cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A physical and spectroscopic study of polypyrrole containing transition metal complexes
Creators: name: Saunders., Brian R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The ALMA Frontier Fields Survey. VI. Lensing-corrected 1.1mm number counts in Abell 2744, MACSJ0416.1-2403, MACSJ1149.5+2223, Abell 370 and Abell S1063
Creators: name: Arancibia, A. M. Muñoz
name: González-López, J.
name: Ibar, E.
name: Bauer, F. E.
name: Anguita, T.
name: Aravena, M.
name: Demarco, R.
name: Kneissl, R.
name: Koekemoer, A. M.
name: Troncoso-Iribarren, P.
name: Zitrin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [abridged] Probing the faint end of the number counts at mm wavelengths is important to identify the origin of the extragalactic background light in this regime. Aided by strong gravitational lensing, ALMA observations towards massive galaxy clusters have opened a window to disentangle this origin, allowing to resolve sub-mJy dusty star-forming galaxies. We aim to derive number counts at 1.1 mm down to flux densities fainter than 0.1 mJy, based on ALMA observations towards five Hubble Frontier Fields (FF) galaxy clusters, following a statistical approach to correct for lensing effects. We created a source catalog that includes 29 ALMA 1.1 mm continuum detections down to a 4.5sigma significance. We derived source intrinsic flux densities using public lensing models. We folded the uncertainties in both magnifications and source redshifts into the number counts through Monte Carlo simulations. We derive cumulative number counts over two orders of magnitude down to 0.01 mJy after correction for lensing effects. Cosmic variance estimates are all exceeded by uncertainties in our median combined cumulative counts that come from both our Monte Carlo simulations and Poisson statistics. Our number counts are consistent to 1sigma with most of recent ALMA estimates and galaxy evolution models. However, below 0.1 mJy, they are lower by 0.4 dex compared to two deep ALMA studies but consistent with ASPECS-LP to 1sigma. Importantly, the flattening found for our cumulative counts extends further to 0.01 mJy. Our results bring further support in line of the flattening of the number counts reported previously by us and ASPECS-LP, which has been interpreted by a recent galaxy evolution model as a measurement of the "knee" of the infrared luminosity function at high redshift. Our estimates of the contribution to the EBL in the FFs suggest that we may be resolving most of the EBL at 1.1mm down to 0.01 mJy.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Kompetenzzuwachs bei Schülerinnen und Schülern durch die Teilnahme an einer Modellierungswoche
Creators: name: Hattebuhr, Maren
name: Frank, Martin
name: Roeckerath, Christina
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Wir erörtern auf Grundlage des Kernlehrplans für das Fach Mathematik (Sek II, NRW), wie durch das Arbeiten an realen Forschungsproblemen prozessbezogene Kompetenzen vermittelt, angewendet und weiterentwickelt werden können. Des Weiteren gehen wir neben dem prozessbezogenen auch auf den inhaltlichen Kompetenzzuwachs der Teilnehmer ein, der die selbstständige Entwicklung und Weiterentwicklung sowie Analyse von mathematischen Begriffen, Konstrukten und Methoden beinhaltet. Unser Ziel ist es, die Prozesse im Laufe der Projektarbeit zu verstehen, und auch ein Anforderungsprofil für eine erfolgreiche Teilnahme zu erstellen.
Theories and computer simulations of muscle creep, and cell motility in Physarum Polycephalum
Creators: name: Saldaña., Rafael Poblete
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: Hydroxymethylation of DNA
title: an epigenetic marker
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: , Richa
name: Rajneesh
name: Sinha, Rajeshwar P.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: methylation
subject: hydroxymethylation
subject: TET-proteins
subject: DNA methyltranferases
subject: 610

description: DNA methylation, an epigenetic mechanism is claimed to play essential roles in development, aging and disease over the past few decades. Cytosines (C) were known to exist in two functional states: unmethylated or methylated (5mC) in the mammalian genome for a very long time. However, the mechanisms controlling 5mC dynamics remain undefined. Recent studies of genomic DNA on human and mouse brain, neurons and from mouse embryonic stem cells have shown that 2-oxoglutarate and Fe(II)-dependent oxygenases of the ten-eleven translocation (Tet) proteins can catalyze the oxidation of 5mC at cpG dinucleotides to form 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC). The exhilarating discovery of these novel 5-hmC has begun to focus on the dynamic nature of 5mC. The prevailing evidence has shown that Tet family proteins and 5-hmC are involved in the normal development as well as in many diseases. This review presents an overview of the role of Tet family proteins and 5-hmC. It also discusses their role as an epigenetic marker and the techniques used for their analysis.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
Probing heavy Majorana neutrinos and the Weinberg operator through vector boson fusion processes in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: p p: colliding beams
neutrino: Majorana
operator: Weinberg
vector boson: fusion
neutrino: heavy
p p: scattering
dimuon: same sign
neutrino: Majorana: mass
neutrino: mass
dimuon: final state
dilepton: final state
CERN LHC Coll
muon: pair production
mixing
CMS
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: The first search exploiting the vector boson fusion process to probe heavy Majorana neutrinos and the Weinberg operator at the LHC is presented. The search is performed in the same-sign dimuon final state using a proton-proton collision data set recorded at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV, collected with the CMS detector and corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. The results are found to agree with the predictions of the standard model. For heavy Majorana neutrinos, constraints on the squared mixing element between the muon and the heavy neutrino are derived in the heavy neutrino mass range 50 GeV-25 TeV; for masses above 650 GeV these are the most stringent constraints from searches at the LHC to date. A first test of the Weinberg operator at colliders provides an observed upper limit at 95% confidence level on the effective $\mu\mu$ Majorana neutrino mass of 10.8 GeV.
Felder und Räume: Symmetrie und Lokalität in Mathematik und theoretischen Wissenschaften
Creators: name: Saberi, Ingmar
Publisher: name: Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
Year: 2023

description: Wir werden einige grundlegende Ideen der Eichtheorie und der dazugehörigen Differentialtopologie erkunden. Damit kann sich die Leserin ein Bild des Modulraums flacher Zusammenhänge machen und ihn mit den physikalisch motivierten Ideen dahinter in Beziehung bringen. Den Begriffen von Symmetrien und Feldern gehen wir gründlich nach. Außerdem werfen wir einen flüchtigen Blick auf unendliche Symmetrie in zwei Dimensionen und auf vor kurzem entdeckte Verallgemeinerungen.
description: Snapshots of modern mathematics from Oberwolfach;2023-03
Superconducting detector magnets for high energy physics
Creators: name: Mentink, Matthias
name: Sasaki, Ken-ichi
name: Cure, Benoit
name: Deelen, Nikkie
name: Dudarev, Alexey
name: Abe, Mitsushi
name: Iio, Masami
name: Makida, Yasuhiro
name: Okamura, Takahiro
name: Ogitsu, Toru
name: Sumi, Naoyuki
name: Yamamoto, Akira
name: Yoshida, Makoto
name: Iinuma, Hiromi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various superconducting detector solenoids for particle physics have been developed in the world. The key technology is the aluminum-stabilized superconducting conductor for almost all the detector magnets in particle physics experiments. With the progress of the conductor, the coil fabrication technology has progressed as well, such as the inner coil winding technique, indirect cooling, transparent vacuum vessel, quench protection scheme using pure aluminum strips and so on. The detector solenoids design study is in progress for future big projects in Japan and Europe, that is, ILC, FCC and CLIC, based on the technologies established over many years. The combination of good mechanical properties and keeping a high RRR is a key point for the development of Al-stabilized conductor. The present concern for the detector solenoid development is to have been gradually losing the key technologies and experiences, because large-scale detector magnets with Al-stabilized conductor has not been fabricated after the success of CMS and ATLAS-CS in LHC. Complementary efforts are needed to resume an equivalent level of expertise, to extend the effort on research and to develop these technologies and apply them to future detector magnet projects. Especially, further effort is necessary for the industrial technology of Al-stabilized superconductor production. The worldwide collaboration with relevant institutes and industries will be critically important to re-realize and validate the required performances. Some detector solenoids for mid-scale experiment wound with conventional copper-stabilized Nb-Ti conductor require precise control of magnetic field distribution. The development efforts are on-going in terms of the magnetic field design technology with high precision simulation, coil fabrication technology and control method of magnetic field distribution.
description: 35 pages, 35 figures, 8 tables, contribution to Snowmass 2021
‚Risk Literacy‘ in der Grundschule – Ergebnisse einer Interventionsstudie
Creators: name: Till, Christoph
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 510

description: „Sind Vorsorgeuntersuchungen nützlich?“ „Wie sollte ich mein Geld anlegen?“ Kompetenzen, Risiken einzuschätzen und auf Basis von Daten, Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit zu treffen, spielen heutzutage eine bedeutende Rolle. Befunde aus der kognitionspsychologischen Forschung belegen, dass statistische Informationen über Chancen und Risiken in der Medizin, der Umwelt oder Finanzwelt oft nicht richtig interpretiert werden (Gigerenzer, 2013; Spiegelhalter, 2011). Dies liegt oft am Darstellungsformat dieser Informationen: Bei der Kommunikation von Risiken sollten statt Wahrscheinlichkeiten in Form von Prozenten vermehrt intuitiv greifbare ikonische Darstellungen (in Form von Piktogrammen) eingesetzt werden (Brase, 2008). Dies erleichtert die Interpretation von Statistiken, denen wir tagtäglich in den Medien und in unserer Umwelt ausgesetzt sind. Darüber hinaus sollten bereits in der Schule verschiedene (mathematische) Kompetenzen zu Risiko gefördert werden (Gigerenzer, 2013).
Interacting Brownian dynamics in a nonequilibrium particle bath
Creators: name: Steffenoni, Stefano
name: Kroy, Klaus
name: Falasco, Gianmaria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We set up a mesoscopic theory for interacting Brownian particles embedded in a nonequilibrium environment, starting from the microscopic interacting many-body theory. Using nonequilibrium linear response theory, we characterize the effective dynamical interactions on the mesoscopic scale and the statistics of the nonequilibrium environmental noise, arising upon integrating out the fast degrees of freedom. As hallmarks of nonequilibrium, the breakdown of the fluctuation-dissipation and action-reaction relations for Brownian degrees of freedom are exemplified with two prototypical models for the environment, namely, active Brownian particles and stirred colloids.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Δικονομική μεταχείριση εγκλημάτων διαφθοράς: Ο Εισαγγελέας Οικονομικού Εγκλήματος και οι Ειδικές Ανακριτικές Πράξεις επί εγκλημάτων Διαφθοράς
Creators: name: Σταμούλη, Ξένη Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Διαφθορά
Εισαγγελέας Οικονομικού Εγκλήματος
Ειδικές Ανακριτικές Πράξεις
Corruption
Financial Crime Prosecutor
Special investigative Acts

description: Σκοπός της μελέτης είναι η ανάλυση του φαινομένου της διαφθοράς και οι ειδικές ρυθμίσεις στο πεδίο της Ποινικής Δικονομίας, οι οποίες έχουν επιστρατευθεί για την καταπολέμησή της. Στο πρώτο μέρος προσδιορίζεται η έννοια της διαφθοράς, η Διεθνής και Ευρωπαϊκή προσπάθεια αντιμετώπισης του φαινομένου, η προσέγγιση της διαφθοράς από τον Έλληνα νομοθέτη και οι συνέπειες της. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο αναλύεται ο θεσμός των Εισαγγελέων Οικονομικού Εγκλήματος. Παρατίθενται συγκριτικά το προϊσχύον καθεστώς του Εισαγγελέα Διαφθοράς και του Εισαγγελέα Οικονομικού Εγκλήματος με τις ισχύουσες προβλέψεις του ΚΠΔ και την πρόσφατη επιλογή του νομοθέτη να συγχωνεύσει τους δύο θεσμούς σε ένα πολυπρόσωπο όργανο με τη δημιουργία Τμήματος Οικονομικού Εγκλήματος, υπαγόμενο στην Εισαγγελία Εφετών Αθηνών. Ιδιαίτερης σημασίας και προσοχής χρήζουν οι ευχέρειες, που παρέχονται στους Εισαγγελείς Οικονομικού Εγκλήματος, περί άρσης του απορρήτου και της δέσμευσης περιουσιακών στοιχείων προς το σκοπό διασφάλισης των συμφερόντων του δημοσίου. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο αναλύονται οι ειδικές ανακριτικές πράξεις επί εγκλημάτων διαφθοράς, όπως αυτές προβλέπονται στο άρθρο 255 ΚΠΔ. Ειδικότερα, παρουσιάζεται η συγκαλυμμένη έρευνα, η άρση του απορρήτου, η καταγραφή δραστηριότητας εκτός κατοικίας και η συσχέτιση δεδομένων προσωπικού χαρακτήρα.
description: The aim of the present thesis is to analyse the phenomenon of corruption and the specific provisions in the field of Criminal Procedure which have been drafted to face it. In the first chapter is presented the definition of corruption, the International and European effort to tackle the phenomenon, the approximation of corruption by the Greek legislator and its consequences. In the second chapter is depicted the institution of Financial Crime Prosecutors. A comparison is made of the previous status of the Corruption Prosecutor and the Financial Crime Prosecutor in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure and the recent choice of the legislator to merge the two institutions into a multi-person institution with the creation of a Financial Crime Department subject to the Athens Prosecutor's Office. Particular importance and attention should be given to the discretions provided to the Financial Crime Prosecutors to lift the confidentiality of the data and freezing of assets in order to safeguard the interests of the public. In the third chapter, the special investigative acts on corruption offences as provided for in Article 255 CCP are presented. In particular, the covert investigation, the removal of confidentiality, the registration of non-dwelling activity and the correlation of personal data are presented.
An exploration of the foundations of statistics : theory and practice
Creators: name: Ryder., John Miles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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A community based Survey of high- risk Pregnancies and Determinants of pre-Eclampsia and Gestational Hypertension in ADA-A District Ethiopia
Creators: name: Hailu, Asnak
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 1991

description: A population-based cross sectional survey was conducted from April 1990 to March 1991, to measure the magnitude of high risk pregnancies, and to examine the determinant factors for pre-eclampsia and gestational hypertension, in Ada-a district. 13 urban kebeles and 13 rural villages were randomly chosen and a house to house survey was conducted based on a pre tested questionnaire and relevant measurements. Information was collected on demographic, socioeconomic, the exposure status for risk factors prior and during the current pregnancy, the usual dietary intake and the usual physical activities during the early months of the current pregnancy, and measurement findings for height, blood pressure and proteinuria. A total of 567 pregnant women were included in the study. Of the 567 pregnant women 28.6% were younger than 20 or older than 34 years. Early marriage below the age of 20 were reported by 85%. 21.7% and 22.2% were Nulliparous and multiparous women respectively. 39.2% were illiterate and 42.9% with a very low income. 14.6% gave a history of abortion, 13.1% of infant deaths, 6.3% of postpartum hemorrhage and 1.1% of antepartum hemorrhage. Abnormal height was recorded in 18.5%, Albuminuria in 11.5% and abnormal diastolic blood pressure in 12.2%, where 2.9% and 9.2% were classified as pre-eclamptic and gestational hypertensive women. 52 . 3% were not receiving antenatal care services in the district. It was found that pregnant women in the very low category of income had a reduced risk of Pre-eclampsia (RR =0.3, 95% CI 0.06, 1.07). And Nulliparous women had a higher risk (RR =5.6, 95% CI 1 . 83, 15.92). High energy expenditure was observed to be a risk factor for gestational hypertension (RR =5.3, 95% CI 1.35, 45.77). Among the studied pregnant women, those who had at least one of the risk factors were very high (85%). Antenatal care services were not received by the majority of the pregnant women, especially in the rural area. Relatively young women, with a better education, a better income, in their first pregnancy were at high risk of pre-eclampsia and gestational hypertension. strenuous physical exertion and low dietary protein intake during the early months of pregnancy also increased the risk of both pre-eclampsia and gestational hypertension. A high dietary calcium intake during the early months of pregnancy increased the risk of pre-eclampsia but not gestational hypertension. The results from this study indicate to increase Family Planning services and appropriate training, and use of community health workers in Ada - a district
Search for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in final state with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: p p: colliding beams
Higgs particle: coupling
vector boson: fusion
bottom: 2
p p: scattering
tau: decay modes
tau: hadronic decay
Higgs particle: pair production
Higgs particle: hadroproduction
Higgs particle: decay modes
bottom: pair production
tau: pair production
CERN LHC Coll
gluon gluon: fusion
CMS
channel cross section: upper limit
coupling constant: upper limit
statistical analysis
data analysis method
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: A search for the nonresonant production of Higgs boson pairs (HH) via gluon-gluon and vector boson fusion processes in final states with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons is presented. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ =13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. Events in which at least one tau lepton decays hadronically are considered and multiple machine learning techniques are used to identify and extract the signal. The data are found to be consistent, within uncertainties, with the standard model (SM) predictions. Upper limits on the HH production cross section are set to constrain the parameter space for anomalous Higgs boson couplings. The observed (expected) upper limit at 95% confidence level corresponds to 3.3 (5.2) times the SM prediction for the inclusive HH cross section and to 124 (154) times the SM prediction for the vector boson fusion \HH cross section. At 95% confidence level, the Higgs field self-coupling is constrained to be within -1.7 and 8.7 times the SM expectation, and the coupling of two Higgs bosons to two vector bosons is constrained to be within -0.4 and 2.6 times the SM expectation.
Electron spin resonance studies of molecular oxygen adduct formation by cobalt: (II) porphyrins and related systems
Creators: name: Ruzic., Ivan M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The large D black hole Membrane Paradigm at first subleading order
Creators: name: Dandekar, Yogesh
name: De, Anandita
name: Mazumdar, Subhajit
name: Minwalla, Shiraz
name: Saha, Arunabha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the large D limit, and under certain circumstances, it has recently been demonstrated that black hole dynamics in asymptotically flat spacetime reduces to the dynamics of a non gravitational membrane propagating in flat D dimensional spacetime. We demonstrate that this correspondence extends to all orders in a 1/D expansion and outline a systematic method for deriving the corrected membrane equation in a power series expansion in 1/D. As an illustration of our method we determine the first subleading corrections to the membrane equations of motion. A qualitatively new effect at this order is that the divergence of the membrane velocity is nonzero and proportional to the square of the shear tensor reminiscent of the entropy current of hydrodynamics. As a test, we use our modified membrane equations to compute the corrections to frequencies of light quasinormal modes about the Schwarzschild black hole and find a perfect match with earlier computations performed directly in the gravitational bulk.
description: Typesetting corrected, New appendix added to explain the method of computation
Convergence of a finite-volume scheme for a heat equation with a multiplicative Lipschitz noise
Creators: name: Bauzet, Caroline
name: Nabet, Flore
name: Schmitz, Kerstin
name: Zimmermann, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15, 35K05, 65M08

description: We study here the approximation by a finite-volume scheme of a heat equation forced by a Lipschitz continuous multiplicative noise in the sense of Itô. More precisely, we consider a discretization which is semi-implicit in time and a two-point flux approximation scheme (TPFA) in space. We adapt the method based on the theorem of Prokhorov to obtain a convergence in distribution result, then Skorokhod's representation theorem yields the convergence of the scheme towards a martingale solution and the Gyöngy-Krylov argument is used to prove convergence in probability of the scheme towards the unique variational solution of our parabolic problem.
Self-testing nonlocality without entanglement
Creators: name: Šupić, Ivan
name: Brunner, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum theory allows for nonlocality without entanglement. Notably, there exist bipartite quantum measurements consisting of only product eigenstates, yet they cannot be implemented via local quantum operations and classical communication. In the present work, we show that a measurement exhibiting nonlocality without entanglement can be certified in a device-independent manner. Specifically, we consider a simple quantum network and construct a self-testing procedure. This result also demonstrates that genuine network quantum nonlocality can be obtained using only non-entangled measurements. From a more general perspective, our work establishes a connection between the effect of nonlocality without entanglement and the area of Bell nonlocality.
description: 4+9 pages, comments welcome!
Dual MCDRR Scheduler for Hybrid TDM/WDM Optical Networks
Creators: name: Sathiyanarayanan, Mithileysh
name: Abubhakar, Babangida
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose and investigate the performance of a dual multi-channel deficit round-robin (D-MCDRR) scheduler based on the existing single MCDRR scheduler. The existing scheduler is used for multiple channels with tunable transmitters and fixed receivers in hybrid time division multiplexing (TDM)/wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks. The proposed dual scheduler will also be used in the same optical networks. We extend the existing MCDRR scheduling algorithm for n channels to the case of considering two schedulers for the same n channels. Simulation results show that the proposed dual MCDRR (D-MCDRR) scheduler can provide better throughput when compared to the existing single MCDRR scheduler.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, Networks & Soft Computing (ICNSC), 2014 First International Conference on. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1308.5092
Role of Strategic Flexibility Analysis in Organizational Adaptation to VUCA
Creators: name: Yawson, Robert
name: Osafo, Emmanuel
name: Yawson, Alexander M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The current business environment is characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). Organizations must adapt quickly to thrive. Strategic flexibility analysis (SFA) is a tool to improve adaptability. This conceptual article explores SFA's role in organizational adaptation and performance in VUCA environments. An integrated literature review examined research on SFA, adaptation, and VUCA. A conceptual framework illustrated SFA's impact on adaptation and performance. Analysis and discussion provided insights into SFA's role in VUCA adaptation. We conducted an integrative literature review, and the findings indicate SFA is valuable for improving adaptability and performance in VUCA environments. This study has implications for organizations and human resource development professionals seeking to understand SFA's importance for adaptation and performance improvement in turbulent conditions. Overall, SFA emerges as a critical tool for organizational agility and success in unpredictable business environments defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
Gaussian regression and power spectral density estimation with missing data: The MICROSCOPE space mission as a case study
Creators: name: Baghi, Quentin
name: Métris, Gilles
name: Bergé, Joël
name: Christophe, Bruno
name: Touboul, Pierre
name: Rodrigues, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Gaussian regression method for time series with missing data and stationary residuals of unknown power spectral density (PSD). The missing data are efficiently estimated by their conditional expectation as in universal Kriging, based on the circulant approximation of the complete data covariance. After initialization with an autoregessive fit of the noise, a few iterations of estimation/reconstruction steps are performed until convergence of the regression and PSD estimates, in a way similar to the expectation-conditional-maximization algorithm. The estimation can be performed for an arbitrary PSD provided that it is sufficiently smooth. The algorithm is developed in the framework of the MICROSCOPE space mission whose goal is to test the weak equivalence principle (WEP) with a precision of $10^{-15}$. We show by numerical simulations that the developed method allows us to meet three major requirements: to maintain the targeted precision of the WEP test in spite of the loss of data, to calculate a reliable estimate of this precision and of the noise level, and finally to provide consistent and faithful reconstructed data to the scientific community.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Ιατρικό Απόρρητο σε Ασθενείς με HIV
Creators: name: Μέλλιος, Πασχάλης Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ιατρικό Απόρρητο
Ασθενείς με HIV
Ιατρικό Απόρρητο και νομική τάξη
Medical Confidentiality
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) status
Medical confidentiality and legal order

description: Σκοπός της μεταπτυχιακής διατριβής ήταν η μελέτη του ιατρικού απορρήτου σε περιπτώσεις οροθετικότητας στον ιό της ανθρώπινης ανοσοποιητικής ανεπάρκειας (Human Immunodeficiency Virus – HIV) και νόσησης με σύνδρομο επίκτητης ανοσοποιητικής ανεπάρκειας (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome – AIDS). Η έννοια του ιατρικού απορρήτου στην ελληνική έννομη τάξη προσδιορίστηκε μέσα από τις συνταγματικές και νομοθετικές διατάξεις, ειδικότερα τον Κώδικα Ιατρικής Δεοντολογίας. Αναλύθηκαν οι περιπτώσεις αστικής, ποινικής και πειθαρχικής ευθύνης που προκύπτουν από την παραβίαση του ιατρικού απορρήτου, καθώς και οι λόγοι άρσης του αδίκου χαρακτήρα. Έγινε ενδελεχής αναφορά στη λοίμωξη με HIV, τους τρόπους μετάδοσης του ιού και την αντιμετώπιση των προβλημάτων υγείας των οροθετικών, με ιδιαίτερη αναφορά στην οδοντιατρική περίθαλψη. Τέλος, αναπτύχθηκε η νομική, η ιατρική και η ηθική διάσταση της παραβίασης του ιατρικού απορρήτου οροθετικών και ασθενών με AIDS και εξήχθησαν συμπεράσματα για τη σύγχρονη ιατρική πρακτική στο συγκεκριμένο θέμα.
description: The aim of the dissertation was to study medical confidentiality in cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) seropositive individuals and patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The concept of medical confidentiality in the Greek legal order was defined through the Constitution and legislative provisions, particularly the Code of Medical Conduct. Civil, criminal and disciplinary liability and reasons of abrogation of the unjust in cases of medical confidentiality breaching were analysed. HIV infection and transmission of the virus, medical and dental problems of seropositive individuals and patients with AIDS, were presented. Finally, the legal, medical and ethical consequences of confidentiality breaching in the aforementioned group of individuals and patients were discussed and conclusions about the contemporary medical practice in this field were drawn.
Assessment of Intrauterine Contraceptive Device Utilization and associated factors for Low Utilization among clients of Family Guidance Association Clinics in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Ali, Mohammed
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Although intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) method is the safest, very effective, long acting and reversible contraceptive method, it has been used at a very low rate in many developing countries compared to other modern contraceptive methods. Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the utilization of IUCD method and factors associated with utilization among women of reproductive age in Addis Ababa family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE) clinics. Methods: Facility based cross sectional study was conducted from March 1, 2016 to April 30, 2016, employing both quantitative and qualitative methods. Data for quantitative study was coded, entered and cleaned using Epi-info and transferred and analyzed by using SPSS version 21.0 for windows. Group comparison was assessed using Chi square analysis. Multivariate Logistic regression model was used to detect factors associate with IUCD utilization. All the tests were considered significant at p < 0.05. The qualitative data was analyzed using the qualitative thematic analysis approach. Results: A total of 108 respondents were currently using IUCD making the utilization rate 35.2%. The median duration of IUCD use was 33 months (Range: 1 - 120 months). Group comparison showed that marital status (p = 0.032), knowledge score (p = 0.010), and being told about IUCD duration (p = 0.044) had statistically significant association with current IUCD use. Thus, it was found that larger proportions of married women (66.9%), clients with good knowledge score (70.1%) and those who have been told about the duration of contraception of IUCD (67.3%) were not to using IUCD. Logistic regression analysis showed that clients with high knowledge score were about 1.8 times less likely to use IUCD (AOR 1.779: 95% CI = 1.087-2.913, p = 0.022). Qualitative study showed that rumors about IUCD from other users and clients' perception about IUCD such as its side effects, including bleeding and infection, as well its possible effect to cause infertility were important barriers affecting the level of use of IUCD in the study area. Conclusion and recommendation: The present study revealed that the proportion of IUCD use & duration of IUCD use was low in the study setup and clients with good knowledge level were less likely to use IUCD. The clients in this study population were much more influenced by the rumors and wrong perceptions about IUCD use, particularly towards side effects and other perceived untoward effect. Thus, Family guidance association of Ethiopia and other public and private health institutions should extend focused (method specific) education to their clients to remove misconceptions about IUCD use.
title: A case of suicide attempt with Zolpidem
title: will Zolpidem show up on standard urine toxicology screening?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Willner, N.
name: Schiff, E.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Zolpidem
subject: toxicology screening
subject: 610

description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
Perspectives for tests of neutrino mass generation at the GeV scale: Experimental reach versus theoretical predictions
Creators: name: Rasmussen, Rasmus W.
name: Winter, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the parameter space reach of future experiments searching for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the GeV scale in terms of neutrino mass models with three HNL generations. We focus on two classes of models: Generic assumptions (such as random mass matrices or the Casas-Ibarra parameterization) and flavor symmetry-generated models. We demonstrate that the generic approaches lead to comparable parameter space predictions, which tend to be at least partially within the reach of future experiments. On the other hand, specific flavor symmetry models yield more refined predictions, some of these can be more clearly excluded. We also highlight the importance to measure the flavor-dependent couplings of the HNLs as a model discriminator, and we clarify the impact of assumptions frequently used in the literature to show the parameter space reach for the active-sterile mixings.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, v2: references added, flavor symmetry section extended, conclusion unchanged, matches final version in PRD
Predicting frictional ageing from bulk relaxation measurements
Creators: name: Farain, Kasra
name: Bonn, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coefficient of static friction between solids generally depends on the time they have remained in static contact before the measurement. Such frictional aging is at the origin of the difference between static and dynamic friction coefficients, but has remained difficult to understand. It is usually attributed to a slow increase in the area of atomic contact as the interface changes under pressure. This is however very difficult to quantify as surfaces have roughness at all length scales, and friction is not always proportional to the contact area. Here, we show that plastic flow of surface irregularities within a polymer-on-glass frictional interface exhibits identical relaxation dynamics as that of the bulk, allowing to predict the rate of frictional aging.
Βυζαντινά εγκόλπια από ημιπολύτιμους λίθους και στεατίτη και οι γυάλινες απομιμήσεις τους (13ος-14ος αι.)
Creators: name: Κουκουλεκίδης, Παναγιώτης Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Εγκόλπιο
Ημιπολύτιμοι λίθοι και στεατίτης
Γυάλινες απομιμήσεις ή γυάλινα μετάλλια
Enkolpion, pendant
Semi-precious stones and steatite
Glass paste imitations (cameos) or glass medallions

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η μελέτη εγκολπίων από ημιπολύτιμους λίθους και στεατίτη και οι γυάλινες απομιμήσεις τους (13ος-14ος αι.). Εξετάσαμε το ζήτημα σε τρεις μεγάλες ενότητες. Πρώτον, μελετήθηκε το βυζαντινό εγκόλπιο και η αναφορά του στις βυζαντινές πηγές από τη μεταεικονομαχική περίοδο μέχρι τον 15ο αι. Έτσι, κατανοήσαμε τις διάφορες χρήσεις του αντικειμένου καθώς και την ανάμειξη του στον ιδιωτικό και τον δημόσιο βίο των ανθρώπων. Στην ίδια ενότητα έγινε αναφορά σε περιπτώσεις εγκολπίων που βρέθηκαν σε ανασκαφές και σε εγκόλπια που μέσω επιγραφών διατηρούν πληροφορίες για ιστορικά πρόσωπα. Με τη βοήθεια των καταλόγων και των εικόνων που συγκεντρώθηκαν και αποτελούν μέρος του παραρτήματος μελετήθηκαν τα εγκόλπια από ημιπολύτιμους λίθους και στεατίτη και τα γυάλινα μετάλλια σε δύο διαφορετικές ενότητες. Στην δεύτερη ενότητα συζητήθηκαν τα εγκόλπια από ημιπολύτιμους λίθους και στεατίτη του 13ου – 14ου αι. και έγιναν παρατηρήσεις και συσχετίσεις μεταξύ των αντικειμένων. Στην τρίτη ενότητα που σχετίζεται με τα γυάλινα μετάλλια, εκμαιεύθηκαν περισσότερες πληροφορίες, καθώς το ζήτημα βιβλιογραφικά έχει μελετηθεί εκτενεστέρα από τους μελετητές. Συζητήθηκε η εικονογραφία και η χρήση των μεταλλίων και αποπειραθήκαμε να απαντήσουμε στο ερώτημα του τόπου παραγωγής των αντικειμένων.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of enkolpia from semi-precious stones and steatite and their glass imitations (13th-14th c.). We studied the issue in three big unities. First of all, we studied the byzantine enkolpion and its reports in the byzantine sources from the post-iconoclastic period until the 15th c. Thus, we understood the different uses of the object and its involvement with the public and private life of people. In the same unity we referred to occasions of enkolpia which were found in excavations and to enkolpia which through epigraphs preserve information for historical persons. With the help of the catalogues and the images that were collected and are part of the appendix, the enkolpia from semi-precious stones and steatite and the glass paste medallions were studied in two different unities. In the second unity, the enkolpia from semi-precious stones and steatite from 13th-14th c. were discussed and observations and correlations were made between the objects. In the third unity that refers to the glass paste medallions, more information were erupted, because the matter bibliographically has been studied further from the scholars. The iconography and the use of the medallions was discussed and we tried to answer the question of the place of production of the objects.
Measurements of the Higgs boson production cross section and couplings in the W boson pair decay channel in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: p p: scattering
p p: colliding beams
Higgs particle: coupling
coupling: Yukawa
transverse momentum: missing-energy
gluon gluon: fusion
vector boson: fusion
Higgs particle: hadroproduction
vector boson: associated production
Higgs particle: decay modes
W: pair production
dilepton: final state
CMS
CERN LHC Coll
differential cross section: measured
cross section: ratio: measured
data analysis method
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: Production cross sections of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a pair of W bosons are measured in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The analysis targets Higgs bosons produced via gluon fusion, vector boson fusion, and in association with a W or Z boson. Candidate events are required to have at least two charged leptons and moderate missing transverse momentum, targeting events with at least one leptonically decaying W boson originating from the Higgs boson. Results are presented in the form of inclusive and differential cross sections in the simplified template cross section framework, as well as couplings of the Higgs boson to vector bosons and fermions. The data set collected by the CMS detector during 2016-2018 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. The signal strength modifier $\mu$, defined as the ratio of the observed production rate in a given decay channel to the standard model expectation, is measured to be $\mu$ = 0.95$^{+0.10}_{-0.09}$. All results are found to be compatible with the standard model within the uncertainties.
Theory of the Dynamical Thermal conductivity of Metals
Creators: name: Bhalla, Pankaj
name: Kumar, Pradeep
name: Das, Nabyendu
name: Singh, Navinder
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Mori's projection method, known as memory function method is an important theoretical formalism to study various transport coefficients. In the present work, we calculate the dynamical thermal conductivity in the case of metals using the memory function formalism. We introduce thermal memory functions for the first time and discuss the behavior of thermal conductivity in both zero frequency limit and in the case of non-zero frequencies. We compare our results for the zero frequency case with the results obtained by the Bloch-Boltzmann kinetic approach and find that both approaches agree with each other. Motivated by some recent experimental advancements, we obtain several new results for the ac or the dynamical thermal conductivity.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures and 2 tables
Raman spectra of cesium dihydrogen phosphate
Creators: name: Rumble., Stuart James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Chaos enhancement in large-spin chains
Creators: name: Lebel, Yael
name: Santos, Lea F.
name: Lev, Yevgeny Bar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the chaotic properties of a large-spin XXZ chain with onsite disorder and a small number of excitations above the fully polarized state. We show that while the classical limit, which is reached for large spins, is chaotic, enlarging the spin suppresses quantum chaos features. We attribute this suppression to the occurrence of large and slow clusters of onsite excitations, and propose a way to facilitate their fragmentation by introducing additional decay channels. We numerically verify that the introduction of such relaxation channels restores chaoticity for large spins, so that only three excitations are required to achieve strong level repulsion and ergodic eigenstates.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Der Stadtphysikus: Medizin & Romantik
Umschlagtitel: Ausstellungsführer
Umschlagtitel: Werkliste, Lesenberg-Zeichnungen, Vietzens-Portfolio
Creators: name: Knuth, Susanne
name: Knuth, Torsten
name: Kulturhistorisches Museum Rostock
Publisher: name: Kulturhistorisches Museum Rostock
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 740 Drawing & decorative arts
subject: 943 General history of Europe Central Europe Germany

description: Im Kulturhistorischen Museum Rostock wird eine außerordentliche Sammlung bewahrt: originale Handzeichnungen des Stadtphysikus Dr. med. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Lesenberg. In der Ausstellung werden 146 Originale präsentiert und in dieser Publikation alle bewahrten Handzeichnungen aufgelistet.
title: Dr. phil. und Dr. med. vet. h. c. Georg Wiegner
title: Professor für Agriculturchemie an der Eidg. Technischen Hochschule in Zürich
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Düggeli, Max
Publisher: name: Benteli
Year: 1936
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Wiegner, Georg
subject: Leipzig
subject: Zürich

description: Sonderabdruck aus: Schweizerische landwirtschaftliche Monatshefte, 1936, Nummer 5
Assessment of factors affecting women's intention to use long acting and permanent contraceptive methods among family planning clients of public health facilities in Ambo town, Oromia National Regional state, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Negewo, Dashe
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2010

description: Back ground - contraceptive prevalence in Ethiopia increased from 8.1% of women of reproductive age group in 2000 to 14.7% in 2005, but the prevalence of long acting and permanent contraceptive use has remained very low. There is a high unmet need for spacing and limiting, which implies a substantial number of unwanted pregnancies that could be avoided with the utilization of contraceptives especially long-acting and permanent methods. Intention to use a method of contraception is an important indicator of the potential demand for family planning services. Objective- The objective of this study was to assess the magnitude of intention and factors affecting women's intention to use long acting and permanent methods among family planning clients of public health facilities in Ambo town, West Shoa zone, Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia. Methods-The study design was facility based both cross-sectional quantitative and qualitative method. A total of 519 family planning clients were selected from the three public health facilities by using systematic random sampling. The sample size was assigned to each health facility proportionally to their daily client flow for the quantitative part, and 22-women were selected purposively for the qualitative study by taking into consideration different socio demographic factors. Data entry& data analysis was done by Epi Info version 6 soft ware package and SPSS version 11. Bi-variate and multivariate logistic regression was employed. Results- The prevalence of intention to use LAPMs among clients of other modern contraceptive methods users was about 291(56.1%). Women's knowledge on LAPMs, attitude on LAPMs and total number of alive children the women had were significantly associated with the intention to use LAPMs in the future at p<0.05. The knowledge of LAPMs in the study area was 296(57%). Among LAPMs, implant was known by 289(97.6%) and the least known was vasectomy 78(26.4%). Conclusion and recommendation: intention to use LAPMs depends on knowledge and attitude on LAPMs and total number of alive children the women had. There is a desire to use long acting and permanent contraceptive methods in the future in the area. Investment on LAPMs in the area, improving the attitude and knowledge on LAPMs are important factors for the improvement of uptake of long acting and permanent contraceptive methods.