cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of the edge states on the conductance and thermopower in Zigzag Phosphorene Nanoribbons
Creators: name: Ma, R.
name: Geng, H.
name: Deng, W. Y.
name: Chen, M. N.
name: Sheng, L.
name: Xing, D. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically study the effect of the edge states on the conductance and thermopower in zigzag phosphorene nanoribbons (ZPNRs) based on the tight-binding model and the scattering-matrix method. It is interesting to find that the band dispersion, conductance, and thermopower can be modulated by applying a bias voltage and boundary potentials to the two layers of the ZPNRs. Under the certain bias voltage, the two-fold degenerate quasi-flat edge bands split perfectly. The conductance can be switched off, and the thermopower around zero energy increases. In addition, when only the boundary potential of the top layer or bottom layer is adjusted, only one edge band bends and merges into the bulk band. The first conductance plateau is strongly decreased to $e^2/h$ around zero energy. Particularly, when the two boundary potentials are adjusted, all the edge bands bend and fully merge into the bulk band, and the bulk energy gap is maximized. More interestingly, a pronounced conductance plateau with $G=0$ is found around zero energy, which is attributable to the opening of the bulk energy gap between the valence and conduction bands. Meanwhile, the thermopower can be enhanced more than twice, compared to that of the perfect ZPNRs. The large magnitude of thermopower is ascribed to the appearance of the bulk energy gap around zero energy. Our results show that the modulated ZPNRs are more reliable in thermoelectric application.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Οι Διεθνείς Αμυντικές Συμβάσεις και οι επιπτώσεις των Αντισταθμιστικών Οφελών στην Ελλάδα τα τελευταία είκοσι χρόνια
Creators: name: Ανδριώτης, Ιωάννης Χρήστου-Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Αντισταθμιστικά Ωφελήματα
Διεθνείς Αμυντικές Συμβάσεις
Εγχώρια Αμυντική Βιομηχανία
Benefit Offsets
International Defence Conventions
Domestic Defence Industry

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία επιδιώκει να μελετήσει τη διάρθρωση της Ελληνικής Αμυντικής Βιομηχανίας, κυρίως σχετικά με τις προμήθειες εξοπλιστικών που έχει συνάψει η Ελλάδα με τους ξένους συμμάχους, καθώς και την ανάλυση των Αντισταθμιστικών Ωφελημάτων (εφεξής ΑΩ) που απορρέουν από τις διεθνείς συμβάσεις των τελευταίων είκοσι ετών (περίοδος 2001-2020). Ακόμα ερευνάται η επίδραση των ανωτέρω στην ανάπτυξη της εγχώριας Αμυντικής Βιομηχανίας, καθώς και τα περιθώρια ισχυροποίησής της, προκειμένου να καταστεί ανταγωνιστική σε διεθνές επίπεδο, κάτι που ανέκαθεν αποτελούσε βασικό προβληματισμό της ηγεσίας του Υπουργείου Εθνικής Άμυνας και έχει μελετηθεί διεξοδικά από ερευνητικές ομάδες της χώρας μας και του εξωτερικού. Κατά την πορεία της μελέτης χρησιμοποιήθηκε η περιγραφική έρευνα, καθώς πολλά από τα δεδομένα που πραγματεύονται εμπίπτουν στην κατηγορία του απορρήτου για την εθνική ασφάλεια της χώρας. Ακόμα ακολουθήθηκε και η ποιοτική έρευνα για τον εντοπισμό και την καταγραφή των επιλογών των ηγεσιών του ΥΠΕΘΑ που διαχειρίστηκαν τις υπηρεσίες προμήθειας και αμυντικής βιομηχανίας τα τελευταία είκοσι χρόνια
description: Τhe present dissertation seeks to study the structure of the Greek Defence Industry, mainly in relation to the armaments supplies that Greece has concluded with its foreign allies, as well as the analysis of Benefit Offsets arising from the international contracts of last twenty years (period 2001-2020). The impact of the above on the development of the domestic Defence Industry is also being investigated, as well as the margins of its strengthening to become internationally competitive, something that has always been a key concern of the leadership of the Ministry of National Defence and has been thoroughly studied by research teams in our country and abroad. During the study, descriptive research was used as many of the data in question fall into the category of confidentiality for the national security of the country. Qualitive research was also followed to identify and record the choices of the leaders of the Greek Ministry of National Defence who managed the procurement and defence industry services for the last twenty years
Experimental Preparation of High NOON States for Phonons
Creators: name: Zhang, Junhua
name: Um, Mark
name: Lv, Dingshun
name: Zhang, Jing-Ning
name: Duan, Lu-Ming
name: Kim, Kihwan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-party entangled states have important applications in quantum metrology and quantum computation. Experimental preparation of large entangled state, in particular, the NOON states, however, remains challenging as the particle number $N$ increases. Here we develop a deterministic method to generate arbitrarily high NOON states for phonons and experimentally create the states up to $N=9$ phonons in two radial modes of a single trapped \Yb ion. We demonstrate that the fidelity of the NOON states are significantly above the classical limit by measuring the interference contrast and the population through the projective phonon measurement of two motional modes. We also measure the quantum Fisher information of the generated NOON state and observe the Heisenberg scaling in the lower bounds of the phase sensitivity as the $N$ increases. Our scheme is generic and applicable to other photonic or phononic systems.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Factors Associated With VCT Utilization in Guraghe Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Wondimagegn, Getachew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2004

description: A case-control study was conducted from November 2003 to January 2004 to investigate the association of socio-demographic variables with VCT use and to assess determinants of VCT service utilization using both Quantitative and Qualitative methods of data collections. A total of 636 individuals (212 cases and 424 controls), who came to health institutions that deliver VCT services in Guraghe Zone, were enrolled in the study. Twelve (5.7%) of cases and 82 (19.3%) of controls (non-VCT users), 94 (14.8%) of the total study subjects had not have heard of VCT in general. The main reason for VCT utilization among cases was pre-marital 160 (75.5%) and the main reasons for non-use among controls were partner-and self-trust (23.1%), no information about it (17.8%), other social reasons (13.7%) and lack of nearby services (13.0%). The majority (82.8%) of cases were in the age groups of 15-19 and 20-29 years. Study participants were 54.7% males, 78.3% rural by residence, 54.7% followers of orthodox religion, 80.7% Guraghe by ethnicity, 37.3% farmers by occupation, the majority (67%) had educational status of elementary and below and 80.7% were unmarried. Religion, Muslim & other Christianity, secondary and above educational status, other occupational status, singleness and non-polygamous union showed statistically significant positive associations with VCT utilization. Attitudes related to stigma and discrimination showed statistically significant positive associations with cases but there was no statistically significant difference regarding knowledge and practice between cases and controls. ix Confidential testing, Physicians as counselors, and face-to-face way of receiving HIV VCT test result were the preferred VCT schemes by most respondents and FGD participants. Most health institutions do not have referral system for social support, targeted VCT, follow up training and supervision, referral for indeterminate HIV VCT test results. Maximizing pre-marital VCT with proper information dissemination targeting the rural community, involving all possible stakeholders and using local resources, follow-up training and supervision and setting up referral systems are recommended. Key words: VCT utilization, Case-Control, Stigma, Discrimination, Service quality
Patient characteristics and health system factors associated with adjuvant radiation therapy receipt in older women with early-stage endometrial cancer
Creators: name: Nichols, H.B.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Brewster, W.R.
name: Kent, E.E.
name: Park, J.
name: Anderson, C.
name: Lund, J.L.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: Among women with early-stage endometrial cancer (EC), age, stage, grade, and histology are used to determine fitness for adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) administration. We examined non-cancer factors associated with adjuvant RT receipt in older women with early-stage EC. Materials & methods: Using data from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results cancer registry program linked with Medicare claims, we identified 25,654 women (aged ≥66 years) diagnosed with first primary stage I-II EC during 2004–2017 who underwent a hysterectomy. Diagnosis and procedure codes were used to identify adjuvant RT claims filed for the seven-month period post-hysterectomy. Multivariable log-binomial regression was used to estimate adjuvant RT prevalence associated with patient characteristics and health system factors after adjustment for age, frailty, and endometrial factors. Results: Adjuvant RT was less commonly administered to Asian American and Pacific Islander patients than non-Hispanic White patients (Prevalence ratio [PR], 0.84; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.73 to 0.97). Compared to women treated in the Northeast region, women treated other regions of the US were less likely to undergo adjuvant RT (PR, 0.75; 95% CI, 0.71 to 0.79). Residing in rural or high neighborhood-poverty counties was associated with lower adjuvant RT administration. Higher comorbidity score was not associated with reduced prevalence of adjuvant RT receipt; however, women with high probability of predicted probability of frailty were less likely to undergo adjuvant RT (PR, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.55 to 0.81) compared to women with low probability of frailty. Women who received lymph node assessment were more likely to undergo adjuvant RT compared to women who did not (PR, 1.43; 95% CI, 1.34 to 1.51). Women treated by a gynecologic oncologist were more likely to undergo adjuvant RT compared to women treated by a non-gynecologic oncologist (PR 1.09; 95% CI, 1.04 to 1.14). Adjuvant RT was more commonly administered to women treated in larger academic hospitals. Discussion: Findings suggest that various non-cancer factors affect the delivery of adjuvant RT to older women with early-stage EC in real-world oncology practice. Advancing our understanding of factors associated with adjuvant RT administration may help expand equitable access to RT.
Palliative Chemotherapie bei lokal fortgeschrittenem oder metastasiertem Pankreaskarzinom
Creators: name: Harder, Pia
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Retrospektive Datenalayse, Adenokarzinompatienten der Universitätsmedizin Rostock 2011-2018; Bestätigung von vier Systemtherapieregimen in der externen Validität mittels Vergleich von Ein- und Ausschlusskriterien mit den Patienten der klinischen Realtiät Subgruppenanalyse bezüglich der Ernährungssituation
Από τον Κλεισθένη στον Υπέρβολο: Συμβολή στην ιστορία του οστρακισμού
Creators: name: Κεχρινόπουλος Ελευθέριος Bασιλείου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Οστρακισμός
Κλεισθένης
Υπέρβολος
Ostracism
Cleisthenes
Hyperbolus

description: Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι να παρουσιάσει τη συμβολή του Κλεισθένη στη θέσπιση του οστρακισμού, τις πολιτικές συνθήκες που επέτρεψαν αλλά και επέβαλαν τη χρήση του, τη συμβολή του θεσμού στον εκδημοκρατισμό του αθηναϊκού πολιτεύματος, τους σκοπούς για τους οποίους θεσπίστηκε το μέτρο, τη πολιτική του εξέλιξη καθ’ όλη τη διάρκεια του 5ου αιώνα π.Χ., τις διάφορες προσωπικότητες της πόλης των Αθηναίων που εξαναγκάστηκαν σε απομάκρυνση διαμέσου του οστρακισμού, τα ψηφίσματα ανάκλησης των εξορίστων, τους τόπους διαμονής των οστρακισθέντων, καθώς και τους λόγους για τους οποίους τέθηκε σε αχρησία ο θεσμός
description: The objective of the study is to present Cleisthenes's contribution to the enactment of ostracism, the political conditions that allowed but also imposed its use, the contribution of the institution to the democratization of the Athenian polity, the purposes for which the institution was enacted, its political evolution throughout the 5th century BC, the various personalities of the Athenian citizens who were forced to leave due to ostracism, the resolutions to recall the exiles, the places of residence of those who were ostracized, as well as the reasons why the institution fell into disuse
Black Hole Binary Formation in AGN Discs: From Isolation to Merger
Creators: name: Rowan, Connar
name: Boekholt, Tjarda
name: Kocsis, Bence
name: Haiman, Zoltán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the increasing number of detections of merging black holes by LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA, black hole (BH) binary mergers in the discs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is investigated as a possible merger channel. In this pathway, BH encounters in the gas disc form mutually bound black hole binary systems through interaction with the gas in the disc and subsequently inspiral through gravitational torques induced by the local gas. To determine the feasibility of this merger pathway, we present the first 3D global hydrodynamic simulations of the formation and evolution of a stellar-mass BH binaries AGN discs with three different AGN disc masses and five different initial radial separations. These 15 simulations show binary capture of prograde and retrograde binaries can be successful in a range of disc densities including cases well below that of a standard radiatively efficient alpha disc, identifying that the majority of these captured binaries are then subsequently hardened by the surrounding gas. The eccentricity evolution depends strongly on the orbital rotation where prograde binaries are governed by gravitational torques form their circumbinary mini-disc, with eccentricities being damped, while for retrograde binaries the eccentricities are excited to > 0.9 by accretion torques. In two cases, retrograde binaries ultimately undergo a close periapsis passage which results in a merger via gravitational waves after only a few thousand binary orbits. Thus, the merger timescale can be far shorter than the AGN disc lifetime. These simulations support an efficient AGN disc merger pathway for BHs.
description: 27 pages, 28 Figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Primary Observables for Indirect Searches at Colliders
Creators: name: Chang, Spencer
name: Chen, Miranda
name: Liu, Da
name: Luty, Markus A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the complete set of observables for collider searches for indirect effects of new heavy physics. They consist of $SU(3)_{\rm C}\times U(1)_{\rm EM}$ invariant interaction terms/operators that parameterize deviations from the Standard Model. We show that, under very general assumptions, the leading deviations from the Standard Model are given by a finite number of `primary' operators, with the remaining operators given by `Mandelstam descendants' whose effects are suppressed by powers of Mandelstam variables divided by the mass scale $M$ of the heavy physics. We explicitly determine all 3 and 4-point primary operators relevant for Higgs signals at colliders by using the correspondence between on-shell amplitudes and independent operators. We give a detailed discussion of the methods used to obtain this result, including a new analytical method for determining the independent operators. The results are checked using the Hilbert series that counts independent operators. We also give a rough sketch of the phenomenology, including unitarity bounds on the interaction strengths and rough estimates of their importance for Higgs decays at the HL-LHC. These results motivate further exploration of Higgs decays to $Z\bar{f}f$, $W\bar{f}f'$, $γ\bar{f}f$, and $Zγγ$.
description: 46 pages, 2 figures, 13 tables. Final published version in JHEP
Singularity-free Next-to-leading Order $ΔS= 1$ Renormalization Group Evolution and $ε_{K}^{\prime}/ε_{K}$ in the Standard Model and Beyond
Creators: name: Kitahara, Teppei
name: Nierste, Ulrich
name: Tremper, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard analytic solution of the renormalization group (RG) evolution for the $ΔS = 1$ Wilson coefficients involves several singularities, which complicate analytic solutions. In this paper we derive a singularity-free solution of the next-to-leading order (NLO) RG equations, which greatly facilitates the calculation of $ε_K^{\prime}$, the measure of direct $CP$ violation in $K\to ππ$ decays. Using our new RG evolution and the latest lattice results for the hadronic matrix elements, we calculate the ratio $ε_{K}^{\prime}/ε_{K}$ (with $ε_{K}$ quantifying indirect $CP$ violation) in the Standard Model (SM) at NLO to $ε_{K}^{\prime}/ε_{K} = (1.06 \pm 5.07) \times 10^{-4} $, which is $2.8\,σ$ below the experimental value. We also present the evolution matrix in the high-energy regime for calculations of new physics contributions and derive easy-to-use approximate formulae. We find that the RG amplification of new-physics contributions to Wilson coefficients of the electroweak penguin operators is further enhanced by the NLO corrections: If the new contribution is generated at the scale of 1-10 TeV, the RG evolution between the new-physics scale and the electroweak scale enhances these coefficients by 50-100 %. Our solution contains a term of order $α_{EM}^2/α_s^2$, which is numerically unimportant for the SM case but should be included in studies of high-scale new-physics.
description: 42 pages, 2 figures, 6 tables; formulae corrected, numerical results almost unchanged, to be published in JHEP
D3.1 Methodological guidelines and reporting template for the 15 case studies in MATS
Creators: name: Knickel, Karlheinz
name: Alexovičová, Iveta
name: Bassi, Andrea
name: Chen, Qiuzhen
name: Coppens, Dominic
name: Guzzetti, Marco
name: Idsardi, Ernst
name: Hyytiä, Nina
name: Kesteloot, Thierry
name: Matthysen, Jonathan
name: Steiner, Bodo
name: Voglhuber-Slavinsky, Ariane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The two key questions for the 15 case studies (CS) in MATS are (i) how given trade regimes, investments into agri-food value chains and sustainability standards impact local, and, in some cases, national, and international socioeconomic and environmental conditions, and (ii) how to foster the positive and reduce the negative impacts of agri-food trade and trade policy regimes on sustainable development and human rights. The CS are implemented in the period 1.7.2022 – 30.1.2024. A first draft report is to be submitted until 30.6.2023 for feedback. The final CS report is due 30.1.2024. This document provides general methodological guidelines and a common reporting template for the CS analysis. Both build on the results of WP1 and WP2. The aim is to provide a basic framework for the implementation of the CS and to facilitate a comparative analysis and synthesis. At the same time, the guidelines and reporting template are to leave flexibility for CS leads and their partners to deepen specific elements of the analysis and to best describe each case in the sense of a systemic analysis. In the implementation of CS, CS leads need to ensure that data management is compliant with the EU’s Guidelines on Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Data Management in Horizon 2020; all personal data are treated as strictly confidential and processed in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679; anonymized data from surveys and interviews will be securely stored in a safe location at partners' facilities (internally, anonymized data may be shared) (see also the D7.4 ‘Data Management Plan’ and D8.1-8.3 ‘Ethical Requirements’ on MS Teams).
Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, no. 11
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social classes
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122346
subject: Social conflict
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122378
subject: Child abuse
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/854223
subject: Fathers and daughters
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/921890
subject: Dysfunctional families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728523
subject: Families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728849

description: Follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the lack of a son to follow him in his footsteps; he initially rejects his daughter's love before eventually becoming reconciled with her before his death. The original parts issued from October 1846 to April 1848. Chapters 32-34. Chapter 32. The wooden midshipman goes to pieces -- Chapter 33. Contrasts -- Chapter 34. Another mother and daughter
Connected correlations in partitioning protocols: a case study and beyond
Creators: name: Bocini, Saverio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The assumption of local relaxation in inhomogeneous quantum quenches allows to compute asymptotically the expectation value of local observables via hydrodynamic arguments known as generalized hydrodynamics (GHD). In this work we address formally the question of when an observable is ``local enough'' to be described by GHD using the playground of partitioning protocols and non-interacting time evolution. We show that any state evolving under a quadratic Hamiltonian can be described via a set of decoupled dynamical fields such that one of those fields can be identified with a space-time-dependent generalisation of the root density. By studying the contribution to a connected spin correlation of each of those fields independently, we derive the locality conditions under which an observable can be described using the root density only. That shows both the regime of validity for hydrodynamic approaches that aim at describing the asymptotic value of observables in term of the root density only, such as GHD, and the locality conditions necessary for Gaussianification to occur.
description: 38+14 pages, 6+3 figures; typos corrected
Pyrolytic preparation of pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridinols for pseudo-nucleoside synthesis
Creators: name: McGeary., Ross Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Assessment of Acceptability of Provider Initiated HIV Counseling and Testing Among Tuberculosis and non -Tuberculosis Patients in Shashemene Town, West Arsi Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Adeba, Emiru
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2010

description: Background: HIV counseling and testing is fundamental to both HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. Patients need to know their sero-status to benefit from available care and treatment options. Provider Initiated HIV Counseling and Testing has been implemented in most health facilities utilizing Directly Observed Treatment Short course to increase uptake of HIV counseling and testing as the most important opportunity. Different factors might affect the up take of PIHCT services which demand timely assessment. Objective: the objective of the study was to assess the acceptability of PIHCT and factors influencing its service uptake among TB and non TB patients in Shashemene town of West Arsi Zone. Methods: Institution-based, comparative cross-sectional study was conducted from January to Feburary 2010, on 237 TB patients attending Tuberculosis clinics and 236 non TB patients who were offered PIHCT from outpatient department in Shashemene hospital and Shashemene health center. Data were collected using consecutive sampling until the required sample size was attained using structured questionnaire Results: Majority of the participants were male 136(57.4%) among TB and150 (63.3%) among non TB, in the age group 25-34 years 79(33.3%) among TB and 93(39.4%) non TB, musilim by religion 116(50%) among TB and 116(50%) among non TB. Among 473 study participants 86.3% (89.9% TB vs 82.6% non TB) had accepted PIHCT. TB patients are more likely to accept PICHT than non TB patients at AOR= 2.4; 95% CI (1.3, 4.6). Those who support importance of PIHCT were more likely to accept PIHCT at AOR=14; 95% CI (6.1, 33.4) than those who are against PIHCT. Conclusions: The acceptance rate of PIHCT is relatively higher in this study; TB patients were more likely to accept PIHCT than non TB patients. The programme needs to be strengthened in all settings for both TB and non TB patients since HIV testing and counseling stands out as paramount both in treatment and in prevention of HIV/AIDS.
Life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, his relatives, friends, and enemies : comprising all his wills and his ways : with an historical record of what he did, and what he didn't : showing, moreover, who inherited the family plate, who came in for the silver spoons, and who for the wooden ladles : the whole forming a complete key to the house of Chuzzlewit, no. 09
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Picaresque literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1063598
subject: Families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728849
subject: Dysfunctional families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728523
subject: Selfishness
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111948
subject: Orphans
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1048433

description: The main theme of the novel according to Dickens's preface is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. Dickens introduced the first private detective character in this novel. The original parts issued from January 1843 to July 1844. Chapters 21-23: Chapter 21. More American experiences. Martin takes a partner, and makes a purchase. Some account of Eden, as it appeared on paper. Also of the British Lion. Also of the kind sympathy professed and entertained, by the Watertoast Association of United Sympathizers -- Chapter 22. From which it will be seen that Martin became a Lion on his own account. Together with the reason why -- Chapter 23. Martin and his partner take possession of their estate. The joyful occasion involves some further account of Eden
Über die Analyse randomisierter Suchheuristiken und den Entwurf spezialisierter Algorithmen im Bereich der kombinatorischen Optimierung
Creators: name: Witt, Carsten
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Theoretische Analyse
subject: Randomisierte Suchheuristiken
subject: Evolutionäre Algorithmen
subject: Kombinatorische Optimierung
subject: 004

description: Der Entwurf und die Analyse von Algorithmen für die kombinatorische Optimierung zählen zu den zentralen Aufgaben der Informatik. In dieser Dissertation werden in der Praxis erfolgreiche Suchheuristiken, speziell evolutionäre Algorithmen, theoretisch untersucht. Außerdem enthält die Dissertation einen Beitrag zum Entwurf von Algorithmen für ein aktuelles kombinatorisches Optimierungsproblem. Der erste Teil der Dissertation widmet sich einfachen randomisierten Suchheuristi­ken, die zu jedem Zeitpunkt lediglich einen Suchpunkt vorhalten. Diese werden auf der Funktionenklasse der so genannten monotonen Polynome und einem NP­harten Partitionsproblem untersucht. Neben der Analyse der erwarteten Optimierungszeit wird auch die Approximationsgüte studiert, die die Suchheuristiken in Polynomialzeit mit guter Wahrscheinlichkeit erreichen. Im zweiten Teil werden populationsbasierte evolutionäre Algorithmen, die zu jedem Zeitpunkt eine Menge von Suchpunkten vorhalten, betrachtet. Es wird bewiesen, dass die Größe einer solchen Population die Optimierungszeit von evolutionären Algorithmen entscheidend beeinflussen kann. Darüber hinaus wird ein klassischer populationsbasierter evolutionärer Algorithmus auf drei Beispielfunktionen untersucht. Dabei wird der funktionale Zusammenhang zwischen Populationsgröße und erwarteter Optimierungszeit erhellt. Die ersten beiden Teile der Dissertation enthalten fundamental neue Methoden zur Analyse randomisierter Suchheuristiken. Der dritte Teil der Dissertation stellt schließlich problemspezifische Algorithmen für das kombinatorische Optimierungsproblem des integrierten Prefetchings und Cachings vor. Es gelingt der Entwurf eines ersten kombinatorischen Polynomialzeitalgorithmus für einen Spezialfall des Optimierungsproblems. Für den allgemeinen Fall werden verbesserte Approximationsalgorithmen präsentiert.
Stochastic thermodynamics of opinion dynamics
Creators: name: Tomé, Tânia
name: Fiore, Carlos E.
name: de Oliveira, Mário J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that models of opinion formation and dissemination in a community of individuals can be framed within stochastic thermodynamics from which we can build a nonequilibrium thermodynamics of opinion dynamics. This is accomplished by decomposing the original transition rate that defines an opinion model into two or more transition rates, each representing the contact with heat reservoirs at different temperatures, and postulating an energy function. As the temperatures are distinct, heat fluxes are present even at the stationary state and linked to the production of entropy, the fundamental quantity that characterizes nonequilibrium states. We apply the present framework to a generic-vote model including the majority-vote model in a square lattice and in a cubic lattice. The fluxes and the rate of entropy production are calculated by numerical simulation and by the use of a pair approximation.
Testing gravity on large scales by combining weak lensing with galaxy clustering using CFHTLenS and BOSS CMASS
Creators: name: Alam, Shadab
name: Miyatake, Hironao
name: More, Surhud
name: Ho, Shirley
name: Mandelbaum, Rachel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure a combination of gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering, and redshift-space distortions called $E_G$. The quantity $E_G$ probes both parts of metric potential and is insensitive to galaxy bias and $σ_8$. These properties make it an attractive statistic to test $Λ$CDM, General Relativity and its alternate theories. We have combined CMASS DR11 with CFHTLenS and recent measurements of $β$ from RSD analysis, and find $E_G(z = 0.57) = 0.42 \pm 0.056$, an 13\% measurement in agreement with the prediction of general relativity $E_G(z = 0.57) = 0.396 \pm 0.011$ using the Planck 2015 cosmological parameters. We have corrected our measurement for various observational and theoretical systematics. Our measurement is consistent with the first measurement of $E_G$ using CMB lensing in place of galaxy lensing (Pullen et. al. 2015a) at small scales, but shows 2.8$σ$ tension when compared with their final results including large scales. This analysis with future surveys will provide improved statistical error and better control over systematics to test General Relativity and its alternate theories.
description: published in MNRAS (http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/11/23/mnras.stw3056), matches published version, 13 pages, 9 figures
Strong Sector in non-minimal SUSY model
Creators: name: Costantini, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the squark sector of a supersymmetric theory with an extended Higgs sector. We give the mass matrices of stop and sbottom, comparing the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) case and the non-minimal case. We discuss the impact of the extra superfields on the decay channels of the stop searched at the LHC.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Heterocyclic synthesis via the hydroformylation of functionalised alkenes
Creators: name: McCubbin., Quentin James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Ο αντίκτυπος της υγειονομικής κρίσης COVID-19 στους εργαζομένους των πολιτιστικών οργανισμών
Creators: name: Σουσανίδης, Ιβάν Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Πολιτιστικοί οργανισμοί
Covid-19
Eργαζόμενοι
Cultural Institutions
Employees

description: Σκοπός τη παρούσας μελέτης αποτελεί η διερεύνηση του βαθμού επιρροής της υγειονομικής κρίσης του κορωνοϊού στους εργαζόμενους των πολιτιστικών οργανισμών στην Ελλάδα. Συγκεκριμένα, επιχειρείται η διερεύνηση του βαθμού επιρροής της πανδημίας στην ζωή των εργαζομένων γενικότερα, καθώς και ο βαθμός της επιρροής που ασκήθηκε στην εργασιακή τους ζωή ειδικότερα. Η μέθοδος διερεύνησης είναι ποιοτική και συγκεκριμένα πραγματοποιείται η θεματική ανάλυση εννιά ημι-δομημένων συνεντεύξεων. Συμπεραίνεται ότι ο βαθμός επιρροής της πανδημίας στους εργαζόμενους στον πολιτισμό στην Ελλάδα είναι εξαιρετικά υψηλός, με την εργασία, τη προσωπική ζωή και τη διασκέδαση να επηρεάζονται περισσότερο. Όσον αφορά την εργασιακή ζωή των εργαζομένων, ο βαθμός επιρροής που ασκήθηκε σε αυτήν φαίνεται να είναι επίσης υψηλός, με την επικοινωνία, την αδυναμία διεκπεραίωσης δραστηριοτήτων, τον βαθμό ικανοποίησης και τις επιδόσεις των εργαζομένων να παρουσιάζονται εμφανώς μεταβαλλόμενες. Συμπεραίνεται, επίσης, ότι οι υγειονομικές, οι οικονομικές και οι κοινωνικοπολιτικές διαστάσεις της κρίσης ήταν αυτές με τη μεγαλύτερη επιρροή και διατυπώνονται ορισμένες εκπαιδευτικές, νομοθετικές, υγειονομικές και οικονομικές πρωτοβουλίες που θα μπορούσαν να ενεργοποιηθούν για την ενίσχυση τους.
description: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the degree of influence of the coronavirus health crisis on employees of cultural institutions in Greece. In particular, an attempt is made to investigate the degree of influence of the pandemic on the lives of workers in general, as well as the degree of influence exerted on their working lives in particular. The research method is qualitative and in particular, the thematic analysis of nine semi-structured interviews is carried out. It is concluded that the degree of influence of the pandemic on cultural institutions employees in Greece is extremely high, with work, personal life and entertainment being most affected. As far as the working life of the employees is concerned, the degree of influence exerted on it also seems to be high, with the communication, the inability to carry out activities, the degree of satisfaction and the performance of the employees to be visibly variable. It is also concluded that the health, economic and socio-political dimensions of the crisis were the most influential and some educational, legislative, health and economic initiatives were formulated that could be activated to strengthen them.
Improved Credit Scoring with Multilevel Statistical Modelling
Creators: name: Khudnitskaya, Alesia S.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Credit scoring
subject: Logistic regression scorecards
subject: Retail banking
subject: 310

description: This dissertation introduces a new type of credit scoring model which assesses credit worthiness of applicants for a loan by forecasting their probability of default. The multilevel scorecard is an improved alternative to the conventional scoring techniques which are regularly applied in retail banking such as discriminant analysis, decision trees and logistic regression scorecards. In addition, this thesis proposes a new way of data clustering for a multilevel structure which is more intuitive and relevant for efficient credit worthiness assessment. The motivation for the topic and the core idea of this research project are closely related to the main advantages of improved credit scoring and its application to the decisionmaking process in retail banking. The main advantages are accuracy gain and cost-saving. Improving credit scoring techniques helps to increase operating efficiency by increasing predictive quality and reducing misclassification errors. From the cost-saving prospective, it also leads to profit growth and gives a higher return on capital. In credit scoring the main goal is to define factors which influence riskiness of individuals who apply for a bank loan. Accordingly, the thesis develops two types of multilevel structures which allow including random-effects at the higher-level of the hierarchy. The first structure nests applicants for a loan within second-level groups, microenvironments. Each microenvironment determines the living area of a borrower with a particular combination of socio-economic and demographic conditions. Microenvironment-specific effects impact the riskiness of borrowers additionally to the observed personal characteristics. The second type of multilevel structure extends the first. It cross-classifies individuals with different classifications according to similarities in particular characteristics of their occupational activities, living area condition and infrastructure of shopping facilities in their residence areas.
Θεωρητικές προσεγγίσεις στην ψυχοσωματική διαταραχή παιδιού και εφήβου
Creators: name: Σκερλετίδου, Ζηνοβία Θεόδωρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ψυχοσωματικά συμπτώματα
Παιδιά
Έφηβοι
Psychosomatic symptoms
Children
Adolescents

description: Η εμφάνιση σωματικών συμπτωμάτων χωρίς να διακρίνεται κάποια οργανική προέλευση, είναι ένα σύνηθες φαινόμενο που παρατηρείται στα παιδιά και στους εφήβους. Σύμφωνα με στοιχεία που αντλούμε από τη διεθνή βιβλιογραφία, φαίνεται ότι η παρουσία των ψυχοσωματικών συμπτωμάτων αυτών σε παιδιά και εφήβους, σχετίζεται με διάφορους παράγοντες. Μέσα από την παρούσα εργασία, η οποία αποτελεί μια βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση, θα διευκρινιστούν οι παράγοντες αυτοί, καθώς και οι προσεγγίσεις στις ψυχοσωματικές διαταραχές παιδιών και εφήβων. Αρχικά, παρατίθενται σημαντικά ιστορικά στοιχεία για την εξέλιξη της ψυχοσωματικής σκέψης, οι βασικοί στόχοι της ψυχαναλυτικής ψυχοσωματικής κατεύθυνσης και ο θεραπευτικός χειρισμός των παιδιών με αυτού του είδους τις δυσκολίες, αλλά και η ταξινόμηση των διαταραχών αυτών με βάση τα σύγχρονα διαγνωστικά συστήματα. Τέλος, γίνεται αναφορά στους αιτιοπαθογενετικούς μηχανισμούς των διαταραχών αυτών, ενώ ακόμη αναλύονται οι ψυχοσωματικές διαταραχές της βρεφικής και παιδικής ηλικίας.
description: The appearance of physical symptoms without distinguishing any organic origin is a common phenomenon observed in children and adolescents. According to data we derive from the international literature, it seems that the presence of these psychosomatic symptoms in children and adolescents is related to various factors. Through this work, which is a literature review, these factors will be clarified, as well as the approaches to the psychosomatic disorders of children and adolescents. First, important historical data on the development of psychosomatic thinking, the main goals of the psychoanalytical psychosomatic direction and the therapeutic handling of children with this type of difficulties, as well as the classification of these disorders based on modern diagnostic systems, are listed. Finally, reference is made to the aetiological mechanisms of these disorders, while the psychosomatic disorders of infancy and childhood are also analyzed.
description: Σε συνεργασία με το Παιδαγωγικό Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης (Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Μακεδονίας)
Band structure from DFTB+ using the 'mio' parameter set with 'trans3d' subset
Creators: name: Saxe, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: seamm-flowchart
DFTB+
mio
trans3d
DOS
band structure

description: Reads a crystalline structure from the given input file, adds a +1 spin to all atoms, then optimizes the structure. The band structure and DOS are then prepared for the optimized structure, and plotted for viewing.
Linear response of one-dimensional liquid $^4$He to external perturbations
Creators: name: Motta, M.
name: Bertaina, G.
name: Vitali, E.
name: Galli, D. E.
name: Rossi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the response of one-dimensional liquid $^4$He to weak perturbations relying on the dynamical structure factor, $S(q,ω)$, recently obtained via ab-initio techniques [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135302 (2016)]. We evaluate the drag force, $F_v$, experienced by an impurity moving along the system with velocity $v$ and the static response function, $χ(q)$, describing the density modulations induced by a periodic perturbation with wave vector $q$.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Sexual Behavior and Determinants of Condom Use among HIV/Aids Patients who are on Art in North Shewa Health Facility, 2010/2011
Creators: name: Assefa, Nigussie
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Background: The burden of HIV/AIDS is high in Sub-Saharan countries which constitutes two third of the globe and is worst in Ethiopia. As a strategy for prevention, condom use practice among others remains the most effective method against HIV infection. Therefore identifying determinants of consistent condom use in HIV patients who were on ART had paramount importance in the prevention and control of the disease. Objective: To assess the sexual behavior and determinants of condom use in HIV/AIDS patients who are on ART based on theory of planned behavior constructs. Methods: a cross sectional study design was conducted in North Showa Health facilities from March to April 2011. Structured questionnaire was prepared and also adopted from the theory of planned behavior and the data was collected from 337 randomly selected study participants in North Showa ART rendering health facilities. Analysis was done using Cronbach's alpha reliability test, binary logistic regression, Partial correlation, and linear regressions in order to know the predictors of consistent condom use and or intention to consistent condom use. Results: All the respondents filled the Questionnaires and 56% of the respondents were females with the median age of 32.00+9.66 years. Among the respondents 144(42.70%) of them had multiple partners and 209(62.00%) used condom consistently and casual types of partner for those who had multiple sexual partner was the largest proportion (47.70%). Over half of the respondents (52.30%) had had sex without condom use with partner of Unknown HIV sero-status. All components of the theory, attitude (r=0.31: p<0.001), subjective norm (r=0.39: P<0.001), perceived behavioral control(r= 0.36: P< 0.001) were correlated significantly and positively with intention to consistent condom use. All components were significant predictors of behavioral intentions. Based on multiple linear regression, the standardized regression coefficient was (ßattitude=0.21: P<0.005), (ßsubjective norm= 0.26: P<0.001) and (ßperceived behavioral control =0.28: P< 0.001). In general the theory explained 29.1% of variation of intention to use condom consistently. Conclusion: Significant proportion of risky sexual behaviors observed in HIV patients who are on ART and the theory of planned behavior was applicable in explaining the behavioral intentions of consistent condom use.
Life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, his relatives, friends, and enemies : comprising all his wills and his ways : with an historical record of what he did, and what he didn't : showing, moreover, who inherited the family plate, who came in for the silver spoons, and who for the wooden ladles : the whole forming a complete key to the house of Chuzzlewit, no. 14
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Picaresque literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1063598
subject: Families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728849
subject: Dysfunctional families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728523
subject: Selfishness
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111948
subject: Orphans
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1048433

description: The main theme of the novel according to Dickens's preface is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. Dickens introduced the first private detective character in this novel. The original parts issued from January 1843 to July 1844. Chapters 36-38: Chapter 36. Tom Pinch departs to seek his fortune. What he finds at starting -- Chapter 37. Tom Pinch, going astray, finds that he is not the only person in that predicament. He retaliates upon a fallen foe -- Chapter 38. Secret service
Rigorous bounds on transport from causality
Creators: name: Heller, Michal P.
name: Serantes, Alexandre
name: Spaliński, Michał
name: Withers, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use causality to derive a number of simple and universal constraints on dispersion relations, which describe the location of singularities of retarded two-point functions in relativistic quantum field theories. We prove that all causal dissipative dispersion relations have a finite radius of convergence. We then give two-sided bounds on all transport coefficients in units of this radius, including an upper bound on diffusivity.
description: 4 pages. New relational bound on sound attenuation, improved test function, references added
Nonlinear stability of self-gravitating massive fields. A wave-Klein-Gordon model
Creators: name: LeFloch, Philippe G.
name: Ma, Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Significant advances were made in recent years on the global evolution problem for self-gravitating massive matter in the small-perturbative regime close to Minkowski spacetime. To study the coupling between a Klein-Gordon equation and Einstein's field equations, we introduced the ``Euclidean-hyperboloidal foliation method'', which is based on the construction of a spacetime foliation adapted to the derivation of sharp decay estimates for wave and Klein-Gordon equations in a curved spacetime. We give here an outline of this method, together with a full proof for a wave-Klein-Gordon model which retains some main challenges arising with the Einstein-matter system.
description: 36 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1712.10045