cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 1291
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 1291, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 1291, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Fractional Dirac Bracket and Quantization for Constrained Systems
Creators: name: Abreu, Everton M. C.
name: Godinho, Cresus F. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: So far, it is not well known how to deal with dissipative systems. There are many paths of investigation in the literature and none of them present a systematic and general procedure to tackle the problem. On the other hand, it is well known that the fractional formalism is a powerful alternative when treating dissipative problems. In this paper we propose a detailed way of attacking the issue using fractional calculus to construct an extension of the Dirac brackets in order to carry out the quantization of nonconservative theories through the standard canonical way. We believe that using the extended Dirac bracket definition it will be possible to analyze more deeply gauge theories starting with second-class systems.
description: Revtex 4.1. 9 pages, two-column. Final version to appear in Physical Review E
title: A case study of teachers' professional identity and professional learning
Creators: name: Oliver, Alison
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2022

description: This thesis explores the relationship between teachers’ professional identity (PI) and 
professional learning (PL). It is an interpretivist case study of an independent, selective, girls’, 
fee-paying, independent school in the south of England. It involved seven members of teaching 
staff and employed three research instruments: the completion of metaphors, semi-structured 
interviews and document analysis. 
Its particular identification of the relationship between PI and PL in an independent school is
brought into sharp focus as this relationship in such a context is one which has hitherto received 
little direct study. Moreover, this relationship is one of critical importance owing to how 
inseparable teachers’ identities and learning are from issues of power and control. In short, in 
the current educational landscape the question of how far teachers are able to control their PIs 
and PL, and the relationship therein, is one which holds great relevance. Moreover, exploring
this relationship provides an insight into what it means to be a teaching professional in an 
independent school in the 21st century. 
The study finds that teachers’ PIs in this independent school are shaped by aims and intentions, 
actions and qualities, conditions and emotions and thus offers new insights to the field. In 
addition, the study finds that teachers’ PL in this school is regarded by the study’s participants 
as a responsibility and priority, involves development and reflection so as to maintain skills and 
understanding, and is a key component of being a professional. Most importantly, this study 
finds that the vision for PL in this school matters most. Once again, these nuances are original 
contributions. In terms of the relationship between PI and PL, the study offers further new 
understanding as it finds that there are three ways with which to understand such a relationship
in this independent school: that it may be determined by what most influences and informs 
one’s practice: who teachers are, their purpose, or their means of working.
title: Επαναπροσδιορίζοντας την σχέση πόλης - λιμανιού. Ανάπλαση του αστικού λιμένα του Ηρακλείου
title: Redefining the relation between city and port. Redevelopment of the urban port of Heraklion
Creators: name: Κουρος Νικολαος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: Στα πλαίσια της διπλωματικής εργασίας, το αντικείμενο μελέτης είναι το λιμάνι του Ηρακλείου. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, μελετάται η διεπαφή πόλης – λιμανιού και οι αστικές αλληλεπιδράσεις μεταξύ των  δύο οντοτήτων. Πρωτίστως,  γίνεται μια ευρύτερη ανάλυση  της περιοχής με σκοπό την κατανόηση του αστικού χώρου και των σχέσεων μεταξύ του ιστορικού κέντρου και του  λιμένα.  Ακολουθεί η αστική ανάπλαση,  η οποία εστιάζει στην  διεπαφή με το αστικό κομμάτι του λιμένα καθώς αποτελεί την φυσική προέκταση του ιστορικού κέντρου προς την θάλασσα. Σκοπός της ανάπλασης αποτελεί η αναβίωση του παραλιακού μετώπου μέσω της σύνθεσης αστικού χώρου και χρήσεων που αποσκοπούν  στον επαναπροσδιορισμό των σχέσεων μεταξύ πόλης και λιμένα. Στο σημείο αυτό, διερευνώνται ζητήματα κλίμακας, πρασίνου και ένταξης, σε ένα μέρος όπου αστικό και λιμενικό τοπίο βρίσκονται σε αντιπαράθεση. Εν συνεχεία, ακολουθεί η αρχιτεκτονική μελέτη μιας σχολής τεχνών με εκθεσιακό χώρο, η οποία λειτουργεί ως κτήριο ελκυστής για την περιοχή μελέτης και συμβάλλει τόσο στην ενίσχυση του πολιτισμικού   χαρακτήρα του νέου λιμανιού όσο και στην  αναβίωση του παράκτιου μετώπου της πόλης.
description: In the context of the thesis, the subject of study is the port of Heraklion. More specifically, the city-port interface and the urban interactions between the two entities are studied. First of all, a broader analysis of the area is made in order to understand the urban space and the relations between the historical center and the port. This is followed by urban regeneration, which focuses on the interface with the urban part of the port as it is the natural extension of the historic center towards the sea. The purpose of the redevelopment is the revival of the waterfront through the composition of urban space and uses that aim to redefine the relationship between the city and the port. At this point, questions of scale, greenery and integration are explored, in a place where urban and port landscape are in conflict. Then follows the architectural study of an art school with an exhibition space, which functions as an attractive building for the study area and contributes both to the strengthening of the cultural character of the new port and to the revival of the coastal front of the city.
Chronic Social Stress, Social Status, and Susceptibility to Upper Respiratory Infections in Nonhuman Primates
Creators: name: Cohen, Sheldon
name: Line, Scott
name: Manuck, Stephen B
name: Rabin, Bruce S
name: Heise, Eugene R
name: Kaplan, Jay R
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the roles of social stress and social status in susceptibility to upper respiratory infection. Method: Sixty male cynomolgus monkeys were randomly assigned to stable or unstable social conditions for 15 months. Two markers of social status, social rank and percent of behaviors that were submissive, were assessed at independent observation periods. Endocrine, immune, and behavioral responses were each assessed (at 3-month intervals) during the 9th through 14th months of the study. At the beginning of the 15th month, all animals were exposed to a virus (adenovirus) that causes a common-cold-like illness. The primary outcome was whether or not an animal developed an infection (shed virus) after viral exposure. Results: Although the social instability manipulation was associated with increased agonistic behavior as indicated by minor injuries and elevated norepinephrine responses to social reorganizations, the manipulation did not influence the probability of being infected by the virus. However, low social status (as assessed by either marker) was associated with a substantially greater probability of being infected. It was also associated with less body weight, greater elevated cortisol responses to social reorganizations, and less aggressive behavior. However, none of these characteristics could account for the relation between social status and infection. Conclusions: Social stress was not associated with susceptibility to infection. However, animals with lower social status were at higher risk than high social status animals.
Investment Pathway for European Universities Initiative. Position Paper by CIVIS, Europe's Civic University Alliance
Creators: name: CIVIS, Europe's Civic University Alliance
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: European Universities Iniative
higher education
European Higher Education Area
European Universities Alliances
investment pathway

description: The European Universities Initiative (EUI) represents a pivotal project at the European Commission’s level, aiming to develop a strong and representative European higher education landscape, especially in relation to the global educational market. The Commission’s role in this process is crucial, highlighted also by the specific political agenda mentioned in the document, enhancing the participation of the member states to a more cohesive and cooperative higher education community. The new future of the universities depends on the capacity to align to joint ideas and visions, and to strengthen cooperation and mutual trust across all sectors, not only for higher education, but with real impact in economy, social values, cultural enhancement, and others.

As the document emphasises the role of different policy documents proposed at European level, it is equally important to address how several member states have adhered to these visions, shaping national legislation and practices, fostering a stronger and more visible participation of higher education institutions to the EUI, while still preserving the specificities and characteristics of each regional and local community, with respect to democratic values, European citizenship, and transnational cooperation. The new academic model is more and more present in many of the European member states, and this reality should become a pillar of the new investment pathway for European Universities since the support and contribution of each member state plays a fundamental role in assuring the participation of higher education institutions to this transformative process.

While the new European educational landscape may seem like a top-down, political, process, but the real transformation happens at the grassroots level, through each member of the academic community: professors, researchers, administrative staff members, and students.
description: Grant: CIVIS a European Civic University (ERASMUS-EDU-2022-EUR-UNIV-1-101089983)
Chronic Social Stress, Affiliation, and Cellular Immune Response in Nonhuman Primates
Creators: name: Cohen, Sheldon
name: Kaplan, Jay R
name: Cunnick, Joan E.
name: Manuck, Stephen B
name: Rabin, Bruce
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We report the first experimental study of the effect of long-term (over 2 years) exposure to a stressor on cellular immune response Forty-three male cynomolgus monkeys were randomly assigned to stable or unstable social conditions for 26 months The proportion of time spent in affiliative behaviors was assessed by observations made twice weekly T-cell immune response (mitogen-stimulated cell proliferation) was assessed weekly for 3 weeks immediately following the 26-month manipulation The possibility that affiliative behavior represents an attempt to cope with social stress was supported by greater affiliation among animals in the unstable condition than in the stable condition Animals in the unstable condition also demonstrated relatively suppressed immune response More affiliative animals showed enhanced immune response, with the beneficial effects of affiliation occurring primarily among unstable animals The data are interpreted as consistent with the stress-buffering hypothesis, that is, affiliation protects animals from the potentially pathogenic influences of chronic social stress
The effect of hydrostatic pressure on thermodynamic characteristics of NH$_3$CH$_2$COOH$\cdot$H$_2$PO$_3$ type ferroelectric materials
Creators: name: Zachek, I. R.
name: Levitskii, R. R.
name: Vdovych, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The model of NH$_3$CH$_2$COOH$\cdot$H$_2$PO$_3$, modified by taking into account the piezoelectric coupling between the ordering structure elements and the strains $\varepsilon_i$, $\varepsilon_j$, is used for investigation of the effects that appear under external pressures. Within two-particle cluster approximation, the components of polarization vector and static dielectric permittivity tensor of the mechanically clamped and free crystals, their piezoelectric and thermal characteristics are calculated. The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the phase transition and the calculated physical characteristics of the crystal is studied. A good quantitative description of experimental data for these crystals is obtained.
description: 14 pages, 15 figures
Chronic Psychological Stress and the Regulation of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines: A Glucocorticoid-Resistance Model
Creators: name: Miller, Gregory E
name: Cohen, Sheldon
name: A Kim Ritchey
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study examined whether chronic stress impairs the immune system’s capacity to respond to hormonal signals that terminate inflammation. Fifty healthy adults were studied; half were parents of cancer patients, and half were parents of healthy children. Parents of cancer patients reported more psychological distress than parents of healthy children. They also had flatter diurnal slopes of cortisol secretion, primarily because of reduced output during the morning hours. There was also evidence that chronic stress impaired the immune system’s response to anti-inflammatory signals: The capacity of a synthetic glucocorticoid hormone to suppress in vitro production of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 was diminished among parents of cancer patients. Findings suggest a novel pathway by which chronic stress might alter the course of inflammatory disease.
title: A qualitative study of engagement and strategic value in UK nomination committees
Creators: name: Simnett, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2022

description: The revised 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code came into effect in January 2019 
and both extended the remit and empowered nomination committees. The consultation for 
review will open in mid-2022. This is the context for this exploratory study investigating 
strategic value from UK nomination committees. The role of the nomination committee chair 
is examined to understand how they engage with committee members, both inside and outside 
of formal meetings, to realise strategic value to the board.
Nomination committees and their chairs are the least researched committees and 
committee chairs. They are typically responsible for the recruitment and selection of executive 
and non-executive directors, succession planning and diversity. In over 80% of FTSE 350 
companies, the board chair is the nomination committee chair as permitted by the UK Code.
Thirty-three FTSE All Share board directors were interviewed and data was
thematically analysed focussing on engagement, strategic value, future governance regulation 
and impact from Covid-19. Strategic value was found to be realised through a holistic 
interpretation which takes the broadest definition of diversity, goes deep into the organisation 
for succession planning and entails long-range forecasting of skills for board and committee 
composition. This contributes to knowledge about the dynamics of nomination committees, the 
committee chair role and how it can be optimised to realise strategic value to the board via an 
emergent model.
Role theory is extended to better understand role overload by non-executive directors, 
role duality when the board chair is also nomination committee chair, and role conflict for the 
CEO on workforce engagement.
Matter-waves in Bose-Einstein condensates with spin-orbit and Rabi couplings
Creators: name: Chiquillo, Emerson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D)reduction of a quantum field theory starting from the three-dimensional (3D) many-body Hamiltonian of interacting bosons with spin-orbit (SO) and Rabi couplings. We obtain the effective time-dependent 1D and 2D nonpolynomial Heisenberg equations for both repulsive and attractive signs of the inter-atomic interaction. Our findings show that in case in which the many-body state coincides with the Glauber coherent state,the 1D and 2D Heisenberg equations become 1D and 2D nonpolynomial Schrödinger equations (NPSEs). These models were derived in a mean-field approximation from 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE), describing a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)with SO and Rabi couplings. In the present work self-repulsive and self-attractive localized solutions of the 1D NPSE and the 1D GPE are obtained in a numerical form. The combined action of SO and Rabi couplings produces conspicuous sidelobes on the density profile, for both signs of the interaction. In the case of the attractive nonlinearity, an essential result is the possibility of getting an unstable condensate by increasing of SO coupling.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Chronic caregiver stress and IgE expression, allergen-induced proliferation, and cytokine profiles in a birth cohort predisposed to atopy
Creators: name: Wright, Rosalind J
name: Finn, Patricia
name: Contreras, Johanna Paola
name: Cohen, Sheldon
name: Wright, Robert O.
name: Staudenmayer, John
name: Wand, Matthew
name: Perkins, David
name: Weiss, Scott
name: Gold, Diane R.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: BACKGROUND: Psychologic stress modifies immune function and cytokine production. OBJECTIVE: We examined relationships between caregiver stress on the following markers of early childhood immune response: (1) IgE expression (n=215); (2) mitogen-induced and allergen-specific (Dermatophagoides farinae [Der f 1] and cockroach [Bla g 2]) proliferative response (n=114); and (3) subsequent cytokine expression (INF-gamma, TNF-alpha, IL-10, and IL-13) in a prospective birth cohort predisposed to atopy. METHODS: Caregiver stress was measured at 2-month intervals for the first 2 years of life and yearly thereafter by using the Perceived Stress Scale. A subsequent blood sample obtained from the children (median age, 2.1 years; range, 18-32 months) was analyzed for total serum IgE level and allergen-induced proliferation quantified as the stimulation index (SI; mean thymidine incorporation of the stimulated sample divided by that of the unstimulated sample). The relationship between stress and the proliferative response (SI >3 vs SI < or =3), and total IgE level (< or =100 IU/mL vs >100 IU/mL) was examined by using logistic regression. The relationship between cytokine levels and stress was analyzed by using linear regression. RESULTS: In adjusted analyses higher caregiver stress in the first 6 months after birth was associated with a Der f 1 SI of greater than 3 (odds ratio [OR], 1.5; 95% CI, 1.0-2.3) and nominally associated with a Bla g 2 SI of greater than 3 (OR, 1.13; 95% CI, 0.7-1.8). Higher stress between ages 6 and 18 months was associated with a high total IgE level (OR, 2.03; 95% CI, 1.1-3.6). Higher stress was significantly associated with increased production of TNF-alpha, with a suggested trend between higher stress and reduced INF-gamma production. CONCLUSION: Increased stress in early childhood was associated with an atopic immune profile in these children predisposed to atopy-asthma.
title: Desk Study Tools for Upgrade of Breakwaters against Increased Loadings Caused by Climate Change
Creators: name: Eldrup, Mads Røge
name: Lykke Andersen, Thomas
name: Burcharth, Hans
Publisher: name: Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau
Year: 2019

description: Presented at: Coastal Structures Conference 2019, Hannover, Germany, September 30th – October 2nd, 2019
Quasi-Mobius Homeomorphisms of Morse boundaries
Creators: name: Charney, Ruth
name: Cordes, Matthew
name: Murray, Devin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 57M07

description: The Morse boundary of a proper geodesic metric space is designed to encode hypberbolic-like behavior in the space. A key property of this boundary is that a quasi-isometry between two such spaces induces a homeomorphism on their Morse boundaries. In this paper we investigate when the converse holds. We prove that for $X, Y$ proper, cocompact spaces, a homeomorphism between their Morse boundaries is induced by a quasi-isometry if and only if the homeomorphism is quasi-mobius and 2-stable.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1707.07028
The Star Formation Reference Survey. II. Activity demographics and host-galaxy properties for Infrared-selected galaxies
Creators: name: Maragkoudakis, A.
name: Zezas, A.
name: Ashby, M. L. N.
name: Willner, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present activity demographics and host-galaxy properties of infrared-selected galaxies in the local Universe, using the representative Star Formation Reference Survey (SFRS). Our classification scheme is based on a combination of optical emission-line diagrams (BPT) and IR-color diagnostics. Using the weights assigned to the SFRS galaxies based on its parent sample, a far-infrared-selected sample comprises 71\% H\,\textsc{ii} galaxies, 13\% Seyferts, 3\% Transition Objects (TOs), and 13\% Low-Ionization Nuclear Emission-Line Regions (LINERs). For the SFRS H\,\textsc{ii} galaxies we derive nuclear star-formation rates and gas-phase metallicities. We measure host-galaxy metallicities for all galaxies with available long-slit spectroscopy and abundance gradients for a subset of 12 face-on galaxies. The majority of H\,\textsc{ii} galaxies show a narrow range of metallicities, close to solar, and flat metallicity profiles. Based on their host-galaxy and nuclear properties, the dominant ionizing source in the far-infrared selected TOs is star-forming activity. LINERs are found mostly in massive hosts (median of $10^{10.5}$ M$_{\odot} $), median $L(60μm) = 10^{9}$ L$_{\odot}$, median dust temperatures of $ F60/F100 = 0.36 $, and median $L_{\textrm{H}α}$ surface density of $ 10^{40.2} $ erg s$ ^{-1} $kpc$ ^{-2} $, indicating older stellar populations as their main ionizing source rather than AGN activity.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 24 pages, 21 figures, 8 tables
Demonstration of a Sensitive Method to Measure Nuclear Spin-Dependent Parity Violation
Creators: name: Altuntas, Emine
name: Ammon, Jeffrey
name: Cahn, Sidney B.
name: DeMille, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear spin-dependent parity violation (NSD-PV) effects in atoms and molecules arise from $Z^0$ boson exchange between electrons and the nucleus, and from the magnetic interaction between electrons and the parity-violating nuclear anapole moment. We demonstrate measurements of NSD-PV that use an enhancement of the effect in diatomic molecules, here using the test system $^{138}$Ba$^{19}$F. Our sensitivity surpasses that of any previous atomic PV measurement. We show that systematic errors can be suppressed to at least the level of the present statistical sensitivity. We measure the matrix element, $W$, of the NSD-PV interaction with total uncertainty $δW/(2π)<0.7$ Hz, for each of two configurations where $W$ must have different signs. This sensitivity would be sufficient to measure NSD-PV effects of the size anticipated across a wide range of nuclei.
description: 5 pages and 4 figures, Submitted to PRL. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1711.01988
Chinese children excel on novel mathematics problems even before elementary school.
Creators: name: Siegler, Robert
name: Mu, Yan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Kindergartners in China showed greater numerical knowledge than their age peers in the United States, not only when tested with arithmetic problems, which Chinese parents present to their children more often than U.S. parents do, but also when tested with number-line estimation problems, which were novel to the children in both countries. The Chinese kindergartners' number-line estimates were comparable to those of U.S. children 1 to 2 years more advanced in school. Individual differences in arithmetic and number-line-estimation performance were positively correlated within each country. These results indicate that performance differences between Chinese and U.S. children on both practiced and unpracticed mathematical tasks are substantial even before the children begin elementary school.
Children's learning.
Creators: name: Siegler, Robert
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: A new field of children's learning is emerging. This new field differs from the old in recognizing that children's learning includes active as well as passive mechanisms and qualitative as well as quantitative changes. Children's learning involves substantial variability of representations and strategies within individual children as well as across different children. The path of learning involves the introduction of new approaches as well as changes in the frequency of prior ones. The rate and the breadth of learning tend to occur at a human scale, intermediate between the extremes depicted by symbolic and connectionist models. Learning has many sources; one that is particularly promising for educational purposes is self-explanations. Overall, contemporary analyses show that learning and development have a great deal in common.
Sensing behavior of acetone vapors on TiO$_2$ nanostructures --- application of density functional theory
Creators: name: Nagarajan, V.
name: Sriram, S.
name: Chandiramouli, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic properties of TiO$_2$ nanostructure are explored using density functional theory. The adsorption properties of acetone on TiO$_2$ nanostructure are studied in terms of adsorption energy, average energy gap variation and Mulliken charge transfer. The density of states spectrum and the band structure clearly reveals the adsorption of acetone on TiO$_2$ nanostructures. The variation in the energy gap and changes in the density of charge are observed upon adsorption of acetone on n-type TiO$_2$ base material. The results of DOS spectrum reveal that the transfer of electrons takes place between acetone vapor and TiO$_2$ base material. The findings show that the adsorption property of acetone is more favorable on TiO$_2$ nanostructure. Suitable adsorption sites of acetone on TiO$_2$ nanostructure are identified at atomistic level. From the results, it is confirmed that TiO$_2$ nanostructure can be efficiently utilized as a sensing element for the detection of acetone vapor in a mixed environment.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables
An analysis of the fluctuation potential in the modified Poisson-Boltzmann theory for restricted primitive model electrolytes
Creators: name: Ulloa-Dávila, E. O.
name: Bhuiyan, L. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An approximate analytical solution to the fluctuation potential problem in the modified Poisson-Boltzmann theory of electrolyte solutions in the restricted primitive model is presented. The solution is valid for all inter-ionic distances, including contact values. The fluctuation potential solution is implemented in the theory to describe the structure of the electrolyte in terms of the radial distribution functions, and to calculate some aspects of thermodynamics, viz., configurational reduced energies, and osmotic coefficients. The calculations have been made for symmetric valence 1:1 systems at the physical parameters of ionic diameter $4.25 \times 10^{-10}$ m, relative permittivity 78.5, absolute temperature 298 K, and molar concentrations 0.1038, 0.425, 1.00, and 1.968. Radial distribution functions are compared with the corresponding results from the symmetric Poisson-Boltzmann, and the conventional and modified Poisson-Boltzmann theories. Comparisons have also been done for the contact values of the radial distributions, reduced configurational energies, and osmotic coefficients as functions of electrolyte concentration. Some Monte Carlo simulation data from the literature are also included in the assessment of the thermodynamic predictions. Results show a very good agreement with the Monte Carlo results and some improvement for osmotic coefficients and radial distribution functions contact values relative to these theories. The reduced energy curve shows excellent agreement with Monte Carlo data for molarities up to 1 mol/dm$^{3}$.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
title: Testing cosmological models against the abundance of damped Lyman-alpha absorbers
Creators: name: Gardner, JP
name: Katz, N
name: Weinberg, DH
name: Hernquist, L
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: cosmology
subject: theory
subject: galaxies
subject: formation
subject: halos
subject: large-scale structure of universe
subject: quasars
subject: absorption lines
subject: Astrophysics and Astronomy

description: This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/486/1/42/
description: We calculate the number of damped Lyα absorbers expected in various popular cosmological models as a function of redshift and compare our predictions with observed abundances. The Press-Schechter formalism is used to obtain the distribution of halos with circular velocity in different cosmologies, and we calibrate the relation between circular velocity and absorption cross section using detailed gasdynamical simulations of a standard cold dark matter (CDM) model. Because of this calibration, our approach makes more realistic assumptions about the absorption properties of collapsed objects than previous, analytic calculations of the damped Lyα abundance. CDM models with Ω0 = 1, H0 = 50 km s-1 Mpc-1, baryon density Ωb = 0.05, and scale-invariant primeval fluctuations reproduce the observed incidence and redshift evolution of damped Lyα absorption to within observational uncertainty, for both COBE normalization (σ8 = 1.2) and a lower normalization (σ8 = 0.7) that better matches the observed cluster abundance at z = 0. A tilted (n = 0.8, σ8 = 0.7) CDM model tends to underproduce absorption, especially at z = 4. With COBE normalization, a CDM model with Ω0 = 0.4, ΩΛ = 0.6 gives an acceptable fit to the observed absorption; an open CDM model is marginally acceptable if Ω0 ≥ 0.4 and is strongly inconsistent with the z = 4 data if Ω0 = 0.3. Mixed dark matter models tend not to produce sufficient absorption, being roughly comparable to tilted CDM models if Ων = 0.2 and failing drastically if Ων = 0.3.
Children’s scientific curiosity: In search of an operational definition of an elusive concept
Creators: name: Jirout, Jamie
name: Klahr, David
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Although curiosity is an undeniably important aspect of children’s cognitive development, a universally accepted operational definition of children’s curiosity does not exist. Almost all of the research on measuring curiosity has focused on adults, and has used predominately questionnaire-type measures that are not appropriate for young children. In this review we (a) synthesize the range of definitions and measures of children’s curiosity and (b) propose a new operational definition and measurement procedure for assessing and advancing scientific curiosity in young children. In the first part of the paper, we summarize Loewenstein’s (1994) review of theoretical perspectives on adult curiosity, and critically evaluate a wide range of efforts to create and implement operational measures of curiosity, focusing mainly on behavioral measures of curiosity in children. In the second part, we return to Loewenstein’s theory and present an argument for adopting his “information-gap” theory of curiosity as a framework for reviewing various procedures that have been suggested for measuring children’s exploratory curiosity. Finally, we describe a new paradigm for measuring exploratory curiosity in preschool children, defining curiosity as the threshold of desired uncertainty in the environment that leads to exploratory behavior. We present data demonstrating the reliability and validity of this measure, discuss initial results on developmental differences in young children’s curiosity, and conclude with a general summary and suggestions for future research.
Penna - A Tool for Collecting Qualitative Textual Data
Creators: name: Ala-Fossi, Jukka
name: Raerinne, Enna
name: Seitamäki, Sirkku
name: Heinonen, Matti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Qualitative data
Web application
DDI
Data collection

description: (Poster presentation at the EDDI19 in Tampere University, Tampere, December 3-4, 2019.) Penna is a web application for collecting self-administered writings for research purposes. It was built at Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) and has been in production since fall 2017. FSD offers Penna as a service for researchers to collect metadata and writings easily. FSD gets to archive the collected data. FSD and the researcher construct together a questionnaire which is a web form to be shared with possible respondents. The respondents fill the form and submit it. After the collection period is over FSD can export the questionnaire and the writings as a package that can be delivered to themselves and the researcher. The exported questionnaires can be later imported to create new questionnaires. Additionally, a DDI Codebook of the questionnaire is included in the export package. The DDI file consists of questions/variables of the questionnaire and metadata about the collection. The file is compatible with DDI-C versions 2.1 and 2.5. The DDI file can be used as a basis for documenting the data. This poster will present Penna’s features and technical details from the perspective of different types of users. We will also demonstrate the use of Penna.
Harmonically trapped attractive and repulsive spin-orbit and Rabi coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Chiquillo, Emerson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerically we investigate the ground state of effective one-dimensional spin-orbit (SO) and Rabi coupled two pseudo-spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) under the effect of harmonic traps. For both signs of the interaction, density profiles of SO and Rabi coupled BECs in harmonic potentials, which simulate a real experimental situation are obtained. The harmonic trap causes a strong reduction of the multi-peak nature of the condensate and it increases its density. For repulsive interactions, the increase of SO coupling results in an uncompressed less dense condensate and with increased multi-peak nature of the density. The increase of Rabi coupling leads to a density increase with an almost constant number of multi-peaks. For both signs of the interaction and negative values of Rabi coupling, the condensate develops a notch in the central point and it seems to a dark-in-bright soliton. In the case of the attractive nonlinearity, an interesting result is the increase of the collapse threshold under the action of the SO and Rabi couplings.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Children with diabetes compared to peers: depressed? Distressed? A meta-analytic review.
Creators: name: Reynolds, Kerry A.
name: Helgeson, Vicki
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: BACKGROUND: It is not clear from the literature whether children with diabetes have more psychological difficulties than their peers. PURPOSE: This study aims to use meta-analysis to determine if children with diabetes differ from children without a chronic illness in a variety of domains reflecting psychological well-being. METHOD: A meta-analysis was undertaken of 22 studies that compared children with diabetes to a comparison group. Outcomes included depression, anxiety, behavioral problems, and related constructs. RESULTS: Children with diabetes were more likely than comparison groups to experience a variety of psychological difficulties. However, these effects were small to medium in magnitude and were typically smaller among more recent studies and studies with well-matched comparison groups. CONCLUSIONS: This meta-analysis suggests that children with diabetes are at slightly elevated risk for psychological difficulties. Future work will need to help identify children at the highest risk, and to identify factors associated with resilience.
Characteristic αand ^{6}He decays of the linear-chains in ^{16}C
Creators: name: Baba, Tomoyuki
name: Kimura, Masaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The linear-chain states of $^{16}$C and their decay modes are theoretically investigated by using the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. It is found that the positive-parity linear-chain states have the $(3/2^-_π)^2(1/2^-_σ)^2$ configuration and primary decay to the $^{12}$Be($2^+_1$) as well as to the $^{12}$Be(g.s.) by the $α$ particle emission. Moreover, we show that they also decay to the $^6{\rm He}+{}^{10}{\rm Be}$ channel. In the negative-parity states, it is found that two types of the linear-chains exist. One has the valence neutrons occupying the molecular-orbits $(3/2^-_π)^2(1/2^-_σ)(3/2^+_π)$, while the other's configuration cannot be explained in terms of the molecular orbits because of the strong parity mixing. Both configurations constitute the rotational bands with large moment of inertia and intra-bands $E2$ transitions. Their $α$ and ${}^{6}{\rm He}$ reduced widths are sufficiently large to be distinguished from other non-cluster states although they are smaller than those of the positive-parity linear-chain.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1605.05567
$\mathbb{Z}_3$ Topological Order in Face Centered Cubic Quantum Plaquette Model
Creators: name: Devakul, Trithep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the topological order in the resonating singlet valence plaquette (RSVP) phase of the hard-core quantum plaquette model (QPM) on the face centered cubic (FCC) lattice. To do this, we construct a Rohksar-Kivelson type Hamiltonian of local plaquette resonances. This model is shown to exhibit a $\mathbb{Z}_3$ topological order, which we show by identifying a $\mathbb{Z}_3$ topological constant (which leads to a $3^3$-fold topological ground state degeneracy on the $3$-torus) and topological point-like charge and loop-like magnetic excitations which obey $\mathbb{Z}_3$ statistics. We also consider an exactly solvable generalization of this model, which makes the geometrical origin of the $\mathbb{Z}_3$ order explicitly clear. For other models and lattices, such generalizations produce a wide variety of topological phases, some of which are novel fracton phases.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Childhood socioeconomic status, telomere length, and susceptibility to upper respiratory infection
Creators: name: Cohen, Sheldon
name: Deverts, Denise
name: Turner, Ronald
name: Marsland, Anna L
name: Casselbrant, Margaretha M.
name: Ha-Sheng  Li-Korotky
name: Epel, Elissa S.
name: Doyle, William J
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Low socioeconomic status (SES) during childhood and adolescence has been found to predict greater susceptibility to common cold viruses in adults. Here, we test whether low childhood SES is associated with shorter leukocyte telomere length in adulthood, and whether telomere length mediates the association between childhood SES and susceptibility to acute upper respiratory disease in adulthood. At baseline, 196 healthy volunteers reported whether they currently owned their home and, for each year of their childhood, whether their parents owned the family home. Volunteers also had blood drawn for assessment of specific antibody to the challenge virus, and for CD8+CD28− T-lymphocyte telomere length (in a subset, n = 135). They were subsequently quarantined in a hotel, exposed to a virus (rhinovirus [RV] 39) that causes a common cold and followed for infection and illness (clinical cold) over five post-exposure days. Lower childhood SES as measured by fewer years of parental home ownership was associated with shorter adult CD8+CD28− telomere length and with an increased probability of developing infection and clinical illness when exposed to a common cold virus in adulthood. These associations were independent of adult SES, age, sex, race, body mass, neuroticism, and childhood family characteristics. Associations with infections and colds were also independent of pre-challenge viral-specific antibody and season. Further analyses do not support mediating roles for smoking, alcohol consumption or physical activity but suggest that CD8+CD28− cell telomere length may act as a partial mediator of the associations between childhood SES and infection and childhood SES and colds.
title: Trust we lost: The Treuhand experience and political behavior in the former German Democratic Republic
Creators: name: Kellermann, Kim Leonie
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 330 Economics

description: We study whether the experience of losing one's job due to the Treuhand activities in the early 1990s affected long-term political behavior among citizens of the former German Democratic Republic. During the German Reunification process, the Treuhand coordinated the privatization of former GDR firms at the cost of massive job losses. We exploit individual and spatial variation in Treuhand layoffs between 1990 and 1994, based on micro-level survey data from the German Socio-economic Panel and firm data from the IWH Treuhand Database to examine the effects on various behavioral outcomes in later years. Our results suggest that former GDR citizens who have experienced a Treuhand layoff are significantly more likely to prefer a radical party, are less interested in politics and tend to have less trust in others. At the aggregate level, districts with relatively more layoffs exhibit higher radical left vote shares in federal elections. Investigating the underlying mechanisms, we find that the effects of Treuhand job losses are relatively stronger for respondents who stayed in East Germany after Reunification. Furthermore, it seems to be nostalgia and disappointment with the transition process which drive the effects, rather than financial grievances.
title: The population of damped Ly alpha and Lyman limit systems in the cold dark matter model
Creators: name: Gardner, JP
name: Katz, N
name: Hernquist, L
name: Weinberg, DH
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: cosmology
subject: theory
subject: dark matter
subject: galaxies
subject: formation
subject: halos
subject: kinematics and dynamics
subject: large-scale structure of universe
subject: quasars
subject: absorption lines
subject: Astrophysics and Astronomy

description: The published version is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/484/1/31/
description: Lyman limit and damped Lyα absorption systems probe the distribution of collapsed, cold gas at high redshift. Numerical simulations that incorporate gravity and gasdynamics can predict the abundance of such absorbers in cosmological models. We develop a semianalytical method to correct the numerical predictions for the contribution of unresolved low-mass halos, and we apply this method to the Katz et al. simulation of the standard cold dark matter model (Ω = 1, h = 0.5, Ωb = 0.05, and σ8 = 0.7). Using this simulation and higher resolution simulations of individual low-mass systems, we determine the relation between a halo's circular velocity vc and its cross section for producing Lyman limit or damped Lyα absorption. We combine this relation with the Press-Schechter formula for the abundance of halos—itself calibrated against the simulated halo population—in order to compute the number of absorbers per unit redshift. The resolution correction increases the predicted abundances by about a factor of 2 at z = 2, 3, and 4, bringing the predicted number of damped Lyα absorbers into quite good agreement with observations. Roughly half of these systems reside in halos with circular velocities vc ≥ 100 km s-1, and half in halos with 35 km s-1 ≤ vc ≤ 100 km s-1. Halos with vc > 150 km s-1 typically harbor two or more systems capable of producing damped absorption. Even with the resolution correction, the predicted abundance of Lyman limit systems is a factor of 3 below observational estimates, signifying either a failure of the standard cold dark matter model or a failure of these simulations to resolve most of the systems responsible for Lyman limit absorption. By comparing simulations with and without star formation, we find that the depletion of the gas supply by star formation affects absorption-line statistics at z ≥ 2 for column densities exceeding NH I = 1022 cm-2 only, even though half of the cold, collapsed gas has been converted to stars by z = 2.
Semiclassical Horizons
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Arundhati
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entropy of apparent horizons is derived using coherent states or semiclassical states in quantum gravity. The leading term is proportional to area for large horizons, and the correction terms differ according to the details of the graph which is used to regularise the quantum gravity phase space variables.
description: 9pgs, Talk at Theory Canada III, to appear in CJP