cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The music of J. S. Bach and the evolution of Romantic aesthetics
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Tom Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Johann, Sebastian, Bach, music, aesthetics, Romanticism.

description: Johann Nikolaus Forkel’s 1802 biography of Bach portrays its subject as the ideal German composer: a progenitor of musical perfection towards whose standards contemporary mortals could only aspire. This retrospective elevation to God-like status, which captures the spirit of the Bach revival, demands explanation. What was the nature of the music’s potent appeal in the first three decades of the nineteenth century? What led Bach to write such music – which was regarded by many of his contemporaries as old-fashioned, even eccentric – in the first place? In addressing these questions, this thesis examines the rapid rise in the status of music itself in the period 1700-1830. With reference to the rise of aesthetics and to hermeneutical theory (i.e. theory of interpretation), it explores the historical processes that led to music being regarded, by some in the Romantic age, as a medium of transcendent significance. The underlying thread of my historical analysis is the ‘critical’ shift in the locus of ‘meaning,’ from object to subject. It is this migration that underpins my consideration of the nineteenth-century reassessment of Bach’s music. Bach may well have conceived his music in objective terms, perhaps as a kind of homage to the purported unity of creation. When heard ‘Romantically,’ I argue, the music could accrue a new, subjective significance, as an inculcator of an ‘experiential’ form of the unity it had been intended merely to imitate. Hermeneutical theory is principally relevant to this thesis as a window onto the evolving attitudes towards interpretation in the period 1700-1830. However, owing to its traditional association with biblical exegesis, it also serves as a useful prism by which to consider this period in broader historical context. Famously, Martin Luther viewed biblical interpretation as the foundation of faith; this uncompromising vision was gradually undermined during the early-modern age. Ultimately, I argue that the avowedly Lutheran underpinnings of Bach’s sacred music served to bolster its appeal, ironically enough, to the liberalized, subjectively focussed religious sensibilities of the early nineteenth century. This notion captures the image of Bach that I defend throughout this thesis: that of a composer whose conservative impulses led him to produce music of progressive communicative potential.
The Foreign Policy of Senator Robert A. Taft
Creators: name: Simmons, Norman L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This study is a resume and analysis of the foreign policy views of the late Senator Robert A. Taft, Senior Senator from the State of Ohio. The period under review in this study begins in January of 1939 and concludes with the Senator's death on July 31, 1953. During his term in Senate, Mr. Taft was one of the most controversial and newsworthy figures in the United States.
Muon capture by 3He nuclei followed by proton and deuteron production
Creators: name: Bystritsky, V. M.
name: Boreiko, V. F.
name: Filipowicz, M.
name: Gerasimov, V. V.
name: Huot, O.
name: Knowles, P. E.
name: Mulhauser, F.
name: Pavlov, V. N.
name: Schaller, L. A.
name: Schneuwly, H.
name: Sandukovsky, V. G.
name: Stolupin, V. A.
name: Volnykh, V. P.
name: Wozniak, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper describes an experiment aimed at studying muon capture by ${}^{3}\mathrm{He}$ nuclei in pure ${}^{3}\mathrm{He}$ and $\mathrm{D}_2 + {}^{3}\mathrm{He}$ mixtures at various densities. Energy distributions of protons and deuterons produced via $μ^-+{}^{3}\mathrm{He}\to p+n+n + ν_{μ}$ and $μ^-+{}^{3} \mathrm{He} \to d+n + ν_μ$ are measured for the energy intervals $10 - 49$ MeV and $13 - 31$ MeV, respectively. Muon capture rates, $λ_\mathrm{cap}^p (ΔE_p)$ and $λ_\mathrm{cap}^d (ΔE_d)$ are obtained using two different analysis methods. The least--squares methods gives $λ_\mathrm{cap}^p = (36.7\pm 1.2) {s}^{- 1}$, $λ_\mathrm{cap}^d = (21.3 \pm 1.6) {s}^{- 1}$. The Bayes theorem gives $λ_\mathrm{cap}^p = (36.8 \pm 0.8) {s}^{- 1}$, $λ_\mathrm{cap}^d = (21.9 \pm 0.6) {s}^{- 1}$. The experimental differential capture rates, $dλ_\mathrm{cap}^p (E_p) / dE_p $ and $ dλ_\mathrm{cap}^d (E_d) / dE_d$, are compared with theoretical calculations performed using the plane--wave impulse approximation (PWIA) with the realistic NN interaction Bonn B potential. Extrapolation to the full energy range yields total proton and deuteron capture rates in good agreement with former results.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in PRA
Plasma Temperature Measurement with a Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM)
Creators: name: Hunter, E. D.
name: Fajans, J.
name: Lewis, N. A.
name: Povilus, A. P.
name: Sierra, C.
name: So, C.
name: Zimmer, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature of a nonneutral plasma confined in a Penning-Malmberg trap can be determined by slowly lowering one side of the trap's electrostatic axial confinement barrier; the temperature is inferred from the rate at which particles escape the trap as a function of the barrier height. Often, the escaping particles are directed toward a microchannel plate (MCP), and the resulting amplified charge is collected on a phosphor screen. The screen is used for imaging the plasma, but can also be used as a Faraday cup FC for a temperature measurement. The sensitivity limit is then set by microphonic noise enhanced by the screen's high voltage bias. Alternately, a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) can be employed to measure the charge via the light emitted from the phosphor screen. This decouples the signal from the microphonic noise and allows the temperature of colder and smaller plasmas to be measured than could be measured previously; this paper focusses on the advantages of a SiPM over a FC.
Probability distribution of persistent spins in a Ising chain
Creators: name: Das, Pratap Kumar
name: Sen, Parongama
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the probability distribution $Q(n,t)$ of $n(t)$, the fraction of spins unflipped till time $t$, in a Ising chain with ferromagnetic interactions. The distribution shows a peak at $n=n_{max}$ and in general is non-Gaussian and asymmetric in nature. However for $n>n_{max}$ it shows a Gaussian decay. A data collapse can be obtained when $Q(n,t)/L^α$ versus $(n-n_{max})L^β$ is plotted with $α\sim 0.45$ and $β\sim 0.6$. Interestingly, $n_{max}(t)$ shows a different behaviour compared to $ = P(t)$, the persistence probability which follows the well-known behaviour $P(t)\sim t^{-θ}$. A quantitative estimate of the asymmetry and non-Gaussian nature of $Q(n,t)$ is made by calculating its skewness and kurtosis.
description: 4 pages, submitted to J. Phys A
Physical activity and mental health among adolescents in Norway; a longitudinal study
Creators: name: Vedøy, Ingeborg
name: Skulberg, Knut
name: Tjomsland, Hege
name: Anderssen, Sigmund
name: Thurston, Miranda
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Recent data suggest that the mental health (MH) of many adolescents is less than optimal in Norway as elsewhere. Physical activity (PA) has been proposed as a possible modifiable factor that could influence MH in a positive way. Previous studies have mainly used a cross-sectional design to explore these associations and used a single measure of MH. Purpose: Explore whether changes in objectively assessed PA [Total PA and moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA)] are associated with changes in mental health problems and mental well-being among adolescents. Methods: Longitudinal data were collected in three waves between 2016-2018. Baseline participation comprised 599 adolescents (54.4% girls; mean age 13.3 years). Total PA and MVPA were measured by ActiGraph GT3X+/BT. Mental health problems were measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and mental well-being by the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing scale (WEMWBS). Partial correlation analysis was used to model the associations between changes in PA and MH. Results: Neither main analysis, nor gender specific sub-analysis showed any evidence for changes in PA [Total PA and MVPA] being associated with changes in mental health problems (p>0.05) or mental well-being (p>0.05). Conclusion: Our data suggest that changes in Total PA and MVPA are unrelated to changes in mental health problems and mental wellbeing among adolescents during lower secondary school. The pattern was similar among boys and girls, indicating that gender differences in PA-level and measures of MH did not explain the results of the main analysis. Funding: Study funded by the Norwegian Research Council (238212/F60).
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
A family of double-beauty tetraquarks: Axial-vector state $T_{bb;\bar{u}\bar{s}}^{-}$
Creators: name: Agaev, S. S.
name: Azizi, K.
name: Barsbay, B.
name: Sundu, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectroscopic parameters and decay channels of the axial-vector tetraquark $T_{bb;\overline{u}\overline{s}}^{-}$ (in what follows, $T_{b: \overline{s}}^{\mathrm{AV}}$) are explored using the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) sum rule method. The mass and coupling of this state are calculated using two-point sum rules by taking into account various vacuum condensates, up to 10 dimensions. Our prediction for the mass of this state $m=(10215\pm 250)~ \mathrm{MeV}$ confirms that it is stable with respect to strong and electromagnetic decays and can dissociate to conventional mesons only via weak transformations. We investigate the dominant semileptonic $T_{b:\overline{s} }^{\mathrm{AV}} \to \mathcal{Z}_{b:\overline{s}}^{0}l\overlineν_l$ and nonleptonic $T_{b:\overline{s}}^{\mathrm{AV}} \to \mathcal{Z}_{b:\overline{s} }^{0}M$ decays of $T_{b:\overline{s}}^{\mathrm{AV}}$. In these processes, $ \mathcal{Z}_{b:\overline{s}}^{0}$ is a scalar tetraquark $[bc][\overline{u} \overline{s}]$ built of a color-triplet diquark and an antidiquark, whereas $M$ is one of the vector mesons $ρ^{-}$, $K^{\ast}(892)$, $D^{\ast }(2010)^{-}$, and $D_{s}^{\ast -}$. To calculate the partial widths of these decays, we use the QCD three-point sum rule approach and evaluate the weak transition form factors $G_{i}$ $(i=0,1,2,3)$, which govern these processes. The full width $Γ_{\mathrm{full}} =(12.9\pm 2.1)\times 10^{-8}~\mathrm{MeV}$ and the mean lifetime $ τ=5.1_{-0.71}^{+0.99}~\mathrm{fs}$ of the tetraquark $T_{b:\overline{s}}^{ \mathrm{AV}}$ are computed using the aforementioned weak decays. The obtained information about the parameters of $T_{b:\overline{s}}^{\mathrm{AV}}$ and $ \mathcal{Z}_{b:\overline{s}}^{0}$ is useful for experimental investigations of these double-heavy exotic mesons.
description: 14 Pages, 5 Figures and 3 Tables. To be published in Chinese Physics C
Perigona nigriceps
Creators: name: Liebherr, James K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Perigona
Perigona nigriceps

description: Perigona nigriceps (Dejean)
(Fig. 6F, 7D)
 Diagnosis. These small-bodied beetles—standardized body length 2.9– 3.0 mm—are unique in the Hawaiian carabid fauna due to the fine setae covering the surface of the outer two elytral intervals (Fig. 7D). The head is brunneous, contrasted with the flavous elytra, antennae and legs. The pronotum and elytra may be pale, flavous (e.g., Fig. 7D), or they may be darker; the pronotum brunneous, and the elytra with a dark piceous cloud on the disc and pale longitudinal maculae laterally that converge toward the suture subapically.
 Lanai Distribution. This species’ known distribution on Lanai includes Maunalei Gulch and near Haalelepaakai (Fig. 6F), encompassed within the cloud forest and mesic forest community boundaries (Fig. 1) (new island record).
 Habitat. Two collections of this species have been made, the first from fungus growing on a dead non-native kukui (Aleurites moluccana [L.]) log (3-V-1993 lot 01, 450–490 m el., Liebherr; CUIC), and the second by sifting fungusy leaf litter from the floor of a Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw.) plantation (13-V-2004 lot 05, 985 m el., Liebherr; CUIC). The Monterey cypress plantation specimen was collected along with the ant species Hyperponera punctatissima (Roger), a species predaceous on other arthropods (Huddleston and Fluker 1968) and an occasional inhabitant of montane areas up to 1,200 m elevation where it has been reported from leaf litter (Reimer 1994).
description: Published as part of Liebherr, James K., 2009, Native And Alien Carabidae (Coleoptera) Share Lanai, An Ecologically Devastated Island, pp. 383-411 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 63 (4) on pages 404-405, DOI: 10.1649/1176.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4924356
The Foreign Policy of Senator Robert A. Taft
Creators: name: Simmons, Norman L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study is a resume and analysis of the foreign policy views of the late Senator Robert A. Taft, Senior Senator from the State of Ohio. The period under review in this study begins in January of 1939 and concludes with the Senator's death on July 31, 1953. During his term in Senate, Mr. Taft was one of the most controversial and newsworthy figures in the United States.
The Einstein condition on nearly Kähler six-manifolds
Creators: name: Russo, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We review basic facts on the structure of nearly Kähler manifolds, focussing in particular on the six-dimensional case. A self-contained proof that nearly Kähler six-manifolds are Einstein is given by combining different known results. We finally rephrase the definition of nearly Kähler six-manifold in terms of a pair of partial differential equations.
description: 23 pages. General minor revisions, Remark 5.4 and two references added. To appear in Expositiones Mathematicae
Norma ERG BR 2001 - Estabelece os Critérios de Pertinência para o Corpo de Examinadores de Certificação do OCEB
Creators: name: ABERGO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: ABERGO
SisCEB
Certificação de Ergonomistas

description: Norma ERG BR 2001 - Estabelece os Critérios de Pertinência para o Corpo de Examinadores de Certificação do OCEB
 Aprovada no 1º. Fórum de Certificação do Ergonomista Brasileiro [24 de outubro de 2003 | Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais].
An Investigation of the Role of the Patient's Perception in Psychotherapy
Creators: name: Spock, Anne Ingersoll
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The statistical findings in evaluative and follow-up studies of the outcome of psychotherapy fall into rather consistent patterns of success and failure, for which, however, no consistent causes have as yet been established. Broadly speaking, it has been found that approximately one-third of the cases for which psychotherapeutic treatment has been initiated show no improvement and two-thirds range in results from some to much improvement.
AnaisdoXXVCREEMvol.3-1.pdf
Creators: name: Lacerda, Pedro Henrique Melato De
name: Almeida, Artur Cardoso De
name: Pereira, Walter Paschoal
name: Anflor, Carla
name: Betancur, Adrian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90202 Automotive Engineering Materials
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 90201 Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 91302 Automation and Control Engineering
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: Mechanical Engineering

description: Este projeto busca analisar computacionalmente os campos de tensões e deformações de um chassi e feixe
de molas da suspensão traseira de um veículo utilitário esportivo (SUV). Neste caso, será analisado um chassi do tipo escada, muito utilizados em utilitários esportivos. Tal componente será modelado em plataforma CAD e analisado via Método dos Elementos Finitos (MEF). Os efeitos causados pelos esforços aos quais o modelo estará submetido, serão minimizados no sentido de melhorar a resistência mecânica do projeto. Neste sentido, será realizada a modelagem do chassi, aprimorando a malha para então fazer análises estática, modal e de fadiga. O mesmo processo será aplicado a um feixe de molas, parte da suspensão traseira do SUV.
Movement behaviours and sleep locked within the 24-hour day: Compositional associations with mental health
Creators: name: Hofman, Amy
name: Voortman, Trudy
name: Ikram, Arfan
name: Luik, Annemarie
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep are suggested risk factors for poor mental health, also in middle-aged and elderly. Durations of these behaviors are bound within the 24h-day, yet this relative nature of the data has often not been taken into account. Purpose: To investigate the associations of reallocations of time among physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep with depressive and anxiety symptoms. Methods: Between 2011 and 2016, accelerometer data (mean duration 5.8±0.4 days) were collected to estimate physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep, and validated questionnaires were used to assess depressive (Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression) and anxiety (Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale) symptoms among 1,943 participants (mean age 71±9 years, 52% women) from the population-based Rotterdam Study. Compositional isotemporal substitution analyses were performed. Results: In confounder adjusted models, a reallocation of 30 minutes more moderate-to-vigorous physical activity was associated with a -0.55 (95%-confidence interval (CI): -1.04;-0.06) points lower depressive symptoms score when replacing sleep, a -0.59 (95%CI: -1.06;-0.12) points lower score when replacing sedentary behaviour and a -0.70 (95%CI: -1.63;0.24) points lower score when replacing light physical activity. No associations were found for anxiety. Conclusions: More moderate-to-vigorous physical activity is associated with less depressive symptoms when it replaces either sleep, sedentary behaviour or light physical activity. Although the design of our study is cross-sectional, we speculate that mainly intensive types of physical activity are important in this age group in relation to depressive symptoms.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
A two-sided Faulhaber-like formula involving Bernoulli polynomials
Creators: name: G., Fernando Barbero
name: Margalef-Bentabol, Juan
name: Villaseñor, Eduardo J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a new identity involving Bernoulli polynomials and combinatorial numbers. This provides, in particular, a Faulhaber-like formula for sums of the form $1^m (n-1)^m + 2^m (n-2)^m + \cdots + (n-1)^m 1^m$ for positive integers $m$ and $n$.
description: 5 pages
Multi-wavelength spectroscopy of the bipolar outflow from Cepheus E
Creators: name: Smith, M. D.
name: Froebrich, D.
name: Eislöffel, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cepheus E is the site of an exceptional example of a protostellar outflow with a very young dynamical age and extremely high near infrared luminosity. We combine molecular spectroscopic data from the submillimeter to the near infrared in order to interpret the rotational excitation of CO and the ro-vibrational excitation of H2. We conclude that C-type shocks with a paraboloidal bow shock geometry can simultaneously explain all the molecular excitations. Extinction accounts for the deviation of the column densities from local thermodynamic equilibrium. A difference in the extinction between the red and blue-shifted outflow lobes may account for the measured flux difference. The outflow is deeply embedded in a clump of density 10^5cm^-3, yet a good fraction of atomic hydrogen, about 40%, is required to explain the excitation and statistical equilibrium. We propose that this atomic component arises, self-consistently, from the dissociated gas at the apex of the leading bow shocks and the relatively long molecule reformation time. At least 20 bow shocks are required in each lobe, although these may be sub-divided into smaller bows and turbulent shocked regions. The total outflow mechanical power and cooling amounts to over 30L_\odot, almost half the source's bolometric luminosity. Nevertheless, only about 6% of the clump mass has been set in outward motion by the outflow, allowing a collapse to continue.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Adolescents with disabilities and physical activity during first COVID-19 lockdown
Creators: name: Ng, Kwok
name: Kokko, Sami
name: Vasankari, Tommi
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: It has been suggested that adolescents with disabilities have been worse off during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Purpose: To study the perceived changes in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among Finnish late adolescents during the COVID-19 lockdown. Methods: National representative data from high school students (n= 2408, mean age = 17.4y, 64% females) completed online self-report survey about MVPA and changes in PA during lockdown during spring 2020. Disability was measured by the self-reported version of the Washington Group Child Functioning Module, and grouped into sensory (see, hear, speak), cognitive (learn, remember, concentrate) and behavioural (routine changes, control behaviour, making friends) disabilities. Multinominal regression analyses (reference 0-2 days of MVPA) with different disability types were performed, with gender and age as covariates. Results: PA levels were not different between males and females, or between adolescents with and without sensory difficulties. Adolescents without cognitive difficulties (OR = 1.6, CI=1.1=2.5; OR = 1.9, CI=1.2-2.9) or without behavioural difficulties (OR = 1.8, CI=1.3-2.5; OR = 2.6, CI=1.7-3.9) were more likely to report 3-4 or 5-6 days of MVPA than 0-2 days with cognitive or behavioural difficulties, respectively. Adolescents without behavioural difficulties (OR = 2.4, CI=1.4-4.2) were more likely to report daily MVPA than without difficulties. There were no associations with change in PA (39% less, 39% more) during lockdown and disabilities. Conclusions: Improvements in strategies to promote PA amount adolescents with behavioural or cognitive difficulties. Moreover, changes in PA during lockdown was not different for adolescents with and without disabilities. Funding: This work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture (OKM/130/626/2018) and the Strategic Research Council (SRC) at Academy of Finland for the project Healthy Lifestyles to Boost Sustainable Growth (STYLE, project number 320403 and 320400).
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Pulsars With Jets May Harbor Dynamically Important Accretion Disks
Creators: name: Blackman, Eric G.
name: Perna, Rosalba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For many astrophysical sources with jets, there is evidence for the contemporaneous presence of disks. In contrast, pulsars such as the Crab and Vela show jets but have not yet revealed direct evidence for accretion disks. Here we show that for such pulsars, an accretion disk radiating below detectable thresholds may simultaneously account for (1) observed deviations in the braking indices from that of the simple dipole, (2) observed pulsar timing ages, and (3) possibly even the jet morphology via a disk outflow that interacts with the pulsar wind within, collimating and/or redirecting it.
description: 10 pages, 2 figs., in press, ApJ. Lett
An Investigation of the Role of the Patient's Perception in Psychotherapy
Creators: name: Spock, Anne Ingersoll
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The statistical findings in evaluative and follow-up studies of the outcome of psychotherapy fall into rather consistent patterns of success and failure, for which, however, no consistent causes have as yet been established. Broadly speaking, it has been found that approximately one-third of the cases for which psychotherapeutic treatment has been initiated show no improvement and two-thirds range in results from some to much improvement.
Analysis of Electrostatic MEMS Using Energy-Charge Landscape
Creators: name: Raman, Raghuram Tattamangalam
name: Ajoy, Arvind
name: Padmanabhan, Revathy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A common way to analyze electrostatic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) actuators is to use their energy-displacement landscape. Here, we describe an alternative approach to analyze electrostatic MEMS actuators using their energy-charge landscape. This technique involves coordinate transformation from displacement to charge, thereby formulating the Hamiltonian of electrostatic MEMS actuators in terms of charge. We investigate the use of the energy-charge landscape to analyze static pull-in, dynamic pull-in, and pull-out phenomena. The voltage expressions derived using this method are identical with those derived using the conventional energy-displacement landscape. In addition, we also obtain the expressions for charge under static and dynamic pull-in conditions. This work can aid in the design and analysis of electrostatic MEMS devices. As a case study, the analysis of a feedback capacitor-MEMS actuator system is presented to illustrate the application of the energy-charge landscape.
description: 8 Pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
Hitchin fibration on moduli of symplectic and orthogonal parabolic Higgs bundles
Creators: name: Roy, Sumit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53D18, 37K10, 14D20, 14D22, 53D30, 14H60

description: Let $X$ be a compact Riemann surface of genus $g \geq 2$, and let $D \subset X$ be a fixed finite subset. Let $\mathcal{M}(r,d,α)$ denote the moduli space of stable parabolic $G$-bundles (where $G$ is a complex orthogonal or symplectic group) of rank $r$, degree $d$ and weight type $α$ over $X$. Hitchin discovered that the cotangent bundle of the moduli space of stable bundles on an algebraic curve is an algebraically completely integrable system fibered, over a space of invariant polynomials, either by a Jacobian or a Prym variety of spectral curves. In this paper we study the Hitchin fibers for $\mathcal{M}(r,d,α)$.
Skriðuklaustur Monastery – 1550 Reconstruction
Creators: name: Kennedy, Sarah
name: Gunnarsson, Skúli
name: Cassidy, Catherine Anne
name: Oliver, Iain
name: Miller, Alan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: CINE
Skriðuklaustur Monastery
Digital Reconstruction
Cultural Heritage
History
Digital Heritage
Digital Humanities

description: The Skriðuklaustur cloister was the last one to be founded during Iceland’s Catholic period, i.e. shortly before the country’s 16th-century Reformation. It was thus active for less than six decades, and could scarcely be said to have flourished for more than about four decades. The deed of gift is still preserved whereby the couple Sesselja Þorsteinsdóttir and the local sheriff Hallsteinn Þorsteinsson, who lived on the other side of this valley at Víðivellir ytri, donated Skriða farm as the site for a cloister. Although this deed was signed on 8 June 1500, it is considered certain that the cloister was founded sooner, probably in 1493 when Stefán Jónsson, bishop at Skálholt, came on his first visitation to this valley. A legend tells of a 15th-century miracle here in the valley of Fljótsdalur. As was often the case, the Valþjófsstaðir priest rode his horse along the valley in order to attend to a dying parishioner. When he arrived, he discovered that he had lost everything he needed for the last sacrament, Extreme Unction, so a farm boy was sent looking. Following the well-worn trail, he was passing below the farmhouses at Skriða when he noticed the wine chalice standing full of wine on a grassy hummock, with the paten over it holding the bread. This was considered to be a miracle which, according to the legend, was commemorated by building a chapel here, with its altar located where the hummock had been. Somewhat later, the cloister was founded here. Digitisation by Open Virtual Worlds, a research team within the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, in cooperation with the Gunnar Gunnarsson Institute at Skriðuklaustur and the National Museum of Iceland. Funded by the EU Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2014-2020 through the “Connected Culture and Natural Heritage in a Northern Environment” (CINE) project.
Realization of an anomalous Floquet topological system with ultracold atoms
Creators: name: Wintersperger, Karen
name: Braun, Christoph
name: Ünal, F. Nur
name: Eckardt, André
name: Di Liberto, Marco
name: Goldman, Nathan
name: Bloch, Immanuel
name: Aidelsburger, Monika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherent control via periodic modulation, also known as Floquet engineering, has emerged as a powerful experimental method for the realization of novel quantum systems with exotic properties. In particular, it has been employed to study topological phenomena in a variety of different platforms. In driven systems, the topological properties of the quasienergy bands can often be determined by standard topological invariants, such as Chern numbers, which are commonly used in static systems. However, due to the periodic nature of the quasienergy spectrum, this topological description is incomplete and new invariants are required to fully capture the topological properties of these driven settings. Most prominently, there exist two-dimensional anomalous Floquet systems that exhibit robust chiral edge modes, despite all Chern numbers are equal to zero. Here, we realize such a system with bosonic atoms in a periodically-driven honeycomb lattice and infer the complete set of topological invariants from energy gap measurements and local Hall deflections.
A study of Western influence on the educational system of Thailand
Creators: name: Prabhavi-Vadhana, Pada
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis presents an overall view of the development of the modern educational system of Thailand, and traces the influence of Western ideas and ideals, modes and manners, upon the development of this system. The term "education" or "learning" as it is used herein, is meant to include not only the opening of formal schools to teach reading and writing, and the formulation of curriculums, the selection of textbooks and similar procedures. It is intended to embrace the whole educative process, i.e., all experiences based on Western philosophy and concepts which resulted in altering the behavior pattern of the people of Thailand, and in transforming this ancient Asiatic country into a modernized and progressive nation.
Probing Dark Matter with Future CMB Measurements
Creators: name: Cang, Junsong
name: Gao, Yu
name: Ma, Yin-Zhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark Matter (DM) annihilation and decay during the Dark Ages can affect the cosmic ionization history and leave imprints in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy spectra. CMB polarization anisotropy can be sensitive to such energy injection at higher redshifts and help reducing degeneracy with primordial spectral parameters in $Λ$CDM and astrophysical ionization processes during reionization. In light of a number of upcoming CMB polarization experiments, such as AdvACTPol, AliCPT, CLASS, Simons Observatory, Simons Array, SPT-3G, we estimate their prospective sensitivity in probing dark matter annihilation and decay signals. We find that future missions have 95\% C.L. projected limits on DM decay and annihilation rates to orders of $Γ_χ(τ_χ^{-1}) \sim 10^{-27}{\rm{s}}^{-1}$ and $\left/m_χ \sim 10^{-29}{\rm{cm^3s^{-1}GeV^{-1}}}$ respectively, significantly improving the sensitivity to DM from current experimental bounds.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. Accepted by Physical Review D, experimental specification updated
Perceived key influencers to promote physical activity among Irish adolescents during first COVID-19 lockdown
Creators: name: Ng, Kwok
name: Grady, Caera
name: Conneely, Maeve
name: Cotter, Karen
name: O'Shea, Donal
name: Woods, Catherine
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Adolescents undergo vast bodily changes with a decline in physical activity (PA) with age, yet less is known about how information sources change during this transition. Purpose: To investigate how adolescents rate key influencers to promote PA among Irish adolescents during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Methods: Adolescents aged between 12-17y old (n=3204, 63% females) in seven schools involved in the Active School Flag feasibility study completed an online survey in November 2020 about the first COVID-19 lockdown. Responses to perceived influence different people (i.e. family, friends, coach, teacher, celebrities, bloggers) had to promote PA (5-point agreement scale), with acceptable face validity. Multivariate linear regression analyses on age were stratified by gender and self-reported moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) levels. Results: Females were less physically active than males (p
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Hydrogen recombination line luminosities and -variability from forming planets
Creators: name: Szulágyi, J.
name: Ercolano, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculated hydrogen recombination line luminosities (H-$α$, Paschen-$β$ and Brackett-$γ$) from three dimensional thermo-hydrodynamical simulations of forming planets from 1 to 10 Jupiter-masses. We explored various opacities to estimate the line emissions with extinction in each cases assuming boundary layer accretion. When realistic opacities are considered, only lines from planets $\ge$10 Jupiter-mass can be detected with current instrumentation, highlighting that from most planets one cannot expect detectable emission. This might explain the very low detection rate of H-$α$ from forming planets from observations. While the line emission comes from both the forming planet and its circumplanetary disk, we found that only the disk component could be detected due to extinction. We examined the line variability as well, and found that it is higher for higher mass planets. Furthermore, we determine for the first time, the parametric relationship between the mass of the planet and the luminosity of the hydrogen recombination lines, as well as the equation between the accretion luminosity and hydrogen recombination line luminosities.
description: ApJ accepted. 13 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables. This version: typo corrections
The prevalence and changes of postural deformities during the course of adolescence in a cohort of South African adolescents: the PAHL study
Creators: name: Veldsman, Tamrin
name: Monyeki, Makama
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Evidence exists that postural disorders may occur during growth and development in children. Research regarding posture changes during adolescents, especially in black children is limited. Purpose: To determine the prevalence and changes of postural deformities during the course of adolescence among black South African adolescents. Methods: A total of 100 black South African adolescents, aged 14 years in 2010 and 18 years in 2014, were part of the Physical Activity and Health Longitudinal Study (PAHLS). Participants’ stature, body mass, and the New-York Posture Test of postural deformities were measured. Each test item was scored on a 5-3-1 basis and the score of each item was based on the criteria and drawings located on the score sheet The Adam’s Test was used to evaluate for scoliosis. Additionally, an inkpad (The Harris Mat Impression system, Step Forward Foot Correctors®) was used to obtain a walking footprint of each participant. The footprints were scored as follows: 5 = high arches, 3 = arches lower and feet slightly flat and 1 = arches low and feet markedly flat. Results: The results show that in all 13 variables of postures, the prevalence of abnormal posture ranged from 0-35% and slightly abnormal ranged from 16-73% for the total group across the measured points. The observed findings in the present study for the total group, showed a high prevalence for forward head, forward shoulders, hip sway, lordosis, and uneven shoulders in the abnormal and slightly abnormal category in 2014. Out of the 13 posture variables, boys showed more abnormal posture (forward head, p≤0.001; forward shoulders, p≤0.001 kyphosis, p=0.007 and hip sway, p=0.048) than the girls who were presented with three categories of significant changes in abnormal posture (forward head, p≤0.001; uneven shoulders, p=0.049 and lordosis, p=0.004) over the period of study. Conclusion: The prevalence of posture abnormality indicated that boys were more affected than the girls. The prevalence of the postural deviations increased over the course of adolescence. Implementing intervention programmes in schools to address these postural deviations at an early stage should be encouraged. Funding: Research supported by the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) under the Self-Initiated Research Grants Programme. Additionally, funds received from the NRF for rated researchers are acknowledged.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Move UBC Campaign Evaluation
Creators: name: Uy, Kyle
name: Anthony, Matthew
name: Mifflin, Kyle
name: Standish, Ian
name: Gatchalian, Brandon
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: This project involved data collection and analysis of the Move UBC physical activity initiative at the University of British Columbia campus occurring each February. We began by looking into prior literature on the topic of student health and wellbeing on university campuses, trying to better understand our target population for the Move UBC initiative. Through this research we discovered that students require adequate physical stimulation, as well as mental health support to successfully complete university. We then conducted a survey of undergraduate and graduate students at UBC to ascertain their engagement with, and knowledge of the initiative. The survey returned results indicating low student awareness of Move UBC in both undergraduate and graduate populations, along with low engagement in the events offered by the minority population that was aware of the initiative. Graduate students were found to have an even higher level of unawareness compared to their undergraduate counterparts. Survey respondents indicated that event timing, and lack of appeal of event options were two leading deterrent factors in their lack of desire or ability to attend Move UBC events. We propose that the Move UBC organizers look to improve their target audience awareness and engagement with the campus community through three recommendations: 1) Aggressively use social media and in-class announcements to promote events, 2) Spread event info to graduate student societies and email lists, 3) Refocus event timing structure, along with streamlining event offerings. Through these changes we believe that Move UBC can not only provide a greater, more long-lasting impact on the undergraduate and graduate student populations at UBC, but on the university community as a whole. 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.”
A study of Western influence on the educational system of Thailand
Creators: name: Prabhavi-Vadhana, Pada
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: This thesis presents an overall view of the development of the modern educational system of Thailand, and traces the influence of Western ideas and ideals, modes and manners, upon the development of this system. The term "education" or "learning" as it is used herein, is meant to include not only the opening of formal schools to teach reading and writing, and the formulation of curriculums, the selection of textbooks and similar procedures. It is intended to embrace the whole educative process, i.e., all experiences based on Western philosophy and concepts which resulted in altering the behavior pattern of the people of Thailand, and in transforming this ancient Asiatic country into a modernized and progressive nation.
The Northern and Southern Dynasties: The Yoshino Period, 1336-1392
Creators: name: Duff, Russell George
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: The Japanese Emperor Go Daigo in 1336 placed before Japanese historians a most difficult problem for solution when he refused to abdicate the throne at the suggestion of Ashikaga Takauji, so that noble military personage could cause to be selected another Mikado who would more readily do his bidding. Further complications were added to this situation when the Emperor fled to Yoshino, in Yamato Province, now Nara Province, some sixty miles southeast of Kyoto, carrying with him the Imperial Regalia, consisting of the Sword, Mirror, and "Jewel"; these articles were his badge of office, handed down from an earlier age.
Norma ERG BR 2002 - Estabelece os Critérios para o Exame Nacional de Certificação de Competências em Ergonomia (ENERGO)
Creators: name: ABERGO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: ABERGO
SisCEB
Certificação de Ergonomistas
ENERGO

description: Norma ERG BR 2002 - Estabelece os Critérios para o Exame Nacional de Certificação de Competências em Ergonomia | ENERGO
 Aprovada no 1º. Fórum de Certificação do Ergonomista Brasileiro [24 de outubro de 2003 | Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais].
 1ª. Revisão realizada na Reunião da Câmara Técnica de Certificação [17 e 18 de dezembro de 2003 | Rio de Janeiro].
 2ª. Revisão realizada na Reunião da Câmara Técnica de Certificação [27 a 29 de Setembro de 2017 | Porto Alegre]
Low dose pig anti-influenza virus monoclonal antibodies reduce lung pathology but do not prevent virus shedding.
Creators: name: Paudyal, Basudev
name: McNee, Adam
name: Rijal, Pramila
name: Carr, B Veronica
name: Nunez, Alejandro
name: McCauley, John
name: Daniels, Rodney S
name: Townsend, Alain R
name: Hammond, John A
name: Tchilian, Elma
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2022
Subjects: Infectious Disease
Ecology,Evolution & Ethology

description: We have established the pig, a large natural host animal for influenza, with many physiological similarities to humans, as a robust model for testing the therapeutic potential of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). In this study we demonstrated that prophylactic intravenous administration of 15 mg/kg of porcine mAb pb18, against the K160-163 site of the hemagglutinin, significantly reduced lung pathology and nasal virus shedding and eliminated virus from the lung of pigs following H1N1pdm09 challenge. When given at 1 mg/kg, pb18 significantly reduced lung pathology and lung and BAL virus loads, but not nasal shedding. Similarly, when pb18 was given in combination with pb27, which recognized the K130 site, at 1 mg/kg each, lung virus load and pathology were reduced, although without an apparent additive or synergistic effect. No evidence for mAb driven virus evolution was detected. These data indicate that intravenous administration of high doses was required to reduce nasal virus shedding, although this was inconsistent and seldom complete. In contrast, the effect on lung pathology and lung virus load is consistent and is also seen at a one log lower dose, strongly indicating that a lower dose might be sufficient to reduce severity of disease, but for prevention of transmission other measures would be needed.
Paradoxical non-linear response of a Brownian particle
Creators: name: Eichhorn, Ralf
name: Reimann, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Brownian particle in a ``meandering'' periodic potential when the ambient temperature is a periodically or stochastically varying function of time. Though far from equilibrium, the linear response of the particle to an external static force is exactly the same as in the equilibrium case, i.e. for constant temperature. Even more surprising is the non-linear response: the particle slows down and then even starts to move in the direction opposite to the applied force.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures