cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Echoes, transgressions, and transformations : identity reorientation and the discourse of disaster recovery
Creators: name: Cox, Robin Susan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Little attention has been paid to the discursive framework that guides the experiences of "recovery" from natural disasters and associated health-related consequences. Traditional psychological paradigms in disaster studies have tended to adopt a mechanistic view that controls for complexity by minimizing the sociocultural and gendered contexts of disaster recovery and accepting uncritically the ideological assumptions that guide the process. This has resulted in a narrow framing of recovery that focuses primarily on the economic and material consequences of disasters and promotes a speedy return to the status quo. This study begins to address this gap in research and practice by adopting a complex-systems and critical perspective to examine the psychosocial process and discursive practices of disaster recovery. A critical, multi-sited ethnographic approach was applied to study the recovery process in two rural communities in British Columbia, Canada, where the McLure Fire forest fire destroyed homes and businesses, ravaged the landscape, and devastated the economic sustainability of the region. Qualitative analysis methods, including strategies from social constructivist grounded theory, methods from critical discourse analysis, and creative writing strategies were employed to examine interviews with residents, local news media texts, and the reflections of the researcher for themes and guiding and informing discourses. A social-psychological process described as disorientation and reorientation was identified in which residents navigated and negotiated shifts in their material and social frames of reference associated with the material and symbolic losses incurred as a result of the McLure Fire. Reorientation involved a complex process of recreating and redefining individual and collective identities. Despite the complexity of this process, the dominant discursive practice of disaster recovery identified in both the media and interview accounts continued to emphasize the economic and material aspects of recovery. This had the effect of marginalizing and sequestering suffering, and constrained opportunities for individual and social capacity building. The findings suggest that adopting a complex systems approach to disaster might result in new more flexible and empowering practices. Including a mindfulness approach to the disorientation of disasters would focus attention on emergent possibilities and the creative potential of the identity reorientation process during recovery from a disaster.
CARDEC-03 - Patient Consent Form
Creators: name: Moro, Bruna Lorena Pereira
name: Signori, Cácia
name: Freitas, Raiza
name: Pontes, Laura
name: Tathiane Larissa Lenzi
name: Tedesco, Tamara Kerber
name: Raggio, Daniela
name: Braga, Mariana Minatel
name: Ekstrand, Kim
name: CENCI, Maximiliano Sérgio
name: Mendes, Fausto Medeiros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Health Care

description: Patient Consent Form signed by the children´s legal guardians of the clinical study CARies DEtection in Children nº 3 (CARDEC-03).
Measurement of the $^{229}$Th isomer energy with a magnetic micro-calorimeter
Creators: name: Sikorsky, Tomas
name: Geist, Jeschua
name: Hengstler, Daniel
name: Kempf, Sebastian
name: Gastaldo, Loredana
name: Enss, Christian
name: Mokry, Christoph
name: Runke, Jörg
name: Düllmann, Christoph E.
name: Wobrauschek, Peter
name: Beeks, Kjeld
name: Rosecker, Veronika
name: Sterba, Johannes H.
name: Kazakov, Georgy
name: Schumm, Thorsten
name: Fleischmann, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of the low-energy (0--60$\,$keV) $γ$ ray spectrum produced in the $α$-decay of $^{233}$U using a dedicated cryogenic magnetic micro-calorimeter. The energy resolution of $\sim$$10\,$eV, together with exceptional gain linearity, allow us to measure the energy of the low-lying isomeric state in $^{229}$Th using four complementary evaluation schemes. The most accurate scheme determines the $^{229}$Th isomer energy to be $8.10(17)\,$eV, corresponding to 153.1(37)$\,$nm, superseding in precision previous values based on $γ$ spectroscopy, and agreeing with a recent measurement based on internal conversion electrons. We also measure branching ratios of the relevant excited states to be $b_{29}=9.3(6)\%$ and $b_{42}=0.3(3)\%$.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures + supplementary
Representations of Classical Lie Algebras from their Quantum Deformations
Creators: name: Moylan, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81R05; 17B37

description: We make use of a well-know deformation of the Poincaré Lie algebra in $p+q+1$ dimensions ($p+q>0$) to construct the Poincaré Lie algebra out of the Lie algebras of the de Sitter and anti de Sitter groups, the generators of the Poincaré Lie algebra appearing as certain irrational functions of the generators of the de Sitter groups. We have obtained generalizations of this ``anti-deformation'' for the $SO(p+2,q)$ and $SO(p+1,q+1)$ cases with arbitrary $p$ and $q$. Similar results have been established for $q$ deformations $U_q(so(p,q))$ with small $p$ and $q$ values. Combining known results on representations of $U_q(so(p,q))$ (for $q$ both generic and a root of unity) with our ``anti-deformation'' formulae, we get representations of classical Lie algebras which depend upon the deformation parameter $q$. Explicit results are given for the simplest example (of type $A_1$) i.e. that associated with $U_q(so(2,1))$.
SYSTEM BEZPIECZEŃSTWA PASZ GMP+ FSA – KOSZTY I KORZYŚCI WDROŻENIA ORAZ FUNKCJONOWANIA – STUDIUM PRZYPADKU
Creators: name: Małażewska, Sylwia
name: Gajos, Edyta
name: Małażewska, Sylwia
name: Gajos, Edyta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: costs
subject: benefits
subject: the GMP+ FSA scheme
subject: feed

description: There are systems taking into account the specifics of the brand in each industry. In the feed sector, which is a part of the food chain, there is a Feed Safety System – one of quality management systems which is worldwide accepted. The GMP+ FSA implementation costs and benefits analysis is very important from the company’s point of view. The aim of the study was to identify the costs of implementation as well as running the system and the benefits that the company achieves because of its implementation. It was found that in the case of a company, which previously operated ISO 9001 norm, the costs of the GMP+ FSA implementation are not high, and among the benefits, you can replace the company’s image and internal communications improvement, increased number of satisfied customers, higher prices of products and many others.
The white dwarf planet WD J0914+1914 b: barricading potential rocky pollutants?
Creators: name: Veras, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An ice giant planet was recently reported orbiting white dwarf WD J0914+1914 at an approximate distance of 0.07 au. The striking non-detection of rocky pollutants in this white dwarf's photosphere contrasts with the observations of nearly every other known white dwarf planetary system. Here, I analyze the prospects for exterior extant rocky asteroids, boulders, cobbles and pebbles to radiatively drift inward past the planet due to the relatively high luminosity (0.1 L_Sun) of this particularly young (13 Myr) white dwarf. Pebbles and cobbles drift too slowly from Poynting-Robertson drag to bypass the planet, but boulders and asteroids are subject to the much stronger Yarkovsky effect. In this paper, I (i) place lower limits on the timescales for these objects to reach the planet's orbit, (ii) establish 3 m as the approximate limiting radius above which a boulder drifts too slowly to avoid colliding with the planet, and (iii) compute bounds on the fraction of boulders which succeed in traversing mean motion resonances and the planet's Hill sphere to eventually pollute the star. Overall, I find that the planet acts as a barrier against rather than a facilitator for radiatively-driven rocky pollution, suggesting that future rocky pollutants would most likely originate from distant scattering events.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
KSZTAŁTOWANIE PRZEWAGI KONKURENCYJNEJ ROLNICZYCH SPÓŁDZIELNI PRODUKCYJNYCH – ASPEKT ZASOBOWY
Creators: name: Matyja, Małgorzata
name: Matyja, Małgorzata
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: agricultural production cooperatives
subject: competitive advantage
subject: resources

description: The article presents an resource approach to the process of building the competitive advantage. The purpose of this article is to determine the potential of agricultural production cooperatives (APCs) in review of resources. The exemplification is constituted by the APCs operating in the Opole region, among which the research was conducted using a survey method. The study focused on the period 2008-2010 and included 28 cooperatives. The characterization and analysis of resources of studied cooperatives allowed to extract resources that are strengths or weaknesses in the context of building a competitive advantage.
Black hole growth by accretion
Creators: name: Mathur, Smita
name: Grupe, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that black holes grow substantially by accretion at close to Eddington rates. Using a complete sample of soft X-ray selected AGNs, Grupe & Mathur (2004) have shown that narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies, as a class, lie below the M_BH-sigma relation of normal galaxies. Some NLS1s, however, lie on or close to the M_BH-sigma relation. Here we show that not all NLS1s accrete at close to Eddington rates: those with low {L/L_{Eddington}} are close to the M_BH-sigma relation, and those with high {L/L_{Eddington}} are far. With various tests in this paper, we argue that black holes grow in mass substantially in their high-accretion phase and approach the M_BH-sigma relation over time. The mass growth in a low accretion phase, as in BLS1s and also in some NLS1s, appears to be insignificant. Any theoretical model attempting to explain the M_BH-sigma relation will have to explain the above observations.
description: Submitted to A&A Research Notes
PRZEJAWY AKTYWNOŚCI EKONOMICZNEJ LUDNOŚCI ZWIĄZANEJ Z ROLNICTWEM
Creators: name: Mickiewicz, Bartosz
name: Mickiewicz, Bartosz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: economic activity
subject: education
subject: sex and age of inhabitants
subject: farm managements

description: The paper presents main appearances of economic activity of rural inhabitants. The analysis was made because of project of changes in the system of direct payments proposed by the European Parliament and European Commission relying on introduction of definition of active and virtual farmer. The research works covered all population of professional active farmers which position was analyzed on the background of all members of agricultural holdings. There were used data from materials of common agricultural censuses from 2002 and 2010. The research works focused on analyzes of chosen features of active farmers, like age and sex, education or period of farm management. The research showed that in rural areas there was the occurrence of large number of passive people who burden agricultural holdings. The managers of farms posses lower level of education comparing to total number of rural population
KOSZTY WYNAGRODZEŃ PRACY NAJEMNEJ W GOSPODARSTWACH ROLNICZYCH W POLSCE NA TLE PAŃSTW UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ
Creators: name: Mikołajczyk, Jarosław
name: Mikołajczyk, Jarosław
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: costs of salaries
subject: paid labor
subject: farms
subject: European Union

description: The paper presents costs of salaries of hired labor force on farms in Poland and other European Member States participating in the FADN system. Based on those costs the amount of salaries paid to hired labor force in individual Member States were estimated. Data pertaining to farms were juxtaposed with the lowest and average pay in national economies of individual states. Also costs of labor accounting for types of farms were specified. It could be concluded that rates of pay in Polish agriculture are the lowest ones in the united Europe. Also considerable diversity occurs which is related to a farm type. The highest hourly rates are paid in Poland on type 7 and 8 farms, and in some states on type 3 farms. In the definite majority of EU states the hired paid labor salaries exceed the lowest pay (if it exists) and are below than national average pay (apart from the Czech Republic and Slovakia). Also a positive connection between the level of engagement of hired labor force and a relative amount of a salary has been demonstrated.
Thermoelastic-damping noise from sapphire mirrors in a fundamental-noise-limited interferometer
Creators: name: Black, Eric D.
name: Villar, Akira
name: Libbrecht, Kenneth G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first high-precision interferometer using large sapphire mirrors, and we present the first direct, broadband measurements of the fundamental thermal noise in these mirrors. Our results agree well with the thermoelastic-damping noise predictions of Braginsky, et al. [Phys. Lett. A 264, 1(1999)] and Cerdonio, et al.[Phys. Rev. D 63, 082003 (2001)], which have been used to predict the astrophysical reach of advanced interferometric gravitational wave detectors.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
SYTUACJA FINANSOWA WIEJSKICH GOSPODARSTW DOMOWYCH W ASPEKCIE ZRÓWNOWAŻONEGO ROZWOJU
Creators: name: Murawska, Anna
name: Murawska, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: income
subject: rural areas
subject: household
subject: Gini coefficient
subject: sustainable development

description: The article presents the financial situation of the rural households in the context of sustainable development. Analyzed selected indicators characterizing the financial situation of households, in particular, the level of income, the Gini coefficient, and the subjective evaluation of the living situation. The article presents the dynamics of change in the years 2003-2012. The income situation in rural households systematically improving, but still there are significant regional disparities.
CARDEC-03 - Anamnesis Form in Portuguese
Creators: name: Moro, Bruna Lorena Pereira
name: Signori, Cácia
name: Freitas, Raiza
name: Pontes, Laura
name: Tathiane Larissa Lenzi
name: Tedesco, Tamara Kerber
name: Raggio, Daniela
name: Braga, Mariana Minatel
name: Ekstrand, Kim
name: CENCI, Maximiliano Sérgio
name: Mendes, Fausto Medeiros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111704 Community Child Health

description: Anamnesis related to children’s health and medical history carried out in the clinical study CARies DEtection in Children nº 3 (CARDEC-03), written in Portuguese.
Nonlinear screening and stopping power in two-dimensional electron gases
Creators: name: Zaremba, E.
name: Nagy, I.
name: Echenique, P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used density functional theory to study the nonlinear screening properties of a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas. In particular, we consider the screening of an external static point charge of magnitude Z as a function of the distance of the charge from the plane of the gas. The self-consistent screening potentials are then used to determine the 2D stopping power in the low velocity limit based on the momentum transfer cross-section. Calculations as a function of Z establish the limits of validity of linear and quadratic response theory calculations, and show that nonlinear screening theory already provides significant corrections in the case of protons. In contrast to the 3D situation, we find that the nonlinearly screened potential supports a bound state even in the high density limit. This behaviour is elucidated with the derivation of a high density screening theorem which proves that the screening charge can be calculated perturbatively in the high density limit for arbitrary dimensions. However, the theorem has particularly interesting implications in 2D where, contrary to expectations, we find that perturbation theory remains valid even when the perturbing potential supports bound states.
description: 23 pages, 15 figures in RevTeX4
"Failing mothers", "bad girls", "drama queens" and "attention-seekers": femininity and gender norms in responses to young women's suicidality
Creators: name: Townsend, Harriet Jane
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 441010
subject: Sociology of gender

description: Young women are the most suicidal population in Australia yet suicide research, policy, and practice construct suicide as a male problem. While the suicide rate among young women is increasing, suicide research, policy and practice in Australia largely ignores them. This thesis-by-publication critically examines how suicide is constructed as a male problem and how this affects research, policy and practice. Using the sociological autopsy method, I review coronial case files of young women (aged under 25 years) who died by suicide in Australia in 2014-2017. Applying feminist frameworks of intersectionality and hegemonic femininity, I analyse the responses of friends, family, and human service professionals to suicidal women and identify the ways their perceptions and expectations of femininity influence their responses. I examine the ways these ideas about femininity are reproduced by investigators after these women have died. I do this across three journal articles:
1. "She was feeling overwhelmed at home caring for her children": Expectations of 'intensive motherhood' as a risk factor for young women's suicide.
2. The imposition of a coerced autonomy: Suicidal 'bad girls', human service professionals, and gender bias.
3. 'Drama queens' and 'attention-seekers': characterisations of femininity and responses to women who communicate their intent to suicide
Through revealing negative tropes about women whose behaviour does not meet social ideals, this thesis provides critical insights into how norms of femininity can have fatal consequences for some young suicidal women.
The Iraqi expatriates’ experience of the North American media coverage of Iraq
Creators: name: Rostam, Hajera
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: There has been extensive media coverage of Iraqi home, culture, and people in the recent past. Concerns have arisen around an unbalanced and biased coverage of the conflict in Iraq, potential censorship or neglect of the humanitarian crisis in the region, and the associated discrimination of people with Middle Eastern ethnicity (Farhoumand- Sims, 2003; Miskin et al., 2003). In this study, I explored the following question: How have Iraqi adult immigrants living in Vancouver, Canada, experienced the recent North American media coverage of their culture, people, and country? Data were gathered through the use of individual interviews and the interpretive description methodology. Data from 10 participants (8 men, 2 women) were analyzed using Miles and Hubermans' (1994) analytic framework. Themes emerged that described the Iraqi expatriates' exposure to the North American media coverage of Iraq, and the overall responses including the initial impact of witnessing the coverage as well as the ongoing impact. The North American media was perceived to be biased in its coverage of the Iraq war, and that it often engaged in a negative portrayal of Iraqi people, culture, and the religion of Islam. Participants' responses to the initial phases of the coverage included: intense following of the news, difficulties in relationships, signs of depression, concern for families and Iraqis, and a sense of powerlessness. The ongoing impact of the coverage of Iraq brought forth various cultural challenges, changes in worldview, coping, and a desire to show alternative stories through the media.
ZMIANY PRODUKTYWNOŚCI CAŁKOWITEJ ROLNICTWA WOJEWÓDZTW POLSKI WSCHODNIEJ W LATACH 2007-2011
Creators: name: Nowak, Anna
name: Nowak, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: agriculture
subject: total factor productivity
subject: Eastern Poland

description: This paper identifies and examines the changes of total factor productivity in agriculture of Eastern Poland’s five provinces: Lubelskie, Podlaskie, Podkarpackie, Świętokrzyskie, Małopolskie, Warmińsko- Mazurskie within 2007-2011. Author used non-parametric method basing on Malmquist’s productivity index. Survey results show that in investigated provinces one noticed the growth of total factor productivity in agriculture. It should also be noted that above mentioned growth was considerably lower comparing to whole Poland level – 38%. In five regions of Eastern Poland, average value of Malmquist index was in surveyed period – 1,099 but productivity growth was caused by technological changes. Technical effectiveness showed small growth only in Lublin region.
From Calf to Bull, a Look at the Evolution of Republican Attitudes on Slavery and the Civil Service.pdf
Creators: name: Law, Luke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
subject: 210312 North American History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: This is a basic overview of Republican ideology and attitudes towards slavery and civil service, addressing the extent of change in these respective areas across Civil War and Reconstruction-era United States.
From Ginzburg-Landau to Hilbert-Einstein via Yamabe
Creators: name: Kholodenko, Arkady L.
name: Ballard, Ethan E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, based on some mathematical results obtained by Yamabe, Osgood, Phillips and Sarnak, we demonstrate that in dimensions three and higher the famous Ginzburg-Landau equations used in theory of phase transitions can be obtained (without any approximations) by minimization of the Riemannian-type Hilbert-Einstein action functional for pure gravity in the presence of cosmological term. We use this observation in order to bring to completion the work by Lifshitz (done in 1941) on group-theoretical refinements of the Landau theory of phase transitions. In addition, this observation allows us to develop a systematic extension to higher dimensions of known string-theoretic path integral methods developed for calculation of observables in two dimensional conformal field theories.
description: 69 pages, 5 figures
REGIONALNE ZRÓŻNICOWANIE POTENCJAŁU ORAZ EFEKTYWNOŚCI CZYNNIKÓW PRODUKCJI GOSPODARSTW ROLNICZYCH W POLSCE W ŚWIETLE FADN
Creators: name: Orłowska, Maria J.
name: Orłowska, Maria J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: efficiency
subject: productivity
subject: profitability
subject: production factors

description: The aim of the study was to evaluate the potential of regional diversity and the efficiency of the factors of production farms in Poland in terms of European integration. The intensity of production was analyzed as well as production, and part of the balance of subsidies and taxes on income from the family farm. The information from the years 2010-2011 collected by the FADN were used. Study includes the following farm regions : Pomorze i Mazury, Wielkopolska i Śląsk, Mazowsze i Podlasie and Małopolska i Pogórze presenting them in comparison with the average in the EU. The analysis showed regional differences in both the potential of farms and intensity of the production and the efficiency of the different factors of production. In 2010-201, more favorable potential and higher efficiency used in the manufacture of resources were characteristic for farms in the followinf regions : Pomorze i Mazury oraz Wielkopolska i Śląsk. They also achieved higher production and productivity and profitability of work, as well as the profitability of the earth. However, the potential and efficiency of production factors on Polish farms was lower than the EU average.
New material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3 milliseconds
Creators: name: Place, Alex P. M.
name: Rodgers, Lila V. H.
name: Mundada, Pranav
name: Smitham, Basil M.
name: Fitzpatrick, Mattias
name: Leng, Zhaoqi
name: Premkumar, Anjali
name: Bryon, Jacob
name: Sussman, Sara
name: Cheng, Guangming
name: Madhavan, Trisha
name: Babla, Harshvardhan K.
name: Jaeck, Berthold
name: Gyenis, Andras
name: Yao, Nan
name: Cava, Robert J.
name: de Leon, Nathalie P.
name: Houck, Andrew A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The superconducting transmon qubit is a leading platform for quantum computing and quantum science. Building large, useful quantum systems based on transmon qubits will require significant improvements in qubit relaxation and coherence times, which are orders of magnitude shorter than limits imposed by bulk properties of the constituent materials. This indicates that relaxation likely originates from uncontrolled surfaces, interfaces, and contaminants. Previous efforts to improve qubit lifetimes have focused primarily on designs that minimize contributions from surfaces. However, significant improvements in the lifetime of two-dimensional transmon qubits have remained elusive for several years. Here, we fabricate two-dimensional transmon qubits that have both lifetimes and coherence times with dynamical decoupling exceeding 0.3 milliseconds by replacing niobium with tantalum in the device. We have observed increased lifetimes for seventeen devices, indicating that these material improvements are robust, paving the way for higher gate fidelities in multi-qubit processors.
Towards an Open Platform for Legal Information
Creators: name: Ostendorff, Malte
name: Blume, Till
name: Ostendorff, Saskia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advances in the area of legal information systems have led to a variety of applications that promise support in processing and accessing legal documents. Unfortunately, these applications have various limitations, e.g., regarding scope or extensibility. Furthermore, we do not observe a trend towards open access in digital libraries in the legal domain as we observe in other domains, e.g., economics of computer science. To improve open access in the legal domain, we present our approach for an open source platform to transparently process and access Legal Open Data. This enables the sustainable development of legal applications by offering a single technology stack. Moreover, the approach facilitates the development and deployment of new technologies. As proof of concept, we implemented six technologies and generated metadata for more than 250,000 German laws and court decisions. Thus, we can provide users of our platform not only access to legal documents, but also the contained information.
description: Accepted at ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2020
Interdiffusion of Solvent into Glassy Polymer Films: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Creators: name: Tsige, Mesfin
name: Grest, Gary S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large scale molecular dynamics and grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation techniques are used to study the behavior of the interdiffusion of a solvent into an entangled polymer matrix as the state of the polymer changes from a melt to a glass. The weight gain by the polymer increases with time $t$ as $t^{1/2}$ in agreement with Fickian diffusion for all cases studied, although the diffusivity is found to be strongly concentration dependent especially as one approaches the glass transition temperature of the polymer. The diffusivity as a function of solvent concentration determined using the one-dimensional Fick's model of the diffusion equation is compared to the diffusivity calculated using the Darken equation from simulations of equilibrated solvent-polymer solutions. The diffusivity calculated using these two different approaches are in good agreement. The behavior of the diffusivity strongly depends on the state of the polymer and is related to the shape of the solvent concentration profile.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
An ultra-massive white dwarf with a mixed hydrogen-carbon atmosphere as a likely merger remnant
Creators: name: Hollands, Mark A.
name: Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel
name: Gänsicke, Boris T.
name: Camisassa, María E.
name: Koester, Detlev
name: Aungwerojwit, Amornrat
name: Chote, Paul
name: Córsico, Alejandro H.
name: Dhillon, Vik S.
name: Gentile-Fusillo, Nicola P.
name: Hoskin, Matthew J.
name: Izquierdo, Paula
name: Marsh, Tom R.
name: Steeghs, Danny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: White dwarfs are dense, cooling stellar embers consisting mostly of carbon and oxygen, or oxygen and neon (with a few percent carbon) at higher initial stellar masses. These stellar cores are enveloped by a shell of helium which in turn is usually surrounded by a layer of hydrogen, generally prohibiting direct observation of the interior composition. However, carbon is observed at the surface of a sizeable fraction of white dwarfs, sometimes with traces of oxygen, and it is thought to be dredged-up from the core by a deep helium convection zone. In these objects only traces of hydrogen are found as large masses of hydrogen are predicted to inhibit hydrogen/helium convective mixing within the envelope. We report the identification of WDJ055134.612+413531.09, an ultra-massive (1.14 $M_\odot$) white dwarf with a unique hydrogen/carbon mixed atmosphere (C/H=0.15 in number ratio). Our analysis of the envelope and interior indicates that the total hydrogen and helium mass fractions must be several orders of magnitude lower than predictions of single star evolution: less than $10^{-9.5}$ and $10^{-7.0}$, respectively. Due to the fast kinematics ($129\pm5$ km/s relative to the local standard of rest), large mass, and peculiar envelope composition, we argue that WDJ0551+4135 is consistent with formation from the merger of two white dwarfs in a tight binary system.
description: Published in Nature Astronomy Letters on March 2nd 2020, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1028-0
Towards improving food security and sustainable livelihoods of resource poor farmers in Bangladesh: Impact of the FoSHoL project
Creators: name: Jabbar, Mohammad A
name: Ziauddin, A T M
name: Abedin, M Zainul
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A
name: Ziauddin, A T M
name: Abedin, M Zainul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: technology diffusion
subject: adoption
subject: impact
subject: crop
subject: livestock
subject: fisheries
subject: horticulture
subject: poverty
subject: food security
subject: livelihood
subject: smallholders
subject: gender
subject: women
subject: natural hazard
subject: Bangladesh
subject: IRRI

description: The Food Security for Sustainable Household Livelihoods (FoSHoL) project was designed with the premise that food security of the poor - both in terms of access and affordability- could be improved by providing them with better knowledge, skills, technology, inputs, finance and organizational ability to better utilize their available resources – land, labour and capital- to improve productivity, marketability and get better prices and income. The project was implemented in several districts by three international NGOs, several national NGOs in collaboration with various government departments during May 2005 to April 2009. IRRI had a coordinating role mainly providing technical and methodological guidance.This report represents the changes in some of the key livelihood and food security parameters between the two periods. Several lessons in terms of technologies suitable for the poor, targeting technology for dissemination to the poor, alternative dissemination mechanisms, and importance of collective action and savings appear to be robust and these qualify for scaling up in the rest of the country beyond the project sites. We believe that this valuable report will be useful for the planners, policy makers, researchers, development practitioners and other donors to formulate future intervention strategies on food security and livelihoods in Bangladesh.
description: Published by the International Rice Research Institute, Bangladesh Office
On the Noether Invariance Principle for Constrained Optimal Control Problems
Creators: name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49K15

description: We obtain a generalization of Noether's invariance principle for optimal control problems with equality and inequality state-input constraints. The result relates the invariance properties of the problems with the existence of conserved quantities along the constrained Pontryagin extremals. A result of this kind was posed as an open question by Vladimir Tikhomirov, in 1986.
description: To be presented at the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Corfu, Greece, August 17-19, 2004. Accepted for publication in the journal WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
Some aspects of unemployment, migraton and income in the Bangladesh rural labour market
Creators: name: Jabbar, M. A.
name: Jabbar, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: unemployment
subject: migration
subject: income
subject: disguised unemployment
subject: underutilization of labour
subject: rural
subject: Bangladesh

description: Two questions are raised about the accuracy of the rates of disguised unemployment in rural Bangladesh estimated on the basis of farm surveys using ‘labour utilization’ or ‘gainful work’ approach. One is the possible exclusion of migratory labour use from labour utilization data. The other is the adequacy of ‘work duration’ as the sole basis for measuring employment. Results of a large survey throughout the country show that seasonal migration of rural labour is a more common phenomena than is ordinarily recognized and it needs to be explicitly considered in labour tilization/unemployment estimation. Another survey in eight villages show that work duration has little relationship with income, so on its own, it may not be an adequate criteria for measuring unemployment.
title: Project Yusuhara : re-thinking metabolism in the town above the clouds
Creators: name: Schachner, Julian S. M.
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Dorfstruktur
subject: Gemeindezentrum
subject: Japan
subject: rural
subject: civic center
subject: community center

description: Wie die Zukunft der Architektur - im Sinne der professionellen Praxis, so wie als gebaute Umwelt - aussehen wird, ist heute kaum abschätzbar. Der Druck der Veränderung ist hoch, bedingt durch gewandelte ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen, so wie durch neue Formen der Organisation, des Planens und des Bauens. Die Frage der Ressourceneffizienz und der Nachhaltigkeit spielt auf allen Ebenen eine immer größere Rolle, um das ökologische System nicht zusehends aus der Bahn zu werfen. Lokale und globale Spannungsfelder sind ein weiteres Zeichen unseres sogenannten digitalen Zeitalters, dass die Menschheit mit einer Vielzahl an Veränderungen und demografischen Umstrukturierungen konfrontiert. Wenn man davon ausgeht, dass die Architektur die kulturellen und sozialen Entwicklungen ihrer Zeit in Raum und Form repräsentiert und erörtert, wird die Bedeutsamkeit dieses gesamten Organismus im Zusammenhang klar.Unter den Vorzeichen der Veränderungen versteht sich diese Arbeit, die im Zusammenhang zu einem Rechercheaufenthalt in Japan steht, als vielschichtige Analyse und Bestandsaufnahme, die letztlich in seiner Gesamtheit Architektur, als Resultat der transkulturellen Erfahrung und des interdisziplinären Lernens im Kontext der metabolischen Tendenzen und Parameter unserer Zeit zum Ausdruck bringt.
description: The future of architecture - as a profession itself, as well as speaking of our built environment - is hard to predict in those days. Due to the restraining economic conditions, new emerging forms of organizing and digital planning processes, high pressure is put on the fundamentals of the architectural discipline. It is more and more a question of finding the right balance between economic, as well as environmental conditions and how to deal with sustainability to prevent the ecological system from collapsing. Local and global zones of conflicts are another sign of our so-called Digital Age which brings lots of changes to the human kind with a shift in demographics leading all the way. The importance of this omnipresent issues speaks for itself, assuming that Architecture is considered to be the social and cultural representation, or better referred as, engagement of its times in the form of space and shape. On the basis of this statement and linked to an intensive research period in Japan, the entity of this work could be described as a polyvalent analysis and evaluation of the situation which finally results in an architectural project consolidating the transcultural experience and the interdisciplinary learning process within the metabolic context of the parameters and tendencies of our times.
title: Cationic heats of transport in potassium chloride and sodium chloride single crystals.
Creators: name: Rahman, Anisur
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1976

description: Flows of heat through a hot solid entrain flows of material. These flow rates of matter and heat in a solid are related by a term called 'heat of transport'. In the experiments described, independent measurements of heats of transport and thermoelectric powers have been made in two strongly ionic solids - potassium chloride and sodium chloride single crystals in Pt/salt/Pt cells. Measurements of electrical resistance in these materials have been made both at equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions. The changes in resistance due to application of thermal and electric field forces have been used as indicators of deviations of equilibrium vacancy concentrations. The heat of transport which is related to the flow of vacancies can then be calculated from resistance change. The values of cationic heats of transport for pure potassium chloride and -4 sodium chloride crystals are found to be (0.37+4.74x10-4xT]) eV and (0.52+2.87x10-4xT) eV respectively. The measurement of heat of transport from considerations of vacancy concentrations is quite distinct. from the traditional approach which attempts to evaluate it from the thermoelectric power. Measured heat of transport can then be used to evaluate homogeneous thermoelectric power of the solid. Comparison of this component of thermoelectric power with the total thermoelectric power using Platinum electrodes offers a value of heterogeneous component. In addition to these measurements, the present approach also gives values of vacancy life time and vacancy mean free path. An estimate of effectiveness of vacancy traps can be obtained from considerations of mean free path. These parameters together elucidate the actual process involved in vacancy migration under driving forces.
Experimental Demonstration of Dynamic Thermal Regulation using Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films
Creators: name: Morsy, Ahmed M.
name: Barako, Michael T.
name: Jankovic, Vladan
name: Wheeler, Virginia D.
name: Knight, Mark W.
name: Papadakis, Georgia T.
name: Sweatlock, Luke A.
name: Hon, Philip W. C.
name: Povinelli, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental demonstration of passive, dynamic thermal regulation in a solid-state system with temperature-dependent thermal emissivity switching. We achieve this effect using a multilayered device, comprised of a vanadium dioxide (VO2) thin film on a silicon substrate with a gold back reflector. We experimentally characterize the optical properties of the VO2 film and use the results to optimize device design. Using a calibrated, transient calorimetry experiment we directly measure the temperature fluctuations arising from a time-varying heat load. Under laboratory conditions, we find that the device regulates temperature better than a constant emissivity sample. We use the experimental results to validate our thermal model, which can be used to predict device performance under the conditions of outer space. In this limit, thermal fluctuations are halved with reference to a constant-emissivity sample.
Spontaneous decay rates in active waveguides
Creators: name: Rieznik, A. A.
name: Rigolin, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method to measure the guided, radiated and total decay rates in one-dimensional waveguides. It is also theoretically shown that large modifications of the total decay rate can be achieved in realistic EDFAs and EDWAs with effective mode area radii smaller than ~ 1 micrometer.
description: 3 pages, latex, 2 figures, 1 table, title change, published version
The potential for single animal ploughing in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Jabbar, M. A.
name: Jabbar, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: draft power
subject: draught power
subject: mechanization
subject: animal power
subject: single animal plough
subject: tillage
subject: Bangladesh

description: In Bangladesh, single animal ploughing is practiced only in some parts of Sylhet district. In this note results of a survey showing causes of localized and limited use of this technique are discussed. Only buffaloes were found to be used as single and the single buffalo plough was found to be technically and economically more efficient than a plough drawn by a pair of cattle. However, scope for expansion of the technique outside Sylhet seems to be limited because draught buffaloes account for only about two percent of the total draught animals in the country.
title: Leadership im Bauwesen : Baupsychologie
Creators: name: Peter, Maximilian Toshi
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Baupsychologie
subject: psychology

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den komplexen Prozessen des Bauwesens. Für diesen Zweck wird einleitend der Mensch als Mitarbeiter analysiert und anhand bestehender theoretischer Modelle beschrieben, in weiterer Folge wird der Prozess des Handelns genauer untersucht. Die Grundlagenanalyse wird mit der Betrachtung des Menschen als Führungsperson, im speziellen den Führungsstilen, geschlossen. Um die erlangten Erkenntnisse praktisch zu verknüpfen, erfolgt eine führungspsychologische Analyse der französischen Revolution und der genaueren Erforschung von Führungspersonen, Führungsstilen und deren Wirkungsweise. Im nächsten Schritt wir auf Basis aller bisher erlangten Erkenntnisse, durch das sogenannte „modelling“ teilweise auch „shaping“ genannt, am Vorbild zweier Führungspersonen der französischen Revolution, eine anwendbare Führungscharakteristik herausgearbeitet. Das abschließende Kapitel fasst die wesentlichen Punkte der Arbeit zusammen und präsentiert einen durch die Arbeit erlangten, allgemeinen Erkenntnisgewinn zum Bauwesen und zum Leadership.
description: The present work deals with the complex processes of the building industries. For this purpose, the human being as an employee is analyzed and described on the basis of existing theoretical models. Subsequently, the process of action is examined more closely. The basic analysis is closed with the consideration of man as a leader, in particular the leadership styles. In order to link the acquired knowledge practical, a psychological analysis of the French Revolution and the more detailed research of leaders, management styles and their mode of action takes place. In the next step, on the basis of all the knowledge gained so far, through the so-called "modeling" partly also called "shaping", based on the model of two leaders of the French Revolution, an applicable leadership characteristic was worked out. The concluding chapter summarizes the main points of the work and presents a general knowledge gained through the work on building and leadership.
Transferable life skills learned through sports participation by university athletes committed to the sport
Creators: name: Samuels, Sumerlee Eden
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this study was to identify transferable life skills that are learned via sports participation. Understanding the importance of these particular skills were explored by directly asking the athletes. Eight focus groups constituting three to six people, aged 18-28, who are currently participating in sport at a university level were interviewed. The opening question for each focus group was "I would like you to talk about some of the life skills you have learned through participating in sport that will be valuable in terms of a future career." A second question pertaining to transferring the learned life skills into other environments was explored. The second question athletes were asked was "Which, if any, of the life skills mentioned in response to the first question could be transferred to other environments?" Data were analyzed using six steps offered by Krueger. Findings indicated that athletes mentioned over 200 life skills learned through sport participation including, time management, communicating with others and receiving feedback. The emerged life skills are discussed in light of Brooks 1984 study, and grouped into five overarching categories Interpersonal Communication/Human Relation Skills (IPU/HRS), Problem-solving/Decision Making Skills (PS/DMS), Identity Development/Purpose in Life Skills (ID/PILS), Fitness/Health Maintenance Skills (F/HMS) and Other. Findings from the second question indicated that athletes identified 36 skills, which they deemed transferable to other setting which were later organized into four categories Teamwork, Setting and Achieving Goals, Personal Drive and Perspective Taking. The conclusions of this study are discussed in relation to the relevant literature.