cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Anticipatory Planning: Finding balance in climate change adaptation governance
Creators: Birchall, S. Jeff
MacDonald, Seghan
Slater, Tara
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2021

As climate change progresses, local governments are being forced to find ways to adapt to worsening environmental, economic, and infrastructure impacts. The city of Fredericton, New Brunswick has a long history of river and overland flooding; however, more recent changes in local weather patterns have led to an increase in flood risk in the area. For more than a decade, decision-makers in Fredericton have worked to mainstream adaptation action within municipal policy in order to address the growing flood risk. Through anticipatory spatial planning and incremental infrastructure upgrades, the city aim!s to proactively mitigate the impacts of climate change on day-today life. Framed through evolutionary governance, this article investigates the relationships between actors and institutions, as well as power and knowledge in order to uncover long-standing path dependencies that hinder comprehensive climate change adaptation action. While Fredericton can be considered a success story in many ways, this research reveals flawed multi-level governance structures and economic development goals as major barriers to effective adaptation in practice. As climate impacts worsen, balancing economic and political interests with adaptation action will require new approaches to adaptation governance.
Efficacy of antidepressive medication for depression in Parkinson disease: a network meta-analysis
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: adverse events
antidepressant
efficacy
meta-analysis
Parkinson disease

description: BACKGROUND: Parkinson disease (PD) was considered as the 2nd most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer disease, while depression is a prevailing nonmotor symptom of PD. Typically used antidepression medication includes tricyclic antidepressants (TCA), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI), monoamine-oxidase inhibitors (MAOI), and dopamine agonists (DA). Our study aimed at evaluating the efficacy of antidepressive medications for depression of PD. METHODS: Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane library were searched for related articles. Traditional meta-analysis and network meta-analysis (NMA) were performed with outcomes including depression score, UPDRS-II, UPDRS-III, and adverse effects. Surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA) was also performed to illustrate the rank probabilities of different medications on various outcomes. The consistency of direct and indirect evidence was also assessed by node-splitting method. RESULTS: Results of traditional pairwise meta-analysis were performed. Concerning depression score, significant improvement was observed in AD, MAOI, SSRI, and SNRI compared with placebo. NMA was performed and more information could be obtained. DA was illustrated to be effective over placebo concerning UPDRS-III, MAOI, and SNRI. DA demonstrated a better prognosis in UPDRS-II scores compared with placebo and MAOI. However, DA and SSRI demonstrated a significant increase in adverse effects compared with placebo. The SUCRA value was calculated to evaluate the ranking probabilities of all medications on investigated outcomes, and the consistency between direct and indirect evidences was assessed by node-splitting method. CONCLUSION: SSRI had a satisfying efficacy for the depression of PD patients and could improve activities of daily living and motor function of patient but the adverse effects are unneglectable. SNRI are the safest medication with high efficacy for depression as well while other outcomes are relatively poor.
Beyond dual systems: A genetically-informed, latent factor model of behavioral and self-report measures related to adolescent risk-taking
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Dual systems
Cognitive control
Reward seeking
Impulsivity
Self-control
Intelligence
Delay discounting
Risk-taking
Addolescence

description: © 2017 The Authors The dual systems model posits that adolescent risk-taking results from an imbalance between a cognitive control system and an incentive processing system. Researchers interested in understanding the development of adolescent risk-taking use a diverse array of behavioral and self-report measures to index cognitive control and incentive processing. It is currently unclear whether different measures commonly interpreted as indicators of the same psychological construct do, in fact, tap the same underlying dimension of individual differences. In a diverse sample of 810 adolescent twins and triplets (M age = 15.9 years, SD = 1.4 years) from the Texas Twin Project, we investigated the factor structure of fifteen self-report and task-based measures relevant to adolescent risk-taking. These measures can be organized into four factors, which we labeled premeditation, fearlessness, cognitive dyscontrol, and reward seeking. Most behavioral measures contained large amounts of task-specific variance; however, most genetic variance in each measure was shared with other measures of the corresponding factor. Behavior genetic analyses further indicated that genetic influences on cognitive dyscontrol overlapped nearly perfectly with genetic influences on IQ (rA = −0.91). These findings underscore the limitations of using single laboratory tasks in isolation, and indicate that the study of adolescent risk taking will benefit from applying multimethod approaches.
title: The Freight Transportation Services Index as a Leading Economic Indicator
Creators: name: Young, Peg
name: Notis, Ken
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87968
subject: Freight transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91423
subject: Economic factors
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91480
subject: Economic indicators

description: Transportation trends in focus;2p.
description: The Bureau of Transportation Statistics' (BTS) freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) showed a decline a full year and a half prior to the start of the current recession. This downturn suggests the TSI may prove particularly useful as an indicator of economic downturns. Leading economic indicators identify and anticipate emerging turns in the current business cycle by historically turning downward before a recession or a slowdown in the economy and upward before an expansion or acceleration. According to BTS research1, over the past three decades the freight TSI led slowdowns in the economy by an average of 4–5 months.
Circularly polarised X-rays as a probe of non-collinear magnetic order in multiferroic TbMnO3
Creators: name: Fabrizi, F.
name: Walker, H. C.
name: Paolasini, L.
name: de Bergevin, F.
name: Boothroyd, A. T.
name: Prabhakaran, D.
name: McMorrow, D. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-resonant X-ray magnetic scattering has been used to study the magnetic structure of multiferroic TbMnO3 in its ferroelectric phase. Circularly polarized X-rays were combined with a full polarization analysis of the scattered beam to reveal important new information on the magnetic structure of this canonical multiferroic. An applied electric field is shown to create a magnetic nearly mono-domain state in which the cylcoidal order on the Mn sublattice rotates either clockwise or counter-clockwise depending on the sign of the field. It is demonstrated how this technique provides sensitivity to the absolute sense of rotation of the Mn moments, and to components of the ordering on the Tb sublattice and phase shifts that earlier neutron diffraction experiments could not resolve.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Dark Vibronic Polaritons and the Spectroscopy of Organic Microcavities
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: quant-ph
cond-mat.mes-hall
physics.chem-ph

description: © 2017 American Physical Society. Organic microcavities are photonic nanostructures that strongly confine the electromagnetic field, allowing exotic quantum regimes of light-matter interaction with disordered organic semiconductors. The unambiguous interpretation of the spectra of organic microcavities has been a long-standing challenge due to several competing effects involving electrons, vibrations, and cavity photons. Here we present a theoretical framework that is able to describe the main spectroscopic features of organic microcavities consistently. We introduce a class of light-matter excitations called dark vibronic polaritons, which strongly emit but only weakly absorb light in the same frequency region of the bare electronic transition. A successful comparison with experimental data demonstrates the applicability of our theory. The proposed microscopic understanding of organic microcavities paves the way for the development of optoelectronic devices enhanced by quantum optics.
Cross sections and Rosenbluth separations in 1H(e, e'K+)Lambda up to Q2=2.35 GeV2
Creators: name: Coman, M.
name: Markowitz, P.
name: Aniol, K. A.
name: Baker, K.
name: Boeglin, W. U.
name: Breuer, H.
name: Bydzovsky, P.
name: Camsonne, A.
name: Cha, J.
name: Chang, C. C.
name: Chant, N.
name: Chen, J. -P.
name: Chudakov, E. A.
name: Cisbani, E.
name: Cole, L.
name: Cusanno, F.
name: de Jager, C. W.
name: De Leo, R.
name: Deur, A. P.
name: Dieterich, S.
name: Dohrmann, F.
name: Dutta, D.
name: Ent, R.
name: Filoti, O.
name: Fissum, K.
name: Frullani, S.
name: Garibaldi, F.
name: Gayou, O.
name: Gilman, F.
name: Gomez, J.
name: Gueye, P.
name: Hansen, J. O.
name: Higinbotham, D. W.
name: Hinton, W.
name: Horn, T.
name: Hu, B.
name: Huber, G. M.
name: Iodice, M.
name: Jackson, C.
name: Jiang, X.
name: Jones, M.
name: Kanda, K.
name: Keppel, C.
name: King, P.
name: Klein, F.
name: Kozlov, K.
name: Kramer, K.
name: Kramer, L.
name: Lagamba, L.
name: LeRose, J. J.
name: Liyanage, N.
name: Margaziotis, D. J.
name: Marrone, S.
name: McCormick, K.
name: Michaels, R. W.
name: Mitchell, J.
name: Miyoshi, T.
name: Nanda, S.
name: Palomba, M.
name: Pattichio, V.
name: Perdrisat, C. F.
name: Piasetzky, E.
name: Punjabi, V. A.
name: Raue, B.
name: Reinhold, J.
name: Reitz, B.
name: Roche, R. E.
name: Roos, P.
name: Saha, A.
name: Sarty, A. J.
name: Sato, Y.
name: Sirca, S.
name: Sotona, M.
name: Tang, L.
name: Ueno, H.
name: Ulmer, P. E.
name: Urciuoli, G. M.
name: Uzzle, A.
name: Vacheret, A.
name: Wang, K.
name: Wijesooriya, K.
name: Wojtsekhowski, B.
name: Wood, S.
name: Yaron, I.
name: Zheng, X.
name: Zhu, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The kaon electroproduction reaction 1H(e,e'K+)Lambda was studied as a function of the virtual-photon four-momentum, Q2, total energy, W, and momentum transfer, t, for different values of the virtual- photon polarization parameter. Data were taken at electron beam energies ranging from 3.40 to 5.75 GeV. The center of mass cross section was determined for 21 kinematics corresponding to Q2 of 1.90 and 2.35 GeV2 and the longitudinal, sigmaL, and transverse, sigmaT, cross sections were separated using the Rosenbluth technique at fixed W and t. The separated cross sections reveal a flat energy dependence at forward kaon angles not satisfactorily described by existing electroproduction models. Influence of the kaon pole on the cross sections was investigated by adopting an off-shell form factor in the Regge model which better describes the observed energy dependence of sigmaT and sigmaL.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Physical Review C, Rapid Communications
title: Extreme wildfire: legislative framework for managing wildfire risk in Aotearoa New Zealand
Creators: name: Forkink, Annet
name: Tang, Xuemei
name: Buxton, Robert  B.
Publisher: name: GNS Science
Year: 2023

description: In recent years, Aotearoa New Zealand has witnessed a significant increase in the occurrence of extreme wildfires. This trend is related to accelerated impacts of climate change, which have intensified the risks associated with such events. Of particular concern is the higher risk observed at the rural-urban interface, where urban development is close to rural vegetation. This study aims to identify and analyse the regulatory, planning and decision-making systems relevant to wildfire management in Aotearoa New Zealand. To achieve this, consultations were conducted with programme partners and experts in the planning field to identify specific parts of the decision-making process that offer opportunities for reducing wildfire risk in the rural-urban interface. The report underscores the importance of clear guidance and using consistent terms and guidelines in decision-making and planning processes. It furthermore emphasises the need for stricter building requirements, wildfire risk awareness programmes, pro-active planning and efficient co-ordination among authorities for effective wildfire risk management (auths)
title: A Time Series Analysis of Transportation Energy Use Per Dollar of Gross Domestic Product
Creators: name: Young, Peg
name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91419
subject: Energy consumption
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91481
subject: Gross domestic product
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91480
subject: Economic indicators
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/108511
subject: Time series analysis

description: Transportation trends in focus
description: Transportation energy use relative to gross domestic product (GDP) has been declining within the past decade. However, the total transportation energy consumed (see figure 1) shows only a more recent decline. To see clearly the long-term decline, the seasonal component first must be separated from the underlying trendline to observe the long-term trend of that energy consumption. Then the ratio of the de-seasonalized data and GDP can be taken.
Medium-induced broadening and softening of a parton shower
Creators: name: Borghini, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modifications of the angular and transverse momentum distributions of quarks and gluons inside a parton shower due to the presence of a medium are studied within an analytical description that reduces to the modified leading logarithmic approximation (MLLA) of QCD in the absence of medium.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. v2: published version
Error Performance Analysis to Increase Capacity of A Cellular System Using SDMA
Creators: name: Hossain, Md. M.
name: Hossain, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the biggest drawbacks of the wireless environment is the limited bandwidth. However, the users sharing this limited bandwidth have been increasing considerably.Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) is a new technology by which the capacity of existing mobile communication systems can economically be increased. This paper has been presented how the capacity can be enhanced by using SDMA with smart antennas in mobile communications system. Based on Adaptive Antenna Array (AAA) technology the spatial dimension of the existing system is exploited by means of forming independent radio beams in each of the original channels. This paper analyses the comparison of average Bit Error Rate (BER) of SDMA and CDMA technique and the different ways in which SDMA can be introduced to increase the capacity of a cellular system. The probability of error is found for a standard omni directional base station antenna, and another set of curves is found for flat top beam having a directivity of 5.1dB. It is assumed that k separate flat top beams can be formed by base station and pointed each of the k users within the cell of interest. Noticing that for an average probability of error greater than 0.1 in a propagation path loss environment of n=4, the flat top beam will support 200 users, whereas the omni-directional antenna will support only 50 users. This increase the number of user is roughly equal to the directivity offered by the flat top beam system, and illustrates the promise SDMA offers for improving capacity in wireless system. Here multipath fading is not considered.
description: Journal of Telecommunications,Volume 1, Issue 1, pp36-39, February 2010
Absorption and photoluminescence in organic cavity QED
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: quant-ph
cond-mat.mes-hall
physics.chem-ph

description: © 2017 American Physical Society. Organic microcavities can be engineered to reach exotic quantum regimes of strong and ultrastrong light-matter coupling. However, the microscopic interpretation of their spectroscopic signals can be challenging due to the competition between coherent and dissipative processes involving electrons, vibrations, and cavity photons. We develop here a theoretical framework based on the Holstein-Tavis-Cummings model and a Markovian treatment of dissipation to account for previously unexplained spectroscopic features of organic microcavities consistently. We identify conditions for the formation of dark vibronic polaritons, a class of light-matter excitations that are not visible in absorption but lead to strong photoluminescence lines. We show that photon leakage from dark vibronic polaritons can be responsible for enhancing photoluminescence at the lower polariton frequency, and also can explain the apparent breakdown of reciprocity between absorption and emission in the vicinity of the bare molecular transition frequency. Successful comparison with experimental data demonstrates the applicability of our theory.
Developing profession ready teacher education graduates through school-university partnerships: an Australian study
Creators: name: Tanti, Miriam
name: Monteleone, Chrissy
name: Wong, Monica
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: The engagement of both school and university has played a significant role in initial teacher education. The focus of this paper is the growth of an alternative style of school-university partnership from a single school to a Hub of 19 school-university partnership, in the inner-west suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Four school and university mentors who have participated over a seven-year period have completed surveys on their engagement. Using a Community of Practice (CoP) theoretical framework to underpin model development, it is possible to showcase the growth of the partnerships as important in informing discussion relating to the implementation of integrated school-university partnerships and practice.
Measurement of D0 Azimuthal Anisotropy at Midrapidity in Au+Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: STAR Collaboration

description: © 2017 American Physical Society. We report the first measurement of the elliptic anisotropy (v2) of the charm meson D0 at midrapidity (|y|<1) in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV. The measurement was conducted by the STAR experiment at RHIC utilizing a new high-resolution silicon tracker. The measured D0 v2 in 0%-80% centrality Au+Au collisions can be described by a viscous hydrodynamic calculation for a transverse momentum (pT) of less than 4 GeV/c. The D0 v2 as a function of transverse kinetic energy (mT-m0, where mT=pT2+m02) is consistent with that of light mesons in 10%-40% centrality Au+Au collisions. These results suggest that charm quarks have achieved local thermal equilibrium with the medium created in such collisions. Several theoretical models, with the temperature-dependent, dimensionless charm spatial diffusion coefficient (2πTDs) in the range of ∼2-12, are able to simultaneously reproduce our D0 v2 result and our previously published results for the D0 nuclear modification factor.
Negative Poisson's ratio in 1T-type crystalline two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: cond-mat.mtrl-sci

description: © The Author(s) 2017. Materials with a negative Poisson's ratio, also known as auxetic materials, exhibit unusual and counterintuitive mechanical behaviour - becoming fatter in cross-section when stretched. Such behaviour is mostly attributed to some special re-entrant or hinged geometric structures regardless of the chemical composition and electronic structure of a material. Here, using first-principles calculations, we report a class of auxetic single-layer two-dimensional materials, namely, the 1T-type monolayer crystals of groups 6-7 transition-metal dichalcogenides, MX 2 (M=Mo, W, Tc, Re; X=S, Se, Te). These materials have a crystal structure distinct from all other known auxetic materials. They exhibit an intrinsic in-plane negative Poisson's ratio, which is dominated by electronic effects. We attribute the occurrence of such auxetic behaviour to the strong coupling between the chalcogen p orbitals and the intermetal t 2g -bonding orbitals within the basic triangular pyramid structure unit. The unusual auxetic behaviour in combination with other remarkable properties of monolayer two-dimensional materials could lead to novel multi-functionalities.
Street use & servicing planning : an investigation of design possibilities and feasibility of underground public utility structures in local residential streets
Creators: name: Wiles, Franklin Arthur
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis was prompted by the belief that local residential streets could be better used and serviced if a common underground structure were provided for all utilities. Such a structure could not only get wiring underground, a desirable aim in itself, but also gather all of the utilities together in a narrow portion of the street. This would free the remainder of the street from the restrictions imposed by the utilities, and allow designers to create more interesting and pleasant environments. It was further believed that such structures might be feasible if the designing and servicing of local streets were considered comprehensively. These beliefs have been investigated by formulating and testing the general hypotheses that installing utilities in specially designed underground structures in local residential streets would: a) permit better use and design of such streets than is possible by current servicing practices; b) be feasible (from functional, physical, social, staging, administrative, political, financial, and economic points of view) if comprehensively designed. The scope of this investigation has been limited to future local streets in single-family residential districts of Metropolitan Vancouver for these reasons. Future streets would allow maximum flexibility in design and savings in servicing costs by proposed practices. Local streets generally have simpler and smaller-sized facilities which are most widely spread. Single-family residential districts are and will be the largest land use and hence, have the most increase in streets. Metropolitan Vancouver has been studied because of its proximity and familiarity to the investigator and its variety of servicing practices. Street use is the use made of streets including such ones as playing not currently facilitated. The 'servicement' is that part of the physical environment created by property service facilities in the streets. Property services are those public services providing service to property as distinct from people. Current practice is the ways of designing and installing facilities followed at the present time. The term 'better' in the first hypothesis is interpreted in terms of elements of the public interest. These include public health, safety, convenience, amenity, welfare, and economy. Criteria of feasibility have been established for the evaluation of the proposed practices. These include functional, physical, social staging, administrative, political, functional, and economic feasibility. They are essentially different ways of looking at a complex problem. [ ... ]
Characterizing the roles of changing population size and selection on the evolution of flux control in metabolic pathways
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Computational systems biology
Metabolic pathway evolution
Positive directional selection
Fluctuating selection
Fluctuating population size
Co-evolution

description: © 2017 The Author(s). Background: Understanding the genotype-phenotype map is fundamental to our understanding of genomes. Genes do not function independently, but rather as part of networks or pathways. In the case of metabolic pathways, flux through the pathway is an important next layer of biological organization up from the individual gene or protein. Flux control in metabolic pathways, reflecting the importance of mutation to individual enzyme genes, may be evolutionarily variable due to the role of mutation-selection-drift balance. The evolutionary stability of rate limiting steps and the patterns of inter-molecular co-evolution were evaluated in a simulated pathway with a system out of equilibrium due to fluctuating selection, population size, or positive directional selection, to contrast with those under stabilizing selection. Results: Depending upon the underlying population genetic regime, fluctuating population size was found to increase the evolutionary stability of rate limiting steps in some scenarios. This result was linked to patterns of local adaptation of the population. Further, during positive directional selection, as with more complex mutational scenarios, an increase in the observation of inter-molecular co-evolution was observed. Conclusions: Differences in patterns of evolution when systems are in and out of equilibrium, including during positive directional selection may lead to predictable differences in observed patterns for divergent evolutionary scenarios. In particular, this result might be harnessed to detect differences between compensatory processes and directional processes at the pathway level based upon evolutionary observations in individual proteins. Detecting functional shifts in pathways reflects an important milestone in predicting when changes in genotypes result in changes in phenotypes.
Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes
Creators: name: Zhao, Hang
name: Zhang, Zhengxiang
name: Wang, Xin
name: Zhen, Shuo
name: Zhang, Hongyan
name: Bu, Zhao-Jun
name: Zhao, Jianjun
name: Guo, Xiaoyi
name: We, Kejiang
name: Dong, Long
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 370699
subject: Geophysics not elsewhere classified

description: The source data and codes supporting the findings of "Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes".
Shifting the optimal stiffness for cell migration
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Actin Cytoskeleton
Actins
Algorithms
Animals
Cell Adhesion
Cell Line, Tumor
Cell Movement
Chick Embryo
Collagen
Disease Progression
Elastic Modulus
Glioma
Humans
Integrins
Mice
Models, Biological
Models, Statistical
Myosin Type II
Neurons
Prosencephalon
RNA, Messenger

description: © The Author(s) 2017. Cell migration, which is central to many biological processes including wound healing and cancer progression, is sensitive to environmental stiffness, and many cell types exhibit a stiffness optimum, at which migration is maximal. Here we present a cell migration simulator that predicts a stiffness optimum that can be shifted by altering the number of active molecular motors and clutches. This prediction is verified experimentally by comparing cell traction and F-actin retrograde flow for two cell types with differing amounts of active motors and clutches: embryonic chick forebrain neurons (ECFNs; optimum ∼ 1 kPa) and U251 glioma cells (optimum ∼ 100 kPa). In addition, the model predicts, and experiments confirm, that the stiffness optimum of U251 glioma cell migration, morphology and F-actin retrograde flow rate can be shifted to lower stiffness by simultaneous drug inhibition of myosin II motors and integrin-mediated adhesions.
Asset price bubbles in the perspective of New Keynesian theory. Summary: Varade hinnamullid ja reaalkurss majanduskoolkondade lähenemiste valguses
Creators: name: Angerma, Meelis
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: Baltic economies; prices; business fluctuations and cycles; expectations; speculation; information and market efficiency; asset pricing theory; behavioral finance; asset price bubbles; portfolio theory

description: Developments in the real world depends on human reaction to economic events which is also determined by dominating economic thought. Dominance of neoliberal and monetarist thinking was the main cause of ignoring asset price bubbles and their effects on real economy. New keynesian economic thinking provides an alternative. Hyman Minsky’s model of financial instability was more effectively able to explain super-bubbles in US economy and subsequent ‚Great Recession’. Ignorance of momentum-bias of traders and banks contributed to this crises. Emerging markets and Baltic countries were strongly influenced by credit oversupply in US. Instabilities were so sizeable that IMF approved using capital control and proposal for tax on financial transactions was made. Policymakers and individuals should abandon ignorance of speculative asset price bubbles and improve their analytical skills to recognize bubbles and change their behaviour
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 1 (2013)
Full self-consistency in the Fermi-orbital self-interaction correction
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: physics.comp-ph
cond-mat.other
physics.chem-ph

description: © 2017 American Physical Society. The Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction cures many common problems associated with semilocal density functionals, but suffers from a size-extensivity problem when Kohn-Sham orbitals are used in the correction. Fermi-Löwdin-orbital self-interaction correction (FLOSIC) solves the size-extensivity problem, allowing its use in periodic systems and resulting in better accuracy in finite systems. Although the previously published FLOSIC algorithm Pederson, J. Chem. Phys. 140, 121103 (2014).JCPSA60021-960610.1063/1.4869581 appears to work well in many cases, it is not fully self-consistent. This would be particularly problematic for systems where the occupied manifold is strongly changed by the correction. In this paper, we demonstrate a different algorithm for FLOSIC to achieve full self-consistency with only marginal increase of computational cost. The resulting total energies are found to be lower than previously reported non-self-consistent results.
Semantic feature training in combination with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for progressive anomia
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: language rehabilitation
naming therapy
primary progressive aphasia
semantic feature analysis
transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

description: © 2017 Hung, Bauer, Grossman, Hamilton, Coslett and Reilly. We examined the effectiveness of a 2-week regimen of a semantic feature training in combination with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for progressive naming impairment associated with primary progressive aphasia (N = 4) or early onset Alzheimer’s Disease (N = 1). Patients received a 2-week regimen (10 sessions) of anodal tDCS delivered over the left temporoparietal cortex while completing a language therapy that consisted of repeated naming and semantic feature generation. Therapy targets consisted of familiar people, household items, clothes, foods, places, hygiene implements, and activities. Untrained items from each semantic category provided item level controls. We analyzed naming accuracies at multiple timepoints (i.e., pre-, post-, 6-month follow-up) via a mixed effects logistic regression and individual differences in treatment responsiveness using a series of non-parametric McNemar tests. Patients showed advantages for naming trained over untrained items. These gains were evident immediately post tDCS. Trained items also showed a shallower rate of decline over 6-months relative to untrained items that showed continued progressive decline. Patients tolerated stimulation well, and sustained improvements in naming accuracy suggest that the current intervention approach is viable. Future implementation of a sham control condition will be crucial toward ascertaining whether neuro stimulation and behavioral treatment act synergistically or alternatively whether treatment gains are exclusively attributable to either tDCS or the behavioral intervention.
Agrargeschichte als Umweltgeschichte?
Creators: name: Winiwarter, Verena
Publisher: name: Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes
Year: 2022

description: Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes, Bd. 2 (2005): Reguliertes Land. Agrarpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1930–1960
Archbishop Purcell outdone! :The Roman Catholic Church in New York City : And public land and public money. By Dexter A. Hawkins.
Creators: name: Hawkins, Dexter A. (Dexter Arnoll), 1825-1886.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
 It opposes the public schools. It multiplies pauperism and crime.
From Graphene constrictions to single carbon chains
Creators: name: Chuvilin, A.
name: Meyer, J. C.
name: Algara-Siller, G.
name: Kaiser, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an atomic-resolution observation and analysis of graphene constrictions and ribbons with sub-nanometer width. Graphene membranes are studied by imaging side spherical aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy at 80 kV. Holes are formed in the honeycomb-like structure due to radiation damage. As the holes grow and two holes approach each other, the hexagonal structure that lies between them narrows down. Transitions and deviations from the hexagonal structure in this graphene ribbon occur as its width shrinks below one nanometer. Some reconstructions, involving more pentagons and heptagons than hexagons, turn out to be surprisingly stable. Finally, single carbon atom chain bridges between graphene contacts are observed. The dynamics are observed in real time at atomic resolution with enough sensitivity to detect every carbon atom that remains stable for a sufficient amount of time. The carbon chains appear reproducibly and in various configurations from graphene bridges, between adsorbates, or at open edges and seem to represent one of the most stable configurations that a few-atomic carbon system accomodates in the presence of continuous energy input from the electron beam.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Public debt and shifting of the debt burden from one generation to the next. Further considerations: do outright monetary transactions (OMT) comply with the EU Treaty?
Creators: name: Hennies, Manfred O.E.
name: Raudjärv, Matti
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014

description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)
Staatsverschuldung und intergenerative Lastenverschiebung. Ergänzende Überlegungen: Sind 'Outright Monetary Transactions' (OMT) EUvertragskonform?
Creators: name: Hennies, Manfred O.E.
name: Raudjärv, Matti
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014

description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)
Riigivõlg ja võlakoormuse nihkumine põlvkonnalt põlvkonnale. Täiendavaid kaalutlusi: kas rahapoliitilised otsetehingud ('Outright Monetary Transactions'– OMT) on vastavuses EL lepinguga?
Creators: name: Hennies, Manfred O.E.
name: Raudjärv, Matti
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: public debt;debt burden

description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)
Enhanced Threshold Effects of Drivers Promote Future Wildfire Changes at Mid–High Northern Latitudes
Creators: name: Zhao, Hang
name: Zhang, Zhengxiang
name: Wang, Xin
name: Zhen, Shuo
name: Zhang, Hongyan
name: Bu, Zhao-Jun
name: Zhao, Jianjun
name: Guo, Xiaoyi
name: We, Kejiang
name: Dong, Long
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 370699
subject: Geophysics not elsewhere classified

description: The source data and codes supporting the findings of "Enhanced Threshold Effects of Drivers Promote Future Wildfire Changes at Mid–High Northern Latitudes".
Likelihood-based semi-supervised model selection with applications to speech processing
Creators: name: White, Christopher M.
name: Khudanpur, Sanjeev P.
name: Wolfe, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In conventional supervised pattern recognition tasks, model selection is typically accomplished by minimizing the classification error rate on a set of so-called development data, subject to ground-truth labeling by human experts or some other means. In the context of speech processing systems and other large-scale practical applications, however, such labeled development data are typically costly and difficult to obtain. This article proposes an alternative semi-supervised framework for likelihood-based model selection that leverages unlabeled data by using trained classifiers representing each model to automatically generate putative labels. The errors that result from this automatic labeling are shown to be amenable to results from robust statistics, which in turn provide for minimax-optimal censored likelihood ratio tests that recover the nonparametric sign test as a limiting case. This approach is then validated experimentally using a state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition system to select between candidate word pronunciations using unlabeled speech data that only potentially contain instances of the words under test. Results provide supporting evidence for the utility of this approach, and suggest that it may also find use in other applications of machine learning.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures; submitted for publication
Coulomb glory in low-energy antiproton scattering by heavy nucleus: screening effect of vacuum polarization
Creators: name: Maiorova, A. V.
name: Telnov, D. A.
name: Shabaev, V. M.
name: Plunien, G.
name: Stoehlker, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Backward scattering of antiprotons by bare uranium is studied theoretically for antiproton energies within the interval 100 eV -- 1 keV. A marked maximum of the differential cross section in the backward direction (Coulomb glory) at some energies of the incident particle is revealed. The effect is due to the screening properties of the vacuum polarization potential and can be regarded as a manifestation of the vacuum polarization in non-relativistic collisions of heavy particles. Experimental observation can become feasible with new facilities for antiproton and ion research at GSI.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted in Journal of Physics B
A location model of a trust of public firms
Creators: name: Feng, Xiao
name: Friedrich, Peter
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: location theory; public firm theory; industrial location theory; competition among public firms; principal agent; trust of public firms

description: The decision oriented theory of the public firm (Feng, Friedrich 2013) becomes extended. The authors consider that sometimes public firms compete horizontally as well. This can be due to competition among the public owners (e.g. municipalities) considering location choices for public firms they own, or public firms competing against each other. We mention some results related to the first type of competition and we refer to how the literature on location choices under oligopolic conditions could be referred to within the framework of our basic approach. One approach by Cornes and Hartley (2001) also allows modelling the establishment of joint ventures and their location choices. The basic model of the public firm is used to provide insight into the location choices of a trust of public firms. The trust exhibits coordination at three levels via the politically-oriented decision-making body of the public owner, the trust’s headquarters and subsidiary public firms. The resulting model illustrates the interplay of different decisionmakers and the effects of the coordinating activities. The first attempts to formulate a public firm decision-making oriented location theory exist.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)
University implementing its community service role through curriculum development in a regional college
Creators: name: Keerberg, Anne
name: Kiisla, Aet
name: Mäeltsemees, Sulev
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: regional policy; higher education; universities; community service; research and development; human capital; curriculum development

description: The three roles of a higher education institution are teaching, research and community service. The objective of the article is to analyse how a university regional college can implement the task of community service via its curriculum development. The theoretical base lies on the positions of internationally recognised scientists of education policy as well as OECD definitions and clarifications that are compared to the cases of the regional colleges (in Narva and Kuressaare) of two universities (respectively University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology). The set task enables to study as a whole such components as the content and design of curricula, teaching and assessment methods, extracurricular activities, topics and supervision of students’ research works, cooperation with partners. A comprehensive approach is a precondition of a well-functioning curriculum, with community service being the unifying aspect. The results of current study are applicable in case of the analysed curricula and colleges, they partly applicable in case of any other similar curricula and units. Prerequisites of the colleges' network evolvement, holistic impact and compliance with the region-specific needs is a significant topic the additional study of which has
already begun.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)
Spectrally similar incommensurable 3-manifolds
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: 57M50
30F40
58J53
53C22

description: © 2017 London Mathematical Society. Reid has asked whether hyperbolic manifolds with the same geodesic length spectrum must be commensurable. Building toward a negative answer to this question, we construct examples of hyperbolic 3-manifolds that share an arbitrarily large portion of the length spectrum but are not commensurable. More precisely, for every n≫0, we construct a pair of incommensurable hyperbolic 3-manifolds Nn and Nnμ whose volume is approximately n and whose length spectra agree up to length n. Both Nn and Nnμ are built by gluing two standard submanifolds along a complicated pseudo-Anosov map, ensuring that these manifolds have a very thick collar about an essential surface. The two gluing maps differ by a hyper-elliptic involution along this surface. Our proof also involves a new commensurability criterion based on pairs of pants.
Particle dynamics in colloidal suspensions above and below the glass-liquid re-entrance transition
Creators: name: Latka, Andrzej
name: Han, Yilong
name: Alsayed, Ahmed M.
name: Schofield, Andrew B.
name: Yodh, A. G.
name: Habdas, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study colloidal particle dynamics of a model glass system using confocal and fluorescence microscopy as the sample evolves from a hard-sphere glass to a liquid with attractive interparticle interactions. The transition from hard-sphere glass to attractive liquid is induced by short-range depletion forces. The development of liquid-like structure is indicated by particle dynamics. We identify particles which exhibit substantial motional events and characterize the transition using the properties of these motional events. As samples enter the attractive liquid region, particle speed during these motional events increases by about one order of magnitude, and the particles move more cooperatively. Interestingly, colloidal particles in the attractive liquid phase do not exhibit significantly larger displacements than particles in the hard-sphere glass.
Nonlinear Electromagnetic Effects and Field Ranges in Superheavy Element Synthesis
Creators: name: Francesco D'Agostino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: A rigorous framework is developed for incorporating nonlinear electromagnetic corrections into the effective potential governing superheavy element synthesis. Explicit analytic expressions for nonlinear decay constants and spectral stability criteria are derived via perturbative expansion and spectral decomposition, with uniform convergence of multipole series rigorously established. These results demonstrate that nonlinear effects directly modify decay dynamics and stability properties.
Family and non-family business differences in Estonia
Creators: name: Kirsipuu, Maret
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: undertaking; family entrepreneur; family enterprise; family business; non-family business; small and medium-size enterprise; sole proprietor

description: This paper seeks to identify differences between family enterprises and non-family enterprises. The concepts of entrepreneurship, entrepreneur and enterprise/business are clarified. The paper contains the results of research conducted by the author among family entrepreneurs in 2007–2012 that can be compared to the research results reached by Wahl (2011). This research demonstrates that there are differences between family entrepreneurs and non-family entrepreneurs, which are primarily caused by that family entrepreneurs value first of all their family members, family traditions and only then profit earning.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 2 (2013)