cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
FGM/C in asylum policy: the long way towards a gender-sensitive approach
Creators: name: Kobeinsdóttir, Elínborg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: asylum
gender
female circumcision
Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
domestic violence
asylum seekers

description: Second semester University: University of Cyprus
description: With increased migrants and asylum seekers world flows, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) has become a reality outside of practicing countries, worldwide. This work examines the gender-sensitivity of the European Union´s Asylum policy with respect to FGM/C, as it can seriously affect the protection and wellbeing of female asylum seekers. The lack of it, hinders them acting as agents of change. To capture the complexity of the phenomenon within a human rights perspective, this thesis takes Transnational Feminist Theory as a conceptual and analytical framework that places the experiences of women in a broader socio-cultural context. It explores and uncovers the level of gender-sensitivity of existing law and policies, particularly Directives of the Common European Asylum System. Analysed empirical data, which includes GREVIO´s first country reports based on the Istanbul Convention´s demanding requirements, reveal a discrepancy between policy standards and operative implementation. The Thesis’s innonvative character and main contribution lies in a theoretical perspective with a broader socio-cultural context and new instrumental empirical data from the implementation of the Istanbul Convention. Gender-sensitivity in the whole policy cycle is key to uphold the Human Rights of those affected by FGM/C, protect their wellbeing and contribute to their empowerment.
Prophylactic cholecystectomy ofers best outcomes following ERCP clearance of common bile duct stones: a meta‑analysis
Creators: name: Geehan, Gearóid Mc
name: Melly, Conor
name: Connor, Niall O’
name: Bass, Gary
name: Mohseni, Shahin
name: Bucholc, Magda
name: Johnston, Alison
name: Sugrue, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background Symptomatic calculus biliary disease is common with associated morbidity and occasional mortality, further confounded when there is concomitant common bile duct (CBD) stones. Choledocholithiasis and clearance of the duct reduces recurrent cholangitis, but the question is whether after clearance of the CBD if there is a need to perform a cholecystectomy. This meta-analysis evaluated outcomes in patients undergoing ERCP with or without sphincterotomy to determine if cholecystectomy post-ERCP clearance ofers optimal outcomes over a wait-and-see approach. Methods A Prospero registered meta-analysis of the literature using PRISMA guidelines incorporating articles related to ERCP, choledocholithiasis, cholangitis and cholecystectomy was undertaken for papers published between 1st January 1991 and 31st May 2021. Existing research that demonstrates outcomes of ERCP with no cholecystectomy versus ERCP and cholecystectomy was reviewed to determine the related key events, complications and mortality of leaving the gallbladder in situ and removing it. Odds ratios (OR) were calculated using Review Manager Version 5.4 and meta-analyses performed using OR using fxed-efect (or random-efect) models, depending on the heterogeneity of studies. Results 13 studies (n=2598), published between 2002 and 2019, were included in this meta-analysis, 6 retrospective, 2 propensity score-matched retrospective studies, 3 prospective studies and 2 randomised control trials from a total of 11 countries. There were 1433 in the no cholecystectomy cohort (55.2%) and 1165 in the prophylactic cholecystectomy (44.8%) cohort. Cholecystectomy resulted in a decreased risk of cholecystitis (OR=0.15; CI 0.07–0.36; p<0.0001), cholangitis (OR=0.51; CI 0.26–1.00; p=0.05) and mortality (OR=0.38; CI 0.16–0.9; p=0.03). In addition, prophylactic cholecystectomy resulted in a signifcant reduction in biliary events, biliary pain and pancreatitis. Conclusions In patients undergoing CBD clearance, consideration should be given to performing prophylactic cholecystectomy to optimise outcom
Feasibly Financing Campus Sustainability
Creators: name: Buie, Grace
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: This paper assesses the feasibility of implementing a sustainable revolving fund at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Implementing a sustainable revolving fund would help UNC reduce emissions, bringing the University closer to meeting its sustainability goals while saving money. In order for an SRF to be feasible, it needs to have a realistic structure and high enough returns to justify withdrawing money from the University's endowment to invest in the fund. This paper outlines a viable structure for the fund's management and financing based on interviews with large public universities who have implemented revolving funds. The paper then determines if the fund could reach appropriate returns, by evaluating financial returns from a number of potential sustainability projects. These analyses show that it is feasible for the University to implement a sustainable revolving fund, if it only withdraws enough money from the endowment to cover initial project, invests exclusively in high return projects and continues to source high return projects to reinvest the fund's savings.
Towards Tight Bounds for the Streaming Set Cover Problem
Creators: name: Har-Peled, Sariel
name: Indyk, Piotr
name: Mahabadi, Sepideh
name: Vakilian, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the classic Set Cover problem in the data stream model. For $n$ elements and $m$ sets ($m\geq n$) we give a $O(1/δ)$-pass algorithm with a strongly sub-linear $\tilde{O}(mn^δ)$ space and logarithmic approximation factor. This yields a significant improvement over the earlier algorithm of Demaine et al. [DIMV14] that uses exponentially larger number of passes. We complement this result by showing that the tradeoff between the number of passes and space exhibited by our algorithm is tight, at least when the approximation factor is equal to $1$. Specifically, we show that any algorithm that computes set cover exactly using $({1 \over 2δ}-1)$ passes must use $\tildeΩ(mn^δ)$ space in the regime of $m=O(n)$. Furthermore, we consider the problem in the geometric setting where the elements are points in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and sets are either discs, axis-parallel rectangles, or fat triangles in the plane, and show that our algorithm (with a slight modification) uses the optimal $\tilde{O}(n)$ space to find a logarithmic approximation in $O(1/δ)$ passes. Finally, we show that any randomized one-pass algorithm that distinguishes between covers of size 2 and 3 must use a linear (i.e., $Ω(mn)$) amount of space. This is the first result showing that a randomized, approximate algorithm cannot achieve a space bound that is sublinear in the input size. This indicates that using multiple passes might be necessary in order to achieve sub-linear space bounds for this problem while guaranteeing small approximation factors.
description: A preliminary version of this paper is to appear in PODS 2016
"She Was No Beauty, But-" The Careers and Public Images of Pauline Viardot, Emma Calvé, and Sibyl Sanderson
Creators: name: Jackson, Charlotte
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female singers were at the
heart of the opera scene. Prima donnas experienced more power on and off the stage as
artists and as celebrities in this period than perhaps any other. They were central in
negotiations with distribution of arias in operas, visits to the impresario, theater owners and composers, dressing rooms, carriages to take them to their destinations, and more. They collaborated with the composers who wrote for them, performed title roles in a significant number of operas, and were widely loved by the public. These women’s identities, however, presented perhaps a unique dichotomy. They were both a seductive siren and a powerful and financially independent career woman. They held agency, yet they were also seen as an object for consumption and pleasure. Many of these divas left a legacy of distinct and well-designed careers, as well as the memory of voices that drew an entire public to them. While it may seem, at first glance, that their long-lasting careers were a result of their voices alone, looking deeper shows us
that they crafted their brand carefully. In this thesis, I explore how three nineteenth-century singers shaped their public personas and brand in terms of their interactions with the press, their colleagues, and their audience through career moves and publicly-released images. I seek to illustrate that there were numerous factors beyond the diva’s voice that contributed to the trajectory of her career, many of which were shaped by a diva’s own agency. I have chosen, as my case studies, three singers whose careers centered around Paris in particular: Pauline Viardot, Sibyl Sanderson, and Emma Calvé. While each singer had a unique career that drew attention to different parts of their identities as women and singers, all three needed to cope with the misogyny inherent in nineteenth-century patriarchy. For that reason, each singer developed her own strategies around a system that was challenging both in professional and personal ways.
The role of hydrodynamics for the spatial distribution of high-temperature hydrothermal vent-endemic fauna in the deep ocean environment
Creators: name: He, Zhiguo
name: Lou, Yingzhong
name: Zhang, Haoyang
name: Han, Xiqiu
name: Pähtz, Thomas
name: Jiao, Pengcheng
name: Hu, Peng
name: Zhou, Yadong
name: Wang, Yejian
name: Qiu, Zhongyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active hydrothermal vents provide the surrounding submarine environment with substantial amounts of matter and energy, thus serving as important habitats for diverse megabenthic communities in the deep ocean and constituting a unique, highly productive chemosynthetic ecosystem on Earth. Vent-endemic biological communities gather near the venting site and are usually not found beyond a distance of the order of 100 m from the vent. This is surprising because one would actually expect matter ejected from high-temperature vents, which generate highly turbulent buoyancy plumes, to be suspended and carried far away by the plume flows and deep-sea currents. Here, we study this problem from a fluid dynamics perspective by simulating the vent hydrodynamics using a numerical model that couples the plume flow with induced matter and energy transport. We find that both low- and high-temperature vents deposit most vent matter relatively close to the plume. In particular, the tendency of turbulent buoyancy plumes to carry matter far away is strongly counteracted by generated entrainment flows back into the plume stem. The deposition ranges of organic and inorganic hydrothermal particles obtained from the simulations for various natural high-temperature vents are consistent with the observed maximum spatial extent of biological communities, evidencing that plume hydrodynamics exercises strong control over the spatial distribution of vent-endemic fauna. While other factors affecting the spatial distribution of vent-endemic fauna, such as geology and geochemistry, are site-specific, the main physical features of plume hydrodynamics unraveled in this study are largely site-unspecific and therefore universal across vent sites on Earth.
Symbolic reparations, the missing link in transitional justice : one step further in the 'never again' quest
Creators: name: Albarracin Pinzón, Manuel Alejandro
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: transitional justice
reparations
victims
memory

description: Second semester University: KU Leuven
description: The research aims to demonstrate how symbolic reparations should be understood as one of the components of the reparation pillar within transitional justice. Therefore, based on the holistic approach of transitional justice, the thesis will make a comprehensive analysis of the transitional justice framework with a particular focus on the pillar of reparations. Furthermore, within the scope of the pillar of reparation, the dissertation will address the concept of symbolic reparations starting from its definition, seeking to suggest how to improve this concept towards recognizing symbolic reparations as one of the components of the pillar of reparation.
Universality of isothermal fluid spheres in Lovelock gravity
Creators: name: Dadhich, Naresh
name: Hansraj, Sudan
name: Maharaj, Sunil D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show universality of isothermal fluid spheres in pure Lovelock gravity where the equation of motion has only one $N$th order term coming from the corresponding Lovelock polynomial action of degree $N$. Isothermality is characterized by the equation of state, $p = αρ$ and the property, $ρ\sim 1/r^{2N}$. Then the solution describing isothermal spheres, which exist only for the pure Lovelock equation, is of the same form for the general Lovelock degree $N$ in all dimenions $d \geq 2N+2$. We further prove that the necessary and sufficient condition for the isothermal sphere is that its metric is conformal to the massless global monopole or the solid angle deficit metric, and this feature is also universal.
description: 11 pages
Time determines biodiversity of Psilodercidae in Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Li, Fengyuan
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: tropics
biodiversity hotspots
Macroevolution
Diversification
spider

description: Psilodercidae (Araneae) make up a remarkably diverse lineage that is endemic to Southeast (SE) Asia and neighboring regions. Studying the diversity dynamics of this group has the potential to shed light on the spatial and historical patterns of diversity and diversification in megadiverse SE Asia. However, a comprehensive species-level phylogeny of psilodercid spiders remains unclear. Based on a decade of fieldwork and taxonomic research, we incorporated fossil information into the most complete species-level phylogeny for 202 extant species to reconstruct evolutionary history and to test how tropical species diversity formation and maintenance are correlated with diversification rates, dispersal events, and time for species accumulation. Our molecular dating analyses and the fossil records indicate that the psilodercid timetree can be explained by ordinal diversification since the Cretaceous. Our reconstructed biogeographic history of the family suggests that in situ speciation is the predominant form of diversification. Furthermore, geographical changes caused by a series of tectonic collision events have affected the distribution pattern of many lineages. Our diversification analyses show no diversification rate changes through time, among lineages, and across geographic space. Thus, time rather than diversification rates or dispersal is the primary cause of species diversity hotspots of psilodercids in SE Asia.
description: Funding provided by: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011186
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Strange Metals from Quantum Geometric Fluctuations of Interfaces
Creators: name: She, Jian-Huang
name: Bishop, A. R.
name: Balatsky, Alexander V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our current understanding of strongly correlated electron systems is based on a homogeneous framework. Here we take a step going beyond this paradigm by incorporating inhomogeneity from the beginning. Specifying to systems near the Mott metal-insulator transition, we propose a real space picture of itinerant electrons functioning in the fluctuating geometries bounded by interfaces between metallic and insulating regions. In 2+1-dimensions, the interfaces are closed bosonic strings, and we have a system of strings coupled to itinerant electrons. When the interface tension vanishes, the geometric fluctuations become critical, which gives rise to non-Fermi liquid behavior for the itinerant electrons. In particular, the poles of the fermion Green's function can be converted to zeros, indicating the absence of propagating quasiparticles. Furthermore, the quantum geometric fluctuations mediate Cooper pairing among the itinerant electrons, indicating the intrinsic instability of electronic systems near the Mott transition.
description: Revised version; 12 pages, 5 figures
‘In the shadow of law’ : the minimum right to health entitlements of undocumented migrants in Europe
Creators: name: Haan, Andel Antje De
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: migrants
Europe
right to health

description: Second semester University: Abo Akademi University.
description: The following thesis is an exploration of the minimum right to health entitlements of undocumented migrants in Europe. The purpose of this study is to find out what the minimum entitlements are regarding their right to health, within the human rights framework, as well as the entitlements afforded them in European State policies and in daily practice. International human rights law protects in its essence everyone and States are obliged to grant at least minimum levels of the right to health to undocumented migrants. Moreover, undocumented migrants face a higher risk to their health than others and are in need of transparent protection. Nonetheless, the major finding of this study is that undocumented migrants are in an extreme ambiguous position with regard to their health entitlements and general human rights. Therefore this thesis ascertains that undocumented migrants are situated ‘In the Shadow of Law’. In addition, this study makes clear that undocumented migrants have an impeded right to health and even the essential levels are sometimes hampered. Lastly, this thesis identifies that their health entitlements are vague and do not seem to secure their right to health. The holistic picture drawn by this thesis exposes valuable information on the strong tension between the principle of universal human rights protection and the practical delivery of these rights to those who are undocumented.
Cannabis Use & Mental Health Throughout the Transition to Adulthood
Creators: name: McIntyre, Katie
name: Baker, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The purpose of this project is to examine the link between cannabis use and mental health during the transition into adulthood. There are competing arguments concerning the relationship between cannabis and health, especially as it relates to mental health. We add to previous research examining mental health and cannabis use using the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997 cohort (NLSY97). NLSY97 contains many potential cofounders of mental health and cannabis use including social and behavioral cofounders. Using multinomial regression we examine the extent that social, economic, school, and family environment, as well as other substance abuse account for the relationship between mental health and cannabis use. Additionally, using fixed effects models we examine whether cannabis use is associated with mental health during the transition to adulthood net of other substance use.
Muckenhoupt's $(A_p)$ condition and the existence of the optimal martingale measure
Creators: name: Kramkov, Dmitry
name: Weston, Kim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 60G44, 91G10

description: In the problem of optimal investment with utility function defined on $(0,\infty)$, we formulate sufficient conditions for the dual optimizer to be a uniformly integrable martingale. Our key requirement consists of the existence of a martingale measure whose density process satisfies the probabilistic Muckenhoupt $(A_p)$ condition for the power $p=1/(1-a)$, where $a\in (0,1)$ is a lower bound on the relative risk-aversion of the utility function. We construct a counterexample showing that this $(A_p)$ condition is sharp.
description: 24 pages
Testing the Effectiveness of AQMs at Improving Network Performance
Creators: name: Doyle, Ryan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We live in a world where much of what we do relies on the Internet, from banking to online gaming. Billions of devices from cell phones and laptops to refrigerators are reliant upon the Internet for many of their functions. Given this connected world, it is no surprise that the performance of the Internet is of particular interest to both researchers and users alike. My research with Dr. Kevin Jeffay, Dr. Jay Aikat, and Jacob Massey focuses on studying active queue management algorithms (AQMs), a special class of algorithms that attempt to intelligently manage queues in routers. We study the interactions between these algorithms and TCP, the dominant transport protocol in use on the Internet, and the effects of implementing AQM algorithms on the response times and average throughput of TCP connections. In this paper, I review TCP’s congestion control mechanisms, introduce several AQM designs, and discuss our experimental methodology, setup, and calibration procedures, as well as outline our next steps.
Disregarding human rights for a veiled threat? : facing the ban on full veils in France
Creators: name: Bertrand, Julien
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Islam
France
muslim women

description: Second semester University: Danish Institute for Human Rights, University of Southern Denmark.
description: The emergent debate in Europe around the wearing of full veils by Muslim women illustrates a social malaise within some European societies towards the growing visibility and influence of Islam. Full veils are indeed considered by many to be manifestations of fundamentalist ideologies in deep contradiction with liberal values and Western standards of normal social behaviours and gender equality. After an extensive two-year public debate during which the French government controversially showed its determination to put an end to the use of the full veil in the country, France is currently adopting a law that would ban the concealment of the face in all public places. Considered by many as an excessive limitation of the rights and freedoms of the women wearing a full veil, this ban faces a high risk to be censored both by French jurisdictions and by the European Courts of Human rights. This thesis discusses the evolution of the debate in France and the consequences of the adoption of a ban on the concealment of the face in public areas. It argues that despite the fact that the full veil might be perceived by some people as a negation of Western liberal and democratic principles, the desire to protect the French Republican values does not necessitate nor justify the adoption of a law that is in such opposition to human rights and that risks affecting the Muslim community living in France and abroad.
Multi-weighted Automata and MSO Logic
Creators: name: Droste, Manfred
name: Perevoshchikov, Vitaly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Weighted automata are non-deterministic automata where the transitions are equipped with weights. They can model quantitative aspects of systems like costs or energy consumption. The value of a run can be computed, for example, as the maximum, limit average, or discounted sum of transition weights. In multi-weighted automata, transitions carry several weights and can model, for example, the ratio between rewards and costs, or the efficiency of use of a primary resource under some upper bound constraint on a secondary resource. Here, we introduce a general model for multi-weighted automata as well as a multiweighted MSO logic. In our main results, we show that this multi-weighted MSO logic and multi-weighted automata are expressively equivalent both for finite and infinite words. The translation process is effective, leading to decidability results for our multi-weighted MSO logic.
description: The final version appeared in the Proceedings of the 8th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR 2013)
Too important to ignore: implementing the right to food in South Africa : case of small-scale fishing communities
Creators: name: Marićević, Tamara
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: right to food
South Africa

description: Second semester University: University of Graz.
description: This thesis explores the topic of the implementation of the right to food in South Africa. In order to show how to achieve an effective protection of the right to food, the thesis emphasizes an importance of existing instruments for the legal protection of the right to food on the international, regional African and South African level. The aim is to show that an effective legal background presents a first step towards the possibility of the access to justice. Therefore, the thesis presents an overview of the judicial and quasi-judicial bodies in order to show that access to justice is possible for all citizens and especially vulnerable groups. South Africa is a good example of a country that protects the right to food throughout many different instruments. Thus, during its struggle to ensure a stable food security, some of the legislation turned out to be discriminatory towards certain groups of society, such as fishing communities. Therefore, the thesis underlines that no such law can be acceptable, and that all citizens have to be equal in their access to food.
Lessons from the Global South : the indigenous experience with democracy from below in Mexico
Creators: name: Siqueira, Taís Betânia : Pires
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: indigenous peoples
Mexico
democracy
political participation
media
education
pluralism

description: Second semester University: University of Coimbra
description: This work proposes to share the experience of the indigenous peoples in Mexico and their progress in building a concrete democracy from below. Democracy from below is an active and participatory governing system in which democracy, meaning popular power, is exercised in every branch of life as an empowering mechanism in itself. The lessons from the Global South proposes changes to the educational system and incentive pluralism in the media outlets by focusing on community media. Besides, it entails a strong and effective accountability mechanism and requires emphasis on the local level in order to develop another project of democracy which will help the efforts of increasing the engagement of civil society in political matters and in the public sphere.
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Modeling the clustering and halo occupation distribution of BOSS-CMASS galaxies in the Final Data Release
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio A.
name: Chuang, Chia-Hsun
name: Prada, Francisco
name: Guo, Hong
name: Klypin, Anatoly
name: Behroozi, Peter
name: Hahn, Chang Hoon
name: Comparat, Johan
name: Yepes, Gustavo
name: Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.
name: Brownstein, Joel R.
name: Maraston, Claudia
name: McBride, Cameron K.
name: Tinker, Jeremy
name: Gottlöber, Stefan
name: Favole, Ginevra
name: Shu, Yiping
name: Kitaura, Francisco-Shu
name: Bolton, Adam
name: Scoccimarro, Román
name: Samushia, Lado
name: Schlegel, David
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Thomas, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the clustering and halo occupation distribution of BOSS CMASS galaxies in the redshift range 0.43 < z < 0.7 drawn from the Final SDSS-III Data Release. We compare the BOSS results with the predictions of a Halo Abundance Matching (HAM) clustering model that assigns galaxies to dark matter halos selected from the large BigMultiDark $N$-body simulation of a flat $Λ$CDM Planck cosmology. We compare the observational data with the simulated ones on a light-cone constructed from 20 subsequent outputs of the simulation. Observational effects such as incompleteness, geometry, veto masks and fiber collisions are included in the model, which reproduces within 1-$σ$ errors the observed monopole of the 2-point correlation function at all relevant scales: from the smallest scales, 0.5 $h^{-1}$ Mpc, up to scales beyond the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation feature. This model also agrees remarkably well with the BOSS galaxy power spectrum (up to $k\sim1$ $h$ Mpc$^{-1}$), and the Three-point correlation function. The quadrupole of the correlation function presents some tensions with observations. We discuss possible causes that can explain this disagreement, including target selection effects. Overall, the standard HAM model describes remarkably well the clustering statistics of the CMASS sample. We compare the stellar to halo mass relation for the CMASS sample measured using weak lensing in the CFHT Stripe 82 Survey with the prediction of our clustering model, and find a good agreement within 1-$σ$. The BigMD-BOSS light-cone including properties of BOSS galaxies and halo properties is made publicly available.
description: 16 pages, 16 figures. See companion papers that share the "The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey:" title
IL-6 Predicts p16INK4a Expression, Intracellular Tenofovir/Emtricitabine Exposure, and Endogenous Nucleotide Pools in Adults with HIV
Creators: name: Lee, Cynthia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Objectives: It was recently found that p16INK4a, a marker for aging and cellular
senescence, is associated with lower intracellular concentrations of endogenous
nucleotides and nucleos(t)ide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). This study
expands on these findings by determining whether markers of inflammation are
predictive of p16INK4a expression, intracellular metabolite exposure, or endogenous
nucleotide concentrations.
Methods: Samples from HIV-infected adults receiving daily tenofovir/emtricitabine
(TFV/FTC) with either efavirenz (EFV) or atazanavir/ritonavir (ATV/r) were tested for
p16INK4a expression, plasma cytokine concentrations, and intracellular drug
concentrations. Elastic net regression was used to identify cytokines that were
predictive of p16INK4a expression and intracellular metabolite/endogenous nucleotide
exposures. These outcomes were each compared between groups with detectable
versus undetectable levels of predictive cytokines using a Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
Results: Enrolled participants had a median age of 48 years (range 23 - 73). Results of
the elastic net regression determined that individuals with detectable interleukin-6 (IL-6)
concentrations were predicted to have elevated p16INK4a expression and lower exposure
to tenofovir diphosphate (TFV-dp), emtricitabine triphosphate (FTC-tp), and their
respective endogenous nucleotides, deoxyadenosine triphosphate (dATP) and
deoxycytidine triphosphate (dCTP).
Conclusions: Elevated concentrations of IL-6 have been associated with frailty,
morbidity, and mortality in individuals with HIV. Our findings suggest that IL-6 affects
cellular senescence, NRTI pharmacokinetics, and endogenous nucleotide pools in an
aging HIV population.
Integrating Augmented Reality and Geographic Information Technology to Promote Tourist Attractions in Hua-Hin District, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province
Creators: name: Aungkana Jattamart
Publisher: name: Faculty of Informatics, Mahasarakham University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Augmented reality
Geographic information technology
Public relations
Tourism location

description: Journal of Applied Informatics and Technology, 5, 2, 145-164
Molecular Rotations in Matter-Wave Interferometry
Creators: name: Stickler, Benjamin A.
name: Hornberger, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the theory of matter-wave interferometry of point-like particles to non-spherical objects by taking the orientational degrees of freedom into account. In particular, we derive the grating transformation operator, that maps the impinging state onto the outgoing state, for a general, orientation-dependent interaction potential between the grating and the molecule. The grating operator is then worked out for the diffraction of symmetric top molecules from standing light waves, and the resulting interference pattern is calculated in the near-field. This allows us to identify a signature of the orientational degrees of freedom in near-field matter-wave experiments.
Kernel convolution model for decoding sounds from time-varying neural responses
Creators: name: Faisal, Ali
name: Nora, Anni
name: Seol, Jaeho
name: Renvall, Hanna
name: Salmelin, Riitta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this study we present a kernel based convolution model to characterize neural responses to natural sounds by decoding their time-varying acoustic features. The model allows to decode natural sounds from high-dimensional neural recordings, such as magnetoencephalography (MEG), that track timing and location of human cortical signalling noninvasively across multiple channels. We used the MEG responses recorded from subjects listening to acoustically different environmental sounds. By decoding the stimulus frequencies from the responses, our model was able to accurately distinguish between two different sounds that it had never encountered before with 70% accuracy. Convolution models typically decode frequencies that appear at a certain time point in the sound signal by using neural responses from that time point until a certain fixed duration of the response. Using our model, we evaluated several fixed durations (time-lags) of the neural responses and observed auditory MEG responses to be most sensitive to spectral content of the sounds at time-lags of 250 ms to 500 ms. The proposed model should be useful for determining what aspects of natural sounds are represented by high-dimensional neural responses and may reveal novel properties of neural signals.
description: 4 pages, Accepted at IEEE International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging, Stanford, June 2015
CCAE: A Corpus of Chinese-based Asian Englishes
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: Qin, Melissa Xiaohui
name: Wang, Long
name: Huang, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7
subject: 68T50

description: Language models have been foundations in various scenarios of NLP applications, but it has not been well applied in language variety studies, even for the most popular language like English. This paper represents one of the few initial efforts to utilize the NLP technology in the paradigm of World Englishes, specifically in creating a multi-variety corpus for studying Asian Englishes. We present an overview of the CCAE -- Corpus of Chinese-based Asian English, a suite of corpora comprising six Chinese-based Asian English varieties. It is based on 340 million tokens in 448 thousand web documents from six regions. The ontology of data would make the corpus a helpful resource with enormous research potential for Asian Englishes (especially for Chinese Englishes for which there has not been a publicly accessible corpus yet so far) and an ideal source for variety-specific language modeling and downstream tasks, thus setting the stage for NLP-based World Englishes studies. And preliminary experiments on this corpus reveal the practical value of CCAE. Finally, we make CCAE available at \href{https://huggingface.co/datasets/CCAE/CCAE-Corpus}{this https URL}.
description: NLPCC'2023 (12 pages, 3 figures, 4 charts)
Taking up bioethical responsibility? : the role of global bioethics in the social responsibility of pharmaceutical corporations operating in developing countries
Creators: name: Uden, Stefan : Van
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: bioethics
pharmaceutical industry
right to health
social responsibility

description: Second semester University: University of Coimbra.
description: Today, bioethics is challenged due to the consequences of globalisation. While traditionally being focused on sensitive national issues, bioethics is currently confronted with international problems related to global health, global inequality and the increasing operations of the pharmaceutical industry in developing countries. For these reasons the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights is trying to get bioethics to a next level by defining broad principles and including the pharmaceutical industry in its scope. This thesis will explore if the new more broad and global bioethics can adopt a bigger role in the corporate social responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry. This is done by looking at the response of the pharmaceutical industry towards the bioethical concerns about the affordability of medicines, the research on neglected diseases and clinical trials with human subjects. These concerns are already addressed by human rights and the right to health in specific.If bioethics wants to play a role in the corporate social responsibility of pharmaceutical corporations it needs to search for its added value in comparison to the rights based approach that the pharmaceutical industry has adopted.
Medication Risk/Benefit Communication: What role does disease severity play?
Creators: name: Patel, Payal
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The objective of this study is to assess how both the severity of illness and the probability of side effects influences patient perceptions of medication risk and benefit as well as their decision to take the medication. The study hypotheses were as follows: (1) individuals will be most willing to take a medication when illness severity is high, and less willing to take a medication when illness severity is low, (2) individuals will be most willing to take a medication and will consider it safest when the probability of a side-effect is low, and (3) non-quantitative side effect information will be interpreted similarly to high side effect probability information.
The tame Butcher group
Creators: name: Bogfjellmo, Geir
name: Schmeding, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E65 (primary), 65L06, 58A07 (secondary)

description: The Butcher group is a powerful tool to analyse integration methods for ordinary differential equations, in particular Runge--Kutta methods. Recently, a natural Lie group structure has been constructed for this group. Unfortunately, the associated topology is too coarse for some applications in numerical analysis. In the present paper, we propose to remedy this problem by replacing the Butcher group with the subgroup of all exponentially bounded elements. This "tame Butcher group" turns out to be an infinite-dimensional Lie group with respect to a finer topology. As a first application we then show that the correspondence of elements in the tame Butcher group with their associated B-series induces certain Lie group (anti)morphisms.
description: 41 pages, uses TikZ v3: major revision, simplified many arguments, strengthened and added results (most main results remain unchanged)
Disclosing and dismantling the “minority problem” : the experience of the German linguistic minority in Italy
Creators: name: Cinta Narvaez, Ana Luisa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: linguistic minorities
Italy
minority groups
minority rights

description: Second semester University: University of Ljubljana.
description: Contemporary societies are comprised of diverse, varied and heterogeneous entities at local, subnational, regional, national and international level. Minorities are part of that diversity. However, these groups have traditionally been perceived as a threat for the homogeneity, stability and unity of societies. Their official recognition has been neglected and the right of persons belonging to minorities have not been effectively guaranteed. This thesis outlines the reasons for this negative attitude towards these groups and presents some mechanisms and strategies that can be useful to dim the “minority problem”. An effective legal and political framework is fundamental to protect the rights of minorities and persons belonging to them. The participation of a greater number of actors involved in the accommodation of their needs and rights in diverse societies is also a key element for achieving this task, so both elements will be succinctly analysed. The experience of the German linguistic minority in Italy is offered as a model for demonstrating that minorities are not inevitably a burden and how effective legislation and policies to protect their rights can contribute to building and consolidating the pacific coexistence in diverse societies.
Information system for Online Product Management for the Products of Toei Panan Basketry Community Enterprise, Mae Thom Subdistrict, Bang Klam District, Songkhla Province
Creators: name: Ketsara Phetkrachang
Publisher: name: Faculty of Informatics, Mahasarakham University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Online products
Information system
Management Community enterprise

description: Journal of Applied Informatics and Technology, 5, 2, 165-177
Transitional justice in absent political transitions: a case study of Nepal
Creators: name: Toro Sanchez, Kevin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: transitional justice
Nepal
peace
democracy

description: Second semester University: KU Leuven
description: Transitional justice, as a normative framework for post-conflict societies, is increasingly beingapplied to situations that differ from the traditional transitions from authoritarianism to democracy.Transitional theory presents the transitional goals of peace and democracy as universal and apolitical.However, these goals are deeply influenced by a Western liberal approach that might not work inpost-conflict societies that hold other values. This thesis meets these twin research aims through anextensive study of the transitional process in Nepal.The approach taken in the research is based on interviews with prominent actors representing thenational and international community as well as comparative analysis of legal, political and historicalliterature. The perspectives presented in this analysis are through the lens of a foreign observer. The main conclusion drawn from this research are: the shortcomings that the liberal approach totransitional justice has in absent political transitions and the instrumentalisation of the transitionalprocess by political elites in order to serve their national agendas. Accordingly, this thesis argues forthe amendment of the necessary transitional laws and national legislation that allows for ameaningful transition that meets not only the rights of victims but the pressing needs of historicallymarginalised groups.
"Invisible victims?": male rape and other forms of sexual violence against men in armed conflict
Creators: name: Gorris, Ellen Anna Philo
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: gender discrimination
male rape
sexual abuse of men

description: Second semester University: Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest.
description: In this thesis the author has explored relevant legal and human security frameworks specifically covering wartime sexual violence to assess the position, protection or visibility of the relatively ‘silent’ victim group of male victims. It was found that in the current instruments, the visible victims are ‘women and girls’. They are often included explicitly in legal and policy provisions, thereby seemingly excluding male victims. However, many reports substantiate significant male victimization of wartime sexual violence. The apparent female-focused approach has programmatic implications for male victims, who are under-recognized and under-protected. The instruments in place follow traditional gender roles, where men are conceptualized as aggressive perpetrators and women as non-violent victims, being traditional notions of hegemonic masculinity and heterosexuality. The existing serious dichotomy between visible and invisible victims is prominently based on their ‘gender identity’ and leads to structural discrimination of, for instance, male victims of rape or other forms of sexual violence. To overcome this situation and develop more inclusive instruments, it is advised to reconceptualise the meaning and use of words like ‘gender’, ‘gender perspective’ and ‘gender dimension’. Additionally, a more intersectional approach to sexual violence should be adopted, understanding that victims have a multitude of identities such as ethnicity or religious affiliation that make them particularly vulnerable to suffering.
Masses and luminosities for 342 stars from the PennState-Toruń Centre for Astronomy Planet Search
Creators: name: Adamczyk, M.
name: Deka-Szymankiewicz, B.
name: Niedzielski, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present revised basic stellar astrophysical parameters: masses, luminosities, ages and radii for 342 stars from PennState-Toruń Centre for Astronomy Planet Search. Atmospheric parameters for 327 stars are available from Zieliński (2012), for the remaining 15 objects we present also spectroscopic atmospheric parameters: effective temperatures, surface gravities and iron abundances. Spectroscopic atmospheric parameters were obtained with a standard spectroscopic analysis procedure, using ARES (Sousa, 2007) and MOOG (Sneden, 1973) or TGVIT (Takeda, 2005) codes. To refine stellar masses, ages and luminosities we applied a Bayesian method based on Jorgensen (2005) formalism, modified by da Silva (2006). The revised stellar masses for 342 stars and their uncertainties are generally lower than those presented in Zieliński (2012). Atmospheric parameters for 13 objects are determined here for the first time.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures. Acceped by A&A