cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Local $C^{0,α}$ Estimates for Viscosity Solutions of Neumann-type Boundary Value Problems
Creators: name: Barles, Guy
name: Da Lio, Francesca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J60; 35B65; 35J65; 35J70

description: In this article, we prove the local $C^{0,α}$ regularity and provide $C^{0,α}$ estimates for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, possibly degenerate, elliptic equations associated to linear or nonlinear Neumann type boundary conditions. The interest of these results comes from the fact that they are indeed regularity results (and not only a priori estimates), from the generality of the equations and boundary conditions we are able to handle and the possible degeneracy of the equations we are able to take in account in the case of linear boundary conditions.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN THE TOURISM SECTOR – THE ROLE OF TOUR GUIDES IN PRESENTING ATTRACTIONS
Creators: name: Potocnik Topler, Jasna
name: Zubanov, Violeta
name: Gorenak, Mitja
name: Knezevic, Mladen
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2017

description: This article examines the experiencing of tourist attractions presented by Tour Guides through word descriptions accompanied by the active participation of the observers, and without Tour Guides. The research is focused on experiencing beauty. Participants were exposed to an experiment comprised of three parts. In the first part, the participants were asked to observe an object from various sides, in the second part they were exposed to the Guide's description using words, and in the third part of the experiment, the participants were exposed to the Guide's description using words and, simultaneously, being asked to produce movements. The experiment showed the participants evaluated the object as more beautiful when it was presented by a Tour Guide.
description: tourismos, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2017)
On Semi-Classical States of Quantum Gravity and Noncommutative Geometry
Creators: name: Aastrup, Johannes
name: Grimstrup, Jesper M.
name: Paschke, Mario
name: Nest, Ryszard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct normalizable, semi-classical states for the previously proposed model of quantum gravity which is formulated as a spectral triple over holonomy loops. The semi-classical limit of the spectral triple gives the Dirac Hamiltonian in 3+1 dimensions. Also, time-independent lapse and shift fields emerge from the semi-classical states. Our analysis shows that the model might contain fermionic matter degrees of freedom. The semi-classical analysis presented in this paper does away with most of the ambiguities found in the initial semi-finite spectral triple construction. The cubic lattices play the role of a coordinate system and a divergent sequence of free parameters found in the Dirac type operator is identified as a certain inverse infinitesimal volume element.
description: 31 pages, 10 figures
Constraints on chameleons and axion-like particles from the GammeV experiment
Creators: name: Steffen, Jason H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the most recent results of both aspects of the GammeV experiment. The first aspect is a search for axion-like particles using a variable baseline, "light-shining-through-a-wall" technique. This search excludes the particle interpretation of the PVLAS signal with high confidence. The second aspect of the GammeV experiment is a search for chameleon particles, scalar particles which may be responsible for the dark energy of the universe. This is accomplished by looking for a characteristic afterglow signature from a "particle-in-a-jar" experiment whereby chameleon particles become trapped in a region with a high magnetic field and slowly decay into detectable photons. This is the first use of this experimental technique to probe for these particles. We place interesting limits on a limited range of general chameleon models. These limits are complimentary to other experiments, such as torsion pendulum experiments, which probe for forces that would result from new scalar particles.
description: 6 pages, submitted to the idm2008 conference proceedings
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay February 2001
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Computer usage; using the internet; referendum on the Articles of the Urgency Law; economic situation of your family; economic situation of the country; future financial expectations; likability of presidential candidates and politicians; public vs. private work; recent purchases of household appliances; personal medical service choices; health insurance coverage; privacy of public companies; public companies using private capital; interest in politics; confidence in politicians; approval of president Jorge Batlle; approval of Parliament; approval of Judicial Court; approval of district mayor; self-identifying feminism; women's rights; secure employment vs. high paying jobs; political spectrum position; past voting history. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
Academic underachievement, self-esteem and self-efficacy in decision making
Creators: name: Filippello, Pina
name: Sorrenti, Luana
name: Larcan, Rosalba
name: Rizzo, Amelia
Publisher: name: University of Messina
Year: 2014

description: The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between decision making styles, self-esteem and self-beliefs about decision- making ability and the differences linked to academic performance. A sample of 100 students split into two groups aged 15-16 years and 17-18 years participated in the study. All subjects compiled the Multidimensional Self-esteem Test (T.M.A. – Bracken, 1993) for the evaluation of academic success and competence of environmental control and How I Make my Choices (H.M.C. – Filippello et al., 2011), a structured interview, specifically designed to measure decision-making styles in two different contexts (school context vs. social context) and decision-making self-efficacy (Low vs. High Self-efficacy in making decisions).

The exploratory factor analysis reflects the theorized construction. Age and gender differences were found. Furthermore, as expected, low academic performance was associated with lower self-esteem, lower decision-making self-efficacy and more dysfunctional decision-making styles. Students with a high  academic performance, instead, showed higher self-esteem, higher decision-making self-efficacy and more functional decision-making styles.

Data encourages the use of H.M.C., not only in the research of personality but also for educational and counseling purposes.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 1, No 3 (2013)
Symmetry and polarity of antiphase boundaries in PbZrO$_3$
Creators: name: Rychetsky, Ivan
name: Schranz, Wilfried
name: Tröster, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polar properties of antiphase boundaries (APBs) in PbZrO$_3$ are analyzed in detail using a recently developed layer group approach in order parameter space and compared with the results from Landau-Ginzburg free energy description. It is shown that the former approach reveals the microscopic APBs' properties, and predicts polar APB structures at particular positions inside the unit cell, which agree very well with recent experimental obsevations [Wei, et.~al. \cite{Wei2014,Wei2015}]. The systematic usage of the method is developed. In contrast with it the commonly used free energy description obscures the microscopic features but still can reflect the macroscopic properties of the APBs by taking into account the bilinear coupling of polarization and order parameter gradients. The relation between the layer group approach and the Landau-Ginzburg free energy description is discussed and two mechanisms of polarization switching inside the APBs are distinguished. It is illustrated that the polar APBs observed in PbZrO$_3$ are consistently and naturally explained by the layer group approach. This analysis is expected to have a significant impact also in other materials.
From solar physics to space weather monitoring. A bilateral initiative for radiation band observation - Giornata Nazionale dello Spazio 2023
Creators: name: Augusto, MARCELLI
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space
Space weather
Solar physics
Sun
SOLARIS

description: The second edition of the Italian National Space Day in Sweden is an event co-organized by the Scientific Office of the Embassy of Italy, the Swedish Space Agency and the Swedish Space Corporation.

The aim of this year’s symposium is to bring together Swedish and Italian researchers engaged in solar imaging observations to investigate the solar atmosphere and the Sun structure and the research and technology used to space weather monitoring. The initiative is coordinated by Augusto Marcelli, scientific attaché in Stockholm, Vilgot Claesson of the Swedish Space Agency and Gunnar Florin of the Swedish Space Corporation.

16 December marks the beginning of Italy's adventure in space, recalling the launch of the San Marco 1 satellite in 1964. Italy became the third country, after the United States and the Soviet Union, to put into orbit an artificial satellite produced entirely at national level. Over time, thanks to the strong commitment of institutions and industry, Italy has become one of the world leaders in this field.

Italy is one of the few countries in the world to have a complete space "supply chain" of products, skills and expertise. Italy’s leadership leverages the capabilities developed by different actors in the space and a wide range of enabling technologies. These range from manufacturing to the operational management.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation is committed to supporting the internationalization of Italian companies working in the space sector through the numerous initiatives of its diplomatic-consular network taking place on the Italian National Space Day, among which dozens of events, conferences, competitions and promotional initiatives.
description: https://innovitalia.esteri.it/notizia/stoccolma--celebrata-la-giornata-italiana-dello-spazio#:~:text=Il%2014%20dicembre%202023%20a,la%20Giornata%20Italiana%20dello%20Spazio.
Leaders, conflict, and team coordination: a relational leadership approach in temporary organisations
Creators: name: Tabassi, Amin Akhavan
name: Bryde, David James
name: Michaelides, Roula
name: Bamford, David
name: Argyropoulou, Maria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: This study explores how the level of relational leadership of team leaders influences team members’ conflict-handling style and team coordination in temporary organisations (TOs). Leaning upon Socio-Psychological and relational leadership theories, the research also evaluates how the cultural background of leaders moderates the nature of the association between relational leadership and project team performance. This contribution is unique by engaging with three moderating cultural groups while drawing on data from 126 teams in TOs using PLS path modelling. The results explain that relational leadership influences team members’ cooperative and conflict-avoiding styles, which are, in turn, positively associated with team coordination and team performance. The judicious and considered use of conflict-avoiding should be recognised as a thoughtful style in multicultural team contexts and as a consequence of relational leadership. Team coordination and performance, however, are related more to relational leadership with the sample of leaders from a specific within-nationality cultural background.
POST-TRAUMATIC DISORDERS IN SURVIVORS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1908 AND THE ITALIAN-TURKISH WAR
Creators: name: Lentini, Rosa Maria
name: Merlino, Marzia
Publisher: name: University of Messina
Year: 2014

description: Usually the first psychological reflections about post traumatic disorders date back to studies carried out during the first World War, nevertheless important investigations about nosological autonomy of serious traumatic syndrome were also implemented in the southernItaly. In particular D’Abundo had fixed the importance of the grave post-traumatic psychic manifestations, including punctual and accurate descriptions of the symptomatology and the relative psychopathological reflections, studying  and analyzing the psychical and mental post-traumatic manifestations produced by natural and military disasters. This author analyzed various clinical cases in order to compare these different types of post traumatic stress disorder, highlighting both the similarities and, above all, the differences between the consequences of these two traumatic events and so the necessity of a different kind of psychological intervention.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 1, No 3 (2013)
Quality Classifiers for Open Source Software Repositories
Creators: name: Tsatsaronis, George
name: Halkidi, Maria
name: Giakoumakis, Emmanouel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.8

description: Open Source Software (OSS) often relies on large repositories, like SourceForge, for initial incubation. The OSS repositories offer a large variety of meta-data providing interesting information about projects and their success. In this paper we propose a data mining approach for training classifiers on the OSS meta-data provided by such data repositories. The classifiers learn to predict the successful continuation of an OSS project. The `successfulness' of projects is defined in terms of the classifier confidence with which it predicts that they could be ported in popular OSS projects (such as FreeBSD, Gentoo Portage).
description: 10 pages, 2 Tables, 7 equations, 13 references. Appeared in 2nd Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Software Engineering Workshop, AIAI 2009
Continuous metal-insulator transition of the antiferromagnetic perovskite NaOsO3
Creators: name: Shi, Y. G.
name: Guo, Y. F.
name: Yu, S.
name: Arai, M.
name: Belik, A. A.
name: Sato, A.
name: Yamaura, K.
name: Takayama-Muromachi, E.
name: Tian, H. F.
name: Yang, H. X.
name: Li, J. Q.
name: Varga, T.
name: Mitchell, J. F.
name: Okamoto, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Newly synthesized perovskite NaOsO3 shows Curie-Weiss metallic nature at high temperature and suddenly goes into an antiferromagnetically insulating state at 410 K on cooling. Electronic specific heat at the low temperature limit is absent, indicating that the band gap fully opens. In situ observation in electron microscopy undetected any lattice anomalies in the vicinity of the transition temperature. It is most likely that the antiferromagnetic correlation plays an essential role of the gap opening.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, PHYS. REV. B 80, 161104(R),(2009)
A QBD based RP-HPLC Method Development and Validation for Quantification of Pregabalin Capsules
Creators: name: Alam, ABM Mahfuz ul
Publisher: name: International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
Year: 2024
Subjects: Quality by Design (QbD)
HPLC
Pregabalin
Lyrica
Chromatography
In-vitro analysis
Pharmaceutical Formulation
Analytical Method Development
Method Validation
Generic Drug
USP Monograph

description: This study emphasizes the pivotal role of Quality by Design (QbD) in the development of pharmaceutical methods, with a particular focus on risk assessment to ensure consistent quality. The research showcases the creation of a precise and practical HPLC method for Pregabalin Capsules, developed using QbD principles. This optimized method, designed through a systematic Design of Experiment approach, provides a robust and cost-effective solution for pharmaceutical analysis, promoting the consistent quality required within predefined specifications. The method employs a Neucleosil C-18 column (150 mm x 4.6 mm, 5μM) and employs isocratic elution with a mobile phase composed of Acetonitrile and Phosphate Buffer (pH 6.8) in a 20: 80 v/v ratio. Key method parameters include a flow rate of 0.9 mL/min, a column oven temperature set at 40°C, an injection volume of 20 μL, and UV detection at 210 nm. Rigorous validation following ICH Q 2 (R1) and USP <1225> guidelines ensures the method's reliability, with assessments of parameters such as limit of detection (LOD), limit of quantification (LOQ), accuracy, precision, and robustness. The method's exceptional sensitivity, selectivity, efficiency, precision, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness make it an optimal choice for pharmaceutical analysis of Pregabalin Capsules.
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PEACE TOURISM TRENDS BETWEEN POLITICALLY DIVIDED SOUTH AND NORTH KOREA: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
Creators: name: Shin, Youngsun
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: On April 13-15, 2000 South and North Korean leaders met in Pyongyang for a meeting of peace ending over fifty years of hostilities. According to this meeting, South and North Korea were believed to be among the economies most directly affected by the world peace process. This had a large effect on both countries in many aspects, socially, politically and economically. One of the sectors, which may gain immediate benefits, is tourism even though the study of the relationship between tourism and peace is relatively new. This study investigates of peace tourism trends between politically divided South and North Korea. It examines tourism as past, present and future activities in influencing reconciliation between the two peoples and governments and discusses the current state of affairs of this two countries and tourism between South and North Korea.
description: tourismos, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2006)
Soft Photon Radiation in Particle Decays in SHERPA
Creators: name: Schoenherr, Marek
name: Krauss, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper the Yennie-Frautschi-Suura approach is used to simulate real and virtual QED corrections in particle decays. It makes use of the universal structure of soft photon corrections to resum the leading logarithmic QED corrections to all orders, and it allows a systematic correction of this approximate result to exact fixed order results from perturbation theory. The approach has been implemented as a Monte Carlo algorithm, which a posteriori modifies decay matrix elements through the emission of varying numbers of photons. The corresponding computer code is incorporated into the SHERPA event generator framework.
description: 59 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables, published version (typos corrected)
Novel Superconducting Characteristics and Unusual Normal-State Properties in Iron-based Pnictide Superconductors: 57Fe-NMR and 75As-NQR/NMR studies in REFeAsO_1-y (RE=La,Pr,Nd) and Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2
Creators: name: Mukuda, H.
name: Terasaki, N.
name: Yashima, M.
name: Nishimura, H.
name: Kitaoka, Y.
name: Iyo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the novel superconducting characteristics and unusual normal-state properties of iron (Fe)-based pnictide superconductors REFeAsO$_{1-y}$ (RE=La,Pr,Nd) and Ba$_{0.6}$K$_{0.4}$Fe$_2$As$_2$($T_{c}=$ 38 K) by means of $^{57}$Fe-NMR and $^{75}$As-NQR/NMR. In the superconducting state of LaFeAsO$_{0.7}$ ($T_{c}=$ 28 K), the spin component of the $^{57}$Fe-Knight shift decreases to almost zero at low temperatures, which provide firm evidence of the superconducting state formed by spin-singlet Cooper pairing. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rates $(1/T_{1})$ in LaFeAsO$_{0.7}$ and Ba$_{0.6}$K$_{0.4}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ exhibit a $T^{3}$-like dependence without a coherence peak just below $T_{c}$, indicating that an unconventional superconducting state is commonly realized in these Fe-based pnictide compounds. All these events below $T_c$ are consistently argued in terms of an extended s$_{\pm}$-wave pairing with a sign reversal of the order parameter among Fermi surfaces. In the normal state, $1/T_1T$ decreases remarkably upon cooling for both the Fe and As sites of LaFeAsO$_{0.7}$. In contrast, it gradually increases upon cooling in Ba$_{0.6}$K$_{0.4}$Fe$_2$As$_2$. Despite the similarity between the superconducting properties of these compounds, a crucial difference was observed in their normal-state properties depending on whether electrons or holes are doped into the FeAs layers. These results may provide some hint to address a possible mechanism of Fe-based pnictide superconductors.
description: 8 pages, 12 figures, Submitted to Physica C Special Edition on Superconducting Pnictides
EAGI's Commitment to Sustainable Development
Creators: name: Meiramova, Saltanat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Dipresentasikan oleh Prof. Saltanat Meiramova dalam kegiatan Workshop "1st WCU International Conference on Sustainable Development" pada Jumat, 7 Februari 2025 secara hybrid dengan Zoom Meeting.
title: Rezension zu: “Brändli, S. (2024). Bildung für alle. 100 Jahre Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik. Chronos. 220 S.”
Creators: name: Bühler, Patrick
name: Deplazes, Daniel
Publisher: name: Publikationsserver der Pädagogischen Hochschule Thurgau
Year: 2024
Subjects: Rezension

description: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften, vol. 46, no. 2, p. 130
PRODUCT DESIGN DECISIONS FOR DEVELOPING NEW TOURIST DESTINATIONS: THE CASE OF RHODOPI MOUNTAIN
Creators: name: Vassiliadis, Chris
name: Siomkos, George
name: Vassilikopoulou, Aikaterini
name: Mylonakis, John
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: The scope of the paper is to present the proper tourist product characteristics and market opportunities by the recipients of the tourist market, aiming at the support of the sustainable tourism design process. These characteristics concern the prospective elevated tourist destinations that may be exploited strategically by the tourist administration of the destinations. For the investigation of the most important product characteristics factor analysis was applied, as well as, spatial perceptual mapping techniques. The paper is based on a situation analysis, using as case the Rhodopi Mountain area in Greece. Results showed that the design of the elevation of the destination is a viable market prospective, if it is based on three major factors: the climate (geophysical and archaeological characteristics), taverns-restaurants (gastronomy) and parking areas (spa, post shops and health centers). Various combinations of relevant characteristics are proposed, which ameliorate particular effective characteristics of the area, which could raise the area’s attractiveness to professional partners and potential groups of customers.
description: tourismos, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2006)
Mesoscale properties of mutualistic networks in ecosystems
Creators: name: Lee, Sang Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Uncovering structural properties of ecological networks is a crucial starting point of studying the system's stability in response to various types of perturbations. We analyze pollination and seed disposal networks, which are representative examples of mutualistic networks in ecosystems, in various scales. In particular, we examine mesoscale properties such as the nested structure, the core-periphery structure, and the community structure by statistically investigating their interrelationships with real network data. As a result of community detection in different scales, we find the absence of meaningful hierarchy between networks, and the negative correlation between the modularity and the two other structures (nestedness and core-periphery-ness), which themselves are highly positively correlated. In addition, no characteristic scale of communities is perceivable from the community-inconsistency analysis. Therefore, the community structures, which are most widely studied mesoscale structures of networks, are not in fact adequate to characterize the mutualistic networks of this scale in ecosystems.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, in Korean
Associations of house characteristics with indoor dampness and measured moisture: Results from three New Zealand House Condition Surveys in 2005, 2010 and 2015
Creators: name: Taptiklis, Phoebe
name: Phipps, Robyn
name: Jones, Mark
name: Douwes, Jeroen
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 50299 Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 120199 Architecture not elsewhere classified

description: No description supplied
STRATEGIC EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN CHINESE LUXURY HOTELS
Creators: name: Wang, Yu
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: Training and development is increasingly important to the international hotel industry, especially in China. This paper examines some Chinese four- and fivestar hotels’ training and development (T&D) practices from a Western human resource development (HRD) perspective and compares the results between the Chinese state ownership and Sino-foreign joint ventures using multiple case studies. Results seem to show that the western way of training and development may not necessarily lead to superior training effects in the Chinese context than those used by state-owned hotels. It suggests that a better T&D model for Chinese hotels may emerge by learning the lessons from both kinds of hotels’ good practices.
description: tourismos, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2006)
Area spectra of the rotating BTZ black hole from quasinormal modes
Creators: name: Kwon, Yongjoon
name: Nam, Soonkeon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following Bekenstein's suggestion that the horizon area of a black hole should be quantized, the discrete spectrum of the horizon area has been investigated in various ways. By considering the quasinormal mode of a black hole, we obtain the transition frequency of the black hole, analogous to the case of a hydrogen atom, in the semiclassical limit. According to Bohr's correspondence principle, this transition frequency at large quantum number is equal to classical oscillation frequency. For the corresponding classical system of periodic motion with this oscillation frequency, an action variable is identified and quantized via Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization, from which the quantized spectrum of the horizon area is obtained. This method can be applied for black holes with discrete quasinormal modes. As an example, we apply the method for the both non-rotating and rotating BTZ black holes and obtain that the spectrum of the horizon area is equally spaced and independent of the cosmological constant for both cases.
SIGNIFYING PRACTICES AND THE CO-TOURIST
Creators: name: Harvey, Daina Cheyenne
name: Lorenzen, Janet
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2006

description: Within the paradigm of tourist studies there has recently been an acceptance of the democratization of tourism and consumption. Missing from the notion of the democratization of tourism is the role of status building through the creation of cultural capital enhancing experiences. While tourist spaces may be becoming democratized, the relationships between tourists within those spaces are not. Increasingly tourists are relying on the performance and presence of other tourists who have similar interests and motives, what we call the role of the cotourist, to facilitate the tourist experience. This paper addresses the importance of recognizing status and consumption for the study of tourism, posits the notion of a co-tourist, and ends with some reflections on the co-tourist in Santa Barbara, California.
description: tourismos, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2006)
Three-loop evolution kernel for transversity operator
Creators: name: Manashov, A. N.
name: Moch, S.
name: Shumilov, L. A.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 530
subject: Higher-Order Perturbative Calculations
subject: Parton Distributions
subject: Renormalization Group
subject: Scale and Conformal Symmetries

description: We calculate quantum corrections to the symmetry generators for the transversity operators in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the two-loop approximation. Using this result, we obtain the evolution kernel for the corresponding operators at three loops. The explicit expression for the anomalous dimension matrix in the Gegenbauer basis is given for the first few operators.
Hyphomycetes from sediments of Marion Lake, British Columbia
Creators: name: Chang, Yola Chiou-Yueh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Geofungi, mainly Hyphomycetes, are important members of aerobic aquatic habitats. The occurrence, distribution and seasonal variation of Hyphomycetes in Marion Lake sediments were studied, using a modi-, fied dilution plate method. The maximum number of viable fungi occurred during the winter. The highest fungal count as well as the largest number of fungal species was found in the deeper-water muds. The pattern of spatial and seasonal variations of fungi is interpreted as the result of the combined action of many factors, such as, temperature, pH and organic matter content of the muds, rain-fall and other microorganisms, all of which affected the pattern to different degrees and at different times. This study shows that there is a sizable and diverse population of Hyphomycetes in Marion Lake sediments. Seventy-three species and species groups, excluding Penicillium species, belonging to 39 genera were isolated and identified. The taxonomy, morphology, ecology and physiology of some of these Hyphomycetes are briefly reviewed. (?)Humicola sp., Penicillium, Trichoderma and hyaline and dark Mycelia Sterilia were the most common fungi. As determined by the agar-diffusion method, 32 of the 36 species and varieties of Hyphomycetes tested exhibited cellulolytic ability. Trichoderma was the strongest cellulose decomposer. Fungal activity in situ also was investigated, being based on observations of cellophane decomposition in the lake muds. In the process of cellophane breakdown, as determined by direct microscopy, cultural isolation and scanning electron microscopy, there was an indication that fungi are more important decomposers than either bacteria or actinomycetes The Hyphomycetes isolated from buried cellophane were the same species recorded as dominant fungi when the modified dilution plate method was use for isolation. Thus, it is implied that these Hyphomycetes are significantly responsible for the decomposition of cellulose in Marion Lake muds.
FROM TRAVELLERS ACCOUNTS TO TRAVEL BOOKS AND GUIDE BOOKS: THE FORMATION OF A GREEK TOURISM MARKET IN THE 19th CENTURY
Creators: name: Dritsas, Margarita
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: The paper traces the emergence of the tourism market by using instead of statistics or quantitative data, which are very rare for the period, alternative sources. It traces the transition from travel writers to travel guide-books by focusing on the rich literature about Greek travel. It points to the process of commodification of poetry and literature of the 1800’s as information sources and tools of creating the tourist ‘gaze’, on the one hand, and to the appearance of the main patterns of the mass tourist market, on the other. By referring to and analysing the most widely used travel books of the period (the John Murray and Baedecker Handbooks for Travel) it contrasts them with earlier forms of travel writing. It points to the process of appropriation of the latter by the new genre; the passage from a more personal, romantic, literary and direct style of individual travellers during the early 19th century to a detached, authoritative and descriptive style at the end of the period. Hypotheses are formulated about how new institutions and businesses contributed to creating and propagating the special tourist gaze about Greece, as well as about the main patterns of mass travel which characterized visits to Greece during the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century. By comparing handbooks the paper also draws hypotheses about the diversification of the market.
description: tourismos, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2006)
Effects of Disorder and Interactions in the Quantum Hall Ferromagnet
Creators: name: Makogon, D.
name: Alamir, A.
name: Smith, C. Morais
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work treats the effects of disorder and interactions in a quantum Hall ferromagnet, which is realized in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field at Landau level filling factor equal one. We study the problem by projecting the original fermionic Hamiltonian into magnon states, which behave as bosons in the vicinity of the ferromagnetic ground state. The approach permits the reformulation of a strongly interacting model into a non-interacting one. The latter is a non-perturbative scheme that consists in treating the two-particle neutral excitations of the electron system as a bosonic single-particle. Indeed, the employment of bosonization facilitates the inclusion of disorder in the study of the system. It has been shown previously that disorder may drive a quantum phase transition in the Hall ferromagnet. However, such studies have been either carried out in the framework of nonlinear sigma model, as an effective low-energy theory, or included the long-range Coulomb interaction in a quantum description only up to the Hartree-Fock level. Here, we establish the occurrence of a disorder-driven quantum phase transition from a ferromagnetic 2DEG to a spin glass phase by taking into account interactions between electrons up to the random phase approximation level in a fully quantum description.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
TRANSPORT CAPITAL AS A DETERMINANT OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A TIME SERIES APPROACH
Creators: name: Boopen, Seetanah
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: Little serious research has been undertaken into the significance of transport as a factor in destination development despite being acknowledged by many writers. The paper aims at identifying and quantifying the factors that made Mauritius attractive to tourists and also to more importantly to investigate the importance transportation capital in the overall destination’s attractiveness. The novelty of this paper is that is extends a classical demand for international tourism function to include a proxy of public capital stock which has been decoupled into transport and non-transport infrastructure, and also uses co-integration analysis to model the determinants of tourism for a small island economy case. Results from the analysis show that transport capital stock of the country has been contributing positively of the number of tourist arrival in both short and long run. Tourism infrastructure is reported to be a more important ingredient than transport in the tourism equation. Non transport infrastructure, though having a positive sign, was however found to be insignificant. The study thus highlights the importance of transport capital in adding to the value of service and experience received by tourism.
description: tourismos, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2006)
Hearing Loss Interventions for Occupational Therapy Practitioners: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Bell, Juliana
name: Carsone, Blair
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Hearing loss can impact an individual’s mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This review identifies existing research on client-centered interventions for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) clients which occupational therapy practitioners should understand. Databases searched included CINAHL, JSTOR, ERIC, PsychINFO, and Google Scholar. Full-text articles published in English from December 2013 to December 2023 were reviewed. After data extraction and analysis, 77 articles were synthesized, and interventions were categorized by type, occupation, relevant age group, theme, and professional performing the intervention. Understanding these interventions will help occupational therapy practitioners support DHH clients across the lifespan.
Palliative care home service. An explorative research on care workers in an integrated home-assisted center for palliative care
Creators: name: Quattropani, Maria Catena
name: Lenzo, Vittorio
name: Rossello, Rosalba
name: Grimaldi, Ferdinando
name: Grasso, Daniela
Publisher: name: University of Messina
Year: 2014

description: The study aims at investigating the operators' impressions about the needs of patients and their families, their idea of palliative care, their moods and what they consider important in everyday clinical activity.
Specifically, the study involved a group of 20 operators in a home palliative care service. Data were obtained through a self-report questionnaire. The results find the operators' strong need to share their work experience. Moreover the whole team is reputed to be important. This work is considered  to be a source of human and professional gratification rather than economic. Finally, according to operators home palliative care involve a strong interplay between the operators' technical skills and their human resources.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 1, No 3 (2013)
Quasisymmetric distortion spectrum
Creators: name: Prause, István
name: Smirnov, Stanislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30C62, 30C80, 30C85

description: We give improved bounds for the distortion of the Hausdorff dimension under quasisymmetric maps in terms of the dilatation of their quasiconformal extension. The sharpness of the estimates remains an open question and is shown to be closely related to the fine structure of harmonic measure.
description: 14 pages
Clinical and in vitro observations in cancer patients during immunotherapy
Creators: name: Clements, Donna V. M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The value of immunotherapy, in conjunction with radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery, in controlling cancer is slowly becoming established. Reported here are clinical and in vitro observations on the effect of BCG immunization in a preliminary study of patients with lymphomas and of BCG, PPD, and vaccinia virus in the management of malignant melanoma. As oral BCG was used in these patients to stimulate the maximum amount of lymphoid tissue, it was deemed necessary to determine whether oral BCG was an effective means of inducing sensitivity. Consequently, normal healthy volunteer student nurses were divided into two groups; one group received oral BCG while the second group were immunized with intradermal BCG. Follow-up skin testing showed a much lower degree of sensitivity in those nurses who had received oral BCG. This difference, however, was not apparent using an in vitro assay to determine sensitivity. Maintenance of remission solely by repeated BCG vaccinations in seven patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who had achieved a complete clinical remission with initial standard therapy has provided sufficient encouragement to begin a randomized clinical trial. In vitro lymphocyte responses to mitogens and PPD used as parameters of cell-mediated immunity have not proved to be of value in predicting early or late recurrence in pre-trial and trial patients. Eight out of twenty-one patients with malignant melanoma have shown a satisfactory clinical response to immunotherapy. Those who respond must show immunological reactivity to the stimulating agent, however the best clinical responses were not associated with the highest degrees of in vivo and in vitro sensitization. The skin reactivity and the in vitro lymphocyte response to PPD as well as a 2 - 3 fold increase in the appearance of colony-forming units in the peripheral blood following the intratumour injection of BCG or PPD are helpful in prognosis and management of these patients. In general patients with malignant melanoma who presented with a PHA response less than 40% of normal made a poor response to immunotherapy. Autopsies performed on seven patients dying with extensive melanocarcinomatous disease failed to show any serious adverse toxic reactions or infections from oral and intratumour injections of BCG.
Wall Crossing of BPS States on the Conifold from Seiberg Duality and Pyramid Partitions
Creators: name: Chuang, Wu-yen
name: Jafferis, Daniel L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the relation between pyramid partitions with a general empty room configuration (ERC) and the BPS states of D-branes on the resolved conifold. We find that the generating function for pyramid partitions with a length n ERC is exactly the same as the D6/D2/D0 BPS partition function on the resolved conifold in particular Kaehler chambers. We define a new type of pyramid partition with a finite ERC that counts the BPS degeneracies in certain other chambers. The D6/D2/D0 partition functions in different chambers were obtained by applying the wall crossing formula. On the other hand, the pyramid partitions describe T^3 fixed points of the moduli space of a quiver quantum mechanics. This quiver arises after we apply Seiberg dualities to the D6/D2/D0 system on the conifold and choose a particular set of FI parameters. The arrow structure of the dual quiver is confirmed by computation of the Ext group between the sheaves. We show that the superpotential and the stability condition of the dual quiver with this choice of the FI parameters give rise to the rules specifying pyramid partitions with length n ERC.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures. CMP version
Reinforcement-learning-based control of confined cylinder wakes with stability analyses
Creators: name: Li, Jichao
name: Zhang, Mengqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work studies the application of a reinforcement-learning-based (RL) flow control strategy to the flow past a cylinder confined between two walls in order to suppress vortex shedding. The control action is blowing and suction of two synthetic jets on the cylinder. The theme of this study is to investigate how to use and embed physical information of the flow in the RL-based control. First, global linear stability and sensitivity analyses based on the time-mean flow and the steady flow (which is a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations) are conducted in a range of blockage ratios and Reynolds numbers. It is found that the most sensitive region in the wake extends itself when either parameter increases in the parameter range we investigated here. Then, we utilise these physical results to help design RL-based control policies. We find that the controlled wake converges to the unstable steady base flow, where the vortex shedding can be successfully suppressed. A persistent oscillating control seems necessary to maintain this unstable state. The RL algorithm is able to outperform a gradient-based optimisation method (optimised in a certain period of time) in the long run. Furthermore, when the flow stability information is embedded in the reward function to penalise the instability, the controlled flow may become more stable. Finally, according to the sensitivity analyses, the control is most efficient when the probes are placed in the most sensitive region. The control can be successful even when few probes are properly placed in this manner.
description: 35 pages, 22 figures, accepted by JFM
Protocol For a Scoping Review of Intergenerational Activities Using Food
Creators: name: Mohamed, Juliana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Applied Psychology

description: Intergenerational programming (IGP) is a process of getting elderly and children together to get involve in events for their reciprocal gains. Benefits of involving in IGP include improved health and well‐being among older people, reduced antisocial behaviour among children, and creating a sense of community and a more complete civilisation. Overall, such activities would contribute to the psychological, emotional, and physical health of both children and older adults. Effective intergenerational programming has favourable outcomes related to health and well-being, welfare, isolation and sense of worth for the elderly, acquisition of specific skills and self-esteem for younger generations, and increased understanding, acquaintance, gratification and self-confidence for both groups. There is very little reported work on the social role of food in care home settings although there has been vast research on interventions with a focus on specific nutritional outcomes. A substantial literature on intergenerational activities have been found, but there are only a few pertinent articles on the food-related intergenerational work in care homes. A review mapping the existing literature on IGP using food, therefore, is needed. In this paper, protocol for a scoping review to identify and map IGP using food and its impact to the elderly is outlined.