cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Version syriaque de l’Octateuque de Clément: Traduite en français
Creators: name: Nau, François
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1913

description: François Nau (1864–1931), who is well known for his numerous editions and translations of Syriac texts, in this volume gives a French translation of the so-called Octateuch of Clement from Syriac. Not surprisingly, there are many parallels with other canonical literature such as the Apostolic Constitutions and the Canons of Hippolytus, and Nau indicates these in his observations and also in an analytical table at the end of the book, which also includes a Scripture index. His introduction covers the contents of the work, manuscripts and editions, the origin of the Syriac version, Severus of Antioch and the Syrian Orthodox Church and this text, and other texts related to Clement’s Octateuch. This text along with Nau’s introduction and notes are an important contribution to church practice in the Syriac church. This volume also has affixed to it a modern handwritten copy (16 pages) of extracts from BL Add. ms. 12155, with the title “LittŽrature canonique” at the top of each page.
Fokker Planck kinetic modeling of suprathermal alpha-particles in a fusion plasma
Creators: name: Peigney, Benjamin-Edouard
name: Larroche, Olivier
name: Tikhonchuk, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an ion kinetic model describing the ignition and burn of the deuterium-tritium fuel of inertial fusion targets. The analysis of the underlying physical model enables us to develop efficient numerical methods to simulate the creation, transport and collisional relaxation of fusion reaction products (alpha-particles) at a kinetic level. A two-energy-scale approach leads to a self-consistent modeling of the coupling between suprathermal alpha-particles and the thermal bulk of the imploding plasma. This method provides an accurate numerical treatment of energy deposition and transport processes involving suprathermal particles. The numerical tools presented here are validated against known analytical results. This enables us to investigate the potential role of ion kinetic effects on the physics of ignition and thermonuclear burn in inertial confinement fusion schemes.
Automated Data-Ops for Community-Driven Flood Monitoring
Creators: name: Grajales, Diego Pajarito
name: De Albuquerque, João Porto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Data Flows
Data Pipelines
DataOps
Flooding
Citizen-generated Data

description: Communities from deprived urban areas suffer from socio-environmental challenges and data scarcity to tackle them. Geoinformation and cloud computing can support monitoring, analysing, and data-driven decision making while helping authorities and communities co-design and co-produce data. Automation through DataOps might facilitate the development and operation of heterogeneous data flows. However, its implementation implies a steep learning curve and requirements difficult to meet. This paper describes a vision to adopt DataOps in citizen-generated data production, improve data flows and integrate heterogeneous data sets. We discuss the challenges and efforts of setting data pipelines for a community-driven monitoring network in Brazil.
Three Sides to Every Story: Engaging an Autoethnographic Everyday Lived Experience of Race and Crime to Explore Legislative Policy-Practice Tackling the U.K. Gang
Creators: name: Joseph, Ian
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis draws on entries from a personal journal to revisit selected publications from a body of work as part of an autoethnographic methodology to explored issues of race and crime and critically examine the implications of gang legislative policy-practice for urban black male youth. Through a reflexive process, findings and recommendations from selected policy research published between 2002 and 2011 is revisited and critically assessed against an everyday lived experience of race and crime. Findings from this research resists how criminological ideas are used to support an official view and approach to ‘problem youth’ and gangs in the U.K that developed after 2003. It analyses how young people and communities speak about local problems as a means of reconceptualising how youth behaviour is understood and develop alternative ways of tackling it.
1994 Task 1: Self Analysis
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori)

description: This assignment / short paper was created as part of the final tasks we were assigned in the EDU 3600 unit, as part of my Final Acting Teacher Practice (ATP) conducted at Withers Primary School whilst at Edith Cowan University, Bunbury Campus, Western Australia in 1994.
Task 1: Self Analysis
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori)

description: This assignment / short paper was created as part of the final tasks we were assigned in the EDU 3600 unit, as part of my Final Acting Teacher Practice (ATP) conducted at Withers Primary School whilst at Edith Cowan University, Bunbury Campus, Western Australia in 1994.
«Neue Autorität» Die Umsetzung in der Schule Friedheim Handlungen der Lehrpersonen und Sichtweisen der Schüler*innen
Creators: name: Sonder, Christina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit
Neue Autorität
Schule Friedheim

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit hat zum Ziel, die konkrete Umsetzung der Neuen Autorität nach Haim Omer in der Schule Friedheim zu erforschen. Mittels Beobachtungen der Lehrpersonen wurde der Frage nachgegangen, welche Handlungen die Umsetzung der Neuen Autorität sichtbar machen. Zudem wurden vier Jugendliche narrativ befragt, um zu eruieren, welche Aspekte der Neuen Autorität durch Alltagsbeschreibungen deutlich werden. Die Daten wurden durch die qualitative Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet und gemäss der genannten Fragestellungen diskutiert. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung zeigen auf, dass wichtige Haltungs- und Handlungsaspekte wie Präsenz, Selbstkontrolle, Transparenz, Vernetzung, Protest gegenüber Widerstand sowie Geste der Beziehung und Wiedergutmachung sowohl durch Handlungen der Lehrpersonen als auch durch die Alltagsbeschreibungen der Jugendlichen erkenntlich werden. Damit stehen die Ergebnisse im Einklang mit dem „Wabenmodell“ von Lemme und Körner, welches die Neue Autorität spezifisch auf die Schule transferiert.
Approximation in Sobolev spaces by piecewise affine interpolation
Creators: name: Van Schaftingen, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46E35 (41A05, 65D05)

description: Functions in a Sobolev space are approximated directly by piecewise affine interpolation in the norm of the space. The proof is based on estimates for interpolations and does not rely on the density of smooth functions.
description: 6 pages
Getting Up: Graffiti Art and the Curriculum
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Art
subject: 180104 Civil Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 130201 Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development
subject: Design
subject: Digital Humanities
subject: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: 220202 History and Philosophy of Education
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Law
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80502 Mobile Technologies

description: This paper serves to inform the reader of an innovative project being conducted by Swan TAFE, Midland Campus called the 'Learning Legends" SG project which primarily seeks to engage and retain socially isolated youth in appropriate curriculum activities. This project bridges communications between many community groups, many individuals and a multitude of organizations. This paper builds upon research conducted by the author focussed on aerosol art forms in curriculum delivery, feedback from youth on their aerosol art activities and prompts the reader to consider aerosol or graffiti art forms as a creative mechanism for curriculum delivery.
Extremely high polarization in 2010 outburst of blazar 3C 454.3
Creators: name: Sasada, Mahito
name: Uemura, Makoto
name: Fukazawa, Yasushi
name: Yasuda, Hajimu
name: Itoh, Ryosuke
name: Sakimoto, Kiyoshi
name: Ikejiri, Yuki
name: Yoshida, Michitoshi
name: Kawabata, Koji S.
name: Akitaya, Hiroshi
name: Ohsugi, Takashi
name: Yamanaka, Masayuki
name: Komatsu, Tomoyuki
name: Miyamoto, Hisashi
name: Nagae, Osamu
name: Nakaya, Hidehiko
name: Tanaka, Hiroyuki
name: Sato, Shuji
name: Kino, Masaru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gamma-ray-detected blazar 3C 454.3 exhibits dramatic flux and polarization variations in the optical and near-infrared bands. In December 2010, the object emitted a very bright outburst. We monitored it for approximately four years (including the 2010 outburst) by optical and near-infrared photopolarimetry. During the 2010 outburst, the object emitted two rapid, redder brightenings, at which the polarization degrees (PDs) in both bands increased significantly and the bands exhibited a frequency-dependent polarization. The observed frequency-dependent polarization leads us to propose that the polarization vector is composed of two vectors. Therefore, we separate the observed polarization vectors into short and long-term components that we attribute to the emissions of the rapid brightenings and the outburst that varied the timescale of days and months, respectively. The estimated PD of the short-term component is greater than the maximum observed PD and is close to the theoretical maximum PD. We constrain the bulk Lorentz factors and inclination angles between the jet axis and the line of sight from the estimated PDs. In this case, the inclination angle of the emitting region of short-term component from the first rapid brightening should be equal to 90$^{\circ}$, because the estimated PD of the short-term component was approximately equal to the theoretical maximum PD. Thus, the Doppler factor at the emitting region of the first rapid brightening should be equal to the bulk Lorentz factor.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Electronics with correlated oxides: SrVO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ as a Mott transistor
Creators: name: Zhong, Zhicheng
name: Wallerberger, Markus
name: Tomczak, Jan M.
name: Taranto, Ciro
name: Parragh, Nicolaus
name: Toschi, Alessandro
name: Sangiovanni, Giorgio
name: Held, Karsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ density functional theory plus dynamical mean field theory and identify the physical origin of why two layers of SrVO$_3$ on a SrTiO$_3$ substrate are insulating: the thin film geometry lifts the orbital degeneracy which in turn triggers a Mott-Hubbard transition. Two layers of SrVO$_3$ are just at the verge of a Mott-Hubbard transition and hence ideally suited for technological applications of the Mott-Hubbard transition: the heterostructure is highly sensitive to strain, electric field, and temperature. A gate voltage can also turn the insulator into a metal, so that a transistor with ideal on-off (metal-insulator) switching properties is realized.
On the Causal Set-Continuum Correspondence
Creators: name: Saravani, Mehdi
name: Aslanbeigi, Siavash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present two results which concern certain aspects of the question: when is a causal set well approximated by a Lorentzian manifold? The first result is a theorem which shows that the number-volume correspondence, if required to hold even for arbitrarily small regions, is best realized via Poisson sprinkling. The second result concerns a family of lattices in $1+1$ dimensional Minkowski space, known as Lorentzian lattices, which we show provide a much better number-volume correspondence than Poisson sprinkling for large volumes. We argue, however, that this feature should not persist in higher dimensions. We conclude by conjecturing a form of the aforementioned theorem that holds under weaker assumptions, namely that Poisson sprinkling provides the best number-volume correspondence in $3+1$ dimensions for spacetime regions with macroscopically large volumes.
Pervasive Technologies: Aboriginal Communities & Oppression
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 100504 Data Communications
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: Digital Humanities
subject: History
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: The grasp on Aboriginal sovereignty is no longer just about retaining rights to their own land. The most brutal form of dispossession is the latest forms of data retention, increased lack of privacy and unwarranted use of this personal data as a result of activities being collected, analysed and intelligently manipulated from entities geographically elsewhere all thanks to the Internet.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE ABILITIES IN ADOLESCENTS
Creators: name: Madgafurova, Dilfuza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The development of creative abilities during adolescence plays a crucial role in shaping individuals' cognitive and social skills, as well as their ability to think outside the box, problem solve, and adapt to new situations. While there is extensive research exploring the cognitive and neurobiological aspects of creativity, the role of social psychological factors in fostering adolescent creativity remains an area of growing interest. This scientific article aims to review and integrate current literature on the social psychological factors that contribute to the development of creative abilities in adolescents. The findings of this research will provide valuable insights for educators, parents, and policymakers to create a supportive environment that nurtures creative thinking in adolescents.
How to Securely Compute the Modulo-Two Sum of Binary Sources
Creators: name: Data, Deepesh
name: Dey, Bikash Kumar
name: Mishra, Manoj
name: Prabhakaran, Vinod M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In secure multiparty computation, mutually distrusting users in a network want to collaborate to compute functions of data which is distributed among the users. The users should not learn any additional information about the data of others than what they may infer from their own data and the functions they are computing. Previous works have mostly considered the worst case context (i.e., without assuming any distribution for the data); Lee and Abbe (2014) is a notable exception. Here, we study the average case (i.e., we work with a distribution on the data) where correctness and privacy is only desired asymptotically. For concreteness and simplicity, we consider a secure version of the function computation problem of Körner and Marton (1979) where two users observe a doubly symmetric binary source with parameter p and the third user wants to compute the XOR. We show that the amount of communication and randomness resources required depends on the level of correctness desired. When zero-error and perfect privacy are required, the results of Data et al. (2014) show that it can be achieved if and only if a total rate of 1 bit is communicated between every pair of users and private randomness at the rate of 1 is used up. In contrast, we show here that, if we only want the probability of error to vanish asymptotically in block length, it can be achieved by a lower rate (binary entropy of p) for all the links and for private randomness; this also guarantees perfect privacy. We also show that no smaller rates are possible even if privacy is only required asymptotically.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, extended version of submission to IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2014
Meditation and Affect
Creators: name: Etienne-Best, Kaila
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Meditation, awareness, mindfulness, voluntary, involuntary, affect, self transformation

description: Regular meditation practice reforms old patterns by cultivating awareness of individual moments wherein voluntary acts affect involuntary actions, eventually leading to continual intentional acts. This thesis argues that those practicing meditation seek to obtain mastery of awareness and control of both perception and action, engendering an understanding of selfhood in a combination of witnessing, knowing, and acting. Meditation cultivates the human capacity for self-transformation through repetitive action. The discipline of deciding how to react to impulses is developed through understanding where the impulses come from and knowing how to control them.
The Sky's The Limit - Interview Transcription
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
name: Abadie, Cecilia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Digital Humanities
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Education
subject: Applied Computer Science

description: A full transcription from a short interview with Cecilia Abedie from San Francisco regarding Google Glass, technology and the broader impacts on society of wearable technology. Interview can be accessed via http://goo.gl/YFFbxJ
Fast and Robust Archetypal Analysis for Representation Learning
Creators: name: Chen, Yuansi
name: Mairal, Julien
name: Harchaoui, Zaid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We revisit a pioneer unsupervised learning technique called archetypal analysis, which is related to successful data analysis methods such as sparse coding and non-negative matrix factorization. Since it was proposed, archetypal analysis did not gain a lot of popularity even though it produces more interpretable models than other alternatives. Because no efficient implementation has ever been made publicly available, its application to important scientific problems may have been severely limited. Our goal is to bring back into favour archetypal analysis. We propose a fast optimization scheme using an active-set strategy, and provide an efficient open-source implementation interfaced with Matlab, R, and Python. Then, we demonstrate the usefulness of archetypal analysis for computer vision tasks, such as codebook learning, signal classification, and large image collection visualization.
Magnetic nanoparticle sensing: decoupling the magnetization from the excitation field
Creators: name: Reeves, Daniel B
name: Weaver, John B
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Remote sensing of magnetic nanoparticles has exciting applications for magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia and molecular detection. We introduce, simulate, and experimentally demonstrate an innovation---a sensing coil that is geometrically decoupled from the excitation field---for magnetic nanoparticle spectroscopy that increases the flexibility and capabilities of remote detection. The decoupling enhances the sensitivity absolutely; to small amounts of nanoparticles, and relatively; to small changes in the nanoparticle dynamics. We adapt a previous spectroscopic method that measures the relaxation time of nanoparticles and demonstrate a new measurement of nanoparticle temperature that could potentially be used concurrently during hyperthermia.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Feedback-Induced Steady-State Light Bunching Above the Lasing Threshold
Creators: name: Schulze, Franz
name: Lingnau, Benjamin
name: Hein, Sven Moritz
name: Carmele, Alexander
name: Schöll, Eckehard
name: Lüdge, Kathy
name: Knorr, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a full quantum-optical approach for optical self-feedback of a microcavity laser. These miniaturized devices work in a regime between the quantum and classical limit and are test-beds for the differences between a quantized theory of optical self-feedback and the corresponding semiclassical theory. The light intensity and photon statistics are investigated with and without an external feedback: We show that in the low-gain limit, where relaxation oscillations do not appear, the recently observed photon bunching in a quantum dot microcavity laser with optical feedback can be accounted for only by the fully quantized model. By providing a description of laser devices with feedback in the quantum limit we reveal novel insights into the origin of bunching in quantized and semiclassical models.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Thermal properties of composite materials with a complex fractal structure
Creators: name: Cervantes-Álvarez, F.
name: Reyes-Salgado, J. J.
name: Dossetti, V.
name: Carrillo, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we report the thermal characterization of platelike composite samples made of polyester resin and magnetite inclusions. By means of photoacoustic spectroscopy and thermal relaxation, the thermal diffusivity, conductivity and volumetric heat capacity of the samples were experimentally measured. The volume fraction of inclusions was systematically varied in order to study the changes in the effective thermal conductivity of the composites. In some samples, a static magnetic field was applied during the polymerization process resulting in anisotropic inclusion distributions. Our results show a decrease in the thermal conductivity of some of the anisotropic samples compared to the isotropic randomly distributed ones. Our analysis indicates that the development of elongated inclusion structures leads to the formation of magnetite and resin domains causing this effect. We correlate the complexity of the inclusion structure with the observed thermal response by a multifractal and lacunarity analysis. All the experimental data are contrasted with the well known Maxwell-Garnett's effective media approximation for composite materials.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:cond-mat/0209328 by other authors
Ground-state properties and symmetry energy of neutron-rich and neutron-deficient Mg isotopes
Creators: name: Gaidarov, M. K.
name: Sarriguren, P.
name: Antonov, A. N.
name: de Guerra, E. Moya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A comprehensive study of various ground-state properties of neutron-rich and neutron-deficient Mg isotopes with $A$=20-36 is performed in the framework of the self-consistent deformed Skyrme-Hartree-Fock plus BCS method. The correlation between the skin thickness and the characteristics related with the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy is investigated for this isotopic chain following the theoretical approach based on the coherent density fluctuation model and using the Brueckner energy-density functional. The results of the calculations show that the behavior of the nuclear charge radii and the nuclear symmetry energy in the Mg isotopic chain is closely related to the nuclear deformation. We also study, within our theoretical scheme, the emergence of an "island of inversion" at neutron-rich $^{32}$Mg nucleus, that was recently proposed from the analyses of spectroscopic measurements of $^{32}$Mg low-lying energy spectrum and the charge rms radii of all magnesium isotopes in the $sd$ shell.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures, to be published in Physical Review C
Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks II. Model predictions & observational constraints
Creators: name: McKernan, B.
name: Ford, K. E. S.
name: Kocsis, B.
name: Lyra, W.
name: Winter, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) grow efficiently in gas disks around supermassive black holes, their host active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks should exhibit myriad observational signatures. Gap-opening IMBHs in AGN disks can exhibit spectral features and variability analagous to gapped protoplanetary disks. A gap-opening IMBH in the innermost disk imprints ripples and oscillations on the broad Fe K$α$ line which may be detectable with future X-ray missions. A non-gap-opening IMBH will accrete and produce a soft X-ray excess relative to continuum emission. An IMBH on a retrograde orbit in an AGN disk will not open a gap and will generate soft X-rays from a bow-shock 'headwind'. Accreting IMBH in a large cavity can generate ULX-like X-ray luminosities and LINER-like optical line ratios from local ionized gas. We propose that many LINERs house a weakly accreting MBH binary in a large central disk cavity and will be luminous sources of gravitational waves (GW). IMBHs in galactic nuclei may also be detected via intermittent observational signatures including: UV/X-ray flares due to tidal disruption events, asymmetric X-ray intensity distributions as revealed by AGN transits, quasi-periodic oscillations and underluminous Type Ia supernovae. GW emitted during IMBH inspiral and collisions may be detected with eLISA and LIGO, particularly from LINERs. We summarize observational signatures and compare to current data where possible or suggest future observations.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, MNRAS accepted
FeLoBAL Outflow Variability Constraints from Multi-Year Observations
Creators: name: McGraw, Sean M.
name: Shields, Joseph C.
name: Hamann, Frederick W.
name: Capellupo, Daniel M.
name: Gallagher, Sarah C.
name: Brandt, William N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physical properties and dynamical behavior of Broad Absorption Line (BAL) outflows are crucial themes in understanding the connections between galactic centers and their hosts. FeLoBALs (identified with the presence of low-ionization Fe II BALs) are a peculiar class of quasar outflows that constitute approximately 1% of the BAL population. With their large column densities and apparent outflow kinetic luminosities, FeLoBALs appear to be exceptionally powerful and are strong candidates for feedback in galaxy evolution. We conducted variability studies of 12 FeLoBAL quasars with emission redshifts between 0.69 and 1.93, spanning both weekly and multi-year timescales in the quasar's rest frame. We detected absorption-line variability from low-ionization species (Fe II, Mg II) in four of our objects, with which we established a representative upper limit for the distance of the absorber from the supermassive black hole (SMBH) to be approximately 20 parsecs. Our goals are to understand the mechanisms producing the variability (e.g. ionization changes or gas traversing our line of sight) and place new constraints on the locations, structure, and kinetic energies of the outflows.
description: 2 pages, no figures, to be published in conference proceedings for IAU Symposium No. 304: Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies
Intention of medical student to work in rural setting and associated factors among the public Universities undergraduate medical students of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Berhanu Achiso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Background: Health workforce demand and supply increased last two decade. In Ethiopia,

about 84% of the country"s total populations live in rural areas. However, shortages and

imbalances in physician workforce distribution between urban and rural areas among different

regions are enormous. A little was known about medical students" intention to work in the rural

area after completing medical school. This study was done to assess the intention of

undergraduate medical students towards rural work settings and to identify factors associated

with intention to work in the rural areas.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was employed in January to April 2018 among 342 (254 male

Vs 88 female) medical students (year IV to Year V) in three public medical schools in Ethiopia.

Stratified random sampling technique was used. The pretested self-administered questionnaires

were used. Data was entered into EPI-data version 3.1 and exported to Statistical Package for

Social Science (SPSS) version 24 for analysis. A bivariate and multivariate analysis of logistic

regression was used to identify associated factors with 95% of confidence interval.
Site specificity, Christian archaeology, and naturalism in Roman altarpieces, ca. 1600-1630
Creators: name: Fraiman, Jeffrey Leonard
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This study considers a previously unexplored aspect of what scholars have termed the “Early Christian Revival” in the first decades of the seventeenth century: the site specificity of altar paintings depicting early Christian saints, works intended for a holy site—a tomb, a well, the sewers—associated with that figure. Each of the altarpieces in my case studies (including works by Cigoli, Giovanni Bilivert, and Ludovico Carracci) has been dislocated from its original site in some way, whether through destruction, dispersion, or seclusion. My study focuses on understudied but historically significant altarpieces and placing them within various contexts, including their chapels, their churches, and their places in Rome’s topography. My method to recover the work’s original context combines the close study of surviving artworks, including drawings and prints, alongside contemporary written material like pilgrimage manuals, artistic guidebooks, and martyrologies. I propose that holy sites in Rome could drive specific iconographical and artistic choices in ways heretofore unappreciated—arguing for a holy site specificity in early modern art.My study enhances understanding of the many ways the Early Christian Revival manifested itself, particularly in the early seventeenth century. I offer compelling evidence that the renewed focus on the holy sites in Rome drove artists to create works that allowed contemporaries, whether devout residents of the sacred capital or pilgrims, to imagine or reenact scenes from the church’s early history. The case studies presented in this dissertation have demonstrated ways in which sacred painting connected seventeenth-century viewers to Rome’s early Christian foundations. Paintings “of the histories of the mysteries of our Redemption,” these altarpieces brought to life those mysteries on the same sacred soil the saints themselves once walked. My case studies demonstrate a remarkable interdependence between image and relic that was particular to the sacred topography of Rome, the heart of Christendom since Early Christian times, as embodied by St Peter’s location, built over the first pope’s tomb.   Site-specific altarpieces functioned as essential and active instruments in supporting the agenda of the post-Tridentine Church hierarchy to reaffirm the unbroken descent of church authority from Peter to the present pope, the cult of the saints, and the efficacy of relics.
Iron-sulfur protein maturation in Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Foley, Mary Elizabeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Iron-sulfur (FeS) cluster containing proteins are essential to fundamental cellular processes like central metabolism and respiration. Organisms unable to make FeS clusters show metabolic abnormalities such as amino acid auxotrophies, poor growth when Fe is limiting, and resistance to certain antibiotics. Bacillus subtilis strains lacking ylaN show similar phenotypes, therefore we tested the hypothesis that the protein YlaN functions in the maturation of FeS proteins. Our results showed that a Staphylococcus aureus strain lacking ylaN displayed reduced growth in iron-limited media and when grown in the presence of the divalent metal chelator 2,2’-dipyridyl. The ΔylaN strain grew better than wild-type in the presence of streptonigrin, which is an antibiotic that requires Fe for killing. The ΔylaN strain also had decreased activity of the FeS cluster dependent enzyme aconitase. Purified YlaN prevented free Fe from binding to 1,10-phenanthroline. Taken together, these results show that YlaN has a role in regulating free Fe in S. aureus which is important in the maturation of FeS proteins.
A Study on Semi-arithmetic Integer Additive Set-Indexers of Graphs
Creators: name: Sudev, N K
name: Germina, K A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C78

description: An integer additive set-indexer is defined as an injective function $f:V(G)\rightarrow 2^{\mathbb{N}_0}$ such that the induced function $g_f:E(G) \rightarrow 2^{\mathbb{N}_0}$ defined by $g_f (uv) = f(u)+ f(v)$ is also injective. An integer additive set-indexer $f$ is said to be an arithmetic integer additive set-indexer if every element of $G$ are labeled by non-empty sets of non negative integers, which are in arithmetic progressions. An integer additive set-indexer $f$ is said to be a semi-arithmetic integer additive set-indexer if vertices of $G$ are labeled by non-empty sets of non negative integers, which are in arithmetic progressions, but edges are not labeled by non-empty sets of non negative integers, which are in arithmetic progressions. In this paper, we discuss about semi-arithmetic integer additive set-indexer and establish some results on this type of integer additive set-indexers.
description: 10 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1312.7674, arXiv:1312.7672
Non-self-adjoint hamiltonians defined by Riesz bases
Creators: name: Bagarello, F.
name: Inoue, A.
name: Trapani, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss some features of non-self-adjoint Hamiltonians with real discrete simple spectrum under the assumption that the eigenvectors form a Riesz basis of Hilbert space. Among other things, {we give conditions under which these Hamiltonians} can be factorized in terms of generalized lowering and raising operators.
description: in press in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Shining light on transition metal oxides: unveiling the hidden Fermi Liquid
Creators: name: Deng, Xiaoyu
name: Sternbach, Aaron
name: Haule, Kristjan
name: Basov, D. N.
name: Kotliar, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use low energy optical spectroscopy and first principles LDA+DMFT calculations to test the hypothesis that the anomalous transport properties of strongly correlated metals originate in the strong temperature dependence of their underlying resilient quasiparticles. We express the resistivity in terms of an effective plasma frequency $ω_p^*$ and an effective scattering rate $ 1/τ^*_{tr}$. We show that in the archetypal correlated material V2O3, $ω_p^*$ increases with increasing temperature, while the plasma frequency from partial sum rule exhibits the opposite trend . $ 1/τ^*_{tr}$ has a more pronounced temperature dependence than the scattering rate obtained from the extended Drude analysis. The theoretical calculations of these quantities are in quantitative agreement with experiment. We conjecture that these are robust properties of all strongly correlated metals, and test it by carrying out a similar analysis on thin film NdNiO3 on LaAlO3 substrate.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures including appendix
How battery calorimeters can help in advancing thermal management and safety of cells and packs
Creators: name: Ziebert, Carlos
name: Uhlmann, Nils
name: Löffelholz, Nils
name: Ohneseit, Sebastian
name: Finster, Philipp
name: Yasseri, Mohammad
name: Rohde, Magnus
name: Seifert, Hans Jürgen
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022

description: With increasing energy density the thermal management of Li-ion batteries is becoming more and more important, because the thermal runaway can cause an ignition or even explosion of the battery with simultaneous release of toxic gases. In the last five years we have established battery calorimetry as a powerful and versatile electrochemical-thermal characterization technique, which allows both advancements for the thermal management and the safety of batteries. With six adiabatic Accelerating Rate Calorimeters (ARC) of different sizes combined with cyclers the IAM-AWP now operates Europe’s largest battery calorimeter center, which enables the evaluation of thermodynamic, thermal and safety data on material, cell and pack level. Calorimetry is very important as it is fundamental to obtain quantitative data on the thermal behaviour – you need to know how many watts a cell or a pack will generate and dissipate under certain conditions. This information can then be used to define the requirements for cooling and thermal management and adapt them accordingly. It will be shown how sophisticated battery calorimetry combined with thermography for the spatial temperature variation allows finding new and quantitative correlations between different critical thermally and safety related parameters that will help to design safer systems. In addition it will be explained how calorimeters allow studying the thermal runaway propagation in order to develop and qualify suitable countermeasures, such as heat protection barriers, which is currently becoming a very hot topic. The top 3 learning 'take aways' are: • Delegates will get insights into the use of battery calorimetry to provide quantitative thermal and safety data for cell and packs. • Delegates will understand how these data help to improve the thermal management and can give guidelines for safer systems • Delegates will understand that these data combined with better BMS diagnostics provide a powerful tool for the thermal runaway prevention.
The red sequence of Abell X-ray underluminous clusters
Creators: name: Trejo-Alonso, J. J.
name: Caretta, C. A.
name: Laganá, T. F.
name: Sodré, L.
name: Cypriano, E. S.
name: Neto, G. B. Lima
name: de Oliveira, C. Mendes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the colour-magnitude relation for a sample of 56 X-ray underluminous Abell clusters, aiming to unveil properties that may elucidate the evolutionary stages of the galaxy populations that compose such systems. To do so, we compared the parameters of their colour-magnitude relations with the ones found for another sample of 50 "normal" X-ray emitting Abell clusters, both selected in an objective way. The $g$ and $r$ magnitudes from the SDSS-DR7 were used for constructing the colour-magnitude relations. We found that both samples show the same trend: the red sequence slopes change with redshift, but the slopes for X-ray underluminous clusters are always flatter than those for the normal clusters, by a difference of about 69% along the surveyed redshift range of 0.05 $\le z
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted in MNRAS 2014 March 25
title: Lending a Helping Hand? Investigating the Impact of State and Non-state Actors on Civil War Duration from 1980 to 2016
Creators: name: Kellgren-Parker, Leila-Clare
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The vast body of knowledge that scholars have built up within civil war research includes several studies of the role played by third-party interventions. However, a look into specific actors involved in these conflicts is still lacking. This thesis aims to help fill the gap by offering insight into different actors involved in civil wars and how these actors impact the duration of conflict. This thesis takes on the well-established bargaining theory used extensively in conflict literature and applies it to a relatively new actor in the field, PMSCs. By applying this framework to civil wars and actors such as PMSCs, this thesis offers an original theoretical framework that investigates the different actors and how the certainty surrounding each impacts conflict duration. This research also utilises and pulls insights from an original dataset which collated data for the Commercial Military Actors in Armed Conflict Dataset (CMAD) and provided valuable data on mercenary and private military and security companies' activities from 1980 to 2016.
Statistical data is combined with case study analysis to offer a mixed methods approach to data analysis. Survival analysis was used to investigate different actors’ impact on conflict duration, and the statistical findings are presented. This is followed by a case study analysis of two cases where the variables are discussed. The case studies include El Salvador 1980- 1992 and Sierra Leone 1991-1994. This thesis concludes that the involvement of PMSCs sees shorter conflicts than those with state military or mercenary intervention. The findings in the statistical analysis and case studies corroborate the theoretical framework. The results presented here are essential for the civil war duration discussions and contribute to the literature investigating the role of PMSCs in civil wars. The research contributes to both fields and presents a new approach and original findings.
Ritlecitinib: First Approval
Creators: name: Blair, Hannah A.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine

description: Declarations Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding. Authorship and Conflict of interest During the peer review process, the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the authors on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. Hannah Blair is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to the review and are responsible for the article content.
 Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent to publish, Availability of data and material, Code availability Not applicable.
 Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here.
 Abstract Ritlecitinib (LITFULO™), an orally administered kinase inhibitor, is being developed by Pfizer for the treatment of alopecia areata, vitiligo, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. On 23 June 2023, ritlecitinib received approval in the USA for the treatment of severe alopecia areata in adults and adolescents 12 years and older. Ritlecitinib was approved in Japan on 26 June 2023 for the treatment of alopecia areata (limited to intractable cases involving widespread hair loss). Ritlecitinib is under regulatory review for alopecia areata in the EU, the UK and China. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of ritlecitinib leading to this first approval for severe alopecia areata.
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Battery safety assessment using calorimetry, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Ziebert, Carlos
name: Uhlmann, Nils
name: Ohneseit, Sebastian
name: Finster, Philipp
name: Yasseri, Mohammad
name: Mohsin, Ijaz Ul
name: Seifert, Hans Jürgen
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022

description: For LIB, a holistic safety assessment is in the focus, because the thermal runaway can have multiple interacting causes and effects. A test in an Accelerating Rate Calorimeter (ARC) reveals the entire process of the thermal runaway with the different stages of exothermic reactions. As a result quantitative and system relevant data for temperature, heat and pressure development of materials and cells are provided. In addition it will be explained how calorimeters can be combined with gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to analyse the gases, which are occurring during abuse tests. There is still a lack of thermal and safety data of Li-ion cells that are publicly available. However, such data are urgently needed for a better understanding of the processes that could end up in thermal runaway. Even before the thermal runaway explosive or toxic gases can be released during venting of the cell that represent a potential hazard due to their rapid and widespread distribution. Therefore, it is important to get more insight into the volume of the released gases and their qualitative and quantitative composition. All these information will lead to an earlier prediction and prevention of events that can lead to thermal runaway and thus for improved thermal management and safety systems. The audience will get insights into the use of battery calorimetry to record thermal and safety data of cells of different sizes from coin cells to hardcase prismatic cells. It will be made clear how these data help to understand thermal behavior and the exothermic reactions triggering thermal runaway. In addition, delegates will be introduced to the use of gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy for analyzing venting gases.
Reproducibility of Cerebellar involvement as quantified by consensus structural MRI biomarkers in Advanced Essential Tremor [Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol]
Creators: name: Wang, Qing
name: Aljassar, Meshal
name: Bhagwat, Nikhil
name: Zeighami, Yashar
name: Evans, Alan
name: Dagher, Alain
name: Bruce Pike, G.
name: Sadikot, Abbas
name: Poline, Jean-Baptiste
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Abstract: Essential Tremor (ET) is the most prevalent movement disorder with poorly understood etiology. Some neuroimaging studies report cerebellar involvement, whereas others find no significant differences between ET and control groups. This discrepancy may stem from the underpowered studies as well as differences in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisition and processing. To help resolve these differences, we plan to analyze the structural MRI scans from 1) an advanced ET cohort and normal controls (NC) acquired at the Montreal Neurological Institute and 2) additional NC subjects from PPMI and ADNI. We will test the hypothesis that the cerebellar involvement in advanced ET can be detected with multiple neuroimaging biomarkers: 1) cerebellar VBM, 2) cerebellar gray/white matter volumetry, and 3) cerebellar lobular volumetry. We will rigorously evaluate the sensitivity of the hypothesis tests to the underlying methods by varying image processing algorithms and confounder control design choices. Subsequently, we will also report the cortical changes associated with cerebellar “degeneration” in the advanced ET in an exploratory analysis.