cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: 1950s textbooks for EFL teaching and learning in Italy: A historiographical analysis
Creators: name: Vicentini, Alessandra
Publisher: name: CLUEB
Year: 2024

description: This paper is a case study focusing on a corpus of textbooks of English for Italian learners published in 1952, retrieved from the online Catalogo Nazionale OPAC SBN (https://opac.sbn.it) and consulted at the archives of major Italian public libraries. The texts were examined on the
basis of their structure, contents, purpose and teaching approach, with the aim of identifying distinctive generic features and proposing an initial classification. They represent variations of the same genre, catering to
pedagogical purposes and encompassing different content derived from didactic materials that were employed both before and during the fascist era, as well as newly devised resources. The historiographical textual analysis provides some insights into post-fascist educational policies. Furthermore, it uncovers the texts’ glottodidactic methods and approaches which originated from Britain and North America and triggered profound changes in the history of language teaching.
Transient spirals as superposed instabilities
Creators: name: Sellwood, J. A.
name: Carlberg, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present evidence that recurrent spiral activity, long manifested in simulations of disk galaxies, results from the super-position of a few transient spiral modes. Each mode lasts between 5 and 10 rotations at its corotation radius where its amplitude is greatest. The scattering of stars as each wave decays takes place over narrow ranges of angular momentum, causing abrupt changes to the impedance of the disk to subsequent traveling waves. Partial reflections of waves at these newly created features, allows new standing-wave instabilities to appear that saturate and decay in their turn, scattering particles at new locations, creating a recurring cycle. The spiral activity causes the general level of random motion to rise, gradually decreasing the ability of the disk to support further activity unless the disk contains a dissipative gas component from which stars form on near-circular orbits. We also show that this interpretation is consistent with the behavior reported in other recent simulations with low mass-disks.
description: Includes proof corrections. To appear in ApJ, 13 pages, 11 figures. A version with full resolution figures is available at http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~sellwood/modes.pdf
Haft (er) Leben. Zentrale Überlebensstrategien und biographische Selbstentwürfe männlicher Jugendlicher in Haft.
Fünf Fallanalysen aus einem Forschungs-Lern-Seminar
Creators: name: Bereswill, Mechthild
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Jugendkriminalität , Strafvollzug , Männliche Jugend , Haft , Erfahrung , Aufsatzsammlung
subject: 360

description: Zweitveröffentlichung. Download von https://kfn.de/publikationen/kfn-forschungsberichte
Atomic Diffusion and Mixing in Old Stars V: A deeper look into the Globular Cluster NGC 6752
Creators: name: Gruyters, Pieter
name: Nordlander, Thomas
name: Korn, Andreas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abundance trends in heavier elements with evolutionary phase have been shown to exist in the globular cluster NGC 6752 [Fe/H]=-1.6. These trends are a result of atomic diffusion and additional (non-convective) mixing. Studying such trends can provide us with important constraints on the extent to which diffusion modifies the internal structure and surface abundances of solar-type, metal-poor stars. Taking advantage of a larger data sample, we investigate the reality and the size of these abundance trends and address questions and potential biases associated with the various stellar populations that make up NGC6752. Based on uvby Strömgren photometry, we are able to separate three stellar populations in NGC 6752 along the evolutionary sequence from the base of the red giant branch down to the turnoff point. We find weak systematic abundance trends with evolutionary phase for Ca, Ti, and Fe which are best explained by stellar-structure models including atomic diffusion with efficient additional mixing. We derive a new value for the initial lithium abundance of NGC 6752 after correcting for the effect of atomic diffusion and additional mixing which falls slightly below the predicted standard BBN value. We find three stellar populations by combining photometric and spectroscopic data of 194 stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752. Abundance trends for groups of elements, differently affected by atomic diffusion and additional mixing, are identified. Although the statistical significance of the individual trends is weak, they all support the notion that atomic diffusion is operational along the evolutionary sequence of NGC 6752.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, 2 online tables
Existence of the Stark-Wannier quantum resonances
Creators: name: Sacchetti, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Qxx, 81Q15

description: In this paper we prove the existence of the Stark-Wannier quantum resonances for one-dimensional Schrodinger operators with smooth periodic potential and small external homogeneous electric field. Such a result extends the existence result previously obtained in the case of periodic potentials with a finite number of open gaps.
description: 30 pages, 1 figure
Geomagnetic effects on cosmic ray propagation under different conditions for Buenos Aires and Marambio, Argentina
Creators: name: Masías-Meza, Jimmy J.
name: Dasso, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The geomagnetic field (Bgeo) sets a lower cutoff rigidity (Rc) to the entry of cosmic particles to Earth which depends on the geomagnetic activity. From numerical simulations of the trajectory of a proton using different models for Bgeo (performed with the MAGCOS code), we use backtracking to analyze particles arriving at the location of two nodes of the net LAGO (Large Aperture Gamma ray burst Observatory) that will be built in the near future: Buenos Aires and Marambio (Antarctica), Argentina. We determine the asymptotic trajectories and the values of Rc for different incidence directions, for each node. Simulations were done using several models for Bgeo that emulate different geomagnetic conditions. The presented results will help to make analysis of future observations of the flux of cosmic rays done at these two LAGO nodes.
description: 9 pages
Continuous Compressed Sensing With a Single or Multiple Measurement Vectors
Creators: name: Yang, Zai
name: Xie, Lihua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of recovering a single or multiple frequency-sparse signals, which share the same frequency components, from a subset of regularly spaced samples. The problem is referred to as continuous compressed sensing (CCS) in which the frequencies can take any values in the normalized domain [0,1). In this paper, a link between CCS and low rank matrix completion (LRMC) is established based on an $\ell_0$-pseudo-norm-like formulation, and theoretical guarantees for exact recovery are analyzed. Practically efficient algorithms are proposed based on the link and convex and nonconvex relaxations, and validated via numerical simulations.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, in IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), pp. 308--311, June 2014
Planck and WMAP constraints on generalised Hubble flow inflationary trajectories
Creators: name: Contaldi, Carlo R.
name: Horner, Jonathan S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Hamilton--Jacobi formalism to constrain the space of possible single field, inflationary Hubble flow trajectories when compared to the WMAP and Planck satellites Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) results. This method yields posteriors on the space of Hubble Slow Roll (HSR) parameters that uniquely determine the history of the Hubble parameter during the inflating epoch. The trajectories are used to numerically determine the observable primordial power spectrum and bispectra that can then be compared to observations. Our analysis is used to infer the most likely shape of the inflaton potential $V(ϕ)$ and also yields a prediction for, $f_{\rm NL}$, the dimensionless amplitude of the non-Gaussian bispectrum.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
title: From knowledge telling to knowledge transforming. Towards a new view of writing in English language teaching in Italian universities in the last two decades of the 20th century
Creators: name: Nava, Andrea
Publisher: name: CLUEB
Year: 2024

description: The late 1970s marked the beginning of a long period of experimentation in the teaching of English language (as opposed to its literature) in Italian universities, which mainly involved academics working in non-linguistic faculties (Politics, Economics and Commerce, etc.). In the
1980s and the 1990s, applied research in ESP (English for Specific Purposes) became particularly prominent and led to the publication of several teaching materials aimed at Italian university students which mainly focused on the teaching of reading. In the international context, on the
other hand the 1980s and the 1990s saw a reappraisal of writing not only as an essential component of a student’s communicative competence but also as a key skill in the process of acquisition of new knowledge. In this paper, I will investigate how increasingly more importance was given to writing in the Italian university context in the last two decades of the 20th century, through the analysis of a corpus of ESP materials aimed at Italian university students.
Mental Health Duty to Accommodate – A Cross Jurisdictional Human Rights Comparison
Creators: name: Asif, Akash
Publisher: name: Faculty of Graduate Studies
Year: 2018

description: 1 in 5 individuals experience a mental health issue through their lives, which results in $20.7 billion of lost labour force participation. Individuals dealing with mental health issues are often in a work environment that doesn’t promote positive mental health. Policy responses to the challenges at the intersection of employment and mental health have flowed from provincial human rights legislation and quasi-judicial human rights bodies interpreting and implementing that legislation. This capstone analyzed which policy efforts are succeeding by conducting a crossjurisdictional comparison of the structures and functions of the human rights bodies in Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec. A cross-jurisdictional comparison evaluated the throughput of human rights complaints for the three provinces. Lastly, a comparison determined how these human rights bodies interpret legislation for accommodating employees dealing with mental health issues in the workplace. In the findings, Ontario has segregated the responsibility of education, legal services, and conflict resolution into three separate human rights bodies. With the separation of responsibilities, Ontario processes complaints faster than Alberta and Quebec. However, the Tribunals in Alberta and Quebec involve three individuals compared to only one in Ontario, which limits both expertise and perspective during the hearing. In comparison, Alberta’s human rights system has the highest buffer against political intrusion, which limits inconsistencies and inequity created by different viewpoints of elected parties. The accommodation guidelines provided by each province revealed that Alberta has more alternatives for an employer to escape modification when compared to the other two provinces. In comparison, Ontario and Quebec put more onus on the employer to provide accommodation. Alberta has one primary human rights body that is responsible for both education and complaint resolution and it takes the province the longest to process complaints. The province may consider splitting up responsibilities into different divisions or create separate departments for adult and youth human rights. Clear definitions with quantitative numbers will allow DTA guidelines to create a more standardized system. However, it is important to realize that any change will require resources and more research needs to be completed on the incremental benefits to the system with each dollar spent.
Bayesian variable selection with shrinking and diffusing priors
Creators: name: Narisetty, Naveen Naidu
name: He, Xuming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a Bayesian approach to variable selection in the presence of high dimensional covariates based on a hierarchical model that places prior distributions on the regression coefficients as well as on the model space. We adopt the well-known spike and slab Gaussian priors with a distinct feature, that is, the prior variances depend on the sample size through which appropriate shrinkage can be achieved. We show the strong selection consistency of the proposed method in the sense that the posterior probability of the true model converges to one even when the number of covariates grows nearly exponentially with the sample size. This is arguably the strongest selection consistency result that has been available in the Bayesian variable selection literature; yet the proposed method can be carried out through posterior sampling with a simple Gibbs sampler. Furthermore, we argue that the proposed method is asymptotically similar to model selection with the $L_0$ penalty. We also demonstrate through empirical work the fine performance of the proposed approach relative to some state of the art alternatives.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOS1207 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
The Lack of Price Signals in Canadian Healthcare: A Case Study of High Ileostomy Output in Colorectal Surgery Patients and The Case for Explicit Cost Integration in Canadian Healthcare Decision Making
Creators: name: Lipson, Mark E.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Graduate Studies
Year: 2018

description: Healthcare is the most critical social program in Canada; however, it is under increasing pressure to deliver a high volume of services at a high level of quality within a limited budget. This challenge is complicated because the cost of healthcare in Canada is largely hidden. While we may be able to measure aggregate cost in government budgets, understanding healthcare costs on a granular and episodic level is difficult. No money changes hands at the point of care and patients and physicians have little understanding of the cost of different tests and treatments. These hidden costs hamper decision making, resulting in care that largely ignores cost when choosing amongst different investigation and treatment options. From an economic perspective, the lack of price signals results in a loss of consumer and producer surplus and (or in other words, economic efficiency). Without price signals or market mechanisms to help guide the allocation of resources there is no way to assure that healthcare services (be it an appointment, a test, or a treatment) are allocated to those who place the highest value on that service at the least cost. Measured costs may not take this loss of consumer and producer surplus into account, and thus any estimates of cost in Canadian healthcare are likely underestimates as the lack of market mechanisms masks this deadweight loss. Policies that explicitly acknowledge and integrate cost into healthcare are required to increase efficiency. [vii] Such policies can help the healthcare system to run more sustainably, and would encourage cost-effective treatment strategies while avoiding tests and interventions that may have high cost but are unlikely to change treatments or outcomes.
Responsibility Without Authority: the Growing Burden for Women in the Caribbean
Creators: name: Black, Jan Knippers
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Human rights and justice issues (excl. law)

description: After achieving independence and limited economic self-assertion in the sixties and seventies, most Caribbean states have been reabsorbed by a now globalized neocolonial system. The “structural adjustment” exacted in the process has exacerbated hardship and inequality generally and has been particularly hard on women. It has deprived them of resources and authority while requiring them to assume service and welfare responsibilities being abandoned by the state. As male unemployment rises, more women are working longer hours for less in new maquiladora industries. But women are elaborating new collective strategies for pooling resources, nurturing souls, and regenerating energies.
Environmental Assessment Improvements in Canada: a Comparative Analysis of Global Environmental Assessment Systems
Creators: name: Spahlinger, Marina
Publisher: name: Faculty of Graduate Studies
Year: 2018

description: Environmental assessments (EA) are used around the world to inform decisionmakers regarding environmental impacts of proposed projects, policies, plans and programs. In Canada, EAs are a regulatory tool to assess environmental, social and economic impacts of proposed developments and to develop mitigation measures to avoid or reduce adverse effects. Based on a global review of EA systems, specifically in the European Union, the United States and Australia, it has become evident that Canada lags behind these jurisdictions in the application of EA best practices. The primary reason for this lag is the lack of legislation to assess environmental impacts of policies, plans and programs, which means that environmental considerations are addressed primarily at the project level and alternative developments are not adequately considered at the strategic level. Additionally, the Canadian EA system appears to be lengthy and burdensome due to a complex jurisdictional framework with inconsistent EA legislation across different jurisdictions. A review of Bill C-69 An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts shows that it primarily attempts to address process issues at the federal level rather than improve the jurisdictional framework for EAs in Canada as a whole. As a consequence, it does not improve the application of EA best practices in Canada and in fact could lead to further costly delays due to the inclusion of a broader scope of effects. This paper provides recommendations to improve the coherence of EAs across Canada via an Intergovernmental Agreement, consistent EA legislation at the federal, provincial and territorial level and the systematic implementation of a tiered Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment process.
Nonlinear and Linear Timescales near Kinetic Scales in Solar Wind Turbulence
Creators: name: Matthaeus, W. H.
name: Oughton, S.
name: Osman, K. T.
name: Servidio, S.
name: Wan, M.
name: Gary, S. P.
name: Shay, M. A.
name: Valentini, F.
name: Roytershteyn, V.
name: Karimabadi, H.
name: Chapman, S. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The application of linear kinetic treatments to plasma waves, damping, and instability requires favorable inequalities between the associated linear timescales and timescales for nonlinear (e.g., turbulence) evolution. In the solar wind these two types of timescales may be directly compared using standard Kolmogorov-style analysis and observational data. The estimated local nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic cascade times, evaluated as relevant kinetic scales are approached, remain slower than the cyclotron period, but comparable to, or faster than, the typical timescales of instabilities, anisotropic waves, and wave damping. The variation with length scale of the turbulence timescales is supported by observations and simulations. On this basis the use of linear theory - which assumes constant parameters to calculate the associated kinetic rates - may be questioned. It is suggested that the product of proton gyrofrequency and nonlinear time at the ion gyroscales provides a simple measure of turbulence influence on proton kinetic behavior.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
CoNiSi₂ fully silicided (FUSI) metal gate in MOS capacitor and its characterization
Creators: name: Liu, Jun, 1979-
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2004
Subjects: Silicided dual metal gate
CMOS devices
MOS capacitor

description: The Scaling of the device feature sizes has led the progress in MOS integrated circuit technology. In order to provide better performance and high packing density in the limited chip space , scaling down of the channel length of MOSFET becomes essential in ULSI fabrication technologies. The thinner gate oxide is required to reduce the short channel effects and maintain gate controllability over the channel with higher driver current capability. When dielectric (SiO2) thickness approaches near 1nm in CMOS devices scale, new materials such as high-k dielectrics and metal gate electrodes has been investigated in order to ensure continued scaling of the technology. Depletion layer at poly-Si/gate dielectric interface becomes significant. Poly-Si also has several problems such as boron penetration, and high gate resistance RC time delay. So those important issues lead to the use of alternative gate electrodes, such as metals. Eliminating poly-silicon depletion has the advantage of more scaling down without decreasing oxide thickness. Low sheet resistance using metal gates improves device performance especially in AC. Replacing poly-si requires two metals with compatible work function and tunable performance. The work function range required is 4.1~ 4.4eV for NMOS and 4.8~5.1eV for PMOS .Several metals as a metal gate electrode with different process techniques have been published. Many metals, metal nitrides, metal silicon nitrides and metal oxides were investigated for dual metal gate approach such as Ta, TaN, TaSiN, TiN, IrO2, RuO2. Tunable metal techniques using nitrogen implantaion is also reported. Those metals require special processes such as gate-last or lift-off to avoid difficult issues related to etching, high thermal budget and dual metal gate modification. Silicidation techniques have received much attention in salicide process to reduce contact resistivity on the source, drain and gate for several years. Recently several metal silicided gates, such as CoSi2 and NiSi, were demonstrated. NiSi has two different work functions with N+ and P+ poly-silicon, and CoSi2 has a mid-gap work function and better thermal stability than NiSi. So this work is to combine these two materials, and investigate the potential of CoNiSi2 as metal gate on MOS capacitors. It is found that both As and B influence the work function of the FUSI significantly. FUSI metal gate doesn't degrade the gate oxide quality, as indicated by identical oxide leakage, interface state density after FUSI. The importance of this work is to use different Co:Ni ratio in CoNiSi2 formation process, which proves Co:Ni ratio is an important factor to influence the As and B dopant piling up at the interface of metal gate and dielectric and then influence the work function of whole device.
United States Penetration of Brazil
Creators: name: Black, Jan Knippers
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Latin and South American history
International relations

description: In this book a foreign affairs analyst takes a hard look at the influence that U.S. officials and organizations brought to bear between 1960 and 1976 on the armed forces and police, large corporations, political parties, news media, and regional development agencies of Brazil. Actual year of publication is 1977. Includes epilogue from 2009 Portuguese edition of the work, at professor Black's request. Prof. Black asserts the copyright has been reverted back to her by the publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press).
Atlas of three body mean motion resonances in the Solar System
Creators: name: Gallardo, Tabaré
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical method to estimate the strengths of arbitrary three body mean motion resonances between two planets in circular coplanar orbits and a massless particle in an arbitrary orbit. This method allows us to obtain an atlas of the three body resonances in the Solar System showing where are located and how strong are thousands of resonances involving all the planets from 0 to 1000 au. This atlas confirms the dynamical relevance of the three body resonances involving Jupiter and Saturn in the asteroid belt but also shows the existence of a family of relatively strong three body resonances involving Uranus and Neptune in the far Trans-Neptunian region and relatively strong resonances involving terrestrial and jovian planets in the inner planetary system. We calculate the density of relevant resonances along the Solar System resulting that the main asteroid belt is located in a region of the planetary system with the lowest density of three body resonances. The method also allows the location of the equilibrium points showing the existence of asymmetric librations (sigma different from 0 or 180 degrees). We obtain the functional dependence of the resonance's strength with the order of the resonance and the eccentricity and inclination of the particle's orbit. We identify some objects evolving in or very close to three body resonances with Earth-Jupiter, Saturn-Neptune and Uranus-Neptune apart from Jupiter-Saturn, in particular the NEA 2009 SJ18 is evolving in the resonance 1-1E-1J and the centaur 10199 Chariklo is evolving under the influence of the resonance 5-2S-2N.
description: accepted for publication in Icarus
title: La nomenclatura en la Gramatica española de J.F. Perles y Campos (1689)
Creators: name: Polo, Anna
Publisher: name: CLUEB
Year: 2024

description: El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar la nomenclatura incluida en la gramática bilingüe de Perles y Campos (1689) a partir, en primer lugar, de su estructura temática y del número de entradas recogidas. En segundo lugar, se trata de comparar las equivalencias interlingüísticas con dos obras fundamentales de la lexicografía bilingüe italiano-español, es decir, el Vocabulario de las dos lenguas toscana y castellana (1570), de Cristóbal de Las Casas y el Vocabolario italiano e spagnolo (1620) de Lorenzo Franciosini.
Points defining triangles with distinct circumradii
Creators: name: Martínez, Leonardo
name: Roldán-Pensado, Edgardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Paul Erdos asked if, among sufficiently many points in general position, there are always $k$ points such that all the circles through $3$ of these $k$ points have different radii. He later proved that this is indeed the case. However, he overlooked a non-trivial case in his proof. In this note we deal with this case using Bézout's Theorem on the number of intersection points of two curves and obtain a polynomial bound for the needed number of points.
Supplementary data to the study entitled: Assessments of tobacco control policy instruments status and effectiveness in Africa; A systematic literature review
Creators: name: Munthali, George N Chidimbah
name: Xuelian, Wu
name: Rizwani, Muhammad
name: Rivas Gama Daru
name: Yu, Shi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: These are the supplementary data to the data being submitted for publication.
Resolving Structure in Human Brain Organization: Identifying Mesoscale Organization in Weighted Network Representations
Creators: name: Lohse, Christian
name: Bassett, Danielle S.
name: Lim, Kelvin O.
name: Carlson, Jean M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Human brain anatomy and function display a combination of modular and hierarchical organization, suggesting the importance of both cohesive structures and variable resolutions in the facilitation of healthy cognitive processes. However, tools to simultaneously probe these features of brain architecture require further development. We propose and apply a set of methods to extract cohesive structures in network representations of brain connectivity using multi-resolution techniques. We employ a combination of soft thresholding, windowed thresholding, and resolution in community detection, that enable us to identify and isolate structures associated with different weights. One such mesoscale structure is bipartivity, which quantifies the extent to which the brain is divided into two partitions with high connectivity between partitions and low connectivity within partitions. A second, complementary mesoscale structure is modularity, which quantifies the extent to which the brain is divided into multiple communities with strong connectivity within each community and weak connectivity between communities. Our methods lead to multi-resolution curves of these network diagnostics over a range of spatial, geometric, and structural scales. For statistical comparison, we contrast our results with those obtained for several benchmark null models. Our work demonstrates that multi-resolution diagnostic curves capture complex organizational profiles in weighted graphs. We apply these methods to the identification of resolution-specific characteristics of healthy weighted graph architecture and altered connectivity profiles in psychiatric disease.
description: Comments welcome
FACTOR AFFECTING EFFECTIVENESS OF PHARMACUTICAL DISTRBUTIONTHE CASE OF ETHIOPIAN PHARMACEUTICALS SUPPLY AGENCY ADDIS ABABA BRANCH
Creators: name: DEMEKE ALEMU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The main purpose of this study was to analysis the effectiveness of pharmaceutical distribution in EPSA AA hub. The research develops on three key dimensions of pharmaceutical distribution effectiveness (Storage and inventory control practice, Order fulfillment, communication and customer service management, Transport and distribution system) to test effectiveness of distribution in the organization. Both descriptive and exploratory research design was employed. The total population of the study is 286; the researcher used stratified simple random sampling and purposefully sampling technique. The data for the study was collected from 90 employs who work in EPSA AA hub and health facility with 95.7% of respondent rate. the effectiveness of pharmaceutical distribution data were in filled using the five point linkert-scale while the cronbach Alpha was used to check the data for reliability of measurement scale. Percentile and the relationships proposed in the hypothesis were tested using Spearman rho correlation by SPSS 20.0 software version.
title: Effects of the JAQBLOQ Forearm and Straight Arm Plank on Core Muscle Activation
Creators: name: Clark, Jacquelyn R.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015

description: Performing a plank has various benefits for all fitness levels. There are several different types of planks that can be performed, with or without equipment: straight arm, forearm and side plank. When one has a shoulder or arm injury, he or she will not be able to safely perform a plank. A piece of fitness equipment was recently designed to aid people with injuries so they can still perform a plank; the JAQBLOQ. It is a 12x13x14" high density EVA foam block used to assist one during a plank where the participant rests his or her chest on it.

This study examined the difference between EMG muscle activation in the anterior deltoid, rectus abdominus and external oblique during the JAQBLOQ plank, forearm plank, and straight arm plank.

There were 20 participants recruited for this study; 10 men and 10 women. One subject was excluded for his or her inability to complete the required tasks. Participants that were physically active with no shoulder injuries in the past six months, no cosmetic surgery in the past year, no orthopedic shoulder, back or neck surgery, and not currently pregnant, were recruited for the study. Participants were recruited based on a BMI less than or equal to 25 kg m-2. They were instructed to hold each plank for 30 seconds with a five-minute rest in between.

Results showed that during testing, participants' anterior deltoid produced activations of 4.1 ± 7.2% maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC) for JAQBLOQ, 39.1 ± 23.8% MVIC for straight arm, and 42.0±20.9% MVIC for forearm. There was higher average muscle activation in the rectus abdominis during the forearm 30.2 ± 26.0 as opposed to straight arm 20.1 ± 16.7 and JAQBLOQ 5.3 ± 4.3. There was higher average muscle activation in the external obliques during forearm 29.7 ± 14.0 as opposed to straight arm 22.2 ± 12.5 and JAQBLOQ 17.7 ± 15.9. There was a significant difference (p<0.001) in EMO activity during the planks. The JAQBLOQ plank had significantly less EMO activity than the straight arm plank. The JAQBLOQ plank had significantly less EMO activity than the forearm plank. The straight arm plank had significantly less EMO activity than the forearm plank.

The greater activation of the deltoid during the straight arm and forearm planks compared to the JAQBLOQ plank demonstrates that the JAQBLOQ was successful in greatly reducing the effort required by the shoulders. Regarding abdominal muscles, the JAQBLOQ plank reduced activation of the recuts abdominis while still eliciting good activation of the external obliques. In addition, there was higher muscle activation in the abdominals and deltoid during the forearm plank in comparison to the JAQBLOQ plank and straight arm plank.
title: Les manuels de russe langue étrangère pour francophones dans la période 1917-1960: influence des idées des linguistes-slavistes
Creators: name: Zalesskaya, Daria
Publisher: name: CLUEB
Year: 2024

description: Chaque manuel est un document historique. Tous les manuels
reflètent une certaine vision des méthodes d’enseignement, des tendances dans la présentation de la langue et des idées linguistiques influençant le processus pédagogique. Cet article a pour but l’analyse des manuels de russe langue étrangère élaborés et publiés dans les pays francophones d’Europe occidentale dans la première moitié du XXème siècle. En nous appuyant sur les résultats obtenus, nous allons analyser la façon dont le russe est présenté, les méthodes d’enseignements et l’influence des idées des linguistes-slavistes de l’époque.
Kiselman's principle, the Dirichlet problem for the Monge-Ampere equation, and rooftop obstacle problems
Creators: name: Darvas, Tamás
name: Rubinstein, Yanir A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: First, we obtain a new formula for Bremermann type upper envelopes, that arise frequently in convex analysis and pluripotential theory, in terms of the Legendre transform of the convex- or plurisubharmonic-envelope of the boundary data. This yields a new relation between solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the homogeneous real and complex Monge-Ampere equations and Kiselman's minimum principle. More generally, it establishes partial regularity for a Bremermann envelope whether or not it solves the Monge-Ampere equation. Second, we prove the second order regularity of the solution of the free-boundary problem for the Laplace equation with a rooftop obstacle, based on a new a priori estimate on the size of balls that lie above the non-contact set. As an application, we prove that convex- and plurisubharmonic-envelopes of rooftop obstacles have bounded second derivatives.
Two Measures on Cantor Sets
Creators: name: Alpan, Gokalp
name: Goncharov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30C85, 28A78, 28A80

description: We give an example of Cantor type set for which its equilibrium measure and the corresponding Hausdorff measure are mutually absolutely continuous. Also we show that these two measures are regular in Stahl-Totik sense.
A Radio Survey of Galactic Center Clouds
Creators: name: Mills, E. A. C.
name: Lang, C. C.
name: Morris, M. R.
name: Ott, J.
name: Butterfield, N.
name: Ludovici, D.
name: Schmitz, S.
name: Schmiedeke, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a survey of molecules in a sample of Galactic center molecular clouds using the Karl G. Jansky Very large Array, which includes M0.25+0.01, the clouds near Sgr A, and Sgr B2. The molecules detected are primarily NH3 and HC3N; in Sgr B2-N we also detect nonmetastable NH3, vibrationally-excited HC3N, torsionally-excited CH3OH, and numerous isotopologues of these species. 36 GHz Class I CH3OH masers are ubiquitous in these fields, and in several cases are associated with new NH3 (3,3) maser candidates. We also find that NH3 and HC3N are depleted or absent toward several of the highest dust column density peaks identified in submillimeter observations, which are associated with water masers and are thus likely in the early stages of star formation.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 303, "The Galactic Center: Feeding and Feedback in a Normal Galactic Nucleus"
title: LinPePrensa. Ideas sobre la lengua y su enseñanza en la prensa histórica española (1800-1939)
Creators: name: Gaviño Rodríguez, Victoriano
name: García Folgado, María José
Publisher: name: CLUEB
Year: 2024

description: La investigación historiográfica española ha centrado tradicionalmente su interés principal en el análisis de tratados lingüísticos (gramáticas, ortografías, diccionarios…), a partir de los cuales la disciplina ha
elaborado la historia de las ideas lingüísticas y lingüístico-pedagógicas de los diferentes países hispanohablantes. Aunque este método de trabajo sigue siendo el preferente en este ámbito, en los últimos años ha proliferado el acercamiento de investigadores a otras fuentes no canónicas con el fin de descubrir nuevos datos y manifestaciones que complementen la historia de nuestro pensamiento lingüístico. En esta línea se mueve el proyecto LinPePrensa que aquí presentamos, cuyo propósito principal consiste en la revalorización de una de estas fuentes marginales, la de la prensa histórica en España, por medio del desarrollo de un estudio comprensivo a nivel general y particular del modo de circular y articularse las ideas sobre la lengua y su enseñanza en la prensa escrita entre el siglo XIX y las primeras décadas del XX, un periodo especialmente relevante en el que coinciden el desarrollo de la filología como disciplina científica con el de la utilización de la prensa como foro social de opinión
y debate público.
Mobile GIS and Open Source Platform Based on Android: Technology for System Pregnant Women
Creators: name: Ismaeel, Ayad Ghany
name: Hamead, Nur Gaylan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The statistic of World Health Organization shows at one year about 287000 women died most of them during and following pregnancy and childbirth in Africa and south Asia. This paper suggests system for serving pregnant women using open source based on Android technology, the proposed system works based on mobile GIS to select closest care centre or hospital maternity on Google map for the pregnant woman, which completed an online registration by sending SMS via GPRS network (or internet) contains her name and phone number and region (Longitude and Latitude) and other required information the server will save the information in server database then find the closest care centre and call her for first review at the selected care centre, the proposed system allowed the pregnant women from her location (home, market, etc) can send a help request in emergency cases (via SMS by click one button) contains the ID for this pregnant woman, and her coordinates (Longitude and Latitude) via GPRS network, then the server will locate the pregnant on Google map and retrieve the pregnant information from the database. This information will be used by the server to send succoring to pregnant woman at her location and at the same time notify the nearest hospital and moreover, the server will send SMS over IP to inform her husband and the hospital doctors. Implement and applied this proposed system of pregnant women shows more effective cost than other systems because it works in economic mode (SMS), and the services of proposed system are flexible (open source platform) as well as rapidly (mobile GIS based on Android) achieved locally registration, succoring in emergency cases, change the review date of pregnant woman, addition to different types of advising according to pregnancy. Index Terms: Build-in GPS; GPRS; Mobile GIS; SoIP; Open Source; Google Maps API ; Android Technology
description: 8 pages, 16 figures, 1 Table
title: Los repertorios lexicográficos ¿menores? en la lexicografía italoespañola: aproximación a la nomenclatura de Francesco Marin
Creators: name: Peñín Fernández, Natalia
Publisher: name: CLUEB
Year: 2024

description: La denominación “repertorios lexicográficos menores” se ha
usado para designar diferentes categorías de compilaciones como nomenclaturas, glosarios o vocabularios ‘escondidos’ en obras didácticas – gramáticas o manuales especializados –, literarias o más divulgativas, como los libros de viajes. Sin embargo, estas recopilaciones son de interés fundamental para la reconstrucción de la historia de la lexicografía y
para el estudio de la historia de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de idiomas. La nomenclatura de la que nos ocuparemos en este artículo, la Raccolta dei nomi sostantivi più necessarj a sapersi, forma parte de la gramática que Francesco Marin publicó en Roma en 1833. Teniendo en cuenta la explícita intención del autor de elaborar una gramática acorde con las últimas indicaciones de la “Regia Accademia Spagnuola” (Marin, 1833:7) se llevará a cabo un análisis de algunos de los elementos ortográficos y de acentuación de la nomenclatura, cotejándolos con el Diccionario de la Academia publicado en 1817.
Complete Graphs, Hilbert Series, and the Higgs branch of the 4d N=2 $(A_n,A_m)$ SCFT's
Creators: name: Del Zotto, Michele
name: Hanany, Amihay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strongly interacting 4d N=2 SCFT's of type $(A_n,A_m)$ are the simplest examples of models in the $(G,G^\prime)$ class introduced by Cecotti, Neitzke, and Vafa in arXiv:1006.3435. These systems have a known 3d N=4 mirror only if $h(A_n)$ divides $h(A_m)$, where $h$ is the Coxeter number. By 4d/2d correspondence, we show that in this case these systems have a nontrivial global flavor symmetry group and, therefore, a non-trivial Higgs branch. As an application of the methods of arXiv:1309.2657, we then compute the refined Hilbert series of the Coulomb branch of the 3d mirror for the simplest models in the series. This equals the refined Hilbert series of the Higgs branch of the $(A_n,A_m)$ SCFT, providing interesting information about the Higgs branch of these non-lagrangian theories.
description: 20 pages
title: Obras lexicográficas para el aprendizaje del español y del italiano en el siglo XVI: el caso del Vocabulario de las dos lenguas de Las Casas (1570)
Creators: name: Nalesso, Giulia
Publisher: name: CLUEB
Year: 2024

description: Situándonos en los marcos de la lexicografía, la historiografía lingüística y la historia de la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras, estudiamos el Vocabulario de las dos lenguas toscana y castellana (1570) de Las Casas con el propósito de arrojar luz sobre la intención didáctica de
su autor, el cual recopiló este repertorio lexicográfico como herramienta para los procesos de adquisición del italiano y del español, entendidos como idiomas extranjeros. Para ello, después de una breve contextualización, a partir del análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo de los contenidos y
de la estructura del texto destacaremos el papel pedagógico de la obra, que abrió la primera etapa de la tradición lexicográfica italoespañola, siendo el primer diccionario bilingüe impreso de este binomio lingüístico.
Exchangeability and the Law of Maturity
Creators: name: Bonassi, Fernando Vieira
name: Stern, Rafael Bassi
name: Wechsler, Sergio
name: Peixoto, Claudia Monteiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91B06

description: The law of maturity is the belief that less-observed events are becoming mature and, therefore, more likely to occur in the future. Previous studies have shown that the assumption of infinite exchangeability contradicts the law of maturity. In particular, it has been shown that infinite exchangeability contradicts probabilistic descriptions of the law of maturity such as the gambler's belief and the belief in maturity. We show that the weaker assumption of finite exchangeability is compatible with both the gambler's belief and belief in maturity. We provide sufficient conditions under which these beliefs hold under finite exchangeability. These conditions are illustrated with commonly used parametric models.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Integrated optics interferometric four telescopes nuller
Creators: name: Errmann, Ronny
name: Minardi, Stefano
name: Labadie, Lucas
name: Dreisow, Felix
name: Nolte, Stefan
name: Pertsch, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nulling interferometry has been identified as a competitive technique for the detection of extrasolar planets. The technique consists in combining out-of-phase pairs of telescopes to null effectively the light of a bright star an reveal the dim glow of the companion. We have manufactured and tested with monochromatic light an integrated optics component which combines a linear array of 4 telescopes in the nulling mode envisaged by Angel & Wolf (1997). Our testbench simulates the motion of a star in the sky. The tests have demonstrated a nulling scaling as the fourth power of the baseline delay.
description: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instumentation Conference 2014, Paper 9146-77, 7 pages, 5 figures