cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Exploring the role of servicescape in value creation in a digital and post-COVID-society
Creators: name: Kennedy, Dimitri
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2024

description: Changes in consumer lifestyle, service delivery, and the rapid digitalisation of services (exacerbated by the pandemic) have increased the call for a re-examination of the role and use of servicescapes in consumers’ daily lives. The existing value-creation discourses, specifically service logic narratives, are predominantly conceptual, with little empirical evidence on how consumers co-create value-in-use during their servicescape interactions. Furthermore, how digital technology interactions influence the creation of value-in-use is underexplored in the existing service logic value-creation literature. This thesis explores consumers’ creation of value-in-use through their holistic service encounters, focusing on their servicescape interactions within a digital and post-COVID context, empirically exploring the United Kingdom’s food, financial, and personal care sectors.

This study adopts a qualitative design, combining participant-driven photo-elicitation with semi-structured interviews to understand consumers’ creation of value-in-use. The perceptions of 29 consumers from across the three sectors are analysed using reflexive thematic analysis to understand consumers’ value creation in the digitalised and post-COVID context of the service industry in the United Kingdom.

The findings extend conceptual linkages between servicescape and value-creation narratives in the extant literature to show exactly how consumers create value-in-use (emotionally, socially, existentially, functionally, and possessively) via their servicescape interactions. The findings also show how the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the under-researched use of digital technology within service logic narratives influence consumers’ creation of value-in-use before, during, and after their servicescape interactions. The study theoretically contributes to both value-creation and servicescape discourses, arguing that consumers’ creation of value-in-use from their servicescape interactions is much broader and integrated than previously contended due to the interactive affordances of digital technology. Based on the empirical observation that consumers create value-in-use possessively, it builds a theoretical contribution for consumers’ ownership of intangible services, drawing on the organisational theory of psychological ownership. It empirically shows how beyond the servicescape framework’s dominant behavioural positioning (e.g., length of stay and revisit intentions) it functions as a value-creation tool (e.g., restoration and socialisation) within the daily lives of consumers. Managerially, it informs marketing practice on maintaining a relevant physical presence within an increasingly digital service environment.
Kondo Quantum Criticality of Magnetic Adatoms in Graphene
Creators: name: Uchoa, Bruno
name: Rappoport, T. G.
name: Neto, A. H. Castro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the exchange Hamiltonian for magnetic adatoms in graphene with localized inner shell states. On symmetry grounds, we predict the existence of a class of orbitals that lead to a distinct class of quantum critical points in graphene, where the Kondo temperature scales as $T_{K}\propto|J-J_{c}|^{1/3}$ near the critical coupling $J_{c}$, and the local spin is effectively screened by a \emph{super-ohmic} bath. For this class, the RKKY interaction decays spatially with a fast power law $\sim1/R^{7}$. Away from half filling, we show that the exchange coupling in graphene can be controlled across the quantum critical region by gating. We propose that the vicinity of the Kondo quantum critical point can be directly accessed with scanning tunneling probes and gating.
description: 4.1 pages, 3 figures. Added erratum correcting exponent nu=1/3. All the other results remain valid
Relationship Between Ancient Settlements and Earthquakes
Creators: name: Tokmak, Musa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: From ancient to modern times, earthquakes influenced the human beings. The active faults produced attractive topography to settle. People preffered the vicinity of the fault line as settlement location and they were not aware of the earthquake potential hazards for their location. Therefore, because of the advantage of the location they did not consider to change the place as indicated by rebuilding their settlement repeatedly at the same place after it is damaged. West Anatolia (in todays Turkey's west part) includes too many Roman and Greek period ancient cities that located near the active faults. They damaged many times and rebuit again. This book is a good reference for the archeologies who works in an excavation field related to settlements and earthquakes.
Additional file 1 of Echocardiographic assessment of diastolic dysfunction in elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis before and after aortic valve replacement
Creators: name: Caglayan, Hatice Akay
name: Kjønås, Didrik
name: Malm, Siri
name: Schirmer, Henrik
name: Rösner, Assami
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. ROC curve analysis of echocardiographic parameters to predict NT-proBNP ≥500 ng/L in patients with severe aortic stenosis. Table S2. Cut-off values, sensitivity and specificity for detection of elevated NT-proBNP.
Criteri di gestione della ridondanza e controllo in forza per un'interfaccia aptica ridondante
Creators: name: GINAMMI, Andrea
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2012

description: This thesis talk about a redundant haptic interface with 3 degree of freedom and it propose an approach to solve the inverse kinematic and it's proposed a force control algorithm to control the interaction between haptic interface and virtual environments. The vertical translation is the redundant degree of freedom.
This device is composed of two main mechanism: an upper parallel structure and one bottom rod-crank mechanism; the last one is used to increase the vertical translation of the end-effector.
The first objective of this work is to propose some different approaches to solve the inverse kinematic of a redundant device; in this case are used some methodologies based on position space, velocity space and acceleration space. All those approaches are based on the null space of Jacobian matrix. The best method to menage the internal motions of device defines the configurations of the mechanisms in according of the frequency of end-effector?s acceleration.
The control system is composed by an impedance control, an internal motion control and a noise observer. The impedence control generates a reference force in according of the desired virtual environment to simulate. The internal motion control generates an acceleration to project on null space of jacobian matrix. A null space velocity controller has been proposed using the pseudoinverse proposed weighed by the mass matrix. The noise observer generates a force in according of the frictions dissipations.
Move Analysis of the ‘Discussion Section’ of English Specialization Ph.D. Theses
Creators: name: Hlaing, Ni Ni
Publisher: name: Ph.D. Program in English Language Teaching (ELT), Faculty of  Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: move analysis
discussion section
English specialization
Ph.D. theses

description: BRU ELT JOURNAL, 1, 1, 12-28
A Qualitative Case Study of EFL Student Teachers' Teaching Practice during Practicum
Creators: name: Morshed Salim Al-Jaro
Publisher: name: Ph.D. Program in English Language Teaching (ELT), Faculty of  Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: pedagogical practices
practicum
reflection
supervision

description: BRU ELT JOURNAL, 1, 1, 29-42
La commistione tra sesso biologico e identità di genere: un errore metodologico
Creators: name: Maglia, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: sesso biologico
identità di genere
epistemologia
filosofia della scienza
filosofia del linguaggio
biologia e filosofia
politiche pubbliche
linguaggio giuridico
gender
gender theory
transgender
transessualità
inclusione
inclusività
educazione
libertà di espressione
scienza e genere
salute mentale

description: La presente tesi indaga la diffusa commistione tra sesso biologico e identità di genere nel discorso contemporaneo, sostenendo che tale fusione rappresenti un errore metodologico e una speculazione priva di solide basi empiriche. Attraverso un’analisi epistemologica, si distinguono i due concetti: il sesso come dato fisico, oggetto delle scienze naturali, e l’identità come percezione soggettiva, ambito delle scienze sociali. Si esplorano le origini di questa sovrapposizione – mediatiche, legislative, accademiche ed educative – e si esaminano le evidenze scientifiche, rilevando come correlazioni preliminari (es. studi cerebrali, gemellari, ormonali) siano spesso amplificate oltre i loro limiti. Le implicazioni pratiche della commistione risultano significative: in medicina, compromette diagnosi e cure; in politica, indebolisce tutele specifiche; in diritto, minaccia la libertà di espressione; nell’educazione, confonde i giovani. Al contrario, la separazione dei due ambiti offre vantaggi tangibili: precisione sanitaria, politiche mirate, chiarezza educativa e tutela del discorso pubblico. Basata su un approccio interdisciplinare e dati aggiornati, questa ricerca si propone di dimostrare che mantenere distinti sesso biologico e identità di genere non solo preserva il rigore scientifico, ma promuove una comprensione più autentica della complessità umana, con ricadute concrete su salute, giustizia e società.
Exchange rate and equity prices relationship: an empirical evidence from Pakistani financial markets
Creators: name: KHALID, MUSTAFA
name: NISHAT, MOHAMMED
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2008

description: The relationship between stock prices and exchange rate in Pakistan has been examined by using monthly data from July 1981 to June 2004. The cointegration and error-correction model and Granger trivariate causality techniques are used to test the causal relationship between exchange rate and stock prices. The empirical results indicate the uni-directional causal relationship between stock prices and exchange rate. The results indicate that the stock price has negative significant short run causal effect on exchange rate in Pakistan. However, during short run the exchange rate has a bi-directional causal effect on stock prices. No significance relationship is found between stock prices and gold. It suggests that the stock market in Pakistan is inefficient with respect to gold prices. However, money supply and interest rate do affect stock prices, suggesting that monetary policy could be used more effectively to check the movement in stock prices in Pakistan.
Review of AdS/CFT Integrability, Chapter V.3: Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling
Creators: name: Alday, Luis F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T60, 81T30, 49Q05

description: We review the computation of scattering amplitudes of planar maximally super-symmetric Yang-Mills at strong coupling. By using the AdS/CFT duality the problem boils down to the computation of the area of certain minimal surfaces on AdS. The integrability of the model can then be efficiently used in order to give an answer for the problem in terms of a set of integral equations.
description: 20 pages, see also overview article arXiv:1012.3982, v2: references to other chapters updated, v3:published version
Pension Fund Management in a Stochastic Optimization Framework
Creators: name: VITALI, Sebastiano
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2015

description: The pension system has become more and more complex and structured all over Europe in the last decades. Because of the financial and social crisis, several countries implemented strong reforms in the state welfare in order to reduce the pension costs on the state budget balance. Furthermore, they allowed and encouraged the establishment of private pension facilities. We have to consider the three pillars. The first one concerns the state pension system. The second concerns the relationship between the employer and the employee. The third pillar consists in individual investment plans typically issued by insurance companies. This thesis analyzes a pension fund from the point of view of the three main actors involved: the pension plan provider, who decides the tactical allocation of the pension funds, the fund manager who takes care of the strategic investment problem, and the individual investor who faces the problem to allocate his/her savings in a retirement perspective. All these problems involve the analysis of a long-term choice and require to take into consideration some elements of uncertainty. Therefore, it is natural to face them using the instruments provided by Stochastic Programming.
After a thorough review of the literature and a particular focus on the liability side of a pension fund, this thesis addresses the problem of a private pension plan sponsor who has to define the best pension funds for its members. This study is the first to face this problem from a quantitative point of view and proposes an innovative double step approach consisting of a cluster analysis of the pension fund population and of a portfolio optimization multistage stochastic program.
The most important contribution relies on the introduction of the stochastic dominance in a real-life problem of an individual investor in a retirement perspective. Moreover, the proposed model considers a withdraw event allowed by the Italian pension system. The objective of the model is to minimize the Average Value at Risk Deviation measure (AV@RD) and to satisfy wealth goals. Three different wealth target formulations are considered. The first is a deterministic wealth target, i.e. a comparison between the accumulated average wealth and a fixed threshold. The second and the third are two stochastic dominance relations, first-order and second-order, which need to introduce a benchmark portfolio and then require the optimal portfolio to satisfy the stochastic dominance constraints with respect to the benchmark wealth.
Nonlinear softening as a predictive precursor to climate tipping
Creators: name: Sieber, Jan
name: Thompson, J. Michael T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Approaching a dangerous bifurcation, from which a dynamical system such as the Earth's climate will jump (tip) to a different state, the current stable state lies within a shrinking basin of attraction. Persistence of the state becomes increasingly precarious in the presence of noisy disturbances. We consider an underlying potential, as defined theoretically for a saddle-node fold and (via averaging) for a Hopf bifurcation. Close to a stable state, this potential has a parabolic form; but approaching a jump it becomes increasingly dominated by softening nonlinearities. If we have already detected a decrease in the linear decay rate, nonlinear information allows us to estimate the propensity for early tipping due to noise. We argue that one needs to extract information about the nonlinear features (a "softening") of the underlying potential from the time series to judge the probability and timing of tipping. This analysis is the logical next step if one has detected a decrease of the linear decay rate. If there is no discernable trend in the linear analysis, nonlinear softening is even more important in showing the proximity to tipping. After extensive normal form calibration studies, we check two geological time series from paleo-climate tipping events for softening of the underlying well. For the ending of the last ice age, where we find no convincing linear precursor, we identify a statistically significant nonlinear softening towards increasing temperature. The analysis has thus successfully detected a warning of the imminent tipping event.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures, changed title back, corrected smaller mistakes, updated references
An Analysis of Website Design and Localization in Saudi Arabia: The Case of Apple and Huawei
Creators: name: Alharbi, Anwar Salah
Publisher: name: Ph.D. Program in English Language Teaching (ELT), Faculty of  Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: localization
Apple
Huawei
translation
internationalization
globalization

description: BRU ELT JOURNAL, 1, 1, 43-61
Positive Politeness Strategies in the 2020 US Candidate Presidential Debate: Factors Influencing Their Use
Creators: name: Candik Ayunikmah
Publisher: name: Ph.D. Program in English Language Teaching (ELT), Faculty of  Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: politeness
strategies
factors influence
presidential debate

description: BRU ELT JOURNAL, 1, 1, 62-76
The law of one price in quadratic hedging and mean-variance portfolio selection
Creators: name: Černý, Aleš
name: Czichowsky, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The law of one price (LOP) broadly asserts that identical financial flows should command the same price. We show that, when properly formulated, LOP is the minimal condition for a well-defined mean-variance portfolio selection framework without degeneracy. Crucially, the paper identifies a new mechanism through which LOP can fail in a continuous-time $L^2$ setting without frictions, namely 'trading from just before a predictable stopping time', which surprisingly identifies LOP violations even for continuous price processes.
 Closing this loophole allows to give a version of the "Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing" appropriate in the quadratic context, establishing the equivalence of the economic concept of LOP with the probabilistic property of the existence of a local $\scr{E}$-martingale state price density. The latter provides unique prices for all square-integrable claims in an extended market and subsequently plays an important role in quadratic hedging and mean-variance portfolio selection.
 Mathematically, we formulate a novel variant of the uniform boundedness principle for conditionally linear functionals on the $L^0$ module of conditionally square-integrable random variables. We then study the representation of time-consistent families of such functionals in terms of stochastic exponentials of a fixed local martingale.
description: 34 pages
Additional file 4 of Marchantia polymorpha L. ethanol extract induces apoptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma cells via intrinsic- and endoplasmic reticulum stress-associated pathways
Creators: name: Zhou, Fangfang
name: Aipire, Adila
name: Xia, Lijie
name: Halike, Xierenguli
name: Yuan, Pengfei
name: Sulayman, Mamtimin
name: Wang, Weilan
name: Li, Jinyao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. Main active ingredients identified under negative ESI mode (ESI-)by Liquid Chromatography Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-Q-TOF–MS) and their Contents in the MPEE
Cogeneration of cooling energy and fresh water
Creators: name: PICINARDI, Alberto
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2011

description: A design simulation of the cogeneration system allowed to chose the best HD unit configuration, while a TRNSYS off-design simulation revealed the main design variables on which to focus the optimization. The optimization study on the design variables was performed by GenOpt, a generic optimization program which minimizes an objective function with respect to multiple variables. This study has been carried out on different objective functions and reveals that maximizing the production of cooling energy means damaging the fresh water production. A compromise solution has been chosen to balance the contrast between cooling energy and fresh water production.
Designing a Contextual Learning Plan to Improve Adolescent Literacy Skills
Creators: name: Pragasit Sitthitikul
Publisher: name: Ph.D. Program in English Language Teaching (ELT), Faculty of  Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: adolescent literacy
instructional design
literacy skills and practices
reading and writing skills

description: BRU ELT JOURNAL, 1, 1, 77-82
Analysis of cubic permutation polynomials for turbo codes
Creators: name: Trifina, Lucian
name: Tarniceriu, Daniela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quadratic permutation polynomials (QPPs) have been widely studied and used as interleavers in turbo codes. However, less attention has been given to cubic permutation polynomials (CPPs). This paper proves a theorem which states sufficient and necessary conditions for a cubic permutation polynomial to be a null permutation polynomial. The result is used to reduce the search complexity of CPP interleavers for short lengths (multiples of 8, between 40 and 352), by improving the distance spectrum over the set of polynomials with the largest spreading factor. The comparison with QPP interleavers is made in terms of search complexity and upper bounds of the bit error rate (BER) and frame error rate (FER) for AWGN and for independent fading Rayleigh channels. Cubic permutation polynomials leading to better performance than quadratic permutation polynomials are found for some lengths.
description: accepted for publication to Wireless Personal Communications (19 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables). The final publication is available at springerlink.com
Legge, pulsionalit�, scrittura. L'immaginario carcerario nella letteratura francese contemporanea
Creators: name: AGLIARDI, Nicola
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2012

description: The doctor's degree investigates the different representations of the prison imaginary in the French twentieth century, examining closely the three declinations assumed by the penitentiary during the century: law, pulsionality and writing. Beginning from Michel Foucault's famous essay Surveiller et punir, the study shows how in the works of many French authors such as, for example, Genet, C�line, Fr�gni, Malet and Aubry, the notion of ?heterotopia? is deeply connected to the images of prison as ?law space?, ?pulsionality space? and ?writing space?. The work avails itself of a multidisciplinary approach which analyzes the space of the twentieth century prison through a methodological formulation based on different notes (literary criticism, social sciences, history, visual and juridical studies), beginning from the assumption that any subject, literature included, can be understood and completely investigated only by connecting the different branches of knowledge and only by demolishing the barriers which separate the disciplines. Moreover, even if it's a specialistic work in French studies, the degree sometimes avails itself of a comparatistic approach, because of its thematic formulation. That's the reason why the study treats both French authors and writers coming from other countries and cultures, such as, for example, Pellico, Wilde and Kafka.
Understanding Political Debates from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis
Creators: name: GU Guodong
Publisher: name: Ph.D. Program in English Language Teaching (ELT), Faculty of  Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: BRI
CDA
appraisal theory
appraisal resources
political discourse
cooperation

description: BRU ELT JOURNAL, 1, 1, 83-98
Note on a new fundamental length scale $l$ instead of the Newtonian constant $G$
Creators: name: Shao, Lijing
name: Ma, Bo-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The newly proposed entropic gravity suggests gravity as an emergent force rather than a fundamental one. In this approach, the Newtonian constant $G$ does not play a fundamental role any more, and a new fundamental constant is required to replace its position. This request also arises from some philosophical considerations to contemplate the physical foundations for the unification of theories. We here consider the suggestion to derive $G$ from more fundamental quantities in the presence of a new fundamental length scale $l$, which is suspected to originate from the structure of quantum space-time, and can be measured directly from Lorentz-violating observations. Our results are relevant to the fundamental understanding of physics, and more practically, of natural units, as well as explanations of experimental constraints in searching for Lorentz violation.
description: 10 latex pages, final version for journal publication
Additional file 5 of Marchantia polymorpha L. ethanol extract induces apoptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma cells via intrinsic- and endoplasmic reticulum stress-associated pathways
Creators: name: Zhou, Fangfang
name: Aipire, Adila
name: Xia, Lijie
name: Halike, Xierenguli
name: Yuan, Pengfei
name: Sulayman, Mamtimin
name: Wang, Weilan
name: Li, Jinyao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5: Table S2. Main active ingredients identified under positive ESI mode (ESI +)by Liquid Chromatography Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-Q-TOF–MS) and their Contents in the MPEE.
English Teacher Recruiting Assumptions in Thai Secondary Education: Is the Extralocal Teacher of English Designation the Answer?
Creators: name: Perrodin, David D.
Publisher: name: Ph.D. Program in English Language Teaching (ELT), Faculty of  Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: extralocal teacher of English
NES
NNES
Thai secondary education

description: BRU ELT JOURNAL, 1, 1, 99-112
Quantum computational capability of a 2D valence bond solid phase
Creators: name: Miyake, Akimasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum phases of naturally-occurring systems exhibit distinctive collective phenomena as manifestation of their many-body correlations, in contrast to our persistent technological challenge to engineer at will such strong correlations artificially. Here we show theoretically that quantum correlations exhibited in the two-dimensional valence bond solid phase of a quantum antiferromagnet, modeled by Affleck, Kennedy, Lieb, and Tasaki as a precursor of spin liquids and topological orders, are sufficiently complex yet structured enough to simulate universal quantum computation when every single spin can be measured individually. This unveils that an intrinsic complexity of naturally-occurring 2D quantum systems -- which has been a long-standing challenge for traditional computers -- could be tamed as a computationally valuable resource, even if we are limited not to create newly entanglement during computation. Our constructive protocol leverages a novel way to herald the correlations suitable for deterministic quantum computation through a random sampling, and may be extensible to other ground states of various 2D valence bond phases beyond the AKLT state.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures; final published version, submitted to the journal on 23 Sep 2010. The article does not assume familiarity with quantum computation
Additional file 1 of Early life and adult stress promote sex dependent changes in hypothalamic miRNAs and environmental enrichment prevents stress-induced miRNA and gene expression changes in rats
Creators: name: McKibben, Lauren Allen
name: Dwivedi, Yogesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Information Content in the Angular Power Spectrum of Weak Lensing: Wavelet Method
Creators: name: Yu, Hao-Ran
name: Harnois-Déraps, Joachim
name: Zhang, Tong-Jie
name: Pen, Ue-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We quantify the performance of a non-linear Wiener filter, constructed in wavelet space, at recovering some of the Fisher information that was lost in the weak lensing convergence field. The proposed method consists in a separation of the original field into the sum of a Gaussian and a non-Gaussian contribution. After filtering an ensemble of such fields, which are obtained from $N$-body simulations, we find that we can recapture about four times more Fisher information, an effect that can potentially improve by a significant amount the constraining power of weak lensing surveys on cosmological parameters, including the dark energy equation of state $ω$. We compare this performance with that of the logarithmic mapping and find that the wavelet method can recover up to three times more information.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures. Accepted by MNRAS
Valutazione: nuovi poteri e nuove responsabilit� per il dirigente pubblico
Creators: name: DI BIASE, Incoronata Marika
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2013

description: Public sector performance management does not only represent a professional performance measurement system but, actually, aims at integrating the information gathered on performance with personnel evaluation, for what concerns financial functions - such as balance sheets and revisions - and strategic programs. This research aims at discussing, in an explorative manner, some of the implications which the carrying out of the public governance model have on emerging managerial competences and on the organizational needs and public management evaluation areas. In particular, this paper shows how the carrying out of the so called public governance entails a change of the competence and public management evaluation systems and dictates organizational innovations capable of favouring a full administration of the whole accountability cycle.
Modified Gravity and Cosmology
Creators: name: Clifton, Timothy
name: Ferreira, Pedro G.
name: Padilla, Antonio
name: Skordis, Constantinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this review we present a thoroughly comprehensive survey of recent work on modified theories of gravity and their cosmological consequences. Amongst other things, we cover General Relativity, Scalar-Tensor, Einstein-Aether, and Bimetric theories, as well as TeVeS, f(R), general higher-order theories, Horava-Lifschitz gravity, Galileons, Ghost Condensates, and models of extra dimensions including Kaluza-Klein, Randall-Sundrum, DGP, and higher co-dimension braneworlds. We also review attempts to construct a Parameterised Post-Friedmannian formalism, that can be used to constrain deviations from General Relativity in cosmology, and that is suitable for comparison with data on the largest scales. These subjects have been intensively studied over the past decade, largely motivated by rapid progress in the field of observational cosmology that now allows, for the first time, precision tests of fundamental physics on the scale of the observable Universe. The purpose of this review is to provide a reference tool for researchers and students in cosmology and gravitational physics, as well as a self-contained, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the subject as a whole.
description: 312 pages, 15 figures
Georgii Vallae placentini in Iuvenalis Satyras Commentarii
Creators: name: LO CONTE, Francesco
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2013

description: The present thesis intends to be the first critical edition of the commentary on the Satires of Juvenal published by Giorgio Valla (1447-1500) in Venice in 1486. The significance of this commentary that holds many meaningful traces of the corpus of scholia vetustiora on Juvenal under the name of an otherwise unknown Probus, has been recognized by scholars in the last century. The thesis is divided in four sections: introduction, note on text, commentary with apparatus, indexes. The introduction exposes an outline on the juvenalian studies and lectures in the second half of XVth century undertaken by scholars such as Angelo Sabino, Domizio Calderini and Giorgio Merula, focusing on the more significant contributions of the Giorgio Valla's commentary in the textual criticism and exegesis of the Satires. The introduction also includes a brief summing-up of the classical sources, latin and greek, openly mentioned or word-for-word quoted in the commentary. The note on text deals with the editing standards used in this thesis and also contains some marks on the relationship between the lemmas of the commentary and the text of Juvenal whose margins were filled by the commentary, according to an usual typographic dress for scholastic texts, attempting to define which kinds of handwritten sources of the Satires Valla was able to handle with. The third section is the outright commentary (extended on more than 300 pages in modern format) with a textual apparatus arranged in footnotes that also includes some references to classical sources used but not outspoken by the humanist. The thesis is concluded by three different kinds of indexes (index of classical sources, index of variants, index of names) thought as an useful help for scholars who in future will need to consult this commentary.
Hyaluronan binding and CD44 in regulating hematopoiesis and CD8 T cell response
Creators: name: Lee-Sayer, Sally
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: CD44 is a ubiquitously expressed transmembrane glycoprotein. Through CD44, hematopoietic cells can be induced to bind hyaluronan, a component of the extracellular matrix, at specific developmental or functional stages, leading to the hypothesis that the interaction between CD44 and hyaluronan is important in regulating development and function of immune cells. I demonstrated that chondroitin sulfation of CD44 differentially regulates hyaluronan binding by classically and alternatively activated bone marrow-derived macrophages. T cells also increase hyaluronan binding upon activation, and chondroitin sulfate is likely involved in this regulation, since inhibitors of glycosylation, actin rearrangement, or sialylation had no effect on hyaluronan binding by activated T cells. By using competitive cell transfer models, I found CD44 expression and hyaluronan binding were involved in regulating CD8 memory T cell formation and hematopoietic reconstitution. CD44-/- OT-I CD8 T cells formed significantly more memory cells than CD44⁺/⁺ OT-I CD8 T cells in the lymphoid organs, despite forming similar effector cell numbers, after intravenous infection with ovalbumin-expressing Listeria monocytogenes. While in competition, hyaluronan-binding CD8 effector T cells had increased pAkt expression and glucose uptake, both of which negatively regulate memory potential. Furthermore, hyaluronan-binding CD8 effector T cells showed increased death. Overall, this work implicates CD44 and hyaluronan binding as negative regulators of survival through contraction and memory formation by high affinity OT-I CD8 T cells. To investigate the role of hyaluronan binding in hematopoiesis, I transduced CD44-/- bone marrow cells with CD44 point mutants with increased or abolished hyaluronan binding (GOF or LOF, respectively), and then transferred these cells into lethally irradiated hosts in competition with wild type cells. GOF cells out-competed wild type cells, which in turn out-competed LOF cells, in the reconstitution of all myeloid and most lymphoid populations, suggesting a competitive advantage in early hematopoiesis. Within the bone marrow stem and progenitor cells, GOF cells out-competed wild type cells, which in turn out-competed LOF cells, suggesting a role of the CD44-hyaluornan interaction in positively regulating reconstitution by hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Overall, this study identified novel roles for CD44 and HA binding in regulating CD8 T memory, and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.
Additional file 1 of Qualitative research to inform economic modelling: a case study in older people’s views on implementing the NICE falls prevention guideline
Creators: name: Kwon, Joseph
name: Lee, Yujin
name: Young, Tracey
name: Squires, Hazel
name: Harris, Janet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Asymptotic completeness in a class of massless relativistic quantum field theories
Creators: name: Dybalski, Wojciech
name: Tanimoto, Yoh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T40, 81U99, 81T75

description: This paper presents the first examples of massless relativistic quantum field theories which are interacting and asymptotically complete. These two-dimensional theories are obtained by an application of a deformation procedure, introduced recently by Grosse and Lechner, to chiral conformal quantum field theories. The resulting models may not be strictly local, but they contain observables localized in spacelike wedges. It is shown that the scattering theory for waves in two dimensions, due to Buchholz, is still valid under these weaker assumptions. The concepts of interaction and asymptotic completeness, provided by this theory, are adopted in the present investigation.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX. As appeared in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Hidden deep in the halo: selection of a reduced proper motion halo catalogue and mining retrograde streams in the velocity space
Creators: name: Viswanathan, Akshara
name: Starkenburg, Else
name: Koppelman, Helmer H.
name: Helmi, Amina
name: Balbinot, Eduardo
name: Esselink, Anna F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Milky Way halo is one of the few galactic haloes that provides a unique insight into galaxy formation by resolved stellar populations. Here, we present a catalogue of $\sim$47 million halo stars selected independent of parallax and line-of-sight velocities, using a combination of Gaia DR3 proper motion and photometry by means of their reduced proper motion. We select high tangential velocity (halo) main sequence stars and fit distances to them using their simple colour-absolute-magnitude relation. This sample reaches out to $\sim$21 kpc with a median distance of $6.6$ kpc thereby probing much further out than would be possible using reliable Gaia parallaxes. The typical uncertainty in their distances is $0.57_{-0.26}^{+0.56}$ kpc. Using the colour range $0.45<(G_0-G_\mathrm{RP,0})<0.715$ where the main sequence is narrower, gives an even better accuracy down to $0.39_{-0.12}^{+0.18}$ kpc in distance. The median velocity uncertainty for stars within this colour range is 15.5 km/s. The distribution of these sources in the sky, together with their tangential component velocities, are very well-suited to study retrograde substructures. We explore the selection of two complex retrograde streams: GD-1 and Jhelum. For these streams, we resolve the gaps, wiggles and density breaks reported in the literature more clearly. We also illustrate the effect of the kinematic selection bias towards high proper motion stars and incompleteness at larger distances due to Gaia's scanning law. These examples showcase how the full RPM catalogue made available here can help us paint a more detailed picture of the build-up of the Milky Way halo.
description: Published version. Code used to make the RPM sample is available here https://github.com/astroakshara/RPM-Catalogue-Gaia-DR3 and the RPM halo catalogue based on Gaia DR3 data is available here https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/521/2087
UGANDA SUSTAINABLE GRWOTH ANALYSIS USING CLEWS
Creators: name: Obbo, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Energy planning and land and water use balance are very critical for Uganda to achieve her vision for 2040 of modern farming, industrial growth, smart cities, and improved transport. The CLEWS method for analyzing the energy plan, land use, and water use using the OseMosys tool has been used to develop the country's priority areas. The results of the study indicate that Uganda has no problem with water and land, which means that irrigation farming is possible to help increase crop production and also make the non-used land areas productive. Also, developing smart cities is possible because of the availability of land for expansion. However, the energy is constrained because the country's initial plan was to prioritize the development of the hydroelectric power plant, but the capacity is limited. Since the country is also committed to zero emissions and the provision of affordable energy to increase access, the most viable option will be developing community solar PV systems to meet both short- and long-term demand.
Non-intersecting Brownian walkers and Yang-Mills theory on the sphere
Creators: name: Forrester, Peter J.
name: Majumdar, Satya N.
name: Schehr, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a system of N non-intersecting Brownian motions on a line segment [0,L] with periodic, absorbing and reflecting boundary conditions. We show that the normalized reunion probabilities of these Brownian motions in the three models can be mapped to the partition function of two-dimensional continuum Yang-Mills theory on a sphere respectively with gauge groups U(N), Sp(2N) and SO(2N). Consequently, we show that in each of these Brownian motion models, as one varies the system size L, a third order phase transition occurs at a critical value L=L_c(N)\sim \sqrt{N} in the large N limit. Close to the critical point, the reunion probability, properly centered and scaled, is identical to the Tracy-Widom distribution describing the probability distribution of the largest eigenvalue of a random matrix. For the periodic case we obtain the Tracy-Widom distribution corresponding to the GUE random matrices, while for the absorbing and reflecting cases we get the Tracy-Widom distribution corresponding to GOE random matrices. In the absorbing case, the reunion probability is also identified as the maximal height of N non-intersecting Brownian excursions ("watermelons" with a wall) whose distribution in the asymptotic scaling limit is then described by GOE Tracy-Widom law. In addition, large deviation formulas for the maximum height are also computed.
description: 37 pages, 4 figures, revised and published version. A typo has been corrected in Eq. (10)
Strongly isospectral manifolds with nonisomorphic cohomology rings
Creators: name: Lauret, Emilio A.
name: Miatello, Roberto J.
name: Rossetti, Juan Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J53 (Primary) 58C40, 20H15 (Secondary)

description: For any $n\geq 7$, $k\geq 3$, we give pairs of compact flat $n$-manifolds $M, M'$ with holonomy groups $\mathbb Z_2^k$, that are strongly isospectral, hence isospectral on $p$-forms for all values of $p$, having nonisomorphic cohomology rings. Moreover, if $n$ is even, $M$ is Kähler while $M'$ is not. Furthermore, with the help of a computer program we show the existence of large Sunada isospectral families; for instance, for $n=24$ and $k=3$ there is a family of eight compact flat manifolds (four of them Kähler) having very different cohomology rings. In particular, the cardinalities of the sets of primitive forms are different for all manifolds.
description: 25 pages, to appear in Revista Matem\'atica Iberoamericana
Additional file 1 of Diversification through gustatory courtship: an X-ray micro-computed tomography study on dwarf spiders
Creators: name: Lin, Shou-Wang
name: Lopardo, Lara
name: Uhl, Gabriele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1: Specimens used for microcomputed-tomography scans; differences between Matrix II in [29] and the current matrix; Table S2: Character matrix for the newly scored characters.
One-dimensional quantum channel and Hawking radiation of the Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes
Creators: name: Chen, Deyou
name: Mu, Benrong
name: Wu, Houwen
name: Yang, Haitang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we review the one-dimensional quantum channel and investigate Hawking radiation of bosons and fermions in Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes. The result shows the Hawking radiation can be described by the quantum channel. The thermal conductances are derived and related to the black holes' temperatures.
description: V2, 12 pages. Typo corrected