cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the challenge of estimating diphoton backgrounds at large invariant mass
Creators: name: Kamenik, J. F.
name: Perez, G.
name: Schlaffer, M.
name: Weiler, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diphoton searches at high invariant mass are an integral part of the experimental high energy frontier. Using the analyses of the 750\,GeV diphoton resonance as a case study, we examine the methodology currently employed by the experimental analyses in estimating the dominant standard model backgrounds. We assess the dependence of the significance associated with the excess on the background modeling. In particular, we show that close to the high energy tails of the distributions, estimates of the jet faking backgrounds relying on functional extrapolations or Monte Carlo estimates of the challenging photon-jet contributions introduce a large uncertainty. Analyses with loose photon cuts, low photon $p_T$ cuts and those susceptible to high photon rapidity regions are especially affected. Given that diphoton-based searches beyond 1\,TeV are highly motivated as discovery modes, these considerations are relevant and applicable in the future. We first consider a physics-driven deformation of the shape of the diphoton faking photon-jet spectrum by next-to-leading order effects combined with a rapidity and transverse momentum dependent fake rate. We show that the resulting local significance of the excess is reduced due to such a deformation. Then using a simple, but more general, ansatz to modify the contribution of the jet faking backgrounds at high invariant masses but keeping the inclusive and differential sample purities within experimental uncertainty estimates, we demonstrate that the originally reported local 750\,GeV excess significances could have been overestimated by more than one standard deviation. We furthermore cross-check our analysis by comparing fit results based on the smaller 2015 and the larger 2016 LHC datasets. Finally we employ our methodology on the complete 13\,TeV LHC dataset to asses the systematics involved in the current diphoton searches beyond the TeV region.
description: v1: 18 pages, 4 figures; v2: 23 pages, 7 figures, extended by the results shown at ICHEP, contains conclusions for future searches
Atomic relaxation and electronic structure in twisted bilayer MoS2 with rotation angle of 5.09 degrees
Creators: name: Venkateswarlu, Somepalli
name: Misssaoui, Ahmed
name: Honecker, Andreas
name: de Laissardière, Guy Trambly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is now well established theoretically and experimentally that a moiré pattern, due to a rotation of two atomic layers with respect to each other, creates low-energy flat bands. First discovered in twisted bilayer graphene, these new electronic states are at the origin of strong electronic correlations and even of unconventional superconductivity. Twisted bilayers (tb) of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) also exhibit flat bands around their semiconductor gap at small rotation angles. In this paper, we present a DFT study to analyze the effect of the atomic relaxation on the low-energy bands of tb-MoS2 with a rotation angle of 5.09 degrees. We show that in-plane atomic relaxation is not essential here, while out-of-plane relaxation dominates the electronic structure. We propose a simple and efficient atomic model to predict this relaxation.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2005.13054
Assessment of Quality of Postabortion Care in Government Hospitals in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Melkamu, Yilma
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2002

description: Abortion related complications are major causes of maternal morbidity, mortality and disability in developing countries including Ethiopia. Countries have been trying to improve postabortion care (PAC) services in the last decade. A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted on quality of PAC in government hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from November 2001- February 2002. Assessments conducted involved interactions between providers and patients, information provision, postabortion FP counseling and method provision, provider's technical competence and equipment and supplies of the hospitals. Patient interview, direct observation, provider interview and inventory of equipment and supplies were used for the assessment. Interaction between providers and patients was found to be satisfactory whereas information provisions on important aspects of care such as danger signs and follow-up needs were very limited. Postabortion FP counseling and method provision were also found to be very low. About 20% and only 3% received FP counseling and contraceptives respectively. Other reproductive health related issues such as STDs and HIV/AIDS are rarely raised by the providers during managing patients. Overall, 92.3% of the patients responded that they were satisfied with the services. Those who responded that waiting time was too long, who had difficulty in locating or getting services and those who responded that the general information provision was inadequate appeared to be less satisfied. Those with spontaneous abortion of current pregnancy were also less satisfied 9 with the services they received. Significant proportions of the providers were trained on PAC and related issues. Implications of the findings were discussed and recommendations were made
The influence of the composition of tradeoffs on the generation of differentiated cells
Creators: name: Amado, André
name: Campos, Paulo R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the emergence of cell differentiation under the assumption of the existence of a given number of tradeoffs between genes encoding different functions. In the model the viability of colonies is determined by the capability of their lower level units to perform different functions, which is implicitly determined by external chemical stimuli. Due to the existence of tradeoffs it can be evolutionarily advantageous to evolve the division of labor whereby the cells can suppress their contributions to some of the activities through the activation of regulatory genes, which in its turn inflicts a cost in terms of fitness. Our simulation results show that cell differentiation is more likely as the number of tradeoffs is increased but the outcome also depends on their strength. We observe the existence of critical values for the minimum number of tradeoffs and their strength beyond that maximum cell differentiation can be attained. Remarkably, we observe the occurrence of a maximum tradeoff strength beyond that the population is no longer viable imposing an upper tolerable level of constraint at the system. This tolerance is reduced as the number of tradeoffs grows.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Changes in chronic medication adherence in older adults with cancer versus matched cancer-free cohorts
Creators: name: Urick, B.Y.
name: Reeder-Hayes, K.E.
name: Trogdon, J.G.
name: Amin, K.B.
name: Lund, J.L.
name: Meng, K.
name: Gupta, P.
name: Farley, J.F.
name: Wheeler, S.B.
name: Spees, L.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2021

description: Objectives: A cancer diagnosis can influence medication adherence for chronic conditions by shifting care priorities or reinforcing disease prevention. This study describes changes in adherence to medications for treating three common chronic conditions – diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension – among older adults newly diagnosed with non-metastatic breast, colorectal, lung, or prostate cancer. Methods: We identified Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥66 years newly diagnosed with cancer and using medication for at least one chronic condition, and similar cohorts of matched individuals without cancer. To assess medication adherence, proportion of days covered (PDC) was measured in six-month windows starting six-months before through 24 months following cancer diagnosis or matched index date. Generalized estimating equations were used to estimate difference-in-differences (DID) comparing changes in PDCs across cohorts using the pre-diagnosis window as the referent. Analyses were run separately for each cancer type-chronic condition combination. Results: Across cancer types and non-cancer cohorts, adherence was highest for anti-hypertensives (90–92%) and lowest for statins (77–79%). In older adults with colorectal and lung cancer, adherence to anti-diabetics and statins declined post-diagnosis compared with the matched non-cancer cohorts, with estimates ranging from a DID of −2 to −4%. In older adults with breast and prostate cancer cohorts, changes in adherence for all medications were similar to non-cancer cohorts. Conclusion: Our findings highlight variation in medication adherence by cancer type and chronic condition. As many older adults with early stage cancer eventually die from non-cancer causes, it is imperative that cancer survivorship interventions emphasize medication adherence for other chronic conditions.
Pressure study on the interplay between magnetic order and valence-change crossover in EuPd$_2$(Si$_{1-x}$Ge$_x$)$_2$
Creators: name: Wolf, Bernd
name: Lundbeck, Theresa
name: Zimmermann, Jan
name: Peters, Marius
name: Kliemt, Kristin
name: Krellner, Cornelius
name: Lang, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of the magnetic susceptibility on high-quality single crystals of EuPd$_2$(Si$_{1-x}$Ge$_x$)$_2$ for Ge concentrations 0 $\leq x \leq$ 0.105 performed under varying hydrostatic (He-gas) pressure 0 $\leq p \leq$ 0.5 GPa. The work extends on recent studies at ambient pressure demonstrating the drastic change in the magnetic response from valence-change-crossover behavior for $x$ = 0 and 0.058, to long-range antiferromagnetic (afm) order below $T_{\text{N}}$ = 47 K for $x$ = 0.105. The valence-change-crossover temperature $T'_{\text{V}}$ shows an extraordinarily strong pressure dependence of d$T'_{\text{V}}$/d$p$ = +(80 $\pm$ 10) K/GPa. In contrast, a very small pressure dependence of d$T_{\text{N}}$/d$p \leq$ +(1 $\pm$ 0.5) K/GPa is found for the afm order upon pressurizing the $x$ = 0.105 crystal from $p$ = 0 to 0.05 GPa. Remarkably, by further increasing the pressure to 0.1 GPa, a drastic change in the ground state from afm order to valence-change-crossover behavior is observed. Estimates of the electronic entropy, derived from analyzing susceptibility data at varying pressures, indicate that the boundary between afm order and valence-change crossover represents a first-order phase transition. Our results suggest a particular type of second-order critical endpoint of the first-order transition for $x$ = 0.105 at $p_{\text{cr}} \approx$ 0.06 GPa and $T_{\text{cr}} \approx$ 45 K where intriguing strong-coupling effects between fluctuating charge-, spin- and lattice degrees of freedom can be expected.
Pedomyia dryopolis Londt 1994, sp. n.
Creators: name: Londt, Jason G. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Pedomyia
Pedomyia dryopolis

description: dryopolis sp. n. Setae of mesonotum and vertex pale yellow; ♂ genitalia as in Figs 61-63........... Material (NMSA - Type 1115): SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province: 1 ♂ (HT): ' South Africa / Stellenbosch [33°56'S: 18°51 'E] / Jo nkershoek / 211211981 / G. A. Giliomee'. Etymology: Gr. drys - oak + polis - city (refers to Stellenbosch, known as the city of oaks)
description: Published as part of Londt, Jason G. H., 1994, Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 25. A key to the genera of the subfamily Stenopogoninae with new synonymy and descriptions of six new genera, pp. 71-96 in ANNALS OF THE NATAL MUSEUM 35 on page 92, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8360701
A Consistent View of Interacting Dark Energy from Multiple CMB Probes
Creators: name: Zhai, Yuejia
name: Giarè, William
name: van de Bruck, Carsten
name: Di Valentino, Eleonora
name: Mena, Olga
name: Nunes, Rafael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a cosmological model featuring an interaction between dark energy and dark matter in light of the measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background released by three independent experiments: the most recent data by the Planck satellite and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, and WMAP (9-year data). We show that different combinations of the datasets provide similar results, always favoring an interacting dark sector with a $95\%$~CL significance in the majority of the cases. Remarkably, such a preference remains consistent when cross-checked through independent probes, while always yielding a value of the expansion rate $H_0$ consistent with the local distance ladder measurements. We investigate the source of this preference by scrutinizing the angular power spectra of temperature and polarization anisotropies as measured by different experiments.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication on JCAP
Συγκριτική επισκόπηση της νομολογίας του Δικαστηρίου της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, του Ευρωπαϊκού Δικαστηρίου Δικαιωμάτων του Ανθρώπου, και του Ανωτάτου Ομοσπονδιακού Δικαστηρίου των ΗΠΑ, σε ζητήματα διακριτικής μεταχείρισης με βάση τον σεξουαλικό προσανατολισμό και την ταυτότητα φύλου
Creators: name: Μπάρμπας, Αναστάσιος ΝΙκολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Νομολογία
Ευρωπαϊκό Δικαστήριο Δικαιωμάτων του Ανθρώπου
Ανώτατο Ομοσπονδιακό Δικαστήριο των ΗΠΑ
Case law
European Court of Human Rights
Supreme Court of the United States

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η συγκριτική επισκόπηση της νομολογίας του Δικαστηρίου της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, του Ευρωπαϊκού Δικαστηρίου Δικαιωμάτων του Ανθρώπου, και του Ανωτάτου Ομοσπονδιακού Δικαστηρίου των ΗΠΑ, σε ζητήματα διακριτικής μεταχείρισης με βάση τον σεξουαλικό προσανατολισμό και την ταυτότητα φύλου. Στο πρώτο μέρος, εξετάστηκε ενδελεχώς η νομολογία του Δικαστηρίου της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης και οι πιο ρηξικέλευθες αποφάσεις του, στο δεύτερο μέρος αναλύθηκε διεξοδικά η νομολογία του Ευρωπαϊκού Δικαστηρίου Δικαιωμάτων του Ανθρώπου, στο τρίτο μέρος παρουσιάστηκαν οι πιο σημαντικές αποφάσεις του Ανωτάτου Ομοσπονδιακού Δικαστηρίου των ΗΠΑ, που σχετίζονται με τον σεξουαλικό προσανατολισμό και την ταυτότητα φύλου και τέλος, στο τέταρτο μέρος, τέθηκε το πλαίσιο μιας συγκριτικής ανάλυσης σχετικά με την μεθοδολογία, την νομική τυπολογία και το ουσιαστικό περιεχόμενο των αποφάσεων των τριών Ανωτάτων Δικαστηρίων
description: The aim of the present thesis was the comparative review of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, of the European Court of Human Rights, and of the Supreme Court of the United States, relating to discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity. In the first part, the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and its most groundbreaking decisions has been thoroughly examined, in the second part, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights has been meticulously analyzed, in the third part, landmark decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, relating to discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity have been presented and finally, in the fourth part, we set the framework of a comparative analysis regarding the methodology, the legal typology and the substantive content of the decisions of the three Supreme Courts
A Hunt for Massive Starless Cores
Creators: name: Kong, Shuo
name: Tan, Jonathan C.
name: Caselli, Paola
name: Fontani, Francesco
name: Liu, Mengyao
name: Butler, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out an ALMA $\rm N_2D^+$(3-2) and 1.3~mm continuum survey towards 32 high mass surface density regions in seven Infrared Dark Clouds with the aim of finding massive starless cores, which may be the initial conditions for the formation of massive stars. Cores showing strong $\rm N_2D^+$(3-2) emission are expected to be highly deuterated and indicative of early, potentially pre-stellar stages of star formation. We also present maps of these regions in ancillary line tracers, including C$^{18}$O(2-1), DCN(3-2) and DCO$^+$(3-2). Over 100 $\rm N_2D^+$ cores are identified with our newly developed core-finding algorithm based on connected structures in position-velocity space. The most massive core has $\sim70\:M_\odot$ (potentially $\sim170\:M_\odot$) and so may be representative of the initial conditions for massive star formation. The existence and dynamical properties of such cores constrain massive star formation theories. We measure the line widths and thus velocity dispersion of six of the cores with strongest $\rm N_2D^+$(3-2) line emission, finding results that are generally consistent with virial equilibrium of pressure confined cores.
description: 27 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables, accepted by ApJ, comments welcome
Insulators at Fractional Fillings in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Partially Aligned to Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Creators: name: Wong, Dillon
name: Nuckolls, Kevin P.
name: Oh, Myungchul
name: Lee, Ryan L.
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Yazdani, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At partial fillings of its flat electronic bands, magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts a rich variety of competing correlated phases that show sample to sample variations. Divergent phase diagrams in MATBG are often attributed to the sublattice polarization energy scale, tuned by the degree of alignment of the hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrates typically used in van der Waals devices. Unaligned MATBG exhibits unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulating phases, while nearly perfectly aligned MATBG/hBN exhibits zero-field Chern insulating phases and lacks superconductivity. Here we use scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS) to observe gapped phases at partial fillings of the flat bands of MATBG in a new intermediate regime of sublattice polarization, observed when MATBG is only partially aligned ($θ_{Gr-hBN}$ $\approx$ 1.65$^\circ$) to the underlying hBN substrate. Under this condition, MATBG hosts not only phenomena that naturally interpolate between the two sublattice potential limits, but also unexpected gapped phases absent in either of these limits. At charge neutrality, we observe an insulating phase with a small energy gap ($Δ$ < 5 meV) likely related to weak sublattice symmetry breaking from the hBN substrate. In addition, we observe new gapped phases near fractional fillings $ν$ = $\pm 1/3$ and $ν$ = $\pm 1/6$, which have not been previously observed in MATBG. Importantly, energy-resolved STS unambiguously identifies these fractional filling states to be of single-particle origin, possibly a result of the super-superlattice formed by two moiré superlattices. Our observations emphasize the power of STS in distinguishing single-particle gapped phases from many-body gapped phases in situations that could be easily confused in electrical transport measurements.
description: 4 figures
Two-dimensional symbiotic solitons and vortices in binary condensates with attractive cross-species interaction
Creators: name: Ma, Xuekai
name: Driben, Rodislav
name: Malomed, Boris A.
name: Meier, Torsten
name: Schumacher, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-dimensional (2D) two-component spinor system with cubic attraction between the components and intra-species self-repulsion, which may be realized in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, as well as in a quasi-equilibrium condensate of microcavity polaritons. Including a 2D spatially periodic potential, which is necessary for the stabilization of the system against the critical collapse, we use detailed numerical calculations and an analytical variational approximation (VA) to predict the existence and stability of several types of 2D symbiotic solitons in the spinor system. Stability ranges are found for symmetric and asymmetric symbiotic fundamental solitons and vortices, including hidden-vorticity (HV) modes, with opposite vorticities in the two components. The VA produces exceptionally accurate predictions for the fundamental solitons and vortices. The fundamental solitons, both symmetric and asymmetric ones, are completely stable, in either case when they exist as gap solitons or regular ones. The symmetric and asymmetric vortices are stable if the inter-component attraction is stronger than the intra-species repulsion, while the HV modes have their stability region in the opposite case.
description: Scientific Reports, in press
Challenge test for demonstration of cleaning efficiency
Creators: name: Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: cleaning efficiency
flexible food packaging
food packaging
flexible packaging
packaging
circular plastics

description: The aim of the performed challenge test study was to determine if the envisaged recycling technologies and cascades are capable of efficiently removing contaminants. To date, recycling of post-consumer plastics was mainly centered on PET-material. Within this project, the PCR material that was part of the final laminate structure was LDPE.

As a current approach already well-established for PET-material, challenge tests are performed to determine the cleaning efficiency of recycling processes. These tests involve the intentional spiking of the input material with high concentrations of surrogate compounds that simulate typical contaminants with a wide range of physico-chemical properties. This intentional contamination is followed by the subsequent analysis of the residual content of these surrogates after the respective recycling treatments (i.e. decontamination steps). Consequently, the outcome of these challenge tests will allow to conclude on the cleaning efficiency of the recycling treatments. The established cleaning efficiencies is one essential decision criterion to assess recyclates’ qualities and their suitability to be re-used in food packaging and home/personal care applications.

The investigated solvent-based recycling techniques showed good cleaning efficiencies ranging from at least 89 - 98 % for the investigated surrogates up to a molecular weight of 390 g/mol. However, calculation of the assigned cleaning efficiencies was limited by the LOQ of the applied analytical method, so that the actual cleaning efficiencies could be even higher than currently demonstrated.

For the investigated cascade consisting of a sequence of "water-based deinking, densification, granulation and deodorization" step, the achieved overall cleaning efficiency of the cascade ranged from 81 - 98 % for the investigated surrogates up to a molecular weight of 390 g/mol.

Due to the sorption and diffusion properties of polyolefins additional surrogates with a molecular weight of 1000 g/mol should be included as an adaptation step of the challenge test setup to further “challenge” this decontamination technology with regard to those higher molecular weight (non-volatile) surrogates. Such substances >700 g/mol must be analysed using HPLC as a complementary analytical technique to the here used gas chromatographic analyses.

In addition, it was shown that the flake matrix as used for the initial contamination led to an uneven distribution of the surrogates in the material, which resulted in high standard deviations. For future challenge tests on film flakes, an adaption of the contamination process should be considered.

 

Note: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101003806.
Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, no. 18
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social classes
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122346
subject: Social conflict
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122378
subject: Child abuse
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/854223
subject: Fathers and daughters
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/921890
subject: Dysfunctional families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728523
subject: Families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728849

description: Follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the lack of a son to follow him in his footsteps; he initially rejects his daughter's love before eventually becoming reconciled with her before his death. The original parts issued from October 1846 to April 1848. Chapters 55-57. Chapter 55. Rob the grinder loses his place -- Chapter 56. Several people delighted, and the game chicken disgusted -- Chapter 57. Another wedding
Demonstrating Diversity in Star Formation Histories with the CSI Survey
Creators: name: Dressler, Alan
name: Kelson, Daniel D.
name: Abramson, Louis E.
name: Gladders, Michael D.
name: Oemler,, Augustus
name: Poggianti, Bianca M.
name: Mulchaey, John S.
name: Vulcani, Benedetta
name: Shectman, Stephen A.
name: Williams, Rik J.
name: McCarthy, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present coarse but robust star formation histories (SFHs) derived from spectro-photometric data of the Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey, for 22,494 galaxies at 0.3
description: 17 pages, 10 figures; accepted by ApJ; version 2 - no substantive changes; clarifications and corrections
Preparation and reactions of oxo-chromium (iv) Porphyrin complexes
Creators: name: Liston., David John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Εμπειρική διαπεριφερειακή ανάλυση δεικτών οικονομικού μετασχηματισμού στην Ελλάδα: 2000-2018
Creators: name: Χατζηχρήστου, Αναστάσιος Αριστοτέλης Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Οικονομικός Μετασχηματισμός
Οικονομική Ανάπτυξη
Ανάλυση Δεδομένων Πίνακα
Structural Change
Economic Growth
Panel Data Analysis

description: Ο σκοπός της εργασίας είναι να ανακαλύψει την σχέση μεταξύ του οικονομικού μετασχηματισμού και της οικονομικής ανάπτυξης μεταξύ των Ελληνικών περιφερειών σε εθνικό επίπεδο (NUTS II) κατά τα χρόνια 2000 – 2018. Για να το επιτύχει, η έρευνα εξετάζει τους κύριους δείκτες του οικονομικού μετασχηματισμού χρησιμοποιώντας περιφερειακά δεδομένα που συλλέχθηκαν από βάσεις δεδομένων της Ευρωπαϊκής και της Ελληνικής στατιστικής αρχής, δημιουργώντας ποικίλα αναδιαμορφωμένα στοιχεία καθώς και πραγματοποιώντας ανάλυση δεδομένων πίνακα. Με την εξέταση των καθοριστικών στοιχείων του οικονομικού μετασχηματισμού, η συγκεκριμένη έρευνα ανακαλύπτει το επίπεδο του οικονομικού σχηματισμού που έχει επιτευχθεί και της δριμύτητας του αντικτύπου του στις ελληνικές περιφέρειες. Η συγκεκριμένη έρευνα εντοπίζει 1) εσωτερικές και δια-τμηματικές συνδέσεις μεταξύ του οικονομικού μετασχηματισμού και της οικονομικής ανάπτυξης. 2) Αργό αλλά εποικοδομητικό οικονομικό μετασχηματισμό. 3)Ανακατανομή του εργατικού δυναμικού προς μη παραγωγικά μονοπάτια
description: The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship of structural change and economic growth across the Greek regions at a national level (NUTS II Regions) between the years 2000 - 2018. To achieve that, the study examines the main indicators of structural change using regional data collected from Eurostat and the Hellenic Statistical Service databases, by forming a diversity of stylized facts and applying panel data analysis. By examining the determinants of structural change, the study uncovers the level of structural change achieved and the severity it occurred across the Greek regions. The study identifies 1) inter and intra sectoral links of structural change and economic growth. 2) Slowly occurring beneficial structural change. 3) Labour reallocation towards unproductive paths
Universal moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces
Creators: name: Ji, Lizhen
name: Jost, Juergen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32G15, 14H15, 14D21, 81T30

description: We construct a moduli space for Riemann surfaces that is universal in the sense that it represents compact Riemann surfaces of any finite genus. This moduli space is stratifed according to genus, and it carries a metric and a measure that induce a Riemannian metric and a finite volume measure on each stratum. Applications to the Plateau-Douglas problem for minimal surfaces of varying genus and to the partition function of Bosonic string theory are outlined. The construction starts with a universal moduli space of Abelian varieties. This space carries a structure of an infinite dimensional locally symmetric space which is of interest in its own right. The key to our construction of the universal moduli space then is the Torelli map that assigns to every Riemann surface its Jacobian and its extension to the Satake-Baily-Borel compactifications.
Providers' mediating role for medication adherence among cancer survivors
Creators: name: Urick, B.Y.
name: Reeder-Hayes, K.E.
name: Trogdon, J.G.
name: Amin, K.
name: Gupta, P.
name: Farley, J.F.
name: Wheeler, S.B.
name: Spees, L.
name: Lund, J.L.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2021

description: Background We conducted a mediation analysis of the provider team's role in changes to chronic condition medication adherence among cancer survivors. Methods We used a retrospective, longitudinal cohort design following Medicare beneficiaries from 18-months before through 24-months following cancer diagnosis. We included beneficiaries aged ≥66 years newly diagnosed with breast, colorectal, lung or prostate cancer and using medication for non-insulin anti-diabetics, statins, and/or anti-hypertensives and similar individuals without cancer from Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare data, 2008-2014. Chronic condition medication adherence was defined as a proportion of days covered ≥ 80%. Provider team structure was measured using two factors capturing the number of providers seen and the historical amount of patient sharing among providers. Linear regressions relying on within-survivor variation were run separately for each cancer site, chronic condition, and follow-up period. Results The number of providers and patient sharing among providers increased after cancer diagnosis relative to the non-cancer control group. Changes in provider team complexity explained only small changes in medication adherence. Provider team effects were statistically insignificant in 13 of 17 analytic samples with significant changes in adherence. Statistically significant provider team effects were small in magnitude (<0.5 percentage points). Conclusions Increased complexity in the provider team associated with cancer diagnosis did not lead to meaningful reductions in medication adherence. Interventions aimed at improving chronic condition medication adherence should be targeted based on the type of cancer and chronic condition and focus on other provider, systemic, or patient factors.
Measuring Unmet Family Planning Need Differences and Levels of Agreement between Husband and Wife, Gedeo Zone, SNNPR
Creators: name: Tsehaye, Yoseph
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Background: - The total fertility rate of Ethiopia was 5.4 with 34 percent unmet needs for family planning. Although the contraceptive prevalence rate among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) has doubled during the last ten years, it still remains very low. This may indicate the existence of some barriers that prohibit couples from using family planning even if they desire to limit or delay births in 2005 in Ethiopia. Objective: - To assess the magnitude of unmet family planning need differences and levels of agreement between husband and wife, Gedeo Zone, Southern Nation and Nationality People Region. Methods: - A cross-sectional comparative, community based study was conducted in Gedeo zone. The data were collected between 20 January and 15 February 2011. Wonago wereda and Yirgacheffe town administration were selected by simple random sampling method. Using random sampling technique, a total of 254 wives and 254 husbands in six rural and three urban kebeles were selected for the study. A structured pre-tested standard questionnaire was used for data collection. Data entry, cleaning and analysis were done using the EPI INFO version 3.5.1 and SPSS version 19 statistical package. Statistical tests such as Chi -square, logistic regression was used and also level of agreement amongst spouses was analyzed using Kappa statistics. Results: Unmet need for family planning was 39.4% for wives and 11.4% for husbands. The difference was seen both in unmet need for spacing (28.8% for wives vs. 8.3% for husbands) as well as limiting family size (10.6% for wives vs. 3.1% for husbands). Overall, the observed concordance was 51.49% for contraceptive use, 72.05% for unmet need, 92.9% for ideal number of children and 96.85% for contraceptive attitude. The kappa statistic varied from a low of 0.062 (P<0.004) for ever use of contraception to a high of 0.887 for ideal number of children with contraceptive attitude 0.802 (P<0.000), unmet need 0.331 (P<0.000) and current use of contraception 0.122 (P<0.000). Conclusion: Unmet need for family planning was significantly higher for wives compared to husbands and overall, a greater degree of agreement was observed regarding reproductive health events, family planning attitudes and unmet need. It is also evident that increasing awareness and acceptance of contraceptive use among women is not enough, the study recommends developing an effective family planning program intervention to involve men in the Reproductive Health/Family Planning (RH/FP) programs and raise awareness among both men and women
Aluminium speciation in a water supply
Creators: name: Jianping., Lin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Pedomyia astroptica Londt 1994, sp. n.
Creators: name: Londt, Jason G. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Pedomyia
Pedomyia astroptica

description: astroptica sp. n. Mystax occupies entire face; third antennal segment blackish; metathoracic tarsi and ventrodistal parts of tibiae dark red-brown; ♂ genitalia as in Figs 058-60........ Setae of mystax, vertex and occiput white or pale yellow and usually with a few dark red-brown ones; legs yellow-brown with dorsal parts of femora dark redbrown to blackish, tibiae and tarsi also usually brownish; thorax dorsally with short to moderate sized setae which are black and white or pale yellow............ 7 Mesonotal setae mostly black, but white ones also occur anteriorly; setae of vertex black and white......................................................................................... 8 Material (NMSA - Type 1116): SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province: 6 ♂ (HT & PT) 5 ♀ (PT): ' S Africa: Cape #74 / 31 km N of Sutherland / 32" ll'S:20°36'E 1600 m / Date: 6.xi.1991 / Coli: J. G. H. Londt / Besemgoedkop and area', Etymology: Gr. astron - star + optikos - pertaining to sight (refers to the town of Sutherland where a national observatory is situated).
description: Published as part of Londt, Jason G. H., 1994, Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 25. A key to the genera of the subfamily Stenopogoninae with new synonymy and descriptions of six new genera, pp. 71-96 in ANNALS OF THE NATAL MUSEUM 35 on page 92, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8360701
Tuberculosis and HIV Infection in Southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gelete, Afework
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 1994

description: A health institution based cross-sectional study was carried out in Shashemene town, Southern Ethiopia between September, 1993, and January, 1994, to determine the sero-prevalence and the clinical impact of HIV among newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients. The HIV-antibody was determined using the two ELISA procedures (Wellcozyme, Wellcome Diagnostics, Dartford Kent England, and Du-pont assay, Singapore). A total of 450 tuberculosis patients aged 15 years and above were enrolled in the study. The overall HIVseroprevalence rate was 44.4%. The highest rate was observed in the age group 20-39 years. A slightly higher HIV-infection rate was found in males (46%) than in females (41%). Those divorced and widowed patients had higher proportion of HIV seropositivity. The HIV positivity rate was higher for extra-pulmonary than pulmonary form of tuberculosis (OR = 3.80; 95% CI: 1.49, 9.7 ). Higher proportion of sputum positive patients were HIV-positive compared to the sputum negative pulmonary tuberculosis patients (OR=l. 09; 95% CI: 0.64,1.85) though they manifested typical radiographic features (OR = 7.87; 95% CI: 4. 39, 14.21) . vi Significant differences were noted among HIV positives than HIV negatives in manifesting herpes zoster, lymphadenopathy, oral candidiasis, peripheral paraesthesia and chronic diarrhoea . An alternat i ve diagnostic approach is required to avoid missing HIV-related tuberculosis which is communicable to the general population. Other findings are discussed and recommendations made.
Landau-Level Mixing and Particle-Hole Symmetry Breaking for Spin Transitions in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuhe
name: Wójs, A.
name: Jain, J. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin transitions in the fractional quantum Hall effect provide a direct measure of the tiny energy differences between differently spin-polarized states, and thereby serve as an extremely sensitive test of the quantitative accuracy of the theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect, and, in particular, of the role of Landau-level mixing in lifting the particle-hole symmetry. We report on an accurate quantitative study of this physics, evaluating the effect of Landau-level mixing in a nonperturbative manner using a fixed-phase diffusion Monte Carlo method. We find excellent agreement between our calculated critical Zeeman energies and the experimentally measured values. In particular, we find, as also do experiments, that the critical Zeeman energies for fractional quantum Hall states at filling factors $ν=2-n/(2n\pm 1)$ are significantly higher than those for $ν=n/(2n\pm 1)$, a quantitative signature of the lifting of particle-hole symmetry due to Landau-level mixing.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures and a supplemental material with 7 pages, 9 figures
Pedomyia zela Londt 1994, sp. n.
Creators: name: Londt, Jason G. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Pedomyia
Pedomyia zela

description: zela sp. n. Mystax occupies 縠 face; third antennal segment brown (variable); metathoracic tarsi and ventrodistal parts of tibiae yellow-brown; ♂ genitalia as in Figs 82-84.. Material (NMSA - Type 1 1 17): SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province: 9 ♂ (HT & PT) 6 ♀ (PT): ' South Africa: Cape / 10 km N Tulbach [= Tulbaghl 3319AA / 27.ix. 199 I J. Londt / Lower slopes of mts. / hard soil Woody veget'; 6 ♂ 1 ♀;' (PT): E Franschoek Pass, 33°55'S: 19°8'E, 8.x. l987, Manning'. Etymology: Gr. Thracian word for wine (refers to the winelands of Tulbagh and Franschhoek).
description: Published as part of Londt, Jason G. H., 1994, Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 25. A key to the genera of the subfamily Stenopogoninae with new synonymy and descriptions of six new genera, pp. 71-96 in ANNALS OF THE NATAL MUSEUM 35 on page 92, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8360701
Transportation dynamics on coupled networks with limited bandwidth
Creators: name: Li, Ming
name: Hu, Mao-Bin
name: Wang, Bing-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The communication networks in real world often couple with each other to save costs, which results in any network does not have a stand-alone function and efficiency. To investigate this, in this paper we propose a transportation model on two coupled networks with bandwidth sharing. We find that the free-flow state and the congestion state can coexist in the two coupled networks, and the free-flow path and congestion path can coexist in each network. Considering three bandwidth-sharing mechanisms, random, assortative and disassortative couplings, we also find that the transportation capacity of the network only depends on the coupling mechanism, and the fraction of coupled links only affects the performance of the system in the congestion state, such as the traveling time. In addition, with assortative coupling, the transportation capacity of the system will decrease significantly. However, the disassortative coupling has little influence on the transportation capacity of the system, which provides a good strategy to save bandwidth. Furthermore, a theoretical method is developed to obtain the bandwidth usage of each link, based on which we can obtain the congestion transition point exactly.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Some applications of semimartingale theory to limit theorems
Creators: name: Lim., Ashley
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Ανάπτυξη και επικύρωση αναλυτικής μεθόδου με την χρήση UHPLC-PDΑ για τον προσδιορισμό ιβουπροφαίνης σε προσομειωμένα γαστροεντερικά δείγματα
Creators: name: Δούμτση, Αντιγόνη Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ιβουπροφαίνη
Αναλυτική μέθοδος
Προσομειωμένα υγρά
Ibuprofen
Analytical method
Simulated gastrointestinal media

description: Η παρούσα ερευνητική διπλωματική εργασία εστιάζεται στην ανάπτυξη μιας νέας αναλυτικής μεθόδου για τον ποσοτικό προσδιορισμό της ιβουπροφαίνης σε προσομοιωμένα γαστροεντερικά δείγματα για τη μελέτη διαλυτοποίησης φαρμακομορφών τρισδιάστατης εκτύπωσης. Για το σκοπό αυτό, χρησιμοποιήθηκε η χρωματογραφία υγρού υπερυψηλής απόδοσης σε συνδυασμό με φασματοφωτομετρική ανίχνευση. Το περιεχόμενο της εργασίας χωρίζεται σε δύο αυτοτελείς ενότητες: το θεωρητικό και το πειραματικό μέρος. Στο θεωρητικό μέρος αναφέρονται πληροφορίες για την ιβουπροφαίνη, για την χρωματογραφία και για τις μεθόδους προκατεργασίας βιολογικών υποστρωμάτων. Από την άλλη πλευρά, στο πειραματικό μέρος περιγράφεται η πειραματική διαδικασία που ακολουθήθηκε στο εργαστήριο και οδήγησε στην ανάπτυξη και τελική επικύρωση της μεθόδου
description: The aim of the present thesis is to develop a new analytical method for the determination of ibuprofen in simulated gastrointestinal media for the study of dissolution of 3-d formulations. For this purpose, it is used UHPLC-PDA. This study is consisted of two parts: the theoretical and the experimental one. In the theoretical part are being described some information about ibuprofen, chromatography and the methods of sample pre-treatment of biological matrixes. On the other hand, in the experimental part is being presented the procedure that was followed in the lab and have concluded in the development and the validation of the method
Reply: González-Lezana et al.
Creators: name: Delgado-Barrio, G.
name: Gianturco, F. A.
name: González-Lezana, T.
name: Miret-Artés, S.
name: Rubayo-Soneira, J.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Trichoura Londt 1994, gen. n.
Creators: name: Londt, Jason G. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Trichoura

description: Trichoura gen. n. Type species: Trichoura torynopoda sp. n. Description: Small, brown-yellow, silver pruinose stenopogonine asilids with the following combination of characters: Head (Fig. 85): clearly wider than high in anterior view. Antenna: scape slightly longer than pedicel, segment 3 ca. 1.5 times as long as scape and pedicel combined, style small, conical with terminal spine-like seta. Mystax shiny, white, confined to lower 1 of plane face (only ventral part somewhat protuberant); palpi small, 2-segmented. Thorax: postmetacoxal area membranous; anepimeral bristle absent; I pair scutellar macrosetae (a second pair, much smaller than the first, found only in holotype of krugeri). Wing (Fig. 86): ca. 3 mm long, transparent, immaculate, uniform microtrichial cover, C extends around entire wing margin (but weakly along hind margin), cells m] and cup closed and stalked. Legs: pulvilli and empodia well developed. Abdomen: ♂ terminalia unrotated; ♂ epandrium with long, silvery, prone setae masking shape (except in proctomeces); hypandrium small or absent (fused basally with well-developed gonocoxites). Etymology: Gr. f. trichos - hair + oura - tail: refers to setaceous epandrium.
description: Published as part of Londt, Jason G. H., 1994, Afrotropical Asilidae (Diptera) 25. A key to the genera of the subfamily Stenopogoninae with new synonymy and descriptions of six new genera, pp. 71-96 in ANNALS OF THE NATAL MUSEUM 35 on pages 92-93, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8360701