cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dual use of electronic cigarettes and classic cigarettes: a systematic review
Creators: name: Maglia, Marilena
name: Caponnetto, Pasquale
name: Piazza, Jennifer Di
name: Torre, Dwayne La
name: Polosa, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: Dual use is an emerging phenomenon and while there is no consensus on its definition, in most evidence based literature it is commonly referred to as those who use both e-cigarettes and classic cigarettes whereas those who smoke only e-cigarettes are referred to as single users. The risks and benefits of e-cigarette dual usage should be considered on an individual level as well as on a population level. Almost two thirds of adult tobacco users in the US report using more than one tobacco product. Yet, our understanding about dual use is limited by a fragmented evidence-base. Synthesizing this literature is critical for the purpose of developing a profile for ‘dual users’, understanding the influences of dual use on classic cigarette, classic cigarette smoking behavior, evaluating health outcomes from dual use, and dual users perceptions and experiences. Materials and methods: The objective of this review is to summarize the literature focused on dual use of the e-cigarette and classic cigarette. PubMed and PsycINFO were searched. Concepts that made up the investigation were: electronic cigarette and dual use. The publication date was limited to 2009–2017. Results: We identified 718 original studies from the electronic search of the databases (407 studies from PUBMED, and 311 from PsycINFO) and 3 from a dedicated mailing list. The reviewers screened the title and abstract of each citation to determine their eligibility and considered 76 articles. Conclusions: Dual users make use of e-cigarettes for smoking reduction, smoking cessation, reduction of health risks and they perceive e-cigarettes to be safer and less addictive than tobacco cigarettes. Dual users are more likely to use tobacco cigarettes in hedonistic situations, when there is no restriction of use, or when stressed and/or anxious. Situations such as these might be the most difficult circumstances to dissuade dual users from classic smoking.
Jordan's international trading regime and integration with the Arab region through trade liberalisation
Creators: name: Khwaileh, Khaled
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The thesis critically examines the international trading regime of Jordan and its economic and political integration with the Arab world through trade liberalisation. In so doing, it analyses: (i) Jordan's involvement in the World Trade Organization (WTO) multilateral trading system, (ii) Jordan's bilateral free trading relationships with both non-Arab and Arab trading partners and (iii) the implications of these liberalised trading activities for Jordan's national economic development and political stability. The thesis concludes by offering some useful recommendations that may serve Jordan's best interests in its bid to minimise present challenges and maximise trade-induced development. The thesis criticises the mainstream understanding of free trade agreements (FTAs) as primarily trade agreements that are backed by the arguments of economic efficiency. The analysis demonstrates that FTAs are as much political arrangements as they are trade arrangements. However, because the mainstream literature justifies them as efficient economic tools, they are used to compel developing countries to provide trade conditions that are not always to their advantage. Developing countries are particularly disadvantaged by the imposition of trade conditions in the name of economic efficiencies, which neglect the political aspects of FTAs. This thesis argues that it is time to revise the overly economic analyses of FTAs and integrate the political and economic aspects into the scholarship. This is demonstrated in this thesis by analysing the role of Jordan in entering regional and global FTAs. This thesis concludes that an understanding of FTAs as both economic and political arrangements can benefit developing economies by mitigating the harshness of purely economic analysis and acknowledging the political give and take that already occurs, yet is not explicitly considered and analysed. The thesis argues that a more nuanced analysis of FTAs can serve the purpose of better integrating trading countries, such as Jordan, in peaceful coexistence. The thesis contributes to the development of Jordan's international trade policies to maximise economic benefits, and regional economic and political integration for prosperity and peaceful coexistence. Its recommendations will augment Jordan's participation in the WTO and its multilateral trading system, by playing a regional role to form a competitive regional economic bloc in partnership with Arab countries to integrate into the global economy -- abstract.
Oscillating dipole with fractional quantum source in Aharonov-Bohm electrodynamics
Creators: name: Modanese, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show, in the case of a special dipolar source, that electromagnetic fields in fractional quantum mechanics have an unexpected space dependence: propagating fields may have non-transverse components, and the distinction between near-field zone and wave zone is blurred. We employ an extension of Maxwell theory, Aharonov-Bohm electrodynamics, which is compatible with currents $j^ν$ conserved globally but not locally, we have derived in another work the field equation $\partial_μF^{μν}=j^ν+i^ν$, where $i^ν$ is a non-local function of $j^ν$, called "secondary current". Y.\ Wei has recently proved that the probability current in fractional quantum mechanics is in general not locally conserved. We compute this current for a Gaussian wave packet with fractional parameter $a=3/2$ and find that in a suitable limit it can be approximated by our simplified dipolar source. Currents which are not locally conserved may be present also in other quantum systems whose wave functions satisfy non-local equations. The combined electromagnetic effects of such sources and their secondary currents are very interesting both theoretically and for potential applications.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures
Improving Neural Network Generalization by Combining Parallel Circuits with Dropout
Creators: name: Phan, Kien Tuong
name: Maul, Tomas Henrique
name: Vu, Tuong Thuy
name: Kin, Lai Weng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In an attempt to solve the lengthy training times of neural networks, we proposed Parallel Circuits (PCs), a biologically inspired architecture. Previous work has shown that this approach fails to maintain generalization performance in spite of achieving sharp speed gains. To address this issue, and motivated by the way Dropout prevents node co-adaption, in this paper, we suggest an improvement by extending Dropout to the PC architecture. The paper provides multiple insights into this combination, including a variety of fusion approaches. Experiments show promising results in which improved error rates are achieved in most cases, whilst maintaining the speed advantage of the PC approach.
description: Pre-print. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46675-0_63
A Cascade Transformer-based Model for 3D Dose Distribution Prediction in Head and Neck Cancer Radiotherapy
Creators: name: Gheshlaghi, Tara
name: Nabavi, Shahabedin
name: Shirzadikia, Samire
name: Moghaddam, Mohsen Ebrahimi
name: Rostampour, Nima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiation therapy is the primary method used to treat cancer in the clinic. Its goal is to deliver a precise dose to the planning target volume (PTV) while protecting the surrounding organs at risk (OARs). However, the traditional workflow used by dosimetrists to plan the treatment is time-consuming and subjective, requiring iterative adjustments based on their experience. Deep learning methods can be used to predict dose distribution maps to address these limitations. The study proposes a cascade model for organs at risk segmentation and dose distribution prediction. An encoder-decoder network has been developed for the segmentation task, in which the encoder consists of transformer blocks, and the decoder uses multi-scale convolutional blocks. Another cascade encoder-decoder network has been proposed for dose distribution prediction using a pyramid architecture. The proposed model has been evaluated using an in-house head and neck cancer dataset of 96 patients and OpenKBP, a public head and neck cancer dataset of 340 patients. The segmentation subnet achieved 0.79 and 2.71 for Dice and HD95 scores, respectively. This subnet outperformed the existing baselines. The dose distribution prediction subnet outperformed the winner of the OpenKBP2020 competition with 2.77 and 1.79 for dose and DVH scores, respectively. The predicted dose maps showed good coincidence with ground truth, with a superiority after linking with the auxiliary segmentation task. The proposed model outperformed state-of-the-art methods, especially in regions with low prescribed doses.
Press Release: European Innovators Launch GRAPHERGIA Project to Revolutionize Energy Harvesting in Textiles and Battery Technology
Creators: name: GRAPHERGIA HEurope Project
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: GRAPHERGIA
subject: Materials Engineering
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: Graphene
subject: Graphene Nanohybrids
subject: Triboelectric Energy Harvesting
subject: Self-charging e-textiles
subject: Graphene enabled Li-ion batteries
subject: IoT Wearables
subject: Innovation
subject: Deep Tech
subject: Horizon Europe

description: A consortium of 11 partners from six European nations has officially launched the GRAPHERGIA project, an ambitious 3.5-year Research and Innovation endeavor, funded by €4.5 million within the framework of Horizon Europe. Aimed at redefining the integration of energy solutions into everyday life, GRAPHERGIA is set to transform how we use and store energy, marking a significant milestone in the journey towards a climate-neutral future.
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Rothblum, Guy N.
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Theory of computation
subject: Mathematics of computing
subject: Security and privacy
subject: Computing methodologies
subject: Applied computing
subject: Social and professional topics

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 295, 5th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2024), pages 0:i-0:x
Additional file 1: of Implementation of shared decision-making in oncology: development and pilot study of a nurse-led decision-coaching programme for women with ductal carcinoma in situ
Creators: name: Berger-HĂśger, Birte
name: Liethmann, Katrin
name: MĂźhlhauser, Ingrid
name: Steckelberg, Anke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Medicine
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: Checklist of Criteria for Reporting the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions in healthcare (CReDECI 2). (DOCX 17Â kb)
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0007r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: cartulaire
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0007r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0007r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Small voices, significant stakeholders: young children's experiences of program participation and family life during involvement in a parenting program
Creators: name: Baird, Kelly
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Research on parenting programs rarely focuses on the children's perspectives and little is understood about how children experience these programs or the changes that may occur in their families during program participation. Further, the voices of disadvantaged or vulnerable young children have often been excluded from research on issues that directly affect their lives. To address this research gap, the current study adopted a longitudinal, mixed method design with a primary focus on the experiences of disadvantaged 3 to 5 year-old children (N=5) who attended an attachment- based parenting program. Two other early childhood settings, a supported playgroup (N=3) and preschool (N=10) were included as comparison groups. A range of child-friendly, accessible, and valid qualitative data collection methods such as child-photography and child interviews were used to capture children's perspectives of program participation and everyday home life. In addition, standardised quantitative measures were used to assess relevant aspects of the children's social development, particularly the quality of their peer interactions as well as children's attachment narrative representations of their attachment relationships.
AERONET-based models of smoke-dominated aerosol near source regions and transported over oceans, and implications for satellite retrievals of aerosol optical depth
Creators: name: Sayer, A. M.
name: Hsu, N. C.
name: Eck, Thomas
name: Smirnov, A.
name: Holben, B. N.
Publisher: name: EGU
Year: 2014

description: Smoke aerosols from biomass burning are an important component of the global aerosol system. Analysis of Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) retrievals of aerosol microphysical/optical parameters at 10 sites reveals variety between biomass burning aerosols in different global source regions, in terms of aerosol particle size and single scatter albedo (SSA). Case studies of smoke observed at coastal/island AERONET sites also mostly lie within the range of variability at the near-source sites. Differences between sites tend to be larger than variability at an individual site, although optical properties for some sites in different regions can be quite similar. Across the sites, typical midvisible SSA ranges from ~ 0.95–0.97 (sites dominated by boreal forest or peat burning, typically with larger fine-mode particle radius and spread) to ~ 0.88–0.9 (sites most influenced by grass, shrub, or crop burning, typically smaller fine-mode particle radius and spread). The tropical forest site Alta Floresta (Brazil) is closer to this second category, although with intermediate SSA ~ 0.92. The strongest absorption is seen in southern African savannah at Mongu (Zambia), with average midvisible SSA ~ 0.85. Sites with stronger absorption also tend to have stronger spectral gradients in SSA, becoming more absorbing at longer wavelengths. Microphysical/optical models are presented in detail so as to facilitate their use in radiative transfer calculations, including extension to UV (ultraviolet) wavelengths, and lidar ratios. One intended application is to serve as candidate optical models for use in satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrieval algorithms. The models presently adopted by these algorithms over ocean often have insufficient absorption (i.e. too high SSA) to represent these biomass burning aerosols. The underestimates in satellite-retrieved AOD in smoke outflow regions, which have important consequences for applications of these satellite data sets, are consistent with the level of underestimated absorption.
Nanofluidics for biomolecular separations
Creators: name: Startsev, Michael Andrei
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Nanofluidics, microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technology has garnered much attention in recent years due to the opportunities it offers in analytical chemistry and point-of-care. However, an understanding of the physicochemical phenomena associated with biomolecular separations within nanofluidic devices is needed to enable those possibilities. The work presented in this manuscript describes a novel nanofluidic device designed to simultaneously separate and concentrate dilute biomarkers within low volume samples. The mechanism of separation driving biomolecules within the nanofluidic device is the continuous counteracting forces of electrophoresis and electro-osmosis in the presence of a spatial gradient that modulates molecular mobility (conductivity gradient or pH gradient) induced along the nanochannels of the device. R-phycoerythrin, streptavidin-Dylight, DNA, and PNA (peptide nucleic acid) were focused and separated within the nanochannel under various conditions and their respective behaviours were characterized. A pH gradient was applied along the nanochannel device by introducing two different pH buffers at opposite terminals of the nanochannel and applying an axial voltage across the channel. Fluorescent proteins, phycoerythrin and Dylight labelled streptavidin, were concentrated within the channel reaching concentration enhancement (CE) factors of over 380 within 5 minutes. A conductivity gradient was also applied along the nanochannel by introducing buffers of dissimilar salt concentrations at the terminals of the nanochannel in order to create a trapping condition similar to the pH gradient method. Simultaneous separation and concentration of Bacillus cereus DNA and R-phycoerythrin was achieved to a CE of over 900. The conductivity gradient technique was also used to detect hybridization between oligonucleotides and complementary strands of PNA. This work illustrates how these electrofocusing devices are capable of matrix-free separation and concentration of biomarkers. In the future, this technology may enable on-chip integration of orthogonal separation techniques with mass spectrometry.
Seiberg-Witten theory as a complex version of Abelian Higgs model
Creators: name: Sergeev, Armen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53D42, 53Z05

description: The adiabatic limit procedure associates with every solution of Abelian Higgs model in (2+1) dimensions a geodesic in the moduli space of static solutions. We show that the same procedure for Seiberg--Witten equations on 4-dimensional symplectic manifolds introduced by Taubes may be considered as a complex (2+2)-dimensional version of the (2+1)-dimensional picture. More precisely, the adiabatic limit procedure in the 4-dimensional case associates with a solution of Seiberg--Witten equations a pseudoholomorphic divisor which may be treated as a complex version of a geodesic in (2+1)-dimensional case.
description: This paper of 13 pages is dedicated to the memory of Professor Lu Qikeng. Accepted for publication in 2017
Additional file 1 of An elevated urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio increases the risk of incident cardia-cerebrovascular disease in individuals with type 2 diabetes
Creators: name: Tao, Jie
name: Sang, Dasen
name: Zhang, Xinxin
name: Liu, Xin
name: Wang, Guodong
name: Chen, Shuohua
name: Wu, Shouling
name: Geng, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Marine Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1: Figure S1. Flowchart of the current study. Table S1. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% Confidence intervals of uACR for CVD (subgroup analysis according to sex, eGFR, BMI and Hypertension).
Additional file 2: Table S2. of Analysis of fortuitous matches in a STR genotype database from Mexico and its forensic efficiency parameters
Creators: name: Quiroz-Mercado, Joaquín
name: Ríos-Rivas, Ricardo
name: Martínez-Sevilla, Víctor
name: Chávez-Marín, Gabriela
name: Hueman Jaimes-Díaz
name: Santiago-Hernández, Juan
name: Maldonado-Rodríguez, Rogelio
name: Rangel-Villalobos, Héctor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Fst distances (above diagonal) and Fst p-values (below diagonal) between Mexican and American populations based on Powerplex 16 genetic system. (DOCX 14 kb)
The transcriptional response of Arabidopsis leaves to Fe deficiency
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Celma, Jorge
name: Pan, I-Chun
name: Li, Wenfeng
name: Lan, Ping
name: Buckhout, Thomas J.
name: Schmidt, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fe deficiency
subject: chlorophyll metabolism
subject: ribosomes
subject: Fe homeostasis
subject: reactive oxygen species
subject: RNA-seq
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Due to its ease to donate or accept electrons, iron (Fe) plays a crucial role in respiration and metabolism, including tetrapyrrole synthesis, in virtually all organisms. In plants, Fe is a component of the photosystems and thus essential for photosynthesis. Fe deficiency compromises chlorophyll (Chl) synthesis, leading to interveinal chlorosis in developing leaves and decreased photosynthetic activity. To gain insights into the responses of photosynthetically active cells to Fe deficiency, we conducted transcriptional profiling experiments on leaves from Fe-sufficient and Fe-deficient plants using the RNA-seq technology. As anticipated, genes associated with photosynthesis and tetrapyrrole metabolism were dramatically down-regulated by Fe deficiency. A sophisticated response comprising the down-regulation of HEMA1 and NYC1, which catalyze the first committed step in tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and the conversion of Chl b to Chl a at the commencement of Chl breakdown, respectively, and the up-regulation of CGLD27, which is conserved in plastid-containing organisms and putatively involved in xanthophyll biosynthesis, indicates a carefully orchestrated balance of potentially toxic tetrapyrrole intermediates and functional end products to avoid photo-oxidative damage. Comparing the responses to Fe deficiency in leaves to that in roots confirmed subgroup 1b bHLH transcription factors and POPEYE/BRUTUS as important regulators of Fe homeostasis in both leaf and root cells, and indicated six novel players with putative roles in Fe homeostasis that were highly expressed in leaves and roots and greatly induced by Fe deficiency. The data further revealed down-regulation of organ-specific subsets of genes encoding ribosomal proteins, which may be indicative of a change in ribosomal composition that could bias translation. It is concluded that Fe deficiency causes a massive reorganization of plastid activity, which is adjusting leaf function to the availability of Fe.
title: Психология отклоняющегося поведения
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Липунова О.В.
Publisher: name: Амурский гуманитарно-педагогический государственный университет, Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2019

description: В учебном пособии рассматриваются вопросы психологии отклоняющегося поведения личности, дается анализ проблемы влияния эмоций на поведение личности. Особое внимание уделяется изучению личности несовершеннолетних с нарушениями поведения. Раскрываются методы комплексной психологической диагностики и пути профилактики и коррекции отклоняющегося поведения, дается психологическое обоснование эффективной коррекции эмоционального дефекта несовершеннолетних девиантов. Учебное пособие содержит вопросы и задания, позволяющие систематизировать полученные знания. Предназначено для изучения дисциплины «Психология девиантного поведения» по направлениям подготовки высшего образования 44.03.01 «Педагогическое образование», 44.03.03 «Специальное (дефектологическое) образование», 44.04.01 «Педагогическое образование». Кроме того, учебное пособие будет полезно профессионалам в области психологии поведения и смежных наук.
Television, urbanisation and development: a study of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam
Creators: name: Duc, Anh
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The pace of urbanisation in Vietnam is increasing rapidly in tandem with industrialisation and modernisation. The government forecasts that 45 % of Vietnam will be urbanised by 2020. An 'historical' plan for the expansion of Hanoi received a huge endorsement by the National Assembly in May of 2008 despite public protest. Beginning in August 2008 the capital's borders were expanded to create a metropolis 3.6 times its previous size of 922 square kilometres. Hanoi's population will double to 6.2 million as a result creating over 3 million new residents. This thesis project examines how Vietnamese television addresses and serves the communication needs of new residents - recent migrants from the countryside to Hanoi and those who become new residents through urban expansion. -- Theories of media effects, particularly uses and gratifications theory, agenda setting theory, the knowledge gap hypothesis and the media system dependency theory, are adopted to support the study. Focus group discussions with new resident groups and in-depth interviews with television policy makers and programmers are used for data collection with the purpose of determining uses and gratifications on the one hand and approaches, strategies and programs related to those who are new to urban life on the other. -- Results from case studies indicated that the individuals with lower socioeconomic status (SES) have a greater dependence on television for everyday information than those with higher SES. In terms of intercultural communication, these individuals tended to communicate merely within their own cultural groups. The TV policy makers and programmers shared their understandings of the current urban issues and pressures of urbanisation but said they had not recognised the new residents as a specific category of audiences. Within these state-owned stations, the policy making process was first directed by the government and then driven by economic factors. -- The results of the study will inform policy making and programming within Vietnam Television, Vietnam Television Corporation and Hanoi Radio and Television. The viewers' feedback significantly benefits the station managers, producers and practitioners in enhancing and improving the quality of programs to serve their audiences' requirement. -- The study draws contemporary Vietnam into the scholarly discourse on the relationship between communication and development; in this respect, urbanisation in the country has never been studied from the approaches of international communication and media studies.
PERFORMANCE OF THE EXTENSION DEPARTMENT IN TAIWAN FARMERS’ ASSOCIATIONS: DOES EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
Creators: name: Luh, Yir-Hueih
name: Fang, David
name: Luh, Yir-Hueih
name: Fang, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Taiwan farmers’ associations (TFAs)
subject: extension service
subject: group and individual performances
subject: work-related attitude
subject: social interactions

description: Past studies on organizational behavior or industrial psychology found work-related attitude crucial for the performance and success of organizations, whereas the industrial organization studies emphasized the importance of team operations and focused on the peer interaction among team members in the workplace. This study attempts to bridge the gap in the two parallel literature by investigating the determining factors for the performance of the extension department in Taiwan farmers’ associations (TFAs). The results in this study indicate that work-related attitude reflecting the extension personnel’s willingness to devote time and efforts as well as their holding high self-expectation for themselves and work, have positive influence on both the group and individual performances. Nonetheless, attitudinal contagion is found to have a significant adverse effect on group performance. This result suggests the need to pay close attention to individual employee’s job satisfaction even in the non-profit organizations like TFAs. Moreover, a routine monitor of the work atmosphere or one-by-one consultation with the extension personnel can improve their performance.
Phase diagram and neutron spin resonance of superconducting NaFe$_{1-x}$Cu$_x$As
Creators: name: Tan, Guotai
name: Song, Yu
name: Zhang, Rui
name: Lin, Lifang
name: Xu, Zhuang
name: Tian, Long
name: Chi, Songxue
name: Winn, Barry
name: Graves-Brook, M. K.
name: Li, Shiliang
name: Dai, Pengcheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use transport and neutron scattering to study the electronic phase diagram and spin excitations of NaFe$_{1-x}$Cu$_x$As single crystals. Similar to Co- and Ni-doped NaFeAs, a bulk superconducting phase appears near $x\approx2\%$ with the suppression of stripe-type magnetic order in NaFeAs. Upon further increasing Cu concentration the system becomes insulating, culminating in an antiferromagnetically ordered insulating phase near $x\approx 50\%$. Using transport measurements, we demonstrate that the resistivity in NaFe$_{1-x}$Cu$_x$As exhibits non-Fermi-liquid behavior near $x\approx1.8\%$. Our inelastic neutron scattering experiments reveal a single neutron spin resonance mode exhibiting weak dispersion along $c$-axis in NaFe$_{0.98}$Cu$_{0.02}$As. The resonance is high in energy relative to the superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ but weak in intensity, likely resulting from impurity effects. These results are similar to other iron pnictides superconductors despite the superconducting phase in NaFe$_{1-x}$Cu$_x$As is continuously connected to an antiferromagnetically ordered insulating phase near $x\approx 50\%$ with significant electronic correlations. Therefore, electron correlations is an important ingredient of superconductivity in NaFe$_{1-x}$Cu$_x$As and other iron pnictides.
description: accepted for publication in PRB
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Analysis of fortuitous matches in a STR genotype database from Mexico and its forensic efficiency parameters
Creators: name: Quiroz-Mercado, Joaquín
name: Ríos-Rivas, Ricardo
name: Martínez-Sevilla, Víctor
name: Chávez-Marín, Gabriela
name: Hueman Jaimes-Díaz
name: Santiago-Hernández, Juan
name: Maldonado-Rodríguez, Rogelio
name: Rangel-Villalobos, Héctor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Allele frequencies and statistical parameters of forensic efficiency of the Powerplex 16®Systemestimated in 493 individuals of a STR database from the State of Mexico. (DOCX 22 kb)
User interfaces for microcomputer-based neonatal monitoring systems
Creators: name: Cartmell, Paul R.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 120399 Design Practice and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: From 1980 a Loughborough University, St George's Hospital and All Saints' Hospital research group developed a microcomputer-based neonatal monitoring system. During the course of their research it was apparent that most of its users could be characterized as "naive" computer users. Because of the restraints of the physical environment within a neonatal unit careful consideration had to be given to ascertaining an ideal user interface. The aim of this research was to investigate the most suitable user interface which would enable the naive user to input data and make use of the vast amount of data automatically collected by the monitoring system. An analysis of existing computer based medical monitoring systems was carried out but none were found to be as sophisticated as that being developed by the Loughborough research group. It was also apparent that very little effort had been dedicated to user interfaces for this application. [Continues.]
Does the signature of the audit manager on the audit report matter?: evidence from China
Creators: name: Cao, Yanming
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This study examines whether having an audit manager sign an audit report improves audit quality, using unique data from China, where an audit report can be signed by an audit manager with a CPA licence. We argue that, unlike an audit partner's signature that aims to improve audit quality through outcome accountability, the audit manager's signature could enhance audit quality through increased accountability in the audit process (process accountability). Consistent with this proposition, this study finds that the client firms with audit managers signing the audit report have higher audit quality (proxied by discretionary accruals and the propensity to issue modified audit opinions) and lower audit fees, compared to client firms without audit managers' signatures. Furthermore, this study examines if a client firm’s auditor-pair choice affects audit quality. Our findings suggest that client firms audited by a manager partner pair have higher audit quality and lower audit fees compared to client firms that use other auditor pairs, indicating that the increase in both process accountability and outcome accountability could be a better way to improve audit quality.
A New Phosphorus Allotrope with Direct Band Gap and High Mobility
Creators: name: Han, W. H.
name: Kim, Sunghyun
name: Lee, In-Ho
name: Chang, K. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on ab initio evolutionary crystal structure search computation, we report a new phase of phosphorus called green phosphorus (λ-P), which exhibits the direct band gaps ranging from 0.7 to 2.4 eV and the strong anisotropy in optical and transport properties. Free energy calculations show that a single-layer form, termed green phosphorene, is energetically more stable than blue phosphorene and a phase transition from black to green phosphorene can occur at temperatures above 87 K. Due to its buckled structure, green phosphorene can be synthesized on corrugated metal surfaces rather than clean surfaces.
A Compositional Framework for Preference-Aware Agents
Creators: name: Kappé, Tobias
name: Arbab, Farhad
name: Talcott, Carolyn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A formal description of a Cyber-Physical system should include a rigorous specification of the computational and physical components involved, as well as their interaction. Such a description, thus, lends itself to a compositional model where every module in the model specifies the behavior of a (computational or physical) component or the interaction between different components. We propose a framework based on Soft Constraint Automata that facilitates the component-wise description of such systems and includes the tools necessary to compose subsystems in a meaningful way, to yield a description of the entire system. Most importantly, Soft Constraint Automata allow the description and composition of components' preferences as well as environmental constraints in a uniform fashion. We illustrate the utility of our framework using a detailed description of a patrolling robot, while highlighting methods of composition as well as possible techniques to employ them.
description: In Proceedings V2CPS-16, arXiv:1612.04023
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Familial aggregation and socio-demographic correlates of taste preferences in European children
Creators: name: Jilani, Hannah
name: Intemann, Timm
name: Bogl, Leonie
name: Eiben, Gabriele
name: DĂŠnes Molnar
name: Moreno, Luis
name: Pala, Valeria
name: Russo, Paola
name: Siani, Alfonso
name: Solea, Antonia
name: Veidebaum, Toomas
name: Ahrens, Wolfgang
name: Hebestreit, Antje
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Country specific characteristics of the full study sample. (DOCX 15 kb)
'This new venture in police-community relations': a cultural history of liaison between the New South Wales Police and the gay community in Sydney between 1984 and 1990
Creators: name: Humphris, Annalise
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the complex and under-researched relationship between the New South Wales Police Force and gay community in Sydney between 1984 and 1990. It traces the police's shift to community policing as it coincided with what sociologist Nikolas Rose terms 'advanced liberalism' in the late 20th century. By combining Rose's analytics of government with the emphases of cultural history, this thesis focuses on the way the turn to liaison shifted meanings and relations between the police and gay community. It shows that liaison, a concept epitomized by the Police Gay Liaison Group (1984) and Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officers (1990), involved an expansive set of relations outside of conceptions of the police as oppressors and gay and lesbian people as victims. It argues that this relationship of liaison was dynamic and contested and involved both state and non-state actors in the government of gay and lesbian citizens. Liaison regarding Mardi Gras demonstrated that the police and gay community were reimagined and repositioned by neoliberal mechanisms for performance review. The government of violence during this period highlighted how liaison and anti-violence campaigns attempted to responsibilize citizens, while community organisations made demands of the police for more services and support.
title: Теоретическая грамматика английского языка
title: Учебно-методическое пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Краснопёрова Ю.В.
Publisher: name: Амурский гуманитарно-педагогический государственный университет, Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2019

description: В учебно-методическом пособии содержатся необходимые для изучения курса теоретической грамматики английского языка материалы: планы семинаров, определения основных понятий и терминов, практические и тестовые задания по темам, темы курсовых работ и исследовательских проектов, а также описание структуры экзамена по дисциплине с примерами заданий. Предназначено для изучения дисциплины «Теоретическая грамматика английского языка» по направлениям подготовки высшего образования 45.03.02 «Лингвистика», 44.03.05 «Педагогическое образование (с двумя профилями подготовки)». Кроме того, учебно-методическое пособие будет полезно студентам других специальностей и направлений, изучающих данную дисциплину.
Additional file 3: Figure S1-S20. of A spatial analysis of dietary patterns in a large representative population in the north of The Netherlands â the Lifelines cohort study
Creators: name: Dekker, Louise
name: Rijnks, Richard
name: Strijker, Dirk
name: Navis, Gerjan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Maps of all dietary patterns adjusted for age, sex, and neighborhood density, education, income or neighborhood income. (DOCX 2081 kb)
Additional file 2: Table S2. of A spatial analysis of dietary patterns in a large representative population in the north of The Netherlands â the Lifelines cohort study
Creators: name: Dekker, Louise
name: Rijnks, Richard
name: Strijker, Dirk
name: Navis, Gerjan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Global Moran's I (GMI) and P value. (DOCX 27 kb)
Output Feedback Controller Design with Symbolic Observers for Cyber-physical Systems
Creators: name: Mizoguchi, Masashi
name: Ushio, Toshimitsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: B.5.1;I.2.8

description: In this paper, we design a symbolic output feedback controller of a cyber-physical system (CPS). The physical plant is modeled by an infinite transition system. We consider the situation that a finite abstracted system of the physical plant, called a c-abstracted system, is given. There exists an approximate alternating simulation relation from the c-abstracted system to the physical plant. A desired behavior of the c-abstracted system is also given, and we have a symbolic state feedback controller of the physical plant. We consider the case where some states of the plant are not measured. Then, to estimate the states with abstracted outputs measured by sensors, we introduce a finite abstracted system of the physical plant, called an o-abstracted system, such that there exists an approximate simulation relation. The relation guarantees that an observer designed based on the state of the o-abstracted system estimates the current state of the plant. We construct a symbolic output feedback controller by composing these systems. By a relation-based approach, we proved that the controlled system approximately exhibits the desired behavior.
description: In Proceedings V2CPS-16, arXiv:1612.04023
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0279r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0279r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0279r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Are Continuum Predictions of Clustering Chaotic?
Creators: name: Fullmer, William D.
name: Hrenya, Christine M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gas-solid multiphase flows are prone to develop an instability known as clustering. Two-fluid models, which treat the particulate phase as a continuum, are known to reproduce the qualitative features of this instability, producing highly-dynamic, spatiotemporal patterns. However, it is unknown whether such simulations are truly aperiodic or a type of complex periodic behavior. By showing that the system possesses a sensitive dependence on initial conditions and a positive largest Lyapunov exponent, $λ_1 \approx 1/τ$, we provide a tentative answer: continuum predictions of clustering are chaotic. We further demonstrate that the chaotic behavior is dimensionally dependent, a conclusion which unifies previous results and strongly suggests that the chaotic behavior is not a result of the fundamental kinematic instability, but of the secondary (inherently multidimensional) instability.
Additional file 9 of On the impact of relatedness on SNP association analysis
Creators: name: Gross, Arnd
name: Tรถnjes, Anke
name: Scholz, Markus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology

description: Comparison of different degrees of heritability. This file contains additional tables with inflation results for different degrees of heritability. (PDF 75 kb)