cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Das (Heilige und Große) Konzil der Orthodoxen Kirchen auf Kreta in ökumenischer Perspektive
Creators: name: Heller, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 66 Nr. 1 (2017): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 66, Heft 1
Corporate governance in publicly-held companies: lessons for China’s companies limited by shares
Creators: name: Liu, Jingrong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The thesis purports to address the current corporate governance in companies limited by shares in China, starting from a review of the theoretical debate between the contractual and legal regulatory theories in American corporate law scholarship. An optimal corporate governance should consists of a mix of mandatory corporate rules, markets and morality. The author argues that central to the debate is the balance between efficiency and fairness in reducing agency costs, which is contingent upon actual social circumstances. A review of Canadian corporate law and its literature is conducted from the perspective of corporate governance. Corporate statutes, securities acts and stock exchange polices are the foci in this study. The article concludes that the balance between directors' discretion in managing the company and accountability to shareholders should be presented in an optimal corporate governance. China's corporate laws and securities regulations have provided a governance frame, but left some loose ends to be refined. The author argues that China is following the North American experience which relies on the stock market and institutional investors in designing corporate governance, but suggests that cautions should be taken while addressing corporate governance in China with such a perspective. The state of stock markets and institutional investors in China does not justify too much optimism as to their significance in corporate governance. The intervention of the administrative organ authorised to oversee the stock market into corporate governance is necessary in light that laws and markets can not provide sufficient protection to shareholders.
Algebraic theta functions and p-adic interpolation of Eisenstein-Kronecker numbers
Creators: name: Bannai, Kenichi
name: Kobayashi, Shinichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14K22, 11G40

description: We study the properties of Eisenstein-Kronecker numbers, which are related to special values of Hecke $L$-function of imaginary quadratic fields. We prove that the generating function of these numbers is a reduced (normalized or canonical in some literature) theta function associated to the Poincare bundle of an elliptic curve. We introduce general methods to study the algebraic and $p$-adic properties of reduced theta functions for CM abelian varieties. As a corollary, when the prime $p$ is ordinary, we give a new construction of the two-variable $p$-adic measure interpolating special values of Hecke $L$-functions of imaginary quadratic fields, originally constructed by Manin-Vishik and Katz. Our method via theta functions also gives insight for the case when $p$ is supersingular. The method of this paper will be used in subsequent papers to study the precise $p$-divisibility of critical values of Hecke $L$-functions associated to Hecke characters of quadratic imaginary fields for supersingular $p$, as well as explicit calculation in two-variables of the $p$-adic elliptic polylogarithm for CM elliptic curves.
description: 55 pages, 2 figures. Minor misprints and errors were corrected
Additional file 8 of Transcriptome profiling of Lymnaea stagnalis (Gastropoda) for ecoimmunological research
Creators: name: Seppälä, Otto
name: Walser, Jean-Claude
name: Cereghetti, Teo
name: Seppälä, Katri
name: Salo, Tiina
name: Adema, Coen M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 8. Expression levels of individual transcripts found to represent annotated factors related to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in units of transcripts per million (TPM) for each experimental snail. Heatmap shows the variation for each factor using the dynamic range. Transcripts related to each factor are clustered according to their similarity.
Anisotropic selection in cellular genetic algorithms
Creators: name: Simoncini, David
name: Verel, Sébastien
name: Collard, Philippe
name: Clergue, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we introduce a new selection scheme in cellular genetic algorithms (cGAs). Anisotropic Selection (AS) promotes diversity and allows accurate control of the selective pressure. First we compare this new scheme with the classical rectangular grid shapes solution according to the selective pressure: we can obtain the same takeover time with the two techniques although the spreading of the best individual is different. We then give experimental results that show to what extent AS promotes the emergence of niches that support low coupling and high cohesion. Finally, using a cGA with anisotropic selection on a Quadratic Assignment Problem we show the existence of an anisotropic optimal value for which the best average performance is observed. Further work will focus on the selective pressure self-adjustment ability provided by this new selection scheme.
Soft-magnetic skyrmions induced by surface-state coupling in an intrinsic ferromagnetic topological insulator sandwich structure
Creators: name: Takashiro, Takuya
name: Akiyama, Ryota
name: Kibirev, Ivan A.
name: Matetskiy, Andrey V.
name: Nakanishi, Ryosuke
name: Sato, Shunsuke
name: Fukasawa, Takuro
name: Sasaki, Taisuke
name: Toyama, Haruko
name: Hiwatari, Kota L.
name: Zotov, Andrey V.
name: Saranin, Alexander A.
name: Hirahara, Toru
name: Hasegawa, Shuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A magnetic skyrmion induced on a ferromagnetic topological insulator (TI) is a real-space manifestation of the chiral spin texture in the momentum space, and can be a carrier for information processing by manipulating it in tailored structures. Here, we fabricate a sandwich structure containing two layers of a self-assembled ferromagnetic septuple-layer TI, Mn(Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$)$_{2}$Te$_{4}$ (MnBST), separated by quintuple layers of TI, (Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$)$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ (BST), and observe skyrmions through the topological Hall effect in an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator for the first time. The thickness of BST spacer layer is crucial in controlling the coupling between the gapped topological surface states in the two MnBST layers to stabilize the skyrmion formation. The homogeneous, highly-ordered arrangement of the Mn atoms in the septuple-layer MnBST leads to a strong exchange interaction therein, which makes the skyrmions "soft magnetic". This would open an avenue towards a topologically robust rewritable magnetic memory.
The Minnesota Poll: October 2018
Creators: name: Minnesota Public Radio News
name: Tribune, The Star
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Candidate name recognition (9); favorable/unfavorable opinion of political candidates (9); gubernatorial election (3); Democratic/Farmer-Labor candidate Tim Walz (2); Republican candidate Jeff Johnson (2); attorney general election (1); Democratic/Farmer-Labor candidate Keith Ellison (2); Republican candidate Doug Wardlow (2); Grassroots/Legalize Cannabis candidate Noah Johnson (1); US senate election (1); Democratic/Farmer-Labor candidate Amy Klobuchar (2); Republican candidate Jim Newberger (2); Legal Marijuana Now candidate Dennis Schuller (1); Green Party candidate Paula Overby (1); 2018 special election for US Senate (1); Democratic/Farmer-Labor candidate Tina Smith (2); Republican candidate Karin Housley (2); Legal Marijuana Now candidate Sarah Wellington (1); independent candidate Jerry Trooien (1); Governor Mark Dayton (2); Keith Ellison (4); President Trump job approval (7); foreign trade (3); immigration/refugees (3); Brett Kavanaugh (4); universal healthcare (2); support/oppose increasing gasoline tax (1).
Die Heilige und Große Synode der Orthodoxen Kirche auf Kreta
Creators: name: Oeldemann, Johannes
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 66 Nr. 1 (2017): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 66, Heft 1
AL 3 (BH 261): a new globular cluster in the Galaxy
Creators: name: Ortolani, S.
name: Bica, E.
name: Barbuy, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AL~3 (BH 261), previously classified as a faint open cluster candidate, is shown to be a new globular cluster in the Milky Way, by means of B, V and I Color-Magnitude Diagrams. The main feature of AL~3 is a prominent blue extended Horizontal Branch. Its Color-Magnitude Diagrams match those of the intermediate metallicity cluster M~5. The cluster is projected in a rich bulge field, also contaminated by the disk main sequence. The globular cluster is located in the Galactic bulge at a distance from the Sun d$_{\odot}$ = 6.0$\pm$0.5 kpc. The reddening is E(B-V)=0.36$\pm$0.03 and the metallicity is estimated to be [Fe/H] $\approx$ -1.3$\pm$0.25. AL~3 is probably one of the least massive globular clusters of the Galaxy.
description: 6 figures. Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press
MPEC 2024-T188 : 2024 TO5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 TO5

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Time-dependence Effects in Photospheric-Phase Type II Supernova Spectra
Creators: name: Dessart, Luc
name: Hillier, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have incorporated time-dependent terms into the statistical and radiative equilibrium calculations of the non-LTE line-blanketed radiative transfer code CMFGEN. To illustrate the significant improvements in spectral fitting achieved for photospheric phase Type II SN, and to document the effects associated with time dependence, we model the outer 6.1Msun of ejecta of a BSG/RSG progenitor star. Hopping by 3-day increments, we compute the UV to near-IR spectral evolution for both continuum and lines, from the fully ionized conditions at one week to the partially recombined conditions at 6 weeks after the explosion. We confirm the importance of allowing for time-dependence in the modeling of Type-II SN, as recently discussed by Utrobin & Chugai for SN1987A. However, we allow in our approach for the full interaction between the radiation field and level populations, and study the effects on the full spectrum. At the recombination epoch, HI lines and NaD are stronger and broader than in equivalent steady-state models, while CaII is weakened. Former successes of steady-state CMFGEN models are unaffected, while former discrepancies are cured. Time dependence affects all lines, while the continuum, from the UV to the optical, changes only moderately. We identify two key effects: First, time dependence together with the energy gain through changes in ionization and excitation lead to an over-ionization in the vicinity of the photosphere, dramatically affecting line optical depths and profiles. Second, the ionization is frozen-in at large radii/velocities. This stems solely from the time-scale contrast between recombination and expansion and will occur, modulo non-thermal excitation effects, in all SN types. [abridged]
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, to appear in conf. proc. of "The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and their Explosive Progenitors: Theory vs Observations", a conference held in Cefalu, Sicily, June 11-24, 2006
Letter from Colin C. MacRae to the Rainbow Ranche Ltd., September 26, 1910
Creators: name: MacRae, Colin C.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to the Rainbow Ranche Ltd. from Colin MacRae, manager of the Royal Bank of Canada, dated September 26, 1910, regarding they overdrawing of the Ranche's account by $27.00.
Can Nonprobability Samples be Used for Social Science Research? A cautionary tale
Creators: name: Zack, Elizabeth S.
name: Kennedy, John
name: Long, J. Scott
Publisher: name: Survey Research Methods
Year: 2019

description: Survey researchers and social scientists are trying to understand the appropriate use of nonprobability samples as substitutes for probability samples in social science research. While cognizant of the challenges presented by nonprobability samples, scholars increasingly rely on these samples due to their low cost and speed of data collection. This paper contributes to the growing literature on the appropriate use of nonprobability samples by comparing two online non-probability samples, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and a Qualtrics Panel, with a gold standard nationally representative probability sample, the GSS. Most research in this area focuses on determining the best techniques to improve point estimates from nonprobability samples, often using gold standard surveys or census data to determine the accuracy of the point estimates. This paper differs from that line of research in that we examine how probability and nonprobability samples differ when used in multivariate analysis, the research technique used by many social scientists. Additionally, we examine whether restricting each sample to a population well-represented in MTurk (Americans age 45 and under) improves MTurk’s estimates. We find that, while Qualtrics and MTurk differ somewhat from the GSS, Qualtrics outperforms MTurk in both univariate and multivariate analysis. Further, restricting the samples substantially improves MTurk’s estimates, almost closing the gap with Qualtrics. With both Qualtrics and MTurk, we find a risk of false positives. Our findings suggest that these online nonprobability samples may sometimes be ‘fit for purpose,’ but should be used with caution.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 13 No 2 (2019)
Multivariate Tests for Phase Capacity
Creators: name: Lewis, Taylor H
Publisher: name: Survey Research Methods
Year: 2019

description: To combat the potentially detrimental effects of nonresponse, most surveys repeatedly follow-up with nonrespondents, often targeting a response rate or predetermined number of completes. Each additional recruitment attempt generally brings in a new wave of data, but returns gradually diminish over the course of a static data collection protocol. This is because each subsequent wave tends to contain fewer and fewer new responses, thereby rendering smaller and smaller changes in point estimates. Consequently, point estimates calculated from the accumulating data begin to stabilize. This is the notion of phase capacity, suggesting some form of design change is warranted, such as switching modes, increasing the incentive, or simply discontinuing nonrespondent follow-up. Phase capacity testing methods that have appeared in the literature to date are generally only applicable to a single point estimate. It is unclear how to proceed if conflicting results are obtained following independent tests on two or more point estimates. The purpose of this paper is to introduce two multivariate phase capacity tests, each designed with the aim of providing a universal, yes-or-no phase capacity determination for a battery of point estimates. The two competing methods’ performance is compared via simulation and application using data from the 2011 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 13 No 2 (2019)
Remark on orbital precession due to central-force perturbations
Creators: name: Chashchina, O. I.
name: Silagadze, Z. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is a comment on the recent paper by G. S. Adkins and J. McDonnell ``Orbital precession due to central-force perturbations'' published in Phys. Rev. D75 (2007), 082001 [arXiv:gr-qc/0702015]. We show that the main result of this paper, the formula for the precession of Keplerian orbits induced by central-force perturbations, can be obtained very simply by the use of Hamilton's vector.
description: 3 pages, ReVTeX4, title changed to match the version to be published in Phys. Rev. D, one new reference added, minor corrections in the text
Multichannel superconductivity of monolayer FeSe on SrTiO$_3$: Interplay of spin fluctuations and electron-phonon interaction
Creators: name: Schrodi, Fabian
name: Aperis, Alex
name: Oppeneer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of electron-phonon coupling, as well as of spin and charge fluctuations on the superconducting state in a single layer of FeSe on SrTiO$_3$ substrate. These three bosonic mediators of Cooper pairing are treated on equal footing in a multichannel, full-bandwidth, multiband, and anisotropic Eliashberg theory of the interacting state. Our self-consistent calculations show that an s-wave symmetry of the superconducting gap is compatible only with a complete absence of spin fluctuations. When spin fluctuations are present, the sign-changing nodeless d-wave pairing symmetry is always obtained, yet the essential ingredient for explaining the gap magnitude and critical temperature is still the interfacial electron-phonon interaction.
Additional file 9 of Transcriptome profiling of Lymnaea stagnalis (Gastropoda) for ecoimmunological research
Creators: name: Seppälä, Otto
name: Walser, Jean-Claude
name: Cereghetti, Teo
name: Seppälä, Katri
name: Salo, Tiina
name: Adema, Coen M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 9. Expression levels of individual transcripts found to represent annotated factors related to apoptosis in units of transcripts per million (TPM) for each experimental snail. Heatmap shows the variation for each factor using the dynamic range. Transcripts related to each factor are clustered according to their similarity.
Anisotropic Magnon Spin Transport in Ultra-thin Spinel Ferrite Thin Films -- Evidence for Anisotropy in Exchange Stiffness
Creators: name: Li, Ruofan
name: Li, Peng
name: Yi, Di
name: Riddiford, Lauren
name: Chai, Yahong
name: Suzuki, Yuri
name: Ralph, Daniel C.
name: Nan, Tianxiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of magnon spin transport in a spinel ferrite, magnesium aluminum ferrite $\mathrm{MgAl_{0.5}Fe_{1.5}O_4}$ (MAFO), which has a substantial in-plane four-fold magnetic anisotropy. We observe spin diffusion lengths $> 0.8$ $\mathrm{μm}$ at room temperature in 6 nm films, with spin diffusion length 30% longer along the easy axes compared to the hard axes. The sign of this difference is opposite to the effects just of anisotropy in the magnetic energy for a uniform magnetic state. We suggest instead that accounting for anisotropy in exchange stiffness is necessary to explain these results.
On the connected-charges Thomson problem
Creators: name: Slosar, Anze
name: Podgornik, Rudolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the modifications brought about by the linear connectivity among charges in the classical Thomson problem. Instead of packing with local hexagonal order intersperced with topological defects, we find charge distributions with helical symmetry wound around the surface of the sphere. This finding should have repercussions in the viral packing and macroion adsorption theories.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, version accepted by Europhysics Letters
Gene expression changes in Bemisia tabaci induced by virus-derived small RNAs present in TYLCV-infected tomato plants
Creators: name: López-Moya, Juan José
name: Ontiveros, Irene
name: Fernández-Pozo, Noé
name: Matsumura, Emilyn
name: Diaz-Pendon, Juan Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: VIRTIGATION presentation during the XVII Congreso Nacional de Virología in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

The H2020 project VIRTIGATION - Emerging viral diseases in tomatoes and cucurbits: Implementation of mitigation strategies for durable disease management - has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101000570.
Berkeley Undergraduate Field Methods: Dafing
Creators: name: Konate, Rassidatou
name: Aitha, Akshay
name: Alam, Samir
name: Banfield-Keller, Daniel
name: Esquenazi, Nico
name: Greenberg, Michael
name: Guerrero, Miranda
name: Ho, Steven
name: Jenks, Peter
name: Steffman, Jeremy
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022

description: Sound recordings of elicitation sessions (Series 001) and student field notes (Series 002). Sound recordings come from Prof. Jenks's elicitation sessions with Rassidatou Konate outside of class. Field notes were originally kept in a Google spreadsheet, with separate tabs corresponding to individual students. Tabs have been exported as individual CSV files and separated into different items by student.
Quantitative morphometric analysis and prioritization of sub-watersheds for soil erosion susceptibility: A comparison between fuzzy analytical hierarchy process and compound parameter analysis method
Creators: name: Dhanush, Shantha Kumar
name: Murthy, M. Mahadeva
name: Sathish, A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 419999
subject: Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 370704
subject: Surface water hydrology

description: Identification of critical sub-watersheds susceptible to soil erosion risk is the preliminary step in any watershed management plan. To achieve this goal, the prioritization of sub-watersheds based on morphometric characteristics is of paramount necessity. This study was performed on the Upper Shimsha-1 watershed using digital elevation model to quantify the morphometric parameters. The stream network was extracted in ArcGIS software, and the watershed was delineated into 16 sub-watersheds (denoted as SW1 to SW16). Two approaches, viz., the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) and compound parameter analysis methods, were employed in prioritizing sub-watersheds using 18 parameters highly related to soil erodibility. The FAHP score ranged from 0.145 (lowest priority) to 0.794 (highest priority), prioritizing sub-watersheds into ‘high’, ‘medium’ and ‘low’ classes occupying 10.76%, 27.23% and 62.01% of the total area, respectively. The compound parameter values ranged from 6.05 (highest priority) to 10.77 (lowest priority), and the ‘high’, ‘medium’ and ‘low’ classes occupied 31.84%, 16.49% and 51.67% of the total area, respectively. The common sub-watersheds from both methods under the ‘high’ priority class were SW14 and SW15, accounting for 10.76%, and under the ‘low’ priority class, SW1, SW8, SW9, SW11, SW12 and SW16 accounted for 42.66% of the total area. Hence, eight sub-watersheds were common in both prioritization methods corresponding to their respective priority classes. The integration of GIS technology, morphometry and prioritization methods has proven to be indispensable in watershed management and soil conservation efforts through this investigation. It further emphasizes the need for swift attention from decision-makers toward critical sub-watersheds.
Ly-alpha Radiative Transfer: A Stokes Vector Approach to Ly-alpha Polarization
Creators: name: Seon, Kwang-Il
name: Song, Hyunmi
name: Chang, Seok-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ly-alpha emitting galaxies and giant Ly-alpha blobs (LABs) have been extensively observed to study the formation history of galaxies. However, the origin of their extended Ly-alpha emission, especially of LABs, remains controversial. Polarization signals from some LABs have been discovered, and this is commonly interpreted as strong evidence supporting that the extended Ly-alpha emission originates from the resonance scattering. The Monte Carlo Ly-alpha radiative transfer code LaRT is updated to investigate the polarization of Ly-alpha using the Stokes vector formalism. We apply LaRT to a few models to explore the fundamental polarization properties of Ly-alpha. Interestingly, individual Ly-alpha photon packets are found to be almost completely polarized by a sufficient number of scatterings (N_scatt > 10^4-10^5 in a static medium) or Doppler shifts induced by gas motion, even starting from unpolarized light. It is also found that the polarization pattern can exhibit a non-monotonically increasing pattern in some cases, besides the commonly-known trend that the polarization monotonically increases with radius. The polarization properties are primarily determined by the degree of polarization of individual photon packets and the anisotropy of the Ly-alpha radiation field, which are eventually controlled by the medium's optical depth and velocity field. If once Ly-alpha photon packets achieve ~100% polarization, the radial profile of polarization appears to correlate with the surface brightness profile. A steep surface brightness profile tends to yield a rapid increase of the linear polarization near the Ly-alpha source location. In contrast, a shallow surface brightness profile gives rise to a slowly increasing polarization pattern.
description: 37 pages, 28 figure; Accepted for publication in ApJS
Within-household selection of target-respondents impairs demographic representativeness of probabilistic samples: evidence from seven rounds of the European Social Survey
Creators: name: Jabkowski, Piotr
name: Cichocki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Survey Research Methods
Year: 2019

description: This paper examines the demographic representativeness of different types of probabilistic samples based on the results of seven rounds of the European Social Survey. Focusing on the distinction between personal-register and non-personal-register samples, it demonstrates that the latter exhibit systematically larger gender- and age-biases. Expanding upon a ‘gold standard’ evaluation based on external criteria derived from Eurostat population statistics, an internal criteria analysis leads to the conclusion that the inferior quality of surveys involving interviewer-driven within-household selection of target respondents results from interviewer discretion. Such interference results in the selection of individuals with higher levels of readiness and availability, which superficially improves survey outcome rates while yielding samples of actually inferior quality. The internal-criteria approach provides a straightforward and undemanding way of monitoring representativeness of samples, and proves especially handy when it comes to large cross-country projects, as it requires no data external to the survey results, and allows for comparing surveys regardless of possible differences in sampling frames, sampling design and fieldwork execution procedures.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 13 No 2 (2019)
Capturing Multiple Perspectives in a Multi-actor Survey: The Impact of Parental Presence During Child Interviews on Reporting Discrepancies
Creators: name: Müller, Bettina
Publisher: name: Survey Research Methods
Year: 2019

description: Third-party presence is considered a potential threat to the quality of sensitive information gathered in face-to-face interviews. Issues arising from interference and reduced privacy due to bystander presence appear particularly pressing in child surveys: Parental presence is quite common and likely more pervasive as compared to other interviewee-bystander constellations. Focusing on surveys designed to capture multiple perspectives on the same issues, a key question is whether child interviews – in addition to parent information – can provide an independent opinion if parents are present during the interview. Using longitudinal multi-actor data from the German Family Panel (pairfam), the present study evaluates the impact of parental presence on child-parent discrepancies in survey reports on children’s problem behaviors and difficulties in the parent-child relationship. The longitudinal analysis of child-parent dyads allows for a more extensive consideration of selection processes of parental presence as compared to cross-sectional approaches. While descriptive results suggest that parent and child reports are more similar when parents are present, fixed-effects regression analyses do not find any effects of changes in parental presence on reporting discrepancies within child-parent dyads.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 13 No 2 (2019)
Effect of finite chemical potential on QGP-Hadron phase transition in a statistical model of fireball formation
Creators: name: Ramanathan, R.
name: Jha, Agam k.
name: Gupta, K. k.
name: Singh, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of finite chemical potential for the QGP constituents in the Ramanathan et al. statistical model (Phys.Rev.C70, 027903,2004). While the earlier computations using this model with vanishing chemical potentials indicated a weakly first order phase transition for the system in the vicinity of 170 MeV (Pramana, 68, 757, 2007), the introduction of finite values for the chemical potentials of the constituents makes the transition a smooth roll over of the phases, while allowing fireball formation with radius of a few "fermi" to take place. This seems to be in conformity with the latest consensus on the nature of the QGP-Hadron phase transition. Keywords: Quark Gluon Plasma, Quark Hadron Phase Transition
description: LaTex 20 pages, 20 figures
Quantitative morphometric analysis and prioritization of sub-watersheds for soil erosion susceptibility: A comparison between fuzzy analytical hierarchy process and compound parameter analysis method
Creators: name: Dhanush, Shantha Kumar
name: Murthy, M. Mahadeva
name: Sathish, A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 419999
subject: Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 370704
subject: Surface water hydrology

description: Identification of critical sub-watersheds susceptible to soil erosion risk is the preliminary step in any watershed management plan. To achieve this goal, the prioritization of sub-watersheds based on morphometric characteristics is of paramount necessity. This study was performed on the Upper Shimsha-1 watershed using digital elevation model to quantify the morphometric parameters. The stream network was extracted in ArcGIS software, and the watershed was delineated into 16 sub-watersheds (denoted as SW1 to SW16). Two approaches, viz., the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) and compound parameter analysis methods, were employed in prioritizing sub-watersheds using 18 parameters highly related to soil erodibility. The FAHP score ranged from 0.145 (lowest priority) to 0.794 (highest priority), prioritizing sub-watersheds into ‘high’, ‘medium’ and ‘low’ classes occupying 10.76%, 27.23% and 62.01% of the total area, respectively. The compound parameter values ranged from 6.05 (highest priority) to 10.77 (lowest priority), and the ‘high’, ‘medium’ and ‘low’ classes occupied 31.84%, 16.49% and 51.67% of the total area, respectively. The common sub-watersheds from both methods under the ‘high’ priority class were SW14 and SW15, accounting for 10.76%, and under the ‘low’ priority class, SW1, SW8, SW9, SW11, SW12 and SW16 accounted for 42.66% of the total area. Hence, eight sub-watersheds were common in both prioritization methods corresponding to their respective priority classes. The integration of GIS technology, morphometry and prioritization methods has proven to be indispensable in watershed management and soil conservation efforts through this investigation. It further emphasizes the need for swift attention from decision-makers toward critical sub-watersheds.
Die Bulgarische Orthodoxe Kirche und die Heilige und Große Synode
Creators: name: Illert, Martin
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 66 Nr. 1 (2017): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 66, Heft 1
Qudits for Witnessing Quantum Gravity Induced Entanglement of Masses Under Decoherence
Creators: name: Tilly, Jules
name: Marshman, Ryan J.
name: Mazumdar, Anupam
name: Bose, Sougato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently a theoretical and an experimental protocol known as quantum gravity induced entanglement of masses (QGEM) has been proposed to test the quantum nature of gravity using two mesoscopic masses each placed in a superposition of two locations. If, after eliminating all non-gravitational interactions between them, the particles become entangled, one can conclude that the gravitational potential is induced via a quantum mediator, i.e. a virtual graviton. In this paper, we examine a range of different experimental set-ups, considering different geometries and the number of spatially superposed states taken, in order to determine which would generate entanglement faster. We conclude that without decoherence, and given a maximum distance $Δx$ between any two spatial states of a superposition, a set of two qubits placed in spatial superposition parallel to one another will outperform all other models given realistic experimental parameters. Furthermore, when a sufficiently high decoherence rate is introduced, multi-component superpositions can outperform the two-qubit set-up. This is further verified with an experimental simulation, showing that $O(10^3)$ measurements are required to reject the no entanglement hypothesis with a parallel qubits set-up without decoherence at a 99.9$\%$ confidence level. The number of measurements increases when decoherence is introduced. When the decoherence rate reaches $0.125$~Hz, 6-dimensional qudits are required as the two-qubit system entanglement cannot be witnessed anymore. However, in this case, $O(10^6)$ measurements will be required. One can group the witness operators to measure in order to reduce the number of measurements (up to ten-fold). However, this may be challenging to implement experimentally.
description: 15 pages, 20 figures, 2 tables
Sustainable highly stretchable and tough gelatin-alkali lignin hydrogels for scaffolding and 3D printing applications
Creators: name: Decante, Guy
name: Cengiz, Ibrahim Fatih
name: Costa, João B.
name: Collins, Maurice
name: Reis, Rui L
name: Silva-Correia, Joana
name: Oliveira, J. Miguel
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Hydrogels and bioinks obtained from gelatin (Gel) generally present poor mechanical properties and require a series of time-consuming and stepwise chemical processes to exhibit improved elasticity and resistance to fatigue. Alkali lignin (AL) is an underutilized by-product of the paper and pulp industry. It is a widely available and inexpensive biomaterial that presents enormous potential for high-value applications owing to its ease of chemical modification and unique naturally occurring polyaromatic structure. This work aims to develop different GelAL hydrogel formulations with a single-step method that are innovative and sustainable. The results obtained from the mechanical, rheological, and degradation studies of the developed GelAL hydrogels demon?strated that their properties can be easily modified and tuned using straightforward processing techniques, allowing these stretchable and tough hydrogels to be used as bioinks in 3D printing. The modulation of me?chanical properties through hydrogel formulations is a result of interactions between the Gel and AL which can be associated with the interplay of anionic sulfonates in AL and the arginine and lysine residues from Gel. The tensile stress at the break for the Gel20AL10 formulation was 32% higher than the value for Gel20AL5 and 157% higher than that of Gel10AL10. The elongation at break also decreased as it averaged 659 ± 149% for the Gel20AL10 formulation, which is 20% more than that of Gel20AL5 and 55% more than the average elongation at break of Gel10AL10. Further zeta potential measurements and quartz crystal microbalance with energy dissi?pation studies demonstrated that Gel and AL seem to form neutral complexes when mixed. These assays support the idea that AL and Gel are readily bound through weak interactions, and chemical crosslinking strategies need to be considered when degradability and mechanical properties tuning are envisioned. Altogether, these high?performance GelAL hydrogels display mechanical properties similar to soft tissues with high elasticity beyond that of natural hydrogels and fulfill the requirements of a broad range of biomedical and tissue engineering scaffolding applications
Motivation and the language learner : a re-examination
Creators: name: Tanahashi, Wendy Pringle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis questions Gardner and Lambert's (1959) and Gardner's (1975) assumptions concerned with motivation in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), and explores the possibility of alternative conceptions of motivation located within a qualitative, multiple case study approach. In contrast to Gardner's standard taxonomies and indices of motivation orientations correlated with language aptitude, this study instead examines those affective orientations described and contextualized by individual learners within their ever-changing learning context(s). Gardner's model, as well as many subsequent SLA models of affective variables, have been located within traditional second language teaching/learning environments. This study, however, looks at Japanese university students learning English within an Integrated Language and Content programme (ILC) at a North American University. In SLA theory, the dominant approach to motivation has been Gardner and Lambert's quantitative model of integrative and instrumental motivation (1959). They argued that language aptitude and integrative motivation were directly related to achievement in SLA. Since then, the majority of SLA studies of affective variables have been causal frameworks. Working within a positivist frame of reference, Gardner views learners as "subjects" rather than persons (Secord, 1990), that is to say, the learners' behaviours are determined by internal and external influences over which the learner has no control. Also excluding Harre, Clarke and De Carlo's outline of a human agent learner (1985), Gardner does not attribute learners with having their own learning agendas, learning priorities, nor choices in the learning process. A multiple case study approach (Yin, 1994) is applied in this study in order to focus on each individual with respect to her/his own reality and learning context(s). A collaborative research approach, with feedback from the four learners (co-investigators) is carried on through out the research process. Data is triangulated from the following sources: individual debriefings, focus group discussions, and journal studies . Using this approach it was possible to explore the learner's own definitions and lived experiences of motivation, frustration, anxiety, and other "affective variables", establishing multiple meanings in variable contexts, and partial instead of global "truths" The data collected in this study suggest the following: learners are motivated by reasons for action, motivation is a dynamic process—goal directed action, reflection and revision, motivation reflects individual differences in learners, motivation is related to language socialisation, cooperative research plays an important role in the study of motivation, and Gardner's orientation model has no room for human agency.
New sources of leptonic CP violation at the DUNE neutrino experiment
Creators: name: Giarnetti, A.
name: Meloni, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We check the capability of the DUNE neutrino experiment to detect new sources of leptonic CP violation beside the single phase expected in the Standard Model. We illustrate our strategy based on the measurement of CP asymmetries in the case New Physics will show up as Non-Standard neutrino Interactions and sterile neutrino states and show that the most promising one, once the experimental errors are taken into account in both scenarios, is the one related to the $ν_μ\to ν_e$ transition.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of The effects of 12 weeks of functional strength training on muscle strength, volume and activity upon exposure to elevated Gz forces in high-performance aircraft personnel
Creators: name: Rausch, Monika
name: Weber, Frank
name: Kühn, Sven
name: Ledderhos, Carla
name: Zinner, Christoph
name: Sperlich, Billy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. All strength training sessions and their characteristics (repetitions, series, time of recovery, and duration) during the 12-week intervention.
On a systematic bias in SBF-based distances due to gravitational microlensing
Creators: name: Tuntsov, Artem V.
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of gravitational microlensing on the determination of extragalactic distances using surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) technique is considered and a method to calculate SBF amplitudes in presence of microlensing is presented. With a simple approximation for the magnification power spectrum at low optical depth the correction to the SBF-based luminosity distance is calculated. The results suggest the effect can be safely neglected at present but may become important for SBF-based Hubble diagrams at luminosity distances of about 1 Gpc and beyond.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Bilateral Spectrum Weighted Total Variation for Noisy-Image Super-Resolution and Image Denoising
Creators: name: Sun, Kaicong
name: Simon, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we propose a regularization technique for noisy-image super-resolution and image denoising. Total variation (TV) regularization is adopted in many image processing applications to preserve the local smoothness. However, TV prior is prone to oversmoothness, staircasing effect, and contrast losses. Nonlocal TV (NLTV) mitigates the contrast losses by adaptively weighting the smoothness based on the similarity measure of image patches. Although it suppresses the noise effectively in the flat regions, it might leave residual noise surrounding the edges especially when the image is not oversmoothed. To address this problem, we propose the bilateral spectrum weighted total variation (BSWTV). Specially, we apply a locally adaptive shrink coefficient to the image gradients and employ the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix of the weighted image gradients to effectively refine the weighting map and suppress the residual noise. In conjunction with the data fidelity term derived from a mixed Poisson-Gaussian noise model, the objective function is decomposed and solved by the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm. In order to remove outliers and facilitate the convergence stability, the weighting map is smoothed by a Gaussian filter with an iteratively decreased kernel width and updated in a momentum-based manner in each ADMM iteration. We benchmark our method with the state-of-the-art approaches on the public real-world datasets for super-resolution and image denoising. Experiments show that the proposed method obtains outstanding performance for super-resolution and achieves promising results for denoising on real-world images.
Approaching quantum behavior with classical fields
Creators: name: Holdom, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By averaging over an ensemble of field configurations, a classical field theory can display many of the characteristics of quantum field theory, including Lorentz invariance, a loop expansion, and renormalization effects. There is additional freedom in how the ensemble is chosen. When the field mode amplitudes have a Gaussian distribution, and the mode phases are randomly distributed, we review the known differences between the classical and quantum theories. When the mode amplitudes are fixed, or have a nongaussian distribution, the quartic and higher correlations among the free fields are modified, seemingly in a nonlocal way. We show how this in turn affects the perturbative expansion. We focus on $λϕ^4$ theory in 1+1 dimensions and use lattice simulations to augment our study. We give examples of how these nonlocal correlations induce behavior more similar to quantum field theory, at both weak and strong coupling.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, now matches published version