cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L'omelia nella tradizione ortodossa
Creators: name: Yfantis, Panaghiotis
Publisher: name: Apulia Theologica
Year: 2025

description: La chiesa ortodossa vive e concepisce l’omelia innanzitutto nel contesto della relazione personale e dialogica tra il Dio biblico e il popolo fedele, una relazione che trova il suo culmine nell’incarnazione del Figlio e del Verbo di Dio, e che continua ancora oggi. Già gli apostoli trasformarono le loro esperienze accanto al Messia in una predicazione che teologicamente rafforzava, sosteneva e ammoniva la comunità nel contesto dell’assemblea eucaristica, centro dell’evento ecclesiale. Queste priorità di base non saranno abbandonate dall’omelia fino ai giorni nostri, anche se le sfide e le esigenze storiche e spirituali ne modificheranno sia la forma e le caratteristiche tecniche che il contenuto. Dopo una carrellata dei principali tipi di discorso, l’articolo analizza la crisi contemporanea nella realtà omiletica nella chiesa ortodossa caratterizzata da una pletora quantitativa e, allo stesso tempo, da un declino qualitativo.
Omelia – Logos – Teologia liturgica, pastorale e spirituale
description: Apulia Theologica, V. 9 N. 2 (2023): Apulia theologica vol. 9, fascicolo 2
Magnetization damping in a local-density approximation
Creators: name: Skadsem, Hans Joakim
name: Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
name: Brataas, Arne
name: Bauer, Gerrit E. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The linear response of itinerant transition metal ferromagnets to transverse magnetic fields is studied in a self-consistent adiabatic local-density approximation. The susceptibility is calculated from a microscopic Hamiltonian, including spin-conserving impurities, impurity induced spin-orbit interaction and magnetic impurities using the Keldysh formalism. The Gilbert damping constant in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation is identified, parametrized by an effective transverse spin dephasing rate, and is found to be inversely proportional to the exchange splitting. Our result justify the phenomenological treatment of transverse spin dephasing in the study of current-induced magnetization dynamics in weak, itinerant ferromagnets by Tserkovnyak \textit{et al.}. We show that neglect of gradient corrections in the quasiclassical transport equations leads to incorrect results when the exchange potential becomes of the order of the Fermi energy.
description: 11 pages, 41 references, no figures
Understanding Work Practices of Autonomous Agile Teams: A Social-psychological Review
Creators: name: Gren, Lucas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The purpose of this paper is to suggest additional aspects of social psychology that could help when making sense of autonomous agile teams. To make use of well-tested theories in social psychology and instead see how they replicated and differ in the autonomous agile team context would avoid reinventing the wheel. This was done, as an initial step, through looking at some very common agile practices and relate them to existing findings in social-psychological research. The two theories found that I argue could be more applied to the software engineering context are social identity theory and group socialization theory. The results show that literature provides social-psychological reasons for the popularity of some agile practices, but that scientific studies are needed to gather empirical evidence on these under-researched topics. Understanding deeper psychological theories could provide a better understanding of the psychological processes when building autonomous agile team, which could then lead to better predictability and intervention in relation to human factors.
title: Ο μεταπολεμικός μοντερνισμός στα εσωτερικά των ελληνικών τραπεζών του '60
title: Post-war modernism in the interiors of Greek banks in the 1960s
Creators: name: Πανου Παρασκευη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση του διαλόγου που ανέπτυξε ο ελληνικός μεταπολεμικός μοντερνισμός με τα εσωτερικά των κτιρίων τραπεζών την δεκαετία του ’60. Αντικείμενο της εργασίας αποτελούν 18 εσωτερικοί χώροι των κτιρίων τραπεζών του μεταπολεμικού ελληνικού μοντερνισμού. Συγκεκριμένα , επιχειρείται να μελετηθούν καταστήματα και υποκαταστήματα των ελληνικών τραπεζών που μελετήθηκαν και υλοποιήθηκαν κατά την δεκαετία 1960-1970 απο Έλληνες μοντερνιστές αρχιτέκτονες . Το έργο των Νίκου Βαλσαμάκη , Κωνσταντίνου Δεκαβάλλα , Κώστα Μανουηλίδη , Ιάσων Ρίζου , Άλκη Στραγάλη και Αναστασίας Τζάκου θα μας απασχολήσει στην παρούσα εργασία. Το ερευνητικό υλικό της εργασίας συγκροτείται σε τρείς βασικές ενότητες και διαμορφώνεται με βάση την διαμόρφωση ή δημιουργία τραπεζικών κτιρίων την δεκαετία 1960. Η πρώτη αφορά την διαμόρφωση εσωτερικών τραπεζικών χώρων σε υπάρχοντα κτίρια , η δεύτερη την δημιουργία νέων τραπεζικών κτιρίων και τέλος η τρίτη την Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος (επέκταση Κεντρικού Καταστήματος) 1970. Η παρούσα εργασία θα επιχειρήσει να απαντήσει στα ακόλουθα ερευνητικά ερωτήματα: Ποια είναι τα χαρακτηριστικά του μοντερνισμού που συναντάμε στα εσωτερικά των κτιρίων τραπεζών μεταπολεμικά ; Πως η τεχνολογική εξέλιξη έχει επηρεάσει την εσωτερική διαρρύθμιση των καταστημάτων; Ποια είναι η κυριότερη διαφοροποίηση στα εσωτερικά των τραπεζών της δεκαετίας του ’60 σε σχέση με τα μεσοπολεμικά μοντέρνα ; Διακρίνεται πρόθεση ελληνοποίησης του διεθνούς μοντερνισμού στα εσωτερικά των ελληνικών μεταπολεμικών τραπεζικών καταστημάτων και πως αυτό επιτυγχάνεται; Πως οι αρχιτέκτονες χειρίστηκαν τα υπάρχοντα κελύφη των κτιρίων για την διαρρύθμιση των εσωτερικών χώρων ;Διατηρήθηκαν ως είχαν ή υπήρξε η ανάγκη για μοντερνοποίηση και των εξωτερικών κελυφών των κτιρίων; Υπάρχει διαφοροποίηση ανάμεσα στους εσωτερικούς χώρους των υπαρχόντων κτιρίων με εκείνους των νέων που κατασκευάστηκαν την περίοδο αυτή; Πως συνδιαλέγονται με αντίστοιχα παραδείγματα του ευρωπαϊκού διεθνούς χώρου ;Ποια στοιχεία αφομοιώνονται, ποια αναπαράγονται ως έχουν και ποια αγνοούνται;
Ας αφήσουμε εκατό λουλούδια να ανθίσουν, περιορίζοντας τον εκφοβισμό και τη σχολική βία με δραματικές μεθόδους. Παρουσίαση του διακρατικού προγράμματος DRAma for CONflict.:
Creators: name: Σκρεπετός, Κωνσταντίνος Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2011
Subjects: Θεατρικό παιχνίδι
Σχολική βία
Εκπαίδευση μεταξύ ισοτίμων
Key words
Theatrical play
Peer education

description: Οι δραματικές μέθοδοι στην εκπαίδευση διευκολύνουν τους μαθητές να προσλάβουν τη σχολική γνώση και έχουν χρησιμοποιηθεί για τη διδασκαλία πολλών αντικείμενων. Ο ρόλος τους στη δημιουργία ικανότητας ενσυναίσθησης στο μαθητικό πληθυσμό, μπορεί να είναι ιδιαίτερα σημαντικός στην αντιμετώπιση ζητημάτων σχολικής βίας και εκφοβισμού. Στην εργασία παρουσιάζονται επιλεγμένα προγράμματα αντιμετώπισης του φαινόμενου της θυματοποίησης και του εκφοβισμού με δραματικές μεθόδους και ιδιαίτερα αναλύονται και παρουσιάζονται τα ευρήματα από το διακρατικό πρόγραμμα DRACON.
description: Methods that are based in drama are used in education to facilitate students to easier recruit school knowledge in many objects of the curriculum. The role and capacity of such methods in building empathy among the student population, may be particularly important in addressing issues of social exclusion, school violence – bullying and victimization. In this study, selected programs that address the phenomenon of victimization and intimidation by dramatic methods are represented. Specially represented are the outcomes and suggestions of the international program DRACON.
description: Επικοινωνία με το συγγραφέα : kostas_skrepetos@yahoo.co.uk
Considerazioni linguistiche e comunicative sulla lingua omiletica
Creators: name: Borello, Simona
Publisher: name: Apulia Theologica
Year: 2025

description: Un breve viaggio alla scoperta di alcune delle caratteristiche linguistiche dell’omelia, sia dal punto di vista strutturale sia nelle sue manifestazioni concrete: i lessemi, gli aggettivi, l’organizzazione frasale.
Non manca la ricostruzione dello status quaestionis sulle principali ricerche di omiletica compiute dalla fine degli anni Sessanta all’inizio del nuovo millennio, mettendo in evidenza soprattutto gli argomenti linguistici e comunicativi.
Il testo offre sia le conclusioni della letteratura scientifica sia strategie pastorali e comunicative, in vista di offrire spunti di riflessione a seminaristi in formazione, diaconi, presbiteri.
Omiletica – Comunicazione – Linguistica – Narrazione – Parlare in pubblico
description: Apulia Theologica, V. 9 N. 2 (2023): Apulia theologica vol. 9, fascicolo 2
Measurement-Only Topological Quantum Computation
Creators: name: Bonderson, Parsa
name: Freedman, Michael
name: Nayak, Chetan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We remove the need to physically transport computational anyons around each other from the implementation of computational gates in topological quantum computing. By using an anyonic analog of quantum state teleportation, we show how the braiding transformations used to generate computational gates may be produced through a series of topological charge measurements.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures; v2: clarifying changes made to conform to the version published in PRL
Voigt Profile Fitting to Quasar Absorption Lines: An Analytic Approximation to the Voigt-Hjerting Function
Creators: name: García, Thorsten Tepper
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Voigt-Hjerting function is fundamental in order to correctly model the profiles of absorption lines imprinted in the spectra of bright background sources by intervening absorbing systems. In this work we present a simple analytic approximation to this function in the context of absorption line profiles of intergalactic HI absorbers. Using basic calculus tools, we derive an analytic expression for the Voigt-Hjerting function that contains only fourth order polynomial and Gaussian functions. In connection with the absorption coefficient of intergalactic neutral hydrogen, this approximation is suitable for modeling Voigt profiles with an accuracy of $10^{-4}$ or better for an arbitrary wavelength baseline, for column densities up to $N_{HI} = 10^{22} cm^{-2}$, and for damping parameters $a \lesssim 10^{-4}$, i.e. the entire range of parameters characteristic to all Lyman transitions arising in a variety of HI absorbing systems such as Lyman Alpha Forest clouds, Lyman Limit systems and Damped Lyman Alpha systems. We hence present an approximation to the Voigt-Hjerting function that is both accurate and flexible to implement in various types of programming languages and machines, and with which Voigt profiles can be calculated in a reliable and very simple manner.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS after referee's revision and corresponding changes
T-FREX: A Transformer-based Feature Extraction Method from Mobile App Reviews
Creators: name: Motger, Quim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460208
subject: Natural language processing

description: T-FREX is a transformer-based feature extraction method for mobile app reviews based on fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) for a named entity recognition task. We collect a dataset of ground truth features from users in a real crowdsourced software recommendation platform, and we use this dataset to fine-tune multiple LLMs under different data configurations. We assess the performance of T-FREX with respect to this ground truth, and we complement our analysis by comparing T-FREX with a baseline method from the field. Finally, we assess the quality of new features predicted by T-FREX through an external human evaluation. Results show that T-FREX outperforms on average the traditional syntactic-based method, especially when discovering new features from a domain for which the model has been fine-tuned.
An examination of two methods of forming confidence intervals for coefficient alpha
Creators: name: Barchard, Kimberly Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Coefficient alpha (Cronbach, 1951) is a commonly used measure of reliability. Feldt (1965) and Hakstian and Whalen (1976) developed methods of forming confidence intervals for coefficient alpha. In this thesis, three issues related to these confidence intervals were examined. First, their performance under fixed and random sampling of conditions (e.g., items, raters) was compared. When conditions were fixed, the confidence intervals were accurate for the kinds of data studied. When conditions were random, as few as 77% of the .95 confidence intervals included the parameter. Second, some researchers have recently questioned what constitute the necessary assumptions of these confidence intervals. In response, it was shown in this thesis that, contrary to what has been claimed, sphericity is not sufficient, although compound symmetry is. Compound symmetry may, in fact, be necessary, but no definitive proof of this can be offered at this time. Third, the performance of the two confidence intervals under random sampling of conditions was explored in more detail. Neither the type of confidence interval used nor heterogeneity of conditions means had any effect on the performance of the confidence intervals. However, heterogeneity of variances reduced the proportion of confidence intervals including the population value. This effect was most pronounced when the population value was high (.90) and when the number of conditions was low (5). The following conclusions were reached. Researchers conducting Monte Carlo studies of coefficient alpha should simulate the type of sampling that they are most interested in, as results depend on the type of sampling used. The Feldt (1965) and Hakstian and Whalen (1976) confidence intervals are precise when conditions are fixed; however, when conditions are random and variances heterogeneous, these intervals should be used with caution, especially if the data contain fewer than 20 conditions. The two types of confidence intervals perform very similarly, and hence the choice of method is left to the researcher. Lastly, a call is made for more robust procedures to be developed, and one possible approach to such a robust procedure has been identified.
Response of undoped cryogenic CsI to low-energy nuclear recoils
Creators: name: Lewis, C. M.
name: Collar, J. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The bright scintillation of pure CsI operated at liquid-nitrogen temperature makes of this material a promising dark matter and neutrino detector. We present the first measurement of its quenching factor for nuclear recoils. Our findings indicate it is indistinguishable from that for sodium-doped CsI at room temperature. Additional properties such as light yield, afterglow, scintillation decay properties for electron and nuclear recoils, and energy proportionality are studied over the \mbox{108-165 K} temperature range, confirming the vast potential of this medium for rare-event searches.
Demonstration of Controllable Temporal Distinguishability in a Three-Photon State
Creators: name: Liu, B. H.
name: Sun, F. W.
name: Gong, Y. X.
name: Huang, Y. F.
name: Ou, Z. Y.
name: Guo, G. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-photon interference is at the heart of the recently proposed linear optical quantum computing scheme and plays an essential role in many protocols in quantum information. Indistinguishability is what leads to the effect of quantum interference. Optical interferometers such as Michaelson interferometer provide a measure for second-order coherence at one-photon level and Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer was widely employed to describe two-photon entanglement and indistinguishability. However, there is not an effective way for a system of more than two photons. Recently, a new interferometric scheme was proposed to quantify the degree of multi-photon distinguishability. Here we report an experiment to implement the scheme for three-photon case. We are able to generate three photons with different degrees of temporal distinguishability and demonstrate how to characterize them by the visibility of three-photon interference. This method of quantitative description of multi-photon indistinguishability will have practical implications in the implementation of quantum information protocols.
speciation and genetic divergence of Paeonia mairei
Creators: name: 陈启航(Qihang Chen)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2024
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Multiisolate
Evolution

description: Paeonia mairei, a tetraploid endemic species to China, is subject to population genomics. This research is aimed to explore the specieation and genetic divergence of P. mairei.
Fermionic Expressions for the Characters of c(p,1) Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories
Creators: name: Flohr, Michael
name: Grabow, Carsten
name: Koehn, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present fermionic quasi-particle sum representations consisting of a single fundamental fermionic form for all characters of the logarithmic conformal field theory models with central charge c(p,1), p>=2, and suggest a physical interpretation. We also show that it is possible to correctly extract dilogarithm identities.
description: 19 pages, LaTeX; v2: typos corrected. This is the version accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. B
Stability, convergence to self-similarity and elastic limit for the Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres
Creators: name: Mischler, Stéphane
name: Mouhot, Clément
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 76P05, 76T25

description: We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for {\em inelastic hard spheres}, in the framework of so-called {\em constant normal restitution coefficients} $α\in [0,1]$. In the physical regime of a small inelasticity (that is $α\in [α_*,1)$ for some constructive $α_*>0$) we prove uniqueness of the self-similar profile for given values of the restitution coefficient $α\in [α_*,1)$, the mass and the momentum; therefore we deduce the uniqueness of the self-similar solution (up to a time translation). Moreover, if the initial datum lies in $L^1_3$, and under some smallness condition on $(1-α_*)$ depending on the mass, energy and $L^1_3$ norm of this initial datum, we prove time asymptotic convergence (with polynomial rate) of the solution towards the self-similar solution (the so-called {\em homogeneous cooling state}). These uniqueness, stability and convergence results are expressed in the self-similar variables and then translate into corresponding results for the original Boltzmann equation. The proofs are based on the identification of a suitable elastic limit rescaling, and the construction of a smooth path of self-similar profiles connecting to a particular Maxwellian equilibrium in the elastic limit, together with tools from perturbative theory of linear operators. Some universal quantities, such as the "quasi-elastic self-similar temperature" and the rate of convergence towards self-similarity at first order in terms of $(1-α)$, are obtained from our study. These results provide a positive answer and a mathematical proof of the Ernst-Brito conjecture [16] in the case of inelastic hard spheres with small inelasticity.
description: 73 pages
Analysis of the water flow inside tire grooves of a rolling car using r-PIV
Creators: name: Cabut, Damien
name: Michard, Marc
name: Simoens, Serge
name: Mees, Loic
name: Todoroff, Violaine
name: Hermange, Corentin
name: Le-Chenadec, Yohan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to better understand the hydroplaning phenomenon, local velocity measurements of water flow are performed inside the tire grooves of a real car rolling through a water puddle. Velocity fields are obtained by combining refraction Particle Image Velocimetry (r-PIV) illumination, seeding fluorescent particles and either the classical 2D2C or a 2D3C stereoscopic recording arrangements. The presence of some bubble columns inside the grooves is highlighted by separate visualisation using fluorescent contrast technique evidencing two phase flow characteristics. A simple predictive model is proposed supporting the r-PIV analysis. It provides useful information to adjust the focusing distance and to understand the effect of the bubble column presence on the recorded r-PIV images, especially for the seeding particles located in the upper part of the grooves, as fluorescent light is attenuated by the bubbles. Also, the predictions provided by the model are compatible with the measurements. The velocity fields inside the grooves are analysed using ensemble averaging performed over a set of independent snapshots, recorded with the same operating parameters. The variability of the longitudinal velocity distribution measured in a groove for several independent runs is explained by different mechanisms, like the random position of fluorescent seeding particles at various height of the groove, the hydrodynamic interactions between longitudinal and transverse grooves, and the random location of the transverse grooves from one run to an other. Three velocity components in cross-sections of the longitudinal grooves are obtained using the stereoscopic arrangement. They are compatible with the presence of some longitudinal vortices also assumed in the litterature.
description: 41 pages, 25 figures. This is the version of the article before peer review or editing, as submitted by an author to Physics of Fluid Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors
L'arte dell'omelia
Creators: name: Giardina, Alberto
Publisher: name: Apulia Theologica
Year: 2025

description: L’omelia è oggetto di lamentele ma anche di aspettative, che hanno sollecitato (e continuano a farlo!) interventi del magistero e approfondimenti scientifici per definirne l’identità, coglierne le funzioni e puntualizzarne gli aspetti comunicazionali. Numerose sono anche le iniziative pastorali e le pubblicazioni che cercano di affinare l’arte della predicazione. E, per i più pigri, la rete è piena di omelie «pronte per l’uso». Questo variegato interesse mostra l’importanza che l’omelia, «pietra di paragone per valutare la vicinanza e la capacità d’incontro di un Pastore con il suo popolo», continua ad avere nella vita della comunità cristiana. Partendo dai rilievi delle recenti conversazioni spirituali del cammino sinodale italiano, il contributo affronta il tema secondo la prospettiva teologico-liturgica e, contestualmente, cerca di dare il giusto rilievo alle dinamiche della comunicazione, alle ricadute pastorali e alle implicanze spirituali che investono la predicazione omiletica.
Vangelo – Omelia – Ascolto – Narrazione – Comunicazione
description: Apulia Theologica, V. 9 N. 2 (2023): Apulia theologica vol. 9, fascicolo 2
Friedel oscillations and the Kondo screening cloud
Creators: name: Affleck, Ian
name: Borda, Laszlo
name: Saleur, Hubert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the long distance charge density oscillations in a metal induced by a weakly coupled spin-1/2 magnetic impurity exhibiting the Kondo effect are given, at zero temperature, by a universal function F(r/xi_K) where r is the distance from the impurity and xi_K, the Kondo screening cloud size =v_F/T_K, where v_F is the Fermi velocity and T_K is the Kondo temperature. F is given by a Fourier-like transform of the T-matrix. Analytic expressions for F(r/xi_K) are derived in both limits r much less than xi_K and r much greater than xi_K and F is calculated for all r/xi_K using numerical methods.
description: More extensive discussion of experimental situation and referencing of earlier work added
Perpetual innovation: child care decisions of parents using pediatric in-home nursing respite care
Creators: name: Flato, Linda Margaret
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Pediatric home care for children with medically complex conditions is a growing phenomenon made possible by parents willing and able to care for these children at home. While pediatric home care may decrease costs to the health care system, and provide social and developmental benefits to these children, their parents often have limited child care options which would enable them to rejuvenate from parenting activities and fulfil l other roles and responsibilities. To illuminate this child care dilemma, this study examines how parents of children with medically complex conditions choose to utilize in-home pediatric nursing respite care as a source of child care. This investigation constitutes one part of a larger multi-variable, pre-post descriptive design study evaluating the Nursing Respite Program in British Columbia, Canada. To explore the process by which parents use nursing respite as child care, qualitative data from first (prerespite service) and second (six-months after beginning service) visits with the parents from six families were analyzed using grounded theory. Interviews and accompanying field notes were audiotaped and transcribed for analysis using the constant comparative method. Study findings indicate that parents of children with medically complex conditions choose to utilize nursing respite as child care through a process of perpetual innovation. Throughout this process, dynamic situational factors require parents to continually modify their use of nursing respite care in relation to other forms of child care. In a cyclical manner, parents repeatedly adopt strategies aimed at creating child care situations that are mutually beneficial to both parent and child. Together, these strategies suggest a decision-making framework embedded within the process of perpetual innovation. While literature related to these study findings is sparse, the findings are discussed within the context of research on child care, respite care, and parenting children with chronic conditions. In addition, conceptual cues which may be used to integrate study findings into the larger evaluation study are identified. Finally, policy implications of study findings are discussed in relation to pediatric respite cafe delivery.
Contribution of Magnetic Reconnection Events to Energy Dissipation in Magnetosheath Turbulence
Creators: name: Hou, Chuanpeng
name: He, Jiansen
name: Zhu, Xingyu
name: Wang, Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By analyzing the magnetosheath measurements from MMS, we obtain the statistical results for the contribution of magnetic reconnection (MR) events at electron scales to the energy dissipation of coherent structures. The Partial Variance of Increments (PVI) method is employed to find coherent structures in the magnetic field data. The current sheet structures with reversal of magnetic field components are further selected. We consider the following criteria to identify the MR events, such as current sheet with magnetic field reversal, significant energy dissipation, and evident electron outflow velocity. Statistically, for most MR events, their PVI values are larger than that of other types of coherent structures, and their energy dissipations are also stronger than that of others. However, due to the relatively small proportion of MR events, their contribution to coherent structures' energy dissipation is relatively trivial. If taken into account the dissipation of non-coherent structures, the MR's contribution to energy dissipation would be less. Hence, we suggest that MR events, though have strong dissipation locally, are not the major contributor to the energy dissipation in the magnetosheath. After analyzing the features of non-MR current sheets, we propose that non-MR current sheets are mainly coherent structures inherent to kinetic Alfvén fluctuations.
title: What Makes a Poem Aggressive? A Comparison of Joseph Brodsky’s and Aleksandr Byvshev’s Versions of «На независимость Украины» [On the Independence of Ukraine]
Creators: name: Schlund, Katrin
Publisher: name: Trier University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Aggressive Language
subject: Argumentative Language
subject: Substandard
subject: «На независимость Украины»
subject: Aleksandr Byvshev
subject: Joseph Brodsky

description: Shortly after Ukraine had declared its independence in December 1991, Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature 1987, wrote the poem «На независимость Украины» [On the Independence of Ukraine], which sarcastically mourns the separation of Russia and Ukraine. In 2015, responding to the armed conflict in Ukraine, teacher and poet Aleksandr Byvshev issued a reply to this poem under the same title, taking the side of Ukraine. Both poems have been perceived as aggressive, insulting, and anti-Ukrainian or anti-Russian, respectively. This paper asks the question of whether – and in what sense – the two poems are aggressive by drawing on the linguistic features of the two texts. The investigation of the linguistic characteristics of the poems is supplemented by an analysis inspired by argumentation theory, since, as will be shown, both texts are essentially argumentative.
H επιλογή του κατάλληλου υποχώρου μεταβλητών ενός συνόλου δεδομένων για τη βελτίωση της εκτίμησης κόστους λογισμικού με τη μέθοδο των αναλογιών:
Creators: name: Σπανός, Γεώργιος Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2011
Subjects: Κόστος
Εκτίμηση
Αναλογίες
Cost
Estimation
Analogy

description: Το ερευνητικό μέρος της διπλωματικής εργασίας ήταν η κατασκευή ενός αλγορίθμου επιλογής του κατάλληλου υποχώρου των χαρακτηριστικών ενός πολυμεταβλητού συνόλου δεδομένων από έργα λογισμικού. Ο αλγόριθμος που αναπτύχθηκε συνδυάζει την μέθοδο Random Subspace Method με τη μέθοδο Bagging στις Αναλογίες, ενώ η επιλογή των μεταβλητών γίνεται με βάση έναν στατιστικό έλεγχο πολλαπλών συγκρίσεων, του Scott-Knott test. Μετά την επιλογή των κατάλληλων χαρακτηριστικών από τον αλγόριθμο, αυτά χρησιμοποιούνται σε πειράματα και εξάγονται τα απαραίτητα στατιστικά μέτρα, για να συγκριθούν με όλα τα χαρακτηριστικά. Ο σκοπός της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι να αναπτυχθεί μια μέθοδος βελτίωσης της μεθόδου των αναλογιών για την εκτίμηση του κόστους λογισμικού.
description: The research part of the Mcs thesis was the construction of an algorithm for choosing the appropriate subspace of features of a multivariate dataset of software projects. The algorithm which developed combines Random Subspace Method with Bagging on Analogy, and the selection of variables is based on a statistical control of multiple comparisons, the Scott-Knott test. After the selection of the appropriate characteristics from the algorithm,these are used in experiments and exported the appropriate statistical measures to compare with all features. The purpose of the thesis is to develop a method to improve the software cost estimation by analogy.
A minimal model of parallel electric field generation in a transversely inhomogeneous plasma
Creators: name: Tsiklauri, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generation of parallel electric fields by virtue of propagation of ion cyclotron waves (with frequency 0.3 w_{ci}) in the plasma with a transverse density inhomogeneity. Using two-fluid, cold plasma linearised equations, we show for the first time that E_|| generation can be understood by an analytic equation that couples E_|| to the transverse electric field of the driving ion cyclotron wave. In this simplified model, the generated E_|| amplitude e.g. for plausible solar coronal parameters attains values of 90 V/m for the mass ratio m_i/m_e=262, within a time corresponding to 3 periods of the driving ion cyclotron wave. By considering the numerical solutions we also show that the cause of E_|| generation is electron and ion flow separation (which is not the same as electrostatic charge separation) induced by the transverse density inhomogeneity. The model also correctly reproduces the previous kinetic results in that only electrons are accelerated (along the background magnetic field), while ions do not accelerate substantially. We also investigate how E_|| generation is affected by the mass ratio and found that amplitude attained by E_|| decreases linearly as inverse of the mass ratio m_i/m_e, i.e. E_|| \propto 1/m_i. This result contradicts to the earlier suggestion by Genot et al (1999, 2004) that the cause of E_|| generation is the polarisation drift of the driving wave, which scales as \propto m_i. Also, for realistic mass ratio of m_i/m_e=1836 our empirical scaling law is producing E_||=14 V/m (for solar coronal parameters).
description: New J. Phys. (final, accepted version)
Predicare bene... razzolare male
Creators: name: Massaro, Roberto
Publisher: name: Apulia Theologica
Year: 2025

description: Sin dalla pubblicazione di Evangelii gaudium, papa Francesco ha posto molta attenzione all’omelia nel contesto liturgico, invitando anche i ministri della parola a evitare di scadere in forme di sterile moralismo. La predicazione, tuttavia, non può fare a meno di «attualizzare» il messaggio evangelico e per farlo non può esimersi da indicare vie di condotta che conducano a conformare la propria vita al messaggio di Cristo.
In questo articolo si cerca di individuare, alla luce della storia e del recente magistero, possibili piste di rinnovamento della predicazione morale, perché essa possa suscitare in chi predica e in chi ascolta il profondo desiderio di «portare frutti di carità per la vita del mondo» (OT 16).
Omelia – Predicazione – Morale – Liturgia – Vita cristiana
description: Apulia Theologica, V. 9 N. 2 (2023): Apulia theologica vol. 9, fascicolo 2
Magnetic Heisenberg-chain/pp-wave correspondence
Creators: name: Harmark, Troels
name: Kristjansson, Kristjan R.
name: Orselli, Marta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find a decoupling limit of planar N=4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) on R x S^3 in which it becomes equivalent to the ferromagnetic XXX_{1/2} Heisenberg spin chain in an external magnetic field. The decoupling limit generalizes the one found in hep-th/0605234 corresponding to the case with zero magnetic field. The presence of the magnetic field is seen to break the degeneracy of the vacuum sector and it has a non-trivial effect on the low energy spectrum. We find a general connection between the Hagedorn temperature of planar N=4 SYM on R x S^3 in the decoupling limit and the thermodynamics of the Heisenberg chain. This is used to study the Hagedorn temperature for small and large value of the effective coupling. We consider the dual decoupling limit of type IIB strings on AdS_5 x S^5. We find a Penrose limit compatible with the decoupling limit that gives a magnetic pp-wave background. The breaking of the symmetry by the magnetic field on the gauge theory side is seen to have a geometric counterpart in the derivation of the Penrose limit. We take the decoupling limit of the pp-wave spectrum and succesfully match the resulting spectrum to the low energy spectrum on the gauge theory side. This enables us to match the Hagedorn temperature of the pp-wave to the Hagedorn temperature of the gauge theory for large effective coupling. This generalizes the results of hep-th/0608115 to the case of non-zero magnetic field.
description: 35 pages, 2 figures. v2: Refs. added
Traditio e qualitas sacramentalis dell'omelia: sulle ragioni di una crisi
Creators: name: Bilotta, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Apulia Theologica
Year: 2025

description: L’omelia sta attraversando, da ormai troppo tempo, un periodo di smarrimento e confusione identitaria. Le ragioni della crisi sono da rinvenire non solo nell’impreparazione o in difficoltà di natura comunicativa dei predicatori, ma anche nella limitata attenzione riservata alla sacramentalità e performatività della parola omiletica.
Nel quadro epistemologico di una teologia fondamentale della parola, l’omelia viene «riscoperta» come traditio viva – sempre in atto – della gioia «eccedente» del vangelo la quale, non potendo essere racchiusa in un testo (Scrittura), si comunica attraverso la viva vox degli evangelizzatori (tradizione). La riflessione e il confronto comunitario sulla parola di Dio (receptio) e la santità di vita permettono all’omileta di maturare un’idea viva e reale di Cristo (J.H. Newman) e di generare la fede, in modo incisivo, per mezzo dello Spirito, nel cuore dei suoi uditori.
Tradizione – Vangelo – Crisi dell’omelia – Sacramentalità – Santità
description: Apulia Theologica, V. 9 N. 2 (2023): Apulia theologica vol. 9, fascicolo 2
Chromosome-level genome assembly and analysis of the European chestnut
Creators: name: 王甲威(Wang Jiawei)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2024
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Raw sequence reads
Genome sequencing
Assembly
Other
HiFi reads and HiC reads, and genome assembly
Monoisolate
Agricultural

description: The assembly contained two haploid genomes with sizes of 747.45 Mb (contig N50 of 22.57 Mb) and 731.89 Mb (contig N50 of 29.47 Mb), which predicted 50,614 and 51,385 protein-coding genes, respectively.
Σχέση δεικτών οδοντικής τερηδόνας και μάζας σώματος σε παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας:
Creators: name: Τρικαλιώτης, Αλέξανδρος Θεοχάρη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2011
Subjects: Δείκτης μάζας σώματος
Οδοντική τερηδόνα
Παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας
Baby mass index
Dental caries
Preschool children

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης ήταν να αξιολογήσει τη σχέση μεταξύ των δεικτών οδοντικής τερηδόνας (dmfs) και μάζας σώματος (ΔΜΣ) σε παιδιά ηλικίας 3- 5,5 ετών. Στην εργασία συμμετείχαν 361 παιδιά από 18 δημοτικούς παιδικούς σταθμούς του δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης. Ο dmfs καταγράφηκε από ένα βαθμονομημένο εξεταστή (Kendall’s tau_b = 0,99) με τη χρήση κατόπτρων μίας χρήσεως και τεχνητού φωτισμού (penlight). Ο ΔΜΣ υπολογίστηκε από ειδικούς διαιτολόγους, μετρώντας το ύψος και το βάρος των παιδιών τα οποία κατατάχθηκαν σε τέσσερις κατηγορίες. Ο υπολογισμός της σχέσης μεταξύ dmfs και ΔΜΣ βασίστηκε σε ένα γενικευμένο μοντέλο γραμμικής παλινδρόμισης και η μέθοδος Bonferroni χρησιμοποιήθηκε για συσχετίσεις κατα ζεύγη ανάμεσα στις κατηγορίες του ΔΜΣ. Οι μέσες τιμές του dmfs για κάθε κατηγορία ΔΜΣ ήταν: ελλειποβαρή: 1,02 (SD = 2,41) (n = 44), φυσιολογικού βάρους: 0,74 (SD = 2,24) (n = 281), υπέρβαρα: 1,88 (SD = 4,28) (n = 26), παχύσαρκα: 0,8 (SD = 2,53) (n = 10). Τα υπέρβαρα παιδιά εμφάνισαν στατιστικά σημαντικές διαφορές ως προς τις τιμές του dmfs σε σχέση με εκείνα του φυσιολογικού βάρους (p <0,001) και των ελλειποβαρών (p = 0,015). Συμπερασματικά τα υπέρβαρα ελληνόπουλα προσχολικής ηλικίας βρίσκονται σε αυξημένο τερηδονικό
description: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dental caries (dmfs) and body mass index (BMI) categories in 3-5.5 year old children in Thessaloniki, Greece. The study was conducted in 18 municipal day care centres and involved 361 children. The dmfs was determined on site by one calibrated examiner using disposable dental mirrors and a penlight. The height and weight of the children were measured on site by a nutritionist who grouped them in four BMI categories, shown at the results. The estimation of the relationship between the BMI and dmfs values was based on a Generalized Linear Model (Poisson log-linear Regression) while the sequential Bonferroni method was used for pair wise comparisons between BMI categories. Intra-examiner agreement for dmfs, based on the re-examination of 10% of the sample, was estimated with Kendall's tau_b = 0.99. Mean dmfs values for each BMI category were: 1.02 (SD=2.41) for the underweight (n=44), 0.74 (SD=2.24) for the normal in weight (n=281), 1.88 (SD=4.28) for the overweight (n=26) and 0.80 (SD=2.53) for the obese (n=10). Overweight children were found to show statistically significant differences in dmfs values compared with both children of normal weight (p<0.001) and those underweight (p=0.015). Overweight Greek pre-school children are at higher risk of dental caries.
A view of the M81 galaxy group via the H-alpha window
Creators: name: Karachentsev, Igor D.
name: Kaisin, Serafim S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present images for 36 galaxies of the M81 group obtained in the H-alpha line. Estimates of the H-alpha flux and star formation rate, SFR, are avialable now for all the known members of the group with absolute magnitudes down to M_B = -10^m. The character of distribution of the galaxies over three paremeters: M_B, SFR, and total hydrogen mass permits us to draw the following conclusions as to evolution status of the group population. a) Spiral and irregular type galaxies would have time to generate their luminosity (baryon mass) during the cosmological time T_0=13.7 Gyr, but dwarf spheroidal objects are capable of reproducing only ~5% of their observed luminosity. b) S and Im, BCD galaxies possess the supply of gas sufficient to maintain their observed SFRs during only next (1/4 -1/3)T_0 years, while dIr and dSph populations have the mean gas depletion time about 3 T_0. c) There is indirect evidence that the star formation in Im, BCD and dIr galaxies proceeds in a mode of vigorous burst activity rather than in the form of a sluggish process. We note the dwarf tidal system near NGC 3077, the Garland, to have the highest SFR per unit luminosity among 150 galaxies of the Local volume with known SFRs. Being averaged over the local "cell of homogeneity" of 4 Mpc in diameter around M 81, the rate of star formation of the group, rho(SFR)= 0.165 M_sun/year*Mpc^3, proves to be 5-8 times higher than, that of the average global rate at Z =0.
description: 10 pages, 4 figure (figure 1 is available at http://luna.sao.ru/halpha/articles/M81). Astronomical Journal, accepted
Effect of Short-Term Debt on Financial Growth of Non-Financial Firms Listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange
Creators: name: Shikumo, David Haritone
name: Oluoch, Oluoch
name: Wepukhulu, Joshua Matanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A significant number of the non-financial firms listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) have been experiencing declining financial performance which deter investors from investing in such firms. The lenders are also not willing to lend to such firms. As such, the firms struggle to raise funds for their operations. Prudent financing decisions can lead to financial growth of the firm. The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of short-term debt on financial growth of non-financial firms listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange for a period of ten years from 2008 to 2017. Financial firms were excluded because of their specific sector characteristics and stringent regulatory framework. The study is guided by Agency Theory and Theory of Growth of the Firm. Explanatory research design was adopted. The target population of the study comprised of 45 non-financial firms listed at the NSE for a period of ten years from 2008 to 2017. The study conducted both descriptive statistics analysis and panel data analysis. The result indicates that, short term debt explains 45.99% and 25.6% of variations in financial growth as measured by growth in earnings per share and growth in market capitalization respectively. Short term debt positively and significantly influences financial growth measured using both growth in earnings per share and growth in market capitalization. The study recommends that, the management of non-financial firms listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange to employ financing means that can improve the earnings per share, market capitalization and enhance the value of the firm for the benefit of its stakeholders.
description: 12 Pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2010.12596
"Benedetta omelia!"
Creators: name: Nigro, Francesco
Publisher: name: Apulia Theologica
Year: 2025

description: Lo studio offre un’analisi sintetica dello sviluppo storico della prassi omiletica nel suo legame con la visione di Chiesa e di ministero, fino ad affrontare alcuni aspetti nevralgici come la corresponsabilità nella predicazione da parte dei laici.
Omelia – Predicazione - Liturgia – Chiesa – Ministero – Presidenza – Potestas ordinis – Potestas iurisdictionis
description: Apulia Theologica, V. 9 N. 2 (2023): Apulia theologica vol. 9, fascicolo 2
Homeodomain proteins directly regulate ATM kinase activity
Creators: name: Johnson, Tanya Ellen
name: 0000-0002-1903-9795
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: DNA repair
DNA damage
ATM
Ataxia telangiectasia
Homeodomain
MRN
Oxidative stress
Signaling

description: The ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) kinase is a master regulator involved in the detection and repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). The Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 (MRN) complex recruits and activates ATM at DSBs, causing a signaling cascade to initiate cell-cycle checkpoint arrest, DNA repair, and apoptosis. Alternatively, ATM can be activated by direct oxidation and may act as a redox sensor in the cellular response to oxidative stress. Loss of functional ATM results in ataxia-telangiectasia, a genomic instability disorder characterized by neurodegeneration, DNA repair defects, and predisposition to cancer. Understanding how ATM kinase activity is regulated is critical to understanding its function in the DNA damage and oxidative stress responses. Recently, ATM kinase activity was shown to be stimulated directly by a homeodomain protein, NKX3.1, in prostate cells. NKX3.1 is thought to be the gatekeeper to prostate tumor suppression and, although normally expressed solely in prostate cells, as many as 80% of prostate tumors exhibit loss of NKX3.1 protein. One mechanism of tumor suppression by NKX3.1 may be modulating the DNA damage response via ATM. In in vitro kinase assays, NKX3.1 protein was sufficient to stimulate ATM both in the MRN-mediated and oxidative pathways. Thus, NKX3.1 acts as a tissue-specific modulator of ATM function. Since the conserved homeodomain was critical for the stimulation of ATM by NKX3.1, it poses the question whether this is a general mechanism of ATM regulation by all homeodomain proteins. Here, I address this question by identifying other tissue-specific regulators of ATM activity within the homeodomain family of proteins. Five homeodomain proteins (TTF1, HOXB7, NKX2.5, NKX2.2, and CDX2) were tested for the ability to regulate ATM activity. In in vitro kinase assays, all of the homeodomain proteins tested stimulated ATM kinase activity to varying degrees, suggesting that the homeodomain itself may act as a conserved regulator of ATM function. I show that CDX2 modulates ATM function in mammalian cell lines with global effects on the DNA damage response. Together, these data support the hypothesis that homeodomain proteins regulate ATM function in a tissue-specific manner.