cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Amenable actions on ill-behaved simple C*-algebras
Creators: name: Suzuki, Yuhei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 46L55, Secondary 46L35

description: By combining Rørdam's construction and the author's previous construction, we provide the first examples of amenable actions of non-amenable groups on simple separable nuclear C*-algebras that are neither stably finite nor purely infinite. For free groups, we also provide unital examples. We arrange the actions so that the crossed products are still simple with both a finite and an infinite projection.
description: 22 pages, no mathematical changes but expositions and explanations greatly improved (following referee's comments). Final version, to appear in IMRN
The obscure precession of Mercury's perihelion
Creators: name: RICHARD WAYTE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Solar System, Solar Physics, Planets and Exoplanets

description: The Sun’s motion around the Solar System barycentre produces a small quadrupole moment in the gravitational energy of Mercury. This moment has until now gone undiscovered, but it actually generates 7arcsec/cy precession of Mercury’s perihelion. Consequently, the residual 43arcsec/cy previously attributed to general relativity theory must account for this new component and only 36arcsec/cy for GR. 
Covariational reasoning in Bayesian situations
Creators: name: Büchter, Theresa
name: Eichler, Andreas
name: Böcherer-Linder, Katharina
name: Vogel, Markus
name: Binder, Karin
name: Krauss, Stefan
name: Steib, Nicole
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Covariational reasoning
subject: Bayesian reasoning
subject: Double-tree
subject: Unit square
subject: Natural frequencies
subject: SOLO taxonomy
subject: 510
subject: Mathematik
subject: Denken
subject: Bayes-Verfahren

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
The Real World Worry Waves Dataset
Creators: name: Kleinberg, Bennett
name: Van Der Vegt, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Public Health

description: We introduce the Real World Worry Waves Dataset (RW3D). The dataset combines richt text responses in combination with survey data on emotions, significant life events, and psychological stressors in a repeated-measures design over three years (2020, 2021 and 2022).
An investigation of subtitles as learning support in university education
Creators: name: Chan, Wing Shan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Past literature on the benefits of subtitles has yielded contradictory results as variables such as language proficiency, language history, subtitle language, and subtitle characteristics have not been fully and consistently controlled. Furthermore, there is little research on the actual processing and impact of subtitles as learning support for first and second language learners in academic contexts - an evidently growing area of need. Using a mixed-methods approach, the current study aims to investigate the processing and resultant impact of subtitles on English and Chinese-speaking students in terms of their comprehension and cognitive load. Experiment1 (n=103) of the study was a five-week data collection in an authentic university classroom and revealed that English-speaking participants had lower self-reported cognitive load in reading foreign language subtitles while the presence of subtitles had no impact on Chinese-speaking participants. Experiment 2 (n=70) was a laboratory-based experiment replicating Experiment1 with a group of Chinese first-language students in a more controlled environment in which three conditions were examined: first-language subtitles, second-language subtitles, and no subtitles. First-language subtitles were found to result in improved comprehension. The current study adds further insight and complement existing research on the effectiveness of subtitles and subtitle language that second-language learners reading first-language subtitles improve performance in an academic context. The results provide a valuable implication on education pedagogy in terms of assisting second-language learners in achieving their highest potential academically without being disadvantaged by possible language barriers.
Accelerating universal expansion
Creators: name: RICHARD WAYTE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cosmology

description: Repulsive gravity at large distances has been included in the universal solution of Einstein’s equations by introducing a cosmological constant, which excludes the dark energy interpretation. For an external-coordinate-observer cosmological model, the big-bang singularity has been replaced by a granular primeval particle, and expansion is controlled by the velocity of light. Then problems inherent in the standard model do not arise, and no inflation phase is necessary. It is advantageous to truncate the graviton field at a maximum radius, which is related to proton dimensions through the ratio (e2/Gm2). This governs the onset of universal repulsion at around 7Gyr, in rough agreement with observations of Type Ia supernovae. 
Electroweak vacuum stability in the Higgs-Dilaton theory
Creators: name: Shkerin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stability of the Electroweak (EW) vacuum in a scale-invariant extension of the Standard Model and General Relativity, known as a Higgs-Dilaton theory. The safety of the EW vacuum against possible transition towards another vacuum is a necessary condition for the model to be phenomenologically acceptable. We find that, within a wide range of parameters of the theory, the decay rate is significantly suppressed compared to that of the Standard Model. We also discuss properties of a tunneling solution that are specific to the Higgs-Dilaton theory.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Calorimetric Measurements at Low Temperatures in Toluene Glass and Crystal
Creators: name: Alvarez-Ney, C.
name: Labarga, J.
name: Moratalla, M.
name: Castilla, J. M.
name: Ramos, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The specific heat of toluene in glass and crystal states, has been measured both at low temperatures down to 1.8 K (using the thermal relaxation method) and in a wide temperature range up to the liquid state (using a quasiadiabatic continuous method). Our measurements therefore extend earlier published data to much lower temperatures, thereby allowing to explore the low temperature glassy anomalies in the case of toluene. Surprisingly, no indication of the existence of tunneling states is found, at least within the temperature range studied. At moderate temperatures, our data either for the glass or for the crystal show good agreement with those found in the literature. Also, we have been able to prepare bulk samples of toluene glass by only doping with 2% mol ethanol instead of with higher impurity doses used by other authors.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures. Work presented at the 11th International Conference on Cryocrystals and Quantum Crystals (Turku, Finland), 18-24 August 2016
title: ADCO, Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 088
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 088, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 088, 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
Renormalization for singular-potential scattering
Creators: name: Li, Wen-Du
name: Dai, Wu-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the calculation of quantum-mechanical singular-potential scattering, one encounters divergence. We suggest three renormalization schemes, dimensional renormalization, analytic continuation approach, and minimal-subtraction scheme to remove the divergence.
Proteomics of adipose derived cells and secretions: implications for renal failure
Creators: name: Medynskyj, Michael John
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Adipose tissue is now viewed as an important endocrine organ through the actions of adipokines; and a source of multipotent adult mesenchymal stem cells termed adipose derived stem cells, or ADSCs. Adipokines, the term used for the protein secretions from adipose tissue, have been shown to have broad ranging effects on the body and have been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis or amelioration of disease processes. The paracrine effects of secretions from ADSCs have been shown to be the major driving force behind the therapeutic benefits of ADSC treatments in most cases. The work described here utilised protein secretion preparations derived from rodent and human adipose tissue produced in vitro to assess the potential of a secretion mixture as a therapeutic agent for renal disease. Renal disease is a growing problem world-wide with relatively little improvement in treatment regimens or drug effectiveness in the past twenty years. This thesis combines knowledge from the growing field of adipose cell-derived regenerative medicine and novel xenogeneic applications of proteomic techniques to test the effects of adipose tissue secretions on renal cells. Xenogeneic cell-based assays were developed to test the effects of the human adipose secretions on rodent primary renal cells (PRCs) and Madin-Darby canine kidney cells (MDCK cells). Novel applications of multiplexed cytokine assays were combined with quantitative proteomic analysis in order to gain a complex and meaningful understanding of the effects of the secretions on primary and immortalised renal cells. Simultaneous analysis of the secretory response to treatment by the PRCs and the uptake of human adipose secretions by the cells were performed, providing novel data on biological effects of the adipose secretions and the relevance of certain cytokines within the preparation. Proteomic analysis indicate broad suppression of TGF-β signalling pathways, increased resistance to apoptosis, altered cytoskeletal organisation and increased mitotic potential in the treated renal cell populations; effects that appear beneficial to the recovery from renal disease processes.
Fluid velocity slip and temperature jump at a solid surface
Creators: name: Shu, Jian-Jun
name: Teo, Ji Bin Melvin
name: Chan, Weng Kong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A comprehensive review of current analytical models, experimental techniques, and influencing factors is carried out to highlight the current challenges in this area. The study of fluid-solid boundary conditions has been ongoing for more than a century, starting from gas-solid interfaces and progressing to that of the more complex liquid-solid case. Breakthroughs have been made on the theoretical and experimental fronts but the mechanism behind the phenomena remains a puzzle. This paper provides a review of the theoretical models, and numerical and experimental investigations that have been carried out till date. Probable mechanisms and factors that affect the interfacial discontinuity are also documented.
Incorporating climate change model projections into ecological risk assessments to help inform risk management and adaptation strategies: Synthesis of a SETAC Pellston Workshop®
Creators: name: Stahl, RG
name: Boxall, ABA
name: Brix, KV
name: Landis, WG
name: Stauber, Jenny
name: Moe, SJ
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 410102
subject: Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation

description: The impacts of global climate change are not yet well integrated with the estimates of the impacts of chemicals on the environment. This is evidenced by the lack of consideration in national or international reports that evaluate the impacts of climate change and chemicals on ecosystems and the relatively few peer-reviewed publications that have focused on this interaction. In response, a 2011 Pellston Workshop® was held on this issue and resulted in seven publications in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Yet, these publications did not move the field toward climate change and chemicals as important factors together in research or policy-making. Here, we summarize the outcomes of a second Pellston Workshop® on this topic held in 2022 that included climate scientists, environmental toxicologists, chemists, and ecological risk assessors from 14 countries and various sectors. Participants were charged with assessing where climate models can be applied to evaluating potential exposure and ecological effects at geographical and temporal scales suitable for ecological risk assessment, and thereby be incorporated into adaptive risk management strategies. We highlight results from the workshop's five publications included in the special series “Incorporating Global Climate Change into Ecological Risk Assessments: Strategies, Methods and Examples.” We end this summary with the overall conclusions and recommendations from participants. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2024;00:1–8. © 2023 The Authors. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC).
Uncertainty Relation Based on Skew Information with Quantum Memory
Creators: name: Ma, Zhihao
name: Chen, Zhihua
name: Fei, Shaoming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new uncertainty relation by defining a measure of uncertainty based on skew information. For bipartite systems, we establish uncertainty relations with the existence of a quantum memory. A general relation between quantum correlations and tight bounds of uncertainty has been presented.
title: At the intersection of stance-management and repair
title: Meta-pragmatic claims as a practice for disarming disaffiliative responses
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Küttner, Uwe-Alexander
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: This article offers an in-depth analysis of one particular type of meta-talk. It looks at how speakers use the meta-pragmatic claim to have previously communicated ('said' or 'meant') the same as, or the equivalent of, what their interlocutor just said. Through detailed sequential analyses, it is shown that this claim is frequently used as a practice for disarming disaffiliative responses and thus to manage (and often resolve) incipient disagreement. Besides unpacking the precise mechanisms underlying this practice, the paper also takes stock of the various (and partly variable) lexico-morpho-syntactic, prosodic and bodily-visual elements of conduct that recurrently enter into its composition. Since the practice essentially rests on the speaker’s insinuation of having been misunderstood by their co-participant, its relationship to the organization of repair will also be discussed. It is argued that the practice operates precisely at the intersection of stance-management (agreement/disagreement) and repair, and that it exhibits features which reflect this intersectional character. Data are in English.
description: Dieser Beitrag widmet sich der Verwendung eines spezifischen Typs meta-sprachlicher Äußerungen. Er untersucht wie SprecherInnen des Englischen meta-pragmatische Behauptungen, zuvor das „Gleiche" kommuniziert (‚gesagt' oder ‚gemeint') zu haben wie ihr Gesprächspartner, verwenden. Mit Hilfe detaillierter sequenzieller Analysen wird gezeigt, dass diese Behauptungen oft verwendet werden, um disaffiliative Erwiderungen zu entkräften und somit aufkeimende Meinungsverschiedenheiten aufzulösen. Neben der Beschreibung der Mechanismen, die dieser Praktik zu Grunde liegen, werden die verschiedenen verbalen, para- und non-verbalen Ressourcen, die bei der Verwendung dieser Praktik (teils variabel) zum Einsatz ge-bracht werden, inventarisiert. Abschließend wird das Verhältnis dieser Praktik zu anderen Gesprächspraktiken diskutiert. Da sie grundlegend darauf fußt, dass ein Missverständnis auf Seiten des Gegenübers insinuiert wird, kann sie an der Schnittstelle von Praktiken zum Management von Einstellungen bzw. Haltungen und Reparaturen verortet werden.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe, 168
Generalisation of Conformal-Disformal Transformations of the Metric in Scalar-Tensor Theories
Creators: name: Babichev, Eugeny
name: Izumi, Keisuke
name: Noui, Karim
name: Tanahashi, Norihiro
name: Yamaguchi, Masahide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study new classes of metric transformations in the context of scalar-tensor theories, which involve both higher derivatives of the scalar field and derivatives of the metric itself. In general, such transformations are not invertible as they involve derivatives of the metric, which typically leads to instability due to Ostrogradsky ghosts. We show, however, that a certain class of this type of transformations is invertible: we construct new examples of invertible conformal (and also disformal) transformations with higher derivatives. Finally, we make use of these new transformations to construct extended mimetic theories of gravity, and we study their properties in the context of cosmology.
description: 33 pages, 1 table
A technique for making nuclear fusion in solids
Creators: name: RICHARD WAYTE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 20299 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description:  A technique is described for making nuclear fusion at room temperature by compressing a powder mixture comprising a deuteride and catalytic material. The result is explosive beyond known chemical reaction for the materials.
Klein-Gordon equation for a charged particle in space varying electromagnetic fields-A systematic study via Laplace transform
Creators: name: Das, Tapas
name: Arda, Altug
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exact solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation for a charged particle in the presence of three spatially varying electromagnetic fields, namely, (i) $\vec{E}=αβ_0e^{-αx_2}\hat{x}_2$, $\vec{B}=αβ_1e^{-αx_2}\hat{x}_3$ (ii) $\vec{E}=\frac{β_0^{'}}{x_2^2}\hat{x}_2$, $\vec{B}=\frac{β_1^{'}}{x_2^2}\hat{x}_3$, and (iii) $\vec{E}=\frac{2β_0^{'}}{x_2^3}\hat{x}_2$, $\vec{B}=\frac{2β_1^{'}}{x_2^3}\hat{x}_3$, are studied. All these fields are generated from a systematic study of a particular type of differential equation whose coefficients are linear in independent variable. The Laplace transform approach is used to find the solutions and the corresponding eigenfunctions are expressed in terms of the hypergeometric functions $\,_{1}F_{1}(a', b'; x)$ for first two cases of the above configurations while the same are expressed in terms of the Bessel functions of first kind, $J_{n}(x)$, for the last case
description: 16 pages
Exploring the use of the Fogg Model in Health: A scoping review protocol investigating its role in behavior change interventions
Creators: name: Ruiz, Manual Armayones
name: Anselmi, Giuliano Duarte
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: behavior change
subject: behavior change interventions
subject: behavioral design
subject: fogg behavior model
subject: health behavior change
subject: health promotion

description: Scoping Review
What if LSPACE = NP?
Creators: name: Vega, Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Theoretical Computer Science

description: P versus NP is considered as one of the most important open problems in computer science. This consists in knowing the answer of the following question: Is P equal to NP? This question was first mentioned in a letter written by John Nash to the National Security Agency in 1955. A precise statement of the P versus NP problem was introduced independently in 1971 by Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin. Since that date, all efforts to find a proof for this problem have failed. Another major complexity classes are EXP and LSPACE. Whether LSPACE = P is another fundamental question that it is as important as it is unresolved. However, we already know that P is not equal to EXP. We prove if P = NP and LSPACE = P, then every EXP-complete language can indeed contain a P-complete subset.
The perceived severity of obesity and eating disorders: effects of an information manipulation
Creators: name: Bullivant, Bianca
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The increasing public health burden and comorbid occurrence of obesity and eating disorders has resulted in calls for integrated health promotion efforts. Understanding community attitudes, particularly around the perceived severity of these conditions, is critical in informing such efforts. This thesis aimed to elucidate the relative perceived severity of obesity and eating disorders. Furthermore, this thesis aimed to determine the effect of an information manipulation on the perceived severity of obesity and eating disorders, while also taking into account the potential influence of several covariates deemed to be of interest, namely: gender, age, BMI, body dissatisfaction, familiarity, perceived prevalence, causal beliefs, and physical and mental health status. Participants (N = 288) were undergraduate psychology students that were randomly allocated to complete one of four versions of an online survey in which the content of information concerning eating disorders and obesity was manipulated, namely: No Information, Neutral Information, Eating Disorders Information, or Obesity Information. Participants then completed measures assessing the perceived severity of obesity and eating disorders and the aforementioned covariates. Results suggest that eating disorders are considered to be a more severe health condition than obesity. Manipulating information about eating disorders and obesity had little effect on the relative perceived severity of these conditions. Findings from the current study suggest that in this population at least, there may not be a need to raise awareness of the significance of eating disorders. Future research in more diverse study populations and exploring the effects of different information content and methods of delivery is needed. This will be important in ensuring both problems receive the public health attention they deserve moving forward.
Critical behaviour in one dimension: unconventional pairing, phase separation, BEC-BCS crossover and magnetic Lifshitz transition
Creators: name: Ptok, Andrzej
name: Cichy, Agnieszka
name: Rodríguez, Karen
name: Kapcia, Konrad J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the superconducting properties of population-imbalanced ultracold Fermi mixtures in one-dimensional (1D) optical lattices that can be effectively described by the spin-imbalanced attractive Hubbard model (AHM) in the presence of a Zeeman magnetic field. We use the mean-field theory approach to obtain the ground state phase diagrams including some unconventional superconducting phases such as the Fulde--Ferrell--Larkin--Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase, and the $η$ phase (an extremal case of the FFLO phase), both for the case of a fixed chemical potential and for a fixed number of particles. It allows to determine optimal regimes for the FFLO phase as well as $η$-pairing stability. We also investigate the evolution from the weak coupling (BCS-like limit) to the strong coupling limit of tightly bound local pairs (BEC) with increasing attraction, at $T=0$. Finally, the obtained results show that despite of the occurrence of the Lifshitz transition induced by an external magnetic field, the superconducting state can still exist in the system, at higher magnetic field values.
description: 5 figures
Non-Local Order Parameters as a Probe for Phase Transitions in the Extended Fermi-Hubbard Model
Creators: name: Barbiero, L.
name: Fazzini, S.
name: Montorsi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Extended Fermi-Hubbard model is a rather studied Hamiltonian due to both its many applications and a rich phase diagram. Here we prove that all the phase transitions encoded in its one dimensional version are detectable via non-local operators related to charge and spin fluctuations. The main advantage in using them is that, in contrast to usual local operators, their asymptotic average value is finite only in the appropriate gapped phases. This makes them powerful and accurate probes to detect quantum phase transitions. Our results indeed confirm that they are able to properly capture both the nature and the location of the transitions. Relevantly, this happens also for conducting phases with a spin gap, thus providing an order parameter for the identification of superconducting and paired superfluid phases
description: 7 pages, 3 figures; Submitted to EPJ Special Topics, Quantum Gases and Quantum Coherence
God help me: priming religious concepts improves affective response to a stressful task
Creators: name: Craig, David J.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: A substantial body of research suggests that religiosity is associated with better mental health, including reduced depression and anxiety, and the protective influence of religiosity appears to be stronger under stress. However, less is known about the mechanisms or pathways underpinning these associations, and it is unknown if religiosity has a direct or immediate effect on mood. This study used a priminh mechanism to explore whether thoughts of God would improve affect either immediately, or after a stressor task. Participants in the religious prime group had significantly higher positive affect scores after stress, controlling for pre-stressor mood, age, gender, and images of God. The priming effect was moderated by both Controlling God and Loving God image, such that the religious prime had the greatest effect on participants with low scores on the Controlling and/or Loving God image scales. Higher Loving God image scores were associated with higher Positive Affect overall. Results suggest that, for individuals with religious faith, subconscious priming of God concepts helps protect against adverse responses to stress.
Reservoir Computing Benchmarks: a tutorial review and critique
Creators: name: Wringe, Chester
name: Trefzer, Martin
name: Stepney, Susan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reservoir Computing is an Unconventional Computation model to perform computation on various different substrates, such as recurrent neural networks or physical materials. The method takes a 'black-box' approach, training only the outputs of the system it is built on. As such, evaluating the computational capacity of these systems can be challenging. We review and critique the evaluation methods used in the field of reservoir computing. We introduce a categorisation of benchmark tasks. We review multiple examples of benchmarks from the literature as applied to reservoir computing, and note their strengths and shortcomings. We suggest ways in which benchmarks and their uses may be improved to the benefit of the reservoir computing community.
description: 47 pp, 15 figures, 9 tables, review article
Unveiling the internal entanglement structure of the Kondo singlet
Creators: name: Yang, Chun
name: Feiguin, Adrian E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We disentangle all the individual degrees of freedom in the quantum impurity problem to deconstruct the Kondo singlet, both in real and energy space, by studying the contribution of each individual free electron eigenstate. This is a problem of two spins coupled to a bath, where the bath is formed by the remaining conduction electrons. Being a mixed state, we resort to the "concurrence" to quantify entanglement. We identify "projected natural orbitals" that allow us to individualize a single-particle electronic wave function that is responsible of more than $90\%$ of the impurity screening. In the weak coupling regime, the impurity is entangled to an electron at the Fermi level, while in the strong coupling regime, the impurity counterintuitively entangles mostly with the high energy electrons and disentangles completely from the low-energy states carving a "hole" around the Fermi level. This enables one to use concurrence as a pseudo order parameter to compute the characteristic "size" of the Kondo cloud, beyond which electrons are are weakly correlated to the impurity and are dominated by the physics of the boundary.
description: Final version published in PRB
Note Illustrative della Carta geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000 F. 182 Guastalla, Servizio Geologico d'Italia - ISPRA
Creators: name: Rosselli, S.
name: Molinari, F.C.
name: Severi, P.
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2016
Subjects: carta geologica, Guastalla, Emilia-Romagna, Pianura Padana, CARG, stratigrafia, tettonica, sottosuolo, geological map, stratigraphy, tectonics, subsurface

description: Note illustrative redatte per il Foglio geologico n. 182 Guastalla della Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000. 96 pp.
Interacting fields in real-time AdS/CFT
Creators: name: Botta-Cantcheff, Marcelo
name: Martínez, Pedro J.
name: Silva, Guillermo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute time-ordered 2- and 3-pt correlation functions of CFT scalar operators between generic in/out states. The calculation is holographically carried out by considering a non backreacting AdS scalar field with a $λϕ^3$ self-interaction term on a combination of Euclidean and Lorentzian AdS sections following the Skenderis-van Rees prescription. We show that, although working in an essentially different set up, the final result for the 3-pt correlators agree with those of Rastelli et al. for Euclidean AdS. By analyzing the inner product between the in/out excited states in the large $N$ approximation, we argue that a cubic bulk interaction deforms the excited states from coherent into \emph{squeezed}. Finally, a diagrammatic interpretation of the results suggests some general properties for the $n$-point correlation functions between excited states.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures
Behind the camera: Iranian women filmmakers and gender inequality in the Iranian film industry
Creators: name: Aziz-Soltani, Vida
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: An investigation was conducted to explore the Iranian film industry, first to find the reason behind the progress made by renowned women filmmakers in Iran, and second, the challenges and barriers faced by a new generation of Iranian women filmmakers in advancing their career in the Iranian film industry. This research uses a qualitative approach for exploring the situation of Iranian filmmakers in Iran. A feminist methodology was chosen in order to give voices to women and provide the opportunity to experience research through a creative method. The research method includes semi-structured interviews and the production of a 5-minute movie. First, semi-structured interviews give an opportunity for emerging women filmmakers to talk about their work and share their enthusiasm or their complaints with interested outsiders. Second, a five-minute video was made to capture the lived experiences of women film directing students to capture their motivations in becoming filmmakers. This study has shown the importance of networking in the film Industry and how women can benefit or suffer from this networking. Another major finding was that although the young Iranian generation of filmmakers believes in making changes in society and use filmmaking as an act of activism, they do not call themselves feminist.
Management control systems in public-private partnerships: the case of Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Appuhamilage, Ranjith Bala
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have increasingly been recognised as a key strategic policy for delivering public infrastructure services in developing countries. PPPs as an important part of the effort of the governments in developing countries are also expected to reduce the burdens on their budgets and excessive debt. With proper management controls, a PPP could further generate efficiency, effectiveness, innovations, and achieve value for money objective in the delivery of public services. However, the progress of PPPs in developing countries has been slow, often failing to achieve value for money objective. In many occasions, PPPs in these countries were either held up or terminated before proceeding to the physical development stage. The aim of this thesis is to examine the use of management control systems by public partners to minimise risk associated with PPPs with special reference to Sri Lanka. The thesis adopts ?thesis by publication? format and includes three research papers with specific objectives. The study finds that public partners use control archetypes, namely market, bureaucratic and clan, with control strategies, namely performance evaluation and trust, to minimise relational risk and performance risk in different combinations in different phases of PPPs. The study also reveals that while five contingent factors suggested by transaction cost economic theory are highly relevant in the context of PPPs in Sri Lanka, the institutional environment and the power differential also influence public partners? choice between various control archetypes. Further, the thesis provides evidence suggesting that the PPP policy innovated in industrialised countries was diffused into Sri Lanka with coercion from international aid organisations (IAOs) through the conditionality attached to financial assistance. The findings of the study contribute to literatures on PPPs, public policy, and new public management in general and management control in particular. The findings also have implications for governments in developing countries, IAOs, managers in both public sector and private sector organisations.
Pharmacy-based predictors of non-persistence with and non-adherence to statin treatment among patients on oral diabetes medication in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Sofa D. Alfian
name: Pawida Worawutputtapong
name: Schuiling-Veninga, Catharina C. M.
name: Schans, Jurjen Van Der
name: Bos, Jens H. J.
name: Hak, Eelko
name: Denig, Petra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Aims: To evaluate statin non-persistence and non-adherence as discrete processes in diabetes patients, and identify pharmacy-based predictors of these processes in the first year after statin initiation. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of statin initiators using a pharmacy database. Persistence and adherence were measured in the first, second and third year. Non-persistence was defined as a gap >180 days. Non-adherence was calculated in persistent patients and defined as a medication possession ratio <80%. Cox regression hazard ratios (HRs) and logistic regression odds ratios (ORs) were assessed for sociodemographic and medication-related factors as possible predictors. Results: Of 12,741 initiators, 20.0% were non-persistent in the first year, while 9.0% and 7.5% were non-persistent in the second and third years. Non-adherence in persistent patients increased from 13.4% in the first to 15.6% and 18.1% in the second and third years. Predictors of non-persistence were female gender (HR: 1.10; 95% CI: 1.01–1.19), older age (HR: 1.52; 95% CI: 1.31–1.75), primary prevention (HR: 1.10; 95% CI: 1.00–1.20), initiating on low dose (HR: 1.44; 95% CI: 1.07–1.94) or standard dose (HR: 1.56; 95% CI: 1.16–2.10), and no cardiovascular co-medication (HR: 1.19; 95% CI: 1.07–1.33), while patients with four or more other medications were more likely to be persistent. Age <50 years (OR: 1.47; 95% CI: 1.22–1.77), low socioeconomic status (OR: 1.27; 95% CI: 1.12–1.45) and primary prevention (OR: 1.21; 95% CI: 1.07–1.38) were predictors of non-adherence, while females were more likely to be adherent (OR: 0.87; 95% CI: 0.77–0.98). Conclusion: Non-persistence was the foremost problem in the first year after statin initiation, while non-adherence in persistent patients increased in the second and third years. Pharmacy-based predictors of statin non-persistence were different from predictors of non-adherence among persistent patients.
The Dynamical History of Chariklo and its Rings
Creators: name: Wood, Jeremy
name: Horner, Jonti
name: Hinse, Tobias C.
name: Marsden, Stephen C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chariklo is the only small Solar system body confirmed to have rings. Given the instability of its orbit, the presence of rings is surprising, and their origin remains poorly understood. In this work, we study the dynamical history of the Chariklo system by integrating almost 36,000 Chariklo clones backwards in time for one Gyr under the influence of the Sun and the four giant planets. By recording all close encounters between the clones and planets, we investigate the likelihood that Chariklo's rings could have survived since its capture to the Centaur population. Our results reveal that Chariklo's orbit occupies a region of stable chaos, resulting in its orbit being marginally more stable than those of the other Centaurs. Despite this, we find that it was most likely captured to the Centaur population within the last 20 Myr, and that its orbital evolution has been continually punctuated by regular close encounters with the giant planets. The great majority (> 99%) of those encounters within one Hill radius of the planet have only a small effect on the rings. We conclude that close encounters with giant planets have not had a significant effect on the ring structure. Encounters within the Roche limit of the giant planets are rare, making ring creation through tidal disruption unlikely.
Pharmacy-based predictors of non-persistence and non-adherence to statin treatment among patients on oral diabetes medication in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Sofa D Alfian
name: Pawida Worawutputtapong
name: Schuiling-Veninga, Catharina CM
name: Schans, Jurjen Van Der
name: Bos, Jens HJ
name: Hak, Eelko
name: Denig, Petra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Aims: To evaluate statin non-persistence and non-adherence as discrete processes in diabetes patients, and identify pharmacy-based predictors of these processes in the first year after statin initiation. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of statin initiators using a pharmacy database. Persistence and adherence were measured in the first, second, and third year. Non-persistence was defined as a gap >180 days. Non-adherence was calculated in persistent patients and defined as a medication-possession-ratio <80%. Cox-regression hazard ratios (HR) and logistic regression odds ratios (OR) were assessed for sociodemographic and medication-related factors as possible predictors. Results: Of 12,741 initiators, 20.0% were non-persistent in the first year, while 9.0% and 7.5% were non-persistent in the second and third year. Non-adherence in persistent patients increased from 13.4% in the first to 15.6% and 18.1% in the second and third year. Predictors of non-persistence were female gender (HR:1.10; 95%CI:1.01-1.19), older age (HR:1.52; 95%CI:1.31-1.75), primary prevention (HR:1.10; 95%CI:1.00-1.20), initiating on low-dose (HR:1.44; 95%CI:1.07-1.94) or standard-dose (HR:1.56; 95%CI:1.16-2.10), and no cardiovascular co-medication (HR:1.19; 95%CI:1.07-1.33), while patients with 4 or more other medications were more likely to be persistent. Age <50 years (OR:1.47; 95%CI:1.22-1.77), low socioeconomic status (OR:1.27; 95%CI:1.12-1.45), and primary prevention (OR:1.21; 95%CI:1.07-1.38) were predictors of non-adherence, while females were more likely to be adherent (OR:0.87; 95%CI: 0.77-0.98). Conclusion: Non-persistence was the foremost problem in the first year after statin initiation, while non-adherence in persistent patients increased in the second and third year. Pharmacy-based predictors of statin non-persistence were different from predictors of non-adherence among persistent patients.
The impacts of sustainable development policy on facility maintenance management
Creators: name: Matthews , Audrey (Audrey Alice)
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Climate change
City planning
Case study
Austin
Texas
Sustainable building
Climate change mitigation
Facility maintenance management

description: This paper discusses how maintenance at a municipal level is impacted by public mandates, policies and initiatives that address climate change mitigation or adaptation. First the paper discusses how climate change will impact communities and a municipal response to the regional internal climate issues it will cause, and some of the solutions governments have undertaken to alleviate or mitigate those impacts. It looks at Austin, Texas, as a case study to understand and analyze the effects that the municipal climate change related policies have on the ability of maintenance management to achieve their goals. Because maintenance is extremely important for sustainable building goals, this thesis looks to understand that connection. Through the results the paper found that most of the success for sustainable building policy comes from the city staff working to connect ideas and people to achieve sustainable goals that they find important and ordinances from the city requiring city-owned properties to create sustainable building. However, new technologies without seeing the whole project maintenance, a continuing and common lack of communication and involvement of maintenance stakeholders in the design and implementation stage, and budgeting that requires catastrophic emergency systems to be most important hold back sustainable policies and initiatives from being as compatible with facility maintenance management than it could be.
Alternative parameterisations of the Poisson common factor model for modelling mortality jointly for both sexes
Creators: name: Wong, Kenneth
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In a global environment where mortality continues to decline, it is becoming increasingly important to develop mortality models which are able to account for global trends and relationships while also producing reasonable forecasts. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the co-modelling of multiple populations to address this. One such example is the Poisson common factor model proposed by Li (2013) for modelling mortality jointly for both sexes. This thesis expands on the Poisson common factor model by proposing two alternative parameterisations which relax some of the original assumptions. One variation allows a different number of sex-specific factors for each sex, providing more flexibility in taking into account differing features and trends between females and males. The other variation considers a common age effect shared by both sexes, potentially improving the parsimony of the model's optimal use of parameters. The two extended models are then tested using mortality data from six populations. Model performance is measured using goodness-of-fit and forecasting accuracy. The results indicate that both of the two modifications improve fitting compared to the original model, and slightly improve forecasting accuracy in many cases.
MPEC 2024-G154 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 April 11)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.