cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Role of Hand-held Optical Coherence Tomography in Paediatric Glaucoma
Creators: name: Shah, Sonal D.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Purpose: Table-mounted optical coherence tomography (OCT) instruments have revolutionised diagnosis and management in adult glaucoma, although children particularly those ≤ 5 years of age have been deprived of this technology due to poor cooperation. The hand-held OCT (HH-OCT) device is child-friendly and has potential to improve paediatric management. This thesis demonstrates the feasibility of HH-OCT for imaging the cpRNFL and optic nerve head (ONH) in paediatric glaucoma, and also assesses the reliability and diagnostic ability of 3-dimensional analysis.
Methodology: HH-OCT imaging was performed on 103 children and feasibility was assessed. Initial 2-dimensional analysis of cpRNFL and ONH confirmed good diagnostic ability of glaucoma. Reliability of optimal 3-dimensional analysis of cpRNFL was tested on a small sample, and justified analysis of all paediatric patients. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed to identify the most sensitive parameters for simplified detection of paediatric glaucoma.
Results: Feasibility assessment of images suitable for 3-dimensional analysis, in children of mean age 6.98±4.42 years (42/103 children were ≤5 years), resulted in 75% to 88% success in individual cpRNFL quadrants, and 67% for full cpRNFL. Excellent reliability of cpRNFL quadrants at a 6° visual angle was achieved, with high ICCs of ≥0.88. 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional analysis found significant thinning of cpRNFL quadrants, drastically larger cups and smaller rims. EFA revealed two main clusters of parameters in 3-dimensional analysis: (i) cpRNFL and rim parameters and (ii) cup and cup:disc ratio parameters. A combination of two representative parameters from each cluster resulted in AUC values of >0.918, similar to AUCs using the two principal factors.
Conclusion: We demonstrate successful HH-OCT imaging and 3-dimensional analysis of paediatric glaucoma in young children, for the first time. Combining OCT parameters derived from the ONH region into a simple model has important diagnostic potential for detection and monitoring of disease progression in childhood glaucoma.
WHEN “DOING GOOD” DOES NOT : THE IMF AND THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Creators: name: Gutner, Tamar
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3502
subject: Banking, finance and investment

description: Appeared as Chapter 10 in: Avant, Deborah D, Martha Finnemore, and Susan K. Sell. Who Governs the Globe?New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Print.
First-Order Tests for Toricity
Creators: name: Rahkooy, Hamid
name: Sturm, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Motivated by problems arising with the symbolic analysis of steady state ideals in Chemical Reaction Network Theory, we consider the problem of testing whether the points in a complex or real variety with non-zero coordinates form a coset of a multiplicative group. That property corresponds to Shifted Toricity, a recent generalization of toricity of the corresponding polynomial ideal. The key idea is to take a geometric view on varieties rather than an algebraic view on ideals. Recently, corresponding coset tests have been proposed for complex and for real varieties. The former combine numerous techniques from commutative algorithmic algebra with Gröbner bases as the central algorithmic tool. The latter are based on interpreted first-order logic in real closed fields with real quantifier elimination techniques on the algorithmic side. Here we take a new logic approach to both theories, complex and real, and beyond. Besides alternative algorithms, our approach provides a unified view on theories of fields and helps to understand the relevance and interconnection of the rich existing literature in the area, which has been focusing on complex numbers, while from a scientific point of view the (positive) real numbers are clearly the relevant domain in chemical reaction network theory. We apply prototypical implementations of our new approach to a set of 129 models from the BioModels repository.
title: 02_0838
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
title: A Close Reading of “The Buried Home”: The Importance of Optimism in a World Seemingly Full of Pessimism
Creators: name: Zirngast, Lisa
Publisher: name: Universität Graz
Year: 2021
Subjects: home
belonging
identity
migration literature
imagined landscape

description: This entry of the student anthology was created through a process of reflecting on a literary
seminar carried out by the Center for Inter-American Studies from the University of Graz and
was inspired by the work in Marjorie Agosín edited volume Home – An Imagined Landscape. This
article provides a close reading of “The Buried Home” by Claudia Bernardi.
Analyzing three-dimensional panel data of forecasts
Creators: name: Davies, Antony
name: Lahiri, Kajal
name: Sheng, Xuguang
Publisher: name: Oxford Handbook
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: To be published in: ‘Oxford Handbook’ on Economic Forecasting, Eds., M.Clements and D. Hendry, Oxford
Розвиток інноваційної інфраструктури аграрного виробництва Львівської області
Development of innovation infrastructure of agricultural production Lviv area
Creators: name: Chemerys, V.
name: Dushka, V.
name: Maksym, V.
name: Chemerys, V.
name: Dushka, V.
name: Maksym, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: infrastructure
subject: innovation
subject: cluster
subject: agrarian production

description: Innovative infrastructure of agrarian production in Lviv Area and basic problems of its development are investigated. On the basis of the conducted cluster analysis in the article six optimum areas are offered clusterizations of agricultural production, which are certain after the criterion of balanced cluster educations. The first area of clusterization is most suitable for development of plant-grower. In particular, in four its districts, almost fourth part of plant-grower products is concentrated in the permanent costs of 2010 year. The second area of clusterization can be identified as mainly stock-raising, as its localization in the districts of foot-hill of area creates favourable terms for the production of meat and milk goods. The third area can be attributed to balanced stock-raising-plant-grower straight, with development of agriculture, oriented to the sale of products to the cities, above all things in Lviv. The fourth area of clusterization can be considered mainly plant-grower-oriented with simultaneous development of the suckling cattle breeding. The fifth area of clusterization, as marked already, can be identified as innovative oriented with predominance of stock-raising and production of goods on an export. A sixth (mountain) area of clusterization is the least suitable for development of agriculture (except for the milk and meat cattle breeding). The applied approach is based on the account of ten key indexes which characterize potential of agricultural production development in each districts of Lviv Area: products of plant-grower are in all categories of economic agents; products of stock-raising are in all categories of economic agents; area of agricultural lands which are engaged in an agricultural production area of plough-land of economic agents which are engaged in an agricultural production; sowing areas are in all categories of economic agents; a quantity of cattle is in all categories of economic agents; a quantity of pigs is in all categories of economic agents; quantity of poultry; middle amount of inhabitants in the districts area, and also middle annual yield of milk per cow in agricultural enterprises. Six areas of clusterizationcan be outlined it is possible to identify and on a geographical sign, depending on the place of their localization within the limits of area territory: the first area is north-eastern; the second area is a foot-hill; the third area is western; a fourth area is east; a fifth area is north-western; a sixth area is mountain. The areas of clusterization offered in the article will be instrumental in growth of efficiency of functioning of agrarian enterprises, and also realization of them, economic potential.
Selfdual spin 2 in 2+1 dimensions revisited
Creators: name: Arias, Pio J.
name: D., Rolando Gaitan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lagrangian constraints of the spin 2 selfdual theory in a 2+1 flat space-time are studied and the one degree of freedom reduced action is obtained. From this formulation, the quantum operator algebra is computed and the spin contribution on transformation generators is explored.
description: 8 pages. In spanish. Talk given by R.Gaitan at the IV Congress of the Venezuelan Physical Society, november 24-28 2003, Isla de Margarita
Форми господарювання в агарному виробництві: стан і можливості розвитку
Forms of management in agricultural production: state and development opportunities
Creators: name: Shulskyi, M.
name: Shulskyi, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: forms of management
subject: agricultural land
subject: agricultural production
subject: agricultural enterprises
subject: farm economies
subject: households

description: The article deals with the conducted research of functioning existing under the conditions of present various management forms in different sphere of agrarian common forms, the operation of which is reflected in the activities of the three groups organizational and economic structure, namely agricultural enterprises, farm economies and households. These forms of management have and use in their activities different in terms of areas of agricultural land, produce the number of different types of agricultural products, hold unequal number of livestock of farm animals. This focused attention on research results for the functioning of the new Ukraine, but effectively functioning for many centuries in advanced countries in the world space, farm forms of management. To establish certain trends and law to develop effective forms of the control, used in farm economy of Lviv region in 1990–2015 years. This approach is achieved by comparing the rate of agricultural development of socialism era (1990) and in the era of market reforms (1995 and behind its limits). Comparing economic era that has passed from the era, is formed objectively and can identify opportunities for the development of forms of economic conditions both current and future. The research results give reason to assert that every form of agrarian entity has future development, taking this or that niche in compound processes of agricultural production output.
A Hybrid MPI+Threads Approach to Particle Group Finding Using Union-Find
Creators: name: Willis, James S.
name: Schaller, Matthieu
name: Gonnet, Pedro
name: Helly, John C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Friends-of-Friends (FoF) algorithm is a standard technique used in cosmological $N$-body simulations to identify structures. Its goal is to find clusters of particles (called groups) that are separated by at most a cut-off radius. $N$-body simulations typically use most of the memory present on a node, leaving very little free for a FoF algorithm to run on-the-fly. We propose a new method that utilises the common Union-Find data structure and a hybrid MPI+threads approach. The algorithm can also be expressed elegantly in a task-based formalism if such a framework is used in the rest of the application. We have implemented our algorithm in the open-source cosmological code, SWIFT. Our implementation displays excellent strong- and weak-scaling behaviour on realistic problems and compares favourably (speed-up of 18x) over other methods commonly used in the $N$-body community.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of the ParCo 2019 conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-13th, 2019
Excitation Energies and Spins of the Yrast Superdeformed Band in ^{191}Hg
Creators: name: Siem, S.
name: Reiter, P.
name: Khoo, T. L.
name: Lauritsen, T.
name: Heenen, P. -H.
name: Carpenter, M. P.
name: Ahmad, I.
name: Amro, H.
name: Calderin, I. J.
name: Døssing, T.
name: Duguet, T.
name: Fischer, S. M.
name: Garg, U.
name: Gassmann, D.
name: Hackman, G.
name: Hannachi, F.
name: Hauschild, K.
name: Janssens, R. V. F.
name: Kharraja, B.
name: Korichi, A.
name: Lee, I-Y.
name: Lopez-Martens, A.
name: Macchiavelli, A. O.
name: Moore, E. F.
name: Nisius, D.
name: Schück, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The excitation energies and spins of the levels in the yrast superdeformed band of $^{191}$Hg have been determined from two single-step $γ$ transitions and the quasi-continuum spectrum connecting the superdeformed and normal-deformed states. The results are compared with those from theoretical mean-field calculations with different interactions. A discussion of pairing in superdeformed states is also included.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures
New Dynamics in Fossil Fuel and Renewable Energy for Rural America
Creators: name: Brown, Jason P.
name: Coupal, Roger
name: Hitaj, Claudia
name: Kelsey, Timothy W.
name: Krannich, Richard S.
name: Xiarchos, Irene M.
name: Brown, Jason P.
name: Coupal, Roger
name: Hitaj, Claudia
name: Kelsey, Timothy W.
name: Krannich, Richard S.
name: Xiarchos, Irene M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: In the early 2000s, the United States energy landscape began a transformation driven by a dual boom in the expansion of renewable power installations and the extraction of natural gas and oil from shale plays through hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. In this paper, we discuss the multi‐level regulatory context in which these two forms of energy development occur and review how they affect local communities, environment, and infrastructure, as well as government income and spending. In comparing the two, we remark that long‐term employment effects are relatively low for both forms of development, but unconventional fossil energy development has a heightened boom/bust potential with a large influx of workers spending a short amount of time on each well before moving on. Renewable power plants on the other hand can offer a steadier stream of income and tax revenue. Renewable power plants also have longer lasting visual impacts but lower environmental risks than unconventional fossil energy development. Finally, we consider how communities will have to adapt to navigate legacy and infrastructure constraints that accompany the shift from fossil to renewable power generation and from conventional to shale oil and gas resources.
Magnetism in systems with various dimensionality: A comparison between Fe and Co
Creators: name: Ederer, Claude
name: Komelj, Matej
name: Faehnle, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A systematic ab initio study is performed for the spin and orbital moments and for the validity of the sum rules for x-ray magnetic circular dichroism for Fe systems with various dimensionality (bulk, Pt-supported monolayers and monatomic wires, free-standing monolayers and monatomic wires). Qualitatively, the results are similar to those for the respective Co systems, with the main difference that for the monatomic Fe wires the term in the spin sum rule is much larger than for the Co wires. The spin and orbital moments induced in the Pt substrate are also discussed.
description: 4 pages
Accurate information as a tool to decrease HIV test refusals in research studies
Creators: name: Watkins, Susan C.
name: Anglewicz, Philip
name: Angotti, Nicole
name: Kaler, Amy
name: Swidler, Ann
Publisher: name: Bull World Health Organization
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¼Ð°Ð³Ð¸ÑÑÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Static light scattering method for studying the sizes of dispersed particles in a liquid
Creators: name: ÐÑÐ½ Ð¤ÑÐ»Ð¸Ð½Ñ
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ð¡Ð²ÐµÑ
ÐÐ¸ÑÐ¿ÐµÑÑÐ½ÑÐµ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ
ÑÐ°Ð·Ð¼ÐµÑ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ
particle size

description: ÐÐ°Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð° Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¸Ð·Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ñ Ð¿Ð°ÑÐ°Ð¼ÐµÑÑÐ¾Ð² Ð¼Ð¸ÐºÑÐ¾ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¸ Ð½Ð°Ð½Ð¾ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¾Ð¼ ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÐ²ÐµÑÐ¾ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸Ñ. Ð ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐµ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð° Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¸ÐºÐ° Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð² ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð² ÑÑÑÐ¿ÐµÐ½Ð·Ð¸ÑÑ. ÐÑÐ»Ð¸ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÑÐµÐ½Ñ ÑÐ¸Ð·Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ðµ Ð¿Ð°ÑÐ°Ð¼ÐµÑÑÑ Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´ÑÐµÐ¼ÑÑ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¿ÑÐ¸ Ð¿Ð¾Ð¼Ð¾ÑÐ¸ Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ°ÑÐ¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¸Ð½ÑÐµÐ½ÑÐ¸Ð²Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð´Ð»Ñ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð½ÑÑ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð². ÐÐ·Ð¼ÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð½ÑÐµ Ð·Ð°Ð²Ð¸ÑÐ¸Ð¼Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð½Ð¸Ð²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÑ Ñ ÑÐºÑÐ¿ÐµÑÐ¸Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½ÑÐ¼Ð¸ Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½ÑÐ¼Ð¸, Ð¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð½ÑÐ¼Ð¸ Ð´Ð»Ñ ÑÑÐµÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ñ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð´Ð¸Ð°Ð¼ÐµÑÑÐ¾Ð¼ 0,3 Ð¼ÐºÐ¼. ÐÐ¾ ÑÐµÐ·ÑÐ»ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ°Ð¼ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ Ð±ÑÐ» ÑÐ´ÐµÐ»Ð°Ð½ Ð²ÑÐ²Ð¾Ð´ Ð¾ Ð¿ÐµÑÑÐ¿ÐµÐºÑÐ¸Ð²Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð² ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð² Ð¶Ð¸Ð´ÐºÐ¾ÑÑÐ¸.
description: This work is devoted to the study of the physical parameters of microparticles and nanoparticles by the method of static light scattering. The technique will determine the particle sizes in the suspensions. The physical parameters of the investigated scattering intensity distributions for particles of different sizes were obtained, compared with the experimental data obtained for a diameter of 0.3 mic spherical particles, investigated how the particle diameters are determined, and a method was presented by which the physical parameters were estimated. Based on the results of the work, it was concluded that the static-scattering method was used to determine the particle sizes of the fit over a small range of data.
An offer you can't refuse : provider-initiated HIV testing in antenatal clinics in rural Malawi
Creators: name: Angotti, Nicole
name: Dionne, Kim Y.
name: Gaydosh, Lauren
Publisher: name: California Center for Population Research UCLA
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Provider-initiated, ‘routine’ HIV testing of pregnant women seeking antenatal care-- wherein women are tested unless they explicitly refuse-- is promoted by international organizations as an effort to curb mother-to-child transmission. Utilizing qualitative data from Malawi, we offer an account of the perceptions that surround-- and surely impact-- a pregnant woman’s decision to take an HIV test. We argue that idealized social relations, characterized by equality, rationality, and non-coercion between clients and providers, are presumed to be disseminated with routine testing programs. We find, however, that these stylized relations do not fit neatly in Malawi, and consequently, may lead to paradoxical outcomes for public health. We show that rural Malawians do not perceive HIV testing as a choice, but rather as compulsory and the only way by which to receive antenatal care. This study illustrates considerable dissonance between global expectations and local realities of the delivery of routine testing programs.
The Valuation of Ecosystem Services from Farms and Forests Informing a systematic approach to quantifying benefits of conservation programs (Synthesis Chapter)
Creators: name: Wainger, L.
name: Ervin, D.
name: Wainger, L.
name: Ervin, D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use
Public Economics

description: Citation : Wainger, L. and D. Ervin (editors). 2017. Synthesis Chapter - The Valuation of Ecosystem Services from Farms and Forests: Informing a systematic approach to quantifying benefits of conservation programs. The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) Report No. 0114-301, Washington DC (March; available at http://www.cfare.org/publications/valuing-ecosystem-services-from-farms-and-forests).
Post-Newtonian parameters and constraints on Einstein-aether theory
Creators: name: Foster, Brendan Z.
name: Jacobson, Ted
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the observational and theoretical constraints on ``Einstein-aether theory", a generally covariant theory of gravity coupled to a dynamical, unit, timelike vector field that breaks local Lorentz symmetry. The results of a computation of the remaining post-Newtonian parameters are reported. These are combined with other results to determine the joint post-Newtonian, vacuum-Cerenkov, nucleosynthesis, stability, and positive-energy constraints. All of these constraints are satisfied by parameters in a large two-dimensional region in the four-dimensional parameter space defining the theory.
description: 19 pages; v2: corrected typos
Assessing Pollinator Habitat Services to Optimize Conservation Programs
Creators: name: Iovanna, R.
name: Ando, A
name: Swinton, S.
name: Kagan, J.
name: Hellerstein, D.
name: Mushet, D.
name: Otto, C.
name: Iovanna, R.
name: Ando, A
name: Swinton, S.
name: Kagan, J.
name: Hellerstein, D.
name: Mushet, D.
name: Otto, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017

description: Chapter 1 of "The valuation of ecosystem services from farms and forests: informing a systematic approach to quantifying benefits of conservation programs."
description: Citation: Iovanna, R., A. Ando, S. Swinton, D. Hellerstein, J. Kagan, D. Mushet, and C. Otto. 2017. Chapter 1: Assessing Pollinator Habitat Services to Optimize Conservation Programs. The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) Report No. 0114-301b, Washington DC (March; available at http://www.cfare.org/publications/valuing-ecosystem-services-from-farms-and-forests).
Spherical Universe topology and the Casimir effect
Creators: name: Dowker, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mode problem on the factored 3--sphere is applied to field theory calculations for massless fields of spin 0, 1/2 and 1. The degeneracies on the factors, including lens spaces, are neatly derived in a geometric fashion. Vacuum energies are expressed in terms of the polyhedral degrees and equivalent expressions given using the cyclic decomposition of the covering group. Scalar functional determinants are calculated and the spectral asymmetry function treated by the same approach with explicit forms on one-sided lens spaces.
description: 33 pages, 1 figure. Typos corrected and one reference added
Impact of macronutrient supplements on later growth of children born preterm or small for gestational age: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials
Creators: name: Luling Lin
name: Amissah, Emma
name: Gamble, Greg
name: Crowther, Caroline
name: Harding, Jane
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of the available evidence from published studies that explore the effects of macronutrient supplements given to preterm and small-for-gestational-age infant on their growth after hospital discharge. We found no evidence that early macronutrient supplementation for infants born small altered body mass index (BMI) in childhood. Although supplements appeared to increase weight and length in toddlers, effects were inconsistent and unlikely to be clinically significant. Limited data suggested that supplementation increased fat mass in childhood, but these effects did not persist in later life. The protocol of this study can be found on: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=126918 The findings are published at (to be added). Data and associated documentation of this study are available to other users under the data sharing arrangements provided by the Maternal and Perinatal Research Hub, based at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland (https://wiki.auckland.ac.nz/researchhub). Researchers are able to use this information to request a de-identified dataset through the Data Access Committee of the Liggins Institute; contact address researchhub@auckland.ac.nz. Data will be shared with researchers who provide a methodologically sound proposal and have appropriate ethical approval, where necessary, to achieve the research aims in the approved proposal. Data requestors will be required to sign a Data Access Agreement that includes a commitment to using the data only for the specified proposal, not to attempt to identify any individual participant, a commitment to secure storage and use of the data, and to destroy or return the data after completion of the project. The Liggins Institute reserves the right to charge a fee to cover the costs of making data available, if needed, for data requests that require additional work to prepare. Attached are the data extraction form template and the search strategies for the following database: OvidMedline, Embase, Cochrane Library Central Registry of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL CRSO).
An offer you can't refuse : provider-initiated HIV testing in antenatal clinics in rural Malawi
Creators: name: Angotti, Nicole
name: Dionne, Kim Y.
name: Gaydosh, Lauren
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Provider-initiated, ‘routine’ HIV testing of pregnant women seeking antenatal care-- wherein women are tested unless they explicitly refuse-- is promoted by international organizations as an effort to curb mother-to-child transmission. Utilizing qualitative data from Malawi, we offer an account of the perceptions that surround-- and surely impact-- a pregnant woman’s decision to take an HIV test. We argue that idealized social relations, characterized by equality, rationality, and non-coercion between clients and providers, are presumed to be disseminated with routine testing programs. We find, however, that these stylized relations do not fit neatly in Malawi, and consequently, may lead to paradoxical outcomes for public health. We show that rural Malawians do not perceive HIV testing as a choice, but rather as compulsory and the only way by which to receive antenatal care. This study illustrates considerable dissonance between global expectations and local realities of the delivery of routine testing programs.
Medusa: Blockchain Powered Log Storage System
Creators: name: Wang, Hao
name: Yang, Desheng
name: Duan, Nian
name: Guo, Yang
name: Zhang, Lu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Blockchain is one of the most heavily invested technologies in recent years. Due to its tamper-proof and decentralization properties, blockchain has become an ideal utility for data storage that is applicable in many real world industrial scenarios. One important scenario is web log, which is treated as sources of technical significance and commercial revenues in major internet companies. In this paper, we illustrate our design of a web log storage system based on HyperLedger. HyperLedger yields higher throughput and lower latency compared with other blockchain systems. Alongside its efficiency advantages, HyperLeger is a permissioned blockchain, which is an ideal fit for enterprise software design scenario.
Surveying research on New Zealand government : what next?
Creators: name: Baehler, Karen
name: Callister, Paul
name: Gregory, Bob
name: Hawke, Gary
name: Ladley, Andrew
name: Ryan, Bill
name: Scott, Claudia
name: Stephens, Bob
name: Walker, Ann
name: Wolf, Amanda
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Description to be added
Healthcare provision in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: procedures, queries and pitfalls in Germany and Poland
Creators: name: Barć, Krzysztof
name: Weber, Christian
name: Maksymowicz-Śliwińska, Anna
name: Ciećwierska, Katarzyna
name: Helczyk, Olga
name: Albert Ludolph, C.
name: Kuźma-Kozakiewicz, Magdalena
name: Lulé, Dorothée
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: There are a number of physical restrictions that develop in the course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). While loss of speech and motor control may be partially compensated by the support of assistive devices, swallowing difficulty and respiratory insufficiency require medical interventions (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, noninvasive, and invasive ventilation). Based on the data collected within the NEEDSinALS study, we found major differences in personal satisfaction with the financing, healthcare provision, medical infrastructure, and regulations of German and Polish ALS patients, despite minor differences in economic burden caused by the disease. In order to explain this phenomenon, we thoroughly reviewed the legal basis, structure and organization of the healthcare systems in Germany and Poland to determine the range of obstacles in the everyday lives of patients and their caregivers that are attempting to attain an assistive device or care after the start of medical interventions.
Surveying research on New Zealand government : what next?
Creators: name: Baehler, Karen
name: Callister, Paul
name: Gregory, Bob
name: Hawke, Gary
name: Ladley, Andrew
name: Ryan, Bill
name: Scott, Claudia
name: Stephens, Bob
name: Walker, Ann
name: Wolf, Amanda
Publisher: name: NewZeapaper.pmd
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Description to be added
Physics and Derivatives -- Interview Questions and Answers
Creators: name: Lipton, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Answers to interview questions sent to a selected group of former physicists working in finance. The interview will be published as part of a Special Issue on Physics and Derivatives by The Journal of Derivatives in the second half of 2020.
description: 5 pages
Ecosystem Service Benefits Generated by Improved Water Quality from Conservation Practices
Creators: name: Wainger, L.
name: Loomis, J.
name: Johnston, R.
name: Hansen, L.
name: Carlisle, D.
name: Lawrence, D.
name: Gollehon, N.
name: Duriancik, L.
name: Schwartz, G.
name: Ribaudo, M.
name: Gala, C.
name: Wainger, L.
name: Loomis, J.
name: Johnston, R.
name: Hansen, L.
name: Carlisle, D.
name: Lawrence, D.
name: Gollehon, N.
name: Duriancik, L.
name: Schwartz, G.
name: Ribaudo, M.
name: Gala, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use
Public Economics

description: Chapter 2 of "The Valuation of Ecosystem Services from Farms and Forests: Informing a systematic approach to quantifying benefits of conservation programs"
description: Citation: Wainger, L., J. Loomis, R. Johnston, L. Hansen, D. Carlisle, D. Lawrence, N. Gollehon, L. Duriancik, G. Schwartz, M. Ribaudo and C. Gala. 2017. Chapter 2: Ecosystem Service Benefits Generated by Improved Water Quality from Conservation Practices. The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) Report No. 0114-301c, Washington DC (March; available at http://www.cfare.org/publications/valuing-ecosystem-services-from-farms-and-forests).
Multiphoton Exchange Processes in Ultraperipheral Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Baur, Gerhard
name: Hencken, Kai
name: Aste, Andreas
name: Trautmann, Dirk
name: Klein, Spencer R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The very strong electromagnetic fields present in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions lead to important higher order effects of the electromagnetic interaction. These multiphoton exchange processes are studied using perturbation theory and the sudden or Glauber approximation. In many important cases, the multi-photon amplitudes factorize into independent single-photon amplitudes. These amplitudes have a common impact parameter vector, which induces correlations between the amplitudes. Impact-parameter dependent equivalent-photon spectra for simultaneous excitation are calculated, as well as, impact-parameter dependent gammagamma-luminosities. Excitations, like the multiphonon giant dipole resonances, vector meson production and multiple e+e- pair production can be treated analytically in a bosonic model, analogous to the emission of soft photons in QED.
description: 28 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. A
In-flight performance of the LEKIDs of the OLIMPO experiment
Creators: name: Paiella, A.
name: Ade, P. A. R.
name: Battistelli, E. S.
name: Castellano, M. G.
name: Colantoni, I.
name: Columbro, F.
name: Coppolecchia, A.
name: D'Alessandro, G.
name: de Bernardis, P.
name: De Petris, M.
name: Gordon, S.
name: Lamagna, L.
name: Magneville, C.
name: Masi, S.
name: Mauskopf, P.
name: Pettinari, G.
name: Piacentini, F.
name: Pisano, G.
name: Polenta, G.
name: Presta, G.
name: Tommasi, E.
name: Tucker, C.
name: Vdovin, V.
name: Volpe, A.
name: Yvon, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the in-flight performance of the horn-coupled Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detector arrays of the balloon-borne OLIMPO experiment. These arrays have been designed to match the spectral bands of OLIMPO: 150, 250, 350, and 460 GHz, and they have been operated at 0.3 K and at an altitude of 37.8 km during the stratospheric flight of the OLIMPO payload, in Summer 2018. During the first hours of flight, we tuned the detectors and verified their large dynamics under the radiative background variations due to elevation increase of the telescope and to the insertion of the plug-in room-temperature differential Fourier transform spectrometer into the optical chain. We have found that the detector noise equivalent powers are close to be photon-noise limited and lower than those measured on the ground. Moreover, the data contamination due to primary cosmic rays hitting the arrays is less than 3% for all the pixels of all the arrays, and less than 1% for most of the pixels. These results can be considered the first step of KID technology validation in a representative space environment.
Massive Open Online Courses : Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries
Creators: name: Butler, Brandon
Publisher: name: Association of Research Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4610
subject: Library and information studies

description: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) raise significant legal and policy questions for research libraries, which are often asked to support the development of MOOC courses. These questions involve information policy concerns that are central to research libraries, including the proper application of fair use, the transition to open access as the default mode of scholarly publishing, and the provision of equal access to learning materials for students with and without disabilities. Where possible, research libraries should engage in conversations around MOOCs and promote their core values. By doing so, they will also promote the continuing vitality of libraries as partners in the educational mission.
Performance of Distance Relays in Presence of IPFC
Creators: name: Pouyan, M.
name: Razavi, F.
name: RashidiNejad, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, the analytical and simulation results of the application of distance relay for the protection of transmission line incorporating Inter-line Power Flow Controller (IPFC) are presented. Firstly a detailed model of the IPFC and its control is proposed and then it is integrated into the 8-bus transmission system for the purposes of accurately simulating the fault transients. The simulation results show the impact of different operational mode of IPFC on the performance of a distance protection relays.
description: 6 pages, 13 figures
Evidence for a Non-Expanding Universe: Surface Brightness Data From HUDF
Creators: name: Lerner, Eric J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface brightness data can distinguish between a Friedman-Robertson-Walker expanding universe and a non-expanding universe. For surface brightness measured in AB magnitudes per angular area, all FRW models, regardless of cosmological parameters, predict that surface brightness declines with redshift as (z+1)^-3, while any non-expanding model predicts that surface brightness is constant with distance and thus with z. High-z UV surface brightness data for galaxies from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and low-z data from GALEX are used to test the predictions of these two models up to z=6. A preliminary analysis presented here of samples observed at the same at-galaxy wavelengths in the UV shows that surface brightness is constant, mu=kz^0.026+-0.15, consistent with the non-expanding model. This relationship holds if distance is linearly proportional to z at all redshifts, but seems insensitive to the particular choice of d-z relationship. Attempts to reconcile the data with FRW predictions by assuming that high-z galaxies have intrinsically higher surface brightness than low-z galaxies appear to face insurmountable problems. The intrinsic FUV surface brightness required by the FRW models for high-z galaxies exceeds the maximum FUV surface brightness of any low-z galaxy by as much as a factor of 40. Dust absorption appears to make such extremely high intrinsic FUV surface brightness physically impossible. If confirmed by further analysis, the impossibility of such high-surface-brightness galaxies would rule out all FRW expanding universe (big bang) models.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the First Crisis in Cosmology Conference, AIP proceedings series typos corrected
Massive Open Online Courses : Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries
Creators: name: Butler, Brandon
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) raise significant legal and policy questions for research libraries, which are often asked to support the development of MOOC courses. These questions involve information policy concerns that are central to research libraries, including the proper application of fair use, the transition to open access as the default mode of scholarly publishing, and the provision of equal access to learning materials for students with and without disabilities. Where possible, research libraries should engage in conversations around MOOCs and promote their core values. By doing so, they will also promote the continuing vitality of libraries as partners in the educational mission.
TESS first look at evolved compact pulsators: Known ZZ Ceti stars of the southern ecliptic hemisphere as seen by TESS
Creators: name: Bognár, Zs.
name: Kawaler, S. D.
name: Bell, K. J.
name: Schrandt, C.
name: Baran, A. S.
name: Bradley, P. A.
name: Hermes, J. J.
name: Charpinet, S.
name: Handler, G.
name: Mullally, S. E.
name: Murphy, S. J.
name: Raddi, R.
name: Sódor, Á.
name: Tremblay, P. -E.
name: Uzundag, M.
name: Zong, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. We present our findings on 18 formerly known ZZ Ceti stars observed by the TESS space telescope in 120s cadence mode during the survey observation of the southern ecliptic hemisphere. Aims. We focus on the frequency analysis of the space-based observations, comparing the results with the findings of the previous ground-based measurements. The frequencies detected by the TESS observations can serve as inputs for future asteroseismic analyses. Methods. We performed standard pre-whitening of the data sets to derive the possible pulsation frequencies of the different targets. In some cases, we fitted Lorentzians to the frequency groups that emerged as the results of short-term amplitude/phase variations that occurred during the TESS observations. Results. We detected more than 40 pulsation frequencies in seven ZZ Ceti stars observed in the 120s cadence by TESS, with better than 0.1 microHz precision. We found that HE 0532-5605 may be a new outbursting ZZ Ceti. Ten targets do not show any significant pulsation frequencies in their Fourier transforms, due to a combination of their intrinsic faintness and/or crowding on the large TESS pixels. We also detected possible amplitude/phase variations during the TESS observations in some cases. Such behaviour in these targets was not previously identified from ground-based observations.
description: 21 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
title: Investigating the Physical Properties of Planetary Surfaces using the Huygens Penetrometer
Creators: name: Atkinson, Karl R.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2009

description: The Huygens probe landed on the unknown surface of Titan on 14 January 2005. Onboard, a small, protruding hemispherical-tipped penetrometer, ACC-E, part of the Surface Science Packagem impacted the surface returning a short ~20 ms force signature of the mechanical resistance of the ground. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the response of an identical penetrometer to various terrestrial target materials and provide an insight into the penetrometer's performance and assess its capability. Signatures collected at the Huygens impact speed of both natural and artificial material targets in the laboratory are examined using various descriptive statistical measures. Structural and textural properties are identified and the penetrometer's response to granular targets, both wet and dry, is examined. Mitigation of the effects of target boundaries and velocity dependence of the signatures are both considered. Terrestrial fieldwork penetrometry is presented that demonstrates that even for short penetration depths the sensor is capable of distinguishing several types of geological surface features. A physical model extended for layered targets is presented and applied to laboratory data. Using the results from the laboratory and fieldwork, together with more specific experiments, a possible interpretation of the signature returned from Titan is presented and discussed within the context of recent findings from other investigations.
EFFECTIVENESS OF USING GAME ELEMENTS IN THE PROCESS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
Creators: name: Ruzieva, Mahliyo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The article examines the effectiveness of using game elements in the process of physical education of preschool children. The benefits of this method are described, such as stimulating learning through play, developing social skills, fostering creativity and imagination, achieving learning goals through game challenges, and creating a positive experience of physical activity. Emphasizes the importance of integrating learning and fun for children's holistic development and fostering positive attitudes toward physical activity.
The LISA-Taiji network
Creators: name: Ruan, Wen-Hong
name: Liu, Chang
name: Guo, Zong-Kuan
name: Wu, Yue-Liang
name: Cai, Rong-Gen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Both LISA and Taiji, planned space-based gravitational-wave detectors in orbit around the Sun, are expected to launch in 2030-2035. Assuming a one-year overlap, we explore a potential LISA-Taiji network to fast and accurately localize the gravitational-wave sources.
description: 6 pages. 2 figures
Binary Neutron Star Inspiral Search in LIGO S1
Creators: name: González, Gabriela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the search for gravitational waves from inspiraling neutron star binary systems, using data from the first Scientific Run of the LIGO Science Collaboration.