cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Linguistic accessibility of Open Educational Resources: Text Simplification As An Aid To Non-native Readers Of English
Creators: name: Rets, Irina
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Open Educational Resources (OERs) were pioneered with the intent to support education and widen access to knowledge globally. At the same time, most OERs are offered in English, and their language level creates a barrier to many potential learners who are non-native English readers. This does not suit the inclusive rhetoric of OERs. To investigate this problem, this thesis focused on the notion of linguistic accessibility, which is associated with the language level of learning materials, and evaluated text simplification as a potential solution. This thesis dealt with the following major gaps in research on OER linguistic accessibility and text simplification: the level of text complexity of OER course materials and its variability across educational levels and subjects; approaches that experts, such as English teachers, take to simplify texts and the perceived influence of their language background on this practice; and the effect of simplification on text comprehension and processing among non-native English readers. These gaps were investigated through a mixed methods research design in four empirical studies using multiple data sources: reading materials from 200 OER courses, 24 English teachers, and 46 non-native English readers. The first set of key findings related to the text complexity of OERs was that most OERs currently require an advanced level of English language proficiency; no systematic differences in text complexity were yielded across the different educational levels and subjects of the OERs. The second set of key findings related to teachers’ approaches to text simplification was the identification of a taxonomy of 16 text simplification strategies employed by English teachers, and the evidence that text simplification seemed more affected by teachers’ attitudes to this practice than by their language background. The third set of key findings related to the impact of text simplification on non-native English readers was the evidence that simplification not only improves text comprehension but also facilitates higher-level, deep processing. Altogether, this research provided corroborating evidence that urgent action is needed to improve the linguistic accessibility of OERs and supported text simplification as a potential solution to achieve this. In doing so, a holistic picture of the notion of linguistic accessibility was created, along with recommendations to those designing or teaching with OERs, as well as those working in an EMI context.
The Birth Function for Black Holes and Neutron Stars in Close Binaries
Creators: name: Woosley, S.
name: Sukhbold, Tuguldur
name: Janka, H. -T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass function for black holes and neutron stars at birth is explored for mass-losing helium stars. These should resemble, more closely than similar studies of single hydrogen-rich stars, the results of evolution in close binary systems. The effects of varying the mass-loss rate and metallicity are calculated using a simple semi-analytic approach to stellar evolution that is tuned to reproduce detailed numerical calculations. Though the total fraction of black holes made in stellar collapse events varies considerably with metallicity, mass-loss rate, and mass cutoff, from 5$\%$ to 30$\%$, the shapes of their birth functions are very similar for all reasonable variations in these quantities. Median neutron star masses are in the range 1.32 - 1.37 $M_\odot$ regardless of metallicity. The median black hole mass for solar metallicity is typically 8 to 9 $M_\odot$ if only initial helium cores below 40 $M_\odot$ (ZAMS mass less than 80 $M_\odot$) are counted, and 9 - 13 $M_\odot$, in most cases, if helium cores with initial masses up to 150 $M_\odot$ (ZAMS mass less than 300 $M_\odot$) contribute. As long as the mass-loss rate as a function of mass exhibits no strong non-linearities, the black hole birth function from 15 to 35 $M_\odot$ has a slope that depends mostly on the initial mass function for main sequence stars. These findings imply the possibility of constraining the initial mass function and the properties of mass loss in close binaries using ongoing measurements of gravitational wave radiation. The expected rotation rates of the black holes are briefly discussed.
description: submitted to ApJ
MOESM1 of Qualitative and quantitative dermatoglyphics of chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu) in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Buddhika Wijerathne
name: Meier, Robert
name: Sujatha Salgado
name: Suneth Agampodi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Digital dermatoglyphics of males.
On the Stability of Geometric Extremes
Creators: name: Satheesh, S.
name: Nair, N. Unnikrishnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G70, 62H05, 62H10, 60E10

description: Possible reasons for the uniqueness of the positive geometric law in the context of stability of random extremes are explored here culminating in a conjecture characterizing the geometric law. Our reasoning comes closer in justifying the geometric law in similar contexts discussed in Arnold et al. (1986) and Marshall & Olkin (1997) and also supplement their arguments.
description: 11 pages, in the published journal format, presented at the International Conference on Order Statistics and Extreme Values: Theory and Applications, December 18-20, 2000, University of Mysore, India
Accessibility and Affordability Impacts of Half Price Public Transport Fares in Aotearoa New Zealand
Creators: name: Curl, Angela
name: Coppens, Anna
name: Dares, Cushla
name: Williman, Jonathan
name: Fitt, Helen
name: Kingham, Simon
Publisher: name: University of Canterbury Data Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330401
subject: Community planning
classificationCode: 330404
subject: Land use and environmental planning
classificationCode: 330409
subject: Transport planning
classificationCode: 330410
subject: Urban analysis and development
classificationCode: 330413
subject: Urban planning and health
classificationCode: 420602
subject: Health equity
classificationCode: 420606
subject: Social determinants of health
classificationCode: 410103
subject: Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation
classificationCode: 440605
subject: Health geography
classificationCode: 440611
subject: Transport geography
classificationCode: 440612
subject: Urban geography
classificationCode: 440714
subject: Urban policy

description: Transport costs can constitute a large proportion of household budgets and restrict travel. Reduced or free public transport fares are one strategy to address these affordability and accessibility challenges. We analyse data from a 2022 transport survey to investigate participants perspectives and experiences of half price public transport fares in Ōtautahi Christchurch, a city in Aotearoa New Zealand. We find that those experiencing transport poverty are likely to have benefitted in terms of widening access and reduced financial stress.
title: A pilot study on couple relationships and cardiac disease: The role of alexithymia and attachment in the course of myocardial infarction
Creators: name: Di Trani, Michela
name: Di Monte, Cinzia
name: Renzi, Alessia
name: Greenman, Paul S.
name: Barbieri, Federica
name: Dentale, Francesco
name: Beaudoin, Valérie
name: Solano, Luigi
Publisher: name: Psychology Hub
Year: 2020
Subjects: myocardial infarction; alexithymia; attachment; couple

description: The aim of this study was to explore the links between alexithymia, romantic attachment in couples and the clinical course of myocardial infarction (MI). Thirty couples in which the male partner had experienced an MI participated. Both partners filled out the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the Experience in Close Relationship-Revised form (ECR-R); in addition, medical data (e.g., blood pressure, cholesterol) pertaining to the male patients were collected from their medical records, six months after the initial data collection point. Analysis showed significant associations between the psychological characteristics of partners and patients and several medical follow-up outcomes in patients. Specifically, partners’ alexithymia levels (total and factor scores) and avoidant attachment scores were related to several health variables in patients, even when partialling out the effects of patients’ own psychological attributes. These findings suggest that their partners’ ability to recognise and integrate their emotional states may be relevant to patients’ disease management. Multidisciplinary treatments, including psychological interventions for couples, could be introduced to encourage the appropriate involvement of partners in patients’ post-MI care.
description: Psychology Hub, Vol 37, No 1 (2020)
Energy Dependence of Jet Quenching and Life-time of the Dense Matter in High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions
Creators: name: Wang, Xin-Nian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Suppression of high $p_T$ hadron spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at different energies is studied within a pQCD parton model incorporating medium induced parton energy loss. The $p_T$ dependence of the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}(p_T)$ is found to depend on both the energy dependence of the parton energy loss and the power-law behavior of the initial jet spectra. The high $p_T$ hadron suppression at $\sqrt{s}=62.4$ GeV and its centrality dependence are studied in detail. The overall values of the modification factor are found to provide strong constraints on the lifetime of the dense matter.
description: 6 pages in RevTex with 3 postscript figures
The ACIGA Data Analysis programme
Creators: name: Scott, Susan M
name: Searle, Antony C
name: Cusack, Benedict J
name: McClelland, David E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Data Analysis programme of the Australian Consortium for Interferometric Gravitational Astronomy (ACIGA) was set up in 1998 by the first author to complement the then existing ACIGA programmes working on suspension systems, lasers and optics, and detector configurations. The ACIGA Data Analysis programme continues to contribute significantly in the field; we present an overview of our activities.
description: 10 pages, 0 figures, accepted, Classical and Quantum Gravity, (Proceedings of the 5th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy, 6-11 July 2003)
Finite-level systems, Hermitian operators, isometries, and a novel parameterization of Stiefel and Grassmann manifolds
Creators: name: Dita, Petre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we obtain a description of the Hermitian operators acting on the Hilbert space $\C^n$, description which gives a complete solution to the over parameterization problem. More precisely we provide an explicit parameterization of arbitrary $n$-dimensional operators, operators that may be considered either as Hamiltonians, or density matrices for finite-level quantum systems. It is shown that the spectral multiplicities are encoded in a flag unitary matrix obtained as an ordered product of special unitary matrices, each one generated by a complex $n-k$-dimensional unit vector, $k=0,1,...,n-2$. As a byproduct, an alternative and simple parameterization of Stiefel and Grassmann manifolds is obtained.
description: 21 pages
title: An Adaptive Strategy for Sensory Processing
Creators: name: Raj, Rishabh
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Recognizing objects and detecting associations among them is essential for the survival of organisms. The ability to perform these tasks is derived from the representations of objects obtained through processing information along sensory pathways. Our current understanding of sensory processing is based on two sets of foundational theories – The Efficient Coding Hypothesis and hierarchical assembly of object representations. These theories suggest that sensory processing aims to identify independent features of the environment and progressively represent objects in terms of comprehensive combinations of these features. Separately, the two sets of theories have successfully explained the detection of associations and perceptual invariance, respectively; however, reconciling them together in one unified theory has remained challenging. Independent features are deemed essential for detecting association by the Efficient coding hypothesis, but to achieve consistency in representations, multiple comprehensive structures corresponding to the same object must be hierarchically assembled, ignoring independence among such structures. Here we propose an alternative framework for sensory processing in which the system, instead of finding the truly independent components of the environment, aims to represent objects based on their most informative structures. Using theoretical arguments, we show that following such a strategy allows the system to efficiently represent sensory cues without necessarily acquiring knowledge about statistical properties of all possible inputs. Through mathematical simulations, we find that the framework can describe the known characteristics of early sensory processing stages and permits consistent input representations observed at later stages of processing. We also demonstrate that the framework can be implemented in a biologically plausible neuronal circuit and explain aspects of experience and learning from corrupted inputs. Thus, this framework provides a novel perspective and a unified description of sensory processing in its entirety.
A multi-scale approach for magnetisation dynamics: Unraveling exotic magnetic states of matter
Creators: name: Méndez, É.
name: Poluektov, M.
name: Kreiss, G.
name: Eriksson, O.
name: Pereiro, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Crystallographic lattice defects strongly influence dynamical properties of magnetic materials at both microscopic and macroscopic length scales. A multi-scale approach to magnetisation dynamics, which is presented in this paper, accurately captures such effects. The method is illustrated using examples of systems with localized, non-trivial topological properties, e.g. in the form of skyrmions and chiral domain walls that interact with lattice dislocations. Technical aspects of the methodology involve multi-scale magnetisation dynamics that connects atomistic and continuum descriptions. The technique is capable of solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations efficiently in two regions of a magnetic material --- the mesoscopic and the atomistic regions, which are coupled in a seamless way. It is demonstrated that this methodology allows simulating realistically-sized magnetic skyrmions interacting with material defects and novel physical effects, uncovered using this theoretical methodology, are described.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures and Supplementary information
MOESM2 of Inflammation biomarker discovery in Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonisms
Creators: name: Santaella, Anna
name: H. Kuiperij
name: Anouke Rumund
name: Esselink, Rianne
name: Gool, Alain
name: Bloem, Bastiaan
name: Verbeek, Marcel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2. Proteins included in the Olink inflammation panel. In bold are highlighted the proteins that were excluded because their levels in cerebrospinal fluid were lower the limit of detection in more than 35% of the samples.
Infrared Features of the Lattice Landau Gauge QCD
Creators: name: Nakajima, Hideo
name: Furui, Sadataka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The infrared properties of lattice Landau gauge QCD of SU(3) are studied by measuring gluon propagator, ghost propagator, QCD running coupling and Kugo-Ojima parameter of $β=6.0, 16^4,24^4,32^4$ and $β=6.4, 32^4,48^4$ lattices. We study Gribov copy problem by parallel tempering (PT) gauge fixing of $β=2.2, 16^4$ SU(2) configurations. Rather unexpected features of the unique gauge(fundamental modular gauge, FMG) are observed in relation of physical values vs the optimizing function.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of Lattice2003(topology), revisions in numerical data of ghost and Kugo-Ojima parameter have been made due to in use of conjugate gradient method
Biological Value of Centaurea damascena: Minireview
Creators: name: Jaafreh, Mohammad
name: Qaralleh, Haitham
name: Al-limoun, Muhamad O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The family Asteraceae include large number of Centaurea species which have been applied in folk medicine. One of the family Asteraceae members is the Centaurea damascena which authentically been tested for its antibacterial activity. The aim of the study was to discuss antibacterial activities of essential oil composition and methanolic extract of the same plant aerial part leaves. Thirty-seven components were characterized with 86 of oxygenated terpenes. The composition in percentage was dominated by 11.45 Fokienol, 8.8 thymol, 8.21 Alpha Terpineol, 7.24 Chrysanthemumic acid, 7.13 Terpinen4-ol and 6.59 Borneol with a high degree of polymorphism in the occurrence of these compounds as compared with the different species of centaurea.. Free radical scavenging capacity of the C. damascna methanol extract was calculated by DPPH and FRAP test. DPPH radicals were scavenged with an IC50 value of 17.08 microgram per ml. Antioxidant capacities obtained by the FRAP was 51.9 and expressed in mg Trolox gram per Liter dry weight. The total phenolic compounds of the methanol extracts of aerial parts, as estimated by Folin Ciocalteu reagent method, was about 460 milligram GAE per gram. The phenolic contents in the extracts highly correlate with their antioxidant activity, confirming that the antioxidant activity of this plant extracts is considerably phenolic contents dependent.
description: 8 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1911.02243
title: The Role Of The Parkinson's Disease-Related Protein LRRK2 In Autophagy And Calcium Signalling In Cellular Models
Creators: name: Azeggagh, Sonia
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide, affecting 3% of individuals of >75 years of age. The disease is relentless and incurable, and the need to understand its causes and develop new treatments is overwhelming. Mutations in the LRRK2 gene are the most common cause of familial PD, and strongly influence the risk of sporadic PD. This study investigates the impact of LRRK2 enzymatic activities and LRRK2 pathogenic and protective variants on autophagy and calcium signalling to gain insight into the early impairments involved in PD pathogenesis. To this end, the initial approach was to develop isogenically matched cell lines using the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique, which was unsuccessful. Alternative strategies to study LRRK2 were therefore pursued. The LRRK2 kinase and GTPase activities were modulated with pharmacological inhibitors, and the effects of LRRK2 mutations were investigated by transfection of wild-type and mutant LRRK2 constructs. Autophagy assays combined the quantification of GFP-LC3 punctae and endogenous WIPI2 punctae numbers using fluorescence and electron microscopy, whilst intracellular calcium signals were measured using ratiometric Fura-2 imaging following treatment with ATP, CPA or ionomycin. Overall, this project revealed a cell-type specific action of LRRK2 in autophagy, where LRRK2 appears to be pro-autophagic and involved in a kinase and GTPase activity-dependent manner in the early stages of this process in HEK293 GFP-LC3 cells, whilst data from RAW264.7 macrophages do not support a role for Lrrk2 in autophagy. Calcium-related findings indicated that Lrrk2 is involved in the regulation of IP3-R mediated calcium signals in WT RAW264.7 macrophages and suggest that this role for Lrrk2 may be as a scaffolding protein. The data also indicated that the function of LRRK2 in autophagy induction in HEK293 GFP-LC3 cells is unlikely to require intracellular calcium, and LRRK2 was not found to participate in the regulation of lysosomal calcium storage in either cell line. Additional findings revealed that the calcium indicators Fura-2 and Cal-590, as well as BAPTA and the BAPTA analogues di-bromo-BAPTA and di-fluoro-BAPTA, displayed significant off-target effects on autophagy, and indicated that BAPTA is an unsuitable tool to explore the involvement of calcium signals in autophagy. Taken together, this study yields new and important data about the role of LRRK2 kinase and GTPase activities in the early stages of autophagy, and sheds light on the relevance of LRRK2 to the regulation of intracellular calcium signalling.
Quark Distributions in a Medium
Creators: name: Steffens, F. M.
name: Thomas, A. W.
name: Tsushima, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the formal expressions needed to discuss the change of the twist-two parton distribution functions when a hadron is placed in a medium with relativistic scalar and vector mean fields
description: 6 pages
Aleurodicus cocois Curtis 1846
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Aleurodicus
Aleurodicus cocois

description: Aleurodicus cocois Curtis
(Figs 65, 66)
 Aleyrodes cocois Curtis, 1846: 284. Lectotype puparium, Barbados [designated by Martin, 1997: 125, MOV, examined].
 Aleurodicus cocois (Curtis) Morgan, 1892: 32.
 Aleurodicus anonae Morgan, 1892: 32. Lectotype, Guyana [designated by Mound & Halsey, 1978: 229, BMNH, examined]. Synonymised by Mound & Halsey, 1978: 229.
DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical Region – Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela and widely across the Caribbean islands including Puerto Rico.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. Type material of Aleyrodes cocois and Aleurodicus anonae as detailed and discussed by Martin (1997); numerous samples from the Caribbean and the countries listed above (BMNH, USNM).
 COMMENTS. A question had arisen about the status of material of Aleyrodes cocois Curtis [the type for the entire subfamily Aleurodicinae, through its seniority over A. anonae Morgan] in BMNH, marked as having “ type ” status. Investigations revealed that the true type sample of A. cocois resided in the MOV collection in Melbourne, not in BMNH as indicated by Mound & Halsey (1978: 229). However, the synonymy of A. anonae with A. cocois was found to be correct (Martin, 1997).
 A. cocois is very similar to A. pulvinatus and A. juleikae (q.v.) and is here treated as a member of the pulvinatus- group of species in the key to species. However, the species limits of the cocois / pulvinatus / juleikae assemblage are not clear and may change with future work. At present, the key (couplets 27-28, p. 19) may be used to distinguish the species as here understood.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2008, A revision of Aleurodicus Douglas (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae), with two new genera proposed for palaeotropical natives and an identification guide to world genera of Aleurodicinae, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 1835 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1835.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5127230
Spin-current manipulation of photoinduced magnetization dynamics in heavy metal / ferromagnet double layer based nanostructures
Creators: name: Wittrock, Steffen
name: Meyer, Dennis
name: Müller, Markus
name: Ulrichs, Henning
name: Walowski, Jakob
name: Mansurova, Maria
name: Martens, Ulrike
name: Münzenberg, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin currents offer a way to control static and dynamic magnetic properties, and therefore they are crucial for next-generation MRAM devices or spin-torque oscillators. Manipulating the dynamics is especially interesting within the context of photo-magnonics. In typical $3d$ transition metal ferromagnets like CoFeB, the lifetime of light-induced magnetization dynamics is restricted to about 1 ns, which e.g. strongly limits the opportunities to exploit the wave nature in a magnonic crystal filtering device. Here, we investigate the potential of spin-currents to increase the spin wave lifetime in a functional bilayer system, consisting of a heavy metal (8 nm of $β$-Tantalum (Platinum)) and 5 nm CoFeB. Due to the spin Hall effect, the heavy metal layer generates a transverse spin current when a lateral charge current passes through the strip. Using time-resolved all-optical pump-probe spectroscopy, we investigate how this spin current affects the magnetization dynamics in the adjacent CoFeB layer. We observed a linear spin current manipulation of the effective Gilbert damping parameter for the Kittel mode from which we were able to determine the system's spin Hall angles. Furthermore, we measured a strong influence of the spin current on a high-frequency mode. We interpret this mode an an exchange dominated higher order spin-wave resonance. Thus we infer a strong dependence of the exchange constant on the spin current.
Special bases for derivations of tensor algebras. III. Case along smooth maps with separable points of selfintersection
Creators: name: Iliev, Bozhidar Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 57R25 (Primary) 53B05, 53B99, 53C99, 83C99 (Secondary)

description: Necessary and/or sufficient conditions are studied for the existence, uniqueness and holonomicity of bases in which on sufficiently general subsets of a differentiable manifold the components of derivations of the tensor algebra over it vanish. The linear connections and the equivalence principle are considered form that point of view.
description: 10 LaTeX pages. This paper is a continuation of the e-Prints math.DG/0303373 and math.DG/0304157 and is a preliminary version of the e-Print gr-qc/9805088. For related papers, visit the "publication" pages at http://theo.inrne.bas.bg/~bozho/
title: Helicopter Mothers and Helicopter Fathers: Italian Adaptation and Validation of the Helicopter Parenting Instrument
Creators: name: Pistella, Jessica
name: Izzo, Flavia
name: Isolani, Stefano
name: Ioverno, Salvatore
name: Baiocco, Roberto
Publisher: name: Psychology Hub
Year: 2020
Subjects: helicopter parenting; adolescence; overparenting; family functioning; well-being

description: The aim of this study is to validate the Italian version of the Helicopter Parenting Instrument (HPI), a self-report instrument that evaluate adolescents’ and young adults’ perception of parenting behaviors. The term helicopter parenting describes a style of child-rearing characterized by parents who are over-involved in every aspect of their children’s lives in inappropriate ways, compromising their autonomy. The HPI (maternal and paternal version) was administered to 602 adolescents (356 females), between 14 and 18 years of age (Mfemales = 16.56; SD = 1.43; Mmales = 16.63; SD = 1.41). The factorial analysis confirmed the original one-factor structure for both versions. The two versions of the instrument demonstrated good concurrent and divergent validity and the reliability was high. In general, our participants perceived mothers with higher levels of helicopter parenting than fathers, regardless of gender and age of the participants. In conclusion, the instrument demonstrated good psychometric properties, indicating that it may be a valid measure for evaluating parental overparenting in the Italian context.
description: Psychology Hub, Vol 37, No 1 (2020)
title: Reframing and Re-enacting Welfare: An Empirical Exploration of Small-scale, Horizontal Forms of Help
Creators: name: Nihalani, Kiran
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis examines some ways in which ‘help’ is being done differently outside mainstream statutory and voluntary helping organisations within contemporary British society. Particular attention is paid to attempts made by grassroots groups situated in the British Left to move away from top-down helping practices and to create welfare in ways that challenge the foundations of an unequal society. The organisational frameworks used by these groups, which include non-hierarchical, mutual and collective forms of organising help across social difference, are examined in six London-based groups. Data generated in interviews with group members are analysed to examine how frameworks and principles are enacted in practice, and with what outcomes. I contribute an empirical evidence base that demonstrates some of the problems with dominant forms of help as well as the benefits, challenges and dilemmas that can arise when attempting to enact alternatives. I argue that doing help in these alternative ways can be transformative for all involved but can also generate contradictions and frustrations, with a constant risk of slipping back into ‘learned’ top-down behaviours. I then suggest three shifts in dominant rationalities that could make these forms of help more sustainable: moving to a framework of ‘cooperative time’ in which ‘efficiency’ is not seen as an ultimate good; creating a sense of a collective subject and deepening frameworks of interdependence rather than valorising ‘independence’; and making interrogating and challenging of oppressive power dynamics a key part of frameworks of help. This analysis contributes to an activist praxis in considering how to make alternative practices sustainable while also arguing for a shift in how help is currently conceptualised and practised in statutory and voluntary sector organisations. It contributes to welfare and care literature about meanings of ‘help’ in the welfare state and to social movement literature focused on non-hierarchical organising.
LLAMA: The $M_{BH}$ - $σ_{\star}$ Relation of the most luminous local AGNs
Creators: name: Caglar, Turgay
name: Burtscher, Leonard
name: Brand, Bernhard
name: Brinchmann, Jarle
name: Davies, Richard I.
name: Hicks, Erin K. S.
name: Koss, Michael
name: Lin, Ming-Yi
name: Maciejewski, Witold
name: Müller-Sánchez, Francisco
name: Riffel, Rogemar A.
name: Riffel, Rogério
name: Rosario, David J.
name: Schartmann, Marc
name: Schnorr-Müller, Allan
name: Shimizu, T. Taro
name: Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa
name: Veilleux, Sylvain
name: de Xivry, Gilles O.
name: Bennert, Vardha N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $M_{BH}$ - $σ_{\star}$ relation is considered a result of co-evolution between the host galaxies and their super-massive black holes. For elliptical-bulge hosting inactive galaxies, this relation is well established, but there is still a debate whether active galaxies follow the same relation. In this paper, we estimate black hole masses for a sample of 19 local luminous AGNs (LLAMA) in order to test their location on the $M_{BH}$ - $σ_{\star}$ relation. Super-massive black hole masses ($M_{BH}$) were derived from the broad-line based relations for H$α$, H$β$ and Pa$β$ emission line profiles for the Type 1 AGNs. We compare the bulge stellar velocity dispersion ($σ_{\star}$) as determined from the Ca II triplet (CaT) with the dispersion measured from the near-infrared CO (2-0) absorption features for each AGN and find them to be consistent with each other. We apply an extinction correction to the observed broad line fluxes and we correct the stellar velocity dispersion by an average rotation contribution as determined from spatially resolved stellar kinematic maps. The H$α$-based black hole masses of our sample of AGNs were estimated in the range 6.34 $\leq$ $\log{M_{BH}}$ $\leq$ 7.75 M$_\odot$ and the $σ_{\star CaT}$ estimates range between 73 $\leq$ $σ_{\star CaT}$ $\leq$ 227 km s$^{-1}$. From the so-constructed $M_{BH}$ - $σ_{\star}$ relation for our Type 1 AGNs, we estimate the black hole masses for the Type 2 AGNs and the inactive galaxies in our sample. In conclusion, we find that our sample of local luminous AGNs is consistent with the $M_{BH}$ - $σ_{\star}$ relation of lower luminosity AGNs and inactive galaxies, after correcting for dust extinction and the rotational contribution to the stellar velocity dispersion.
description: Accepted by A&A, 30 pages, 19 figures
Comment on "Geometric absorption of electromagnetic angular momentum", C. Konz, G. Benford
Creators: name: Nieminen, Timo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The core theorem on which the above paper is centred - that a perfectly conducting body of revolution absorbs no angular momentum from an axisymmetric electromagnetic wave field - is in fact a special case of a more general result in electromagnetic scattering theory. In addition, the scaling of the efficiency of transfer of angular momentum to an object with the wavelength and object size merits further discussion. Finally, some comments are made on the choice of terminology and the erroneous statement that a circularly polarized plane wave does not carry angular momentum.
description: 5 pages. Version 2 includes journal reference info
title: “A System of Maltreatment”: Marital Cruelty in Victorian Glasgow
Creators: name: Dee, Ashley
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: In Victorian Glasgow, marital cruelty was understood by both the civil legal system and broader society to include emotional, psychological, verbal, economic, and physical abuses. In contrast to existing historiography, this thesis rests on the quantitative analysis of records of divorce and separation from the Scottish Court of Session, and newspaper reports of inferior criminal court cases of marital assault. Three databases were designed to manage the plethora of information contained in these records. As the Scottish history of marital breakdown differs significantly from that in England and Wales, by focusing on the Greater Glasgow region, this thesis both benefits from access to a new body of sources to explore marital cruelty and balances the geographical spread of British histories of marital cruelty. Couples from across the class spectrum have been studied together in this research. As such, this thesis has been able to interrogate the variable of class thoroughly. Furthermore, the combination of using Scottish sources and a digital humanities methodology has enabled unprecedented consideration to be paid to non-physical unreasonable behaviours in marriage. Finally, this thesis incorporates the lengthy temporal scope of the Victorian period, a time of significant change in terms of the rights of women in Britain. To explore these themes, this thesis begins by exploring the long-term solutions offered by Scotland’s Court of Session – divorce and separation. It subsequently moves chronologically through the trajectory of a cruel marriage. First, there is a thorough investigation of the cruel behaviours reported in civil and criminal legal settings and what a cruel marriage looked like in its totality is considered. From there, it addresses the coping mechanisms sought and deployed by victims of marital cruelty to help them manage the cruelty they faced and prolong the marriage.
MOESM1 of Inflammation biomarker discovery in Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonisms
Creators: name: Santaella, Anna
name: H. Kuiperij
name: Anouke Rumund
name: Esselink, Rianne
name: Gool, Alain
name: Bloem, Bastiaan
name: Verbeek, Marcel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Flowchart of follow-up of patients included in this study. Patients with PSP, DLB and CBS were not selected for the study because of low numbers. Patients with another or uncertain diagnosis were also not selected. VaP and VaP/PD patients were included in the statistical analysis but data is not shown because of the low number of patients in these groups. PD: Parkinson’s disease; MSA: multiple system atrophy; PSP: progressive supranuclear palsy; DLB: dementia with Lewy bodies; VaP: vascular parkinsonism; CBS: corticobasal syndrome; PD/VaP: PD with overlapping VaP. In brackets the number of patients per group. The black squares represent the patients the study focused on.
title: Universalism and Particularism in British Orthodox, Reform and Liberal Jewish Prayerbooks and Ritual
Creators: name: Kowalska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2023

description: Shabbat day with its ritual phases and liturgies, chosen as a focus for this study, presents an ideological paradox, with notions of both particularism and universalism (P/U) in the core of its narrative. Ritual with all its elements, such as participants, objects, space, music, body gestures and style of service, provide additional meaning to what is embedded in the words, and this needs to be taken into consideration while examining the ideology of a prayerbook. The ritual process may affect or alter their P/U meaning.

 Thus, to advance the debate in discussing P/U in the contemporary British Jewish Orthodox, Reform and Liberal prayerbooks and ritual, I engage here with Judaism as a vernacular religion. Because it is not enough to examine only verbal expressions of the prayerbooks, I also consider the verbal, behavioural and material expressions of religious belief. I identify and critically assess various strategies, which depend for their effectiveness on the approach to change of specific worshippers and prayer leaders, and that are deployed in order to remove or minimize the impact of undesired particularistic formulations.

 Drawing these threads together, I triangulate the reading of Shabbat texts with ethnographical methodologies, thereby providing a better understanding of the way in which Jewish liturgy works as lived religion. The thesis contributes to further discussion of P/U notions within Jewish liturgy and serves to advance methodological thinking about siddurim and Jewish ritual.
R Clone: What is it? Why do I need it?
Creators: name: Jamison, Jina (Jamie)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Rclone is a command-line tool that allows users to transfer and synchronize files between cloud storage services, servers, and local machines. Rclone is a cross-platform application that runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS.

 

Given as a presentation during UC Love Data Week 2025
Estimating entropy production by machine learning of short-time fluctuating currents
Creators: name: Otsubo, Shun
name: Ito, Sosuke
name: Dechant, Andreas
name: Sagawa, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) are the inequalities which give lower bounds on the entropy production rate using only the mean and the variance of fluctuating currents. Since the TURs do not refer to the full details of the stochastic dynamics, it would be promising to apply the TURs for estimating the entropy production rate from a limited set of trajectory data corresponding to the dynamics. Here we investigate a theoretical framework for estimation of the entropy production rate using the TURs along with machine learning techniques without prior knowledge of the parameters of the stochastic dynamics. Specifically, we derive a TUR for the short-time region and prove that it can provide the exact value, not only a lower bound, of the entropy production rate for Langevin dynamics, if the observed current is optimally chosen. This formulation naturally includes a generalization of the TURs with the partial entropy production of subsystems under autonomous interaction, which reveals the hierarchical structure of the estimation. We then construct estimators on the basis of the short-time TUR and machine learning techniques such as the gradient ascent. By performing numerical experiments, we demonstrate that our learning protocol performs well even in nonlinear Langevin dynamics. We also discuss the case of Markov jump processes, where the exact estimation is shown to be impossible in general. Our result provides a platform that can be applied to a broad class of stochastic dynamics out of equilibrium, including biological systems.
MOESM1 of DNA barcode trnH-psbA is a promising candidate for efficient identification of forage legumes and grasses
Creators: name: Loera-Sánchez, Miguel
name: Studer, Bruno
name: Kölliker, Roland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. PCR primers used in this study. Table S2. Overview of the Barcoding of Life Datasystems (BOLD, [10]) reference barcode sequences used for taxonomical assignments. Table S3. Highest scoring blastn hits for the plant specimens of the BOLD project “SWFRG”.
A review of partial slip solutions for contacts represented by half-planes including bulk tension and moments
Creators: name: Andresen, Hendrik
name: Hills, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solution procedures for establishing the regimes of stick and slip for frictional contacts capable of idealisation within the framework of half-plane elasticity and subject to complex loading regimes are reviewed, starting with the well known fundamental problems and going on to more complicated ones. These include problems where the normal load, shear force, applied moment and differential remote tensions all vary with time. Transient and steady state solutions are discussed.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, Tribology International
title: Interval Estimates for Parameters of Discrete Sampling Distributions
Creators: name: Moustafa, Maha Wael Elbakri
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Well recommended methods of forming confidence intervals for discrete distributions parameter give interval estimates that do not actually meet the definition of a confidence interval, in that their coverage is sometimes lower than the nominal confidence level. The methods are favored because their intervals have a shorter average length than the exact method, whose intervals really are confidence intervals. Comparison of such methods is tricky as the best method should perhaps be the one that gives the shortest intervals (on average), but when is the coverage of a method so poor it should not be classed as a means of forming confidence interval.

 As the definition of a confidence interval is being flouted, a better criterion for forming interval estimates for discrete distributions parameters is needed. The aim of this thesis is to suggest a new criterion: methods that meet the criterion are said to yield locally correct confidence intervals. We propose a method that yields such intervals and proves that its intervals have a shorter average length than those of any other method that meets the criterion. We refer to the new estimator as the optimal locally correct method or just the OLC method. The thesis begins by applying the new criterion and method to the binomial parameter. Then we extend the method so as to obtain locally correct confidence intervals for parameters of the Poisson distribution and the negative binomial distribution.
MOESM1 of “Quantity-effect” research strategy for comparison of antioxidant activity and quality of Rehmanniae Radix and Rehmannia Radix Praeparata by on-line HPLC-UV-ABTS assay
Creators: name: Li, Hong-Ying
name: Jiang-Ji Fang
name: Hua-Dan Shen
name: Xue-Qiong Zhang
name: Ding, Xiao-Ping
name: Liu, Jun-Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. A table for manufacturer source of the Dihuang and Shu Dihuang samples.
Summation of Power Series by Self-Similar Factor Approximants
Creators: name: Yukalov, V. I.
name: Gluzman, S.
name: Sornette, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel method of summation for power series is developed. The method is based on the self-similar approximation theory. The trick employed is in transforming, first, a series expansion into a product expansion and in applying the self-similar renormalization to the latter rather to the former. This results in self-similar factor approximants extrapolating the sought functions from the region of asymptotically small variables to their whole domains. The method of constructing crossover formulas, interpolating between small and large values of variables is also analysed. The techniques are illustrated on different series which are typical of problems in statistical mechanics, condensed-matter physics, and, generally, in many-body theory.
description: 30 pages + 5 ps figures, some misprints have been corrected