cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Logo (Turtle Graphics) on the Problem Solving Strategies Used by Fourth Grade Children
Creators: name: Bamberger, Honi Joyce
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1984

description: The major purpose of this study was to determine the effect of learning the programming language Logo on the problem solving strategies used by fourth grade children while they solved mathematical word problems without a computer. A secondary purpose was to investigate whether children who had learned to program with Logo would regard mathematics more favorably as measured by a mathematics attitude survey. This eleven-week study was designed to teach Terrapin Logo (Turtle Graphics) to 15 out of a total of 30 fourth grade children. The study compared the audiotaped and written responses to a four-question problem solving posttest to determine which strategies were used by each group and whether the Logo group applied the strategies that they had been taught during their programming experience when solving non-computer problems. The Logo curriculum, written by the investigator, focused on teaching children the basic commands of the language while stressing the need to plan a procedure before beginning it, breaking a large idea into more manageable parts, guessing and then checking work and finally checking over the finished product. Some group instruction occurred, but individual or paired instruction was emphasized. Guided discovery ensured that strategies were being used and commands correctly applied. The statistical analysis consisted of computing means and standard deviations on individuals' attitude responses and a t-test was performed on these means. Chi-square critical values were computed for the process coding sequence, as well as t values. The following results were obtained from the study: 1. On the attitude measure significant differences were found only between the experimental and control groups on their general attidude toward school. 2. Statistically significant differences occurred on several posttest problems using the strategies of checking and looking back, as well as making an error and then immediately correcting it. The investigator concluded that the strategies of checking and looking back over one's work and correcting an error were transferred by the experimental group when solving noncomputer word problems. Several important factors may have contributed to the lack of significant differences elsewhere. Among them are 1) short duration of the study, 2) confusion over application of computer strategies to mathematical problems, 3) limitations of process coding sequence, and 4) population size.
Asymmetry and coherence weight of quantum states
Creators: name: Bu, Kaifeng
name: Anand, Namit
name: Singh, Uttam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The asymmetry of quantum states is an important resource in quantum information processing tasks such as quantum metrology and quantum communication. In this paper, we introduce the notion of $asymmetry~weight$ --- an operationally motivated asymmetry quantifier in the resource theory of asymmetry. We study the convexity and monotonicity properties of asymmetry weight and focus on its interplay with the corresponding semidefinite programming (SDP) forms along with its connection to other asymmetry measures. Since the SDP form of asymmetry weight is closely related to asymmetry witnesses, we find that the asymmetry weight can be regarded as a (state-dependent) asymmetry witness. Moreover, some specific entanglement witnesses can be viewed as a special case of an asymmetry witness --- which indicates a potential connection between asymmetry and entanglement. We also provide an operationally meaningful coherence measure, which we term $coherence~weight$, and investigate its relationship to other coherence measures like the robustness of coherence and the $l_1$ norm of coherence. In particular, we show that for Werner states in any dimension $d$, all three coherence quantifiers, namely, the coherence weight, the robustness of coherence, and the $l_1$ norm of coherence, are equal and are given by a single letter formula.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures. v2; close to published version. Matlab code to calculate coherence weight included in the source
Network models for special libraries in the field of science and technology in Indonesia
Creators: name: Setiarso, Bambang.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Geophgysical and Building Survey at Launde Abbey pp
Creators: name: Beavitt, Paul
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 69, 22-31
description: The School of Archaeological Studies at Leicester University has been carrying out a programme of geophysical survey at Launde Abbey in East Leicestershire since 1989 and began a building survey in 1994. The author, with assistance from Peter Liddle of the Leicestershire Museums Service, organised and directed short programmes of geophysical work in the 1989-1992 seasons with the work primarily directed to teaching undergraduates and postgraduates on the M.A. in Landscape Studies course some of the skills in geophysical survey. Launde Abbey was chosen for this work because of the support and encouragement of Canon Henry Evans and because the work would contribute to the research on Launde previously carried out by the Leicestershire Museums Service. In 1994, with the support of the present warden, the Graham Johnson, an elevation drawing was made of part of the north wall of the house. It is hoped that this short summary paper which presents these findings will contribute to a fuller discussion and attempted interpretation in a subsequent volume.
OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES BASED ON PBT IN THE SEARCH FOR HYPERPARAMETERS
Creators: name: Cajicá, F. A. M.
name: Henao, J. A. G.
name: Hernández, C. J. B.
name: Riveill, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Hyperparameters
Population-based training (PBT)
Evolutionary algorithms

description: Hyperparameter optimization in machine learning is a critical task that aims to find the hyper-parameters of a given machine learning algorithm that provide the best performance measured on a validation set. Unlike model parameters, the ma-chine learning engineer sets hyperparameters before training. The number of trees in a random forest is a hyperparameter, while the weights in a neural network are model parameters learned during training. From this, we can say that hyperparameters are the model settings so that the model can optimally solve the machine learning problem. Hyperparameter optimization finds a combination of hyperparameters that returns an optimal model that reduces a predefined loss function and increases accuracy on given independent data. This leads to a high percentage of subjective decisions based on the prior knowledge of the system designers. Most automatic hyperparameter tuning mechanisms are sequential optimization methods in which the result of each training with a particular set of hyperparameters is used as a basis to inform the next hyperparameters searched. With population-based training hyperparameter search optimization methods, more accurate and precise generalizable models can be obtained, which allow data scientists to directly impact the training of deep learning algorithms to achieve maximum performance, which is important to understand how to optimize these algorithms. Using PBT techniques that use evolutionary algorithms to select more efficient hyperparameters, more accurate models can be obtained that maximize the use of computational resources while minimizing green energy-saving policies.
A Report on the Geophysical Survey and Trial Excavations at the site of a Roman Villa near Drayton, Leicestershire
Creators: name: J Cooper, Nicholas
name: Beavitt, Paul
name: M O'Sullivan, Deirdre
name: Young, Robert
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 63, 7-17
description: During July and August 1988, staff and students of the university archaeology department undertook geophysical survey and trial excavations at the site known as Drayton II Roman Villa in south-east Leicestershire. The site lies on rising ground on the north side of the Welland Valley, about 100m from the river, overlooking it near the crossing point of the Gartree Road (the Roman road from Leicester to Colchester) NGR: SP 817918.
Leicester Becomes a City 1919
Creators: name: Beckett, John
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 80, 151-162
description: This article traces the steps by which Leicester achieved city status in 1919 having petitioned the Home Office several times since 1889. Unlike other claimants, Leicester argued its case as a restoration of city status rather than a new grant. The raising of the city's mayor to the status of Lord Mayor was, however, a grant made separately and not until 1928.
Cataloguing practices in libraries in Australia : with special emphasis on the impact of automation and the Australian Bibliographic Network
Creators: name: Pentecost, Andrew.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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W.G. Hoskins and the Victoria County History in Leicestershire
Creators: name: Beckett, John
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 85, 165-191
description: W. G. Hoskins returned to University College, Leicester in 1946, and almost immediately threw himself into the task of reviving the Victoria County History in the county. He was appointed (honorary) county editor, and was responsible for setting up the required committees and for helping to raise the funding. He also planned and drove forward what became volumes II-IV in the Leicestershire 'set'. Hoskins soon found himself at odds with the VCH office in the University of London's Institute of Historical Research, and after he left Leicester for Oxford in 1952 some of the project momentum was lost. With work having resumed on the VCH in Leicestershire, this article sets out how the VCH has operated in the past, and what work has still to be undertaken.
Motions about a fixed point by hypergeometric functions: new non-complex analytical solutions and integration of the herpolhode
Creators: name: Scarpello, Giovanni Mingari
name: Ritelli, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70E17, 34A05, 33C65, 33E05

description: We study four problems in the dynamics of a body moving about a fixed point, providing a non-complex, analytical solution for all of them. For the first two, we will work on the motion first integrals. For the symmetrical heavy body, that is the Lagrange-Poisson case, we compute the second and third Euler angles in explicit and real forms by means of multiple hypergeometric functions (Lauricella, functions). Releasing the weight load but adding the complication of the asymmetry, by means of elliptic integrals of third kind, we provide the precession angle completing some previous treatments of the Euler-Poinsot case. Integrating then the relevant differential equation, we reach the finite polar equation of a special trajectory named the {\it herpolhode}. In the last problem we keep the symmetry of the first problem, but without the weight, and take into account a viscous dissipation. The approach of first integrals is no longer practicable in this situation and the Euler equations are faced directly leading to dumped goniometric functions obtained as particular occurrences of Bessel functions of order $-1/2$.
description: This is a pre-print of an article published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. The final authenticated version is available online at: DOI: 10.1007/s10569-018-9837-5
The A-Bracteate from Scalford, Leicestershire
Creators: name: Behr, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 85, 97-105
description: An early Anglo-Saxon gold bracteate was found in Scalford, Melton district in July 2010 (PAS no: LEIC-EDD980; treasure no: 2010T414; Axboe et al. 2011, 996-7; Behr 2011) (Fig. 1 a-b). It is only the second bracteate find recorded in the county of Leicestershire and Rutland, and it can be dated on stylistic grounds to the late fifth/early sixth century, a period when little is known about settlement structure, cultural identity or political organisation of this area (Stafford 1985, 65-79; Welch 2001; Knox 2004, 95). Bracteates were prestigious precious-metal objects with religious, magical and political connotations. That is why a discussion of the archaeological context of the find and its unusual iconography can contribute some new evidence to the understanding of early Anglo-Saxon developments in this part of the later kingdom of Mercia.
Die Kodierung von Emotionen in Texten Teil 1: Grundlagen
Creators: name: Fries, Norbert
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 800 Literatur (Belletristik) und Rhetorik

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: Encoding Emotions in TextsThis is the first instalment of a two-part study that examines emotions from the perspective of linguistic semiotics. The underlying issue at stake is the relationship between linguistic forms and the meanings attached to them. This part of the study lays the theoretical foundations for a consideration of the issues involved.In semantic terms, emotions can be explicated as predications: they assign to an experiencer the property of having particular subjective psychological experiences and forms of motor behaviour in certain situational conditions. When emotions are encoded linguistically, however, it is not necessary for each part of the predications involved to be lexically realized. In this respect, the linguistic meanings encoded in the lexical configuration of a language's grammatical and textual structures can be treated as underspecified. This allows us to analyse grammatical and textual structures as structures that are stringently compositional in nature, and to consider the meaning of linguistic signs and their expression on various levels. Meanings can be determined by lexical factors, grammatical factors, or factors relating to textual structure. In the case of both spoken and written utterances (that is, in conversations and texts), it is possible to convert such meanings into interpretations by making recourse to areas of knowledge other than that of grammar. These interpretations are tied to certain referents in a text or conversation.Emotional attitude (emotionale Einstellung) and emotional scene (emotionale Szene) are introduced as descriptive concepts for explicating emotions. They permit a more detailed understanding of the semantic and conceptual aspects that are relevant to the linguistic encoding of emotions. Emotional attitude is used to refer to the evaluative connection between a bearer of emotion and a relevant concept. Emotional attitudes can be formalized by means of three quantifying functions. These quantifying functions assign emotional values to emotional attitudes. The emotional scene serves as a descriptive tool for explicating clustered situational conditions of emotions. An emotional scene consists of the following descriptive features: experiencer, stimulus, emotional values, and judgements about the conditions for emotional evaluations. This last descriptive feature is a complex one and is formed using various predicates, including a set of basic predicates that are described in more detail and denote the qualities of internal states of living things that can be perceived through introspection.
Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Coston Hall, Leicestershire
Creators: name: Dransfield, Neil
name: Bell, Sean
name: O'Neill, Richard
name: Challinor, Dana
name: Harrison, Chris
name: Higbee, Lorrain
name: Mackenzie, Rod
name: Mepham, Lorraine
name: Rowlandson, Ian
name: Stevens, Chris
name: Wyles, Sarah
name: Young, Jane
name: James, S
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 89, 113-144
description: An excavation undertaken by Wessex Archaeology, on land off Grange Lane, Coston, Leicestershire, revealed evidence for activity from the prehistoric period onwards on the east bank of the River Eye. Residual worked flint is probably of Neolithic or Bronze Age date, whilst the ceramic assemblage indicates possible Romano-British occupation in the area during the third and fourth centuries AD. The main focus of activity dates, however, to the early to mid-Saxon and late Saxon periods. A sequence of ditched enclosures, post-holes (but no clear structures) and probable rubbish pits reflect agricultural settlement, possibly established in the seventh century, with some evidence for textile working, iron-smithing and trading links that extended beyond the local area. Occupation appears to have continued into the early eleventh century, with a subsequent Saxo-Norman and medieval settlement established on the west bank of the river, within the core of a known deserted (shrunken) medieval village. Evidence of ridge and furrow ploughing, surviving as extant earthworks, suggests the site on the east bank may have largely reverted to open fields at this time, prior to the construction of Coston Hall probably in the eighteenth century.
Zero-cycles with coefficients for the second generalized symplectic involution variety of an algebra of degree 4
Creators: name: McFaddin, Patrick K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C25 (Primary), 16K20 (Secondary)

description: We compute the group of $K_1$-zero-cycles on the second generalized involution variety for an algebra of degree 4 with symplectic involution. This description is given in terms of the group of multipliers of similitudes associated to the algebra with involution. Our method utilizes the framework of Chernousov and Merkurjev for computing $K_1$-zero-cycles in terms of $R$-equivalence classes of prescribed algebraic groups. This gives a computation of $K_1$-zero-cycles for some homogeneous varieties of type $\mathsf{C}_2$.
description: An error spotted in a previous version was corrected but makes the main result less general. This also necessitated a change to the title. 11 pages, comments welcome!
User education in special libraries : relevance of Victoria to Indonesia
Creators: name: Widyawan, Rosa.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Henry Hastings and the Flying Army of Ashby de la Zouch
Creators: name: Bennett, Martyn
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 56, 62-70
description: Henry Hastings was the second son of the Fifth Earl of Huntingdon, the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire, whose political position was under increasing attack from the gentry of the shire headed by the Grey family. The Earl was insular in his outlook and ill-equipped personally to uphold the family name - crippled as he was by the debts left by the third Earl. 1642 saw the county polarized on the wider issues of the national crisis, with the Grey family staunchly upholding the Parliamentary cause, whilst, due to the inactivity of the Earl of Huntingdon and the Parliamentary inclinations of his heir, it befell Henry Hastings to uphold the Royalist cause.
Parameter regimes for a single sequential quantum repeater
Creators: name: Rozpędek, Filip
name: Goodenough, Kenneth
name: Ribeiro, Jérémy
name: Kalb, Norbert
name: Vivoli, Valentina Caprara
name: Reiserer, Andreas
name: Hanson, Ronald
name: Wehner, Stephanie
name: Elkouss, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum key distribution allows for the generation of a secret key between distant parties connected by a quantum channel such as optical fibre or free space. Unfortunately, the rate of generation of a secret key by direct transmission is fundamentally limited by the distance. This limit can be overcome by the implementation of so-called quantum repeaters. Here, we assess the performance of a specific but very natural setup called a single sequential repeater for quantum key distribution. We offer a fine-grained assessment of the repeater by introducing a series of benchmarks. The benchmarks, which should be surpassed to claim a working repeater, are based on finite-energy considerations, thermal noise and the losses in the setup. In order to boost the performance of the studied repeaters we introduce two methods. The first one corresponds to the concept of a cut-off, which reduces the effect of decoherence during storage of a quantum state by introducing a maximum storage time. Secondly, we supplement the standard classical post-processing with an advantage distillation procedure. Using these methods, we find realistic parameters for which it is possible to achieve rates greater than each of the benchmarks, guiding the way towards implementing quantum repeaters.
description: 29 pages (16 main, 13 supplementary material), 13 figures. Added a figure showing the rate as a function of the distance in kilometres including frequency conversion, as well as a discussion on this issue. Added a figure and section in the main text detailing the experimental setup. Added a figure and discussion to the appendix on how the setup relates to memory-assisted MDI-QKD
Newspaper coverage of the Munn-Pitt survey and report : a study of popular attitudes to library reform in Australia, 1934-1935
Creators: name: Morrison, I. S. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Cosmological Tests of Everpresent $Λ$
Creators: name: Zwane, Nosiphiwo
name: Afshordi, Niayesh
name: Sorkin, Rafael D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Everpresent $Λ$ is a cosmological scenario in which the observed cosmological "constant" $Λ$ fluctuates between positive and negative values with a vanishing mean, and with a magnitude comparable to the critical density at any epoch. In accord with a longstanding heuristic prediction of causal set theory, it postulates that $Λ$ is a stochastic function of cosmic time that will vary from one realization of the scenario to another. Herein, we consider two models of "dark energy" that exhibit these features. Via Monte Carlo Markov chains, we explore the space of cosmological parameters and the set of stochastic realizations of these models, finding that Everpresent $Λ$ can fit the current cosmological observations as well as the $Λ$CDM model does. Furthermore, it removes observational tensions with $Λ$CDM, for low redshift measurements of Hubble constant, and the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in Lyman-$α$ forest at $z\sim 2-3$. However, we also find that Everpresent $Λ$ does not significantly help with the growth of ultramassive black holes at high redshift, and the Lithium problem in Big Bang Nuclesynthesis. Future measurements of "dark energy" at high redshifts will further test the viability of Everpresent $Λ$ as an alternative to the $Λ$CDM cosmology.
Leicestershire's Royalist Officers and the War Effort in the County, 1642-1646
Creators: name: Bennett, Martyn
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 59, 44-51
description: Sixty years ago, to write of Henry Hastings and the King's cause in Leicestershire would have been easier. E.W. Hensman of Loughborough Grammar School had produced two articles, Henry Hastings, Lord Loughborough and the Great Civil War, and Loughborough and the Civil War, by 1921. 1 The local royalists appeared to be gentlemen on horseback, ill-disciplined and ill-led. Henry Hastings - the Rob Carrier - was little more than a land locked pirate in command of 'wicked and debased wretches' at Ashby-de-la-Zouch castle. From this lair these barbarians would course the county, plundering and committing acts of wanton violence - a seventeenth century version of the feudal barons of King Stephen's time. And, no doubt to those who saw this later civil war as a 'puritan revolution', Hastings' men were the last vestiges of a feudal age. Recent work has thrown into doubt many of the long-held ideas concerning Hastings, his followers and their activities. It has revealed that these old ideas were based on limited investigation and analysis. It is not proposed to give a narrative of the King's cause in this brief paper; instead two areas concerning the royalists in Leicestershire will be examined. Firstly, the composition of the activist body who joined Henry Hastings' army from this county will be studied, and secondly, the image of the plundering cavalier will be considered in the light of new research.
German-born persons and their use of public library resources in Melbourne : a case study
Creators: name: Busch, Peter Anthony.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Le bien-être à l’école selon la perspective des personnes apprenantes : l’importance de la relation enseignant-élève et outils mobilisés
Creators: name: RICS, Revue
name: Rousseau, Nadia
name: Laforme, Cynthia
name: Giguère, Marie-Hélène
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Teacher education and professional development of educators

description: De plus en plus d’écrits reconnaissent l’importance de s’intéresser à la voix des apprenants en contextes éducatifs. Cela permet de bonifier les pratiques pédagogiques déployées à leur endroit (caractère pratique) de même que de contribuer au développement de nouvelles connaissances en contexte de recherche où les élèves sont des participants importants, voire des collaborateurs à la recherche. L’article proposé mettra ainsi en lumière les résultats d’une synthèse des écrits (métasynthèse) se rapportant aux outils de collecte de données les plus susceptibles de donner la voix aux enfants et aux adolescents dans l’étude du bien-être à l’école. L’article fera d’abord état des différentes façons de concevoir le bien-être, pour ensuite se centrer sur ce que représente le bien-être à l’école pour les apprenants où la qualité de la relation enseignant-élève occupe une place importante. Un portrait des outils relatifs au recueil des voix des apprenants est ensuite dressé. Les limites des outils recensés sont abordées.
Clinical frailty scale as a predictor of adverse outcomes following aortic valve replacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Prendiville, Tadhg
name: Leahy, Aoife
name: Gabr, Ahmed
name: Ahmad, Fayeza
name: Afilalo, Jonathan
name: Martin, Glen Philip
name: Mamas, Mamas
name: Casserly, Ivan P.
name: Mohamed, Abdirahman
name: Saleh, Anastasia
name: Shanahan, Elaine
name: O'CONNOR, MARGARET
name: Galvin, Rose
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives Assessment of frailty prior to aortic valve intervention is recommended in European and North American valvular heart disease guidelines. However, there is a lack of consensus on how it is best measured. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a well-validated measure of frailty that is relatively quick to calculate. This meta-analysis sought to examine whether the CFS predicts mortality and morbidity following either transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) or surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). Methods Nine electronic databases were searched systematically for data on clinical outcomes post-TAVI/ SAVR, where patients had undergone preoperative frailty assessment using the CFS. The primary endpoint was 12-month mortality. TAVI and SAVR data were assessed and reported separately. For each individual study, the incidence of adverse outcomes was extracted according to a CFS score of 5–9 (ie, frail) versus 1–4 (ie, non-frail), with meta-analysis performed using a random effects model. Results Of 2612 records screened, nine were included in the review (five TAVI, three SAVR and one which included both interventions). Among 4923 TAVI patients, meta-analysis showed 12-month mortality rates of 19.1% for the frail cohort versus 9.8% for the non-frail cohort (RR 2.53 (1.63 to 3.95), p<0.001, I2 =83%). For the smaller cohort of SAVR patients (n=454), mortality rates were 20.3% versus 3.9% for the frail and non-frail cohorts, respectively (RR 5.08 (2.31 to 11.15), p<0.001, I2 =5%). Conclusions Frailty, as determined by the CFS, was associated with an increased mortality risk in the 12 months following either TAVI or SAVR. These data would support its use in the preoperative assessment of elderly patients undergoing aortic valve interventions.
Melton Mowbray lay subsidy
Creators: name: Bernard Clarke, A
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 18, 195-201
description: The Ivay Subsidy rolls, preserved in a long series at the Record Office in London, are so called because they represent taxation on lands and goods levied upon lay persons apart from the nobility, clerics and certain other privileged parties. They are Rolls, because the particulars, written on narrow slips of parchment fastened end to end, are usually wound up in roll form.
On the non-Poissonian repetition pattern of FRB121102
Creators: name: Opperman, Niels
name: Yu, Hao-Ran
name: Pen, Ue-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rhe Fast Radio Burst FRB121102 has been observed to repeat in an irregular fashion. Using published timing data of the observed bursts, we show that Poissonian statistics are not a good description of this random process. As an alternative we suggest to describe the intervals between bursts with a Weibull distribution with a shape parameter smaller than one, which allows for the clustered nature of the bursts. We quantify the amount of clustering using the parameters of the Weibull distribution and discuss the consequences that it has for the detection probabilities of future observations and for the optimization of observing strategies. \new{Allowing for this generalization, we find a mean repetition rate of r=5.7^{+3.0}_{-2.0} per day and index k=0.34^{+0.06}_{-0.05} for a correlation function ξ(t)=(t/t_0)^{k-1}.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
The Barrier to Physical Activity Among Stroke Survivors: A Narrative Review
Creators: name: Manaf, Haidzir
name: Nor Azlin Mohd Nordin
name: Khairnaim, Nur Shafiqah
name: Alghwiri, Alia A.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Physical Therapy

description: Background: Most stroke survivors have low participation in physical activity (PA), which can lead to detrimental effects and increase the risk of recurrent stroke. One of the reasons for this low participation is the barriers experienced by stroke survivors. While a previous systematic review has been conducted on the barriers to physical activity among stroke survivors, it is outdated. Therefore, this scoping review aims to update the existing review and identify barriers to physical activity among stroke survivors to enhance their adherence to PA. Methods: The researchers conducted electronic searches across three databases (PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science) from January 2011 to January 2023. We used Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms and keywords related to barriers, physical activity, and stroke survivors to identify relevant studies. Two reviewers screened the full text of the studies based on pre-defined inclusion criteria. Result: The electronic database search yielded 793 entries, and after removing duplicates, 776 articles remained. These articles were screened based on the titles and abstract, resulting in the exclusion of 756 studies. The remaining full-text articles were further screened causing the removal of 2 articles. In the end, 18 studies were included in this review for data extraction. Conclusion: This review collected barriers to physical activity among stroke survivors from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives, revealing a variety of reported barriers. The most commonly reported barriers included physical barriers, fear of falling, training venues and facilities, knowledge and skills gaps, and lack of support and motivation. Therapists may use this information to develop individualized exercise programs that address these barriers and improve the participation of stroke survivors in PA, leading to better health outcomes and reduced risk of recurrent stroke.
Fidelity witnesses for fermionic quantum simulations
Creators: name: Gluza, M.
name: Kliesch, M.
name: Eisert, J.
name: Aolita, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The experimental interest and developments in quantum spin-1/2-chains has increased uninterruptedly over the last decade. In many instances, the target quantum simulation belongs to the broader class of non-interacting fermionic models, constituting an important benchmark. In spite of this class being analytically efficiently tractable, no direct certification tool has yet been reported for it. In fact, in experiments, certification has almost exclusively relied on notions of quantum state tomography scaling very unfavorably with the system size. Here, we develop experimentally-friendly fidelity witnesses for all pure fermionic Gaussian target states. Their expectation value yields a tight lower bound to the fidelity and can be measured efficiently. We derive witnesses in full generality in the Majorana-fermion representation and apply them to experimentally relevant spin-1/2 chains. Among others, we show how to efficiently certify strongly out-of-equilibrium dynamics in critical Ising chains. At the heart of the measurement scheme is a variant of importance sampling specially tailored to overlaps between covariance matrices. The method is shown to be robust against finite experimental-state infidelities.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, replaced with final version
Ashby Folville to Thurcaston: The Archaeology of a Leicestershire Pipeline. Part 1, the Prehistoric Sites
Creators: name: Moore, Richard
name: Leary, Ruth
name: McSloy, Ed
name: Vince, Alan G
name: Rackham, James
name: Bevan, Lynne
name: Wood, Jennifer
name: Watt, Alan
name: Sleap, Julian
name: Gray, Lorna
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 82, 1-38
description: Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and early Anglo-Saxon remains were excavated and recorded during construction of the Ashby Folville to Thurcaston gas pipeline. The results from three sites are reported here: sites 10, 11 and 12, which had significant prehistoric remains. Results from the Late Iron Age and Roman sites will be described in part 2, to be published in 2009. Site 10, near Ratcliffe on the Wreake, included two small pits with a significant assemblage of Neolithic pottery, a Bronze Age ditch and a group of intercutting pits and gullies which produced both Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon pottery. Among many undated features, an array of postholes is possibly the remnant of a small post-built structure. At site 11, on the ridge of high ground to the north of Ratcliffe village, the pipeline route intersected part of a system of ditch-defined Bronze Age and Iron Age enclosures. A roundhouse ring gully at site 12, east of Cossington, may date from the Bronze Age.
The free energy in the Derrida--Retaux recursive model
Creators: name: Hu, Yueyun
name: Shi, Zhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We are interested in a simple max-type recursive model studied by Derrida and Retaux (2014) in the context of a physics problem, and find a wide range for the exponent in the free energy in the nearly supercritical regime.
Excavations of an early Roman fort and Watling Street at Wigston Parva, 1969 to 1970
Creators: name: Hartley, Elizabeth
name: Bidwell, Paul T
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 86, 117-134
description: Archaeological excavations by the author in 1969 and 1970 at Wigston Parva, Leicestershire (SP 464 894), at the site of a single-ditched enclosure recorded by an aerial photograph by Dr St Joseph, revealed a fort of the early Roman period. Excavations in advance of the widening of the A5 recorded the south-west ditch sections, one of which was overlain by a cobbled surface, possibly a stretch of the original Watling street. the eastern gate was examined and found to be a towered gateway with double entrance with a titulus in front. the ditch, rampart and intervallum road were located as well as part of an interior structure. the enclosure at Wigston Parva is a small roman fort, just over 0.68ha, which dates to the early years of Roman occupation possibly preceding the construction of Watling street.
Driving gas shells with radiation pressure on dust in radiation-hydrodynamic simulations
Creators: name: Costa, Tiago
name: Rosdahl, Joakim
name: Sijacki, Debora
name: Haehnelt, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of radiatively-driven gas shells launched by bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) in isolated dark matter haloes. Our goals are (1) to investigate the ability of AGN radiation pressure on dust to launch galactic outflows and (2) to constrain the efficiency of infrared (IR) multi-scattering in boosting outflow acceleration. Our simulations are performed with the radiation-hydrodynamic code RAMSES-RT and include both single- and multi-scattered radiation pressure from an AGN, radiative cooling and self-gravity. Since outflowing shells always eventually become transparent to the incident radiation field, outflows that sweep up all intervening gas are likely to remain gravitationally bound to their halo even at high AGN luminosities. The expansion of outflowing shells is well described by simple analytic models as long as the shells are mildly optically thick to IR radiation. In this case, an enhancement in the acceleration of shells through IR multi-scattering occurs as predicted, i.e. a force dP/dt = tau_IR L/c is exerted on the gas. For high optical depths tau_IR > 50, however, momentum transfer between outflowing optically thick gas and IR radiation is rapidly suppressed, even if the radiation is efficiently confined. At high tau_IR, the characteristic flow time becomes shorter than the required trapping time of IR radiation such that the momentum flux dP/dt << tau_IR L/c. We argue that while unlikely to unbind massive galactic gaseous haloes, AGN radiation pressure on dust could play an important role in regulating star formation and black hole accretion in the nuclei of massive compact galaxies at high redshift.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables (accepted by MNRAS)
An East Midlands Call: Its Context and Some Consequences. A History of Clarendon Park Congregational Church
Creators: name: Binfield, Clyde
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 79, 107-128
description: Thursday, 9 September 1886: Set off with Bennett for a three days walk en route to Leicester where I was due to preach on the Sunday: Mansfield, Newstead, Papplewick, Langley Mill Ashby de la Zouche where we slept. Then Calke Abbey and St. Bernhards Abbey, a live monastery near Whitwick to Loughborough where we slept and walked next day with Mr. Alexander Baines by Garendon Park, Langcliff, over the Beacon Hill and Bradgate Park to Leicester. Found in Mr. Baines the husband of Lucy Thompson of Bowdon. Stayed with him and preached at the new Clarendon Park Chapel. Took tea with Mr. Stafford who knew many of my friends.
Medieval Plots along Sutton Road, Great Bowden, Leicestershire
Creators: name: Brown, Jim
name: Wolframm-Murray, Yvonne
name: Blinkhorn, Paul W
name: Chapman, Patrick
name: Hylton, Andy
name: Deighton, Tora
name: Deighton, Karen
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 84, 95-116
description: Two arrangements of medieval ditches formed the boundaries of plots that had once fronted onto Sutton Road. They indicate a possible domestic frontage originating from the tenth or eleventh centuries, leaving it uncertain whether this was a pre- or post-Conquest occupation focus. However, there was a fundamental reorganisation evident in this part of the Norman manor towards the end of the twelfth century, when the boundaries were realigned to form narrow plots, and a medieval fish pond was backfilled with midden waste. From the mid-fifteenth century there was a rough cobbled yard, and postmedieval ditches showed a rearrangement of boundaries supplanting the late medieval plots and subdividing the area into two parts.
Program budgeting in Victorian public libraries : state of the art or art of the state?
Creators: name: Carr, Paula.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Review: Clerical Poll-Taxes of the Diocese of Lincoln
Creators: name: Bonney, Margaret
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 69, 138-139
description: Clerical Poll-Taxes of the Diocese of Lincoln, 1377-1381 edited by A. K. McHardy. The Boydell Press for the Lincoln Record Society, 81, 1992;
Incompatible measurements in a class of general probabilistic theories
Creators: name: Jenčová, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study incompatibility of measurements and its relation to steering and nonlocality in a class of finite dimensional general probabilistic theories (GPT).The basic idea is to represent finite collections of measurements as affine maps of a state space into a polysimplex and show that incompatibility is characterized by properties of these maps. We introduce the notion of an incompatibility witness and show its relation to incompatibility degree. We find the maximum incompatibility degree attainable by pairs of two-outcome quantum measurements and characterize state spaces for which incompatibility degree attains maximal values possible in GPT. As examples, we study the spaces of classical and quantum channels and show their close relation to polysimplices. This relation explains the super-quantum non-classical effects that were observed on these spaces.
description: Title changed, presentation improved. 18 pages in RevTex, 2 figures, comments welcome
A pH survey of recent Australian publications
Creators: name: Sheridan, Luigina M. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
A Recent Find of an Early Iron Age Sompting-type Axe from Hathern (Charnwood), Leicestershire
Creators: name: Boughton, Dot
name: Scott, Wendy
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 88, 37-42
description: In April 2013, metal detectorist Chris Heap discovered a decorated socketed axe in a field near Hathern, in north-west Leicestershire. He reported the find to Wendy Scott, his local county Finds Liaison Officer, who contacted Dot Boughton, Finds Liaison Officer for Cumbria and Lancashire, who specialises in socketed axes from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (c.1000-600 BC). The socketed axe is now recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) database (www.finds.org.uk/database) under the find identification LEIC-1ED197. It is described as an Early Iron Age socketed axe of Sompting type, dating from c.800-600 BC. A grid reference of 10 figures for the findspot of the axe was provided by the finder.
dtnmqtt - src eval results.zip
Creators: name: Baumgärtner, Lars
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460609
subject: Networking and communications

description: This dataset contains the source code, evaluation setup, the generated raw results and all analysis scripts for the conference paper: "Dtnmqtt: A Resilient Drop-In Solution for MQTT in Challenging Network Conditions"