cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Η διαφήμιση ως εμπορική πρακτική και οι μορφές αθέμιτων εμπορικών πρακτικών
Creators: name: Σαμαρά, Μαρία Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Διαφήμιση
Αθέμιτη εμπορική πρακτική
Νόμος για την προστασία του καταναλωτή
Advertising
Unfair commercial practice
Consumer Protection Law

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η μελέτη της διαφήμισης ως εμπορικής πρακτικής καθώς και η εκτενής παρουσίαση των μορφών που λαμβάνουν οι αθέμιτες εμπορικές πρακτικές στα πλαίσια του νόμου 2251/1994 για την προστασία του καταναλωτή. Παραθέσαμε τους ορισμούς χρήσιμων εννοιών όπως αυτή της διαφήμισης, του καταναλωτή, του προμηθευτή και της εμπορικής πρακτικής. Στη συνέχεια παρουσιάσαμε αναλυτικά τα είδη της διαφήμισης και τις ειδικότερες μορφές αυτής. Ακόμη αναφερθήκαμε αναλυτικά στο νομικό πλαίσιο για τις αθέμιτες εμπορικές πρακτικές και κυρίως στις ενωσιακής προέλευσης ρυθμίσεις που εισήγαγαν στο εθνικό δίκαιο τις εν λόγω διατάξεις. Ένα άλλο θέμα που θίξαμε ήταν η δομή που εμφανίζουν οι ρυθμίσεις για τις αθέμιτες εμπορικές πρακτικές, με την ύπαρξη μίας μεγάλης γενικής ρήτρας και δύο μικρότερων ρητρών για τις παραπλανητικές και τις επιθετικές εμπορικές πρακτικές. Ασχοληθήκαμε επιπλέον με τον τρόπο που ελέγχεται το εάν μία πρακτική θεωρείται ή όχι αθέμιτη και τη συλλογιστική που ακολουθείται για να εξαχθεί το συμπέρασμα αυτό. Τέλος, έγινε αναφορά στις προβλεπόμενες από το νόμο κυρώσεις
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of advertising as a commercial practice, as well as the extensive presentation of the forms of unfair commercial practices under the Law 2251/1994 on consumer protection. We presented the definitions of useful concepts such as advertising, consumer, supplier and commercial practice. We then presented in detail the forms of advertising and some more specific forms of it. We have also referred in detail to the legal framework on unfair commercial practices and, in particular, to the EU-originated regulations which introduced these provisions into national law. We also raised the issue of the structure of the rules on unfair commercial practices, which is based on the existence of a large general clause and two smaller clauses on misleading and aggressive commercial practices. We have also addressed the way to verify whether or not a practice is considered unfair and the reasoning used to draw that conclusion. Finally, a reference was made regarding the sanctions provided by law
ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ СТРУКТУРНЫХ ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ В ОРГАНАХ И ТКАНЯХ С ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕМ МЕТОДОВ МОРФОЛОГИИ: ЗНАЧЕНИЕ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ
Creators: name: Бердиев, Бехзод
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Исследование структурных изменений в органах и тканях является важным аспектом медицинской диагностики, направленным на выявление патологических процессов, а также оценку эффективности лечения. Морфологические методы, такие как гистология, цитология и электронная микроскопия, позволяют анализировать клеточные и тканевые структуры на микроуровне, что является необходимым для понимания физиологических и патологических процессов в организме человека.
Revisiting the Baryon Fractions of Galaxy Clusters: A Comparison with WMAP 3-year Results
Creators: name: McCarthy, Ian G.
name: Bower, Richard G.
name: Balogh, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The universal baryonic mass fraction (Omega_b/Omega_m) can be sensitively constrained using X-ray observations of galaxy clusters. In this paper, we compare the baryonic mass fraction inferred from measurements of the cosmic microwave background with the gas mass fractions (f_gas) of a large sample of clusters taken from the recent literature. In systems cooler than 4 keV, f_gas declines as the system temperature decreases. However, in higher temperature systems, f_gas(r500) converges to approx. (0.12 +/- 0.02)(h/0.72)^{-1.5}, where the uncertainty reflects the systematic variations between clusters at r500. This is significantly lower than the maximum-likelihood value of the baryon fraction from the recently released WMAP 3-year results. We investigate possible reasons for this discrepancy, including the effects of radiative cooling and non-gravitational heating, and conclude that the most likely solution is that Omega_m is higher than the best-fit WMAP value (we find Omega_m = 0.36^{+0.11}_{-0.08}), but consistent at the 2-sigma level. Degeneracies within the WMAP data require that sigma_8 must also be greater than the maximum likelihood value for consistency between the data sets.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, MNRAS accepted
Constant of motion identifying excited-state quantum phases
Creators: name: Corps, Ángel L.
name: Relaño, Armando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that a broad class of excited-state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) gives rise to two different excited-state quantum phases. These phases are identified by means of an operator, $\hat{\mathcal{C}}$, which is a constant of motion only in one of them. Hence, the ESQPT critical energy splits the spectrum into one phase where the equilibirium expectation values of physical observables crucially depend on this constant of motion, and another phase where the energy is the only relevant thermodynamic magnitude. The trademark feature of this operator is that it has two different eigenvalues, $\pm1$, and therefore it acts as a discrete symmetry in the first of these two phases. This scenario is observed in systems with and without an additional discrete symmetry; in the first case, $\hat{\mathcal{C}}$ explains the change from degenerate doublets to non-degenerate eigenlevels upon crossing the critical line. We present stringent numerical evidence in the Rabi and Dicke models, suggesting that this result is exact in the thermodynamic limit, with finite-size corrections that decrease as a power-law.
description: 4 + 8 pages, 4 + 5 figures. Authors' preprint; to appear in Physical Review Letters
Roadmap for Future Accelerators
Creators: name: I.FAST WP5 members
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Summarizing 3.5 years of I.FAST activities and taking into account the worldwide state of the art in various domains of accelerator science, we present an R&D plan and step-wise approach towards ultimate hadron and lepton beams. Aside more mainstream topics, we review advances in photon science, nuclear science, neutron science, high-field magnet technology, and medical applications; sketch a strategy for intense positron sources; discuss past lessons and possible directions for crystalline beams; review the strategy and requirements for “beam chaser” colliders and EDM rings; discuss the roadmap for accelerator AI, and for accelerator-based quantum computing; and we survey the actual situation and future roadmap for green accelerators and for safe CO2-free energy production. Among the highlights are new radiation schemes, novel neutron sources, and nano-accelerators.
Testing neutrino flavor mixing plus decay with neutrino telescopes
Creators: name: Maltoni, Michele
name: Winter, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the interplay of neutrino oscillation and decay properties at neutrino telescopes. Motivated by recent unparticle scenarios, which open the possibility of new neutrino decay modes over astrophysical distances, we perform a complete classification of possible decay schemes, and we illustrate how different scenarios can be identified. Moreover, we show that the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to standard neutrino properties, such as the mass hierarchy or delta_CP, is greatly enhanced in specific decay scenarios. In particular we discuss the impact of an astrophysical neutrino detection on terrestrial experiments, such as on the mass hierarchy measurement at NOvA. For example, we find that the scenario where only nu_1 is stable can be uniquely identified against all the other decay schemes, and that in this case CP violation can be established (for large theta_13) by the combination of Double Chooz with the track-to-shower ratio at a neutrino telescope, even if the flavor composition at the source is unknown. Our statements are based on a complete analysis of all the present solar, atmospheric, reactor and accelerator neutrino data, as well as on realistic simulation of future terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiments.
description: 28 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables. A number of corresponding movies can be found at http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~winter/Resources/AstroMovies.html
Η χρήση νευροαπεικονιστικών μεθόδων του εγκεφάλου στην εκτίμηση της ποινικής υπευθυνότητας: ηθικά ζητήματα
Creators: name: Καλιτσοπούλου, Αλεξάνδρα Θρασύβουλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Νευροαπεικόνιση
Καταλογισμός
Ηθικά ζητήματα
Neuroimaging
Criminal responsibility
Ethical issues

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής είναι η μελέτη των νευροαπεικοινιστικών μεθόδων του κεντρικού νευρικού συστήματος και ο ρόλος τους στην εκτίμηση της ποινικής υπευθυνότητας. Παρουσιάζονται τα νευροτεχνολογικά επιτεύγματα που μπορούν να απεικονίσουν την εγκεφαλική δομή και λειτουργία, και οι εφαρμογές που δύνανται να έχουν αυτά. Στη συνέχεια παρουσιάζεται η σχέση μεταξύ των νευροεπιστημών και του ποινικού δικαίου, ξεκινώντας από μια αναδρομή στις θεωρίες-σταθμούς που την διαμόρφωσαν, προχωρώντας στο σημερινό νομοθετικό πλαίσιο και εξετάζοντας τους τρόπους αξιοποίησης των νευροεπιστημονικών δεδομένων στην ποινική διαδικασία. Ακόμη αναφέρονται ορισμένες δικαστικές υποθέσεις όπου έγινε χρήση πορισμάτων νευροαπεικονιστικών τεχνικών. Στο τελευταίο σκέλος, θίγονται οι περιορισμοί - εμπόδια που τίθενται στην χρήση των νευροεπιστημονικών μεθόδων κατά την εκτίμηση του καταλογισμού καθώς και τα ηθικά διλήμματα που εγείρονται λόγω αυτής
description: The aim of the present thesis is the study of neuroimaging and its role in the evaluation of criminal responsibility. The achievements of neurotechnology that can showcase brain’s structure and function, are briefly presented, as well as the practical applications that they can have. Then, the relation between neuroscience and penal law, is observed and analysed, starting from a retrospect in the basic theories that contributed in forming this relation, and moving on to the present legal status and the ways that neuroimaging could be included in criminal procedure. Some legal cases where neuroimaging was involved, are also given as examples. The last chapter, touches upon the limitations of neuroimaging techniques in the assessment of criminal responsibility, as well as the ethical issues aroused
Εμπειρίες γυναικών με περιγεννητικές απώλειες: Μια ποιοτική προσέγγιση
Creators: name: Ποτουρίδου, Χριστίνα Αναστασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Περιγεννητικές απώλειες
Περιγεννητικό πένθος
Θεμελιωμένη θεωρία
Perinatal Loss
Perinatal Mourning
Grounded Theory

description: Η παρούσα μελέτη είχε ως στόχο να μελετήσει σε βάθος το βίωμα της περιγεννητικής απώλειας των Ελληνίδων είτε αυτή η απώλεια συνέβη σε πρώιμη περίοδο είτε σε μεταγενέστερη. Συγκεκριμένα, διερευνήθηκαν οι στάσεις, οι αντιλήψεις καθώς και τα συναισθήματα των γυναικών με εμπειρία περιγεννητικής απώλειας. Στην έρευνα συμμετείχαν έξι γυναίκες ηλικίας από 30 έως 56 έτη. Σε κάθε συμμετέχουσα πραγματοποιήθηκε μια μη δομημένη συνεντεύξη. Οι συνεντεύξεις έλαβαν χώρα από τον Απρίλιο του 2019 έως τον Αύγουστο του 2019. Οι συνεντεύξεις απομαγνητοφωνήθηκαν κατά λέξη και αναλύθηκαν με βάση τις αρχές της θεμελιωμένης θεωρίας. Από την αφήγηση των γυναικών αναδύθηκαν τα παρακάτω έξι υπερ-θέματα: 1) «Εγκυμοσύνη - στόχος», 2) «Η εμπειρία της απώλειας», 3) «Υποστήριξη», 4) «Ύπαρξη ζώντων παιδιών», 5) «Ιατρικό προσωπικό», 6) «Η απώλεια στο τώρα». Τα αποτελέσματα έδειξαν ότι όλες οι γυναίκες ανέφεραν αντίδραση θλίψης στην απώλεια, παρά τα διαφορετικά δεδομένα της προσωπικής ιστορίας της κάθε μιας και το χρόνο απώλειας. Φάνηκαν ως σημαντικοί υποστηρικτικοί παράγοντες στη διεργασία του πένθους, η συζυγική υποστήριξη και η ύπαρξη ζώντων παιδιών, ενώ τέλος αναδύθηκαν θέματα γύρω από την αναγνώριση του περιγεννητικού πένθους. Συμπερασματικά, οι περιγεννητικές απώλειες αποτελούν μια κατάσταση στην οποία φαίνεται να επικρατεί ένα ιδιαίτερο πένθος. Ένα πένθος μοναδικό το οποίο, ωστόσο, φαίνεται να μην αναγνωρίζεται πλήρως
description: The purpose of this research was the in depth study of the experience of the perinatal loss of Greek women whether this loss occurred in an early period or later. Specifically, the attitudes, perceptions, and feelings of women with experiences of perinatal loss were investigated. Six women aged 30 to 56 years participated in the study. An unstructured interview was conducted for each participant. Interviews took place from April 2019 to August 2019. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed based on the principles of grounded theory. The following six themes emerged from the narrative of women: 1) "Pregnancy - goal", 2) "The experience of loss", 3) "Support", 4) "Existence of live children", 5) "Medical staff" , 6) "The loss in the now". The results showed that all women reported a sadness response to the loss, despite the different data on their personal history and the time of loss. They appeared to be supporting factors of importance in the process of mourning, marital support and the existence of living children, and finally issues surrounding the recognition of perinatal mourning emerged. In conclusion, perinatal loss is a situation in which there is particular mourning. A unique mourning which, however, does not seem to be fully recognized
Testing the LCDM model (and more) with the time evolution of the redshift
Creators: name: Lake, Kayll
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the many ambitious proposals afoot for new generations of very large telescopes, along with spectrographs of unprecedented resolution, there arises the real possibility that the time evolution of the cosmological redshift may, in the not too distant future, prove to be a useful tool rather than merely a theoretical curiosity. Here I contrast this approach with the standard cosmological procedure based on the luminosity (or any other well-defined) distance. I then show that such observations would not only provide a direct measure of all the associated cosmological parameters of the LCDM model, but would also provide wide-ranging internal consistency checks. Further, in a more general context, I show that without introducing further time derivatives of the redshift one could in fact map out the dark energy equation of state should the LCDM model fail. A consideration of brane-world scenarios and interacting dark energy models serves to emphasize the fact that the usefulness of such observations would not be restricted to high redshifts.
description: In final form as to appear in Physical Review D. 12 pages 6 figures
Accurate Model for Forecasting PM2.5 Concentrations in Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand: The ARIMA-ANN-REG HybridApproach via AAR4PM
Creators: name: Sasira Choojam
name: Jularat Chumnaul
name: Korakot Wichitsa-Nguan Jetwanna
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Time series
Auto-regressive integrated moving average
Artificial neural network
Hybrid model
Forecasting

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 1-15
Assessment of the Association between PM2.5 Exposure and Children's Health Risks in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Creators: name: Ho, Tinh Huu
name: Le, Diep Ngoc
name: Van Dang, Chinh
name: Pham, Thao Thi Bich
name: Hien, To Thi
name: Supat Wangwongwatana
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Air pollution
Fine particulate matter
Lower respiratory infection
Acute lower respiratory infection

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 16-27
Monogamy of quantum discord
Creators: name: Guo, Yu
name: Huang, Lizhong
name: Zhang, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The original quantum discord (QD) is shown to be not monogamous except for the three-qubit states. Recently, a complete monogamy relation for multiparty quantum system was established for entanglement in [Phys. Rev. A. {101}, 032301~(2020)], and in addition, a new multipartite generalization of QD was proposed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. {124}, 110401~(2020)]. In this work, we firstly define the complete monogamy for this multipartite quantum discord (MQD) and the global quantum discord (GQD). MQD, with the same spirit as the complete monogamy of entanglement, is said to be completely monogamous (i) if it does not increase under coarsening of subsystems and (ii) if some given combination of subsystems reach the total amount of the correlation, then all other combination of subsystems that do not include all the given subsystems do not contain such a correlation any more. Here, coarsening of subsystems means discarding or combining some subsystems up to the given partition. Simultaneously, the complete monogamy of GQD is also defined with slight modification on the coarsening relation.Consequently, we explore all the coarsening relations of MQD and show that it is completely monogamous with a modicum assumption. In addition, with the same spirit, we investigate all the coarsening relations for GQD and show that GQD is not completely monogamous.That is, in the sense of the complete monogamy relation, MQD as a generalization of the original QD captures the nature of such a quantum correlation, and thus it is nicer than GQD as a generalization.
description: 20 pages
Comprehensive Analysis of City Carbon Footprint from Energy Consumption in a District of the Central Region of Thailand
Creators: name: Sirawat Surachotivet
name: Jutarat Keawboonchu
name: Thibordin Sangsawang
name: Jiraporn Posin
name: Theeranan Orachun
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cabon emission
Carbon footprint
Greenhouse gas
Low-carbon city

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 28-37
Environmental Friendship Levels of Bajo Fishers to Build a Blue Economy in Achieving the 2030 SDGs
Creators: name: Syarif, Erman
name: Marlina
name: Alief Saputro
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Eco-Friendly Fishing Gear (EFFG)
Blue Economy
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 38-49
Additional file 1 of Activated STAT3 signaling pathway by ligature-induced periodontitis could contribute to neuroinflammation and cognitive impairment in rats
Creators: name: Hu, Yi
name: Zhang, Xu
name: Zhang, Jing
name: Xia, Xinyi
name: Li, Huxiao
name: Qiu, Che
name: Liao, Yue
name: Chen, Huiwen
name: He, Zhiyan
name: Song, Zhongchen
name: Zhou, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1:. An example of negative controls in IHC was showed
Constructive and Toxic Speech Detection for Open-domain Social Media Comments in Vietnamese
Creators: name: Nguyen, Luan Thanh
name: Van Nguyen, Kiet
name: Nguyen, Ngan Luu-Thuy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rise of social media has led to the increasing of comments on online forums. However, there still exists invalid comments which are not informative for users. Moreover, those comments are also quite toxic and harmful to people. In this paper, we create a dataset for constructive and toxic speech detection, named UIT-ViCTSD (Vietnamese Constructive and Toxic Speech Detection dataset) with 10,000 human-annotated comments. For these tasks, we propose a system for constructive and toxic speech detection with the state-of-the-art transfer learning model in Vietnamese NLP as PhoBERT. With this system, we obtain F1-scores of 78.59% and 59.40% for classifying constructive and toxic comments, respectively. Besides, we implement various baseline models as traditional Machine Learning and Deep Neural Network-Based models to evaluate the dataset. With the results, we can solve several tasks on the online discussions and develop the framework for identifying constructiveness and toxicity of Vietnamese social media comments automatically.
description: IEA/AIE 2021: Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence Practices pp 572-583
Can the Ising critical behavior survive in non-equilibrium synchronous cellular automata?
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Kazumasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Universality classes of Ising-like phase transitions are investigated in series of two-dimensional synchronously updated probabilistic cellular automata (PCAs), whose time evolution rules are either of Glauber type or of majority-vote type, and degrees of anisotropy are varied. Although early works showed that coupled map lattices and PCAs with synchronously updating rules belong to a universality class distinct from the Ising class, careful calculations reveal that synchronous Glauber PCAs should be categorized into the Ising class, regardless of the degree of anisotropy. Majority-vote PCAs for the system size considered yield exponents $ν$ which are between those of the two classes, closer to the Ising value, with slight dependence on the anisotropy. The results indicate that the Ising critical behavior is robust with respect to anisotropy and synchronism for those types of non-equilibrium PCAs. There are no longer any PCAs known to belong to the non-Ising class.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; title slightly changed, references and supplementary information added, layout changed
Coastal Sustainability Analysis Using an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Approach for the Coastal Region of Bariavungtau Province, Vietnam
Creators: name: Tran, Loan Thi Diem
name: Le, Cuong Tan
name: Tran, Minh Thanh
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Multiple-criteria decision-making
Geographic information system
Integrated coastal zone management
Sustainability
Coastal region

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 50-63
Athol Fugard and race relations : social dynamics under apartheid
Creators: name: Dei, Ernest Cobena
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: South African society operates a highly exploitative and repressive system that uses race to define relations of power and dependence to ensure the supremacy of its white citizens at the expense of non-whites. The major focus of this study will be to explore the impact of the apartheid policies on individual citizens and race-relations in South Africa as portrayed in three of the plays of Athol Fugard. Chapter One, as an introduction, will survey the various legislation Fugard alludes to in some of his plays which ensure racial segregation and oppression and serve as the foundation of apartheid. Chapter Two will look at the impact of the society's obsession with race or skin colour, and its use of it to categorise and control the people as presented in The Blood Knot. In Chapter Three, the restrictions on mobility and human contact, the depravity of the dispossessed, their sense of insecurity, and how they attempt to cope with the absurdity of their existence as exploited victims of apartheid (as evidenced in Boesman and Lena) will be discussed. The relationship between blacks and whites is handled by Fugard in his most autobiographical play "Master Harold" ... and the boys. Chapter Four looks at this play, focusing on how a little white boy under the pressures of personal insecurity draws upon racism in his desire to have a sense of himself but ends up jeopardising the otherwise intimate relationship he enjoys with a black man. In all the plays of Fugard, brotherhood or the affirmation of the bond of oneness among the characters who are in extreme intimate relationships, is continually contested by the imposition of society's racist ideology that undermines the relationships. We also see that Fugard condemns and defuses violence, but carefully shows its inevitability if the status-quo continues. His ultimate concern is the universal human plight that results from man’s inhumanity towards man rather than the particulars of the South African system. His plays examine fundamental truths of existence that are not limited to a single society: man's isolation, his lonely search for warmth, his need to affirm his identity, dignity and existence in a hostile world. Showing how survival in the world of apartheid is made nearly an impossibility, the plays of Athol Fugard are a tribute to the indomitability of the human spirit to survive the dehumanizing impact of this crime against humanity. In the Conclusion, I explore how Fugard advocates for racial harmony. A study of his plays shows that social and political change grow from individual action as the problem of apartheid is man-made. He suggests as a solution to the problem of racism a change in individual attitudes by calling for tolerance and brotherhood among all races, with the realization that all men are equal regardless of race or skin-colour. In examining human relationships and human survival, the plays of Athol Fugard are a contribution to the field of modern drama in the effort to effect social change.
$π^0$-h correlation in Cu+Cu at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV
Creators: name: Jia, Jiangyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of the two-particle $Δϕ$ correlation between high $p_T$ $π^0$ and charged hadrons in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV. Clear away-side jet signals are seen in central Cu+Cu collisions at all associated hadron $p_T$, albeit suppressed by factor of 2 above 2 GeV/$c$. This level is similar to the suppression seen for inclusive hadrons at high $p_T$ ($>7$ GeV/$c$). However, this agreement is argued to be the result of a cancellation between a flatter away-side parton spectra due to the requirement of high $p_T$ triggers and a bigger energy loss due to a longer path length traversed by the away-side jet.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, QM06 poster, Shanghai, China, Nov. 14-20, 2006
Formidable genus armorum: the horse archers of the Roman Imperial Army
Creators: name: McAllister, David W.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The equites sagittarii formed a considerable force in the auxilia of the early and middle empire, but they, and particularly their role and employment, have received little scholarly attention. This paper will attempt to define their place on the battlefields of the high Empire. While horse archers are known to have been used in eastern armies such as the those of the Persians and Parthians with great effect, they were recruited into and employed by the Roman army in strength only starting at the reign of Augustus. Units of horse archers were almost exclusively recruited from eastern lands and were employed there as well, not only in war, but also as the border garrisons of Pannonia, Dacia, Africa, and the Levant. Chapter one discusses the equipment in use by horse archers. The bows in use were invariably compound recurved bows of eastern design. Other specialized archery equipment was also eastern in origin while their general military and cavalry equipment seems to have been standard Roman military issue. Horse archers, like all military systems, can be defined in terms of their characteristics: qualities which determine their pattern of effectiveness, and therefore role, on the battlefield. The characteristics of horse archers are: flexibility, mobility, vulnerability, and firepower. Chapter two analyzes mounted archers' characteristics to explain in detail the reasons for their effectiveness. Chapter three looks at the question: "Were these units invariably bow-armed?" It appears that they had at their disposal a variety of weapons (including javelins and other weapons) for useaccording to the situation. Chapter four analyzes the evidence of the role of horsearchers in all phases of war: the advance to contact, the attack, the pursuit, the defence, and the withdrawal. They were were especially valuable in independent battlefield operations, due to their mobility. Appendix one is a list of known and suspected units of sagittarii, together with a brief commentary on certain of the mounted units. Mounted bowmen's firepower has a certain pattern of effectiveness. Appendix two analyzes arrow fire through application of the Theory of Small Arms Fire in order to explain certain paradoxes of archer employment on the battlefield.
Coffee Agroforestry for Soil Erosion Control in the Upstream of Ciliwung Watershed, West Java, Indonesia
Creators: name: Fitri, Rini
name: Simangunsong, Nur Intan
name: Dibyanti Danniswari
name: Herika Muhamad Taki
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Agroforestry
Coffee plantation
Soil erosion
Upstream watershed

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 64-77
NetFense: Adversarial Defenses against Privacy Attacks on Neural Networks for Graph Data
Creators: name: Hsieh, I-Chung
name: Li, Cheng-Te
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advances in protecting node privacy on graph data and attacking graph neural networks (GNNs) gain much attention. The eye does not bring these two essential tasks together yet. Imagine an adversary can utilize the powerful GNNs to infer users' private labels in a social network. How can we adversarially defend against such privacy attacks while maintaining the utility of perturbed graphs? In this work, we propose a novel research task, adversarial defenses against GNN-based privacy attacks, and present a graph perturbation-based approach, NetFense, to achieve the goal. NetFense can simultaneously keep graph data unnoticeability (i.e., having limited changes on the graph structure), maintain the prediction confidence of targeted label classification (i.e., preserving data utility), and reduce the prediction confidence of private label classification (i.e., protecting the privacy of nodes). Experiments conducted on single- and multiple-target perturbations using three real graph data exhibit that the perturbed graphs by NetFense can effectively maintain data utility (i.e., model unnoticeability) on targeted label classification and significantly decrease the prediction confidence of private label classification (i.e., privacy protection). Extensive studies also bring several insights, such as the flexibility of NetFense, preserving local neighborhoods in data unnoticeability, and better privacy protection for high-degree nodes.
description: Accepted to IEEE TKDE 2021. Code is available at https://github.com/ICHproject/NetFense/
Rapid Monitoring of Flood Events in Geothermal Surrounding Areas Using Machine Learning and Multi-sensor Data
Creators: name: Kurnianto, Fahmi Arif
name: Nurdin, Elan Artono
name: Pangastuti, Era Iswara
name: Moch Ilham Deka Rafsanjani
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Rapid monitoring
Flood
Machine learning
Multi Sensor Data

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 78-90
THE BIODIVERSITY OF LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS: AN OVERVIEW
Creators: name: Mondal, Niladri
name: Kali, Debashrita
name: Patra, Subhasis
name: Roy, Titly
name: Maity, Asim
name: Mondal, Gargi
name: Ghosh, Subho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: The oceans and the seas are the most dominant and significant on this planet,with its vast expanse and sheer volume. They serve as the economic lifeline for coastal community and plays a pivotal role in shaping the diversification of the eco system.The Lakshadweep islands of India (Lat.10.57⁰ N,Long.72.63⁰E ) being oceanic in nature, harbour important marine flora and fauna in the seas around it. The warm tropical climate and high relative humidity are conductive for good plant growth, absence of hills and river system coupled with shallow soil severely limits the variety of plants. Yet, 400 species of plants have been reported from these island. Regarding fauna, there are over 600 species¹ of marine fishes,78 species of corals ,82 of sea weeds, 52 of crab species and many more are reported here .The mucus produced by the corals plays a significant in the coral eco system .They form an important food item for reef invertebrates , fishes and shrimps.These diverse floral and faunal diversity of Lakshadweep needs an efficient science – based protective approach for now and for the future
Applicability of an 'uptake wave' energy transition concept in Indian households
Creators: name: Neto-Bradley, AP
name: Choudhary, R
name: Bazaz, AB
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2019
Subjects: 37 Earth Sciences
30 Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences
41 Environmental Sciences
Behavioral and Social Science
Basic Behavioral and Social Science
11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
7 Affordable and Clean Energy

description: Abstract Reliable, secure, and affordable energy services are essential to ensuring sustainable economic and social development in the rapidly growing cities of the Global South, yet in India over 30 percent of urban households are still reliant on traditional fuels such as biomass and kerosene for some portion of their energy needs. Understanding the factors that influence energy transitions at a household level, is essential for successful strategies to promote the uptake of cleaner fuels and deliver associated socio-economic benefits. Such fast-growing cities often display intra-urban inequalities of considerable magnitude which can condition individual access to resources and impact the effectiveness of energy provision strategies for individual city districts. In this paper we will use the results of a survey of 500 households in Bangalore, India and explore how this data compares with the ‘wave concept’ model of energy transition. This ‘wave concept’ view of energy transitions focuses on appliance ownership as a proxy for energy services and conceptualises the uptake of appliances as a wave with early and late adopters rather than an income-based step change, and as a result better accounts for the role of non-income factors. The wards targeted by the survey cover a range of low-income ward typologies characterised by factors including income, livelihoods, building construction, socio-cultural factors, access to fuels, and reliability of supply. Validating an appropriate model for the uptake of new energy technologies and fuels in households, can better inform policy makers, entrepreneurs, and engineers on the influence of non-income barriers to energy transition across different districts of a city. By understanding how households use energy, and what limits the adoption of more efficient technologies at a local level, city planners and engineers can develop targeted sustainable strategies for adoption of cleaner more efficient fuels and appliances in households.
Mapping the Distribution of the Top Priority Plants in the Forests over Limestone Landscape of Samar Island Natural Park, Philippines
Creators: name: Marne G. Origenes
name: Buot, Inocencio E.
name: Banaticla-Hilario, Maria Celeste N.
name: Buhay, Anne Frances V.
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Forests over limestone
Landscape conservation
Priority plants
Samar Island Natural Park
Species distribution mapping

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 91-105
Post-Processing of MCMC
Creators: name: South, Leah F.
name: Riabiz, Marina
name: Teymur, Onur
name: Oates, Chris. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is the engine of modern Bayesian statistics, being used to approximate the posterior and derived quantities of interest. Despite this, the issue of how the output from a Markov chain is post-processed and reported is often overlooked. Convergence diagnostics can be used to control bias via burn-in removal, but these do not account for (common) situations where a limited computational budget engenders a bias-variance trade-off. The aim of this article is to review state-of-the-art techniques for post-processing Markov chain output. Our review covers methods based on discrepancy minimisation, which directly address the bias-variance trade-off, as well as general-purpose control variate methods for approximating expected quantities of interest.
description: Version 3 is the accepted version. When citing this paper, please use the following: South, LF, Riabiz, M, Teymur, O & Oates, CJ. 2022. Post-Processing of MCMC. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 9: Submitted. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-statistics-040220-091727
Doubly Heavy Tetraquark Resonant States
Creators: name: Meng, Qi
name: Harada, Masayasu
name: Hiyama, Emiko
name: Hosaka, Atsushi
name: Oka, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectrum of the doubly heavy tetraquarks, $bb\bar q\bar q$, is studied in a constituent quark model. Four-body problem is solved in a variational method where the real scaling technique is used to identify resonant states above the fall-apart decay thresholds. In addition to the two bound states that were reported in the previous study we have found several narrow resonant states above the $BB^*$ and $B^*B^*$ thresholds. Their structures are studied and are interpreted by the quark dynamics. A narrow resonance with spin-parity $J^P=1^+$ is found to be a mixed state of a compact tetraquark and a $B^*B^*$ scattering state. This is driven by a strong color Coulombic attraction between the $bb$ quarks. Negative-parity excited resonances with $J^P=0^-$, $1^-$ and $2^-$ form a triplet under the heavy-quark spin symmetry. It turns out that they share a similar structure to the $λ$-mode of a singly heavy baryon as a result of the strongly attractive correlation for the doubly heavy diquark.
Effects of Sodium Chloride and Sodium Sulfate on Ceratophyllum demersum under Laboratory Controlled Conditions
Creators: name: Enas A. Mahdi Al-Nabhan
name: Dunya A. Hussain Al- Abbawy
name: Nayyef M. Azeez
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Aquatic plant
Plant growth
Salinity stress
Toxicological effect

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 106-115
Dynamical phase transitions in quantum reservoir computing
Creators: name: Martínez-Peña, Rodrigo
name: Giorgi, Gian Luca
name: Nokkala, Johannes
name: Soriano, Miguel C.
name: Zambrini, Roberta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Closed quantum systems exhibit different dynamical regimes, like Many-Body Localization or thermalization, which determine the mechanisms of spread and processing of information. Here we address the impact of these dynamical phases in quantum reservoir computing, an unconventional computing paradigm recently extended into the quantum regime that exploits dynamical systems to solve nonlinear and temporal tasks. We establish that the thermal phase is naturally adapted to the requirements of quantum reservoir computing and report an increased performance at the thermalization transition for the studied tasks. Uncovering the underlying physical mechanisms behind optimal information processing capabilities of spin networks is essential for future experimental implementations and provides a new perspective on dynamical phases.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Structural and compositional properties of brown dwarf disks: the case of 2MASS J04442713+2512164
Creators: name: Bouy, H.
name: Huelamo, N.
name: Pinte, C.
name: Olofsson, J.
name: Navascues, D. Barrado y
name: Martin, E. L.
name: Pantin, E.
name: Monin, J. -L.
name: Basri, G.
name: Augereau, J. -C.
name: Menard, F.
name: Duvert, G.
name: Duchene, G.
name: Marchis, F.
name: Bayo, A.
name: Bottinelli, S.
name: Lefort, B.
name: Guieu, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to improve our understanding of substellar formation, we have performed a compositional and structural study of a brown dwarf disk. We present the result of photometric, spectroscopic and imaging observations of 2MASS J04442713+2512164, a young brown dwarf (M7.25) member of the Taurus association. Our dataset, combined with results from the literature, provides a complete coverage of the spectral energy distribution from the optical to the millimeter including the first photometric measurement of a brown dwarf disk at 3.7mm, and allows us to perform a detailed analysis of the disk properties. The target was known to have a disk. High resolution optical spectroscopy shows that it is intensely accreting, and powers a jet and an outflow. The disk structure is similar to that observed for more massive TTauri stars. Spectral decomposition models of Spitzer/IRS spectra suggest that the mid-infrared emission from the optically thin disk layers is dominated by grains with intermediate sizes (1.5micron). Crystalline silicates are significantly more abondant in the outer part and/or deeper layers of the disk, implying very efficient mixing and/or additional annealing processes. Sub-millimeter and millimeter data indicate that most of the disk mass is in large grains (>1mm)
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables, accepted for A&A
Optimization of Lipid Recovery from Aurantiochytrium limacinum SR21 Biomass Using Ultrasound-assisted Extraction
Creators: name: Nichmon Puagsang
name: Ito, Junko
name: Tada, Kiyoshi
name: Nakao Nomura
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Microalgae
Lipid extraction
Solvent-free extraction
Ultrasonic bath assisted
Cavitation intensity

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 116-126
Dynamical formation of the GW190814 merger
Creators: name: Sedda, Manuel Arca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possible dynamical origin of GW190814, a gravitational wave (GW) source discovered by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration (LVC) associated with a merger between a stellar black hole (BH) with mass $23.2$ M$_\odot$ and a compact object, either a BH or a neutron star (NS), with mass $2.59$ M$_\odot$. Using a database of 240,000 $N$-body simulations modelling the formation of NS-BH mergers via dynamical encounters in dense clusters, we find that systems like GW190814 are likely to form in young, metal-rich clusters. Our model suggests that a little excess ($\sim 2-4\%$) of objects with masses in the range $2.3-3$ M$_\odot$ in the compact remnants mass spectrum leads to a detection rate for dynamically formed "GW190814 -like" mergers of $Γ_{\rm GW190814} \simeq 1-6$ yr Gpc$^{-3}$, i.e. within the observational constraints set by the GW190814 discovery, $Γ_{\rm LVC} \sim 1-23$ yr Gpc$^{-3}$. Additionally, our model suggests that $\sim 1.8-4.8\%$ of dynamical NS-BH mergers are compatible with GW190426\_152155, the only confirmed NS-BH merger detected by the LVC. We show that the relative amount of light and heavy NS-BH mergers can provide clues about the environments in which they developed.
description: main paper 7 pages, appendix 11 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJL
Defluoridation from Aqueous Solutions Using Activated Cow Bone
Creators: name: Yanasinee Suma
name: Numfon Eaktasang
name: Pradabduang Kiattisaksiri
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Activated carbon
Adsorption
Cow bone
Defluoridation
Fluoride

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 127-144
Explicit asymptotic secret key rate of continuous-variable quantum key distribution with an arbitrary modulation
Creators: name: Denys, Aurélie
name: Brown, Peter
name: Leverrier, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish an analytical lower bound on the asymptotic secret key rate of continuous-variable quantum key distribution with an arbitrary modulation of coherent states. Previously, such bounds were only available for protocols with a Gaussian modulation, and numerical bounds existed in the case of simple phase-shift-keying modulations. The latter bounds were obtained as a solution of convex optimization problems and our new analytical bound matches the results of Ghorai et al. (2019), up to numerical precision. The more relevant case of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) could not be analyzed with the previous techniques, due to their large number of coherent states. Our bound shows that relatively small constellation sizes, with say 64 states, are essentially sufficient to obtain a performance close to a true Gaussian modulation and are therefore an attractive solution for large-scale deployment of continuous-variable quantum key distribution. We also derive similar bounds when the modulation consists of arbitrary states, not necessarily pure.
description: 36 pages, 6 figures, Python scripts for computing the secret key rate for QAM and PSK modulation available as ancillary files; v2 deals with modulations of arbitrary states; v3 published version
One Loop Gluon Gluon Scattering in Light Cone Gauge
Creators: name: Qiu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the one loop amplitudes for the two gluon scattering process in light cone gauge with fermions and scalars circulating in the loop. This extends the earlier works, in which only the gluon circulates the loop. By putting all fields in the adjoint representation with N_f=2, N_s=6, the scattering amplitude of gluon by gluon in the special case of N=4 Super Yang-Mills can be obtained. The massive fermion and scalar with arbitrary representations are also considered.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures
Investigation of Solid Waste Generation Rate of Dhaka City and Characterization for Biofuel Conversion
Creators: name: Md. Sultanul Islam
name: Sadib Bin Kabir
name: Md. Nazmul Islam
name: Md. Shahriar Abdullah
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2024
Subjects: Municipal solid waste
Waste generation rate
Waste characterization
Biofuel conversion
Waste-to-energy

description: EnvironmentAsia, 17, 2, 159-169