cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Infant regulatory function acts as a protective factor for later traits of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder but not callous unemotional traits
Creators: name: Bedford, Rachael
name: Gliga, Teodora
name: Hendry, Alexandra
name: Jones, Emily J. H.
name: Pasco, Greg
name: Charman, Tony
name: Johnson, Mark H.
name: Pickles, Andrew
name: Baron-Cohen, Simon
name: Bolton, Patrick
name: Milosavljevic, Bosiljka
name: Chandler, Susie
name: Elsabbagh, Mayada
name: Fernandes, Janice
name: Garwood, Holly
name: Hudry, Kristelle
name: Shephard, Elizabeth
name: Tucker, Leslie
name: Volein, Agnes
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Research
Autism spectrum disorder
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Callous unemotional traits
Executive function
Infants at risk
Regulatory function

description: Abstract: Background: Reduced executive functions (EF) are commonly associated with developmental conditions (e.g., autism spectrum disorder, ASD; attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD), although EF seems to be typical in children with callous unemotional (CU) traits. Regulatory function (RF) is a proposed infant precursor that maps on onto factors driving later EF. Here, we first test whether RF is specifically and negatively associated with ASD and ADHD traits, but not CU traits. Second, we test whether RF can act as a protective factor, by moderating the association between infant markers and subsequent ASD and ADHD traits. Methods: Participants were 79 infants at high (N = 42) and low (N = 37) familial risk for ASD. Data come from the 14-month infant visit (Autism Observational Scale for Infants; AOSI; activity level and RF from the Infant Behavior Questionnaire; IBQ) and the 7-year visit (ASD traits: Social Responsiveness Scale, SRS; ADHD traits: Conners 3, CU traits: Inventory of Callous Unemotional Traits). Results: Infant RF was negatively associated with later traits of ASD (B = − 0.5, p = 0.01) and ADHD inattention (B = − 0.24, p = 0.02) but not hyperactivity (B = − 0.25, p = 0.10) or CU traits (B = 0.02, p = 0.86). RF moderated the association between infant AOSI score and ASD traits, with a significant effect in those with low RF (B = 0.10, p = 0.006), not high RF (B = 0.01, p = 0.78). Similarly, for ADHD, infant activity level was associated with later ADHD inattention in those with low (B = 0.17, p = 0.04) but not high RF (B = 0.07, p = 0.48). For ADHD hyperactivity symptoms, activity level was predictive at both high and low levels of RF. Conclusions: Strong RF may allow children to compensate for other atypicalities, thus attenuating the association between infant markers and later disorder traits. Whilst infant RF was associated with both ASD and ADHD inattention traits, there was no association with ADHD hyperactivity or CU traits. This suggests that any protective effect may not be universal and emphasises the need for a better understanding of the underlying moderating mechanisms.
Density of orbits in laminations and the space of critical portraits
Creators: name: Blokh, Alexander
name: Curry, Clinton
name: Oversteegen, Lex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F20 (Primary) 37B45, 37F10, 37F50 (Secondary)

description: Thurston introduced $\si_d$-invariant laminations (where $\si_d(z)$ coincides with $z^d:\ucirc\to \ucirc$, $d\ge 2$). He defined \emph{wandering $k$-gons} as sets $\T\subset \ucirc$ such that $\si_d^n(\T)$ consists of $k\ge 3$ distinct points for all $n\ge 0$ and the convex hulls of all the sets $\si_d^n(\T)$ in the plane are pairwise disjoint. Thurston proved that $\si_2$ has no wandering $k$-gons and posed the problem of their existence for $\si_d$,\, $d\ge 3$. Call a lamination with wandering $k$-gons a \emph{WT-lamination}. Denote the set of cubic critical portraits by $\A_3$. A critical portrait, compatible with a WT-lamination, is called a \emph{WT-critical portrait}; let $\WT_3$ be the set of all of them. It was recently shown by the authors that cubic WT-laminations exist and cubic WT-critical portraits, defining polynomials with \emph{condense} orbits of vertices of order three in their dendritic Julia sets, are dense and locally uncountable in $\A_3$ ($D\subset X$ is \emph{condense in $X$} if $D$ intersects every subcontinuum of $X$). Here we show that $\WT_3$ is a dense first category subset of $\A_3$. We also show that (a) critical portraits, whose laminations have a condense orbit in the topological Julia set, form a residual subset of $\A_3$, (b) the existence of a condense orbit in the Julia set $J$ implies that $J$ is locally connected.
description: 13 pages; accepted for publication in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems
Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1941-03-08)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1941
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
IPBES VA Chapter 2. Behaviour Theories Literature Review
Creators: name: Gould, Rachelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 2

description: IPBES VA Chapter 2. Behaviour Theories Literature Review Code: VA_ 2.7_Ch2 Version: 01 (28.DEC.2020)
 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4399397 Description: Chapter 2 provides the conceptual basis for Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the IPBES Values Assessment. In order to provide a basis for Chapter 5 to develop a subsection on behaviour and behavioural change, it was necessary to identify how values and behaviour are connected, given that it has been reported that behaviour does not always reflect values (known as the value-action gap). In consequence, a literature analysis was developed. Results of the analysis can be found in Annex 2.15 for the Second Order Draft of Chapter 2 of the IPBES Values Assessment.
The effect of internal vs external mindfulness attention on working memory
Creators: name: Stern, Omer
name: Eisenkraft, Raz
name: Marbach, Ohad
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: זוהי ההרשמה מראש למחקר שלכם, במסגרת קורס פסיכולוגיה ניסויית.
(Pseudo)Scalar Charmonium in Finite Temperature QCD
Creators: name: Dominguez, C. A.
name: Loewe, M.
name: Rojas, J. C.
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hadronic parameters of pseudoscalar ($η_c$) and scalar ($χ_c$) charmonium are determined at finite temperature from Hilbert moment QCD sum rules. These parameters are the hadron mass, leptonic decay constant, total width, and continuum threshold ($s_0$). Results for $s_0(T)$ in both channels indicate that $s_0(T)$ starts approximately constant, and then it decreases monotonically with increasing $T$ until it reaches the QCD threshold, $s_{th} = 4 m_Q^2$, at a critical temperature $T = T_c \simeq 180 \; \mbox{MeV}$ interpreted as the deconfinement temperature. The other hadronic parameters behave qualitatively similarly to those of the $J/ψ$, as determined in this same framework. The hadron mass is essentially constant, the total width is initially independent of T, and after $T/T_c \simeq 0.80$ it begins to increase with increasing $T$ up to $T/T_c \simeq 0.90 \; (0.95)$ for $χ_c$ ($η_c$), and subsequently it decreases sharply up to $T \simeq 0.94 \; (0.99) \; T_c$, for $χ_c$ ($η_c$), beyond which the sum rules are no longer valid. The decay constant of $χ_c$ at first remains basically flat up to $T \simeq 0.80\; T_c$, then it starts to decrease up to $T \simeq 0.90 \;T_c$, and finally it increases sharply with increasing $T$. In the case of $η_c$ the decay constant does not change up to $T \simeq 0.80 \;T_c$ where it begins a gentle increase up to $T \simeq 0.95 \;T_c$ beyond which it increases dramatically with increasing $T$. This behaviour contrasts with that of light-light and heavy-light quark systems, and it suggests the survival of the $η_c$ and the $χ_c$ states beyond the critical temperature, as already found for the $J/ψ$ from similar QCD sum rules. These conclusions are very stable against changes in the critical temperature in the wide range $T_c = 180 - 260 \; \mbox{MeV}$.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures. A wide range of critical temperatures has been considered. No qualitative changes to the conclusions
IPBES VA Chapter 2. Literature review on the diverse perspectives on fisheries at the global scale
Creators: name: Österblom, Henrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 2

description: IPBES VA Chapter 2. Literature review on the diverse perspectives on fisheries at the global scale Code: VA_2.5_Ch2 Version: 1 (28.Dec.2020)
 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4399387 Description: The IPBES Values Assessment explores the incorporation of NCPs into decision-making, and in a very important manner, which worldviews, principles, importance and preferences are brought into those decisions. It is also relevant to understand if and how more plural valuation processes can provide relevant input towards transformational change leading to sustainability. In order to illustrate this with a concrete example, a cross-cutting topic on fisheries in the global oceans and in the countries’ exclusive economic zones will be developed for the whole Assessment, starting in Chapter 2. The case will cover issues of power relations between the big fishing corporations, the criminal activities associated with fisheries, the role of key actors, in relation to artisanal fisheries, and emerging conflicts. This report presents the raw references that will be used to build the case.
Gluon condensation and scaling exponents for the propagators in Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Eichhorn, Astrid
name: Gies, Holger
name: Pawlowski, Jan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the infrared (strong-coupling) regime of SU(N)-Yang-Mills theory on a self-dual background. We present an evaluation of the full effective potential for the field strength invariant F_{μν}F^{μν} from non-perturbative gauge correlation functions and find a non-trivial minimum corresponding to the existence of a dimension four gluon condensate in the vacuum. We also relate the infrared asymptotic form of the beta function of the running background-gauge coupling to the asymptotic behavior of Landau-gauge gluon and ghost propagators. Consistency between both gauges in the infrared imposes a new upper bound on the infrared exponents of the propagators. For the scaling solution, this bound reads kappa_c < 23/38 which, together with Zwanziger's horizon condition kappa_c> 1/2, defines a rather narrow window for this critical exponent. Current estimates from functional methods indeed satisfy these bounds.
description: v2 matches published version, refs added, improved estimate of the gluon condensate
Stochastic memory: memory enhancement due to noise
Creators: name: Stotland, Alexander
name: Di Ventra, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are certain classes of resistors, capacitors and inductors that, when subject to a periodic input of appropriate frequency, develop hysteresis loops in their characteristic response. Here, we show that the hysteresis of such memory elements can also be induced by white noise of appropriate intensity even at very low frequencies of the external driving field. We illustrate this phenomenon using a physical model of memory resistor realized by $\mathrm{TiO_2}$ thin films sandwiched between metallic electrodes, and discuss under which conditions this effect can be observed experimentally. We also discuss its implications on existing memory systems described in the literature and the role of colored noise.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Caregivers’ Perspectives on Human–Robot Collaboration in Inpatient Elderly Care Settings
Creators: name: Klebbe, Robert
name: Klüber, Kim
name: Dahms, Rebecca
name: Onnasch, Linda
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: care robots
subject: human-robot interaction
subject: user-centered approach
subject: caregiver
subject: qualitative research
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Due to serious challenges in the healthcare sector, high expectations are placed on the use of assistive robotics. However, only a few systems are currently commercially available. Key challenges in the automation of care activities concern the identification and robust mediation of medical and nursing standards as well as the distribution of agency between caregivers, robots, and patients. With regard to successful mediation of this relational framework, this research aims to identify (1) prerequisites for the implementation and use of robots, (2) potential areas of application as well as ethical considerations, and, finally, (3) requirements for the design of human-robot interactions (HRI) within inpatient elderly care settings. Using a qualitative research approach with semi-structured interviews, a total of 19 health professionals were interviewed in two constitutive studies. The results illustrate that robotic assistance is expected to provide potential relief in various application areas. At the same time, there was a great need for measures that support professionals in their responsibility for the care process and consider the professional values of care in the interpersonal relationship. To ensure high acceptance and use of robotics in care, its capabilities, role models, and agency must be increasingly aligned to professional standards and values.
IPBES VA Chapter 2. Literature review on Value Articulating Institutions (Stage II)
Creators: name: Arias-Arévalo, Paola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 2

description: IPBES VA Chapter 2. Literature review on Value Articulating Institutions (Stage II) Code: VA_ 2.4_Ch2 Version: 01 (25.DEC.2020)
 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4399374 Description: One of the topics that the IPBES Values Assessment has to cover is the impact of institutions on values at stake in decision-making processes. In order to do so, Chapter 2 must provide the conceptual basis on the relations between values and institutions, particularly those institutions that articulate values. Section 2.3 covers this subject and additional information from the one retrieved through systematic reviews, was needed. In consequence, two separate literature searches were carried, both, presented in this report. This literature review is part of the Stage 2 strategy that Chapter 2 has incorporated to bring different sources of evidence appropriate for each section and subsection, allowing to obtain a broader and deeper database to fulfil the mandate of the Scoping document.
Health-related quality of life and associated factors after hip fracture. Results from a six-month prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Deutschbein, Johannes
name: Lindner, Tobias
name: Möckel, Martin
name: Pigorsch, Mareen
name: Gilles, Gabriela
name: Stöckle, Ulrich
name: Müller-Werdan, Ursula
name: Schenk, Liane
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health-related quality of life
subject: Hip fracture
subject: Elderly
subject: Health services research
subject: Health care
subject: Patient-reported outcomes
subject: Quality of life
subject: Observational study
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Hip fractures are a major public health problem with increasing relevance in aging societies. They are associated with high mortality rates, morbidity, and loss of independence. The aim of the EMAAge study was to determine the impact of hip fractures on patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and to identify potential risk factors for worse outcomes. Methods: EMAAge is a multicenter, prospective cohort study of patients who suffered a hip fracture. Patients or, if necessary, proxies were interviewed after initial treatment and after six months using standardized questionnaires including the EQ-5D-5L instrument, the Oxford Hip Score, the PHQ-4, the Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire, and items on patients living situation. Medical data on diagnoses, comorbidities, medications, and hospital care were derived from hospital information systems. Results: A total of 326 patients were included. EQ-5D index values decreased from a mean of 0.70 at baseline to 0.63 at six months. The mean self-rated health on the EQ-VAS decreased from 69.9 to 59.4. Multivariable linear regression models revealed three relevant associated factors with the six-months EQ-5D index: symptoms of depression and anxiety, pre-fracture limitations in activities of daily living, and no referral to a rehabilitation facility had a negative impact. In addition, the six-months EQ-VAS was negatively associated with polypharmacy, living in a facility, and migration background. Conclusions: Hip fractures have a substantial negative impact on patients HRQOL. Our results suggest that there are modifying factors that need further investigation including polypharmacy and migration background. Structured and timely rehabilitation seems to be a protective factor.
Dynamically Generated Gap from Holography: Mottness from a Black Hole
Creators: name: Edalati, Mohammad
name: Leigh, Robert G.
name: Phillips, Philip W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the fermionic sector of top-down approaches to holographic systems, one generically finds that the fermions are coupled to gravity and gauge fields in a variety of ways, beyond minimal coupling. In this paper, we take one such interaction -- a Pauli, or dipole, interaction -- and study its effects on fermion correlators. We find that this interaction modifies the fermion spectral density in a remarkable way. As we change the strength of the interaction, we find that spectral weight is transferred between bands, and beyond a critical value, a hard gap emerges in the fermion density of states. A possible interpretation of this bulk interaction then is that it drives the dynamical formation of a (Mott) gap, in the absence of continuous symmetry breaking.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures (Version to appear in PRL)
The Liberalization of U.S. International Air Policy: Impact on U.S. Markers and Carriers
Creators: name: Dresner, Martin
name: Windle, Robert
name: Dresner, Martin
name: Windle, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 33rd Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct.31-Nov.2, 1991, New Orleans, LA
A retrospective case–control study for the comparison of 5-year survival rates: the role of adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in craniofacial bone sarcoma in adults
Creators: name: Hofmann, Elena
name: Preissner, Saskia
name: Hertel, Moritz
name: Preissner, Robert
name: Rendenbach, Carsten
name: Flörcken, Anne
name: Heiland, Max
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: adjuvant chemotherapy
subject: chondrosarcoma
subject: craniofacial bone sarcoma
subject: head and neck cancer
subject: neoadjuvant chemotherapy
subject: osteosarcoma
subject: real-world data
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: The impact of adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of craniofacial bone sarcomas has not been clarified. This study aimed to assess whether survival outcomes differed between patients who underwent adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Methods: A retrospective search for adult patients diagnosed with malignant neoplasms of the craniofacial bones (International Classification of Diseases 10 codes C41.0-C41.1), within the past 20 years from the access date 28 April 2022, was conducted using the TriNetX network (TriNetX, Cambridge, MA, USA). Cohort I included patients who underwent adjuvant chemotherapy and cohort II included patients with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. A refined search for individuals that received common chemotherapeutic agents, such as methotrexate, doxorubicin, cisplatin, and/or ifosfamide, was conducted and patients were assigned to cohort A (adjuvant chemotherapy) and cohort B (neoadjuvant chemotherapy). Following matching for age and sex, Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed, and risk ratio, odds ratio (OR), and hazard ratio were calculated. Results: Patients were assigned to two cohorts, with 181 patients each after matching. In cohorts I and II, 55 and 41 patients died, respectively. No significant differences were found between the two cohorts regarding the 5-year survival probability (I: 59.87% versus II: 68.45%; p = 0.076; log-rank test), or the risk of dying (I: 0.304 versus II: 0.227; risk difference: 0.077; p = 0.096). The risk analysis before matching for age and sex showed a significant survival benefit in cohort II (OR: 1.586; p = 0.0295; risk difference: 0.093). After a refined query to identify patients treated with methotrexate, doxorubicin, cisplatin, and/or ifosfamide, the two cohorts included 47 patients, respectively. In cohort A (adjuvant chemotherapy), 19 patients died, whereas 12 patients died in cohort B (neoadjuvant chemotherapy) within 5 years after diagnosis. Further analysis indicated a greater survival in cohort B, but the survival probability between the cohorts did not differ significantly (A: 43.55% versus B: 54.49%; p = 0.171). Conclusion: The use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy may improve survival rates in patients with surgically treated craniofacial bone sarcomas. Due to the retrospective nature of this study, randomized controlled studies are required to derive treatment recommendations.
Correlations between the nuclear breathing mode energy and properties of asymmetric nuclear matter
Creators: name: Chen, Lie-Wen
name: Gu, Jian-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on microscopic Hartree-Fock + random phase approximation calculations with Skyrme interactions, we study the correlations between the nuclear breathing mode energy $E_{ISGMR}$ and properties of asymmetric nuclear matter with a recently developed analysis method. Our results indicate that the $E_{ISGMR}$ of $^{208}$Pb exhibits moderate correlations with the density slope $L$ of the symmetry energy and the isoscalar nucleon effective mass $m_{s,0}^{\ast}$ besides a strong dependence on the incompressibility $K_{0}$ of symmetric nuclear matter. Using the present empirical values of $L=60\pm 30$ MeV and $m_{s,0}^{\ast}=(0.8\pm 0.1)m$, we obtain a theoretical uncertainty of about $\pm 16$ MeV for the extraction of $K_{0}$ from the $E_{ISGMR}$ of $^{208}$Pb. Furthermore, we find the $E_{ISGMR}$ difference between $^{100}$Sn and $^{132}$Sn strongly correlates with $L$ and thus provides a potentially useful probe of the symmetry energy.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures. Discussions and references added. Accepted version to appear in JPG
Catalysis and activation of magic states in fault tolerant architectures
Creators: name: Campbell, Earl T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In many architectures for fault tolerant quantum computing universality is achieved by a combination of Clifford group unitary operators and preparation of suitable nonstabilizer states, the so-called magic states. Universality is possible even for some fairly noisy nonstabilizer states, as distillation can convert many noisy copies into fewer purer magic states. Here we propose novel protocols that exploit multiple species of magic states in surprising ways. These protocols provide examples of previously unobserved phenomena that are analogous to catalysis and activation well known in entanglement theory.
description: A feature talk at QIP 2011, video available at http://qip2011.quantumlah.org/scientificprogramme/movie.php?id=1010.0104 V2:The no-go proof for the transformation without the aid of a catalyst is presented in a much more general way that can be used to demonstrate many other no-go results. These changes are mostly in appendix A and B. Some additional changes
Redshift Space Distortion of the 21cm Background from the Epoch of Reionization I: Methodology Re-examined
Creators: name: Mao, Yi
name: Shapiro, Paul R.
name: Mellema, Garrelt
name: Iliev, Ilian T.
name: Koda, Jun
name: Ahn, Kyungjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The peculiar velocity of the intergalactic gas responsible for the cosmic 21cm background from the epoch of reionization and beyond introduces an anisotropy in the three-dimensional power spectrum of brightness temperature fluctuations. Measurement of this anisotropy by future 21cm surveys is a promising tool for separating cosmology from 21cm astrophysics. However, previous attempts to model the signal have often neglected peculiar velocity or only approximated it crudely. This paper re-examines the effects of peculiar velocity on the 21cm signal in detail, improving upon past treatment and addressing several issues for the first time. (1) We show that properly accounting for finite optical depth eliminates the unphysical divergence of 21cm brightness temperature in overdense regions of the IGM found by previous work that employed the usual optically-thin approximation. (2) The approximation made previously to circumvent the diverging brightness temperature problem by capping velocity gradient can misestimate the power spectrum on all scales. (3) The observed power spectrum in redshift-space remains finite even in the optically-thin approximation if one properly accounts for the redshift-space distortion. However, results that take full account of finite optical depth show that this approximation is only accurate in the limit of high spin temperature. (4) The linear theory for redshift-space distortion results in ~30% error in the observationally relevant wavenumber range, at the 50% ionized epoch. (5) We describe and test two numerical schemes to calculate the 21cm signal from reionization simulations to incorporate peculiar velocity effects in the optically-thin approximation accurately. One is particle-based, the other grid-based, and while the former is most accurate, we demonstrate that the latter is computationally more efficient and can achieve sufficient accuracy. [Abridged]
description: 30 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS
How Do Users Respond to Mass Vaccination Centers? A Cross-Sectional Study Using Natural Language Processing on Online Reviews to Explore User Experience and Satisfaction with COVID-19 Vaccination Centers
Creators: name: Danek, Stella
name: Büttner, Martha
name: Krois, Joachim
name: Schwendicke, Falk
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: mass vaccination centers
subject: national vaccination campaign
subject: vaccine uptake
subject: patient satisfaction
subject: patient experience
subject: health services design
subject: pandemic response
subject: online reviews
subject: natural language processing
subject: machine learning
subject: text mining
subject: topic modeling
subject: keyword extraction
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: To reach large groups of vaccine recipients, several high-income countries introduced mass vaccination centers for COVID-19. Understanding user experiences of these novel structures can help optimize their design and increase patient satisfaction and vaccine uptake. This study drew on user online reviews of vaccination centers to assess user experience and identify its key determinants over time, by sentiment, and by interaction. Machine learning methods were used to analyze Google reviews of six COVID-19 mass vaccination centers in Berlin from December 2020 to December 2021. 3647 user online reviews were included in the analysis. Of these, 89% (3261/3647) were positive according to user rating (four to five of five stars). A total of 85% (2740/3647) of all reviews contained text. Topic modeling of the reviews containing text identified five optimally latent topics, and keyword extraction identified 47 salient keywords. The most important themes were organization, friendliness/responsiveness, and patient flow/wait time. Key interactions for users of vaccination centers included waiting, scheduling, transit, and the vaccination itself. Keywords connected to scheduling and efficiency, such as "appointment" and "wait", were most prominent in negative reviews. Over time, the average rating score decreased from 4.7 to 4.1, and waiting and duration became more salient keywords. Overall, mass vaccination centers appear to be positively perceived, yet users became more critical over the one-year period of the pandemic vaccination campaign observed. The study shows that online reviews can provide real-time insights into newly set-up infrastructures, and policymakers should consider their use to monitor the population's response over time.
Improving Profitability and Cost Management Among African Railways
Creators: name: Masocha, T. F.
name: Sharp, Richard G.
name: Masocha, T. F.
name: Sharp, Richard G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 36th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Nov. 3-5, 1994, Daytona, Beach, FL
An energy-based finite-strain model for 3D heterostructured materials and its validation by curvature analysis
Creators: name: Hadjimichael, Yiannis
name: Merdon, Christian
name: Liero, Matthias
name: Farrell, ##!Error: Attribute  Unknown!##
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Finite-strain elasticity
subject: energy-based model
subject: heterostructures
subject: bent nanowires
subject: curvature
subject: 74B20
subject: 74G65
subject: 74S05
subject: 46.25.Cc
subject: 68.65.-k
subject: 62.23.Hj

description: This paper presents a comprehensive study of the intrinsic strain response of 3D het- erostructures arising from lattice mismatch. Combining materials with different lattice constants induces strain, leading to the bending of these heterostructures. We propose a model for nonlinear elastic heterostructures such as bimetallic beams or nanowires that takes into account local prestrain within each distinct material region. The resulting system of partial differential equations (PDEs) in Lagrangian coordinates incorporates a nonlinear strain and a linear stress-strain relationship governed by Hooke?s law. To validate our model, we apply it to bimetallic beams and hexagonal hetero-nanowires and perform numerical simulations using finite element methods (FEM). Our simulations ex- amine how these structures undergo bending under varying material compositions and cross-sectional geometries. In order to assess the fidelity of the model and the accuracy of simulations, we compare the calculated curvature with analytically derived formula- tions. We derive these analytical expressions through an energy-based approach as well as a kinetic framework, adeptly accounting for the lattice constant mismatch present at each compound material of the heterostructures. The outcomes of our study yield valuable insights into the behavior of strained bent heterostructures. This is particularly significant as the strain has the potential to influence the electronic band structure, piezoelectricity, and the dynamics of charge carriers.
Un percorso di ricerca in mostra
Creators: name: Biagioli, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Annali di Storia di Firenze
Year: 2017

description: Here is presented the journey of the exhibition Correct and prevent. The reform policy of Pietro Leopoldo and Correction House in Fortezza da Basso in Florence, held at the State Archive of Florence and open to the public from the 22nd to the 27th of February 2016, with an exhibition of hand-written testimonies extracted from the funds of various courts, maps, paintings and printed materials. The contribution gives an overview of the whole, focusing particularly on significant documents that bring out the interpretations and insights of the issues in question.
description: Annali di Storia di Firenze, Vol. 12 (2017)
title: The Scientific Weltanschauung
title: (Anti-)Naturalism in Dilthey, Jaspers and Analytic Philosophy
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Spiegel, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie

description: Different forms of methodological and ontological naturalism constitute the current near-orthodoxy in analytic philosophy. Many prominent figures have called naturalism a (scientific) image (Sellars, W. 1962. “Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man.” In Wilfrid Sellars, Science, Perception, Reality, 1–40. Ridgeview Publishing), a Weltanschauung (Loewer, B. 2001. “From Physics to Physicalism.” In Physicalism and its Discontents, edited by C. Gillett, and B. Loewer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Stoljar, D. 2010. Physicalism. Routledge), or even a “philosophical ideology” (Kim, J. 2003. “The American Origins of Philosophical Naturalism.” Journal of Philosophical Research 28: 83–98). This suggests that naturalism is indeed something over-and-above an ordinary philosophical thesis (e.g. in contrast to the justified true belief-theory of knowledge). However, these thinkers fail to tease out the host of implications this idea – naturalism being a worldview – presents. This paper draws on (somewhat underappreciated) remarks of Dilthey and Jaspers on the concept of worldviews (Weltanschauung, Weltbild) in order to demonstrate that naturalism as a worldview is a presuppositional background assumption which is left untouched by arguments against naturalism as a thesis. The concluding plea is (in order to make dialectical progress) to re-organize the existing debate on naturalism in a way that treats naturalism not as a first-order philosophical claim, but rather shifts its focus on naturalism’s status as a worldview.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe; 177
La Casa di correzione e lo scontro intorno alla giustizia di polizia nella seconda metà del Settecento
Creators: name: Edigati, Daniele
Publisher: name: Annali di Storia di Firenze
Year: 2017

description: The essay tries to analyze the position taken by the Tuscan lawyers about the development and growth of the use of potestas oeconomica in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany under Peter Leopold. In the sovereign’s goals there was a diverse set of facts that not always constituted a crime. These facts were rather characterized by an evaluation of immorality or social harmfulness, but were pursued through hasty procedures, not in accordance to the rules of Ancien régime’s inquisitorial justice. The criticism of this phenomenon, supported by men like Giuseppe Giusti and Jacopo Maria Paoletti, shared lawyers of the traditional criminal school, but open to a moderate reformism (as Jacopo Biondi), and figures closer to a liberal Enlightenment, as Francesco Maria Gianni. A synthesis of the different positions will be offered in the following century by Giovanni Carmignani.
description: Annali di Storia di Firenze, Vol. 12 (2017)
Duality in structured and federated optimization : theory and applications
Creators: name: Fan, Zhenan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The dual approach in mathematical optimization refers to a class of techniques for tackling a dual problem that arises from the original problem. Numerous notable improvements in strengthening the dual approach have been promoted in the last two decades because of its superior performance for many large-scale optimization problems. In this thesis, we investigate and extend the dual approach to two classes of optimization problems: structured optimization, whose solutions exhibit specific structures, and federated learning, which aims to collaboratively learn a model from decentralized data sources. In the first part of this thesis, we characterize the dual correspondence in structured optimization. We further show that this dual correspondence allows us to develop efficient algorithms and design new models for structured optimization. In the second part of this thesis, we propose a dual approach to the federated optimization problem. We demonstrate theoretically and empirically that our approach enjoys better convergence guarantees than other primal-based approaches under specific scenarios. We also explore some application scenarios for structured optimization in federated learning. In the third part of this thesis, we study the problem of evaluating clients' contributions in federated learning. We propose fair and efficient contribution valuation metrics for both horizontal and vertical federated learning, where structured optimization plays a crucial role in our design.
title: Солидарная экономика. Кооперативная модернизация России (1907–1914 гг.)
title: Монография
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Лубков А.В.
Publisher: name: Московский педагогический государственный университет
Year: 2019

description: Настоящее издание освещает дискуссионные проблемы зарождения и развития кооперативного движения, апеллируя к многочисленным архивным фондам, опубликованным источникам, к отечественной и зарубежной историографии. Автором анализируются причины роста кооперации, масштаб охвата населения, основные направления ее деятельности на примере ряда центральных губерний Российской империи. Кооперация рассматривается как своеобразный социокультурный феномен хозяйственного, культурно-просветительного и образовательного значения, выполнявший огромную воспитательную роль, преображая жизненный уклад русского народа и взращивая духовность. В монографии показана самобытность пути, предложенного российской кооперацией в модернизационном развитии страны в конце XIX – начале ХХ в. Исследование адресовано широкой читательской аудитории, всем, кто интересуется отечественной историей.
description: The present publication covers the issues of origin and development of the cooperative movement, appealing to numerous archival collections, published sources, domestic and foreign historiography. The author analyzes the reasons for the growth of societies, the scale of coverage of the population, the main directions of its activities in several Central provinces of the Russian Empire. Cooperation is seen as a socio-cultural phenomenon of the economic, cultural and educational values, carrying out important educational role, changing the way of life of the Russian people and cultivating spirituality. The monograph shows the identity of the path proposed by the Russian cooperation in the modernization development of the country in the late XIX – early XX century, a Study addressed to a wide readership, anyone interested in Russian history.
Scandalo e diffamazione. Donne e polizia a Firenze nell’età di Pietro Leopoldo
Creators: name: Arrivo, Georgia
Publisher: name: Annali di Storia di Firenze
Year: 2017

description: This article is based on the analysis of the documentation relating to the activity of the Florentine Police at the end of the eighteenth century. In this period is founded the “Casa di Correzione”, where the so-called “donne scandalose” would be shut up. These are the women who lead an irregular sexual life. Documents allow to reconstruct several cases underlining the role of parental relationships and the behaviour of the Police institution. It uses the “Casa di Correzione” only in extreme situations, when irregular behaviours are repeated and already well-known. In fact authorities knew that reclusion could be source of defamation and shame and so they used it carefully and preferred other instruments.
description: Annali di Storia di Firenze, Vol. 12 (2017)
ADDITIONAL COLLECTIONS RECEIVED FROM ARTISANS IN THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM OF THE KOKADN KHANATE
Creators: name: Khatamova Zumradkhan Nazirjonovna,  Associate Professor of the Department of Social Sciences  and Physical Culture of the International  Medical University of CAMU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The article briefly describes the analysis of additional taxes and fees collected from craftsmen operating in the city of Kokand based on archival documents.

Keywords: Craftsman, khanate, fee, service, worker
title: Blockchain-based Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Internet of Things (IoT)
Creators: name: Abubakar, Mwrwan Abdelrazig
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2023

description: Authentication and access control are critical in addressing IoT security and privacy issues. However, due to resource overhead, most legacy authentication and authorisation mechanisms are not suitable for resource-constrained IoT devices (Meneghello et al., 2019). Another significant obstacle to IoT is the centralisation of efficient security solutions, such as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which presents scalability challenges in a system with thousands of connected nodes. Additionally, current authentication and access control standards rely on third parties. Scalability and deployment simplicity are advantages, but it requires trust in a third party to store customers’ sensitive data, which is prone to misuse in the event of security breaches (Levi and Caglayan, 1997). However, blockchain and decentralised alternatives that do not rely on a third party can provide autonomous authentication and authorisation administration. Driven by the potential benefits of blockchain technology and the need to deliver reliable solutions that satisfy the demands of the IoT, this thesis aims to develop blockchain-based decentralised authentication and access control mechanisms for IoT to resolve security and privacy concerns in the current centralised paradigm and remove the need for a third party to maintain trust. The thesis goes further and explores the provision of decentralised identity management services such as secure and fair exchange, delegation, and revocation of credentials through the use of smart contracts. Additionally, the thesis looks into the inherent issue of designing secure, lightweight, and scalable decentralised systems that satisfy IoT needs by proposing a lightweight consensus mechanism. The contributions of this thesis are shown over all layers of the IoT architecture. For instance, the thesis proposed a blockchain-based two-factor authentication mechanism enabling authentication at the IoT applications layer. For authentication in IoT communication protocols, the thesis proposed a lightweight authentication and authorisation mechanism for the MQTT messaging protocol. Additionally, for authentication and access control at the devices layer, the thesis provided a decentralised authentication and access control for wearable medical devices. Finally, the thesis proposed a lightweight and scalable consensus mechanism that overcomes the resource overhead of distributed consensus and the complexity of blockchain in IoT. Further analysis of these approaches’ usability, mainly CPU and memory usage, was conducted compared to the current security protocols. When subjected to security analysis and evaluation, the proposed approaches demonstrated performance improvements in data privacy levels, high security and lightweight access control design compared to the current centralised access control models.
Charmonium sum rules applied to a holographic model
Creators: name: Hohler, Paul M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The heavy-quark QCD sum rules are applied to a model of charmonium based upon the gauge/gravity duality. We find that there is strong agreement between the moments of the polarization function calculated from the holographic model and the experimental data suggesting that the model is consistent with the heavy-quark QCD sum rules at zero temperature.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, Corrected typos to bring inline with PRD version
A STUDY ON IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS BEHAVIORAL FACTORS ON INVESTMENT DECISIONS AND PERFORMANCE
Creators: name: Dr. RAKESH H M
name: Dr. NALINA K B
name: Dr. ARUNA ADARSH
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Behavioral Finance, Investment Performance, Investment Decisions, Indian Capital Market.

description: Abstract 
The biggest challenge of all time has been to comprehend and measure how investors behave during various states of capital market and see whether there is any heterogeneity amongst them when tested with their perception and demographic characteristics. Modern financial theories reaffirm that investors are biased, and they make irrational decisions. The apparent condition of the irrationality of retail individual investors is the result of various factors in the economy. The institutional investors, Foreign Institutional Investors, Qualified Institutional Buyers, and other wealthy investors influence the market to a great extent leaving the individual investors to behave irrationally when they make investment decisions. The study was carried out to help investors understand the impact of individual investor behavior on investment decisions and performance. The study concludes that Indian investors are biased, and their investment decisions are affected by their own biases. The results of this study can also be generalized for other similar economies around the world, as it is imperative and responsibility of regulators as well as policymakers to safeguard the interest of individual investors and contribute to the prosperity of capital markets.
Varcare la soglia della Casa di correzione disciplinamento di «discoli», «oziosi» e «donne di mala vita»
Creators: name: Della Vista, Sara
Publisher: name: Annali di Storia di Firenze
Year: 2017

description: The House of Correction of Florence was established by Pietro Leopoldo in the city Fortress in 1782. First, this paper shows the context of the sovereign reforms and its foundation, then it focuses on its aims: the institute provided preventive tasks, more than corrective ones. In cooperation with the new police force reformed in 1777, the House of Correction didn’t just persecute illicit behaviors, but above all it tried to prevent disillusioned youth and licentious women from their bad habits and vices, through industry and religious education, not without contradictions with the guarantism of the Penal Code of 1786.
description: Annali di Storia di Firenze, Vol. 12 (2017)