cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ζητήματα ποιότητας της εκπαίδευσης και κατάρτισης εκπαιδευτών/τριών σε δομές ΣΕΚ στην Ελλάδα:
Creators: name: Τεμεκονίδου, Ελισσάβετ Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2010
Subjects: Ποιότητα
Εκπαίδευση και κατάρτιση εκπαιδευτών
Συνεχιζόμενη επαγγελματική κατάρτιση
Quality
Training of educators
Continuing education and training structures

description: Το θέμα της συγκεκριμένης εργασίας επικεντρώνεται σε ζητήματα ποιότητας της εκπαίδευσης και κατάρτισης των εκπαιδευτών σε δομές Συνεχιζόμενης Επαγγελματικής Κατάρτισης στην Ελλάδα. Η δεδομένη ασάφεια και η πολυπλοκότητα που δημιουργεί η έννοια «ποιότητα» επιχειρείται να προσδιοριστεί με την εξέταση συγκεκριμένων παραμέτρων, οι οποίες συνδέονται με το Εθνικό Πρόγραμμα Πιστοποίησης των Εκπαιδευτών, το οποίο αποτελεί και την πρώτη επίσημη και συστηματική προσπάθεια εκπαίδευσης των εκπαιδευτών στην Ελλάδα. Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι να προσεγγίσει, μέσω των απόψεων των εκπαιδευτών που συμμετείχαν στο συγκεκριμένο πρόγραμμα, σε ποιο βαθμό επιτυγχάνονται οι εκπεφρασμένοι στόχοι του προγράμματος και κατ’ επέκταση να διαπιστώσει κατά πόσο υπάρχει σύμπλευση με τις κατευθύνσεις της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης. Επιμέρους στόχοι που εξετάζονται έχουν σχέση με το Μητρώο του Ε.ΚΕ.ΠΙΣ. και τις προϋποθέσεις ένταξης σε αυτό, αλλά και με το ρόλο του ίδιου του εκπαιδευτή και τη δική του ευθύνη στη μάθησή του.
description: The subject of the thesis is focused on issues of quality assurance of educators in Continuing Education and Training structures in Greece. The absolute ambiguity and complexity which is caused by the notion of “quality” is put forward to be clarified with the further examination of specific aspects, which are linked to the National Programme of Certification of Educators, which is the first formal attempt to train educators in Greece. The aim of this thesis is to approach, by the actual opinions of educators, who participated in this specific programme, how successful it was in achieving the original goals set, and furthermore to establish how close this came to the European Union directions. Further goals that are examined, are related to the Registry of E.KE.PIS. and the requirements of entry to this, and also to the role by the educator himself, as to his personal responsibility, in his own learning.
Deciphering the Kinematic Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud through its Red Giant Population
Creators: name: Zivick, Paul
name: Kallivayalil, Nitya
name: van der Marel, Roeland P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new kinematic model for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using data from the \gaia\ Data Release 2 catalog. We identify a sample of astrometrically well-behaved red giant (RG) stars belonging to the SMC and cross-match with publicly available radial velocity (RV) catalogs. We create a 3D spatial model for the RGs, using RR Lyrae for distance distributions, and apply kinematic models with varying rotation properties and a novel tidal expansion prescription to generate mock proper motion (PM) catalogs. When we compare this series of mock catalogs to the observed RG data, we find a combination of moderate rotation (with a magnitude of $\sim10-20$ km s$^{-1}$ at 1 kpc from the SMC center, inclination between $\sim50-80$ degrees, and a predominantly north-to-south line of nodes position angle of $\sim180$ degrees) and tidal expansion (with a scaling of $\sim10$ km s$^{-1}$ kpc$^{-1}$) is required to explain the PM signatures. The exact best-fit parameters depend somewhat on whether we assess only the PMs or include the RVs as a qualitative check, leaving some small tension remaining between the PM and RV conclusions. In either case, the parameter space preferred by our model is different both from previously inferred rotational geometries, including from the SMC H{\small I} gas and from the RG RV-only analyses, and new SMC PM analyses which conclude that a rotation signature is not detectable. Taken together this underscores the need to treat the SMC as a series of different populations with distinct kinematics.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, submitted to ApJ
The variable X-ray spectrum of Markarian 766 - I. Principal components analysis
Creators: name: Miller, L.
name: Turner, T. J.
name: Reeves, J. N.
name: George, I. M.
name: Kraemer, S. B.
name: Wingert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: We analyse a long XMM-Newton spectrum of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 766, using the marked spectral variability on timescales >20ks to separate components in the X-ray spectrum. Methods: Principal components analysis is used to identify distinct emission components in the X-ray spectrum, possible alternative physical models for those components are then compared statistically. Results: The source spectral variability is well-explained by additive variations, with smaller extra contributions most likely arising from variable absorption. The principal varying component, eigenvector one, is found to have a steep (photon index 2.4) power-law shape, affected by a low column of ionised absorption that leads to the appearance of a soft excess. Eigenvector one varies by a factor 10 in amplitude on time-scales of days and appears to have broad ionised Fe K-alpha emission associated with it: the width of the ionised line is consistent with an origin at about 100 gravitational radii. There is also a strong component of near-constant emission that dominates in the low state, whose spectrum is extremely hard above 1 keV, with a soft excess at lower energies, and with a strong edge at Fe K but remarkably little Fe K-alpha emission. Although this component may be explained as relativistically-blurred reflection from the inner accretion disc, we suggest that its spectrum and lack of variability may alternatively be explained as either (i) ionised reflection from an extended region, possibly a disc wind, or (ii) a signature of absorption by a disc wind with a variable covering fraction. Absorption features in the low state may indicate the presence of an outflow.
description: 14 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Burst statistics as a criterion for imminent failure
Creators: name: Pradhan, Srutarshi
name: Hansen, Alex
name: Hemmer, Per C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distribution of the magnitudes of damage avalanches during a failure process typically follows a power law. When these avalanches are recorded close to the point at which the system fails catastrophically, we find that the power law has an exponent which differs from the one characterizing the size distribution of all avalanches. We demonstrate this analytically for bundles of many fibers with statistically distributed breakdown thresholds for the individual fibers. In this case the magnitude distribution $D(Δ)$ for the avalanche size $Δ$ follows a power law $Δ^{-ξ}$ with $ξ=3/2$ near complete failure, and $ξ=5/2$ elsewhere. We also study a network of electric fuses, and find numerically an exponent 2.0 near breakdown, and 3.0 elsewhere. We propose that this crossover in the size distribution may be used as a signal for imminent system failure.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures To appear in proceedings from "Symposium on Scaling in Solid Mechanics" Cardiff, 2007
H theorem for contact forces in granular materials
Creators: name: Metzger, Philip T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A maximum entropy theorem is developed and tested for granular contact forces. Although it is idealized, describing two dimensional packings of round, rigid, frictionless, cohesionless disks with coordination number Z=4, it appears to describe a central part of the physics present in the more general cases. The theorem does not make the strong claims of Edwards' hypothesis, nor does it rely upon Edwards' hypothesis at any point. Instead, it begins solely from the physical assumption that closed loops of grains are unable to impose strong force correlations around the loop. This statement is shown to be a generalization of Boltzmann's Assumption of Molecular Chaos (his \textit{stosszahlansatz}), allowing for the extra symmetries of granular stress propagation compared to the more limited symmetries of momentum propagation in a thermodynamic system. The theorem that follows from this is similar to Boltzmann's $H$ theorem and is presented as an alternative to Edwards' hypothesis for explaining some granular phenomena. It identifies a very interesting feature of granular packings: if the generalized \textit{stosszahlansatz} is correct, then the bulk of homogeneous granular packings must satisfy a maximum entropy condition simply by virtue of being stable, without any exploration of phase space required. This leads to an independent derivation of the contact force statistics, and these predictions have been compared to numerical simulation data in the isotropic case. The good agreement implies that the generalized \textit{stosszahlansatz} is indeed accurate at least for the isotropic state of the idealized case studied here, and that it is the reductionist explanation for contact force statistics in this case.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E
Control of droplet evaporation on smooth chemical patterns
Creators: name: Ewetola, Michael
name: Ledesma-Aguilar, Rodrigo
name: Pradas, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the evaporation of a two-dimensional droplet on a solid surface. The solid is flat but with smooth chemical variations that lead to a space-dependent local contact angle. We perform a detailed bifurcation analysis of the equilibrium properties of the droplet as its size is changed, observing the emergence of a hierarchy of bifurcations that strongly depends on the particular underlying chemical pattern. Symmetric and periodic patterns lead to a sequence of pitchfork and saddle-node bifurcations that make stable solutions to become saddle nodes. Under dynamic conditions, this change instability suggests that any perturbation in the system can make the droplet to shift laterally while relaxing to the nearest stable point, as is confirmed by numerical computations of the Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes system of equations. We also consider patterns with an amplitude gradient that creates a set of disconnected stable branches in the solution space, leading to a continuous change of the droplet's location upon evaporation.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Charge inhomogeneity coexisting with large Fermi surfaces
Creators: name: Di Ciolo, A.
name: Grilli, M.
name: Lorenzana, J.
name: Seibold, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how stripes in cuprates can be compatible with a Fermi-liquid-like Fermi surface and, at the same time, they give rise to a one-dimensional-like pseudo Fermi surface in the momentum distribution function.
description: Proceedings of the M2S conference, July 2006, Dresden; 2 pages, 1 figure to appear on Phisica C
PEDAGOGIK FIKR TARAQQIYOTIDA BUYUK  ALLOMALARNING IJODIY MEROSI
Creators: name: Navoiy davlat pedagogika instituti Pedagogika va psixologiya ta'lim yo'nalishi 3-kurs talabasi  YUSUPOVA DILOROM TOSHTEMIROVNA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mazkur maqolada buyuk allomalar, qomusiy ilm sohiblari pandnomaruhidagi asar mualliflarining ta’lim-tarbiya to’g’risidagi asarlari, fikr va

qarashlarining butun jaxonda tutgan o’rni va pedagogik fikrlar taraqqiyotiga qo’shgan hissasi, shuningdek bugun kun amaliyotidagi ahamiyati yortilgan.

Kalit so’zlar: qomusiy olimlar, ta’lim, tarbiya, inson, pandnoma, kamolot
Boosting offline handwritten text recognition in historical documents with few labeled lines
Creators: name: Aradillas, José Carlos
name: Murillo-Fuentes, Juan José
name: Olmos, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we face the problem of offline handwritten text recognition (HTR) in historical documents when few labeled samples are available and some of them contain errors in the train set. Three main contributions are developed. First we analyze how to perform transfer learning (TL) from a massive database to a smaller historical database, analyzing which layers of the model need a fine-tuning process. Second, we analyze methods to efficiently combine TL and data augmentation (DA). Finally, an algorithm to mitigate the effects of incorrect labelings in the training set is proposed. The methods are analyzed over the ICFHR 2018 competition database, Washington and Parzival. Combining all these techniques, we demonstrate a remarkable reduction of CER (up to 6% in some cases) in the test set with little complexity overhead.
Inclusive and diffractive deep inelastic scattering in high-energy QCD
Creators: name: Marquet, Cyrille
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of both inclusive and diffractive deep inelastic scattering, we derive the first phenomenological consequences of the inclusion of Pomeron loops in the QCD evolution equations towards high energy. We discuss the transition between the well-known geometric scaling regime and the new diffusive scaling, that emerges for sufficiently high energies and up to very large values of Q^2, well above the proton saturation momentum.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of the XLVIth Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, May 27-June 5 2006
Additional file 1 of Factors hindering health care delivery in nomadic communities: a cross-sectional study in Timbuktu, Mali
Creators: name: Sangare, Moussa
name: Yaya Ibrahim Coulibaly
name: Siaka Yamoussa Coulibaly
name: Housseini Dolo
name: Diabate, Abdoul Fatao
name: Kueshivi Midodji Atsou
name: Souleymane, Abdoul Ag
name: Rissa, Youssouf Ag
name: Dada Wallet Moussa
name: Fadimata Wallet Abdallah
name: Massitan Dembele
name: Mahamadou Traore
name: Tieman Diarra
name: Brieger, William R.
name: Sekou Fantamady Traore
name: Seydou Doumbia
name: Samba Diop
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire. List of questions that were used to collect the data.
Energy Transport in Weakly Anharmonic Chains
Creators: name: Aoki, Kenichiro
name: Lukkarinen, Jani
name: Spohn, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the energy transport in a one-dimensional lattice of oscillators with a harmonic nearest neighbor coupling and a harmonic plus quartic on-site potential. As numerically observed for particular coupling parameters before, and confirmed by our study, such chains satisfy Fourier's law: a chain of length N coupled to thermal reservoirs at both ends has an average steady state energy current proportional to 1/N. On the theoretical level we employ the Peierls transport equation for phonons and note that beyond a mere exchange of labels it admits nondegenerate phonon collisions. These collisions are responsible for a finite heat conductivity. The predictions of kinetic theory are compared with molecular dynamics simulations. In the range of weak anharmonicity, respectively low temperatures, reasonable agreement is observed.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures
Dark Matter Halos with Cores from Hierarchical Structure Formation
Creators: name: Strigari, Louis E.
name: Kaplinghat, Manoj
name: Bullock, James S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that dark matter emerging from late decays (z < 1000) produces a linear power spectrum identical to that of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) on all observationally relavant scales (> 0.1 Mpc), and simultaneously generates observable constant-density cores in small dark matter halos. We refer to this class of models as meta-Cold Dark Matter (mCDM), because it is born with non-relativistic velocities from the decays of cold thermal relics. The constant-density cores are a result of the low phase-space density of mCDM at birth. Warm dark matter cannot produce similar size phase-space limited cores without saturating the Ly-alpha power spectrum bounds. Dark matter dominated galaxy rotation curves and stellar velocity dispersion profiles may provide the best means to discriminate between mCDM and CDM. mCDM candidates are motivated by the particle spectrum of supersymmetric and extra dimensional extensions to the standard model of particle physics.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. Matches PRD published version
Meta-Stable Brane Configurations by Higher Order Polynomial Superpotential
Creators: name: Ahn, Changhyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the type IIA nonsupersymmetric meta-stable brane configuration consisting of (2k+1) NS5-branes and D4-branes where the electric gauge theory superpotential has an order (2k+2) polynomial for the bifundamentals. We find a rich pattern of nonsupersymmetric meta-stable states as well as the supersymmetric stable ones. By adding the orientifold 4-plane to this brane configuration, we also describe the intersecting brane configuration of type IIA string theory corresponding to the meta-stable nonsupersymmetric vacua of corresponding gauge theory.
description: 27pp, 8 figures; some footnotes added; to appear in IJMPA
Self-motility of an active particle induced by correlations in the surrounding solution
Creators: name: Domínguez, Alvaro
name: Popescu, M. N.
name: Rohwer, C. M.
name: Dietrich, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current models of phoretic transport rely on molecular forces creating a "diffuse" particle-fluid interface. We investigate theoretically an alternative mechanism, in which a diffuse interface emerges solely due to a non-vanishing correlation length of the surrounding solution. This mechanism can drive self-motility of a chemically active particle. Numerical estimates indicate that the velocity can reach micrometers per second. The predicted phenomenology includes a bilinear dependence of the velocity on the activity and a possible double velocity reversal upon varying the correlation length.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, and 22 pages of supplemental material. To be published as Phys. Rev. Lett
The Ambiguity of Power in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale:
Creators: name: Παρλαμά, Γεωργία Εμμανουήλ
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2010
Subjects: Καναδέζικη λογοτεχνία
Μάργκαρετ Ατγουντ
Αμφισημία εξουσίας
Σχέση δύναμης και εξουσίας
Canadian literature
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's tale
Power

description: In this thesis I examine the notion of power in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and more specifically the fact that Power is ambiguous in the novel, that is, it circulates among the main characters, simply because they live in a panoptical atmosphere where each one of them is the potential spy of the other. I examine Power in relation to language, religion and the main characters of the novel. Then, I refer to Offred, the main character of the book and her manipulation by people close to her. I continue with the manipulation of the Handmaids by their Commanders and the Aunts and I close my thesis with a reference to the last chapter of the novel “Historical Notes”.
description: Αυτή η μεταπτυχιακή εργασία ασχολείται με τη δύναμη της εξουσίας στο μυθιστόρημα της Μάργαρετ Άτγουντ The Handmaid’s Tale (στα ελληνικά κυκλοφορεί με τον τίτλο Η Ιστορία της Πορφυρής Δούλης). Συγκεκριμένα εξετάζω το ότι, στο μυθιστόρημα, η εξουσία περνάει από το θύτη στο θύμα και αντίστροφα, για το λόγο τα κύρια πρόσωπα του βιβλίου ζουν σε μια κοινωνία που στηρίζεται στο μοντέλο Panopticon, και ο ένας κατασκοπεύει τον άλλο. Εξετάζω την εξουσία σε σχέση με τη γλώσσα, τη θρησκεία, όπως αυτές περιγράφονται στο βιβλίο της Άτγουντ. Αναφέρομαι στο κεντρικό πρόσωπο του βιβλίου και συνεχίζω με την αναφορά μου στη χειραγώγηση των Υπηρετριών (Handmaids) από άλλα πρόσωπα στο βιβλίο. Τέλος, κάνω εκτενή αναφορά στο τελευταίο κεφάλαιο του βιβλίου «Ιστορικές Σημειώσεις».
Probing Majorana Bound States via Thermoelectric Transport
Creators: name: Benjamin, Colin
name: Das, Ritesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a set of thermoelectric experiments based on Aharonov-Bohm interferometry to probe Majorana bound states (MBS), which are generated in 2D topological insulators (TI) in the presence of superconducting and ferromagnetic correlations via the proximity effect. The existence and nature (coupled or uncoupled) of these MBS can be determined by studying the charge and heat transport, specifically, the behavior of various thermoelectric coefficients like the Seebeck coefficient, Peltier coefficient, thermal conductance, and violations of Wiedemann-Franz law as a function of the Fermi energy and Aharonov-Bohm flux piercing the TI ring with the embedded MBS.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Euro Physics Letters (2024)
3D Collapse of Rotating Stellar Iron Cores in General Relativity including Deleptonization and a Nuclear Equation of State
Creators: name: Ott, C. D.
name: Dimmelmeier, H.
name: Marek, A.
name: Janka, H. -T.
name: Hawke, I.
name: Zink, B.
name: Schnetter, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from the first 2D and 3D simulations of the collapse of rotating stellar iron cores in general relativity employing a finite-temperature equation of state and an approximate treatment of deleptonization during collapse. We compare fully nonlinear and conformally flat spacetime evolution methods and find that the conformally flat treatment is sufficiently accurate for the core-collapse supernova problem. We focus on the gravitational wave (GW) emission from rotating collapse, core bounce, and early postbounce phases. Our results indicate that the GW signature of these phases is much more generic than previously estimated. In addition, we track the growth of a nonaxisymmetric instability of dominant m = 1 character in one of our models that leads to prolonged narrow-band GW emission at ~930 Hz over several tens of milliseconds.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Additional file 1 of Relationship between insulin sensitivity and gene expression in human skeletal muscle
Creators: name: Parikh, Hemang M.
name: Targ Elgzyri
name: Alibegovic, Amra
name: Hiscock, Natalie
name: Ekström, Ola
name: Karl-Fredrik Eriksson
name: Vaag, Allan
name: Groop, Leif C.
name: Ström, Kristoffer
name: Hansson, Ola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Clinical and biochemical characteristics of male subjects from study A. Supplementary Table S2. Clinical and biochemical characteristics of male subjects from study B. Supplementary Table S3. Genes of which expression levels in skeletal muscle were positively correlated with insulin sensitivity (1/HOMA-IR) in study A. Supplementary Table S4. Genes of which expression levels in skeletal muscle were inversely correlated with insulin sensitivity (1/HOMA-IR) in study A. Supplementary Table S5. Significantly enriched Gene Ontology (GO) categories in the 70 genes whose expression level in skeletal muscle positively correlated with insulin sensitivity in Study A, analyzed with the WEB-based GEne SeT AnaLysis Toolkit (WebGestalt). Supplementary Table S6. Significantly enriched Wikipathways, in the 70 genes whose expression level in skeletal muscle positively correlated with insulin sensitivity in Study A, analyzed with the WEB-based GEne SeT AnaLysis Toolkit (WebGestalt). Supplementary Table S7. Significantly enriched Gene Ontology (GO) categories in the 110 genes whose expression level in skeletal muscle was inversely correlated with insulin sensitivity in Study A, analyzed with the WEB-based GEne SeT AnaLysis Toolkit (WebGestalt).
Απόψεις φιλολόγων εκπαιδευτικών για το εν χρήσει σχολικό βιβλίο Ιστορίας της Γ’ Γυμνασίου:
Creators: name: Παπαδημητρίου, Αχιλλέας Ευαγγέλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2010
Subjects: Σχολικό βιβλίο
Απόψεις εκπαιδευτικών
Σχολικό βιβλίο Ιστορίας
School textbook
Teachers opinions
History textbook

description: Η παρούσα εργασία χωρίζεται σε δυο μέρη, το θεωρητικό και το ερευνητικό. Στο πρώτο μέρος γίνεται λόγος για το σχολικό βιβλίο, την αξιολόγηση και την έρευνα των σχολικών βιβλίων. Στο δεύτερο μέρος περιλαμβάνεται η ερευνητική διαδικασία, η μεθοδολογία της έρευνας, τα δεδομένα της έρευνας και η συζήτηση των αποτελεσμάτων. Στην εν λόγω έρευνα αναλύονται οι απόψεις των εκπαιδευτικών για το εν χρήσει σχολικό βιβλίο Ιστορίας της Γ’ Γυμνασίου. Παράλληλα, διερευνάται πόσο το βιβλίο στηρίζει τον εκπαιδευτικό κατά τη διδασκαλία, πόσο είναι κατανοητό για τους μαθητές και πόσο προσελκύει το ενδιαφέρον των τελευταίων, κατά τη γνώμη πάντοτε των εκπαιδευτικών. Το δείγμα της έρευνας είναι 212 φιλόλογοι εκπαιδευτικοί Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης και η συλλογή των δεδομένων έγινε με την τεχνική του ερωτηματολογίου. Σύμφωνα με τους εκπαιδευτικούς είναι ένα μέτριο βιβλίο στο οποίο χρειάζεται να γίνουν βελτιώσεις.
description: The present study is divided in two parts, in the theoretical part and the research. In the former there is given information regarding the textbook in general as well as the evaluation and the research of school textbooks. In the latter what is included is the research process, the research methodology, the research data and the discussion of the results. In this specific research there is an analysis of teachers’ opinions about the history textbook that is being used at the 3rd grade of junior High school. At the same time, we investigate the amount of support the textbook offers to the teacher during the teaching process, the amount of understanding from the part of the student as well as the amount of interest it provokes to them, according to the teachers’ opinions. The research sample consists of 212 teachers (“philologists”) of secondary education and the collection of data was obtained through the questionnaire technique. Teachers stated that this is a mediocre textbook which needs to be improved.
Anomalous U(1)'s, Chern-Simons couplings and the Standard Model
Creators: name: Anastasopoulos, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This proceeding is based on hep-th/0605225 and it shows that the most general anomaly related effective action contains Stuckelberg, axionic and Chern-Simons-like couplings. Such couplings are generically non-trivial in orientifold string vacua. A similar analysis in quantum field theories provides similar couplings. These Chern-Simons couplings generate new signals which might be visible at LHC.
description: 9 pages, 2 eps figures, LaTeX, feynmf & youngtab packages. (v2: references added). Contribution to the proceedings of the RTN project "Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe" conference in Naples, October 9 - 13, 2006 and the PRIN meeting in Alessandria, December 15-16, 2006
Neutron Detection using a Gadolinium-Cathode GEM Detector
Creators: name: Song, DongHyun
name: Choi, Kyungeon
name: Jeng, Youngun
name: Kang, Yechan
name: Lee, Jason Sang Hun
name: Park, Inkyu
name: Yoo, Sunyoung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A gas electron multiplier (GEM) detector with a gadolinium cathode has been developed to explore its potential application as a neutron detector. It consists of three standard-sized ($10\times 10$ cm${}^{2}$) GEM foils and a thin gadolinium plate as the cathode, which is used as a neutron converter. The neutron detection efficiencies were measured for two different cathode setups and for two different drift gaps. The thermal neutron source at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) was used to measure the neutron detection efficiency. Based on the neutron flux measured by KRISS, the neutron detection efficiency of our gadolinium GEM detector was $4.630 \pm 0.034(stat.) \pm 0.279(syst.) \%$.
Perceptions of the nurse’s role by hospitalized children with chronic conditions
Creators: name: Eikelhof, Elisa Mary
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study investigated the relationship between cognitive development and children’s understanding of the hospital nurse’s role. A group of 35 hospitalized children with chronic conditions and without neurological deficits, aged 4 to 10 years, were given three tasks (i.e., the Nurse’s Role Task, the Balance Beam Task, and the Task of Intrapersonal Understanding), scored for developmental level using Case’s (1992) neo-Piagetian theory of cognitive development as a framework. A full sample of 4—year—olds was not pursued due to the distracting hospital environment which, in combination with the shorter attention span of the 4-year-olds, rendered the interviews extremely difficult to complete. Descriptive results indicated a moderately advanced understanding of the hospital nurse’s role by 8— and lO—year—olds, being on the order of one—third of a substage (i.e., approximately 8 months ahead in development), whereas 4— and 6—year—olds showed an age— appropriate level of understanding of the hospital nurse’s role. Analysis of Variance indicated a statistically significant effect for age on all three tasks (p < .01). Six levels of social—cognitive development in understanding the hospital nurse’s role were found, which were, in successive order: (1) Roles of the nurse as scripted actions (i.e., 4-year-old level), (2) Roles of the nurse as motivated action sequences (i.e., 6—year—old level), (3) Roles of the nurse as planned action sequences (i.e., 8— year—old level), (4) Roles of the nurse as generalized dispositions toward action (i.e., 10—year-old level), (5) Roles of the nurse as demonstrating logically planned decisions towards action (i.e., 12-year—old level), and (6) Roles of the nurse as demonstrating logically planned action sequences (i.e., 14—year—old level). Furthermore, results indicate that a few 6- and 8-year-olds and the majority of l0—year—olds could give an accurate description of the duties of the hospital nurse, that is, 1) nurses are there to help children, 2) nurses have a responsibility for the well-being of their patients, 3) nurses want to improve the physical and emotional health of their patients, 4) nurses also see their own shortcomings in their care for children and have good intentions, and 5) nurses are human and have their own feelings, thoughts, doubts, and ideas. Suggestions for future research have been provided in order to further improve communication between health care professionals and hospitalized children with chronic conditions.
SupMMD: A Sentence Importance Model for Extractive Summarization using Maximum Mean Discrepancy
Creators: name: Bista, Umanga
name: Mathews, Alexander Patrick
name: Menon, Aditya Krishna
name: Xie, Lexing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most work on multi-document summarization has focused on generic summarization of information present in each individual document set. However, the under-explored setting of update summarization, where the goal is to identify the new information present in each set, is of equal practical interest (e.g., presenting readers with updates on an evolving news topic). In this work, we present SupMMD, a novel technique for generic and update summarization based on the maximum mean discrepancy from kernel two-sample testing. SupMMD combines both supervised learning for salience and unsupervised learning for coverage and diversity. Further, we adapt multiple kernel learning to make use of similarity across multiple information sources (e.g., text features and knowledge based concepts). We show the efficacy of SupMMD in both generic and update summarization tasks by meeting or exceeding the current state-of-the-art on the DUC-2004 and TAC-2009 datasets.
description: 15 pages
Additional file 1 of Evaluating a tylosin dosage regimen for treatment of Staphylococcus delphini infection in mink (Neovison vison): a pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic approach
Creators: name: Ronaghinia, Amir Atabak
name: Birch, Julie Melsted
name: Frandsen, Henrik Lauritz
name: Pierre-Louis Toutain
name: Damborg, Peter
name: Struve, Tina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Quantification of TYL in samples.
Frequency filtered storage of parametric fluorescence with electromagnetically induced transparency
Creators: name: Akiba, K.
name: Kashiwagi, K.
name: Yonehara, T.
name: Kozuma, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The broadband parametric fluorescence pulse (probe light) with center frequency resonant on 87Rb D1 line was injected into a cold atomic ensemble with coherent light (control light). Due to the low gain in the parametric down conversion process, the probe light was in a highly bunched photon-pair state. By switching off the control light, the probe light within the electromagnetically induced transparency window was mapped on the atoms. When the control light was switched on, the probe light was retrieved and frequency filtered storage was confirmed from the superbunching effect and an increase of the coherence time of the retrieved light.
Additional file 2 of Evaluating a tylosin dosage regimen for treatment of Staphylococcus delphini infection in mink (Neovison vison): a pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic approach
Creators: name: Ronaghinia, Amir Atabak
name: Birch, Julie Melsted
name: Frandsen, Henrik Lauritz
name: Pierre-Louis Toutain
name: Damborg, Peter
name: Struve, Tina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. Plots for PD modeling of TYL against S. delphini.
Charon's radius and density from the combined data sets of the 2005 July 11 occultation
Creators: name: Person, M. J.
name: Elliot, J. L.
name: Gulbis, A. A. S.
name: Pasachoff, J. M.
name: Babcock, B. A.
name: Souza, S. P.
name: Gangestad, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2005 July 11 C313.2 stellar occultation by Charon was observed by three separate research groups, including our own, at observatories throughout South America. Here, the published timings from the three data sets have been combined to more accurately determine the mean radius of Charon: 606.0 +/- 1.5 km. Our analysis indicates that a slight oblateness in the body (0.006 +/- 0.003) best matches the data, with a confidence level of 86%. The oblateness has a pole position angle of 71.4 deg +/- 10.4 deg and is consistent with Charon's pole position angle of 67 deg. Charon's mean radius corresponds to a bulk density of 1.63 +/- 0.07 g/cm3, which is significantly less than Pluto's (1.92 +/- 0.12 g/cm3). This density differential favors an impact formation scenario for the system in which at least one of the impactors was differentiated. Finally, unexplained differences between chord timings measured at Cerro Pachon and the rest of the data set could be indicative of a depression as deep as 7 km on Charon's limb.
description: 25 pages including 4 tables and 2 figures. Submitted to the Astronomical Journal on 2006 Feb 03
Spectroscopic and Photometric Redshift Estimation by Neural Networks For the China Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS)
Creators: name: Zhou, Xingchen
name: Gong, Yan
name: Meng, Xian-Min
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Cao, Ye
name: Chen, Xuelei
name: Amaro, Valeria
name: Fan, Zuhui
name: Fu, Liping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The estimation of spectroscopic and photometric redshifts (spec-z and photo-z) is crucial for future cosmological surveys. It can directly affect several powerful measurements of the Universe, e.g. weak lensing and galaxy clustering. In this work, we explore the accuracies of spec-z and photo-z that can be obtained in the China Space Station Optical Surveys (CSS-OS), which is a next-generation space survey, using neural networks. The 1-dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks (1-d CNN) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP, one of the simplest forms of Artificial Neural Network) are employed to derive the spec-z and photo-z, respectively. The mock spectral and photometric data used for training and testing the networks are generated based on the COSMOS catalog. The networks have been trained with noisy data by creating Gaussian random realizations to reduce the statistical effects, resulting in similar redshift accuracy for both high-SNR (signal to noise ratio) and low-SNR data. The probability distribution functions (PDFs) of the predicted redshifts are also derived via Gaussian random realizations of the testing data, and then the best-fit redshifts and 1-sigma errors also can be obtained. We find that our networks can provide excellent redshift estimates with accuracies ~0.001 and 0.01 on spec-z and photo-z, respectively. Compared to existing photo-z codes, our MLP has similar accuracy but is more efficient in the training process. The fractions of catastrophic redshifts or outliers can be dramatically suppressed comparing to the ordinary template-fitting method. This indicates that the neural network method is feasible and powerful for spec-z and photo-z estimations in future cosmological surveys.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 3 of Evaluating a tylosin dosage regimen for treatment of Staphylococcus delphini infection in mink (Neovison vison): a pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic approach
Creators: name: Ronaghinia, Amir Atabak
name: Birch, Julie Melsted
name: Frandsen, Henrik Lauritz
name: Pierre-Louis Toutain
name: Damborg, Peter
name: Struve, Tina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3. PK plots obtained from NLME.
A hundred new eclipsing binary system candidates studied in a near-infrared window in the VVV survey
Creators: name: Gramajo, L. V.
name: Palma, T.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Saito, R. K.
name: Clariá, J. J.
name: Kammers, R.
name: Surot, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results obtained from an extensive study of eclipsing binary (EB) system candidates recently detected in the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) near-infrated (NIR) Survey. We analyze the VVV tile d040 in the southern part of the Galactic disc wherein the interstellar reddening is comparatively low, which makes it possible to detect hundreds of new eclipsing binary candidates. We present here the light curves and the determination of the geometric and physical parameters of the best candidates found in this "NIR window", including 37 contact, 50 detached and 13 semi-detached eclipsing binary systems. We infer that the studied systems have an average of the $K_s$ amplitudes of $0.8$ mag and a median period of 1.22 days where, in general, contact binaries have shorter periods. Using the "Physics Of Eclipsing Binaries" (PHOEBE) interactive interface, which is based on the Wilson and Devinney code, we find that the studied systems have low eccentricities. The studied EBs present mean values of about 5700 K and 4900 K for the $T_1$ and $T_2$ components, respectively. The mean mass-ratio ($q$) for the contact EB stars is $\sim$ 0.44. This new Galactic disc sample is a first approach to the massive study of NIR EB systems.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in PASA
X-ray emission from O stars
Creators: name: Cohen, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Young O stars are strong, hard, and variable X-ray sources, properties which strongly affect their circumstellar and galactic environments. After ~1 Myr, these stars settle down to become steady sources of soft X-rays. I use high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy and MHD modeling to show that young O stars like theta-1 Ori C are well explained by the magnetically channeled wind shock scenario. After their magnetic fields dissipate, older O stars produce X-rays via shock heating in their unstable stellar winds. Here too I use X-ray spectroscopy and numerical modeling to confirm this scenario. In addition to elucidating the nature and cause of the O star X-ray emission, modeling of the high-resolution X-ray spectra of O supergiants provides strong evidence that mass-loss rates of these O stars have been overestimated.
description: 9 pages; color figures. To appear in IAU Symposium 250, "Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines," Kauai, HI, December 2007; eds. Bresolin, Crowther, & Puls, Cambridge University Press, 2008. The paper posted here has one additional figure (Fig. 6). A b/w version (sans extra figure) is available at http://astro.swarthmore.edu/~cohen/papers/cohen_OstarXrays_bw_kauai2007.pdf
Reversal of the circulation of a vortex by quantum tunneling in trapped Bose systems
Creators: name: Watanabe, Gentaro
name: Pethick, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum dynamics of a model for a vortex in a Bose gas with repulsive interactions in an anisotropic, harmonic trap. By solving the Schrödinger equation numerically, we show that the circulation of the vortex can undergo periodic reversals by quantum-mechanical tunneling. With increasing interaction strength or particle number, vortices become increasingly stable, and the period for reversals increases. Tunneling between vortex and antivortex states is shown to be described to a good approximation by a superposition of vortex and antivortex states (a Schrödinger cat state), rather than the mean-field state, and we derive an analytical expression for the oscillation period. The problem is shown to be equivalent to that of the two-site Bose Hubbard model with attractive interactions.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures; published in Phys. Rev. A, Rapid Communications
Η έννοια του αυτεξούσιου στον Αγιο Ιωάννη το Δαμασκηνό:
Creators: name: Κουτρής, Χαρίδημος Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2011
Subjects: Αυτεξούσιο
Ελεύθερη βούληση
Ιωάννης Δαμασκηνός
Autexousion
Free will
John Damascene

description: Η έννοια της ελευθερίας της βουλήσεως, ήτοι του αυτεξουσίου, αποτελεί διαχρονικά αντικείμενο έρευνας και συζητήσεων μεταξύ των υποστηρικτών διαφόρων φιλοσοφικών συστημάτων, ιδεολογιών και θρησκειών, καθώς και των θεολόγων του ίδιου του Χριστιανισμού. Ο άγιος Ιωάννης ο Δαμασκηνός, συνοψίζοντας την προγενέστερη Πατερική παράδοση, αποδεικνύει φιλοσοφικά και βιβλικά την αυτεξουσιότητα του άκτιστου Θεού και των κτιστών «κατ’ εικόνα» δημιουργημάτων του, τους αγγέλους και τον άνθρωπο. Η παρούσα μελέτη παρουσιάζει τις θέσεις του ιερού συγγραφέα ως προς την ύπαρξη ή την απουσία αυτεξουσίου στις διάφορες βαθμίδες των όντων, καθώς και τις συνέπειες της ορθής ή εσφαλμένης χρήσης του. Παράλληλα τίθενται ερωτήματα και προβληματισμοί με βάση τα σύγχρονα επιστημονικά δεδομένα, ενώ επιχειρείται η παροχή απαντήσεων και προτάσεων κατά τα πρότυπα του Ιωάννη Δαμασκηνού. Μέσα από την προσπάθεια αυτή εκφράζεται η ελπίδα να καταδειχτούν η σπουδαιότητα του αυτεξουσίου, τα όρια και οι δυνατότητες που το χαρακτηρίζουν, η προσωπική ευθύνη απέναντι σε κάθε ζήτημα, αλλά και να επιτευχθεί η προβολή και επανεξέταση των θέσεων της Ορθόδοξης χριστιανικής θεολογίας με στόχο τη δημιουργική τους αξιοποίηση από το σύγχρονο κόσμο.
description: The notion of free will (“αυτεξούσιον” [afteksúsion]) has always been a subject of discussion among the supporters of several philosophical systems, ideologies and religions, as well as of Christian theologians. Saint John Damascene summarizes the previous patristic tradition and proves both biblically and philosophically the existence of free will in the uncreated God and the beings created “in His image”, the angels and the humans. This study presents the holy writer’s views on the existence of free will in beings, as well as the consequences of its correct or incorrect use. Furthermore it poses questions on the basis of current scientific knowledge and attempts to provide answers, following the method of Saint John Damascene. It is hoped that this effort will demonstrate the importance of free will, its limits and its potential, the personal responsibility, and that it will also present and review the Eastern Orthodox views on the subject aiming to their creative use by the modern world.