cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
E-DEMOCRACY E RAPPRESENTANZA POLITICA
Creators: name: VILLASCHI, PIETRO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2022

description: Scopo della presente tesi di dottorato � indagare l?impatto che l?e-democracy sta producendo sull?evoluzione della rappresentanza e della partecipazione politica e, pi� in generale, sul funzionamento dei sistemi democratici. L?analisi prende le mosse da una ricostruzione dei principali modelli di democrazia che sono stati sperimentati nel corso del tempo, per poi passare ad esaminare il processo di crisi della democrazia rappresentativa e della partecipazione intermediata. In questo contesto si inserisce, con il suo carico di novit�, la rivoluzione digitale. Premessa, quindi, una definizione di riferimento della nozione di e-democracy e delineate analogie e differenze con i concetti di e-voting ed e-government, la ricerca analizza le principali applicazioni di democrazia digitale, con il comune obiettivo di comprendere come esse, da angolature differenti e con diversi gradi di intensit�, stiano trasformando il legame tra rappresentanti e rappresentati. Oggetto di esame �, anzitutto, la comunicazione politica online, con particolare riferimento alle tecniche di profilazione degli utenti-elettori e al conseguente rischio di manipolazione del consenso. In un secondo momento, l?attenzione si sposta sull?evoluzione che le nuove tecnologie stanno determinando nell?organizzazione dei partiti politici. Successivamente, si analizza l?impatto che la digitalizzazione pu� determinare sull?esercizio del diritto di voto e sui poteri di iniziativa relativi agli strumenti c.d. di democrazia diretta. Infine, una riflessione � dedicata al tema, posto improvvisamente dalla pandemia da Covid-19, dell?introduzione, in determinate circostanze, di forme di partecipazione e voto da remoto ai lavori parlamentari e, pertanto, della possibilit� ed opportunit� di immaginare un ?Parlamento telematico?.
The nature of geometric frustration in the Kob-Andersen mixture
Creators: name: Crowther, Peter
name: Turci, Francesco
name: Royall, C. Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geometric frustration is an approach to the glass transition based upon the consideration of locally favoured structures (LFS), which are geometric motifs which minimise the local free energy. Geometric frustration proposes that a transition to a crystalline state is frustrated because these LFS do not tile space. However, this concept is based on icosahedra which are not always the LFS for a given system. The LFS of the popular Kob-Andersen (KA) model glassformer is the bicapped square antiprism, which does tile space. Such an LFS-crystal is indeed realised in the $\mathrm{Al_{2}Cu}$ structure, which is predicted to be a low energy state for the KA model with a 2:1 composition. We therefore hypothesise that upon changing the composition in the KA model towards 2:1, geometric frustration may be progressively relieved, leading to larger and larger domains of LFS which would ultimately correspond to the $\mathrm{Al_{2}Cu}$ crystal. Remarkably, rather than an increase, upon changing composition we find a small decrease in the LFS population, and the system remains impervious to nucleation of LFS crystals. We suggest that this may be related to the composition of the LFS, as only a limited subset are compatible with the crystal. We further demonstrate that the $\mathrm{Al_{2}Cu}$ crystal will grow from a seed in the KA model with 2:1 composition and identify the melting temperature to be 0.447(2).
description: submitted to JCP
(4183) James Mitchell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Spectral Intensities of Antiprotons and the lifetime of Cosmic Rays in the Galaxy
Creators: name: Cowsik, Ramanath
name: Madziwa-Nussinov, Tsitsi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we note that the spectral intensities of antiprotons observed in Galactic cosmic rays in the energy range ~ 1-100 GeV by BESS, PAMELA and AMS instruments display nearly the same spectral shape as that generated by primary cosmic rays through their interaction with matter in the interstellar medium, without any significant modifications. More importantly, a constant residence time of ~ 2.5 +/-0.7 million years in the Galactic volume, independent of the energy of cosmic rays, matches the observed intensities. A small additional component of secondary antiprotons in the energy below 10 GeV, generated in cocoon-like regions surrounding the cosmic-ray sources, seems to be present. We discuss this result in the context of observations of other secondary components like positrons and Boron, and conclude with general remarks about the origins and propagation of cosmic rays.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
'IL PRINCIPIO DISTRUGGENTE' E 'L'ETERNO FANCIULLO'. ODIO E AMORE NEL PENSIERO POLITICO DI LEOPARDI
Creators: name: BALZANO, MARCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: This study analysis Leopardi?s thought about amor proprio and amor patrio (let.: love of self driven by pride and jealousy; patriotism), concepts that have been discussed at great length in Zibaldone, with very important conclusions also in other works, especially Operette morali. Staring from the two concepts we can analyze the original interpretation that Leopardi gave in some Rousseau?s works, in particular Discourse on Inequality, and later we can examine the concept of hate in its philosophical and political meaning. It is then analyzed the problem of Christianity in relation to amor patrio and Leopardi?s readings on hate thematic are highlighted: Polibio, Sallustio and Velleio Patercolo, Machiavelli and Montesquieu. In the second part it is underlined how the theory of social hate of Leopardi comes from the theory of metus hostilis presented by Polibio and other classical historiographers who followed. Finally I analyzed the concept of love, always under the philosophical and political point of view: once he has abandoned the idea of a hate capable of keep the society alive, Leopardi studies love as solidarity and sign of altruism and endurance of life. Some Operette morali and La ginestra, that I examined in the last chapter, have been inspired by this concept of love.
(4185) Rachel Dodgson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
On the Role of Self-Adjointness in the Continuum Formulation of Topological Quantum Phases
Creators: name: Ahari, Mostafa Tanhayi
name: Ortiz, Gerardo
name: Seradjeh, Babak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological quantum phases of matter are characterized by an intimate relationship between the Hamiltonian dynamics away from the edges and the appearance of bound states localized at the edges of the system. Elucidating this correspondence in the continuum formulation of topological phases, even in the simplest case of a one-dimensional system, touches upon fundamental concepts and methods in quantum mechanics that are not commonly discussed in textbooks, in particular the self-adjoint extensions of a Hermitian operator. We show how such topological bound states can be derived in a prototypical one-dimensional system. Along the way, we provide a pedagogical exposition of the self-adjoint extension method as well as the role of symmetries in correctly formulating the continuum, field-theory description of topological matter with boundaries. Moreover, we show that self-adjoint extensions can be characterized generally in terms of a conserved local current associated with the self-adjoint operator.
description: v2: slightly revised and extended, 27 pages, 1 figure, 4 appendices, version appearing in print
History of Agricultural Price-Support and Adjustment Programs, 1933-84
Creators: name: Bowers, Douglas E.
name: Rasmussen, Wayne D.
name: Baker, Gladys L.
name: Bowers, Douglas E.
name: Rasmussen, Wayne D.
name: Baker, Gladys L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Price support
subject: production adjustment
subject: history
subject: Depression

description: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s concern with price-support and adjustment legislation is carried out under a series of interrelated laws passed by Congress from 1933 to 1984. Beginning with the major proposals of the 1920s for handling and marketing farm surpluses, this history records the establishment of price-support and adjustment programs with the Federal Farm Board in 1929 and the Agricultural Adjustment Acts of 1933 and 1938, and then traces their evolution through 1984. This half century of development is important because it forms the foundation for implementing current and future farm legislation.
Addressing Harmful Exposure to Environmental Contaminants in Drinking Water for Private Well Owners in Cumberland County, North Carolina
Creators: name: Frolova, Anastasia
name: Murwin, Emily
name: Eck, Cameron
name: Wilson, Melissa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The built environment is an important social determinant of health in Cumberland County, North Carolina which has come to affect thousands of residents through the contamination of drinking water with per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). These ‘forever chemicals’ particularly threaten the health of residents who use private wells. An Accountable Care Community (ACC) will be established in partnership with the Cumberland County Department of Public Health, the NC Department of Environmental Quality, Cape Fear River Watch, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants, and other groups. These stakeholders will work together to address the root causes and ill effects of PFAS contamination and exposure. The ACC’s primary activities will be operating a local enhancement of WIC focused on detecting and mitigating the effects of PFAS exposure in women and children and helping to enact well water testing legislation at the state level.
A Thesis Submitted to the School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Science in Railway Engineering
Creators: name: Asmamaw Dagne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Wheel and rail is one of the most important material used to support and guide rail vehicle safely

and smoothly. Since wheel and rail suffers from various interacting mechanical and thermal

forces, friction modifiers, various contaminants and environmental atmosphere, wear poses large

problem on wheel and rail.

Wheel and rail wear can be result in an extensive cost for truck owner, if it is not predicated and

prevented in an efficient way. To limit these costs, one measure is to predicate and prevent wheel

and rail wear through wear modeling.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the influence of heat treating both wheel and rail at

the same time on rolling/sliding wear of wheel and rail.

The rolling/sliding wear of three pair of rollers used to model wheel and rail material is studied

using twin disc rolling/sliding wear testing machine. The three pair of rollers used in this study is

manufactured from carbon steel having similar hardness and chemical composition as that of

standard wheel and rail. Then the two pair of rollers is heat treated in an electric furnace to

improve their hardness. Heat treatment was done by heating the rollers to austenite temperature,

holding at that temperature for 45minutes for uniform temperature distribution. Water or air plus

oil are used as cooling median.
Uroderma bakeri Mantilla-Meluk 2014
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Uroderma
Uroderma bakeri

description: 152. Baker’s Tent-making Bat Uroderma bakeri French: Uroderme de Baker / German: Baker-Zeltfledermaus / Spanish: Urodermo de Baker Taxonomy. Uroderma baker: Mantilla-Meluk, 2014, “Santa Crucita, in Parque Nacional Guatopo, Miranda, Venezuela, 10°5’N, 66°33 'W at an elevation of 2450 m.” Previously, specimens of U. bakeri were identified as U. magnirostrum. Monotypic. Distribution. NW South America, along E Andes Range of Colombia and Venezuela and Coastal Range in N Venezuela. Descriptive notes. Head-body 53-58 mm (tailless), forearm 36-2-37-8 mm. No other specific measurements are available. Baker’s Tent-making Bat is medium-sized, with gray dorsal fur. Dorsal hairs are bicolored, with pale band at bases and mostly gray toward tips. On broad rostrum, there is a pair of white stripes above and below eyes. Hairs are scarce or totally absent in ears and on uropatagium. Ear margins, lateral part of noseleaf, and lancet are yellow. Thin white line crosses dorsum, running from posterior head/neck to posterior end of body. Interorbital bone region is swollen, and there is a little developed crest in suture between parietals and temporal bones. Vomer and turbinate bones are well developed. Dental formula for species of Umdermnis 12/2, C 1/1, P 2/2, M 3/8 (x2) = 32. I* and 1° are bilobed and have unequal lobes. I' are much larger than I* and separated by gaps. Habitat. Tropical humid pre-montane forests along eastern side of northern Andes at elevations of 500-2500 m. Food and Feeding. There is no specific information available for Baker’s Tent-making Bat, but skull and dentition suggest that it is frugivorous. Breeding. No information. Activity patterns. No information. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Not assessed on The IUCN Red List. Bibliography. Mantilla-Meluk (2014).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Phyllostomidae, pp. 444-583 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 556, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458594
Aqueous-Phase Processing of 2-Methyltetrol Sulfates by Hydroxyl Radical Oxidation in Fog and Cloud Water Mimics:  Implications for Isoprene-Derived Secondary Organic Aerosol
Creators: name: HARRILL, ASHLEY
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: 2-Methyltetrol sulfate diastereomers (2-MTSs), formed from acid-catalyzed multiphase chemistry of isoprene-derived epoxydiols (IEPOX), are the most abundant organosulfates (OSs) found in atmospheric fine particulate matter (PM2.5). 2-MTSs have also been measured in atmospheric waters including cloud water, rainwater, hailstones, and snow. In a series of controlled batch reactor experiments of fog and cloud water mimics, we determined the effective second-order rate constant, and thus estimated the atmospheric lifetime (~ 4 hours), against aqueous hydroxyl radical (•OH) oxidation of 2-MTSs by using ion chromatography. Chemical changes of 2-MTSs were determined using hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography interfaced to electrospray ionization high-resolution quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry and tentative reaction mechanisms were proposed; specifically, formation of unique functionalized OSs and organic acids typically derived from cloud water processing of water-soluble organics. These OSs and organic acids from cloud/fog water •OH processing of 2-MTSs may yield low-volatility SOA in PM2.5 after cloud/fog droplet evaporation.
New Reversal Mode in Exchange Coupled Antiferromagnetic/Ferromagnetic Disks: Distorted Viscous Vortex
Creators: name: Gilbert, Dustin A.
name: Ye, Li
name: Varea, Aïda
name: Agramunt-Puig, Sebastià
name: del Valle, Nuria
name: Navau, Carles
name: López-Barbera, José Francisco
name: Buchanan, Kristen S.
name: Hoffmann, Axel
name: Sánchez, Alvar
name: Sort, Jordi
name: Liu, Kai
name: Nogués, Josep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic vortices have generated intense interest in recent years due to their unique reversal mechanisms, fascinating topological properties, and exciting potential applications. Additionally, the exchange coupling of magnetic vortices to antiferromagnets has also been shown to lead to a range of novel phenomena and functionalities. Here we report a new magnetization reversal mode of magnetic vortices in exchange coupled Ir20Mn80/Fe20Ni80 microdots: distorted viscous vortex reversal. Contrary to the previously known or proposed reversal modes, the vortex is distorted close to the interface and viscously dragged due to the uncompensated spins of a thin antiferromagnet, which leads to unexpected asymmetries in the annihilation and nucleation fields. These results provide a deeper understanding of the physics of exchange coupled vortices and may also have important implications for applications involving exchange coupled nanostructures.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures and a supplemental information section
Community-Based Strategies to Reduce Negative Health Outcomes of Parental Incarceration in Black Children in Cumberland County, NC
Creators: name: McKiski, Kayla
name: Furstenberg-Beckman, Luisa
name: Cosby, Katie
name: Fishkin, Mia
name: Williams, Victoria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Parental incarceration can have negative physical and psychosocial impacts on Black children. To mitigate these negative health outcomes in Cumberland County, North Carolina, a countywide Accountable Care Community (ACC) will be established to target the upstream and downstream factors relating to parental incarceration. The ACC uses a multi-pronged approach, incorporating both a statewide policy with sentencing alternatives to incarceration and a child-centered visitation program at the Cumberland County Jail. Through the policy, primary caretakers will be circumstantially offered programs such as counseling, recovery programs, and educational workshops. These services aim to reduce recidivism and promote positive health outcomes, with an emphasis on food security for dependent children. In tandem, a child-centered visitation program will address the needs of children and their incarcerated parents, with the goals of strengthening parent-child bonds and reducing subsequent negative health outcomes for affected children.
(4181) Letitia Mitchell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Addressing Economic Stability to Improve Health Outcomes for Low Income Renters in North Carolina
Creators: name: Pelak, Grace
name: Moore, Mychaela
name: Vesely, Annamaria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) are moving to the forefront of the conversation on health outcomes and health disparities. Social determinants are factors in our environment that shape our lives, health, and well-being. Economic stability is one of five SDoH domains and involves more than just income; housing, health care, access to healthy food, and education all play important roles. As such, interventions should use a systems approach to engage the problem on multiple levels. Using a multi-pronged approach geared towards housing affordability and access to nutrient-dense foods, we propose to help create economic stability in the lives of low-income, cost-burdened renters in Fayetteville, North Carolina. This proposal documents both a policy and a program to address this determinant of health in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Generation of the longitudinal current by the transversal electromagnetic field in classical and quantum plasmas
Creators: name: Latyshev, A. V.
name: Yushkanov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81 V 10, 81 V 99, 78, 82 C 40, 82 C 99

description: From Vlasov kinetic equation for collisionless plasmas distribution function in square-law approximation on size of electromagnetic field is received. Formulas for calculation electric current at any temperature (any degree of degeneration of electronic gas) are deduced. The case of small values of the wave numbers is considered. It is shown, that the nonlinearity account leads to occurrence the longitudinal electric current directed along a wave vector. This longitudinal current orthogonal to known transversal classical current, received at the linear analysis. From the kinetic equation with Wigner integral for collisionless quantum plasma distribution function is received in square-law on vector potential approximation. Formulas for calculation electric current at any temperature are deduced. The case of small values of wave number is considered. It is shown, that size of a longitudinal current at small values of wave number and for classical plasma and for quantum plasma coincide. Graphic comparison of dimensionless size of a current quantum and classical plasma is made.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures
(4182) James Graham
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Food as Medicine:  Nutrition Interventions to Support Improved Food Security & Health Related Outcomes Across Single Mother Households Through the Creation of an Accountable Care Community in Cumberland County, NC
Creators: name: Dylan Harris
name: Aoife O'Connor
name: Peggy Song
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: In the United States, food insecurity is a determinant of health that impacts 30% of single-mother households. Within Cumberland County, NC, 40.4% of households with children are single-parent households, and as 80% of single parents nationwide are women, this suggests that the economic burden faced by Cumberland County single parent households most heavily impacts single mothers. To address this, an Accountable Care Community (ACC) will be formed, convening community partners who will implement two interventions: the provision of medically tailored home-delivered meals to food insecure mothers, as well as expansion of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits and education in the county. The ACC aims to reduce food insecurity and simultaneously improve chronic health indicators and healthy eating habits within the priority population. The ACC partners will include the Public Health Department, the Cape Fear Valley Hospital, the County Meals on Wheels, community advocates, and the Food is Medicine Coalition.
(4177) Anne Clay
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Communication between inertial observers with partially correlated reference frames
Creators: name: Ahmadi, Mehdi
name: Smith, Alexander R. H.
name: Dragan, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum communication protocols the existence of a shared reference frame between two spatially separated parties is normally presumed. However, in many practical situations we are faced with the problem of misaligned reference frames. In this paper, we study communication between two inertial observers who have partial knowledge about the Lorentz transformation that relates their frames of reference. Since every Lorentz transformation can be decomposed into a pure boost followed by a rotation, we begin by analysing the effects on communication when the parties have partial knowledge about the transformation relating their frames, when the transformation is either a rotation or pure boost. This then enables us to investigate how the efficiency of communication is affected due to partially correlated inertial reference frames related by an arbitrary Lorentz transformation. Furthermore, we show how the results of previous studies where reference frames are completely uncorrelated are recovered from our results in appropriate limits.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected, figures updated
Vampyressa sinchi Tavares 2014
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Vampyressa
Vampyressa sinchi

description: 159. Quechuan Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa sinchi French: Vampyresse quechua / German: Quechua-Gelbohrfledermaus / Spanish: Vampiresa quechua Taxonomy. Vampyressa sinchi Tavares et al., 2014, “Llorente (0° 46' 40” N, 77° 21’ 50” W; 1700 m), municipio de Cordoba, departamento de Narino, Colombia.” This species is monotypic. Distribution. E slopes of C & E Andes of S Colombia. Descriptive notes. Head-body 70 mm (tailless), ear 17-18 mm, hindfoot 11-13 mm, forearm 39:1-41-5 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. Greatest lengths of skulls are 23-3-23-7 mm. The Quechuan Yellow-eared Bat is small but the largest known species of Vampyressa. It is similar to Melissa’s Yellow-eared Bat (V. melissa) but larger with only a few overlapping dimensions; it has more robust cranium and dentition and differences in basicranium. Dorsal fur is long, lax, and pale brown to dark beige overall, with sparse guard hairs on head; venter is paler. Forearm is densely furred on two-thirds or more of its length. Uropatagium is short and furred dorsally and ventrally, and it has pale whitish fringe on its distal border that is longer on midline. Skull is large and robust, with well-developed sagittal and lambdoidal crests. Thin septum separating incisive foramina is perforated by large accessory median foramen. Post-glenoid process is well developed and extends below level of pterygoid process, mesopterygoid fossa is longer than wide, and post-dental extension of palatal bone has small wing-like projections. Dental formulais12/2, C1/1,P 2/2, M 2/3 (x2) = 30. Dentition is overall similar to Melissa’s Yellow-eared Bat but more robust and with more developed cingula. I' are unevenly bilobed and have larger inner lobes. M,is small and peg-like. Habitat. Highland Andean cloud forests, suggesting elevations above 1600 m. Food and Feeding. No information, but skull and dentition suggest that the Quechuan Yellow-eared Bat is frugivorous. Breeding. No information. Activity patterns. No information. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Not assessed on The IUCN Red List. The Quechuan Yelloweared Bat is rare, known from only a few specimens in clouded forests in Andean highlands. Bibliography. Gardner (1977b), Lemke et al. (1982), Tavares (2008), Tavares et al. (2014).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Phyllostomidae, pp. 444-583 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 559, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458594
Soil and Water Conservation: Background for 1985 Farm Legislation
Creators: name: Russell, David
name: Burns, Dennie G.
name: De Quattro, James
name: Russell, David
name: Burns, Dennie G.
name: De Quattro, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This report outlines the role of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in conservation programs from their beginning in the early 1930's to the 98th Congress in 1984. To indicate the dimensions of present-day soil and water conservation problems, the report summarizes USDA inventory data on the status, condition, and trends of our soil and water resources. Major USDA conservation programs that address these problems today are described. The 1981 Agriculture and Food Act contains several provisions affecting resource conservation; this report summarizes those provisions. In 1982 USDA developed a National Conservation Program based on extensive inventories, analyses, and public participation. That program currently guides USDA conservation efforts on the Nation's nonfederal lands. State and local government and the private sector play an increasing role in the planning of conservation programs and the installation of conservation measures. One difficult issue facing the Nation in developing a consistent and coherent agricultural policy is the sometimes conflicting objectives of commodity and conservation programs. This report provides background information to further dialogue and action on this issue.
title: Coaching in einer transformativen Arbeitswelt: Kolumnen für eine professionelle Beratung; Skizzenbuch Beratung Band 1
Creators: name: Jüster, Markus
Publisher: name: Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Kempten
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 33 Wirtschaft

description: Die vorliegende Schrift stellt eine Sammlung von Skizzen dar, welche im Verlauf des Sommers 2024 in spontaner Weise zusammengetragen wurden. Die vorliegenden Texte sind eine Sammlung kurzer Aufsätze, die in unregelmäßigen Abständen auf LinkedIn veröffentlicht wurden.
Die Intention, die mit der Verfassung dieser Schrift verfolgt wurde, bestand darin, die zu den Themen Coaching und Beratung assoziierten Gedanken zu ﬁxieren. Die Aufsätze sind als "Gedankensplitter" zu verstehen, die als kurze Bilder in den Geist des Autors eindrangen.
Die Texte wurden mit dem Ziel veröffentlicht, sie durch Bilder zu ergänzen. Zunächst wurden Collagen erstellt, später kamen erste Versuche mit graﬁschen Elementen künstlicher Intelligenz hinzu. Dabei wurden die Bilder zunehmend eigenständiger und ersetzten teilweise die Funktion von Illustrationen.
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Non-perturbative effects in spin glasses
Creators: name: Castellana, Michele
name: Parisi, Giorgio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical study of an Ising spin glass with hierarchical interactions - the hierarchical Edwards-Anderson model with an external magnetic field (HEA). We study the model with Monte Carlo (MC) simulations in the mean-field (MF) and non-mean-field (NMF) regions corresponding to $d\geq4$ and $d<4$ for the $d$-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model respectively. We compare the MC results with those of a renormalization-group (RG) study where the critical fixed point is treated as a perturbation of the MF one, along the same lines as in the $ε$-expansion for the Ising model. The MC and the RG method agree in the MF region, predicting the existence of a transition and compatible values of the critical exponents. Conversely, the two approaches markedly disagree in the NMF case, where the MC data indicates a transition, while the RG analysis predicts that no perturbative critical fixed point exists. Also, the MC estimate of the critical exponent $ν$ in the NMF region is about twice as large as its classical value, even if the analog of the system dimension is within only $\sim 2\%$ from its upper-critical-dimension value. Taken together, these results indicate that the transition in the NMF region is governed by strong non-perturbative effects.
(4178) Francis Stanhope Haigh
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Prediction of entropy stabilized incommensurate phases in the system MoS$_{2}$-MoTe$_{2}$
Creators: name: Burton, Benjamin P.
name: Singh, Arunima K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A first principles phase diagram calculation, that included van der Waals interactions, was performed for the system (1-X)$\cdot$MoS$_{2}$-(X)$\cdot$MoTe$_{2}$. Surprisingly, the predicted phase diagram has at least two ordered solid-solution phases, at $X \approx 0.46$, even though all calculated formation energies are positive, in a ground-state analysis that examined all configurations with 16 or fewer anion sites. The lower-temperature {\bf $I$}-phase is predicted to transform to a higher-temperature {\bf $I^{\prime}$}-phase at $T \approx 500K$, and {\bf $I^{\prime}$} disorders at $T \approx 730K$. Both these transitions are predicted to be first-order, and there are broad miscibility gaps on both sides of the ordered regions. Both the {\bf $I$}- and {\bf $I^{\prime}$}-phases are predicted to be incommensurate: {\bf $I$}-phase in three dimensions; and {\bf $I^{\prime}$}-phase in two dimensions.
description: Probably the first prediction from first-principles of entropy-stabilized incommensurate phases
Algunos proyectos destacados y en curso del Grupo GRIAL
Creators: name: García-Peñalvo, F. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: TIC en Educación; Tecnologías para el aprendizaje; Investigación; GRIAL; W-STEM; OpenGame; RoboSTEAM

description: Webinar con la presentación de algunos proyectos destacados del Grupo GRIAL (UIC 081) de la Universidad de Salamanca en el Conversatorio “Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de TIC en Educación” organizado por la Universidad Católica de Santa María (Arequipa, Perú). La ponencia se organizó en los siguientes apartados: 1) presentación del Grupo GRIAL y 2) Presentación de tres proyectos destacados (W-STEM; OpenGame y RoboSTEAM).
Implementation of Teledentistry to Increase Access to Care: A Proposal to Address Coast Guard Dental Vacancies
Creators: name: Brownlee, Titania
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Oral health has proven to be an essential part of overall health. Access to care has a hugeimpact on an individual’s ability to receive and maintain proper oral health. The Department ofDefense (DOD) standardizes oral health requirements for military Service Members which requirethem to have and maintain optimal oral health in order to join and serve in the United States ArmedForces. Some military branches of service experience provider shortages that affect access to carewhich challenges their ability to provide optimal health care to their members. The United StatesCoast Guard is one of branches of the military that has been impacted by dental provider shortages.The goal of this paper is to explore dental healthcare in the United States, including the military,and how provider shortages impact access to care as well as how teledentistry has played a role inimproving access to dental healthcare. This paper also includes a proposal on how teledentistrycould be used to address the dental provider shortages of the Coast Guard. Whether deployedimmediately or after the Coast Guard’s health records are integrated into MHS GENESIS, thefuture EHR system that is currently being planned by the Department of Defense, utilization ofteledentistry can be beneficial to improve access to care and ensure readiness of Service Membersduring provider shortages.
(4179) Edward Oldroyd Haigh
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Partnerships with Transportation Network Companies: A Case Study of First-Last Mile Innovations in Research Triangle Park
Creators: name: Cashmore, Blake
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Public transit struggles to cover the first-last mile gap, commonly defined as the gap between a transit stop and an individual’s origin or destination. Transit agencies have experimented with various solutions, including direct operation of demand-response transit (DRT) and fixed-response transit (FRT) shuttles that feed into the main transit system. While helpful in improving first-last mile connectivity, these are often prohibitively expensive to operate. With the recent advent of ride sourcing technology and platforms, transit agencies are beginning to establish partnerships with transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft to help cover this service gap. This study examines RTP Connect, a partnership in Research Triangle Park formed between the regional transit agency, GoTriangle, and Uber and Lyft. GoTriangle-operated DRT and FRT programs that preceded RTP Connect are included for comparative analysis. This study finds that TNC-Transit partnerships provide satisfactory first-last mile service at a substantially lower operational cost than transit-operated DRT and FRT programs. The study concludes by suggesting that improving first-last mile connectivity, particularly in less dense urban environments, is integral to sustaining and improving transit ridership.
Faculty Outreach With the Content Liberation Project
Creators: name: Solomon, Jennifer
name: Kati, Rebekah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: Institutional repositories
Open access publishing

description: In January 2016, the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) adopted an open access policy, which encouraged faculty members to deposit their articles in the Carolina Digital Repository (CDR). The UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries’ Open Access Implementation Team was then charged with increasing the amount of content in the CDR and raising faculty awareness of the university’s new open-access policy and author rights issues. In this chapter, we will discuss the challenges of locating and harvesting content for the repository, the outreach strategies we used with faculty members from diverse departments, and the assessment of the project’s overall success. We also share findings from our analysis of the content we collected and recommendations for replicating or scaling up similar projects.
IMPACT OF SUPPLY CHAIN AGILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING
Creators: name: Vikram Pasupuleti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In consonance with this background, this study aims to analyze how supply chain agility and sustainability have been impacted through the use of machine learning. Today, the nature of supply chains has become far more complicated and rapidly changing, and being able to address changes in the market while being sustainable is what matters most. Challenges such as demand forecasting, optimal pricing and order quantity, life cycle assessment, product recommender systems, supplier selection, risk assessment, and churn prediction in supply chain management are handled by the study using several machine learning algorithms such as Lasso Regression, Elastic Net Regression, Gradient Boosted Trees, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. These algorithms were used to manage demand and supply chain, especially in the areas of demand forecasting, inventory control, and logistics. The research shows that machine learning brings a positive degree of improvement to the responsiveness of supply chains and helps organizations reduce expenses associated with inventories and warehouse space as well as identify optimal routes for the transportation of goods. It also takes care of the sustainability of the business by cutting on wastage and carbon footprint while enhancing the operations of the business.

 

Moreover, the demonstrated research addresses the directions for the further application of machine learning in supply chain management and provides practical guidelines for multiple industries. The application of big data and predictive modeling helps to create an efficient and flexible supply chain and, therefore, gain a competitive advantage in the existing conditions on the market. The paper adds to existing research on the use of machine learning for SC design and operation and underlines that this area is crucial for attaining both tactical and strategic organizational aims related to sustainability. There is scope for future studies looking at how these types of algorithms can be interfaced with real-time feeds and how they may be applied across a range of industries to improve the prospects for integrating machine learning into supply chain planning.
Anomalous quantum Hall effect induced by disorder in topological insulators
Creators: name: Raymond, Laurent
name: Verga, Alberto D.
name: Demion, Arnaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a transition between a two-dimensional topological insulator conduction state, characterized by a conductance $G=2$ (in fundamental units $e^2/h$) and a Chern insulator with $G=1$, induced by polarized magnetic impurities. Two kinds of coupling, ferro and antiferromagnetic, are considered with the electron and hole subbands. We demonstrate that for strong disorder, a phase $G=1$ exists even for ferromagnetic order, in contrast with the prediction of the mean field approximation. This result is supported by direct numerical computations using Landauer transport formula, and by analytical calculations of the chemical potential and mass renormalization as a function of the disorder strength, in the self-consistent Born approximation. The transition is related to the suppression of one of the spin conduction channels, for strong enough disorder, by selective spin scattering and localization.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures (figs. 2 and 3 in low resolution)
Crafting an Institutional Repository Policy
Creators: name: Kati, Rebekah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: institutional repository
Open access publishing

description: Policies form the backbone of an institutional repository because they dictate what type of content can be deposited and how that content will be managed. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Libraries rewrote its institutional repository policies to accommodate a platform change. This chapter will use UNC’s experience to discuss institutional repository policies, including the inclusion and withdrawal of content, access restrictions, and the deposit agreement.
(4180) Thomas Graham
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.