cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cultural Influences on Depressive Symptoms Among Latino Adolescents in the United States: A Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Wilson, Olivia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: By the year 2050, Hispanic youth are estimated to make up one-third of the total child and
adolescent population of the United States. Hispanic adolescents are at particular risk for the
development of depressive symptoms due to unique cultural stressors faced by this group as they
navigate the multidimensional process of acculturation. This review of the literature sought to
explore the relationship between acculturation challenges and depressive symptomology among
Latino youth. A mix of seventeen cross-sectional and longitudinal studies identified the
influences of cultural risk and protective factors on this mental health outcome. Negative cultural
transactions such as ethnic discrimination and acculturation-related family conflict were
implicated in the elevated depressive symptoms of study participants while family cohesion and
biculturalism were found to be protective against maladaptive psychosocial functioning. This
review also explored ways in which mental health clinicians can intervene to promote Latino
youth mental health even in the face of cultural stressors.
Non-formal education: a way out : the realisation of the right to education of refugees through non- formal education activities in Greece
Creators: name: González Maldonado, Raquel
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: right to education
refugees
Greece
human rights

description: Second semester University: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
description: Education is a human right to which any child should have access; yet, the provision of education in emergency situations is particularly difficult and education is often left behind. This holds true when dealing with refugee children´s education as well: for those children, education is a key element that enables their protection and development. Education goes beyond formal and institutionalized provisions provided by the state. Non-formal education has a great potential to improve the realisation of the right to education. Specifically, in emergency settings it gives a superb response to the particular educational needs of refugee children. The flexibility offered by this form of education and its content based on human rights, reconstruction, provision of life skills and psychosocial rehabilitation, make it a highly suitable tool for the realisation of the right to education of refugee children. The so-called refugee crisis that Greece had to face in 2015 led to more than 60,000 refugees stuck in the country whose human rights were violated every day and the right to education was not an exception. In this context, non - formal education proved to be the only solution that responded to refugee children´s learning needs. This study aims to highlight the main features of this process and prove non-formal education as a valid option for the schooling of refugee children.
Training methods for developing linear sprint speed in football code athletes: a systematic review with meta analysis
Creators: name: Nicholson, Ben
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sprint training
subject: Systematic review
subject: Team sports
subject: Transfer of training

description: This systematic review aims to synthesise the experimental literature examining the effects of different speed training interventions on linear sprint performance over various distances in football code athletes. Therefore, this review would identify the most effective method of improving sprinting performance over specific distances for football code athletes within the existing evidence base.
Gender Based Family Planning: An Analysis into Underlying Reasons for Male Preference in India
Creators: name: Kaur, Atiyasha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This paper explores the reasons behind gender bias and the skewed sex-ratio in India by looking at gender based family planning. Current literature suggests that regional factors, education, and age of mother are major factors—among others—that highly influence whether or not a family will have gender bias (towards boys). The question is approached by specifying a gender-based family planning based on Gary Becker’s demand for children model, but I have split demand for children into demand for male and female children. In this altered model, male and female children are competing commodities that require separate demand equations. Statistical tests show that the most important variables in the separate demand equations for male and female children are actually the same: age, region, education, wealth, religion, place of residency, and time of residency.  All of these results are corrected using instrumental variable regression (IV) because the variable heard family messages is potentially endogenous. A multinomial logit model also shows that strong male preference probably is a bigger cause for skewed sex ratios than weak male preference, even though the latter is more common. This paper is the first one to see if heard family planning messages has a differing effect on the demand for male and female children, and multinomial logit results show that heard family planning message also decreases both weak and strong male preference.
MSSM A-funnel and the Galactic Center Excess: Prospects for the LHC and Direct Detection Experiments
Creators: name: Freese, Katherine
name: Lopez, Alejandro
name: Shah, Nausheen R.
name: Shakya, Bibhushan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pseudoscalar resonance or "A-funnel" in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model~(MSSM) is a widely studied framework for explaining dark matter that can yield interesting indirect detection and collider signals. The well-known Galactic Center excess (GCE) at GeV energies in the gamma ray spectrum, consistent with annihilation of a $\lesssim 40$ GeV dark matter particle, has more recently been shown to be compatible with significantly heavier masses following reanalysis of the background. In this paper, we explore the LHC and direct detection implications of interpreting the GCE in this extended mass window within the MSSM A-funnel framework. We find that compatibility with relic density, signal strength, collider constraints, and Higgs data can be simultaneously achieved with appropriate parameter choices. The compatible regions give very sharp predictions of 200-600 GeV CP-odd/even Higgs bosons at low tan$β$ at the LHC and spin-independent cross sections $\approx 10^{-11}$ pb at direct detection experiments. Regardless of consistency with the GCE, this study serves as a useful template of the strong correlations between indirect, direct, and LHC signatures of the MSSM A-funnel region.
description: 32 pages and 9 figures
Indigenous peoples and climate change in the Amazon : the applicability of a human rights-based approach
Creators: name: Concha, Claudia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: climatic changes
Amazonas
indigenous peoples

description: Second semester University: University of Southern Denmark and Danish Institute of Human Rights.
description: REDD+ is a UNFCCC mechanism that has raised concerns about the impacts of climate change policy on the rights of Indigenous Peoples who depend on forests for their physical survival and spiritual and cultural traditions. The effectiveness and legitimacy of REDD+ will largely depend on the level of protection that REDD+ policies incorporate at the national and subnational levels to ensure that the rights of local communities are respected. Through the analysis of current REDD+ safeguards, this paper aims to find out whether the incorporation of a human rights based approach (HRBA) could be instrumental for climate equity and the protection of the Indigenous Peoples, who are the most vulnerable to climate change.
A long pseudo-comparison of premice in $L[x]$
Creators: name: Schlutzenberg, Farmer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E15, 03E45, 03E55, 03E60

description: We describe an obstacle to the analysis of $\mathrm{HOD}^{L[x]}$ as a core model: Assuming sufficient large cardinals, for a Turing cone of reals $x$ there are premice $M,N$ in $\mathrm{HC}^{L[x]}$ such that the pseudo-comparison of $L[M]$ with $L[N]$ succeeds, is computed in $L[x]$, and lasts through $ω_1^{L[x]}$ stages. Moreover, we can take $M=M_1|(δ^+)^{M_1}$ where $M_1$ is the minimal iterable proper class inner model with a Woodin cardinal, and $δ$ is that Woodin. We can take $N$ such that $L[N]$ is $M_1$-like and short-tree-iterable.
description: 6 pages. Submitted. This version reduces a claim from version 1, regarding the absoluteness of short-tree-iterability
Death by algorithm : public opinion and the lethal autonomous weapons debate
Creators: name: Hale, Sophie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: public opinion
civil society
warfare
military robots
weapons
technological innovations

description: Second semester University: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
description: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), branded “killer robots”, are expected to revolutionise warfare and have been the subject of hotly debated international discussions. Officially, they do not exist yet, but already the potential legal and ethical implications have led to calls for a ban on their development and use. This thesis explores the current debates about LAWS and concludes that a pre-emptive ban is necessary to protect human rights and maintain global stability. The central question driving this study is “How can civil society engage the public on LAWS and gain support for an international ban on their development and use?” In order to analyse this question, a public opinion survey was conducted to discover current levels of awareness of LAWS and attitudes towards their development and use among a Greek student sample. The results suggest that awareness of LAWS among the public is low. However, once provided with a definition of these weapons, most people opposed their development and use and supported a global ban. Moreover, the main reason cited for rejecting LAWS was that lethal decision-making should not be ceded to machines. Based on these findings, some recommendations are made regarding strengthening public engagement in the debate.
Die religiöse Identität von Frauen im Spannungsfeld von Zugehörigkeit, Autorität und Autonomie
Creators: name: Walser, Angelika
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Geschlecht
subject: Gerechtigkeit
subject: Emanzipation
subject: Identität
subject: Postmoderne
subject: Feminismus
subject: 200 Religion

description: Taking some snapshots from everyday religious life in Austria as a starting point, my contribution is a theoretical reflection on women's religious identity in the area of tension between belonging, authority and autonomy. Following postmodern concepts of identity I describe women's religious identity as “threshold identity” resp. as fluid and fragile. This description requires a clarification of the relation between secular and religious identity on one side and religious and moral identity on the other. It becomes evident that the experience of God as a constituent of religious identity exceeds by far the moral identity of the religious self, comprising a special potential of emancipation for women. However, realizing this potential in the sense of empowerment and personal autonomy results in conflicts with male authorities, who as the guardians of religious traditions, have a key function in the construction and demarcation of religious identity. If women's threshold identity goes along with a substantial concept of autonomy, entailing the call for institutional gender justice, it is the challenge of our time in all religious traditions, especially in Christianity and Islam. Here is the crucial point to decide what the religious landscape of the future will look like and whether women of the 21st century will find a home in their religious traditions.
Elaphoglossum squamipes T. Moore, Index Fil.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum squamipes

description: Elaphoglossum squamipes (Hook.) T.Moore, Index Fil. 15. 1857. (Fig. 42N–S)
 Range: —Central Mexico to Bolivia (CO, LP) and Brazil.
 Ecology: —Uncommon; epiphytic and saxicolous in humid forests; (800–) 1700–3800 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Impact of Dual Slope Path Loss on User Association in HetNets
Creators: name: Garg, Nikhil
name: Singh, Sarabjot
name: Andrews, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Intelligent load balancing is essential to fully realize the benefits of dense heterogeneous networks. Current techniques have largely been studied with single slope path loss models, though multi-slope models are known to more closely match real deployments. This paper develops insight into the performance of biasing and uplink/downlink decoupling for user association in HetNets with dual slope path loss models. It is shown that dual slope path loss models change the tradeoffs inherent in biasing and reduce gains from both biasing and uplink/downlink decoupling. The results show that with the dual slope path loss models, the bias maximizing the median rate is not optimal for other users, e.g., edge users. Furthermore, optimal downlink biasing is shown to realize most of the gains from downlink-uplink decoupling. Moreover, the user association gains in dense networks are observed to be quite sensitive to the path loss exponent beyond the critical distance in a dual slope model.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures, Accepted to IEEE Globecom 2015 Workshop on 5G Heterogeneous and Small Cell Networks
Diabetes Mellitus and Associated Risk Factors Among HIV Positive Patients At Parirenyatwa Hospital Family Care Centre
Creators: name: Matika, Tafadzwa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM) prevalence is increasing globally, particularly in resource-limited
settings where infectious diseases are also highly prevalent. Little is known about prevalence of
T2DM and prediabetes among HIV positive (HIV+) individuals in Africa. The aim of this study
was to estimate T2DM and prediabetes prevalence and to describe T2DM and prediabetes risk
factors among HIV+ patients receiving care at Parirenyatwa Hospital Family Care Center in
Zimbabwe (PHFCC). Adult HIV+ patients attending visits for routine CD4 count testing
between July-August 2015 were enrolled (n=244). Nearly all the participants (95.5%) were on
anti-retroviral therapy (ART) with 18.4% having been on a protease inhibitor (PI)-based
regimen. T2DM was defined by hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) ≥ 6.5% or prior clinical records
indicating T2D diagnosis while prediabetes was defined by HbA1c from 5.7 - 6.4%. Information
on sex, age, BMI, reported history of family diabetes, ART medication history, CD4 count and
full blood count reports was collected. Among the 244 HIV+ participants, 17 (7.0%) had T2DM
and 111 (45.4%) had prediabetes. In models fully adjusted for age, BMI, anemia and protease
inhibitor (PI) use, BMI was positively associated with prediabetes (OR 1.07, 95% CI 1.02- 1.12)
and T2DM (OR 1.14, 95% CI 1.04-1.24). Age (OR 1.12, 95% CI 1.06-1.19) was only associated
with T2DM but not prediabetes. The age adjusted prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes were
4.1% and 45.3% respectively while age the standardized prevalence were 10.2% and 42.6%
respectively. These data indicate that HIV+ patients in Africa are experiencing a notable burden
of T2DM. A better understanding of the influences associated with the risk for T2DM and its
risk factors in HIV+ individuals in resource-limited settings is needed.
NATO’s approach to civil-military cooperation in the humanitarian setting: the comprehensive protection of conflict affected populations
Creators: name: Fletcher, Oliver
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: civil society
international cooperation
international humanitarian law
military society
NATO

description: Second semester University: Ruhr-University Bochum.
description: In an international system where state’s actions are judged principally for their lawfulness, the perpetual inability of the international community to comprehensively address the causes and consequences of violent political conflict leads to a situation in which the human rights of individuals are frequently violated. This study focuses on the working relationship of NATO and its civilian partners as part of a comprehensive approach in conflict environments. It balances empirical evidence and theoretical discussion from two of the principle stakeholders in the humanitarian setting during violent political conflict; namely international civilian organisations and military forces. By addressing pragmatic issues on the ground as well as the long term strategic outlook of those actors involved, this paper provides various recommendations on the future conduct of civil-military cooperation in order to provide an environment in which individuals can not only survive but also thrive.
Hedging, arbitrage and optimality with superlinear frictions
Creators: name: Guasoni, Paolo
name: Rásonyi, Miklós
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In a continuous-time model with multiple assets described by càdlàg processes, this paper characterizes superhedging prices, absence of arbitrage, and utility maximizing strategies, under general frictions that make execution prices arbitrarily unfavorable for high trading intensity. Such frictions induce a duality between feasible trading strategies and shadow execution prices with a martingale measure. Utility maximizing strategies exist even if arbitrage is present, because it is not scalable at will.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AAP1043 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Forces motrices ou faire-valoir? : questionner la place des victimes dans l’affaire Hissène Habré
Creators: name: Capoulade, Julie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Habré Hissène
trials
International Criminal Tribunals
victims

description: Second semester University: Université Libre de Bruxelles.
description: This study presents an analysis of the socio-political and legal causes that inspired the creation of an unprecedented internationalised criminal tribunal which recognises a very active role of international crimes’ victims into the proceedings of the innovative Extraordinary African Chambers within the courts of Senegal prosecuting ex-president of Chad Hissène Habré. The victims’ struggle to try Habré took almost twenty-two years, eventually enabling the creation of this tribunal. In recent years, various mechanisms have been developed in order to improve the plight of victims and to analyse the trend towards a more restorative approach in the international criminal justice system. This research leads us to consider the interactions of the driving forces behind these mechanisms by exploring the philanthropic, legal and political motivations of state and civil actors to appoint victims as the focal point. Keywords: victim, driving-forces, international(ised) criminal justice, actors’ strategies, schemes for action
title: Production activities and economic dependency by age and gender in Europe
title: A cross-country comparison
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hammer, Bernhard
name: Prskawetz, Alexia
name: Freund, Inga
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Alter
subject: Arbeit
subject: Hausarbeit
subject: Geschlecht
subject: Wohlfahrtsstaat
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: We compare selected European countries using an economic dependency ratio which emphasizes the role of age-specific levels of production and consumption. Our analysis reveals large differences in the age- and gender-specific level and type of production activities across selected European countries and identifies possible strategies to adjust age-specific economic behaviour to an ageing population. The cross-country differences in economic dependency of children and elderly persons are largely determined by the age at which people enter, respectively exit, the labour market. The ability of the working age population to support children and elderly persons in turn is strongly influenced by the participation of women in paid work. We also provide a measure for the age-specific production and consumption in form of unpaid household work. The inclusion of unpaid household work leads to a decrease of the gender differences in production activities and indicates that the working age population supports children and elderly persons not only through monetary transfers but also through services produced by unpaid work (e.g. childcare, cooking, cleaning. . .). Given the available data, we cannot distinguish the age profile of consumption by gender and have to assume – in case of unpaid work - that each member of the household consumes the same. Hence, our results have to be regarded as a first approximation only. Our paper aims to argue that a reform of the welfare system needs to take into account not only public transfers but also private transfers, in particular the transfers in form of goods and services produced through unpaid household work.
Advancing Research on Learning Variability. Research Agenda.
Creators: name: Tsan, Jessica M
name: Fetz-Fernandes, Gelgia
name: Cubillo, Ana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: education
childhood
learning
variability

description: Variability is commonplace in children’s development and learning. Individual children vary over time and across domains of functioning (within-person variability); groups of children learning together have heterogeneous skills, behaviors, characteristics (within-group variability); and children are expected to operate successfully in a world of divergent and ever-changing contexts (contextual variability). Yet, educational systems rarely meet the demands of these different types of variability. Research, likewise, can do much more to fully embrace learning variability across the subfields of learning and development. If education systems are to address the various and morphing needs of children, the research community must build on existing traditions in population variability, child development, and learning research to vastly expand the knowledge base of how children change and differ in learning settings, and how children come to be prepared for the multitude of contexts they will encounter throughout life. This document was developed by the Jacobs Foundation with input and feedback from more than 50 experts on learning and development. This research agenda is intended to establish a scientific basis for designing education systems and programming that consider variability, and to support a multidisciplinary research community that seeks to improve children’s learning and development globally. The agenda will be used by the Jacobs Foundation as a guiding framework for its research work and to serve as a public resource to inspire conversation among researchers and research funders on supporting and embracing learning variability in child development and education.
Exit the Way You Came
Creators: name: Berrier, Elise
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Contents: They overstay their visit; Arcadia, North Carolina; In the Cadaver Lab; Swan at Trout Lake; A fever ago; Skeleton; Build me a house; German immigrant; Build me a city; After surgery; Moving, Part I; When asked if your family was religious; Stay, static; I wanted you; The only picture of my parents I refuse to throw away; Lamentations; Moving, Part II; Registered organ donor; Father references fights with old addresses; Dear Sophie; The quieter one; Lessons on Marriage; Rocket; Elegy; Intention; She said I live in Arcadia; Whey I won’t buy this postcard with a heart on it
Lastreopsis amplissima Tindale
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Lastreopsis
Lastreopsis amplissima

description: Lastreopsis amplissima (C.Presl) Tindale, Victoria Naturalist 73: 185. 1957.
 Range: —Southeastern Venezuela, Bolivia (BE, CH, CO, LP, SC), Paraguay, and southeastern Brazil.
 Ecology: —Fairly common; terrestrial in humid forests; 800–2750 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Online Metric-Weighted Linear Representations for Robust Visual Tracking
Creators: name: Li, Xi
name: Shen, Chunhua
name: Dick, Anthony
name: Zhang, Zhongfei
name: Zhuang, Yueting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a visual tracker based on a metric-weighted linear representation of appearance. In order to capture the interdependence of different feature dimensions, we develop two online distance metric learning methods using proximity comparison information and structured output learning. The learned metric is then incorporated into a linear representation of appearance. We show that online distance metric learning significantly improves the robustness of the tracker, especially on those sequences exhibiting drastic appearance changes. In order to bound growth in the number of training samples, we design a time-weighted reservoir sampling method. Moreover, we enable our tracker to automatically perform object identification during the process of object tracking, by introducing a collection of static template samples belonging to several object classes of interest. Object identification results for an entire video sequence are achieved by systematically combining the tracking information and visual recognition at each frame. Experimental results on challenging video sequences demonstrate the effectiveness of the method for both inter-frame tracking and object identification.
description: 51 pages. Appearing in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Consistent simulation of direct-photon production in hadron collisions including associated two-jet production
Creators: name: Odaka, Shigeru
name: Kurihara, Yoshimasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed an event generator for direct-photon production in hadron collisions, including associated two-jet production in the framework of the GR@PPA event generator. The event generator consistently combines $γ$ + 2-jet production processes with the lowest-order $γ$ + jet and photon-radiation (fragmentation) processes from QCD 2-jet production using a subtraction method. The generated events can be fed to general-purpose event generators to facilitate the addition of hadronization and decay simulations. Using the obtained event information, we can simulate photon isolation and hadron-jet reconstruction at the particle (hadron) level. The simulation reasonably reproduces measurement data obtained at the LHC concerning not only the inclusive photon spectrum, but also the correlation between the photon and jet. The simulation implies that the contribution of the $γ$ + 2-jet is very large, especially in low photon-$p_{T}$ ($\lesssim$ 50 GeV) regions. Discrepancies observed at low $p_{T}$, although marginal, may indicate the necessity for the consideration of further higher-order processes. Unambiguous particle-level definition of the photon-isolation condition for the signal events is desired to be given explicitly in future measurements.
description: 22 pages, 16 figures
A numerical study of planar arrays of correlated spin islands
Creators: name: Maccari, I.
name: Maiorano, A.
name: Marinari, E.
name: Ruiz-Lorenzo, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our analysis of a system of interacting islands of XY spins on a triangular lattice that has been introduced a few years ago by Eley et al. to account for the phenomenology in experiments on tunable arrays of proximity coupled long superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junctions. The main features of the model are the separation of a local and a global interaction energy scale and the mesoscopic character of the spin islands. Upon lowering the temperature the model undergoes two crossovers corresponding to an increasing phase coherence on a single island and to the onset of global coherence across the array; the latter is a thermodynamical phase transition in the Ising universality class. The dependence of the second transition on the island edge-to-edge spacing is related to the proximity-effect of the coupling constant.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in EPJ B
Relevance of Negative Links in Graph Partitioning: A Case Study Using Votes From the European Parliament
Creators: name: Mendonça, Israel
name: Figueiredo, Rosa
name: Labatut, Vincent
name: Michelon, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we want to study the informative value of negative links in signed complex networks. For this purpose, we extract and analyze a collection of signed networks representing voting sessions of the European Parliament (EP). We first process some data collected by the VoteWatch Europe Website for the whole 7 th term (2009-2014), by considering voting similarities between Members of the EP to define weighted signed links. We then apply a selection of community detection algorithms, designed to process only positive links, to these data. We also apply Parallel Iterative Local Search (Parallel ILS), an algorithm recently proposed to identify balanced partitions in signed networks. Our results show that, contrary to the conclusions of a previous study focusing on other data, the partitions detected by ignoring or considering the negative links are indeed remarkably different for these networks. The relevance of negative links for graph partitioning therefore is an open question which should be further explored.
description: in 2nd European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC), Sep 2015, Karlskrona, Sweden
Labour migration from Bangladesh to Lebanon: challenges and opportunities
Creators: name: Akhtab, Jaynab
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: migrant workers
migrations
Bangladesh
Lebanon

description: Second semester University: Saint Joseph University, Beirut.
description: Globalization along with its tremendous opportunities for international migration brings forth many new challenges to the migration management. In order to cope with the new challenges in global migration process all relevant principal actors i.e. sending countries, receiving countries and international community must work in collaboration. Bangladesh is highly dependent on labour migration. Except for a few special years, almost every year, the rate of migration from Bangladesh has been increasing. In the year 2016 alone a total of 757,731 Bangladeshi migrant workers migrated for overseas employments; and among them 15095 went to Lebanon. Despite various affirmative action being undertaken as regards to migration management in both Bangladesh and Lebanon, the Bangladesh migrant workers face enormous challenges in Lebanon. This study was formulated to examine the potential challenges and opportunities of the international migration of Bangladeshi workers to Lebanon. With that aim, the study examined the labor migration process of Bangladeshi migrant workers from Bangladesh to Lebanon; the legislative and administrative framework in both countries - Bangladesh and Lebanon on safeguarding the interest and rights of migrant workers; the social and economic losses of the migrant workers and families from migration alongside its benefits. At the same time, based on above mentioned studies and analysis, recommendations on different possible ways of decreasing the negative consequences of unsafe labor migration as well as of safeguarding the protection of Bangladeshi migrant workers have been solicited.
Observations of the boundary currents and AMOC at 11°S - the TRACOS array
Creators: name: Hummels, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: AMOC, physical oceanography, observations, TRACOS array

description: Abstract:
 The upper-ocean circulation of the tropical Atlantic is a complex superposition of thermohaline and wind-driven flow components. This means that the northward AMOC branch in the tropics is e.g. superimposed by the shallower overturning associated with the wind-driven Subtropical cells, which connect the subduction sites of the subtropics with climate-relevant eastern equatorial upwelling regions. The TRACOS array aims at observing most of the TRopical Atlantic Circulation & Overturning at 11°S. At the western boundary five tall moorings were deployed off Brazil between 2000 and 2004 to monitor the variability of the strong western boundary current (WBC) system - more specifically, the North Brazil Undercurrent (NBUC) and the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC). Due to the success of this array, a similar mooring constellation has been installed off Brazil since July 2013 until now. In addition to the moorings, numerous ship-sections along 5°S and 11°S are accomplished. At the eastern side the Angola current is observed since 2013 with 1-2 moorings. Simultaneously to the boundary observing systems, the observational program at 11°S was extended in 2013 to observe the basin wide circulation: Bottom pressure sensors (BPRs) were deployed on both sides of the basin. The BPRs and all ship surveys are used to estimate AMOC variability at 11°S on seasonal to interannual time scales. Especially, in combination with other AMOC arrays or embedded in the TAOS or PIRATA programs, this array has great potential for understanding mechanisms relevant for tropical Atlantic variability, as well as meridional coherence and long-term changes of AMOC variability.
Social Context Buffers the Activating Effects of Caffeine on State Hostility
Creators: name: Tucker, Zachary T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Caffeine is often used as an energy booster in the workplace. Although caffeine increases
activation and energy (Welsh, Ellis, Christian, & Mai, 2014), it may also have deleterious
effects. In this thesis, I argue that caffeine use in the workplace may lead to experiences of state
hostility. Specifically, I integrate aspects of self-regulatory models and psychological
constructionist theories of emotion to argue that caffeine consumption will lead to experiences of
state hostility through activation when the social context is perceived as negative. In a field study
of 171 nurses from a major medical center in the Southwestern United States, employees
reported whether they perceived their work environment as positive or negative at the end of a
12-hour shift. Additionally, they reported the number of caffeinated beverages they had
consumed that day and completed measures of activation and state hostility. Preliminary
analyses suggested that caffeine lead to higher levels of activation (and experiences of state
hostility, in turn) when the social context was negative than when it was positive. These findings
suggest that social context acts to buffer the activating effects of caffeine on state hostility in the
workplace.
NMSSM interpretations of the observed Higgs signal
Creators: name: Domingo, Florian
name: Weiglein, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the properties of the signal that was discovered in the Higgs searches at the LHC are consistent so far with the Higgs boson of the Standard Model (SM), it is crucial to investigate to what extent other interpretations that may correspond to very different underlying physics are compatible with the current results. We use the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) as a well-motivated theoretical framework with a sufficiently rich Higgs phenomenology to address this question, making use of the public tools HiggsBounds and HiggsSignals in order to take into account comprehensive experimental information on both the observed signal and on the existing limits from Higgs searches at LEP, the TeVatron and the LHC. We find that besides the decoupling limit resulting in a single light state with SM-like properties, several other configurations involving states lighter or quasi-degenerate with the one at about 125 GeV turn out to give a competitive fit to the Higgs data and other existing constraints. We discuss the phenomenology and possible future experimental tests of those scenarios, and compare the features of specific scenarios chosen as examples with those arising from a more global fit.
description: 46 pages, 23 figures. Version accepted by JHEP
title: Queer Affect Theory
title: Zum Verhältnis von Affekt und Trieb bei Sedgwick und Freud
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rehberg, Peter
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Queer Theory
subject: Affekt
subject: Psychoanalyse
subject: Sexualität
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Im Feld von Queer Theory, das entscheidende Impulse für die neuere Affekt-Diskussion lieferte, bleibt der Status des Affekts oft ungeklärt. Dieses lässt sich durch eine Kontrastierung der Affekt-Theorie Sedgwicks mit Freud nachholen. Wie die Lektüre zeigt, beerbt der Begriff des Affekts in mancher Hinsicht den des Triebes und liefert so Anhaltspunkte dafür, die Psychoanalyse affekttheoretisch auszulegen. Ausgehend von dieser Nähe der Diskurse zueinander, lässt sich aber auch herausstellen, wo Affekt-Theorie nicht mehr der Psychoanalyse folgt. Jenseits psychoanalytischer Mythologien beansprucht sie nicht länger, Endlichkeit und Gewalt als Bedingungen menschlicher Existenz zu verhandeln. // Within the field of queer theory, which has delivered important impulses for more recent discussions of affect, the status of affect nonetheless often remains vague. This shortcoming can be responded to by juxtaposing Sedgwick’s affect theory with Freud. As a close reading of their texts shows, the concept of affect in some ways inherits the concept of the drive. This allows for a reading of psychoanalysis as affect theory. Taking the proximity of these discourses as a point of departure, we then see, however, where affect theory departs from psychoanalysis. Moving beyond psychoanalytic mythologies, affect theory no longer claims to address finitude and violence as conditions of human existence.
Megalastrum alticola M. Kessler & A. R. Sm., Amer. Fern J.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Megalastrum
Megalastrum alticola

description: Megalastrum alticola M.Kessler & A.R.Sm., Amer. Fern J. 96(1): 36, f. 1 A–C. 2006.
 Range: — Ecuador to Bolivia (CO).
 Ecology: —Locally fairly common; terrestrial in humid forests and ravines; 2200–3000 m.
 Notes: —Differs from M. subincisum (Willd.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran by broader costal and costular scales (scales>10 cells wide vs. <10 cells wide), and from M. rupicola by larger size with more finely dissected blades, and larger rhizome and petiolar scales (13–25 × 0.5–1 mm vs. 8–17 × 0.3–0.8 mm). Generally occurs at higher elevations than most other large Bolivian megalastrums except M. aureisquama. Two of the four known collections have malformed sporangia, but whether this is a result of hybridization or of environmental stress at high elevations is unknown.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
North American Female Cartoonists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Creators: name: Tolleson, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: My thesis “North American Female Cartoonists of the 19th and 20th Centuries” will discuss the lives, careers, and contributions of a cohort of American female cartoonists who played a prominent role in cartooning and comic production from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. It will examine and discuss the ways that female cartoonists were able to pursue cartooning as a means of political, financial, and artistic freedom despite living in a very restrictive gender-structured society. It will also discuss how female cartoonists have been systematically erased from history due to the rebuilding of gender roles in the aftermath of World War II.
The elimination of child labour: applying a rights-based approach
Creators: name: Byrne, Suzanne
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: child labour
Kenya

description: Second semester University: Abo Akademi University
description: Child labour is a major obstacle to the development of many countries today. It is only recently that development is being conceptualised in terms of the progression of human rights. It is even more recent that dialogue and policies for the elimination of child labour are using a rights-based approach. In this thesis, the application of a right-based approach to child labour is explored. Child labour is inextricably linked to the realisation of education for all and to poverty reduction. Both of these are fundamental aims of EU development policy. Thus, this study is focused on analysing the role of the EU in eliminating child labour and how a rights-based approach to development cooperation should be applied to this problem. The example of Kenya is used to demonstrate how the elimination of child labour is being conducted in a Sub-Saharan African state which is part of the Cotonou Agreement with the EU. The use of the enhanced role of political dialogue in the revised version of the Cotonou Agreement is presented as one way for the EU to accelerate its efforts in this area. The adoption of a comprehensive policy for the elimination of child labour with an embedded rights-based approach is recommended for both the EU in its development cooperation and for Kenya.
Megalastrum aureisquama M. Kessler & A. R. Sm., Amer. Fern J.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Megalastrum
Megalastrum aureisquama

description: Megalastrum aureisquama M.Kessler & A.R.Sm., Amer. Fern J. 96(1): 37, f. 1 H–K. 2006.
 Range: — Peru, Bolivia (CO).
 Ecology: —Locally fairly common; terrestrial in humid forests and ravines; 1000–1700(–3200) m.
 Notes: —Rhizome and basal petiolar scales very broad, shiny, dark golden-brown, entire to finely serrate. Similar, but smaller scales are found on the rachises, costae, and costules. Most specimens below 2000 m are glabrous on the adaxial blade surfaces, whereas most high-elevation specimens have long hairs on the costules and veins. Related to M. subincisum, but that has much narrower, darker, and more strongly denticulate rhizome and petiolar scales. This species, M. alticola, and M. praetermissum are all variable and sometimes difficult to distinguish.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Implementation and verification of different ECC mitigation designs for BRAMs in flash-based FPGAs
Creators: name: Yang, Zhenlei
name: Wang, Xiaohui
name: Zhang, Zhangang
name: Liu, Jie
name: Su, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Embedded RAM blocks (BRAMs) in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are susceptible to single event effects (SEEs) induced by environmental factors such as cosmic rays, heavy ions, alpha particles and so on. As technology scales, the issue will be more serious. In order to tackle this issue, two different error correcting codes (ECCs), the shortened Hamming codes and shortened BCH codes, are investigated in this paper. The concrete design methods of the codes are presented. Also, the codes are both implemented in flash-based FPGAs. Finally, the synthesis report and simulation results are presented in the paper. Moreover, the heavy-ion experiments are performed, the experimental results indicate that the error cross-section using the shortened Hamming codes can be reduced by two orders of magnitude compared with the device without mitigation, and no errors are discovered in the experiments for the device using the shortened BCH codes.