cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ENLACE: Data Collection Visit 2 Forms
Creators: name: Institute, Latino Research
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Enlace
Latino
Latina
Hispanic
women
promotora
community outreach
physical activity
border
rural
exercise
fitness
South Texas
FFQ
food frequency questionnaire
physical activity questionnaire
measurement
measures
survey
consent
baseline
assessment

description: The study “ENLACE: A Promotora-Led Physical Activity Intervention Trial for Latinas in Texas” is a clinical trial (NCT00869583) funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) (R01HL111718).
description: Three materials used to collect physical activity data during the second examination visit for participants in the ENLACE study. This includes a physical activity questionnaire (in English and Spanish) and food frequency questionnaire data sheet.
Negative differential conductivity and quantum statistical effects in a three-site Bose-Hubbard model
Creators: name: Olsen, M. K.
name: Corney, J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of an electron beam to remove ultracold atoms from selected sites in an optical lattice has opened up new opportunities to study transport in quantum systems [R. Labouvie {\it et al.\ }, Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ {\bf 115}, 050601 (2015)]. Inspired by this experimental result, we examine the effects of number difference, dephasing, and initial quantum statistics on the filling of an initially depleted middle well in the three-well inline Bose-Hubbard model. We find that the well-known phenomenon of macroscopic self-trapping is the main contributor to oscillatory negative differential conductivity in our model, with phase diffusion being a secondary effect. However, we find that phase diffusion is required for the production of direct atomic current, with the coherent process showing damped oscillatory currents. We also find that our results are highly dependent on the initial quantum states of the atoms in the system.
description: 9 figures, 6 pages
Education with its eyes open : a biography of Dr. K.S. Cunningham
Creators: name: Williams., Brian R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: Создание единого информационного ресурса «Земля просто» о земельных участках, в том числе находящихся в федеральной собственности, с целью их вовлечения под жилищное строительство
Creators: name: Сараева, Любовь
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье рассматриваются пути решения предоставления гражданам и застройщикам земельных участков для жилищного строительства из фонда земель, находящихся на балансе государства и органов местного самоуправления. Исследованы статистические материалы Росреестра по вовлечению земель в оборот жилищного строительства на территории Российской Федерации и Новгородской области. Выявлена проблематика предоставления государственных услуг посредством электронных сервисов, предложены пути решения текущих проблем с целью дальнейшего развития предоставления государственных услуг в электронном виде.
Chemical and Structural Mapping of Cathodes for Li-Ion Batteries From the Nano- to the Electrode-Scale
Creators: name: Wolfman, Mark F
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: High-performance rechargeable batteries will play a key role in supplying our future energy needs. Electric vehicles, grid storage and portable devices place stringent demands on battery performance that cannot be fully satisfied with today's technologies. Bridging this gap requires an understanding of the chemistry occurring within a battery at multiple length-scales. The coupling of chemically sensitive spectroscopy and diffraction techniques with the spatial resolution provided by X-ray microscopy reveals heterogeneities at length-scales ranging from millimeters to nanometers, where kinetic limitations at one scale dictate the behavior at larger scales. Understanding the reaction inefficiencies underlying these heterogeneities is a key step in achieving next-generation battery performance. High-resolution ptychographic microscopy was used to probe the distribution of oxidation states within individual cathode particles, revealing incomplete oxidation unevenly distributed within particles, resulting in part from irreversible secondary reaction pathways. Reduced nickel states were found to dominate the outer atomic layer, even when the cell was subjected to highly oxidizing potentials. Full-field microscopy of secondary particles was conducted under applied current ("operando"), enabling observations that were not subject to relaxation effects but instead governed by the kinetic limitations present during real-world operation. Discrepancies between ensemble-average and particle-level measurements were found, demonstrating a high level of thermodynamic irreversibility in local redox reactions. Furthermore, a correlation was found between particle micro-structure and anomalous nickel reduction, clarifying the relationship between particle micro-structure and redox chemistry. A novel structural mapping technique was developed and used to measure heterogeneity within complete high energy density electrodes. The resulting maps reveal transport limitations through the solid matrix of the electrode and provide a comparison between solid and liquid diffusion. The multi-length-scale approach presented here provides a more detailed view of the underlying battery chemistry than is possible by conventional ensemble-averaged methods alone, and will provide a foundation for more targeted engineering solutions to performance limitations in Li-ion battery cathodes.
Overview of electromagnetic probes in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Paquet, Jean-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An introductory overview of electromagnetic probes in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is provided. Experimental evidence supporting the production of thermal photons and dileptons in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are reviewed. Thermal electromagnetic emission evaluated from hydrodynamical models of collisions is discussed.
description: Contribution to Hot Quarks 2016 proceedings. 6 pages, 3 figures
Anomalies in the peer-review system: A case study of the journal of High Energy Physics
Creators: name: Sikdar, Sandipan
name: Marsili, Matteo
name: Ganguly, Niloy
name: Mukherjee, Animesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Peer-review system has long been relied upon for bringing quality research to the notice of the scientific community and also preventing flawed research from entering into the literature. The need for the peer-review system has often been debated as in numerous cases it has failed in its task and in most of these cases editors and the reviewers were thought to be responsible for not being able to correctly judge the quality of the work. This raises a question "Can the peer-review system be improved?" Since editors and reviewers are the most important pillars of a reviewing system, we in this work, attempt to address a related question - given the editing/reviewing history of the editors or re- viewers "can we identify the under-performing ones?", with citations received by the edited/reviewed papers being used as proxy for quantifying performance. We term such review- ers and editors as anomalous and we believe identifying and removing them shall improve the performance of the peer- review system. Using a massive dataset of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) consisting of 29k papers submitted between 1997 and 2015 with 95 editors and 4035 reviewers and their review history, we identify several factors which point to anomalous behavior of referees and editors. In fact the anomalous editors and reviewers account for 26.8% and 14.5% of the total editors and reviewers respectively and for most of these anomalous reviewers the performance degrades alarmingly over time.
description: 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016)
Supplementary File 1
Creators: name: Donoghue, Lauren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310599
subject: Genetics not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 320103
subject: Respiratory diseases

description: Supplementary File 1 for "BPIFB1 loss alters airway mucus properties and diminishes mucociliary clearance"
Generating sets of finite groups
Creators: name: Cameron, Peter J.
name: Lucchini, Andrea
name: Roney-Dougal, Colva M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the extent to which the exchange relation holds in finite groups $G$. We define a new equivalence relation $\equiv_{\mathrm{m}}$, where two elements are equivalent if each can be substituted for the other in any generating set for $G$. We then refine this to a new sequence $\equiv_{\mathrm{m}}^{(r)}$ of equivalence relations by saying that $x \equiv_{\mathrm{m}}^{(r)}y$ if each can be substituted for the other in any $r$-element generating set. The relations $\equiv_{\mathrm{m}}^{(r)}$ become finer as $r$ increases, and we define a new group invariant $ψ(G)$ to be the value of $r$ at which they stabilise to $\equiv_{\mathrm{m}}$. Remarkably, we are able to prove that if $G$ is soluble then $ψ(G) \in \{d(G), d(G) +1\}$, where $d(G)$ is the minimum number of generators of $G$, and to classify the finite soluble groups $G$ for which $ψ(G) = d(G)$. For insoluble $G$, we show that $d(G) \leq ψ(G) \leq d(G) + 5$. However, we know of no examples of groups $G$ for which $ψ(G) > d(G) + 1$. As an application, we look at the generating graph of $G$, whose vertices are the elements of $G$, the edges being the $2$-element generating sets. Our relation $\equiv_{\mathrm{m}}^{(2)}$ enables us to calculate $\mathrm{Aut}(Γ(G))$ for all soluble groups $G$ of nonzero spread, and give detailed structural information about $\mathrm{Aut}(Γ(G))$ in the insoluble case.
description: 23 pages
Water, methanol and dense gas tracers in the local ULIRG Arp 220: Results from the new SEPIA Band 5 Science Verification campaign
Creators: name: Galametz, M.
name: Zhang, Z. -Y.
name: Immer, K.
name: Humphreys, E.
name: Aladro, R.
name: De Breuck, C.
name: Ginsburg, A.
name: Madden, S. C.
name: Møller, P.
name: Arumugam, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a line survey of the ultra-luminous infrared galaxy Arp 220, taken with the newly installed SEPIA Band 5 instrument on APEX. We illustrate the capacity of SEPIA to detect the 183.3 GHz H2O 31,3-22,0 line against the atmospheric H2O absorption feature. We confirm the previous detection of the HCN(2-1) line, and detect new transitions of standard dense gas tracers such as HNC(2-1), HCO+(2-1), CS(4-3), C34S(4-3), HC3N(20-19). We also detect HCN(2-1) v2=1 and the 193.5 GHz methanol (4-3) group for the first time. The absence of time variations in the megamaser water line compared to previous observations seems to rule out an AGN nuclear origin for the line. It could, on the contrary, favor a thermal origin instead, but also possibly be a sign that the megamaser emission is associated with star-forming cores washed-out in the beam. We finally discuss how the new transitions of HCN, HNC, HCO+ refine our knowledge of the ISM physical conditions in Arp 220.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The contextuality loophole is fatal for Bell inequalities: Reply to a comment by I. Schmelzer
Creators: name: Nieuwenhuizen, Theodorus M.
name: Kupczynski, Marian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ilya Schmelzer wrote recently: {\it Nieuwenhuizen argued that there exists some "contextuality loophole" in Bell's theorem. This claim in unjustified}. It is made clear that this arose from attaching a meaning to the title and the content of the paper different from the one intended by Nieuwenhuizen. "Contextual loophole" means only that if the supplementary parameters describing measuring instruments are correctly introduced, Bell and Bell-type inequalities may not be proven. It is also stressed that a hidden variable model suffers from a "contextuality loophole" if it tries to describe different sets of incompatible experiments using a unique probability space and a unique joint probability distribution.
description: 2 pages revtex
Supplementary File 1
Creators: name: Donoghue, Lauren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 310599
subject: Genetics not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 320103
subject: Respiratory diseases

description: Supplementary File 1 for "BPIFB1 loss alters airway mucus properties and diminishes mucociliary clearance"
Student learning approaches and meta-cognition during an introductory chemical engineering subject, comparing traditional hand calculations with use of simulation software : a qualitative analysis
Creators: name: Swaminathan., Chandrasekhar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Triggering Sublimation-Driven Activity of Main Belt Comets
Creators: name: Haghighipour, Nader
name: Maindl, Thomas
name: Schaefer, Christoph
name: Speith, Roland
name: Dvorak, Rudolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been suggested that the comet-like activity of Main Belt Comets are due to the sublimation of sub-surface water-ice that has been exposed as a result of their surfaces being impacted by m-sized bodies. We have examined the viability of this scenario by simulating impacts between m-sized and km-sized objects using a smooth particle hydrodynamics approach. Simulations have been carried out for different values of the impact velocity and impact angle as well as different target material and water-mass fraction. Results indicate that for the range of impact velocities corresponding to those in the asteroid belt, the depth of an impact crater is slightly larger than 10 m suggesting that if the activation of MBCs is due to the sublimation of sub-surface water-ice, this ice has to exist no deeper than a few meters from the surface. Results also show that ice-exposure occurs in the bottom and on the interior surface of impact craters as well as the surface of the target where some of the ejected icy inclusions are re-accreted. While our results demonstrate that the impact scenario is indeed a viable mechanism to expose ice and trigger the activity of MBCs, they also indicate that the activity of the current MBCs is likely due to ice sublimation from multiple impact sites and/or the water contents of these objects (and other asteroids in the outer asteroid belt) is larger than the 5% that is traditionally considered in models of terrestrial planet formation providing more ice for sublimation. We present details of our simulations and discuss their results and implications.
description: 27 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication by ApJ
Medical-State Collaboration: Regulating Substance Using Pregnant Women
Creators: name: McCabe, Katharine
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study examines local responses to perinatal substance use in the city of Chicago. I explore the ways that policy makers, medical professionals, and state actors collaborate to regulate substance using pregnant women. The findings of this research contribute to our understanding of the relationship between medicalization and criminalization and documents the emergence of a hybrid form of governance by which medical-state collaborations fundamentally empower and transform each other. Drawing from qualitative interviews (N = 86) with experts, professionals, medical actors, and women who have used substances while pregnant, this study reveals the complementary logics that bring disparate institutions together. The findings reveal that in response to perinatal substance use, medical and carceral logics comingle and pervade medical practices; treatment and diagnostic norms are scaled back while forensic methods used to surveil, monitor, and collect evidence are promoted. This research shows that medical providers play an active role in initiating state interventions in women’s lives for their behavior during pregnancy. This research also documents women’s experiences once they have been referred to child protective services and reveals that on the other side of medical-state handoffs women must contend with precarity within the privatized social service sector. Finally, this dissertation explores how substance using women experience motherhood when maternity status and childrearing are targets for punishment and discipline by multiple experts and institutions.
Dissecting Galaxies: Spatial and Spectral Separation of Emission Excited by Star Formation and AGN Activity
Creators: name: Davies, Rebecca L.
name: Groves, Brent
name: Kewley, Lisa J.
name: Dopita, Michael A.
name: Hampton, Elise J.
name: Shastri, Prajval
name: Scharwachter, Julia
name: Sutherland, Ralph
name: Kharb, Preeti
name: Bhatt, Harish
name: Jin, Chichuan
name: Banfield, Julie
name: Zaw, Ingyin
name: James, Bethan
name: Juneau, Stephanie
name: Srivastava, Shweta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical spectra of Seyfert galaxies are often dominated by emission lines excited by both star formation and AGN activity. Standard calibrations (such as for the star formation rate) are not applicable to such composite (mixed) spectra. In this paper, we describe how integral field data can be used to spectrally and spatially separate emission associated with star formation from emission associated with accretion onto an active galactic nucleus (AGN). We demonstrate our method using integral field data for two AGN host galaxies (NGC 5728 and NGC 7679) from the Siding Spring Southern Seyfert Spectroscopic Snapshot Survey (S7). The spectra of NGC 5728 and NGC 7679 form clear sequences of AGN fraction on standard emission line ratio diagnostic diagrams. We show that the emission line luminosities of the majority (> 85 per cent) of spectra along each AGN fraction sequence can be reproduced by linear superpositions of the emission line luminosities of one AGN dominated spectrum and one star formation dominated spectrum. We separate the Halpha, Hbeta, [N II]$λ$6583, [S II]$λλ$6716, 6731, [O III]$λ$5007 and [O II]$λλ$3726, 3729 luminosities of every spaxel into contributions from star formation and AGN activity. The decomposed emission line images are used to derive the star formation rates and AGN bolometric luminosities for NGC 5728 and NGC 7679. Our calculated values are mostly consistent with independent estimates from data at other wavelengths. The recovered star forming and AGN components also have distinct spatial distributions which trace structures seen in high resolution imaging of the galaxies, providing independent confirmation that our decomposition has been successful.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
New Insights in the Spectral Variability and Physical Conditions of the X-ray Absorbers in NGC 4151
Creators: name: Couto, J. D.
name: Kraemer, S. B.
name: Turner, T. J.
name: Crenshaw, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the relationship between the long term X-ray spectral variability in the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy NGC 4151 and its intrinsic absorption, by comparing the 2014 simultaneous ultraviolet/X-Ray observations taken with Hubble STIS Echelle and Chandra HETGS with archival observations from Chandra, XMM-Newton and Suzaku. The observations are divided into "high" and "low" states, with the low states showing strong and unabsorbed extended emission at energies below 2 keV. Our X-ray model consists of a broken powerlaw, neutral reflection and the two dominant absorption components identified by Kraemer et al. (2005), hereafter KRA2005, X-High and D+Ea, which are present in all epochs. The model fittings suggest that the absorbers are very stable, with the principal changes in the intrinsic absorption resulting from variations in the ionization state of the gas as the ionizing continuum varies. However, the low states show evidence of larger column densities in one or both of the absorbers. Among plausible explanations for the column increase, we discuss the possibility of an expanding/contracting X-ray corona. As suggested by KRA2005, there seem to be contributions from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) winds to the mass outflow. Along with the ultra fast outflow absorber identified by Tombesi et al. (2010), X-High is consistent with being magnetically driven. On the other hand, it is unlikely that D+Ea is part of the MHD flow, and it is possible that it is radiatively accelerated. These results suggest that at a sufficiently large radial distance there is a break point between MHD-dominated and radiatively driven outflows.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication at the Astrophysical Journal
title: Prüfbericht G 2224 / ÜG 2023 : Injektor-Hohlkegeldüse John Deere PSIHCCQ8001 (Keramik, kunststoffummantelt, orange) baugleich mit Lechler ITR 80-01 C ; Anerkannt für das Spritzen / Sprühen im Obst- und Weinbau
Creators: name: JKI-Institut Für Anwendungstechnik Im Pflanzenschutz
Publisher: name: Bundesbehörden und Einrichtungen im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 630

description: Geräteprüfberichte des JKI
How to teach drawing : A teacher's manual
Creators: name: Prang Educational Company
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Art--Study and teaching
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815338
subject: Drawing--Technique
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/897757
subject: Drawing
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/897725
subject: Drawing--Study and teaching
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/897749

description: A manual for teaching drawing containing suggestive lessons, glossary of art terms, colour theory, and a list of suggested art books and art materials.
"Twisted" black holes are unphysical
Creators: name: Gray, Finnian
name: Santiago, Jessica
name: Schuster, Sebastian
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: So-called "twisted" black holes have recently been proposed by Zhang (1609.09721 [gr-qc]), and further considered by Chen and Jing (1610.00886 [gr-qc]), and more recently by Ong (1610.05757 [gr-qc]). While these spacetimes are certainly Ricci-flat, and so mathematically satisfy the vacuum Einstein equations, they are also merely minor variants on Taub--NUT spacetimes. Consequently they exhibit several unphysical features that make them quite unreasonable as realistic astrophysical objects. Specifically, these "twisted" black holes are not (globally) asymptotically flat. Furthermore, they contain closed timelike curves that are not hidden behind any event horizon --- the most obvious of these closed timelike curves are small azimuthal circles around the rotation axis, but the effect is more general. The entire region outside the horizon is infested with closed timelike curves.
description: 10 pages
Study of the enhancement of learning through group interaction by computer mediated communication
Creators: name: Stacey., Elizabeth Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Preferred Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Flavors and Tobacco Use Patterns
Creators: name: Brikmanis, Kristin
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Flavors may be important in understanding use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), but little is known about who uses which flavors and how these preferences may affect tobacco use trajectories. This study examined how ENDS flavor preference varied by demographics, tobacco history, motives, and expectancies for ENDS. The association between ENDS flavor preference and patterns of use of cigarettes and ENDS over 6 months was also examined. Methods: Data come from the baseline wave of a longitudinal observational study of adult dual cigarette and ENDS users (N = 406). Participants were 40% female, aged 18-70, and 48% White, 34% Black, 12% Asian, and 12% identified with other racial backgrounds. At baseline, participants completed questionnaires and seven days of ecological momentary assessment of all tobacco use. Flavor preferences were grouped into four categories: tobacco (12%), menthol/mint (34%), sweet (45%), and other (9%). Results: Flavor preference differed by participant age and race. Users of sweet flavored ENDS were significantly younger, F(3, 403) = 23.56, p < .001, than those who used tobacco or menthol. Black dual users were significantly more likely than other racial groups to use menthol and less likely to use sweet flavors, c2(9) = 54.42, p < .001. Tobacco patterns and dependence also varied by flavor preference. Dual users who preferred sweet flavors smoked cigarettes fewer days, F(3, 402) = 4.62, p < .001, than those who preferred tobacco and menthol flavors. Users who preferred sweet flavors also were significantly less cigarette dependent than others, F(3, 402) = 5.26, p = .001. Those who preferred sweet flavors were more likely to use rechargeable ENDS devices with refillable cartridges, c2(6)= 77.78, p < .001. Dual users who preferred sweet flavors also differed significantly from others in motives and expectancies, more strongly endorsing boredom reduction expectancies, F(3, 401) = 6.90, p < .001, and motives related to taste and sensory experience, F(3, 398) = 8.74, p < .001. Conclusions: Dual users who preferred sweet flavors ENDS emerged as a distinct subset differing in all domains: demographics, tobacco history, motives, and expectancies. Findings have implications for interventions and regulations.
The Financial Condition of American’s Large Cities
Creators: name: Xiaoheng Wang
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation contributes to a better theoretical understanding of the complexities of financial condition process. Also, this dissertation uses data from government-wide financial statements to measure municipal financial condition, which can better evaluate the overall fiscal health of the governments as well as compare, analyze, and explain the financial condition in a more accurate and comprehensive manner. The results from the panel two-ways fixed-effects regression show that cities with more stringent state-imposed Tax and Expenditure Limitations (TELs) tend to have smaller government-wide cash reserves in the short-term but are more likely to excessively rely on debt, therefore facing difficulty in the payment of long-term liabilities. Second, an increased degree of state-local revenue decentralization is significantly associated with lower budget solvency and higher long-term solvency among cities; while an increased degree of state-local expenditure decentralization leads to higher levels of city cash solvency and lower levels of city long-term solvency. Finally, municipalities with more intergovernmental aid are likely to increase cash holdings but may experience unbalanced budgets and more financing responsibilities in the future.
title: Teaching tools – 4 digital aids for teaching
Creators: name: Greiner, Florian
Publisher: name: Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsdidaktik, Universität Regensburg
Year: 2021

description: The post presents 4 digital aids for teaching with regard to the following scenarios where they could be used: presentation of content, activation of participants, collaborative writing and visualisation of ideas.
Ultrafast transmission electron microscopy using a laser-driven field emitter: femtosecond resolution with a high coherence electron beam
Creators: name: Feist, Armin
name: Bach, Nora
name: da Silva, Nara Rubiano
name: Danz, Thomas
name: Möller, Marcel
name: Priebe, Katharina E.
name: Domröse, Till
name: Gatzmann, J. Gregor
name: Rost, Stefan
name: Schauss, Jakob
name: Strauch, Stefanie
name: Bormann, Reiner
name: Sivis, Murat
name: Schäfer, Sascha
name: Ropers, Claus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the development of the first ultrafast transmission electron microscope (UTEM) driven by localized photoemission from a field emitter cathode. We describe the implementation of the instrument, the photoemitter concept and the quantitative electron beam parameters achieved. Establishing a new source for ultrafast TEM, the Göttingen UTEM employs nano-localized linear photoemission from a Schottky emitter, which enables operation with freely tunable temporal structure, from continuous wave to femtosecond pulsed mode. Using this emission mechanism, we achieve record pulse properties in ultrafast electron microscopy of 9 Å focused beam diameter, 200 fs pulse duration and 0.6 eV energy width. We illustrate the possibility to conduct ultrafast imaging, diffraction, holography and spectroscopy with this instrument and also discuss opportunities to harness quantum coherent interactions between intense laser fields and free electron beams.
Politicizing the Condition of Diabetes Online: Counter Narratives and the Pursuit of Normalcy
Creators: name: Walker, Heather Rose
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We live in a social environment that understands diabetes as a consequence of gluttony and inactivity – an individual problem rooted in personal knowledge, choice, and will. This broadly accepted narrative effectively acts to depoliticize the condition of diabetes en masse. My dual-study dissertation calls this depoliticization into question by inquiring into the culture of diabetes online communities (DOCs) across three social media platforms, and facilitating a generative appreciative inquiry action workgroup with eight DOC leaders. Using a combination of netnographic methods, I explore how the condition of diabetes is being politicized online. By gazing deeply into narratives, I found that diabetes is politicized largely through the sharing of personal stories online. Online, people are connectively rebranding diabetes as an unrelenting, difficult, though manageable condition. They share vulnerability with humility, working to challenge and ultimately change the minds of those who subscribe to the broadly accepted narrative. Online, people appeal to a diabetes identity that serves as a powerful instrument of social change. To complicate this, however, they concurrently attempt to self-protect by advocating only with kindness and gentility. Throughout this dissertation, I contend with issues of within-group conflict, empowered consciousness, and a connective proclivity toward advocacy strategies that have not been shown to be effective in other historical contexts. I conclude by putting forth a provocative preposition iteratively developed parallel to the action workgroup compelling people with diabetes, researchers, and clinicians to further inquire into alternative, perhaps more direct, modes of politicization in the context of diabetes.
title: Test Report G 2224 / ÜG 2023 : Injector hollow cone nozzle John Deere PSIHCCQ8001 (ceramics, plastic-coated, orange) identical with Lechler ITR 80-01 C ; Approved for spraying in orchards and vineyards
Creators: name: JKI- Institut Für Anwendungstechnik Im Pflanzenschutz
Publisher: name: Bundesbehörden und Einrichtungen im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 600

description: Geräteprüfberichte des JKI
Born-Infeld condensate as a possible origin of neutrino masses and dark energy
Creators: name: Addazi, Andrea
name: Capozziello, Salvatore
name: Odintsov, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the possibility that a Born-Infeld condensate coupled to neutrinos can generate both neutrino masses and an effective cosmological constant. In particular, an effective field theory is provided capable of dynamically realizing the neutrino superfluid phase firstly suggested by Ginzburg and Zharkov. In such a case, neutrinos acquire a mass gap inside the Born-Infeld ether forming a long-range Cooper pair. Phenomenological implications of the approach are also discussed.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Physics Letter B
An analysis of the literacy skills of apprentices in relation to their rate of apprenticeship progress by the use of vocational reference language tests (VORELATE)
Creators: name: Sofo., Frank
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Robust Reactive Power Optimization and Voltage Control Method for Active Distribution Networks via Dual Time-scale Coordination
Creators: name: Zheng, Weiye
name: Wu, Wenchuan
name: Zhang, Boming
name: Wang, Yongjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In distribution networks, there are slow controlling devices and fast controlling devices for Volt-VAR regulation. These slow controlling devices, such as capacitors or voltage regulators, cannot be operated frequently and should be scheduled tens of minutes ahead (Hereafter named as slow control). Since of the uncertainties in predicting the load and distributed generation, the voltage violations cannot be eliminated by fast controlling devices with improper schedule of the slow controlling devices. In this paper we propose dual time-scale coordination for the Volt-VAR control scheme, corresponding to slow and fast control. In the case of slow control, a robust voltage and reactive power optimization model is developed. This guarantees that subsequent fast controls can maintain the system's voltage security if the uncertain parameters vary within predefined limits. This nonconvex optimization problem is relaxed to a mix integer second order conic problem, and the dual form of its sub-problem is also derived. Then a column-and-constraint generation algorithm was used to solve the robust convexified model. A conventional deterministic optimization model can be used to determine the fast control mechanism. Numerical tests were conducted on a real distribution feeder in China, a balanced IEEE 69-bus and unbalanced 123-bus benchmark distribution networks. The simulation results show that solving the deterministic model is not always feasible and voltage violation may occur. The robust model was shown to be effective with respect to all possible scenarios in the uncertainty set, with little compromise in terms of network losses.
description: 22 pagse, ams.org
title: Harnessing the Power of Large Language Models For Economic and Social Good: Foundations
Creators: name: Walsh, Matthew
name: Ross, Dominic
name: Worrell, Clarence
name: Gomez, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023

description: This post begins by describing the fundamental principles underlying large language models. We then delve into a range of practical applications, encompassing data science, training and education, research, and strategic planning. Our objective is to demonstrate high leverage use-cases and identify strategies to curtail misuse, abuse, and disuse, thus paving the way for more informed and effective use of this transformative technology.
POI: Multiple Object Tracking with High Performance Detection and Appearance Feature
Creators: name: Yu, Fengwei
name: Li, Wenbo
name: Li, Quanquan
name: Liu, Yu
name: Shi, Xiaohua
name: Yan, Junjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Detection and learning based appearance feature play the central role in data association based multiple object tracking (MOT), but most recent MOT works usually ignore them and only focus on the hand-crafted feature and association algorithms. In this paper, we explore the high-performance detection and deep learning based appearance feature, and show that they lead to significantly better MOT results in both online and offline setting. We make our detection and appearance feature publicly available. In the following part, we first summarize the detection and appearance feature, and then introduce our tracker named Person of Interest (POI), which has both online and offline version.
description: ECCV workshop BMTT 2016
Bridging the visual gap in VLN via semantically richer instructions
Creators: name: Ossandón, Joaquin
name: Earle, Benjamin
name: Soto, Álvaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Visual-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task requires understanding a textual instruction to navigate a natural indoor environment using only visual information. While this is a trivial task for most humans, it is still an open problem for AI models. In this work, we hypothesize that poor use of the visual information available is at the core of the low performance of current models. To support this hypothesis, we provide experimental evidence showing that state-of-the-art models are not severely affected when they receive just limited or even no visual data, indicating a strong overfitting to the textual instructions. To encourage a more suitable use of the visual information, we propose a new data augmentation method that fosters the inclusion of more explicit visual information in the generation of textual navigational instructions. Our main intuition is that current VLN datasets include textual instructions that are intended to inform an expert navigator, such as a human, but not a beginner visual navigational agent, such as a randomly initialized DL model. Specifically, to bridge the visual semantic gap of current VLN datasets, we take advantage of metadata available for the Matterport3D dataset that, among others, includes information about object labels that are present in the scenes. Training a state-of-the-art model with the new set of instructions increase its performance by 8% in terms of success rate on unseen environments, demonstrating the advantages of the proposed data augmentation method.
description: Accepted in ECCV 2022. Research completed on November 21, 2021
Calculating rotating hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic waves to understand magnetic effects on dynamical tides
Creators: name: Wei, Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For understanding magnetic effects on dynamical tides, we study the rotating magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) flow driven by harmonic forcing. The linear responses are analytically derived in a periodic box under the local WKB approximation. Both the kinetic and Ohmic dissipations at the resonant frequencies are calculated and the various parameters are investigated. Although magnetic pressure may be negligible compared to thermal pressure, magnetic field can be important for the first-order perturbation, e.g. dynamical tides. It is found that magnetic field splits the resonant frequency, namely the rotating hydrodynamic flow has only one resonant frequency but the rotating MHD flow has two, one positive and the other negative. In the weak field regime the dissipations are asymmetric around the two resonant frequencies and this asymmetry is more striking with a weaker magnetic field. It is also found that both the kinetic and Ohmic dissipations at the resonant frequencies are inversely proportional to the Ekman number and the square of wavenumber. The dissipation at the resonant frequency on small scales is almost equal to the dissipation at the non-resonant frequencies, namely the resonance takes its effect on the dissipation at intermediate length scales. Moreover, the waves with phase propagation perpendicular to magnetic field are much more damped. It is also interesting to find that the frequency-averaged dissipation is constant. This result suggests that in compact objects magnetic effects on tidal dissipation should be considered.
description: 11 figures, 1 table
Design of On-demand DBS in Movement Disorders using Machine Learning and the Need for Adaptive Learning
Creators: name: Nivedita Khobragade
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis presents an automated tremor prediction algorithm based on modified Large memory storage and retrieval Neural Network (LNN-2), for the design of closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) system. The proposed method modifies the current open-loop paradigm of DBS to work on-demand by forecasting the onset of tremor in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and Essential Tremor (ET) patients. Feedback provided by non-invasive physiological signals is used to drive the DBS in an on-off regime, stimulating the target region only when required. Such closed-loop DBS systems, thereby reduce the amount of stimulation applied to the brain and may also lead to improving the battery life, decreasing the risk of infection due to repetitive battery replacement surgeries. With the recent rise in wearable devices, we envisage a closed-loop system based on sEMG and acc signals for tremor-dominant PD and ET patients.
A time-correlation function approach to nuclear dynamical effects in X-ray spectroscopy
Creators: name: Karsten, Sven
name: Bokarev, Sergey I.
name: Aziz, Saadullah G.
name: Ivanov, Sergei D.
name: Kühn, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern X-ray spectroscopy has proven itself as a robust tool for probing the electronic structure of atoms in complex environments. Despite working on energy scales that are much larger than those corresponding to nuclear motions, taking nuclear dynamics and the associated nuclear correlations into account may be of importance for X-ray spectroscopy. Recently, we have developed an efficient protocol to account for nuclear dynamics in X-ray absorption and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering spectra [Karsten \textit{et al.} arXiv:1608.03436], based on ground state molecular dynamics accompanied with state-of-the-art calculations of electronic excitation energies and transition dipoles. Here, we present an alternative derivation of the formalism and elaborate on the developed simulation protocol on the examples of gas phase and bulk water. The specific spectroscopic features stemming from the nuclear motions are analyzed and traced down to the dynamics of electronic energy gaps and transition dipole correlation functions. The observed tendencies are explained on the basis of a simple harmonic model and the involved approximations are discussed. The method represents a step forward over the conventional approaches treating the system in full complexity and provides a reasonable starting point for further improvements.
description: 6 figures
Properties of the outer regions of spiral disks: abundances, colors and ages
Creators: name: Mollá, Mercedes
name: Díaz, Angeles I.
name: Gibson, Brad K.
name: Cavichia, Oscar
name: López-Sánchez, Ángel-R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize the results obtained from our suite of chemical evolution models for spiral disks, computed for different total masses and star formation efficiencies. Once the gas, stars and star formation radial distributions are reproduced, we analyze the Oxygen abundances radial profiles for gas and stars, in addition to stellar averaged ages and global metallicity. We examine scenarios for the potential origin of the apparent flattening of abundance gradients in the outskirts of disk galaxies, in particular the role of molecular gas formation prescriptions.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, Formation and evolution of galaxy outskirts Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 321, 2015, Armando Gil de Paz, Johan Knapen & Janice Lee, in press
title: К вопросу о видах, ветвях власти
Creators: name: Сидоров, Василий
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В данной статье автор исследуют различные точки зрения на юридическую и социальную природу власти, ее классификацию, разделения на виды и ветви власти, дается краткая характеристика государственной, муниципальной властям, выделяется и обосновывается отдельно общественная власть и народная власть. Подвергаются критическому анализу соотношения таких понятий, обосновывается их суть и роль как современных государственно-правовых явлений. Цель работы заключается в определении, выделении и закреплении на законодательном уровне общественной и народной власти и их ветвей, приводится обоснование изменения формы правления в Российской Федерации на президентскую. Как результат исследования – систематизация и классификация видов и ветвей власти, чего не было и нет в других родственных научных и практических исследованиях.