cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Classical splitting of parametrized quantum circuits
Creators: name: Tüysüz, Cenk
name: Clemente, Giuseppe
name: Crippa, Arianna
name: Hartung, Tobias
name: Kühn, Stefan
name: Jansen, Karl
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Parametric
subject: Ansatz
subject: Barren
subject: Plateau
subject: 004 Informatik
subject: 530 Physik

description: Barren plateaus appear to be a major obstacle for using variational quantum algorithms to simulate large-scale quantum systems or to replace traditional machine learning algorithms. They can be caused by multiple factors such as the expressivity of the ansatz, excessive entanglement, the locality of observables under consideration, or even hardware noise. We propose classical splitting of parametric ansatz circuits to avoid barren plateaus. Classical splitting is realized by subdividing an N qubit ansatz into multiple ansätze that consist of O(logN)qubits. We show that such an approach allows for avoiding barren plateaus and carry out numerical experiments, and perform binary classification on classical and quantum datasets. Moreover, we propose an extension of the ansatz that is compatible with variational quantum simulations. Finally, we discuss a speed-up for gradient-based optimization and hardware implementation, robustness against noise and parallelization, making classical splitting an ideal tool for noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) applications.
HOUSEHOLD COST FUNCTIONS AND EQUIVALENCE SCALES
Creators: name: Van Praag, B. M. S.
name: Van Der Sar, N. L.
name: Van Praag, B. M. S.
name: Van Der Sar, N. L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Financial Economics

description: In this paper we describe a simple method to estimate household cost functions and family equivalence scales. It is an alternative to standard methods as it does not assume strong postulates about utility maximization nor any functionally specified model equations. The data requirements are extremely modest. We assume interpersonal ordinal comparability in the sense of Sen (1976). Empirical evidence for eight European countries and the U.S.A. shows the feasibility of the method and the stability of its results.
title: FCC-ee: physics motivations
Creators: name: Grojean, Christophe
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: Learning from the first twelve years of LHC running, this essay offers a brief journey through the FCC-ee physics programme from refined precision measurements to probes of new physics, highlighting some of the commentaries between the different runs of FCC-ee at various energies as well as the synergies between the two FCC-ee and FCC-hh collider stages.
Janus on the Brane
Creators: name: Gutperle, Michael
name: Uhlemann, Christoph F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a non-supersymmetric deformation of probe branes describing conformal defects of codimension two in AdS/CFT. The worldvolume of the probe branes is deformed from $AdS_{p}\times S^1$ embedded in an $AdS_{p+2} \times \mathcal M^{D-p-2}$ background to an embedding of Janus form, which uses an $AdS_{p-1}$ slicing of $AdS_p$ and in which the brane bends along the slicing coordinate. In field theory terms this realizes conformal interfaces on codimension-two defects. We discuss these "Janus on the brane" solutions for $AdS_3\times S^1$ D3-branes in the $AdS_5\times S^5$ solution of Type IIB, realizing interfaces on surface defects in $\mathcal N=4$ SYM, and show that similar solutions exist for probe branes in $AdS_{p+2}\times S^{9-p}$ vacua of M-theory and in the $AdS_6\times S^4$ solution of massive Type IIA.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure, 2 faces; v2: published version
Diestota (Apheloglossa) sensitiva Pace 2014, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Diestota
Diestota sensitiva

description: Diestota (Apheloglossa) sensitiva n. sp.
(Figg. 4 e 21-22)
 Materiale tipico: Holotype , Guyane Fr., Charvein, 12.XI.2011, leg. T. Struyve (IRSNB).
 Descrizione: Lunghezza 1,8 mm. Corpo lucido. Capo nero, pronoto rossiccio, elitre brune, addome giallo-rossiccio con quarto urotergo libero bruno, antenne brune con i tre antennomeri bruno-rossicci, zampe giallo-rossicce. Occhi più lunghi della regione postoculare, in visione dorsale. Secondo antennomero più corto del primo, terzo più corto del secondo, quarto a decimo trasversi. Reticolazione di capo e pronoto evidente, quella di elitre e addome superficiale, sul quarto urotergo libero trasversa, sul quinto assente. Punteggiatura del capo invisibile, quella del pronoto molto fitta e fine. Granulosità di elitre e addome fine, fitta e saliente. Appiattimento mediano posteriore del pronoto. Edeago figg. 21-22.
 Comparazioni: Habitus, colore del corpo e forma dell’edeago della nuova specie sono simili a quelli di D. galapagosensis (PACE, 1985) delle isole Galapagos. La nuova specie se ne distingue per la base dell’addome giallo-rossiccio e non bruno-rossiccio come in galapagosensis, e per l’apice dell’edeago in visione ventrale, largo e non molto stretto come in galapagosensis.
 Etimologia: La nuova specie prende nome dalla presenza di numerosi pori sensitivi della parte apicale dell’edeago.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2014, Introduzione alla conoscenza della sottofamiglia Aleocharinae della Guyana Francese: Parte II (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 83-92 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 64 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.64.1.83-92, http://zenodo.org/record/4753602
Low-Energy Theorem Approach to One-Particle Singularity in QED{2+1}
Creators: name: Hoshino, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the propagator of scalar and spinor in three dimensional quantum electrodynamics with the use of Ward-Identity for soft-photon emission vertex.We work well in position space to treat infrared divergences in our model. Exponentiation of one-photon matrix element yields a full propagator in position space.It has a simple form as free propagator multiplied by quantum correction.And it shows a new type of mass singularity.But this is not an integrable function so that analysis in momentum space is not easy.Term by term integral converges and they have a logarithmic singularity associated with renormalized mass in perturbation theory.Renormalization constant vanishes for weak coupling,which suggests confinement of charged particle.There exsists a critical coupling constant above which the vacuum expectation value of pair condensation is finite.
description: 18 pages, REVTeX4,abstract modefied and section three changed
Examining the effect of information channel on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance
Creators: name: Piltch-Loeb, Rachael
name: Savoia, Elena
name: Goldberg, Beth
name: Hughes, Brian
name: Verhey, Tanner
name: Kayyem, Juliette
name: Miller-Idriss, Cynthia
name: Testa, Marcia A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Hesitancy towards the COVID-19 vaccine remains high among the US population. Now that the vaccine is available to priority populations, it is critical to convince those that are hesitant to take the vaccine. Public health communication about the vaccine as well as misinformation on the vaccine occurs through a variety of different information channels. Some channels of information are more commonly found to spread misinformation. Given the expansive information environment, we sought to characterize the use of different media channels for COVID-19 vaccine information and determine the relationship between information channel and vaccine acceptance. We used quota sampling of vaccine priority groups [N = 2,650] between December 13 and 23, 2020 and conducted bivariate chi-squared tests and multivariable multinomial logistic regression analyses to determine the relative impact of channels of information on vaccine acceptance. We found traditional channels of information, especially National TV, National newspapers, and local newspapers increased the likelihood of vaccine acceptance. Individuals who received information from traditional media compared to social media or both traditional and social media were most likely to accept the vaccine. The implications of this study suggest social media channels have a role to play in educating the hesitant to accept the vaccine, while traditional media channels should continue to promote data-driven and informed vaccine content to their viewers.
SOCIAL DISTANCE ON THE INCOME DIMENSION
Creators: name: Van Praag, B. M. S.
name: Van Der Sar, N. L.
name: Van Praag, B. M. S.
name: Van Der Sar, N. L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: Feelings of social justice and injustice are related to social distance which will be the subject of this paper. Apart from two types of social distance, a concept of interaction and of similarity, we introduce a reference concept. What counts is the weight other people carry for a person and the influence they exert on him when forming an opinion concerning certain objects and subjects, or put in other words which people are part of a person's frame of reference and to what extent. The concept of social distance is operationalized on the basis of the social filter function that translates the objective income distribution into the subjective norm on incomes as reflected by the response to the income evaluation question. Our asymmetric concept can be applied to both person-to-person, person-to-group and group-to-group relationships alike. The social distance concept is empirically illustrated with respect to income for a moderate sample of less than 500 respondents.
SOME ADVANCES IN BAYESIAN ESTIMATION METHODS USING MONTE CARLO INTEGRATION
Creators: name: Van Dijk, H. K.
name: Van Dijk, H. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In this paper some Monte Carlo integration methods are discussed that can be used for the efficient computation of posterior moments and densities of parameters of econometric and, more generally, statistical models. The methods are based on the principle of importance sampling and are intended for the evaluation of multi-dimensional integrals where the integrand is unimodal and multivariate skew. That is, the integrand has different tail behavior in different directions. Illustrative results are presented on the dynamic behavior and the probability of explosion of a small scale macro-economic model. This application involves nine-dimensional numerical integration.
Monitoring and Prediction of Membrane Bioreactor Fouling
Creators: name: Algoufily, Yasser
name: Taous Meriem Laleg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: In this presentation, we discuss our work on fouling monitoring for membrane bioreactors in wastewater treatment plants. An offline fouling monitor for the membrane bioreactor was created in Simulink. The model determines the membrane resistance based on deterministic models in addition to stochastic modeling and neural networks (NN), Transmembrane pressure (TMP) data was generated by reproducing the model by Pimentel et al., 2015 and will be used in the prediction and estimation of the TMP via NN algorithm.
Skyrme-HFB deformed nuclear mass table
Creators: name: Dobaczewski, J.
name: Stoitsov, M. V.
name: Nazarewicz, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov code HFBTHO using the axial (2D) Transformed Harmonic Oscillator basis is tested against the HFODD (3D Cartesian HO basis) and HFBRAD (radial coordinate) codes. Results of large-scale ground-state calculations are presented for the SLy4 and SkP interactions.
description: 6 LaTeX pages, 3 figures, uses aipproc, presented at International Conference NUCLEAR PHYSICS, LARGE and SMALL, Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc, April 19-22, 2004, to be published in AIP Proceedings, see also http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~dobaczew/thodri/thodri.html
title: A causal, time-independent synchronization pattern for collective adaptive systems
Creators: name: Fettke, Peter
name: Reisig, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: systems composition
subject: data modeling
subject: behavior modeling
subject: composition calculus
subject: algebraic specification
subject: Petri nets
subject: 004 Informatik

description: Artificial ants are “small” units, moving autonomously on a shared, dynamically changing “space”, directly or indirectly exchanging some kind of information. Artificial ants are frequently conceived as a paradigm for collective adaptive systems. In this paper, we discuss means to represent continuous moves of “ants” in discrete models. More generally, we challenge the role of the notion of “time” in artificial ant systems and models. We suggest a modeling framework that structures behavior along causal dependencies rather than temporal relations. We present all arguments with the help of a simple example. As a modeling framework we employ Heraklit ; an emerging framework that has already proven its worth in many contexts. Different concrete collective systems share similar features, despite differences in the size of basic sets, concrete values of functions, etc., and can therefore be conceived as instantiations of a single schema. Hence, we need a representation of systems on the schematic level.
Additional file 1 of Sexual and reproductive health knowledge, sexual attitudes, and sexual behaviour of university students: Findings of a Beijing-Based Survey in 2010-2011
Creators: name: Guan, Ming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Diestota (Apheloglossa) zanettii Pace 2014, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Diestota
Diestota zanettii

description: Diestota (Apheloglossa) zanettii n. sp.
(Figg. 5 e 23-25)
 Materiale tipico: Holotype , Guyane Fr., Caussade, 7.XI.2011, leg. T. Struyve (SDEI).
 Descrizione: Lunghezza 1,8 mm. Corpo lucido e nerobruno, elitre brune, antenne brune con i tre antennomeri basali bruno-rossicci, zampe giallo-rossicce. Occhi lunghi quanto la regione postoculare, in visione dorsale. Secondo antennomero lungo quanto il primo, terzo più corto del secondo, quarto a decimo trasversi. Reticolazione dell’avancorpo evidente, quella dell’addome trasversa e ben visibile. Granulosità del corpo fitta e distinta, quella del quinto urotergo libero del maschio sparsa. Impressione mediana posteriore del pronoto trasversa. Edeago figg. 23-24, sesto urotergo libero del maschio fig. 25.
 Comparazioni: Il sesto urotergo libero del maschio della nuova specie è simile a quello di D. ecuadorensis PACE, 1996 dell’Ecuador, ma i lobi tra le spine laterali del margine posteriore del sesto urotergo libero del maschio sono sei, mentre quelli di ecuadorensis sono quattro. L’edeago della nuova specie è largamente arcuato al lato ventrale, quello di ecuadorensis strettamente arcuato. L’apice dell’edeago della nuova specie è stretto in visione ventrale, largo in ecuadorensis.
 Etimologia: La nuova specie è dedicata allo studioso di Staphylinidae Prof. Adriano Zanetti di Verona, che ha contribuito a farmi pervenire gli esemplari di Aleocharinae della Guyana Francese raccolti da T. Struyve.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2014, Introduzione alla conoscenza della sottofamiglia Aleocharinae della Guyana Francese: Parte II (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 83-92 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 64 (1) on pages 85-86, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.64.1.83-92, http://zenodo.org/record/4753602
Examining the effect of information channel on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance
Creators: name: Piltch-Loeb, Rachael
name: Savoia, Elena
name: Goldberg, Beth
name: Hughes, Brian
name: Verhey, Tanner
name: Kayyem, Juliette
name: Miller-Idriss, Cynthia
name: Testa, Marcia A.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Hesitancy towards the COVID-19 vaccine remains high among the US population. Now that the vaccine is available to priority populations, it is critical to convince those that are hesitant to take the vaccine. Public health communication about the vaccine as well as misinformation on the vaccine occurs through a variety of different information channels. Some channels of information are more commonly found to spread misinformation. Given the expansive information environment, we sought to characterize the use of different media channels for COVID-19 vaccine information and determine the relationship between information channel and vaccine acceptance. We used quota sampling of vaccine priority groups [N = 2,650] between December 13 and 23, 2020 and conducted bivariate chi-squared tests and multivariable multinomial logistic regression analyses to determine the relative impact of channels of information on vaccine acceptance. We found traditional channels of information, especially National TV, National newspapers, and local newspapers increased the likelihood of vaccine acceptance. Individuals who received information from traditional media compared to social media or both traditional and social media were most likely to accept the vaccine. The implications of this study suggest social media channels have a role to play in educating the hesitant to accept the vaccine, while traditional media channels should continue to promote data-driven and informed vaccine content to their viewers.
Effectively reducing building operations custodial services injuries and time loss
Creators: name: Luk, Vivian
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper presents the findings from investigating incident rates at UBC Building Operations Custodial Services. It focuses on the behaviour of workers, safety culture, and recommendations for Custodial Services. Articles related to the cause of injuries in custodial workers and workplace culture were reviewed, and data collected by Risk Management Services were analyzed. The number of time loss incidents has been relatively constant throughout the past six years. The most common injured parts of body were the limbs and the back. Bodily reaction and a fall on the same level were the most common types of accidents. Based on these findings, the following recommendations were presented. 1) It is beneficial to devise a way to collect quality data to conduct better analysis in the future; 2) Incident descriptions and recommendations should be recorded in detail; and, 3) Behavioural incentives, wellness programs, and continuous peer training may be helpful in reducing injury rate. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
ESTIMATION OF CONTINUOUS MODELS ON THE BASIS OF SET-VALUED OBSERVATIONS
Creators: name: Van Praag, B. M. S.
name: Hop, J. P.
name: Van Praag, B. M. S.
name: Hop, J. P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In many empirical applications the phenomenon (Y,X) in which we are interested and for which we assume a model Y=f(X;04- e , cannot be observed exactly. Then we can only. say that (Y,X) eA clen+11 where A is a point set. Probit Tobit or discrete choice models are examples. In those cases we say that the observations are set-valued and that the latent phenomenon is observed through a filter . For the model Y=BX-1-e we present a general MIA-method for estimating B and E(eet) which bypasses the well-known problem of the computation of multi-dimensional integrals. Examples.are given for the case where we only observe max(Y1,Y2,Y ) or max (Y1,...,Y6).
title: New Card Technologies in Retail Banking: Competition and Collaboration in the 1990s
Creators: name: Boxall, Guy J.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: This thesis examines the alternative bank card technologies being considered for retail banking in the UK in the 1990s. Influential organisations suggest that this technology needs updating, and various new technologies are being developed.

The thesis identifies the most influential organisations within four groups considered key for retail banking technology: the technology supply industry, the adopting industry, the market and other key players. The observations and analysis in this thesis are based on information provided by each of these four key groups, through written Surveys, face-to-face and telephone interviews, and from a range of written sources. A selection of past and present bank card trials are also described, with particular focus on the introduction of smart card technology.

 Results confirm that the innovation process in the retail banking industry accords with a highly interactive model, with feedback loops throughout the innovation process. The adopting industry is seen to follow the innovation process in the opposite direction to that experienced in manufacturing industry. Thus, smaller incremental innovations eventually lead to more radical changes which effect complete systems change on a national basis - a ‘reverse cycle’ model of innovation.

 The thesis analyses the evolution of competitive and cooperative strategies, particularly between banks and their collective organisations, building societies and retailers. The thesis concludes that the dominant institutions driving card technology innovation and standards globally are the international debit and credit card corporations Mastercard, VISA and Europay, operating through their organisation EMV. In the UK, the major clearing banks, and their ABACS organisation, and the large retailers are also key actors. The thesis suggests that smart card is the most likely to be adopted.
UPPER TRIANGULARIZATION OF MATRICES BY LOWER TRIANGULAR SIMILARITIES
Creators: name: Bart, H.
name: Kop Jansen, P. S. M.
name: Bart, H.
name: Kop Jansen, P. S. M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper is concerned with the following questions. Given a square matrix A, when does there exist an invertible lower triangular matrix L such that L-1AL is upper triangular ? And if so, what can be said about the order in which the eigenvalues of A may appear on the diagonal of t-1AL ? The motivation for considering these questions comes from systems theory. In fact they arise in the study of complete factorizations of rational matrix functions. There is also an intimate connection with the problem of complementary triangularization of pairs of matrices discussed in [4].
Additional file 1 of Impact of CancelRx on discontinuation of controlled substance prescriptions: an interrupted time series analysis
Creators: name: Watterson, Taylor L.
name: Stone, Jamie A.
name: Gilson, Aaron
name: Brown, Roger
name: Xiong, Ka Z.
name: Schiefelbein, Anthony
name: Ramly, Edmond
name: Kleinschmidt, Peter
name: Semanik, Michael
name: Craddock, Lauren
name: Pitts, Samantha I.
name: Woodroof, Taylor
name: Chui, Michelle A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Multiple ITSA Parameters. Multiple Interrupted Time Series Analysis (ITSA) parameters for successful controlled substance and non-controlled substance medication discontinuations over time. Additional File 1 contains two tables: Table S1. Multiple ITSA—Configuration 1 and Table S2. Multiple ITSA—Configuration 2 (flipped).
Generation and characterisation of ultrashort diode laser pulses
Creators: name: Birkin, David J. L.
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2002

description: This thesis is concerned with the development of a compact diode laser source of picosecond optical pulses having enhanced average powers. This is realised by the application of a large amplitude sinusoidal modulation to a single-contact, single-mode, narrow stripe, InGaAs/GaAs ridge-waveguide diode laser. The operational characteristics of the device when in continuous wave and gain- switched regimes are presented. In the gain-switched regime, a minimum pulse duration of 30ps is demonstrated, at average and peak powers up to ≈150mW and ≈1.8mW respectively. A sonogram technique is employed to determine the sign and magnitude of the frequency chirp in the optical pulses. On the basis of this information aperiodic gratings are designed and fabricated in germanosilicate optical fibres and lithium niobate crystals to realise temporal pulse compression and efficient second harmonic generation respectively. The effect of self-injection optical feedback is described, along with the corresponding realisation in the reduction in the spectral bandwidth of the optical pulses from ≈11nm to 0.05nm. When the optical feedback is provided by a standard diffraction grating, a tuning range of 70nm is demonstrated. The addition of a second grating results in two independently tunable outputs, with an adjustable spectral separation of up to 53nm. Bragg gratings are fabricated in the cores of photosensitive germanosilicate optical fibres. It is demonstrated that when such a fibre is used in an external cavity configuration, both temporal and spectral compression of the optical pulses is observed. Direct frequency conversion of the diode laser output by using quasi-phase matched crystals of lithium niobate and KTP is demonstrated. High efficiencies are obtained with a KTP crystal containing a waveguide structure and a Bragg grating section to provide optical feedback to the diode laser. By this approach impressively high average second harmonic powers of up to 7.3mW in the blue spectral region are achieved for this frequency-doubled picosecond diode laser.
title: The Contribution of Local Education Authorities to the Development of Education for Children Said to Have Mild and Moderate Difficulties With Learning and the Limitations Imposed Upon Them During This Development: With Reference, Where Appropriate, to Events in Northamptonshire
Creators: name: Scott, Peter Charles
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: The thesis traces the development of education for children with mild and moderate learning difficulties through the actions of education authorities, either independently or in response to legislation or directives and reports from central government. Using primary sources linked to significant periods, descriptions of the current system have been constructed in order to illustrate how the development has proceeded, the relationships between central government and the education authorities, how national policy has been put into practice, how pupils in these categories have been defined and identified, the significance of integration and the development of support services and their reorganisation as a result of the educational reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. The thesis deals with events surrounding the Departmental Committee on Defective and Epileptic Children ,(1898), The Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded (1908), The Report of the Mental Deficiency Committee (1929) and the legislation of 1944, The Warnpck Report (1978), the development of support services during the 1980s, and finally the impact of educational reform and the introduction of the Code of Practice in the 1990s. Where appropriate specific examples of responses and initiatives undertaken by LEAs had been described in order to illustrate the development that has taken place. In each chapter an account of events in Northamptonshire has been given. This becomes more detailed in the last three chapters which incorporate a case study of development in the county following the Warnock Report up to the present day. The development of special needs policy in Northamptonshire is presented as a positive response to the directives of central government and as a sound basis for future development, providing possible solutions to some of the concerns reflected in current debates.
The analysis of demand and supply factors in retailing using a disequilibrium model
Creators: name: Van Dalen, J.
name: Koerts, J.
name: Thurik, A. R.
name: Van Dalen, J.
name: Koerts, J.
name: Thurik, A. R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In this paper we use a disequilibrium model to explain differences in floorspace productivity, measured as sales per square metre, among individual retail establishments. In the earlier stages of our research in this area the demand was usually assumed to be high enough for a shopkeeper to maximize his profits. In the present paper we assume that situations may occur in which demand is not high enough. As a result an endogenous switch (unknown sample separation) between supply and demand regimes is incorporated in the model. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we estimate an existing model in this area for four shoptypes, to gain a better insight in disequilibrium situations in the retail trade. Second, we incorporate additional explanatory variables in the demand equation to account for some elements from the marketing mix, like advertising, assortment composition, the level of service and environmental characteristics.
Diestota (Apheloglossa) athetoides Pace 2014, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Diestota
Diestota athetoides

description: Diestota (Apheloglossa) athetoides n. sp.
(Figg. 6 e 26-28)
 Materiale tipico: Holotype , Guyane Fr., Saramaka, 13.XI.2011, leg. T. Struyve (SDEI).
 Paratypes: 23 esemplari, stessa provenienza (IRSNB, SDEI).
 Descrizione: Lunghezza 1,7 mm. Corpo lucido, capo bruno, pronoto ed elitre giallo-bruni, addome giallo-rossiccio con quarto urotergo libero bruno, antenne brune con i tre antennomeri basali giallo-rossicci, zampe giallo-rossicce. Occhi lunghi quanto la regione postoculare, in visione dorsale. Secondo antennomero più corto del primo, terzo più corto del secondo, quarto a decimo trasversi. Reticolazione di capo ed elitre evidente, quella del pronoto forte, quella dell’addome superficiale. Punteggiatura del capo molto fitta ed evidente. Granulosità del pronoto non visibile, quella di elitre e addome superficiale. Sul pronoto due deboli solchi mediani. Edeago figg. 26-27, spermateca fig. 28.
 Comparazioni: L’edeago molto arcuato della nuova specie è simile a quello di D. calida BERNHAUER, 1920 del Perù di cui ho esaminato l’olotipo maschio (FMNHC). La nuova specie se ne distingue per l’edeago ancor più arcuato, con apice largo, in visione ventrale, mentre in calida è stretto. Il sesto urotergo libero del maschio della nuova specie ha il margine posteriore lineare, quello di calida è lobato.
 Etimologia: La nuova specie ha nome che significa “con aspetto di Atheta ”.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2014, Introduzione alla conoscenza della sottofamiglia Aleocharinae della Guyana Francese: Parte II (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 83-92 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 64 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.64.1.83-92, http://zenodo.org/record/4753602
Optical characterisation of micro-fabricated Fresnel zone plates for atomic waveguides
Creators: name: Henderson, Victoria A.
name: Johnson, Matthew Y. H.
name: Kale, Yogeshwar B.
name: Griffin, Paul F.
name: Riis, Erling
name: Arnold, Aidan S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We optically assess Fresnel zone plates (FZPs) that are designed to guide cold atoms. Imaging of various ring patterns produced by the FZPs gives an average RMS error in the brightest part of the ring of 3% with respect to trap depth. This residue will be due to the imaging system, incident beam shape and FZP manufacturing tolerances. Axial propagation of the potentials is presented experimentally and through numerical simulations, illustrating prospects for atom guiding without requiring light sheets.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
title: The Genetic and Physical Analysis of Mutants of Chloroplast Number and Size in Arabidopsis thaliana
Creators: name: Rutherford, Stephen Mark
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: The genetic control of chloroplast division in Arabidopsis thaliana was investigated by the study of ARC genes. Seven arc mutants which displayed altered mesophyll cell chloroplast number and size compared to wild type were isolated from populations of Arabidopsis mutagenised by T-DNA or transposon insertion. The arc mutants represent alleles of six independent nuclear loci and are stably inherited in a normal Mendelian manner. The mean chloroplast number per mesophyll cell in arc mutants and wild type varies between 2 and 120 chloroplasts per cell. The size of arc mutant chloroplasts varies between half the size to 50 fold larger than wild type. Chloroplast number and chloroplast size varies inversely in the Arabidopsis mesophyll cell so that total chloroplast cover per cell is similar between wild type and arc mutants. The arc mutants are fully fertile and only one mutant, arc6, displays any significant whole plant mutant phenotype.

The chloroplasts of arc5 do not normally divide but expand to a plan area six fold larger than wild type. Almost all arc5 chloroplasts are constricted around the centre of the plastid, indicating that chloroplast division has been attempted but not completed. The comparison of the chloroplast phenotype of arc5 to wild type has suggested several physical constraints to chloroplast division in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells.

 arc11, which has highly variable chloroplast number and size per mesophyll cell, is tagged by the insertion of a transposon, indicated by reversion of the arc11 mutant phenotype to wild type. Fragments of the putative ARC11 gene have been amplified by IPCR, cloned and sequenced.

The arc6 mutant which affects both proplastid and chloroplast division may have as few as a single chloroplast per cell. arc6 is not tagged, requiring a map-based strategy to isolate ARC6. RFLP analysis using the ARMS and CAPS mapping sets indicated that ARC6 is located on chromosome 5, between markers m247 and DPR.
Review—recent advances in FSCV detection of neurochemicals via waveform and carbon microelectrode modification
Creators: name: Rafi, Harmain
name: Zestos, Alexander
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Fast scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) is an analytical technique that was first developed over 30 years ago. Since then, it has been extensively used to detect dopamine using carbon fiber microelectrodes (CFMEs). More recently, electrode modifications and waveform refinement have enabled the detection of a wider variety of neurochemicals including nucleosides such as adenosine and guanosine, neurotransmitter metabolites of dopamine, and neuropeptides such as enkephalin. These alterations have facilitated the selectivity of certain biomolecules over others to enhance the measurement of the analyte of interest while excluding interferants. In this review, we detail these modifications and how specializing CFME sensors allows neuro-analytical researchers to develop tools to understand the neurochemistry of the brain in disease states and provide groundwork for translational work in clinical settings.
RECRUITING RECENT GRADUATES TO WORK AT AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES: SIBERIAN REGION CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Andrey, Babenko
name: Leonid, Mukhin
name: Andrey, Babenko
name: Leonid, Mukhin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: employment programs
subject: agricultural enterprises
subject: Siberian Federal District

description: The authors present the results of the analysis of the employment of graduates of agricultural specialties in the Siberian Federal District of the Russian Federation. In the Siberian Federal District, more than 20 universities are engaged in the training of specialists in agriculture. The universities pay special attention to the employment of their graduates and often have their own programs of graduates’ employment. The article is devoted to discussing the reasons why the graduates consider the work in the rural area to be unattractive (low standards of living conditions compared with town, lack of quality education for children and possibilities for professional development, etc.) The necessity of realization of the state strategy intended to support graduates of agricultural specialties is grounded, including assigning the status of civil servants to social workers in rural areas and attracting successful entrepreneurs to the village and creating conditions for the development of the entrepreneurial environment.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2017/3-4/4 ISSN 1789-7874
Off-lattice Noise Reduced Diffusion-limited Aggregation in Three Dimensions
Creators: name: Bowler, Neill E.
name: Ball, Robin C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using off-lattice noise reduction it is possible to estimate the asymptotic properties of diffusion-limited aggregation clusters grown in three dimensions with greater accuracy than would otherwise be possible. The fractal dimension of these aggregates is found to be 2.50 +/- 0.01, in agreement with earlier studies, and the asymptotic value of the relative penetration depth is 0.122 +/- 0.002. The multipole powers of the growth measure also exhibit universal asymptotes. The fixed point noise reduction is estimated to be ε= 0.0035 meaning that large clusters can be identified with a low noise regime. The slowest correction to scaling exponents are measured for a number of properties of the clusters, and the exponent for the relative penetration depth and quadrupole moment are found to be significantly different from each other. The relative penetration depth exhibits the slowest correction to scaling of all quantities, which is consistent with a theoretical result derived in two dimensions.
description: Submitted to Phys Rev E April 2004
Deep Web Crawling for Insights from Polar Data
Creators: name: Khalsa, Siri Jodha S.
name: Mattmann, Chris A.
name: Duerr, Ruth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: search, machine learning, web crawling

description: We describe efforts to bring new methods of search analytics, machine learning, natural language processing and data visualization to address the challenge of finding and extracting meaning from unstructured text and multimedia content. We use the Polar domain to motivate the problem and our proposed solution. However, our techniques are applicable and scalable to other domains.
description: This work was supported by the DARPA XDATA/Memex program and by the NSF EarthCube program under award ICER- 1639753. In addition, the NSF Polar Cyberinfrastructure award numbers PLR-1348450 and PLR-144562 funded a portion of the work. Effort supported in part by JPL, managed by the California Institute of Technology on behalf of NASA.
title: An Evaluation Of The Survival Of Mature Students On Degree Courses In Hospitality Management In The UK
Creators: name: Honey, Martin Douglas
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: The hospitality industry can claim to be a significant contributor to the British economy both in terms of consumer spending and employment. Two million four hundred thousand were employed in the industry in 1994 (HCIMA, 1996). Strong demand for degree educated managers has prompted rapid growth of degrees in hospitality management. Given trends in the employment market and the objective of government to increase HE student numbers, there has been a general concern to widen and improve access, especially to mature students (NCE, 1993). Hospitality management undergraduate courses have been subject to a general shift in the education system but little research has been conducted to gauge the extent and success of this strategy in this particular sector.

Criticisms of the response of institutions to mature students have been tied with a wider argument about maintaining standards at a time of rapid expansion but little empirical work can be found on the hospitality sector to support or counter such claims.

 This study explores the extent of the enrolment of adult learners on hospitality degrees in the UK and examines the relationship between entry requirements, institutional support and completion of courses. It evaluates what tutors and students perceive as important issues and makes suggestions for improving the framework for learning.

Data was gathered from postal questionnaires, interviews and visits to universities in the summer of 1995.

The thesis concludes that whilst increasing numbers of mature hospitality management undergraduates have gained access to courses they have a significantly lower survival rate than younger students. There is a difference in perception between students and tutors concerning factors which improve or otherwise the learning scenario. Equality of access does not necessarily equate with equality of opportunity. The evidence from this study indicates that institutions need to enhance support mechanisms to ensure completion once enrolled, as well as further widening access to under represented groups of adult learners.
Query-Efficient Correlation Clustering
Creators: name: García-Soriano, David
name: Kutzkov, Konstantin
name: Bonchi, Francesco
name: Tsourakakis, Charalampos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Correlation clustering is arguably the most natural formulation of clustering. Given n objects and a pairwise similarity measure, the goal is to cluster the objects so that, to the best possible extent, similar objects are put in the same cluster and dissimilar objects are put in different clusters. A main drawback of correlation clustering is that it requires as input the $Θ(n^2)$ pairwise similarities. This is often infeasible to compute or even just to store. In this paper we study \emph{query-efficient} algorithms for correlation clustering. Specifically, we devise a correlation clustering algorithm that, given a budget of $Q$ queries, attains a solution whose expected number of disagreements is at most $3\cdot OPT + O(\frac{n^3}{Q})$, where $OPT$ is the optimal cost for the instance. Its running time is $O(Q)$, and can be easily made non-adaptive (meaning it can specify all its queries at the outset and make them in parallel) with the same guarantees. Up to constant factors, our algorithm yields a provably optimal trade-off between the number of queries $Q$ and the worst-case error attained, even for adaptive algorithms. Finally, we perform an experimental study of our proposed method on both synthetic and real data, showing the scalability and the accuracy of our algorithm.
description: To appear in WWW 2020
Review—recent advances in FSCV detection of neurochemicals via waveform and carbon microelectrode modification
Creators: name: Rafi, Harmain
name: Zestos, Alexander
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing Ltd
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Fast scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) is an analytical technique that was first developed over 30 years ago. Since then, it has been extensively used to detect dopamine using carbon fiber microelectrodes (CFMEs). More recently, electrode modifications and waveform refinement have enabled the detection of a wider variety of neurochemicals including nucleosides such as adenosine and guanosine, neurotransmitter metabolites of dopamine, and neuropeptides such as enkephalin. These alterations have facilitated the selectivity of certain biomolecules over others to enhance the measurement of the analyte of interest while excluding interferants. In this review, we detail these modifications and how specializing CFME sensors allows neuro-analytical researchers to develop tools to understand the neurochemistry of the brain in disease states and provide groundwork for translational work in clinical settings.
INFRASTUCTURAL BACKGROUND OF THE EVERYDAY PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN HUNGARIAN HIGH SCHOOLS
Creators: name: Henrietta, Varga Szépné
name: Éva, Katona
name: Dénes, Páll
name: Ildikó, Balatoni
name: Henrietta, Varga Szépné
name: Éva, Katona
name: Dénes, Páll
name: Ildikó, Balatoni
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: youth
subject: sport
subject: high school
subject: sport infrastructure

description: The Hungarian government is dedicated to supporting a healthy and sporty life-style, thus in the past years the number of initiatives directed to publicizing and promoting sports has increased considerably. The new Law of Public Education has put the emphasis on physical education and on organizing other sport events in schools. This led to the introduction, in a phasing-out manner, of the every-day physical education (PE). We were interested to know the infrastructural background of PE including the number and size of sports halls available for the students, how many classes can they accommodate at the same time, and when were they constructed. To this end a survey was conducted through telephone, contacting 200 high schools in 19 counties of Hungary. Do the schools have their own swimming pools, or do they conduct after-hours sports events. Data were analyzed using the EvaSys program. The time of construction of the schools and their sports halls spans a wide range between the years 1530 and 2005. So do the number of students, between 150-1200. Nineteen of the schools have none, 67% has one, and 18.8% two sports halls. The size of these halls is also very variable, while in some schools it is only 25 m2, in others it can be as large as 2295m2. In most cases the halls can accommodate one or two classes in parallel. Afternoon classes are held in 87% of the schools, and include basketball, fencing, and soccer, among others. However, only eleven of the interviewed high schools have swimming pools. Research has called the attention to the fact that the exercise of Hungarian youth is too little. This puts the emphasis on the promotion of physical activity in schools. While there are large differences in the infrastructural background in the schools involved in the survey, they all strive to conduct after-hours sport events.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2017/3-4/5 ISSN 1789-7874