cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A transit timing analysis of nine RISE light curves of the exoplanet system TrES-3
Creators: name: Gibson, N. P.
name: Pollacco, D.
name: Skillen, I.
name: Simpson, E. K.
name: Barros, S.
name: Joshi, Y. C.
name: Todd, I.
name: Benn, C.
name: Christian, D.
name: Hrudková, M.
name: Keenan, F. P.
name: Steele, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present nine newly observed transits of TrES-3, taken as part of a transit timing program using the RISE instrument on the Liverpool Telescope. A Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo analysis was used to determine the planet-star radius ratio and inclination of the system, which were found to be Rp/Rstar=0.1664^{+0.0011}_{-0.0018} and i = 81.73^{+0.13}_{-0.04} respectively, consistent with previous results. The central transit times and uncertainties were also calculated, using a residual-permutation algorithm as an independent check on the errors. A re-analysis of eight previously published TrES-3 light curves was conducted to determine the transit times and uncertainties using consistent techniques. Whilst the transit times were not found to be in agreement with a linear ephemeris, giving chi^2 = 35.07 for 15 degrees of freedom, we interpret this to be the result of systematics in the light curves rather than a real transit timing variation. This is because the light curves that show the largest deviation from a constant period either have relatively little out-of-transit coverage, or have clear systematics. A new ephemeris was calculated using the transit times, and was found to be T_c(0) = 2454632.62610 +- 0.00006 HJD and P = 1.3061864 +- 0.0000005 days. The transit times were then used to place upper mass limits as a function of the period ratio of a potential perturbing planet, showing that our data are sufficiently sensitive to have probed for sub-Earth mass planets in both interior and exterior 2:1 resonances, assuming the additional planet is in an initially circular orbit.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Coulomb corrections to superallowed beta decay in nuclei
Creators: name: Auerbach, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Corrections to the superallowed beta decay matrix elements are evaluated in perturbation theory using the notion of the isovector monopole resonance. The calculation avoids the separation into different contributions and thus presents a consistent, systematic and more transparent approach. Explicit expressions for the Coulomb correction as a function of mass number A, are given.
description: 10 pages
Attractively bound pairs of atoms in the Bose-Hubbard model and antiferromagnetism
Creators: name: Schmidt, Bernd
name: Bortz, Michael
name: Eggert, Sebastian
name: Fleischhauer, Michael
name: Petrosyan, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a periodic lattice loaded with pairs of bosonic atoms tightly bound to each other via strong attractive on-site interaction that exceeds the inter-site tunneling rate. An ensemble of such lattice-dimers is accurately described by an effective Hamiltonian of hard core bosons with strong nearest-neighbor repulsion which is equivalent to the $XXZ$ model with Ising-like anisotropy. We calculate the ground-state phase diagram for a one-dimensional system which exhibits incompressible phases, corresponding to an empty and a fully filled lattice (ferromagnetic phases) and a half-filled alternating density crystal (anti-ferromagnetic phase), separated from each other by compressible phases. In a finite lattice the compressible phases show characteristic oscillatory modulations on top of the anti-ferromagnetic density profile and in density-density correlations. We derive a kink model which provides simple quantitative explanation of these features. To describe the long-range correlations of the system we employ the Luttinger liquid theory with the relevant Luttinger parameter $K$ obtained exactly using the Bethe Ansatz solution. We calculate the density-density as well as first-order correlations and find excellent agreement with numerical results obtained with density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) methods. We also present a perturbative treatment of the system in higher dimensions.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Syntheses of two copper(II) coordination polymers from a morpholine-based tridentate Schiff base ligand: crystal structures and magnetic properties
Creators: name: Mandal, Naba Kr
name: Gómez-García, Carlos J.
name: Saha, Pinaki
name: Naskar, Jnan Prakash
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Two new one-dimensional (1-D) end-to-end azido and thiocyanato bridged Cu(II) coordination polymers, [Cu(L)(µ-1,3-N3)]n(ClO4)n (1) and [Cu(L)(µ-1,3-NCS)]n(ClO4)n (2) with a morpholine-based tridentate N,N,N-donor Schiff base ligand (1-methyl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)-N-[2-(morpholin-4-yl)ethyl]methanimine, L) have been synthesized. Compounds 1 and 2 have been characterized by elemental analyses and spectroscopic techniques. The X-ray single crystal structures of 1 and 2 show the formation of regular zigzag chains with µ-1,3-azido and µ-1,3-thiocyanate bridges, respectively. Variable temperature (2–300 K) magnetic studies indicate that 1 shows a ferromagnetic intrachain exchange interaction with g = 2.135(2) and J = 2.13(2) cm−1, while in 2 this interaction is antiferromagnetic with g = 2.1412(3) and J = –0.277(2) cm−1. X-band EPR spectra of 1 and 2 in frozen (143 K) DMF solution corroborate our magnetic studies.
Multiscale analysis of subwavelength imaging with metal-dielectric multilayers
Creators: name: Kotynski, Rafal
name: Stefaniuk, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Imaging with a layered superlens is a spatial filtering operation characterized by the point spread function (PSF). We show that in the same optical system the image of a narrow sub-wavelength Gaussian incident field may be surprisingly dissimilar to the PSF, and the width of PSF is not a straightforward measure of resolution. FWHM or std. dev. of PSF give ambiguous information about the actual resolution, and imaging of objects smaller than the FWHM of PSF is possible. A multiscale analysis of imaging gives good insight into the peculiar scale-dependent properties of sub-wavelength imaging.
description: 3 pages, 5 figures,
nestor endorsement of TRUST Principles
Creators: name: Arnold, Denis
name: Lindlar, Michelle
name: Recker, Jonas
name: Schoger, Astrid
name: Schumann, Natascha
Publisher: name: Meyrin : CERN
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: digital preservation
subject: Research Data Management
subject: 020

description: Nestor - the German-speaking competence network for digital preservation - welcomes the TRUST principles as outlined in the white paper (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7) and joins the call for endorsement by the Research Data Alliance (https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-community-effort-trust-principles-digital-repositories). nestor clearly sees the need for further development of the principles as they move into practise. As part of this, an ad-hoc WG TRUST discussed the principled and has released the statement "nestor endorsement of TRUST Principles". Benefits and recommendations at a glace • provides a common framework to facilitate discussion by all stakeholders • mnemonic helps to raise awareness • provides a low-threshold entry point • principles do not convey a sufficiently comprehensive picture of the requirements • preservation planning and suitable long-term preservation strategies are missing • TRUST Principles must be linked with established and accepted criteria suited to measuring trust-worthiness
Shaken and stirred: conduction and turbulence in clusters of galaxies
Creators: name: Ruszkowski, M.
name: Oh, S. Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (abridged) Uninhibited radiative cooling in clusters of galaxies would lead to excessive mass accretion rates contrary to observations. One of the key proposals to offset radiative energy losses is thermal conduction from outer, hotter layers of cool core clusters to their centers. However, conduction is sensitive to magnetic field topology. In cool-core clusters the heat buoyancy instability (HBI) leads to B-fields ordered preferentially in the direction perpendicular to that of gravity, which significantly reduces the level of conduction below the classical Spitzer-Braginskii value. However, the cluster cool cores are rarely in perfect hydrostatic equilibrium. Sloshing motions due to minor mergers, galaxy motions or AGN can significantly perturb the gas and affect the level of thermal conduction. We perform 3D AMR MHD simulations of the effect of turbulence on the properties of the anisotropic thermal conduction in cool core clusters. We show that very weak subsonic motions, well within observational constraints, can randomize the magnetic field and significantly boost effective thermal conduction beyond the saturated values expected in the pure unperturbed HBI case. We find that the turbulent motions can essentially restore the conductive heat flow to the cool core to level comparable to the theoretical maximum of 1/3 Spitzer for a highly tangled field. Runs with radiative cooling show that the cooling catastrophe can be averted and the cluster core stabilized. Above a critical Froude number, these same turbulent motions also eliminate the tangential bias in the velocity and magnetic field that is otherwise induced by the trapped g-modes. Our results can be tested with future radio polarization measurements, and have implications for efficient metal dispersal in clusters.
description: submitted to ApJ, references added, expanded Section 4
title: Statistisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Zürich 1910 und 1911
title: Stat. Jahrb. Stadt Zür.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: zum Teil auch 1912
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Kommissionsverlag von Rascher & Co.
Year: 1914
Subjects: subject: 314 Allgemeine Statistiken zu Europa
subject: Amtliche Statistik
subject: Bevölkerungsstatistik
subject: Wirtschaftsstatistik
subject: Stadtleben
subject: Zürich
subject: Baustatistik

description: Die in dieser Ausgabe publizierten Daten beziehen sich zum grössten Teil auf folgenden Zeitabschnitt : 1910, 1911
description: Bedingt durch umfangreiche und zeitraubende Vorarbeiten für die Aufbereitung des Materials der Volks-, Wohnungs-, und Grundstückszählung von 1910 verzögerte sich die Herausgabe des Statistischen Jahrbuchs der Stadt Zürich um mehrere Jahre. Ebenfalls zur Verzögerung beigetragen hat die Aufnahme der statistischen Umgebung Zürichs. Neu ist auch die Fruchtbarkeitsstatistik, die erstmalige Ermittlung der gesamten Liegenschaftswerte in der Stadt sowie die Statistik des städtischen Haushaltes und die Übersicht über Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer der städtischen Verwaltung.
Pulsar-wind nebulae in X-rays and TeV gamma-rays
Creators: name: Kargaltsev, Oleg
name: Pavlov, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pulsars are known to be efficient accelerators that produce copious amounts of relativistic particles and inject them into the Galactic medium. The radiation emitted by such a pulsar wind can be seen from radio through gamma-rays as a pulsar-wind nebula (PWN). Here we overview and summarize recent progress in X-ray and TeV observations of PWNe.
description: 8 pages, 1 fugure, 2 tables to appear in the proceedings of "X-ray Astronomy 2009" conference, Bologna, Italy, September, 2009 published by AIP. Minor changes in the Tables and references. Added acknowledgment.
Effect of special training in mottor skills on the reading ability of grade two pupils with specific reading disability
Creators: name: Duggan, E. Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of special training in motor ability skills on the reading ability of grade two pupils who have a specific reading disability. Thirty subjects, all of them grade two pupils at the Sir Richard McBride Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, were selected. All were classed as poor readers on the basis of the Metropolitan Reading Achievement Test. The subjects were given pre-trainlng standardized tests in Mental Ability, Reading Achievement, Visual Perception, and General Motor Capacity. They were then randomly assigned to five sub-groups for Special Training purposes. Group I was the control group. Group II received extra instruction in motor skills and reading. Group III were given special training in motor skills. Group IV received extra reading instruction, and Group V received special training in both reading and visual perception. The thirty subjects were equally distributed, six in each group. The experimental groups received approximately fifty minutes of special training every day for a period of sixty-five days. Case Studies were made of the six subjects in Group III, the Motor Ability Group. At the conclusion of the Special Training Period, all subjects were again tested in general motor capacity, visual perception, and reading ability. Initial and final test scores in motor capacity, perception, and reading were analysed by Fisher's t statistic and the differences between mean improvements of the five groups were discussed. Case Study Reports were written for each of the subjects in Group III. A review of the Case Study Reports revealed that all of the subjects in the Motor Ability Group improved in reading ability, visual perception, and motor skills. The group mean scores, before and after training, indicated that children who received special training in motor skills (Group III) improved in reading ability as measured by the Metropolitan Reading Achievement Test, but no more than children in any of the remaining groups. It appears also that special training in motor ability skills can cause an improvement in the motor ability and visual perception of children at this age level.
title: The Potential Application of Behavior-Based Safety in the Trucking Industry
Creators: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Publisher: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01jt5mq34
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2000
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90604
subject: Trucking safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91798
subject: Human factors
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91863
subject: Behavior
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88626
subject: Performance evaluations
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89477
subject: Driver monitoring

description: Behavior-based safety (BBS) is a set of methods to improve safety performance in the workplace by engaging workers in the improvement process, identifying critical safety behaviors, performing observations to gather data, providing feedback to encourage improvement, and using gathered data to target system factors for positive change. In August, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) sponsored a group of seminars on BBS as part of its human factors research program on driver performance enhancement. In particular, FMCSA is interested in ensuring the safe, effective use of current and advanced in-vehicle driver performance monitoring devices (e.g., speed monitoring, headway monitoring, alertness monitoring). Performance monitoring offers an opportunity to improve driver safety and productivity by measuring and providing feedback to drivers on critical performance variables. 4 p.
Silver Nanoparticles Surface-Modified with Carbosilane Dendrons as Carriers of Anticancer siRNA
Creators: name: Pędziwiatr-Werbicka, Elżbieta
name: Gorzkiewicz, Michał
name: Horodecka, Katarzyna
name: Abashkin, Viktar
name: Klajnert-Maculewicz, Barbara
name: Peña-González, Cornelia E.
name: Sánchez-Nieves, Javier
name: Gómez, Rafael
name: Javier De La Mata, F.
name: Bryszewska, Maria
Publisher: name: Basel : Molecular Diversity Preservation International
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anticancer gene therapy
subject: Carbosilane dendrons
subject: Complexation
subject: Silver nanoparticles
subject: SiRNA
subject: 570
subject: 540

description: Gene therapy is a promising approach in cancer treatment; however, current methods have a number of limitations mainly due to the difficulty in delivering therapeutic nucleic acids to their sites of action. The application of non-viral carriers based on nanomaterials aims at protecting genetic material from degradation and enabling its effective intracellular transport. We proposed the use of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) surface-modified with carbosilane dendrons as carriers of anticancer siRNA (siBcl-xl). Using gel electrophoresis, zeta potential and hydrodynamic diameter measurements, as well as transmission electron microscopy, we characterized AgNP:siRNA complexes and demonstrated the stability of nucleic acid in complexes in the presence of RNase. Hemolytic properties of free silver nanoparticles and complexes, their effect on lymphocyte proliferation and cytotoxic activity on HeLa cells were also examined. Confocal microscopy proved the effective cellular uptake of complexes, indicating the possible use of this type of silver nanoparticles as carriers of genetic material in gene therapy. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
AV-Courant algebroids and generalized CR structures
Creators: name: Li-Bland, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct a generalization of Courant algebroids which are classified by the third cohomology group $H^3(A,V)$, where $A$ is a Lie Algebroid, and $V$ is an $A$-module. We see that both Courant algebroids and $\mathcal{E}^1(M)$ structures are examples of them. Finally we introduce generalized CR structures on a manifold, which are a generalization of generalized complex structures, and show that every CR structure and contact structure is an example of a generalized CR structure.
description: 18 pages
Restoration of the chiral limit in Pauli-Villars-regulated light-front QED
Creators: name: Chabysheva, Sofia S.
name: Hiller, John R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dressed-electron eigenstate of Feynman-gauge QED is computed in light-front quantization with a Fock-space truncation to include at most the one-photon/one-electron sector. The theory is regulated by the inclusion of three massive Pauli-Villars (PV) particles, one PV electron and two PV photons. In particular, the chiral limit is investigated, and the correct limit is found to require two PV photons, not just one as previously thought. The renormalization and covariance of the electron current are also analyzed. We find that the plus component is well behaved and use its spin-flip matrix element to compute the electron's anomalous moment. The dependence of the moment on the regulator masses is shown to be slowly varying when the second PV photon is used to guarantee the correct chiral limit.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX/REVtex; added new discussion and references, and corrected typos
Aula Invertida Híbrida: Fundamentos y planificación para la puesta en práctica en el ámbito universitario
Creators: name: Fidalgo-Blanco, Ángel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Aula Invertida, Flipped Classroom, Flip Teaching, Metodologías activas, Impacto en el aprendizaje, Indicadores de innovación.

description: Curso impartido en la Universidad Pública de Navarra. Curso de formación PDI. Impartido del día 13 al 16 de julio de 2020. El curso se ha impartido siguiendo la metodología de Aula Invertida Híbrida, en este caso aplicada en su modalidad on-line. Hay dos tipos de actividades síncronas. Las asíncronas simularán la lección en casa y las síncronas “los deberes en clase”. Las sesiones han sido: • Lunes 13 de julio de 2020. Realización de la primera actividad del curso (1 hora trabajo asíncrono). • Martes 14 de julio de 2020 de 10.30 a 13.30 horas. Introducción y métodos. Planificación para la puesta en práctica (3 horas de trabajo síncrono por video conferencia (VC). • Miércoles 15 de julio de 2020. Realización de la segunda actividad del curso (1 hora trabajo asíncrono) • Jueves 16 de julio de 2020 de 10.30 a 13.30 horas. Discusión y conclusiones. (3 horas de trabajo síncrono por VC Los objetivos del curso: Dar pautas para aumentar la participación activa del alumnado en el aprendizaje. Conocer e identificar tipos de contenidos, tecnologías y actividades propias de la metodología Aula Invertida. Aplicar Aula Invertida de forma híbrida y flexible para su adaptación a la nueva “normalidad académica” Diseñar y desarrollar actividades de Aula Invertida con Aprendizaje Personalizado en Moodle.
Collective Rights for Platform Workers. The Role Played by the Italian Workers’ Statute in a Comparative Perspective
Creators: name: Menegatti, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2023

description: The interposition of a digital platform between consumers and workers providing services, even of a very traditional nature, has led to the creation of a (relatively) new business model, where there is an attempt to deny providers access to rights and protections typical of labour law; among these, collective rights. My intervention aims to offer a comparison between the Italian legal system, on one hand, and the American and British ones on the other, demonstrating how the former, unlike the latter, thanks to the support provided by the workers’ statute to freedom and union activity in workplaces, has managed to provide the necessary tools to effectively address the aforementioned challenges.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2023)
title: Motor Carrier Technology - Fleet Operational Impacts and Implications for ITS/CVO
Creators: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Publisher: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01jt5mq34
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2000
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89704
subject: Commercial vehicle operations
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91993
subject: Motor carriers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90604
subject: Trucking safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89699
subject: Intelligent transportation systems
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96762
subject: Information technology

description: The Intelligent Transportation Systems/Commercial Vehicle Operations (ITS/CVO) Program is a cooperative effort between the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA), the Federal Highway Administration, States, Motor carriers, and other transportation stakeholders to define, pilot test, and deploy technologies, information systems, and networks to enhance roadway safety, credentialing, and operations. To guide the development of effective ITS/CVO services, FMSCA conducted research to examine information and technology use by motor carriers and explore the implications for ITS/CVO services. This tech brief summarizes the study final report.
The ILIUM forward modelling algorithm for multivariate parameter estimation and its application to derive stellar parameters from Gaia spectrophotometry
Creators: name: Bailer-Jones, C. A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: I introduce an algorithm for estimating parameters from multidimensional data based on forward modelling. In contrast to many machine learning approaches it avoids fitting an inverse model and the problems associated with this. The algorithm makes explicit use of the sensitivities of the data to the parameters, with the goal of better treating parameters which only have a weak impact on the data. The forward modelling approach provides uncertainty (full covariance) estimates in the predicted parameters as well as a goodness-of-fit for observations. I demonstrate the algorithm, ILIUM, with the estimation of stellar astrophysical parameters (APs) from simulations of the low resolution spectrophotometry to be obtained by Gaia. The AP accuracy is competitive with that obtained by a support vector machine. For example, for zero extinction stars covering a wide range of metallicity, surface gravity and temperature, ILIUM can estimate Teff to an accuracy of 0.3% at G=15 and to 4% for (lower signal-to-noise ratio) spectra at G=20. [Fe/H] and logg can be estimated to accuracies of 0.1-0.4dex for stars with G<=18.5. If extinction varies a priori over a wide range (Av=0-10mag), then Teff and Av can be estimated quite accurately (3-4% and 0.1-0.2mag respectively at G=15), but there is a strong and ubiquitous degeneracy in these parameters which limits our ability to estimate either accurately at faint magnitudes. Using the forward model we can map these degeneracies (in advance), and thus provide a complete probability distribution over solutions. (Abridged)
description: MNRAS, in press. This revision corrects a few minor errors and typos. A better formatted version for A4 paper is available at http://www.mpia.de/home/calj/ilium.pdf
Additional file 1 of Effect of Baduanjin exercise intervention on cognitive function and quality of life in women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Wei, Xiao-Lin
name: Yuan, Ru-Zhen
name: Jin, Yong-Mei
name: Li, Shu
name: Wang, Ming-Yue
name: Jiang, Jie-Ting
name: Wu, Cai-Qin
name: Li, Kun-Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1:. SPIRIT 2013 checklist: recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents.
Nourishing the Dhamma : vegetarianism and animal nonviolence in Therav‚àö‚Ä†da Buddhism with a special focus on Sinhala Buddhism
Creators: name: Stewart, JJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: P¿ívÖli canonical texts routinely report the Buddha as saying that a good Buddhist must never kill another living creature. Such statements are, in many cases, explicitly applied to the case of animals. Not only do such claims imply animal protectionism, but they also imply vegetarianism: if animals are not to be killed, then it seems to follow trivially that they cannot be eaten either. Yet this seemingly trivial move from the non-killing of animals to the non-eating of them is explicitly avoided in the P¿ívÖli canonical texts. This project investigates the prima facie case for vegetarianism, both in the P¿ívÖli canonical texts and in the Therav¿ívÖda tradition more widely ‚ÄövÑvÆ a living tradition that is, in certain crucial ways, based upon that textual tradition. The textual component of this investigation is largely confined to an examination of P¿ívÖli canonical texts. In respect to the lived Therav¿ívÖda tradition, the project specifically engages Sinhala Buddhism as practised in Sri Lanka. The latter investigation is made possible by fieldwork conducted at various times throughout 2011 and early 2012 in the Colombo and K‚àö¬¥galle areas. In the first half of the thesis, I argue that, within the P¿ívÖli canon, a conflict arises around the issue of vegetarianism. Although the canon implies vegetarianism based upon its first principles, this vegetarianism is explicitly denied. I suggest that this denial could be explained as a historical anomaly brought about by certain prudential and circumstantial factors. The non-endorsement of vegetarianism, therefore, may not represent the Buddha's considered and final ethical view on this matter. The second half of the thesis is primarily ethnographic in character. I argue in this section that the same conflict that we find in the textual tradition is repeated in the contemporary lived tradition. Lay informants maintained a pro-attitude to vegetarianism and generally concluded that a good Buddhist ought to be a vegetarian. Monastic informants, however, were far more circumspect about the issue and tended to remain agnostic as to whether vegetarianism was morally acceptable. I conclude by arguing that Therav¿ívÖda Buddhism, as represented by my sample of Sinhala informants and the textual tradition that operates in the background, generally favours vegetarianism, but a wide range of largely circumstantial factors results in the stymying of the expression of this vegetarianism. This unusual tension should not necessarily be taken as a defect in Buddhism - rather, Therav¿ívÖda Buddhism is highly sensitive to context and encourages the negotiation of moral problems in a flexible and open-ended way. The results of this study therefore tell us something useful about Buddhist Ethics more generally.
Shoreline Change Analysis Using Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DAS) in The Coastal Area of Jambusar, Gujarat, India
Creators: name: Prakash, Indra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The shoreline keeps changing with respect to time due to hydrodynamic actions of sea/ocean waves in the open coast. In the Gulf area shore line changes are controlled by river flows and sediments movement from inland besides sea waves. The Gulf of Khambhat, India is a dynamic area in the Arabian Sea with tidal waves height varying from 8 m to 11m modifying the morphology of coastal zones. In this study we have selected Jambusar taluka forming eastern boundary of this Gulf for shoreline change analysis using Digital Shore Analysis System (DSAS) software. Remote sensing and GIS techniques were used for demarcating and extracting coastline from Landsat images of 1998, 2009, 2017, and 2021 as an input in the DSAS for change detection and assessment. The results of the study indicated that the Jambusar coastline is mainly under erosion: 20% under high to moderate and 52.83% under Very low erosion, 20%. About 26% coastline is showing accretion, out of which 17.19% under high accretion. DSAS has also provided the rate of erosion and accretion in the coastal zone of Jambusar which can be used for proper coastal management considering shoreline changes.
High-speed dual color fluorescence lifetime endomicroscopy for highly-multiplexed pulmonary diagnostic applications and detection of labeled bacteria
Creators: name: Pedretti, Ettore
name: Tanner, Michael G.
name: Choudhary, Tushar R.
name: Krstajic, Nikola
name: Megia-Fernandez, Alicia
name: Henderson, Robert K.
name: Bradley, Mark
name: Thomson, Robert R.
name: Girkin, John M.
name: Dhaliwal, Kevin
name: Dalgarno, Paul A.
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : OSA
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: dual-color laser scanning endomicroscope
subject: coherent imaging fiber
subject: single-photon avalanche diode detectors (SPADs)
subject: 530
subject: 610

description: We present a dual-color laser scanning endomicroscope capable of fluorescence lifetime endomicroscopy at one frame per second (FPS). The scanning system uses a coherent imaging fiber with 30,000 cores. High-speed lifetime imaging is achieved by distributing the signal over an array of 1024 parallel single-photon avalanche diode detectors (SPADs), minimizing detection dead-time maximizing the number of photons detected per excitation pulse without photon pile-up to achieve the high frame rate. This also enables dual color fluorescence imaging by temporally shifting the dual excitation lasers, with respect to each other, to separate the two spectrally distinct fluorescent decays in time. Combining the temporal encoding, to provide spectral separation, with lifetime measurements we show a one FPS, multi-channel endomicroscopy platform for clinical applications and diagnosis. We demonstrate the potential of the system by imaging SmartProbe labeled bacteria in ex vivo samples of human lung using lifetimeto differentiate bacterial fluorescence from the strong background lung autofluorescence which was used to provide structural information.
title: Statistisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Zürich 1912 und 1913
title: Stat. Jahrb. Stadt Zür.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Kommissionsverlag von Rascher & Co.
Year: 1916
Subjects: subject: 314 Allgemeine Statistiken zu Europa
subject: Amtliche Statistik
subject: Bevölkerungsstatistik
subject: Wirtschaftsstatistik
subject: Stadtleben
subject: Zürich
subject: Baustatistik

description: Die in dieser Ausgabe publizierten Daten beziehen sich zum grössten Teil auf folgenden Zeitabschnitt : 1912, 1913
description: Der erste Weltkrieg führte auch in den neutralen Ländern zu einer Mobilmachung. So entfielen dem Statistischen Amt in den Kriegsjahren Arbeitskräfte, sodass sich die Fertigstellung des Statistischen Jahrbuchs der Stadt Zürich verzögerte. So kam es, dass der achte und neunte Jahrgang erst 1916 erschien. Dafür wurden jene Themen für die Jahre 1914 und 1915 bereits in die vorliegende Ausgabe einbezogen, die durch den Krieg besonders stark betroffen waren; Namentlich die Bevölkerungsbewegung, Daten zum Grundstücks-, Bau-, und Wohnungsmarkt sowie die Lebensmittelpreise. Neu hinzugekommen sind Nachweise über Alter und Familienstand von Getrauten, Neugeborene nach Alter und Heimat der Mutter sowie diverse Tabellen zu Sterbeziffern und Todesursachen. Detailliertere Informationen sind dem Vorwort zu entnehmen. Bedingt durch die 1913 in Kraft getretene neue Stadtkreiseinteilung wurden alle Tabellen mit örtlicher Gliederung überarbeitet. Die vergleichenden Übersichten blieben davon ausgeschlossen. Auch hier sind dem Vorwort mehr Details zu entnehmen.
title: Driver Alertness and Fatigue: Summary of Completed Research Projects, 1995-98
Creators: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Publisher: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01jt5mq34
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2000
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91993
subject: Motor carriers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90604
subject: Trucking safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91813
subject: Fatigue (Physiological condition)

description: This document describes projects in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) Driver Alertness and Fatigue Research and Technology (R&T) focus area that were completed during the years 1995 to 1998 under the former Office of Motor Carriers (OMC) in the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The projects covered in this tech brief include: Driver Fatigue and Alertness Study, Fitness-for-Duty Testing, CMV Rest Areas - Making Space for Safety, Multi-Trailer Combination Vehicle Stress and Fatigue, Validation of Eye and Other Psychophysiological Monitors, Local/Short Haul Driver Fatigue Crash Data Analysis, Shipper Involvement in HOS Violations, and Assessment of Electronic On-Board Recorders for HOS Compliance. In addition, 3 conferences dealing with driver fatigue are described. 4 p.
Refined draft guidelines based on indicators identified in activity 2 and feedback on its application on field in ten laying hen farms
Creators: name: EURCAW-Poultry-SFA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: laying hens
welfare
Classyfarm,
indicators
inspections

description: Ten laying hen farm visits were conducted during 2022-2023. The work aimed to test the new checklist currently in use in Italy for laying hens on-farm welfare, propose improvements based on the work on indicators previously carried out by the Centre and preview the visualisation of the Classyfarm platform's output.
Crystal structure of tetraholmium nickel tetradecaboride, Ho4NiB14
Creators: name: Geupel, S.
name: Zahn, G.
name: Paufler, P.
name: Graw, G.
Publisher: name: München : R. Oldenbourg Verlag GmbH
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Crystal structure
subject: Chemistry
subject: 540

description: B14Ho4Ni, tetragonal, P4/mnc (No. 128), a = 7.2097(8) Å, c = 7.4587(9) Å, V = 387.7 Å3, Z = 2, Rgt(F) = 0.049, wRref(F2) = 0.087, T = 300 K.
Entanglement dynamics of three-qubit states in noisy channels
Creators: name: Siomau, Michael
name: Fritzsche, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study entanglement dynamics of the three-qubit system which is initially prepared in pure Greenberger-Horne- Zeilinger (GHZ) or W state and transmitted through one of the Pauli channels $σ_z, \, σ_x, \, σ_y$ or the depolarizing channel. With the help of the lower bound for three-qubit concurrence we show that the W state preserves more entanglement than the GHZ state in transmission through the Pauli channel $σ_z$. For the Pauli channels $σ_x, \, σ_y$ and the depolarizing channel, however, the entanglement of the GHZ state is more resistant against decoherence than the W-type entanglement. We also briefly discuss how the accuracy of the lower bound approximation depends on the rank of the density matrix under consideration.
description: 2 figures, 32 references
Eine Quantifizierung des Nutzens : Lean Management
Creators: name: Gutzeit, Andreas
name: Fröhlich, Johannes
name: Angerer, Alfred
name: Utiger, Dominik
Publisher: name: H+ Die Spitäler der Schweiz
Year: 2017
Subjects: 362: Gesundheits- und Sozialdienste
658.4: Leitendes Management

description: Obwohl Lean Management im Gesundheitswesen breit genutzt wird, bestehen kaum wissenschaftliche Quantifizierungen dieser Methode. In der Hirslanden Klinik St. Anna Luzern wurde untersucht, wie hoch die Einspareffekte mit Lean tatsächlich sind.
Evaluierung von annif an der TIB - ein Werkstattbericht
Creators: name: Arndt, Susanne
name: Genat, Berrit
name: Runnwerth, Mila
Publisher: name: Meyrin : CERN
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Automatische Sacherschließung
subject: Maschinelle Indexierung
subject: annif
subject: 020

description: Ein Werkstattbericht aus der TIB über das Toolkit annif.
The relationship between maintenance on prolonged methadone and decrease in crime : the first phase of a Study of Drug Addicts at the Narcotic Addiction Foundation of British Columbia
Creators: name: Boyd, Lemuel Waltar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Since 1963, the Narcotic Addiction Foundation of British Columbia has been administering Methadone, a synthetic drug, on a prolonged basis to a selected group of heroin addicts. For the purposes here, those addicts receiving Methadone on a continuous day to day basis for an indefinite period of time will be called prolongeds. Those addicts receiving Methadone in decreasing dosage over a twelve day withdrawal period will be referred to as regulars. Ingeborg Paulus, Research Associate at the Foundation, assessed the effectiveness of Methadone by comparing a group of addicts given the drug on a prolonged basis to a group of addicts undergoing regular twelve day withdrawal. The findings of her study showed that prolongeds committed fewer crimes than the regulars. The addicts in the prolonged group were significantly older than those in the regular group. Paulus found that age was the most important factor in the addicts' decreased use of narcotics. This tendency to use less drugs as the addict becomes older is known as the "maturing-out" process. Therefore, a decrease in crime by the prolonged group may not be solely attributable to Methadone, but to the age of the addict. The purpose of the present study is to test the causal relationship between the prolonged administration of Methadone to heroin addicts and their criminal behaviour. To carry out this study, the following two hypotheses were developed: (1) Heroin addicts commit fewer crimes when maintained on prolonged Methadone, and (2) Heroin addicts maintained on prolonged Methadone commit fewer crimes than heroin addicts who are given regular withdrawal. The research method used involved a retrospective, follow-up study utilizing all of the addicts in Paulus' sample who were between the ages of twenty-five and forty years. This was done in an effort to make the two groups more comparable in their age distribution. To test hypothesis one, a 'before and after' design was proposed that will allow investigation of the addict's criminal activity prior to and after his exposure to prolonged Methadone. To test the second hypothesis, the criminal behaviour of the prolongeds will be compared to the criminal behaviour of the regulars. Additional analysis are suggested to assist in assessing the comparability of the two groups. After considering the numerous and unexpected problems a researcher faces, it is concluded that, while it may be feasible to conduct this study using the sample available, one cannot depend on the reliability or validity of the findings to test the hypotheses conclusively.
title: The Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) Pilot Demonstration Project
Creators: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Publisher: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01jt5mq34
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1999
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89704
subject: Commercial vehicle operations
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88946
subject: Registration
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88948
subject: Licensing
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96762
subject: Information technology
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90604
subject: Trucking safety

description: The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 mandated a study to explore the potential of the commercial motor vehicle (CMV) registration process as a safety enforcement tool for reducing CMV accidents. The project sought to establish a link between the motor carrier safety information network systems of the U.S. Department of Transportation and similar CMV registration and licensing systems used by States. It has two goals: to determine the safety fitness of motor carriers prior to issuing license plates; and to cause unsafe motor carriers to enhance performance through a performance-based improvement process, and, when necessary, apply sanctions. A study design for the Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) program was developed and piloted in five States over a period of 4 years, ending in 1997. The results of the PRISM study proved conclusively that a link could be established between Federal and State information systems, and that the CMV registration process could serve as a powerful enforcement tool in both Federal and State motor carrier safety programs. There are currently 12 States participating in the PRISM program, and 4 or 5 States are expected to join per year. This tech brief discusses the PRISM pilot demonstration project. 4 p.
Interference and interaction effects in adiabatic pumping through quantum dots
Creators: name: Hiltscher, Bastian
name: Governale, Michele
name: König, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to investigate the effects of interference and interaction in adiabatic pumping, we consider an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer with a quantum dot embedded either in one or in both arms. We employ a real-time formalism and we perform an expansion both in the tunnel-coupling strengths between dot and leads and in the pumping frequency, taking into account the Coulomb interaction non perturbatively. We find that pumping in a single-dot AB interferometer has a peristaltic but phase-coherent character. In a double-dot AB interferometer, we find a pumping mechanism that relies purely on quantum mechanical interference and has no classical counterpart.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, updated version as published
title: Impact of Sleeper Berth Usage on Commercial Driver Fatigue, Task 1
Creators: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Publisher: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01jt5mq34
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1999
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91813
subject: Fatigue (Physiological condition)
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90604
subject: Trucking safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91821
subject: Sleep
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91741
subject: Commercial drivers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93227
subject: Commercial vehicles

description: Driver fatigue is recognized as a major factor in the safety of long-haul commercial driving. Sleeper berths are often provided on tractors to allow the driver to sleep and rest when not driving. However, the sleeper berth environment and/or the manner in which drivers actually use sleeper berths may effect the quality of their sleep. This tech brief summarizes the first task in a 4-year study to assess the impact of sleeper berth usage on the level of driver alertness and driving performance. This task consisted of a literature review and 10 focus groups conducted with 74 long-haul commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers. Researchers sought to gain an understanding of the issues affecting the quality and quantity of sleep drivers receive, as well as other issues that may affect drivers' levels of fatigue and driving safety. 2 p.
Accurate parameter estimation for star formation history in galaxies using SDSS spectra
Creators: name: Richards, Joseph W.
name: Freeman, Peter E.
name: Lee, Ann B.
name: Schafer, Chad M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To further our knowledge of the complex physical process of galaxy formation, it is essential that we characterize the formation and evolution of large databases of galaxies. The spectral synthesis STARLIGHT code of Cid Fernandes et al. (2004) was designed for this purpose. Results of STARLIGHT are highly dependent on the choice of input basis of simple stellar population (SSP) spectra. Speed of the code, which uses random walks through the parameter space, scales as the square of the number of basis spectra, making it computationally necessary to choose a small number of SSPs that are coarsely sampled in age and metallicity. In this paper, we develop methods based on diffusion map (Lafon & Lee, 2006) that, for the first time, choose appropriate bases of prototype SSP spectra from a large set of SSP spectra designed to approximate the continuous grid of age and metallicity of SSPs of which galaxies are truly composed. We show that our techniques achieve better accuracy of physical parameter estimation for simulated galaxies. Specifically, we show that our methods significantly decrease the age-metallicity degeneracy that is common in galaxy population synthesis methods. We analyze a sample of 3046 galaxies in SDSS DR6 and compare the parameter estimates obtained from different basis choices.
description: Resubmitted to MNRAS; 16 pages, 15 figures