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title: The role of public policy in promoting technical innovations
title: The case of the regional innovation network InnoPlanta
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Conrad, Jobst
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 330

description: The purpose of this article is to demonstrate and to discuss on the basis of an indepth case study the range and limitations of public policy aiming at promoting the development of regional innovation networks and clusters. This is done first by denominating main criteria, potentials and problems of a public policy promoting regional clusters (section 1), second by describing the development of the network association InnoPlanta and its major framework conditions (sections 2 and 3), third by summarizing the actor constellation of the network and the innovation pattern and market perspectives of InnoPlanta's research projects (sections 4 and 5), fourth by then pointing out the structure and role of public promotion policy in this process (section 6), fifth by comparing promotion objectives with results achieved (section 7), and sixth by drawing some conclusions concerning successful promotion policy in the case investigated and in general (section 8). As shown in the case study, the role, success or failure of public policy promoting the development of regional innovation networks and clusters depend on its favourable interaction dynamics with the existing social and economic contextual conditions. Therefore, referring to the in-depth case study of Conrad (2005), on the one hand these framework conditions are sketched in somewhat more detail, and on the other hand the article does not focus on one specific theoretical question, but tries to combine various analytical perspectives to explain the role and success of public promotion policy in the case of InnoPlanta. Consequently, this article concentrates on explaining the role of the BMBF InnoRegio program, in particular, for the development of the regional innovation network InnoPlanta, and not on this type of public promotion policy per se.
description: Science, Technology & Innovation Studies
Towards a unified framework for decomposability of processes
Creators: name: Lahtinen, Valtteri
name: Stenvall, Antti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The concept of process is ubiquitous in science, engineering and everyday life. Category theory, and monoidal categories in particular, provide an abstract framework for modelling processes of many kinds. In this paper, we concentrate on sequential and parallel decomposability of processes in the framework of monoidal categories: We will give a precise definition, what it means for processes to be decomposable. Moreover, through examples, we argue that viewing parallel processes as coupled in this framework can be seen as a category mistake or a misinterpretation. We highlight the suitability of category theory for a structuralistic interpretation of mathematical modelling and argue that for appliers of mathematics, such as engineers, there is a pragmatic advantage from this.
description: To appear in Synthese. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1139-4. Revision on 12 September 2016: Discussion of states as morphisms reconsidered. In particular, footnotes 9 and 12 modified. This corrects a faulty statement in footnote 12 of the previous version
Co-creating the GreenSCENT apps: Seeing the results
Creators: name: Skov Nielsen, Ida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education for sustainable development, eco-school, environmental education, sustainability, sustainability competences, GreenComp

description: This GreenSCENT report summarises the content, structure and results emerged during the Youth Design Assembly workshop that took place in June 2023.
Έμφυλη βία και Προσφυγικό Φαινόμενο
Creators: name: Λιτούδη, Άννα-Μαρία Παύλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Έμφυλη βία
Πρόσφυγες
Σεξουαλική βία
Gender-based violence
Refugees
Sexual violence

description: Σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, οι πρόσφυγες βιώνουν όλο το φάσμα της έμφυλης βίας σε ολόκληρη την προσφυγική εμπειρία, αν και έχει δοθεί μεγάλο μέρος της επιστημονικής και διεθνούς προσοχής στη σεξουαλική βία, όπως ο βιασμός και το εξαναγκαστικό σεξ. Αν και αναγνωρίζεται το γεγονός ότι ορισμένοι άνδρες πρόσφυγες αντιμετωπίζουν και αυτοί έμφυλη βία, σύμφωνα με την έρευνα, οι περισσότερες γυναίκες πρόσφυγες βιώνουν κάποια μορφή της . Ενώ όλα τα άτομα επηρεάζονται από τη βία κατά καιρούς συγκρούσεων, οι γυναίκες και τα κορίτσια κινδυνεύουν περισσότερο από την έμφυλη βία λόγω της έλλειψης κοινωνικής προστασίας, ασφαλής πρόσβαση σε υπηρεσίες και τη χρήση της σεξουαλικής βίας ως πολεμικού όπλου. Στην παρούσα εργασία συζητήθηκε η έμφυλη βία στους πρόσφυγες. Έγινε αναφορά σε διάφορες μορφές βίας που αντιμετωπίζουν οι πρόσφυγες, την υπάρχουσα νομοθεσία, στους παράγοντες κινδύνου έμφυλης βίας αλλά και στις παρεμβάσεις που μπορούν να γίνουν για την μετρίαση ή εξάλειψή της.
description: Globally, refugees experience the full range of gender-based violence throughout the refugee experience, although much of the scientific and international attention has been given to sexual violence, such as rape and forced sex. Although it is acknowledged that some male refugees also experience gender-based violence, according to research, most female refugees experience some form of violence. While all individuals are affected by violence in times of conflict, women and girls are more at risk of gender-based violence due to lack of social protection, secure access to services, and the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. In this paper we were discussed gender-based violence against refugees. Reference was made to the various forms of violence faced by refugees, the existing legislation, the risk factors for gender-based violence and the interventions that can be made to mitigate or eliminate it.
Ο Ερωτόκριτος του Β. Κορνάρου από τη λογοτεχνία στα κόμικς
Creators: name: Κοκκάρης, Ευάγγελος-Ελευθέριος Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ερωτόκριτος
Κόμικς
Λογοτεχνία
Erotokritos
Comics
Literature

description: Ο Ερωτόκριτος του Βιτσέντζου Κορνάρου αποτελεί ένα αριστουργηματικό έργο που από πολύ νωρίς γοήτευσε διάφορους καλλιτέχνες, οι οποίοι θέλησαν να συνδιαλεχθούν μαζί του διασκευάζοντάς το. Έτσι το έργο μεταφέρθηκε σε διάφορες μορφές τέχνης όπως το θέατρο, τα εικαστικά και τα κόμικς. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εστιάζει στα κόμικς και συγκεκριμένα στις διασκευές του Ερωτόκριτου από τους Θ. Συναδινό και Ν. Θεολόγου-Σαβράμη (που πραγματοποιήθηκε τη δεκαετία του 1950 και μετέφερε το έργο ως κόμικς της σειράς Κλασσικά Εικονογραφημένα) και από τους Γ. Γούση, Δ. Παπαμάρκο και Γ. Ράγκο (οι οποίοι πριν από μερικά χρόνια (2016) μετέφεραν το έργο σε ένα αυτόνομο κόμικς). Σκοπός λοιπόν της εργασίας δεν είναι άλλος από τη μελέτη των τεχνικών της διαμεσικής μεταφοράς, της μεταφοράς δηλαδή από τη λογοτεχνία στα κόμικς. Η εργασία χωρίζεται σε τρία κεφάλαια στα οποία αναλύονται τα ιδιαίτερα χαρακτηριστικά των κόμικς, καθώς και η ιστορία τους στην Ελλάδα, αλλά και μια σειρά θεωρητικών ζητημάτων και θεωριών που βοηθούν την κατανόηση της διαμεσικής μεταφοράς. Τα παραπάνω παρέχουν τα απαραίτητα εργαλεία ώστε η θεωρία να γίνει πράξη και να επιχειρηθεί η διασαφήνιση των τεχνικών που χρησιμοποιούνται για να γίνει η μεταφορά από το ένα είδος στο άλλο, με κεντρικό παράδειγμα το αριστούργημα της κρητικής λογοτεχνίας.
description: Vitsentzos Kornaros's Erotokritos is a masterpiece that throughout the ages fascinated various artists, who wanted to discourse with Erotokritos by adaptating it. Thus the romance was transferred to various art forms such as theater, visual arts and comics. The present documentation focuses on the comics and specifically on the adaptations by Th. Synadinos and N. Theologou-Savramis (which took place in the 1950s and transferred the romance as a comic book of the series Klassika Eikonografimena [= Classics Illustrated]) and that of G. Gousis, D. Papamarkos and G. Ragos (who a few years ago (2016) transferred the work to an independent comic). This documentation is divided into three chapters in which are analyzed the special features of the comics, their history in Greece, but also a series of theoretical issues and theories that help us to understand how the transmedial transformation works. The above provides the necessary tools for the theory to be put into practice and to attempt to clarify the techniques used in order to move from one medium to another, with the major example being the masterpiece of Cretan literature.
Why do high-redshift galaxies show diverse gas-phase metallicity gradients?
Creators: name: Ma, Xiangcheng
name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Feldmann, Robert
name: Torrey, Paul
name: Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre
name: Keres, Dusan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent spatially resolved observations of galaxies at z=0.6-3 reveal that high-redshift galaxies show complex kinematics and a broad distribution of gas-phase metallicity gradients. To understand these results, we use a suite of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations from the Feedback in Realistic Environments (FIRE) project, which include physically motivated models of the multi-phase ISM, star formation, and stellar feedback. Our simulations reproduce the observed diversity of kinematic properties and metallicity gradients, broadly consistent with observations at z=0-3. Strong negative metallicity gradients only appear in galaxies with a rotating disk, but not all rotationally supported galaxies have significant gradients. Strongly perturbed galaxies with little rotation always have flat gradients. The kinematic properties and metallicity gradient of a high-redshift galaxy can vary significantly on short time-scales, associated with starburst episodes. Feedback from a starburst can destroy the gas disk, drive strong outflows, and flatten a pre-existing negative metallicity gradient. The time variability of a single galaxy is statistically similar to the entire simulated sample, indicating that the observed metallicity gradients in high-redshift galaxies reflect the instantaneous state of the galaxy rather than the accretion and growth history on cosmological time-scales. We find weak dependence of metallicity gradient on stellar mass and specific star formation rate (sSFR). Low-mass galaxies and galaxies with high sSFR tend to have flat gradients, likely due to the fact that feedback is more efficient in these galaxies. We argue that it is important to resolve feedback on small scales in order to produce the diverse metallicity gradients observed.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, re-submitted to MNRAS after addressing referee's comments
Quantum-limited optical time transfer for future geosynchronous links
Creators: name: Caldwell, Emily D.
name: Deschenes, Jean-Daniel
name: Ellis, Jennifer
name: Swann, William C.
name: Stuhl, Benjamin K.
name: Bergeron, Hugo
name: Newbury, Nathan R.
name: Sinclair, Laura C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The combination of optical time transfer and optical clocks opens up the possibility of large-scale free-space networks that connect both ground-based optical clocks and future space-based optical clocks. Such networks promise better tests of general relativity, dark matter searches, and gravitational wave detection. The ability to connect optical clocks to a distant satellite could enable space-based very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), advanced satellite navigation, clock-based geodesy, and thousand-fold improvements in intercontinental time dissemination. Thus far, only optical clocks have pushed towards quantum-limited performance. In contrast, optical time transfer has not operated at the analogous quantum limit set by the number of received photons. Here, we demonstrate time transfer with near quantum-limited acquisition and timing at 10,000 times lower received power than previous approaches. Over 300 km between mountaintops in Hawaii with launched powers as low as 40 $μ$W, distant timescales are synchronized to 320 attoseconds. This nearly quantum-limited operation is critical for long-distance free-space links where photons are few and amplification costly -- at 4.0 mW transmit power, this approach can support 102 dB link loss, more than sufficient for future time transfer to geosynchronous orbits.
Eruption, emplacement, and environmental context of the Ordovician Garth Tuff, Capel Curig volcanic formation, North Wales
Creators: name: McArthur., Adrian Neil
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Assessment of the sanitary status of food and drink establishments in Addis Ababa city, a case of KIRKOS SUB-CITY; ADDIS ABABA
Creators: name: Bulcha, Kassa
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Background: Food borne diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality globally, in urban areas food and drink establishments serve as source of ready-to-eat foods for large number of people. The sanitary handling of food establishment has public health relevance in terms of preventing food related diseases and intoxications. Objective: To assess sanitary condition of food and drink establishment and associated factors, in Kirkos Sub City, Addis Ababa ETHIOPIA. Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from December 2013 to march 2014 in Kirkos Sub City, located at the center of ADDIS ABABA, With an area of 14.62 km2 and population size of 245, 578. Three hundred sixty four food and drink establishments and owners/managers from these establishments were selected through stratification (by Woreda and type) and proportionate simple random sampling to be the study subjects. Data was collected using pretested and structured Amharic version questionnaire and observation checklist. Results:- Among 364 food and drink establishments assessed in this study, highest were cafeteria 134(36.81%), followed by bar and/or restaurants 104(28.57%), fresh juice house 52(14.28%), hotels 34(9.34%), bakeries 25(6.86%) and the fewest 15(4.12%) were butchers. Construction/repair in past 2-5 years was done in only 180(49%) and among not maintained or constructed, 124(67.4%) reason for construction were due to urban plan requirements and no permission from renting body. overall kitchen cleanliness was highly associated with good repair condition of floor, wall and ceiling with OR=15.81(3.76,66.38 95 % CI), OR=14.24(3.39,59.28 95 % CI) and OR=15.85 (4.81,52.18 95 % CI) respectively. Access to private pipe water supply was strongly related to clean kitchen, availability of latrine and shower facilities with OR=5.48(1.65,18.13 95% CI), OR=24(6.64,91.01 95%CI) and OR=3.95(1.37,11.35) 95 % CI respectively. conclusion :- overall sanitary status of establishments was found to be in poor status in majority of the establishments worse than assessed in other towns. Generally there should be Integration between the regulatory body and different City administration stakeholders. In 5 addition, the regulatory body shall focus on hygienic food handling promotion activities towards establishment mangers and food handlers. Routine sanitary inspections and health certificate of competence issuance activities need to be conducted continuously, periodically and should cover/reach all establishments. Key words :- Kirkos sub City, food and drink establishments sanitary status, food premises, repair/construction, health certificate of competence and manager status.
Διερεύνηση αξιοποίησης του ντοκιμαντέρ και της ψηφιακής αφήγησης, ως εργαλεία ευαισθητοποίησης σε περιβαλλοντικά προβλήματα και υιοθέτησης οικολογικής συμπεριφοράς: Η περίπτωση της κλιματικής αλλαγής σε μαθητές δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης μέσω ενός προγράμματος κινηματογραφικής παιδείας
Creators: name: Μιξαφέντη, Αντιγόνη Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Παιδεία στα Μέσα
Ντοκιμαντέρ και Ψηφιακή αφήγηση
Κλιματική αλλαγή
Media Education
Documentaries & Digital storytelling
Climate change

description: Ο σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι να διερευνήσει την αξιοποίηση του ντοκιμαντέρ και των ψηφιακών ιστοριών, ως εργαλεία ευαισθητοποίησης, περιβαλλοντικής αφύπνισης και απόκτησης οικολογικής συμπεριφοράς. Ουσιαστικά στόχο έχει να αναδείξει την επιρροή που έχουν τα Οπτικοακουστικά Μέσα, οι ψηφιακές τεχνολογίες και τα Νέα Μέσα στην ενίσχυση της περιβαλλοντικής συνείδησης και της ανάληψης δράσης για το περιβάλλον. Ο τρόπος μελέτης των παραπάνω πραγματοποιείται εξετάζοντας μέσα από την βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση και από την διεξαγωγή πρωτογενούς έρευνας, η οποία πραγματοποιήθηκε σε μαθητές/τριες Δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης του Νομού Θεσσαλονίκης. Τα αποτελέσματα, προέκυψαν μετά από την χρήση ερωτηματολογίων αλλά και μέσα από την συζήτηση και την παρατήρηση της ερευνήτριας που ακολούθησε την παρέμβαση με το πρόγραμμα κινηματογραφικής παιδείας που δημιουργήθηκε για τους σκοπούς της έρευνας. Επιπρόσθετα, εστιάζει στην χρήση ψηφιακών εργαλείων και κατά πόσο οι μαθητές/τριες που παρήγαγαν κάποιο ψηφιακό προϊόν, παρουσίασαν αλλαγή στα πιστεύω τους σε σχέση με την κλιματική αλλαγή ή στην τάση για φιλοπεριβαλλοντική συμπεριφορά.
description: The purpose of this study is to explore the use of documentaries and digital stories as tools for awareness-raising, environmental awareness and the acquisition of ecological behavior. It essentially aims to highlight the impact that Audiovisual Media, digital technologies and the New Media have on enhancing environmental awareness and taking action on the environment. The way of studying the above is carried out by examining through the bibliographic review and by conducting primary research, which was carried out on students of secondary education of the Thessaloniki Area. The results emerged after the use of questionnaires but also through the discussion and observation of the researcher who followed the intervention with the film education program created for the purposes of the research. In addition, it focuses on the use of digital tools and whether students who have produced a digital product have experienced a change in their beliefs about climate change or a tendency towards environmental behavior.
title: Why is disgust a more unreasoned emotion than anger? An examination of the cognitive processes that accompany moral anger and disgust
Creators: name: Russell, Pascale Sophie
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The purpose of this thesis was to compare the cognitive processes that accompany moral anger and disgust. Experiment 1 indicated that anger responds to the contextual cues of harm and intent, while disgust responds uniquely to the categorical judgement of whether or not a bodily norm violation has occurred. Experiments 2 and 3 supported the assumption that disgust more so than anger is an unreasoned emotion, bodily moral disgust was justified with non-elaborated reasons, while non-bodily moral disgust and anger were justified with more cognitively elaborated reasons. The next line of research tested possible explanations for why these differences may occur. Experiment 4 was carried out in order to determine whether inherent features of anger and disgust would influence participants’ willingness to describe their social attitudes. It was found that an environmental manipulation of disgust decreased participants’ willingness to describe their thoughts and feelings about a social group, particularly when the group can be perceived as violating a bodily norm. However, the results failed to support the predictions for the anger manipulation. Experiments 5 and 6 examined whether the asymmetry in reasoning occurs due to social norms that are associated with moral anger and disgust. The results suggested that people are aware of social norms concerning how anger and disgust should be explained; however, personal feelings of moral anger and disgust modify the applicability of these social norms in some instances. The theoretical and practical implications for the results of this thesis are also discussed.
Space-time structure, asymptotic radiation and information recovery for a quantum hybrid state
Creators: name: Potaux, Yohan
name: Sarkar, Debajyoti
name: Solodukhin, Sergey N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hybrid quantum state is a combination of the Hartle-Hawking state for the physical particles and the Boulware state for the non-physical ones (such as ghosts), as was introduced in our earlier work [1]. We present a two-dimensional example, based on the RST model, when the corresponding back-reacted spacetime is a causal diamond, geodesically complete and free of the curvature singularities. In the static case it shows no presence of the horizon while it has a wormhole structure mimicking the black hole. In the dynamical case, perturbed by a pulse of classical matter, there appears an apparent horion while the spacetime remains to be a regular causal diamond. We compute the asymptotic radiation both in the static and dynamic case. We define entropy of the asymptotic radiation and demonstrate that as a function of the retarded time it shows the behavior typical for the Page curve. We suggest interpretation of our findings in terms of correlations in the virtual pairs of physical and non-physical particles spontaneously created in the spacetime.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
i-process nucleosynthesis and mass retention efficiency in He-shell flash evolution of rapidly accreting white dwarfs
Creators: name: Denissenkov, Pavel
name: Herwig, Falk
name: Battino, Umberto
name: Ritter, Christian
name: Pignatari, Marco
name: Jones, Samuel
name: Paxton, Bill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on stellar evolution simulations, we demonstrate that rapidly accreting white dwarfs in close binary systems are an astrophysical site for the intermediate neutron-capture process. During recurrent and very strong He-shell flashes in the stable H-burning accretion regime H-rich material enters the He-shell flash convection zone. $^{12}$C(p,$γ)^{13}$N reactions release enough energy to potentially impact convection, and i process is activated through the $^{13}$C($α$,n)$^{16}$O reaction. The H-ingestion flash may not cause a split of the convection zone as it was seen in simulations of He-shell flashes in post-AGB and low-Z AGB stars. We estimate that for the production of first-peak heavy elements this site can be of similar importance for galactic chemical evolution as the s-process production by low-mass AGB stars. The He-shell flashes result in the expansion and, ultimately, ejection of the accreted and then i-process enriched material, via super-Eddington luminosity winds or Roche-lobe overflow. The white dwarf models do not retain any significant amount of the accreted mass, with a He retention efficiency of $\leq 10\%$ depending on mass and convective boundary mixing assumptions. This makes the evolutionary path of such systems to supernova Ia explosion highly unlikely.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted to publication in ApJ Letters after minor changes
Η αντιμετώπιση των δραστών με πλήρη ή μειωμένο καταλογισμό στο έγκλημα της παιδοκτονίας κατά την προδικασία, την κύρια διαδικασία και την εκτέλεση των μέτρων θεραπείας
Creators: name: Καραμόσχογλου, Άννα Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Παιδοκτονία- Ανθρωποκτονία
Βρεφοκτονία
Καταλογισμός
Homicide
Infanticide
Imputable

description: Η παρούσα εργασία διαπραγματεύεται το αδίκημα της παιδοκτονίας, όπως αυτό προσδιορίζεται κατά το ελληνικό ποινικό δίκαιο, καθώς και τις διαφοροποιήσεις αυτού σε σχέση με το αδίκημα της ανθρωποκτονίας, το οποίο όμως στρέφεται κατά νεογνού ή βρέφους, πράξεις, οι οποίες αποτυπώνονται στην ψυχιατρική επιστήμη με τους όρους «νεογνοκτονία» και «βρεφοκτονία». Παράλληλα επιχειρείται μία προσέγγιση της ποινικής αντιμετώπισης του δράστη, όταν αυτός είναι πρόσωπο στερούμενο της ικανότητας προς καταλογισμό ή μειωμένης ικανότητας καταλογισμού, με επίκεντρο τις σημαντικές νομοθετικές μεταρρυθμίσεις, που έλαβαν χώρα με τις διατάξεις του Ν 4509/2017. Παρουσιάζονται δύο υποθέσεις, παιδοκτονίας, κατά την έννοια του άρθρου 303 ΠΚ και ανθρωποκτονίας (βρεφοκτονίας), κατά την έννοια του άρθρου 299 παρ. 1 ΠΚ, αντίστοιχα, η αντιμετώπισή τους από τα αρμόδια δικαστικά όργανα και η αντιμετώπιση των δραστών κατά την υλοποίηση των μέτρων θεραπείας, ώστε να αναδειχθούν οι σημαντικές τομές στο ισχύον νομοθετικό πλαίσιο στον χώρο αυτό.
description: The study deals with the crime of infanticide, as defined by Greek criminal law, as well as its differences in relation to the crime of homicide against a newborn or infant which are known in psychiatry by the terms "neonaticide” and "infanticide". At the same time an approach is attempted to enlighten the criminal treatment of the non imputable perpetrator or the pepretrator whose imputability is reduced focusing on the important legislative reforms that took place under the provisions of Law 4509/2017. There are two cases presented, related to infanticide within the meaning of article 303 of the Penal Code and homicide (infanticide) within the meaning of article 299 par. 1 PC respectively and the non imputable pepretrators’ treatment by the competent judicial authorities in order to emphasize the very significant amendments in this area.
Управљачки системи отворене архитектуре реконфигурабилних роботских ћелија за обраду
Creators: name: Dimić, Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Роботска ћелија за обраду
моделирање робота
управљачки систем
отворена архитектура
реконфигурабилност

description: У раду је приказан део резултата истраживања у области развоjа реконфигурабилних обрадних система на бази робота за обраду делова од мекших материјала ниже и средње класе тачности, која су обухватила решавање проблема сложености програмирања робота за обраду и незадовољавајуће тачности обраде услед статичке попустљивости робота. Сложеност програмирања робота за обраду је препозната као главни ограничавајући фактор за ширу примену робота у обради резањем. Постављајући у фокус истраживања решавање овог проблема, аутор је пошао од идеје да се постојећи CAD/CAM системи могу користити за програмирање робота у G-кôду за вишеосну обраду резањем. Поставком концепта реконфигурабилне ћелије на бази робота која емулира 5-осну машину алатку и развојем метода генерализованог кинематичког моделирања обрадних ћелија на бази робота, створене су основе за развој реконфигурабилног система управљања са програмирањем обраде у G-кôду. На бази ових резултата постављена су два метода развоја реконфигурабилног управљачког система: (i) метод на бази примене готових хардверских и софтверских система отворене архитектуре и (ii) метод на бази примене софтверских алата и хардверских технологија отворене архитектуре уз развој алгоритама управљања. Развојем експерименталних реконфигурабилних управљачких система према постављеним методима, као и експерименталном верификацијом добијених резултата, потврђено је да се постојећи CAD/CAM системи могу користити за програмирање робота у G-кôду за вишеосну обраду резањем. Добијени резултати потврђују да је могућ развој реконфигурабилних роботских ћелија за обраду и управљачких система, који се могу реконфигурисати и од стране корисника.
Empfehlung zur Erhebung, Analyse und Steuerung von Open-Access-Publikationskosten an österreichischen Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen
Creators: name: Capellaro, Christof
name: Grossmaier-Stieg, Kerstin
name: Kaier, Christian
name: Leitner, Edith
name: Luger, Susanne
name: Schmied-Kowarzik, Margret
name: Ulrych, Ursula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Access
Publikationskosten
Controlling
Österreich
Empfehlung

description: Der Übergang zu Open Science führt zu vielfältigen Umbrüchen im Wissenschaftsbetrieb, die sich auf dem Gebiet des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens als Open-Access-Transformation niederschlagen. Dieser Prozess geht zwangsläufig mit einem erheblichen finanziellen Wandel einher, welcher der Planung und Steuerung durch Entscheidungsträger*innen an Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen bedarf. Damit den Entscheidungsträger*innen künftig die dafür notwendigen Daten zur Verfügung stehen, empfiehlt das Papier, eine strukturierte Erhebung und Analyse sämtlicher Open-Access-Publikationskosten zu etablieren und benennt konkrete Maßnahmen, die zu diesem Zweck gesetzt werden können.
Life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, his relatives, friends, and enemies : comprising all his wills and his ways : with an historical record of what he did, and what he didn't : showing, moreover, who inherited the family plate, who came in for the silver spoons, and who for the wooden ladles : the whole forming a complete key to the house of Chuzzlewit, no. 01
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Picaresque literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1063598
subject: Families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728849
subject: Dysfunctional families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728523
subject: Selfishness
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111948
subject: Orphans
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1048433

description: The main theme of the novel according to Dickens's preface is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. Dickens introduced the first private detective character in this novel. The original parts issued from January 1843 to July 1844. Chapters 1-3: Chapter 1. Introductory, concerning the pedigree of the Chuzzlewit family -- Chapter 2. Wherein certain persons are presented to the reader, with whom he may, if he please, become better acquainted -- Chapter 3. In which certain and other persons are introduced; on the same terms as in the last chapter
Adjuvant radiation therapy and health-related quality of life among older women with early-stage endometrial cancer: an analysis using the SEER-MHOS linkage
Creators: name: Nichols, H.B.
name: Lund, J.L.
name: Park, J.
name: Kent, E.E.
name: Brewster, W.R.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Anderson, C.
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Year: 2023

description: Purpose: Radiation therapy (RT) has been associated with decreased health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in clinical trials of early-stage endometrial cancer (EC), but few studies have examined the association in real-world settings. We assessed HRQOL associated with adjuvant RT for older women with early-stage EC within a large U.S. population-based registry resource. Methods: The Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results and the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey linkage (1998–2017) was used to identify women with early-stage EC aged ≥ 65 years at survey who received surgery and were diagnosed ≥ 1-year prior (n = 1,140). HRQOL was evaluated with the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) until 2006 and the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey (VR-12) post 2006. Ordinary least squares regression was used to estimate mean difference (MD) in T scores and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) comparing treatment groups (surgery alone, adjuvant external beam radiation therapy [EBRT], or adjuvant vaginal brachytherapy [VBT]) after accounting for confounders using propensity score weighting. Results: Overall, RT was not associated with physical health (MD = 0.97; 95% CI = − 1.13, 3.07) or mental health (MD = − 0.78; 95% CI = − 2.60, 1.05) relative to surgery alone. In analyses by RT type, adjuvant VBT was associated with better general health on the SF-36/VR-12 subscale (MD = 3.59; 95% CI = 0.56, 6.62) relative to surgery alone. No statistically significant associations were observed for adjuvant VBT and physical or mental health, or for adjuvant EBRT and any HRQOL domain. Conclusion: Older women with early-stage EC treated with adjuvant RT did not report worse physical and mental HRQOL scores compared to those treated with surgery alone, though relevant symptoms should be evaluated further to fully understand the disease and treatment specific aspects of the HRQOL.
Digitized-Counterdiabatic Quantum Algorithm for Protein Folding
Creators: name: Chandarana, Pranav
name: Hegade, Narendra N.
name: Montalban, Iraitz
name: Solano, Enrique
name: Chen, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a hybrid classical-quantum digitized-counterdiabatic algorithm to tackle the protein folding problem on a tetrahedral lattice. Digitized-counterdiabatic quantum computing is a paradigm developed to compress quantum algorithms via the digitization of the counterdiabatic acceleration of a given adiabatic quantum computation. Finding the lowest energy configuration of the amino acid sequence is an NP-hard optimization problem that plays a prominent role in chemistry, biology, and drug design. We outperform state-of-the-art quantum algorithms using problem-inspired and hardware-efficient variational quantum circuits. We apply our method to proteins with up to 9 amino acids, using up to 17 qubits on quantum hardware. Specifically, we benchmark our quantum algorithm with Quantinuum's trapped ions, Google's and IBM's superconducting circuits, obtaining high success probabilities with low-depth circuits as required in the NISQ era.
Oscillations in the Flaring Active Region NOAA 11272
Creators: name: Cuellar, S. M. Conde
name: Costa, J. E. R.
name: Montaña, C. E. Cedeño
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied waves seen during the class C1.9 flare that occurred in Active Region NOAA 11272 on SOL2011-08-17. We found standing waves with periods in the 9- and 19-minute band in six extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths of the SDO/AIA instrument. We succeeded in identifying the magnetic arc where the flare started and two neighbour loops that were disturbed in sequence. The analysed standing waves spatially coincide with these observed EUV loops. To study the wave characteristics along the loops, we extrapolated field lines from the line-of-sight magnetograms using the force-free approximation in the linear regime. We used atmosphere models to determine the mass density and temperature at each height of the loop. Then, we calculated the sound and Alfv{é}n speeds using densities $10^8 \lesssim n_i \lesssim 10^{17}$ cm$^{-3}$ and temperatures $10^3 \lesssim T \lesssim 10^7$ K. The brightness asymmetry in the observed standing waves resembles the Alfv{é}n speed distribution along the loops, but the atmospheric model we used needs higher densities to explain the observed periods.
description: 15 pages and 9 figures
Assessment of Service Utilization among Inpatient Services in Public Hospitals of Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Yilma, Melaku
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2013

description: Background: Inpatient service is a part of hospital system and operates its available inputs to produce the desired outputs. Usually utilization refers as use of inputs in terms of beds and patient turnover to produce outputs in terms of discharges and inpatient days. Actually efficient utilization is associated with optimal use of available inputs and more production of outputs. However most of the hospitals' inefficient utilization was not identified with appropriate methodology; routine inpatient data didn't used exhaustively; inpatient indicators, its analysis and interpretation as well as the implication of variations were not fully understood. Objective: To assess service utilization among inpatient services in public hospitals of Addis Ababa city in April 2013. Method: A retrospective record review study design was employed and all inpatient records during past three years selected to assess service utilization among inpatient services in public hospitals of Addis Ababa city. A structured checklist developed, pretested and the required data elements collected from all inpatient registers and reports. All monthly based collected inpatient data checked for data clearance and entered into EXCEL database that computed each data elements into annual total and three years average then utilization indictors were calculated with their correct nominator and denominator values. Computed results further analyzed with SPSS version 20 software procedures that generated descriptive statistical data and it was summarized in tables. Finally relative ranks of wards compared against the average indicators value and categorized into four quadrants by applying PABON LASSO compartmentalize technique. Results: Average utilization in bed occupancy was 53.2% and bed turnover was 40 patients per bed per year during past three years. Among PABON LASSO quadrants the majority 36% of wards lie on inefficiently utilized in contrast 28% of wards lie on efficiently utilized during the past three years. Conclusion: The study findings clearly identified that 54% of wards underutilized their inpatient services in public hospitals of Addis Ababa City due to an excess of unused beds and longer hospitalize days during the past three years.
Needlet estimation of cross-correlation between CMB lensing maps and LSS
Creators: name: Bianchini, Federico
name: Renzi, Alessandro
name: Marinucci, Domenico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we develop a novel needlet-based estimator to investigate the cross-correlation between cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing maps and large-scale structure (LSS) data. We compare this estimator with its harmonic counterpart and, in particular, we analyze the bias effects of different forms of masking. In order to address this bias, we also implement a MASTER-like technique in the needlet case. The resulting estimator turns out to have an extremely good signal-to-noise performance. Our analysis aims at expanding and optimizing the operating domains in CMB-LSS cross-correlation studies, similarly to CMB needlet data analysis. It is motivated especially by next generation experiments (such as Euclid) which will allow us to derive much tighter constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters through cross-correlation measurements between CMB and LSS.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures, accepted by JCAP, updated to match published version
Μελέτη διαφοροποιήσεων μεταξύ μοντέλων διαδικασιών
Creators: name: Καριάκας, Βασίλειος Πολύδωρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Μοντέλο διαδικασίας
Διαφοροποίηση μοντέλων διαδικασιών
Μετρικές μοντέλων διαδικασιών
Process model
Process model differentiation
Process model metrics

description: Η σχεδίαση μοντέλων επιχειρησιακών διαδικασιών παίζει πολύ σημαντικό ρόλο στη συνολική διαχείριση τους. Κατά τον σχεδιασμό των μοντέλων πρέπει να λαμβάνονται σοβαρά υπόψη παράγοντες, όπως η ποιότητα, καθώς σημαντικά σφάλματα μπορούν να οδηγήσουν σε προβλήματα κατά την υλοποίηση ή τη λειτουργία της διαδικασίας. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία ασχολείται με τη μελέτη διαφοροποιήσεων μεταξύ μοντέλων επιχειρησιακών διαδικασιών. Παρατίθενται μέθοδοι εντοπισμού σφαλμάτων μοντέλων διαδικασίας, που συναντώνται στη βιβλιογραφία, οι οποίες είναι βασισμένες σε ποσοτικά και ποιοτικά χαρακτηριστικά των μοντέλων. Για τις ανάγκες της σχεδίασης μοντέλων διαδικασιών θα εστιάσουμε στο Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), μία ευρέως διαδεδομένη γλώσσα σχεδίασης επιχειρησιακών διαδικασιών λόγω των δυνατοτήτων αναπαράστασης της.
description: The design of business process models plays a very important role in their overall management. Factors such as, quality must be considered when designing models as significant errors can lead to problems in the implementation or operation of the process. The present dissertation deals with the investigation of differences between process models. Moreover, error detection methods for process models found in the literature are listed, which are based on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the models. For process modeling needs, we will focus on Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), a widely used business process design language due to its representation capabilities.
Gravitational soliton solutions to self-coupled Klein-Gordon and Schrödinger equations
Creators: name: Taylor, D. A.
name: Chabysheva, S. S.
name: Hiller, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Klein-Gordon equation in a curved spacetime to construct the relativistic analog of the Schrödinger-Newton problem, where a scalar particle lives in a gravitational potential well generated by its own probability distribution. A static, spherically symmetric metric is computed from the field equations of general relativity, both directly and as modeled by a perfect-fluid assumption that uses the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equation for hydrostatic equilibrium of the mass density. The latter is appropriate for a Hartree approximation to the many-body problem of a bosonic star. Simultaneous self-consistent solution of the Klein--Gordon equation in this curved spacetime then yields solitons with a range of radial excitations. We compare results with the nonrelativistic case.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, RevTex 4.2; added new calculation based directly on GR equations and corrected error in original work
Obstructed Atomic Insulators and Superfluids of Fermions Coupled to $\mathbb{Z}_2$ Gauge Fields
Creators: name: Parasar, Bhandaru Phani
name: Shenoy, Vijay B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fermions coupled to $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge fields on a lattice. We show how a spatial modulation of the fermion hopping allows for the realization of various obstructed atomic insulators that host higher-order band topology. Studying the effect of quantum dynamics of the gauge fields within a simplified model, we find a rich phase diagram of this system with a number of superfluid phases arising from the attractive interactions meditated by the gauge fields. A key finding of this work is that the evolution from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superfluid state to a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of tightly bound pairs occurs via the realization of these different superfluid phases separated by first-order transitions.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, supplemental material (6 pages, 1 figure)
Digital topology and applications to multidimensional image processing
Creators: name: McAndrew., Alisdair
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Time delay induced by plasma in strong lens systems
Creators: name: Bisnovatyi-Kogan, Gennady S.
name: Tsupko, Oleg Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the gravitational lens is surrounded by non-homoheneous plasma, in addition to the vacuum gravitational deflection, chromatic refraction occurs. Also, the speed of signal propagation decreases compared to vacuum. In this article, we investigate analytically the time delay in the case of gravitational lensing in plasma, focusing on strong lens systems. We take into account the following contributions: geometric delay due to trajectory bending in the presence of both gravity and plasma; potential delay of the ray in the gravitational field of the lens; dispersion delay in the plasma due to decrease of speed of light signal in the medium. We consider singular isothermal sphere as a model of gravitational lens, and arbitrary spherically symmetric distribution of surrounding plasma. For this scenario, plasma corrections for the time delay between two images are found in compact analytical form convenient for estimates. We discuss also the possible influence of the plasma on the value of the Hubble constant, determined from observations of the time delay in strong lens systems.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Towards a new steroid synthesis : conformational analogues of oxamflatin as histone deacetylase inhibitors
Creators: name: Mayes., Penelope A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Finite Field Methods for the Supercell Modelling of Charged Insulator-Electrolyte Interfaces
Creators: name: Zhang, Chao
name: Sprik, Michiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surfaces of ionic solids interacting with an ionic solution can build up charge by exchange of ions. The surface charge is compensated by a strip of excess charge at the border of the electrolyte forming an electric double layer. These electric double layers are very hard to model using the supercells methods of computational condensed phase science. The problem arises when the solid is an electric insulator (as most ionic solids are) permitting a finite interior electric field over the width of the slab representing the solid in the supercell. The slab acts as a capacitor. The stored charge is a deficit in the solution failing to compensate fully for the solid surface charge. Here we show how these problems can be overcome using the finite field methods developed by Stengel, Spaldin and Vanderbilt [Nat. Phys. {\bf 5}, 304, (2009)]. We also show how the capacitance of the double layer can be computed once overall electric neutrality of the double layer is restored by application of a finite macroscopic field $\mathbf{E}$ or alternatively by zero electric displacement $\mathbf{D}$. The method is validated for a classical model of a solid-electrolyte interface using the finite temperature molecular dynamics adaptation of the constant field method presented previously [Phys. Rev. B, 2016, 93, 144201]. Because ions in electrolytes can diffuse across supercell boundaries, this application turns out to be a critical illustration of the multivaluedness of polarization in periodic systems.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures