cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Particle filter-based Gaussian process optimisation for parameter inference
Creators: name: Dahlin, Johan
name: Lindsten, Fredrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a novel method for maximum likelihood-based parameter inference in nonlinear and/or non-Gaussian state space models. The method is an iterative procedure with three steps. At each iteration a particle filter is used to estimate the value of the log-likelihood function at the current parameter iterate. Using these log-likelihood estimates, a surrogate objective function is created by utilizing a Gaussian process model. Finally, we use a heuristic procedure to obtain a revised parameter iterate, providing an automatic trade-off between exploration and exploitation of the surrogate model. The method is profiled on two state space models with good performance both considering accuracy and computational cost.
description: Accepted for publication in proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Cape Town, South Africa, August 2014. 6 pages, 4 figures
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the infectious disease epidemiology
Creators: name: Facciolà, Alessio
name: Laganà, Antonio
name: Genovese, Giovanni
name: Romeo, Bruno
name: Sidoti, Salvatore
name: D'Andrea, Giuseppa
name: Raco, Caterina
name: Visalli, Giuseppa
name: Di Pietro, Angela
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: COVID 19 Pandemic
Infectious diseases
Epidemiology
notification
Public Health
COVID 19

description: Introduction. COVID-19 pandemic has exerted a huge impact on different aspects of public health. Mandatory notifications are a fundamental tool to have a general picture of infection disease spread in a population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on infectious disease epidemiology. Methods. We collected and analyzed all the infectious disease notifications made in the pre-pandemic (2017-2019) and the pandemic (2020-2022) three-years periods in the provincial territory of Messina, Italy. Results. The total number of notifications significantly decreased by 41% in the pandemic period compared to the pre-pandemic one, with very high reduction of certain disease notifications such as measles and varicella. Similarly, other airborne infections, such as meningococcal meningitis and tuberculosis, underwent an important decrease. Conversely, an increase was found for some infections such as syphilis and, especially, scabies that reported a percentage value of +159.9%. Conclusions. The COVID-19 pandemic, reducing the possibility of microbial spread following to the lockdown and, in addition, to the constant use of face masks and other personal protective equipment, the frequent hand-washing, more ventilation of the living locals, and less gathering, surely reduced the occasions and the possibility to get many infections. On the other hands, the pandemic had a negative impact on scabies diffusion probably due to different causes among which the worsening of some poor realities, the restrictions that forced people to live in strict contact and, especially, the worsening of the conditions of the elderly living in care homes.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 64 No. 3 (2023):
Market Information and Price Reporting in Thinly Traded or Imperfect Markets
Creators: name: Hayenga, Marvin L.
name: Hayenga, Marvin L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Market Information and Price Reporting in the Food and Agricultural Sector, May 24-25, 1979, Madison, Wisconsin
Trogopterus xanthipes
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
name: Anderson, Charles G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Sciuridae
Trogopterus
Trogopterus xanthipes

description: Trogopterus xanthipes (Milne-Edwards, 1867). Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., 8: 376. TYPE LOCALITY: "Les forêts Qui couvrent la chaine montagneuse du Tscheli" [= Chihli, old name for Hebei Prov., China]. DISTRIBUTION: Montane forests, from Yunnan to C and E China. SYNONYMS: edithae Thomas, 1923; himalaicus Thomas, 1914; minax Thomas, 1923; mordax Thomas, 1914. COMMENTS: Includes edithae (Yunnan), himalaicus (S Tibet), minax (Sichuan), and mordax (Hubei); closely related to Belomys from SE Asia, which Corbet and Hill (1992) include in Trogopterus.
description: Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 465, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
description: {"references": ["Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp."]}
“Every cockroach is beautiful to his mother’s eyes”? A multicentric study on the perception of child’s health status according to the parent.
Creators: name: Salini, Chiara
name: Messina, Gabriele
name: Messina, Daniele
name: Nante, Nicola
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: children obesity
BMI
Health Promotion
Child health
obesity in children
Health Education

description: INTRODUCTION: Childhood obesity is a social health problem in the Western World and an important goal is to analyze and correct risk factors. However, part of the problem could be determined by a different perception of the weight. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In October 2019, we conducted a cross-sectional study in which a questionnaire was administered to the parents of primary and secondary school children in South-East Tuscany, Italy. The aim was to determine the association between children’s Body Mass Index (BMI) and the parent’s perception. RESULTS: Analysis was carried out on 1,405 complete questionnaires. We found that most parents wrongly perceive the weight of their children. 88.3% of parents with obese children believe that their children are of normal weight or only “a little overweight”. 67.6% of parents who have overweight children think that their children are of normal weight (p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Our results show a misperception of the weight of the children in the parents eyes. The acquisition of healthy behaviour during childhood is extremely important for health in adulthood and for avoiding the onset of associated diseases. Therefore, food education becomes a crucial objective. Children and parents need to increase consciousness of the correct weight and diseases resulting from bad nutrition.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 64 No. 3 (2023):
On Risk, Information, and Causality in Agricultural Markets
Creators: name: Bessler, David A.
name: Bessler, David A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Market Information and Price Reporting in the Food and Agricultural Sector, May 24-25, 1979, Madison, Wisconsin
Formal multidimensional integrals, stuffed maps, and topological recursion
Creators: name: Borot, Gaëtan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05Axx, 30Exx, 15B52

description: We show that the large N expansion in the multi-trace 1 formal hermitian matrix model is governed by the topological recursion of [Eynard and Orantin, 2007] with initial conditions. In terms of a 1d gas of eigenvalues, this model includes - on top of the squared Vandermonde - multilinear interactions of any order between the eigenvalues. In this problem, the initial data (W10,W20) of the topological recursion is characterized: for W10, by a non-linear, non-local Riemann-Hilbert problem on a discontinuity locus to determine ; for W20, by a related but linear, non-local Riemann-Hilbert problem on the discontinuity locus. In combinatorics, this model enumerates discrete surfaces (maps) whose elementary 2-cells can have any topology - W10 being the generating series of disks and W20 that of cylinders. In particular, by substitution one may consider maps whose elementary cells are themselves maps, for which we propose the name "stuffed maps". In a sense, our results complete the program of the "moment method" initiated in the 90s to compute the formal 1/N in the one hermitian matrix model.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures ; v2, a correction and simplification in the final argument (Section 5)
Body Weight Changes and Incident Diabetes Mellitus: A Cohort Study from the Middle East
Creators: name: Salesi, Razie
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: Diabetes mellitus, Body mass index, Weight
a representative population of 6504 adults equal or older than 35 years of age, living in urban and rural areas of three counties (Isfahan, Arak, and Najaf Abad) in central Iran

description: Objective: Obesity is a known risk factor for diabetes, but the effect of weight changes on the incidence of diabetes is not yet certain. This study aims to evaluate the long-term effects of weight change [based on body mass index (BMI)] on the incidence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in a middle eastern population. Method: In the Isfahan Cohort Study (ICS) 6504 adults equal or greater than 35 years of age were recruited at 2001 and were followed until 2013. The absolute BMI changes (ΔBMI) were calculated by subtracting the baseline BMI from the BMI measured at follow-ups. To make a comparison between participants with different baseline BMI easier, relative changes in BMI were quantified as the percentage of changes from baseline. DM was assessed based on standard definitions. Multivariable Cox regression was used to determine the association of ΔBMI and the incidence of diabetes. Results: During follow-ups, 261 new cases of diabetes were recorded, with an IR of 3401.29 per 100,000 P-Y. Highest number of new cases of type 2 DM belongs to participants with overweight and obesity who had minimal BMI changes (less than 5% of their baseline BMI limits; 42 and 38 new cases, respectively). Participants who were obese at baseline and had lost more than 10% or gained 5-10% of baseline BMI were in the groups with the highest IR [360.05 - 95% CI (239.3-541.8) and 322.39 – 95% CI (178.5-582.1) respectively]. There was no significant association between BMI changes and the incidence of DM in the participants with normal BMI, overweight, and obesity at baseline in cure and adjusted models. Conclusion: This study showed that there was no significant association between diabetes mellitus incidence and BMI changes.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 64 No. 3 (2023):
Regionale Archäologiewerkstatt Gut Eichthal
Creators: name: Claßen, Erich
name: Berg, Beate Von
name: Junick, Silke
name: Sassenhof, Bernd
Publisher: name: Archäologie im Rheinland
Year: 2022

description: Archäologie im Rheinland, 2012(2013)
A numerical study of the window condition for Chern numbers of Hofstadter Butterflies
Creators: name: Avron, J. E.
name: Kenneth, O.
name: Yehoshua, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Chern numbers for Hofstadter models with rational flux 2*pi*p/q are partially determined by a Diophantine equation. A Mod q ambiguity remains. The resolution of this ambiguity is only known for the rectangular lattice with nearest neighbors hopping where it has the form of a "window condition". We study a Hofstadter butterfly on the triangular lattice for which the resolution of ambiguity is open. In the model many pairs (p,q) satisfy a window condition which is shifted relative to the window of the square model. However, we also find pairs (p,q) where the Chern numbers do not belong to any contiguous window. This shows that the rectangular model and the one we study on the triangular lattice are not adiabatically connected: Many gaps must close. Our results suggest the conjecture that the mod q ambiguity in the Diophantine equation generically reduces to a sign ambiguity.
description: 12 pages. 4 figures, one of which is A phase diagram for the Hofstadter model on a triangular lattice. The flux through down triangles is pi/2
Solution of the Bethe-Goldstone Equation without Partial Wave Decomposition
Creators: name: White, L.
name: Sammarruca, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for solving the nucleon-nucleon scattering equation without the use of a partial wave expansion of the scattering amplitude. After verifying the accuracy of the numerical solutions, we proceed to apply the method to the in-medium scattering equation (the Bethe-Goldstone equation) in three dimensions. A focal point is a study of Pauli blocking effects calculated in the (angle-dependent) three-dimensional formalism as compared to the usual spherical approximation. We discuss our results and their implications.
Evaluating the Impacts of Food Price Reporting on Retail Food Markets
Creators: name: Blake, Brian
name: Boynton, Robert
name: Blake, Brian
name: Boynton, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Market Information and Price Reporting in the Food and Agricultural Sector, May 24-25, 1979, Madison, Wisconsin
Visualizing influence of point defects on electronic band structure of graphene
Creators: name: Farjam, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The supercell approach enables us to treat the electronic structure of defective crystals, but the calculated energy bands are too complicated to understand or to compare with angle-resolved photoemission spectra because of inevitable zone folding. We discuss how to visualize supercell band structures more effectively by incorporating in them unfolded spectral weights and orbital decompositions. We then apply these ideas to gain a better understanding of the band structure of graphene containing various types of points defects, including nitrogen impurity, hydrogen adsorbate, and vacancy defect, and also the Stone-Wales defect.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, published (author-created un-copyedited version)
title: Электроника
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Профобразование
Year: 2022

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены элементы и узлы аналоговых и цифровых устройств микроэлектронных устройств и систем, описаны свойства и применение аналоговых и цифровых интегральных микросхем высоких степеней интеграции. Издание предназначено для студентов всех специальностей и профессий среднего профессионального образования, учебными планами которых предусмотрено изучение дисциплин «Основы электротехники и электроники», «Электротехника и электроника», «Основы электроники и цифровой схемотехники», «Основы электроники и микроэлектроники».
Agricultural Input Market Information: Some Research Issues and Methodological Problems
Creators: name: Vaut, Gregory A.
name: Dahl, Dale C.
name: Vaut, Gregory A.
name: Dahl, Dale C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Market Information and Price Reporting in the Food and Agricultural Sector, May 24-25, 1979, Madison, Wisconsin
Vacuum Instability in Electric Fields via AdS/CFT: Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian and Planckian Thermalization
Creators: name: Hashimoto, Koji
name: Oka, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze vacuum instability of strongly coupled gauge theories in a constant electric field using AdS/CFT correspondence. The model is the N=2 1-flavor supersymmetric large N_c QCD in the strong 't Hooft coupling limit. We calculate the Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian L(E), which encodes the nonlinear response and the quantum decay rate of the vacuum in a background electric field E, from the complex D-brane action in AdS/CFT. We find that the decay rate given by Im L(E) becomes nonzero above a critical electric field set by the confining force between quarks. A large-E expansion of Im L(E) is found to coincide with that of the Schwinger effects in QED, replacing its electron mass by the confining force. Then, the time-dependent response of the system in a strong electric field is solved non-perturbatively, and we observe a universal thermalization at a shortest timescale "Planckian thermalization time" t ~ 1/T ~ E^{-1/2}. Here, T is an effective temperature which quarks feel in the nonequilibrium state with nonzero electric current, calculated in AdS/CFT as a Hawking temperature. Stronger electric fields accelerate the thermalization, and for a realistic value of the electric field in RHIC experiment, we obtain t ~ 1 [fm/c], which is consistent with the believed value.
description: 41 pages
The cogrowth series for $\mathrm{BS}(N,N)$ is D-finite
Creators: name: Elder, M.
name: Rechnitzer, A.
name: van Rensburg, E. J. Janse
name: Wong, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F69, 20F65, 05A15

description: We compute the cogrowth series for Baumslag-Solitar groups $\mathrm{BS}(N,N) = < a,b | a^N b = b a^N > $, which we show to be D-finite. It follows that their cogrowth rates are algebraic numbers.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. This article supersedes arXiv:1210.3425
Response functions after a quantum quench
Creators: name: Marcuzzi, Matteo
name: Gambassi, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The response of physical systems to external perturbations can be used to probe both their equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics. While response and correlation functions are related in equilibrium by fluctuation-dissipation theorems, out of equilibrium they provide complementary information on the dynamics. In the past years, a method has been devised to map the quantum dynamics of an isolated extended system after a quench onto a static theory with boundaries in imaginary time; up to now, however, the focus was entirely on symmetrized correlation functions. Here we provide a prescription which, in principle, allows one to retrieve the whole set of relevant dynamical quantities characterizing the evolution, including linear response functions. We illustrate this construction with some relevant examples, showing in the process the emergence of light-cone effects similar to those observed in correlation functions.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures Supplementary material added to the main text
Pricing and Price Reporting Issues in the Turkey Subsector
Creators: name: Schrader, Lee F.
name: Lang, Mahlon G.
name: Schrader, Lee F.
name: Lang, Mahlon G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Market Information and Price Reporting in the Food and Agricultural Sector, May 24-25, 1979, Madison, Wisconsin
Muridae Illiger 1811
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae

description: Family Muridae REVIEWED BY: J. H. Honacki (JH). COMMENT: Assignment of family separate from Cricetidae and Arvicolidae follows Chaline and Mein, 1979, and Reig, 1980, J. Zool. Lond., 192:257-281. For a review of the taxonomy of this family see Swanepoel et al., 1980, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 32(7):155- 196, and Arata, 1967, in Anderson and Jones. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011000000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 504, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
description: {"references": ["Chaline, J., and P. Mein. 1979. Les rongeurs et l'evolution. Doin Editeurs, Paris, 235 pp.", "Swanepoel, P., R. H. N. Smithers, and I. L. Rautenbach. 1980. A checklist and numbering system of the extant mammals of the Southern African Subregion. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 32: 155 - 196."]}
title: Компьютерные технологии в фотографии. Усиление резкости цифровых изображений
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Профобразование, Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2022

description: В учебном пособии описаны операции и инструменты, которые используются для изменения резкости в самых распространенных программах обработки цифровых изображений: Adobe Photoshop, Topaz Studio, Lightroom, Corel Paintshop Pro, Smartdeblur, Capture One Pro, Photo Ninja. Отдельные главы посвящены работе с HDR-фотографиями и плагинами Adobe Photoshop и Lightroom. Издание дополнено лабораторным практикумом, помогающим освоить рассматриваемые программы. Подготовлено в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом среднего профессионального образования. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по специальности 54.02.08 «Техника и искусство фотографии», изучающих дисциплину «Компьютерные технологии в фотографии», а также будет полезно при изучении дисциплины «Основы ретуши и компьютерного дизайна фотографических изображений» по профессии 54.01.03 «Фотограф».
Strong Anderson localization in cold atom quantum quenches
Creators: name: Micklitz, T.
name: Müller, C. A.
name: Altland, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Signatures of strong Anderson localization in the momentum distribution of a cold atom cloud after a quantum quench are studied. We consider a quasi one-dimensional cloud initially prepared in a well defined momentum state, and expanding for some time in a disorder speckle potential. Anderson localization leads to a formation of a coherence peak in the \emph{forward} scattering direction (as opposed to the common weak localization backscattering peak). We present a microscopic, and fully time resolved description of the phenomenon, covering the entire diffusion--to--localization crossover. Our results should be observable by present day technology.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, published version
Resonance Chiral Lagrangian Currents and Experimental Data for $τ^-\toπ^{-}π^{-}π^{+}ν_τ$
Creators: name: Nugent, I. M.
name: Przedzinski, T.
name: Roig, P.
name: Shekhovtsova, O.
name: Was, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we document the modifications introduced to the previous version of the Resonance Chiral Lagrangian current ({\it Phys.Rev.} {\bf D86} (2012) 113008) of the $τ^\pm \to π^\pm π^\pm π^\mp ν_τ$ decay which enable the one dimensional distributions measured by the BaBar collaboration to be well modeled. The main change required to model the data is the addition of the $σ$ resonance. Systematic errors, theoretical and experimental ones, limitations due to fits of one dimensional distributions only, and resulting difficulties and statistical/systematic errors for fitted parameters are addressed. The current and fitting environment is ready for comparisons with the fully exclusive experimental data. The present result for $τ^\pm \to π^\pm π^\pm π^\mp ν_τ$ is encouraging for work on other $τ$ decay modes and Resonance Chiral Lagrangian based currents.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
Writing a Systematic Literature Review Dissertation
Creators: name: Tasler, Nathalie
name: sotl, ntr
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This is an interactive pdf document guiding students through the planning process of a literature based dissertation for our MEd in Academic Practice. It might be useful for anyone wanting to write a systematic literature review, or a literature based dissertation.
Links from the document: Ohio Library Guide and University of Glasgow Guide
Acomys I. Geoffrey 1838
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Acomys

description: Acomys I. Geoffrey, 1838. Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris Zool., ser. 2, 10: 126. REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA)(Europe); D. A. Schlitter (DS); E. Van der Straeten (EVS)(Africa). COMMENT: Reviewed by Setzer, 1975, Part 6.5:1-2. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011001000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 504, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
description: {"references": ["Setzer, H. W. 1975. Genus Acomys. Part 6.5. Pp. 1 - 2, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated."]}
title: Addressing challenges of transition from children's home to independence : Udayan Care's Udayan Ghars (Sunshine Children's Homes) & aftercare programme
Creators: name: Modi, Kiran
name: Nayar-Akhtar, Monisha
name: Ariely, Sumedha
name: Gupta, Deepak
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2016

description: The L.I.F.E. Model (Living In Family Environment), is a model that attempts to create familial relationships, consistent living circumstances, and social/educational support systems necessary to move towards independent adulthood for orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC). In addition, the model addresses multiple losses, grief and related issues by employing attachment and trauma-based understandings to child rearing, while using positive psychology tools to encourage resilience and developmental growth. In the last 19 years, Udayan Care (located in New Delhi, India) through the Udayan Ghars Programme and Aftercare Services, has employed an evolved L.I.F.E. model for the children it cares for (Modi, Nayar-Akhtar, Gupta, & Karmakar, 2014). The model includes a family-like regulated support system, with long-term mentors who are set in place to help the children transition from institutional care to independent living. Typically, this takes place with the children moving out of the Sunshine Children's Homes into semi-regulated Aftercare services and then from Aftercare into the larger world. Given the normative transitions for all young persons, finding ways to effectively support institutionalised children as they transition to independent living is critical. In addition to the normative challenges, undoubtedly, institutionalised children come with a history of trauma and abandonment and often have long-term psychological difficulties that are unique to their population. Many such children end up in childcare institutions as there may be no extended family available, and the options for alternative care settings are severely limited. To understand the developmental trajectories of these children, Udayan Care has been participating in longitudinal research to describe the current and on-going changes in children's trauma, attachment, self-concept and ego-resiliency. This work has provided baseline information on the level and effectiveness of the programmes implemented at Udayan Care, and recommends future directions for addressing the children's needs. This paper explores the needs of institutionalised children as addressed by the Udayan Care Model. Such children have histories of severe neglect and need intensive efforts directed towards addressing attachment issues, affect dysregulation, behavioural difficulties, social skills, education and life skills training.
Writing a Systematic Literature Review Dissertation
Creators: name: Tasler, Nathalie
name: sotl, ntr
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This is an interactive pdf document guiding students through the planning process of a literature based dissertation for our MEd in Academic Practice. It might be useful for anyone wanting to write a systematic literature review, or a literature based dissertation.
Three-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model at finite isospin chemical potential
Creators: name: Xia, Tao
name: He, Lianyi
name: Zhuang, Pengfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: QCD at finite isospin chemical potential $μ_{\text I}$ possesses a positively definite fermion determinant and the lattice simulation can be successfully performed. While the two-flavor effective models may be sufficient to describe the phenomenon of pion condensation, it is interesting to study the roles of the strangeness degree of freedom and the U$_{\rm A}(1)$ anomaly. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the three-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with a Kobayashi-Maskawa-'t Hooft (KMT) term that mimics the U$_{\rm A}(1)$ anomaly at finite isospin chemical potential. In the mean-field approximation, the model predicts a phase transition from the vacuum to the pion superfluid phase, which takes place at $μ_{\rm I}$ equal to the pion mass $m_π$. Due to the U$_{\rm A}(1)$ anomaly, the strangeness degree of freedom couples to the light quark degrees of freedom and the strange quark effective mass depends on the pion condensate. However, the strange quark condensate and the strange quark effective mass change slightly in the pion superfluid phase, which verifies the validity of the two-flavor models. The effective four-fermion interaction of the Kobayashi-Maskawa-'t Hooft term in the presence of the pion condensation is constructed. Due to the U$_{\rm A}(1)$ anomaly, the pion condensation generally induces scalar-pseudoscalar interaction. The Bethe-Salpeter equation for the mesonic excitations is established and the meson mass spectra are obtained at finite isospin chemical potential and temperature. Finally, the general expression for the topological susceptibility $χ$ at finite isospin chemical potential $μ_{\rm I}$ is derived. In contrast to the finite temperature effect which suppresses $χ$, the isospin density effect leads to an enhancement of $χ$.
description: Version punlished in PRD
Spherical collapse in Galileon gravity: fifth force solutions, halo mass function and halo bias
Creators: name: Barreira, Alexandre
name: Li, Baojiu
name: Baugh, Carlton
name: Pascoli, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spherical collapse in the Quartic and Quintic Covariant Galileon gravity models within the framework of the excursion set formalism. We derive the nonlinear spherically symmetric equations in the quasi-static and weak-field limits, focusing on model parameters that fit current CMB, SNIa and BAO data. We demonstrate that the equations of the Quintic model do not admit physical solutions of the fifth force in high density regions, which prevents the study of structure formation in this model. For the Quartic model, we show that the effective gravitational strength deviates from unity at late times ($z \lesssim 1$), becoming larger if the density is low, but smaller if the density is high. This shows that the Vainshtein mechanism at high densities is not enough to screen all of the modifications of gravity. This makes halos that collapse at $z \lesssim 1$ feel an overall weaker gravity, which suppresses halo formation. However, the matter density in the Quartic model is higher than in standard $Λ$CDM, which boosts structure formation and dominates over the effect of the weaker gravity. In the Quartic model there is a significant overabundance of high-mass halos relative to $Λ$CDM. Dark matter halos are also less biased than in $Λ$CDM, with the difference increasing appreciably with halo mass. However, our results suggest that the bias may not be small enough to fully reconcile the predicted matter power spectrum with LRG clustering data.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables; v2: references added and minor changes to the text
title: Цифровая фотографика. Усиление резкости фотографий
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2022

description: Учебное пособие посвящено усилению резкости — одному из важнейших аспектов создания качественных изображений. В нем описаны операции и инструменты, которые используются для изменения резкости в самых распространенных программах обработки цифровых изображений: Adobe Pho-toshop, Topaz Studio, Lightroom, Corel Paintshop Pro, Smartdeblur, Capture One Pro, Photo Ninja. Отдельные главы посвящены работе с HDR-фотографиями и плагинами Adobe Photoshop и Lightroom. Для освоения программ издание дополнено лабораторным практикумом. Подготовлено в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом высшего образования. Учебное пособие будет полезно для студентов направления подготовки 09.03.02 «Информационные системы и технологии» профилей подготовки «Аудиовизуальная техника» и «Информационные технологии в медиаиндустрии», изучающих дисциплину «Цифровая фотографика».
Cultuur&Campus Putselaan: A space for meeting, collaborative learning and research
Creators: name: Ćwikła, Małgorzata
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This presentation introduces the Cultuur&Campus project as presented at digiNEB.eu first annual event in Barcelona on 8 November 2023. 
digiNEB.eu is funded by the European Union
Acomys cahirinus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Acomys
Acomys cahirinus

description: Acomys cahirinus (Desmarest, 1891). Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 29:70. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Cairo. DISTRIBUTION: Cyprus; Western Sahara to Egypt; Nigeria; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan; Kenya; Uganda; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Yemen; Oman; S. Iraq; Iran; Pakistan. COMMENT: Includes cineraceus, hawashensis, johannis, kempi, and percivali; see Setzer, 1975, Part 6.5:1. Includes dimidiatus, albigena, hunteri, and ignitus; see Yalden et al., 1976, Monitore Zool. Ital., n.s., suppl. 8(1):42; Corbet, 1978: 142-143, and Osborn and Helmy, 1980, Fieldiana Zool., n.s., 5:297-298; but also see Setzer, 1975, Part 6.5:1, who listed dimidiatus as a distinct species which included hystrella and intermedius. Includes louisae; see Yalden et al., 1976, Monitore Zool. Ital., n.s., suppl. 8(1):1 — 118, but also see Setzer, 1975, Part 6.5:2, who included louisae in subspinosus. A. percivali is probably a distinct species from Kenya, Uganda and Sudan (DS). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011001002001 as A. cahirinus. 5301410011001001001 as A. albigena. 5301410011001003001 as A. cinerascens (sic). 5301410011001004001 as A. demidiatus (sic). 5301410011001005001 as A. hawashensis. 5301410011001006001 as A. hunteri. 5301410011001007001 as A. hystrella. 5301410011001008001 as A. ignitus. 5301410011001009001 as A. intermedius. 5301410011001010001 as A. johannis. 5301410011001011001 as A. kempi. 5301410011001012001 as A. louisae. 5301410011001014001 as A. percivali.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on pages 504-505, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
description: {"references": ["Setzer, H. W. 1975. Genus Acomys. Part 6.5. Pp. 1 - 2, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.", "Yalden, D. W., M. J. Largen, and D. Kock. 1976. Catalogue of the mammals of Ethiopia. 2. Insectivora and Rodentia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 8 (1): 1 - 118.", "Osborn, D. J., and I. Helmy. 1980. The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Fieldiana: Zoology, 5: 1 - 579."]}
AIIMS ICU Rehabilitation (AIR): healthcare intervention development and description. Underlying data.
Creators: name: Tripathy, Swagata
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Intensive care
Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
Rehabilitation
Implementation science and evaluation
Health care administration

description: In order, the attached files present the resultant materials developed from experience based codesign among doctors, nurses, patients, their family carers, funders, dieticians, physiotherapists and others, to enable family led home rehabilitation of chronically ill, bedridden patients who have been in Intensive Care Units and need tracheostomy ( hole in the neck to allow safe feeding and breathing), nasal feeding, catheter care among others. This project AIIMS ICU Home Rehabilitation, and has been piloted on more than 200 patients in India, Odisha. The patients and carer photographs are published with their written consent as a part of the deeply embedded patient-public involvement in the project. 1. Poster / Infographic for the intervention (for healthcare workers) 2. Brochure for patients and carers in local language 3.Training module for trainers and carers 4. Tool for Assessment of Carer proficiency 5. Diet charts in local language.
Photonic Crystal Cavities in Cubic (3C) Polytype Silicon Carbide Films
Creators: name: Radulaski, Marina
name: Babinec, Thomas M.
name: Buckley, Sonia
name: Rundquist, Armand
name: Provine, J
name: Alassaad, Kassem
name: Ferro, Gabriel
name: Vučković, Jelena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of high quality factor and small mode volume planar photonic crystal cavities from cubic (3C) thin films (thickness ~ 200 nm) of silicon carbide (SiC) grown epitaxially on a silicon substrate. We demonstrate cavity resonances across the telecommunications band, with wavelengths from 1,250 - 1,600 nm. Finally, we discuss possible applications in nonlinear optics, optical interconnects, and quantum information science.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Amemboa javanica Lundblad 1933
Creators: name: Zettel, Herbert
name: Yang, Chang Man
name: Tran, A. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Amemboa
Amemboa javanica

description: Amemboa (s. str.) javanica Lundblad, 1933  Additional material examined. – 1 male (apterous), 27 males, 22 females (macropterous), Laos centr., Khammouan prov., Ban Khoun Ngeun env., 18°07'N 104°29'E, alt. 250 m, coll. E. Jendek & P. Pacholatko, 4–16 Nov., 25–30 Nov.2000 (NHMW, PPCC).  Remarks. – The first record of Amemboa javanica from Laos was from Saravan Province (Zettel, 1998).
description: Published as part of Zettel, Herbert, Yang, Chang Man & Tran, A. D., 2007, Two New Species Of Amemboa Subgenus Amemboides (Heteroptera: Gerridae) From China And Laos, pp. 223-229 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (2) on page 228, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5333022
description: {"references": ["Zettel, H., 1998. Faunistical notes on Amemboa Esaki (Heteroptera: Gerridae) from Laos and Viet Nam, with description of a new species. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 41 (2): 169 - 172."]}
Lake Maozangtianchi Climatological data.xlsx
Creators: name: Guo, Shilong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Climate change processes

description: Lacustrine sediments n-alkanes, XRF PC1 and mean GS data from Lake Maozangtianchi, eastern Qilian mountains, 900 year-long East Asian Summer Monsoon precipitation intensity and plant biomass reconstruction.
Enhancement of electron energy to multi-GeV regime by a dual-stage laser-wakefield accelerator pumped by petawatt laser pulses
Creators: name: Kim, Hyung Taek
name: Pae, Ki Hong
name: Cha, Hyuk Jin
name: Kim, I Jong
name: Yu, Tae Jun
name: Sung, Jae Hee
name: Lee, Seong Ku
name: Jeong, Tae Moon
name: Lee, Jongmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laser wakefield acceleration offers the promise of a compact electron accelerator for generating a multi-GeV electron beam using the huge field gradient induced by an intense laser pulse, compared to conventional rf accelerators. However, the energy and quality of the electron beam from the laser wakefield accelerator have been limited by the power of the driving laser pulses and interaction properties in the target medium. Recent progress in laser technology has resulted in the realization of a petawatt (PW) femtosecond laser, which offers new capabilities for research on laser wakefield acceleration. Here, we present a significant increase in laser-driven electron energy to the multi-GeV level by utilizing a 30-fs, 1-PW laser system. In particular, a dual-stage laser wakefield acceleration scheme (injector and accelerator scheme) was applied to boost electron energies to over 3 GeV with a single PW laser pulse. Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations corroborate the multi-GeV electron generation from the dual-stage laser wakefield accelerator driven by PW laser pulses.
Complexity of control-affine motion planning
Creators: name: Jean, Frédéric
name: Prandi, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C17, 93C15

description: In this paper we study the complexity of the motion planning problem for control-affine systems. Such complexities are already defined and rather well-understood in the particular case of nonholonomic (or sub-Riemannian) systems. Our aim is to generalize these notions and results to systems with a drift. Accordingly, we present various definitions of complexity, as functions of the curve that is approximated, and of the precision of the approximation. Due to the lack of time-rescaling invariance of these systems, we consider geometric and parametrized curves separately. Then, we give some asymptotic estimates for these quantities.
description: 28 pages, 5 figures
Amemboa laotica Zettel 1998
Creators: name: Zettel, Herbert
name: Yang, Chang Man
name: Tran, A. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Amemboa
Amemboa laotica

description: Amemboa (s. str.) laotica Zettel, 1998  Additional material examined. – 6 males, 3 females (apterous), 11 males, 13 females (macropterous), Laos centr., Khammouan prov., Ban Khoun Ngeun env., 18°07'N 104°29'E, alt. 250 m, coll. E. Jendek & P. Pacholatko, 4–16. Nov., 25–30 Nov.2000 (NHMW, PPCC, ZRC).  Remarks. – Amemboa laotica was originally described from six apterous specimens from Saravan Province in Laos (Zettel, 1998). The series from Ban Khoun Ngeun is distinctly lighter in colour than the type specimens, especially in the apterous females where the dorsal pattern of the head and thorax is completely faded. Notes on the hitherto unknown macropterous morph: body length of macropterous males exclusive of wings 4.4–4.8 mm, inclusive of wings 4.7–5.2 mm; of macropterous females exclusive of wings 4.4–5.0 mm, inclusive of wings 4.7–5.6 mm. The foreleg of the macropterous male is less incrassate than in the apterous morph. The macropterous female has two tufts of long bristles on tergite 8.
description: Published as part of Zettel, Herbert, Yang, Chang Man & Tran, A. D., 2007, Two New Species Of Amemboa Subgenus Amemboides (Heteroptera: Gerridae) From China And Laos, pp. 223-229 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (2) on page 228, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5333022
description: {"references": ["Zettel, H., 1998. Faunistical notes on Amemboa Esaki (Heteroptera: Gerridae) from Laos and Viet Nam, with description of a new species. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 41 (2): 169 - 172."]}
Damped Lyα Absorption Systems in Semi-Analytic Models with Multiphase Gas
Creators: name: Berry, Michael
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
name: Haas, Marcel R.
name: Gawiser, Eric
name: Maller, Ari
name: Popping, Gergo
name: Trager, Scott C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of damped Lyα absorption systems (DLAs) in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation, including partitioning of cold gas in galactic discs into atomic, molecular, and ionized phases with a molecular gas-based star formation recipe. We investigate two approaches for partitioning gas into these constituents: a pressure-based and a metallicity-based recipe. We identify DLAs by passing lines of sight through our simulations to compute HI column densities. We find that models with "standard" gas radial profiles - where the average specific angular momentum of the gas disc is equal to that of the host dark matter halo - fail to reproduce the observed column density distribution of DLAs. These models also fail to reproduce the distribution of velocity widths Δv, overproducing low Δv relative to high Δv systems. Models with "extended" radial gas profiles - corresponding to gas discs with higher specific angular momentum - are able to reproduce quite well the column density distribution of absorbers over the column density range 19 < log NHI < 22.5 in the redshift range 2 < z < 3.5. The model with pressure-based gas partitioning also reproduces the observed line density of DLAs, HI gas density, and Δv distribution at z < 3 remarkably well. However all of the models investigated here underproduce DLAs and the HI gas density at z > 3. If this is the case, the flatness in the number of DLAs and HI gas density over the redshift interval 0 < z < 5 may be due to a cosmic coincidence where the majority of DLAs at z > 3 arise from intergalactic gas in filaments while those at z < 3 arise predominantly in galactic discs. We further investigate the dependence of DLA metallicity on redshift and Δv, and find reasonably good agreement with the observations, particularly when including the effects of metallicity gradients (abbrv.).
description: 27 pages, 15 figures, submitted to MNRAS