cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
El estado de sitio
Creators: name: González Calderín, Norha Cecilia
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1976
Subjects: Estado de sitio - Colombia
Perturbación del orden

description: Tesis (Abogado) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas. Programa de Derecho, 1976
description: 101280 Exposición sobre los elementos jurídicos, políticos y sociales que, en etapa actual de la vida nacional rodea el estado de excepción y donde todas las constituciones que se registran en la historia nacional han estado influidas por las corrientes políticas.
The effects of dantrolene sodium and its analogues on sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium loading and release and calsequestrin properties
Creators: name: Loescher, Christine M.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the La Trobe Institute of Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bendigo.
title: Choosing the right treatment for patients with a severe course of Chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) – pamidronate or TNF-α blockade?
Creators: name: Morbach, Henner
name: Schnabel, Anja
name: Bruck, Normi
name: Holl-Wieden, Annette
name: Girschick, Hermann
name: Hedrich, Christian Michael
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) is an inflammatory, non-infectious disorder of the skeletal system with unknown aetiology. Therapeutic options are NSAIDs, steroids and DMARDs (MTX or sulfasalazine). However, a considerable number of patients have a severe disease course and bisphosphonates[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh); 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh); 25. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Efficient Computation of Slepian Functions for Arbitrary Regions on the Sphere
Creators: name: Bates, Alice P.
name: Khalid, Zubair
name: Kennedy, Rodney A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we develop a new method for the fast and memory-efficient computation of Slepian functions on the sphere. Slepian functions, which arise as the solution of the Slepian concentration problem on the sphere, have desirable properties for applications where measurements are only available within a spatially limited region on the sphere and/or a function is required to be analyzed over the spatially limited region. Slepian functions are currently not easily computed for large band-limits for an arbitrary spatial region due to high computational and large memory storage requirements. For the special case of a polar cap, the symmetry of the region enables the decomposition of the Slepian concentration problem into smaller subproblems and consequently the efficient computation of Slepian functions for large band-limits. By exploiting the efficient computation of Slepian functions for the polar cap region on the sphere, we develop a formulation, supported by a fast algorithm, for the approximate computation of Slepian functions for an arbitrary spatial region to enable the analysis of modern datasets that support large band-limits. For the proposed algorithm, we carry out accuracy analysis of the approximation, computational complexity analysis, and review of memory storage requirements. We illustrate, through numerical experiments, that the proposed method enables faster computation, and has smaller storage requirements, while allowing for sufficiently accurate computation of the Slepian functions.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures accepted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Footnotes to papers of O'Grady and Markman
Creators: name: Voisin, Claire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we first generalize to any hyper-Kähler manifold with nonzero third Betti number results proved by O'Grady for hyper-Kähler manifolds of generalized Kummer type. In the second part, we restrict to hyper-Kähler manifolds of generalized Kummer type and prove, using results of Markman, that their Kuga-Satake correspondence is algebraic.
description: Minor modifications
Intrinsic risk factors for hip and groin pain in professional male football players
Creators: name: Mosler, Andrea Britt
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria.

Background Hip or groin pain causes significant time-loss in football. Factors such as muscle strength, range of motion, and bony shape (morphology), have potential to increase the risk of this injury. This thesis investigated the association between factors identified from screening, and time-loss hip or groin injury in professional male football players. Methods A systematic review investigated the factors differentiating athletes with and without groin pain to inform the screening test battery. A total of 575 football players underwent musculoskeletal, and X-ray screening specific for hip or groin pain during two consecutive seasons. Injury and exposure surveillance (training and match play) was conducted prospectively. Baseline data were analysed for two cross-sectional studies with the normal profiles for hip strength and range of motion, and the prevalence of bony morphological variants determined. Two prospective studies examined the epidemiology and intrinsic risk factors for hip or groin injury. Results Dominance, previous groin injury and ethnicity had no clinically relevant effect on normal strength and range of motion profiles. Cam morphology (asphericity of the femoral head neck junction) was very common (60% hips, 72% players), but acetabular overcoverage and undercoverage were uncommon ( less than 13% players). Cam morphology prevalence was lower in East Asian football players. High burden of groin injury was found, at an incidence of 1.0 per 1000h (95% CI 0.9-1.1) and 21% (IQR 10-28%) of players experienced groin injury each season. Each club could expect 6.6 groin injuries (IQR 2.9-9.1) and 85 days lost per season (IQR 35-215 days). Adductor-related groin pain was the most common entity (68%). Previous groin injury (HR= 1.8; 95% CI 1.2-2.7) and higher than normal eccentric adduction strength increased risk for hip or groin injury (HR=1.6; 95%CI 1.0-2.5). Lower than normal eccentric adduction strength increased risk for adductor-related injuries (HR =1.7; 95%CI 1.0-3.0). However, these associations were not strong enough to identify an ‘at-risk’ individual and therefore, not useful screening tests to predict injury. Bony hip morphology was not associated with groin injury risk. Conclusions This thesis found that musculoskeletal screening is most useful to detect current hip or groin symptoms, rather than detecting the individual “at-risk” of future groin injury. Hip adduction strengthening may prevent adductor-related groin injury, but is likely to be more effective if implemented at the group, rather than individual level. There is no indication for X-ray screening of bony hip morphology in asymptomatic male football players.

Thesis with publications.
Neutrophil extracellular traps - in vivo studies in zebrafish
Creators: name: Alasmari, Sultan Zaher R
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Neutrophils are the most abundant type of leukocyte in mammals, and they are the first line of innate immune defense against invading pathogens. Upon activation, neutrophils form a cloud-like structure composed of chromatins and granule-derived proteins termed neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) to entrap extracellular pathogens. NETosis, the process of NET release, has been studied extensively in vitro, but in vivo studies are a limited. Zebrafish have emerged as an attractive model for in vivo imaging of leukocytes due to their small size, transparency and high degree of functional similarity to mammals. These studies exploit the advantages of zebrafish for studying leukocyte biology to study NETs and NETosis. A transgenic zebrafish reporter line is generated marking the neutrophil cytoplasm with mKO2CAAX and the nucleus with histone2Bcerulean, It is used to determine the dynamics of NETs and NET-releasing neutrophils in vivo, using high-resolution microscopy. Zebrafish neutrophils were first verified to form NETs in vitro by several chemical and physical stimuli, using an improved method of purifying adult zebrafish neutrophils. Using the dual-colour NET- reporter line to image NETosis in vivo, several controversial previous observations have been re-examined, and several new aspects of NET releasing-neutrophil behaviours documented. Studies presented describe the entire sequence of NETosis by single neutrophil prior to, during and following NET release, both intravascularly and extravascularly. They display, the mobility of NETs and NET-releasing neutrophils, the velocity of NET-releasing neutrophils, NET entrapment of pathogens, NET remodelling by incoming neutrophils, and assess the persistence of NETs. In vivo observations have the potential to provide the significant insight into NETosis and the role of NETs during inflammation and infection. Additional material(s) submitted with thesis.
Testing $Λ$CDM at the lowest redshifts with SN Ia and galaxy velocities
Creators: name: Huterer, Dragan
name: Shafer, Daniel L.
name: Scolnic, Daniel
name: Schmidt, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Peculiar velocities of objects in the nearby universe are correlated due to the gravitational pull of large-scale structure. By measuring these velocities, we have a unique opportunity to test the cosmological model at the lowest redshifts. We perform this test, using current data to constrain the amplitude of the "signal" covariance matrix describing the velocities and their correlations. We consider a new, well-calibrated "Supercal" set of low-redshift SNe Ia as well as a set of distances derived from the fundamental plane relation of 6dFGS galaxies. Analyzing the SN and galaxy data separately, both results are consistent with the peculiar velocity signal of our fiducial $Λ$CDM model, ruling out the noise-only model with zero peculiar velocities at greater than $7σ$ (SNe) and $8σ$ (galaxies). When the two data sets are combined appropriately, the precision of the test increases slightly, resulting in a constraint on the signal amplitude of $A = 1.05_{-0.21}^{+0.25}$, where $A = 1$ corresponds to our fiducial model. Equivalently, we report an 11% measurement of the product of the growth rate and amplitude of mass fluctuations evaluated at $z_\text{eff} = 0.02$, $f σ_8 = 0.428_{-0.045}^{+0.048}$, valid for our fiducial $Λ$CDM model. We explore the robustness of the results to a number of conceivable variations in the analysis and find that individual variations shift the preferred signal amplitude by less than ${\sim}0.5σ$. We briefly discuss our Supercal SN Ia results in comparison with our previous results using the JLA compilation.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures, minor changes to match the published version
MPEC 2023-O25 : 2023 OM
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 OM

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The effect of intrauterine growth restriction on Ca2+-activated force and contractile protein expression in the mesenteric artery of young, adult and aged Wistar-Kyoto rats
Creators: name: Christie, Michael
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
title: Diagnostische Wertigkeit des Prednisolontests bei Patienten mit möglicher rheumatoider Arthrits
Creators: name: Kiltz, Uta
name: Von Zabern, Christine
name: Baraliakos, Xenofon
name: Heldmann, Frank
name: Mintrop, Bernhard
name: Sarholz, Michael
name: Van Werde, Martin
name: Klink, Claudia
name: Krause, Dietmar M. J.
name: Dybowski, Friedrich
name: Kalthoff, Ludwig
name: Hein, Liane
name: Braun, Jürgen
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Bei Patienten mit Arthralgien im Bereich der Hände ist die Differentialdiagnose zwischen rheumatoider Arthritis (RA) und Fingerpolyarthrose (FPA) zum Teil schwierig. In der klinischen Routine wird in dieser Situation häufig ein Therapieversuch mit Kortison durchgeführt. In[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh); 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh); 25. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Soluciones confiables de sistemas tridiagonales de ecuaciones lineales
Creators: name: Miranda Morales, Martha Sofia
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2001
Subjects: Álgebra lineal - Estudios y ejercicios

description: Tesis (Matemático).--Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Programa de Matemáticas, 2001
description: En la presente monografia se hace una revisión bibliográfica analítica de algunas cuestiones del análisis matricial numérico y en especial de las soluciones numéricas de sistema triagonales de ecuaciones lineales, se estudia la estabilidad de estas asi como las formas de acotar los errores de las soluciones calculadas.
Magnetic iron nanoparticles (Fe3O4) supported on activated carbon as a hybrid adsorbent for desulphurisation of liquid fuels
Creators: name: Louis, Mary
name: Behera, Prativa
name: Sorokhaibam, Laxmi Gayatri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In this work, efficient hybrid adsorbents were developed through surface modification of commercial activated carbon with magnetic iron nanoparticles (Fe3O4). These modified adsorbents were characterised for their texture, morphology, and other surface properties and investigated for sulphur removal from model fuel consisting of thiophene (T), benzothiophene (BT), and dibenzothiophene (DBT) in liquid phase using hexane as a solvent. The effect of temperature and contact time was studied to understand the thermodynamics and kinetics of the adsorption process, and experimental adsorption data were interpreted using standard isotherms such as Langmuir, Freundlich, and Temkin model. The findings showed that the iron-loaded activated carbon could effectively remove the DBT (a representative sulphur compound) much better than the precursor nascent carbons in single and multicomponent models fuels under the optimised dosage of 30 g.L−1 and operating temperature of ~ 40°C. The kinetic analysis revealed that the pseudo-second-order model could represent the surface binding mechanism of DBT. The rate-limiting step, as indicated by the Weber-Morris plot, involved several steps. It was observed that the adsorption potential of the prepared materials increased with the increasing initial DBT concentration, exhibiting a maximum capacity of 29 mg.g−1, and the adsorption process was well described by the Freundlich isotherm (R2 = 0.95 to 0.99). Fe@AC-2 also demonstrated their ability to satisfactorily remove T, BT, and DBT from multi-component model fuel systems with higher selectivity for the more refractory DBT. Thermal regeneration of Fe@AC-2 saturated with DBT at 350°C could be recycled till the fourth cycle, and loss in adsorbent mass was observed in each cycle. Analysis of real diesel fuel pre- and post-adsorption with Fe@AC-2 showed a negligible change in the gross calorific value, density, and kinematic viscosity of the treated diesel from the untreated diesel.
Estudio de factibilidad para la creación del parque científico tecnológico Universidad de Cartagena
Creators: name: Daza Ensuncho, Johanna
name: Mercado Tapia, Pedro M
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2010
Subjects: Estudio de mercado
Estudiante univeritarios
Estudio de factibilidad - Parque Científico Tecnológico - Universidad de Cartagena

description: Tesis (Administrador de Empresas).--Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Administración de Empresas, 2010
description: Se llevo a cabo el estudio de factibilidad para la creación del Parque Científico y Tecnológico de la Universidad de Cartagena que busque facilitar las herramientas, asesorías e infraestructura para que los jóvenes universitarios y empresarios de la ciudad de Cartagena, puedan llevar a cabo proyectos innovadores que contribuyan con el progreso de la región en el ámbito científico y tecnológico, generando empleo y mejorando la calidad de vida. La idea de un parque científico-tecnológico de la Universidad de Cartagena para la comunidad en general, nace del principio básico de que la universidad, como ente educativo y social, promueva el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías y el desarrollo social de la región en donde se encuentra ubicada. Además, propiciar un espacio en donde los jóvenes en etapa escolar de la ciudad de Cartagena, encuentren un sitio de aprendizaje a nivel científico-tecnológico, el cual contará con espacios que contribuyan con el afianzamiento de conocimientos adquiridos en la escuela, promoviendo el espíritu científico, en donde la ciencia y la tecnología ayuden al estudiante en su proceso de aprendizaje a través de diversas exhibiciones, con el fin de aportar a la construcción de una sociedad basada en el conocimiento, infundiendo un espíritu crítico y más consciente, teniendo en cuenta que sin ciencia no hay cultura, y sin cultura no hay progreso.
Winding number dependence of quantum vortex energies at one-loop
Creators: name: Graham, N.
name: Weigel, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the one-loop vacuum polarization energies of Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen (ANO) vortices with topological charge $n$ in scalar electrodynamics, for the BPS case of equal gauge and scalar masses. This calculation allows us to investigate the relationship between the winding number and the quantum-corrected vortex energy, which in turn determines the stability of higher winding configurations against decay into configurations with unit winding. While the classical energy is proportional to $n$, we find that the vacuum polarization energy is negative and approximately proportional to $n-1$ with a small constant offset.
description: 6 pages, clarifying remarks on the renormalization scheme added
title: Retention Rates and Clinical Outcomes in Cohorts of Patients (Biologic Naïve or Failed Prior Biologics) Treated with Intravenous Abatacept in a Real-World Setting: 6-Month Results from the ACTION Study
Creators: name: Alten, Rieke H.-E.
name: Nüßlein, Hubert G.
name: Galeazzi, M.
name: Lorenz, Hanns-Martin
name: Mariette, X.
name: Cantagrel, A.
name: Chartier, M.
name: Poncet, C.
name: Rauch, C.
name: Le Bars, Manuela
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Retention and effectiveness of IV abatacept over 6 months for patients with RA enrolled in the real-world ACTION study [ref:1] (2008–2013) are presented. Methods: ACTION is a 2-year, international, non-interventional cohort of patients with RA who initiated IV abatacept[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh); 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh); 25. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Slepian Spatial-Spectral Concentration Problem on the Sphere: Analytical Formulation for Limited Colatitude-Longitude Spatial Region
Creators: name: Bates, Alice P.
name: Khalid, Zubair
name: Kennedy, Rodney A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we develop an analytical formulation for the Slepian spatial-spectral concentration problem on the sphere for a limited colatitude-longitude spatial region on the sphere, defined as the Cartesian product of a range of positive colatitudes and longitudes. The solution of the Slepian problem is a set of functions that are optimally concentrated and orthogonal within a spatial or spectral region. These properties make them useful for applications where measurements are taken within a spatially limited region of the sphere and/or a signal is only to be analyzed within a region of the sphere. To support localized spectral/spatial analysis, and estimation and sparse representation of localized data in these applications, we exploit the expansion of spherical harmonics in the complex exponential basis to develop an analytical formulation for the Slepian concentration problem for a limited colatitude-longitude spatial region. We also extend the analytical formulation for spatial regions that are comprised of a union of rotated limited colatitude-longitude subregions. By exploiting various symmetries of the proposed formulation, we design a computationally efficient algorithm for the implementation of the proposed analytical formulation. Such a reduction in computation time is demonstrated through numerical experiments. We present illustrations of our results with the help of numerical examples and show that the representation of a spatially concentrated signal is indeed sparse in the Slepian basis.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Regular Project Monitoring for Project Success: The Case of Input Voucher System Project in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mebratu, Melat
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency is a government entity that actively works to transform the Ethiopian Agricultural sector. One of the flagship projects of this agency is the Input Voucher System Project which has been running for almost five years and is just a few months away from closure. This project has been implemented in 4 regions of Ethiopia (Amhara, Tigray, SNNP and Oromia) and has reached more than 5 million small holder farmers until today. The project is considered as one of the successful projects in the organization mainly due to the successfully done monitoring activities by the implementation team. The project has pre-defined project critical success factors and was able to do timely and regular project monitoring at four stages of the project (initiation/definition, planning, execution and closure). This objective of the study is to analyze how critical success factors and the monitoring activities done on those factors affected the success of the Input Voucher System Project. This thesis follows the descriptive methodology to do analysis of how monitoring critical success factors of a project regularly leads to project success. The researcher collected both primary and secondary data and did a qualitative analysis on the grouped critical success factors of different phases. The study concludes that this relationship exists in this project in most aspects of the implementations at all phases. Some activities such as external evaluations, audit reports and impact evaluations have not been planned to be done by the project team. There are also some activities remaining to be implemented just yet as delay has been caused due regional social unrests in recent months. The study recommends that the project implementation, before the closure, should focus on monitoring pending activities, working closely with stakeholders, developing audit planning after completion and working on implementing external evaluations and impact evaluations. The organization has been recommended to take in to consideration the learnings from this project to implement into others
百年降生 1900-2000 台灣文學故事 [100 Years of Taiwan Literature: 1900-2000]
Creators: name: Schweiger, Irmy
Publisher: name: The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies
Year: 2022

description: Book Review: 百年降生 1900-2000 台灣文學故事 [100 Years of Taiwan Literature: 1900-2000] Edited by 李時雍 Lee Suyon 台北市：聯經出版公司 [Taipei: Linking Publishing], 2018 ISBN: 9789570851649
description: The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Vol. 3 (2022): Visual Materials
Review on double-edged sword nature of arsenic: its path of exposure, problems, detections, and possible removal techniques
Creators: name: Sen, Bibaswan
name: Paul, Sayantani
name: Ali, Sk Imran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Chemically, Arsenic is one of the double-edged sword element distributed ubiquitously in nature. Low concentration of arsenic is used to treat leukaemia where as the high concentration of arsenic intake in human body leads to critical diseases such as skin diseases, cancer, blackfoot disease, hypertension, neurological effect, DNA damage and others. Chronic exposure may lead to coma and death. This peer review provides an overview about the distribution of arsenic species in rock, mining, and their pH dependent mobility that are found in aqueous body. The study reviews information among the various routes of arsenic exposure, their toxicity mechanisms, and a variety of total arsenic concentration detection process such as spectroscopic techniques, kit detection. The heart context of this review covers best arsenic removal techniques such as coagulation, absorption, oxidation, osmosis, electro-coagulation and others reputed techniques.
Understanding the experiences of separation within same-sex parented families
Creators: name: Gahan, Luke Benjamin
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the The Bouverie Centre, and, The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, School of Psychology and Public Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria.
Distribution of seismic scatterers in the San Jacinto Fault Zone, southeast of Anza, California, based on passive matrix imaging
Creators: name: Touma, Rita
name: Aubry, Alexandre
name: Ben-Zion, Yehuda
name: Campillo, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fault zones are associated with multi-scale heterogeneities of rock properties. Large scale variations may be imaged with conventional seismic reflection methods that detect offsets in geological units, and tomographic techniques that provide average seismic velocities in resolved volumes. However, characterizing elementary localized inhomogeneities of fault zones, such as cracks and fractures, constitutes a challenge for conventional techniques. Resolving these small-scale heterogeneities can provide detailed information for structural and mechanical models of fault zones. Recently, the reflection matrix approach utilizing body wave reflections in ambient noise cross-correlations was extended with the introduction of aberration corrections to handle the actual lateral velocity variations in the fault zone [Touma et al., Geophys. J. Int. 226, 780-794, 2021]. Here this method is applied further to analyze the distribution of scatterers in the first few kilometers of the crust in the San Jacinto Fault Zone at the Sage Brush Flat (SGB) site, southeast of Anza, California. The matrix approach allows us to image not only specular reflectors but also to resolve the presence, location and intensity of scatterers of seismic waves starting with a simple homogeneous background velocity model of the medium. The derived three-dimensional image of the fault zone resolves lateral variations of scattering properties in the region within and around the surface fault traces, as well as differences between the Northwest (NW) and the Southeast (SE) parts of the study area. A localized intense damage zone at depth is observed in the SE section, suggesting that a geometrical complexity of the fault zone at depth induces ongoing generation of rock damage.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
Formal System Processing of Juveniles: Effects on Delinquency
Creators: name: Petrosino, Anthony
name: Turpin-Petrosino, Carolyn
name: Guckenburg, Sarah
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Jugendkriminalität , Strafzumessung , Jugendgericht
subject: 360
subject: Juvenile delinquency
subject: Review

description: Justice practitioners have tremendous discretion on how to handle juvenile offenders. Police officers, district attorneys, juvenile court intake officers, juvenile and family court judges, and other officials can decide whether the juvenile should be “officially processed” by the juvenile justice system, diverted from the system to a program, counseling or some other services, or to do nothing at all (release the juvenile altogether). An important policy question is which strategy leads to the best outcomes for juveniles. This is an important question in the United States, but many other nations are concerned with the decision to formally process or divert juvenile offenders. There have been a number of randomized experiments in the juvenile courts that have examined the impact of juvenile system processing that should be gathered together in a systematic fashion to provide rigorous evidence about the impact of this decision on subsequent offending by juveniles. Our objective is to answer the question: Does juvenile system processing reduce subsequent delinquency? Based on the evidence presented in this report, juvenile system processing appears to not have a crime control effect, and across all measures appears to increase delinquency. This was true across measures of prevalence, incidence, severity, and self-report. Given the additional financial costs associated with system processing (especially when compared to doing nothing) and the lack of evidence for any public safety benefit, jurisdictions should review their policies regarding the handling of juveniles.
Extended pump-probe Faraday rotation spectroscopy of the submicrosecond electron spin dynamics in n-type GaAs
Creators: name: Belykh, V. V.
name: Evers, E.
name: Yakovlev, D. R.
name: Fobbe, F.
name: Greilich, A.
name: Bayer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an extended pump-probe Faraday rotation technique to study the submicrosecond electron spin dynamics with picosecond time resolution in a wide range of magnetic fields. The electron spin dephasing time $T_2^*$ and the longitudinal spin relaxation time $T_1$, both approaching $250$ ns in weak fields, are measured thereby in $n$-type bulk GaAs. By tailoring the pump pulse train through increasing the contained number of pulses, the buildup of resonant spin amplification is demonstrated for the electron spin polarization. The spin precession amplitude in high magnetic fields applied in the Voigt geometry shows a non-monotonic dynamics deviating strongly from a mono-exponential decay and revealing slow beatings. The beatings indicate a two spin component behavior with a $g$-factor difference of $Δg \sim 4\times10^{-4}$, much smaller than the $Δg$ expected for free and donor-bound electrons. This $g$-factor variation indicates efficient, but incomplete spin exchange averaging.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Comprensión lectora con ayuda de un Blog, en la Institución Educativa Agroindustrial Nazaret con los estudiantes del grado 7-A
Creators: name: Escobar Portilla, Jorge Ricardo
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Comprensión de lectura - Enseñanza
subject: Sitios web académicos
subject: Enseñanza con ayuda de computadores
subject: Tecnología educativa

description: La comprensión lectora es una construcción del conocimiento y, debe enseñarse de manera sistemática, a través de un proceso continuo. Tal proceso requiere de estrategias que, de acuerdo con (Semenov, 2005), “La lectura forma parte del proceso del estudiante de construir un espacio de información personal y es una forma activa de adquirir ciertos conocimientos, que incluso puede ayudar al estudiante a memorizarlo con más facilidad.”. Esto implica ser conscientes del proceso, con un objetivo claro, la supervisión, la evaluación y la modificación necesarias del propio proceso. Hay que ser conscientes de que la capacidad de comprensión varía de una persona a otra de acuerdo con el conocimiento previo del tema, el vocabulario, el género literario, el nivel de reflexión que hace el lector de su propio proceso de lectura y de la motivación que tenga en el proceso lector. El uso de las TIC en el plan educativo, y específicamente en la comprensión lectora, da la opción de comprender y aprovechar la capacidad de las TIC en la formación. Para que esto ocurra, los maestros deben tomar la iniciativa en el proceso de transformación, ya que son la clave. Estudiantes de hoy ya están familiarizados con las TIC, son los maestros los que deben arriesgarse a usar el potencial de estas nuevas tecnologías en el aula. Sin embargo, como estos riesgos están asociados con la integración de las TIC en la escolarización, es importante que los líderes brinden a sus maestros servicios de capacitación, educación andragógica, para el desarrollo profesional durante todo el proceso.
Motivational interviewing for substance abuse
Creators: name: Smedslund, Geir
name: Berg, Rigmor C.
name: Hammerstrøm, Karianne T.
name: Steiro, Asbjørn
name: Leiknes, Kari A.
name: Dahl, Helene M.
name: Karlsen, Kjetil
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Motivation , Interview , Drogenmissbrauch
subject: 360
subject: Motivational interviewing
subject: Substance abuse
subject: Review

description: More than 76 million people worldwide have alcohol problems, and another 15 million have drug problems.Motivational interviewing (MI) is a psychological treatment that aims to help people cut down or stop using drugs and alcohol. The drug abuser and counsellor typically meet between one and four times for about one hour each time. The counsellor expresses that he or she understands how the clients feel about their problem and supports the clients in making their own decisions. He or she does not try to convince the client to change anything, but discusses with the client possible consequences of changing or staying the same. Finally, they discuss the clients’ goals and where they are today relative to these goals. We searched for studies that had included people with alcohol or drug problems and that had divided them by chance into MI or a control group that either received nothing or some other treatment. We included only studies that had checked video or sound recordings of the therapies in order to be certain that what was given really was MI. The results in this review are based on 59 studies. The results show that people who have received MI have reduced their use of substances more than people who have not received any treatment. However, it seems that other active treatments, treatment as usual and being assessed and receiving feedback can be as effective as motivational interviewing. There was not enough data to conclude about the effects of MI on retention in treatment, readiness to change, or repeat convictions.The quality of the research forces us to be careful about our conclusions, and new research may change them.
Police strategies to reduce illegal possession and carrying of firearms: effects on gun crime
Creators: name: Koper, Christopher S.
name: Mayo-Wilson, Evan
name: Smith, John
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Schusswaffe , Waffenbesitz , Waffenhandel , Gewaltkriminalität , Polizei , Strategie
subject: 360
subject: Fire arms
subject: Illegal possession
subject: Gun Crime
subject: Police
subject: Review

description: Criminal misuse of firearms is among the world’s most serious crime problems. Strategies to reduce gun violence include efforts to restrict the manufacture and sale of firearms, interrupt the illegal supply of guns, deter gun possession, reduce gun carrying in public places, toughen responses to illegal gun use, reduce demand for firearms, promote responsible ownership of guns, and address community conditions that foster gun crime. In this review, we examine research on the effectiveness of selected law enforcement strategies for reducing gun crime and gun violence. This review examines the impacts of police strategies to reduce illegal possession and carrying of firearms on gun crime. Examples include gun detection patrols in high-crime areas, enhanced surveillance of probationers and parolees, weapon reporting hotlines, consent searches, and other similar tactics.
Myths and misconception: Australian screenwriting, 1994-2017
Creators: name: Hambly, Glenda
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the College of Arts, Social Science and Commerce, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria.
Interview and interrogation methods and their effects on true and false confessions
Creators: name: Meissner, Christian A.
name: Redlich, Allison D.
name: Bhatt, Sujeeta
name: Brandon, Susan
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Interview , Vernehmung , Geständnis , Falschaussage
subject: 360
subject: Interview
subject: Interrogation
subject: Confession

description: The interviewing and interrogation of suspects can be particularly important to securing convictions against the guilty and freeing the wrongly accused. There are two general methods of questioning suspects: information-gathering and accusatorial. The information-gathering approach, used in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, and elsewhere, as more generally in Western Europe, is characterized by rapport-building, truth-seeking, and active listening. The accusatorial approach, used primarily in the United States and Canada, is characterized by accusation, confrontation, psychological manipulation, and the disallowing of denials. Which method is more effective has become a hotly debated topic as the number of false confessions identified continues to rise. Our objective was to systematically and comprehensively review published and non-published, experimental and observational studies on the effectiveness of interviewing and interrogation methods. We focus on the questioning of suspects using information-gathering and accusatorial methods seeking to elicit confessions.
El conservatismo en el Bolívar grande en el penúltimo tránsito finisecular. (Una aproximación desde la prosopografía)
Creators: name: Cortecero Castelar, Milena Del Carmen
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2008
Subjects: Cartagena (Bolívar, Colombia) - Historia
Conservatismo - Historia
Estado de Bolívar,1886 - 1966

description: Tesis (Historiador) - - Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Programa de Historia, 2008
description: Dirigentes políticos quienes desarrollaron a nivel provincial y cuya imagen fue utilizada por los dirigentes de los centros urbanos para valerse del ascendiente que poseía sobre la población baja.
Identification of members of the phylum Chloroflexi implicated in bulking episodes in activated sludge wastewater treatment systems
Creators: name: Speirs, Lachlan Blair Matheson
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria.

Thesis with publications.
Using a Virtual Workplace Environment to Reduce Implicit Gender Bias
Creators: name: Beltran, Kevin
name: Rowland, Cody
name: Hashemi, Nicki
name: Nguyen, Anh
name: Harrison, Lane
name: Engle, Sophie J.
name: Yuksel, Beste F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Implicit gender bias has costly and complex consequences for women in the workplace, with many women reporting gender microaggressions which result in them being overlooked or disrespected. We present an online desktop virtual environment that follows the story of a male or female self-avatar from the first-person perspective, who either experiences a positive or negative workplace scenario. The negative scenario included many examples from the taxonomy of gender microaggressions. Participants who experienced negative workplace experiences with a female self-avatar had significantly decreased levels of implicit gender bias compared to those who had a male self-avatar. There was evidence of empathy and perspective taking in the negative condition for the female self-avatar. Experiences of a positive workplace scenario showed no significant decreases in implicit gender bias regardless of self-avatar gender. We discuss the implications of these findings and make recommendations for virtual environment technologies and scenarios with respect to the reduction of implicit biases.
The effects of “pulling levers” focused deterrence strategies on crime
Creators: name: Braga, Anthony A.
name: Weisburd, David L.
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Polizei , Bandenkriminalität , Bekämpfung , Abschreckung
subject: 360
subject: Problem-oriented policing
subject: Deterrence
subject: Gang violence
subject: Review

description: A number of American police departments have been experimenting with new problem-oriented policing frameworks to prevent gang and group-involved violence generally known as the “pulling levers” focused deterrence strategies. Focused deterrence strategies honor core deterrence ideas, such as increasing risks faced by offenders, while finding new and creative ways of deploying traditional and non-traditional law enforcement tools to do so, such as directly communicating incentives and disincentives to targeted offenders. Pioneered in Boston to halt serious gang violence, the focused deterrence framework has been applied in many American cities through federally sponsored violence prevention programs. In its simplest form, the approach consists of selecting a particular crime problem, such as gang homicide; convening an interagency working group of law enforcement, social-service, and community-based practitioners; conducting research to identify key offenders, groups, and behavior patterns; framing a response to offenders and groups of offenders that uses a varied menu of sanctions (“pulling levers”) to stop them from continuing their violent behavior; focusing social services and community resources on targeted offenders and groups to match law enforcement prevention efforts; and directly and repeatedly communicating with offenders to make them understand why they are receiving this special attention. These new strategic approaches have been applied to a range of crime problems, such as overt drug markets and individual repeat offenders, and have shown promising results in the reduction of crime. Objectives: To synthesize the extant evaluation literature and assess the effects of pulling levers focused deterrence strategies on crime. Conclusions: We conclude that pulling levers focused deterrence strategies seem to be effective in reducing crime. However, we urge caution in interpreting these results because of the lack of more rigorous randomized controlled trials in the existing body of scientific evidence on this approach.
High temperature dynamics in quantum compass models
Creators: name: Briffa, A. K. R.
name: Zotos, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the high temperature spin dynamics of compass models using a moment expansion. We point out that the evaluation of moments maps to the enumeration of paths in a branching process on the lattice. This mapping to a statistical mechanics combinatorics problem provides an elegant visualization of the analysis. We present results for the time dependent spin correlation function (which is of relevance to NMR experiments) for two compass models: the Kitaev honeycomb model and two-dimensional compass model.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Correlation between Adomian and Partial Exponential Bell Polynomials
Creators: name: Kataria, K. K.
name: Vellaisamy, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A19, 49M27

description: We obtain some recurrence relationships among the partition vectors of the partial exponential Bell polynomials. On using such results, the $n$-th Adomian polynomial for any nonlinear operator can be expressed explicitly in terms of the partial exponential Bell polynomials. Some new identities for the partial exponential Bell polynomials are obtained by solving certain ordinary differential equations using Adomian decomposition method.