cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Open University Advanced Diploma in Educational Management (DO2): A Study of the Effectiveness of the Course in Preparing Senior Managers in Schools for their Role in the 1990s
Creators: name: Willis, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1993

description: The study investigates the motivation of a small group of students from the Greater London area in undertaking the Open University Advanced Diploma in Educational Management. Four questions are posed: a. Why some middle and senior managers in schools chose this course at a time when the demands made of senior managers were increasing. b. Why they persevered with the course in a contracting market for promotion. c. How successful the course was in preparing them for promotion. d. Whether, and is so how, the course had improved their effectiveness as senior managers. The research was conducted over a period of intense educational change, both locally and nationally, as the Education Reform Act (1988) heralded unprecedented changes in the nature of senior management and in the relationships between schools, parents, local and central government, in its quest to raise standards and increase accountability. Whilst the initial focus of the study was on the career development of individuals, the evolving political context was to redirect attention towards the role of senior staff in managing these changes and enhancing the quality of learning. The value of the Advanced Diploma emerged to be its effectiveness in preparing senior managers for this role, enabling them to cope with the stresses of an ever-changing situation, and developing vital analytical and communicative skills. Students are found to be motivated by a sense of professionalism. They choose distance learning as a means of acquiring new skills and knowledge which hold the promise of meeting their immediate, higher order, needs for self-actualisation, as well as offering the longer-term possibility of career development. Whilst most students do achieve promoted positions during or after their studies, this is not their prime expectation, and their success cannot be attributed definitively to the course. The value of the Advanced Diploma lies primarily in promoting a sense of achievement and recognition. This is found to sustain students when career aspirations are blocked by institutional or personal circumstances, and when they might otherwise fall into a state of professional stagnation. By developing more effective individuals, the Advanced Diploma thus achieves the Open University's aims of improving the quality of school management, yet simultaneously satisfying students. The compatibility of meeting personal and individual needs is thereby demonstrated. Recommendations are made which recognise the value of distance learning and its ability to appeal to teachers' professionalism without any need to resort to more formal means of accountability or inducement to undertake training for the changig role of senior managers in schools.
Additional file 1 of Profile of central corneal thickness and corneal endothelial cell morpho-density of in healthy Congolese eyes
Creators: name: Joseph-Theodore K. Kelekele
name: Kayembe, David L.
name: Mwanza, Jean-Claude
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Comparison of central corneal thickness and corneal endothelial cell morphometric characteristics across selected studies
Lorentz invariance and quantum gravity: an additional fine-tuning problem?
Creators: name: Collins, John
name: Perez, Alejandro
name: Sudarsky, Daniel
name: Urrutia, Luis
name: Vucetich, Héctor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Trying to combine standard quantum field theories with gravity leads to a breakdown of the usual structure of space-time at around the Planck length, 1.6*10^{-35} m, with possible violations of Lorentz invariance. Calculations of preferred-frame effects in quantum gravity have further motivated high precision searches for Lorentz violation. Here, we explain that combining known elementary particle interactions with a Planck-scale preferred frame gives rise to Lorentz violation at the percent level, some 20 orders of magnitude higher than earlier estimates, unless the bare parameters of the theory are unnaturally strongly fine-tuned. Therefore an important task is not just the improvement of the precision of searches for violations of Lorentz invariance, but also the search for theoretical mechanisms for automatically preserving Lorentz invariance.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. V.4: Updates of references; slightly shortened to journal length limits for Phys. Rev. Lett
Additional file 1 of A systematic review of patient access to medical records in the acute setting: practicalities, perspectives and ethical consequences
Creators: name: D’Costa, Stephanie
name: Kuhn, Isla
name: Fritz, Zoë
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Full search strategies for both literature searches.
The results of focused oral language instruction on the expressive skills of grade four and five French immersion students
Creators: name: Spence, Alexandria Emile
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The Language Arts curriculum for British Columbia, which was introduced in 2006, contains a significant focus on oral language. In fact, there are more prescribed learning outcomes for oral language than for the reading and writing components. While developing oral language skills has always been very important in French immersion classroom, many researchers who study the French immersion program in British Columbia have noticed a gap exists between the expressive and receptive skills of immersion students, noting that the expressive skills of immersion students are considerably weaker in comparison. It has been suggested that explanation-based instruction could help to improve immersion students' expressive skills: in other words, teachers cannot simply expect a transfer of vocabulary when instruction is not focused on that particular aspect of language. Students need to be provided with the opportunity to understand how a language works. A teacher can provide this explanation to students, gauging the depth of these discussions vis-à-vis the student's age and ability. While a teacher remains in control of much of what students receive as input, research suggests that students require regular opportunities for output or to practise speaking French in order to improve. In addition to providing students with the tools they require to fully express themselves, students also need exposure to a different register of French besides the classroom register. In this way, they may be able to better communicate with their peers at a more natural level. This paper will examine the results of different oral language interventions that have been suggested by a variety of researchers. Throughout the study, I saw continued improvement in my students' oral language skills as well as a transfer of these skills to other subjects.
Is there a novel Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory in four dimensions?
Creators: name: Gurses, Metin
name: Sisman, Tahsin Cagri
name: Tekin, Bayram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: No! We show that the field equations of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory defined in generic $D>4$ dimensions split into two parts one of which always remains higher dimensional, and hence the theory does not have a non-trivial limit to $D=4$. Therefore, the recently introduced four-dimensional, novel, Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory does not admit an intrinsically four-dimensional definition as such it does not exist in four dimensions. The solutions (the spacetime, the metric) always remain $D>4$ dimensional. As there is no canonical choice of 4 spacetime dimensions out of $D$ dimensions for generic metrics, the theory is not well defined in four dimensions.
description: 8 pages, typos corrected, discussions expanded
Additional file 2 of The Advancing Understanding of Transportation Options (AUTO) study: design and methods of a multi-center study of decision aid for older drivers
Creators: name: Betz, Marian E.
name: Omeragic, Faris
name: Meador, Lauren
name: DiGuiseppi, Carolyn G.
name: Fowler, Nicole R.
name: S. Duke Han
name: Hill, Linda
name: Johnson, Rachel L.
name: Knoepke, Christopher E.
name: Matlock, Daniel D.
name: Moran, Ryan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Cognitive Concern Form.
Velocity Decay Estimates for Boltzmann equation with hard potentials
Creators: name: Cameron, Stephen
name: Snelson, Stanley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish pointwise polynomial decay estimates in velocity space for the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation without cutoff, in the case of hard potentials ($γ+2s > 2$), under the assumption that the mass, energy, and entropy densities are bounded above, and the mass density is bounded below. These estimates are self-generating, i.e. they do not require corresponding decay assumptions on the initial data. Our results extend the recent work of Imbert-Mouhot-Silvestre (arXiv:1804.06135), which addressed the case of moderately soft potentials ($γ+ 2s \in [0,2]$).
description: 16 pages
The generalized MIC-Kepler system
Creators: name: Mardoyan, Levon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper deals with dynamical system that generalizes the MIC-Kepler system. It is shown that the Schrödinger equation for this generalized MIC-Kepler system can be separated in spherical and parabolic coordinates. The spectral problem in spherical and parabolic coordinates is solved.
description: 8 pages
Additional file 1 of Silicified bulliform cells of Poaceae: morphological characteristics that distinguish subfamilies
Creators: name: Iju Chen
name: Kuang-Ti Li
name: Cheng-Hwa Tsang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. Morphometric measurement of Poaceae bulliform phytoliths.
Functional bosonization with time dependent perturbations
Creators: name: Naón, Carlos M.
name: Salvay, Mariano J.
name: Trobo, Marta L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend a path-integral approach to bosonization previously developed in the framework of equilibrium Quantum Field Theories, to the case in which time-dependent interactions are taken into account. In particular we consider a non covariant version of the Thirring model in the presence of a dynamic barrier at zero temperature. By using the Closed Time Path (Schwinger-Keldysh) formalism, we compute the Green's function and the Total Energy Density of the system. Since our model contains the Tomonaga Luttinger model as a particular case, we make contact with recent results on non-equilibrium electronic systems.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
Temperature induced giant shift of phonon energy in epitaxial boron nitride layers
Creators: name: Iwański, Jakub
name: Tatarczak, Piotr
name: Tokarczyk, Mateusz
name: Kowalski, Grzegorz
name: Dąbrowska, Aleksandra K.
name: Binder, Johannes
name: Stępniewski, Roman
name: Wysmołek, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent progress in the growth of large-area boron nitride epilayers opens up new possibilities for future applications. However, it remains largely unclear how weakly attached two-dimensional BN layers interact with their substrate and how their properties are influenced by defects. In this work, we investigate hBN layers grown by Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE) using Fourier-transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in the temperature range of 160-540 K. Our measurements reveal strong differences in the character of layer-substrate interaction for as-grown and delaminated epitaxial layers. A much weaker interaction of as-grown layers is explained by wrinkles formation that reduces strain at the layer-substrate interface, which for layers transferred to other substrates occurs only in a limited temperature range. The most striking result is the observation of a giant increase in the $E_{1u}$ phonon energy of up to $\sim6$ cm$^{-1}$ in a narrow temperature range. We show that the amplitude and temperature range of the anomaly is strongly modified by UV light illumination. The observed giant effect is explained in terms of strain generation resulting from charge redistribution between shallow traps and different defects, which can be interpreted as a result of strong electron-phonon coupling in hBN. The observed narrow temperature range of the anomaly indicates that the effect may be further enhanced for example by electrostrictive effects, expected for sp$^2$ boron nitride.
Implications of Natural Gas Shortage For Industrial Demand and the Environment
Creators: name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Gill, Gurmukh S.
name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Gill, Gurmukh S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: dynamic
subject: interfuel substitution
subject: regulation
subject: elasticity

description: A model consisting of demandand price equations was estimated by techniques of error components and two-stage least squares. Thirteen manufacturing industries were selected for analysis. Results show that the deregulation of gas prices should be an effective means of reducing both future gas shortage and environmental degradation.
Enabling near sensor AI with Low-Power processing: An Open-Hardware experience.
Creators: name: Martis, Luca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Moving data processing closer to its source, known as edge computing, offers significant advantages including reduced latency, bandwidth savings, and enhanced reliability. However, implementing complex algorithms on edge devices is challenging due to power and computational limitations. Moreover, for most actors on the market, accessing chip fabrication has significant cost barriers. We present our experience gained during the implementation of an accelerator for Spiking Neural Networks designed to be integrated into a System-on-Chip (SoC). The accelerator was developed using the open-source Process Design Kit (PDK) SKY130A and open-source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. Preliminary results highlight the potential of this open instruments in EdgeAI applications, in terms of performance, power and chip-making democratization, as well as the current limitations.
IW And-Type State in IM Eridani
Creators: name: Kato, Taichi
name: Wakamatsu, Yasuyuki
name: Kojiguchi, Naoto
name: Kimura, Mariko
name: Ohnishi, Ryuhei
name: Isogai, Keisuke
name: Niijima, Keito
name: Yoshitake, Tomohiro
name: Sugiura, Yuki
name: Sumiya, Sho
name: Ito, Daiki
name: Nikai, Kengo
name: Matsumoto, Hanami
name: Matsumoto, Katsura
name: Vanmunster, Tonny
name: Hambsch, Franz-Josef
name: Itoh, Hiroshi
name: Babina, Julia V.
name: Antonyuk, Oksana I.
name: Baklanov, Alex V.
name: Pavlenko, Elena P.
name: Monard, Berto
name: Dvorak, Shawn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IW And stars are a recently recognized group of dwarf novae which are characterized by a repeated sequence of brightening from a standstill-like phase with damping oscillations followed by a deep dip. Kimura et al. (2019) recently proposed a model based on thermal-viscous disk instability in a tilted disk to reproduce the IW And-type characteristics. IM Eri experienced the IW And-type phase in 2018 and we recorded three cycles of the (damping) oscillation phase terminated by brightening. We identified two periods during the IW And-type state: 4-5 d small-amplitude (often damping) oscillations and a 34-43 d long cycle. This behavior is typical for an IW And-type star. The object gradually brightened within the long cycle before the next brightening which terminated the (damping) oscillation phase. This observation agrees with the increasing disk mass during the long cycle predicted by a model of thermal-viscous disk instability in a tilted disk (Kimura et al. 2019). We, however, did not succeed in detecting negative superhumps, which are considered to be the signature of a tilted disk.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, si.pdf (supporting information), accepted for publication in PASJ
Additional file 1 of Investigating Size-Dependent Conductive Properties on Individual Si Nanowires
Creators: name: X. Hu
name: S. Li
name: J. Wang
name: Z. Jiang
name: X. Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Histograms of the current distribution of Si NWs obtained from the current images as shown in Figures 3 and 4. (a) and (b) presents the statistical current distributions of Si NWs with different diameters (same length of 350 nm) and different lengths (same diameter of 190 nm), respectively. The current distribution shifts to right with decreased diameter and length. Figure S2. Averaged current as a function of 1/Length. Figure S3. (a) Typical I-V curve measured on the same type of Si wafer; (b) Fitting result of the I-V curve in (a) with equation (1). Figure S4. Typical I-V curves on the Si NWs with different lengths and the same diameter of 260 nm (a) and 350 nm (b), respectively. The curves exhibit similar length dependence as that obtained from Fig. 6b. Figure S5. Diameter and length dependent Schottky barrier heights obtained from the fitting results of I-V curves on Si NWs with different lengths and different diameters are shown in (a) and (b), respectively. Figure S6. Energy band diagram of the contact interface between metallic tip and Si NW. VCPD is the contact potential difference and the value of SBH roughly equals to the sum of qVCPD and En. Figure S7. Diameter and length dependent contact potential difference values obtained by EFM curve fitting are given in (a) and (b), respectively.
Additional file 1 of The Advancing Understanding of Transportation Options (AUTO) study: design and methods of a multi-center study of decision aid for older drivers
Creators: name: Betz, Marian E.
name: Omeragic, Faris
name: Meador, Lauren
name: DiGuiseppi, Carolyn G.
name: Fowler, Nicole R.
name: S. Duke Han
name: Hill, Linda
name: Johnson, Rachel L.
name: Knoepke, Christopher E.
name: Matlock, Daniel D.
name: Moran, Ryan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Risk Review Form (based on AAN Guidelines (Iverson et al. 2010).
Potential Impacts of Energy Price Changes on Consumer Food Costs
Creators: name: Lee, Chinkook
name: Whittlesey, Norman K.
name: Shane, Richard C.
name: Lee, Chinkook
name: Whittlesey, Norman K.
name: Shane, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Energy Inputs
subject: Food Costs
subject: Food System

description: This paper documents actual energy inputs for selected agricultural products for all activities from production to home consumption. It then estimates the potential food cost impacts of several alternative energy pricing schemes. The findings of this analysis indicate that modest energy price changes are unlikely to have significant impacts on food costs, contrary to some beliefs.
About Twistor Spinors with Zero in Lorentzian Geometry
Creators: name: Leitner, Felipe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A30; 53C50

description: We describe the local conformal geometry of a Lorentzian spin manifold $(M,g)$ admitting a twistor spinor $ϕ$ with zero. Moreover, we describe the shape of the zero set of $ϕ$. If $ϕ$ has isolated zeros then the metric $g$ is locally conformally equivalent to a static monopole. In the other case the zero set consists of null geodesic(s) and $g$ is locally conformally equivalent to a Brinkmann metric. Our arguments utilise tractor calculus in an essential way. The Dirac current of $ϕ$, which is a conformal Killing vector field, plays an important role for our discussion as well.
Black holes in the limiting curvature theory of gravity
Creators: name: Frolov, Valeri P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a recently proposed limiting curvature theory of gravity and its application to the problem of singularities inside black holes. In this theory the growth of the curvature is suppressed by specially chosen inequality constraints included in the gravity action. We consider a case of a spherically symmetric four dimensional black hole and demonstrated that imposed curvature constraints modify a solution in the black hole interior. Instead of forming the curvature singularity the modified metric describes a space which is exponentially expanding in one direction and oscillating the other two directions. The spacetime is complete and its polynomial curvature invariants are uniformly bounded.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
title: When is it Justifiable to Ascribe Mental States to Non-Human Systems?
Creators: name: Stuart, Susan Alice Jane
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1993

description: In this thesis I shall attempt to show when it is, and when it is not, justifiable to ascribe mental states, of the type that we associate with the complex cognitive behaviour of human beings, to non-human systems. To do this I will first attempt to give a fundamental explication of some of the problems that underlie our ascription of mental states to other human beings, non-human animals and machines, after which I will tackle the problem of whether or not any ascription of mentality can ever be completely vindicated. Then I will look at the issues of complexity and the distinctions that hold between the capabilities of various systems, both natural and artificial. The result of this will be a more comprehensive understanding of what characteristics are necessary for the possession of such capabilities. I will go on to argue that a positive relation exists between a system's architecture and its capability to behave or act in ways that can be classed as one of a number of mental states such as 'knowing', 'understanding' or 'believing'. I shall look at the ways in which machine states and mental states have been examined using hierarchical stratifications for these can offer us some indication of the correlation that exists between simple systems and the low level actions of which they are capable, and the more sophisticated actions of which only progressively more complex systems are capable. However, I shall put forward arguments to demonstrate that this is a feasible strategy when dealing with the innards of a machine but not for dealing with the innards of the mind. Throughout the thesis I shall try to clarify the inexplicit or clouded notions of subjectivity and intentionality, for one of my aims is to demonstrate that the notions of subjectivity and awareness are more important than intentionality in the distinction between human and non-human systems.
Kilonovae
Creators: name: Metzger, Brian D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coalescence of double neutron star (NS-NS) and black hole (BH)-NS binaries are prime sources of gravitational waves (GW) for Advanced LIGO/Virgo and future ground-based detectors. Neutron-rich matter released from such events undergo rapid neutron capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis as it decompresses into space, enriching our universe with rare heavy elements like gold and platinum. Radioactive decay of these unstable nuclei powers a rapidly evolving, approximately isotropic thermal transient known as a ``kilonova', which probes the physical conditions during the merger and its aftermath. Here I review the history and physics of kilonovae, leading to the current paradigm of day-timescale emission at optical wavelengths from lanthanide-free components of the ejecta, followed by week-long emission with a spectral peak in the near-infrared (NIR). These theoretical predictions, as compiled in the original version of this review, were largely confirmed by the transient optical/NIR counterpart discovered to the first NS-NS merger, GW170817, discovered by LIGO/Virgo. Using a simple light curve model to illustrate the essential physical processes and their application to GW170817, I then introduce important variations about the standard picture which may be observable in future mergers. These include ~hours-long UV precursor emission, powered by the decay of free neutrons in the outermost ejecta layers or shock-heating of the ejecta by a delayed ultra-relativistic outflow; and enhancement of the luminosity from a long-lived central engine, such as an accreting BH or millisecond magnetar. Joint GW and kilonova observations of GW170817 and future events provide a new avenue to constrain the astrophysical origin of the r-process elements and the equation of state of dense nuclear matter.
description: Update submitted to Living Reviews in Relativity (version 2); 72 pages, 18 figures; original (pre-GW170817) version can be found at arXiv:1610.09381v3
Increase of the Hawking radiation for spinor particles from Schwarzschild black holes by Dirac monopoles
Creators: name: Goncharov, Yu. P.
name: Firsova, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An algorithm for numerical computation of the barrier transparency for the potentials surrounding Schwarzschild black holes is described for massless spinor particles. It is then applied to calculate the all configurations (including the contributions of twisted field configurations connected with Dirac monopoles) luminosity for the Hawking radiation from a Schwarzschild black hole. It is found that the contribution due to monopoles can be of order 22 % of the all configurations luminosity.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX with 4 ps figures
Additional file 1 of A cross-case analysis of developing program sustainability and institutionalization in early stages of a multisite biomedical student diversity initiative
Creators: name: Cobian, Krystle Palma
name: Ramos, Hector V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Semi-structured Case Study Protocols.
Les effects de la correction explicite et de la négociation de la forme sur la prononciation des verbes
Creators: name: Chong, Elaine Meyfong
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: En travaillant avec deux classes de débutants en français de base, je compare la correction explicite et les reformulations avec la négociation de la forme pour voir laquelle de ces stratégies marchent le mieux quant à la maîtrise de la prononciation des verbes. Puisque la recherche nous montre que l'utilisation de certaines stratégies de correction dépend de l'erreur, du contexte, de la compétence linguistique et du niveau cognitif des apprenants, j'examinerai le progrès de mes élèves pour découvrir quelle méthode de correction, soit explicite soit implicite, les rend plus conscients de leur prononciation et laquelle les mène plus directment vers la précision. Comme la recherche nous l'explique, c'est au professeur, en connaissant les aptitudes de ses élèves, d'incorporer une vairété de stragégies de correction toutes dirigées vers un but commun et de développer chez ses élèves la conscience et l'autonomie.
Additional file 1 of Vaginal, sexual and urinary symptoms following hysterectomy: a multi-centre randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Chanil Ekanayake
name: Pathmeswaran, Arunasalam
name: Rasika Herath
name: Prasantha Wijesinghe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. CONSORT 2010 checklist of information to include when reporting a randomised trial*.
title: 01_0218
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/
Trans-Planckian footprints in inflationary cosmology
Creators: name: Alberghi, G. L.
name: Casadio, R.
name: Tronconi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
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 consider a minimum uncertainty vacuum choice at a fixed energy scale Lambda as an effective description of trans-Planckian physics, and discuss its implications for the linear perturbations of a massless scalar field in power-law inflationary models. We find possible effects with a magnitude of order H/Λin the power spectrum, in analogy with previous results for de-Sitter space-time.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, final version to appear in Physics Letters B
Neighbors Are Not Strangers: Improving Non-Autoregressive Translation under Low-Frequency Lexical Constraints
Creators: name: Zeng, Chun
name: Chen, Jiangjie
name: Zhuang, Tianyi
name: Xu, Rui
name: Yang, Hao
name: Qin, Ying
name: Tao, Shimin
name: Xiao, Yanghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: However, current autoregressive approaches suffer from high latency. In this paper, we focus on non-autoregressive translation (NAT) for this problem for its efficiency advantage. We identify that current constrained NAT models, which are based on iterative editing, do not handle low-frequency constraints well. To this end, we propose a plug-in algorithm for this line of work, i.e., Aligned Constrained Training (ACT), which alleviates this problem by familiarizing the model with the source-side context of the constraints. Experiments on the general and domain datasets show that our model improves over the backbone constrained NAT model in constraint preservation and translation quality, especially for rare constraints.
description: Accepted to NAACL 2022
Additional file 1 of Reported disability in relation to observed activity limitation, grip strength and physical function in women and men with rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Bala, Sidona-Valentina
name: Andersson, Maria L. E.
name: Forslind, Kristina
name: Svensson, Björn
name: Ingiäld Hafström
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. Reported HAQ2 and observed HAQ in women and men. The scores for the 17 questions are compared as well as the total HAQ score for all 7 domains. Table S2. Comparison of HAQ1, HAQ2 and HAQ3 in women and men respectively.
title: Puspita Bahari: The Fisherwomen's Movement in Coastal Demak
Creators: name: Masnu’ah
name: Darwati, Siti
name: Hidayah
name: Rusikah
name: Pratiwi, Andi Misbahul
name: McQuaid, Katie
Publisher: name: White Rose University Consortium
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/0251f2x81
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 1.5
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
classificationCode: 5.7
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: This zine is the result of a powerful collaboration between Puspita Bahari and the University of Leeds, uniting fisherwomen, researchers, and artists to amplify impactful stories of resilience, leadership, and community-driven change. Puspita Bahari, a fisherwomen’s community in Demak Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. They were founded in 2005 with the spirit of empowering fisherwomen and helping them improve their welfare and escape and break the chains of patriarchal culture. Puspita Bahari was born as an oasis amid the strong patriarchal culture in coastal communities and to challenge the continued dominance of masculinity within the fisherfolk movement in Indonesia. Through this zine, we bring to life the voices and experiences of fisherwomen navigating the challenges of climate change while showcasing innovative, community-led, and transformative practices. This creative celebration is more than a publication—it is a feminist act of documenting women’s knowledge, power, and leadership for a local, national, global audience, inspiring change and igniting hope. Together, we celebrate the strength of Indonesia’s fisherwomen and their vital role in shaping a sustainable and equitable future.
A complex Frobenius theorem, multiplier ideal sheaves and Hermitian-Einstein metrics on stable bundles
Creators: name: Weinkove, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper describes how, in the case of algebraic surfaces, the well-known theorem of Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau can be proved in a framework of generalized 'multiplier ideal sheaves', following the ideas of Siu. The key concept is that the destabilizing sheaf satisfies a differential inclusion relation. This relation is used, together with a complex Frobenius theorem for locally finitely generated subsheaves, to imply coherence of the destabilizing subsheaf.
description: 21 pages; correction to statement and proof of C^{\infty} part of complex Frobenius; rest unchanged
A Gaia-based catalog of candidate stripped nuclei and luminous globular clusters in the halo of Centaurus A
Creators: name: Voggel, Karina T.
name: Seth, Anil C.
name: Sand, David J.
name: Hughes, Allison
name: Strader, Jay
name: Crnojevic, Denija
name: Caldwell, Nelson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tidally stripped galaxy nuclei and luminous globular clusters (GCs) are important tracers of the halos and assembly histories of nearby galaxies, but are difficult to reliably identify with typical ground-based imaging data. In this paper we present a new method to find these massive star clusters using Gaia DR2, focusing on the massive elliptical galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A). We show that stripped nuclei and globular clusters are partially resolved by Gaia at the distance of Cen A, showing characteristic astrometric and photometric signatures. We use this selection method to produce a list of 632 new candidate luminous clusters in the halo of Cen A out to a projected radius of 150 kpc. Adding in broadband photometry and visual examination improves the accuracy of our classification. In a spectroscopic pilot program we have confirmed 5 new luminous clusters, which includes the 7th and 10th most luminous GC in Cen\,A. Three of the newly discovered GCs are further away from Cen A in than all previously known GCs. Several of these are compelling candidates for stripped nuclei. We show that our novel Gaia selection method retains at least partial utility out to distances of 25 Mpc and hence is a powerful tool for finding and studying star clusters in the sparse outskirts of galaxies in the local universe.
description: Accepted to ApJ
Research Needs for Evaluating Land Treatment of Municipal Wastewater
Creators: name: Youn, C. Edwin
name: Christensen, Lee A.
name: Youn, C. Edwin
name: Christensen, Lee A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Land treatment of municipal wastewater is receiving increased attention as a wastewater management alternative. Additional research is needed to answer economic and institutional questions surrounding its use. Research issues were categorized into system design consideration and the impacts of land treatment systems.
Impacts of Higher Gasoline Prices on Rural Households
Creators: name: Rupprecht, Erhardt O.
name: Rupprecht, Erhardt O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Efforts to curtail petroleum imports have focused. on reducing gasoline consumption because private motor vehicles are viewed not only as significant energy-users, but inefficient in certain transportation situations as well. Also, any adverse impacts on income and disruptions in lifestyle are thought to be minimized by concentrating on this passenger transportation mode. Both higher gasoline prices and stringent rationing have been discussed as ways to achieve this reduction. Currently, raising prices seems the most probable energy policy. Thus, this paper will focus on the impact of higher gasoline prices on rural households.
Spherical electro-vacuum black holes with resonant, scalar $Q$-hair
Creators: name: Herdeiro, Carlos A. R.
name: Radu, Eugen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The asymptotically flat, spherical, electro-vacuum black holes (BHs) are shown to support static, spherical configurations of a gauged, self-interacting, scalar field, minimally coupled to the geometry. Considering a $Q$-ball type potential for the scalar field, we dub these configurations $Q$-clouds, in the test field approximation. The clouds exist under a resonance condition, at the threshold of (charged) superradiance. This is similar to the stationary clouds supported by Kerr BHs, which exist for a synchronisation condition, at the threshold of (rotational) superradiance. In contrast with the rotating case, however, $Q$-clouds require the scalar field to be massive and self-interacting; no similar clouds exist for massive but free scalar fields. First, considering a decoupling limit, we construct $Q$-clouds around Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström BHs, showing there is always a mass gap. Then, we make the $Q$-clouds backreact, and construct fully non-linear solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-gauged scalar system describing spherical, charged BHs with resonant, scalar $Q$-hair. Amongst other properties, we observe there is non-uniqueness of charged BHs in this model and the $Q$-hairy BHs can be entropically preferred over Reissner-Nordström, for the same charge to mass ratio; some $Q$-hairy BH solutions can be overcharged. We also discuss how some well known no-hair theorems in the literature, applying to electro-vacuum plus minimally coupled scalar fields, are circumvented by this new type of BHs.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures; v2. typos corrected, matches published version
Ultralow Electron-Surface Scattering in Nanoscale Metals Leveraging Fermi Surface Anisotropy
Creators: name: Kumar, Sushant
name: Multunas, Christian
name: Defay, Benjamin
name: Gall, Daniel
name: Sundararaman, Ravishankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Increasing resistivity of metal wires with reducing nanoscale dimensions is a major performance bottleneck of semiconductor computing technologies. We show that metals with suitably anisotropic Fermi velocity distributions can strongly suppress electron scattering by surfaces and outperform isotropic conductors such as copper in nanoscale wires. We derive a corresponding descriptor for the resistivity scaling of anisotropic conductors, screen thousands of metals using first-principles calculations of this descriptor and identify the most promising materials for nanoscale interconnects. Previously-proposed layered conductors such as MAX phases and delafossites show promise in thin films, but not in narrow wires due to increased scattering from side walls. We find that certain intermetallics (notably CoSn) and borides (such as YCo$_3$B$_2$) with one-dimensionally anisotropic Fermi velocities are most promising for narrow wires. Combined with first-principles electron-phonon scattering predictions, we show that the proposed materials exhibit 2-3x lower resistivity than copper at 5 nm wire dimensions.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; SI within source archive
Optimal Performance of a Three-level Quantum Refrigerator
Creators: name: Singh, Varinder
name: Pandit, Tanmoy
name: Johal, Ramandeep S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the optimal performance of a three-level quantum refrigerator using two different objective functions: cooling power and $χ$-function. For both cases, we obtain general expressions for the coefficient of performance (COP) and derive its well-known lower and upper bounds for the limiting cases when the ratio of system-bath coupling constants at the hot and cold contacts approaches infinity and zero, respectively. We also show that the cooling power is optimizable only in the local region with respect to one control frequency, while $χ$-function can be optimized globally with respect to two control frequencies. Additionally, we show that in the low-temperatures regime, our model of refrigerator can be mapped to Feynman's ratchet and pawl model, a classical mesoscopic heat engine. In the parameter regime where both cooling power and $χ$-function can be optimized, we compare the cooling power of the quantum refrigerator at maximum $χ$-function with the optimum cooling power.
description: 9 pages, RevTex, two-column format, 5 Figures, 1 Table
A Model of Economic-Demographic Interaction in Development
Creators: name: McCarl, Bruce A.
name: White, T. Kelley
name: Obermiller, Frederick W.
name: Martella, David R.
name: McCarl, Bruce A.
name: White, T. Kelley
name: Obermiller, Frederick W.
name: Martella, David R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: This paper abstracts the results of an effort to develop a conceptual model representing the simultaneous consideration of the demographic and economic phenomena within the development process. The model; called the Purdue Development Model (PDM), has been operationalized into a package of computer programs". However, the model is conceptual and requires a great deal of empirical data to operate.