cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Delegation in Compact
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Spivack, Marla
name: Belafi, Carmen
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In many countries like South Africa, Nigeria or Germany, sub-national entities like provinces or states hold the main authority over education policy and financing and, In these cases, the delegation of priorities from any government (regardless of level) to the the highest education authorities is considered delegation in the ‘Compact’ relationship.
title: Experimental modeling of heat transfer in Taylor flow in mini-scale tubing
Creators: name: Alrbee, Khalifa B.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: Heat transfer enhancement in mini / micro scale channels is desired in most compacted devices. Typically, these devices experience a high heat generation. In this regard several approaches were invented to increase heat dissipation rates. Taylor flow provides a promising technique to enhance heat transfer within mini / micro scale channels.
 Taylor flow parameters and channel geometries are experimentally and theoretically studied to improve the thermal performance of mini / micro channels. The present dissertation aims to investigate heat transfer enhancement using the Taylor flows of gas-liquid and liquid-liquid flows in straight and curved tubes. The influence of the liquid slug length on heat transfer is examined when the isothermal boundary condition is applied to the heat transfer surface. This study also examines the effect of nanoparticle inclusion in the continuous and Taylor flows as new achievement in this regard. This dissertation will address heat transfer enhancement in the mini scale tubes over eight chapters as follows.
 The first chapter provides a brief introduction and shows the originality, novelty, and importance of using the Taylor flows in the heat transfer enhancement. The second chapter summarizes a survey on the past attempts to investigate heat transfer of Taylor flows. The third and fourth chapters are devoted to study heat transfer in Taylor flows of gas-liquid and liquid-liquid in mini scale straight tubes. These experiments examine the effect of the liquid slug length on the thermal behavior of the Taylor / slug flows. In the fifth and sixth chapters, the thermal behavior of Taylor flows inside curved / coiled geometry are experimentally studied, and new empirical models were developed using the experimental data. The experiments considered the effects of three parameters, tube curvatures, liquid slug ratios, and Prandtl numbers. The seventh chapter addresses the heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids and compares with the conventional liquids. The study demonstrated the effect of nanoparticle concentration on heat transfer in continuous and Taylor flows.
 The last chapter provides a summary and conclusion of the present study. Recommendations for the future studies are also stated to highlight the important aspects for further investigation.
Delegation in Management
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Hwa, Yue-Yi
name: Spivack, Marla
name: Belafi, Carmen
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This sub-article on delegation focuses on the specific aspects of delegation in the Management relationship, i.e. the principal-agent relationship between the Ministry of Education (and its bureaucracy) and the frontline providers of education, i.e. schools and teachers.
Critical Casimir forces and adsorption profiles in the presence of a chemically structured substrate
Creators: name: Toldin, Francesco Parisen
name: Dietrich, Siegfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B27, 82B20, 76A20, 82B80

description: Motivated by recent experiments with confined binary liquid mixtures near demixing, we study the universal critical properties of a system, which belongs to the Ising universality class, in the film geometry. We employ periodic boundary conditions in the two lateral directions and fixed boundary conditions on the two confining surfaces, such that one of them has a spatially homogeneous adsorption preference while the other one exhibits a laterally alternating adsorption preference, resembling locally a single chemical step. By means of Monte Carlo simulations of an improved Hamiltonian, so that the leading scaling corrections are suppressed, numerical integration, and finite-size scaling analysis we determine the critical Casimir force and its universal scaling function for various values of the aspect ratio of the film. In the limit of a vanishing aspect ratio the critical Casimir force of this system reduces to the mean value of the critical Casimir force for laterally homogeneous ++ and +- boundary conditions, corresponding to the surface spins on the two surfaces being fixed to equal and opposite values, respectively. We show that the universal scaling function of the critical Casimir force for small but finite aspect ratios displays a linear dependence on the aspect ratio which is solely due to the presence of the lateral inhomogeneity. We also analyze the order-parameter profiles at criticality and their universal scaling function which allows us to probe theoretical predictions and to compare with experimental data.
description: revised version, section 5.2 expanded; 53 pages, 12 figures, iopart class
Delegation in Politics
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Hwa, Yue-Yi
name: Spivack, Marla
name: Belafi, Carmen
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This paper illustrates the different ways citizens have of delegating priorities to the state like ‘political participation’ and ‘civil society’ and it links these forms of delegation not only to democratic societies as research normally does but also to non-democratic states and regimes in transition.
Delegation in Voice & Choice
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Amstrup, Alexander
name: Hwa, Yue-Yi
name: Spivack, Marla
name: Silberstein, Jason
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This page argues that parents have limited ability to delegate objectives and priorities to schools and that families are more able to use voice and choice to hold schools accountable for learning in a system organized around distributed decentralization, meaning that educational functions are allocated to the level of the system best able to perform them.
"Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidenceon Technology-Aided Instruction in India"
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Muralidharan, Karthik
name: Singh, Abhijeet
name: Ganimian, Alejandro J.
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This paper studies the impact of a personalized technology-aided after-school instruction program on academic performance of middle-school children in urban India, using a lottery that provided winners with free access to the program.
In vitro and in silico screening of Klebsiella pneumoniae new Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 inhibitors from endophytic Streptomyces spp.
Creators: name: Cheepurupalli, Lalitha
name: Diaz, Aathithya
name: Gopal, Adithya Conjeevaram
name: Rathore, Sudarshan Singh
name: Ramakrishnan, Vigneshwar
name: Ramakrishnan, Jayapradha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The increase in drug resistance over the last two decades is a big threat in health care settings. More importantly, the dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae is the major threat to public health with an increase in morbidity and mortality. β-lactamase is known to confer enteric bacteria with nearly complete resistance to all β-lactam antibiotics including the late-generation carbapenems. The commercially available β-lactamase inhibitors, clavulanic acid, sulbactam, and tazobactam are being met with an increasing number of resistant phenotypes and are ineffective against pathogens harbouring New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM-1). Inhibition of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 activity is one potential way to treat metallo β-lactamase (MBL) producing multi drug resistant (MDR) pathogen. The present study focused on screening of Klebsiella pneumoniae New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (BLIs) from endophytic Streptomyces spp. using in vitro and in silico methods. The study identified three potential inhibitors of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1, namely dodecanoic acid, dl-alanyl-l-leucine and phenyl propanedioic acid. These molecules were found to bind to other MBLs namely, IMP-1 and VIM-2. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first kind of study reporting the binding mode of these molecules with New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
On Combining Data From Genome-Wide Association Studies to Discover Disease-Associated SNPs
Creators: name: Pfeiffer, Ruth M.
name: Gail, Mitchell H.
name: Pee, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Combining data from several case-control genome-wide association (GWA) studies can yield greater efficiency for detecting associations of disease with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) than separate analyses of the component studies. We compared several procedures to combine GWA study data both in terms of the power to detect a disease-associated SNP while controlling the genome-wide significance level, and in terms of the detection probability ($\mathit{DP}$). The $\mathit{DP}$ is the probability that a particular disease-associated SNP will be among the $T$ most promising SNPs selected on the basis of low $p$-values. We studied both fixed effects and random effects models in which associations varied across studies. In settings of practical relevance, meta-analytic approaches that focus on a single degree of freedom had higher power and $\mathit{DP}$ than global tests such as summing chi-square test-statistics across studies, Fisher's combination of $p$-values, and forming a combined list of the best SNPs from within each study.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-STS286 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Detecting viewer-perceived intended vector sketch connectivity
Creators: name: Yin, Jerry
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Many sketch processing applications target precise vector drawings with accurately specified stroke intersections, yet free-form artist drawn sketches are typically inexact: strokes that are intended to intersect often stop short of doing so. While human observers easily perceive the artist intended stroke connectivity, manually or even semi-manually correcting drawings to generate correctly-connected outputs is tedious and highly time consuming. We propose a novel, robust algorithm that extracts viewer-perceived stroke connectivity from inexact free-form vector drawings by leveraging observations about local and global factors that impact human perception of inter-stroke connectivity. We employ the identified local cues to train classifiers that assess the likelihood that pairs of strokes are perceived as forming end-to-end or T-junctions based on local context. We then use these classifiers within an incremental framework that combines classifier-provided likelihoods with a more global, contextual, and closure-based analysis. We demonstrate our method on over 95 diversely sourced inputs, and validate it via a series of perceptual studies; participants prefer our outputs over the closest alternative by a factor of 9 to 1.
Simple and statistically sound strategies for analysing physical theories
Creators: name: AbdusSalam, Shehu S.
name: Agocs, Fruzsina J.
name: Allanach, Benjamin C.
name: Athron, Peter
name: Balázs, Csaba
name: Bagnaschi, Emanuele
name: Bechtle, Philip
name: Buchmueller, Oliver
name: Beniwal, Ankit
name: Bhom, Jihyun
name: Bloor, Sanjay
name: Bringmann, Torsten
name: Buckley, Andy
name: Butter, Anja
name: Camargo-Molina, José Eliel
name: Chrzaszcz, Marcin
name: Conrad, Jan
name: Cornell, Jonathan M.
name: Danninger, Matthias
name: De Blas, Jorge
name: De Roeck, Albert
name: Desch, Klaus
name: Dolan, Matthew
name: Dreiner, Herbert
name: Eberhardt, Otto
name: Ellis, John
name: Farmer, Ben
name: Fedele, Marco
name: Flächer, Henning
name: Fowlie, Andrew
name: Gonzalo, Tomás E.
name: Grace, Philip
name: Hamer, Matthias
name: Handley, Will
name: Harz, Julia
name: Heinemeyer, Sven
name: Hoof, Sebastian
name: Hotinli, Selim
name: Jackson, Paul
name: Kahlhoefer, Felix
name: Kowalska, Kamila
name: Krämer, Michael
name: Kvellestad, Anders
name: Martinez, Miriam Lucio
name: Mahmoudi, Farvah
name: Santos, Diego Martinez
name: Martinez, Gregory D.
name: Mishima, Satoshi
name: Olive, Keith
name: Paul, Ayan
name: Prim, Markus Tobias
name: Porod, Werner
name: Raklev, Are
name: Renk, Janina J.
name: Rogan, Christopher
name: Roszkowski, Leszek
name: De Austri, Roberto Ruiz
name: Sakurai, Kazuki
name: Scaffidi, Andre
name: Scott, Pat
name: Sessolo, Enrico Maria
name: Stefaniak, Tim
name: Stöcker, Patrick
name: Su, Wei
name: Trojanowski, Sebastian
name: Trotta, Roberto
name: Tsai, Yue-Lin Sming
name: Abeele, Jeriek Van Den
name: Valli, Mauro
name: Vincent, Aaron C.
name: Weiglein, Georg
name: White, Martin
name: Wienemann, Peter
name: Wu, Lei
name: Zhang, Yang
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: * Automatic Keywords *
cosmological model
higher-dimensional
programming
category

description: Physical theories that depend on many parameters or are tested against data from many different experiments pose unique challenges to parameter estimation. Many models in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology fall into one or both of these categories. These issues are often sidestepped with very simplistic and statistically unsound ad hoc methods, involving naive intersection of parameter intervals estimated by multiple experiments, and random or grid sampling of model parameters. Whilst these methods are easy to apply, they exhibit pathologies even in low-dimensional parameter spaces, and quickly become problematic to use and interpret in higher dimensions. In this article we give clear guidance for going beyond these rudimentary procedures, suggesting some simple methods for performing statistically sound inference, and recommendations of readily-available software tools and standards that can assist in doing so. Our aim is to provide physicists with recommendations for reaching correct scientific conclusions, with only a modest increase in analysis burden.
The AdS(5)xS(5) Semi-Symmetric Space Sine-Gordon Theory
Creators: name: Hollowood, Timothy J.
name: Miramontes, J. Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generalized symmetric space sine-Gordon theories are a series of 1+1-integrable field theories that are classically equivalent to superstrings on symmetric space spacetimes F/G. They are formulated in terms of a semi-symmetric space as a gauged WZW model with fermions and a potential term to deform it away from the conformal fixed point. We consider in particular the case of PSU(2,2|4)/Sp(2,2)xSp(4) which corresponds to AdS(5)xS(5). We argue that the infinite tower of conserved charges of these theories includes an exotic N=(8,8) supersymmetry that is realized in a mildy non-local way at the Lagrangian level. The supersymmetry is associated to a double central extension of the superalgebra psu(2|2)+psu(2|2) and includes a non-trivial R symmetry algebra corresponding to global gauge transformations, as well as 2-dimensional spacetime translations. We then explicitly construct soliton solutions and show that they carry an internal moduli superspace CP(2|1)xCP(2|1) with both bosonic and Grassmann collective coordinates. We show how to semi-classical quantize the solitons by writing an effective quantum mechanical system on the moduli space which takes the form of a co-adjoint orbit of SU(2|2)xSU(2|2). The spectrum consists of a tower of massive states in the short, or atypical, symmetric representations, just as the giant magnon states of the string world sheet theory, although here the tower is truncated.
description: 39 pages, references added
Strong Coupling of a Quantum Oscillator to a Flux Qubit at its Symmetry Point
Creators: name: Fedorov, A.
name: Feofanov, A. K.
name: Macha, P.
name: Forn-Díaz, P.
name: Harmans, C. J. P. M.
name: Mooij, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A flux qubit biased at its symmetry point shows a minimum in the energy splitting (the gap), providing protection against flux noise. We have fabricated a qubit whose gap can be tuned fast and have coupled this qubit strongly to an LC oscillator. We show full spectroscopy of the qubit-resonator system and generate vacuum Rabi oscillations. When the gap is made equal to the oscillator frequency $ν_{osc}$ we find the strongest qubit-resonator coupling ($g/h\sim0.1ν_{\rm osc}$). Here being at resonance coincides with the optimal coherence of the symmetry point. Significant further increase of the coupling is possible.
description: 4 pages, updated
title: ÐÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ ÑÑÑÐ°Ð»Ð¾ÑÑÐ½ÑÑ Ð¿Ð¾Ð²ÑÐµÐ¶Ð´ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð² Ð¾ÑÐ³Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¼ ÑÑÐµÐºÐ»Ðµ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¼Ð¸ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð°Ð¼Ð¸
title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Optical method for determination of fatigue damage in organic glass
Creators: name: Ð¡Ð¸Ð½Ð¸ÑÑÐ½Ð°, ÐÐºÐ°ÑÐµÑÐ¸Ð½Ð°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ð»Ð°Ð·ÐµÑÐ½Ð¾Ðµ Ð¸Ð·Ð»ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ
Ð¾ÑÐ³Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ðµ ÑÑÐµÐºÐ»Ð¾
ÑÐ¿ÐµÐºÐ»Ð¾Ð²ÑÐµ Ð¸Ð·Ð¾Ð±ÑÐ°Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ
ÑÑÐµÑÐ¸Ð½Ð°
Ð²ÑÐµÐ¼Ñ ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÐ°
ÑÑÑÐ°Ð»Ð¾ÑÑÑ
laser radiation
organic glass
speckle images
crack
start time
fatigue

description: ÐÐ°Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð° Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¾Ð¶Ð´ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ, ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÐ° Ð¸ ÑÐ°ÑÐ¿ÑÐ¾ÑÑÑÐ°Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÑÐµÑÐ¸Ð½Ñ Ð²Ð½ÑÑÑÐ¸ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð·ÑÐ°ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¾ÑÐ³Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¾Ð±ÑÐ°Ð·ÑÐ°. ÐÐ¾ Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¿ÐµÐºÐ»Ð¾Ð²ÑÑ Ð¸Ð·Ð¾Ð±ÑÐ°Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð¸ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¾Ð¼ ÑÐ»Ð»Ð¸Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð¼ÐµÑÑÐ¸Ð¸ Ð¸Ð·ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¾ ÑÐ°ÑÐ¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¿Ð¾ÐºÐ°Ð·Ð°ÑÐµÐ»Ñ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ»Ð¾Ð¼Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¸ Ð¿Ð»Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð²Ð¾ÐºÑÑÐ³ ÑÑÐµÑÐ¸Ð½Ñ. Ð£ÑÑÐ°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¾, ÑÑÐ¾ Ð¼Ð°ÐºÑÐ¸Ð¼Ð°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ðµ Ð·Ð½Ð°ÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÐ»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ð»Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð½Ð°ÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¸ÑÑÑ Ð²Ð±Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð¸ ÑÑÐµÑÐ¸Ð½Ñ. Ð­ÑÐ¾ Ð·Ð½Ð°ÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¿ÐµÑÐµÐ´ ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¾Ð¼ ÑÑÐµÑÐ¸Ð½Ñ Ð±Ð¾Ð»ÑÑÐµ Ð²ÐµÐ»Ð¸ÑÐ¸Ð½Ñ 0.003. ÐÐ±Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¾, ÑÑÐ¾ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´Ð»Ð°Ð³Ð°ÐµÐ¼ÑÐ¹ Ð½Ð°Ð¼Ð¸ ÑÐ¿ÐµÐºÐ»Ð¾Ð²ÑÐ¹ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´ Ð¼Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÑ Ð±ÑÑÑ Ð±Ð°Ð·Ð¾Ð¹ Ð´Ð»Ñ ÑÐ¾Ð·Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ½ÑÑ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¸Ðº. ÐÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÐ·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¸Ðº Ð¿Ð¾Ð·Ð²Ð¾Ð»Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ ÑÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¸Ð·Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ñ Ð²ÐµÐ»Ð¸ÑÐ¸Ð½ Ð½Ð° Ð¼Ð°Ð»ÑÑ ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ´ÐºÐ° 50 Ð¼ÐºÐ¼ Ð¸ Ð¸Ñ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÑÐ½ÑÑ Ð·Ð½Ð°ÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð¾ÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð²Ð°ÑÑ Ð²ÑÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð´Ð¾ ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÐ° ÑÑÐµÑÐ¸Ð½Ñ.
description: This work is devoted to the study of the features of nucleation, start, and propagation of a crack inside a transparent organic sample. By changing the speckle images and ellipsometry, the distribution of the refractive index and density around the crack is studied. It has been established that the maximum value of the relative change in density is near the crack. This value before the crack start is greater than 0.003. It is proved that the speckle method we offer can be the basis for the creation of various techniques. The use of these techniques will make it possible to estimate the time to crack initiation by the rate of change of physical quantities in small areas of the order of 50 Î¼m and their limiting values.
ปัญหากฎหมายเกี่ยวกับการบริหารจัดการทรัพยากรธรรมชาติและสิ่งแวดล้อม: กรณีศึกษาการทำเหมืองแร่ทองคำในพื้นที่ติดต่อกันของจังหวัดพิจิตร เพชรบูรณ์ และอำเภอเนินมะปราง จังหวัดพิษณุโลก
Creators: name: จิรประภา มากลิ่น
Publisher: name: คณะนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวร
Year: 2564
Subjects: พระราชบัญญัติแร่
การจัดการทรัพยากรธรรมชาติและสิ่งแวดล้อม
เหมืองแร่ทองคำ

description: วารสารนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวร, 14, 2, 191-222
Anticyclotomic p-adic L-function of central critical Rankin-Selberg L-value
Creators: name: Brakočević, Miljan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F67

description: Let M be an imaginary quadratic field, f a Hecke eigenform on GL2(Q) and πthe unitary base-change to M of the automorphic representation associated to f. Take a unitary arithmetic Hecke character χof M inducing the inverse of the central character of f. The celebrated formula of Waldspurger relates the square of an integral L(f) of f and χover the idele class group of M to the central critical value L(1/2,π\otimesχ). In this paper, we present a construction of a new p-adic L-function that interpolates L(f) over arithmetic characters for a cusp form f in the spirit of the landmark result of Katz where he did that for Eisenstein series.
description: 30 pages. Final version, to appear in IMRN. The proof of Lemma 8.2 revised, referee's suggestions incorporated, results unchanged, minor typos corrected
Edsyclopedia: Main Page
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Hwa, Yue-Yi
name: Spivack, Marla
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This page presents Edsyclopedia overview and table of contents and divides them into 5 main categories: cultivating students learning, systems thinking for education, tools, organizations and people, countries and their education systems.
title: A slator or two: exploring the 17th-century slate industry at Ferryland
Creators: name: Spiwak, Alexa D.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: While the use of slate as a building material was not unheard of in the New World, the early 17th-century English colony at Ferryland, Newfoundland was unique among contemporaneous North American settlements in its large-scale use of local slate. First governed by a Welshman, the colony’s historical documents and previously undertaken archaeological investigations point to the presence of a substantial slate industry, complete with at least one quarry and a number of skilled tradesmen. Slate is ubiquitous at the colony, making it one of the most important materials used in its construction. However, very little is known about the quarry, the process used to manufacture the many thousands of roof slates used to cover the early buildings or the lives of the craftsmen that called Ferryland home. Using archaeological and ethnographic data, this project seeks to determine how 17th-century quarrying and slate working processes in Newfoundland may have deviated from those of the Old World, as well as confirming possible quarry sites proposed by previous research. Moreover, this project seeks to connect the practices of 17th-century slaters to those of the 19th and 20th centuries, when Newfoundland experienced a resurgence in both the slate quarrying industry and a Welsh cultural presence.
Genetic and metabolic determinants of resistance to fusarium crown rot in spring wheat
Creators: name: Djibo Waziri, Aichatou
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021

description: As the climate changes in unprecedented ways, outbreaks of crop diseases are expected to
description: recur often. Fusarium crown rot, a soil fungal disease, develops at early plant growth stages and
description: thus, the disease negatively affects plant survival and yield. Limited sources of genetic resistance
description: have been identified. However, landraces from the Middle East have shown potential resistance
description: that can be introgressed in adapted commercial lines. In this study, we investigated the genetic and
description: metabolic potential of a recombinant inbred line population derived from the cross between an
description: Iranian landrace and a spring wheat cultivar adapted to the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the
description: USA. Putative marker-trait associations were detected, although the genome coverage by markers
description: was incomplete in our population.
description: From another perspective, the metabolic study of disease resistance involved the
description: monitoring of changes in total lignin content. Lignin is a group of aromatic polymers that act to
description: strengthen plant cell-walls. This strengthening is thought to reduce plant infection and the spread
description: of the pathogen. Increased lignin in the roots had been previously documented in the Iranian landrace. In our study, the results were, in most instances, inconsistent with our initial hypothesis
description: that increased lignin content is associated with higher disease resistance. In only two instances did
description: we observe an increase of lignin in infected plants as opposed to the non-infected plants. However,
description: the difference was not statistically significant. Nevertheless, the theory of infection-induced lignin
description: production cannot be ruled out because studies suggest that the quantitative difference in monomer
description: composition ratios can also be the reason for resistance to diseases. Therefore, more work is
description: necessary to decipher the implication of lignin in resistance to Fusarium crown rot in wheat
description: genotypes from this population.
Quantum picturalism for topological cluster-state computing
Creators: name: Horsman, Dominic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological quantum computing is a way of allowing precise quantum computations to run on noisy and imperfect hardware. One implementation uses surface codes created by forming defects in a highly-entangled cluster state. Such a method of computing is a leading candidate for large-scale quantum computing. However, there has been a lack of sufficiently powerful high-level languages to describe computing in this form without resorting to single-qubit operations, which quickly become prohibitively complex as the system size increases. In this paper we apply the category-theoretic work of Abramsky and Coecke to the topological cluster-state model of quantum computing to give a high-level graphical language that enables direct translation between quantum processes and physical patterns of measurement in a computer - a "compiler language". We give the equivalence between the graphical and topological information flows, and show the applicable rewrite algebra for this computing model. We show that this gives us a native graphical language for the design and analysis of topological quantum algorithms, and finish by discussing the possibilities for automating this process on a large scale.
description: 18 pages, 21 figures. Published in New J. Phys. special issue on topological quantum computing
A new efficient method for determining weighted power spectra: detection of low-frequency solar p-modes by analysis of BiSON data
Creators: name: Fletcher, S. T.
name: Broomhall, A. -M.
name: Chaplin, W. J.
name: Elsworth, Y.
name: New, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new and highly efficient algorithm for computing a power spectrum made from evenly spaced data which combines the noise-reducing advantages of the weighted fit with the computational advantages of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). We apply this method to a 10-year data set of the solar p-mode oscillations obtained by the Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) and thereby uncover three new low-frequency modes. These are the l=2, n=5 and n=7 modes and the l=3, n=7 mode. In the case of the l=2, n=5 modes, this is believed to be the first such identification of this mode in the literature. The statistical weights needed for the method are derived from a combination of the real data and a sophisticated simulation of the instrument performance. Variations in the weights are due mainly to the differences in the noise characteristics of the various BiSON instruments, the change in those characteristics over time and the changing line-of-sight velocity between the stations and the Sun. It should be noted that a weighted data set will have a more time-dependent signal than an unweighted set and that, consequently, its frequency spectrum will be more susceptible to aliasing.
description: 11 pages, 7 Figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, Figure 6 had to be reduced in size to upload and so may be difficult to view on screen in .ps version
Effects of diffusion rates on epidemic spreads in metapopulation networks
Creators: name: Masuda, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is often useful to represent the infectious dynamics of mobile agents by metapopulation models. In such a model, metapopulations form a static network, and individuals migrate from one metapopulation to another. It is known that heterogeneous degree distributions of metapopulation networks decrease the epidemic threshold above which epidemic spreads can occur. We investigate the combined effect of heterogeneous degree distributions and diffusion on epidemics in metapopulation networks. We show that for arbitrary heterogeneous networks, diffusion suppresses epidemics in the sense of an increase in the epidemic threshold. On the other hand, some diffusion rates are needed to elicit epidemic spreads on a global scale. As a result of these opposing effects of diffusion, epidemic spreading near the epidemic threshold is the most pronounced at an intermediate diffusion rate. The result that diffusion can suppress epidemics contrasts with that for diffusive SIS dynamics and its variants when individuals are fixed at nodes on static networks.
description: 4 figures
Parametrised strict deformation quantization of C*-bundles and Hilbert C*-modules
Creators: name: Hannabuss, K. C.
name: Mathai, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we use the parametrised strict deformation quantization of C*-bundles obtained in a previous paper, and give more examples and applications of this theory. In particular, it is used here to classify H_3-twisted noncommutative torus bundles over a locally compact space. This is extended to the case of general torus bundles and their parametrised strict deformation quantization. Rieffel's basic construction of an algebra deformation can be mimicked to deform a monoidal category, which deforms not only algebras but also modules. As a special case, we consider the parametrised strict deformation quantization of Hilbert C*-modules over C*-bundles with fibrewise torus action.
description: 13 pages
Von Neumann Normalisation of a Quantum Random Number Generator
Creators: name: Abbott, Alastair A.
name: Calude, Cristian S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study von Neumann un-biasing normalisation for ideal and real quantum random number generators, operating on finite strings or infinite bit sequences. In the ideal cases one can obtain the desired un-biasing. This relies critically on the independence of the source, a notion we rigorously define for our model. In real cases, affected by imperfections in measurement and hardware, one cannot achieve a true un-biasing, but, if the bias "drifts sufficiently slowly", the result can be arbitrarily close to un-biasing. For infinite sequences, normalisation can both increase or decrease the (algorithmic) randomness of the generated sequences. A successful application of von Neumann normalisation---in fact, any un-biasing transformation---does exactly what it promises, un-biasing, one (among infinitely many) symptoms of randomness; it will not produce "true" randomness.
description: 27 pages, 2 figures. Updated to published version
Education systems framework
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Hwa, Yue-Yi
name: Amstrup, Alexander
name: Spivack, Marla
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This article outlines the education systems framework developed and deployed throughout the RISE Programme. This framework can be applied to conduct a diagnostic analysis of an education system.
Kaiser Family Foundation Poll: December 2020 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll/COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor
Creators: name: Kaiser Family Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Affordable Care Act (ACA) (1); next presidential administration and Congress on health care law (1); favor/oppose various health care proposals (7); worry/stress related to coronavirus (COVID-19) (1); following social distancing guidelines (1); views about coronavirus outbreak (2); concern about family member will get sick from coronavirus (1); state's efforts to slow spread of virus (2); use of protective mask outside home (5); willingness to get COVID-19 vaccine (12); trust in various sources of information about vaccine (9); development of vaccine (3); when vaccine will be widely available in United States (1); vaccine distribution (1); confidence that development of vaccine is considering needs of Black/Hispanic/Latino people (2); registered to vote (1); voting in 2020 presidential election (2); impact of coronavirus on employment (2); anyone in household work in health care setting (2); health insurance (4); normally get flu vaccine (1); impact of coronavirus on access to medical care (1); personal experiences with coronavirus testing/infection (4); have pre-existing condition (1); political ideology (2); political partisanship (1).
Longitudinal Zeeman slowers based on permanent magnetic dipoles
Creators: name: Ovchinnikov, Yuri B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Longitudinal Zeeman slowers composed of arrays of compact discrete neodymium magnets are proposed. The general properties of these slowers, as well as specific designs of short spin-flip Zeeman slowers for Sr and Rb atoms are described. The advantages of these slowers are their simplicity, low cost and absence of consumed electrical power and corresponding water cooling. The smoothness of the magnetic field together with ease of adjustability makes it possible to operate these slowers near the theoretical limits of deceleration, making them more compact and efficient.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
Relativistic mean field study of the properties of Z=117 nucleus and the decay chains of $^{293,294}$117 isotopes
Creators: name: Bhuyan, M.
name: Gupta, S. K. Patra Raj K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have calculated the binding energy, root-mean-square radius and quadrupole deformation parameter for the recently synthesized superheavy element Z=117, using the axially deformed relativistic mean field (RMF) model. The calculation is extended to various isotopes of Z=117 element, strarting from A=286 till A=310. We predict almost spherical structures in the ground state for almost all the isotopes. A shape transition appears at about A=292 from prolate to a oblate shape structures of Z=117 nucleus in our mean field approach. The most stable isotope (largest binding energy per nucleon) is found to be the $^{288}$117 nucleus. Also, the Q-value of $α$-decay $Q_α$ and the half-lives $T_α$ are calculated for the $α$-decay chains of $^{293}$117 and $^{294}$117, supporting the magic numbers at N=172 and/ or 184.
description: 6 Pages and 8 Figures
"Effective Investment in Women’s Futures: Schooling with Learning"
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Kaffenberger, Michelle
name: Pritchett, Lant
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This paper uses data from over 50 countries to explore the impacts of both schooling and learning, as measured by the acquisition of literacy, on women's later life outcomes.
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title: Administrative and legal regulation in the field of construction and housing and public utilities
Creators: name: Ð§ÐµÐ¿Ð¸Ðº, Ð®Ð»Ð¸Ñ
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2019
Subjects: ÑÑÑÐ¾Ð¸ÑÐµÐ»ÑÑÑÐ²Ð¾
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construction
housing and utilities
town planning
administrative responsibility
housing legislation
architectural activities
housing control
housing supervision

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description: In the final qualifying work was considered the administrative and legal regulation in the field of construction, the system and powers of the executive authorities of the Russian Federation and local governments in this area are given. The paper discusses the grounds for prosecution for violations of legislation in the field of construction and analyzes judicial practice. The normative - legal regulation of housing and communal services and the system of bodies regulating relations in this area are considered.
The Umatilla Member of the Columbia River Basalt Group: a chemically unusual flood basalt
Creators: name: Nersinger, Ramsey
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Barium
Columbia River Basalt Group
trace element enrichment
Umatilla

description: The Umatilla Member of the Columbia River Basalt Group is chemically unusual for a flood basalt. It is classified as a basaltic-trachyandesite to trachyandesite, is enriched in incompatible trace elements, and has the highest Ba concentrations of any unit in the CRBG (2600 – 4700 ppm). New trace element data on the Umatilla Member has identified previously unrecognized unusual ratios of Zr/Hf (~47), Nb/Ta (~17), and Eu/Eu* (1.2 – 1.5). New electron microprobe analysis has revealed Ba-rich plagioclase and alkali feldspars. Additionally, electron microprobe and laser ablation analyses show the glass is not homogeneous and that Ba content is split between plagioclase and glass/groundmass, rather than being found only in alkali feldspar. Wavelength dispersive spectroscopy maps of several plagioclase crystals show Ba concentration decreasing from core to rim of plagioclase feldspars, suggesting Ba decline in the melt during feldspar growth, perhaps due to dilution of a high-Ba contaminant by continuing addition of magma. The combination of high Ba, positive Eu anomalies, Zr and Hf enrichment, high Zr/Hf, and alkaline character suggest the parental magma of the Umatilla Member was assimilating contaminant material enriched in alkali feldspar and zircon, likely before the onset of plagioclase growth. Such material could be a zircon-saturated feldspathic cumulate magma with granitic or syenitic composition. A heterogenous contaminant, and/or a mix of multiple similar contaminants, could be responsible for the contrast between the Umatilla and Sillusi flow chemistries of the Umatilla Member. Possible contamination sources could be linked to nearby silicic volcanism contemporaneous with the Columbia River Basalt Group. Feldspathic cumulates associated with Dinner Creek Tuff rhyolites is a plausible candidate based on Ba-rich feldspars, possible zircon saturation, and cumulates that likely have positive Eu anomalies. Possible parental magma compositions are similar to the Grande Ronde and/or Wanapum Basalts. However, additional modeling of possible contaminants and isotopic analysis of the Umatilla Member could add to further understanding of the Umatilla Member’s unusual nature.
Extending the Canada-France brown Dwarfs Survey to the near-infrared: first ultracool brown dwarfs from CFBDSIR
Creators: name: Delorme, P.
name: Albert, L.
name: Forveille, T.
name: Artigau, E.
name: Delfosse, X.
name: Reylé, C.
name: Willott, C. J.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Wilkins, S. M.
name: Allard, F.
name: Arzoumanian, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results of the ongoing Canada-France Brown Dwarfs Survey-InfraRed, hereafter CFBDSIR, a Near InfraRed extension to the optical wide-field survey CFBDS. Our final objectives are to constrain ultracool atmosphere physics by finding a statistically significant sample of objects cooler than 650K and to explore the ultracool brown dwarf mass function building on a well defined sample of such objects. Candidates are identified in CFHT/WIRCam J and CFHT/MegaCam z' images using optimised psf-fitting, and we follow them up with pointed near infrared imaging with SOFI at NTT. We finally obtain low resolution spectroscopy of the coolest candidates to characterise their atmospheric physics. We have so far analysed and followed up all candidates on the first 66 square degrees of the 335 square degrees survey. We identified 55 T-dwarfs candidates with z'-J > 3:5 and have confirmed six of them as T-dwarfs, including 3 that are strong later-than-T8 candidates, based on their far-red and NIR colours. We also present here the NIR spectra of one of these ultracool dwarfs, CFBDSIR1458+1013 which confirms it as one of the coolest brown dwarf known, possibly in the 550-600K temperature range. From the completed survey we expect to discover 10 to 15 dwarfs later than T8, more than doubling the known number of such objects. This will enable detailed studies of their extreme atmospheric properties and provide a stronger statistical base for studies of their luminosity function.
description: A&A, Accepted
Engaging with mining impacts on Indigenous community health : allegiance challenges in public health research and practice
Creators: name: Eng Stime, Bjorn Burton
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This dissertation critically examines the ways in which public health professionals in Canada carry out their role in a settler colonial setting. I specifically focus on investigating how such practitioners are engaging with disparate narratives about health impacts of mining on Indigenous communities in Canada. I apply two methodological approaches (a scoping review and in-depth interviews) to produce insights that inform a pedagogical tool-creating approach (social cartography). Through a scoping review of 89 government related documents that guide regulatory and approval processes of mining developments and policy, I identify key framings, definitions and narratives used discursively through these state processes. These documents convey strong messages naturalizing the state’s authority over Indigenous people and normalizing the dominance of Settler Canadian standards. Settler Canada is depicted as exceptional and exemplary, in contrast to Indigenous people who the documents repeatedly characterize as essentially infantile. Analysis also reveals calculated sidestepping of consent, and problematic use of ‘balance’ as a metaphor in ways that discount Indigenous resistance to Canadian authority over land, cast market-driven resource extraction as inevitable, and dismiss Indigenous refusals of consent to access land. Exploring the degree to which public health professionals align with or contest state narratives, I carried out 41 in-depth key informant interviews. The qualitative analysis, using thematic review assisted by NVivo, shows a repeated national narrative of caring for Indigenous Peoples - characterized as ‘in need’ yet as healthy if adapting to Settler Canadian paradigms. This suggests that educational-behavioural interventions addressing problematic practices may be of limited effectiveness without first grappling with structural dimensions of complicities, personal and professional investments, cherished narratives, and entitlements. Consideration of structural influences on roles of public health professionals illustrates that available orientations to professional practice may be circumscribed by imperatives of a settler colonial national narrative. In assessing study findings from an anti-colonial lens, I reflect on the study’s contributions to the literature, and implications for practice, training, research and action. I conclude that, through grappling with difficult knowledges to inform accountable and anti-colonial engagement, public health professionals could broaden imaginations toward a professional orientation centred on responsible relationship.