cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comparing Common Retinal Vessel Caliber Measurement Software with an Automatic Deep Learning System
Creators: name: He, Shuang
name: Bulloch, Gabriella
name: Zhang, Liangxin
name: Meng, Wei
name: Shi, Danli
name: He, Mingguang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: To compare the Retina-based Microvascular Health Assessment System (RMHAS) with Integrative Vessel Analysis (IVAN) for retinal vessel caliber measurement. Eligible fundus photographs from the Lingtou Eye Cohort Study were obtained alongside their corresponding participant data. Vascular diameter was automatically measured using IVAN and RMHAS software, and intersoftware variations were assessed by intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC), and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Scatterplots and Bland–Altman plots assessed the agreement between programs, and a Pearson’s correlation test assessed the strength of associations between systemic variables and retinal calibers. An algorithm was proposed to convert measurements between software for interchangeability. ICCs between IVAN and RMHAS were moderate for CRAE and AVR (ICC; 95%CI)(0.62; 0.60 to 0.63 and 0.42; 0.40 to 0.44 respectively) and excellent for CRVE (0.76; 0.75 to 0.77). When comparing retinal vascular calibre measurements between tools, mean differences (MD, 95% confidence intervals) in CRAE, CRVE, and AVR were 22.34 (–7.29 to 51.97 µm),–7.01 (–37.68 to 23.67 µm), and 0.12 (–0.02 to 0.26 µm), respectively. The correlation of systemic parameters with CRAE/CRVE was poor and the correlation of CRAE with age, sex, systolic blood pressure, and CRVE with age, sex, and serum glucose were significantly different between IVAN and RMHAS (p < 0.05). CRAE and AVR correlated moderately between retinal measurement software systems while CRVE correlated well. Further studies confirming this agreeability and interchangeability in large-scale datasets are needed before softwares are deemed comparable in clinical practice.
NPR - MODELS OF SERVICE DELIVERY FOR CASI IN THE EGP: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Creators: name: Murray-Prior, R.
name: Rola-Rubzen, M.F.
name: Das, K.K.
name: Kumar, R.
name: Anwar, M.M.
name: Rashid, M.
name: Sapkota, B.
name: Mishra, G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: smallholder farmers
subject: service provision models
subject: enabling environment

description: This paper reports on investigations into models of service delivery for smallholder farmers in the East Ganges plains associated with the Sustainable and Resilient Farming Systems Intensification project with a view to providing cross-regional and cross-country comparisons of the context, design, performance, impact and sustainability of the models. Models developed and supported by project partners in the Dhanusha and Sunsari districts of Nepal; Coochbehar and Malda districts of West Bengal, India; Purnea and Madhubani districts of Bihar, India; and the Rangpur-Dinajpur districts of Bangladesh were investigated. Evidence was collected from organisation documents and interviews with model participants and stakeholders. Most were producer group models, supported by government or NGOs, along with two commercial service models supported by NGOs. Groups focused on farmer productivity, with some extending to provision of input, machinery and marketing services. Some may prove sustainable and suitable for scaling out and could be adopted by government, donors and NGOs, but cooperative models have inherent weaknesses. All will require continuing support to build and maintain capacity, while government should also focus on improvements to the enabling environment.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
Integrability of the diffusion pole in the diagrammatic description of noninteracting electrons in a random potential
Creators: name: Janis, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss restrictions on the existence of the diffusion pole in the translationally invariant diagrammatic treatment of disordered electron systems. We use the Bethe-Salpeter equations for the two-particle vertex in the electron-hole and the electron-electron scattering channels and derive for systems with time reversal symmetry a nonlinear integral equation the two-particle irreducible vertices from both channels must obey. We use this equation to test the existence of the diffusion pole in the two-particle vertex. We find that a singularity of the diffusion pole can exist only if it is integrable, that is only in the metallic phase in dimensions $d>2$.
description: REVTeX4, 8 pages, no figures
PO - ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES: FERTILIZER APPLICATOR TRAINING- IMPACT EVALUATION
Creators: name: Douridas, Amanda
name: Griffith, Mary
name: Lentz, Edwin
name: Rose, Mary Ann
name: Schoenhals, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
Wave-vortex interaction
Creators: name: Falcón, Claudio
name: Fauve, Stéphan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental study on the effect of a electromagneticaly generated vortex flow on parametrically amplified waves at the surface of a fluid. The underlying vortex flow, generated by a periodic Lorentz force, creates spatio-temporal fluctuations that interact nonlinearly with the standing surface waves. We characterize the bifurcation diagram and measure the power spectrum density (PSD) of the local surface wave amplitude. We show that the parametric instability threshold increases with increasing intensity of the vortex flow.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Superradiant scattering of massive scalar field due to magnetically charged rotating black hole
Creators: name: Karmakar, Rajesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotating black holes are well known to amplify the perturbing bosonic fields in certain parameter spaces. This phenomenon is popularly known as superradiance. In addition to rotation in the spacetime, charge plays a crucial role in the amplification process. In the present study, we have considered the spacetime of a magnetically charged rotating black hole emerging from the coupling of nonlinear electromagnetic field configuration to gravity. Due to this black hole spacetime, we have studied the scattering states of a massive scalar field and investigated the superradiant amplification process. We find that the magnetic charge of the spacetime affects the magnitude of the amplification and also significantly enlarges the allowed frequency ranges for which superradiance happens. In comparison, our analysis reveals that some of the behaviours are quite similar to what has been found in the case of the Kerr-Newmann black hole. Moreover, in specific parameter spaces, we observe exact similarities, which could imply a probable correspondence between the magnetically charged black hole and the Kerr-Newman black hole in certain scenarios. In addition to this, we have investigated the superradiant instability regime due to the massive potential barrier and also compared our results with that of the Kerr-Newmann black hole.
description: Published version
Early response on Twitter to the approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine: an anthropological perspective
Creators: name: Willhardt, Emma R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: A new strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, arose in Wuhan, China in December 2019. COVID-19 quickly spread globally and has persisted for nearly 2 years. There have been over 261,000,000 reported cases and 5,200,000 reported deaths as of November 29, 2021. A variety of public health initiatives, such as mask-wearing, have been implemented to manage the transmission of COVID-19 but the most effective step toward controlling the pandemic is wide-spread vaccination. The first vaccine for COVID-19 was approved for emergency usage in the United States on December 11, 2020. However, the growing anti-vaccination movement poses a barrier to vaccinating enough individuals to slow COVID-19 transmission. The anti-vaccination movement argues that vaccinations pose serious health risks and there are natural alternatives to vaccination that work just as well. This movement has a powerful presence on social media and has been getting more mainstream exposure through the Republican party, so is likely to continue growing. Public health campaigns need to consider the current sentiment toward and narratives about the COVID-19 vaccine to successfully convince vaccine hesitant individuals to get vaccinated. This research assesses Twitter users’ sentiment toward the approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine in the 48 hours after the approval through three hypotheses: i. Average user sentiment, indicating sentiment in favor of or against the vaccine, is consistent across geographic regions, ii. Twitter users belong to online communities within the site that are created by direct interactions between users and have different average user sentiment, and iii. These communities can be defined by common narratives. Sentiment score was calculated through trained language processing using the Natural Language Toolkit in Python. Each user’s sentiment score was then calculated, and average scores were compared across geographic regions and across online communities which were detected through a network analysis of the sampled users. Finally, some important narratives were determined through examining the most interacted with tweets and the users with the largest following within each community. This research concludes that average sentiment does not vary geographically but there is some variation between online communities. Sentiment was largely neutral or slightly positive toward the vaccine. Sentiment and narratives are likely to have changed over the year since the first vaccine was FDA approved, but this research demonstrates that in the first days after approval, Twitter users were not polarized about the vaccine.
Applications of UAVS for coastal monitoring: Holgate, Long Beach township, New Jersey
Creators: name: Spector, Ashlyn Brittany
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Coastal zones are dynamic environments that support a large percentage of populations and hold cultural, economic, and social importance. Erosion from nuisance flooding and storms are already a threat to coastlines and are further exacerbated by the effects of climate change and rising seas. Coastal monitoring can inform of these environmental changes, but frequent high resolution spatial and temporal data is needed to better understand the morphological impact. By modifying an existing monitoring protocol, this study utilizes UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to collect high resolution imagery, real time kinematic ground control points (RTK; GCPs), and measurement of five cross-shore beach transects monthly from October 2020 to May 2021 at Holgate beach, Long Beach Township, New Jersey. With this information, a monthly sediment volumetric change analysis, custom volumetric change calculations, and an oceanographic forcings model to relate water levels with geomorphological changes were all created. A correlation between increased water levels due to periods of storminess and beach erosion was found. Overall, storminess (October 2020 to February 2021) related to net erosion of Holgate, while periods of quiescence (February 2021 to May 2021) related to net accumulation. However, sediment was overall lost from the beginning to end of the study, affirming volume loss of the dry beach and dunes at Holgate.
PO - ACTORS INFLUENCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FARMERSâ€™ ABILITIES DURING AND AFTER UNDERTAKING RECURRENT TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN JAPAN
Creators: name: Kinoshita, Yukio
name: Kimura, Nobuo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
PO - FARMER ATTITUDE TOWARDS ADVISORY SERVICES IN SWEDEN
Creators: name: Krafft, Jannica
name: Ljung, Magnus
name: Kolstrup, Christina Lunner
name: Melin, Martin
name: Lundberg, Sara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
PO - POTENTIAL FOR SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES TO ESTIMATE DRY MATTER YIELD IN PASTURE CULTIVAR EVALUATIONS
Creators: name: Leddin, Clare
name: Smith, Kevin
name: Giri, Khageswor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
PO - PILOT PROJECT: â€œDAIRY SUSTAINABILITY TOOLâ€: IMPLEMENTATION AND FEASIBILITY OF A SECTOR-SPECIFIC CONCEPT FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF DAIRY PRODUCTION IN GERMANY
Creators: name: Lindena, Tomke
name: Claus, Anna Sophie
name: Kuhnert, Heike
name: Lassen, Birthe
name: Nieberg, Hiltrud
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Industrial Organization

description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
A new analytical method for modeling protein-bound DNA minicircles
Creators: name: Sabok-Sayr, Seyed Ahmad
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: This dissertation introduce a new analytical method for modeling protein-bound DNA minicircles. It is a general method that can be used for monomer, dimer, and minicircles with an arbitrary number of nucleosomes. First, we introduce an analytical method to generate the pathway of a closed protein-bound DNA minicircle. This is a general method which can be used to connect any two open curves with well defined mathematical definitions as well as pairs of discrete systems found experimentally. We used this method to describe the configurations of torsionally relaxed, 360-base pair DNA rings with two evenly-spaced, ideal nucleosomes. We considered superhelical nucleosomal pathways with different levels of DNA wrapping and allowed for different inter-nucleosome orientations. We completed the DNA circles with the smooth connectors and studied the associated bending and electrostatic energies for different configurations in the absence and presence of salt. The predicted stable states bear close resemblance to reconstituted minicircles observed under low and high salt conditions. Secondly, we discuss and derive analytical equations describing a Hyper-Elliptical Helix used to represent protein-free DNA. We use a circular helix for undistorted nucleosomal DNA and an elliptical helices for distorted nucleosomal DNA. We use a circular/elliptical helix, a Hyper-Elliptical Helix and two smooth connectors to describe monomers, i.e., minicircles bearing a single nucleosome, of 359 base pairs. We compute the electrostatic, bending, and twist energies for different configurations. Finally, we use the analytical model that we developed to model and describe nucleosomal DNA minicircles with evenly spaced nucleosomes. We construct minicircles of 2064-bp length including twelve evenly spaced nucleosomes of 121 and 141 base pairs corresponding to ∼ 1.5 and ∼ 1.75 superhelical turns. We compute electrostatic and bending energies for different configurations. We repeat the same steps for a larger system of 2652-bp length so that we can construct more possible configurations.
PR - AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN NIGERIA AND IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES
Creators: name: Munonye, Jane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Policy
subject: Agriculture
subject: Colonial

description: Policy is a process by which governments translate their political visions and intents into programmes and projects to deliver and effect change. Agricultural policies are implemented to achieve agricultural growth and development. The study reviewed agricultural policies in Nigeria and implementation challenges. Secondary data was used for the study. Government archives and data bases were consulted. These objectives guided the study: description of Nigeriaâ€™s agricultural policies during the colonial, post-colonial and present era and identify the gaps in policy implementation. Agricultural policies in Nigeria have witnessed repetitive policies and program and are yet to fulfill its mandate of food sufficiency. Agricultural policies during the colonial era were more on forest matters with less emphasis on crop and animal production. There was also no institutional arrangement for implementation. Commodity specific policies were directed towards stabilizing post-second world war prices in Britain. There was institutional framework in the post- colonial era and intervention policies with food production as the main focus. But lack proper implementation strategies and monitoring. The present era treats agriculture as a business. The target is to develop value chain and build agribusiness for sustained prosperity. The major constraints are inadequate implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
description: Twenty-Second International Farm Management Congress, Tasmania, Australia, March 3-8, 2019
Calamotropha undefined-1
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Calamotropha
Calamotropha undefined-1

description: Calamotropha sp. 1 cf. oculalis
Figs. 45, 107.
MATERIAL
1 ♂ (specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_1e3488, DNA voucher MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL07-G09, genitalia on slide TL1070♂; BOLD sample ID PYPHI143-21). PHILIPPINES: Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Mount Halcon, 1300 m, 15-17.01.1998 (W. Mey, W. Speidel).
SIMILAR SPECIES
Calamotropha indica (Błeszyński, 1961), C. melli (Caradja, 1933), C. oculalis (Snellen, 1893), Calamotropha sp. 2 cf. oculalis.
DIAGNOSIS
This species (Fig. 45) is externally very similar to the four species listed above. Calamotropha oculalis is only known from female specimens, hence making comparison with the one male specimen available difficult. In male genitalia (Fig. 107), this species shares the shape of the uncus and gnathos with C. indica and C. melli; however, the conspicuous, ventral, spine-like projections of the valva apex separates this species confidently from the two others.
DISTRIBUTION
PHILIPPINES: Mindoro. Collected at an altitude of 1300 m.
REMARKS
One of the two species presented here is most probably Calamotropha oculalis (Snellen, 1893). Błeszyński (1961) examined a female specimen of Calamotropha oculalis from the Philippines (Luzon, Benguet, Irisan) with “genitalia strikingly similar to those of the holotype”.
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on page 60, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
Making the news: exploring the intersection of news norms and curation on two collaborative journalism sites
Creators: name: McIntosh, Shawn Tyler
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: This study looks at two arguably “failed” online news sites, Wikinews and Allvoices, and examines how assumed news norms and practices of curation played roles in defining them among participants within a framework of what can be defined as collaborative journalism. Wikinews, one of the Wikimedia project’s family of projects, has been continuing since 2004 but with a relatively anemic output by small numbers of members. Allvoices, founded in 2008, used a combination of citizen reporting and algorithms to curate news stories from multiple perspectives before being bought in 2011 by digital marketing firm Datran and was radically changed as an advertising platform. Between these two extremes of human-centered versus algorithmic approaches, analysis is offered on the potential of creating a sustainable model of collaborative journalism that could potentially play a role in creating an engaged, active citizenry in the networked public sphere.
Farm Model And Analysis Of Typical Agricultural Holdings, Case Of Arable Farming In Slovenia
Creators: name: Å½gajnar, Jaka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Farm model
subject: typical agricultural holding
subject: arable farming

description: In this paper we present farm model applied to analyse arable farming sector in Slovenia. The rationale for the farm-level model is mainly based on the growing demand and need for a micro-simulation tools that can design and analyse different farm-level policies, capturing the heterogeneity of farms, both in terms of representation and impact of different policies. In this paper we focus on economic indicators that are extrapolated from farm level to the sector level. Approach is prepared to support national Strategic plan of the CAP. Preliminary results suggest that the developed approach allows such simulations, as it mimics the situation in the field well enough according to statistical and other available data. According to the results, 6% of farms with arable production contribute 9.6% of the total revenue generated in agriculture. Model results show that farms in arable sector could achieve good results, on average up to 24 EUR GM/h. The effects of economies of scale are particularly evident on larger farms, where results could range almost up to 40 EUR GM/h. However, the importance of subsidies is very high and, in most cases, exceeds the level of GM achieved. Thus, a more pronounced deterioration after the reform can be expected.
description: Twenty-Third International Farm Management Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
Exegesis of the 'Ta Tsung Shih' chapter of the Chuang Tzu
Creators: name: Ames, Roger Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis provides an exegesis of what might be considered a "core" chapter of the Chuang Tzu text. The "Ta Tsung Shih" chapter is "core" in that it can be demonstrably shown to represent a systematic crystallization of Chuang Tzu's philosophical system. Basically, this thesis consists of four parts. First, in the Introduction, an attempt is made to substantiate the suggestion that the "Ta Tsung Shih" chapter can be considered representative of Chuang Tzu's thought. Second, a section by section translation of the entire chapter is provided. In this translation, emendations in the text are made only when absolutely necessary to make sense of the otherwise unintelligible. Third, extensive annotation to the text is provided in note form, working on the premise that philosophical analysis must be preceded by a reconstruction of a reliable text. In compiling the annotation, we have made an effort to consult and collate the bulk of historically significant commentary and provide alternative interpretations where they arise. We have been particularly meticulous with respect to textual problems, attempting to employ methods of modern textual criticism where possible. We also explore historical allusions in some depth in order to provide the reader with the background to understand and appreciate the significance of these references. Finally, in Appendix I an annotated bibliography of Chinese commentaries is provided, complete with a listing of the text used, the date of the work, the format of the text, prejudices of the authors and occasionally, a subjective assessment of the individual worth of these commentaries. This translation and annotation of the "Ta Tsung Shih" chapter is presented as preliminary to a philosophical analysis of the actual content, which unfortunately but necessarily falls beyond the scope of this thesis. In this analysis, it is expected that Chuang Tzu's thought as presented in the "Ta Tsung Shih" chapter can be shown to be an internally consistent system of ideas which provides the reader with a unique, if not extremely, profound interpretation of his human situation.
Search for low mass multijet physics at the Large Hadron Collider
Creators: name: Gandrakota, Abhijith
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: We have performed a search for pair-produced two and three quark resonances decaying into two merged jets and pairs of three resolved quark jets. The proton-proton collision data used for this analysis were collected with the CMS detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV using data scouting techniques. The sensitivity of the search was improved by implementing a neural network-based quark-gluon jet discriminator. The results are interpreted within the framework of R-parity-violating SUSY, where pair-produced higgsinos, gluinos, and stops are used as benchmark models. This is a first-ever search to probe the electroweak production regime of R-parity-violating SUSY in the fully hadronic final states.
D3.5 Extensible Quality Standard in Institutional Publishing (EQSIP) V1.0_under EC review
Creators: name: Armengou, Clara
name: Redhead, Claire
name: Rooryck, Johan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Access publishing
Institutional publishing
Quality Standard
Evaluation criteria
Scholarly communication

description: The Extensible Quality Standard for Institutional Publishing (EQSIP) seeks to ensure the quality and transparency of governance, processes and workflows in institutional publishing and addresses the seven core components of scholarly publishing outlined in the Diamond Open Access (OA) Action Plan (Ancion et al. 2022, 4), which were subsequently revised and modified by the DIAMAS project team. The EQSIP is developed in two stages: the first version, EQSIP V1.0 detailed below, is based on an analysis of the existing standards, best practices, evaluation criteria, guidelines and recommendations which have been identified as relevant for institutional publishers (IPSP best practice report). It is important to stress from the outset that EQSIP V1.0 is aspirational: it represents an attempt at outlining what we believe is an ideal quality level that Diamond Open Access (OA) IPSPs would adhere to. This emphatically does not imply that Diamond OA IPSPs are currently expected to conform to this standard. EQSIP V1.0 should be seen as an aspirational gold standard: a measure of quality that IPSPs strive to meet, and that serves as a point of reference against which current IPSPs may be compared, and that they can hopefully conform to in good time and with appropriate support. EQSIP V1.0 will be further tested with a representative sample of IPSPs selected from the landscape survey to be conducted in the DIAMAS project, and the results of the testing will be used to conduct a gap analysis of the IPSP landscape and to develop EQSIP V2.0. The goal of EQSIP V2.0 will be to adapt, refine, and co-create versions of EQSIP V1.0 that are best suited for specific scholarly disciplines, regions, and languages. The various versions of EQSIP V2.0 will only be fully implemented once all the necessary infrastructure for supporting Diamond OA IPSPs is in place.
description: Deliverable under EC review
The LABOCA Survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South
Creators: name: Weiss, A.
name: Kovacs, A.
name: Coppin, K.
name: Greve, T. R.
name: Walter, F.
name: Smail, Ian
name: Dunlop, J. S.
name: Knudsen, K. K.
name: Alexander, D. M.
name: Bertoldi, F.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Chapman, S. C.
name: Cox, P.
name: Dannerbauer, H.
name: De Breuck, C.
name: Gawiser, E.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Lutz, D.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Koekemoer, A. M.
name: Kreysa, E.
name: Kurczynski, P.
name: Rix, H. -W.
name: Schinnerer, E.
name: van der Werf, P. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a sensitive 870 micron survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) using LABOCA on the APEX telescope. The LABOCA ECDFS Submillimetre Survey (LESS) covers the full 30' x 30' field size of the ECDFS and has a uniform noise level of 1.2 mJy/beam. LESS is thus the largest contiguous deep submillimetre survey undertaken to date. The noise properties of our map show clear evidence that we are beginning to be affected by confusion noise. We present a catalog of 126 SMGs detected with a significance level above 3.7 sigma. The ECDFS exhibits a deficit of bright SMGs relative to previously studied blank fields but not of normal star-forming galaxies that dominate the extragalactic background light (EBL). This is in line with the underdensities observed for optically defined high redshift source populations in the ECDFS (BzKs, DRGs,optically bright AGN and massive K-band selected galaxies). The differential source counts in the full field are well described by a power law with a slope of alpha=-3.2, comparable to the results from other fields. We show that the shape of the source counts is not uniform across the field. The integrated 870 micron flux densities of our source-count models account for >65% of the estimated EBL from COBE measurements. We have investigated the clustering of SMGs in the ECDFS by means of a two-point correlation function and find evidence for strong clustering on angular scales <1'. Assuming a power law dependence for the correlation function and a typical redshift distribution for the SMGs we derive a spatial correlation length of r_0=13+/-6 h^-1 Mpc.
description: 25 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Προσβάσιμος πολιτιστικός τουρισμός: Η περίπτωση της Αθήνας και της Ρώμης
title: Accessible cultural tourism: Case study of Athens and Rome cities
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μαργαριτίδη, Σοφία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Πολιτιστικός τουρισμός
Προσβάσιμος τουρισμός
Ιστορικές πόλεις
Προσβασιμότητα
Τουριστική ανάπτυξη
Στρατηγικός σχεδιασμός

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει σαν αντικείμενο την διερεύνηση των δυνατοτήτων ανάπτυξης προσβάσιμου πολιτιστικού τουρισμού σε ιστορικές πόλεις εστιάζοντας στην συγκριτική αξιολόγηση του προσβάσιμου πολιτιστικού τουρισμού σε δύο περιπτώσεις ιστορικών πόλεων, την Αθήνα και τη Ρώμη. Στην πρώτη ενότητα της εργασίας, θα οριοθετηθεί η σύνθετη έννοια του προσβάσιμου πολιτιστικού τουρισμού, ανάλογα με τις ανάγκες διάφορων κατηγοριών χρηστών και οι δυνατότητες ανάπτυξης του σε ιστορικές πόλεις. Μέσα από συστηματική βιβλιογραφική διερεύνηση και ανάλυση καλών παραδειγμάτων και πρακτικών σχεδιασμού προσβάσιμου τουρισμού σε ιστορικές πόλεις θα γίνει καταγραφή των κριτηρίων που πρέπει να καλύπτει μία ιστορική πόλη για να είναι προσβάσιμη. Στη δεύτερη ενότητα της εργασίας, θα πραγματοποιηθεί μια κριτική συγκριτική αξιολόγηση των δύο μελετών περίπτωσης ως προς το επίπεδο προσβάσιμου πολιτιστικού τουρισμού που προσφέρουν με βάση τα κριτήρια που τέθηκαν στο πρώτο μέρος της εργασίας. Αρχικά, θα παρουσιαστούν ξεχωριστά για κάθε μελέτη περίπτωσης, τα στοιχεία τουριστικής ζήτησης και προσφοράς, καθώς και τα στοιχεία του στρατηγικού σχεδιασμού τους σε ό, τι αφορά την προσβασιμότητα με βάση τα κριτήρια προσβασιμότητας που προέκυψαν από την ανάλυση των καλών παραδειγμάτων. Έμφαση έχει δοθεί στην αξιολόγηση της προσβασιμότητας των προορισμών στα σημεία τουριστικού και πολιτιστικού ενδιαφέροντος, στα ξενοδοχεία και στα ΜΜΜ εντός του κέντρου των πόλεων. Η μελέτη θα καταλήξει σε συμπεράσματα με βάση την πρόοδο που έχουν κάνει οι δύο ιστορικές πόλεις στον τομέα της προσβασιμότητας και στη διατύπωση προτεινόμενων κατευθύνσεων του σχεδιασμού για τη βελτίωση της.
Vector Boson Fusion Production of the Standard Model Higgs at the LHC
Creators: name: Acosta, Monica Vazquez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cross section measurements of the Higgs boson production in the vector boson fusion (VBF) process at the LHC followed by a Higgs boson decay into tautau, WW and gamma gamma will significantly extend the possibility of Higgs boson coupling measurements. Prospective analyses with the CMS experiment are discussed for the H-> gammagamma, WW and tautau decay channels for an integrated LHC luminosity of 30 fb-1. For a Higgs boson mass in the range 115 to 140 GeV, an observation with a significance above 2 standard deviations is expected in the H to gammagamma channel, and above 3 standard deviations in the H to tautau channel. The H to WW channel offers a discovery reach above 5 sigma in the mass range 140 to 200 GeV. A new complete strategy is presented for the control of systematics and early searches at very low luminosities of the order of 1 fb-1.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, proceedings of Physics at LHC, 29 September - 4 October 2008, Split, Croatia
Do Potential Fields Develop Current Sheets Under Simple Compression or Expansion?
Creators: name: Huang, Yi-Min
name: Bhattacharjee, A.
name: Zweibel, Ellen G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent demonstration of current singularity formation by Low et al. assumes that potential fields will remain potential under simple expansion or compression (Low 2006, 2007; Janse & Low 2009). An explicit counterexample to their key assumption is constructed. Our findings suggest that their results may need to be reconsidered.
description: Submitted to APJ
title: Η Δύναμη της Εικόνας στην Διαδικτυακή Διαφήμιση
title: The Power of Image in Online Advertising
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Αντωνάκη, Βέρα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Διαφήμιση
Διαδίκτυο
Δύναμη της εικόνας

description: Στα πρώτα στάδια της διαφήμισης τα έντυπα μέσα και αργότερα η τηλεόραση κατείχαν κυρίαρχο ρόλο στην επικοινωνία των προϊόντων και των υπηρεσιών μεταξύ διαφημιστών και καταναλωτικού κοινού. Με την καθιέρωση του διαδικτύου η διαφήμιση άρχισε να εξελίσσεται και να αναπτύσσεται παίρνοντας μία πιο δια δραστική υπόσταση. Αποτελεί πλέον μία αμφίδρομη επικοινωνία μεταξύ πομπού και δέκτη με τους δύο τελευταίους να κατέχουν έναν πιο ενεργητικό ρόλο απ’ ότι στην έντυπη και τηλεοπτική διαφήμιση. Οι εταιρίες έχουν την δυνατότητα επιλογής μέσα από ποικίλους τρόπους διαφήμισης των προϊόντων και των υπηρεσιών τους έτσι ώστε να έρθουν κοντά στο ευρύ καταναλωτικό κοινό. Στην παρούσα πτυχιακή εργασία θα εξεταστεί η δύναμη που προσφέρει η εικόνα στην διαδικτυακή διαφήμιση αλλά και οι διαφορές που έχει από τα υπόλοιπα μέσα επικοινωνίας.
How Leading Canadian Commercial Cow-Calf Producers Use Production And Financial Records: A Qualitative Analysis
Creators: name: Wong, Brooklyn
name: Larson, Kathy
name: Micheels, Eric
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: record-keeping
subject: benchmarking
subject: goals

description: Cattle ranching is an industry characterized by narrow margins and low rates of return. As a result, it is important to track performance and make necessary adjustments in order to achieve desired financial and productivity goals. Record keeping enables ranchers to track many different areas of their ranch and monitor progress towards their goals. While record keeping is a recommended management practice there is no â€˜one size fitsâ€™ all approach on which records to keep and how to use the records to make decisions and assess performance. Interviews conducted with fourteen leading commercial cow-calf ranchers across Canada showed that record-keeping helps inform decision-making and is closely related to the individual and business goals and values of each rancher. Therefore, it is important for ranchers to first identify their goals and tailor record-keeping methods to effectively monitor progress toward those goals.
description: Twenty-Third International Farm Management Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
Identifying and interpreting double Intertropical Convergence Zone occurrence in the western Pacific
Creators: name: Hill-Beaton, Lauren
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Double Intertropical Tropical Convergence Zones (DITCZs) comprise simultaneous, parallel, zonally-oriented bands of tropical rainfall typically appearing on either side of the equator. Motivated by an interest in understanding DITCZ occurrence over the western Pacific, where DITCZs have been relatively little studied, this study applies a conditional index approach to extract daily western Pacific DITCZs from 22 years of gridded rainfall estimated from Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) satellite retrievals. A total of 375 DITCZ days, representing ~4.7% of the TRMM dataset, is identified. In order to characterize the environment in which western Pacific DITCZs occur, the subset of DITCZ days is used to construct conditional averages (composites) of various meteorological fields obtained from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis version 5 (ERA5) product. These composites are found to exhibit dynamical and thermodynamical signatures consistent with expectations, including low-level local maxima in specific humidity coincident with the two rainfall bands, low-level convergence and ascent along the bands, and weak descent and reduced specific humidity along the equator. The seasonal cycle and interannual variability of DITCZ occurrence are also explored. With respect to season, western Pacific DITCZs are shown to preferentially occur during austral winter (June-August), which is shown to be consistent with the seasonality of sea surface temperature (SST), as the austral winter season is when comparable peak SSTs occur on both sides of the equator in the region. Further insight is gained by comparing the seasonal behavior of western Pacific DITCZs to the Eastern Pacific, which exhibits a well-known boreal spring (March-April) DITCZ. On interannual timescales, the phase of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences how frequently western Pacific DITCZs occur, with higher frequency of occurrence during ENSO cool phase (La Niña) and neutral conditions relative to during ENSO warm phase (El Niño) conditions. This phase relationship is consistent with how ENSO impacts the overall mean distribution of regional rainfall, e.g., a more equatorward South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) during El Niño. Finally, a simple atmospheric energetics framework based on the behavior of the atmospheric column-integrated divergent moist static energy flux field is considered to explain western Pacific DITCZs. In contrast to the Eastern Pacific, where this framework appears to provide a plausible explanation for the DITCZ, it does not appear to hold for the western Pacific, which is perhaps due to the highly transient and infrequent occurrence of western Pacific DITCZs.
A comparison of certain aspects of the theories of Paul Hindemith and Franz Alfons Wolpert
Creators: name: Watt, William James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Two twentieth-century music theorists, Paul Hindemith and Franz Alfons Wolpert, are unique in having independently developed their own systems of chord classification and principles of chord movement or succession. While Hindemith’s ideas on these subjects are familiar among the majority of music theorists, Wolpert’s theories remain relatively unknown. It was decided that since both men had attempted similar tasks at similar points in time, that a comparison of both theorists' ideas should be attempted. Therefore, both Hindemith's and Wolpert's systems of chord classification and chord connection were discussed in detail to attempt to determine the rationale behind each theorist's approach. Firstly, both systems of chord classification were examined and compared. It was found that although there were many differences between Hindemith’s and Wolpert's systems of chord grouping, both succeeded, each in his own way, in arranging all possible combinations of pitches within the twelve-note division of the octave. Similarly, each theorist's ideas concerning chord movement were investigated. While it was reaffirmed that Hindemith's system rested on concepts which he invented and developed such as "degree progression" and "harmonic fluctuation," it was discovered that Wolpert’s system of chord movement was more traditionally oriented, and yet adhered to some rather disturbing notions about the desirability of certain kinds of voice-leading, e.g., "adhesion," "diversion," etc. Furthermore, while Hindemith had strong ideas about the necessity of tonal organization, it was found that Wolpert saw his system as valid for both tonal and atonal frames of reference. Finally, it was recognized that Hindemith's theories contained a unity and cohesiveness through the extension of his system of chord connection to include his system of chord classification so that the way chords were classified influenced how they were treated in chord progressions. With Wolpert, however, there is no attempt to unify both systems and therefore his ideas about chord movement are completely divorced from his system of chordal groupings
Mobilising Improved Farm Management Of Headwaters Land
Creators: name: Davis, B.
name: Harley, H.J.
name: Lockyear, A.
name: May, A.
name: Thomasin-Foster, M.
name: Uglow, J.
name: Wibberly, E.J.
name: Williams, K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: headwaters
subject: management
subject: farmers

description: Work linking good soil care with proper water conservation practice is of both tropical and temperate importance. This Paper draws heavily on the principles of ongoing collaborative research, development and practice in Headwaters of the River Exe, on Exmoor, SW England begun in 2015 and supported by the regional South-West Water Company. It refers to criteria for monitoring indicators of progress and outcomes. Farm management is being improved by many farmers in that catchment area. Such work is inherently long-term to achieve success, and to respond to changing weather and hydrological conditions. Voluntary consent and engagement of farmers and landowners is crucial, and the Paperâ€™s emphasis is on the means of mobilising, maintaining and spreading these responses. Data and farm case studies are reported with a view to inspiring emulation elsewhere. The co-existence of the Exmoor Hill Farming Network since its origins in 2009 is briefly explained as being of considerable significance in terms of effective extension of good farm management practice. Location of these Exe headwaters within Exmoor National Park chimes with established protected landscape care but invitation to cooperate with headwaters improvement must be voluntary and not perceived as policy interference.
description: Twenty-Third International Farm Management Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
title: Internet technologies for the development of compatible applications on different computing platforms
title: Τεχνολογίες διαδικτύου για την ανάπτυξη συμβατών εφαρμογών σε διαφορετικές υπολογιστικές πλατφόρμες
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Παύλοζας, Αντώνιος-Διονύσιος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cross-platform application
Mobile frameworks
MCDA
AHP
TOPSIS

description: Nowadays more and more people are using their mobile phones much more than any other device. Thus, every software company invests in the development of mobile applications. Undoubtedly, some organizations can concentrate on only one mobile operating system and avoid all the others, yet it is important for many businesses to focus on a myriad of mobile devices with various operating systems. One of the most challenging situations for app developers is whether to develop a native or a cross-platform mobile app. Html, JavaScript, CSS are some of the languages, which are used to create applications on the Internet, through which the appropriate interfaces for the user's interaction with the services of a server are created. In the recent years, the number of software packages (frameworks) based on the above languages is constantly increasing and offer the possibility of developing compatible applications on many operating systems and mobile devices. The purpose of this thesis is the presentation of seven frameworks in order to describe the type of their availability and the services they offer, the advantages and disadvantages of their use and the environment setup on different operating systems. Particularly, an analysis will be made for the Xamarin, Apache Cordova (formerly Phonegap), Ionic, React Native, Flutter, Framework7 and NativeScript cross-platform frameworks. Ιn addition, an example code for each framework is presented and at the end a comparison is made as to which is the best framework according to two methods of multi-criteria decision analysis.
Managing Cattle For Integral Benefit In International Perspective
Creators: name: Wibberly, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Cattle
subject: Gases
subject: Grasslands

description: Two contrasting trajectories of developing farm management are applied to cattle. There is widespread media vilification of cattle as harmfully contributing to global warming through gases they naturally emit. Agricultural and environmental management considerations must be sustainably integrated. Cattle are major converters of human-inedible food from grasslands into forms for human consumption as meat, milk and dairy products, along with important by-products of dung and urine, hides, skins, hoofs and horns. However, cattle production can also utilise other plant material derived from various arable crops (cereals, oilseeds, pulses) â€“ some grown where climate-protective forests once thrived. Intensive cattle production under controlled conditions of feeding, housing and veterinary care from herds of younger average age can dilute concomitant gases emitted per kilogram of product, and both genetics and diet can be adjusted to reduce generation of these polluting gases through modified cattle metabolism. By contrast, it is reckoned that at least 25% of global land is grassland requiring cattle and other grazing animals as human food producers, for biodiversity of plant, insect and microbial species within them, and for carbon sequestration. Alternative international cattle-keeping systems are considered in the light of the above points and management recommendations suggested accordingly.
description: Twenty-Third International Farm Management Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022