cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Metal-free magnetism in chemically doped covalent organic frameworks
Creators: name: Yu, Hongde
name: Wang, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Organic and molecule-based magnets are not easily attainable, because to introduce stable paramagnetic centers to pure organic systems is challenging. Crystalline covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with high designability and chemical diversity constitute ideal platforms to access intriguing magnetic phenomena of organic materials. In this work, we proposed a general approach to attain unpaired electron spin and metal-free magnetism in narrow-band COFs by chemical doping. By using density functional theory calculations, we found that dopants with energy-matched frontier orbitals to COFs not only inject charges to them but also further localize the charges through orbital hybridization and formation of supramolecular charge-transfer complex. The localized states enable stable paramagnetic centers introduced to nonmagnetic COFs. Based on this discovery, we designed two new COFs with narrow valence band, which show prospective magnetism after doping with iodine. Further, we unraveled magnetic anisotropy in two-dimensional COFs and showed that both spin-conduction and magnetic interactions can be modulated by manipulating the building blocks of COFs. Our work highlights a practical scenario to attain magnetism in COFs and other organic materials, which hold great promise for applications in organic spintronic devices.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Universal and optimal coin sequences for high entanglement generation in 1D discrete time quantum walks
Creators: name: Gratsea, Aikaterini
name: Metz, Friederike
name: Busch, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement is a key resource in many quantum information applications and achieving high values independently of the initial conditions is an important task. Here we address the problem of generating highly entangled states in a discrete time quantum walk irrespective of the initial state using two different approaches. First, we present and analyze a deterministic sequence of coin operators which produces high values of entanglement in a universal manner for a class of localized initial states. In a second approach, we directly optimize the sequence of coin operators using a reinforcement learning algorithm. While the amount of entanglement produced by the deterministic sequence is fully independent of the initial states considered, the optimized sequences achieve in general higher average values of entanglement that do however depend on the initial state parameters. Our proposed sequence and optimization algorithm are especially useful in cases where the initial state is not fully known or entanglement has to be generated in a universal manner for a range of initial states.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
From Ward to War: Northwestern during World War II
Creators: name: Barr, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Base Hospital No. 12
subject: Northwestern University
subject: Feinberg School of Medicine
subject: Northwestern University Medical School
subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: Hospitals, Military
subject: Military Medicine
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: Archives
subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: Hospitals, Military/history
subject: Military Medicine/history

description: Presentation given during the CAMA (Chicago Area Medical Archivists) medical history symposium that took place September 20, 2019 at Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
description: This research was supported in part by an appointment to the NLM Associate Fellowship Program sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.
description: I had the privilege to be hosted by Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center for the 2nd year of the National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship program. This presentation focused on the history of the 12th General Hospital Unit, Northwestern Medical Schools Unit during WWII and discussed my efforts last year to share its legacy with the Northwestern community and public at large.
description: presentation_location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Kadec norms on spaces of continuous functions
Creators: name: Burke, Max
name: Kubis, Wieslaw
name: Todorcevic, Stevo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B03 (Primary) 46B26, 46E15, 54C35 (Secondary)

description: We study the existence of pointwise Kadec renormings for Banach spaces of the form $C(K)$. We show in particular that such a renorming exists when $K$ is any product of compact linearly ordered spaces, extending the result for a single factor due to Haydon, Jayne, Namioka and Rogers. We show that if $C(K_1)$ has a pointwise Kadec renorming and $K_2$ belongs to the class of spaces obtained by closing the class of compact metrizable spaces under inverse limits of transfinite continuous sequences of retractions, then $C(K_1\times K_2)$ has a pointwise Kadec renorming. We also prove a version of the three-space property for such renormings.
description: 22 pages
Parallelomma fuscipes
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Parallelomma
Parallelomma fuscipes

description: Parallelomma fuscipes (Zetterstedt, 1838)
 Cordylura fuscipes Zetterstedt, 1838: 726. SYNTYPES: 2 JJ; J: var. a, Sweden, ‘Lapponia Tornensi [= Torne Lappmark], Dr. Frigelio leg. ’; J: var. b, Sweden, ‘ Stensele [= Lycksele Lappmark], 3.7.’ (MZLU).
 Cordylura dispar Zetterstedt, 1846: 2012. HOLOTYPE: ♀, Sweden, ‘ Dalecarlia, in paroecia Särna [= Dalarna, in Särna parish]’ (without additional data).In the collection of ZMHB, I discovered one female with the following label data: ‘Lapp., Bohm., C. dispar Zett., No. 11375, coll. H. Loew’ and a red label with designation ‘Type’ (ZMHB). This is most probably the original type specimen. Synonymized by RINGDAHL (1936: 162).
 Cordilura fuscitibia Rondani, 1867:98. HOLOTYPE: ♀, Italy, ‘planitiae parmensis [= environs of Parma], in mense Augusto [= in August]’ (depository unknown). Synonymized by ŠIFNER (2003a: 22).
 New records. AUSTRIA: Tauermalm, pasture, 18.vii.1996, 1 J, Barták leg. (FSPC); SWITZERLAND: Brener Alpen, Gründelwald env., alpine zone, 16.vi.1999, 1J, Macek leg. (KMVC).
 Distribution. Austria (this paper); Finland (HACKMAN 1980: 130); France (BECKER et al. 1910: 661); Italy (GORODKOV et al. 1995: 4); Norway (NELSON & GREVE 2002: 45); Poland (DRABER- MONKO 1991: 231); Russia – European Russia, Far East (GORODKOV 1970: 446); Sweden (HEDSTRÖM 1991: 143); Switzerland (this paper); Nearctic region (VOCKEROTH 1965: 829).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on pages 124-125, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Additional file 1 of Identification of causal effects in case-control studies
Creators: name: L. Penning de Vries, Bas B.
name: Groenwold, Rolf H. H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary material to ‘Identification of causal effects in case-control studies’.
Incorporating life cycle assessment at the University of British Columbia
Creators: name: Hellens, Kris
name: Schurmann, Kyle
name: Klassen, Dave
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Life-cycle assessment (LCA) offers UBC the ability to further its sustainability and environmental goals in a quantifiable and transparent way. With a new version of LEED® on the horizon now is an ideal time to re-evaluate how sustainability is incorporated into the programs and guidelines affecting new developments on the Vancouver campus. Current language around LCA’s use at UBC is infrequent and misleading, referring instead to life-cycle costing. This apparent lack of consideration is troublesome, as it neglects a major area of sustainability research and progression. UBC has several plans, visions, and policies that extol its goals of a sustainable campus, and LCA is well aligned to be included as a tool for reaching its targets. Transparent benchmarks created in this study allow for the tracking of sustainability metrics through direct comparisons. This is important in understanding what the actual environmental impacts of developments on campus are, allowing progress to be tracked openly. New projects can be compared to the benchmark to allow The University a way of defining what sustainable means, creating a more proactive way of achieving environmental goals. Perhaps the greatest opportunity for UBC is in the area of global leadership. With its position UBC has the power to be a prominent player in the North American environmental arena, and by promoting the use of LCA in new developments it is able to guide other universities and private partners towards a more sustainable future, not just a less unsustainable one. 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.”
Proportional Power Sharing Control of Distributed Generators in Microgrids
Creators: name: Aalipour, Farzad
name: Das, Tuhin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This research addresses distributed proportional power sharing of inverter-based Distributed Generators (DGs) in microgrids under variations in maximum power capacity of DGs. A microgrid can include renewable energy resources such as wind turbines, solar panels, fuel cells, etc. The intermittent nature of such energy resources causes variations in their maximum power capacities. Since DGs in microgrids can be regarded as Multi-Agent-Systems (MASs), a consensus algorithm is designed to have the DGs generate their output power in proportion to their maximum capacities under capacity fluctuations. A change in power capacity of a DG triggers the consensus algorithm which uses a communication map at the cyber layer to estimate the corresponding change. During the transient time of reaching a consensus, the delivered power may not match the load power demand. To eliminate this mismatch, a control law is augmented that consists of a finite-time consensus algorithm embedded within the overarching power sharing consensus algorithm. The effectiveness of the distributed controller is assessed through simulation of a microgrid consisting of a realistic model of inverter-based DGs.
description: 26 pages, 19 figures
High ambient temperature during pregnancy predicts vascular disease in the offspring as adult
Creators: name: Teji, Jagjit Singh
name: Eldeirawi, Kamal
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Low birth weight
subject: Temperature
subject: Cardiovascular Disease
subject: Infant, Low Birth Weight
subject: Climate
subject: Pregnancy

description: This study found that low birth weight is directly related to higher environmental temperature during pregnancy.
THE QUALITY OF OBJECT RELATIONS IN ABORTION SEEKING, IN TELEO-CYESIS AND NEVER-PREGNANT ADOLESCENTS
Creators: name: Hibbs, Euthymia Douvaletas
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The object relations of three groups of unwed adolescent women were examined and compared: primiparas who sought abortion, primiparas who opted for teleo-cyesis and never-pregnant sexually active girls. The difference in the perception of early love objects and relation to age appropriate objects was examined. A difference between the Teleo-cyesis and Never-Pregnant groups was predicted. Subjects were 45 white, non-Catholic, middle-to-upper class adolescents, 15 to 18 years of age. They were given: (1) a structured interview; (2) the Parent-Child Interaction Rating Scale-Nurturance; (3) The Parent-Child Interaction Rating Scale-Autonomy; and (4) the Affectional Orientation Questionnaire (Parents vs. Peers). The one-way ANOVA and Student's t-test for comparisons were used at p < .05 level of significance. The results indicated: (1) All adolescents had reached age appropriate object relations and perceived them to be of good quality. (2) The Never-Pregnant group perceived receiving more security from their mother then the other two groups. (3) All adolescents perceived themselves as autonomous and independent. (4) All adolescents felt closer to their friends than to their parents. In addition, the Never-Pregnant group felt closer to their fathers than to their mothers (F = 5.58, p < .05). (5) All adolescents considered themselves as the significant decision-makers for everyday life situations. The structured interview indicated that: The majority of the Teleo-cyesis and Abortion group adolescents decided on their own to abort or to carry to term. The majority of the Never-Pregnant group were influenced by a girlfriend to use birth control. There were more object losses through divorce for the Teleo-cyesis group. The parents of the latter group had a lower educational level and the adolescents' scholastic performance was lower than that of the Never-Pregnant group.
Parallelomma lautereri Sifner 2002
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Parallelomma
Parallelomma lautereri

description: Parallelomma lautereri Šifner, 2002
 Parallelomma lautereri Šifner, 2002: 83. HOLOTYPE: J, China, Shanxi, Qinling Mts., Xunyangba, 6 km E, 1000- 1300 m a.s.l., 25.v.-16.vi.1998, V. Kubáň leg. (MMBC).
 Distribution. China (ŠIFNER 2002: 83).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
"THE AUTHORITY OF HER MERIT": VIRTUE AND WOMEN IN CHAUCER AND SHAKESPEARE
Creators: name: McQuain, Jeffrey Hunter
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research involves the feminist argument in the writings of Chaucer and Shakespeare. In the context of a Western literary tradition that denigrates the female, the canons of Chaucer and Shakespeare provide a most untraditional connection of virtue and women. The paper begins with a brief overview of the misogyny that permeates classical literature. Then the poems of Chaucer, from The Book of the Duchess to The Canterbury Tales, are examined for the ways that they champion the words and deeds of women. Finally, the plays of Shakespeare, from The Comedy of Errors to The Two Noble Kinsmen, are explored as extensions of Chaucer's arguments in favor of women and marriage. In particular, the two writers make similar statements on difference and democracy that support the connection of virtue and women. Shakespeare's drama, though, goes even further than Chaucer's poetry in challenging classical authority on the hierarchical notion of male supremacy. In fact, Shakespeare places the basic tenets of misogyny onstage to demonstrate the truth of their inadequacy. Both writers agree, however, that the female should not be subordinated to the male and that marriage should be celebrated as a source of syncretic power. Thus, in their connection of virtue and women, the two major voices of English literature produce a new argument for a syncretic balance of the sexes.
A geometric proof of the Kochen-Specker no-go theorem
Creators: name: Gill, Richard D.
name: Keane, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a short geometric proof of the Kochen-Specker no-go theorem for non-contextual hidden variables models. Note added to this version: I understand from Jan-Aake Larsson that the construction we give here actually contains the original Kochen-Specker construction as well as many others (Bell, Conway and Kochen, Schuette, perhaps also Peres).
description: This paper appeared some years ago, before the author was aware of quant-ph. It is relevant to recent developments concerning Kochen-Specker theorems
Phrosia remmi Šifner 2008, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Phrosia
Phrosia remmi

description: Phrosia remmi (Elberg, 1972), comb. nov.
 Cordilura remmi Elberg, 1972: 91. HOLOTYPE: J, Russia, Sakhalin Island, environs of South Sakhalinsk, 15.vii.1964, Elberg leg. (IZBE).
 Note. The transfer of C. remmi to the genus Phrosia is based on the length of 3 rd anntenomere, which is typical for Phrosia.
 Distribution. Russia – Far East (ELBERG 1972: 91).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
On the narrow dip structure at 1.9 GeV/c$^2$ in diffractive photoproduction
Creators: name: Frabetti, P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The narrow dip observed at 1.9 GeV/c$^2$ by the Fermilab experiment E687 in diffractive photoproduction of $~3π^+3π^-$ is examined. The E687 data are refitted, a mechanism is proposed to explain why this resonance appears as a dip, and possible interpretations are discussed.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures. Accepted by Phys. Lett. B
Additional file 2 of The evolution of insect visual opsin genes with specific consideration of the influence of ocelli and life history traits
Creators: name: Guignard, Quentin
name: Allison, Jeremy D.
name: Slippers, Bernard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Zoology

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Complete maximum-likelihood tree of 1000 insect visual opsin sequences. The LW2b, LW2a, SW and UV opsins are red, green, blue and purple, respectively. Node circles indicates UFbootstrap and SH-alrt value.
Smarandache Sequences: Explorations and Discoveries with a Computer Algebra System
Creators: name: Gouveia, Paulo D. F.
name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B83; 11-04; 68W30

description: We study Smarandache sequences of numbers, and related problems, via a Computer Algebra System. Solutions are discovered, and some conjectures presented.
description: To appear in the 2003 December issue of the Smarandache Notions Journal
"THE AUTHORITY OF HER MERIT": VIRTUE AND WOMEN IN CHAUCER AND SHAKESPEARE
Creators: name: McQuain, Jeffrey Hunter
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: This research involves the feminist argument in the writings of Chaucer and Shakespeare. In the context of a Western literary tradition that denigrates the female, the canons of Chaucer and Shakespeare provide a most untraditional connection of virtue and women. The paper begins with a brief overview of the misogyny that permeates classical literature. Then the poems of Chaucer, from The Book of the Duchess to The Canterbury Tales, are examined for the ways that they champion the words and deeds of women. Finally, the plays of Shakespeare, from The Comedy of Errors to The Two Noble Kinsmen, are explored as extensions of Chaucer's arguments in favor of women and marriage. In particular, the two writers make similar statements on difference and democracy that support the connection of virtue and women. Shakespeare's drama, though, goes even further than Chaucer's poetry in challenging classical authority on the hierarchical notion of male supremacy. In fact, Shakespeare places the basic tenets of misogyny onstage to demonstrate the truth of their inadequacy. Both writers agree, however, that the female should not be subordinated to the male and that marriage should be celebrated as a source of syncretic power. Thus, in their connection of virtue and women, the two major voices of English literature produce a new argument for a syncretic balance of the sexes.
Scoliaphleps Becker 1894
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Scoliaphleps

description: Scoliaphleps Becker, 1894
 Scoliaphleps Becker, 1894: 48. Type species: Cordylura ustulata Zetterstedt, 1838: 727; by original designation.
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Yau-Zaslow formula on K3 surfaces for non-primitive classes
Creators: name: Lee, Junho
name: Leung, Naichung Conan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D45, 14N35, 53D05, 14N10

description: We compute the genus zero family Gromov-Witten invariants for K3 surfaces using the topological recursion formula and the symplectic sum formula for a degeneration of elliptic K3 surfaces. In particular we verify the Yau-Zaslow formula for non-primitive classes of index two.
description: Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol9/paper45.abs.html
Blockchain-Based Distributed Patient-Centric Image Management System
Creators: name: Jabarulla, Mohamed Yaseen
name: Lee, Heung-No
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, many researchers have focused on developing a feasible solution for storing and exchanging medical images in the field of health care. Current practices are deployed on cloud-based centralized data centers, which increase maintenance costs, require massive storage space, and raise privacy concerns about sharing information over a network. Therefore, it is important to design a framework to enable sharing and storing of big medical data efficiently within a trustless environment. In the present paper, we propose a novel proof-of-concept design for a distributed patient-centric image management (PCIM) system that is aimed to ensure safety and control of patient private data without using a centralized infrastructure. In this system, we employed an emerging Ethereum blockchain and a distributed file system technology called InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). Then, we implemented an Ethereum smart contract called the patientcentric access control protocol to enable a distributed and trustworthy access control policy. IPFS provides the means for decentralized storage of medical images with global accessibility. We describe how the PCIM system architecture facilitates the distributed and secured patient-centric data access across multiple entities such as hospitals, patients, and image requestors. Finally, we deployed a smart contract prototype on an Ethereum testnet blockchain and evaluated the proposed framework within the Windows environment. The evaluation results demonstrated that the proposed scheme is efficient and feasible.
description: 18 Pages, 12 Figures, 2 Tables. Included detailed analysis of the proposed framework. Submitted to MDPI-Applied Science
HISTORIC AND ECONOMIC ROOTS OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION
Creators: name: Touhidi-Baghini, Behzad
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 has been called "one of the major upheavals of world history."('1) The task of this dissertation is to unravel the mystery of the rapid fall of a seemingly omnipotent state and the emergence of a fundamentalist religious order in its place. The Revolution, I will argue, was the result of a particular conjuncture of two relatively autonomous dynamics: one is the long-term dynamic of the competition between the clerical institution and the non-clerical state over political power dating back to the Safavid period (1501-1722 A.D.). The other is the relatively recent dynamic of the transition to capitalism beginning with the rise of the Pahlavi state in the 1920s and continuing to the breakout of the Revolution. This dissertation will trace the origins of both the despotic state. and the clerical institution on the one hand, and the impact of a. state-led transition to capitalism on the above dynamic on the other. ('1)Fred Halliday, "Theses on the Iranian Revolution," in Race and Class, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Summer 1979, p. 90.
HISTORIC AND ECONOMIC ROOTS OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION
Creators: name: Touhidi-Baghini, Behzad
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 has been called "one of the major upheavals of world history."('1) The task of this dissertation is to unravel the mystery of the rapid fall of a seemingly omnipotent state and the emergence of a fundamentalist religious order in its place. The Revolution, I will argue, was the result of a particular conjuncture of two relatively autonomous dynamics: one is the long-term dynamic of the competition between the clerical institution and the non-clerical state over political power dating back to the Safavid period (1501-1722 A.D.). The other is the relatively recent dynamic of the transition to capitalism beginning with the rise of the Pahlavi state in the 1920s and continuing to the breakout of the Revolution. This dissertation will trace the origins of both the despotic state. and the clerical institution on the one hand, and the impact of a. state-led transition to capitalism on the above dynamic on the other. ('1)Fred Halliday, "Theses on the Iranian Revolution," in Race and Class, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Summer 1979, p. 90.
Scoliaphleps fulvifrons
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Scoliaphleps
Scoliaphleps fulvifrons

description: Scoliaphleps fulvifrons (Ozerov, 1997)
 Cordilura (Scoliaphleps) fulvifrons Ozerov, 1997: 1427. HOLOTYPE: J, Russia, Khabarovskiy kray, Boitsovo, 20 km A Bikin, Bolshoi Solntsepyok hill, C. Lange & J. Ziegler leg. (DEI).
 Distribution. Russia – Far East (OZEROV 1997: 1427).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
DETERMINANTS OF ACCESS AND EXTENT OF USE OF AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE SCHEMES BY SMALL-SCALE FARMERS IN KOGI STATE NIGERIA
Creators: name: OKPUKPARA, Benjamin Chiedozie
name: UKWUABA, Ikenna Charles
name: ADEBAYO, Olusegun
name: OKPUKPARA, Benjamin Chiedozie
name: UKWUABA, Ikenna Charles
name: ADEBAYO, Olusegun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: insurance
subject: Heckman model
subject: risks
subject: small scale farmers
subject: Nigeria

description: Research Background: Although, insurance services are offered by the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation and other private companies in Nigeria; however, there has been a low level of involvement of farmers in the purchasing of insurance premiums in Kogi state. The empirical evidence on the factors accountable for the low patronage of the Nigeria Agricultural Insurance Schemes (AIS) in Kogi State are not known. The identification of these factors inhibiting the access and use of AIS by farmers and the provision of appropriate and efficient solutions by the relevant stakeholders can mitigate the catastrophic effects of risks and uncertainties on the farmers. Purpose of the article: The research was carried out in order to ascertain the determinants of access and extent of use of AIS by farmers in the study area so as to of provide appropriate and efficient solutions capable of mitigating the catastrophic effects of risks and uncertainties inherent in agriculture on the farmers means of livelihood. This makes the analysis of the level of access and extent of use of and the factors influencing farmers' willingness to participate in the agricultural insurance scheme a compelling necessity. Methods: Data for the study was collected through the help of a well-structured questionnaire administered to 150 farmers whom were selected through a multi-stage random sampling technique. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics and Heckman's two-stage model. Findings and value added: Farmers in the study area were males, literate, and experienced farmers. The determinants of access to AIS were awareness of AIS, age, income, and marital status, while age, awareness of AIS, and income significantly influenced the extent of use of AIS by the farmers in the study area. Farmers in the study area can access and use more of AIS through increased awareness of the insurance scheme as well as increasing farmers’ income level through affordable loan scheme or outright government grants.
description: doi: 10.15414/raae.2021.24.01.88-97; https://roaae.org/issue/review-of-agricultural-and-applied-economics-raae-vol-24-no-1-2021/?article=determinants-of-access-and-extent-of-use-of-agricultural-insurance-schemes-by-small-scale-farmers-in-kogi-state-nigeria
THE IMPACT OF TRAINING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECTIVE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND PERCEPTION OF CLIMATE IN THREE PUBLIC AGENCIES
Creators: name: Bullock, Gwendolyn Williams
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The recent enactment of public personnel laws concerning performance appraisal in the Federal government and the District of Columbia forces a major change in the performance management practices of public agencies. Agencies are required to change from the use of highly subjective to highly objective methods in appraising employee performance. A basic assumption in the new laws is that a change in rules and regulations covering performance appraisal systems will produce a change in managerial behavior. This assumption is untested. This dissertation examines the relative effectiveness of a policy directive or a training model to bring about change in performance appraisal methods in the context of organizational climate. An experimental group of managers and supervisors participated in a 3-day technical and communication skill training session. A control group did not participate in training, but was given a policy directive instructing them to develop objective performance standards. It was theorized that supervisors who set hard goals after training would have a more positive impact on their subordinates' perception of climate than those supervisors who were simply told to do their best after training. It was further hypothesized that both groups would be more effective in changing their approach to appraisal than the control groups. This study demonstrates that under certain restrictive conditions; namely, participation in cognitive and behavioral skill training with specific goals set for on-the-job behavior, transfer of learning to the worksite will occur, thus producing compliance with the law. Statistical test and analysis of response on climate and appraisal questionnaires found support for the hypothesis that training with subsequent hard goals may produce more changes in appraisal methods than easy goals or no goals.
Exact Coarse Graining Preserves Entropy Production out of Equilibrium
Creators: name: Teza, Gianluca
name: Stella, Attilio L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entropy production rate associated with broken time-reversal symmetry provides an essential characterization of nanosystems out of equilibrium, from driven colloidal particles to molecular motors. Limited access to the dynamical states is generally expected to hinder the correct estimation of this observable. Here we show how memoryless jump processes can be coarse grained exactly preserving its average and fluctuations at stationarity. This supports univocal applicability of fluctuation theorems for entropy and allows inference of the genuine thermodynamics together with inaccessible process details.
Scoliaphleps ustulata
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Scoliaphleps
Scoliaphleps ustulata

description: Scoliaphleps ustulata (Zetterstedt, 1838)
 Cordylura ustulata Zetterstedt, 1838: 727. SYNTYPES: J ♀, ‘ Nordlandiae [= Norway]’, ‘ Björkvik [= Bjerkvik]’ and Giesbotstad; Sweden, ‘ Lapponia Tornensis [= Torne Lappmark], Juckasjervi’ (MZLU).
 Cordylura marginipennis Gimmerthal, 1847: 1. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘Curland’ [= Kurland, currently in Latvia]. Synonymized by LOEW (1873: 249).
 Note. Gimmerthal’s collection was destroyed during Word War II (†A. A. Stackelberg, pers. comm.).
 Cordylura melanacra Loew, 1873:247.‘LECTOTYPE’: ♀, Poland,‘ Schlesien [= Silesia], Roseth.–D.[?], 14.iv.[18]51, coll. H. Loew’; designated as lectotype by J. R.Vockeroth (designation not published) (ZMHB).Synonymized by ŠIFNER (1977b: 397).
 Scoliaphleps hyalinipennis Ringdahl, 1936:163, syn. nov. HOLOTYPE: J, Sweden, ‘ Hälsingborg [= Helsingborg]’ (probably MZLU).
 Note. Scoliaphleps hyalinipennis is here proposed as a junior synonym of S.ustulata; all characters (including the size) are within the limits of the variability of S. ustulata.
 Distribution. Austria (FRANZ 1989: 115); Belgium (DE JONG 2005); Czech Republic (ŠIFNER 2003a: 19); Estonia (ELBERG 1965: 348); Finland (HACKMAN 1980: 130); Germany (PÜCHEL 1999: 186); Great Britain (CHANDLER 1998: 163); Hungary (DELY- DRASKOVITS 1981: 16, PAPP 2001a: 382); Latvia (GIMMERTHAL 1847: 1); Mongolia (ŠIFNER 1975: 220); Norway (NELSON & GREVE 2002: 45); Poland (DRABER- MONKO 1991: 231); Russia – European Russia, West Siberia, East Siberia (GORODKOV 1970: 448); Sweden (HEDSTRÖM 1991: 143); Nearctic region (VOCKEROTH 1965: 830).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
THE IMPACT OF TRAINING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECTIVE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND PERCEPTION OF CLIMATE IN THREE PUBLIC AGENCIES
Creators: name: Bullock, Gwendolyn Williams
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: The recent enactment of public personnel laws concerning performance appraisal in the Federal government and the District of Columbia forces a major change in the performance management practices of public agencies. Agencies are required to change from the use of highly subjective to highly objective methods in appraising employee performance. A basic assumption in the new laws is that a change in rules and regulations covering performance appraisal systems will produce a change in managerial behavior. This assumption is untested. This dissertation examines the relative effectiveness of a policy directive or a training model to bring about change in performance appraisal methods in the context of organizational climate. An experimental group of managers and supervisors participated in a 3-day technical and communication skill training session. A control group did not participate in training, but was given a policy directive instructing them to develop objective performance standards. It was theorized that supervisors who set hard goals after training would have a more positive impact on their subordinates' perception of climate than those supervisors who were simply told to do their best after training. It was further hypothesized that both groups would be more effective in changing their approach to appraisal than the control groups. This study demonstrates that under certain restrictive conditions; namely, participation in cognitive and behavioral skill training with specific goals set for on-the-job behavior, transfer of learning to the worksite will occur, thus producing compliance with the law. Statistical test and analysis of response on climate and appraisal questionnaires found support for the hypothesis that training with subsequent hard goals may produce more changes in appraisal methods than easy goals or no goals.
Fungible dynamics: there are only two types of entangling multiple-qubit interactions
Creators: name: Bremner, Michael J.
name: Dodd, Jennifer L.
name: Nielsen, Michael A.
name: Bacon, Dave
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: What interactions are sufficient to simulate arbitrary quantum dynamics in a composite quantum system? It has been shown that all two-body Hamiltonian evolutions can be simulated using \emph{any} fixed two-body entangling $n$-qubit Hamiltonian and fast local unitaries. By \emph{entangling} we mean that every qubit is coupled to every other qubit, if not directly, then indirectly via intermediate qubits. We extend this study to the case where interactions may involve more than two qubits at a time. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for an arbitrary $n$-qubit Hamiltonian to be \emph{dynamically universal}, that is, able to simulate any other Hamiltonian acting on $n$ qubits, possibly in an inefficient manner. We prove that an entangling Hamiltonian is dynamically universal if and only if it contains at least one coupling term involving an \emph{even} number of interacting qubits. For \emph{odd} entangling Hamiltonians, i.e., Hamiltonians with couplings that involve only an odd number of qubits, we prove that dynamic universality is possible on an encoded set of $n-1$ logical qubits. We further prove that an odd entangling Hamiltonian can simulate any other odd Hamiltonian and classify the algebras that such Hamiltonians generate. Thus, our results show that up to local unitary operations, there are only two fundamentally different types of entangling Hamiltonian on $n$ qubits. We also demonstrate that, provided the number of qubits directly coupled by the Hamiltonian is bounded above by a constant, our techniques can be made efficient.
title: Printed High‐Entropy Prussian Blue Analogs for Advanced Non‐Volatile Memristive Devices
Creators: name: He, Yueyue
name: Ting, Yin‐Ying
name: Hu, Hongrong
name: Diemant, Thomas
name: Dai, Yuting
name: Lin, Jing
name: Schweidler, Simon
name: Marques, Gabriel Cadilha
name: Hahn, Horst
name: Ma, Yanjiao
name: Brezesinski, Torsten
name: Kowalski, Piotr M.
name: Breitung, Ben
name: Aghassi‐Hagmann, Jasmin
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2025

description: Non‐volatile memristors dynamically switch between high (HRS) and low resistance states (LRS) in response to electrical stimuli, essential for electronic memories, neuromorphic computing, and artificial intelligence. High‐entropy Prussian blue analogs (HE‐PBAs) are promising insertion‐type battery materials due to their diverse composition, high structural integrity, and favorable ionic conductivity. This work proposes a non‐volatile, bipolar memristor based on HE‐PBA. The device, featuring an active layer of HE‐PBA sandwiched between Ag and ITO electrodes, is fabricated by inkjet printing and microplotting. The conduction mechanism of the Ag/HE‐PBA/ITO device is systematically investigated. The results indicate that the transition between HRS and LRS is driven by an insulating‐metallic transition, triggered by extraction/insertion of highly mobile Na⁺ ions upon application of an electric field. The memristor operates through a low‐energy process akin to Na⁺ shuttling in Na‐ion batteries rather than depending on formation/rupture of Ag filaments. Notably, it showcases promising characteristics, including non‐volatility, self‐compliance, and forming‐free behavior, and further exhibits low operation voltage (VSET = −0.26 V, VRESET = 0.36 V), low power consumption (PSET = 26 µW, PRESET = 8.0 µW), and a high ROFF/RON ratio of 10⁴. This underscores the potential of high‐entropy insertion materials for developing printed memristors with distinct operation mechanisms.
EDGE COMPUTING AND ITS IMPACT ON IOT
Creators: name: Mehtab Alam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: The number of smart devices connected to the internet is increasing manifold on a daily basis, which in turn generates Big Data. This data requires a robust and reliable cloud storage to save the data and protect it from unauthorized access. Further this data requires huge processing power to drive to any tangible and useful information from it. Many business processes are eyeing technologies to improve efficiency, performance and reduce cost of operation of the IoT devices. The leading ways now days is by using Edge Computing, i.e. processing data out of the main cloud or at its edge. The new technology has the potential to deal and wipe off the concerns of response time, bandwidth cost saving, duration of battery life and most significantly safety and privacy of vital data of the organisation.
Evolutionary conservation of motif constituents within the yeast protein interaction network
Creators: name: Wuchty, S.
name: Oltvai, Z. N.
name: Barabasi, A. -L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding why some cellular components are conserved across species, while others evolve rapidly is a key question of modern biology. Here we demonstrate that in S. cerevisiae proteins organized in cohesive patterns of interactions are conserved to a significantly higher degree than those that do not participate in such motifs. We find that the conservation of proteins within distinct topological motifs correlates with the motif's inter-connectedness and function and also depends on the structure of the overall interactome topology. These findings indicate that motifs may represent evolutionary conserved topological units of cellular networks molded in accordance with the specific biological function in which they participate.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables
Life cycle assessment of academic buildings at UBC
Creators: name: Elder, Michael
name: Panahi, Negar
name: Salehi, Ali
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This report is the final project in CIVL 498C, a course that introduces students to the practice of Life Cycle Assessment. It is part of a continuing study of buildings on campus, with the purpose of improving UBC’s environmental footprint. This study was based on a life cycle assessment of various buildings on campus done by students in the same course last year. Their results were updated and used as a benchmark for this project. The scope of this project is to gain more information about UBC’s buildings, so that strategic decisions about new projects can be made in the future. The results can also be used as an educational tool for people to learn more about the environmental impacts of buildings on campus. Some of the most noteworthy findings in the life cycle assessment are: - Concrete constitutes about 81% of all construction materials in terms of mass. - The ‘Upper Floor Construction’ of all the buildings is the largest building element assessed, with a total of 38% of all the construction materials. - ‘Roof Construction’ was found to have the most significant environmental impact. - The ‘Product Stage’ (manufacturing, transportation, material extraction) is the life cycle stage with the biggest impact Comparisons were made between buildings in terms of “impact per square meter”. A number of environmental impacts were considered, such as global warming potential, ozone depletion potential, non-renewable energy use, and fossil fuel consumption. A cost analysis was also made, which can help designers make decisions between choosing construction materials. Some strategies to institutionalize life cycle assessment at UBC were also outlined. There are a number of ways to educate people about the concept, such as events, guest lectures, a newsletter, or through social media. Designers of buildings on campus can use modelling tools and a life cycle inventory database to make the process easier. With strong communication and education, life cycle assessment can be institutionalized into UBC policy to move towards a green future. 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.”