cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Entropy Method Based Evaluation for Plant Landscape in Tourist Scenic Spots
Creators: name: SU Xunfan
name: YANG Wenfeng
name: SU Xunfan
name: YANG Wenfeng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Entropy method, Tibet, Scenic spots, Plant landscape evaluation

description: Taking five scenic spots in Southeast region of Tibet as research objects, this paper calculated the weight of plant landscape evaluation system by entropy weight method, and compared the plant landscape in scenic spots from aesthetic effect, ecological harmony and service functions. The results show that the rank of the comprehensive attributes from high to low is as follows: Nanyigou, Lulang Forest, Kading Mountain Waterfall, Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, and Basomtso Lake.
Seasonal Variations in Fishery Resources in Shenzhen Sea Area
Creators: name: MAO Jiangmei
name: YUAN Huarong
name: YU Jing
name: CHEN Pimao
name: HU Qiwei
name: MAO Jiangmei
name: YUAN Huarong
name: YU Jing
name: CHEN Pimao
name: HU Qiwei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Fishery resources, Seasonal variations, Stock density, Dominant species, Size spectra, Biodiversity, Shenzhen Sea Area

description: Seasonal variations and causes for these were elaborated for fishery resources in Shenzhen sea area, to provide scientific basis for sustainable utilization and management of fishery resources in typical fisheries of South China Sea coasts. Based on the data of fishery resources collected through trawl surveys in Egong Bay fisheries area, Shenzhen, from August (autumn) and December (winter) of 2012 to March (spring) and May (summer) of 2013, seasonal variation of nekton species composition, stock density, dominant species composition, size spectra and biodiversity were studied. Results showed that there were 113 species of nekton in Shenzhen sea area, which belonged to 78 genus, 50 families, 14 orders and 3 classes. The number of species was the largest in summer (61 species) and smallest in autumn (53 species). In spring and winter, there was 56 species. The stock density and individual density of nekton were the minimum in summer (5950.20 kg/km2 and 356.45 ind/km2, respectively), whereas the percentage of fish stock density and individual density were the highest in summer (51.99% and 42.19%). The seasonal variations of size spectra indicated that fishing intensity was the highest in autumn, and was the lowest in summer. Additionally, biodiversity index presented significant seasonal variations, including Shannon-Wiener diversity index (H’), Margalef richness index (D’) and Pielou evenness index (J’), with the same trend as summer > spring > autumn > winter. In conclusion, there are clear seasonal variations in the nekton species, biomass and structure in Egong Bay fisheries area in Shenzhen. Due to the difference in fishing intensity in different seasons (low intensity in summer and high intensity in autumn), community structure and function in summer are more stable than that in autumn and winter. Particularly, with the increase in the fishing intensity in autumn, k selection species will be replaced by r selection species.
New sesquiterpene glycoside ester with antiprotozoal activity from the flowers of Calendula officinalis L
Creators: name: Zaki, Ahmed A.
name: Ashour, Ahmed A.
name: Longxin Qiu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Continued chromatographic investigation of Calendula officinalis flowers led to the isolation of two sesquiterpenes, including one new, viridiflorol-10-O-β-quinovopyranoside-2`-O-(3``-methyl-2``-pentenoate) (1), along with a previously reported compound viridiflorol-10-O-β-fucopyranoside-2`-O-(3``-methyl-2``-pentenoate) (2). The new compound 1 was tested for antiprotozoal activity against Leishmania donovani Amastigote/THP1 and Trypanosoma brucei and it showed IC50 values of 3.57 and 7.84 µg/mL, respectively, while compound 2 exhibited no activity at the highest concentration tested 10 µg/mL.
Non-Gaussian Entanglement Renormalization for Quantum Fields
Creators: name: Fernandez-Melgarejo, Jose J.
name: Molina-Vilaplana, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, a non-Gaussian cMERA tensor network for interacting quantum field theories (icMERA) is presented. This consists of a continuous tensor network circuit in which the generator of the entanglement renormalization of the wavefunction is nonperturbatively extended with nonquadratic variational terms. The icMERA circuit nonperturbatively implements a set of scale dependent nonlinear transformations on the fields of the theory, which suppose a generalization of the scale dependent linear transformations induced by the Gaussian cMERA circuit. Here we present these transformations for the case of self-interacting scalar and fermionic field theories. Finally, the icMERA tensor network is fully optimized for the $λϕ^4$ theory in $(1+1)$ dimensions. This allows us to evaluate, nonperturbatively, the connected parts of the two- and four-point correlation functions. Our results show that icMERA wavefunctionals encode proper non-Gaussian correlations of the theory, thus providing a new variational tool to study phenomena related with strongly interacting field theories.
description: v2: (43 pages) substantial improvement to the optimization procedure of the circuit for the $\phi^4$ model (Section 5.3). A new appendix is added to illustrate what are the features of the ground state of the $\lambda \phi^4$ theory that captured by the icMERA tensor network. Accepted for publication in JHEP
The extended future tube conjecture for SO(1,n)
Creators: name: Heinzner, Peter
name: Schuetzdeller, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32A07; 32D05; 32M05

description: Let C be the open upper light cone in $\mathbb R^{1+n}$ with respect to the Lorentz product. The connected linear Lorentz group SO$_\mathbb R(1,n)^0$ acts on C and therefore diagonally on the N-fold product $T^N$ where $T = \mathbb R^{1+n} + iC \subset \mathbb C^{1+n}$. We prove that the extended future tube SO$_\mathbb C(1,n) \cdot T^N$ is a domain of holomorphy.
description: 12 pages
Effect of Different Boron Fertilizer Supply Patterns and Levels on Growth, Development and Quality of Flue-Cured Tobacco
Creators: name: LIANG Bing
name: HUANG Kun
name: LI Hongguang
name: QUE Jinsong
name: ZHONG Xiaotian
name: WANG Quanming
name: SHAO Xiaodong
name: HU Chengxiao
name: LIANG Bing
name: HUANG Kun
name: LI Hongguang
name: QUE Jinsong
name: ZHONG Xiaotian
name: WANG Quanming
name: SHAO Xiaodong
name: HU Chengxiao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Boron, Flue-cured tobacco, Basal application, Spraying, Supply levels

description: Boron, one of the essential trace elements for normal growth and development of tobacco, has a great impact on the yield and quality of flue-cured tobacco. The objective of this study is to explore the best pattern and level of boron fertilizer supply of red soil in the Honghe tobacco area. In this study, the randomized block design was used to study different boron fertilizer supply methods and levels. The results showed that during transplanting, it was good to apply 1.50 kg/ha Fertibor boron with pure boron content≥15%; at the resettling stage, it was good to spray 225 kg solution composed of 75 mL/ha Compo liquid boron with pure boron content≥130g/L mixed with water onto leaves when night fell in a sunny day. The two fertilization methods had better effect than the basal application of boron fertilizer, and the resistance to pests and diseases or economic character of tobacco plants was better than under spraying treatment.
A Real-time Fluorescent Quantitative PCR Method for Detection of Genetically Modified Maize MON88017
Creators: name: SONG Jun
name: WANG Dong
name: SONG Jun
name: WANG Dong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: GM maize MON88017, Quantitative detection method, Evaluation method

description: In order to improve the standardized technical system of quantitative analyses for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and protect China's bio-safety and reduce ecological risk, we establish a quantitative detection method for the genetically modified (GM) maize MON88017 using real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR. Meanwhile, the method is evaluated by several methodological indicators such as specificity, sensitivity, accuracy and uncertainty of measurement. The results show that the method has strong specificity in analysis of genetically modified maize MON88017. The mean value (1.54%) repeatedly measured for 29 times with the relative deviation of 2.7% was close to the real value (1.50%) and the variation coefficient of the measured value was 0.1. The tested recovery rate is 100% and the uncertainty of measurement is 0.096. 5 copies of the MON88017 molecular fragment can be detected at 97.5% confidence level. Consequently, the quantitative detection method established in this paper for the GM maize MON88017 has fairly high specificity, accuracy and sensitivity and this technology established in this paper can provide good technical support for the safety supervision of genetically modified organisms in China.
When do public health epilogues correct the influence of alcohol story lines on youth? the interplay of narrative transportation and persuasion knowledge
Creators: name: Russell, Cristel A.
name: Hamby, Anne M.
name: Grube, Joel W.
name: Russell, Dale W.
Publisher: name: Journal of Public Policy & Marketing
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Youth drinking is a major public health problem. Entertainment content that positively depicts alcohol consumption is often implicated as a factor shaping youths’ attitudes and beliefs about drinking alcohol. This research examines whether and under which conditions corrective epilogues can counteract the influence of a television episode featuring positive consequences of drinking. Building on recent research that demonstrates how consumers’ persuasion knowledge can increase acceptance of a message, this study finds that persuasion knowledge enhances receptivity to epilogues but only among viewers who are highly transported into the story. The research points to a promising approach to remedy the potentially harmful influence of a story line depicting undesirable behaviors on a vulnerable population.
Pro-p groups with few relations and Universal Koszulity
Creators: name: Quadrelli, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12G05, 16S37, 20E18, 12F10, 20J06

description: Let $p$ be a prime. We show that if a pro-$p$ group with at most 2 defining relations has quadratic $\mathbb{F}_p$-cohomology, then such algebra is universally Koszul. This proves the "Universal Koszulity Conjecture" formulated by J. Mináč et al. in the case of maximal pro-$p$ Galois groups of fields with at most 2 defining relations.
description: To appear on "Math. Scandinavica"
Polaron Crossover in Molecular Solids
Creators: name: Zoli, Marco
name: Das, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytical variational method is applied to the molecular Holstein Hamiltonian in which the dispersive features of the dimension dependent phonon spectrum are taken into account by a force constant approach. The crossover between a large and a small size polaron is monitored, in one, two and three dimensions and for different values of the adiabatic parameter, through the behavior of the effective mass as a function of the electron-phonon coupling. By increasing the strength of the inter-molecular forces the crossover becomes smoother and occurs at higher {\it e-ph} couplings. These effects are more evident in three dimensions. We show that our Modified Lang-Firsov method starts to capture the occurence of a polaron self-trapping transition when the electron energies become of order of the phonon energies. The self-trapping event persists in the fully adiabatic regime. At the crossover we estimate polaron effective masses of order $\sim 5 - 40$ times the bare band mass according to dimensionality and value of the adiabatic parameter. Modified Lang-Firsov polaron masses are substantially reduced in two and three dimensions. There is no self-trapping in the antiadiabatic regime.
description: To be published in J.Phys.:Condensed Matter
title: Lipid based anti-fibrotic formulations and their impact on extracellular vesicles
Creators: name: Zivko, Cristina
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 570 Life sciences; biology
subject: 610 Medicine & health

description: Liver fibrosis is a major global health concern: its evolution into liver cirrhosis is followed by the death of over a million of people every year worldwide. The transdifferentiation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs, the main collagen-producing cells) from a quiescent into an activated, pro-fibrotic status plays a key role in liver fibrogenesis, making these cells interesting from both a therapeutic and a diagnostic perspective.

Can membrane-bound nanovesicles shuttled between HSCs become a diagnostic tool for liver fibrosis? The biochemical complexity of extracellular vesicles (EVs) and their role in intercellular communication make them an attractive tool to look for biomarkers that might become a valid alternative to highly invasive liver biopsies.

We developed robust sets of methods to isolate and characterize EVs from differently treated LX-2 (human HSCs cell line) in vitro, and we investigated the biological effect they exert onto naïve cells, proving that EVs do play an active role in affecting HSCs’ status. Different purification methods (size exclusion chromatography, SEC, and asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation, AF4) revealed EV subpopulations with different physicochemical behaviors. Proteomic data from our samples was mined for EV-associated proteins whose expression correlated with HSCs treatment. Consequently, the secreted protein acidic and cysteine rich (SPARC) emerged as a candidate protein to explore the feasibility of using fluorescence nanoparticle tracking analysis (f-NTA) as a non-destructive tool for the determination of HSCs’ physiological state based on EVs.

We could thus use EVs to directly evaluate the efficacy of treatments with polyenylphosphatidylcholines (PPC)-rich lipid S80, with and without experimental drugs elafibranor and obeticholic acid, proving that S80 (but neither of the drugs) greatly reduces relative SPARC-positive EVs’ abundance, while pro-fibrotic treatment with transforming growth factor β1 (TGF) does the opposite.

Here, for the first time, we could measurably correlate the cellular response to PPC-treatment to the relative presence of SPARC on the generated EVs.

Our results pave the way for more precise and less invasive ex vivo analyses: markers related to diseased and healthy states, as well as proteins that are tissue specific or preferentially expressed by specific cells could all be conceivably checked within one EV sample if appropriately selected.
Beyond pictures and pronouns : sexism in teacher education textbooks
Creators: name: Sadker, Myra P.
name: Sadker, David M.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: The content of current teacher education textbooks was analyzed in regard to the attention pad to contributions of women to society, recognition and discussion of sexism, and sex stereotypes. Also presented are measures teacher educators need to take to rectify potential inaccuracy and imbalance in the textbooks they use. Biased attitudes were present in texts on foundations of education, social studies methods, mathematics and science methods, language arts, and educational psychology. Texts analyzed are identified by author's name. Appended is a section on racial and ethnic minorities and a selected bibliography on sexism in education.
MONETARY UNCERTAINTY IN DISCRETE-TIME UTILITY-OF-MONEY MODELS
Creators: name: Rankin, Neil
name: Rankin, Neil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: monetary uncertainty
subject: utility of money
subject: precautionary demand

description: In a discrete-time model, higher variability of the future money supply affects current macroeconomic variables when beginning-of-period money is the argument of utility, but not when end-of-period money is. The effect is through the existence of a precautionary money demand
Beyond pictures and pronouns : sexism in teacher education textbooks
Creators: name: Sadker, Myra P.
name: Sadker, David M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The content of current teacher education textbooks was analyzed in regard to the attention pad to contributions of women to society, recognition and discussion of sexism, and sex stereotypes. Also presented are measures teacher educators need to take to rectify potential inaccuracy and imbalance in the textbooks they use. Biased attitudes were present in texts on foundations of education, social studies methods, mathematics and science methods, language arts, and educational psychology. Texts analyzed are identified by author's name. Appended is a section on racial and ethnic minorities and a selected bibliography on sexism in education.
Ab initio Description of Bond-Breaking in Large Electric Fields
Creators: name: Ashton, Michael
name: Mishra, Arpit
name: Neugebauer, Joerg
name: Freysoldt, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong ($10^{10}$ V/m) electric fields capable of inducing atomic bond-breaking represent a powerful tool for surface chemistry. However, their exact effects are difficult to predict due to a lack of suitable tools to probe their associated atomic-scale mechanisms. Here we introduce a generalized dipole correction for charged repeated-slab models that controls the electric field on both sides of the slab, thereby enabling direct theoretical treatment of field-induced bond-breaking events. As a prototype application, we consider field evaporation from a kinked W surface. We reveal two qualitatively different desorption mechanisms that can be selected by the magnitude of the applied field.
title: Characterisation of Aerosols Using Carbon and Lead Stable Isotopes and Trace Elements.
Creators: name: Cutajar, Josephine-Anne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1997

description: Ambient air contains a multitude of solid particles in a wide grain size range, commonly referred to as atmospheric aerosol. Aerosols can be inserted into the atmosphere by a large number of processes, including water bubble bursting and wind injection, and can be derived from a numerous sources, including incinerators, smelters, vehicles, sea and soil/crust. Trace element characteristics have been used extensively to identify anthropogenic components within the atmosphere. However, methods such as enrichment factors and principal component analysis can crudely discriminate between various sources of an element such as Pb. C and Pb isotopes have been found to have potential for the identification and characterisation of aerosol sources. Thus, when trace element characteristics and C and Pb stable isotopes ore used in conjunction the sources of elements may be characterised.

Aerosol samples were collected from two locations in the United Kingdom. The first at Milton Keynes consisted of a one year monitoring programme; the second in the South Wales region covered a broader geographic area in the hope of identifying discreet source areas. The aerosols were analysed for their Pb isotopic compositions, ð13C values and trace element abundance.

At Milton Keynes, ð13C Pb isotopic compositions and trace element abundance were found to vary considerable depending on wind direction, indicating multiple sources. At least three sources have been identified; vehicles, soils and point sources, such as incinerators. Aerosol Pb and trace element abundance were found to be influenced by rainfall, with rain having an apparent scavenging effect on Pb in the atmosphere. Temporal flucuations, both daily to montly, have been associated with these weather conditions.

Within the S Wales region two preliminary source zones of C and Pb were identified, with a possible third mixing zone; marine, industrial and rural/marine. Upon further investigation these sources were sufficiently honed to characterise three source areas with two mixing zones;

 (1) Rural

(2) Industrial

(3) Marine

(4) Industrial/Marine mix

(5) Vehicle/Marine mix

These zones were found to be wind direction dependent and did not alter annually.
Closing the gender gap - again!
Creators: name: Sadker, David
name: Zittleman, Karen R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The authors note that gender bias, once considered to affect only girls, continues to impact both girls and boys in ways that are often difficult to detect. They cite new challenges of single-sex education and the failure of the No Child Left Behind Act to consider gender in tracking a school’s Adequate Yearly Progress. They list some indicators of gender bias, with suggestions for how principals can deal with them.
Multilateral Instrument: Capital gain article
Creators: name: Chan, Alfred
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140215 Public Economics- Taxation and Revenue
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this article, the author examines the structure of the OECD’s multilateral instrument, including the compatibility clauses and the use of opt-in, opt-out, and alternative provisions, with a focus on the capital gains provisions in article 9.
Divergence of non-random fluctuation for Euclidean first-passage percolation
Creators: name: Nakajima, Shuta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The non-random fluctuation is one of the central objects in first passage percolation. It was proved in [Shuta Nakajima. Divergence of non-random fluctuation in First Passage Percolation. {\em Electron. Commun. Probab.} 24 (65), 1-13. 2019.] that for a particular asymptotic direction, it diverges in a lattice first passage percolation with an explicit lower bound. In this paper, we discuss the non-random fluctuation in Euclidean first passage percolations and show that it diverges in dimension $d\geq 2$ in this model also. Compared with the result in \cite{N19}, the present result is proved for any direction and improves the lower bound.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Closing the gender gap - again!
Creators: name: Sadker, David
name: Zittleman, Karen R.
Publisher: name: Closing the Gaps
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: The authors note that gender bias, once considered to affect only girls, continues to impact both girls and boys in ways that are often difficult to detect. They cite new challenges of single-sex education and the failure of the No Child Left Behind Act to consider gender in tracking a school’s Adequate Yearly Progress. They list some indicators of gender bias, with suggestions for how principals can deal with them.
0-brane Quantum Chemistry
Creators: name: Kares, Vaclav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply two different numerical methods to solve for the boundstate of two 0-branes in three dimensions. One method is developed by us in this work and we compare it to a method existing in the literature. In spite of considering only three dimensional Minkowski space we obtain interesting results which should give some basic understanding of the behaviour of 0-branes.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures
Quasi-$γ$ band in $^{\text{114}}$Te
Creators: name: Ray, Prithwijita
name: Pai, H.
name: Ali, Sajad
name: Mukherjee, Anjali
name: Goswami, A.
name: Rajbanshi, S.
name: Chakraborty, S.
name: Gangopadhyay, G.
name: Laskar, Md. S. R.
name: Palit, R.
name: Bhat, G. H.
name: Jehangir, S.
name: Sheikh, J. A.
name: Sinha, A. K.
name: Samanta, S.
name: Das, S.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Raut, R.
name: Ghugre, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low-lying non-yrast states in $^{114}$Te have been investigated using the Indian National Gamma Array through the fusion-evaporation reaction $^{112}$Sn($^{4}$He, 2n) at a beam energy of 37 MeV. Eight new $γ$-transitions have been placed in the level scheme to establish the quasi-$γ$ band in this nucleus. Spin and parity of several excited states have been assigned from the present spectroscopy measurements. The comparison of experimental results on the observed bands with the Interacting Boson Model (IBM) and Triaxial Projected Shell Model (TPSM) confirming the existence of the quasi-$γ$ band structure in the $^{114}$Te nucleus.
On the ergodicity of the Weyl sums cocycle
Creators: name: Fayad, Bassam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For $θ\in [0,1]$, we consider the map $T_\a: \T^2 \to \T^2$ given by $T_θ(x,y)=(x+θ,y+2x+θ)$. The skew product $f_\a: \T^2 \times \C \to \T^2 \times \C$ given by $f_θ(x,y,z)=(T_θ(x,y),z+e^{2 πi y})$ generates the so called Weyl sums cocycle $a_\a(x,n) = \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} e^{2πi(k^2θ+kx)}$ since the $n^{\rm th}$ iterate of $f_\a$ writes as $f_\a^n(x,y,z)=(T_\a^n(x,y),z+e^{2πiy} a_\a(2x,n))$. In this note, we improve the study developed by Forrest in \cite{forrest2,forrest} around the density for $x \in \T$ of the complex sequence ${\{a_\a(x,n)\}}_{n\in \N}$, by proving the ergodicity of $f_θ$ for a class of numbers $\a$ that contains a residual set of positive Hausdorff dimension in $[0,1]$. The ergodicity of $f_\a$ implies the existence of a residual set of full Haar measure of $x \in \T$ for which the sequence ${\{a_\a(x,n) \}}_{n \in \N}$ is dense.
An investigation into an inspiring art piece
Creators: name: Curran, Josh
name: Ferguson, Simon
name: Huynh, Steve
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of the project is to investigate the possibility of installing an inspiring art piece in the New SUB Atrium. The design would encourage students to become aware about the environmental and sustainability. The specific aspect of the inspiring art piece analyzed that potential benefits between a large permanent structure and multiple small installations. The design must be constrained to fit either the inside or outside of the New SUB Atrium, as detailed in the detailed drawings. The research was completed by analyzing academic literature and reported media. The end result was the completion of a triple bottom line assessment (environmental, economic and social). Environmental analysis showed more benefits with the overall volume of waste reduced and higher amount of recycled embodied energy. Economic factors did not show any benefits or disadvantages for either. The social aspect revealed greater benefits from creating multiple projects of a smaller scale. The overall report concludes that based on the higher importance of the social effects, the resulting design for the art installation would be multiple small projects each led by different people. 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.”
Selections from the speeches of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
Creators: name: Ahmed Shaker Alalaq
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Iran
the Shah
the opposition
the Shura Council
elections
oil nationalization

description: The file includes a collection of speeches by Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and these speeches were delivered by him at the opening of the Iranian National Shura Council.
title: Farmers Attitudes Towards Information Sources And Their Subsequent Crop Protection Behaviour
Creators: name: Sudbury, Nany Wahyuni
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1997

description: The literature contains many studies of the various factors that could contribute towards the use of pesticide by farmers. However, not all of these factors have been investigated. This research looked into the links between information sources and the use of pesticides; and focused particularly on the attitudes and behaviour of farmers towards both these aspects.

 A review of several models proposed to explain attitudes and behaviour was undertaken and Fishbein and Ajzen’s model was chosen to investigate farmers attitudes and behaviour towards information sources and pesticide use.

 The first, preliminary, survey of farmers in West Sussex produced an unexpected result: that they did not apply pesticides as many times as they had indicated at the beginning of the growing season. Systems analysis using the Failures methodology identified areas where anomalies had occurred. It also showed that systems of crop protection were dynamic.
Loss of coherence in double-slit diffraction experiments
Creators: name: Sanz, A. S.
name: Borondo, F.
name: Bastiaans, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of incoherence and decoherence in the double--slit experiment are studied using both optical and quantum--phenomenological models. The results are compared with experimental data obtained with cold neutrons.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
D7.1 Strategic Plan for the PIPs
Creators: name: Consulai
name: BioSense Institute
name: IFOAM - Organics International,
name: European Landowners' Organization
name: Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
name: Institut de l'Elevage
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: EU-level cooperation, Knowledge exchange, Synergies

description: This deliverable presents the Strategic Plan for the PIPs which includes the inventory of relevant EU projects (139), flagship initiatives (16), and policymakers (210) and a detailed description of the activities that will be developed in each of these components.
(Bylaws of the Islamic Union Council) (Islamic Union Council) in Kilan.
Creators: name: Ahmed Shaker Alalaq
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: 1.One temporary director and one secretary (editor) must be elected from among the members of the Islamic Union Council.

2. A director is appointed every week with the approval of the majority.

Director's duties

3. The official meetings of the Council are held three hours before noon and three hours after every day except holidays (Fridays and national holidays). Attending members to extraordinary meetings is the responsibility of the director.
Phase transitions of the binary production 2A->3A, 4A->0 model
Creators: name: Odor, Geza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase transitions of the 2A-> 3A, 4A->0 reaction-diffusion model is explored by dynamical, N-cluster approximations and by simulations.The model exhibits site occupation restriction and explicit diffusion of isolated particles. While the site mean-field approximation shows a single transition at zero branching rate introduced in PRE {\bf 67}, 016111 (2003), N>2 cluster approximations predict the appearance of another (reentrant) transition line for weak diffusion (D). This latter phase transition is continuous, occurs at finite branching rate and exhibits different scaling behavior. I show that the universal behavior of this transition is in agreement with that of the PCPD model both on the mean-field level and in one dimension. Therefore this model exhibiting annihilation by quadruplets does not fit in the recently suggested classification of universality classes of absorbing state transitions in one dimension (PRL {\bf 90}, 125701 (2003)). For high diffusion rates the effective 2A->3A->4A->0 reaction becomes irrelevant and the model exhibits a mean-field transition only. The two regions are separated by a non-trivial critical endpoint at D*.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures included, small corrections
Deficiency of the scaling collapse as an indicator of a superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition
Creators: name: Rogachev, Andrey
name: Sacépé, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finite-size scaling analysis is a well-accepted method for identification and characterization of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in superconducting, magnetic and insulating systems. We formally apply this analysis in the form suitable for QPTs in 2-dimensional superconducting films to magnetic-field driven superconductor-metal transition in 1-dimensional MoGe nanowires. Despite being obviously inapplicable to nanowires, the 2d scaling equation leads to a high-quality scaling collapse of the nanowire resistance in the temperature and resistance ranges comparable or better to what is accepted in the analysis of the films. Our results suggest that the appearance and the quality of the scaling collapse by itself is not a reliable indicator of a QPT. We have also observed a sign-change of the zero-bias anomaly (ZBA) in the non-linear resistance, occurring exactly at the critical field of the accidental QPT. This behavior is often taken as an additional confirmation of the transition. We argue that in nanowires, the non-linearity is caused by electron heating and has no relation to the critical fluctuations. Our observation suggests that similar to the scaling collapse, the sign-change of ZBA can be a misleading indicator of QPT.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Description beyond the mean field approximation of an electrolyte confined between two planar metallic electrodes
Creators: name: Tellez, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an electrolyte confined in a slab of width $W$ composed of two grounded metallic parallel electrodes. We develop a description of this system in a low coupling regime beyond the mean field (Poisson--Boltzmann) approximation. There are two ways to model the metallic boundaries: as ideal conductors in which the electric potential is zero and it does not fluctuate, or as good conductors in which the average electric potential is zero but the thermal fluctuations of the potential are not zero. This latter model is more realistic. For the ideal conductor model we find that the disjoining pressure is positive behaves as $1/W^3$ for large separations with a prefactor that is universal, i.e. independent of the microscopic constitution of the system. For the good conductor boundaries the disjoining pressure is negative and it has an exponential decay for large $W$. We also compute the density and electric potential profiles inside the electrolyte. These are the same in both models. If the electrolyte is charge asymmetric we find that the system is not locally neutral and that a non-zero potential difference builds up between any electrode and the interior of the system although both electrodes are grounded.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, added a new appendix B and a discussion on ideal conductors vs. good conductors
title: Voices of outrage: online partisan media, user-generated news commentary, and the contested boundaries of American conservatism during the 2016 US presidential election
Creators: name: Kelly, Anthony Patrick
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2020

description: This thesis presents a qualitative account of what affective polarisation looks like at the level of online user-generated discourse. It examines how users of the American right-wing news and opinion website TheBlaze.com articulated partisan oppositions in the site’s below-the-line comment field during and after the 2016 US presidential election. To date, affective polarisation has been studied from a predominantly quantitative perspective that has focused largely on partisanship as a powerful form of social identity. This contributes to a growing recognition of the central role of partisan identity in the evaluation of politics by publics within the American two-party system. However, analyses of partisan identification in the US have also shown how negative affect towards opposing partisans has led some people to dislike the other party more than they like the one with which they identify. This establishes a pivotal relation between affective polarisation and so-called negative partisanship. At the same time, the election of Donald Trump as US president has led to a new interest in the content and articulation of American conservative identity, particularly as this relates to the role of hybrid partisan media in the production and negotiation of group boundaries. Against this backdrop, my thesis concentrates on the construction of self/other distinctions in partisan news commentary. It employs a conceptual framework which integrates constructionist thematic analysis with an articulation approach grounded in the work of Laclau and Mouffe. Articulation is here viewed as the ongoing struggle to “fix” meaning – including the meaning of society and identity – in ways that exclude other meanings. This highlights the essentially political dimensions of articulation as the mechanism via which the social is produced through discursive acts of opposition and exclusion. My analysis reveals how the boundaries of American conservatism are contested through the public performance of antagonism; how characterisations of political difference are performed with reference to the political and economic significance of hybrid partisan media; and how the use of partisan media is rhetorically related to broader historical processes of social, cultural, and political transformation via antagonistic imaginaries of American past, present, and future – processes which are claimed to threaten America’s survival as a manifestation of divine providence encoded in the US Constitution.
Transition Radiation Spectroscopy with Prototypes of the ALICE TRD
Creators: name: Busch, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the transition radiation (TR) spectrum produced in an irregular radiator at different electron momenta. The data are compared to simulations of TR from a regular radiator.
description: 4 pages, 5 Figures, Proceedings for "TRDs for the 3rd millennium" (Sept. 4-7, 2003, Bari, Italy)
Equity and excellence in education reform : An unfinished agenda
Creators: name: Sadker, Myra
name: Sadker, David
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: This paper argues that the recent wave of school reform literature has neglected females, thereby threatening to close already narrowing windows of opportunity for their advanced education beyond high school. A line-by-line content analysis of 138 articles on educational reform published in nine influential professional journals between 1983 and January 1987, showed that the educational reform movement largely ignores issues of gender equity, and that males far outnumber females in authorship and in depiction in photos and illustrations. The report concludes by making the following recommendations to enhance equity in education, which the Excellence in Education movement ignores: (1) Classroom interaction between teachers and students must include more minority and female participation. (2) Curriculum content must address the academic problem areas that have historically plagued female students, chiefly in mathematics and science, in the same ways that remedial reading programs have traditionally been programmed for males. (3) Understanding why females and minority groups score lower than white males on standardized tests despite higher report card grades requires research. (4) Career counseling reform is needed to avoid course and career segregation and stereotyping. (5) The recruitment and retention of females in educational leadership positions will ensure supervision sensitive to the negative outcomes of gender bias in our nation's schools.
Specific Activity Exemption article in the Multilateral instrument
Creators: name: Chan, Alfred
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140215 Public Economics- Taxation and Revenue
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: the author provides a guide to article 13 of the OECD’s multilateral instrument, which attempts to combat efforts to
artificially avoid creating a permanent establishment using the specific activity exemption. He examines the various options
and reservations included in the article and considers how the choices that jurisdictions make interact with the choices made by their treaty partners.
Thyroid Hormones and Diabetes in Euthyroid Hispanic/Latino Adults of Diverse Backgrounds: HCHS/SOL
Creators: name: Abasilim, Chibuzor
name: Isasi, Carmen R
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Thyagarajan, Bharat
name: Day, Tessa
name: Freels, Sally
name: Chavez, Noel
name: Grieco, Arielle
name: Daviglus, Martha
name: Pirzada, Amber
name: Turyk, Mary E
name: Agarwal, Shivani
name: Meyer, Michelle L
name: Talavera, Gregory A
name: Sargis, Robert M
name: Tsintsifas, Konstantina
name: Persky, Victoria
name: Kaplan, Robert
Publisher: name: The Endocrine Society
Year: 2024

description:
Context: Previous studies have demonstrated associations of endogenous thyroid hormones with diabetes; less is known about stages of diabetes development at which they are operative, mechanisms of associations, and the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis. Objective: This study examined associations of thyroid hormones with incident prediabetes and diabetes and with changes in glycemic traits in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), the largest cohort of Hispanic/Latino adults with diverse backgrounds in the United States. Methods: The study includes 592 postmenopausal euthyroid women and 868 euthyroid men aged 45 to 74 years without diabetes at baseline participating in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Baseline hormones included thyrotropin (TSH), free thyroxine (FT4), total triiodothyronine (T3), and indices calculated from thyroid hormones evaluating pituitary sensitivity to thyroid hormone. Transitions to diabetes and prediabetes, and changes in glycemic traits determined at the 6-year follow-up visit, were examined using multivariable Poisson and linear regressions. Results: Among women, T3 (incident rate ratio [IRR] = 1.65; 95% CI, 1.22-2.24; P = .001) and TSH (IRR = 2.09; 95% CI, 1.01-4.33; P = .047) were positively, while FT4 (IRR = 0.59; 95% CI, 0.39-0.88; P = .011) was inversely, associated with transition from prediabetes to diabetes. Among men, the T3/FT4 ratio was positively associated with transition from normoglycemia to prediabetes but not from prediabetes to diabetes. Indices measuring sensitivity of the pituitary to thyroid hormone suggested increased sensitivity in men who transitioned from prediabetes to diabetes. Conclusion: Positive associations in women of T3 and TSH and inverse associations of FT4, as well as inverse associations of thyroid indices in men with transition from prediabetes to diabetes, but not from normoglycemia to diabetes, suggest decreased pituitary sensitivity to thyroid hormones in women and increased sensitivity in men later in the development of diabetes.
Equity and excellence in education reform : An unfinished agenda
Creators: name: Sadker, Myra
name: Sadker, David
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper argues that the recent wave of school reform literature has neglected females, thereby threatening to close already narrowing windows of opportunity for their advanced education beyond high school. A line-by-line content analysis of 138 articles on educational reform published in nine influential professional journals between 1983 and January 1987, showed that the educational reform movement largely ignores issues of gender equity, and that males far outnumber females in authorship and in depiction in photos and illustrations. The report concludes by making the following recommendations to enhance equity in education, which the Excellence in Education movement ignores: (1) Classroom interaction between teachers and students must include more minority and female participation. (2) Curriculum content must address the academic problem areas that have historically plagued female students, chiefly in mathematics and science, in the same ways that remedial reading programs have traditionally been programmed for males. (3) Understanding why females and minority groups score lower than white males on standardized tests despite higher report card grades requires research. (4) Career counseling reform is needed to avoid course and career segregation and stereotyping. (5) The recruitment and retention of females in educational leadership positions will ensure supervision sensitive to the negative outcomes of gender bias in our nation's schools.