cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Burden, Etiology and Control of Hospital Acquired Infections in Intensive Care Units in Vietnam
Creators: name: Vu, Dinh Phu
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2017

description: Hospital acquired infection (HAI) is one of the most frequent adverse event in healthcare worldwide, affecting hundreds of millions of patients annually. In both developed and developing countries, this burden falls mainly on the critically ill. In Vietnam, HAI data are limited, particularly from the intensive care units (ICUs). Robust data are needed to evaluate these problems. This thesis addresses this need.

 A point prevalence survey (PPS) of HAI and antibiotics use was conducted monthly at 15 ICUs of 14 tertiary and provincial hospitals across Vietnam from October 2012 to September 2013. Subsequently an observational study focused on ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) and ventilator associated respiratory infections (VARI) at the ICUs of three referral hospitals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from November 2013 to November 2015.

 Analysis of 3287 patients in the PPS showed that 29.5% patients had at least one HAI on the surveyed day of which 80% was hospital acquired pneumonia. Antibiotics were being administered to 84.8% patients. A. baumannii, P. aeruginosa, and K. pneumoniae accounted for > 50% of HAI pathogens with carbapenem resistance rates of 89.2%, 55.7%, and 14.9% respectively. The presence of an invasive device was associated with significantly higher risk for HAI.

 The incidence of VAP and VARI in 374 patients analysed as part of the second study was 9.9% and 24.6% respectively with corresponding incidence densities of 7.6 and 21.4 episodes/1000 ventilation days respectively. Patients with VARI had an excess ICU stay of 11 days, ventilation duration 12.5 days, antibiotic consumption 11 DOT; and ICU cost 2189 US$ compared with those without VARI. Given an estimated 22,570 patients admitted to the ICUs of 14 surveyed hospitals in 2012 and VARI prevalence of 24.6%, we would expect 5552 patients developed VARI leading to an extra 69,403 ventilation days, 61,074 ICU days, 61,074 DOT antibiotic consumption, and an extra ICU cost of 12,153,810 US$. With a total of 40 tertiary and 304 provincial acute care hospitals across Vietnam, the extra cost for VARI nationally would be many times higher.

 In conclusion, this thesis provides compelling evidence that the burden of HAI in Vietnamese ICUs, particularly VAP/VARI, is substantial. There is also a high level of antibiotic consumption and widespread bacterial resistance to carbapenem antibiotics. Effective infection control measures and antibiotic stewardship programmes are urgently needed to address these problems in Vietnamese ICUs.
Triviality and the Higgs mass lower bound
Creators: name: Holland, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the minimal Standard Model, it is commonly believed that the Higgs mass cannot be too small, otherwise Top quark dynamics makes the Higgs potential unstable. Although this Higgs mass lower bound is relevant for current phenomenology, we show that the Higgs vacuum instability in fact does not exist and only appears when treating incorrectly the cut-off in the renormalization of a trivial theory. We also demonstrate how to calculate correctly the regulator-dependent Higgs mass lower bound.
description: Plenary talk presented at Lattice2004(plenary), Fermilab, June 21-26, 2004; 7 pages, 10 figures
Can Virialization Shocks be Detected Around Galaxy Clusters Through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect?
Creators: name: Kocsis, Bence
name: Haiman, Zoltan
name: Frei, Zsolt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In cosmological structure formation models, massive non-linear objects in the process of formation, such as galaxy clusters, are surrounded by large-scale shocks at or around the expected virial radius. Direct observational evidence for such virial shocks is currently lacking, but we show here that their presence can be inferred from future, high resolution, high-sensitivity observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in galaxy clusters. We study the detectability of virial shocks in mock SZ maps, using simple models of cluster structure (gas density and temperature distributions) and noise (background and foreground galaxy clusters projected along the line of sight, as well as the cosmic microwave background anisotropies). We find that at an angular resolution of 2'' and sensitivity of 10 micro K, expected to be reached at ~ 100 GHz frequencies in a ~ 20 hr integration with the forthcoming ALMA instrument, virial shocks associated with massive M ~ 10^15 M_Sun clusters will stand out from the noise, and can be detected at high significance. More generally, our results imply that the projected SZ surface brightness profile in future, high-resolution experiments will provide sensitive constraints on the density profile of cluster gas.
description: 15 pages, submitted to ApJ
Expansion of EYM Amplitudes in Gauge Invariant Vector Space
Creators: name: Feng, Bo
name: Li, Xiao-Di
name: Huang, Rijun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the problem of expanding single-trace tree-level amplitude of Einstein-Yang-Mills theory to the BCJ basis of Yang-Mills amplitudes, we present an alternative expansion formula in the gauge invariant vector space. Starting from a generic vector space consisting of polynomials of momenta and polarization vectors, we define a new sub-space as gauge invariant vector space by imposing constraints of gauge invariant conditions. To characterize this sub-space, we compute its dimension and construct an explicit gauge invariant basis from it. We propose an expansion formula in the gauge invariant basis with expansion coefficients being linear combinations of Yang-Mills amplitude, manifesting the gauge invariance of both expansion basis and coefficients. With help of quivers, we compute the expansion coefficients via differential operators and demonstrate the general expansion algorithm by several examples.
description: 54 pages, references added, references added. Version published in Chinese Physics C
Frequency dependent heat capacity within a kinetic model of glassy dynamics
Creators: name: Chakrabarti, Dwaipayan
name: Bagchi, Biman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been renewed interest in the frequency dependent specific heat of supercooled liquids in recent years with computer simulation studies exploring the whole frequency range of relaxation. The simulation studies can thus supplement the existing experimental results to provide an insight into the energy landscape dynamics. We here investigate a kinetic model of cooperative dynamics within the landscape paradigm for the dynamic heat capacity behavior. In this picture, the beta-process is modeled as a thermally activated event in a two-level system and the alpha-process is described as a beta-relaxation mediated cooperative transition in a double well. The model provides a description of the activated hopping in the energy landscape in close relation with the cooperative nature of the hopping event. For suitable choice of parameters, the model predicts a frequency dependent heat capacity that reflects the two-step relaxation behavior. Although experimentally obtained specific heat spectra of supercooled liquids till date could not capture the two-step relaxation behavior, this has been observed in a computer simulation study by Scheidler et. al. [Phys. Rev. B 63, 104204 (2001)]. The temperature dependence of the position of the low-frequency peak, due to the alpha-relaxation, shows a non-Arrhenius behavior as observed experimentally by Birge and Nagel [Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 2674 (1985)]. The shape of the alpha-peak is, however, found to be temperature independent, in agreement with the simulation result. The high-frequency peak appears with considerably larger amplitude than the alpha-peak. We attempt a plausible reason for this observation that is in contrast with the general feature revealed by the dielectric spectroscopy.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Revisiting fits to $B^{0} \to D^{*-} \ell^{+} ν_{\ell}$ to measure $|V_{cb}|$ with novel methods and preliminary LQCD data at non-zero recoil
Creators: name: Ferlewicz, Daniel
name: Urquijo, Phillip
name: Waheed, Eiasha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of fits to exclusive $B^{0} \to D^{*-} \ell^{+} ν_{\ell}$ measurements for the determination of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element magnitude $|V_{cb}|$, based on the most recent Belle untagged measurement. Results are obtained with the Caprini-Lellouch-Neubert (CLN) and Boyd-Grinstein-Lebed (BGL) form factor parametrizations, with and without the inclusion of preliminary Lattice QCD measurements of form factors at non-zero hadronic recoil from the JLQCD collaboration. The CLN and BGL fits are also studied in different scenarios with reduced theoretical assumptions, and at higher order expansions, respectively. To avoid bias from high systematic error correlations we employ a novel technique in the field of $B$-physics phenomenology with a toy MC using a Cholesky decomposition of the covariance matrix. Using additional input from Lattice QCD calculations of form factors at non-zero recoil, in collaboration with JLQCD, allows for well-defined fit results with reduced model dependence in CLN and BGL. The results obtained are consistent between different configurations, ultimately providing a method for a more model-independent exclusive measurement of $|V_{cb}|$. Using preliminary inputs, $\mathcal{F}(1)η_{\rm EW}|V_{cb}|$ is found to be approximately $(35.02 \pm 0.29 \pm 0.88) \times 10^{-3}$ in BGL(2,2,2) and $(34.96 \pm 0.32 \pm 0.96) \times 10^{-3}$ in CLNnoHQS.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables. Submitted to Physical Review D
title: Akustik im Schulbau
Creators: name: Profanter, Verena
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Akustik im Schulbau
subject: Europäische Volksschule Dr Leopold Zechner Wien
subject: Schulbaurichtlinien
subject: Acoustics within schoolbuilding
subject: European Elementary School Vienna
subject: schoolbuilding regulations

description: Untersucht wird mit dieser Diplomarbeit die Akustik im Schulbau anhand einer ehemaligen Knabenschule aus der Gründerzeit und dem Schulzubau aus den 90er Jahren für sehbeeinträchtigte Kinder in der Zinckgasse im 15. Wiener Gemeindebezirk. Zu Beginn wird ein Überblick über die Entwicklung im Schulbau unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Akustik von 1900 ausgehend gegeben. Im darauffolgenden Kapitel sollen die physischen, sowie psychischen Auswirkungen des Lärms auf Schüler und Lehrer aufgezeigt werden. Im Anschluss daran, werden neben den wichtigsten bau- und raumphysikalischen Begriffen die aktuellen raumakustischen Richtlinien im Schulbau aufgezeigt. In einem praktischen Teil sollen anhand von Messungen im Alt- und Neubau der Schule in der Zinckgasse, die akustischen Raumeigenschaften ermittelt und analysiert werden. Das abschließende Kapitel gibt einen kurzen Einblick über verschiedene Möglichkeiten zur Verbesserung der Raumakustik und zeigt mittels angeführten Beispielschulen, welche akustisch innovativen Raumkonzepte heutzutage möglich sind.
description: This master thesis analyses the acoustics in school buildings, using the example of the European elementary school 'Dr. Leopold Zechner' and the annex school building for visually handycapped children in Vienna in the 15th district. The fi rst chapter describes the development of school buildings from the 19th century until today, implying the subject of the acoustics. In addition to that, the focus is held to the physical and mental infl uences which can result from bad room acoustics in schools. The following chapter defi nes fundamental physical defi nition of room acoustics and presents the current state of the acoustic development of school buildings. In addition to that, acoustic measurements are realized and analysed in the example school. The fi nal part provides a small insight in possible innovative arrangements for improving the acoustics in school buildings, with the aid of two new example schools.
Additional file 1 of Indoor residual spraying for malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa 1997 to 2017: an adjusted retrospective analysis
Creators: name: Julie-Anne A. Tangena
name: Hendriks, Chantal M. J.
name: Devine, Maria
name: Tammaro, Meghan
name: Trett, Anna E.
name: Williams, Ignatius
name: Adilson José DePina
name: Achamylesh Sisay
name: Ramandimbiarijaona Herizo
name: Hmooda Toto Kafy
name: Chizema, Elizabeth
name: Were, Allan
name: Rozier, Jennifer
name: Coleman, Michael
name: Moyes, Catherine L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Maps showing IRS coverage in sub-Saharan Africa from 19972017 for carbamates, organochlorines, organophosphates and pyrethroids.
Universal Critical Behavior of Noisy Coupled Oscillators
Creators: name: Risler, Thomas
name: Prost, Jacques
name: Julicher, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the universal thermodynamic properties of systems consisting of many coupled oscillators operating in the vicinity of a homogeneous oscillating instability. In the thermodynamic limit, the Hopf bifurcation is a dynamic critical point far from equilibrium described by a statistical field theory. We perform a perturbative renormalization group study, and show that at the critical point a generic relation between correlation and response functions appears. At the same time the fluctuation-dissipation relation is strongly violated.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Excitation function of initial temperature of heavy flavor quarkonium emission source in high energy collisions
Creators: name: Wang, Qi
name: Liu, Fu-Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transverse momentum spectra of $J/ψ$, $ψ(2S)$, and $Υ(nS, n=1,2,3)$ produced in proton-proton ($p$+$p$), proton-antiproton ($p$+$\bar{p}$), proton-lead ($p$+Pb), gold-gold (Au+Au), and lead-lead (Pb+Pb) collisions over a wide energy range are analyzed by the (two-component) Erlang distribution, the Hagedorn function (the inverse power-law), and the Tsallis-Levy function. The initial temperature is obtained from the color string percolation model due to the fit by the (two-component) Erlang distribution in the framework of multisource thermal model. The excitation functions of some parameters such as the mean transverse momentum and initial temperature increase from dozens of GeV to above 10 TeV. The mean transverse momentum and initial temperature decrease (increase slightly or do not change obviously) with the increase of rapidity (centrality). Meanwhile, the mean transverse momentum of $Υ(nS, n=1,2,3)$ is larger than that of $J/ψ$ and $ψ(2S)$, and the initial temperature for $Υ(nS, n=1,2,3)$ emission is higher than that for $J/ψ$ and $ψ(2S)$ emission, which shows a mass-dependent behavior.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures. Advances in High Energy Physics, accepted
Introduzione: la crisi economica e della scienza economica.(Introduction: the Crisis of Economies and of Political Economy)
Creators: name: D'Ippoliti, Carlo
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: crisis, uncertainty, mainstream economics, Europe
subject: G01, B5, E12

description: The article introduces to the current issue of the journal by critically reviewing the articles published therein in light of both recent literature and current economic developments. The main topics dealt with concern the role of mainstream economics and ideology in creating the cultural and economic environment that lead to the crisis in the first place and that hinders now an effective policy response to it. Due to its institutional and governance failures, the European Union and the Eurozone in particular are being more affected by the crisis than any other economic area. There, while the recently rescued big financial institutions have started enjoying large profits from trading and speculation again, the sustainability of sovereign debts is being put under pressure due to lack of confidence in the face of severe austerity packages and the associated bleak growth perspectives. Overall, uncertainty concerning the international political and economic environment seem the main hindrance to economic recovery. However, clear strategies to restore confidence and a seemingly stable and ÒcertainÓ economic context are not apparent at the horizon, with the necessary consequence that the financial crisis is most likely to continue exerting strong negative impacts on the real economy for a sustained period. JEL: G01, B5, E12
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 64, N. 254 (2011)
Closed neighborhood ideal of a graph
Creators: name: Sharifan, Leila
name: Moradi, Somayeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a family of squarefree monomial ideals associated to finite simple graphs, whose monomial generators correspond to closed neighborhood of vertices of the underlying graph. Any such ideal is called the closed neighborhood ideal of the graph. We study some algebraic invariants of these ideals like Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and projective dimension and present some combinatorial descriptions for these invariants in terms of graph invariants.
The labour market behaviour of older individuals
Creators: name: Schirle, Tammy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation investigates several aspects of the labour force participation and retirement decisions of older individuals, introduced in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 examines how several components of Canada's income security system could affect individuals' incentives to retire. The components of Canada's income security system are documented and we show how they act to change the incentives to retire through a series of simulations. This chapter also provides a thorough survey and critical review of the international evidence on public pensions and retirement, with the broad weight of the evidence suggesting that the structure of public pensions contributes to the decision to retire. In Chapter 3 I fill some of the gaps in the Canadian literature on retirement decisions, which has focused almost exclusively on the role of public pensions. In this chapter I extend the analysis of Baker et al. (2003, 2004a) to examine not only the effects of public pensions, but also the effects of health and employer-provided pensions on individuals' decisions to enter retirement. Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, my main finding is that having poor health, or the occurrence of health events such as the onset of a disability, significantly increases an individual's likelihood of entering retirement. Another key contribution to the Canadian literature is the finding that individuals are responsive to the financial incentives found in employer-provided pension plans. Additionally, my estimates indicate that individuals consider their entire financial picture when making their retirement decisions. Chapter 4 seeks to explain the substantial increases in older men's labour force participation rates that have been observed since the mid-1990s. Using data from the U.S. March Current Population Survey, the Canadian Labour Force Survey, and the United Kingdom Labour Force Survey, I investigate the hypothesis that husbands treat the leisure time of their wives as complementary to their own leisure at older ages. Given this complementarity, a large portion of the increase in older men's participation rates may be explained as a response to the recent increases in older women's participation in the labour force, which are largely driven by cohort effects. The methodology of Dinardo, Fortin, and Lemieux (1996) is used to decompose the changes in older married men's participation rates, demonstrating that increases in wives' participation in the labour force can explain roughly one quarter of the recent increase in participation in the U.S., up to one half of the recent increase in participation in Canada, and up to two fifths of the recent increase in the U.K. Older men's educational attainment is also an important factor explaining recent increases in participation, yet cannot be expected to drive further increases in participation rates. In contrast, expected increases in older wives' participation over the next decade are expected to drive further increases in older men's participation rates.
Atomic Resonant Tunneling in the Surface Diffusion of H Atoms on Pt(111)
Creators: name: Bi, Cheng
name: Yang, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum motions of hydrogen (H) atoms play an important role in the dynamical properties and functionalities of condensed phase materials as well as biological systems. In this work, based on the transfer matrix method and first-principles calculations, we study the dynamics of H atoms on Pt(111) surface and numerically calculate the quantum probability of H transferring across the surface potential fields. Atomic resonant tunneling (ART) is demonstrated along a number of diffusion pathways. Owing to resonant tunneling, anomalous rate of transfer is predicted for H diffusion along certain path at low temperatures.The role of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) on the surface reactions involving H is investigated, by analyzing the probabilities of barrier-crossing. The effective barrier is significantly reduced due to quantum tunneling, and decreases monotonically with temperature within a certain region. For barrier-crossing processes where the Arrhenius type relation applies, we show the existence of a nonzero low-temperature limit of rate constant, which indicates the nontrivial activity of H-involved reactions at cryogenic conditions.
description: 43 Pages, 7 Figures, 3 Tables
Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-Based Observations of SN 1993J and SN 1998S: CNO Processing in the Progenitors
Creators: name: Fransson, Claes
name: Challis, Peter M.
name: Chevalier, Roger A.
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Kirshner, Robert P.
name: Kozma, Cecilia
name: Leonard, Douglas C.
name: Matheson, Thomas
name: Baron, E.
name: Garnavich, Peter
name: Jha, Saurabh
name: Leibundgut, Bruno
name: Lundqvist, Peter
name: Pun, C. S. J.
name: Wang, Lifan
name: Wheeler, J. Craig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground-based and Hubble Space Telescope observations are presented for SN 1993J and SN 1998S. SN 1998S shows strong, relatively narrow circumstellar emission lines of N III-V and C III-IV, as well as broad lines from the ejecta. Both the broad ultraviolet and optical lines in SN 1998S indicate an expansion velocity of ~7,000 km/s. The broad emission components of Ly-alpha and Mg II are strongly asymmetrical after day 72 past the explosion, and differ in shape from H-alpha. Different models based on dust extinction from dust in the ejecta or shock region, in combination with H-alpha from a circumstellar torus, are discussed. It is concluded, however, that the double-peaked line profiles are more likely to arise as a result of optical depth effects in the narrow, cool, dense shell behind the reverse shock, than in a torus-like region. The ultraviolet lines of SN 1993J are broad, with a box-like shape, coming from the ejecta and a cool dense shell. The shapes of the lines are well fitted with a shell with inner velocity ~7,000 km/s and outer velocity ~10,000 km/s. For both SN 1993J and SN 1998S a strong nitrogen enrichment is found, with N/C~12.4 in SN 1993J and N/C~6.0 in SN 1998S. From a compilation of all supernovae with determined CNO ratios, we discuss the implications of these observations for the structure of the progenitors of Type II supernovae.
description: 45 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Economie in crisi: Eurolandia dalla resistenza alla ricostruzione.(Economies in Crisis: Euroland from Resistance to Reconstruction)
Creators: name: Quadrio Curzio, Alberto
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Aggregate debt; eurogovernance; intergovernmental coordination
subject: E00, E02

description: In this article we underline the effects of the crisis that erupted in the U.S. in 2008, due to financial hazard, and then spread everywhere, to assess how the euro zone (EMU) and its countries have acted. We will consider two periods that the EMU has passed through, each characterized by a different attitude towards the crisis: diversified resistance (with more deficits and higher debt, that in many countries was due to bail out banks); unified resistance (intergovernmental coordination, with a common special vehicle (EFSF), ratified by Ecofin and the European Council). We conclude with references to 2011 when the “regulation with actions for growth” might begin. JEL: E00, E02
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 64, N. 254 (2011)
Frequency-comb response of a parametrically-driven Duffing oscillator to a small added ac excitation
Creators: name: Batista, Adriano A.
name: de Souza, A. A. Lisboa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we present a one-degree-of-freedom model of a nonlinear parametrically-driven resonator in the presence of a small added ac signal that has spectral responses similar to a frequency comb. The proposed nonlinear resonator has a spread spectrum response with a series of narrow peaks that are equally spaced in frequency. The system displays this behavior most strongly after a symmetry-breaking bifurcation at the onset of parametric instability. We further show that the added ac signal can suppress the transition to parametric instability in the nonlinear oscillator. We also show that the averaging method is able to capture the essential dynamics involved.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures, submitted for publication. Corrected nomenclature, added more references and discussion, replaced figures, added one figure
Macroeconomie in crisi e macroeconomie in ripresa.(Macroeconomies in Crisis and Macroeconomies in Recovery)
Creators: name: Roncaglia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Macroeconomie; crisi; ripresa
subject: B22, E00, E12, E13

description: The financial and economic crisis brings to a reconsideration of macroeconomics: as it happened in the past, after the Great Crash of 1929 as well as after the Second World War and after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 and the subsequent oil crisis. A brief critical survey of mainstream macroeconomics (the neoclassical synthesis and its variants, and its criticisms on the side of Keynesians and Sraffians) is followed by a brief survey of the elements of alternative macroeconomic analysis developed by Keynes and Kalecki, Minsky and Sylos Labini, and others. JEL: B22, E00, E12, E13
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 64, N. 254 (2011)
Short-Lived Phi Mesons
Creators: name: Holt, Laura
name: Haglin, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use effective hadronic field theory to study in-medium properties of the $ϕ$ meson. The dominant decay channels $ϕ\toK^{+}K^{-}$ and $ϕ\toπρ$ are modeled using an SU(3) chiral Lagrangian with normal and abnormal parities. The $ϕ$ self-energy is approximated to one-, two-, and even three-loop order in the strong coupling. Effects of modified spectral functions for $π$, $K$, $ρ$ and $ϕ$ are also included in the calculation. This allows us to study in-medium decay of phi mesons into (in-medium) kaon-pair daughters and (in-medium) $πρ$ pairs. The results point to the possibility of rather short-lived $ϕ$'s, short enough to decay inside the fireball in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Implications relevant for the NA49 and NA50 experimental results, recently dubbed the ``$ϕ$ puzzle'', are discussed.
description: 7 pages Latex, 4 figures, Talk presented at Hot Quarks 2004, July 18-24, 2004, Taos Valley, NM, USA
Un’analisi quantitativa delle politiche di rientro dal disavanzo pubblico in Italia.(A Quantitative Analysis of the Policies of Deficit Reduction in Italy)
Creators: name: Carlucci, Francesco
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: politiche di rientro; disavanzo pubblico; Italia
subject: E63, C53, C54

description: The governments of advanced countries have faced the economic crisis by means of measures that considerably increase their budget deficits. Now they have to absorb these increases, but at the same time supporting recovery. To solve this problem, two different types of intervention have been hypothesized. The first consists of a set of tightening measures devoted to quickly reducing deficit. The second fosters measures devoted to supporting aggregate demand, postponing the reduction of budget deficit to the time when economic activity will grow again. Predictable results of the two hypotheses are determined through an econometric model, changed by modifications simulating, separately, the measures hypothesized in each intervention. JEL: E63, C53, C54
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 64, N. 254 (2011)
title: Die Entwicklung der Stadt Bad Reichenhall unter dem Einfluss der Saline
Creators: name: Adolph, Nina Susanne
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Bad Reichenhall
subject: Saline
subject: Stadtentwicklung
subject: Bad Reichenhall
subject: Salina

description: Die Entwicklung der Stadt Bad Reichenhall unter dem Einfluss der Saline; Die Stadt Bad Reichenhall ist seit Jahrhunderten einer der bedeutsamsten Orte der Salzgewinnung im mitteleuropäischen Raum. Die Alte Saline zählt noch heute zu den wichtigsten Industriedenkmälern Deutschlands. Die Arbeit soll aufzeigen inwiefern die Salzgewinnung und die Saline die Stadt Bad Reichenhall in ihrer Entwicklung beeinflusst und bis heute geprägt haben, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf die städtebauliche Situation - unter Einbeziehung von politischen, traditionellen und ökonomischen Faktoren - gelegt werden soll. Die Stadt soll als Salinenstadt analysiert und Vergleiche mit anderen Salinenstädten durchgeführt werden. Außerdem sollen die relevanten Stadtteile und einige bedeutende Bauten detailliert und nachvollziehbar beschrieben und im Hinblick auf das Gesamtthema dokumentiert werden.
description: The city of Bad Reichenhall has been for centuries one of the most significant places of salt extraction in the Central European region. Its old saline is still one of the most important industrial monuments in Germany. This thesis shows how the saline and salt extraction have influenced the city of Bad Reichenhall in its development until today, focusing on the urban situation. Political, traditional and economic factors are als integrated. The city is analyzed as a salt-mining town and compared with other saline-cities. In addition, the relevant parts of the city and some important buildings are be described in detail and comprehensibly documented and related to the overall theme
Tracing the Gauge Origin of Yukawa and Higgs Parameters Beyond the Standard Model
Creators: name: Diaz-Cruz, J. Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss possible realizations of the hypothesis that all the fundamental interactions of the elementary particles should be of gauge type, including the Yukawa and Higgs ones. In the minimal SUSY extension of the standard model, where the quartic Higgs couplings are ``gauged'' through the D-terms, it is also possible to generate radiatively the Yukawa matrices for the light generations, thus expressing them as functions of gauge couplings. The program can also be applied to the SUSY LR model, where the possibility to induce radiatively the mixing angles, can help to make viable the parity solution to the strong CP problem. The superpotential of the model still includes some non-gauge couplings, namely, the Yukawa for the third generation and the trilinear terms involving the Higgs bi-doublet and two pairs of doublets. Additional progress to relate these parameters to gauge couplings, can be made by embedding the LR model within a SUSY model SU(4)_WxU(1)_{B-L} in five dimensions, where the Higgs bi-doublet is identified as the extra component of the 5D gauge field.
description: 12 pages, 1 table, references added
title: Neubau Hanappi Stadion
Creators: name: Rusznak, Alexander
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Architekturentwurf
subject: Neubau Hannapiestadion Wien
subject: Design of a new Stadium in vienna

description: Im Westen Wiens trägt mit dem SK Rapid Wien der größte Sportverein Österreichs seine Heimspiele aus. Jedoch genügt das 1977 erbaute und 17.000 Zuschauer fassende Hanappistadion den Ansprüchen nichtmehr. Fußballfans erwarten sich heutzutage neben größtmöglicher Sicherheit und Atmosphäre ausrechend Gastronomieangebot und Verweilmöglichkeiten. Identifikation mit dem Verein wird immer wichtiger, da dies die Fanbindung erhöht und den Werbewert steigert. Das Stadion soll Ikone sein, muss Identifikation bieten. Daher stellt sich als Planungsaufgabe ein modernes, Identitätsstiftendes Fußballstadion. Als Bauplatz wurde vom Verein der Standort des alten Stadions bestimmt. Auf ca. 63.000m2; Grundfläche inmitten von Wohnbebauung soll ein 30.000 Zuschauer fassende Arena entstehen. Der Anspruch ist es außerdem, kein weiteres Einkaufs & Freizeitcenter mit Stadion zu schaffen, sondern einen Fußballtempel. Er soll die Sprache des Fußballs sprechen als auch Fans und Verein näher zusammen bringen.
description: SK Rapid Wien is the largest sports club of Austria. It-s actually home side, the Hanappistadion in the West of Vienna, built in 1977 and containing 17,000-seats, is no longer sufficient. It is in need of a new home stadium, so it-s old stadium side was picked to create a modern Football stadium, capable to host an audience of 30.000. Nowadays football fans expect maximum security and atmosphere , as well as various catering options. Identification with the club is becoming increasingly important, as it grows the fan binding and the advertising value. The stadium is to be iconic, it must generate identification. Therefore, the planning task is to design a modern identity-founding football stadium. As a building site, the location of the old stadium was determined by the club. At an approximately 63.000m2; big side, surrounded by residential housing, a 30,000-seat arena shall rise. The claim is also not to design another shopping- and leisure-time- center with a stadium included, but a football temple. It should speak the language of football.
Effect of bound nucleon internal structure change on nuclear structure functions
Creators: name: Tsushima, K.
name: Saito, K.
name: Steffens, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effect of bound nucleon internal structure change on nuclear structure functions is investigated based on local quark-hadron duality. The bound nucleon structure functions calculated for charged-lepton and (anti)neutrino scattering are all enhanced in symmetric nuclear matter at large Bjorken-$x$ ($x \agt 0.85$) relative to those in a free nucleon. This implies that a part of the enhancement observed in the nuclear structure function $F_2$ (in the resonance region) at large Bjorken-$x$ (the EMC effect) is due to the effect of the bound nucleon internal structure change. However, the $x$ dependence for the charged-lepton and (anti)neutrino scattering is different. The former [latter] is enhanced [quenched] in the region $0.8 \alt x \alt 0.9$ [$0.7 \alt x \alt 0.85$] due to the difference of the contribution from axial vector form factor. Because of these differences charge symmetry breaking in parton distributions will be enhanced in nuclei.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, to be published in PLB. Effect of Fermimotion is included. Accordingly, 4 figures as well as the text were modified
Note Bibliografiche: Jossa B. (2010), Esiste un’alternativa al capitalismo? L’impresa democratica e l’attualità del marxismo (Gaetano Cuomo)
Creators: name: Cuomo, Gaetano
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2011

description: Moneta e Credito, V. 64, N. 254 (2011)
title: Solving singular BVPs in ODEs using the Matlab code bvpsuite
Creators: name: Schirnhofer, Stefan
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Singular boundary value problem
subject: bvpsuite
subject: Generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation
subject: Matlab solver

description: This master thesis deals with the solution of boundary value problems using the Matlab code bvpsuite developed at the institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing of the Vienna University of Technology. Motivated by an international cooperation with P.M. Lima from the University of Lisbon and M.L. Morgado from the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal, we are concerned with a singular free boundary problem for a second order nonlinear ordinary differential equation, where the differential operator is the degenerate m-Laplacian. Another cooperation with C. Budd from the University of Bath, United Kingdom, deals with the analysis of a self-similar blow-up solution of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation, which satisfies a third order nonlinear ordinary differential equation, subject to boundary conditions.
Quenching effects in strong penguin contributions to $ε'/ε$
Creators: name: Laiho, Jack
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quenching effects in strong penguin matrix elements are investigated. A lattice determination of $α_q^{NS}$, the constant that appears in the quenched ChPT relevant for the lattice analysis of $K\toππ$ matrix elements, shows that this constant is large. The original RBC analysis of $Q_6$ matrix elements is revisited in light of this result. Also, the numerical effects of choosing the singlet Golterman-Pallante method of quenching $Q_6$ is investigated.
description: 3 pages, talk presented at Lattice2004(weak), Fermilab, June 21-26, 2004
Predicted Abundances of Carbon Compounds in Volcanic Gases on Io
Creators: name: Schaefer, Laura
name: Fegley, Bruce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use chemical equilibrium calculations to model the speciation of carbon in volcanic gases on Io. The calculations cover wide temperature (500-2000 K), pressure (10^-8 to 10^+2 bars), and composition ranges (bulk O/S atomic ratios \~0 to 3), which overlap the nominal conditions at Pele (1760 K, 0.01 bar, O/S ~ 1.5). Bulk C/S atomic ratios ranging from 10^-6 to 10^-1 in volcanic gases are used with a nominal value of 10^-3 based upon upper limits from Voyager for carbon in the Loki plume on Io. Carbon monoxide and CO2 are the two major carbon gases under all conditions studied. Carbonyl sulfide and CS2 are orders of magnitude less abundant. Consideration of different loss processes (photolysis, condensation, kinetic reactions in the plume) indicates that photolysis is probably the major loss process for all gases. Both CO and CO2 should be observable in volcanic plumes and in Io's atmosphere at abundances of several hundred parts per million by volume for a bulk C/S ratio of 10^-3.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables; accepted by Astrophysical Journal
title: A new version of a collocation code for singular BVPs : nonlinear solver and its application to m-Laplacians
Creators: name: Schöbinger, Markus
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: bvpsuite
subject: collocation
subject: singular bvp

description: Diese Arbeit dokumentiert die Matlab-Routine bvpsuite, die an der Technischen Universität Wien entwickelt wurde. Spezielles Augenmerk wird auf das Lösen von nichtlinearen Randwertproblemen gelegt, die singulär oder auf halbunendlichen Intervallen gestellt sein können oder Eigenwerte, bzw. unbekannte Parameter enthalten. Vor den bvpsuite-spezifischen Details wird ein Überblick über Kollokation und das Newtonverfahren gegeben. Die Arbeit dokumentiert auch die Änderungen am Code durch ein kürzliches Update. Die Verwendung von bvpsuite wird anhand eines linearen und eines nichtlinearen Beispiels demonstriert. Die Arbeit schließt mit einer Anwendung auf m-Laplacians, vor und nach einer spezifischen Glättungstransformation und zeigt die numerischen Konvergenzraten abhängig von der Anzahl an Kollokationspunkten in jedem Kollokationsitervall.
description: This thesis documents the Matlab routine bvpsuite, developed at the Technical University of Vienna. It explains the ways bvpsuite solves nonlinear boundary value problems. These problems may be singular or posed on a semiinfinite interval. bvpsuite can also solve eigenvalue problems and problems containing unknown parameters. Before the bvpsuite-specific details an overview of Collocation and the Newton method is given.\newline This thesis also shows the changes applied to the routine during a resent update. The use of bvpsuite is illustrated by two fully documented examples, a linear and a nonlinear one. An overview of the settings options is also given.\newline The thesis ends with the application of bvpsuite to m-Laplacians, both before and after a smoothing transformation. The numerical rates of convergence are evaluated depending on the number of collocation points per collocation interval.
Additional file 1 of The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in people with psychiatric disorders: an umbrella review protocol
Creators: name: N. Lindekilde
name: S. Scheuer
name: F. Rutters
name: J. E. Henriksen
name: K. H. Rubin
name: M. Lasgaard
name: G. S. Andersen
name: F. Pouwer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P checklist.
Relativistic Jets from Accretion Disks
Creators: name: Lovelace, R. V. E.
name: Gandhi, P. R.
name: Romanova, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The jets observed to emanate from many compact accreting objects may arise from the twisting of a magnetic field threading a differentially rotating accretion disk which acts to magnetically extract angular momentum and energy from the disk. Two main regimes have been discussed, hydromagnetic jets, which have a significant mass flux and have energy and angular momentum carried by both matter and electromagnetic field and, Poynting jets, where the mass flux is small and energy and angular momentum are carried predominantly by the electromagnetic field. Here, we describe recent theoretical work on the formation of relativistic Poynting jets from magnetized accretion disks. Further, we describe new relativistic, fully-electromagnetic, particle-in-cell simulations of the formation of jets from accretion disks. Analog Z-pinch experiments may help to understand the origin of astrophysical jets.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, Proc. of High Energy Density Astrophysics Conf., 2004
Influence of climate and land use on nutrient and bacterial dynamics in surface waters of the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia
Creators: name: Ross, James Donald
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: It is understood that intensive agricultural activities can adversely impact surface-water quality resulting in risks to ecosystem and human health. What is less clear are the links between agricultural land use (type and intensity), environmental conditions and surface-water quality at varying spatial and temporal scales. There are also challenges with detecting agricultural influence on surface waters in a timely and accurate manner. This is of concern in the Lower Fraser Valley as this region has experienced significant agricultural intensification and population growth in recent years. This study examined influences of agricultural land use, climate and hydrology on water quality in three watersheds to identify land-use practices and environmental conditions producing the greatest risk of contamination. This was accomplished through an intensive surface-water sampling program to assess nutrient and bacterial dynamics in the Hatzic, Elk Creek and Salmon watersheds, combined with hydrometric and meteorological monitoring from 2002-2005. Spectroscopic techniques (absorption and fluorescence) were also evaluated as tools to detect and quantify agricultural influence. Consistent correlations between agricultural land use and contamination (nutrient and bacterial concentrations) were observed across all watersheds. Seasonal trends were consistent, with nutrient concentrations peaking during winter months (illustrating strong hydrological control over mobilisation and transport) and bacterial concentrations peaking during summer months (illustrating the supply-constrained nature of bacterial stores). Contaminant concentrations correlated with measures of agricultural intensity. Livestock operations represented the highest-risk land use for contamination, with even small operations producing observable impacts on water quality. Temporally, the greatest risk of bacterial contamination was associated with storm events preceded by periods of dry weather during summer months. Absorption and fluorescence were effective measures of agricultural influence as they quantify and characterize agriculturally-derived dissolved organic matter. Advantages of these techniques include rapid sample processing, minimal requirements for sample treatment and volume. Further, they provide qualitative information regarding water quality, water source and land use that is not available from nutrient or bacterial analyses alone. These techniques do not accurately detect contaminants in areas with minimal agricultural influence and therefore are limited as direct indicators of bacterial or nutrient concentrations.
Bridging plant health policy implementation gaps
Creators: name: Policy Labs, Frontiers
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Dr Osama El-Lissy, formerly of the Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy, asserts that integrating science, technology, and a skilled workforce can close plant health policy gaps—enhancing food security, human and environmental health, and economic growth.
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