometry calculation using the total inelastic N-N cross section, which results in a common nuclear geometry definition for all experiments. The incomplete acceptance of individual experiments is taken into account by correcting the detector response for the probability of measuring zero for an inelastic collision, which can often be determined experimentally. This clearly separates experimental issues such as different acceptances from theoretical issues which should apply in general to all experiments. Extreme-Independent models are used to illustrate the conditions for which the two methods give consistent or inconsistent results.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, published in Physical Review C
Tinotus neocaledonicus Pace 1991
Creators: name: Hanley, Rodney S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tinotus
Tinotus neocaledonicus

description: Tinotus neocaledonicus Pace
 Tinotus neocaledonicus Pace, 1991:165 [description].
 Holotype. FMNH, male [‘‘ Koumac, Grottes du Koumac, 4.VIII.1978, 20 m el., forest dung trap, S. & J. Peck leg.’’].
 Paratype. MSNG, 1 male (same label data as holotype).
 Type Locality. NEW CALEDONIA: Koumac, Grottes du Koumac, 20 m elevation.
description: Published as part of Hanley, Rodney S., 2002, A New Species Of Mexican Tinotus From The Refuse Piles Of Atta Ants, Including An Annotated World Catalog Of Tinotus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Aleocharini), pp. 453-471 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 56 (4) on page 464, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0453:ANSOMT]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900473
A Multi-Year Photometric Study of IC 348
Creators: name: Cohen, R. E.
name: Herbst, W.
name: Williams, E. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extremely young cluster IC 348 has been monitored photometrically over 5 observing seasons from Dec 1998 to March 2003 in Cousins I with a 0.6 m telescope at Van Vleck Observatory. Twenty-eight periodic variables and 16 irregular variables have been identified. Among the brighter stars, 14 of the 16 known K or M-type WTTS were found to be periodic variables, while all 5 of the known CTTS were found to be irregular variables. In the full sample, which includes 150 stars with I mag as faint as 18, we find that 40% of the 63 WTTS are detected as variables, nearly all of them periodic, while 55% of the 20 CTTS are also detected as variable, with none of them periodic. Our study suggests that 80-90% of all WTTS in young clusters will be detected as periodic variables given sufficiently precise and extended monitoring, whereas CTTS will reveal themselves primarily or solely as irregular variables. This has clear consequences for PMS rotational studies based on photometric periods. We examine the stability of the periodic light curves from season to season. All periodic stars show modulations of their amplitude, mean brightness and light curve shape on time scales of less than 1 yr, presumably due to changes in spot configurations and/or physical characteristics. In no case, however, can we find definitive evidence of a change in period, indicating that differential rotation is probably much less on WTTS than it is on the Sun. Among the non-periodic stars, we report the detection of two possible UXors as well as a pre-main sequence star, HMW 15, which apparently undergoes an eclipse with a duration exceeding three years.
Perdita (Perdita) exclamans Cockerell 1895
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita exclamans

description: Perdita (Perdita) exclamans Cockerell, 1895
[Syntype: CASC; ♂ Close to the Agricultural College, Las Cruces, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico, USA; May 13, 1895]
Perdita exclamans has a broad distribution across North American deserts and specializes on pollen from plants in the family Fabaceae (Fowler 2020). In BC, it has been exclusively recorded in the Lower Colorado Desert. Its sole documented record within the BCP dates back to April 1939, with preserved specimens pinned at SEMC (GBIF 2023). See fig. 49.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Vector Continued Fractions using a Generalised Inverse
Creators: name: Haydock, Roger
name: Nex, C. M. M.
name: Wexler, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A real vector space combined with an inverse for vectors is sufficient to define a vector continued fraction whose parameters consist of vector shifts and changes of scale. The choice of sign for different components of the vector inverse permits construction of vector analogues of the Jacobi continued fraction. These vector Jacobi fractions are related to vector and scalar-valued polynomial functions of the vectors, which satisfy recurrence relations similar to those of orthogonal polynomials. The vector Jacobi fraction has strong convergence properties which are demonstrated analytically, and illustrated numerically.
description: Published form - minor changes
title: Interactions between potato plants, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, potato cyst nematodes and a nematicide
Creators: name: Deliopoulos, Thomas
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: Inoculation of potato plants with Vaminoc, a commercial mixture of three selected isolates of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), and with two of these isolates, Glomus intraradices (BioRize BB-E) and Glomus mosseae (isolate BEG 12) increased the early in vitro (in potato root leachate, PRL) and in soil hatch of the potato cyst nematode (PCN) Globodera pallida (0-4 weeks after shoot emergence), but had no effect on the hatch of the other PCN species Globodera rostochiensis. In the absence of AMF, G. pallida exhibited delayed in vitro and in soil (microplants or plants grown from tubers) hatch, compared to G. rostochiensis inoculation of potato roots with AMF eliminated this delay in G. pallida hatch. While the effects of these AMF isolates on PCN hatch were consistent across a range of potato cultivars, the effect on plant growth was more variable, with certain AMF-cultivar associations being more effective than others on plant growth enhancement. The growth parameter mostly affected (increased) by mycorrhizal inoculation was root growth. When the PRL from AMF-untreated and AMF-treated plants were fractionated and corrected for carbon content, it was revealed that mycorrhizal inoculation had multiple effects on hatching factor (HF) production: generation of novel HFs (more evident with Vaminoc than with the single AMF isolates), up or down regulation of existing HFs. The result of the AMF-PCN interaction depended on the time that mycorrhizal inoculation took place: pre-inoculation with AMF 2 weeks before planting followed by one more AMF application at planting significantly lessened the multiplication of G. pallida on the roots, relative to AMF-untreated plants; in contrast, one application of AMF (at planting) increased the final G. rostochiensis population size (but not G. pallida), compared to AMF-untreated plants. In the presence of the nematicide aldicarb, the multiplication rate of G. pallida was significantly lower on roots inoculated with AMF than on roots that did not receive mycorrhizal treatment at planting.
Affine opers and conformal affine Toda
Creators: name: Young, Charles A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For $\mathfrak g$ a Kac-Moody algebra of affine type, we show that there is an $\text{Aut}\, \mathcal O$-equivariant identification between $\text{Fun}\,\text{Op}_{\mathfrak g}(D)$, the algebra of functions on the space of ${\mathfrak g}$-opers on the disc, and $W\subset π_0$, the intersection of kernels of screenings inside a vacuum Fock module $π_0$. This kernel $W$ is generated by two states: a conformal vector, and a state $δ_{-1}\left|0\right>$. We show that the latter endows $π_0$ with a canonical notion of translation $T^{\text{(aff)}}$, and use it to define the densities in $π_0$ of integrals of motion of classical Conformal Affine Toda field theory. The $\text{Aut}\,\mathcal O$-action defines a bundle $Π$ over $\mathbb P^1$ with fibre $π_0$. We show that the product bundles $Π\otimes Ω^j$, where $Ω^j$ are tensor powers of the canonical bundle, come endowed with a one-parameter family of holomorphic connections, $\nabla^{\text{(aff)}} - αT^{\text{(aff)}}$, $α\in \mathbb C$. The integrals of motion of Conformal Affine Toda define global sections $[\mathbf v_j dt^{j+1} ] \in H^1(\mathbb P^1, Π\otimes Ω^j,\nabla^{\text{(aff)}})$ of the de Rham cohomology of $\nabla^{\mathrm{(aff)}}$. Any choice of ${\mathfrak g}$-Miura oper $χ$ gives a connection $\nabla^{\mathrm{(aff)}}_χ$ on $Ω^j$. Using coinvariants, we define a map $\mathsf F_χ$ from sections of $Π\otimes Ω^j$ to sections of $Ω^j$. We show that $\mathsf F_χ\nabla^{\text{(aff)}} = \nabla^{\text{(aff)}}_χ\mathsf F_χ$, so that $\mathsf F_χ$ descends to a well-defined map of cohomologies. Under this map, the classes $[\mathbf v_j dt^{j+1} ]$ are sent to the classes in $H^1(\mathbb P^1, Ω^j,\nabla^{\text{(aff)}}_χ)$ defined by the ${\mathfrak g}$-oper underlying $χ$.
description: to appear in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society; the Lie algebra g and its Langlands dual are exchanged relative to earlier arxiv version; introduction reorganized following helpful suggestions of the referee
Many cliques with few edges and bounded maximum degree
Creators: name: Chakraborti, Debsoumya
name: Chen, Da Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Generalized Turán problems have been a central topic of study in extremal combinatorics throughout the last few decades. One such problem, maximizing the number of cliques of a fixed order in a graph with fixed number of vertices and bounded maximum degree, was recently completely resolved by Chase. Kirsch and Radcliffe raised a natural variant of this problem where the number of edges is fixed instead of the number of vertices. In this paper, we determine the maximum number of cliques of a fixed order in a graph with fixed number of edges and bounded maximum degree, resolving a conjecture by Kirsch and Radcliffe. We also give a complete characterization of the extremal graphs.
description: minor changes
The Role of Vocational Training Institutions in Reducing Disadvantage
Creators: name: Benke, Magdolna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: vocational education and training
vocational training centres
governance
disadvantage
center and periphery relationship

description: In my paper, I would like to draw attention to the fact that the operation of vocational training institutions can be of special significance in disadvantaged areas, as vocational training is the highest level of education in those areas. I emphasize the importance of partnership and cooperation. I formulate questions related to the operation of vocational training centers in Hungary. I believe that the strong centralization of vocational training that has taken place so far leaves no room for bottom-up innovation efforts.
Formation and annihilation of nanocavities during keV ion irradiation of Ge
Creators: name: Kim, J. C.
name: Cahill, David G.
name: Averback, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanocavities in Ge(111) created by 5 keV Xe ion irradiation are characterized by ex situ transmission electron microscopy and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry. Nanocavities nucleate near the surface and then undergo thermal migration. Nanocavities with average diameter of 10 nm and areal density of 5.1 x 10-3 nm-2 are observed at 773 K, while nanocavities with average diameter of 2.9 nm and areal density of 3.1 x 10-3 nm-2 are observed at 673 K. The estimated Xe gas pressure inside the nanocavities is 0.035 GPa at 773 K, much smaller than the estimated equilibrium pressure 0.38 GPa. This result suggests that the nanocavities grow beyond equilibrium size at 773 K. The nanocavities are annihilated at the surface to form surface pits by the interaction of displacement cascades of keV Xe ions with the nanocavities. These pits are characterized by in situ scanning tunneling microscopy. Pits are created on Ge(111) and Ge(001) at temperatures ~ 523-578 K by keV Xe ions even when less than a bilayer (monolayer) of surface material is removed.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Physical Review B
Treating Intangible Inputs as Investment Goods: the Impact on Canadian GDP
Creators: name: Belhocine, Nazim
name: Belhocine, Nazim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Intangible Capital Goods
subject: Intangible Investment

description: National income accounts view most business expenditures on intangible goods as acquisitions of intermediate inputs that get entirely used up in the production of final output. After arguing against this convention, I construct a data set to document firms’ expenditures on an identifiable list of intangible items for which there is now wide agreement among national accountants. I then examine the implications of treating intangible spending as an acquisition of final (investment) goods on GDP growth for Canada. I find that investment in intangible capital by 2002 is almost as large as the investment in physical capital. This result is in line with similar findings for the U.S. and the U.K. Furthermore, the growth in GDP and labor productivity may be underestimated by as much as 0.1 percentage point per year during this same period. The discussion on the need to capitalize intangibles and the magnitude of the findings demonstrate the necessity to report such expenditures as investments and to collect this data as an integral part of the Canadian system of national income accounts.
Additional file 5 of Framework for personalized prediction of treatment response in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: E. Stühler
name: S. Braune
name: F. Lionetto
name: Y. Heer
name: E. Jules
name: C. Westermann
name: A. Bergmann
name: P. Van Hövell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 5. “Model robustness against different prior choices”: Supplementary methods and results.
Supporting Apprentices' Autonomy in Vocational Training – Insights into the Practices at the Swiss Post
Creators: name: Barabasch, Antje
name: Briante, Fabio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: learning cultures
workplace training
autonomy of apprentices
coaching, participation

description: The notion of autonomy is increasingly emphasized in VET. In this paper, we address how companies and vocational trainers can respond appropriately to this vital, basic psychological need. Based on examples from a qualitative study conducted at the Swiss Post we discuss measures meant to support autonomy in apprentices. We clarify the notion of autonomy and its crucial connection to human motivation by reviewing some of the supervising methods of workplace trainers and provide information about training measures by which the Swiss Post affords autonomy-support for its apprentices.
Perdita (Perdita) ewarti Timberlake 1971
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita ewarti

description: Perdita (Perdita) ewarti Timberlake, 1971
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ 48.28 km north of El Crucero, Baja California Sur, Mexico; November 6, 1965]
This species has only been collected in the Magdalena Plains in November 1965, and no other occurrences have been reported since its description (Timberlake 1971). See fig. 49.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality and class: Black gay and lesbian business owners in the U.S.A
Creators: name: Dees, Joanna Carol
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This research explores the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class of Black LGBT entrepreneurs, a previously unstudied population. Empirically, the central research questions: do lack gay and lesbian business owners' experiences challenge Jane Ward's concept of "diversity politics" and if so, how? were approached through semi-structured one-on-one interviews with six gay male and six lesbian business owners. Findings included experiences of "queer sexism," classism, and homophobia, as well as empowerment. Most business owners embraced homonormative values of sexual identity disclosure; though a small number of participants resisted the closet dichotomy. In general, diversity efforts by companies and specifically racial and ethnic inclusion policies by LGBT organizations like the NGLCC were supported by participants. However, all women interviewed were alternatively active in intimate, informal groups of fellow lesbian business owners. Findings from this study can inform further research on intersections of sexuality and race and apply to LGBT organizational programming.
Deep Survival Machines: Fully Parametric Survival Regression and Representation Learning for Censored Data with Competing Risks
Creators: name: Nagpal, Chirag
name: Li, Xinyu Rachel
name: Dubrawski, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe a new approach to estimating relative risks in time-to-event prediction problems with censored data in a fully parametric manner. Our approach does not require making strong assumptions of constant proportional hazard of the underlying survival distribution, as required by the Cox-proportional hazard model. By jointly learning deep nonlinear representations of the input covariates, we demonstrate the benefits of our approach when used to estimate survival risks through extensive experimentation on multiple real world datasets with different levels of censoring. We further demonstrate advantages of our model in the competing risks scenario. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work involving fully parametric estimation of survival times with competing risks in the presence of censoring.
description: Also appeared in NeurIPS 2019 Workshop on Machine Learning for Healthcare (ML4H)
The Stock of Intangible Capital in Canada: Evidence from the Aggregate Value of Securities
Creators: name: Belhocine, Nazim
name: Belhocine, Nazim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: q-Theory
subject: Unrecorded Capital
subject: Intangible Capital

description: This paper measures the size of the stock of intangible capital in Canada using newly released data on the market value of all securities in the economy. The approach taken relies on a quantitative application of the q-theory of investment to generate the quantity of capital owned by firms. I find that the intangible capital stock accounted for approximately 30% of overall capital since 1994. Of this, the R&D reported by national accounts makes up only 23%. These results imply that official Canadian statistics failed to account for 26% of the value of the capital stock in their 2005 quarterly data collection. In addition, I find that the magnitude of the intangible capital stock is comparable to that reported using a cost approach, confirming the size of the findings and ascertaining the need to include intangibles in empirical models and in investment data.
Intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality and class: Black gay and lesbian business owners in the U.S.A
Creators: name: Dees, Joanna Carol
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research explores the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class of Black LGBT entrepreneurs, a previously unstudied population. Empirically, the central research questions: do lack gay and lesbian business owners' experiences challenge Jane Ward's concept of "diversity politics" and if so, how? were approached through semi-structured one-on-one interviews with six gay male and six lesbian business owners. Findings included experiences of "queer sexism," classism, and homophobia, as well as empowerment. Most business owners embraced homonormative values of sexual identity disclosure; though a small number of participants resisted the closet dichotomy. In general, diversity efforts by companies and specifically racial and ethnic inclusion policies by LGBT organizations like the NGLCC were supported by participants. However, all women interviewed were alternatively active in intimate, informal groups of fellow lesbian business owners. Findings from this study can inform further research on intersections of sexuality and race and apply to LGBT organizational programming.
Microcanonical scaling in small systems
Creators: name: Pleimling, Michel
name: Behringer, Hans
name: Huller, Alfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A microcanonical finite-size scaling ansatz is discussed. It exploits the existence of a well-defined transition point for systems of finite size in the microcanonical ensemble. The best data collapse obtained for small systems yields values for the critical exponents in good agreement with other approaches. The exact location of the infinite system critical point is not needed when extracting critical exponents from the microcanonical finite-size scaling theory.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures included, to appear in Physics Letters A
MOOCs and Artificial Intelligence - Potentials for the Professional Development of VET Teachers and Trainers
Creators: name: Attwell, Graham
name: Roppertz, Pontydysgu Sophia
name: Deitmer, Ludger
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: moocs
professional development,
artificial intelligence

description: Digital transformation is leading to pressure for vocational education and training in Europe to adapt. Teachers should prepare young people for the changing world of work but also provide social and civic education. At the same time, they should be able to use new digital and AI-based applications with confidence. In addition, they need general AI knowledge to participate as responsible citizens in the discussion about AI and ethical and social questions. The work of vocational educators significantly determines the quality of VET. Accordingly, the issue of the training and continuing education of VET teachers is of paramount importance to ensure the quality of VET. We look at Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as an innovation in the provision of professional development in AI for VET teachers and trainers.
Regulating refugees: The relationship between regime type and political asylum in China and Malaysia
Creators: name: Seng, Erica Lauren
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This study analyzes the impact that political regime type has on immigration and asylum policies. The following two hypotheses are tested: greater degrees of political centralization will determine the extent to which asylum policy can be successfully formed and implemented and that greater degree of political openness in a regime will lead to greater difficulty in successfully forming and implementing a coherent policy of asylum. In order to account for the sheer number of refugees within East Asia and to further the existing research on the impact of non-democratic regime on policy, I conduct a comparative case study between Burmese asylum seekers in the Federation of Malaysia, a hybrid regime, and North Korean asylum seekers the People's Republic of China, an authoritarian regime. My findings indicate that greater degrees of political decentralization and political openness do limit the creation and implementation of coherent immigration and political asylum policy measures.
Perdita (Perdita) eximia Timberlake 1964
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita eximia

description: Perdita (Perdita) eximia Timberlake, 1964
[Holotype: UCRC; ♀ 6.43 km east of Edom (now Thousand Palms), Riverside Co., California, USA; March 14, 1937]
This species is abundant in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts in Arizona, California, and Nevada, USA. The BBSL holds 83 specimens collected in the Lower Colorado Desert at 70 mi. N. San Felipe in March 1966 (GBIF 2023). See fig. 49.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Академический вестник УралНИИпроект РААСН,Выпуск 4 (51) 2021
Creators: name: УралНИИпроект
Publisher: name: УралНИИпроект
Year: 2021

description: Академический вестник УралНИИпроект РААСН,Выпуск 4 (51) 2021
The Embodiment of Intangible Investment Goods: a Q-Theory Approach
Creators: name: Belhocine, Nazim
name: Belhocine, Nazim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Intangible investment
subject: Q-Theory
subject: Skill Premium
subject: Investment Deflator

description: Recent empirical findings on firms’ expenditure towards the creation and acquisition of knowledge goods, otherwise known as intangibles, suggest that their share in overall investment has grown considerably. Still, intangible investment is rarely present in investment models. In this paper, I extend the q-theory of investment to model explicitly the decision of firms to invest in intangibles. I then use the model to measure the contribution of intangible goods to the overall capital stock in the U.S. The model highlights the embodiment of intangible goods in tangibles and the role of relative price movements in the measurement of the contribution of each type of investment to the overall capital stock. In particular, given that the relative cost of the main input to intangible production, skilled labor, rose substantially in the 80s and 90s, the price of intangibles inherits this rise. As a result, the downward trend in the aggregate investment deflator series reported by national accounts, which accounts only for the presence of tangible investment goods, is found to have a significant downward bias in the 90s. The model also shows that the growth in the overall capital stock from the late-80s until 2000 was driven mainly by an increase in the contribution of intangibles. However, the contribution of intangibles fell consistently after 2000. These results underscore the importance of accounting for the movements in the price of intangibles rather than focusing only on their rising share in overall investment.
Additional file 4 of Rationale and design of a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of multidisciplinary nutritional rehabilitation for patients treated for head and neck cancer (the NUTRI-HAB trial)
Creators: name: Kristensen, Marianne Boll
name: Wessel, Irene
name: Beck, Anne Marie
name: Dieperink, Karin B.
name: Mikkelsen, Tina Broby
name: Møller, Jens-Jakob Kjer
name: Zwisler, Ann-Dorthe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Course programme for the initial five days and the two days follow-up of the multidisciplinary residential nutritional rehabilitation programme in the NUTRI-HAB trial.
Tinotus nepalensis Pace 1984
Creators: name: Hanley, Rodney S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tinotus
Tinotus nepalensis

description: Tinotus nepalensis Pace
 Tinotus nepalensis Pace, 1984:338 [description].
 Holotype. MNHN (Coiffait Collection), male [‘‘ Nepal, Pulchauki, 2,750 m’’].
 Type Locality. NEPAL: Pulchauki, 2,750 m.
description: Published as part of Hanley, Rodney S., 2002, A New Species Of Mexican Tinotus From The Refuse Piles Of Atta Ants, Including An Annotated World Catalog Of Tinotus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Aleocharini), pp. 453-471 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 56 (4) on page 464, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0453:ANSOMT]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900473
Exploring the Connection Between Binary and Spiking Neural Networks
Creators: name: Lu, Sen
name: Sengupta, Abhronil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: On-chip edge intelligence has necessitated the exploration of algorithmic techniques to reduce the compute requirements of current machine learning frameworks. This work aims to bridge the recent algorithmic progress in training Binary Neural Networks and Spiking Neural Networks - both of which are driven by the same motivation and yet synergies between the two have not been fully explored. We show that training Spiking Neural Networks in the extreme quantization regime results in near full precision accuracies on large-scale datasets like CIFAR-$100$ and ImageNet. An important implication of this work is that Binary Spiking Neural Networks can be enabled by "In-Memory" hardware accelerators catered for Binary Neural Networks without suffering any accuracy degradation due to binarization. We utilize standard training techniques for non-spiking networks to generate our spiking networks by conversion process and also perform an extensive empirical analysis and explore simple design-time and run-time optimization techniques for reducing inference latency of spiking networks (both for binary and full-precision models) by an order of magnitude over prior work.