cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enhancement the Strength of Concrete Columns using FRP Strengthening Materials
Creators: name: Elarbi, ABULGASEM
name: Wu, Hwai-Chung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90506 Structural Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Concrete structures may deteriorate with time due to external environmentalconditions. The effects of temperature, wind, and air humidity can have serious effects on hardenedconcrete, often times these effects are not immediately evident and develop years later makingdetermination of responsibility difficult and repair expensive.Deteriorated structures should be repaired to ensure proper functioning and to extend their service life.Structures without damage may also need to be strengthened because of design or construction errors,or to accommodate changes in use or increased loads. As a result, various strengthening techniqueshave been developed. Traditional strengthening and retrofitting techniques that use steel andcementitious materials do not always provide the most appropriate solutions.Application of FRPs composites in civil/infrastructure engineering are diverse, including internalreinforcement, structural elements, and externally bonded reinforcement. The most popular forms ofFRP internal reinforcement are smooth and deformed bars, prestressing tendons, and pre-cured andcured-in place laminates. Due to their superior performance, fiber reinforced Polymer (FRP)composites have been recognized as a viable material for strengthening/retrofitting deficient structures.FRP sheets/fabrics are usually bonded to existing reinforced concrete structures; these materials canoffer significant advantages over more traditional materials such as concrete and steel structures.The present investigation intends to study the externally reinforcement FRPs composites to improvethe performance of RC columns by using hoop FRP wraps to increase both strength and ductilitycapacity. An experimental research has been done throughout implement and test several sets ofunstrengthened and CFRP/GFRP strengthened concrete column specimens. The results showed asignificant improvement on the compressive strength and ductility of FRP strengthened concretespecimens.
Encadrer, un métier impossible ? La place des « savoirs d’action » dans l’activité d’encadrement. Communication à la onzième journée du GDR Cadres (résumé)
Creators: name: Mispelblom Beyer, Frederik
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019
Subjects: Personnel -- Direction
Aptitude pour la direction
Sociologie du travail

description: "Cet exposé sera divisé en deux parties : la première, un peu dogmatique (thèses
sans beaucoup de démonstration), tentera de situer l’activité d’encadrement dans
son ensemble ; la seconde abordera, d’une manière plus interrogative, la place des
« savoirs d’action » dans cette activité." [Premières lignes]
description: Temporal: 2000-2010
title: Teachers in day nurseries: observations of children's behaviour and the nature of talk by teachers and nursery nurses to children
Creators: name: Pereira, Charmaine
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1991

description: The introduction of teachers into local authority day nurseries has been recommended as a means of extending the educational opportunities open to the children attending such nurseries. An underlying assumption is that teachers are likely to be especially successful at providing compensatory experiences which will promote the child's language development. The present research was carried out in council day nurseries with and without teachers. Two main aims were identified. One was to investigate whether nursery nurses and teachers differed in their speech to children, particularly in terms of cognitive content. The second was to compare children's customary levels of social and cognitive functioning - as expressed In their spontaneous behaviour in the nursery - in the two groups of nurseries. Few differences were found in the behaviour of three-year-olds in each nursery group. The hypothesis that complex cognitive operations would be more often observed in the children from nurseries with teachers was not confirmed. Regarding staff speech to children, group size appeared to be a more influential factor than whether the adult was a teacher or nursery nurse. No support was found for the hypothesis that teachers would show a greater level of cognitive content in their speech to children than would nursery nurses.
What push migrants out of their rural areas? Empirical evidences from Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Lantz, Tiffany Louise
name: Arbolino, Roberta
name: Caracciolo, Francesco
name: Cembalo, Luigi
name: Lantz, Tiffany Louise
name: Arbolino, Roberta
name: Caracciolo, Francesco
name: Cembalo, Luigi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: determinants of migration; Ethiopia; push and pull drivers; households; sub-Saharan
subject: Africa

description: The uncertainty and the generic nature of the migration determinants, combined with the subsequent lack of specific policies implemented to improve the economic conditions of the developing or underdeveloped countries, has generated the need to study these causes in detail. We use nationally representative data from Ethiopia’s 2015/16 Socioeconomic Survey (ESS) to examine the socioeconomic determinants of migration of this specific sub-Saharan country. By performing a logistic regression we drive the migration decision at household level. We also consider some of the observable trends on migration flows from this area of the world. Empirical results lend credence to the fact that in Ethiopia the decision to migrate is family based and that the probability to have a migrant in the household depends on households size as well as on some residence region.
Bamanophis dorri
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Bamanophis
Bamanophis dorri

description: Bamanophis dorri (Lataste, 1888)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 2 specimens (MRAC 29513- 29514), Namoudjoga.
MORPHOLOGY. — TL 426 and 590 mm; 30 and 31 MSR smooth; 236 and 246 Ven, smooth; 80 and 84 Sc, all paired; anal divided; 9 supralabials; 10 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postocular; 1 subocular; temporal scale formula 2 + 3.
DISTRIBUTION. — This species inhabits Sudanese savannahs. It is restricted to ER I. The specimens examined by us are probably those cited by Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970).
REMARK
 The recent revision of Schätti & Trape (2008) based on external morphology, osteology, and hemipenis features transferred this species from the genus Haemorrhois Boie, 1826 to their new genus Bamanophis.
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 331, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
A defense of workplace democracy
Creators: name: Malleson, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A central component of the debates about workplace democracy is the issue of whether workplaces can be said to be binding associations in a parallel sense that states are often said to be binding. In this paper I look at the case for workplace democracy in terms of 'bindingness', particularly as it is expounded by Robert Dahl, and criticized by Robert Mayer. I argue that 'bindingness', or the lack of free choice, does not provide an adequate justification for workplace democracy. Instead I argue that a better justification of democracy stems from a full conception of freedom to self-develop that extends beyond voluntary choice. This fuller notion of freedom, developed in part by the work of Carol Gould, provides the normative force for the extension of democracy beyond the political realm into the workplace, and even beyond into the social and cultural spheres.
Quantum Mereology: Factorizing Hilbert Space into Subsystems with Quasi-Classical Dynamics
Creators: name: Carroll, Sean M.
name: Singh, Ashmeet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the question of how to decompose Hilbert space into a preferred tensor-product factorization without any pre-existing structure other than a Hamiltonian operator, in particular the case of a bipartite decomposition into "system" and "environment." Such a decomposition can be defined by looking for subsystems that exhibit quasi-classical behavior. The correct decomposition is one in which pointer states of the system are relatively robust against environmental monitoring (their entanglement with the environment does not continually and dramatically increase) and remain localized around approximately-classical trajectories. We present an in-principle algorithm for finding such a decomposition by minimizing a combination of entanglement growth and internal spreading of the system. Both of these properties are related to locality in different ways. This formalism could be relevant to the emergence of spacetime from quantum entanglement.
description: 40 pages, 6 figures. v3 contains version accepted by Phys. Rev. A
„Strukturelle Evolution“ der Staatlichen Geologie in Neubrandenburg – „Öffnung“ und „Schließung“ aus Verwaltungs-tektonischer Sicht
Creators: name: Niedermeyer, Ralf-Otto
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 2012

description: Rede des Leiters des Geologischen Dienstes von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Prof. Dr. habil. Ralf-Otto Niedermeyer, im Rahmen des Abschluss-Kolloquiums am 24. November 2009 anlässlich der Schließung der Außenstelle (Geologisches Regionalarchiv) Neubrandenburg des Landesamtes für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Geologie (LUNG) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV) zum Jahresende 2009.
description: research
Defining through Defiance : Visuals in Ntozake Shange's "for colored girls who have considererd suicide/when the rainbow is enuf" Filtered through Alice Walker's 'In Search of Our Mother's Gardens'
Creators: name: Dempsey, Jane
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3604
subject: Performing arts

description: Description to be added
Rare decays $\bar{B}\to X_{s(d)}γ$ at the NLO
Creators: name: Asatrian, H. M.
name: Asatryan, H. H.
name: Hovhannisyan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an independent calculation of ${\cal{O}}(α_s)$ matrix elements of the QCD penguin operators for the decays $\bar{B}\to X_{s(d)}γ$. The Mellin-Barnes representation technique is applied for the systematic numerical evaluation of involved two-loop diagrams. The numerical effect of the calculated contributions is confirmed to be of order of 1%. We also present an updated numerical analysis for $\bar{B}\to X_{s(d)}γ$ decay rates.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Drivers For Land Value Revisited: Is The Returns Discount Model (RDM) Obsolete In Sustainable Agriculture?
Creators: name: Czyżewski, Bazyli
name: Kułyk, Piotr
name: Kryszak, Łukasz
name: Czyżewski, Bazyli
name: Kułyk, Piotr
name: Kryszak, Łukasz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Farmland price
subject: RDM model
subject: Sustainable agriculture
subject: Land rent

description: Although mainstream economics says that farmland values are determined by the discounted stream of returns, many researchers have identified non-agricultural attributes of land that significantly contribute to its value. It is claimed that in sustainable agriculture, an increasing proportion of the value of land is explained by amenities. It is necessary to consider whether the neoclassical RDM remains applicable to the valuation of farmland. The main aim of this work was to test RDM of Saphiro–Gordon type for farmland prices in Poland. It was found that in spite of changes to the CAP, the RDM continues to perform well.
Dasypeltis confusa Trape & Mane 2006
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Dasypeltis
Dasypeltis confusa

description: Dasypeltis confusa Trape & Mané, 2006
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 13 specimens (MNHN 2006- 2193, N’Gambi; MNHN 1989.0252, MNHN 1989.0255 and MNHN 1989.0264, Togo; GHS-W 1078, Sodo Zion, T 116 and T 165, Fazao; T 153, Diguingue; T 176, T 181, T 191 and T 193, Alédjo, T 218, Huilehui).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL of our specimens from 368 to 710 mm; 21-22 MSR, scales keeled and oblique; 231- 241 Ven, smooth; 58-68 Sc, paired; anal single; 7-8 supralabials; 8 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 2 + 2.
 DISTRIBUTION. — First record from Togo. This recently described species is quite common. It was observed in the regions of Fazao and Aledjo as well as in the South of the country. This species was long confused with Dasypeltis scabra.
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 332, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
Evaluate the impact of social media marketing on business performance in the hotel industry in selected countries of Asia
Creators: name: Wijenayaka, Amal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150603 Tourism Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Social media plays a major role in searching for information in the travel and tourism sector especially select a hotel for the accommodation. From the business point of view, they are effective tools and platforms increasing customers’ engagement and business interactions (Sigala, 2012). These platforms become the highest priority level in hoteliers and about 66% of hotels are using any platforms by 2012 and it is continuously increasing (TripAdvisor, 2012). According to Gupta (2019), social media helps or providing information to consumers to collect data to decide to book a hotel room for accommodation, analyzing negative and positive aspects. Because most of the time leisure travellers go to a specific hotel first time in their life. They love to change the hotel every time to get a different experience. Business travellers always use the same hotel. So this information more valuable leisure travellers than business travellers. Some hotel operators published fake photos as they belong to their hotel. Sometimes customers decide on it and they may not be correct decisions. Social media comes to fill this gap. Because it provides real information to people to take correct decisions. Business performance of the hotel industry such as profitability, ARR, RevPAR, BOR completely depend on selling their rooms to customers (Srivastava & Mitra 2016) and social media marketing helps to attract new customers. How will it happen? It provides information to the analysis. But hotel operator must have a responsibility to provide real information in effective ways. So it is very important to handle social media marketing strategies accurately or strategically to get maximum results in the hotel industry in Asia (selected countries). Because social media platforms are no longer gain competitive advantages to the industry. What is the reason for it? The answer is social media is widely available and anyone can easily go through it. Just need an email address and a mobile phone number. However, to gain competitive advantages from social media, every hotel needs to handle it strategically. This report will explain how operators or management should it strategically. After the background part of the introduction chapter, rationale, scope, aim and objectives, theoretical underpinning and evidence parts will be pointed out.
Total Cost of Ownership Optimization for Direct Air-to-Ground System Design
Creators: name: Dinc, E.
name: Vondra, M.
name: Cavdar, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Aircraft cabin is one of the last venues without mobile broadband. Considering future 5G applications and connectivity requirements, direct air-to-ground communications (DA2GC) is the only technique which can provide high capacity and low latency backhaul link for aircraft via a direct communication link. To this end, we propose an analytical framework to investigate the ground station deployment problem for DA2GC network employing multi-user beamforming with dual-polarized hybrid DA2GC antenna arrays. In addition, the proposed framework is utilized to analyze and optimize the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the DA2GC network to provide coverage for European airspace. We present the interplay between different network parameters: the number of ground stations, array size, transmit power and bandwidth, and TCO optimizing deployment parameters are calculated in order to satisfy capacity requirements. At the end, we show that, depending on the cost of different network resources, a terrestrial cellular network can be designed to cover the whole European airspace with limited number of ground stations with a certain array size, i.e., 900 and 361 antenna elements for ground station and air station, respectively.
description: 14 Pages
Rotational excitations in rare-earth nuclei: a comparative study within three cranking models with different mean fields and the treatments of pairing correlations
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhen-Hua
name: Huang, Miao
name: Afanasjev, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-spin rotational bands in rare-earth Er ($Z=68$), Tm ($Z=69$) and Yb ($Z=70$) isotopes are investigated by three different nuclear models. These are (i) the cranked relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov (CRHB) approach with approximate particle number projection by means of the Lipkin-Nogami (LN) method, (ii) the cranking covariant density functional theory (CDFT) with pairing correlations treated by a shell-model-like approach (SLAP) or the so called particle-number conserving (PNC) method, and (iii) cranked shell model (CSM) based on the Nilsson potential with pairing correlations treated by the PNC method. A detailed comparison between these three models in the description of the ground state rotational bands of even-even Er and Yb isotopes is performed. The similarities and differences between these models in the description of the moments of inertia, the features of band crossings, equilibrium deformations and pairing energies of even-even nuclei under study are discussed. These quantities are considered as a function of rotational frequency and proton and neutron numbers. The changes in the properties of the first band crossings with increasing neutron number in this mass region are investigated. On average, a comparable accuracy of the description of available experimental data is achieved in these models. However, the differences between model predictions become larger above the first band crossings. Because of time-consuming nature of numerical calculations in the CDFT-based models, a systematic study of the rotational properties of both ground state and excited state bands in odd-mass Tm nuclei is carried out only by the PNC-SCM. With few exceptions, the rotational properties of experimental 1-quasiparticle and 3-quasiparticle bands in $^{165,167,169,171}$Tm are reproduced reasonably well.
description: 29 pages, 18 figures. submitted to Physical Review C, revised version with takes into account the suggestions of referee
Пам’ятки археології Брусилівського району в інформаційному картографічному блоці
Creators: name: Володимир Гнера
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Гнера, В. А. (2015). Пам’ятки археології Брусилівського району в інформаційному картографічному блоці. Праці Центру пам’яткознавства. Збірник наукових праць., Випуск 28, 71–85.
The article considers the possibility of using satellite imagery and historical maps to explore the historical and archaeological sites. To save and effective investigation of known and newly identifi ed sites need to conduct their qualitative mapping. Skill remote research Brusyliv District, with the help of GIS mapping technology, it gave the possibility of obtaining fundamentally new information for the study of well-known and have not yet identifi ed archaeological sites. The presented technique research and thematic processing of archival maps combined with satellite imagery. It justifi es the need for making the archaeological sites on the map, followed by the use of such cards in cultural heritage studies and research.
DSR: enhanced modelling and refinement of disordered structures with SHELXL
Creators: name: Kratzert, Daniel
name: Holstein, Julian J.
name: Krossing, Ingo
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2015

description: One of the remaining challenges in single-crystal structure refinement is the proper description of disorder in crystal structures. This paper describes a computer program that performs semi-automatic modelling of disordered moieties in SHELXL [Sheldrick (2015). Acta Cryst. C71, 3–8.]. The new program contains a database that includes molecular fragments and their corresponding stereochemical restraints, and a placement procedure to place these fragments on the desired position in the unit cell. The program is also suitable for speeding up model building of well ordered crystal structures.
SOLIDARISCHE LANDWIRTSCHFT – AUSTRITTSGRÜNDE AUS PERSPEKTIVE EHEMALIGER MITGLIEDER
Creators: name: Maschkowski, Gesa
name: Barth, Alice
name: Köngeter, Alexandra
name: Maschkowski, Gesa
name: Barth, Alice
name: Köngeter, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Solidarische Landwirtschaft
subject: Erzeuger-Verbraucherkooperation
subject: Soziale Innovation
subject: Haushaltswissenschaft
subject: Agro-Food Studies

description: Die Zahl der Betriebe, die in Deutschland nach dem Prinzip der solidarischen Landwirtschaft wirtschaften, wächst. Über die Motive von Menschen, die ihre Mitgliedschaft wieder beenden ist jedoch nichts bekannt. Die Studie basiert auf einer Fallstudie (n=108) und einer bundesweiten Abbrecherbefragung (n=150). Als theoretische Grundlage dient die Theorie des Familienhaushaltes nach VON SCHWEITZER. Austritte erfolgen eher im ersten Jahr der Mitgliedschaft. Zu den Austrittsgründen gehören familiäre Vorlieben oder Abneigungen, Schwierigkeiten bei der Alltagsorganisation und der Faktor Zeit, Kritik am Preis/Leistungsverhältnis, der Qualität und Vielfalt sowie der Logistik. Die Studie gibt Hinweise für die Weiterentwicklung des Modells Solidarische Landwirtschaft.
Structural characteristics of the halite fabric type ‘Kristallbrocken’ from the Zechstein Basin with regard to its development
Creators: name: Küster, Yvonne
name: Leiss, Bernd
name: Schramm, Michael
Publisher: name: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2008

description: The Kristallbrocken are a characteristic centimetre- to decimetre-sized, laminated halite fabric type occurring in the Stassfurt Formation in the Zechstein Basin. Up to now, the nature of the Kristallbrocken, i.e. if they are relics of fine-grained, polycrystalline halite beds or clasts of ‘single crystal-layers’, as well as the deformation mechanisms of this halite type, were not clear from the literature. Drill core material from the salt deposit Teutschenthal at the southern rim of the Zechstein Basin now allowed investigating less intensely deformed samples for the first time. The deformational behaviour of these Kristallbrocken ranges from brittle to ductile, which is evidenced by fractured Kristallbrocken on the one hand and weakly bent or even folded Kristallbrocken on the other hand. Local X-ray texture measurements demonstrated that the Kristallbrocken are definitely single crystals and that they can be regarded as relics of formerly larger ‘single crystal-layers’ of up to several dm2 in size. The folded Kristallbrocken clearly display by their single grain texture characteristics that their crystal lattice is bent, which was most likely enabled by a kind of flexural-shear folding, and did not develop after deformation from a fine-grained aggregate by recrystallisation. Due to their monocrystallinity, their originally large size, and the solid inclusions forming the internal lamination, the Kristallbrocken have clearly stronger rheological properties than the surrounding fine- to coarse-grained polycrystalline rock salt, and thus also deform by fracturing.
DANA: Dimension-Adaptive Neural Architecture for Multivariate Sensor Data
Creators: name: Malekzadeh, Mohammad
name: Clegg, Richard G.
name: Cavallaro, Andrea
name: Haddadi, Hamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Motion sensors embedded in wearable and mobile devices allow for dynamic selection of sensor streams and sampling rates, enabling several applications, such as power management and data-sharing control. While deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve competitive accuracy in sensor data classification, DNNs generally process incoming data from a fixed set of sensors with a fixed sampling rate, and changes in the dimensions of their inputs cause considerable accuracy loss, unnecessary computations, or failure in operation. We introduce a dimension-adaptive pooling (DAP) layer that makes DNNs flexible and more robust to changes in sensor availability and in sampling rate. DAP operates on convolutional filter maps of variable dimensions and produces an input of fixed dimensions suitable for feedforward and recurrent layers. We also propose a dimension-adaptive training (DAT) procedure for enabling DNNs that use DAP to better generalize over the set of feasible data dimensions at inference time. DAT comprises the random selection of dimensions during the forward passes and optimization with accumulated gradients of several backward passes. Combining DAP and DAT, we show how to transform non-adaptive DNNs into a Dimension-Adaptive Neural Architecture (DANA), while keeping the same number of parameters. Compared to existing approaches, our solution provides better classification accuracy over the range of possible data dimensions at inference time and does not require up-sampling or imputation, thus reducing unnecessary computations. Experiments on seven datasets (four benchmark real-world datasets for human activity recognition and three synthetic datasets) show that DANA prevents significant losses in classification accuracy of the state-of-the-art DNNs and, compared to baselines, it better captures correlated patterns in sensor data under dynamic sensor availability and varying sampling rates.
description: Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., Vol. 5, No. 3, Article 120. Publication date: September 2021
Supernova pointing with low- and high-energy neutrino detectors
Creators: name: Tomas, R.
name: Semikoz, D.
name: Raffelt, G. G.
name: Kachelriess, M.
name: Dighe, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A future galactic SN can be located several hours before the optical explosion through the MeV-neutrino burst, exploiting the directionality of $ν$-$e$-scattering in a water Cherenkov detector such as Super-Kamiokande. We study the statistical efficiency of different methods for extracting the SN direction and identify a simple approach that is nearly optimal, yet independent of the exact SN neutrino spectra. We use this method to quantify the increase in the pointing accuracy by the addition of gadolinium to water, which tags neutrons from the inverse beta decay background. We also study the dependence of the pointing accuracy on neutrino mixing scenarios and initial spectra. We find that in the ``worst case'' scenario the pointing accuracy is $8^\circ$ at 95% C.L. in the absence of tagging, which improves to $3^\circ$ with a tagging efficiency of 95%. At a megaton detector, this accuracy can be as good as $0.6^\circ$. A TeV-neutrino burst is also expected to be emitted contemporaneously with the SN optical explosion, which may locate the SN to within a few tenths of a degree at a future km$^2$ high-energy neutrino telescope. If the SN is not seen in the electromagnetic spectrum, locating it in the sky through neutrinos is crucial for identifying the Earth matter effects on SN neutrino oscillations.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, Revtex4 format. The final version to be published in Phys. Rev. D. A few points in the original text are clarified
Investigating the Cellular Mechanisms Promoting Tumorigenesis and an Inflammatory Microenviornment in Tpl2 Knockout Mice
Creators: name: Dempsey, Taylor A.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences

description: Description to be added
Economic Experiments for Policy Analysis and Program Design: A Guide for Agricultural Decisionmakers
Creators: name: Higgins, Nathaniel
name: Hellerstein, Daniel
name: Wallander, Steven
name: Lynch, Lori
name: Higgins, Nathaniel
name: Hellerstein, Daniel
name: Wallander, Steven
name: Lynch, Lori
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: behavioral economics
subject: Conservation Reserve Program
subject: conservation targeting
subject: randomized controlled trials
subject: economic experiments
subject: laboratory experiments
subject: field experiment

description: This report examines the use of experiments for building evidence to inform agricultural policy, providing an introduction to the field of experimental economics and discussing the increasing use of field experiments and randomized controlled trials in the social sciences and in government. See related Amber Waves article Gathering Experimental Evidence To Improve the Design of Agricultural Programs.
Public Disclosure of Tests for Salmonella: The Effects on Food Safety Performance in Chicken Slaughter Establishments
Creators: name: Ollinger, Michael
name: Wilkus, James
name: Hrdlicka, Megan
name: Bovay, John
name: Ollinger, Michael
name: Wilkus, James
name: Hrdlicka, Megan
name: Bovay, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Food safety
subject: FSIS regulations
subject: salmonella
subject: chicken processing
subject: slaughter

description: This report examines how disclosing the identities of chicken slaughter establishments with poor or mediocre performance on Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) tests for Salmonella affects subsequent test outcomes. Empirical results show that public disclosure of the identities of such establishments is strongly correlated with a substantial drop in Salmonella levels over 2006-10. The reduction in Salmonella levels demonstrated that the FSIS Salmonella standard on carcasses of young chickens could be lowered. FSIS then reduced its Salmonella standard on young chicken carcasses by more than 50 percent in 2011.
Infiltration and groundwater flow into a fractured porous sandstone aquifer in the eastern Thuringian Basin
Infiltration und Grundwasserströmung in geklüftet-porösen Buntsandsteingrundwasserleitern im Osten des Thüringer Beckens
Creators: name: Rödiger, T.
name: Sauter, M.
name: Büchel, G.
Publisher: name: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2009

description: Kurzfassung Im Osten des Thüringer Beckens sind aufgrund der geringen Niederschläge von 585 mm/a die Grundwasserressourcen in den geklüfteten Buntsandsteingrundwasserleitern stark limitiert. Ziel der Untersuchung war es, für dieses Buntsandsteinfließsystem ein numerisches Grundwasserströmungsmodell zu erstellen, um die zukünftige Entwicklung der Grundwasserressourcen auf der Grundlage verschiedener Klimaszenarien prognostizieren zu können. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wurden Grundwasserganglinien mit dem Ziel analysiert, eine Inputfunktion für die Grundwasserneubildung am Grundwasserspiegel abzuleiten, welche ein wichtiger Eingangsparameter bei der numerischen Modellierung ist. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Strömung im Buntsandsteingrundwasserleiter sowohl durch ein kluft- sowie ein matrixdominiertes Strömungsregime charakterisiert ist. Der überwiegende Anteil der Grundwasserneubildung infiltriert rasch durch das Kluftsystem. Dagegen bewirken die geringeren Matrixdurchlässigkeiten in der ungesättigten Zone, in Abhängigkeit vom Flurabstand, eine deutliche Verzögerung der Grundwasserneubildung von bis zu mehreren Jahren.
description: In the eastern Thuringian Basin, the low precipitation rate of 585 mm/y limits the groundwater resources in the sandstone aquifer system. The aim of this study was to develop a groundwater flow model for the region in order to forecast the impacts of different climate scenarios on the groundwater balance. Since recharge is of high relevance for the numerical model, a time series of groundwater levels were investigated to obtain the recharge input function. In the sandstone aquifer it could be shown that groundwater flow is characterised by flow in the fracture network as well as in the matrix. The largest fraction of recharge reaches the water table very quickly via the fracture network. However, both the thickness of the unsaturated zone and the low hydraulic conductivity of the sandstone matrix control the time lag of groundwater recharge. The time lag of the slow component to reach the water table is in the order of several years.
Gonionotophis klingi Matschie 1893
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Gonionotophis
Gonionotophis klingi

description: Gonionotophis klingi Matschie, 1893
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 4 specimens (MRAC 29666, Dzogbegan; MRAC 29670, Missahohe; GHS-W 1059- 1060, Agou).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 375 to 448 mm; 19 MSR, keeled; 168-174 Ven, smooth; 85-97 Sc, paired; anal single; 8 supralabials; 9 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 or 2 + 2 + 2.
 DISTRIBUTION. — The type specimen of this species described by Matschie (1893) was collected at Bismarkburg, currently Yegue, in Adele. This species is largely a forest-dweller occurring in ER IV. It might be present in the southern part of ER II. It had also been recorded from forested areas by Matschie (1893), Werner (1902), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 11) from Atakpame, Loveridge (1939), Hulselmans et al. (1971) and Leaché et al. (2006).
REMARK
Specimen MRAC 29670 has the loreal fused with the preocular.This character was already mentioned by Roux-Estève (1969).
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 341, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
Datasets related to project "Financial Abilities in neurological diseases. Development of a telerehabilitation program: FINAGE" (part 12)
Creators: name: Burgio, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The file contains the third part of MRI data of subjects with right-side Stroke, collected for the "Financial Abilities in neurological diseases. Development of a telerehabilitation program: FINAGE" (GR-2018-12367927) project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Health under the Ricerca Finalizzata (2018) call.
Integrale Quantifizierung von Schadstoffmassenflüssen im Grundwasser – Konditionierung der numerischen Inversion der Konzentrationsganglinien von Immissionspumpversuchen
Integral quantification of contaminant mass flux in groundwater – conditioning of the numerical inversion of concentration-time series of integral pumping tests
Creators: name: Herold, M.
name: Ptak, T.
name: Wendel, T.
name: Grathwohl, P.
Publisher: name: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2008

description: Kurzfassung Auf dem Gelände eines ehemaligen Gaswerks (Testfeld Süd) wurden Immissionspumpversuche (IPVs) zur Quantifizierung der Fracht und der mittleren Konzentration gaswerkstypischer Schadstoffe entlang von drei Kontrollquerschnitten durchgeführt. Die daraus resultierenden Konzentrationsganglinien wurden mithilfe des Inversionsprogramms CSTREAM und eines Strömungs- und Transportmodells des hydraulisch extrem heterogenen Grundwasserleiters numerisch ausgewertet. Die den gesamten Abstrombereich der Verdachtsfläche erfassenden Kontrollquerschnitte ermöglichen Aussagen über die Position und Ausbreitung der Schadstofffahne auf dem Gelände des Testfeldes Süd. Bisherige Auswertungen von IPVs konnten die Verteilung der Schadstofffahne um den IPV-Brunnen für genau drei Fälle berechnen: entweder befindet sich die Fahne links vom Brunnen, rechts davon oder ist symmetrisch um ihn verteilt. Um eine realistischere Vorstellung von der Fahnenposition zu ermöglichen, wurden in dieser Studie zusätzlich Direct-Push-Messstellen entlang einer Kontrollebene installiert. Die in diesen Messstellen gemessenen Konzentrationen wurden zur Konditionierung der numerischen Inversionslösung herangezogen. Die Ergebnisse ermöglichen eine genauere Eingrenzung des Fahnenzentrums sowie des Fahnenrandes, was insbesondere die Erarbeitung angepasster und optimierter Sanierungsstrategien unterstützt.
description: A series of integral pumping tests (IPTs) were conducted at a former gasworks site to quantify the contaminant mass flux and average concentration in groundwater along three control planes. The resulting concentration-time series were analysed numerically with the help of the inversion code CSTREAM and a flow and transport model representing the highly heterogeneous aquifer. Since the control planes cover the entire downstream width of the potentially contaminated area, they allow conclusions to be drawn about the current location and spread of the contaminant plume. Previous evaluations of integral pumping tests could calculate three scenarios concerning the spread of the plume around the IPT well: (i) the plume is located to the right of the well, (ii) to the left, or (iii) is distributed symmetrically around it. To create a more realistic picture of the plume position, a series of direct-push monitoring wells were installed along one control plane. The concentrations found in these wells were included in the numerical analysis to condition the inversion results, and resulted in a more pronounced plume centre and fringe, which supports the development of optimised remediation strategies.
Why dynamos are prone to reversals
Creators: name: Stefani, Frank
name: Gerbeth, Gunter
name: Guenther, Uwe
name: Xu, Mingtian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper (Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005), 184506; physics/0411050) it was shown that a simple mean-field dynamo model with a spherically symmetric helical turbulence parameter alpha can exhibit a number of features which are typical for Earth's magnetic field reversals. In particular, the model produces asymmetric reversals, a positive correlation of field strength and interval length, and a bimodal field distribution. All these features are attributable to the magnetic field dynamics in the vicinity of an exceptional point of the spectrum of the non-selfadjoint dynamo operator. The negative slope of the growth rate curve between the nearby local maximum and the exceptional point makes the system unstable and drives it to the exceptional point and beyond into the oscillatory branch where the sign change happens. A weakness of this reversal model is the apparent necessity to fine-tune the magnetic Reynolds number and/or the radial profile of alpha. In the present paper, it is shown that this fine-tuning is not necessary in the case of higher supercriticality of the dynamo. Numerical examples and physical arguments are compiled to show that, with increasing magnetic Reynolds number, there is strong tendency for the exceptional point and the associated local maximum to move close to the zero growth rate line. Although exemplified again by the spherically symmetric alpha^2 dynamo model, the main idea of this ''self-tuning'' mechanism of saturated dynamos into a reversal-prone state seems well transferable to other dynamos. As a consequence, reversing dynamos might be much more typical and may occur much more frequently in nature than what could be expected from a purely kinematic perspective.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
title: Quaker politics and industrial change c.1800-1850
Creators: name: Morton, Vanessa
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1991

description: This thesis explores early 19th century Quakers from the perspective of the social history of religion. It examines the ways in which Quaker organisation adapted to arid facilitated economic change, and in which Quackerism and Quaker politics developed to reflect and represent the new economic and social requirements of this predominantly bourgeois and business community. Chapter II sets out the most significant features of the 18th century background: the process of Quaker consolidation, economic and political activity, the shift to evangelicalism. Chapter III explores the London Quaker evangelical elite around William Allen, Elizabeth Fry, Joseph John Gurney: their interconnections with the Clapham "Saints", with Dissenting evangelicals, with Whig "progressives", and with the Benthamites: their role as political lobby: their contribution to the development and dissemination of concepts of social modification in the service of industrial development, infused by religion. Chapters IV and V examine the provincial challenge to the London Quaker establishment in the 1830s and 40s, within the arenas of pressure group politics - most notably anti-slavery - and the development of a combatant Quaker press. These chapters continue the analysis of the role of of within Quaker politics begun in Chapter III, and explore the basis for the internal conflicts and shifts between Quaker "Whiggery" and Quaker "Liberalism". Chapters VI and VII comprise two case-studies of Quaker provincial economic, social and political activity. Chapter VI examines how Birmingham Quaker employers implemented structural change, the split within the Quaker community over the rise of Liberal politics and the challenge of Chartism. It focuses particularly on Joseph Sturge and the Complete Suffrage movement. Chapter VII analyses the varying economic and political strategies of the Pease and Backhouse dynasties in South Durham and their relationship to Quaker organisation and affiliation. In conclusion, chapter VIII attempts to analyse the essential features of the economic, political and religious development of the Quaker community over the period, and the ways in which it reflected, contributed to and participated in the development of bourgeois Liberalism.
Mass-transport deposits and reservoir quality of Upper Cretaceous Chalk within the German Central Graben, North Sea
Creators: name: Arfai, Jashar
name: Lutz, Rüdiger
name: Franke, Dieter
name: Gaedicke, Christoph
name: Kley, Jonas
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2015

description: The architecture of intra-chalk deposits in the ‘Entenschnabel’ area of the German North Sea is studied based on 3D seismic data. Adapted from seismic reflection characteristics, four types of mass-transport deposits (MTDs) are distinguished, i.e. slumps, slides, channels and frontal splay deposits. The development of these systems can be linked to inversion tectonics and halotectonic movements of Zechstein salt. Tectonic uplift is interpreted to have caused repeated tilting of the sea floor. This triggered large-scale slump deposition during Turonian–Santonian times. Slump deposits are characterised by chaotic reflection patterns interpreted to result from significant stratal distortion. The south-eastern study area is characterised by a large-scale frontal splay complex. This comprises a network of shallow channel systems arranged in a distributive pattern. Several slide complexes are observed near the Top Chalk in Maastrichtian and Danian sediments. These slides are commonly associated with large incisions into the sediments below. Best reservoir properties with high producible porosities are found in the reworked chalk strata, e.g. Danish North Sea, therefore MTDs detected in the study area are regarded as potential hydrocarbon reservoirs and considered as exploration targets.
Late-stage volcano geomorphic evolution of the Pleistocene San Francisco Mountain, Arizona (USA), based on high-resolution DEM analysis and 40Ar/39Ar chronology
Creators: name: Karátson, Dávid
name: Telbisz, Tamás
name: Singer, Brad
Publisher: name: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2010

description: The cone-building volcanic activity and subsequent erosion of San Francisco Mountain, AZ, USA, were studied by using high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) analysis and new 40Ar/39Ar dating. By defining remnants or planèzes of the volcano flanks in DEM-derived images, the original edifice can be reconstructed. We propose a two-cone model with adjacent summit vents which were active in different times. The reconstructed cones were 4,460 and 4,350 m high a.s.l., corresponding to ∼2,160 and 2,050 m relative height, respectively. New 40Ar/39Ar data allow us to decipher the chronological details of the cone-building activity. We dated the Older and Younger Andesites of the volcano that, according to previous mapping, built the stage 2 and stage 3 stratocones, respectively. The new 40Ar/39Ar plateau ages yielded 589–556 ka for the Older and 514–505 ka for the Younger Andesites, supporting their distinct nature with a possible dormant period between. The obtained ages imply an intense final (≤100 ka long) cone-building activity, terminating ∼100 ka earlier than indicated by previous K-Ar ages. Moreover, 40Ar/39Ar dating constrains the formation of the Inner Basin, an elliptical depression in the center of the volcano initially created by flank collapse. A 530 ka age (with a ±58.4 ka 2σ error) for a post-depression dacite suggests that the collapse event is geochronologically indistinguishable from the termination of the andesitic cone-building activity. According to our DEM analysis, the original cone of San Francisco Mountain had a volume of about 80 km3. Of this volume, ∼7.5 km3 was removed by the flank collapse and subsequent glacial erosion, creating the present-day enlarged Inner Basin, and ∼2 km3 was removed from the outer valleys by erosion. Based on volumetric analysis and previous and new radiometric ages, the average long-term eruption rate of San Francisco Mountain was ∼0.2 km3/ka, which is a medium rate for long-lived stratovolcanoes. However, according to the new 40Ar/39Ar dates for the last ≤100 ka period, the final stratovolcanic activity was characterized by a greater ∼0.3 km3/ka rate.