cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
RURAL GOVERNMENT CAPACITY: INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY AND LOCAL LEADERSHIP
Creators: name: Reid, J. Norman
name: Reid, J. Norman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Political Economy
subject: capacity
subject: capacity-building
subject: technical assistance
subject: rural governments
subject: local governments
subject: intergovernmental relations
subject: decentralization
subject: leadership
subject: local government finance
subject: authority

description: Governmental capacity consists of three major components. First, institutions at all levels, central, local, public, and private, must have sufficient authority to undertake their assigned roles. Second, adequate financing is necessary to implement governmental responsibilities. Third, good leadership is needed to assure that authority and resources are used wisely. Governments seeking to decentralize must consider many fundamental issues regarding allocations of authority and finances, the strength of local leadership, and the structuring of central institutions.
description: Also numbered as AGES 840507.
Dois é bom, três é demais? Princípio da conexão mais estreita, princípio da protecção do trabalhador e cláusula de desvio. A propósito de uma decisão do Tribunal de Justiça da União Europeia em matéria de lei aplicável ao contrato de trabalho internaciona
Creators: name: Fernandes, Maria João Matias
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2015

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 2 n. Especial (2015): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Bernardo da Gama Lobo Xavier
Synchronization of Coupled Kuramoto Oscillators under Resource Constraints
Creators: name: Wiley, Keith A.
name: Mucha, Peter J.
name: Bassett, Danielle S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fundamental understanding of synchronized behavior in multi-agent systems can be acquired by studying analytically tractable Kuramoto models. However, such models typically diverge from many real systems whose dynamics evolve under non-negligible resource constraints. Here we construct a system of coupled Kuramoto oscillators that consume or produce resources as a function of their oscillation frequency. At high coupling, we observe strongly synchronized dynamics, whereas at low coupling we observe independent oscillator dynamics, as expected from standard Kuramoto models. For intermediate coupling, which typically induces a partially synchronized state, we empirically observe that (and theoretically explain why) the system can exist in either (i) a state in which the order parameter oscillates in time, or (ii) a state in which multiple synchronization states are simultaneously stable. Whether (i) or (ii) occurs depends upon whether the oscillators consume or produce resources, respectively. Relevant for systems as varied as coupled neurons and social groups, our study lays important groundwork for future efforts to develop quantitative predictions of synchronized dynamics for systems embedded in environments marked by sparse resources.
description: 8 pages, 5 figure, submitted to Physical Review E
Cláusula de permanência, comissão de serviço e suspensão do contrato de trabalho – três institutos de difícil articulação?
Creators: name: Gomes, Maria Irene
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2015

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 2 n. Especial (2015): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Bernardo da Gama Lobo Xavier
EMPLOYMENT, INGENUITY, AND FAMILY LIFE: RAJASTHANI WOMEN IN DELHI, INDIA
Creators: name: Per-Lee, Dianne Ashley
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This study is concerned with how Rajasthani, migrant women living in Delhi maintain their respectability while improving their families' standards of living through generating income. Before this problem could be studied other related questions had to be answered. What makes a woman respected in her community? How do women who go out for work adapt their behavior to meet the North Indian requirements for female isolation? How strong is the stigma against women seeking employment? Are there times in a woman's life or the development of the households she belongs to that family responsibilities take precedence over making money?; This research is also concerned with relationships within the family and how they change over time. Relatives affect all the decisions that a woman makes, and seeking employment is no exception. The methods used for this research were a pre-study, an interview schedule, and participant observation. A Delhi resettlement community of Rajasthani migrants was selected and the pre-study, discussions and interviews were carried out to test the relevance of the questions. The research entered a new phase when a standardized interview schedule was composed and administered to a random sample of households. Participant observation was used throughout the year's field work. A survey of all households in one resettlement block was taken for a general view of the area. Several conclusions can be drawn as a result of this research. Women who need income for the basic needs of their families will go out to work and other women will work to improve conditions for their children. But whatever the motivation for employment, the women will abide by the community's standards and customs for female behavior. While a woman's children are young she will stay home and find income producing activities that can be done along with childcare. One group of women was encouraged to work: widows. These women were often the head of a household that included grown sons and their wives. The strength and ingenuity of Rajasthani migrant women is an untapped source in this community.
Soba Expedition. Preliminary report on the archaeological excavation before the construction of the storage house
Creators: name: Drzewiecki, Mariusz
name: Michalik, Tomasz
name: Ciesielska, Joanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant

description: Preliminary report from excavations conducted in 2020 before the construction of the storage house at Soba East, the capital of the medieval kingdom of Alwa (Central Sudan)
Trophoniella Hartman 1959
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Terebellida
Flabelligeridae
Trophoniella

description: Trophoniella Hartman, 1959 (key: Salazar-Vallejo 2012b) avicularia Caullery, 1944a: Irian Jaya, between Loslos and Broken Island, Salawatti, Indonesia. NML 1598 (redescr. Salazar-Vallejo 2012b) intoshi Caullery, 1944a: SW Flores, Indonesia. NML 1600 sibogae Caullery, 1944a: Pulau Rote, Indonesia. NML 1599
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
Additional file 1 of The effects of seed from Linum usitatissimum cultivar with increased phenylpropanoid compounds and hydrolysable tannin in a high cholesterol-fed rabbit
Creators: name: Bożena Króliczewska
name: Miśta, Dorota
name: Ziarnik, Angelika
name: Żuk, Magdalena
name: Szopa, Jan
name: Pecka-Kiełb, Ewa
name: Zawadzki, Wojciech
name: Króliczewski, Jarosław
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Table S1. Biochemical composition of W86 seeds used in this study (mg g− 1) in dry weight. The results are reported as a mean ± SD. (n = 4). Table S2. The chemical analyses of basal diet. Table S3. Fatty acid composition of the flaxseed used in this study (g/kg FW*). Table S4. Average values of body weight and feed intake during the experimental period. The results are reported as a mean ± SD, (n = 7). (DOCX 38 kb)
LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR OF THE DIRECTORS OF EDUCATION, MALAYSIA
Creators: name: Ramli, Isa Bin
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The Problem. The problem was to determine, analyze, and compare the self-perceived and subordinate administrators-perceived leadership behavior of the State Directors of Education, Malaysia, as measured by the Educational Administrative Style Diagnosis Test (EASDT). The problem was divided.
Detecting scaling in phase transitions on the truncated Heisenberg algebra
Creators: name: Prekrat, Dragan
name: Todorović-Vasović, Kristina Neli
name: Ranković, Dragana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct and analyze a phase diagram of a self-interacting matrix field coupled to curvature of the non-commutative truncated Heisenberg space. The model reduces to the renormalizable Grosse-Wulkenhaar model in an infinite matrix size limit and exhibits a purely non-commutative non-uniformly ordered phase. Particular attention is given to scaling of model's parameters. We additionally provide the infinite matrix size limit for the disordered to ordered phase transition line.
description: v2: Paper restructured. New data and additional section added. Some notation changed. Major revision. v3: Typos from convention change corrected. Three figures added, one removed. Minor text changes
ADMISSIONS CRITERIA AND PRACTICES FOR UNDERGRADUATE NONTRADITIONAL STUDENTS: A STUDY OF DIFFERENCES
Creators: name: Saltman, Lenore E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate admissions criteria and practices for nontraditional applicants to undergraduate degree programs. A nontraditional applicant was defined as one who had not been enrolled in a post-secondary degree program for three or more years. A traditional applicant was defined as one who entered the institution directly from secondary school and attended the institution full-time. Four null hypotheses provided the structure and framework for this research. A survey instrument was developed and directed to Deans of Admissions in the 332 baccalaureate degree granting institutions in the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The instrument was divided into three sections: Institutional Data, Admissions Data, and Admissions Policy. The Institutional Data section requested information about the type and size of the institution, and numbers of applicants and admittances of nontraditional applicants. Admissions data were gathered on academic waivers, substitutions and additions of assessment techniques other than academic, and decision-making responsibilities for waivers and assessments. The policy information focused on whether or not policies existed for nontraditional applicants, approaches to the admissions of these applicants, and possibilities for future uses of assessments in admitting this population. The instrument was evaluated for face validity by a panel of experts from The American University and for reliability by a field test to seven institutions outside the Middle States area. The findings demonstrated that there was a pattern of differences between types of institutions. By more than 10 percent the public institutions are more likely to waive academic admissions criteria for nontraditional applicants. They are also more likely to substitute assessment techniques for the waived criteria. However, the private institutions are more likely to add assessment techniques to the established academic admissions criteria. The pattern continues with the policy information. Fifty percent more of the private institutions review nontraditional applicants differently from traditional applicants, and fifty percent more of the private institutions have written guidelines for the admission of nontraditional applicants. This investigation has established a data base from which further research can be developed. It is clear that admissions personnel are aware that the nontraditional applicant cannot always be evaluated in the same manner as the traditional applicant. It is this "different manner" of evaluation which must be critically analyzed in order to ensure that institutional admissions criteria and practices provide equity of access for all applicants.
PRICE DISCOVERY FOR US AND EC CORN GLUTEN FEED AND RELATED MARKETS
Creators: name: Boyd, Milton S.
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Boyd, Milton S.
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: causality tests
subject: barley prices
subject: corn gluten feed prices
subject: multipliers
subject: price discovery
subject: soybean meal prices
subject: time series

description: The dynamic relationship of US and EC prices of corn gluten feed and related markets are investigated using time series models. Results show prices for Rotterdam corn gluten feed and soybean meal markets are instantaneously related, and that these commodities behave as strong substitutes. Results also show prices for these commodities are first discovered in Europe, rather than in the US. Rotterdam corn gluten feed and Rotterdam soybean meal behave as weak substitutes for West German barley. Thus, the results indicate that corn gluten feed acts more like a protein supplement than a feed grain or energy substitute.
ADMISSIONS CRITERIA AND PRACTICES FOR UNDERGRADUATE NONTRADITIONAL STUDENTS: A STUDY OF DIFFERENCES
Creators: name: Saltman, Lenore E.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate admissions criteria and practices for nontraditional applicants to undergraduate degree programs. A nontraditional applicant was defined as one who had not been enrolled in a post-secondary degree program for three or more years. A traditional applicant was defined as one who entered the institution directly from secondary school and attended the institution full-time. Four null hypotheses provided the structure and framework for this research. A survey instrument was developed and directed to Deans of Admissions in the 332 baccalaureate degree granting institutions in the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The instrument was divided into three sections: Institutional Data, Admissions Data, and Admissions Policy. The Institutional Data section requested information about the type and size of the institution, and numbers of applicants and admittances of nontraditional applicants. Admissions data were gathered on academic waivers, substitutions and additions of assessment techniques other than academic, and decision-making responsibilities for waivers and assessments. The policy information focused on whether or not policies existed for nontraditional applicants, approaches to the admissions of these applicants, and possibilities for future uses of assessments in admitting this population. The instrument was evaluated for face validity by a panel of experts from The American University and for reliability by a field test to seven institutions outside the Middle States area. The findings demonstrated that there was a pattern of differences between types of institutions. By more than 10 percent the public institutions are more likely to waive academic admissions criteria for nontraditional applicants. They are also more likely to substitute assessment techniques for the waived criteria. However, the private institutions are more likely to add assessment techniques to the established academic admissions criteria. The pattern continues with the policy information. Fifty percent more of the private institutions review nontraditional applicants differently from traditional applicants, and fifty percent more of the private institutions have written guidelines for the admission of nontraditional applicants. This investigation has established a data base from which further research can be developed. It is clear that admissions personnel are aware that the nontraditional applicant cannot always be evaluated in the same manner as the traditional applicant. It is this "different manner" of evaluation which must be critically analyzed in order to ensure that institutional admissions criteria and practices provide equity of access for all applicants.
Endogenizing Loan Activity in an Inventory Model for U.S. Corn
Creators: name: Schouten, Duane
name: Meyers, William H.
name: Schouten, Duane
name: Meyers, William H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Crop Production/Industries

description: This paper presents an analysis for endogenizing loan activity in an inventory model for U.S. corn. Equations are specified which estimate ending commercial stocks, total government loans, and nonrecourse loan redemptions. Abetter understanding of loan activity and its influence on ending stocks will help in evaluating government loan outlays.
Entanglements in Quiescent and Sheared Polymer Melts
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Ryoichi
name: Onuki, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We visualize entanglements in polymer melts using molecular dynamics simulation. A bead at an entanglement interacts persistently for long times with the non-bonded beads (those excluding the adjacent ones in the same chain). The interaction energy of each bead with the non-bonded beads is averaged over a time interval $τ$ much longer than microscopic times but shorter than the onset time of tube constraints $τ_{\rm e}$. Entanglements can then be detected as hot spots consisting of several beads with relatively large values of the time-averaged interaction energy. We next apply a shear flow with rate much faster than the entangle motion. With increasing strain the chains take zigzag shapes and a half of the hot spots become bent. The chains are first stretched as a network but, as the bends approach the chain ends, disentanglements subsequently occur, leading to stress overshoot observed experimentally.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
A MODEL FOR ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION: METABOLIC STUDIES
Creators: name: Church, James Patterson
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of the study was to determine the extent to which blood pressures and tissue lipid levels are manipulated by dietary control of low levels of essential fatty acids in rat strains used as models of hypertensive and normotensive man. Analytical procedures included gravimetric total lipids, colorimetric cholesterol and phospholipids, fluorimetric triglycerides, and gas-liquid chromatographic fatty acids. Samples taken for analyses were plasma, liver, and kidney. The lipid extraction method employed a mixture of chloroform and methanol. The fraction separation method was solvent elution from silicic acid columns. The procedure for measuring blood pressures employed a physiograph and inflatable tail cuff. Diets for weanling spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar/Kyoto rats (WKY) consisted of purified components, including corn oil at levels of 0, 1, and 5% by weight. The feeding period lasted 14 weeks. Total lipids tended to be lower in plasma, liver, and kidney of the SHR than the WKY. Liver triglyceride and kidney cholesterol and phospholipid (PL) were lower with liver PL higher in SHR than in WKY. Total individual fatty acids in plasma and in neutral lipid and PL fractions of liver and kidney exhibited several strain and diet differences. Among these were generally lower levels of essential fatty acids in the liver fractions and higher levels in the kidney fractions and in plasma of SHR and in WKY. These findings are consistent with a high metabolic rate in the SHR and suggest defective transport of essential fatty acids from the liver. Monounsaturated fatty acids were generally lower in SHR than in WKY fractions, suggesting either low desaturating enzymatic activity or a high level of desaturation with subsequent elongation of the monounsaturated fatty acids in the SHR.
Glycinde Muller 1858
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Goniadidae
Glycinde

description: Glycinde Müller, 1858 (key: Böggemann, 2005) sibogana Augener & Pettibone in Pettibone, 1970a: Malay Archipelago. NML 1927 (= Bathyglycinde sibogana fide Böggemann 2005)
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
A MODEL FOR ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION: METABOLIC STUDIES
Creators: name: Church, James Patterson
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology

description: The purpose of the study was to determine the extent to which blood pressures and tissue lipid levels are manipulated by dietary control of low levels of essential fatty acids in rat strains used as models of hypertensive and normotensive man. Analytical procedures included gravimetric total lipids, colorimetric cholesterol and phospholipids, fluorimetric triglycerides, and gas-liquid chromatographic fatty acids. Samples taken for analyses were plasma, liver, and kidney. The lipid extraction method employed a mixture of chloroform and methanol. The fraction separation method was solvent elution from silicic acid columns. The procedure for measuring blood pressures employed a physiograph and inflatable tail cuff. Diets for weanling spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar/Kyoto rats (WKY) consisted of purified components, including corn oil at levels of 0, 1, and 5% by weight. The feeding period lasted 14 weeks. Total lipids tended to be lower in plasma, liver, and kidney of the SHR than the WKY. Liver triglyceride and kidney cholesterol and phospholipid (PL) were lower with liver PL higher in SHR than in WKY. Total individual fatty acids in plasma and in neutral lipid and PL fractions of liver and kidney exhibited several strain and diet differences. Among these were generally lower levels of essential fatty acids in the liver fractions and higher levels in the kidney fractions and in plasma of SHR and in WKY. These findings are consistent with a high metabolic rate in the SHR and suggest defective transport of essential fatty acids from the liver. Monounsaturated fatty acids were generally lower in SHR than in WKY fractions, suggesting either low desaturating enzymatic activity or a high level of desaturation with subsequent elongation of the monounsaturated fatty acids in the SHR.
Modeling Stock Market Based on Genetic Cellular Automata
Creators: name: Zhou, Tao
name: Zhou, Pei-Ling
name: Wang, Bing-Hong
name: Tang, Zi-Nan
name: Liu, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An artificial stock market is established with the modeling method and ideas of cellular automata. Cells are used to represent stockholders, who have the capability of self-teaching and are affected by the investing history of the neighboring ones. The neighborhood relationship among the stockholders is the expanded Von Neumann relationship, and the interaction among them is realized through selection operator and crossover operator. Experiment shows that the large events are frequent in the fluctuations of the stock price generated by the artificial stock market when compared with a normal process and the price returns distribution is a Levy distribution in the central part followed by an approximately exponential truncation.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, to be published in
ECONOMICS OF ALTERNATIVE BEEF DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Diaz, Jose L.
name: Farris, Donald E.
name: Litzenberg, Kerry
name: Diaz, Jose L.
name: Farris, Donald E.
name: Litzenberg, Kerry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: To estimate the least cost marketing, five alternative beef distribution systems were budgeted for ten regions in the State of Texas, and analyzed by a nnati-dimension linear programming model. Boxed beef was clearly the leading system, accounting for 75 percent of volume; but due to varying wage rates, all five systems were in least cost solutions. including centrally packaged retail cuts. Cost differences were small, therefore, other considerations can dominate the choice of systems.
String loop corrections to the universal hypermultiplet
Creators: name: Antoniadis, Ignatios
name: Minasian, Ruben
name: Theisen, Stefan
name: Vanhove, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study loop corrections to the universal dilaton supermultiplet for type IIA strings compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds. We show that the corresponding quaternionic kinetic terms receive non-trivial one-loop contributions proportional to the Euler number of the Calabi-Yau manifold, while the higher-loop corrections can be absorbed by field redefinitions. The corrected metric is no longer Kahler. Our analysis implies in particular that the Calabi-Yau volume is renormalized by loop effects which are present even in higher orders, while there are also one-loop corrections to the Bianchi identities for the NS and RR field strengths.
description: 30 pages, harvmac, 1 figure. v2: minor typos corrected. Version to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Jet Collimation in Action: Re-alignment on Kiloparsec Scales in 3C279
Creators: name: Homan, D. C.
name: Lister, M. L.
name: Kellermann, K. I.
name: Cohen, M. H.
name: Ros, E.
name: Zensus, J. A.
name: Kadler, M.
name: Vermeulen, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a change in the trajectory of a well studied jet component of the quasar 3C279. The component changes in apparent projected speed and direction, and we find it to be moving with a Lorentz factor gamma >~ 15 at an initial angle of ~ 1 kiloparsec (deprojected) along the jet. While the change in trajectory on the sky appears to be 26 degrees the intrinsic change is ~ 28 and after the change to be D >~ 23. Comparison to independent constraints on the Doppler factor suggest that the energy in the radiating particles cannot greatly exceed the energy in the magnetic field unless the volume filling factor is very much less than one.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, Accepted by ApJ Letters. Replaced version adds a comment to the discussion
Reflexões acerca da concorrência entre risco e culpa do lesado na responsabilidade civil por acidente de viação
Creators: name: Trigo, Maria Da Graça
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2015

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 2 n. Especial (2015): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Bernardo da Gama Lobo Xavier
PATTERNS OF SOCIAL IDENTITY AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AMONG FIVE VENEZUELAN GRADUATE STUDENTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C
Creators: name: Lipp, Ellen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This study is an investigation of the social interactions in English and the evidenced improvement in spoken English of five Venezuelan graduate students enrolled in a university English as a second language program. It shows that five individuals differed in both the frequency and the kind of social interactions engaged in during a ten month period, and that these patterns of social interactions are reflected in the linguistic data. The five Venezuelans were in their twenties, from Caracas and of similar middle-class background. All had limited English skills upon arrival in the U.S., which had occurred no more than three months before the study began. Data were collected over two consecutive university semesters, and consisted of twelve taped interviews that recaptured accounts of the five students' social interactions, as well as less systematic participant-observation, journals, and other data sources. Three kinds of social interactional identities are presented: anonymous, where interactants act impersonally; anchored, where interactants disclose some information about themselves; and personal, where interactants disclose considerable personal information. Varying reported participatory styles or superficial behaviors are identified which serve to achieve, impede or by-pass social contact with Anglo-Americans. Several reported participatory strategies or systematic behavior styles are discussed including interacting with the "right" Americans; offering to help an American; and establishing interactional identities with interactants to change anonymous to anchored, and anchored to personal indentities. Linguistic data analyzed are participants' use of parenthetic expressions (qualifiers and hedges) and evidenced mastery of three morphemes in obligatory contexts: the plural noun ending, past tense irregular forms, and third person present tense verb endings. Comparison of the five participants' use of morphemes and hedges shows sufficient differences in evidenced mastery by the participants to allow the conclusion that the impact of social interaction on evidenced L2 learning is stronger than previously believed because patterns of individuals' social interactions are shown to co-occur with linguistic patterns. The thesis ends with a presentation of recommendations for English as a second language programs that grow out of these research findings.
Polymorphic PtBi2: Growth, structure and superconducting properties
Creators: name: Shipunov, G.
name: Kovalchuk, I.
name: Piening, B. R.
name: Labracherie, V.
name: Veyrat, A.
name: Wolf, D.
name: Lubk, A.
name: Subakti, S.
name: Giraud, R.
name: Dufouleur, J.
name: Shokri, S.
name: Caglieris, F.
name: Hess, C.
name: Efremov, D. V.
name: Büchner, B.
name: Aswartham, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PtBi$_2$ is a polymorphic system with interesting electronic properties. Here we report optimized crystal growth and structural characterization of pyrite-type and trigonal modification of PtBi$_2$. Selected area electron diffraction, X-ray powder diffraction and further Rietveld refinement confirms that trigonal PtBi$_2$ crystallizes in non-centrosymmetric $P31m$ space group, pyrite-type PtBi$_2$ in $Pa\bar{3}$ space group. Series of Pt$_{1-x}$Rh$_x$Bi$_2$ samples was obtained for $x=0, 0.03, 0.35$ in the trigonal PtBi$_2$ structure. These Pt$_{1-x}$Rh$_x$Bi$_2$ compounds become superconducting where critical temperature increases from $T_c=600$ mK for $x=0$ up to $T_c=2.7$ K for $x=0.35$. Furthermore we calculate the electronic band structure, using the structure parameters obtained. The calculated density of states (DOS) shows a minimum for the stochiometric compound at the Fermi level. These findings warrant further research by broader array of experimental techniques, as well as the effect of the substitution on the non-trivial band structure.
The six and eight-vertex models revisited
Creators: name: Baxter, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elliott Lieb's ice-type models opened up the whole field of solvable models in statistical mechanics. Here we discuss the ``commuting transfer matrix'' $T, Q$ equations for these models, writing them in a more explicit and transparent notation that we believe offers new insights. The approach manifests the relationship between the six-vertex and chiral Potts models, and between the eight-vertex and Kashiwara-Miwa models.
description: 30 pages, 6 figures
O acórdão n.º 602/2013 do Tribunal Constitucional e as fontes de regulação do contrato de trabalho
Creators: name: Monteiro, Luís Miguel
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2015

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 2 n. Especial (2015): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Bernardo da Gama Lobo Xavier
Overview of the Static World Policy Simulation (SWOPSIM) Modeling Framework
Creators: name: Roningen, Vernon
name: Dixit, Praveen
name: Sullivan, John
name: Hart, Tracy
name: Roningen, Vernon
name: Dixit, Praveen
name: Sullivan, John
name: Hart, Tracy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: trade model
subject: simulation model
subject: SWOPSIM

description: This document provides a brief overview of the SWOPSIM modeling framework for a potential user. Source documents for topics are cited and an example of model construction is presented.
Effects of rotation on the helium burning shell source in accreting white dwarfs
Creators: name: Yoon, S. -C.
name: Langer, N.
name: Scheithauer, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of rotation on the behavior of the helium burning shell source in accreting carbon-oxygen white dwarfs, in the context of the single degenerate Chandrasekhar mass progenitor scenario for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). We model the evolution of helium accreting white dwarfs of initially 1 Msun, assuming four different constant accretion rates (2, 3, 5 and 10 times10^{-7} Msun/yr). In a one-dimensional approximation, we compute the mass accretion and subsequent nuclear fusion of helium into carbon and oxygen, as well as angular momentum accretion, angular momentum transport inside the white dwarf, and rotationally induced chemical mixing. Our models show two major effects of rotation: a) The helium burning nuclear shell source in the rotating models is much more stable than in corresponding non-rotating models -- which increases the likelihood of accreting white dwarfs to reach the stage of central carbon ignition. This effect is mainly due to rotationally induced mixing at the CO/He interface which widens the shell source, and due to the centrifugal force lowering the density and degeneracy at the shell source location. b) The C/O-ratio in the layers which experience helium shell burning -- which may affect the energy of a SN Ia explosion -- is strongly decreased by the rotationally induced mixing of alpha-particles into the carbon-rich layers. We discuss implications of our results for the evolution of SNe Ia progenitors.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, to appear in A&A
Bonuania Pillai 1965
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Hesionidae
Bonuania

description: Bonuania Pillai, 1965 parva Pillai, 1965: Bonuan, Dagapan City, Luzon, Philippine Islands. RTS 15, NHM AN03 1965.33.1
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
BeppoSAX average spectra of Seyfert galaxies
Creators: name: Malizia, A.
name: Bassani, L.
name: Stephen, J. B.
name: Di Cocco, G.
name: Fiore, F.
name: Dean, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the average 3-200 keV spectra of Seyfert galaxies of type 1 and 2, using data obtained with BeppoSAX. The average Seyfert 1 spectrum is well-fitted by a power law continuum with photon spectral index Gamma~1.9, a Compton reflection component R~0.6-1 (depending on the inclination angle between the line of sight and the reflecting material) and a high-energy cutoff at around 200 keV; there is also an iron line at 6.4 keV characterized by an equivalent width of 120 eV. Seyfert 2's on the other hand show stronger neutral absorption (NH=3-4 x 10^{22} atoms cm-2) as expected but are also characterized by an X-ray power law which is substantially harder (Gamma~1.75) and with a cut-off at lower energies (E_c~130 keV); the iron line parameters are instead substantially similar to those measured in type 1 objects. There are only two possible solutions to this problem: to assume more reflection in Seyfert 2 galaxies than observed in Seyfert 1 or more complex absorption than estimated in the first instance. The first possibility is ruled out by the Seyfert 2 to Seyfert 1 ratio while the second provides an average Seyfert 2 intrinsic spectrum very similar to that of the Seyfert 1. The extra absorber is likely an artifact due to summing spectra with different amounts of absorption, althought we cannot exclude its presence in at least some individual sources. Our result argues strongly for a very similar central engine in both type of galaxies as expected under the unified theory.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, to be published in ApJ Letters
ESTIMATES OF COBB-DOUGLAS AND TRANSLOG PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS FOR MILK
Creators: name: Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.
name: Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The results of this paper suggest that a modified translog function (MTL) is a suitable functional form to model milk production. Marginal products estimated from the MTL. model are, in general, quite similar to their Cobb- Douglas (C-D) counterparts. However, the substitution elasticity parameters obtained from the two models are markedly different. Returns to size measures derived from the MTL and C-D models are almost identical and reveal slightly increasing returns to scale.
Reduced-order modeling of advection-dominated systems with recurrent neural networks and convolutional autoencoders
Creators: name: Maulik, Romit
name: Lusch, Bethany
name: Balaprakash, Prasanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A common strategy for the dimensionality reduction of nonlinear partial differential equations relies on the use of the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) to identify a reduced subspace and the Galerkin projection for evolving dynamics in this reduced space. However, advection-dominated PDEs are represented poorly by this methodology since the process of truncation discards important interactions between higher-order modes during time evolution. In this study, we demonstrate that an encoding using convolutional autoencoders (CAEs) followed by a reduced-space time evolution by recurrent neural networks overcomes this limitation effectively. We demonstrate that a truncated system of only two latent-space dimensions can reproduce a sharp advecting shock profile for the viscous Burgers equation with very low viscosities, and a six-dimensional latent space can recreate the evolution of the inviscid shallow water equations. Additionally, the proposed framework is extended to a parametric reduced-order model by directly embedding parametric information into the latent space to detect trends in system evolution. Our results show that these advection-dominated systems are more amenable to low-dimensional encoding and time evolution by a CAE and recurrent neural network combination than the POD Galerkin technique.
PATTERNS OF SOCIAL IDENTITY AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AMONG FIVE VENEZUELAN GRADUATE STUDENTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C
Creators: name: Lipp, Ellen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study is an investigation of the social interactions in English and the evidenced improvement in spoken English of five Venezuelan graduate students enrolled in a university English as a second language program. It shows that five individuals differed in both the frequency and the kind of social interactions engaged in during a ten month period, and that these patterns of social interactions are reflected in the linguistic data. The five Venezuelans were in their twenties, from Caracas and of similar middle-class background. All had limited English skills upon arrival in the U.S., which had occurred no more than three months before the study began. Data were collected over two consecutive university semesters, and consisted of twelve taped interviews that recaptured accounts of the five students' social interactions, as well as less systematic participant-observation, journals, and other data sources. Three kinds of social interactional identities are presented: anonymous, where interactants act impersonally; anchored, where interactants disclose some information about themselves; and personal, where interactants disclose considerable personal information. Varying reported participatory styles or superficial behaviors are identified which serve to achieve, impede or by-pass social contact with Anglo-Americans. Several reported participatory strategies or systematic behavior styles are discussed including interacting with the "right" Americans; offering to help an American; and establishing interactional identities with interactants to change anonymous to anchored, and anchored to personal indentities. Linguistic data analyzed are participants' use of parenthetic expressions (qualifiers and hedges) and evidenced mastery of three morphemes in obligatory contexts: the plural noun ending, past tense irregular forms, and third person present tense verb endings. Comparison of the five participants' use of morphemes and hedges shows sufficient differences in evidenced mastery by the participants to allow the conclusion that the impact of social interaction on evidenced L2 learning is stronger than previously believed because patterns of individuals' social interactions are shown to co-occur with linguistic patterns. The thesis ends with a presentation of recommendations for English as a second language programs that grow out of these research findings.
Effects of Ambient Noise on Affect and Perceived Napping Quality
Creators: name: Han, Jiaojiao
name: Huang, Meihua
name: Niu, Tinyung
name: Ramsay, David
name: Quenneville, Vincent
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: We examined what kind of sounds are relaxing to people, will help them sleep, and how they benefit their mood. Using a between-subjects design, participants listened to a short audio clip featuring either nature sounds, background noise from the UBC Student Union building, or sounds in the style of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) in order to compare their impact on mood, affect, and relaxation. We also measured the extent to which individuals enjoy and perceive these sounds as conducive to sleep. While we hypothesized that ASMR would be deemed most relaxing, calmness scores were highest amongst subjects in the nature sounds group, suggesting that sounds of this variety may be most likely to improve sleep quality. That said, there were no differences between groups in self-reported belief of the sounds’ sleep-conduciveness. Participants similarly liked ASMR and nature sounds, with background noises being the least favoured of the three. Our findings can help the design of UBC’s nap pods by confirming that even a one-minute intervention of nature sounds can serve as a possible sleep aid, and that the reduction of background noise would be beneficial in the nap pods to help improve sleep quality. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Energy-Calibration of the ATLAS Hadronic and Electromagnetic Liquid-Argon Endcap Calorimeters
Creators: name: Menke, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 2002 the first combined beam test of the hadronic and electromagnetic liquid-argon endcap calorimeters of the ATLAS experiment took place at the SPS test beam at CERN. A total of 15 million events from electrons, muons and pions in the energy range from 6 to 200 GeV were recorded. The entire calibration chain, from digital filter weights, over calibration constants, to clustering and energy weights, as is relevant for the energy calibration of hadronic and electromagnetic showers in ATLAS was tested and applied to the beam test data. The calibration methods and first results for the combined performance of the two calorimeters are presented.
description: Talk given at 8th ICATPP, Como, Italy, 6-10 Oct 2003
Hesiocaeca Hartman 1965
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Hesionidae
Hesiocaeca

description: Hesiocaeca Hartman, 1965 hessleri Blake, 1991: Mariana Back-Arc basin. USNM 132660-1
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482