cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Reproductive health of women with endometriosis: an improving educational intervention based on the planned behavior theory
Creators: name: Zandi, Niusha
name: Behboodi Moghadam, Zahra
name: Hossein Rashidi, Batool
name: Namazi, Masoumeh
name: Haghani, Shima
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Model constructs questionnaire.
The Effect of Grouping in Human Crowd Movement
Creators: name: Vo, Viet Quang
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Human crowd modelling has gained importance for floor plan designs and crowd movement management. It increases the need for more realistic modelling of human-like behaviours. The state of the art in modelling studies often focuses on homogeneous crowds. Grouping behaviour has been rarely addressed. Social studies show that crowds are often inhomogeneous, which are containing different social groups. How groups in crowds interact with each other has been rarely investigated. Exploring the interactions of groups in such inhomogeneous crowds becomes important to understand its impact on crowd movement. Therefore, this study aims to model the dynamics of inhomogeneous crowds including group interactions.

 This study starts by building a model that captures the grouping behaviour of individuals in an inhomogeneous crowd. The formation of grouping and non-grouping behaviours was investigated by simulating the model in a narrowing corridor, a turning corridor, a T-intersection corridor, and a corridor with an obstacle. The results of the simulations of grouping and non-grouping behaviours were analysed to explore which behaviour was effective for crowd movement.

 This study found that grouping behaviour helped to achieve potential flow rates by preventing turbulence. In contrast, non-grouping behaviour created turbulent flows of individuals and inefficient movement. This study suggests that letting groups stay together is potentially effective for crowd management when a large number of individuals are egressing the venue.
Phase relations in K_xFe_{2-y}Se_2 and the structure of superconducting K_xFe_2Se_2 via high-resolution synchrotron diffraction
Creators: name: Shoemaker, Daniel P.
name: Chung, Duck Young
name: Claus, Helmut
name: Francisco, Melanie C.
name: Avci, Sevda
name: Llobet, Anna
name: Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductivity in iron selenides has experienced a rapid growth, but not without major inconsistencies in the reported properties. For alkali-intercalated iron selenides, even the structure of the superconducting phase is a subject of debate, in part because the onset of superconductivity is affected much more delicately by stoichiometry and preparation than in cuprate or pnictide superconductors. If high-quality, pure, superconducting intercalated iron selenides are ever to be made, the intertwined physics and chemistry must be explained by systematic studies of how these materials form and by and identifying the many coexisting phases. To that end, we prepared pure K_2Fe_4Se_5 powder and superconductors in the K_xFe_{2-y}Se_2 system, and examined differences in their structures by high-resolution synchrotron and single-crystal x-ray diffraction. We found four distinct phases: semiconducting K_2Fe_4Se_5, a metallic superconducting phase K_xFe_2Se_2 with x ranging from 0.38 to 0.58, an insulator KFe_{1.6}Se_2 with no vacancy ordering, and an oxidized phase K_{0.51(5)}Fe_{0.70(2)}Se that forms the PbClF structure upon exposure to moisture. We find that the vacancy-ordered phase K_2Fe_4Se_5 does not become superconducting by doping, but the distinct iron-rich minority phase K_xFe_2Se_2 precipitates from single crystals upon cooling from above the vacancy ordering temperature. This coexistence of metallic and semiconducting phases explains a broad maximum in resistivity around 100 K. Further studies to understand the solubility of excess Fe in the K_xFe_{2-y}Se_2 structure will shed light on the maximum fraction of superconducting K_xFe_2Se_2 that can be obtained by solid state synthesis.
description: 12 pages, 16 figures, supplemental material
Photoionization loss in simultaneous magneto-optical trapping of Rb and Sr
Creators: name: Aoki, Takatoshi
name: Yamanaka, Yuki
name: Takeuchi, Makoto
name: Sakemi, Yasuhiro
name: Torii, Yoshio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the simultaneous magneto-optical trapping (MOT) of Rb and Sr and examine the characteristic loss of Rb in the MOT due to photoionization by the cooling laser for Sr. The photoionization cross section of Rb in the $5P_{3/2}$ state at 461 nm is determined to be $1.4(1)\times10^{-17}$ cm$^2$. It is important to consider this loss rate to realize a sufficiently large number of trapped Rb atoms to achieve a quantum degenerate mixture of Rb and Sr.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
A Comparative Study to the Wear Behavior of Epoxy Reinforced by TiO2 and Al2O3 Nanoparticles
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The wear behavior in dry condition for epoxy reinforced by Al2O3 and TiO2 nanopowders with a constant sliding time of 10 minutes has been investigated experimentally in the present work. Nanoparticles average diameters of both powders have been determined using AFM technique and it was found (78.52 nm) for Al2O3 and (52.56 nm) for TiO2. Pin on disc wear test machine with 950 rpm speed and (5-20N) sliding loading has been used to determine the wear rate of the prepared samples. nanocomposite materials made of epoxy with different weight fractions of Al2O3 and TiO2 powders were prepared by hand layout. The effects of adding nanoparticles with four different weight fractions (0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, and 2%) have been discussed. The obtained results demonstrated that the Alumina (Al2O3) nanopowder has a greater effect in decreasing the wear rate of such nanocomposite material than Titanium dioxide (TiO2). A maximum percentage decrease in wear rate of (9.7%) has been recorded for the epoxy reinforced with 0.5% Al2O3 nanopowder in comparison with that reinforced with TiO2 when the applied load was (20 N). Also the wear rate decreases by (47.6% and 43.6%) for the epoxy reinforced with 2% weight fraction of Al2O3 and TiO2 nanopowders respectively in comparison with that of pure epoxy when the applied load was (20 N).
Workforce diversity programs: A case study of the Las Vegas Valley Water District's "3-year diversity implementation plan"
Creators: name: Moore, Wilisha C.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2002

description: Diversity programs have become a popular topic in today's workforce. Diversity has become an important factor in the success of an organization. More and more agencies are beginning to realize that the workforce is becoming more diverse, and organizations are starting to embrace this diversity. Organizations are beginning to understand that diversity adds to the production and to the success of the organization, and is not a negative setback. Many agencies are realizing that diversity includes all employees, and is no longer just a racial issue. Diversity is the makeup of the world, and there are many dimensions of it. Agencies have begun to take heed to the importance of diversity, by implementing diversity programs in their organizations. Many have hired consultants to analyze their organizations, and to make suggestions as to what is needed to make their company more diverse. Diversity programs have been viewed as the extension of Affirmative Action (Koone 2001). However, diversity programs are not as negatively viewed upon as Affirmative Action has been in the past. The need to be diverse has grown in the workforce, and organizations are learning to become more sensitive towards the various make-ups of their employees (Loden 1996). As a result, training programs have been implemented to educate employees on what diversity is, and how it applies to them.
An Empirical study of attitudes towards telecommuting among government finance professionals
Creators: name: Grippaldi, Joseph J.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2002

description: This paper presents the results of a preliminary study to evaluate attitudes towards telecommuting among finance employees who are employed by special district governments in the United States. Original data was collected by using a self-administered mail survey sent to 400 special district government finance employees who are members of the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) of the United States and Canada. This paper will examine variables including employee support for telecommuting, the likelihood of employees working away from the office, and the number of days employees wish to telecommute. A factor analysis was employed to determine if patterns of correlation within the set of observed attitudinal variables could be explained by underlying factors. The results revealed that four factors exist. These include how telecommuting impacts organizational attitudes, personal attitudes, job satisfaction, and the relationship between job stress and saving money. Two of the four factors are analyzed in this paper. Additionally, the impact of telecommuting on the inclination to leave an organization is examined.
Macrotarsomys ingens Petter 1959
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
Cricetidae
Macrotarsomys
Macrotarsomys ingens

description: Macrotarsomys ingens Petter, 1959. Mammalia, 23: 140. TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar, between Tananarive and Majunga 200 m. from d'Ampijoroa. DISTRIBUTION: N.W. Madagascar. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008065002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 422, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
Use of Local E-government Services in Australia and Saudi Arabia: A Cultural Perspective
Creators: name: Alghamdi, Abdullah Atiyaa
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, various forms of e-government services have received much attention in the media and the scholarly literature. This research focuses on services that support interactions between individual citizens and local/municipal government bodies. The scope of this research therefore includes services that allow citizens to search for information and conduct transactions, as well as initiatives that promote participation in local government policy formulation. It does not, however, include business-oriented initiatives, such as purchasing hubs or tender systems.
 The study draws on the rich body of literature focusing on the factors affecting the adoption of e-government services by individuals. However, to date very little research has been reported that examines whether the significance of adoption and usage factors differs among individuals using e-government services across multiple countries. This research therefore proposes the development of an integrated model incorporating the key factors related to cultural, innovation adoption, trustworthiness and channel characteristics, and applies that model to Australian and Saudi Arabian municipal e-government contexts in order to determine the significance of the factors across two different cultures.
 The research methodology uses complementary mixed methods in two stages: a survey followed by semi-structured interviews. The use of mixed methods allows for triangulation of the findings, but also provides the basis for a more complete understanding of the relationships between constructs, including differences observed between the two countries.
 The findings from this research are (a) that the use of e-government services is influenced by the combination of channel preference, the perceived trustworthiness of the provider, perceived media richness, and attitudinal factors, (b) perceived media richness has the largest impact on use, but this impact varies between Australia and Saudi Arabia due to cultural differences, and (c) channel preference and the use of online government services vary based on age and education level.
 Overall, this study contributes to knowledge in the Information Systems domain by introducing a research model that integrates media richness and channel preference with innovation adoption and trustworthiness theories. In addition, the use of mixed methods research can contribute to e-government research practice. Future studies can adopt the mixed methods approach which guided this research to obtain rigorous research outcomes.
Fat, dumb, and happy. The future of DOE/NV?
Creators: name: Slichko, Michelle E.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2000

description: This paper, prepared for the Department of Public Administration, will identify and analyze some problems with succession planning at the Department of Energy Nevada Operations Office. My main concern is the fact that retirements, a hiring freeze, insufficient training funds, and rampant promotions are combining to make the existing workforce at DOE/NV fatter, dumber, and happier. The section on the DOE/NV organization reveals that as a result of Strategic Alignment Initiatives, the organization has downsized, but has not right-sized. The section on the subcritical mission focuses on only one of DOE/NV's important missions and shows why it is critical to DOE/NV to maintain a highly technical workforce to support that mission. The section on training and development discusses which programs are working and which are not working to maintain DOE/NV's technical skill mix. Finally, the conclusion reiterates the main problems that DOE/NV has in its succession planning and suggests some solutions to the problems.
Malacothrix Wagner 1843
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
Cricetidae
Malacothrix

description: Malacothrix Wagner, 1843. Schreber's Saugethiere, Suppl., 3:496. REVIEWED BY: R. D. Owen (RDON). COMMENT: Subfamily Dendromurinae; see comment under Cricetidae. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008107000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 423, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
Development of a student ambassador program
Creators: name: James, Heather
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2008

description: The need for colleges to explore alternative methods of increasing enrollment provides new opportunities and challenges in the quest to attract students. These challenges and opportunities can be addressed with the development of a Student Ambassador Program. This work presents the creation of an ambassador program consisting of current and former students who reach out to local high schools, career seminars, and industry related venues in order to both increase awareness of the program while also answering questions and being a point of contact for potential students. The implementation of the program involves a targeted recruitment strategy, coupled with training sessions for the potential ambassadors. Next, the program has performed benchmarking and research studies against other ambassador programs in order to target key strengths, and has also adopted the Gaps Model of Service Quality, which provides critical insight into what the students' expectations are and how the program can meet them. Several literature reviews were also referenced in order to get a perspective of ambassadors' experiences, career development needs, and prospective employment opportunities. Finally, the relationships made through the program are invaluable to all parties involved. The ambassadors get valuable personal enrichment and community outreach experience, the potential students gain valuable insight into the program and a point of contact to resolve any issues, and the school gets a needed exposure in the community and a pool of new students
Malacothrix typica
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
Cricetidae
Malacothrix
Malacothrix typica

description: Malacothrix typica (A. Smith, 1834). S. Afr. Quart. J., 2 (in 8 installments). TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Graaff Reinet Dist. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa; Namibia; S. Angola; Botswana. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008107001001 as M. typicus (sic).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 423, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
title: Verschenkte Potenziale
title: Fehlende Anerkennung von Qualifikationsabschlüssen erschwert die Erwerbsintegration von ALG II-Bezieher/innen mit Migrationshintergrund
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Brussig, Martin
name: Dittmar, Vera
name: Knuth, Matthias
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications Online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2018

description: Auf den Punkt ... 
Über ein Viertel aller ALG II-Bezieher/innen mit Migrationshintergrund hat im Ausland einen Berufs oder Hochschulabschluss erworben, der in Deutschland nicht anerkannt ist. Dieses betrifft insbesondere Migrant/inn/en aus mittel- und osteuropäischen Ländern einschließlich GUS sowie Aussiedler/innen.
Die Beschäftigungschancen von ALG II-Bezieher/innen mit einem ausländischen Abschluss, der in Deutschland nicht anerkannt ist, sind ebenso schlecht wie die Chancen von Personen, die überhaupt keinen Abschluss erwarben.
Personen, deren ausländischer Berufsabschluss in Deutschland anerkannt wurde, haben um 50 Prozent höhere Beschäftigungschancen als Personen mit einem nicht anerkannten Abschluss.
Vermittlungsfachkräfte in Grundsicherungsstellen können aufgrund organisatorischer Weichenstellungen ihren "Kund/inn/en" mit Migrationshintergrund praktisch keine Unterstützung im Anerkennungsverfahren anbieten.
Zur Sicherung des vorhandenen, im Ausland erworbenen Humankapitals müssen die Anerkennungsverfahren vereinfacht sowie Möglichkeiten geschaffen werden, die das Nachholen eines in Deutschland nicht anerkannten Abschlusses erleichtern.
Megadendromus Dieterlen and Rupp 1978
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
Cricetidae
Megadendromus

description: Megadendromus Dieterlen and Rupp, 1978. Z. Saugetierk., 43(3): 129. COMMENT: Subfamily Dendromurinae; see comment under Cricetidae.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 423, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in South African Correctional Centres: Challenges and Solutions
Creators: name: Murhula, Patrick Bashizi Bashige
Publisher: name: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)
Year: 2023

description: The outbreak of COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 30 January 2020. Many nations, including South Africa, have seen an increase in COVID-19 outbreaks in their population, including those working in and incarcerated in correctional centres. Responding to COVID-19 in correctional centres is a major challenge, particularly due to overcrowding and limited medical resources. This paper uses secondary data to investigate the spread of COVID-19 in South African correctional centres. It focuses on the problems faced by the South African Department of Correctional Services in preventing the spread of COVID-19 in its correctional facilities. The author proposes measures to be followed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in such facilities. The findings reveal that despite efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in South African correctional centres, the virus spread rapidly among inmates and prison workers.
description: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV), Bd. 17 (2023)
Megadendromus nikolausi Deiterlen and Rupp 1978
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
Cricetidae
Megadendromus
Megadendromus nikolausi

description: Megadendromus nikolausi Deiterlen and Rupp, 1978. Z. Saugetierk., 43(3): 131. TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, S. Goba, Bale Mtns. DISTRIBUTION: E. Ethiopia.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 423, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
Additional file 1 of Does perceived organization support moderates the relationships between work frustration and burnout among intensive care unit nurses? A cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Yanbei, Ren
name: Dongdong, Ma
name: Yun, Liu
name: Ning, Wu
name: Fengping, Qin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Differences in emotional exhaustion, depersonalization,and diminished personal accomplishment among ICU nurses (n=479). Table S2. Moderation model (n=479). Table S3. Conditional effects of work frustration on emotional exhaustionat different levels of organizational support (n=479). Fig.S1. The conditional effect of work frustration on emotional exhaustion at thevalues of perceived organizational support.
Super-Massive Stars as a Source of Abundance Anomalies of Proton-Capture Elements in Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Denissenkov, Pavel A.
name: Hartwick, F. D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that the abundance anomalies of proton-capture elements in globular clusters, such as the C-N, Na-O, Mg-Al and Na-F anti-correlations, were produced by super-massive stars with M ~ 10,000 Msun. Such stars could form in the runaway collisions of massive stars that sank to the cluster center as a result of dynamical friction, or via the direct monolithic collapse of the low-metallicity gas cloud from which the cluster formed. To explain the observed abundance anomalies, we assume that the super-massive stars had lost significant parts of their initial masses when only a small mass fraction of hydrogen, Delta X ~ 0.15, was transformed into helium. We speculate that the required mass loss might be caused by the super-Eddington radiation continuum-driven stellar wind or by the diffusive mode of the Jeans instability.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Realistic precision and accuracy of online experiment platforms, web browsers, and devices
Creators: name: Anwyl-Irvine, Alexander
name: Dalmaijer, Edwin S.
name: Hodges, Nick
name: Evershed, Jo K.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
Accuracy
Experiment builder
Big data
Reaction time
MTurk
Online testing
System testing
Automated hardware testing
Psychophysics

description: Funder: University of Cambridge
description: Abstract: Due to increasing ease of use and ability to quickly collect large samples, online behavioural research is currently booming. With this popularity, it is important that researchers are aware of who online participants are, and what devices and software they use to access experiments. While it is somewhat obvious that these factors can impact data quality, the magnitude of the problem remains unclear. To understand how these characteristics impact experiment presentation and data quality, we performed a battery of automated tests on a number of realistic set-ups. We investigated how different web-building platforms (Gorilla v.20190828, jsPsych v6.0.5, Lab.js v19.1.0, and psychoJS/PsychoPy3 v3.1.5), browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari), and operating systems (macOS and Windows 10) impact display time across 30 different frame durations for each software combination. We then employed a robot actuator in realistic set-ups to measure response recording across the aforementioned platforms, and between different keyboard types (desktop and integrated laptop). Finally, we analysed data from over 200,000 participants on their demographics, technology, and software to provide context to our findings. We found that modern web platforms provide reasonable accuracy and precision for display duration and manual response time, and that no single platform stands out as the best in all features and conditions. In addition, our online participant analysis shows what equipment they are likely to use.
title: Analysis of Traffic Collisions in Dublin Using GIS Based System
Creators: name: Singh, Jagteshwar
name: O' Reilly, Niamh
Publisher: name: Technological University Dublin
Year: 2017

description: This study aims to analyse traffic collisions in the Greater Dublin Region between the period 2006-2012, using GIS to identify hotspots and examine the relationship between collisions and a range of contributory factors including vehicular speeds, traffic volume, road curvature, road category and distance from intersection that could enable prediction of traffic collisions. To this end, Road Safety Authority (RSA) collision data for Dublin Region geocoded as point events, road profiles, traffic flow characteristics on which these occur are spatially merged using ArcGIS and FME software to establish if a significant relationship exists between collision frequencies on road links and the specific link characteristics and traffic flow characteristics. The road network has been divided into uniform segments and the collision frequencies on each of these noted. Traffic collisions are rare and random events and often a major proportion of segments would have no instance of collisions, thus following a Negative Binomial distribution. The outputs from GIS exercise are tested through SPSS software using Negative Binomial distribution for modelling the relationship between different variables. This paper comes at a significant time where efforts are being made to improve the safety of roads within the European Union [1]. Every year, road collisions cause human fatalities together with huge financial loss which can be significantly reduced by improving road safety through the enforcement of traffic laws and road user compliance. By identifying the cause effect relationship and the spatial locations most prone to collisions, prioritized regulatory and safety interventions can be put in place to reduce the collisions on the roads.
Nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a PT symmetric delta-functions double well
Creators: name: Cartarius, Holger
name: Haag, Daniel
name: Dast, Dennis
name: Wunner, Günter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The time-independent nonlinear Schrödinger equation is solved for two attractive delta-function shaped potential wells where an imaginary loss term is added in one well, and a gain term of the same size but with opposite sign in the other. We show that for vanishing nonlinearity the model captures all the features known from studies of PT symmetric optical wave guides, e.g., the coalescence of modes in an exceptional point at a critical value of the loss/gain parameter, and the breaking of PT symmetry beyond. With the nonlinearity present, the equation is a model for a Bose-Einstein condensate with loss and gain in a double well potential. We find that the nonlinear Hamiltonian picks as stationary eigenstates exactly such solutions which render the nonlinear Hamiltonian itself PT symmetric, but observe coalescence and bifurcation scenarios different from those known from linear PT symmetric Hamiltonians.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Journal of Physics A
Supplementary materials to: Temporal analysis of looting activity in Tūwāneh (South Jordan)
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: archaeology
cultural heritage
illicit antiquities
remote sensing
surface survey
Google Earth
illegal excavations

description: Supplementary materials to the article: "Temporal analysis of looting activity in Tūwāneh (South Jordan)"
Supplement 7: Summary images of the pits included in the analysis.
Supplementary materials to: Temporal analysis of looting activity in Tūwāneh (South Jordan)
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: archaeology
cultural heritage
illicit antiquities
remote sensing
surface survey
Google Earth
illegal excavations

description: Supplementary materials to the article: "Temporal analysis of looting activity in Tūwāneh (South Jordan)"
Including:
Supplement 1: Orthomosaic of the so-called caravanserai area created in 2018.
Supplement 2: DEM of the so-called caravanserai area created in 2018.
Supplement 3: Orthomosaic of the site created in 2019.
Supplement 4: DEM of the site created in 2019.
Supplement 5: Pits measured in 2022 (ID indicates working field number, not final pit inventory number).
Supplement 6: Tabular summary of the temporal analysis of the trenches (0 – no pit, 1 – uncertain, 2 – present; x for trenches not covered by a given measurement).
Supplement 7: Summary images of the pits included in the analysis.
title: Ανάπτυξη και σχεδίαση προσθετικών μελών με χρήση λογισμικού CAD/CAM NX
title: Development and design of prosthetic parts using a CAD/CAM NX SOFTWARE
Creators: name: Ταρατσα Τατιανα-Φωτεινη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2019

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αναφέρεται στη μοντελοποίηση και κατασκευή προσθετικών μελών, τις απαιτήσεις κατασκευής και το σκοπό τους. Αρχικά γίνεται ιστορική αναδρομή για την εξέλιξη της προσθετικής, τους ανθρώπους που συνέβαλλαν στην εξέλιξη των προσθετικών μελών καθώς και στη σύγχρονη εποχή που έχει φτάσει η τεχνογνωσία και η ποιότητα καθώς και ο βαθμός λειτουργικότητάς τους. Στη συνέχεια γίνεται αναφορά στα υλικά που χρησιμοποιούνται για τη κατασκευή των προσθετικών, στις ιδιότητές τους καθώς περιγράφεται και η διαδικασία κατασκευής των προσθετικών άκρων. Παράλληλα, παρουσιάζεται το σχεδιαστικό πρόγραμμα που χρησιμοποιήθηκε NX Siemens και γίνεται αναφορά στη λειτουργία του Wave Geometry Linker που χρησιμοποιήθηκε για τη σχεδίαση του κάτω προσθετικού άκρου. Παρουσιάζεται επίσης το κόστος αγοράς ενός προσθετικού άκρου ανάλογα με τις προδιαγραφές που έχει. Τέλος, παρουσιάζονται τα αρχικά σχέδια που έγιναν στο χαρτί καθώς και τα τελικά μοντέλα που σχεδιάστηκαν στο NX Siemens.
Identification of tumor tissue in thin pathological samples via femtosecond laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and machine learning
Creators: name: Sarpe, Cristian
name: Ciobotea, Elena Ramela
name: Morscher, Christoph Burghard
name: Zielinski, Bastian
name: Braun, Hendrike
name: Senftleben, Arne
name: Rüschoff, Josef
name: Baumert, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Breast cancer
subject: Cancer
subject: Optical spectroscopy
subject: Ultrafast lasers
subject: 530
subject: Brustkrebs
subject: Laserinduzierte Breakdown-Spektroskopie
subject: Maschinelles Lernen
subject: Femtosekundenlaser

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
On the Restriction Map for Jacobi Forms
Creators: name: Ramakrishnan, B.
name: Shankhadhar, Karam Deo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11F50, Secondary 11F11

description: In this article we give the description of the kernel of the restriction map for Jacobi forms of index 2 and obtain the injectivity of $D_0\oplus D_2$ on the space of Jacobi forms of weight 2 and index 2. We also obtain certain generalization of these results on certain subspace of Jacobi forms of square-free index $m$.
description: 13 pages. Abh. Math. Semin. Univ. Hambg. (2013)
A new approach to the epsilon expansion of generalized hypergeometric functions
Creators: name: Greynat, David
name: Sesma, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assumed that the parameters of a generalized hypergeometric function depend linearly on a small variable $\varepsilon$, the successive derivatives of the function with respect to that small variable are evaluated at $\varepsilon=0$ to obtain the coefficients of the $\varepsilon$-expansion of the function. The procedure, quite naive, benefits from simple explicit expressions of the derivatives, to any order, of the Pochhammer and reciprocal Pochhammer symbols with respect to their argument. The algorithm may be used algebraically, irrespective of the values of the parameters. It reproduces the exact results obtained by other authors in cases of especially simple parameters. Implemented numerically, the procedure improves considerably the numerical expansions given by other methods.
description: Some formulae added
Final spin and radiated energy in numerical simulations of binary black holes with equal masses and equal, aligned or anti-aligned spins
Creators: name: Hemberger, Daniel A.
name: Lovelace, Geoffrey
name: Loredo, Thomas J.
name: Kidder, Lawrence E.
name: Scheel, Mark A.
name: Szilágyi, Béla
name: Taylor, Nicholas W.
name: Teukolsky, Saul A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behavior of merging black holes (including the emitted gravitational waves and the properties of the remnant) can currently be computed only by numerical simulations. This paper introduces ten numerical relativity simulations of binary black holes with equal masses and equal spins aligned or anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum. The initial spin magnitudes have $|χ_i| \lesssim 0.95$ and are more concentrated in the aligned direction because of the greater astrophysical interest of this case. We combine this data with five previously reported simulations of the same configuration, but with different spin magnitudes, including the highest spin simulated to date, $χ_i \approx 0.97$. This data set is sufficiently accurate to enable us to offer improved analytic fitting formulae for the final spin and for the energy radiated by gravitational waves as a function of initial spin. The improved fitting formulae can help to improve our understanding of the properties of binary black hole merger remnants and can be used to enhance future approximate waveforms for gravitational wave searches, such as Effective-One-Body waveforms.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
Impacts of the tax shift of 1981: An examination of Nevada local governments
Creators: name: Stoeckinger, Philip F.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2005

description: The 1981 Nevada Legislature reduced property tax rates in what is known as the "Tax Shift", whereby cities and counties received less property tax revenue and more sales tax revenue. Nevada made this change to mirror California Proposition 13, along with over forty states nationwide. Furthermore, the property tax rates that could be levied by local governments were "capped." Nevada also became the only state to depreciate improvements (buildings) in determining the value of property (Tax Topics, 2001). In doing the preceding, Nevada moved from basing its revenue structure on a stable revenue source (property tax), to an unstable revenue source (sales tax). Nearly a quarter of a century later, the Nevada Legislature is likely to limit property taxes again, largely due to sizable short-term increases in the values of property in Southern Nevada. Current proposals are similar to existing limitations in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and California. These states have experienced service delivery and budget crises as a result of these limitations. It is unknown what impacts future property tax limitations will have but a good indicator is an examination of past limitations. This paper evaluates the financial impacts the tax shift has had over the past number of years for local governmental entities in the State of Nevada. Upon reviewing existing literature, there appears to be a void in the available research with regard to property tax limitations within the State of Nevada. The information in this study will assist researchers to better understand the long-term impacts of policy decisions to adopt tax limitations. The data gathered will provide an assessment of the long-term impact of the tax shift on local governments in Nevada. Finally, this data will help determine whether the Tax Shift of 1981 adversely impacted local governments in Nevada.
Additional file 1 of Leading change in practice: how “longitudinal prebriefing” nurtures and sustains in situ simulation programs
Creators: name: Eller, Susan
name: Rudolph, Jenny
name: Barwick, Stephanie
name: Janssens, Sarah
name: Bajaj, Komal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplement 1. Descriptions of 3 different in situ simulation programs and examples of longitudinal prebriefing related to each change leadership step.
OTM 7.1 og anvendelse til forundersøgelse af en Østlig Ringvej i København
Creators: name: Jensen, Henrik Nejst
name: Paag, Henrik
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2021

description: Der er i perioden 2017-2020 gennemført en forundersøgelse af en Østlig Ringvej. Til brug for undersøgelsen blev udviklet en ny version af trafikmodellen for hovedstadsområdet, OTM (version 7.1). Udgangspunkt var, at modellen skulle være bedre til at beregne effekter af vejanlæg, hvor der opkræves brugerbetaling. Der blev derfor gennemført en omfattende interviewundersøgelse af trafikanterne i København til brug for fastlæggelse af bilisternes tidsværdier, herunder deres betalingsvillighed i forhold til en særskilt brugerbetaling. Den opdaterede modelversion omfattende: • reestimeret efterspørgselsmodel • ny bilrutevalgsmodel med nye tidsværdier • ny cykelrutevalgsmodel samt • nye turmatricer baseret på TU- og GPS-data med opdeling af personbilture i ture uden og med passagerer For at kunne gennemføre dette blev modellens zonestruktur detaljeret med en udvidelse af antallet af zoner fra ca. 1000 til ca. 4000 zoner. Der blev endvidere foretaget en detaljering og opdatering af vej- og cykelnettene. OTM 7.1 er anvendt til at gennemføre trafikberegningerne i forbindelse med forundersøgelsen af Østlig Ringvej. Der gennemgås, hvordan Østlig Ringvej vil påvirke trafikken i og omkring København. Det gælder i forskellige scenarier både med og uden brugerbetaling, og med og uden en trafiksanering af indre by. Metoder, forudsætninger og resultater i forbindelse med modelberegningerne gennemgås. Endvidere gennemgås beregningerne af provenu fra brugerbetaling, som i sammenhæng med anlægs- og driftsøkonomi giver mulighed for at beregne den nødvendige restfinansiering for projektet. Endelig præsenteres metode og resultater af de samfundsøkonomiske beregninger for projektet, heraf bl.a. også beregning af bredere økonomiske effekter som agglomeration.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2021): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Megadontomys Merriam 1898
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
Cricetidae
Megadontomys

description: Megadontomys Merriam, 1898. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 12: 115. REVIEWED BY: S. Anderson (SA); W. Caire (WC); R. P. Canham (RPC); M. D. Carleton (MDC); L. N. Carraway (LNC); D. G. Huckaby (DGH); C. W. Kilpatrick (CWK); T. E. Lawlor (TL); J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP); G. Urbano-V. (GUV). COMMENT: Included as a subgenus of Peromyscus by Hall, 1981:716, Musser, 1964, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 636:13- 19, and Hooper, 1968, in King, ed., The Biology of Peromyscus (Rodentia), p. 38. Linzey and Layne, 1974, Am. Mus. Novit., 2532:1-20, studied the morphology of the spermatozoa. Reviewed by Carleton, 1980:118, 124, who considered Megadontomys a distinct genus.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 423, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.", "Musser, G. G. 1964. Notes on geographic distribution, habitat, and taxonomy of some Mexican mammals. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 636: 1 - 22.", "Linzey, A. V., and J. N. Layne. 1974. Comparative morphology of spermatozoa of the rodent genus Peromyscus (Muridae). American Museum Novitates, 2532: 1 - 20.", "Carleton, M. D. 1980. Phylogenetic relationships in neotomine-peromyscine rodents (Muroidea) and a reappraisal of the dichotomy within New World Cricetinae. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 157: 1 - 146."]}
Sworn' versus civilian' career development paths in the fire service in Nevada
Creators: name: Blackmon, Kelly
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2002

description: The Clark County Fire Department has no formal career development path for fire prevention (civilian) personnel as it does for suppression (sworn) personnel. The purpose of this paper is to compare the career paths developed for suppression personnel and prevention personnel in five fire departments throughout the State of Nevada. Each department was chosen because they have over 100 total employees. Three dimensions relevant to the extent to which a career development path exists were identified and each department was assessed terms of these dimensions. The results illustrated the need to enhance the career development path in prevention to more closely align with suppression's path. Recommendations include continuing skills training, supervisor training, educational and certification requirements for promotional and supervisory positions, and additional promotional and supervisory levels to increase the career opportunities within the division.
A short note on sign changes
Creators: name: Meher, Jaban
name: Shankhadhar, Karam Deo
name: Viswanadham, G. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11F11, Secondary 11F30

description: In this paper, we present a quantitative result for the number of sign changes for the sequences $\{a(n^j)\}_{n\ge 1}, j=2,3,4$ of the Fourier coefficients of normalized Hecke eigen cusp forms for the full modular group $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$. We also prove a similar kind of quantitative result for the number of sign changes of the $q$-exponents $c(p) (p {vary over primes})$ of certain generalized modular functions for the congruence subgroup $Γ_0(N)$, where $N$ is square-free.
description: 6 pages
Physical properties of thermoelectric zinc antimonide using first-principles calculations
Creators: name: Jund, Philippe
name: Viennois, Romain
name: Tao, Xiaoma
name: Niedziolka, Kinga
name: Tedenac, Jean-Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report first principles calculations of the structural, electronic, elastic and vibrational properties of the semiconducting orthorhombic ZnSb compound. We study also the intrinsic point defects in order to eventually improve the thermoelectric properties of this already very promising thermoelectric material. Concerning the electronic properties, in addition to the band structure, we show that the Zn (Sb) crystallographically equivalent atoms are not exactly equivalent from the electronic point of view. Lattice dynamics, elastic and thermodynamic properties are found to be in good agreement with experiments and they confirm the non equivalency of the zinc and antimony atoms from the vibrational point of view. The calculated elastic properties show a relatively weak anisotropy and the hardest direction is the y direction. We observe the presence of low energy modes involving both Zn and Sb atoms at about 5-6 meV, similarly to what has been found in Zn4Sb3 and we suggest that the interactions of these modes with acoustic phonons could explain the relatively low thermal conductivity of ZnSb. Zinc vacancies are the most stable defects and this explains the intrinsic p-type conductivity of ZnSb.
description: 33 pages, 8 figures
ACTIVITIES AND FUNCTIONS OF CHILDREN PARLIAMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THIRUVALLUR DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU
Creators: name: S. Delphine Mary
name: Dr. A. Sivagami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Activities, Functions, Children Parliament, Development of Children.

description: Abstract 
The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of different activities and functions of children joining children parliament (CP). The primary information was collected from 450 students studying between classes 8 and 12 in different schools. The 450 samples belong to 30 CPs formed and effectively organized by the Bon Secours Social Service Society in Thriuvallur district, Tamil Nadu. They are collected and analysed through SPSS version 20.0. The descriptive research design and simple random sampling strategy were employed for this research project. The findings of the study reveal the various impacts effectively created among the children in their positive, health, social maturity and growth, problem solving attitude, character formational, skills, educational and developmental growth and well-being for their integral formation and well-being not only at present  but also in the future. This paper also proposes recommendations for all CPs for their effective efficient management, administration and activities.