cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Railway Rate Structures and Levels and Some Effects on Motor Competition
Creators: name: Cantrell, W.T.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3509
subject: Transportation, logistics and supply chains
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: The purpose of this study is to determine, in some degree, the effects on the railway rate structure of the country of the competition furnished by highway motor vehicles. The survey does not purport to be exhaustive. It is obviously impossible to take up, and examine in detail every section of the railway rate structure known to have been affected by motor competition. Only the more obvious changes which are assignable to highway motor vehicle competition will be noticed, and it is not at all certain that even many of the more important ones will not escape attention. [when it is remembered that from 125,000 to 140,000 new rate schedules are filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission yearly and that many of these schedules contain hundreds if not thousands of changes in rates, it can readily be seen that to attempt to catalog and analyze all for even a short period of time would be to essay the impossible.Intrastate rates are not required to be filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission and, in a great many instances, are not so filed. Intrastate rates have increasingly tended, during recent years, to approach the level of intrastate rates. This is due in part to the consideration by the Interstate Commerce Commission (which will hereafter be referred to as the Commission) of numerous complaints brought under Section 13 of the interstate commerce act to compel the removal of alleged undue prejudice against interstate commerce caused by intrastate rates made on a different level from that applied in interstate commerce. This tendency the Commission has promoted, also, by a number of general rate investigations covering intrastate as well as Interstate rates. The cheerful cooperation on the part of state commissions, some of whose members have sat with the federal Commission in the hearing of important rate cases, has helped to bring about this desirable end. Therefore, except as they may enter incidentally, Intrastate rates will not be studied. As changes in intrastate rates tend to follow those in interstate rates, even though they may not be on the same level, it is thought that a delineation of the changes in the interstate rates will give an approximately true picture of the entire situation. It should not be forgotten, however, that many of the short haul rates are intrastate rates and that the short haul rates are most affected by motor competition.
Railway Rate Structures and Levels and Some Effects on Motor Competition
Creators: name: Cantrell, W.T.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study is to determine, in some degree, the effects on the railway rate structure of the country of the competition furnished by highway motor vehicles. The survey does not purport to be exhaustive. It is obviously impossible to take up, and examine in detail every section of the railway rate structure known to have been affected by motor competition. Only the more obvious changes which are assignable to highway motor vehicle competition will be noticed, and it is not at all certain that even many of the more important ones will not escape attention. [when it is remembered that from 125,000 to 140,000 new rate schedules are filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission yearly and that many of these schedules contain hundreds if not thousands of changes in rates, it can readily be seen that to attempt to catalog and analyze all for even a short period of time would be to essay the impossible.Intrastate rates are not required to be filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission and, in a great many instances, are not so filed. Intrastate rates have increasingly tended, during recent years, to approach the level of intrastate rates. This is due in part to the consideration by the Interstate Commerce Commission (which will hereafter be referred to as the Commission) of numerous complaints brought under Section 13 of the interstate commerce act to compel the removal of alleged undue prejudice against interstate commerce caused by intrastate rates made on a different level from that applied in interstate commerce. This tendency the Commission has promoted, also, by a number of general rate investigations covering intrastate as well as Interstate rates. The cheerful cooperation on the part of state commissions, some of whose members have sat with the federal Commission in the hearing of important rate cases, has helped to bring about this desirable end. Therefore, except as they may enter incidentally, Intrastate rates will not be studied. As changes in intrastate rates tend to follow those in interstate rates, even though they may not be on the same level, it is thought that a delineation of the changes in the interstate rates will give an approximately true picture of the entire situation. It should not be forgotten, however, that many of the short haul rates are intrastate rates and that the short haul rates are most affected by motor competition.
The Impact of Motivational Music on Sprint Performance of Division III Women’s Lacrosse Players
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate).

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of motivational music on sprint performance and rate of perceived exertion of Division III women’s lacrosse players. This study involved the use of a sprint performance test and an Omnibus (OMNI) pictorial scale used to determine rate of perceived exertion (RPE). The findings of this study retained the null hypothesis that Division III women lacrosse players who listen to motivational music during sprint performance tests will have the same times, on average, and the same perceived rate of exertion, on average, as women players who do not listen to such music. Research in this area should continue as many results of similar studies are inconclusive and show varying results concerning the effects of motivational music on athletic performance and rate of perceived exertion.
Design, commissioning, and preliminary results of the trigger system for the ICARUS experiment
Creators: name: Scarpelli, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) project at Fermilab (USA) uses three Liquid-Argon Time Projection chambers (LArTPCs) located along the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) to search for anomalies in muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance at short baseline. The ICARUS T600 detector, with its active volume of 760t of liquid Argon, will act as a far detector for the experiment. The detector is also located off-axis to the NuMI beamline, which offers the opportunity for ν-Argon cross-section measurements in an energy range of interest for the next generation long-baseline experiment DUNE. The photodetection system of ICARUS deploys 360 Hamamatsu R5912-MOD PMTs, covering one-third of the total internal surface of the detector, and has a major role in the experiment trigger, identification of neutrino signals, and rejection of cosmic background. This poster will describe the design, optimization, and preliminary performance of the ICARUS trigger system using more than 100·1018 POT from the BNB and 180·1018 from NuMI collected since June 2021.
British Gallup Poll: CQ 028
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1996

description: Government approval rating(1); Thatcher approval rating(1); political party leaders(2); political party(2); 1987 election(2); unemployment(1); price increase(1); personal financial situation(3); good time to save/ spend(2).
Comparative Studies on the Bioassay of Digitalis
Creators: name: Defandorf, James Holmes
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3108
subject: Plant biology
classificationCode: 3214
subject: Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences

description: Accurate determinations of the activity of digitalis preparations are probably more difficult to make than those of any other of the more important drugs used in medicine. This is due to the fact that digitalis is composed of various closely related active and inactive principles; the amount and proportions of which vary with the geographical source and climatic conditions under which the plant was grown; the activity of the drugs and its preparations is affected by the length and conditions of storage; chemical methods of assay are inadequate; and many factors in the various bioassay methods are difficult to control. It is therefore necessary to determine which bioassay results can most properly be applied to the determination of therapeutic dosage and clinical value. The investigations reported in this study were undertaken to compare the more important methods mentioned above.
title: Die Rolle des Herrensignifikanten in der Perversion und Neurose nach der Psychoanalyse Jacques Lacans
Creators: name: Zarzer, Bernhard
Year: 2017

description: Diese Arbeit versucht die zentralen Strukturen der Psychoanalyse, wie sie Jacques Lacan lehrte, in Zusammenhang zu setzen und über den zentralen Begriff des Herrensignifikanten zu thematisieren. Dabei soll gezeigt werden, wie die Strukturen der Perversion und der Neurosen zueinander im Verhältnis stehen und durch ihr jeweiliges Verhältnis zum Herrensignifikanten bestimmt werden. Letztlich soll dafür die Diskurstheorie, wie sie Lacan konzeptualisiert hat, genutzt werden und auch im Hinblick auf den psychoanalytischen Diskurs betrachtet werden.
Comparative Studies on the Bioassay of Digitalis
Creators: name: Defandorf, James Holmes
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Accurate determinations of the activity of digitalis preparations are probably more difficult to make than those of any other of the more important drugs used in medicine. This is due to the fact that digitalis is composed of various closely related active and inactive principles; the amount and proportions of which vary with the geographical source and climatic conditions under which the plant was grown; the activity of the drugs and its preparations is affected by the length and conditions of storage; chemical methods of assay are inadequate; and many factors in the various bioassay methods are difficult to control. It is therefore necessary to determine which bioassay results can most properly be applied to the determination of therapeutic dosage and clinical value. The investigations reported in this study were undertaken to compare the more important methods mentioned above.
The Effect of Homogenous Versus Heterogeneous Reading Achievement Groups on 4th Graders Reading Comprehension
Creators: name: Barrett, Kristin
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate).

description: The purpose of this study was
to investigate the effect of homogenous versus 
heterogeneous reading
achievement groups on 4th
graders reading comprehension.
The 
participants in this study were all fourth grade students in the suburban Anne Arundel County 
Public School (AACPS) system of Maryland. All participants received whole group
instruction 
with teaching points from the AACPS reading curriculum consistent with the Common Core 
State Standards. There were three groups in the study in which students were to collaborate to 
solve a single problem related to the whole group instruction of the day. The groups were formed 
based on student’s scores on the AACPS 3rd
grade Reading Benchmark assessment. Students 
who scored below 50% on the pre-assessment were placed into one group, those 
who scored 
above 50% were placed
in another group, and a third group was for
med by randomly selecting 
students from each group to form a heterogeneous group. After six
weeks, 
students were given a 
mock benchmark assessment,
also created by AACPS, in order to determine if students scores 
showed 
the 
most progress when working in low
achievement
homogenous groups, high 
achievement 
homogenous groups or heterogeneous groups. The results on the mock benchmark 
assessment indicated no significant difference in reading comprehension across the three groups.
The null hypothesis was retained.
title: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Förderung des schulischen Zweitsprachenlernens in der Grundschule, im Besonderen der Lesekompetenz, bei Kindern mit einer anderen Erstsprache als Deutsch
Creators: name: Wandl, Jutta
Year: 2017

description: Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit kommen Elemente der Zweitsprachenerwerbsforschung zum Tragen. Aus diesem weiten Forschungsfeld ist für diese Masterarbeit die fremdsprachendidaktische Forschung relevant, die sich darum bemüht, Prozesse ungesteuerten wie gesteuerten Fremdsprachenerwerbs zu beschreiben, Erwerbssequenzen zu bestimmen und Zusammenhänge zwischen Lehren und Erwerb aufzudecken. Dabei finden unter anderem das Wechselverhältnis von Lernbedingungen und sozialen Bedingungen des Erwerbs oder die besonderen Merkmale der Erwerbssituation innerhalb der Institution Schule Beachtung. Es wird folgender Forschungsfrage nachgegangen: „Inwieweit können Fördermaßnahmen im Bereich Deutsch als Zweitsprache bei Kindern im Volksschulalter fruchten beziehungsweise inwieweit kann die Leseleistung dieser Kinder mit einer gezielten Fördermaßnahme gesteigert werden?“
title: Sprachliche Relativität
Creators: name: Haider, Stephan
Year: 2017

description: Ausgehend von (1) einer Relektüre der Texte von Benjamin Lee Whorf, konzipiert als Richtigstellung gegenüber einem verbreiteten Vorverständnis von seinem Ansatz, werden (2) zwei profunde Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Themenkomplex der sprachlichen Relativität nach Whorf beschrieben und einander gegenübergestellt (John Lucy 1992 vs. Penny Lee 1996). (3) An dieser Konfrontation wird ein Vergleichsschema nach dem Modell X (kognitive Domäne) ist relativ zu Y (sprachliche Domäne) für sprachliche Relativität entwickelt, in dem für beide Domänen verschiedene Ebenen eingeführt werden und verschiedene Arten von Relationen auf verschiedenen Ebenen unterschieden werden können. Vor diesem Raster wird auf den Interpretationsstrang von Penny Lee fokussiert, in dem Sprachdomäne und Kognitionsdomäne als eng verflochten oder teilidentisch verstanden werden. Dieser Zugang wird schließlich (4) durch die kognitive Konzeption von Sprache bei Peter Carruthers spezifiziert und neumotiviert. Seine zentrale Bezugnahme auf das Phänomen des inneren Sprechens wird dabei gegen exemplarische Kritik verteidigt. Sein empirischer Ausgangspunkt, die Ergebnisse aus Russell Hurlburts Descriptive-Experience-Sampling-Methode, wird durch nähere Betrachtung als robuste Basis für die vorgeschlagene Teilidentitätsthese von Sprach- und Kognitionsdomäne dargestellt. Eine konkurrierende Interpretation der Ergebnisse wird als nicht konklusiv zurückgewiesen.
description: Starting with (1) a new reading of Benjamin Lee Whorf’s writings, designed as a correction of a widespread preconception of his approach, (2) two profound examinations of the theme complex of linguistic relativity following Whorf are presented and compared to each other (John Lucy 1992 vs. Penny Lee 1996). (3) From this confrontation a scheme for the comparison of approaches on the topic of linguistic relativity following the pattern X (cognitive domain) is relative to Y (linguistic domain) is developed in which different levels for both domains are introduced, and which allows to distinguish different kinds of relations on different levels. On the basis of this scheme the interpretation of Penny Lee is brought into focus, which takes linguistic and cognitive domains to be closely intertwined or partially identical. This approach is then (4) specified and newly motivated with Peter Carruthers’ cognitive conception of language. His central reference to the phenomenon of inner speech is defended against some exemplary criticism. His empirical starting point, the results of Russell Hurlburt’s Descriptive Experience Sampling method, is taken under closer scrutiny and confirmed as a solid basis for the proposed thesis of partial identity of linguistic and mental domain. A concurring interpretation of the results is rejected as inconclusive.
Measuring the π0 invariant mass in NOvA using photon identification
Creators: name: Plata, Maria Manrique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: NOvA, the NuMI Off-Axis νe Appearance experiment, uses an established muon neutrino, or antineutrino, beam from Fermilab to study neutrino oscillations. NOvA is composed of two functionally equivalent liquid scintillator detectors; the near detector is located at Fermilab and the far detector 810 km away in Ash River, Minnesota. The νe appearance measurement relies on accurate electromagnetic energy reconstruction, which is dependent on the energy scale calibration of the detector. Studying the π0 → γγ decay, where the invariant π0 mass is directly correlated to the energy scale, we can directly “peak” at the electromagnetic energy calibration. Our sample is mainly composed of neutral pions produced through neutral current coherent neutrino scattering in the NOvA Near Detector. In this poster, we discuss the particle identification tools used to produce our sample and the latest results of the π0 invariant mass peak reconstruction.
British Gallup Poll: CQ 029A
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1996

description: Government approval rating(1); Thatcher approval rating(1); political party leaders(2); political party(2); 1987 election(2); relationships with friends and relatives(5); best friend(1); activities with friends(15); making new friends(2); political action(5); most important issue(2); public support for causes(6).
British Gallup Poll: CQ 916
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1997

description: Government approval rating(1); Thatcher approval rating(7); political party leaders(3); political party(3); 1987 election(2); job of government(1); taxes(2); government policies(4); foreign policy(1); private vs national industry(1); Health approval rating(1).
title: Rom im Umbruch?
Creators: name: Nordhofen, Katharina Agnes Sophia
Year: 2017

description: In Rom um 1520 vollzog sich ein fundamentaler Maßstabswechsel vom Großen ins Kleine, der vornehmlich die Auftraggeberschaft und Situation der Künstler betraf. In der Konsequenz kommt es zu einer Zuspitzung auf Seitenkapellen in öffentlichen Kirchen, die als räumlich und zeitlich überschaubare Projekte in idealer Weise den veränderten Bedürfnissen entsprachen. In ihnen lag das Potential, die Positionierung der Beteiligten innerhalb eines sozialen oder künstlerischen Gefüges zu verändern und letztlich zu Wendepunkten in Künstlerkarrieren zu werden.
The Election of 1896
Creators: name: Wright, Ruth E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study of the "election of 1896" is necessarily approached from the viewpoints of the conflicting Democratic factions since the Hanna Manuscripts have long since mysteriously disappeared and the McKinley Manuscripts are not own available for examination by the majority of established historians. Also, although the election of 1896 was closely bound about by economic factors, this study is primarily a politico-historical one and no appraisal of the economic elements as such has been essayed.
Hylaeus (Deranchylaeus) lineaticeps
Creators: name: Dathe, Holger H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Hylaeus
Hylaeus lineaticeps

description: Hylaeus (Deranchylaeus) lineaticeps (Friese, 1913)
Figures 102–103
Prosopis lineaticeps Friese, 1913a: 582–583. 1♀, South Africa: Capland. Typus ♀ MNHU Berlin.— Friese 1913b: 573; Alfken 1914: 190–191; Cockerell 1932e: 171–172; Cockerell 1942: 2, 8–9.
Hylaeus (Deranchylaeus) lineaticeps (Friese): Bridwell 1919: 145–146; Snelling 1985: 8; Rasmussen & Ascher 2008: 65.
Hylaeus lineaticeps (Friese): Eardley & Urban 2010: 31.
Hylaeus subreditus Cockerell, 1942: 3–4, 14–15. ♀, South Africa: Cape Province, Sommerset East. Typus ♀ NHM London, no. 17.a.1407; metasoma lacking.— Syn. n.— Eardley & Urban 2010: 36.
Hylaeus (Deranchylaeus) subreditus Cockerell: Snelling 1985: 8.
Diagnosis
The female has a distinct, mostly oval impression on the front of the clypeus (as in the dregei-group). It is characterized by prolonged paraorbital stripes and strong, dense punctation on the T1. The male is unknown.
Characteristic features
Female. TL 5.6–6.6 (5.97) mm, WL 3.7–4.4 (4.10) mm.
Head. Proportions HL:HW 0.93, UFW:LFW 1.58, outline rounded trapezoid. Face with long white stripes at orbits between tentorial pits and foveae; foveae faciales long. Clypeus CL:CW 1.36, with broad impression on front edge, punctation moderate, close. Supraclypeal area comparably flat, above wide, gently connect to frons; frons and vertex with strong, dense to subcontiguous punctation.
Mesosoma. Pilosity sparse, short, white. Tegulae with pale spot. Pronotum black, fairly long angular expanded forward, anterior edge and its dorsolateral angles rounded. Mesonotum, scutellum and mesopleuren matt, punctation moderate and dense. Legs entirely black; wings dimmed, venation dark. Propodeum rounded, without carinae, terminal area only laterally below sharp; medial area with wrinkled net, terminal area finely punctate.
Metasoma compact spindle-shaped, black. T1 with coarse, close punctation, intervals shiny, T2 something finer punctate, following terga with fine transverse rugose sculpture with merging punctures; T1 with narrow white lateral fringes, following terga with white narrow interrupted marginal band on depressions.
Distribution
South Africa.
Specimens examined: 8 ♀ coll. AMG, MNHU, NHML, OLBL, SANC.
SOUTH AFRICA. Eastern Cape: Algoa Bay; Somerset East.— Free State: Tussen-die-Riviere Res. nr. Bethulie, 30.30S 26.12E.— Western Cape: Ashton, Robertson; Greyton, Riviersonderend; Ladismith.
description: Published as part of Dathe, Holger H., 2014, Studies on the systematics and taxonomy of the genus Hylaeus F. (8) Revision of the Afrotropic subgenus Hylaeus (Deranchylaeus) Bridwell (Hymenoptera: Anthophila, Colletidae), pp. 1-84 in Zootaxa 3874 (1) on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3874.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4948240
On pleated singular points of first order implicit differential equations
Creators: name: Chertovskih, R. A.
name: Remizov, A. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34A09, 34A26, 34C05

description: We study phase portraits of a first order implicit differential equation in a neighborhood of its pleated singular point that is a non-degenerate singular point of the lifted field. Although there is no a visible local classification of implicit differential equations at pleated singular points (even in the topological category), we show that there exist only six essentially different phase portraits, which are presented.
Induced Matter Theory of gravity from a Weitzenböck 5D vacuum and pre-big bang collapse of the universe
Creators: name: Romero, Jesús Martín
name: Bellini, Mauricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the Induced Matter Theory of gravity (IMT) to 5D curved spacetimes by using the Weitzenböck representation of connections on a 5D curved spacetime. In this representation the 5D curvature tensor becomes null, so that we can make a static foliation on the extra noncompact coordinate to induce in the Weitzenböck representation the Einstein equations. Once we have done it, we can rewrite the effective 4D Einstein equations in the Levi-Civita representation. This generalization of IMT opens a huge window of possible applications for this theory. A pre-big bang collapsing scenario is explored as an example.
description: version accepted in European Physical Journal C (16 pages, no figures)
BIPO Survey # 73, October, 1940
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Winston Churchill job performance (1); compulsory evacuation (3); most important war problem to solve (1); terms imposed on Germany (1); negotiating peace (1); better or worse off due to war (1); publishing war aims (1); government making inoculations compulsory (1); German people or Nazi government as enemy (1); anti-Jewish feelings (1); buying full rations (6).
BIPO Survey # 76, March, 1941
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Buying meals away from home (1); eating main meal at home (1); chance of Germany winning (1); growing own food (1); Germany winning war by air attack (1); Winston Churchill job performance (1); changing job since war started (1); satisfaction with current job (1); most important problem (1); government handling opposing opinions (1); feelings toward United States (1); personal health rating (1); going to war with Japan (1).
BIPO Survey # 78, June, 1941
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Frederick Marquis job performance (2); producing greatest amount of war material (2); satisfaction with government war conduct (1); Winston Churchill job performance (1); prime minister candidate preference (1); discussing peace proposals with Germany (1); agreement to stop night bombing (1); likelihood of German invasion (1); likelihood of British defeat (2); America entering war (1); winning war without America (2); reason for fighting war (1).
The Election of 1896
Creators: name: Wright, Ruth E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This study of the "election of 1896" is necessarily approached from the viewpoints of the conflicting Democratic factions since the Hanna Manuscripts have long since mysteriously disappeared and the McKinley Manuscripts are not own available for examination by the majority of established historians. Also, although the election of 1896 was closely bound about by economic factors, this study is primarily a politico-historical one and no appraisal of the economic elements as such has been essayed.
Hypoelliptic diffusion and human vision: a semi-discrete new twist
Creators: name: Boscain, Ugo
name: Chertovskih, Roman
name: Gauthier, Jean-Paul
name: Remizov, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94A08 (Primary) 35H10, 93C10, 93C20 (Secondary)

description: This paper presents a semi-discrete alternative to the theory of neurogeometry of vision, due to Citti, Petitot and Sarti. We propose a new ingredient, namely working on the group of translations and discrete rotations $SE(2,N)$. The theoretical side of our study relates the stochastic nature of the problem with the Moore group structure of $SE(2,N)$. Harmonic analysis over this group leads to very simple finite dimensional reductions. We then apply these ideas to the inpainting problem which is reduced to the integration of a completely parallelizable finite set of Mathieu-type diffusions (indexed by the dual of $SE(2,N)$ in place of the points of the Fourier plane, which is a drastic reduction). The integration of the the Mathieu equations can be performed by standard numerical methods for elliptic diffusions and leads to a very simple and efficient class of inpainting algorithms. We illustrate the performances of the method on a series of deeply corrupted images.
description: Keywords: neurogeometry, hypoelliptic diffusion, sub-Riemannian geometry, generalized Fourier transform
title: Erdverbundenheit
Creators: name: Graf, Franz
Year: 2017

description: England ist durch ein widersprüchliches Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Umwelt gekennzeichnet. Einerseits nahm in diesem Land die industrielle Revolution und die Urbanisierung ihren Ausgang, anderseits hat England den „Paganismus“ hervorgebracht. Praktizierende dieser Religion oder Spiritualität teilen dystopische Vorstellungen über ökologische Diagnosen und ein Streben nach Zugehörigkeit zu einer „mehr-als-menschlichen“ Welt. Den Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden kultur- und sozialanthropologischen Arbeit bildet eine einjährige ethnographische Feldforschung mit teilnehmender Beobachtung und qualitativen Interviewformen bei Pagans und earth lovers im Südwesten von England. Dabei zeigen sich Ähnlichkeiten in der Zuschreibung von Bedeutungen, den Praktiken und Erfahrungen im Umgang mit der Natur. Meine GesprächspartnerInnen teilen ein „Projekt“: Ihr Drang ins Freie ist mit einem Streben „gute“ Menschen zu sein und ein „gutes Leben“ führen zu wollen eng verknüpft. „Gut“ kann dabei nur sein, was sie mit Sinn erfüllt und sie moralisch vor sich und der Umwelt vertreten können. Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist ein ethnographisch fundiertes Verständnis von Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen von Pagans und earth lovers zu ermitteln. Mein theoretisches Interesse gründet in der Frage, was aus dieser Beschäftigung über das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Umwelt generell gesagt werden kann. Die Frage nach diesem Verhältnis begleitet die Anthropologie seit ihren Anfängen. Ihr kommt angesichts rezenter ökologischer Herausforderungen und Verantwortungen neue Relevanz zu.
Segurança no Transporte de Crianças em Automóvel — Uma Longa Estrada a Percorrer
Creators: name: Sondes, Ana Rita
name: Levy, Leonor
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Os acidentes rodoviários representam mais de 3000 recursos aos serviços de urgência por ano, sendo a maior causa de morte e deficiência temporária e permanente de crianças e adolescentes em Portugal. A taxa de mortalidade por acidentes de viação nas crianças portuguesas é quase três vezes superior à média europeia.O uso correcto dos sistemas de retenção (SR) para transporte de crianças em automóvel pode reduzir a mortalidade dos passageiros até 71%. Os SR estão disponíveis no nosso mercado há cerca de 10 anos, sendo o seu uso obrigatório por lei até aos três anos e recomendado até aos 12 anos ou 150 cm de altura.

Objectivos:

1) averiguar os conhecimentos dos pais, dos médicos de família e pediatras acerca da regulamentação do transporte de crianças em automóvel;
2) determinar o seu cumprimento;
3) determinar se este é um assunto abordado nas consultas médicas de rotina.

Metodologia: Estudo transversal exploratório realizado através de 2 questionários anónimos de auto-preenchimento aplicado durante 2 meses, um deles aos pais de crianças com idade inferior a 12 anos seguidas no Centro de Saúde de Odivelas e no Consultório de um Pediatra e o outro aos médicos respectivos. Analisaram-se os dados segundo três grupos etários (grupo 1: dos O aos 17 meses; grupo 2: dos 18 aos 36 meses e grupo 3: dos 3 aos 12 anos) e a escolaridade dos pais. O estudo estatístico foi efectuado através do SPSS 11.5 para Windows.

Resultados: Foram analisados 429 questionários aplicados aos pais e 33 aos médicos. Dos pais, 98% sabem da existência de uma lei que regulamenta o transporte de crianças em automóvel, no entanto 11 % afirma não ter SR adequado à idade do seu filho; 64% dos transportes relatados foram feitos de forma correcta: no grupo 1 (n=238) 57.4%; no grupo 2 (n=58) 88%; no grupo 3 (n=128) 62%.Os erros mais frequentes foram: grupo 1, o transporte de crianças de frente para o sentido da marcha (66) e o transporte de crianças ao colo (28); grupo 2, o transporte de crianças sem SR (6) e o transporte de crianças em SR não presos com cinto (6); grupo 3, o transporte de crianças sem SR (47). Existiu correlação entre o transporte correcto das crianças e o nível de escolaridade dos pais. Dos médicos, 97% afirmaram ter conhecimento da existência de uma lei que regulamenta o transporte de crianças em automóvel e 66% afirmou que conhece o conteúdo da lei. No entanto só 33% aborda com regularidade este tema nas consultas de rotina. Os motivos principais apontados para o assunto não ser abordado foram: o esquecimento (51.6%), a falta de tempo (39.4%) e o não o considerarem parte do seu âmbito de acção (33.3%).Alertamos para a necessidade de encarar este grave problema de saúde pública no nosso país, de forma multidisciplinar e integrada, incluindo as três vertentes da prevenção: education, engineering and enforcement.
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Aleitamento Materno: A Prática Hospitalar e o Sucesso das Medidas de Implementação do Aleitamento Maternoaté aos 6 Meses de Vida
Creators: name: Branco, Ana Sofia
name: Bastardo, Cristina
name: Albuquerque, Margarida
name: Oliveira, Graça
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Os autores efectuaram estudo prospectivo com os objectivos de: avaliar a eficácia de práticas/atitudes de suporte do aleitamento materno durante o puerpério, na prevalência da amamentação no I°, 3° e 6° mês de vida e comparar os resultados com os obtidos num estudo similar, efectuado em 1995, antes da implementação das atitudes referidas.

Este estudo envolveu 145 díadas mães-filho e baseou-se num inquérito realizado às puérperas após o parto na Maternidade do Hospital de Santa Maria.

Amamentaram durante mais tempo as primíparas, as mães com curso médio de escolaridade e as que não tinham recebido suplementos durante o internamento; resultados estes consistentes com os do estudo previamente efectuado.

O tempo que decorreu entre o parto e a I' mamada ao peito foi injustificadamente prolongado: 2,9h para partos eutócicos, 5,6h para forceps e ventosas (inferior à média anterior) e 14,7h para cesarianas (superior à média anterior). A percentagem de suplementação manteve-se elevada (52,1%).

A prevalência do aleitamento materno no 1° mês de vida foi de 84,8%; 62,7% aos 3 meses e 35,2% aos 6 meses, números muito superiores aos obtidos em 1995 (61,5% - 33,6% - 4,8% respectivamente).

Constatámos um aumento de cerca de um mês no tempo médio global do aleitamento materno.

Os autores discutem a necessidade de reduzir a percentagem de suplementação e a implementação de atitudes de suporte do aleitamento materno principalmente ao nível dos Cuidados de Saúde Primários.
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Can matter really cross a horizon?
Creators: name: Li, Huiquan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been taken as a truth that collapsing matter can eventually cross the horizon and enter into the interior of a black hole in a finite proper time. However, the Rindler/tachyon dual description we suggest recently implies that this should not be the case. A test particle falling towards the event horizon of a non-extreme black hole can actually be viewed as an unstable particle, whose dynamics is described by the tachyon field theory. This means that the collapsing process of a free particle in Rindler space is essentially a tachyon condensation process. In terms of the results in tachyon condensation, we learn that the infalling particle should strongly couple to bulk modes and should decay completely into something like gravitons before reaching the horizon. Hence, there should be no matter that can cross a horizon as still matter. The matter will get ``dissolved" into spacetime when approaching the event horizon.
description: Honorable Mention in the 2014 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation
BIPO Survey # 79, August, 1941
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Satisfaction with United States assistance (2); satisfaction with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting (2); America fully joining war (2); eating at communal feeding center (2); minimum wage for agricultural workers (1); military help to Russia (2); opinion of Russia's policy (2); most important war problem (1); more useful to country doing different work (2); fire-watching arrangements (2); doing the crossword (1); newspapers read (1).
French Public Opinion in Regard to the Events Leading to the Spanish American War
Creators: name: Craven, Roger W.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: At the beginning of this thesis it would be well to try to to determine in just what province of History this study belongs, and what is the value of a study of French Public Opinion in Regard to the Spanish-American War. Although the issue of the War had no far-reaching effects upon the history of France, the French people were intensely interested in the fate of their trans-Pyrenean neighbors. The French watched intently every development of the Cuban insurrection, the attitude of the Spanish people and the American people, the progress of hostilities, every move of both governments, and any action or contemplated action on the part of the Great Powers. On some occasions, especially during the final conflict, this subject bid fair to monopolize the attention of the French press, so completely were the papers filled with news and opinions about it. Sven the Dreyfus affair was crowded from the front page for considerable periods. The French had plenty of opinions on the subject. Some of the moderate papers maintained the more or less dispassionate attitude of an outside spectator, while some of the more extreme papers, both conservative and radical, and even a number of the "moderate" republican journals, felt so strongly over various issues which they thought concerned France, that their opinions frequently bordered upon passion. A study of these reactions should give an Insight into the French mind, and lead to a better comprehension of the French national outlook. Hence, this thesis might be considered as distinctly a part of the study of French history.The chief usefulness of a study like this must necessarily lie in the exact opinions themselves, so a large portion of this paper is quoted directly from the French newspapers, hence, the thesis can still be considered as largely source material. An effort has been made to place in the text itself sufficient summaries and characterizations to enable a cursory reader to get a general idea of French opinion, although he might not take time to read all the quotations. For the thorough reader however, it is hoped that this seeming duplication will not be superfluous, but will lead to a more complete, simpler and clearer general impression.
Terapêutica nas Perturbações do Sono
Creators: name: Aires De Sousa, Luisa
name: Garcia, Fernanda Torgal
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: O sono tem uma importância fundamental no desenvolvimento harmonioso da criança. As perturbações do sono são muito frequentes nas populações pediátricas e, apesar de serem transitórias e benignas na maior parte dos casos, provocam grande ansiedade e preocupação nos pais.

Na avaliação das perturbações do sono, é importante o conhecimento da fisiologia do sono e da sua evolução com o desenvolvimento da criança. No sono há dois estados distintos, definidos com base em parâmetros fisiológicos: sono NREM (non-rapid eye movement), por sua vez subdividido em quatro fases e sono REM (rapid eye movement), também designado por sono activo ou sono paradoxal.

Os sonos NREM e REM alternam ciclicamente ao longo da noite e a duração de cada ciclo NREM/REM aumenta progressivamente desde o período neonatal até à adolescência.

Na abordagem das perturbações do sono é essencial a colheita de uma história do sono detalhada, enquadrada numa história completa do desenvolvimento e saúde física da criança.

O tratamento das perturbações do sono na criança assenta numa intervenção comportamental (rotinas positivas, extinção graduada, extinção). A promoção da higiene do sono nas crianças e adolescentes constitui uma componente fundamental do tratamento e também da prevenção das perturbações do sono. A farmacoterapia não é uma opção de primeira linha, devendo recorrer-se a ela apenas em situações específicas, durante períodos de tempo curtos e sempre sob orientação médica. Ao contrário da abordagem comportamental, que é eficaz a médio e longo prazo, a utilização de fármacos apresenta beneficio apenas a curto prazo e que não subsiste após suspensão da terapêutica.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 35 n.º 5/6 (2004)
Perturbações Obstrutivas do Sono na Criança
Creators: name: Plácido, Marisol
name: Marta, Cristina Santa
name: Almeida, Mário
name: Monteiro, Luisa
name: Pinto, José Rosado
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Os autores apresentam uma revisão teórica sobre as perturbações obstrutivas do sono na criança, nomeadamente a Roncopatia Primária, caracterizada pela ausência de complicações associadas, e o Síndroma de Apneia Obstrutiva do Sono, associado a hipoxémia, hipercápnia, alterações do sono e sintomatologia diurna. São abordados aspectos particulares neste grupo etário, tais como a fisiopatologia, sintomatologia, métodos de diagnóstico e medidas terapêuticas de eleição.

Salienta-se a importância de um diagnóstico e intervenção precoces, prevenindo assim as complicações cardiopulmonares, neurocognitivas, e dismorfias faciais que daí podem advir.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 35 n.º 5/6 (2004)
British Gallup Poll CQ 698
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Government approval (1); Margaret Thatcher job performance (1); James Callaghan job performance (1); David Steel job performance (1); party support (4); 1979 General Election (2); government handling of Blunt affair (1); spy problem (1); control of television and films (4).
Refluxo Vesicoureteral — Os Novos Conceitos e as Dúvidas de Sempre
Creators: name: Jardim, Helena
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: A evolução paralela dos conhecimentos clínicos e da medicina factual permite uma nova abordagem do refluxo vesicoureteral (RVU) da criança. Em concreto, a importante distinção do RVU neonatal associado a hipodisplasia renal do RVU de diagnóstico pós-infecção do tracto urinário e que abalou a individualidade da chamada nefropatia de refluxo (NR) transformando-a numa entidade de amplo espectro em que o achado do RVU pode ser apenas um presumível inocente. Os estudos de biologia molecular reforçam o carácter familiar e genético do RVU e podem ser uma esperança na identificação de diferentes graus da doença e no rastreio, não invasivo, de familiares em risco. A abundância de conhecimentos não produziu, ainda, argumentos suficientemente válidos para estabelecer recomendações quer no diagnóstico quer no tratamento do RVU.

Estes virão dos estudos em curso e que acompanham a longa história natural da doença. Até que os resultados se conheçam e as alternativas se clarifiquem, cada criança com RVU e NR deve ser avaliada individualmente e com independência das pressões do marketing científico, de opinião ou mesmo comercial.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 35 n.º 5/6 (2004)
Electronegativity and chemical hardness of the elements under pressure
Creators: name: Dong, Xiao
name: Oganov, Artem R.
name: Cui, Haixu
name: Zhou, Xiang-Feng
name: Wang, Hui-Tian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abundant evidence has shown the emergence of exotic chemical phenomena under pressure, including the formation of unexpected compounds and strange crystal structures. In many cases, there is no convincing explanation for these phenomena and there are virtually no chemical rules or models capable of predicting or even rationalizing these phenomena. Here we calculate, as a function of pressure, two central chemical properties of atoms, electronegativity and chemical hardness, which can be seen as the first and second-order chemical potentials. Mulliken electronegativity, which equals minus the chemical potential of the electron relative to the vacuum, is appropriately modified - instead of taking the vacuum (impossible under high pressure), we take the homogeneous electron gas as reference. We find that for most elements, chemical hardness and electronegativity decrease with pressure, consistent with pressure-induced metallization. Furthermore, we discover that pressure-induced s-d orbital transfer makes Ni, Pd and Pt "pseudo-noble-gas" atoms with a closed d-shell configuration, and the elements preceding them (Fe and especially Co, Rh, Ir) electron acceptors, while the elements right after them (Cu, Ag, Zn, Cd, for example) become highly electropositive. We show the explicative and predictive power of our electronegativity and chemical hardness scales under pressure.
O Afecto na Criança
Creators: name: Gomes-Pedro, João
name: Monteiro, Maria Benedita
name: Torgal, Fernanda
name: Goldschmidt, Teresa
name: Sobral, Filipa
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Os A. identificam o afecto como expoente e expectativa do desenvolvimento infantil.

Feita uma análise histórica referente aos determinantes científicos que garantem a construção do afecto, os A. sustentam uma terceira via susceptível de explicar o porvir em desenvolvimento, baseado no modo como cada criança interpreta as suas próprias experiências, as suas relações e as suas transacções emocionais.

Nesta coerência, os A. concluem que o bebé gosta de aprender através de emoções, nomeadamente quando elas são mediadas por quem lhe é significativo.

É neste contexto, concluem os A., que o afecto será o termómetro da competência dos profissionais responsáveis pela criança, no nosso tempo.
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