cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How is Gaze Influenced by Image Transformations? Dataset and Model
Creators: name: Che, Zhaohui
name: Borji, Ali
name: Zhai, Guangtao
name: Min, Xiongkuo
name: Guo, Guodong
name: Callet, Patrick Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data size is the bottleneck for developing deep saliency models, because collecting eye-movement data is very time consuming and expensive. Most of current studies on human attention and saliency modeling have used high quality stereotype stimuli. In real world, however, captured images undergo various types of transformations. Can we use these transformations to augment existing saliency datasets? Here, we first create a novel saliency dataset including fixations of 10 observers over 1900 images degraded by 19 types of transformations. Second, by analyzing eye movements, we find that observers look at different locations over transformed versus original images. Third, we utilize the new data over transformed images, called data augmentation transformation (DAT), to train deep saliency models. We find that label preserving DATs with negligible impact on human gaze boost saliency prediction, whereas some other DATs that severely impact human gaze degrade the performance. These label preserving valid augmentation transformations provide a solution to enlarge existing saliency datasets. Finally, we introduce a novel saliency model based on generative adversarial network (dubbed GazeGAN). A modified UNet is proposed as the generator of the GazeGAN, which combines classic skip connections with a novel center-surround connection (CSC), in order to leverage multi level features. We also propose a histogram loss based on Alternative Chi Square Distance (ACS HistLoss) to refine the saliency map in terms of luminance distribution. Extensive experiments and comparisons over 3 datasets indicate that GazeGAN achieves the best performance in terms of popular saliency evaluation metrics, and is more robust to various perturbations. Our code and data are available at: https://github.com/CZHQuality/Sal-CFS-GAN.
title: Characterization of Active Defects in SiC MOSFETs
Creators: name: Pande, Peyush
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: SiC
subject: metal‒oxide‒semiconductor

description: In the recent years, SiC has become a popular material for power semiconductor devices, after decades long dominance of Si. SiC metal‒oxide‒semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are now commercially available and performing beyond the theoretical limits of Si MOSFETs, however, they are still far from the theoretical limits of SiC. One of the major issues in the commercial SiC MOSFETs is the low channel-carrier mobility, which is attributed to the high density of defects at or near the SiC/SiO2 interface. Consequently, it is necessary to characterize the SiC/SiO2 interface appropriately for the future development of SiC power devices. This thesis begins with a critical review of conventional characterization techniques for SiC metal‒oxide‒semiconductor (MOS) devices, which are directly adapted from techniques developed for Si. To address the challenges in characterizing SiC/SiO2 interface, a new characterization technique is proposed, which measures the effect of near-interface traps (NITs) in the strong-accumulation region of N-type SiC MOS capacitors. The technique measures the current through a SiC MOS capacitor in strong-accumulation and compares it to the trap-free current. With this technique, an active defect with energy levels localized between 0.13 eV to 0.23 eV, above the bottom of conduction band, is identified. As the effect of NITs is observed only at high frequencies, it is expected to be located very close to the SiC/SiO2 interface. To further investigate the effect of high temperature and positive bias stress on the identified NITs, the MOS capacitors are measured at high temperatures with positive bias stress. No significant difference is observed between measurements performed before and after high temperature bias stress. This led to the conclusion that the temperature independent tunneling is responsible for the trapping and de-trapping of channel electrons to and from the NITs. For the first time in this work we have demonstrated the NITs with response time in tens of ns. A detailed explanation of trapping/de-trapping mechanism of NITs, localized in energy, is also presented in this thesis. The developed technique is further used to perform a comparative analysis of NITs in as-grown and nitrided gate oxides. The density of NITs in nitrided gate oxide is localized in energy whereas it tends to decrease with increasing energy levels in as-grown gate oxide. It is experimentally shown that the nitridation helps to eliminate NITs further away from the SiC/SiO2 interface.
Pauesia antennata
Creators: name: Nazari, Yaser
name: Zamani, Abbas Ali
name: Masoumi, Seyyed Mohammad
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Petrović-Obradović, Olivera
name: Tomanović, Snežana
name: Starý, Petr
name: Tomanović, Željko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Pauesia
Pauesia antennata

description: Pauesia antennata (Mukerji, 1950)
(Figs. 54, 68, 113)
 Material examined. Pterochloroides persicae (Cholodovsky, 1899) on Prunus dulcis, KE – Bistun (34°29′46″N 47°23′32″E, 1310 m), 23.v.2011, 22 JJ 40 ♀♀; on Prunus persica, KE – Harsin (34°19′46″N 47°26′04″E, 1289 m), 22.x.2010, 7 JJ 17 ♀♀; KE – Bistun (34°29′46″N 47°23′32″E, 1310 m), 23.v.2011, 7 JJ 14 ♀♀.
description: Published as part of Nazari, Yaser, Zamani, Abbas Ali, Masoumi, Seyyed Mohammad, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Petrović-Obradović, Olivera, Tomanović, Snežana, Starý, Petr & Tomanović, Željko, 2012, Diversity and host associations of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) in the farmlands of western Iran, pp. 559-584 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2) on page 567, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332645
Educare stiintifica vs dialog
Creators: name: Cocea, Madalina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: „Înțelegerea publică a științei” este o sintagmă interpretată, cel mai des, ca o datorie a cercetătorilor de a „educa” publicul în legătură cu noțiuni de bază ale științei sau ale avansurilor tehnologice. I se mai spune și „alfabetizare științifică”, dar în literatura de specialitate ne referim la „modelul deficit” al comunicării științei. Este acesta însă un model corect?
Inhibition of oxidative stress of Biancaea sappan (L) Tod. from Java
Creators: name: Tiono, Yovita Viona
name: Prasetyo, Agustinus Hadi
name: Wulanjati, Martha P.
name: Wink, Michael
name: Nurcahyanti, Agustina Dwi Retno
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Increased reactive oxygen species and advanced glycation end products are often associated with human ageing and degenerative diseases. Biancaea sappan L serves as a medicinal plant and a healthy drinks ingredient in Java. However, the pharmacological investigation of the plant native to this island is still lacking in depth. In the current study, DNA barcoding using the marker gene maturase K (matK), evaluation of the chemical composition, total phenolic content (TPC) and antioxidant properties, antiglycation, anti-β-amyloid, anti-inflammatory, and selective cytotoxic activities were performed. B. sappan shares well-known phytoconstituents with other members of the genus Biancaea. The heartwood ethanol extract possesses the most prominent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-β-amyloid effects. The aqueous extract demonstrated a most substantial anti-glycation activity and was rich in phenolics. The ethanol extract from heartwood exhibited the highest cytotoxicity against SW-48, indicating B. sappan heartwood from Java holds promise as antioxidants and may selectively inhibit colorectal cancer.
Geostiba (Sibiota) oertzeni
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Geostiba
Geostiba oertzeni

description: Geostiba (Sibiota) oertzeni (EPPELSHEIM 1888)
A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Greece: 7 exs., Pelopónnisos, Panahaiko, above Paraskevi, 1350 m, 3.VI.1994, leg. Giachino & Vailati (cVai, cAss); 1 ex., Voiotía, Parnassós, 1660 m, 8.VI.1994 - 7.VI.1995, leg. Giachino & Vailati (cVai). Turkey: 15 exs., Karaman, Ermenek-Gülnar, Moca Geç., 36°32'N, 33°00'E, 1420 m, 21.IV.2008, leg. Brachat & Meybohm (cAss).
 Geostiba oertzeni is one of the most widespread and common species of the genus in the Eastern Mediterranean, its distribution ranging from eastern and southern Turkey to Ukraine and the Balkans. For a distribution map see ASSING (2006).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2008, New species and additional records of Geostiba from the Eastern Mediterranean region and from Middle Asia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 1327-1335 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on pages 1329-1330, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430686
Primer Exchange Reaction-Synthesized DNAzyme for the Sensitive Determination of an Oral Cancer Protein Biomarker
Creators: name: He, Libang
name: Chen, Hao
name: Xu, Jue
name: Shao, Meiying
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: A novel biosensing method is reported for the fluorescence determination of an oral cancer protein biomarker using primer exchange reaction (PER)-synthesized DNAzyme. Specifically, the target protein is captured by antibody-functionalized magnetic beads and recruits antibody-nucleic acid probes through immunoreactions to form sandwich-like complexes. After magnetic separation, the nucleic acid part of the antibody-nucleic acid probe participates in the PER as a catalytic hairpin, mediating the extension of primers. The extended primer forms the complete sequence of RNA-cleaving DNAzyme to effectively catalyze the cleavage of molecular beacons and produce a significantly amplified fluorescence signal. Taking interleukin 6 as a model biomarker, the method allows quantitative determination of the target in a wide linear range from 5 fg/mL to 500 pg/mL with a detection limit of 2.3 fg/mL and shows desirable specificity and usability in biological samples. More importantly, the complete DNAzyme is synthesized by the target-powered PER, which not only ensures the detection specificity, but also enables the decrease of background signals, thus greatly improving the sensitivity. Therefore, the method may provide a valuable tool for the determination of oral cancer protein biomarkers and may expand applications of DNAzyme in biosensing.
A Game Theoretic Setting of Capitation Versus Fee-For-Service Payment Systems
Creators: name: Koenecke, Allison
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We aim to determine whether a game-theoretic model between an insurer and a healthcare practice yields a predictive equilibrium that incentivizes either player to deviate from a fee-for-service to capitation payment system. Using United States data from various primary care surveys, we find that non-extreme equilibria (i.e., shares of patients, or shares of patient visits, seen under a fee-for-service payment system) can be derived from a Stackelberg game if insurers award a non-linear bonus to practices based on performance. Overall, both insurers and practices can be incentivized to embrace capitation payments somewhat, but potentially at the expense of practice performance.
A ATUAÇÃO DO ESTADO NA ECONOMIA ATRAVÉS DAS CHAMADAS GOLDEN SHARES
Creators: name: GUILHERME GOMES FRANÇA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: A separação entre o que seja de cunho público ou privado é constante em nosso cotidiano e para contextos e necessidades distintas, porém, é, sobretudo, utilizada para delimitar direitos e responsabilidades. Deste modo, quando se ouve falar em termos como “empresa”, “companhia”, “ações”, “fusões” e alguns jargões próprios do meio corporativo, é comum que se pense estar diante tão somente de investimentos e contratos estritamente particulares – entretanto, nem sempre é assim. Há tempos – principalmente com o advento da segunda geração de direitos fundamentais - que o Estado se relaciona com os particulares a fim de que os frutos colhidos por ambos, ou seja, a Administração Pública e o cidadão, sejam satisfatórios. Em muitos momentos, órgãos públicos necessitam do particular para que possam alcançar seus fins e vice-versa.
Praon barbatum Mackauer 1959
Creators: name: Nazari, Yaser
name: Zamani, Abbas Ali
name: Masoumi, Seyyed Mohammad
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Petrović-Obradović, Olivera
name: Tomanović, Snežana
name: Starý, Petr
name: Tomanović, Željko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Praon
Praon barbatum

description: Praon barbatum Mackauer, 1959
(Figs. 11, 19, 55, 69, 84, 114)
  Material examined. Acyrthosiphon pisum  on Medicago sativa, KE – Marivan (35°31′47″N 46°13′31″E, 1335 m), 11.ix.2004, 1 J 3 ♀♀.
description: Published as part of Nazari, Yaser, Zamani, Abbas Ali, Masoumi, Seyyed Mohammad, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Petrović-Obradović, Olivera, Tomanović, Snežana, Starý, Petr & Tomanović, Željko, 2012, Diversity and host associations of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) in the farmlands of western Iran, pp. 559-584 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2) on page 567, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332645
ANÁLISE DA CONCESSÃO DE INCENTIVOS FISCAIS PARA PRODUÇÃO DE AGROTÓXICOS SOB O VIÉS DO PRINCÍPIO DA SELETIVIDADE TRIBUTÁRIA
Creators: name: VALMIR CÉSAR POZZETTI
name: MARCELO ANTUNES SANTOS
name: VINICIUS RIBEIRO DE SOUZA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: A pesquisa em questão teve como mola propulsora a indignação decorrente da aprovação dos incentivos fiscais para a produção de agrotóxicos por meio de cláusulas especificas do Convênio nº 100/97 do Conselho Nacional de Política Fazendária (Confaz) e o Decreto 7.660/2011, bem como pelo debate que se se formou a partir do marco citado. Delimitado os pressupostos motivadores da pesquisa, objetiva-se por meio do presente trabalho; i) avaliar os incentivos fiscais concedidos para produção de agrotóxicos a partir do princípio da seletividade tributária, ii) relacionar os impactos ambientais decorrentes da utilização dos agrotóxicos com a extrafiscalidade tributária e por fim, iii) avaliar as políticas de incentivo implementadas a partir da ideia de desenvolvimento sustentável esculpida no texto Constitucional
Global parameterization of $ππ$ scattering up to 2 GeV
Creators: name: Pelaez, J. R.
name: Rodas, A.
name: de Elvira, J. Ruiz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide global parameterizations of $ππ$ scattering $S0$ and $P$ partial waves up to roughly 2 GeV for phenomenological use. These parameterizations describe the output and uncertainties of previous partial-wave dispersive analyses of $ππ$, both in the real axis up to 1.12 GeV and in the complex plane within their applicability region, while also fulfilling forward dispersion relations up to 1.43 GeV. Above that energy we just describe the available experimental data. Moreover, the analytic continuations of these global parameterizations also describe accurately the dispersive determinations of the $σ/f_0(500)$, $f_0(980)$ and $ρ(770)$ pole parameters.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
AS NOVAS RELAÇÕES DE TRABALHO, PRECARIZAÇÃO E A DIGNIDADE DO TRABALHADOR NO MODELO UBER
Creators: name: BRUNO ROBERTO VOSGERAU
name: RODRIGO THOMAZINHO COMAR
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Trata o presente artigo da análise da prestação de serviços realizada pelo motorista mediante a intermediação feita pelo aplicativo UBER, tendo em vista a inovação apresentada em relação ao fator econômico e seus efeitos perante a estrutura clássica. O estudo também aborda o tema pelo viés trabalhista, seus efeitos em relação a natureza jurídica da relação, bem como o enfoque da Justiça do Trabalho no tocante a tal situação. No mesmo sentido, será abordada a questão acerca dos elementos que permitem concluir se o trabalho prestado respeita os direitos da personalidade do trabalhador, tais como o da dignidade da pessoa humana, bem como se tal situação esta em conformidade com a agenda do trabalho decente estabelecida pela Organização Internacional do Trabalho e se resulta em precarização das condições de trabalho.
title: Coming Ready or Not: Chinese Students in Australia, Their Motivations, Language Proficiency and Impact on Australia's Tertiary Environment
Creators: name: Pacey, Robyn Lyn
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: International students, Australia
subject: Chinese students, Australia
subject: Student experience, Australia
subject: ESL students experience, Australia
subject: People's Republic of China students, Australia

description: Around one in five of Australia’s tertiary students comes from overseas, with the largest proportion from the People’s Republic of China. Despite needing the revenue from international students to fund domestic tertiary places, there is continuing disquiet over the language preparedness of overseas students, the willingness of universities to allow them to bypass language entry standards, and the subsequent impact on the academics responsible for teaching them. To gauge the experience of typical Chinese students at Australian universities, this study followed a group of five for almost nine years, from when they enrolled in a foundation program in northern China to the present, to establish their motivations for wanting an Australian education, whether their language was sufficient to enable them to participate fully, and whether they were able to integrate into the academic and broader communities. The research had a secondary focus; to examine the impact of large cohorts of international students on Australia’s tertiary environment, and whether international education can be better delivered to achieve a more rewarding experience for all participants. The study began in 2005 with classroom reports and observations of the students during their foundation year, followed by annual interviews and personal contact after their arrival in Australia. To address the secondary focus of the study, data were collected from the Academic Language and Learning (ALL) advisers who assist tertiary students with language development, from the discipline academics who teach them, and from pro-vice chancellors (international) who are responsible within universities for the international education policy framework.
Hedetniemi's conjecture is asymptotically false
Creators: name: He, Xiaoyu
name: Wigderson, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Extending a recent breakthrough of Shitov, we prove that the chromatic number of the tensor product of two graphs can be a constant factor smaller than the minimum chromatic number of the two graphs. More precisely, we prove that there exists an absolute constant $δ>0$ such that for all $c$ sufficiently large, there exist graphs $G$ and $H$ with chromatic number at least $(1+δ)c$ for which $χ(G \times H) \le c$.
Praon exsoletum
Creators: name: Nazari, Yaser
name: Zamani, Abbas Ali
name: Masoumi, Seyyed Mohammad
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Petrović-Obradović, Olivera
name: Tomanović, Snežana
name: Starý, Petr
name: Tomanović, Željko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Praon
Praon exsoletum

description: Praon exsoletum (Nees, 1811)
(Figs. 12, 20, 56, 70, 85, 115)
 Material examined. Therioaphis trifolii (Monell, 1882) on Medicago sativa, KE – Bistun (34°26′29″N 47°32′20″E, 1285 m), 14.xi.2010, 1 ♀; KE – Sarpolzahab (54°25′41″N 45°50′44″E, 571 m), 24.xii.2010, 1 ♀; KD – Sanandaj (35°16′34″N 47°01′18″E, 1390 m), 10.ix.2004, 7 JJ 16 ♀♀; KD – Marivan (35°31′47″N 46°13′31″E, 1335 m), 11.ix.2004, 2 JJ 5 ♀♀; KE – Bistun (34°23′49″N 47°26′39″E, 1289 m), 13.ix.2004, 9 JJ 6 ♀♀; HA – Hamadan (34°48′05″N 48°28′48″E, 1832 m), 14.ix.2004, 19 JJ 14 ♀♀.
description: Published as part of Nazari, Yaser, Zamani, Abbas Ali, Masoumi, Seyyed Mohammad, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Petrović-Obradović, Olivera, Tomanović, Snežana, Starý, Petr & Tomanović, Željko, 2012, Diversity and host associations of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) in the farmlands of western Iran, pp. 559-584 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2) on page 567, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332645
Improving sound absorption through nonlinear active electroacoustic resonators
Creators: name: Guo, Xinxin
name: Fleury, Romain
name: Lissek, Hervé
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Absorbing airborne noise at frequencies below 300 Hz is a particularly vexing problem due to the absence of natural sound absorbing materials at these frequencies. The prevailing solution for low-frequency sound absorption is the use of passive narrow-band resonators, whose absorption level and bandwidth can be further enhanced using nonlinear effects. However, these effects are typically triggered at high intensity levels, without much control over the form of the nonlinear absorption mechanism. In this study, we propose, implement, and experimentally demonstrate a nonlinear active control framework on an electroacoustic resonator prototype, allowing for unprecedented control over the form of non-linearity, and arbitrarily low sound intensity thresholds. More specifically, the proposed architecture combines a linear feedforward control on the front pressure through a first microphone located at the front face of the loudspeaker, and a nonlinear feedback on the membrane displacement estimated through the measurement of the pressure inside the back cavity with a second microphone located in the enclosure. It is experimentally shown that even at a weak excitation level, it is possible to observe and control the nonlinear behaviour of the system. Taking the cubic nonlinearity as an example, we demonstrate numerically and experimentally that in the low frequency range ([50 Hz, 500 Hz]), the nonlinear control law allows improving the sound absorption performance, i.e. enlarging the bandwidth of optimal sound absorption while increasing the maximal absorption coefficient value, and producing only a negligible amount of nonlinear distortion. The reported experimental methodology can be extended to implement various types of hybrid linear and/or nonlinear controls, thus opening new avenues for managing wave nonlinearity and achieving non-trivial wave phenomena.
description: 12 pagess 9 figures
Review of 1971/10/18 Concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Concert of new music by young British composers given by the Music Now Ensemble directed by John White.
Creators: name: Potter, Keith
Publisher: name: Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music (1971-1988)
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music (1971-1988), No 3 (1971): Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music
title: The Impact of Positional Leadership on Secondary School Captains
Creators: name: Neumann, Regan Jamie
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: School Captain
subject: Student leadership

description: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate how the position of School Captain impacts on young people. The study examined student leadership through the lives of six young people who, during 2007, assumed the position of School Captain in their respective schools in Brisbane, Australia. Although educational leadership in schools through transformational approaches has been an area given increasing attention by researchers over the last two decades, the study of student leadership in secondary school settings has been relatively unexplored. The area of positional student leadership has been given even less attention. The focus of this investigation was the impact of positional leadership for a group of students, specifically known as School Captain, in secondary schools. The investigation used the theoretical construct of symbolic interactionism as the foundation for a qualitative research approach. Case study method provided a framework for the research strategy, which allowed me to listen to students’ stories, as well as the stories of “significant others”, such as leaders, teachers and parents. The study design was supported by data collection methods that included text analysis, passive observations, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions. The results of the research indicate that the impact of the role (and associated status) of School Captain on students in a secondary school embraces many aspects of their lives. Carrying out the role has potential to develop self-awareness, culminating in a deepening of maturity. This comes from personal interactions in relationships, managing the responsibilities of the position, the commitment associated with the role, and the development of self-confidence and management through practising leadership skills. Also it appears that learning management is enhanced by participating in a range of activities associated with the role. This dissertation concludes with a recommendation that future research be conducted into the area of student and youth leadership in school and societal settings to explore further personal impact and possible engagement with the school and the wider community.
Tetartopeus scutellaris
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tetartopeus
Tetartopeus scutellaris

description: Tetartopeus scutellaris (NORDMANN 1837)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Bulgaria: 1 ex., coast of Black Sea, Roppotamo National Park, 25.V.1988, leg. A. Pütz (cWun).
 C o m m e n t: The known distribution of T. scutellaris extends from Russia, the Caucasus region, Turkey, and the Balkans in the east and southeast to eastern Central Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) in the west and northwest. The above specimen represents the first record from Bulgaria. According to SMETANA (2004), the vicariant species T. angustatus (LACORDAIRE 1835) occurs in Bulgaria. However, there is little doubt that this record is based on a confusion with the externally similar T. scutellaris. Tetartopeus angustatus has an Atlanto-Mediterranean distribution, which extends westwards into Central Europe. Previous records of this species from Poland and the Czech Republic are similarly doubtful.
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2008, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Paederinae and Xantholinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), pp. 1237-1294 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1263, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430627
Additional file 1 of Deep whole genome sequencing identifies recurrent genomic alterations in commonly used breast cancer cell lines and patient-derived xenograft models
Creators: name: Deng, Niantao
name: Minoche, Andre
name: Harvey, Kate
name: Li, Meng
name: Winkler, Juliane
name: Goga, Andrei
name: Swarbrick, Alex
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. number of citations from PubMed for breast cancer cell lines. Number of citations for each of the cell lines obtained from PubMed, data retrieved from Pubmed in May 2022. Figure S2. Heatmap of correlation of genotyping calls of breast cancer cell lines from three different studies. Correlation analysis of genotyping calls from this study to compare with SNP calls from Heiser et al and CCLE. Figure S3. barplots of number of different types of variants identified in the cell lines. Figure S4. IGV plot of a non-coding gene MALAT1 in MCF7 and MDAMB231 respectively, showing a mutation in MCF7 but not in MDAMB231. Figure S5. Circos plot of structural variations in breast cancer cell lines, MDA-MB-231, T47D, MDA-MB-468 and SKBR3. Arcs connecting two loci of difference chromosomes indicate inter-chromosomal structural variations. Figure S6. GREAT analysis of genes affected by SV variants in the breast cancer cell lines. Figure S7. Representative IGV plot showing copy number gains in FOXA1, GATA3 and ESR1 in MCF7. Tracks from top to bottom: depth of coverage in an NA12878 control (control), all reads in the sample (all reads), or reads with mapping quality >=20 (MQ>20), the average mapping quality of aligned reads from the sample (MQ, if no reads align MQ=0), coverage standard deviation from 500 controls (Coverage SD, indicating common CNV), overlapping segmental duplications published by Bailey JA et al. 2002 (SEG-DUP, used as control for germline CNVs), discordant pairs (DP), split reads (SR), variants from the Database of Genomic Variants (DGV), and RefSeq genes (Genes). Figure S8. barplots of number of different types of variants identified in the six PDX models. Figure S9. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis of METABRIC samples stratified by CSMD1 expression status by four different breast cancer PAM50 subtypes. Top 25% samples with high CSMD1 is in red, showing a better survival outcome compared to those with low CSMD1 expression. (PDF 8335 kb).
title: The Basis and Function of a Political Authority in the Reformed Tradition with Reference to Scripture and federal Calvinism
Creators: name: Blunden, Alexander James
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Political autority
subject: Federal Calvinism
subject: Reformed tradition
subject: Western politics

description: Bonhoeffer1 holds the departure point for Christian ethics: “is not the reality of one‟s own self, or the reality of the world; nor is it the reality of standards and values. It is the reality of God as he reveals Himself in Jesus Christ. It is fair to begin by demanding assent to this proposition for anyone who wishes to concern himself with the problem of a Christian ethic.” The Reformed tradition asserts that the vicarious and substitutionary self-sacrifice offered once for all by the incarnate Son, regenerated, redeemed, reconciled and sanctified creation, but that we are freed and empowered in the Spirit to respond to God‟s command in conformity to Christ through love of God and neighbour.2 The command to salvation, sanctification and response is addressed to all people in every aspect of their lives and is relevant because “authority” is exercised by people: rulers, not by the impersonal entity of political theory called the “state”. In the exercise of “authority”, those rulers are subject to the example of Christ and the guidance of the Spirit. “Authority” is a subset of our loving response to God, for “authority” is “from” and “instituted by” God as a ministry of God‟s purpose for our good,3 a ministry of order never subordinated to the church‟s ministry of proclamation of the gospel, and so directly responsible to God for the exercise of delegated authority: for the trust accorded it. Church and “state” both build the kingdom, church by proclamation of the gospel – the means by which the Spirit creates faith and induces obedience: “state” by establishing and maintaining the order necessary for the church to perform its function. This is the basis of the unique Reformed view of political authority, which has largely shaped Western political life.
Lusitanopsis segurica ASSING 2007
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lusitanopsis
Lusitanopsis segurica

description: Lusitanopsis segurica ASSING 2007
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Spain: 2 exs., Andalucía, Sierra de Segura, ca. 20 km SW Santiago de la Espada, 38°01'N, 02°41'W, 1550 m, moist grassland with rocks, under stones, 16.III.2008, leg. Andújar (cAss); 7 exs., same locality, 13.X.2008, leg. Andújar (cAss).
C o m m e n t: This recently described endogean species was previously known only from the type locality, some 20 km to the northeast of the above locality (ASSING 2007a).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2008, Nine new species and additional records of Staphylinidae from southern Spain, with new synonymies (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 1301-1325 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1302, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430659
Electron-interacting dark matter: Implications from DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 and prospects for liquid xenon detectors and NaI detectors
Creators: name: Roberts, B. M.
name: Flambaum, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility for the direct detection of low mass (GeV scale) WIMP dark matter in scintillation experiments. Such WIMPs are typically too light to leave appreciable nuclear recoils, but may be detected via their scattering off atomic electrons. In particular, the DAMA Collaboration [R. Bernabei et al., Nucl. Phys. At. Energy 19, 307 (2018)] has recently presented strong evidence of an annual modulation in the scintillation rate observed at energies as low as 1 keV. Despite a strong enhancement in the calculated event rate at low energies, we find that an interpretation in terms of electron-interacting WIMPs cannot be consistent with existing constraints. We also demonstrate the importance of correct treatment of the atomic wavefunctions, and show the resulting event rate is very sensitive to the low-energy performance of the detectors, meaning it is crucial that the detector uncertainties be taken into account. Finally, we demonstrate that the potential scintillation event rate can be much larger than may otherwise be expected, meaning that competitive searches can be performed for GeV scale WIMPs using the conventional prompt S1 scintillation signals. This is important given the recent and upcoming very large liquid xenon detectors.
Silence, morality, and the religious Left : strategies for voice in the public sphere
Creators: name: Wong, Joansandy M.
name: 0000-0001-7756-825X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Social movement
Counterpublics
Rhetoric
Religious Left
Prophetic tradition
Moral authority
Cultural hegemony
Counterhegemonic
Media saturation
Alternative media
Moral Mondays Movement
Forward Together Movement
Nuns on the Bus
Charismatic leadership
Organizational demagoguery

description: Due to internal fragmentation on the Left and the systemic silencing of the religious Left, the Right continues to dominate the morality narrative in the public sphere, leading to a misconstrued understanding of what constitutes the common good. Two prominent movements led by the religious Left were rhetorically analyzed to determine strategies used by the religious Left to successfully counter silencing tactics and reclaim the moral authority in the public sphere. These successful movements shared similarities. Both movements had charismatic and competent leaders who used storytelling and the prophetic tradition to frame their social justice cause as morally righteous. Both movements were attacked by powerful establishment forces that attempted to label the activists as outside the norm or bounds of the institution. Additionally, both movement leaders seized on the opportunity created by the establishment’s attack and strategically used media saturation to counter the Right’s silencing tactics. Finally, these religious leaders gained and used political capital to continue the ongoing fight for justice. The religious Left is a powerful ally that brings a rich prophetic rhetorical tradition, historic personal and group rituals, unifying bridging tactics, communities of passionate activists who view justice as a moral imperative, and charismatic leaders who imbue the struggle with moral righteousness. These case studies suggest that the Right’s claim on moral authority is contestable. It also provides support for the contention that there is space in the public sphere for the deliberation of values and for critical debate on what constitutes the common good.
Nonlinear Properties of Supercurrent-Carrying Single and Multi-Layer Thin-Film Superconductors
Creators: name: Zhao, Songyuan
name: Withington, Stafford
name: Goldie, David J.
name: Thomas, Chris N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconducting thin-films are central to the operation of many kinds of quantum sensors and quantum computing devices: Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs), Travelling-Wave Parametric Amplifiers (TWPAs), Qubits, and Spin-based Quantum Memory elements. In all cases, the nonlinearity resulting from the supercurrent is a critical aspect of behaviour, either because it is central to the operation of the device (TWPA), or because it results in non-ideal second-order effects (KID). Here we present an analysis of supercurrent carrying superconducting thin-films that is based on the generalized Usadel equations. Our analysis framework is suitable for both homogeneous and multilayer thin-films, and can be used to calculate the resulting density of states, superconducting transition temperature, superconducting critical current, complex conductivities, complex surface impedances, transmission line propagation constants, and nonlinear kinetic inductances in the presence of supercurrent. Our analysis gives the scale of kinetic inductance nonlinearity (I*) for a given material combination and geometry, and is important in optimizing the design of detectors and amplifiers in terms of materials, geometries, and dimensions. To investigate the validity of our analysis across a wide range of supercurrent, we have measured the transition temperatures of superconducting thin-films as a function of DC supercurrent. These measurements show good agreement with our theoretical predictions in the experimentally relevant range of current values.
Praon necans Mackauer 1959
Creators: name: Nazari, Yaser
name: Zamani, Abbas Ali
name: Masoumi, Seyyed Mohammad
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Petrović-Obradović, Olivera
name: Tomanović, Snežana
name: Starý, Petr
name: Tomanović, Željko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Praon
Praon necans

description: Praon cf. necans Mackauer, 1959
(Figs. 14, 22, 58, 72, 87, 117)
 Material examined. † Aphis craccivora on ‡ Robinia pseudacacia, KE – Siloo (34°19′17″N 47°04′49″E, 1350 m), 29.iv.2010, 1J 4♀♀; † Aphis punicae on ‡ Punica granatum, KE – Kermanshah (34°19′12″N 47°05′56″E, 1330 m), 02.v.2011, 1J; † Macrosiphoniella sanborni on ‡ Chrysanthemum morifolium, KE – Kasra (34°17′36″N 47°02′59″E, 1446 m) 20.xii.2011, 1 ♀; Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (Linnaeus, 1761) on ‡ Ranunculus repens, KE – Sahneh (34°26′58″N 47°46′45″E, 1483 m), 15.x.2010, 1 ♀; Rhopalosiphum padi on Hordeum vulgare, KE – Kermanshah (34°19′27″N 47°05′53″E, 1326 m), 04.v.2011, 5 JJ 6 ♀♀; on Triticum aestivum, KE – Kermanshah (34°19′40″N 47°06′24″E, 1315 m), 04.v.2011, 7 JJ 11 ♀♀; KE – Bistun (34°29′46″N 47°23′32″E, 1310 m), 23.v.2011, 2 JJ 1 ♀; on ‡ Zea mays, KE – Sarpolzahab (34°25′28″N 45°50′58″E, 576 m), 05.xi.2010, 13 JJ 13 ♀♀.
description: Published as part of Nazari, Yaser, Zamani, Abbas Ali, Masoumi, Seyyed Mohammad, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Petrović-Obradović, Olivera, Tomanović, Snežana, Starý, Petr & Tomanović, Željko, 2012, Diversity and host associations of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) in the farmlands of western Iran, pp. 559-584 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2) on page 568, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332645
Geostiba (Sibiota) zoufali
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Geostiba
Geostiba zoufali

description: Geostiba (Sibiota) zoufali (RAMBOUSEK)
A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Croatia: 1 ex., Biokovo planina, road to Sveti Jure, 1500 m, beech litter sifted, 9.VI.2006, leg. Schuh (cAss).
 Geostiba zoufali has been recorded from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The species is apparently very rare; only few specimens have become known (ASSING 2005a).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2008, New species and additional records of Geostiba from the Eastern Mediterranean region and from Middle Asia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 1327-1335 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1330, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430686
Cum se stabilește dacă este „interesantă” o noutate din știință
Creators: name: Cocea, Madalina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Interesul potenţial pe care îl poate stârni un articol științific sau rezultatul unei cercetări poate fi definit după aşa-numita „valoare de ştire” a acestuia – adică, dacă acea informaţie este sau nu suficient de interesantă pentru a fi adusă în faţa publicului.
 Criteriile jurnalistice de măsurare a valorii de ştire ghidează redacțiile în alegerea subiectelor, dar și specialiștii în comunicare în a filtra toate informațiile științifice care ajung la ei și a propune doar câteva pentru a fi promovate.
title: Managing Stakeholder Relationships in Conjunction with a Public Health Agenda: A Case Study of Community Sport Events in New Zealand
Creators: name: Batty, Rachel Joanne
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Sport sponsorship
subject: Sport and sponsor marketing
subject: Sport sponsorship and public health
subject: Social responsibility in advertising

description: Existing research suggests that the stereotypical realm of taboo sport sponsorship, which has traditionally included tobacco and alcohol products, is evolving to incorporate soft drink, confectionary and fast food. Such products are viewed (by some event stakeholders and community members) as detrimental to public health initiatives and are seen as contributing to health issues including obesity, diabetes and heart disease. As a result, some organisations who associate themselves (via sponsorship) with community sport events are receiving criticism over the types of products they are promoting. These challenges are due, in part, to increasing public health concerns (especially within New Zealand) and amplified levels of corporate social responsibility in relation to sponsorship partnerships with companies that produce such products. Due to sport events often being linked to stereotypical values associated with fitness, healthy living and active lifestyles, this would suggest that there is a narrowing field of sponsors and associated funding which sport event managers can utilise. A review of the literature pertaining to sport sponsorship and sport event sponsorship demonstrated the need for research which examines community sport event sponsorship and stakeholder relationships. Research gauging the impact a public health agenda can have on potential and existing community sport events sponsors is required. In order to do this, community sport event stakeholder relationships and sponsor-focussed incompatibilities need to be examined and understood. Such research will aid in the management of successful stakeholder relationships and sustained provision of community sport events.
SEPARAÇÃO DE PODERES E ATIVISMO JUDICIAL: LEGISLAÇÃO SIMBÓLICA E OS DIREITOS FUNDAMENTAIS
Creators: name: SIRLENE ELIAS RIBEIRO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: O presente artigo cuida de uma análise da atuação dos poderes Legislativo Executivo e Judiciário na realização e implementação dos direitos fundamentais previstos na Constituição Federal do Brasil. O Enfoque dado ao trabalho é a análise de considerações e definições doutrinárias acerca do tema proposto, bem como de julgados do Supremo Tribunal Federal, com o objetivo de uma conclusão acerca do crescimento do ativismo judicial e da judicialização das políticas públicas voltadas aos direitos humanos, passando por uma análise da elaboração de legislação simbolicamente e de uma atuação simbólica do Tribunal nas questões de direitos fundamentais.
Revisiting the statistical isotropy of GRB sky distribution
Creators: name: Andrade, Uendert
name: Bengaly, Carlos A. P.
name: Alcaniz, Jailson S.
name: Capozziello, Salvatore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The assumption of homogeneity and isotropy on large scales is one of the main hypotheses of the standard cosmology. In this paper, we test the hypothesis of isotropy from the two-point angular correlation function of 2626 gamma-ray bursts (GRB) of the FERMI GRB catalogue. We show that the uncertainties in the GRB positions induce spurious anisotropic signals in their sky distribution. However, when such uncertainties are taken into account no significant evidence against the large-scale statistical isotropy is found. This result remains valid even for the sky distribution of short-lived GRB, contrarily to previous reports.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, match accepted version
Efficient long-distance energy transport in molecular systems through adiabatic passage
Creators: name: Dijkstra, Arend G.
name: Beige, Almut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The efficiencies of light-harvesting complexes in biological systems can be much higher than the current efficiencies of artificial solar cells. In this paper, we therefore propose and analyse an energy transport mechanism which employs adiabatic passages between the states of an artificially designed antenna molecular system to significantly enhance the conversion of incoming light into internal energy. It is shown that the proposed transport mechanism is relatively robust against spontaneous emission and de-phasing, while also being able to take advantage of collective effects. Our aim is to provide new insight into the energy transport in molecular complexes and to improve the design of solar cells.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, typos in Section III.B corrected
Charged black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell-Weyl gravity
Creators: name: Wu, Chao
name: Zou, De-Cheng
name: Zhang, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct charged asymptotically flat black hole solutions in Einstein-Maxwell-Weyl(EMW) gravity. These solutions can be interpreted as generalizations of two different groups: Schwarzschild black hole (SBH) and non-Schwarzschild black hole (NSBH) solutions. In addition, we discuss the thermodynamic properties of two groups of numerical solutions in detail, and show that they obey the first law of thermodynamics.
description: new charged black hole solutions in EW gravity