cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Intelligibility in Context Scale: Psychometric evidence and implications for Saudi Arabic-English-speaking preschoolers
Creators: name: Abdulkader, Dalia M.
name: Washington, Karla N.
name: Kokotek, Leslie E.
name: Al-tuwairqi, Asrar
name: Al-tamimi, Anfal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: To evaluate the reliability, validity, and diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity, specificity) of the Intelligibility in Context Scale in Saudi Arabic (ICS-SA) and English (ICS-E) as potential measures of functional speech intelligibility in bilingual preschool-aged Saudi Arabian children. Method: The study included 36 parent-child (aged 3;0 to 6;5 years; months) dyads who were bilingual speakers of Saudi Arabic and English, which included two groups—typically developing (TD, n = 29) and suspected speech sound disordered (sSSD, n = 7). The children’s intelligibility was evaluated in both languages using the ICS-SA and ICS-E. Children’s single-word productions were collected in both languages and calculated for percentage of consonants, vowels, and phonemes correct (i.e. PCC/PVC/PPC) to establish their speech-sound competence. Result: The mean scores for the entire sample (n = 36) were 4.43 (SD = 0.79) for the ICS-SA and 4.48 (SD = 0.79) for the ICS-E, showing that parents rated their children’s intelligibility in both languages similarly. Both the ICS-SA and ICS-E demonstrated excellent internal consistency (α = 0.96 and α = 0.95, respectively). There was high inter-rater and test-retest reliability for the ICS-SA, while there was fair to high inter-rater and test-retest reliability in ICS-E. Significant correlations were found for the ICS-SA, but weak correlations were noted for the ICS-E, which indicated fair to moderate evidence of criterion validity. Construct validity efforts indicated a weak correlation with age on both the ICS-SA and ICS-E. The findings also indicated high discriminant accuracy for both the ICS-SA (0.86, 0.86) and ICS-E (0.71, 0.69). Conclusion: This study provides initial validation and reliability evidence for using the ICS-SA and ICS-E with Saudi Arabic- and English-speaking preschoolers, however, ICS-E scores suggest further testing is warranted. By extension, these findings expand the bilingual knowledge base and offer new tools for identifying children in Saudi Arabia who may be at risk for having a speech sound disorder.
Extensive load in multitasking associative networks
Creators: name: Sollich, Peter
name: Tantari, Daniele
name: Annibale, Alessia
name: Barra, Adriano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use belief-propagation techniques to study the equilibrium behavior of a bipartite spin-glass, with interactions between two sets of $N$ and $P = αN$ spins. Each spin has a finite degree, i.e.\ number of interaction partners in the opposite set; an equivalent view is then of a system of $N$ neurons storing $P$ diluted patterns. We show that in a large part of the parameter space of noise, dilution and storage load, delimited by a critical surface, the network behaves as an extensive parallel processor, retrieving all $P$ patterns {\it in parallel} without falling into spurious states due to pattern cross-talk and typical of the structural glassiness built into the network. Our approach allows us to consider effects beyond those studied in replica theory so far, including pattern asymmetry and heterogeneous dilution. Parallel extensive retrieval is more robust for homogeneous degree distributions, and is not disrupted by biases in the distributions of the spin-glass links.
Effect of expiratory muscle strength training on voice and speech: An exploratory study in persons with Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: Antonsson, Malin
name: Johansson, Kerstin
name: Dalemo, Anna Bonde
name: Axelsson, Cornelia Ivehorn
name: Burge, Åsa
name: Lesueur, Ulrike
name: Hartelius, Lena
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study explored how respiration, voice, and speech were affected following expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) and maintenance training in persons with Parkinson’s disease (PD) or multiple sclerosis (MS). Nine participants with PD and six with MS participated in a randomised study, where the effects of EMST, sham, and maintenance treatment were investigated. Outcome measures included maximum expiratory pressure (MEP); maximum phonation time (MPT); intelligibility; verbal diadochokinesis (DDK); speech rate; a self-report form on voice, speech, and communication; and open questions about how the participants experienced the intervention. Group comparisons were performed within and between groups. The PD and the MS groups both improved significantly in MEP, and this improvement remained after 3 months of maintenance EMST. An improvement was also seen in DDK. Post-EMST, 33% of the PD group and 80% of the MS group reported a positive effect on communication. The results of this study support previous evidence that EMST has positive effects on expiratory pressure in persons with PD or MS, but its effect on voice and speech remains unclear. Since subjective reports of the intervention and effects on communication were predominantly positive, further research is needed on larger groups to explore appropriate outcome measures.
Policy Brief WP7 – Measuring Good Migration Governance using the AdMiGov Indicators,
Creators: name: Lebon-McGregor, Elaine
name: Pasetti, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: indicators migration
indicators good governance
global compact migration
inidicators good migration governance

description: The AdMiGov indicators were built upon existing knowledge in the field of migration policy indicators (e.g., MGI, MIPEX), on the one hand, and on empirical insights from the AdMiGov fieldwork, on the other. Indicator construction followed a holistic approach to migration governance, examining its main areas (entry, exit, temporary and circular mobility), elements (actions, actors, relations, and resources) and stages (formulation, promulgation, implementation and evaluation). The result is a set of 68 indicators that can be applied to evaluate national migration governance systems, allowing its users to assess a country’s alignment with international standards on protection and sustainable development to identify areas in need of development and to identify potential best practices.  Between February and October 2022, researchers from Maastricht University and CIDOB piloted the AdMiGov indicators in the Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey. Drawing on the key findings of the first pilot, this policy brief suggests concrete policy recommendations to address the limitations identified either by improving the availability of information or by taking remedial action. In particular, we call on governments of the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey to: 1) address normative and, particularly, implementations gaps in their migration governance systems; 2) improve their monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure evidence-based policy-making; 3) reduce barriers hindering migrants from accessing protection (e.g. hard-to-obtain documentation, administrative delays, discretionary procedures, and unaffordable administrative fees). Finally, we call on governments and other actors and stakeholders in the field of migration governance to support the further development of the AdMiGoV Indicators as a tool of furthering good migration governance.
description: This is the policy brief of work package 7, more information https://admigov.eu
Exploring the outcomes of a reflective teaching strategy with students: A feasibility study
Creators: name: Dunne, Michael
name: Penman, Merrolee
name: Nisbet, Gillian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Reflection can be a valuable learning strategy for connecting theory with practice and illuminating insights and understandings from complex or messy experiences. This learning is critical for educators and health professionals who work or teach students in complex contexts. In anticipation of their future needs, speech-language pathology students, like many health profession students in Australia, are expected to demonstrate the ability to reflect on their practice as part of their professional practice or clinical education. It is challenging to support educators to facilitate reflection and students to learn when, why, and how to reflect for personally and professionally meaningful outcomes given the diversity in understandings and capabilities present in the literature. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of an evidence-based reflection intervention to clarify and support student reflective practice. A convergent mixed methods design captured quantitative and qualitative results from 16 participants for a better understanding of the feasibility of a reflection intervention. The diversity in the reflection literature also appears to be present in students’ reflection approaches. This diversity can encourage student engagement and ownership of reflecting when considered within a rich learning environment. Findings are discussed for timely, intellectually and emotionally safe reflection interventions that develop students’ reflective inquiry in the real-world.
On non-singular crack fields in Helmholtz type enriched elasticity theories
Creators: name: Lazar, Markus
name: Polyzos, Demosthenes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, simple non-singular stress fields of cracks of mode I and mode III have been published by Aifantis (2009,2012), Isaksson and Hägglund (2013) and Isaksson et al. (2012). In this work we investigate the physical meaning and interpretation of those solutions and if they satisfy important physical conditions (equilibrium, boundary and compatibility conditions).
description: 16 pages, to appear in: International Journal of Solids and Structures
A systematic review of behavioural therapies for improving swallow and cough function in Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Saleem, Shakeela
name: Miles, Anna
name: Allen, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This systematic review evaluated the efficacy of therapeutic interventions on improving swallow, respiratory, and cough functions in Parkinson's disease (PD). A PRISMA systematic search was implemented across six databases. We selected studies reporting pre- and post-assessment data on the efficacy of behavioural therapies with a swallow or respiratory/cough outcome, and excluded studies on medical/surgical treatments or single-session design. Cross-system outcomes across swallow, respiratory, and cough functions were explored. Cochrane’s risk of bias tools were utilised to evaluate study quality. Thirty-six articles were identified and further clustered into four treatment types: swallow related (n = 5), electromagnetic stimulation (n = 4), respiratory loading (n = 20), and voice loading (n = 7) therapies. The effects of some behavioural therapies were supported with high-quality evidence in improving specific swallow efficiency, respiratory pressure/volume, and cough measures. Only eleven studies were rated with a low risk of bias and the remaining studies failed to adequately describe blinding of assessors, missing data, treatment adherence, and imbalance assignment to groups. Behavioural therapies were diverse in nature and many treatments demonstrated broad cross-system outcome benefits across swallow, respiratory, and cough functions. Given the progressive nature of the condition, the focus of future trials should be evaluating follow-up therapy effects and larger patient populations, including those with more severe disease.
$2$-Local derivations on von Neumann algebras
Creators: name: Ayupov, Shavkat
name: Kudaybergenov, Karimbergen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47B47

description: The paper is devoted to the description of $2$-local derivations on von Neumann algebras. Earlier it was proved that every $2$-local derivation on a semi-finite von Neumann algebra is a derivation. In this paper, using the analogue of Gleason Theorem for signed measures, we extend this result to type $III$ von Neumann algebras. This implies that on arbitrary von Neumann algebra each $2$-local derivation is a derivation.
description: 7 pages
Clinical application of usage-based phonology: Treatment of cleft palate speech using usage-based electropalotography
Creators: name: Patrick, Kathryn
name: Fricke, Silke
name: Rutter, Ben
name: Cleland, Joanne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: To investigate whether a novel electropalatography (EPG) therapy, underpinned by usage-based phonology theory, can improve the accuracy of target speech sounds for school-aged children and adults with persistent speech sound disorder (SSD) secondary to cleft palate +/− lip. Six consecutively treated participants (7–27 years) with long-standing speech disorders associated with cleft palate enrolled in a multiple baseline (ABA) within-participant case series. The usage-based EPG therapy technique involved high-volume production of words. Speech was assessed on three baselines prior to therapy, during weekly therapy, at completion of therapy, and 3 months post-therapy. Percent correct of target phonemes in untreated words and continuously connected speech were assessed through acoustic phonetic transcription. Intra- and inter-transcriber agreement was determined. Large to medium treatment effect sizes were shown for all participants following therapy (15–33 sessions). Percentage of targets correct for untreated words improved from near 0% pre-therapy, to near 100% for most target sounds post-therapy. Generalisation of target sounds to spontaneous connected speech occurred for all participants and ranged from 78.95−100% (M = 90.66; SD = 10.14) 3 months post-therapy. Clinically significant speech change occurred for all participants following therapy. Response to the novel therapeutic technique is encouraging and further research is indicated.
Supplementary Tables 1 - 4
Creators: name: Golder, Helen
name: Lean, Ian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300303
subject: Animal nutrition
classificationCode: 300302
subject: Animal management
classificationCode: 300306
subject: Animal welfare

description: Supplementary material for Golder, H. M., and Lean I. J. (2024). Ruminal acidosis and its definition: A critical review. The Journal of Dairy Science.
Analysis of the 40K contamination in NaI(Tl) crystals from different providers in the frame of the ANAIS project
Creators: name: Cuesta, Clara
name: Amaré, Julio
name: Cebrián, Susana
name: García, Eduardo
name: Ginestra, Carlos
name: Martínez, María
name: Oliván, Miguel A.
name: Ortigoza, Ysrael
name: de Solórzano, Alfonso Ortíz
name: Pobes, Carlos
name: Puimedón, Jorge
name: Sarsa, María Luisa
name: Villar, José Ángel
name: Villar, Patricia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NaI(Tl) large crystals are applied in the search for galactic dark matter particles through their elastic scattering off the target nuclei in the detector by measuring the scintillation signal produced. However, energies deposited in the form of nuclear recoils are small, which added to the low efficiency to convert that energy into scintillation, makes that events at or very near the energy threshold, attributed either to radioactive backgrounds or to spurious noise (non-bulk NaI(Tl) scintillation events), can compromise the sensitivity goals of such an experiment. DAMA/LIBRA experiment, using 250 kg NaI(Tl) target, reported first evidence of the presence of an annual modulation in the detection rate compatible with that expected for a dark matter signal just in the region below 6 keVee (electron equivalent energy). In the frame of the ANAIS (Annual modulation with NaI Scintillators) dark matter search project a large and long effort has been carried out in order to understand the origin of events at very low energy in large sodium iodide detectors and develop convenient filters to reject those non attributable to scintillation in the bulk NaI(Tl) crystal. 40K is probably the most relevant radioactive contaminant in the bulk for NaI(Tl) detectors because of its important contribution to the background at very low energy. ANAIS goal is to achieve levels at or below 20 ppb natural potassium. In this paper we will report on our effort to determine the 40K contamination in several NaI(Tl) crystals, by measuring in coincidence between two (or more) of them. Results obtained for the 40K content of crystals from different providers will be compared and prospects of the ANAIS dark matter search experiment will be briefly reviewed.
description: Submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics A
Efficiency of attack strategies on complex model and real-world networks
Creators: name: Bellingeri, Michele
name: Cassi, Davide
name: Vincenzi, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigated the efficiency of attack strategies to network nodes when targeting several complex model and real-world networks. We tested 5 attack strategies, 3 of which were introduced in this work for the first time, to attack 3 model (Erdos and Renyi, Barabasi and Albert preferential attachment network, and scale-free network configuration models) and 3 real networks (Gnutella peer-to-peer network, email network of the University of Rovira i Virgili, and immunoglobulin interaction network). Nodes were removed sequentially according to the importance criterion defined by the attack strategy. We used the size of the largest connected component (LCC) as a measure of network damage. We found that the efficiency of attack strategies (fraction of nodes to be deleted for a given reduction of LCC size) depends on the topology of the network, although attacks based on the number of connections of a node and betweenness centrality were often the most efficient strategies. Sequential deletion of nodes in decreasing order of betweenness centrality was the most efficient attack strategy when targeting real-world networks. In particular for networks with power-law degree distribution, we observed that most efficient strategy change during the sequential removal of nodes.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
Supplementary Tables 1 - 3
Creators: name: Golder, Helen
name: Lean, Ian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300303
subject: Animal nutrition
classificationCode: 300302
subject: Animal management
classificationCode: 300306
subject: Animal welfare

description: Supplementary material for Golder, H. M., and Lean I. J. (2024). Ruminal acidosis and its definition: A critical review. The Journal of Dairy Science.
Long-range Fermi sea correlations as the resource for encoding quantum information
Creators: name: Moskalets, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An extra constant phase can be added to the wave function of a finite-length portion of a chiral Fermi sea. This phase can be read-out with the help of an imbalanced interferometer, where such a phase carrier interferes with the reference Fermi sea. As a result of such interference, the same in value but opposite in sign charge is appeared at interferometer's outputs. A phase carrier consists of electron-hole pairs residing on the surface of the Fermi sea. Importantly, these pairs are not only electrically neutral, but in addition do not carry heat. A phase carrier can be created, for instance, with the help of an on-demand single-electron source able to produce excitations with a multiple-peak density profile.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Van der Waals forces and electron-electron interactions in two strained graphene layers
Creators: name: Sharma, Anand
name: Harnish, Peter
name: Sylvester, Alexander
name: Kotov, Valeri N.
name: Neto, A. H. Castro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the van der Waals (vdW) interaction energy at zero temperature between two undoped strained graphene layers separated by a finite distance. We consider the following three models for the anisotropic case: (a) where one of the two layers is uniaxially strained, (b) the two layers are strained in the same direction, and (c) one of the layers is strained in the perpendicular direction with respect to the other. We find that for all three models and given value of the electron-electron interaction coupling, the vdW interaction energy increases with increasing anisotropy. The effect is most striking for the case when both layers are strained in the same direction where we observe up to an order of magnitude increase in the strained relative to the unstrained case. We also investigate the effect of electron electron interaction renormalization in the region of large separation between the strained graphene layers. We find that the many-body renormalization contributions to the correlation energy are non negligible and the vdW interaction energy decreases as a function of increasing distance between the layers due to renormalization of the Fermi velocity, the anisotropy, and the effective interaction. Our analysis can be useful in designing novel graphene-based vdW heterostructures which, in recent times, has seen an upsurge in research activity.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
National Developmental State: the beginnings of historical-social procedurality and pioneering essays
Creators: name: Albertin de Moraes, Isaías
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Economic history
Socio-economic development
Economic development policy
History of economic thought

description: This paper seeks to contribute to the advancement of studies on the National State and economic development. For that, I used an original and singular transdisciplinary approach based on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological theory and economic history. The methodological procedures were bibliographic research of historical and inductive analysis of the economy. The results obtained were that, for the construction of a National Developmental State, society, first, needs to establish meta-capital and meta-field immersed in the developmental precepts and concentrators of soft power and hard power to, subsequently, execute the project of expansion, integration and sophistication of the productive structure.
Building Community: FREYA Ambassador Programme
Creators: name: Madden, Frances
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: PIDs
Persistent Identifiers
Community building

description: Slides from a presentation at the event Realising the European Open Science Cloud. The presentation outlines the FREYA Ambassador Programme, its process, activities and outcomes. The presentation was part of a larger session 'Community Building Examples across EOSC-Hub, SSHOC and FREYA'.
ЭТИКА РИТОРИКИ В ПУБЛИЧНЫХ ВЫСТУПЛЕНИЯХ: ВЫЗОВЫ И ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ В СОВРЕМЕННОМ ИНФОРМАЦИОННОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ
Creators: name: Усмонова, Нилуфар
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Статья рассматривает этические аспекты риторики в публичных выступлениях в контексте современного информационного пространства. Основное внимание уделяется вызовам, связанным с манипуляцией аудиторией, дезинформацией и использованием риторики страха. Анализируются возможности этической риторики, направленной на укрепление доверия, построение честного диалога и поддержку критического мышления. Особое внимание уделено роли эмпатии и уважения в публичных выступлениях, а также необходимости саморегуляции и внедрения этических стандартов в риторическую практику. Статья подчеркивает важность этической ответственности спикеров перед аудиторией в условиях возрастающей конкуренции за внимание.
Impact of asteroseismology on improving stellar ages determination
Creators: name: Lebreton, Yveline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High precision photometry as performed by the CoRoT and Kepler satellites on-board instruments has allowed to detect stellar oscillations over the whole HR diagram. Oscillation frequencies are closely related to stellar interior properties via the density and sound speed profiles, themselves tightly linked with the mass and evolutionary state of stars. Seismic diagnostics performed on stellar internal structure models allow to infer the age and mass of oscillating stars. The accuracy and precision of the age determination depend both on the goodness of the observational parameters (seismic and classical) and on our ability to model a given star properly. They therefore suffer from any misunderstanding of the physical processes at work inside stars (as microscopic physics, transport processes...). In this paper, we recall some seismic diagnostics of stellar age and we illustrate their efficiency in age-dating the CoRoT target HD 52265.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the conference "New advances in stellar physics: from microscopic to macroscopic processes" held at Roscoff, France. EAS Publications Series, 63 (2013) 123-133
Integrability of classical strings dual for noncommutative gauge theories
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Takuya
name: Yoshida, Kentaroh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the gravity duals of noncommutative gauge theories from the Yang-Baxter sigma model description of the AdS_5xS^5 superstring with classical r-matrices. The corresponding classical r-matrices are 1) solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation (CYBE), 2) skew-symmetric, 3) nilpotent and 4) abelian. Hence these should be called abelian Jordanian deformations. As a result, the gravity duals are shown to be integrable deformations of AdS_5xS^5. Then, abelian twists of AdS_5 are also investigated. These results provide a support for the gravity/CYBE correspondence proposed in arXiv:1404.1838.
description: 16 pages, no figure, LaTeX
Split Dirac Supersymmetry: An Ultraviolet Completion of Higgsino Dark Matter
Creators: name: Fox, Patrick J.
name: Kribs, Graham D.
name: Martin, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the observation that the Higgs quartic coupling runs to zero at an intermediate scale, we propose a new framework for models of split supersymmetry, in which gauginos acquire intermediate scale Dirac masses of $\sim 10^{8-11}$ GeV. Scalar masses arise from one-loop finite contributions as well as direct gravity-mediated contributions. Like split supersymmetry, one Higgs doublet is fine-tuned to be light. The scale at which the Dirac gauginos are introduced to make the Higgs quartic zero is the same as is necessary for gauge coupling unification. Thus, gauge coupling unification persists (nontrivially, due to adjoint multiplets), though with a somewhat higher unification scale $\gtrsim 10^{17}$ GeV. The $μ$-term is naturally at the weak scale, and provides an opportunity for experimental verification. We present two manifestations of Split Dirac Supersymmetry. In the "Pure Dirac" model, the lightest Higgsino must decay through R-parity violating couplings, leading to an array of interesting signals in colliders. In the "Hypercharge Impure" model, the bino acquires a Majorana mass that is one-loop suppressed compared with the Dirac gluino and wino. This leads to weak scale Higgsino dark matter whose overall mass scale, as well as the mass splitting between the neutral components, is naturally generated from the same UV dynamics. We outline the challenges to discovering pseudo-Dirac Higgsino dark matter in collider and dark matter detection experiments.
description: 30 pages, 5 figures
An analysis of Internet Banking in Portugal: the antecedents of mobile banking adoption
Creators: name: Couto, Joao Pedro
name: Tiago, Teresa
name: Tiago, Flavio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, mobile operations have gained wide popularity among mainstream users, and banks tend to follow this trend. But are bank customers ready to move forward? Mobile banking appears to be a natural extension of Internet banking. Thus, to predict consumer decisions to adopt mobile banking, it is useful to understand the pattern of adoption of Internet banking (IB). This investigation seeks contribute to an expansion of the knowledge regarding this matter by researching Portuguese consumers patterns and behaviors concerning the acceptance and use intention of IB as a foundation for establishing growth strategies of mobile banking. For data collection, we used an online snowball process. The statistical treatment used included a factor analysis in order to allow examination of the interrelationships between the original variables. The analysis was made possible by developing a set of factors that expresses the common traits between them. The results revealed that the majority of respondents did not identify problems with the use of and interaction with the IB service. The study generated some interesting findings. First, the data generally supports the conceptual framework presented. However, some points need to be made: trust and convenience, from all the elements referenced in the literature as relevant from the client perspective, continue to be a very important elements; the results did not support the paradigm that the characteristics of individuals affect their behavior as consumers, individual technological characteristics affect consumer adoption of IB service; consumer perceptions about the IB service affect their use, as reveal by the existence of three types of customers that show different practices and perceptions of IB; and intention to use IB is dependent upon attitudes and subjective norms regarding the use of IB.
An evaluative baseline for geo-semantic relatedness and similarity
Creators: name: Ballatore, Andrea
name: Bertolotto, Michela
name: Wilson, David C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In geographic information science and semantics, the computation of semantic similarity is widely recognised as key to supporting a vast number of tasks in information integration and retrieval. By contrast, the role of geo-semantic relatedness has been largely ignored. In natural language processing, semantic relatedness is often confused with the more specific semantic similarity. In this article, we discuss a notion of geo-semantic relatedness based on Lehrer's semantic fields, and we compare it with geo-semantic similarity. We then describe and validate the Geo Relatedness and Similarity Dataset (GeReSiD), a new open dataset designed to evaluate computational measures of geo-semantic relatedness and similarity. This dataset is larger than existing datasets of this kind, and includes 97 geographic terms combined into 50 term pairs rated by 203 human subjects. GeReSiD is available online and can be used as an evaluation baseline to determine empirically to what degree a given computational model approximates geo-semantic relatedness and similarity.
description: GeoInformatica 2014
Does annual report readability influence the design of SEOs?
Creators: name: Puwanenthiren, P
name: Azam, MS
name: Ali, Muhammad
name: Nadarajah, S
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3502
subject: Banking, finance and investment
classificationCode: 3801
subject: Applied economics
classificationCode: 3501
subject: Accounting, auditing and accountability

description: Motivated by the rapid growth in non-quantitative corporate disclosure and seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) in the U.S., we take a fresh look at the decision-making process behind accelerated offerings in SEOs, with a specific emphasis on the readability of annual reports within 10-K filings. In particular, our study explores whether readability of annual reports affects the choice of SEOs methods. Using a hand-collected sample of 3143 instances of seasoned equity issues between 2002 and 2021, we show a significantly positive relation between readability scores and accelerated offerings. These results hold across various robustness tests. We further reveal a negative relationship between abnormal operating performance and long-term stock performance following the announcements of SEOs, demonstrating that: firstly, SEOs provide valuable insights into future earnings; and secondly, these insights have a lasting impact on stock performance. Overall, our evidence strongly highlights the substantial influence of annual report readability on the design of SEOs, emphasizing the critical importance of conveying financial information concisely and effectively to the market.
Measurable Maximal Energy and Minimal Time Interval
Creators: name: Dahab, Eiman Abou El
name: Tawfik, Abdel Nasser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of finding the measurable maximal energy and the minimal time interval is discussed in different quantum aspects. It is found that the linear generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) approach gives a non-physical result. Based on large scale Schwarzshild solution, the quadratic GUP approach is utilized. The calculations are performed at the shortest distance, at which the general relativity is assumed to be a good approximation for the quantum gravity and at larger distances, as well. It is found that both maximal energy and minimal time have the order of the Planck time. Then, the uncertainties in both quantities are accordingly bounded. Some physical insights are addressed. Also, the implications on the physics of early Universe and on quantized mass are outlined. The results are related to the existence of finite cosmological constant and minimum mass (mass quanta).
description: 16 pages, 0 figure
APPROACHES TO ENSURING MORAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STABILITY IN FOREIGN ARMIES
Creators: name: Mirashirova, Nargiza
name: Ashurmatov, Muzaffar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article scientifically and practically analyzes the moral and psychological state of military personnel, which is the main guarantee of victory in combat operations, and issues of ensuring its sustainability. Attention is paid to a group of moral, general psychological and individual psychological elements, as well as professional elements that make up the moral and psychological state. Also, based on the experience of leading foreign armies in terms of psychological training of military personnel, their achievements and shortcomings are discussed.
Avoiding Undesired Choices Using Intelligent Adaptive Systems
Creators: name: Konigsberg, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a number of heuristics that can be used for identifying when intransitive choice behaviour is likely to occur in choice situations. We also suggest two methods for avoiding undesired choice behaviour, namely transparent communication and adaptive choice-set generation. We believe that these two ways can contribute to the avoidance of decision biases in choice situations that may often be regretted.
Key Elements of Robustness in Binary Black Hole Evolutions using Spectral Methods
Creators: name: Szilagyi, Bela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a network of advanced-era gravitational wave detectors is nearing its design sensitivity, efficient and accurate waveform modeling becomes more and more relevant. Understanding of the nature of the signal being sought can have an order unity effect on the event rates seen in these instruments. The paper provides a description of key elements of the Spectral Einstein Code ({\tt SpEC}), with details of our spectral adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) algorithm that has been optimized for binary black hole (BBH) evolutions. We expect that the gravitational waveform catalog produced by our code will have a central importance in both the detection and parameter estimation of gravitational waves in these instruments.
description: 39 pages, 16 figures, invited review paper
Algorithm for spectral response analysis of superconducting microwave transmission-line resonator
Creators: name: Hanif, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has always been a challenge for researchers to efficiently and accurately post process experimental data which is distorted by the noise. Superconducting microwave devices e.g. resonators, directional filters, beam-splitters etc. operate at frequency of several GHz to THz and temperatures well below critical temperature (Tc) with few exceptions like transition edge sensors where devices are operated at temperatures close to Tc. These devices are measured usually with vector network analyser in terms of scattering parameters. Two kinds of errors, systematic and drift can easily be removed from the measurements taken with VNA. However, random errors are not easy to address and remove due to their unpredictability and randomness. In this manuscript we will present an algorithm to post process experimental data to cope with measurements that have been corrupted or useful spectral response is buried in spurious signal. We have developed a robust and efficient algorithm, implemented in MATLAB, to detect peaks in spectral response, remove baseline and finally estimate parameters of two-port superconductor resonator using an Improved Nelder-Mead Method for unconstrained multidimensional least square minimization. The algorithm has been successfully tested and verified by processing spectral response of half wavelength microwave transmission-line resonator successfully isolating resonator response from noisy background. We were able to compute loaded quality factor, resonance frequency from response data with high reproducibility even from those experimental data sets where resonance spikes were hardly visible.
description: 5 pages,5 figures
A Multi-data Source Study on Scientific Investigations and Research Investment on African American Health During COVID-19
Creators: name: Yu, Fei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected African Americans (AA), impacting their families and communities while exacerbating existing health disparities1,2. While the U.S. public health emergency declaration for COVID-19 concluded in 20233, signaling a pivotal transition in the pandemic’s management, this does not signify the cessation of COVID-19 nor its impact on public health, particularly within AA communities. The emergence of new variants continues to pose significant threats, underscoring the need for focused research on AA health impacts.
Existing research synthesis on COVID-19's impact on AA health remains scarce at macro (e.g., bibliometrics) and micro-levels (e.g., systematic reviews). Our ongoing study aims to bridge this gap by conducting a comprehensive analysis of research endeavors on COVID-19's impact on AA health. Leveraging multiple data sources (including publications, grants, and clinical trials), we assess the extent, focus, and gaps in the existing research landscape. This analysis will inform future research investments and policy decisions to effectively address health disparities.
Threshold Analysis of Non-Binary Spatially-Coupled LDPC Codes with Windowed Decoding
Creators: name: Wei, Lai
name: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki
name: Mitchell, David G. M.
name: Fuja, Thomas E.
name: Costello, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we study the iterative decoding threshold performance of non-binary spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (NB-SC-LDPC) code ensembles for both the binary erasure channel (BEC) and the binary-input additive white Gaussian noise channel (BIAWGNC), with particular emphasis on windowed decoding (WD). We consider both (2,4)-regular and (3,6)-regular NB-SC-LDPC code ensembles constructed using protographs and compute their thresholds using protograph versions of NB density evolution and NB extrinsic information transfer analysis. For these code ensembles, we show that WD of NB-SC-LDPC codes, which provides a significant decrease in latency and complexity compared to decoding across the entire parity-check matrix, results in a negligible decrease in the near-capacity performance for a sufficiently large window size W on both the BEC and the BIAWGNC. Also, we show that NB-SC-LDPC code ensembles exhibit gains in the WD threshold compared to the corresponding block code ensembles decoded across the entire parity-check matrix, and that the gains increase as the finite field size q increases. Moreover, from the viewpoint of decoding complexity, we see that (3,6)-regular NB-SC-LDPC codes are particularly attractive due to the fact that they achieve near-capacity thresholds even for small q and W.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures; submitted to 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
Constant-factor approximations for Capacitated Arc Routing without triangle inequality
Creators: name: van Bevern, René
name: Hartung, Sepp
name: Nichterlein, André
name: Sorge, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.2.2; I.2.8; G.2.1; G.2.2

description: Given an undirected graph with edge costs and edge demands, the Capacitated Arc Routing problem (CARP) asks for minimum-cost routes for equal-capacity vehicles so as to satisfy all demands. Constant-factor polynomial-time approximation algorithms were proposed for CARP with triangle inequality, while CARP was claimed to be NP-hard to approximate within any constant factor in general. Correcting this claim, we show that any factor α approximation for CARP with triangle inequality yields a factor α approximation for the general CARP.
Pathologising ugliness: an ethical critique of conflating health and beauty in cosmetic surgery
Creators: name: Aquino, Yves Saint James C.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: My dissertation critically examines the practice of pathologising ugliness in cosmetic surgery. ‘Pathologising ugliness’ refers to the use of disease language and medical processes to foster and support the claim that undesirable features are pathological conditions requiring medical or surgical intervention. The first four chapters offer a conceptual analysis of the conflation of health and aesthetic norms that potentially contributes to pathologising ugliness. The conceptual analysis is based on competing philosophical accounts of health, disease, beauty and ugliness. The final two chapters offer a critique of the practice by using Daniel Callahan’s goals of medicine as an ethical framework. I argue that aesthetic judgments, which underpin the pathologisation of ugliness, fail at establishing robust processes of disease determination, standard diagnostic evaluation and legitimate clinical indications. Furthermore, I contend that the practice of pathologising ugliness, which relies on prejudicial standards of beauty, legitimises oppressive attitudes based on sex, race and disability. Thus, my analysis shows that pathologising ugliness raises ethical conflicts that ultimately undermine the goals of medicine.
Blind Turing-Machines: Arbitrary Private Computations from Group Homomorphic Encryption
Creators: name: Rass, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Secure function evaluation (SFE) is the process of computing a function (or running an algorithm) on some data, while keeping the input, output and intermediate results hidden from the environment in which the function is evaluated. This can be done using fully homomorphic encryption, Yao's garbled circuits or secure multiparty computation. Applications are manifold, most prominently the outsourcing of computations to cloud service providers, where data is to be manipulated and processed in full confidentiality. Today, one of the most intensively studied solutions to SFE is fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Ever since the first such systems have been discovered in 2009, and despite much progress, FHE still remains inefficient and difficult to implement practically. Similar concerns apply to garbled circuits and (generic) multiparty computation protocols. In this work, we introduce the concept of a blind Turing-machine, which uses simple homomorphic encryption (an extension of ElGamal encryption) to process ciphertexts in the way as standard Turing-machines do, thus achieving computability of any function in total privacy. Remarkably, this shows that fully homomorphic encryption is indeed an overly strong primitive to do SFE, as group homomorphic encryption with equality check is already sufficient. Moreover, the technique is easy to implement and perhaps opens the door to efficient private computations on nowadays computing machinery, requiring only simple changes to well-established computer architectures.
description: 10 pages