cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the performance of phonetic algorithms in microtext normalization
Creators: name: Doval, Yerai
name: Vilares, Manuel
name: Vilares, Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: User-generated content published on microblogging social networks constitutes a priceless source of information. However, microtexts usually deviate from the standard lexical and grammatical rules of the language, thus making its processing by traditional intelligent systems very difficult. As an answer, microtext normalization consists in transforming those non-standard microtexts into standard well-written texts as a preprocessing step, allowing traditional approaches to continue with their usual processing. Given the importance of phonetic phenomena in non-standard text formation, an essential element of the knowledge base of a normalizer would be the phonetic rules that encode these phenomena, which can be found in the so-called phonetic algorithms.
 In this work we experiment with a wide range of phonetic algorithms for the English language. The aim of this study is to determine the best phonetic algorithms within the context of candidate generation for microtext normalization. In other words, we intend to find those algorithms that taking as input non-standard terms to be normalized allow us to obtain as output the smallest possible sets of normalization candidates which still contain the corresponding target standard words. As it will be stated, the choice of the phonetic algorithm will depend heavily on the capabilities of the candidate selection mechanism which we usually find at the end of a microtext normalization pipeline. The faster it can make the right choices among big enough sets of candidates, the more we can sacrifice on the precision of the phonetic algorithms in favour of coverage in order to increase the overall performance of the normalization system.
 KEYWORDS: microtext normalization; phonetic algorithm; fuzzy matching; Twitter; texting
description: Accepted for publication in journal Expert Systems with Applications
Gauge and Integrable Theories in Loop Spaces
Creators: name: Ferreira, L. A.
name: Luchini, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an integral formulation of the equations of motion of a large class of field theories which leads in a quite natural and direct way to the construction of conservation laws. The approach is based on generalized non-abelian Stokes theorems for p-form connections, and its appropriate mathematical language is that of loop spaces. The equations of motion are written as the equality of an hyper-volume ordered integral to an hyper-surface ordered integral on the border of that hyper-volume. The approach applies to integrable field theories in (1+1) dimensions, Chern-Simons theories in (2+1) dimensions, and non-abelian gauge theories in (2+1) and (3+1) dimensions. The results presented in this paper are relevant for the understanding of global properties of those theories.
description: 36 pages, 6 figures, references added
Past, present, and future geo-biosphere interactions on the Tibetan Plateau and implications for permafrost
Creators: name: Ehlers, Todd A.
name: Chen, Deliang
name: Appel, Erwin
name: Bolch, Tobias
name: Chen, Fahu
name: Diekmann, Bernhard
name: Dippold, Michaela A.
name: Giese, Markus
name: Guggenberger, Georg
name: Lai, Hui-Wen
name: Li, Xin
name: Liu, Junguo
name: Liu, Yongqin
name: Ma, Yaoming
name: Miehe, Georg
name: Mosbrugger, Volker
name: Mulch, Andreas
name: Piao, Shilong
name: Schwalb, Antje
name: Thompson, Lonnie G.
name: Su, Zhongbo
name: Sun, Hang
name: Yao, Tandong
name: Yang, Xiaoxin
name: Yang, Kun
name: Zhu, Liping
Publisher: name: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Degradation
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Global change
subject: Management
subject: Permafrost
subject: Tibetan Plateau
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::550 | Geowissenschaften

description: Interactions between the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere are most active in the critical zone, a region extending from the tops of trees to the top of unweathered bedrock. Changes in one or more of these spheres can result in a cascade of changes throughout the system in ways that are often poorly understood. Here we investigate how past and present climate change have impacted permafrost, hydrology, and ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau. We do this by compiling existing climate, hydrologic, cryosphere, biosphere, and geologic studies documenting change over decadal to glacial-interglacial timescales and longer. Our emphasis is on showing present-day trends in environmental change and how plateau ecosystems have largely flourished under warmer and wetter periods in the geologic past. We identify two future pathways that could lead to either a favorable greening or unfavorable degradation and desiccation of plateau ecosystems. Both paths are plausible given the available evidence. We contend that the key to which pathway future generations experience lies in what, if any, human intervention measures are implemented. We conclude with suggested management strategies that can be implemented to facilitate a future greening of the Tibetan Plateau.
COVID-19 FIRST LOCKDOWN AS A UNIQUE WINDOW INTO LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: WHAT YOU DO (WITH YOUR CHILD) MATTERS
Creators: name: Kartushina, Natalia
Publisher: name: Материалы Международного психологического форума «Ребенок в цифровом мире»
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVID-19 pandemic
passive screen exposure
vocabulary development

description: Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access to external sources (e.g., daycares) provided a unique opportunity to examine the associations between the caregiver-child activities and children’s language development. The vocabularies of 1742 children aged 8-36 months across 13 countries and 12 languages were 6 evaluated at the beginning and end of the first lockdown period in their respective countries (from March to September 2020). Shortly after lockdown began in early March 2020 across 13 countries, parents were asked to complete an online questionnaire containing questions on the child’s age, exposure to different languages, number of siblings and vocabulary development. Parents were then contacted again at the end of the lockdown (for that family or in that area, in general) and asked about the amount of time children spent during lockdown on different activities. Parents were also asked to complete a standardized vocabulary checklist indicating the number of words their child understood and/or said at the beginning, and again, at the end of lockdown. Thus, the number of words gained over lockdown could be calculated. Children who had less passive screen exposure and whose caregivers read more to them showed larger gains in vocabulary development during lockdown, after considering SES and other care-giver-child activities. Children also gained more words than expected (based on normative data) during lockdown, either caregivers were more aware of their child’s development, or vocabulary development benefited from intense caregiver-child interaction during lockdown, or both. We discuss these results in the context of the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reconstructing Strings from Substrings with Quantum Queries
Creators: name: Cleve, Richard
name: Iwama, Kazuo
name: Gall, François Le
name: Nishimura, Harumichi
name: Tani, Seiichiro
name: Teruyama, Junichi
name: Yamashita, Shigeru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the number of quantum queries made to solve the problem of reconstructing an unknown string from its substrings in a certain query model. More concretely, the goal of the problem is to identify an unknown string $S$ by making queries of the following form: "Is $s$ a substring of $S$?", where $s$ is a query string over the given alphabet. The number of queries required to identify the string $S$ is the query complexity of this problem. First we show a quantum algorithm that exactly identifies the string $S$ with at most $3/4N + o(N)$ queries, where $N$ is the length of $S$. This contrasts sharply with the classical query complexity $N$. Our algorithm uses Skiena and Sundaram's classical algorithm and the Grover search as subroutines. To make them effectively work, we develop another subroutine that finds a string appearing only once in $S$, which may have an independent interest. We also prove two lower bounds. The first one is a general lower bound of $Ω(\frac{N}{\log^2{N}})$, which means we cannot achieve a query complexity of $O(N^{1-ε})$ for any constant $ε$. The other one claims that if we cannot use queries of length roughly between $\log N$ and $3 \log N$, then we cannot achieve a query complexity of any sublinear function in $N$.
description: 13 pages
In vivo characterization of key iridoid biosynthesis pathway genes in catnip (Nepeta cataria)
Creators: name: Palmer, Lira
name: Chuang, Ling
name: Siegmund, Marlen
name: Kunert, Maritta
name: Yamamoto, Kotaro
name: Sonawane, Prashant
name: O’Connor, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biosynthesis
subject: Catnip
subject: Iridoid
subject: Metabolism
subject: Natural product
subject: Nepeta
subject: Nepetalactone
subject: Pathway
subject: Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS)
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::580 | Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Main conclusion: Using virus-induced gene silencing, we demonstrated that the enzymes GES, ISY, and MLPL are responsible for nepetalactone biosynthesis in Nepeta cataria. Abstract: Nepetalactone is the main iridoid that is found in the Nepeta genus and is well-known for its psychoactive effect on house cats. Moreover, there is a burgeoning interest into the effect of nepetalactone on insects. Although the enzymes for nepetalactone biosynthesis have been biochemically assayed in vitro, validation of the role that these enzymes have in planta has not been demonstrated. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a silencing method that relies on transient transformation and is an approach that has been particularly successful when applied to a variety of non-model plants. Here, we use a recently designed visual-marker dependent VIGS system to demonstrate that the nepetalactone biosynthetic enzymes GES, ISY, and MLPL impact nepetalactone biosynthesis in Nepeta cataria.
Petrographic studies of Northwestern Plains ceramics
Creators: name: Bower, Carolyn Jane
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1973
Subjects: subject: E 78 N8 B68 1973
subject: Indians of North America - Northwestern states
subject: Indians of North America - Pottery
subject: Indians of North America - Antiquities

description: Bibliography: p. 65-69.
description: The value of petrographic analysis as a tool for investigating ceramic ecology was outlined and its specific application to pottery from the Northwestern Plains was tested. Body sherds from surface collections and excavated sites in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana were examined petrographically. Eighty-three thin sections were analysed, using stratigraphically controlled material from the Morkin Site, DlPk 2, Alberta, as a base. It was determined that potters of the nomadic bison-hunting tribes adhered to a generalized ceramic technological tradition. The widespread use of alluvial clays and crushed granitic rock temper produced a soft porous pot adapted to cooking over an open fire. At the Morkin Site correlations existed between the surface finish of the pots and the raw materials used (specific types of clay and granitic temper).
Equilibria and kinetics of the tetraalkylsubstituted cyclohexenyl cations
Creators: name: Ananthanarayan, Kavasery Anantharaman
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: QD 341 K2 A53 1971
subject: Ketones
subject: Chemical reaction, rate of
subject: Chemical equilibrium
subject: Cations
subject: Cyclohexenyl cation

description: Bibliography: p. 62-64.
Lower Bounds for Non-Trivial Traveling Wave Solutions of Equations of KdV Type
Creators: name: Kenig, C. E.
name: Ponce, G.
name: Vega, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that if a solution of an equation of KdV type is bounded above by a traveling wave with an amplitude that decays faster than a given linear exponential then it must be zero. We assume no restrictions neither on the size nor in the direction of the speed of the traveling wave.
Studies on cyclopropylallyl cations and phenyl-substituted polyenylic cations
Creators: name: Kurupati, Rajeswari Ranganayakulu
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: QD 335 K85 1971
subject: Cyclopropane
subject: Cations
subject: Carbonium ions

description: Bibliography: p. 148-150, 193-194.
Symmetry Analysis of Multiferroic Co_3TeO_6
Creators: name: Harris, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A phenomenological explanation of the magnetoelectric behavior of Co_3TeO_6 is developed. We explain the second harmonic generation data and the magnetic field induced spontaneous polarization in the magnetically ordered phase below 20K.
description: Phys rev B Rapids, to appear
DEVELOPING CHILDREN’S LEARNING ABILITIES TO ENSURE ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL SUCCESS
Creators: name: Burns, Katie
Publisher: name: Материалы Международного психологического форума «Ребенок в цифровом мире»
Year: 2022
Subjects: learning abilities
success
children

description: Abstract: The breakthrough work of 12 distinguished developmental psychologists and educationalists, including both Galina Dolya and Professor Nikolai Veraksa, over 46 years of research into early childhood learning and development, highlights the importance of focusing on developing young children’s ‘general learning abilities’ in order to ensure their success with learning in the future. These general learning abilities are comprised of: • cognitive abilities • communicative abilities • self-regulation. This trio of abilities has been proven to provide the essential foundation for successful learning of all kinds, no matter the context or subject matter. Securing these abilities before the age of 5/6 means that children can enjoy the highest levels of academic, social and personal success throughout the rest of their lives. Key to Learning @Home (and Key to Learning for schools) is the result of that breakthrough work. It is an extraordinary and playful program of optimal learning experiences for children aged 3 to 6, that is proven to develop the aforementioned trio of learning abilities to exceptional levels. Children who have participated in this program are often formally recognized later as gifted and/or highly talented, and they also excel on a social and personal level. The Key to Learning @Home program can be used as a homeschooling curriculum or as a supplementary program at home to enrich your child’s education during preschool years. The activity sessions are divided into 12 different subject areas, requiring only 15-20 minutes a day to secure the results above for your child. The sessions are fun, hands-on, playand story-based and 100% developmentally appropriate. The child doesn’t even know that they are learning. You and your child play together, with you facilitating the learning process using our guidance plus your own knowledge and experience, modelling shared learning through having fun. These delightful experiences leave children begging for more!
The nature of dust in compact Galactic planetary nebulae from Spitzer spectra
Creators: name: Stanghellini, L.
name: Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.
name: Garcia-Lario, P.
name: Davies, J. E.
name: Shaw, R. A.
name: Villaver, E.
name: Manchado, A.
name: Perea-Calderon, J. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Spitzer/IRS spectra of 157 compact Galactic PNe. These young PNe provide insight on the effects of dust in early post-AGB evolution, before much of the dust is altered or destroyed by the hardening stellar radiation field. Most of the selected targets have PN-type IRS spectra, while a few turned out to be misclassified stars. We inspected the group properties of the PN spectra and classified them based on the different dust classes (featureless, carbon-rich dust; oxygen-rich dust; mixed-chemistry dust) and subclasses (aromatic and aliphatic; crystalline and amorphous). All PNe are characterized by dust continuum and more than 80% of the sample shows solid state features above the continuum, in contrast with the Magellanic Cloud sample where only ~40% of the entire sample displays solid state features; this is an indication of the strong link between dust properties and metallicity. The Galactic PNe that show solid state features are almost equally divided among the CRD, ORD, and MCD. We analyzed dust properties together with other PN properties and found that (i) there is an enhancement of MCD PNe toward the Galactic center; (ii) CRD PNe could be seen as defining an evolutionary sequence, contrary to the ORD and MCD PNe; (iii) C- and O-rich grains retain different equilibrium temperatures, as expected from models; (iv) ORD PNe are highly asymmetric and CRD PNe highly symmetric; point-symmetry is statistically more common in MCD. We find that the Galactic Disk sample does not include MCD PNe, and the other dust classes are differently populated from high to low metallicity environments. The MCPNe seem to attain higher dust temperatures at similar evolutionary stages, in agreement with the observational findings of smaller dust grains in low metallicity interstellar environments.
description: The Astrophysical Journal, in press (76 pages, 36 figures and 6 Tables)
Remote state preparation of spatial qubits
Creators: name: Solís-Prosser, M. A.
name: Neves, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum communication protocol of remote state preparation (RSP) for pure states of qubits encoded in single photons transmitted through a double slit, the so-called spatial qubits. Two measurement strategies that one can adopt to remotely prepare the states are discussed. The first strategy is the well-known spatial postselection, where a single-pixel detector measures the transverse position of the photon between the focal and the image plane of a lens. The second strategy, proposed by ourselves, is a generalized measurement divided into two steps: the implementation of a two-outcome positive operator-valued measurement (POVM) followed by the spatial postselection at the focal plane of the lens by a two-pixel detector in each output of the POVM. In both cases we analyze the effects of the finite spatial resolution of the detectors over three figures of merit of the protocol, namely, the probability of preparation, the fidelity and purity of the remotely prepared states. It is shown that our strategy improves these figures compared with spatial postselection, at the expense of increasing the classical communication cost as well as the required experimental resources. In addition, we present a modified version of our strategy for RSP of spatial qudits which is able to prepare arbitrary pure states, unlike spatial postselection alone. We expect that our study may also be extended for RSP of the angular spectrum of a single-photon field as an alternative for quantum teleportation which requires very inefficient nonlinear interactions.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures. Published version
“Formal and informal networkedness among German Academics”: exploring the role of conferences and co-publications in scientific performance
Creators: name: Kroll, Henning
name: Neuhäusler, Peter
Publisher: name: Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Academic
subject: Conferences
subject: Germany
subject: Networks
subject: Performance
subject: Publications
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::050 | Zeitschriften, fortlaufende Sammelwerke
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::370 | Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: This paper builds on the established finding that the performance of scholars depends on their interpersonal networks. Until now, these networks have largely been measured by analysing the credits and acknowledgements on their publications, especially their co-authorships. First, it seeks to clarify inconsistencies in existing findings by providing a comprehensive analysis of the effects of co-authorship among the overall population of actively publishing researchers from Germany. Second, it acknowledges that co-publication is only one very formal and explicit form of academic networking and develops a new indicator based on an academic’s inferred co-presence at conferences. Comparing the impact of these two different aspects of networkedness, we find that hierarchy and influence play a stronger role in determining a scientist’s performance in the context of informal networks than they do when considering formal co-publication networks.
DEVELOPING EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS OF COGNITIVE ABILITIES IN THE FORMATION OF THE INFORMATION CULTURE OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
Creators: name: Batenova, Yulia
Publisher: name: Материалы Международного психологического форума «Ребенок в цифровом мире»
Year: 2022
Subjects: Information culture
digital technologies
educational information
knowledge
volume
quantitative and qualitative predictors
preschool age

description: Abstract: Relevance. The increased pace of knowledge acquisition in the learning system determines the need to develop more effective educational practices compared to those traditionally established. Purpose: to establish quantitative and qualitative predictors of knowledge in the process of forming the information culture of preschoolers, which can be used as the basis for the activities of specialists in the field of preschool education to prepare educational information offered to preschoolers and ensure high results of their training. Methods: 1) theoretical analysis of research results presented in literary sources; 2) textual methods of knowledge extraction; 3) pedagogical experiment; 4) expert evaluation method; 5) mathematical and statistical processing of the results of pedagogical experiment. Selection. The psychological and pedagogical experiment involved 24 children (11 boys, 13 girls) of senior preschool age (6-7 years old) belonging to the main medical group. The experts were 3 preschool teachers with at least 20 years of work experience. The main results. The frequency of information presented to preschoolers contributed to an increase in the amount of knowledge they acquired. A decrease in the repitition of predicates in the text significantly reduced not only quantitative, but also qualitative indicators of the assimilation of the proposed educational material. An increase in the qualitative indicators of the knowledge acquired by preschoolers was expressed through the observance by preschoolers of a given sequence of sentences included in the proposed texts. The difference in the reproduction of the predicates perceived by preschoolers contained in the texts was 1.29 points, and the sequences were 1.83 points. Conclusion. Using the example of two texts during a psychological and pedagogical experiment, the possibility of applying the proposed solutions was demonstrated. This allowed us to conclude that it is advisable to use a universal method of constructing educational information in the process of establishing an information culture, particularly its cognitive component. In an empirical study, the cognitive abilities of children using psychodiagnostic methods were not studied, only the results of a pedagogical experiment were presented. However, this material, in our opinion, should form the basis of the activities of pre-school specialists in preparing educational information offered to preschoolers.
Kinetics of the cyclization and subsequent rearrangements of methyl-substituted pentadienyl cations in strong acid media
Creators: name: Bladek, Richard Zbygniow
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: QD 281 R35 B56 1971
subject: Rearrangements (Chemistry)
subject: Cations
subject: Chemical reaction, rate of
subject: Pentadienyl cation

description: Bibliography: p. 114-116.
Translating requirements specified in goals to UML diagrams
Creators: name: Sun, Fei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The concept of goal is an essential concept in requirements engineering (RE) field and has been widely adopted as an effective way to capture users’ requirements. Goal-oriented requirements engineering receives substantial attention. On the other hand, information system must completely represent users’ requirements in order to be considered as a success. Research has shown that one way to achieve this is to provide developers with system diagrams that fully capture business requirements. However, few guidelines have been proposed in RE field to precisely map users’ requirements (specified in goals) to systems analysis and design diagrams. To overcome this gap, we propose in this thesis a systematic and structured set of guidelines to translate users’ requirements specified in goals to UML diagrams, which are considered as a formal modeling language used by practitioners. As the goal concept has been well accepted in requirements engineering (RE) to model business requirements, our methodology suggests a goal template approach to capture users’ requirements in terms of goals. The goal templates approach and translation guidelines are illustrated using an auto dealership case study. The usefulness of the proposed translation guidelines is tested in a preliminary empirical study and the result is promising.
KINGFISH -- Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: A Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel: Survey Description and Image Atlas
Creators: name: Kennicutt, R. C.
name: Calzetti, D.
name: Aniano, G.
name: Appleton, P.
name: Armus, L.
name: Beirao, P.
name: Bolatto, A. D.
name: Brandl, B.
name: Crocker, A.
name: Croxall, K.
name: Dale, D. A.
name: Meyer, J. Dononvan
name: Draine, B. T.
name: Engelbracht, C. W.
name: Galametz, M.
name: Gordon, K. D.
name: Groves, B.
name: Hao, C. -N.
name: Helou, G.
name: Hinz, J.
name: Hunt, L. K.
name: Johnson, B.
name: Koda, J.
name: Krause, O.
name: Leroy, A. K.
name: Li, Y.
name: Meidt, S.
name: Montiel, E.
name: Murphy, E. J.
name: Rahman, N.
name: Rix, H. -W.
name: Roussel, H.
name: Sandstrom, K.
name: Sauvage, M.
name: Schinnerer, E.
name: Skibba, R.
name: Smith, J. -D. T.
name: Srinivasan, S.
name: Vigroux, L.
name: Walter, F.
name: Wilson, C. D.
name: Wolfire, M.
name: Zibetti, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The KINGFISH project (Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: a Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey of 61 nearby (d < 30 Mpc) galaxies, chosen to cover a wide range of galaxy properties and local interstellar medium (ISM) environments found in the nearby Universe. Its broad goals are to characterize the ISM of present-day galaxies, the heating and cooling of their gaseous and dust components, and to better understand the physical processes linking star formation and the ISM. KINGFISH is a direct descendant of the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS), which produced complete Spitzer imaging and spectroscopic mapping and a comprehensive set of multi-wavelength ancillary observations for the sample. The Herschel imaging consists of complete maps for the galaxies at 70, 100, 160, 250, 350, and 500 microns. The spectal line imaging of the principal atomic ISM cooling lines ([OI]63um, [OIII]88um, [NII]122,205um, and [CII]158um) covers the subregions in the centers and disks that already have been mapped in the mid-infrared with Spitzer. The KINGFISH and SINGS multi-wavelength datasets combined provide panchromatic mapping of the galaxies sufficient to resolve individual star-forming regions, and tracing the important heating and cooling channels of the ISM, across a wide range of local extragalactic ISM environments. This paper summarizes the scientific strategy for KINGFISH, the properties of the galaxy sample, the observing strategy, and data processing and products. It also presents a combined Spitzer and Herschel image atlas for the KINGFISH galaxies, covering the wavelength range 3.6 -- 500 microns. All imaging and spectroscopy data products will be released to the Herschel user generated product archives.
description: 52 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in PASP. A pdf copy of the image atlas can be downloaded separately at the KINGFISH public website, http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Kingfish_reduced.pdf
Combining sustainable livelihood and farm sustainability approaches to identify relevant intensification options: Implications for households with crop-based and gathering-based livelihoods in Tanzania
Creators: name: Ulukan, Defne
name: Bergkvist, Göran
name: Lana, Marcos
name: Fasse, Anja
name: Mager, Gregor
name: Öborn, Ingrid
name: Chopin, Pierre
Publisher: name: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: East-Africa
subject: Farm sustainability assessment
subject: Farming system design
subject: Livelihood analysis
subject: Poverty-trap
subject: Sustainable intensification
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::630 | Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin

description: In low-income countries, the livelihoods of smallholders are affected to different extent by multiple issues, such as food insecurity or low soil fertility, depending on their multiple assets and farming characteristics. In this study, we aim at assessing the current sustainability of households in Tanzania to suggest potential changes in farming system to increase the household́ sustainability. Household survey data from 891 households in two regions of Tanzania (dry Dodoma and humid Morogoro) were used to build composite sustainability indices representing the three pillars of sustainability (economic, environmental and social), based on 46 basic indicators. Then, a household typology was developed through principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering analysis of descriptive variables, and regression analysis linked the sustainability of farms with household characteristics. The analysis revealed significant differences in household types that relied on different livelihood strategies including particularly a “Gathering-based” type in Dodoma and two “Crop-based” types in both regions. These livelihoods significantly influenced the level of farming system sustainability. Particularly, the households in the “Gathering-based” type performed worst on all three pillars of sustainability. By examining the level of capitals from the different household types, we identified that the “Gathering-based” type and “Crop-based” types could improve their livelihood and be better off if they adopt various upgrading solutions. Such solutions include intercropping and optimised weeding to increase productivity and resource-use efficiency, for which these households have sufficient labour resources. Additionally, livestock rearing and use of fertilisers coupled with rainwater harvesting can increase soil fertility and water use efficiency, and hence food security, without compromising the environmental component of sustainability. To facilitate the adoption of these sustainable intensification options, agricultural policies and appropriate training need to be implemented to fit the local context and diversity of household types.
Urban connectivity in Montana
Creators: name: Borden, Beverley Jeanine
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: HT 167.5 M6 B65 1976 Microfiche
subject: Cities and towns - Montana

description: Bibliography: 120-124.
description: Two basic problems are dealt with in this study. Firstly, it shows the utility of Factor Analysis in defining the spatial structure of a matrix of connectivity. Secondly, it identifies the spatial structure of urban communication links and flows between a set of Montana towns and also between urban places in Montana and the rest of the United States and Canada. The results show that the interaction patterns between Montana towns form a highly organized spatial structure. Friedmann's (1967) propositions about functional regions are found to hold only in Eastern Montana where there are two hierarchical relationships based on Billings and Great Falls, the two largest urban places . In the west, Friedmann's ideas are not confirmed. Rather there is a complex set of interchanges based on Helena, Butte, and Missoula, three large specialized centers in the mountainous southwest. The urban places in Montana, then. are not shown to form a single urban system. Moreover the results of the Montana analysis provide little support for Webber's (1964) non-place urban realm concepts, although the analysis of out-of-state flows shows connections to be less spatially structured than those within Montana.
CP violating Tri-bimaximal-Cabibbo mixing
Creators: name: Ahluwalia, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In view of the new data from the Daya Bay and RENO collaborations, King has presented a very natural deformation of tri-bimaximal mixing. Here we show that L/E flatness of the e-like event ratio in the atmospheric neutrino data, when coupled with King's observation that the smallest neutrino mixing angle, θ_{13}, seems to be related to the largest quark mixing angle (the Cabibbo angle θ_C), leads to a CP violating tri-bimaximal-Cabibbo mixing. King's tri-bimaximal-Cabibbo mixing follows as a leading order approximation from our result.
description: 6 pages
ВЗАИМОСВЯЗЬ ПРИВЛЕКАТЕЛЬНОСТИ ТРУДА И ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНО ПРАВОМЕРНОЙ НАПРАВЛЕННОСТИ ЛИЧНОСТИ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ЖУРНАЛИСТОВ)
Creators: name: Зубова Л.В.
name: Щербинина О.А.
Publisher: name: Теоретическая и экспериментальная психология
Year: 2021
Subjects: профессионально правомерная направленность личности
правомерное поведение
привлекательность труда
субъект прав и обязанностей
professionally lawful orientation of a person
lawful behavior
attractiveness of labor
subject of rights and obligations

description: Представлены результаты пробного эмпирического исследования взаимосвязи структуры привлекательности труда со структурно-содержательными характеристиками профессионально правомерной направленности личности (ППНЛ) на примере журналистов (27 человек) в возрасте от 22 до 34 лет со стажем от 0,5 до 7 лет, совмещающих профессиональную деятельность с получением соответствующего образования. В исследовании использовались метод диагностики привлекательности труда (ПТР-1) В.М. Снеткова и опросник для диагностики профессионально правомерной направленности личности (Т.Г. Хащенко, М.М. Шпак). По результатам установлены отрицательные корреляции субъективной значимости потребностей и привлекательности труда с поведенческим компонентом ППНЛ.
description: The article presents the results of a trial empirical study of the relationship between the structure of labor attractiveness and the structural-content characteristics of a professionally legitimate personality orientation (PLPO) on the example of journalists (27 people) aged 22 to 34 years with experience from 0.5 to 7 years, combining professional activity with obtaining appropriate education. The study used the method of diagnosing the attractiveness of labor (PTR-1) V.M. Snetkov and a questionnaire for diagnosing a professionally legitimate personality orientation (T.G. Khashchenko, M.M. Shpak). According to the results, negative correlations were established between the subjective significance of needs and the attractiveness of work with the behavioral component of PLPO.
Tuning the Thermoelectric Performance of CaMnO3-Based Ceramics by Controlled Exsolution and Microstructuring
Creators: name: Kanas, Nikola
name: Williamson, Benjamin A. D.
name: Steinbach, Frank
name: Hinterding, Richard
name: Einarsrud, Mari-Ann
name: Selbach, Sverre M.
name: Feldhoff, Armin
name: Wiik, Kjell
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : ACS Publications
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: composite CaMnO 3-δ
subject: electrical conductivity
subject: heterostructuring
subject: oxide thermoelectrics
subject: thermal conductivity
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: The thermoelectric properties of CaMnO3-δ/CaMn2O4 composites were tuned via microstructuring and compositional adjustment. Single-phase rock-salt-structured CaO-MnO materials with Ca:Mn ratios larger than unity were produced in reducing atmosphere and subsequently densified by spark plasma sintering in vacuum. Annealing in air at 1340 °C between 1 and 24 h activated redox-driven exsolution and resulted in a variation in microstructure and CaMnO3-δ materials with 10 and 15 vol % CaMn2O4, respectively. The nature of the CaMnO3-δ/CaMn2O4 grain boundary was analyzed by transmission electron microscopy on short- and long-term annealed samples, and a sharp interface with no secondary phase formation was indicated in both cases. This was further complemented by density functional theory (DFT) calculations, which confirmed that the CaMnO3-δ indeed is a line compound. DFT calculations predict segregation of oxygen vacancies from the bulk of CaMnO3-δ to the interface between CaMnO3-δ and CaMn2O4, resulting in an enhanced electronic conductivity of the CaMnO3-δ phase. Samples with 15 vol % CaMn2O4 annealed for 24 h reached the highest electrical conductivity of 73 S·cm-1 at 900 °C. The lowest thermal conductivity was obtained for composites with 10 vol % CaMn2O4 annealed for 8 h, reaching 0.56 W·m-1K-1 at 700 °C. However, the highest thermoelectric figure-of-merit, zT, was obtained for samples with 15 vol % CaMn2O4 reaching 0.11 at temperatures between 800 and 900 °C, due to the enhanced power factor above 700 °C. This work represents an approach to boost the thermoelectric performance of CaMnO3-δ based composites.
A Factorial ecology of three cities: Edmonton, Regina and Winnipeg, 1962
Creators: name: Barrow, Graham T.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: HN 118 E3 B35 1972
subject: Edmonton (Alta.) - Social conditions
subject: Winnipeg (Man.) - Social conditions
subject: Regina (Sask.) - Social conditions
subject: Human ecology

description: Bibliography: p. 243-251.
DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN’S CRITICAL THINKING (BASED ON ONLINE COURSE “IN SEARCH OF WISDOM”)
Creators: name: Sydygalieva, Dinara
Publisher: name: Материалы Международного психологического форума «Ребенок в цифровом мире»
Year: 2022
Subjects: childhood philosophy
pedagogy
philosophy for children

description: Abstract: In modern conditions of ongoing digitalization of education, practical skills of critical thinking are more relevant than ever. Skills of searching and selection of information, analysis and synthesis are necessary part of children’s socialization and social integration. Aims: To describe the mechanism of development of critical thinking, based on philosophical instruments used in “In search of wisdom” (12–16-year-old children) in the Department of Philosophy, MSU; to teach working with concepts, making definitions, protecting ideas in discussion with other people, searching for weak and strong arguments, basing on principals of logic and debate context. The research is based on data that was collected during the online course in 2021-2022. The teacher becomes a moderator who, through the audience’s questions, manages the discussion and draws attention to positions and opinions that can have the most influence on debate’s quality and conclusion. The essential opinion exchange is made by students. Use of philosophical instruments during lessons not only corresponds to competence-based approach which focuses on using theory in practical tasks, but also applies pure practice so that it becomes a research experiment in itself. Such teamwork among students has a great innovative capability because of the absence of pressure from the teacher’s authority. Self-correction, which takes place during discussion with opinion exchange and cross impact, is an important skill that students develop. They learn to understand that errors are possible and how to find, analyze and correct them. Our research shows that using philosophical instruments has a positive influence on the development of critical thinking skills and contributes to fuller and deeper self-understanding and understanding of the world. Using an online platform allows everybody to be more active during debates.
Investigation of deformation behavior of PETG-FDM-printed metamaterials with pantographic substructures based on different slicing strategies
Creators: name: Özen, Arda
name: Ganzosch, Gregor
name: Barchiesi, Emilio
name: Auhl, Dietmar W.
name: Müller, Wolfgang H.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie
subject: polymeric metamaterial
subject: pantographic sheet
subject: 3D-printing
subject: fused-deposition-modeling
subject: experiments
subject: digital image correlation

description: Based on the progress and advances of additive manufacturing technologies, design and production of complex structures became cheaper and therefore rather possible in the recent past. A promising example of such complex structure is a so-called pantographic structure, which can be described as a metamaterial consisting of repeated substructure. In this substructure, two planes, which consist of two arrays of beams being orthogonally aligned to each other, are interconnected by cylinders/pivots. Different inner geometries were taken into account and additively manufactured by means of fused deposition modeling technique using polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) as filament material. To further understand the effect of different manufacturing parameters on the mechanical deformation behavior, three types of specimens have been investigated by means of displacement-controlled extension tests. Different slicing approaches were implemented to eliminate process-related problems. Small and large deformations are investigated separately. Furthermore, 2D digital image correlation was used to calculate strains on the outer surface of the metamaterial. Two finite-element simulations based on linear elastic isotropic model and linear elastic transverse isotropic model have been carried out for small deformations. Standardized extension tests have been performed on 3D-printed PETG according to ISO 527-2. Results obtained from finite-element method have been validated by experimental results of small deformations. These results are in good agreement with linear elastic transverse isotropic model (up to about εxx=1.2% of axial elongation), though the response of large deformations indicates a nonlinear inelastic material behavior. Nevertheless, all samples are able to withstand outer loading conditions after the first rupture, resulting in resilience against ultimate failure.
State-independent proof of Kochen-Specker theorem with 13 rays
Creators: name: Yu, Sixia
name: Oh, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum contextuality, as proved by Kochen and Specker, and also by Bell, should manifest itself in any state in any system with more than two distinguishable states and recently has been experimentally verified on various physical systems. However for the simplest system capable of exhibiting contextuality, a qutrit, the quantum contextuality is verified only state-dependently in experiment because too many (at least 31) observables are involved in all the known state-independent tests. Here we report an experimentally testable inequality involving only 13 observables that is satisfied by all non-contextual realistic models while being violated by all qutrit states. Thus our inequality will practically facilitate a state-independent test of the quantum contextuality for an indivisible quantum system. We provide also a record-breaking state-independent proof of the Kochen-Specker theorem with 13 directions determined by 26 points on the surface of a three by three magic cube.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Comparative factorial ecology of large Albertan cities, 1961-1971
Creators: name: Healy, Mary Darina
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: QH 541.5 C6 H42 1976 Microfiche
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cities and towns

description: Bibliography: p. 184-188.
A multivariate analysis of the United States metropolitan system
Creators: name: Tapper, Stephen Nicholas
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: HT 123 T35 1979 Fiche
subject: Cities and towns - United States
subject: Cities and towns - United States - Growth
subject: City and town life - United States
subject: Urban economics

description: Bibliography: p. 207-220.
Equivalence transformations and conservation laws for a generalized variable-coefficient Gardner equation
Creators: name: de la Rosa, Rafael
name: Gandarias, María Luz
name: Bruzón, María de los Santos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study the generalized variable-coefficient Gardner equations of the form $u_t + A(t)u^n\,u_x+ C(t)\,u^{2n}u_x + B(t)\,u_{xxx} + Q(t)\,u =0$. This class broadens out many other equations previously considered: Johnpillai and Khalique (2010), Molati and Ramollo (2012) and Vaneeva, Kuriksha and Sophocleous (2015). Equivalence group of the class under consideration has been constructed which permit an exhaustive study and a simple and clear formulation of the results. Some conservation laws are derived for the nonlinearly self-adjoint equations, based on differential substitutions, and by using the direct method of the multipliers.
description: 16 pages