cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Elicitation of causatives and some paradigms
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-040618-06: Causatives (new work) and some paradigms based on Sapir and Golla 2001 ("Hupa Texts, with Notes and Lexicon," In Golla, V. and S. O’Neill (eds.), Northwest California Linguistics, 19-1011, Collected Works of Edward Sapir, vol. 14, New York: Mouton de Gruyter) element list, starting with č’id2 WEAKEN, DIE
Dynamic stability of nano-scale ferroelectric domains by molecular dynamics modeling
Creators: name: Klomp, Arne J.
name: Khachaturyan, Ruben
name: Wallis, Theophilus
name: Grünebohm, Anna
name: Albe, Karsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-dense domain walls are increasingly important for many devices but their microscopic properties are so far not fully understood. In this study we combine atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamic simulations to study the domain wall stability in the prototypical ferroelectric BaTiO3. We transfer the discussion of the field-driven nucleation and motion of domain walls to thermally induced modifications of the wall without an external driving force. Our simulations show that domain wall dynamics and stability depend crucially on microscopic thermal fluctuations. Enhanced fluctuations at domain walls may result in the formation of critical nuclei for the permanent shift of the domain wall. If two domain walls are close - put in other words, when domains are small - thermal fluctuations can be sufficient to bring domain walls into contact and lead to the annihilation of small domains. This is even true well below the Curie temperature and when domain walls are initially as far apart as 6 unit cells. Such small domains are, thus, not stable and limit the maximum achievable domain wall density in nanoelectronic devices.
Practical Aspects of Genetic Algorithms' Implementation in Life Cycle Management of Electrotechnical Equipment
Creators: name: Petrochenkov, Anton
Publisher: name: Hochschule Anhalt
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 004: Datenverarbeitung, Informatik

description: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Applied Innovations in IT / Prof. Dr. Siemens, Eduard (2015). Jg. 3. Köthen, 2015
description: Some practical aspects of Genetic algorithms' implementation regarding to life cycle management of electrotechnical equipment are considered.
Additional file 5 of Body position for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia for critically ill patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Diana P.
name: Cobo-Cuenca, Ana Isabel
name: Carmona-Torres, Juan Manuel
name: Laredo-Aguilera, Jose Alberto
name: Santacruz-Salas, Esmeralda
name: Fernandez-Rodriguez, Ruben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Heterogeneity assessment.
Numerical renormalization group calculation of near-gap peaks in spectral functions of the Anderson model with superconducting leads
Creators: name: Hecht, Theresa
name: Weichselbaum, Andreas
name: von Delft, Jan
name: Bulla, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the numerical renormalization group method (NRG) to investigate a single-impurity Anderson model with a coupling of the impurity to a superconducting host. Analysis of the energy flow shows, in contrast to previous belief, that NRG iterations can be performed up to a large number of sites, corresponding to energy differences far below the superconducting gap. This allows us to calculate the impurity spectral function very accurately for frequencies near the gap edge, and to resolve, in a certain parameter regime, sharp peaks in the spectral function close to the gap edge.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Elicitation of causatives and some paradigms
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio files VP-040618-03a/c/e and VP-040618-04: Causatives (new work) and some paradigms based on Sapir and Golla 2001 ("Hupa Texts, with Notes and Lexicon," In Golla, V. and S. O’Neill (eds.), Northwest California Linguistics, 19-1011, Collected Works of Edward Sapir, vol. 14, New York: Mouton de Gruyter) element list, starting with čʷo·gʸ SWEEP (VP-040618-03a) and č’at’2 PEEL (VP-040618-04).
Defining relations for automorphism groups of free algebras
Creators: name: Umirbaev, Ualbai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe a set of defining relations for automorphism groups of finitely generated free algebras of Nielsen-Schreier varieties. In particular, this gives a representation of the automorphism groups of free Lie algebras by generators and defining relations.
description: 14 pages
Additional file 6 of Body position for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia for critically ill patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Diana P.
name: Cobo-Cuenca, Ana Isabel
name: Carmona-Torres, Juan Manuel
name: Laredo-Aguilera, Jose Alberto
name: Santacruz-Salas, Esmeralda
name: Fernandez-Rodriguez, Ruben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Funnel plots for asymmetry.
Policy provisions for public access to television : democratic and educational implications in Canada and the United States
Creators: name: Arafeh, Sousan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: This thesis examines broadcast policies and policy documents in Canada and the United States to determine whether and to what degree they make provision for the public's access to television. Government policies and policy documents are examined at the federal and local level, and a case study of two cable systems, one in Vancouver, B.C. the other in Seattle, Washington, supplies empirical data to corroborate how policy provisions for public access to television are interpreted and implemented. A neo-Gramscian concept of ideological hegemony broadly frames this study of the impact of public policy, specifically broadcast policy, on social structure and behaviour. Because a very small portion of the general population have access to television production and programming, they dominate the television discourse. Research that documents television’s pervasive stereotypic and derogatory treatment of women and “racial"/ethnic "minorities" as well as its perceived effect of contributing to the social and economic subordination of these populations in North American society is used as a basis for this study. This thesis argues that broadening the body of people who have access to the television production and programming process might encourage more accurate, positive and/or relevant television images and relations with positive social consequences. On one level, this is a matter of having broadcast policies which ensure such broadened access. Canada and the United States each have policy provisions for the general public's access to television which are based on notions of civic democratic participation in society. Analysis and comparison of these policies results in the conclusion that although both countries provide access to the public through policy, many of these provisions limit access in four areas: access to production, access to distribution, access to input, and access to viewing. Because television access policies limit the public's access increasingly, the broadening of the access base is impeded along with the challenge to the current structure, message and function of television. On this account, traditional agendas and images continue to dominate the airwaves and their educational power. Further study should be undertaken on: 1) the effects of television, 2) the public's use of community television/public access television, 3) the effects of community channels on viewers and whether they are different than the effects of broadcast television and 4) the effects of broadcast policy on the structure and function of television.
Η ασφάλεια των τροφίμων στο ευρωπαϊκό δίκαιο
Creators: name: Τάκης, Αθανάσιος Γ.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2007
Subjects: Κανονισμός 178/2002
Αρχή της προφύλαξης
Γενετικά τροποποιημένοι οργανισμοί
Νομοθεσία τροφίμων
Δικαίωμα στη διατροφή
EC regulation 178/2002
Precautionary Principle
Genetically modified organisms
Food legislation
Right to food

description: Η διατριβή εξετάζει το νομικό πλαίσιο της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης για την ασφάλεια των τροφίμων. Ξεκινά με την ιστορική αναδρομή στο μισό αιώνα δικαιοπαραγωγικής δραστηριότητας της ΕΕ στο χώρο της διατροφικής ασφάλειας και στη συνέχεια επικεντρώνεται στην εφαρμογή της αρχής της προφύλαξης στον επίμαχο τομέα. Το τρίτο κεφάλαιο αφιερώνεται στην παρουσίαση της ιεραρχικής πυραμίδας πηγών του δικαίου των τροφίμων, με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στον Κανονισμό 178/2002. Ακολουθεί η παρουσίαση του νομικού πλαισίου για τους γενετικά τροποποιημένους οργανισμούς. Την διατριβή ολοκληρώνουν η ψηλάφηση της έννοιας του θεμελιώδους δικαιώματος στην διατροφή και τα συμπεράσματα
description: The doctoral thesis examines the framework of food safety in European Union law. Starting with a historical retrospective of a half a century’s E.U. legislation on food safety, the research then focuses on the application of the precautionary principle in food safety. The third chapter is devoted to the presentation of the pyramidal hierarchy of food safety laws, laying particular emphasis on the EC Regulation 178/2002. The legal frame of genetically modified organisms is thoroughly analyzed in the following chapter. The research concludes with the exploration of the notion of the fundamental right to food and conclusions
Efficient current-induced domain-wall displacement SrRuO3
Creators: name: Feigenson, Michael
name: Reiner, James W.
name: Klein, Lior
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate current-induced displacement of ferromagnetic domain walls in sub-micrometer fabricated patterns of SrRuO3 films. The displacement, monitored by measuring the extraordinary Hall effect, is induced at zero applied magnetic field and its direction is reversed when the current is reversed. We find that current density in the range of 10^9 - 10^10 A/m^2 is sufficient for domain-wall displacement when the depinning field varies between 50 to 500 Oe. These results indicate relatively high efficiency of the current in displacing domain walls which we believe is related to the narrow width ~3 nm of domain walls in this compound.
Οικονομικοκοινωνικοί μηχανισμοί και το προυχοντικό φαινόμενο στην Oθωμανική Πελοπόννησο του 18ου αιώνα: η περίπτωση του Παναγιώτη Μπενάκη
Creators: name: Παπασταματίου, Δημήτριος Χρ.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2009
Subjects: Κοτζαμπάσης
Πελοπόννησος
Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία
18ος αιώνας
Γαιοκτησία
Φοροενοικίαση
Provincial elite
Peloponnesus
Ottoman Empire
18th century
Landownership
Tax farming

description: Η διατριβή μελετά το προυχοντικό φαινόμενο έτσι όπως εξειδικεύεται στην Πελοπόννησο τον 18ο αιώνα μέσα από την περίπτωση του Παναγιώτη Μπενάκη. Αναλύονται οι οικονομικές στρατηγικές του Μπενάκη, δηλ. η γαιοκτησία, οι φοροενοικιάσεις και η εμποροβιοτεχνική δραστηριότητά του, ως βασικές πηγές πλουτισμού. Ακόμη, εξετάζονται οι μέθοδοι πολιτικής εμπλοκής του, οι συγκρουσιακές σχέσεις του με άλλους προύχοντες και η χρήση του κοινοτικού θεσμού και του τοπικού ιεροδικείου για την εξυπηρέτηση των στόχων του
description: The thesis examines the provincial elite of kozabasis ans ayans of Peloponnesus through the case study of Panayotis Benakis. The economic strategies of his, landownership, taxfarming, commerce and manufacturing are studied. Moreover, it delves into his political activity, his conflicts with other notables, the way he took advantage of the institution of community and the provincial court
Additional file 8 of Body position for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia for critically ill patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Diana P.
name: Cobo-Cuenca, Ana Isabel
name: Carmona-Torres, Juan Manuel
name: Laredo-Aguilera, Jose Alberto
name: Santacruz-Salas, Esmeralda
name: Fernandez-Rodriguez, Ruben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 8. Inconsistency and incoherence assessment.
Coherent instabilities in a semiconductor laser with fast gain recovery
Creators: name: Wang, C. Y.
name: Diehl, L.
name: Gordon, A.
name: Jirauschek, C.
name: Kaertner, F. X.
name: Belyanin, A.
name: Bour, D.
name: Corzine, S.
name: Hoefler, G.
name: Troccoli, M.
name: Faist, J.
name: Capasso, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the observation of a coherent multimode instability in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), which is driven by the same fundamental mechanism of Rabi oscillations as the elusive Risken-Nummedal-Graham-Haken (RNGH) instability predicted 40 years ago for ring lasers. The threshold of the observed instability is significantly lower than in the original RNGH instability, which we attribute to saturable-absorption nonlinearity in the laser. Coherent effects, which cannot be reproduced by standard laser rate equations, can play therefore a key role in the multimode dynamics of QCLs, and in lasers with fast gain recovery in general.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Growing up in Portuguese-Canadian families: an oral history of adolescence in Vancouver, 1962-1980
Creators: name: Arruda, Antonio F.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: A history of growing up in Vancouver with immigrant Portuguese parents was constructed by interviewing seventeen adults who were teenagers in Vancouver between 1962 and 1980. Sixteen emigrated as children or adolescents from a variety of social and economic backgrounds in the Azores and Continental Portugal and one was born in Vancouver. This thesis examines aspects of their adolescence in the family, at school, at work, in friendship and courtship, as well as at church. Their lives in Vancouver often differed considerably one from another, a diversity that was already apparent in Portugal. In Vancouver, many parents attempted to maintain or even intensify control over their children who resisted to varying degrees. Other parents allowed their children much more social freedom. As adults, many of these subjects retain an interest in Portuguese culture and traditions. Some limited comparison is made with other subjects in Kitimat, Penticton, and Toronto.
Additional file 6: of Whole genome sequencing reveals complexity in both HPV sequences present and HPV integrations in HPV-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas
Creators: name: Gao, Ge
name: Wang, Jintu
name: Kasperbauer, Jan
name: Tombers, Nicole
name: Teng, Fei
name: Gou, Honglan
name: Zhao, Yonggang
name: Bao, Zhenhong
name: Smith, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S4. The tumors without the observed significant chromosomal structural changes in the HPV integration sites. In tumor 687 which HPV integration occurred into the 1p36.11 and 4q22.1, there are no observed significant chromosomal structural changes in those integration sites. (DOCX 34 kb)
Additional file 7 of Body position for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia for critically ill patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Diana P.
name: Cobo-Cuenca, Ana Isabel
name: Carmona-Torres, Juan Manuel
name: Laredo-Aguilera, Jose Alberto
name: Santacruz-Salas, Esmeralda
name: Fernandez-Rodriguez, Ruben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. Transitivity assessment.
Coordinates with Non-Singular Curvature for a Time Dependent Black Hole Horizon
Creators: name: Lindesay, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A naive introduction of a dependency of the mass of a black hole on the Schwarzschild time coordinate results in singular behavior of curvature invariants at the horizon, violating expectations from complementarity. If instead a temporal dependence is introduced in terms of a coordinate akin to the river time representation, the Ricci scalar is nowhere singular away from the origin. It is found that for a shrinking mass scale due to evaporation, the null radial geodesics that generate the horizon are slightly displaced from the coordinate singularity. In addition, a changing horizon scale significantly alters the form of the coordinate singularity in diagonal (orthogonal) metric coordinates representing the space-time. A Penrose diagram describing the growth and evaporation of an example black hole is constructed to examine the evolution of the coordinate singularity.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure, additional citations
Learning constitutive models from microstructural simulations via a non-intrusive reduced basis method: Extension to geometrical parameterizations
Creators: name: Guo, Theron
name: Silva, Francesco A. B.
name: Rokoš, Ondřej
name: Veroy, Karen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Understanding structure-property relations is essential to optimally design materials for specific applications. Two-scale simulations are often employed to analyze the effect of the microstructure on a component's macroscopic properties. However, they are typically computationally expensive and infeasible in multi-query contexts such as optimization and material design. To make such analyses amenable, the microscopic simulations can be replaced by surrogate models that must be able to handle a wide range of microstructural parameters. This work focuses on extending the methodology of a previous work, where an accurate surrogate model was constructed for microstructures under varying loading and material parameters using proper orthogonal decomposition and Gaussian process regression, to treat geometrical parameters. To this end, a method that transforms different geometries onto a parent domain is presented. We propose to solve an auxiliary problem based on linear elasticity to obtain the geometrical transformations. Using these transformations, combined with the nonlinear microscopic problem, we derive a fast-to-evaluate surrogate model with the following key features: (1) the predictions of the effective quantities are independent of the auxiliary problem, (2) the predicted stress fields fulfill the microscopic balance laws and are periodic, (3) the method is non-intrusive, (4) the stress field for all geometries can be recovered, and (5) the sensitivities are available and can be readily used for optimization and material design. The proposed methodology is tested on several composite microstructures, where rotations and large variations in the shape of inclusions are considered. Finally, a two-scale example is shown, where the surrogate model achieves a high accuracy and significant speed up, demonstrating its potential in two-scale shape optimization and material design problems.
Regarding Information Systems Dependability Analysis
Creators: name: Luzyanin, Ivan
name: Petrochenko, Anton
Publisher: name: Hochschule Anhalt
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 004: Datenverarbeitung, Informatik

description: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Applied Innovations in IT / Prof. Dr. Siemens, Eduard (2015). Jg. 3. Köthen, 2015
description: The article presents classification of information systems by different parameters. Factors influencing information systems dependability are also presented. The article describes the strategy of information systems dependability analysis and methods of its increase. The example of analysis of real information system is considered to show how to implement the strategy.
Frequency, splitting, linewidth and amplitude estimates of low-l p modes of alpha Cen A: analysis of WIRE photometry
Creators: name: Fletcher, S. T.
name: Chaplin, W. J.
name: Elsworth, Y.
name: Schou, J.
name: Buzasi, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of fitting the 50-day time series of photometry of alpha Cen A taken by the WIRE satellite in 1999. Both power spectrum and autocovariance function (ACF) fitting techniques were used in an attempt to determine mode frequencies, rotational splittings, lifetimes and amplitudes of low-l p-modes. In all, using both techniques, we managed to fit 18 modes (seven l = 0, eight l = 1 and three l = 2) with frequencies determined to within 1 - 2 micro-Hz. These estimates are shown to be 0.6 +/- 0.3 micro-Hz lower, on average, than the frequencies determined from two other more recent studies (Bouchy & Carrier, 2002; Bedding et al. 2004) which used data gathered about 19 months after the WIRE observations. This could be indicative of an activity cycle, although due to the large uncertainty, more data would be needed to confirm this. Over a range of 1700 to 2650 micro-Hz we were also able to use the ACF fitting to determine an average lifetime of 3.9 +/- 1.4 days, and an average rotational splitting of 0.54 +/- 0.22 micro-Hz, which is the first ever reliable estimate of this parameter. In contrast to the ACF, the power spectrum fitting was shown to return significantly biased results for these parameters.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures (some figures are made up from multiple ps files of which there are 17 in total)
Additional file 9 of Body position for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia for critically ill patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Diana P.
name: Cobo-Cuenca, Ana Isabel
name: Carmona-Torres, Juan Manuel
name: Laredo-Aguilera, Jose Alberto
name: Santacruz-Salas, Esmeralda
name: Fernandez-Rodriguez, Ruben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 9. Risk of bias assessment for included studies.
Creatividad teatral: una vía para la educación familiar.
Creators: name: Ceballos, Antonio Cantos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: creatividad y educación, familia y teatro, juego dramático y educación en valores, expresión teatral y educación infantil.

description: Concebimos la creatividad teatral como un juego familiar, una experiencia lúdica y espontánea, donde los niños-actores en famiia se sienten protagonistas y participan, vivenciadamente, de un proceso de crecimiento, divertimento y placer. Contemplada desde esta perspectiva, la crreatividad teatral tiene un papel fundamental en el desarrollo afectivo, intelectual y social de los hijos y se muestra como un mecanismo primordial con el cual el niño-a va organizando sentimientos y pensamientos y, arropado por la seguridad que le transmite dicha experiencia colectiva familiar, se inicia lúdicamente en aprendizajes múltiples que, de forma integrada y vivenciada, va haciendo suyos: comportamientos, prácticas exploratorias, habilidades motrices, destrezas corporales, desafíos, riesgos, competición, ritmos. A través de la práctica de la creatividad teatral en familia, el niño se expresa par su placer y desarrollo personal.
Geometry and Rank of Fibered Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
Creators: name: Biringer, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M50

description: Assume that M is a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold fibering over the circle with fiber a closed orientable surface of genus g. We show that if M has large diameter and its injectivity radius is bounded below, then the rank of the fundamental group of M is 2g+1.
Higher-dimensional AdS waves and pp-waves with conformally related sources
Creators: name: Ayón-Beato, Eloy
name: Hassaïne, Mokhtar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AdS waves and pp-waves can only be supported by pure radiation fields, for which the only nonvanishing component of the energy-momentum tensor is the energy density along the retarded time. We show that the nonminimal coupling of self-gravitating scalar fields to the higher-dimensional versions of these exact gravitational waves can be done consistently. In both cases, the resulting pure radiation constraints completely fix the scalar field dependence and the form of the allowed self-interactions. More significantly, we establish that the two sets of pure radiation constraints are conformally related for any nonminimal coupling, in spite of the fact that the involved gravitational fields are not necessarily related. In this correspondence, the potential supporting the AdS waves emerges from the self-interaction associated to the pp-waves and a self-dual condition naturally satisfied by the pp-wave scalar fields.
description: 13 pages
Analysis of Individual Conversational Volatility in Tandem Telecollaboration for Second Language Learning
Creators: name: Smeaton, Alan F.
name: Dey-Plissonneau, Aparajita
name: Lee, Hyowon
name: Liu, Mingming
name: Scriney, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Second language learning can be enabled by tandem collaboration where students are grouped into video conference calls while learning the native language of other student(s) on the calls. This places students in an online environment where the more outgoing can actively contribute and engage in dialogue while those more shy and unsure of their second language skills can sit back and coast through the calls. We have built and deployed the L2L system which records timings of conversational utterances from all participants in a call. We generate visualisations including participation rates and timelines for each student in each call and present these on a dashboard. We have recently developed a measure called personal conversational volatility for how dynamic has been each student's contribution to the dialogue in each call. We present an analysis of conversational volatility measures for a sample of 19 individual English-speaking students from our University who are learning Frenchm, in each of 86 tandem telecollaboration calls over one teaching semester. Our analysis shows there is a need to look into the nature of the interactions and see if the choices of discussion topics assigned to them were too difficult for some students and that may have influenced their engagement in some way.
description: 21st European Conference on e-Learning, October 2022, Brighton, UK
Compendium of Factors for Optimization of the Ouchterlony Test
Creators: name: Bamara, Prosper
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320202
subject: Clinical chemistry (incl. diagnostics)

description: The Ouchterlony test or Ouchterlony Double Immunodifusion, also known as Passive Double Immunodiffusion, is an immunological technique used in the detection, identification and quantification of antibodies and antigens, such as immunoglobulins and extractable nuclear antigens.Five key aspects for optimization of the Passive Double Immunodiffusion technique are reviewed in this study: (a) advantages and disadvantages of agar versus agarose as diffusion matrix, (b) comparison of glass and plastic petri dishes in terms of clarity, (c) clarity of diffusion gels, (d) possibility to use effectively the least expensive gel densitometers and software for reading densities of protein in gels and the density of antibody-antigen complexes, and (e) the quantitative analysis potentials of the Ouchterlony method. Literature survey reveals that Agar and agarose are structurally different but their gelling properties are comparable. Pore sizes of Agar and agarose are much larger than the mean diameters and sizes of diffusing antigens and antibodies. The concentrations of 1.4 to 1.5% agar and 1% to 1.05% agarose are reported as optimal. Glass petri dishes offer a much better optical clarity than plastic petri dishes. Agar in its highly purified state, known as Noble Agar, exhibits excellent optical clarity but is very expensive. Gel densitometers and inexpensive image processing software exist for electrophoresis, but not yet for Ouchterlony. These densitometer-based methods can be adapted for use in Ouchterlony, and Radiolabelling and usage of fluorography are suggested as some of the means for rendering such densitometric methods more efficient. The quantitative analysis potentials of the Ouchterlony technique can be strengthened using existing models proposed by researchers in the past. These models are mainly based on linear relationships between position of precipitin line and log concentration of antigen or antibody.
Ενεργειακή ανάλυση της ανελαστικής στατικής ανάλυσης (Static Pushover) για την εκτίμηση της σεισμικής συμπεριφοράς των κατασκευών
Creators: name: Κοτανίδης, Χρήστος Δ.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2009
Subjects: Ανελαστική στατική ανάλυση
Ενεργειακά ισοδύναμη μετακίνηση
Εργο σεισμικών φορτίων
Εκτίμηση σεισμικής απόκρισης
Φορείς μονοσυμμετρικοί σε κάτοψη
Nonlinear static analysis
Pushover
Energy-based displacement
Work of seismic loads
Estimation of seismic response
Buildings with one axis of symmetry in plan

description: Η Ανελαστική Στατική Ανάλυση (ΑΣΑ) ή Pushover Analysis, με τον τρόπο που χρησιμοποιείται για την εκτίμηση της σεισμικής συμπεριφοράς των κατασκευών, βασίζεται στη χρήση ενός ισοδύναμου μονοβάθμιου συστήματος (ΙΜΣ) για την εκτίμηση της σεισμικής απόκρισης του πλήρους πολυβάθμιου φορέα. Σε αυτή τη διαδικασία χρησιμοποιείται η καμπύλη αντίστασης «τέμνουσα βάσης – μετακίνηση οροφής» του πολυβάθμιου φορέα, η οποία δεν έχει σαφή φυσική σημασία. Σκοπός της παρούσας διατριβής είναι να αποκτήσει η ΑΣΑ ενεργειακή συνέπεια. Προτείνεται η χρήση μιας ενεργειακά ισοδύναμης μετακίνησης του ΙΜΣ και ενός ενεργειακά ισοδύναμου συντελεστή συσχέτισης της μετακίνησης του ΙΜΣ με τη μετακίνηση της οροφής του πολυβάθμιου φορέα. Τα παραπάνω μεγέθη υπολογίζονται συναρτήσει του έργου των εξωτερικών φορτίων της ΑΣΑ. Η κλασική και η προτεινόμενη μεθοδολογία ΑΣΑ αξιολογούνται με εφαρμογή σε κτιριακούς φορείς, επίπεδους και χωρικούς μονοσυμμετρικούς σε κάτοψη, χρησιμοποιώντας ως «ακριβή» λύση αποτελέσματα από ανελαστικές χρονολογικές αναλύσεις. Τα αποτελέσματα έδειξαν ότι η προτεινόμενη μεθοδολογία εκτιμά με μεγαλύτερη ακρίβεια τη σεισμική απόκριση ενός κτιρίου, ιδιαίτερα στην περίπτωση φορέων μονοσυμμετρικών σε κάτοψη
description: The implementation of Nonlinear Static Analysis (or Pushover Analysis) for the estimation of the seismic response of structures is based on the use of an Equivalent Single Degree of Freedom (ESDOF) system. During this procedure the “base shear – roof displacement” also known as “Pushover curve” is formed. Pushover curve has no clear natural meaning. Aim of this thesis is to provide energy consistency to Pushover analysis. An energy-based ESDOF displacement is proposed along with an energy-based coefficient correlating ESDOF displacement with roof displacement of the Multiple Degree of Freedom (MDOF) system. The above quantities are calculated as functions of the work of Pushover analysis loads. Classic and proposed Pushover analysis methodologies are evaluated through the application to planar frames and buildings with one symmetric axis in plan (with excitation along the asymmetric axis), while the “exact” solution is obtained through nonlinear Time-History analyses. Results showed that the proposed energy-based Pushover analysis methodology estimates more accurately the seismic response of buildings, especially in the case of buildings with one axis of symmetry in plan
Elicitation of indefinite proforms
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-040618-05: Haspelmath 1997 ("Indefinite Pronouns," Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press), indefinite proforms; #494 through appendix
Viscous overstability and eccentricity evolution in three-dimensional gaseous discs
Creators: name: Latter, Henrik N.
name: Ogilvie, Gordon I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the growth or decay rate of the fundamental mode of even symmetry in a viscous accretion disc. This mode occurs in eccentric discs and is known to be potentially overstable. We determine the vertical structure of the disc and its modes, treating radiative energy transport in the diffusion approximation. In the limit of very long radial wavelength, an analytical criterion for viscous overstability is obtained, which involves the effective shear and bulk viscosity, the adiabatic exponent and the opacity law of the disc. This differs from the prediction of a two-dimensional model. On shorter wavelengths (a few times the disc thickness), the criterion for overstability is more difficult to satisfy because of the different vertical structure of the mode. In a low-viscosity disc a third regime of intermediate wavelengths appears, in which the overstability is suppressed as the horizontal velocity perturbations develop significant vertical shear. We suggest that this effect determines the damping rate of eccentricity in protoplanetary discs, for which the long-wavelength analysis is inapplicable and overstability is unlikely to occur on any scale. In thinner accretion discs and in decretion discs around Be stars overstability may occur only on the longest wavelengths, leading to the preferential excitation of global eccentric modes.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Robust Registration of Multimodal Remote Sensing Images Based on Structural Similarity
Creators: name: Ye, Yuanxin
name: Shan, Jie
name: Bruzzone, Lorenzo
name: Shen, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic registration of multimodal remote sensing data (e.g., optical, LiDAR, SAR) is a challenging task due to the significant non-linear radiometric differences between these data. To address this problem, this paper proposes a novel feature descriptor named the Histogram of Orientated Phase Congruency (HOPC), which is based on the structural properties of images. Furthermore, a similarity metric named HOPCncc is defined, which uses the normalized correlation coefficient (NCC) of the HOPC descriptors for multimodal registration. In the definition of the proposed similarity metric, we first extend the phase congruency model to generate its orientation representation, and use the extended model to build HOPCncc. Then a fast template matching scheme for this metric is designed to detect the control points between images. The proposed HOPCncc aims to capture the structural similarity between images, and has been tested with a variety of optical, LiDAR, SAR and map data. The results show that HOPCncc is robust against complex non-linear radiometric differences and outperforms the state-of-the-art similarities metrics (i.e., NCC and mutual information) in matching performance. Moreover, a robust registration method is also proposed in this paper based on HOPCncc, which is evaluated using six pairs of multimodal remote sensing images. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for multimodal image registration.
Teacher discipline in British Columbia : implications of Bill 20
Creators: name: Lowry, Mavis June
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The purpose of the study is to determine how the teacher discipline system in British Columbia changed as a result of Bill 20, the Teaching Profession Act and Revised School Act of 1987. The nature of the discipline system both before and after Bill 20 was described and the significance of changes to the education community indicated. Before 1987, teacher discipline was governed by a statutory model, pursuant to provisions of the School Act The current system, a collective bargaining model, is governed by the Industrial Relations Act, 75 collective agreements, and arbitral jurisprudence. The study reviews differences in those two systems both generally, and specifically. An analysis of legislative frameworks governing teacher discipline across Canada, as well as a brief overview of the American system, allows the conclusion that the B.C. teacher discipline system is one of a kind in North America and not likely modeled after any other on the continent. To compare the two teacher discipline systems and also to describe them in relation to theoretical concepts, the following were analyzed: (1) legal frameworks governing employer-employee relationships in general, theoretical concepts used to describe employee discipline systems, and studies of employee discipline, especially in the unionized environment and in the case of teachers, (2) decisions of all boards of reference and review commisions prior to 1988, (3) all reported B.C. teacher grievances, specifically discipline-related grievances, and arbitration awards between 1988 and 1991, (4) collective agreement provisions in effect in 1991 related to matters of teacher discipline, (5) critical arbitral jurisprudence on employee (and teacher) discipline, and (6) B.C. teacher discipline cases before 1988 which fell outside the regulated system but resulted in court decisions. The study concluded that the previous teacher discipline system in B.C. was an inferior system, unfair and patronizing at best, but biased against teachers, and open to political manipulation at worst. Only limited teacher discipline decisions prior to changes in legislation were appealed, and even then, often to inexperienced and non-objective bodies. The current system promises to provide more regulated, predictable, and fair treatment, although more knowledge, skills, training and personnel are required to manage the system.
A position- and time-sensitive photon-counting detector with delay-line read-out
Creators: name: Jagutzki, O.
name: Dangendorf, V.
name: Lauck, R.
name: Czasch, A.
name: Milnes, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed image intensifier tubes with delay-anode read-out for time- and position-sensitive photon counting. The timing precision is better than 1 ns with 1000x1000 pixels position resolution and up to one megacounts/s processing rate. Large format detectors of 40 and 75 mm active diameter with internal helical-wire delay-line anodes have been produced and specified. A different type of 40 and 25 mm tubes with semi-conducting screen for image charge read-out allow for an economic and robust tube design and for placing the read-out anodes outside the sealed housing. Two types of external delay-line anodes, i.e. pick-up electrodes for the image charge, have been tested. We present tests of the detector and anode performance. Due to the low background this technique is well suited for applications with very low light intensity and especially if a precise time tagging for each photon is required. As an example we present the application of scintillator read-out in time-of-flight (TOF) neutron radiography. Further applications so far are Fluorescence Life-time Microscopy (FLIM) and Astronomy
description: Proceedings of SPIE Conference "Optics and Optoelectronics", 16 - 19. Apr.2007
Differences between Gaia DR2 and Gaia EDR3 photometry:  demonstration, consequences, and applications
Creators: name: Maíz Apellániz, Jesús
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: We produce a new photometric calibration for the combined six-filter system formed by Gaia DR2 + EDR3 G+G_BP+G_RP using an improved STIS/HST spectrophotometric library with very red stars. The comparison between observed and synthetic photometry yields residual dispersions of just 3.4-8.7 mmag, resulting in the most accurate and precise whole-sky large-dynamic-range optical photometric system ever obtained. We include some tests and applications.
Anecdotes of Male and Female Students on Flexible Learning Modality
Creators: name: Ariel E. San Jose
name: Rhenmar M. Galvez
name: Dennis Sagbi.gsal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Flexible Learning, Male and Female, Higher Educational Institution, SPAMAST.

description: Abstract

This study aimed to determine the experiences of male and female students on Flexible Learning (FL) during the COVID-19. A qualitative method using a phenomenological approach was used to ascertain the students' experiences, while written questionnaires were utilized to gather the information. The 24 students taking Development Communication and Public Administration were chosen based on set criteria. Both male and female flexible learning participants appreciated its benefits, including convenience and reduced academic stress. They both faced technology-related challenges and suggested improvements. However, differences emerged in their experiences. Males found FL fun, emphasizing family time, while females highlighted skill development and concerns about teaching methods. Females also mentioned practical skill development not emphasized by males. These variations may stem from differing learning preferences and experiences. Variations in male and female experiences in Flexible Learning highlight the need for teachers to tailor instruction, offer mental health support, and incorporate skill development. Improved teacher training and clear guidelines are crucial, as are gender-inclusive program design and regular feedback mechanisms to create equitable and effective educational experiences.
Φλεγμονώδης αντίδραση και οξειδωτική βλάβη σε ασθενείς που υποβάλλονται σε χρόνια αιμοκάθαρση: θεραπευτικές ιδιότητες
Creators: name: Κιρμιζής, Δημήτριος Α.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2009
Subjects: Αιμοκάθαρση
Φλεγμονή
Οξειδωτικό στρες
Απόπτωση
Στατίνες
Βιταμίνη Ε
Haemodialysis
Inflammation
Oxidative stress
Apoptosis
Statins
Vitamin E

description: Μελετήσαμε την επίδραση της 6μηνης θεραπείας με σιμβαστατίνη και φίλτρα μεμβράνης βιταμίνης Ε (ΜΒΕ) σε δείκτες φλεγμονής, οξειδωτικού στρες και απόπτωσης σε χρονίως αιμοκαθαιρόμενους ασθενείς. Παρατηρήθηκε σημαντική συσχέτιση δεικτών φλεγμονής και οξειδωτικού στρες. Η σιμβαστατίνη οδήγησε σε σημαντική μείωση των δεικτών φλεγμονής, οξειδωτικού στρες και απόπτωσης, που ακολούθησε και συσχετιζόταν εν μέρει με την μείωση των λιπιδίων του ορού. Η χρήση με ΜΒΕ είχε αντι-φλεγμονώδη και αντι-οξειδωτικά αποτελέσματα
description: We studied the effects of a 6-month treatment with simvastatin or vitamine-coated membrane (VEM) dialyters on inflammation, oxidative stress and apoptosis markers in patients on chronic haemodialysis. Symvastatin resulted in significant descreases in inflammation, oxidative stress and apoptosis markers. The use of VEM had also anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative effects
Capacity building to undertake an Open Access strategy in Angola: adequacy of a training plan on Open Access and scientific communication
Creators: name: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
name: Ministério Do Ensino Superior, Ciência
name: Redalyc-Universidad Autónoma Del Estado De México
name: AmeliCA
name: Universidade Óscar Ribas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Access
Angola
Africa
Trainning on Open Access
Trainning on scientific communication
Capacity building

description: Work derived from the collaborative project among Redalyc UAEM, AmeliCA, MESCTI and U. Óscar Ribas funded by UNESCO for the development of an Open Access strategy in Angola. Vol. 19 of 38
Ανθρωπολογικές σταθερές αυτονομίας στον Επίκουρο
Creators: name: Κεχρολόγλου, Χρυσάνθη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2009
Subjects: Αυτονομία, ελευθερία, Επίκουρος
'Παρέγκλισις', πολιτική φιλοσοφία
Ηδονή, ηθική - κοινωνική φιλοσοφία
Φιλία, φυσική φιλοσοφία
'Λάβε βιώσας', αταραξία
Autonomy - freedom, Epicurus
'Παρέγκλισις' (parenglisis), political philosophy
Pleasure, ethics - social philosophy
Friendship

description: Η εργασία αυτή προβάλλει τις ανθρωπολογικές σταθερές 'αυτονομίας' στην επικούρεια φιλοσοφία. Συγκεκριμένα, η ηθική, κοινωνική και πολιτική θεωρία του Επίκουρου προοιωνίζεται την έλευση ενός ανθρώπου, του 'παρεγκλίνοντος' ατόμου, ο οποίος καθίσταται κύριος της ζωής του, επιτυγχάνοντας τη ρήξη προς το υπάρχον. Ο επικιούρειος σοφός στη διαδικασία της φιλοσοφικής άσκησης και δράσης, σκοποθετεί την απόκτηση της 'καταστηματικής ηδονής' του 'τέλους' που είναι η 'σώματος απονία και η ψυχής αταραχία', καρπώνοντας κατά αυτόν το τρόπο την όποια ελευθερία του παρέχει η φύση στη διαχείριση των επιθυμιών του κειμένου και ένα πλαίσιο για την ανθρώπινη δράση για την άσκηση της ελέυθερης βούλησης, 'παρεγκλίνοντας' συνειδητά, με στόχο την κατάκτηση 'πλήρους αυτονομίας' του
description: The current study presents the anthropological autonomy constants of epicurean philosophy. More specifically, the ethical, narural, social and political theory of Epicurus presages the adrent of an individual (περεγκλινοντος ατόμου), which takes life on his hands and causes the rupture eith the current norms. The epicurean wise man, during the process of philosophical action and exercise, aims to achieve the 'catastematic pleasure' (καταστηματική ηδονή) and 'τέλος' (σώματος απονία και η ψυχής αταραξία). Within this context, he succeeds in achieving both that freedom which the nature provides him in order to manage his desires and a frame for human action and free will, deviating (παρεγκλίνοντας), thus, consiously in order to achieve his full autonomy