cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: HAS ‘HEIMAT’ BEEN MADE?: Centralized refugee accommodations in Germany
Creators: name: Vazhoth Palliyil, Vijay Gopal
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: According to UNHCR, Germany hosts more than a million refugees. Asylum seekers in Germany, live in the collective accommodation facilities called Gemeinschaftsunterkünften run by the respective municipalities while waiting for their application to be processed. Moreover, many refugees who have acquired official status continue to live in these facilities because of difficulties in finding decentralized accommodation in urban areas. This thesis focuses on the effects of living in the Gemeinschaftsunterkünft on the well-being of the inhabitants through a case study by using ethnographic methods and mapping. Interviews were conducted with 10 inhabitants and also with the official social worker of the Gemeinschaftsunterkünft at Hofheim in Germany. The main findings show that the inhabitants lack privacy and space; which is the consequence of the absence of binding standards regarding the size of GUs; where many refugees continue to live for prolonged periods because finding suitable, affordable and decentralised housing is challenging. Moreover, living at the GU for a prolonged period prevents social integration. The lesson from the thesis is that enforced standards in terms of size and occupancy are required for GUs. Furthermore, affordable housing stock generation is needed to enable the residents to move out of GUs and integrate better.
THE SOLAR ENERGY UTILIZATION IN THE ZIELAWA VALLEY TOURIST AREA
OBSZAR TURYSTYCZNY DOLINA ZIELAWY W KONTEKŚCIE WYKORZYSTANIA ENERGII SŁONECZNEJ
Creators: name: Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Justyna
name: Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Justyna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Zielawa Valley
subject: solar energy
subject: tourist area

description: The study analyzes the solar energy utilization as a new element of the tourist area in the “Zielawa Valley tourist area”counties. The appearance of instalations for renewable energy generation on resdential housign and public buildings inϐluences the reputation of a county and the region creating an image of localityabdpromotes an areas a special type of quality certiϐicate. The discussions stresses the key role of human capital (an endogenous resource) in the implementation of innovative solutions (including renewable energy generation) in a county. In additoin, the importance of local governments in initiating innovations is discussed because their competencies and abilities determine the extent to which the development barriers are conquered, and whether all local resources are utilized (both human capital and natural resources) including those associated with alternative energy development within the context of creating a tourist area.
The van Est spectral sequence for Hopf algebras
Creators: name: Beggs, EJ
name: Brzezinski, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Various aspects of the de Rham cohomology of Hopf algebras are discussed. In particular, it is shown that the de Rham cohomology of an algebra with the differentiable coaction of a cosemisimple Hopf algebra with trivial 0-th cohomology group, reduces to the de Rham cohomology of (co)invariant forms. Spectral sequences are discussed and the van Est spectral sequence for Hopf algebras is introduced. A definition of Hopf-Lie algebra cohomology is also given.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX
Integrating Quantity and Quality to Assess Urban Green Space Improvement in the Compact City
Creators: name: Chen, Shanshan
name: Haase, Dagmar
name: Xue, Bing
name: Wellmann, Thilo
name: Qureshi, Salman
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: green city
subject: land surface temperature
subject: hotspot analysis
subject: public engagement
subject: planning practices
subject: remote sensing
subject: 630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Urban green space (UGS) has gained much attention in terms of urban ecosystems and human health. Measures to improve green space in compact cities are important for urban sustainability. However, there is a knowledge gap between UGS improvement and planning management. Based on the integration of quantity and quality, this research aims to identify UGS changes during urban development and suggest ways to improve green space. We analyse land use changes, conduct a hotspot analysis of land surface temperature (LST) between 2005 and 2015 at the city scale, and examine the changes in small, medium and large patches at the neighbourhood scale to guide decision-makers in UGS management. The results show that (i) the redevelopment of urban brownfields is an effective method for increasing quantity, with differences depending on regional functions; (ii) small, medium and large patches of green space have significance in terms of improving the quality of temperature mitigation, with apparent coldspot clustering from 2005 to 2015; and (iii) the integration of UGS quality and quantity in planning management is beneficial to green space sustainability. Green space improvement needs to emphasize the integration of UGS quantity and quality to accommodate targeted planning for local conditions.
Imaging and Modeling Data from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array
Creators: name: Carilli{1, C. L.
name: 2}
name: Thyagarajan{1}, N.
name: Kent{2}, J.
name: Nikolic{2}, B.
name: Gale-Sides{2}, K.
name: Kern{3}, N. S.
name: Bernardi{4, G.
name: 5
name: 6}
name: Mesinger{7}, A.
name: Matika{5}, S.
name: Observatory, the HERA TEAM {1}{National Radio Astronomy
name: 0, P. O. Box
name: Socorro
name: 87801, NM
name: USA
name: edu, ccarilli@nrao.
name: ORCID
name: :
name: Group, 0000-0001-6647-3861} {2}{Astrophysics
name: Laboratory, Cavendish
name: Avenue, JJ Thomson
name: 0HE, Cambridge CB3
name: Astronomy, UK} {3}{Department of
name: California, University of
name: Berkeley
name: di Radioastronomia, CA} {4}{INAF-Istituto
name: 101, via Gobetti
name: 40129
name: Bologna
name: Physics, Italy} {5}{Department of
name: Electronics
name: University, Rhodes
name: 94, PO Box
name: Grahamstown
name: 6140
name: Observatory, South Africa} {6}{The South African Radio Astronomy
name: Street, 2 Fir
name: Park, Black River
name: Observatory
name: 7925
name: Superiore, South Africa} {7}{Scuola Normale
name: Pisa, 56126
name: PI
name: Italy}
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze data from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array. This is the third in a series of papers on the closure phase delay-spectrum technique designed to detect the HI 21cm emission from cosmic reionization. We present the details of the data and models employed in the power spectral analysis, and discuss limitations to the process. We compare images and visibility spectra made with HERA data, to parallel quantities generated from sky models based on the GLEAM survey, incorporating the HERA telescope model. We find reasonable agreement between images made from HERA data, with those generated from the models, down to the confusion level. For the visibility spectra, there is broad agreement between model and data across the full band of $\sim 80$MHz. However, models with only GLEAM sources do not reproduce a roughly sinusoidal spectral structure at the tens of percent level seen in the observed visibility spectra on scales $\sim 10$ MHz on 29 m baselines. We find that this structure is likely due to diffuse Galactic emission, predominantly the Galactic plane, filling the far sidelobes of the antenna primary beam. We show that our current knowledge of the frequency dependence of the diffuse sky radio emission, and the primary beam at large zenith angles, is inadequate to provide an accurate reproduction of the diffuse structure in the models. We discuss implications due to this missing structure in the models, including calibration, and in the search for the HI 21cm signal, as well as possible mitigation techniques.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, accepted for the ApJ Supplement
Long-range nonlocal flow of vortices in narrow superconducting channels
Creators: name: Grigorieva, I. V.
name: Geim, A. K.
name: Dubonos, S. V.
name: Novoselov, K. S.
name: Vodolazov, D. Y.
name: Peeters, F. M.
name: Kes, P. H.
name: Hesselberth, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a new nonlocal effect in vortex matter, where an electric current confined to a small region of a long and sufficiently narrow superconducting wire causes vortex flow at distances hundreds of inter-vortex separations away. The observed remote traffic of vortices is attributed to a very efficient transfer of a local strain through the one-dimensional vortex lattice, even in the presence of disorder. We also observe mesoscopic fluctuations in the nonlocal vortex flow, which arise due to "traffic jams" when vortex arrangements do not match a local geometry of a superconducting channel.
description: a slightly longer version of a tentatively accepted PRL
title: Οι χώρες της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης ως πηγή προέλευσης τουριστών στην Ελλάδα, ανάλυση αφίξεων – προβλέψεις
title: The countries of the European Union as a source of origin of tourists in Greece, arrival analysis – forecasts
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Κουκουτά, Νικολίνα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Τουρισμός
subject: Ελληνικό τουριστικό προϊόν
subject: Ευρώπη
subject: Χώρες Ευρώπης
subject: Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση
subject: (27) Χώρες Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης
subject: Σύνδεση Ελλάδας – Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης
subject: Ιστορία
subject: Διμερείς σχέσεις
subject: Οικονομικές και εμπορικές σχέσεις
subject: Διείσδυση
subject: Χρονοσειρές
subject: Αφίξεις τουριστών
subject: Στατιστικό πρόγραμμα Statgraphics
subject: Πρόβλεψη
subject: Ισχυροποίηση δεσμών

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει σαν αντικείμενο της, την διερεύνηση των στοιχείων του εισερχόμενου τουρισμού στην Ελλάδα, με την διεξαγωγή μελέτης για τους τουρίστες που προέρχονται από την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση σαν σύνολο 27 χωρών. Στα πλαίσια της παρούσας εργασίας, αναλύθηκε ο αριθμός αφίξεων των τουριστών, έχοντας σαν πηγή προέλευσης τους την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, ως σύνολο, σύμφωνα με στοιχεία τα οποία λήφθηκαν από την Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος. Τα συγκεκριμένα στοιχεία προέκυψαν από την έρευνα συνόρων, την οποία πραγματοποιεί η Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος, συνεργαζόμενη με την Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή (ΕΛΣΤΑΤ). Τα στοιχεία στα οποία βασίζεται το αντικείμενο της παρούσας εργασίας, αφορούν τις μηνιαίες αφίξεις τουριστών από τις 27 χώρες που ανήκουν στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, ως σύνολο, προς την Ελλάδα, για την χρονική περίοδο Ιανουάριος 2010 - Δεκέμβριος 2019. Τα εν λόγω στοιχεία, αποτέλεσαν το σύνολο των παρατηρήσεων, οι οποίες οδήγησαν στην πρόβλεψη του αριθμού των αφίξεων των τουριστών από τις 27 χώρες που ανήκουν στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, ως σύνολο, προς την Ελλάδα, για τους επόμενους 12 μήνες (Ιανουάριος 2020 – Δεκέμβριος 2020), μέσω της χρήσης του στατιστικού προγράμματος «Statgraphics Centurion XV.II». Στην παρούσα εργασία, αναφέρεται και η σημαντικότητα της επιδίωξης για αύξηση του αριθμού τουριστών από τις 27 χώρες που ανήκουν στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, αφού μία πιθανή αύξηση του μεγάλου ετήσιου όγκου εισερχόμενων τουριστών, στην Ελλάδα, από αυτές τις χώρες, είτε μεγάλης είτε μικρής κλίμακας, θα είχε την δυνατότητα να επιφέρει πολλά ευεργετικά αποτελέσματα στον Ελληνικό τουρισμό και κατ’ επέκταση, μεταξύ άλλων, στον οικονομικό, κοινωνικό και εργασιακό τομέα της χώρας μας. Η αύξηση του εισερχόμενου τουρισμού στην Ελλάδα, από τις 27 χώρες που ανήκουν στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, θα μπορούσε να εξομαλύνει, ως προς ένα βαθμό, την εποχικότητα, η οποία αναμφισβήτητα επικρατεί στον τομέα του τουρισμού και επίσης θα μπορούσε να βοηθήσει στη διεύρυνση της τουριστικής περιόδου στην χώρα μας. Συνεπώς, η διεύρυνση αυτή, απαρτίζει μια σημαντική προοπτική ώστε να δημιουργηθούν νέες επενδύσεις στον τουριστικό κλάδο και έτσι να οδηγήσουν στην μείωση της ανεργίας, όπως και την αύξηση του Α.Ε.Π. της χώρας μας.
Scalar and vector form factors of the in-medium nucleon
Creators: name: Saito, K.
name: Tsushima, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the quark-meson coupling model, we calculate the form factors at sigma- and omega-nucleon strong-interaction vertices in nuclear matter. The Peierls-Yoccoz projection technique is used to take account of center of mass and recoil corrections. We also apply the Lorentz contraction to the internal quark wave function. The form factors are reduced by the nuclear medium relative to those in vacuum. At normal nuclear matter density and Q^2 = 1 GeV^2, the reduction rate in the scalar form factor is about 15%, which is almost identical to that in the vector one. We parameterize the ratios of the form factors in symmetric nuclear matter to those in vacuum as a function of nuclear density and momentum transfer.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, references are up dated
Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation from the Nonequilibrium Dynamics of a Nonlinear Open Quantum System
Creators: name: Hsiang, Jen-Tsung
name: Hu, Bei-Lok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuing our inquiry into the conditions when fluctuation-dissipation relations (FDR) may appear in the context of nonequilibrium dynamics of open quantum systems (over and beyond the conventional FDR from linear response theory) we turn to nonGaussian systems and consider this issue for an anharmonic oscillator interacting with a scalar quantum field bath. We present the general {nonperturbative} expressions for the rate of energy (power) exchange between the anharmonic oscillator and the thermal bath. For the cases that a stable final equilibrium state exists, and the nonstationary components of the two-point functions of the anharmonic oscillator have negligible contributions to the evaluation of the power balance, we can show nonperturbatively that equilibration implies an FDR for the anharmonic oscillator. We then use a weakly anharmonic oscillator as an example to illustrate that those two assumptions indeed are satisfied according to our first-order perturbative results: that the net energy exchange vanishes after relaxation in the open system dynamics and an equilibrium state exists at late times.
description: 21 pages
Προμελέτη σκοπιμότητας ίδρυσης μονάδας συσκευασίας ελαιόκαρπου
Creators: name: Δρούσια, Γιαννούλα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Προμελέτη σκοπιμότητας
subject: Ελαιόκαρπος
subject: Επένδυση
subject: Μάρκετινγκ

description: Σε μία εποχή κρίσης, η βιωσιμότητα κάθε επιχείρησης κρίνεται δύσκολη και χρειάζεται επιπλέον προσπάθεια από τα επιμέρους στελέχη για τη διατήρησή της. Ιδιαίτερα στην εποχή μας κατά την οποία διανύουμε μία περίοδο αστάθειας, καθώς ο ιός COVID-19 εξαπλώνεται σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο, η πλειονότητα των ελληνικών επιχειρήσεων έχει πληγεί σημαντικά. Ωστόσο, υπάρχουν επιχειρήσεις που συνεχίζουν επιτυχώς τη λειτουργία τους. Καθοριστικοί δείκτες για την πορεία μίας επιχείρησης μπορεί να αποτελέσουν η εργατικότητα και η αγάπη για το προϊόν που παράγεται. Έτσι λοιπόν, ένας από τους λόγους της παρούσας μελέτης είναι η αγάπη για τον ελαιόκαρπο. Οι ιδρυτές της μονάδας επιθυμούν να γνωρίσουν ευρέως στους καταναλωτές το συγκεκριμένο προϊόν, το οποίο προσφέρει πληθώρα από οφέλη στον ανθρώπινο οργανισμό, και μελλοντικά να επεκταθούν και στις αγορές του εξωτερικού. Συμπερασματικά, η συγκεκριμένη μελέτη παρουσιάζει τα βήματα που πρέπει να ακολουθήσει μία επιχείρηση από τη στιγμή λήψης της απόφασης έως και την ημερομηνία λειτουργίας της, καθώς και το εάν τελικά αξίζει μία τέτοια επένδυση.
Static and Time Dependent Density Functional Theory with Internal Degrees of Freedom: Merits and Limitations Demonstrated for the Potts Model
Creators: name: Heinrichs, S.
name: Dieterich, W.
name: Maass, P.
name: Frisch, H. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an extension of the density-functional theory (DFT) formalism for lattice gases to systems with internal degrees of freedom. In order to test approximations commonly used in DFT approaches, we investigate the statics and dynamics of occupation (density) profiles in the one-dimensional Potts model. In particular, by taking the exact functional for this model we can directly evaluate the quality of the local equilibrium approximation used in time-dependent density-functional theory (TDFT). Excellent agreement is found in comparison with Monte Carlo simulations. Finally, principal limitations of TDFT are demonstrated.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Leptoclinides tuberculatus Kott 2004, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kott, Patricia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Enterogona
Didemnidae
Leptoclinides
Leptoclinides tuberculatus

description: Leptoclinides tuberculatus sp. nov.
(figure 3 A–C)
 Distribution. Type locality: Queensland (Shelburne Bay, 22 m, encrusting red gorgonian, coll. AIMS Bioactivity Group, 9 April 1994, holotype QM G308540; 11 April 1994, paratypes QM G308536, G308539).
 Description. These encrusting colonies are thin with conspicuous but irregular spicule-filled small papillae to larger tuberosities projecting from the surface. Sometimes only sparse spicules are present in the remainder of the test but in other colonies they are present throughout, albeit they are most crowded in surface and basal layers. Primary common cloacal cavities surrounding large clumps of zooids are deep, leaving only a thin layer of basal test in the floor of the cavity which sometimes becomes posterior abdominal. In life, colonies are dark, and are either mottled brown and white, or blue. In preservative, black pigment, which is scattered through the test, is seen only between the opaque white surface excrescences and the colonies all appear mottled (or piebald). The black pigment is in minute spherical cells, which are particularly crowded in the roof of the common cloacal canals. Spicules are robust, stellate, to 0.08 mm diameter, with 11–13 sturdy, conical, pointed rays in optical transverse section. Sometimes rays appear to be broken off at their base. The ray length / spicule diameter ratio is 0.3.
Zooids are small. The branchial siphon is short with six lobes around the aperture. The atrial aperture is on a relatively short posteriorly orientated siphon. About eight stigmata are in each of the four rows. Six coils of the vas deferens surround about five male follicles. The larva is not known.
 Remarks. This species has been taken only from Shelburne Bay, and on red, branching, gorgonian colonies. Nevertheless, it is likely to have a wider range in the tropics.
 Like the present species, Leptoclinides cuspidatus (Sluiter, 1909) colonies are mottled blue and white or dark blue, lack a superficial bladder cell layer, have dark pigment beneath the surface spicules and around the common cloacal cavities and six coils of the vas deferens. However, L. cuspidatus has larger (to 1.25 mm diameter or more) spicules, many with chisel-shaped rays and it lacks the surface tuberosities of the present species.
 The spicules and lack of surface bladder cells resemble L. brandi Kott, 2001 but the stigmata and the colony surface are different.
description: Published as part of Kott, Patricia, 2004, New and little-known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (part I), pp. 731-774 in Journal of Natural History 38 (19) on pages 737-738, DOI: 10.1080/00222930310001647334, http://zenodo.org/record/4653689
High-Purity Triggered Single-Photon Emission from Symmetric Single InAs/InP Quantum Dots around the Telecom C-Band Window
Creators: name: Musial, Anna
name: Holewa, Pawel
name: Wyborski, Pawel
name: Syperek, Marcin
name: Kors, Andrei
name: Reithmaier, Johann Peter
name: Sęk, Grzegorz
name: Benyoucef, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: molecular beam epitaxy
subject: quantum dots
subject: single-photon emission
subject: 530
subject: Quantenpunkt

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
title: From Shareholder to Stakeholder Capitalism: Value Creation by Board Composition, Ownership Structure and Information Disclosure
Creators: name: Bariz, Historei
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: This dissertation is dedicated to analysing the shift of the primacy of shareholder value to a focus on stakeholder value and the use of information disclosure, ownership structure, and board composition as instruments or levers for value generation in light of this shift. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics are becoming omnipresent in capital markets and various stakeholders put management under pressure to act sustainably and to incorporate environmental and social impact goals. Therefore, we first analyse the disclosure of ESG-related information in annual reports and how various measures of impression management (IM) with regard to ESG-related content affect the stakeholders’ assessment of a firm’s credit risk. We show that credit default swap (CDS) markets incorporate ESG-related information in their assessment of a firm's risk. This is significant because we make management aware of IM measures that could be used as proxies for credit risk by various stakeholders and thus help executives mitigate information asymmetry and enhance transparency. Further, we find evidence that firms might engage in strategic IM to positively influence public perception of their credit risk. Therefore, we provide important implications for rating agencies who need to monitor IM biases when interpreting qualitative ESG-related disclosures. We continue to analyse the extension of top management orientation from a shareholder value perspective to a broader stakeholder perspective with a focus on ownership structure. Accordingly, we examine market reactions caused by open letters published by the activist investor Petrus Advisers - who is a minority shareholder - on the target companies' share prices with a regional focus on Continental Europe. Positive capital market reactions are only triggered by initial disclosures directly addressed to the board of the target companies. We therefore suggest that open letters may not be the most favourable single instrument for activist investors in Europe to raise pressure on the executive board. Additionally, we examine how a new position within an organization's leadership ranks affects stakeholder value and implicitly the governance structure of a company. As digital innovation is increasing, more and more companies appoint a Chief Digital Officer (CDO). We analyse market reactions to announcements of newly created CDO positions between 2012 and 2020 and how reactions differ across time periods, sectors and geographical regions. Our results imply that investors perceive that significant value arises when a CDO role associated with the management of the business’s growth and digital transformation strategy is created. The perceived value by stakeholders is even higher the earlier a company takes on the challenges of digital transformation. This cumulative dissertation comprises three stand-alone papers, of which two papers have already been published.
Topical Minocycline Foam 4%: A Review in Acne Vulgaris
Creators: name: Paik, Julia
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110304 Dermatology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Compliance with Ethical Standards Disclosure: The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding. Conflicts of interest: Julia Paik is a salaried employee of Adis/Springer, is responsible for the article content and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here
Abstract Topical minocycline foam 4% (Amzeeq™) is approved in the USA for the treatment of inflammatory lesions of non-nodular, moderate to severe acne vulgaris (acne) in patients aged ≥ 9 years. It was developed to minimize systemic minocycline absorption and toxicity, and its high lipid content allows efficient drug movement through sebum and into affected sites. The favorable in vitro resistance profile of oral minocycline seen in Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes) isolates was maintained with topical minocycline foam 4%. In 12-week, phase III clinical trials, once-daily topical minocycline foam 4% significantly improved both inflammatory and noninflammatory lesions relative to foam vehicle in patients aged ≥ 9 years with moderate to severe acne and was reported by most patients to be satisfactory or highly satisfactory to use. Extension trial data indicated that topical minocycline foam 4% continued to be effective for up to 52 weeks’ therapy. Topical minocycline foam 4% was generally well tolerated in these patients, with most adverse events (AEs) and all serious AEs considered to be unrelated to treatment. Cutaneous AEs were uncommon, and findings from a dermal safety study showed that topical minocycline foam 4% did not have any effects related to phototoxicity, photoallergy, skin sensitization and skin irritation. Topical minocycline foam 4% is thus a useful addition to available treatment options for the management of inflammatory lesions of non-nodular, moderate to severe acne in adult and pediatric patients aged ≥ 9 years. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Leptoclinides variegatus Kott 2001
Creators: name: Kott, Patricia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Enterogona
Didemnidae
Leptoclinides
Leptoclinides variegatus

description: Leptoclinides variegatus Kott, 2001
(figure 3D)
 Leptoclinides variegatus Kott, 2001: 86 and synonymy.
 Distribution. New record: South Australia (Kangaroo I., SAM E2908). Previously recorded (see Kott, 2001): South Australia (Great Australian Bight, Spencer Gulf, Gulf St Vincent, Investigator Strait).
 Description. The newly recorded colony is a robust flat sheet with a smooth upper surface. Only traces of the marble pattern persist as minute pigment particles scattered amongst the zooids. Stellate spicules (to 0.09 mm diameter) with 9–13 chisel-shaped, or truncated, or conical rays are moderately crowded in the upper half of the colony amongst the zooids and are completely absent in the basal half. Common cloacal cavities are oesophageal, but become posterior abdominal cavities beneath the large sessile common cloacal apertures around the margin of the colony.
 Remarks. The robust, smooth-surfaced, sheet-like colonies with oesophageal common cloacal canals, and relatively large stellate spicules (some with conical pointed rays, some chisel-shaped, and others truncated) moderately crowded in the upper part of the colony and absent from the basal half are as previously described. Although Kott (2001) did not report spicules with nine rays in optical transverse section they are shown in her micrograph (Kott, 2001: figure 159B).
description: Published as part of Kott, Patricia, 2004, New and little-known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (part I), pp. 731-774 in Journal of Natural History 38 (19) on page 738, DOI: 10.1080/00222930310001647334, http://zenodo.org/record/4653689
Fast simulation of a quantum phase transition in an ion-trap realisable unitary map
Creators: name: Barjaktarevic, J. P.
name: Milburn, G. J.
name: McKenzie, Ross H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a method of exploring the quantum critical point of the Ising universality class using unitary maps that have recently been demonstrated in ion trap quantum gates. We reverse the idea with which Feynman conceived quantum computing, and ask whether a realisable simulation corresponds to a physical system. We proceed to show that a specific simulation (a unitary map) is physically equivalent to a Hamiltonian that belongs to the same universality class as the transverse Ising Hamiltonian. We present experimental signatures, and numerical simulation for these in the six-qubit case.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
QCD $θ$-vacuum energy and axion properties
Creators: name: Lu, Zhen-Yan
name: Du, Meng-Lin
name: Guo, Feng-Kun
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
name: Vonk, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At low energies, the strong interaction is governed by the Goldstone bosons associated with the spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, which can be systematically described by chiral perturbation theory. In this paper, we apply this theory to study the $θ$-vacuum energy density and hence the QCD axion potential up to next-to-leading order with $N$ non-degenerate quark masses. By setting $N=3$, we then derive the axion mass, self-coupling, topological susceptibility and the normalized fourth cumulant both analytically and numerically, taking the strong isospin breaking effects into account. In addition, the model-independent part of the axion-photon coupling, which is important for axion search experiments, is also extracted from the chiral Lagrangian supplemented with the anomalous terms up to $\mathcal{O}(p^6)$.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables; Version to appear in JHEP
NGC 6397: The metallicity trend along the isochrone revisited
Creators: name: Jain, Rashi
name: Prugniel, Philippe
name: Martins, Lucimara
name: Lançon, Ariane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work has used spectra of about 5000 stars in NGC 6397 that were extracted from a MUSE mosaic to determine the atmospheric parameters for these stars by fitting the spectra against the Goettingen Spectral Library. A significant change in metallicity between the turn off and the red giant branch was found and was discussed as a possible manifestation of predicted effects of atomic diffusion. However, the small amplitude of the effect and inconsistency with earlier measurements call for more attention before this result is interpreted. Systematic effects due to the interpolation or to the synthetic spectra cannot be ruled out at this level of precision. We reanalyze the data with the ELODIE and MILES reference libraries in order to assess the robustness of the result. These empirical libraries have a finer metallicity coverage down to approximately the cluster metalicity turn-off. We used the ULySS full-spectrum fitting package, together with the library interpolators to remeasure the three atmospheric parameters effective temperature, surface gravity, and [Fe/H] metallicity. We find a very low [Fe/H] dispersion along the isochrone (0.07 dex), consistent with our error estimate (0.05 dex). However, the [Fe/H] trend is not reproducible. This shows that the data have the potential to reveal patterns of the magnitude of the expected physical effects, but the analysis methods need to be refined to cull systematic effects that currently dominate the patterns.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AREAS IN POLAND UNDER THE COMMON STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK OF EUROPEAN UNION
ROZWÓJ ROLNICTWA I OBSZARÓW WIEJSKICH W POLSCE W RAMACH WSPÓLNYCH RAM STRATEGICZNYCH UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ1
Creators: name: Chylek, Eugeniusz Karol
name: Chylek, Eugeniusz Karol
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Common Strategic Framework
subject: Europe 2020
subject: The Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Polish agriculture
subject: the rural areas
subject: science
subject: advisory service
subject: knowledge transfer

description: Accelerating growth and competitiveness of the European agriculture and an effective implementation of the “Europe 2020” strategy and its vision of stimulating sustainable development, based on knowledge and innovation is inextricably linked with the objectives of the „Common Strategic Framework”. Science and transfer of knowledge play a key role in implementing these challenges, which in rural areas are largely the responsibility of agricultural advisory services. The priorities identified in the strategy “CAP towards 2020” clearly indicate strategically important role that has been assigned the Farm Advisory System (FAS), whose activities are intricately connected with the transfer of knowledge and innovation. In Poland, the status of science, advisory services and knowledge transfer and the legal and financial considerations of science and innovation activities, which should promote economic development have, as yet, not met expectations. Conclusions indicate directions of the necessary system changes that will allow a more efficient process for innovation implementation in the agro-food sector and services in rural areas.
Higgs-Pair Production via Gluon Fusion at Hadron Colliders: NLO QCD Corrections
Creators: name: Baglio, J.
name: Campanario, F.
name: Glaus, S.
name: Muhlleitner, M. M.
name: Ronca, J.
name: Spira, M.
name: Streicher, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Higgs-pair production via gluon fusion is the dominant production mechanism of Higgs-boson pairs at hadron colliders. In this work, we present details of our numerical determination of the full next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections to the leading top-quark loops. Since gluon fusion is a loop-induced process at leading order, the NLO calculation requires the calculation of massive two-loop diagrams with up to four different mass/energy scales involved. With the current methods, this can only be done numerically, if no approximations are used. We discuss the setup and details of our numerical integration. This will be followed by a phenomenological analysis of the NLO corrections and their impact on the total cross section and the invariant Higgs-pair mass distribution. The last part of our work will be devoted to the determination of the residual theoretical uncertainties with special emphasis on the uncertainties originating from the scheme and scale dependence of the (virtual) top mass. The impact of the trilinear Higgs-coupling variation on the total cross section will be discussed.
description: 51 pages, 21 figures. v2: added comments clarifying some details
Life Cycle Analysis Study of the EOS Main Building at the University of British Columbia
Creators: name: Moayedi, Ferya
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: 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.”
Electromagnetic Calorimeter for MPD Spectrometer at NICA Collider
Creators: name: Semenov, A. Yu.
name: Bazylev, S.
name: Belyaeva, E.
name: Bhattacharjee, M.
name: Dabrowska, B.
name: Egorov, D.
name: Golovatyuk, V.
name: Krechetov, Yu.
name: Shutov, A.
name: Shutov, V.
name: Sukhovarov, S.
name: Terletskiy, A.
name: Tyapkin, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) is designed to study a hot and dense baryonic matter formed in heavy-ion collisions at SQRT(sNN)=4-11 GeV at the NICA accelerator complex (Dubna, Russia). Large-sized electromagnetic calorimeter (ECal) of the MPD spectrometer will provide precise spatial and energy measurements for photons and electrons in the central pseudorapidity region of |eta|<1.2. The Shashlyk-type sampling structure of the ECal is optimized for the photons energy range from about 40 MeV to 2-3 GeV. Fine segmentation and projective geometry of the calorimeter allow to deal with high multiplicity of secondary particles from Au-Au reactions. In this talk, we report on a design, a construction status and expected parameters of the ECal.
Fivebrane Instanton Corrections to the Universal Hypermultiplet
Creators: name: Davidse, Marijn
name: Theis, Ulrich
name: Vandoren, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the Neveu-Schwarz fivebrane instanton in type IIA string theory compactifications on rigid Calabi-Yau threefolds, in the low-energy supergravity approximation. It there appears as a finite action solution to the Euclidean equations of motion of a double-tensor multiplet (dual to the universal hypermultiplet) coupled to N=2, D=4 supergravity. We determine the bosonic and fermionic zero modes, and the single-centered instanton measure on the moduli space of collective coordinates. The results are then used to compute, in the semiclassical approximation, correlation functions that nonperturbatively correct the universal hypermultiplet moduli space geometry of the low-energy effective action. We find that only the Ramond-Ramond sector receives corrections, and we discuss the breaking of isometries due to instantons.
description: 48 pages, v2: improved version with some corrections
Approximate Matching of Analytic and Numerical Solutions for Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Berti, Emanuele
name: Stergioulas, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of a closed-form analytic solution recently found by Manko et al. (2000) for the exterior spacetime of rapidly rotating neutron stars. For selected equations of state we numerically solve the full Einstein equations to determine the neutron star spacetime along constant rest mass sequences. The analytic solution is then matched to the numerical solutions by imposing the condition that the quadrupole moment of the numerical and analytic spacetimes be the same. For the analytic solution we consider, such a matching condition can be satisfied only for very rapidly rotating stars. When solutions to the matching condition exist, they belong to one of two branches. For one branch the current octupole moment of the analytic solution is very close to the current octupole moment of the numerical spacetime; the other branch is more similar to the Kerr solution. We present an extensive comparison of the radii of innermost stable circular orbits (ISCOs) obtained with a) the analytic solution, b) the Kerr metric, c) an analytic series expansion derived by Shibata and Sasaki (1998) and d) a highly accurate numerical code. In most cases where a corotating ISCO exists, the analytic solution has an accuracy consistently better than the Shibata-Sasaki expansion. The numerical code is used for tabulating the mass-quadrupole and current-octupole moments for several sequences of constant rest mass.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures, MNRAS accepted. A Mathematica script for computing analytic solutions and comparing with numerical models can be downloaded at http://www.astro.auth.gr/~niksterg/projects/BertiStergioulas/
Quantum corrections to mass and central charge of supersymmetric solitons
Creators: name: Goldhaber, Alfred Scharff
name: Rebhan, Anton
name: van Nieuwenhuizen, Peter
name: Wimmer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some recent developments in the subject of quantum corrections to soliton mass and central charge. We consider in particular approaches which use local densities for these corrections, as first discussed by Hidenaga Yamagishi. We then consider dimensional regularization of the supersymmetric kink in 1+1 dimensions and an extension of this method to a 2+1-dimensional gauge theory with supersymmetric abelian Higgs vortices as the solitons.
description: 41 pages. Contribution to the Hidenaga Yamagishi commemorative volume of Physics Reports, edited by E. Witten and I. Zahed
Theoretical description of phase coexistence in model C60
Creators: name: Costa, D.
name: Pellicane, G.
name: Caccamo, C.
name: Scholl-Paschinger, E.
name: Kahl, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the phase diagram of the Girifalco model of C60 fullerene in the framework provided by the MHNC and the SCOZA liquid state theories, and by a Perturbation Theory (PT), for the free energy of the solid phase. We present an extended assessment of such theories as set against a recent Monte Carlo study of the same model [D. Costa et al, J. Chem. Phys. 118:304 (2003)]. We have compared the theoretical predictions with the corresponding simulation results for several thermodynamic properties. Then we have determined the phase diagram of the model, by using either the SCOZA, or the MHNC, or the PT predictions for one of the coexisting phases, and the simulation data for the other phase, in order to separately ascertain the accuracy of each theory. It turns out that the overall appearance of the phase portrait is reproduced fairly well by all theories, with remarkable accuracy as for the melting line and the solid-vapor equilibrium. The MHNC and SCOZA results for the liquid-vapor coexistence, as well as for the corresponding critical points, are quite accurate. All results are discussed in terms of the basic assumptions underlying each theory. We have selected the MHNC for the fluid and the first-order PT for the solid phase, as the most accurate tools to investigate the phase behavior of the model in terms of purely theoretical approaches. The overall results appear as a robust benchmark for further theoretical investigations on higher order C(n>60) fullerenes, as well as on other fullerene-related materials, whose description can be based on a modelization similar to that adopted in this work.
description: RevTeX4, 15 pages, 7 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Statistical Context-Dependent Units Boundary Correction for Corpus-based Unit-Selection Text-to-Speech
Creators: name: Zito, Claudio
name: Tesser, Fabio
name: Nicolao, Mauro
name: Cosi, Piero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this study, we present an innovative technique for speaker adaptation in order to improve the accuracy of segmentation with application to unit-selection Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems. Unlike conventional techniques for speaker adaptation, which attempt to improve the accuracy of the segmentation using acoustic models that are more robust in the face of the speaker's characteristics, we aim to use only context dependent characteristics extrapolated with linguistic analysis techniques. In simple terms, we use the intuitive idea that context dependent information is tightly correlated with the related acoustic waveform. We propose a statistical model, which predicts correcting values to reduce the systematic error produced by a state-of-the-art Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based speech segmentation. Our approach consists of two phases: (1) identifying context-dependent phonetic unit classes (for instance, the class which identifies vowels as being the nucleus of monosyllabic words); and (2) building a regression model that associates the mean error value made by the ASR during the segmentation of a single speaker corpus to each class. The success of the approach is evaluated by comparing the corrected boundaries of units and the state-of-the-art HHM segmentation against a reference alignment, which is supposed to be the optimal solution. In conclusion, our work supplies a first analysis of a model sensitive to speaker-dependent characteristics, robust to defective and noisy information, and a very simple implementation which could be utilized as an alternative to either more expensive speaker-adaptation systems or of numerous manual correction sessions.
description: isbn:978-88-7870-619-4
Η καινοτομία υπό το πρίσμα της λογικής των υπηρεσιών - Services Dominant Logic (SDL)
Creators: name: Κουντουριώτου, Μαρία-Κρυσταλία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Καινοτομία
subject: Υπηρεσίες
subject: Μάρκετινγκ

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία επιχειρείται η μελέτη μιας σύγχρονης αντίληψη του τομέα των υπηρεσιών με μια ενοποιημένη κατανόηση ως προς τα προϊόντα και τη φύση των οργανισμών, των αγορών και της κοινωνίας. Η βασική της πρόταση είναι ότι οι οργανισμοί, οι αγορές και η κοινωνία ασχολούνται ουσιαστικά με την ανταλλαγή υπηρεσιών που προορίζονται ως εφαρμογές ικανοτήτων (γνώσεων και δεξιοτήτων) προς όφελος ενός μέρους. Θεωρεί τους πελάτες ως λειτουργικούς πόρους που έχουν δυνατότητες να συνδυάζουν τις δεξιότητες, τις εμπειρίες και τις γνώσεις τους στη διαδικασία συν-δημιουργίας προς όφελος ενός άλλου δρώντα ή των ιδίων. Η κύρια αιτία της ενδυνάμωσης των πελατών είναι οι προηγμένες τεχνολογίες που βασίζονται στο Διαδίκτυο και που έχουν αναγκάσει τις επιχειρήσεις να είναι πιο επικεντρωμένες στον πελάτη. Πρόκειται για ένα νέο «παράδειγμα σκέψης» μάρκετινγκ που πρώτα εκφράστηκε από τους Vargo και Lusch (2004, 2008) και αποτέλεσε αντικείμενο μεγάλης εννοιολογικής συζήτησης την τελευταία δεκαετία. Η λογική Services Dominant Logic (SDL) υποστηρίζει ότι το μάρκετινγκ απομακρύνεται από μια «κυριαρχούμενη από αγαθά» άποψη που επικεντρώνεται σε συναλλαγές ενσώματων αγαθών, σε μια «κυρίαρχη υπηρεσία» που εστιάζει στους άυλους πόρους και τις σχέσεις πωλητή – αγοραστή ως τη θεμελιώδη πηγή αξίας.