cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Isotope effect in tunnelling ionization of neutral hydrogen molecules
Creators: name: Wang, X.
name: Xu, H.
name: Atia-Tul-Noor, A.
name: Hu, B. T.
name: Kielpinski, D.
name: Sang, R. T.
name: Litvinyuk, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been recently predicted theoretically that due to nuclear motion light and heavy hydrogen molecules exposed to strong electric field should exhibit substantially different tunneling ionization rates (O.I. Tolstikhin, H.J. Worner and T. Morishita, Phys. Rev. A 87, 041401(R) (2013) [1]). We studied that isotope effect experimentally by measuring relative ionization yields for each species in a mixed H2/D2 gas jet interacting with intense femtosecond laser pulses. In a reaction microscope apparatus we detected ionic fragments from all contributing channels (single ionization, dissociation, and sequential double ionization) and determined the ratio of total single ionization yields for H2 and D2. The measured ratio agrees quantitatively with the prediction of the generalized weak-field asymptotic theory in an apparent failure of the frozen-nuclei approximation.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of Otus species based on mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequence
Creators: name: Peter O. Daipan, Bernard
name: Amor F. Lambio, Ivy
name: Carlos T. Gonzales, Juan
name: M. Pampolina, Nelson
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: This study analyzed mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences to infer Otus species' phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography. The researchers used Maximum Parsimony and Maximum Likelihood methods to generate the phylogenetic trees. They constructed a Bayesian MCC Chronogram Tree to determine the Otus species' age and speciation events. Paleoclimate and paleogeology maps were also used to correlate the branching out of Otus species with geological time periods and climatic conditions. The results showed five major clusters or clades for the core taxon group (Otus) and one for the sister group (Tyto). The Bayesian tree showed seven major clades for Otus, with the first speciation occurrence dating back to 21.54 mya during the Early Miocene epoch. Most of the core taxon species speciated during the Pliocene Period, with some exceptions. The paleoclimate data indicated that Otus clades branched out during the Icehouse climate state, with the first branching out occurring during the Coolhouse climatic state. The paleogeologic data revealed that the African and American (North and South) continents were already distinct and divided by the Atlantic Ocean during the first branching out of the Otus clade. The distribution areas of Otus species were also mapped using updated Wallace's zoogeographic realms. Overall, this study provides a better understanding of the phylogenetic history of Otus species and their diversification in relation to geological and climatic events. However, the authors caution that all phylogenetic trees, evolutionary studies, and divergence time estimates should be considered hypotheses with significant uncertainty.
title: Security in the software defined networking infrastructure
Creators: name: Edge, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 080303 Computer System Security

description: Software Defined Networks (SDN) is a paradigm in which control and data planes of traditional networking devices are decoupled to form a distrubuted model. Communication between the separate planes requires a protocol such as OpenFlow to leverage programmable routing and forwarding decisions on the network. In this model, Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs) make it possible to inject policy and forwarding rules via the control plane or controller. The most prominent challenges resulting from the separation is link security between the separated elements through which private network data is now traversing.

One main area of concern is the method of transmission with which the majority of Open-Source controllers currently communicate. The preferred practice is for a Transport Layer Security (TLS) channel initiation by an OpenFlow switch wishing to communicate with a controller. Many developers have replaced the TLS method of communication with straight Transport Control Protocol (TCP) due to handshake sequence issues caused by certificate exchange during the TLS connection phase.

This thesis and the subsequent research will ask questions on security around the controller to device links that pass flow tables , network abstractions and multi-layer information to multiple controlled network elements.

The main objective of this research is to develop testing procedures that allow for accurate and repeatable experiments. Therefore, in researching security vulnerabilities between controllers and forwarding devices, benchmarking performed on secure links tests the capability of authentication mechanisms to function properly under load.

The outcomes of this research include a series of quality industry standard tests to benchmark typical SDN controllers and forwarding devices. A critical analysis of typical devices at low, medium and high loads. An SDN security taxonomy is presented to help with future categorising of device testing in context of SDN architecture.
Perpendicular Reading of Single Confined Magnetic Skyrmions
Creators: name: Crum, Dax M.
name: Bouhassoune, Mohammed
name: Bouaziz, Juba
name: Schweflinghaus, Benedikt
name: Blügel, Stefan
name: Lounis, Samir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin-film sub-5 nm magnetic skyrmions constitute an ultimate scaling alternative for future digital data storage. Skyrmions are robust non-collinear spin-textures that can be moved and manipulated by small electrical currents. We show here an innovative technique to detect isolated nanoskyrmions with a current-perpendicular-to-plane geometry, which has immediate implications for device concepts. We explore the physics behind such a mechanism by studying the atomistic electronic structure of the magnetic quasiparticles. We investigate how the isolated skyrmion local-density-of-states which tunnels into the vacuum, when compared to the ferromagnetic background, is modified by the site-dependent spin-mixing of electronic states with different relative canting angles. Local transport properties are sensitive to this effect, as we report an atomistic conductance anisotropy of over 20% for magnetic skyrmions in Pd/Fe/Ir(111) thin-films. In single skyrmions, engineering this spin-mixing magnetoresistance possibly could be incorporated in future magnetic storage technologies.
Is spacetime absolutely or just most probably Lorentzian?
Creators: name: Davidson, Aharon
name: Yellin, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pre-gauging the cosmological scale factor $a(t)$ does not introduce unphysical degrees of freedom into the exact FLRW classical solution. It seems to lead, however, to a non-dynamical mini superspace. The missing ingredient, a generalised momentum enjoying canonical Dirac (rather than Poisson) brackets with the lapse function $n(t)$, calls for measure scaling which can be realised by means of a scalar field. The latter is essential for establishing a geometrical connection with the 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein Schwarzschild-deSitter black hole. Contrary to the Hartle-Hawking approach, (i) The $t$-independent wave function $ψ(a)$ is traded for an explicit $t$-dependent $ψ(n, t)$, (ii) The classical FLRW configuration does play a major role in the structure of the 'most classical' cosmological wave packet, and (iii) The non-singular Euclid/Lorentz crossovers get quantum mechanically smeared.
description: 6 two column pages, 2 figures
FOSSR Policy Brief Series, Issue 1/ Data Driven policy learning: the Role of FOSSR
Creators: name: Cerulli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: machine learning
data-driven
causal inference techniques
policy-makers
impact
policy learning

description: This policy brief presents a succinct account of the potentials and limitations of data-driven policy learning emerging as an innovative paradigm able to harness the power of data and predictive analytics to enhance ex-ante policy design – such as the optimal individuals to support or the optimal treatment to provide – across diverse socio-economic domains. By integrating advanced technologies such as machine learning and causal inference techniques, policy makers can assess the potential impacts of different policy options on a wide range of societal, economic, and environmental sectors. This shift towards evidence-based ex-ante policy design has the potential to revolutionize decision-making processes. The FOSSR project envisions the creation of a Policy Learning Platform (PLP) that will bridge the gap between recent theoretical developments in policy learning and their practical application in real-world policies. Using this platform, policy-makers can identify potential risks and trade-offs before policy implementation, thereby refining policy execution and basing decisions on empirical evidence, which promotes transparency and accountability.
Longitudinal Associations Between Adolescent Peer Victimization and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: The Moderating Role of Implicit Self-Identification
Creators: name: Booker, William
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is highly prevalent among adolescents and has been shown to predict a number of deleterious outcomes including suicidal ideation and attempts. While few existing predictors are known, interpersonal stress has been shown to longitudinally predict NSSI. Peer victimization may be a particularly relevant stressor for adolescents. While peer victimization leads to a number of outcomes, a certain cognitive bias may influence adolescents to engage in NSSI over other coping mechanisms. The self-injury version of the Implicit Association Test was used to test a moderation effect between peer victimization and NSSI. The current study used two timepoints, 12 months apart, from a larger ongoing study analyzing adolescent health risk behaviors. A sample of 797 (57.7% female) community adolescents from three high schools in a racially representative, lower-middle income area of the United States were included in the analyses. Participants completed self-report questionnaires on demographics, depressive symptoms, NSSI engagement, implicit NSSI identification, and peer-report measures on peer victimization at Time 1 and a self-report measure on NSSI engagement at Time 2. A hierarchical multiple regression was conducted while controlling for gender and depressive symptoms and revealed a significant interaction effect between peer victimization and implicit NSSI identification in predicting NSSI. Results revealed a significant positive slope for moderate and high levels of implicit NSSI identification and a negative slope for low implicit NSSI identification. These findings suggest that implicit NSSI identification may operate as a buffer against NSSI engagement following peer victimization, while typical adolescents are still likely to engage in NSSI following peer victimization. This relationship is made even more sever in the face of high implicit NSSI identification. Future directions and implications are discussed.
Hybrid One-Shot 3D Hand Pose Estimation by Exploiting Uncertainties
Creators: name: Poier, Georg
name: Roditakis, Konstantinos
name: Schulter, Samuel
name: Michel, Damien
name: Bischof, Horst
name: Argyros, Antonis A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.10; I.4.8; I.5.4

description: Model-based approaches to 3D hand tracking have been shown to perform well in a wide range of scenarios. However, they require initialisation and cannot recover easily from tracking failures that occur due to fast hand motions. Data-driven approaches, on the other hand, can quickly deliver a solution, but the results often suffer from lower accuracy or missing anatomical validity compared to those obtained from model-based approaches. In this work we propose a hybrid approach for hand pose estimation from a single depth image. First, a learned regressor is employed to deliver multiple initial hypotheses for the 3D position of each hand joint. Subsequently, the kinematic parameters of a 3D hand model are found by deliberately exploiting the inherent uncertainty of the inferred joint proposals. This way, the method provides anatomically valid and accurate solutions without requiring manual initialisation or suffering from track losses. Quantitative results on several standard datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art representatives of the model-based, data-driven and hybrid paradigms.
description: BMVC 2015 (oral); see also http://lrs.icg.tugraz.at/research/hybridhape/
The U Visa, Domestic Violence, and Law Enforcement Reporting
Creators: name: Townsend, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Undocumented immigration has been a major modern political debate, yet there have been few immigration policies achieved since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. One of the few progressive policies passed, the U Visa, was established in 2000 and implemented in late 2007. The U Visa allows undocumented survivors of certain violent crimes, one of which is domestic violence, a pathway to legal residence, and even citizenship, with certification that the survivor has cooperated with law enforcement. This research seeks to determine the degree to which the U Visa has had an impact on Latina survivors’ decision to report their domestic violence victimization to law enforcement, and for whom the effect was most relevant. I used difference-in-differences models to find that, with the establishment of the U Visa in 2000, there was only a statistically significant increase when controlling for the relationship with the abuser. Otherwise, the results were not statistically significant. With the implementation in 2007, there was actually a statistically significant decrease in the likelihood that a Latina survivor would report victimization from domestic violence to law enforcement. This provides evidence to signify that the U Visa has been ambiguously unsuccessful in encouraging Latina survivors to involve law enforcement, although I argue that it can be improved with policy changes including, but not limited to, specific, fair, and transparent guidelines for who will receive the U Visa that remove some disproportional power from law enforcement and a higher cap on the U Visa applications.  Notably, this research is only exploratory and no relationship can be confirmed without further research.
I'll Just Watch
Creators: name: cross, liam
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: On this page are all of the measures and data for the project "I’ll Just Watch: Do The Pro-Social Effects of Coordination Really Generalise to Non-Actors?" The measures tab contains a pdf including the stag hunt economic game, the cohesion scale, the overlap scale, the trust, positive affect, and manipulation check questions. The data tab contains 3 .sav files, one contains all of the data for the observers, another the data from the movers, and a final one with the self-construal items. A copy of the Matlab toolbox for the coordination paradigm can be obtained upon request by emailing Dr. Andrew Wilson - A.D.Wilson@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Defying expectations: robust effects of grammatical constraints on real-time reflexive interpretation
Creators: name: Kong, Tsz
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Previous research has shown that comprehenders can use contextual information to generate expectations about upcoming referents, and that their real-time interpretation of pronouns is immediately sensitive to grammatical constraints. However, little is known about whether and how comprehenders’ discourse-based expectations might interact with their sensitivity to grammatical constraints when they encounter a pronoun. We conducted an eye-tracking experiment to investigate whether comprehenders’ expectations about an upcoming referent may lead them to consider antecedents for a reflexive pronoun that are not licensed by the grammar during reading comprehension. We found that comprehenders displayed robust sensitivity to Binding Principle A even when the prior discourse context favored an antecedent that was not grammatically licensed. Taken together, the present results suggest that the process of retrieving an antecedent for a reflexive is constrained by grammatical knowledge from the earliest stage and can defy comprehenders’ prior discourse expectations.
Why Go: A Narrative of Nursing in Mozambique
Creators: name: Dasher, Mildred
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Global health nursing is an important component of nursing practice. In
developing nations, global health nurses work in a unique sphere that links the
fundamentals of public health nursing with a broad range of specialty nursing
skills. Nurses working overseas often find themselves poorly equipped due to
lack of supplies and familiar resources. They must confront the vast
differences in conceptions of health and nursing practice that may be
prevalent in different cultures.
This senior honors project explores the profound experience of global
health nursing in a narrative format, examining culture shock, nursing ethics,
health beliefs, and the emotional impact of witnessing unrelenting suffering
and poverty.
The accompanying discussion guide invites readers to further consider
the relationship of a biomedical model of healthcare and nursing practice in a
third-world country, with a focus on the nurse’s preparation to work in a
developing nation as well as the personal and professional skills required.
The significance of kaizen in Engineering Universities of Ethiopia: A review
Creators: name: Teferi, Fetene Teshome
Publisher: name: Poly Journal of Engineering and Technology (PJET)
Year: 2023

description: Engineering universities are the firms where technical teaching and research activities are conducted. In this place, a variety of resources are accessed to transform the basic knowledge and skill of engineering and to solve real-world problems. These resources need a kaizen implementation for malfunction protection and waste reduction. Kaizen is a correction tool in the experimental laboratories of engineering universities. It is also applied every day by all individuals and everywhere to bring continuous improvement with low investment costs. The main objective of this review manuscript relies on the significance of kaizen for the reduction of waste in engineering universities. This review also focuses on the application of 5S (sort-set in order-shine- standardize –sustain), and PDCA (plan-do-check-act) cycles in the laboratories of engineering universities. Kaizen implementation methods may vary from organization to organization depending on the available resources like space, equipment, and consumable materials. Indeed, there are no sufficient research outputs related to the significance of kaizen in universities. However, some related research outputs from industries are adapted in universities with certain modifications. This review paper is a qualitative study and is achieved typically via summaries of previously published studies on kaizen implementation in industries, technical colleges, and universities. The findings of researchers on the practices of kaizen indicated promising results on housekeeping and waste reduction. In general, a comprehensive research study should be made on the implementation techniques and sustainability of 5S in the laboratories of engineering universities.
description: Poly Journal of Engineering and Technology (PJET), Vol 1 No 1 (2022)
Short Versus Long Term Obesity: Immune Response to Influenza Vaccination
Creators: name: Wheeler, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Background: Obesity, a growing health crisis in the United States, is an independent risk
factor for increased morbidity and mortality from infection with influenza. Annual
vaccination is the preferred strategy to prevent infection with influenza virus, but obesity
is associated with decreased protective antibody titer against influenza compared to that
of healthy-weight individuals post-vaccination. No previous studies have compared the
immune response to influenza vaccine with duration of obesity.
Objective: This study employed a sample of twenty short-term obese individuals and
twenty long-term obese individuals to determine the IgG antibody response to the 2014-
15 inactivated trivalent influenza vaccine pre-vaccination and thirty days postvaccination.
Results: There was no significant difference in mean IgG 1, 2 or total IgG antibody titer
for short term obese and long term obese individuals as detected by ELISA. However,
long-term obese individuals did have a higher IgG 2 antibody titer than did short-term
obese individuals. Additionally, the youngest, long-term obese individuals had the lowest
pre-vaccination IgG 1 and IgG Total antibody titers, which started higher and negatively
correlated with age for short term obese individuals pre- and post-vaccination as well as
long-term obese individuals post-vaccination (Figures 4 and 6).
Conclusions: While we did not find differences in immune response to influenza
vaccination as measured by IgG antibody titer due to duration of obesity, these data that
the age of obesity onset may have an effect on immune response to influenza vaccination.
301.2 iPRES at 15: Looking Ahead to iPRES at 30...
Creators: name: Potterbusch, Megan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 301. 15th iPRES Anniversary (discussion panel)
subject: ipres2018
subject: panel

description: During PART 2 of this moderated discussion, panelists will consider potential futures for iPres: What emerging trends in digital preservation need greater attention in upcoming years? What would we like to be true about iPres that isn’t currently true? How can we create the most welcoming, productive, and engaging environment for new and ongoing attendees? How do the panelists connect iPRES with the broader community landscape?
Supplementary Tables 2A and 2B- FMD allometric scaling and exponents
Creators: name: Scheer, Anna
name: IR de Oliveira, Beatriz
name: Shah, Amit
name: Jacques, Angela
name: Chasland, Lauren
name: Green, Daniel J.
name: Maiorana, Andrew J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420109
subject: Rehabilitation
classificationCode: 420199
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science not elsewhere classified

description: Allometric analysis of FMD data and exponent calculations.Supplementary Table 2A- Effects of 12 weeks of WEX, GEX or control on vascular function - allometrically scaled data. Supplementary Table 2B-Common slope of logarithmically transformed baseline and peak diameter.
The ACME Shop: A Paradigm to Investigate Working (Self-) Objectification
Creators: name: BALDISSARRI, CRISTINA
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The paper presents an open usable tool, the ACME shop paradigm, for experimentally studying self-objectification due to objectifying work activities. The paradigm consists of a simulation in which participants are asked to perform an objectifying (repetitive, fragmented and other directed) vs a non-objectifying work activity. Two studies tested the construct (convergent and discriminant) validity of the paradigm by showing its effectiveness in inducing different facets of working self-objectification – but not other forms of dehumanization – in laboratory and online settings. In the objectifying condition, participants self-objectified more, that is they self-attributed less human mental state and self-perceived as more instrument-like than participants in the non-objectifying and control (an activity characterized by objectifying features but not related to the work domain) conditions. Moreover, the convergent and discriminant validity of the paradigm in inducing self-objectification, and no other type of dehumanization, was demonstrated by the significant impact of objectifying condition on self-attribution of both agency and experience and not on self-perception as animal-like. Applications of the paradigm will be discussed.
Learning Optimal Control via Forward and Backward Stochastic Differential Equations
Creators: name: Exarchos, Ioannis
name: Theodorou, Evangelos A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we present a novel sampling-based numerical scheme designed to solve a certain class of stochastic optimal control problems, utilizing forward and backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). By means of a nonlinear version of the Feynman-Kac lemma, we obtain a probabilistic representation of the solution to the nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, expressed in the form of a decoupled system of FBSDEs. This system of FBSDEs can then be simulated by employing linear regression techniques. To enhance the efficiency of the proposed scheme when treating more complex nonlinear systems, we then derive an iterative modification based on Girsanov's theorem on the change of measure, which features importance sampling. The modified scheme is capable of learning the optimal control without requiring an initial guess. We present simulations that validate the algorithm and demonstrate its efficiency in treating nonlinear dynamics.
A History of Safety Net Health Care in New Orleans, 2005-2017
Creators: name: Holcomb, Emma
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, leading to devastating flooding of much of the southeast of the state, including New Orleans. The flooding devastated New Orleans’s safety net health care system, closing Charity Hospital, the city’s major provider of uncompensated and Medicaid care, permanently. Between 2005 and 2017, major restoration of the safety net health care system has occurred through a combination of federal funding initiatives and community-based health care movements. Safety net health care in New Orleans is now delivered through a loose network of private nonprofit community-based health centers.To understand the change from a centralized public hospital-based safety net care system to a decentralized private system, I built a history of the safety net health care system in New Orleans by systematically analyzing a variety of primary and secondary source documents about health care sites that provided care regardless of ability to pay in New Orleans over a time period of 2005 to 2017. I organized these sources by date and mapped the existing health care sites at the points of August 2005, October 2006, December 2010, and December 2017, to demonstrate the change in the number and location of such sites.This history revealed that availability of health care sites in New Orleans, both before and after Hurricane Katrina, has been a result of funding choices at the state and federal level. It also highlights the importance of the community in building sustainable community health care for all within their own neighborhoods, and provides lessons for other areas looking to transition to community-based safety net health care. The history of safety net health care in New Orleans is incomplete, but through community commitment and dedicated funding, care for the most vulnerable in New Orleans continues to improve.
Obstacle avoiding patterns and cohesiveness of fish school
Creators: name: Nguyen, Linh Thi Hoai
name: Ta, Viet Ton
name: Yagi, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34K50, 34K60

description: This paper is devoted to studying obstacle avoiding patterns and cohesiveness of fish school. First, we introduce a model of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) for describing the process of fish school's obstacle avoidance. Second, on the basis of the model we find obstacle avoiding patterns. Our observations show that there are clear four obstacle avoiding patterns, namely, Rebound, Pullback, Pass and Reunion, and Separation. Furthermore, the emerging patterns change when parameters change. Finally, we present a scientific definition for fish school's cohesiveness that will be an internal property characterizing the strength of fish schooling. There are then evidences that the school cohesiveness can be measured through obstacle avoiding patterns.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2016
भारतीय जनता पार्टी और भारत की विदेश नीति एक टिप्पणी
Creators: name: Pandey, Anurag
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: International relations
Political science not elsewhere classified

description: यह पेपर भारत की विदेश नीति प्रणाली की नीति क्षमता के गुणात्मक मूल्यांकन का प्रयास करता है। भारत एक उभरती हुई शक्ति है और अपने बढ़ते हुए हितों की रक्षा करना चाहता है और अंतर्राष्ट्रीय मामलों में अपने प्रभाव को बढ़ाना चाहता है। क्या भारत की विदेश नीति की क्षमता अपनी बड़ी महत्वाकांक्षाओं को पूरा करने के लिए तैयार है? क्या भारतीय विदेश नीति समय और परिस्थिति के अनुसार खुद को नए रूप में ढालकर एक सुलझा हुआ कदम उठा रही है? इन्ही कुछ प्रश्नो का उत्तर समझने के लिए लेख वर्तमान नेतृत्व और नीतियों का आंकलन करता है। प्रस्तुत लेख सन 2014 से अब तक की भारतीय विदेश नीति की व्याख्या करता है और ये जानने का प्रयास करता है के क्या भारत की विदेश नीति राष्ट्र हित को सर्वाेपरि रख रही है?
Philological analysis of Old Mongolian: consonant-vowel harmony was not universally enforced
Creators: name: Hornstein, Eli D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Mongolic languages provide an interesting arena for attempts to link
diachronic studies to broad synchronic questions. A prime example is the origin
of Halh Mongolian phonology from its ancestor Old Mongolian. In Halh, there is
vowel harmony on the [+/-ATR] feature, which also controls dorsal consonant
[+/-high] variation (Svantesson 1985, Goldsmith 1985). Under Halh V-C
harmony [+high] velars are produced in a [+ATR] vocalic environment and
[-high] uvulars are produced when vowels are [-ATR].
Old Mongolian also possessed both vowel and V-C harmony, but based on
[+/-back] rather than [+/-ATR]. In Old Mongolian, [-back] vowels and
[+high] velar consonants harmonize, and [+back] vowels harmonize with
[-high] uvular consonants. While the most commonly used, cross-linguistically
attested system of phonological features (Sagey 1986) is perfectly capable of
describing both patterns (as I have just done), that description doesn’t provide
much insight into the phonological relationships taking place in either system,
or what underlies the shift between them.
This study uses philological analysis to directly characterize Old
Mongolian tokens that contain vowels and dorsal consonants in contemporary
text sources. Irregularities in both C-V harmony involving the velar stop [k] and
V-V harmony involving the back vowel [u] were identified through this method.
This represents the first attempt to consider self-reported surface forms by
speakers of Old Mongolian rather than relying on reconstruction from modern
languages. The identification of irregulars in Old Mongolian harmony
contradicts the traditional view from reconstruction work that V-V and C-V
harmony was entirely regular. This different view of the Old Mongolian
phonological landscape may have a significant impact on attempts to relate
Mongolic phonology to bigger questions in linguistics.
Theory of Raman response in three-dimensional Kitaev spin liquids: application to $β-$ and $γ-$Li$_2$IrO$_3$ compounds
Creators: name: Perreault, Brent
name: Knolle, Johannes
name: Perkins, Natalia B.
name: Burnell, F. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the Raman response for the Kitaev spin model on the $\mathcal{H}$-$0$, $\mathcal{H}$-$1$, and $\mathcal{H}$-$\infty$ harmonic honeycomb lattices. We identify several quantitative features in the Raman spectrum that are characteristic of the spin liquid phase. Unlike the dynamical structure factor, which probes both the Majorana spinons and flux excitations that emerge from spin fractionalization, the Raman spectrum in the Kitaev models directly probes a density of states of pairs of fractional, dispersing Majorana spinons. As a consequence, the Raman spectrum in all these models is gapless for sufficiently isotropic couplings, with a low-energy power law that results from the Fermi lines (or points) of the dispersing Majorana spinons. We show that the polarization dependence of the Raman spectrum contains crucial information about the symmetry of the ground state. We also discuss to what extent the features of the Raman response that we find reflect generic properties of the spin liquid phase, and comment on their possible relevance to $α-$, $β-$ and $γ-$Li$_2$IrO$_3$ compounds.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures. VERSION 2: Corrected Figure 5 and fixed inconsistencies between A and B chain-labelings. Also- a few typos and two new refs
Twisting Somersault
Creators: name: Dullin, Holger R.
name: Tong, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70E55, 70E15, 74A99, 93B99, 53Z05

description: A complete description of twisting somersaults is given using a reduction to a time-dependent Euler equation for non-rigid body dynamics. The central idea is that after reduction the twisting motion is apparent in a body frame, while the somersaulting (rotation about the fixed angular momentum vector in space) is recovered by a combination of dynamic and geometric phase. In the simplest "kick-model" the number of somersaults $m$ and the number of twists $n$ are obtained through a rational rotation number $W = m/n$ of a (rigid) Euler top. This rotation number is obtained by a slight modification of Montgomery's formula [9] for how much the rigid body has rotated. Using the full model with shape changes that take a realistic time we then derive the master twisting-somersault formula: An exact formula that relates the airborne time of the diver, the time spent in various stages of the dive, the numbers $m$ and $n$, the energy in the stages, and the angular momentum by extending a geometric phase formula due to Cabrera [3]. Numerical simulations for various dives agree perfectly with this formula where realistic parameters are taken from actual observations.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, work from PhD thesis of William Tong
MPEC 2023-F179 : 2023 FR5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FR5

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The Persistent Eruption of UGC~2773-OT: Finally, a Decade-Long Extragalactic Eta Carinae Analog
Creators: name: Smith, Nathan
name: Andrews, Jennifer E.
name: Mauerhan, Jon C.
name: Zheng, WeiKang
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Graham, Melissa L.
name: Milne, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While SN impostors resemble the Great Eruption of eta Car in the sense that their spectra show narrow H lines and they have typical peak absolute magnitudes of -13 to -14 mag, most extragalactic events observed so far are quite different from eta Car in duration. Their bright phases typically last for 100~d or less, rather than persisting for several years. The transient object UGC2773-OT had a similar peak absolute magnitude to other SN impostors, but with a gradual 5-yr prediscovery rise. In the 6 yr since discovery, it has faded very slowly (0.26 mag/yr). Overall, we suggest that its decade-long eruption is so far the best known analog of eta Car's 19th century eruption. We discuss extensive spectroscopy of the ongoing eruption. The spectra show interesting changes in velocity and line shape that we discuss in detail, including an asymmetric Halpha emission line that we show is consistent with the ejection of a bipolar nebula that could be very much like the Homunculus of eta Car. Moreover, changes in the line width, line profile, blue excess emission resembling that of Type IIn supernovae, and the intensity of Halpha suggest the presence of strong circumstellar interaction in the eruption at late times. This supports the hypothesis that the extended plateau of eta Car's eruption may have been powered by shock interaction as well. One interesting difference compared to eta Car, however, is that UGC2773-OT so far does not exhibit the repeated brief spikes in luminosity that have been associated with binary periastron events.
description: 15 pages, 11 figs, Accepted to MNRAS Oct 20
Comparison of two Medication Therapy Management Practice Models on Return on Investment
Creators: name: Gazda, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Objective: To compare the return-on-investment (ROI) of an integrated practice model
versus a "hub and spoke" practice model of pharmacist provided medication therapy
management (MTM).
Methods: A cohort retrospective analysis of MTM claims billed in 76 pharmacies in
North Carolina in the 2010 “hub and spoke” practice model and the 2012 “integrated”
practice model were analyzed to calculate the ROI.
Results: In 2010, 4,089 patients received an MTM resulting in 8,757 claims in the "hub
and spoke" model. In 2012, 4,896 patients received an MTM resulting in 13,730 claims
in the “integrated” model. In 2010, $165,897.26 was invested in pharmacist salary and
$173,498.00 was received in reimbursement, resulting in an ROI of +$7,600.74
(+4.6%). In 2012, $280,890.09 was invested in pharmacist salary and $302,963 was
received in reimbursement, resulting in a ROI of +$22,072.91 or (+7.9%).
Conclusion: The integrated model of MTM showed an increase in number of claims
submitted and in number of patients receiving MTM services, ultimately resulting in a
higher ROI. While a higher ROI was evident in the integrated model, both models
resulted in positive ROI highlighting that MTM programs can be cost effective with
different strategies of execution.
The PVLAS experiment: measuring vacuum magnetic birefringence and dichroism with a birefringent Fabry-Perot cavity
Creators: name: Della Valle, F.
name: Milotti, E.
name: Ejlli, A.
name: Gastaldi, U.
name: Messineo, G.
name: Zavattini, G.
name: Pengo, R.
name: Ruoso, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vacuum magnetic birefringence was predicted long time ago and is still lacking a direct experimental confirmation. Several experimental efforts are striving to reach this goal, and the sequence of results promises a success in the next few years. This measurement generally is accompanied by the search for hypothetical light particles that couple to two photons. The PVLAS experiment employs a sensitive polarimeter based on a high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity. In this paper we report on the latest experimental results of this experiment. The data are analysed taking into account the intrinsic birefringence of the dielectric mirrors of the cavity. Besides the limit on the vacuum magnetic birefringence, the measurements also allow the model-independent exclusion of new regions in the parameter space of axion-like and milli-charged particles. In particular, these last limits hold also for all types of neutrinos, resulting in a laboratory limit on their charge.
भारत में समान नागरिक संहिताः वाद-विवाद एवं परिचर्चा
Creators: name: Pandey, Anurag
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Political science not elsewhere classified
Private law and civil obligations not elsewhere classified
Family law
Constitutional law

description: प्रस्तुत लेख भारत के संविधान के निति निर्देशक तत्वों में समान नागरिक संहिता की अवधारणा पर विभिन्न तर्क और विमर्श का अध्ययन करता है। समान नागरिक संहिता को हमेशा एक प्रभावी उपकरण के रूप में प्रदर्शित किया गया है भारतीय महिलाओं का सशक्तिकरण, उनके उत्थान एवं परिवार और विवाह जैसी संस्थाओं में महिलाओं की समान हिस्सेदारी जैसे मुद्दों को अमली जामा पहनाना, समान नागरिक संहिता का उद्देश्य है। यह लेख समान नागरिक संहिता के इर्द-गिर्द प्रमुख वाद-विवाद का मूल्यांकन करता है। लेख मुख्य रूप से डॉ भीम राव अंबेडकर के विचारों के परिप्रेक्ष्य में समान नागरिक संहिता की आवश्यकताओं को रेखांकित करता है। साथ ही इस मुद्दे की पड़ताल करता है के कैसे बुद्धिजीवियों ने समान नागरिक संहिता को समझने की कोशिश करि है और इसको लेकर कितनी भ्रांतियां समाज में मौजूद हैं। समान नागरिक संहिंता समाज में विभिन्न धर्मों के मध्य लैंगिक समानता स्थापित करने का एक यंत्र है और इसे लागू हो जाना चाहिए।
Ising critical behavior of inhomogeneous Curie-Weiss models and annealed random graphs
Creators: name: Dommers, Sander
name: Giardinà, Cristian
name: Giberti, Claudio
name: van der Hofstad, Remco
name: Prioriello, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the critical behavior for inhomogeneous versions of the Curie-Weiss model, where the coupling constant $J_{ij}(β)$ for the edge $ij$ on the complete graph is given by $J_{ij}(β)=βw_iw_j/(\sum_{k\in[N]}w_k)$. We call the product form of these couplings the rank-1 inhomogeneous Curie-Weiss model. This model also arises (with inverse temperature $β$ replaced by $\sinh(β)$) from the annealed Ising model on the generalized random graph. We assume that the vertex weights $(w_i)_{i\in[N]}$ are regular, in the sense that their empirical distribution converges and the second moment converges as well. We identify the critical temperatures and exponents for these models, as well as a non-classical limit theorem for the total spin at the critical point. These depend sensitively on the number of finite moments of the weight distribution. When the fourth moment of the weight distribution converges, then the critical behavior is the same as on the (homogeneous) Curie-Weiss model, so that the inhomogeneity is weak. When the fourth moment of the weights converges to infinity, and the weights satisfy an asymptotic power law with exponent $τ$ with $τ\in(3,5)$, then the critical exponents depend sensitively on $τ$. In addition, at criticality, the total spin $S_{N}$ satisfies that $S_{N}/N^{(τ-1)/(τ-2)}$ converges in law to some limiting random variable whose distribution we explicitly characterize.
description: 39 pages. Accepted for publication on Communications in Mathematical Physics
Earth observation data for sustainable practices in viticulture
Creators: name: Oldani, Federico
name: Monopoli, Tommaso
name: Bastidas, Ernesto
name: Araujo, Rosa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: VitiGEOSS presentation delivered during the workshop “Earth Observation data for sustainable practices in viticulture” celebrated on the 2nd of October 2023 as part of the EuroGEO Workshop taking place in Bolzano, Italy.
description: The VitiGEOSS project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 869565.
Written Communication Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Occupational Therapy Involvement and Implementation
Creators: name: Davis, Shelby
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: With a growing prevalence of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), it is important to take into consideration the impacts this has on a child’s education. One challenge that children with ASD face is the task of handwriting. Research suggests that there are a number of interventions that are effective in assisting in young children with written communication. However, there is a scarcity of research that has studied the available written communication interventions used for children with ASD. This research investigated the written communication interventions used by Occupational Therapists (OTs) and Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants (COTAs) working in North Carolina public school systems with children with ASD ages four to eight. One hundred and thirty-five OTs and COTAs responded to an online survey to determine the extent to which they address handwriting in children with ASD; the types of written communication interventions they use with children with ASD ages four through eight; their perceived effectiveness of these interventions; and their perspectives on the interventions and their work with this population. Results showed that OTs and COTAs address handwriting needs for children with ASD on their caseload, as many of these children have written communication goals on their IEPs. The study also found that there are numerous written communication interventions used with this population. The top five interventions used were found to be fine motor activities, alternative types of paper, Handwriting Without Tears, word processing or keyboarding, and visual supports. The results of this research study can help inform occupational therapists on interventions available and implementation of these interventions with children with ASD ages four to eight.