cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
VCIOM-SPUTNIK Poll: May 2023
Creators: name: VCIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Center)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2023

description: President of Russia approval (1); Prime Minister approval (1); State Duma of Russia (2); political party preference (2); mass protests (2); Internet usage (1); watch TV (1); trade unions (1); judicial system (1); Russian Orthodox church (1); personal financial situation (2); employment (2); sources of income (1); most important problems (5); rise in prices, inflation (2); Russian ruble and US dollar exchange rate fluctuations (3); unemployment (2); take out loans (2); spend or save money (1); savings (1); economic policy (1); social policy (1); foreign policy (1); direction of country (1); life satisfaction (2).
Reduction of Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds by Hydrazine
Creators: name: Sawistowski, Malgorzata Helena
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 1962

description: A study was made of the mechanism of reduction of olefinic bonds by hydrazine. It was established that reduction takes place only in presence of oxygen (or a suitable oxidising agent) and that two molecules of hydrazine are required to hydrogenate one double bond. The overall stoichiometry of the reaction was found to be represented by the following equation: -CH=CH- + 2N2H4 +3/2 02 —> -CH2-CH2- +2N2 + 3 H2O Investigations of the effects on the reaction of the appropriate variables shown it to occur only in presence of weak acids, though under alkaline conditions, and in ionizing media. These results, supported by measurements of conductance changes during the reaction, indicate that the hydrazonium ion, and not the hydrazine molecule, is the initial reactant. The above facts, together with detailed studies of reaction kinetics, led to the suggestion of the following reaction mechanism. It is postulated that the overall reaction consists of three main stages: (i) oxidation of hydrazonium ion to protonated diimide (diimide cation): (ii) less of the proton by the diimide cation under the action of hydroxyl ions with the formation of an equimolar mixture of syn- and anti- diimide; (iii) hydrogenation of the double bond by the syn- diimide via the formation of a cyclic, hydrogen-bonded complex. The anti- diimide is not capable of reducing the olefinic link and it is further oxidised to nitrogen and water. The experimental work on the mechanism of reaction was performed with oleic acid and oleyl alcohol. However, reduction by hydrazine has also been successfully applied to a variety of other unsaturated compounds, including acids, alcohols, hydrocarbons, carbonyl and ring compounds. Hydrogenation of the double bonds always occurred provided there was no interference from side reactions with hydrazine.
Management of conversation by two types of learners : learners with and without in-country experiences
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Akihiro.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Views of Thai Preservice Teachers to a Flipped Classroom Approach towards Teaching a Special Education Course
Creators: name: Watinee Amornpaisarnloet
Publisher: name: Walailak University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Flipped Classroom Approach
Thailand
Preservice Teachers
Special Education

description: Walailak Journal of Learning Innovations, 6, 1, 107-125
Phenotypic characterisation of sex differences in myeloid cells
Creators: name: Coales, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Sex differences have been identified in many diseases associated with dysregulated immune responses, including Alzheimer’s disease, for which approximately two-thirds of patients are women. An accumulating body of research indicates that microglia may play a causal role in pathogenesis of this disease. We hypothesised that sex differences in the phenotype of human myeloid cell populations may contribute to the sex difference observed in Alzheimer’s disease prevalence. To explore this, bulk and single-nuclear RNA sequencing datasets were analysed from four human myeloid cell populations: peripheral monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs), peripheral monocytes, induced pluripotent stem cell derived microglial-like cells (MGLs), and post-mortem microglia. The MDMs and MGLs were additionally treated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to induce an inflammatory response, with both naïve and LPS treated cells harvested for sequencing and metabolomic assays. We found that the expression of genes related to proinflammatory immune responses and gene signatures associated with Alzheimer’s disease were consistently enriched in myeloid cells isolated from female donors. Expression of these gene sets did not significantly differ between the female MDMs across the menstrual cycle nor in MGLs cultured with 17β-oestradiol, suggesting that the consistent female enrichments observed were not driven by acute hormonal influences. Moreover, treatment with LPS exhibited limited influence on the transcriptional sex differences observed. Contrasting expectations from mouse models, treatment with LPS was also not found to exert a substantial influence on the metabolic profile of either MDMs or MGLs, in which limited sex differences were identified in both naïve and LPS treated conditions. Those discovered, however, suggested augmented metabolism of pyrimidines and purines in naïve male cells associated with a higher energy state. Together, these data support the hypothesis that the increased prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in women may be partly explained by a myeloid cell phenotype biased towards expression of biological processes relevant to Alzheimer’s disease
Rubidium-traced white-light etalon calibrator for radial velocity measurements at the cm/s level
Creators: name: Stürmer, Julian
name: Seifahrt, Andreas
name: Schwab, Christian
name: Bean, Jacob L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the construction and testing of a vacuum-gap Fabry-Pérot etalon calibrator for high precision radial velocity spectrographs. Our etalon is traced against a rubidium frequency standard to provide a cost effective, yet ultra-precise wavelength reference. We describe here a turn-key system working at 500 nm to 900 nm, ready to be installed at any current and next generation radial velocity spectrograph that requires calibration over a wide spectral bandpass. Where appropriate, we have used off-the-shelf, commercial components with demonstrated long-term performance to accelerate the development timescale of this instrument. Our system combines for the first time the advantages of passively stabilized etalons for optical and near-infrared wavelengths with the laser-locking technique demonstrated for single-mode fiber etalons. We realize uncertainties in the position of one etalon line at the 10 cm/s level in individual measurements taken at 4 Hz. When binning the data over 10 s, we are able to trace the etalon line with a precision of better than 3 cm/s . We present data obtained during a week of continuous operation where we detect (and correct for) the predicted, but previously unobserved shrinking of the etalon Zerodur spacer corresponding to a shift of 13 cm/s per day.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, accepted by JATIS May 11, 2017
VCIOM-SPUTNIK Poll: July 2023
Creators: name: VCIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Center)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2023

description: President of Russia approval (1); Prime Minister approval (1); State Duma of Russia (2); political party preference (2); mass protests (2); Internet usage (1); watch TV (1); trade unions (1); judicial system (1); Russian Orthodox church (1); personal financial situation (2); employment (2); sources of income (1); most important problems (5); rise in prices, inflation (2); Russian ruble and US dollar exchange rate fluctuations (3); unemployment (2); take out loans (2); spend or save money (1); savings (1); economic policy (1); social policy (1); foreign policy (1); direction of country (1); life satisfaction (2).
Graber Rudolf, Ziegenaus Anton: Die marianischen Weltrundschreiben der Päpste von Pius IX. bis Johannes Paul II. (1849-1988)
Creators: name: Kreuzer, Michael
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 13 Nr. 3 (1997): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 13, Heft 3
ผลของการใช้กิจกรรมการเรียนรู้โดยวิจัยเป็นฐานเพื่อส่งเสริมพฤติกรรมการเรียนรู้เชิงรุกสำหรับนักศึกษาครูวิทยาศาสตร์
Creators: name: บรรณรักษ์ คุ้มรักษา
Publisher: name: Walailak University
Year: 2020
Subjects: การเรียนรู้โดยใช้วิจัยเป็นฐาน
การเรียนรู้เชิงรุก
นักศึกษาครูวิทยาศาสตร์
พฤติกรรมการเรียนรู้

description: Walailak Journal of Learning Innovations, 6, 1, 127-144
Gil Hellín, Francisco, Decretum de Presbyteroroum ministe rio et vita: Presbyterorum Ordinis (Concilii Vaticäni II Synopsis in ordinem redigens schemata cum relationibus necnon Patrum orationes atque animadversion es)
Creators: name: Ziegenaus, Anton
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 13 Nr. 3 (1997): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 13, Heft 3
A Bayesian Network Approach to Assess and Predict Software Quality Using Activity-Based Quality Models (Conference Version)
Creators: name: Wagner, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.8; D.2.9

description: Assessing and predicting the complex concept of software quality is still challenging in practice as well as research. Activity-based quality models break down this complex con- cept into more concrete definitions, more precisely facts about the system, process and environment and their impact on ac- tivities performed on and with the system. However, these models lack an operationalisation that allows to use them in assessment and prediction of quality. Bayesian Networks (BN) have been shown to be a viable means for assessment and prediction incorporating variables with uncertainty. This paper describes how activity-based quality models can be used to derive BN models for quality assessment and pre- diction. The proposed approach is demonstrated in a proof of concept using publicly available data.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Change and loss in Yapese musical culture : a study of the impact of colonial and Micronesian cultures on the music and musical life of Yap Islands (Micronesia) from 1903 to 1993, with special reference to the genres of tang and churu
Creators: name: Marshall, Deirdre Pauline.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Zeigen
title: Zur indexikalischen Verwendung von Zeichen beim Lernen von Mathematik.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kadunz, Gert
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Dieser Beitrag konzentriert sich auf den indexikalischen Aspekt der Zeichenverwendung beim Lernen von Mathematik, einem Aspekt, der zurzeit nicht im Zentrum der mathematikdidaktischen Diskussion steht, sofern sich diese überhaupt sich auf Semiotik bezieht. Mathematikdidaktische Publikationen im Umfeld der Semiotik befassen sich eher mit Fragen des diagrammatischen Denkens (Dörfler (2006), Hoffmann (2005), Kadunz(2006)) oder auch mit dem komplexen Begriff der Semiosis (Saenz-Ludlow (2006)).
"Slippery when read" : pragmatism, pedagogy and practice in the literary and legal theory of Stanley Fish
Creators: name: Goldsmith, Andrew John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Responses to history : the re-articulation of post-colonial identity in the plays of Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott 1950-1976
Creators: name: De Mel, Fyona Neloufer Sharain
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: The thesis will discuss the plays of the Nigerian Wole Soyinka and St. Lucian Derek Walcott as sites in which the playwrights are engaged in a dialogue with their colonial history, and in response to its impositions, rearticulate post-colonial identities. Soyinka and Walcott have been chosen as case studies of the post-colonial re-articulation of identity because they offer two important broad options available to the post-colonial today. Soyinka has recourse to a viable indigenous Yoruba culture which he posits as an alter/native tradition to the coloniser's. Walcott on the other hand, the victim of a far more deracinated saga, feels he has no such "native" tradition to recoup, and re-writes the history of the Caribbean through European metaphors. The thesis will show however that although the playwrights rearticulate their identities in radically different ways, their strategies for doing so are less divergent than they appear at first. Both Soyinka and Walcott negotiate their post-coloniality from within the coloniser's own discourse, with the references and paradigms of the European "Centre". In marking this, the thesis points to the fact that their work reflects the contradictions that constitute post-coloniality itself, for by challenging the coloniser's impositions of colonial identity through the coloniser's discourse they affirm that which they deny and deny that which they affirm, rehearsing the contradictions and complicities their post-colonial identities are predicated on. The thesis is in two parts. Part 1 begins with a general introduction to both playwrights in which their autobiographies Ak6 and Another Life are looked at to situate them in the context of their personal and larger histories. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 deal specifically with Soyinka. Myth, Literature and the African World is discussed as a site in which Soyinka is engaged in a de-colonizing project, constructing paradigms from the Ogun myth for the benefit of both a wider English speaking/reading audience and "alienated" African, after which A Dance of the Forests, The Strong Breed, Death and the King's Horseman and The Bacchae are read as texts which illustrate the paradigms constructed in Myth. Part 11 deals with Walcott. Chapter 5 discusses Walcott's essays on history against other articulations of identity such as Black Power, and his use of the Crusoe story as a paradigm for the West Indian experience is analyzed. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 discuss Henri Christophe, Sea at Dauphin, TiJean and His Brothers and Dream on Monkey Mountain as plays informed by Walcott's central concerns on the nexus of history and identity in the West Indies.
Oral history & the elderly in residential care
Creators: name: Marshall, Julie.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Pathogenesis of fatty liver diseases (FLD) and their small animal models
Creators: name: Nadta Sukkasem
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2018
Subjects: fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic fatty liver disease, steatosis, small animal model

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 14, 2, 1-15
Role of tight junctions in signal transduction: an update
Creators: name: Takano, Kenichi
name: Kojima, Takashi
name: Sawada, Norimasa
name: Himi, Tetsuo
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: tight junctions
subject: signal transduction
subject: claudins
subject: occludin
subject: human epithelial cells
subject: 610

description: Tight junctions (TJs), which are the most apically located of the intercellular junctional complexes, have a barrier function and a fence function. Recent studies show that they also participate in signal transduction mechanisms. TJs are modulated by intracellular signaling pathways including protein kinase C, mitogen-activated protein kinase, and NF-κB, to affect the epithelial barrier function in response to diverse stimuli. TJs are also regulated by various cytokines, growth factors, and hormones via signaling pathways. To investigate the regulation of TJ molecules via signaling pathways in human epithelial cells under normal and pathological conditions, we established a novel model of human telomerase reverse transcriptase-transfected human epithelial cells. In this review, we describe the recent progress in our understanding of the role of TJs for signal transduction under normal conditions in upper airway epithelium, pancreatic duct epithelial cells, hepatocytes, and endometrial epithelial cells, and in pathological conditions including cancer and infection.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
title: What differences do resources make? : a longitudinal study of household responses to poverty in a Gecekondu settlement in Ankara, Turkey
Creators: name: Eroglu, §ebnem
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: The aim of the thesis is to explore the socio-economic behaviour patterns households develop in response to poverty and to understand why some household responses are more successful in reducing deprivation than others. The literature on poverty (absolute and relative) and household responses to it in the third world and in the developed world is reviewed. Deprivation is defined to cover the monetary, consumption and work dimensions and also takes into account household members' perceptions of poverty. The idea of household survival strategy is rejected in favour of the concept of household responses which are grouped into four main patterns: income generation, income allocation, consumption and investment-insurance. A resource-based model in which the elements of the household resource portfolio are built mainly upon Bourdieu's three forms of capital and the idea of entitlements is developed to understand these patterns and their effects on deprivation. The research involves a longitudinal study in April and October 2002. It is based on separate interviews with both partners of 17 households chosen by random selection from a gecekondu (squatter) settlement in Ankara. An income threshold was used and households were selected controlling for household size, structure and life cycle stage, and included both Alevi and Sunni religious groups. Analyses are presented of the whole sample and of two individual households. It is shown that what is crucial for household success is not so much the range but the benefit delivery capacity of the resources (e.g. social capital) available to households to devise their responses. The key differences between households are found to be related to their access to welfare services, which depends on employment status, and to their entitlements to gecekondu redevelopment. Intra-household income-pooling is generally shown to be collective in nature which means that this feature does not explain differences in household deprivation.
The evolution of the United Nation's peacekeeping and peace enforcement roles
Creators: name: Bonazinga, Andrew.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Dynamic Stabilization in 1sigmau-->1pig Excited Nitrogen Clusters
Creators: name: Blumberg, J.
name: Flesch, R.
name: Kuhlmann, M.
name: Neville, J. J.
name: Pavlychev, A. A.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Magnetic anisotropy in surface-supported single-ion lanthanide complexes
Creators: name: Stoll, Paul
name: Bernien, Matthias
name: Rolf, Daniela
name: Nickel, Fabian
name: Xu, Qingyu
name: Hartmann, Claudia
name: Umbach, Tobias R.
name: Kopprasch, Jens
name: Ladenthin, Janina N.
name: Schierle, Enrico
name: Weschke, Eugen
name: Czekelius, Constantin
name: Kuch, Wolfgang
name: Franke, Katharina J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single-ion lanthanide-organic complexes can provide stable magnetic moments with well-defined orientation for spintronic applications on the atomic level. Here, we show by a combined experimental approach of scanning tunneling microscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy that dysprosium-tris(1,1,1-trifluoro-4-(2-thienyl)-2,4butanedionate) (Dy(tta)$_3$) complexes deposited on a Au(111) surface undergo a molecular distortion, resulting in distinct crystal field symmetry imposed on the Dy ion. This leads to an easy-axis magnetization direction in the ligand plane. Furthermore, we show that tunneling electrons hardly couple to the spin excitations, which we ascribe to the shielded nature of the $4f$ electrons.
Assessing exchange-correlation functional performance for structure and property predictions of oxyfluoride compounds from first principles
Creators: name: Charles, Nenian
name: Rondinelli, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the resurgence of electronic and optical property design in ordered fluoride and oxyfluoride compounds, we present a density functional theory (DFT) study on 19 materials with structures, ranging from simple to complex, and variable oxygen-to-fluorine ratios. We focus on understanding the accuracy of the exchange-correlation potentials ($V_{xc}$) to DFT for the prediction of structural, electronic, and lattice dynamical properties at four different levels of theory, \emph{i.e.}, the local density approximation (LDA), generalized gradient approximation (GGA), metaGGA, and hybrid functional level which includes fractions of exact exchange. We investigate in detail the metaGGA functionals MS2 [Sun \emph{et al}., Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett., \textbf{111}, 106401 (2013)] and SCAN [Sun \emph{et al}., Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett., \textbf{115}, 036402 (2015)], and show that although the metaGGAs show improvements over the LDA and GGA functionals in describing the electronic structure and phonon frequencies, the static structural properties of fluorides and oxyfluorides are often more accurately predicted by the GGA-level functional PBEsol. Results from LDA calculations are unsatisfactory for any compound regardless of oxygen concentration. PBEsol or HSE06 gives good performance in all oxide or all fluoride compounds. For the oxyfluorides, PBEsol is consistently more accurate for structural properties across all oxygen concentrations, however, we stress the need for detailed property assessment with various functionals for oxyfluorides with variable composition. The "best" functional is anticipated to be more strongly dependent on the property of interest. Our study provides useful insights in selecting an $V_{xc}$ that achieves the best performance comprise, enabling more accurate predictive design of functional fluoride-based materials with density functional theory.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
THE OVERSIGHT FUNCTION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: BRIEF DISCUSSION OF “THE RUBBERSTAMP LEGISLATURE” SINCE 1999
Creators: name: Agbede, Ooreoluwa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 180103 Administrative Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 180108 Constitutional Law
subject: 180106 Comparative Law

description: The rationale behind powers and functions separation is hinged on the principle that “when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty”[1]. The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria[2] provides for the powers and functions of the legislature, executive and the judiciary respectively, clearly distinguishing between their different functions and giving each a certain degree of control over the other while providing for their coordination and co-operation.
Structured Sparse Subspace Clustering: A Joint Affinity Learning and Subspace Clustering Framework
Creators: name: Li, Chun-Guang
name: You, Chong
name: Vidal, René
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Subspace clustering refers to the problem of segmenting data drawn from a union of subspaces. State-of-the-art approaches for solving this problem follow a two-stage approach. In the first step, an affinity matrix is learned from the data using sparse or low-rank minimization techniques. In the second step, the segmentation is found by applying spectral clustering to this affinity. While this approach has led to state-of-the-art results in many applications, it is sub-optimal because it does not exploit the fact that the affinity and the segmentation depend on each other. In this paper, we propose a joint optimization framework --- Structured Sparse Subspace Clustering (S$^3$C) --- for learning both the affinity and the segmentation. The proposed S$^3$C framework is based on expressing each data point as a structured sparse linear combination of all other data points, where the structure is induced by a norm that depends on the unknown segmentation. Moreover, we extend the proposed S$^3$C framework into Constrained Structured Sparse Subspace Clustering (CS$^3$C) in which available partial side-information is incorporated into the stage of learning the affinity. We show that both the structured sparse representation and the segmentation can be found via a combination of an alternating direction method of multipliers with spectral clustering. Experiments on a synthetic data set, the Extended Yale B data set, the Hopkins 155 motion segmentation database, and three cancer data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Myasthenia Gravis
Creators: name: Winita Fowsantear
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2018
Subjects: Myasthenia gravis, autoimmune disease, neuromuscular junction, autoantibody, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, acetylcholine

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 14, 2, 16-25
Heat transfer in MHD flow due to a linearly stretching sheet with induced magnetic field
Creators: name: El-Mistikawy, Tarek M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76W05

description: The full MHD problem of the flow and heat transfer due to a linearly stretching sheet in the presence of a transverse magnetic field is put in a self-similar form. Traditionally ignored physical processes such as induced magnetic field, viscous dissipation, Joule heating, and work shear are included and their importance is established. Cases of prescribed surface temperature, prescribed heat flux, surface feed (injection or suction), velocity slip, and thermal slip are also considered. The problem is shown to admit self similarity. Sample numerical solutions are obtained for chosen combinations of the flow parameters.
Geo-knowledge-guided GPT models improve the extraction of location descriptions from disaster-related social media messages
Creators: name: Hu, Yingjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440610
subject: Social geography
classificationCode: 461103
subject: Deep learning

description: This repository provides code and data supporting the paper "Geo-knowledge-guided GPT models improve the extraction of location descriptions from disaster-related social media messages".
$γ$-ray emission signals in the massive graviton mediated dark matter model
Creators: name: Zhang, Cun
name: Cui, Ming-Yang
name: Feng, Lei
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
name: Ren, Zhong-Zhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter may interact with Standard Model (SM) particle through the exchange of a massive spin-2 graviton producing signals that can be detected. In this work we examine the $γ$-ray emission signals, including the line emission and the continuous spectrum component in such a massive graviton-mediated dark matter model. The constraints of LHC data, dark matter relic density as well as the dark matter indirect detection data have been applied to narrow down the parameter space. We focus on the vector dark matter model which could produce detectable $γ$-ray line signal. It is found that the $γ$-ray line data is effective on constraining the model parameters and the ongoing and upcoming space or ground-based $γ$-ray experiments can constrain the model further. As for the continuous $γ$-ray emission, the total effective annihilation cross section is $\sim 10^{-26} {\rm cm^{3}~s^{-1}}$ except at the region where dark matter mass is around the graviton mass or half of it, which is consistent with current observational data and will be reliably probed by the upcoming CTA.
description: To appear in Nuclear Physics B
Hope is not a method : a history of the Family Planning Association of Victoria, 1969-1976
Creators: name: Mather, Kathleen.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Light Quanta
title: the Maturing of a Concept by the Stepwise Accretion of Meaning
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Klaus, Hentschel
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Einstein
subject: Photons
subject: Quantum mechanics
subject: 100
subject: 530

description: I will begin by identifying 12 layers of meaning of the concept of light quanta as it is understood today. The main part of this contribution will then discuss some of the earlier layers. I will also briefly discuss the extreme skepticism with which the concept of light quanta was received between 1905 and 1922 and close with a thesis on what makes Einstein's thinking so exceptional.
description: Physics & Philosophy ; 6
Individual differences and complex associations: generalized view
Creators: name: Christensen, Jerilyn Patricia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: The Big Five Factor model of personality (McCrae & Costa, 1987) has been seldomly used to observe if there are relationships between facets of personality with working memory and discrimination learning. Prior research has focused mainly on the relation of Neuroticism to learning and memory, while other personality factors have been largely ignored. The aim of this study was to investigate any possible relationships with the other four facets as well as Neuroticism. Two samples were collected in Spring 2020 and Spring 2022 (N = 88) using the BFI-11 scale to assess personality factors, a working memory updating task, and a discrimination learning task to look for relations of learning and memory to personality. I predicted that Conscientiousness would have a strong positive relationship and Neuroticism would have a strong negative relationship with learning and memory, but this was not found. Instead, a novel result was found with Openness having a moderate positive relationship with working memory and discrimination learning. Implications of the results for potential interventions that depend on assumptions about learning and memory are discussed.
Götz v. Olenhusen, Irmtraud (Hrsg.) Wunderbare Erscheinungen
Creators: name: Düren, Sabine
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 13 Nr. 3 (1997): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 13, Heft 3
Which early works are cited most frequently in climate change research literature? A bibliometric approach based on Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Marx, Werner
name: Haunschild, Robin
name: Thor, Andreas
name: Bornmann, Lutz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This bibliometric analysis focuses on the general history of climate change research and, more specifically, on the discovery of the greenhouse effect. First, the Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) is applied to a large publication set on climate change of 222,060 papers published between 1980 and 2014. The references cited therein were extracted and analyzed with regard to publications, which are cited most frequently. Second, a new method for establishing a more subject-specific publication set for applying RPYS (based on the co-citations of a marker reference) is proposed (RPYS-CO). The RPYS of the climate change literature focuses on the history of climate change research in total. We identified 35 highly-cited publications across all disciplines, which include fundamental early scientific works of the 19th century (with a weak connection to climate change) and some cornerstones of science with a stronger connection to climate change. By using the Arrhenius (1896) paper as a RPYS-CO marker paper, we selected only publications specifically discussing the discovery of the greenhouse effect and the role of carbon dioxide. Also, we focused on the time period 1800-1850 to reveal the contributions of J.B.J Fourier in terms of cited references. Using different RPYS approaches in this study, we were able to identify the complete range of works of the celebrated icons as well as many less known works relevant for the history of climate change research. The analyses confirmed the potential of the RPYS method for historical studies: Seminal papers are detected on the basis of the references cited by the overall community without any further assumptions.
description: in press at Scientometrics
Model and Algorithm Selection in Statistical Learning and Optimization.
Creators: name: Bischl, Bernd
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: model selection
subject: algorithm selection
subject: algorithm configuration
subject: tuning
subject: benchmarking
subject: machine learning
subject: 310

description: Modern data-driven statistical techniques, e.g., non-linear classification and regression machine learning methods, play an increasingly important role in applied data analysis and quantitative research. For real-world we do not know a priori which methods will work best. Furthermore, most of the available models depend on so called hyper- or control parameters, which can drastically influence their performance. This leads to a vast space of potential models, which cannot be explored exhaustively. Modern optimization techniques, often either evolutionary or model-based, are employed to speed up this process. A very similar problem occurs in continuous and discrete optimization and, in general, in many other areas where problem instances are solved by algorithmic approaches: Many competing techniques exist, some of them heavily parametrized. Again, not much knowledge exists, how, given a certain application, one makes the correct choice here. These general problems are called algorithm selection and algorithm configuration. Instead of relying on tedious, manual trial-and-error, one should rather employ available computational power in a methodical fashion to obtain an appropriate algorithmic choice, while supporting this process with machine-learning techniques to discover and exploit as much of the search space structure as possible. In this cumulative dissertation I summarize nine papers that deal with the problem of model and algorithm selection in the areas of machine learning and optimization. Issues in benchmarking, resampling, efficient model tuning, feature selection and automatic algorithm selection are addressed and solved using modern techniques. I apply these methods to tasks from engineering, music data analysis and black-box optimization. The dissertation concludes by summarizing my published R packages for such tasks and specifically discusses two packages for parallelization on high performance computing clusters and parallel statistical experiments.
Phosphorus dynamics in agricultural surface runoff at the edge of the field and in ditches during overbank flooding conditions in the Red River Valley
Creators: name: Kokulan, Vivekananthan
name: Morison, Matthew Q.
name: Plach, Janina M.
name: Ali, Genevieve A.
name: Lobb, David A.
name: Macrae, Merrin L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Agricultural fields in the Red River Valley of the Northern Great Plains are located on flat clay soils, often drained by shallow, roadside ditches that are not graded and lacking relief. These conditions can result in flow reversals and subsequent flooding of adjacent fields during large runoff events, which can mobilize phosphorus (P). Surface runoff from two agricultural fields and their adjacent ditches was monitored from 2015 to 2017 in southern Manitoba, Canada. Overbank flooding of fields adjacent to ditches was observed in 5 of 21 hydrologic events, and such events dominated annual runoff and P budgets (>83% of losses over the 3-year study period). Flooding events were often dominated by soluble P fractions (57–67%) relative to events where flooding was not observed (39–63%). Concentrations of soluble reactive P in water standing on fields increased with time during flooding events, suggesting that P was mobilized during such events; however, the source of the soluble reactive P is not clear. This study has highlighted temporal differences in hydrologic and biogeochemical interactions between fields and ditches and demonstrated the need for an improved understanding of mechanisms of P mobilization in the landscape, which has direct implications for predicting P mobility in agricultural watersheds.
Nationalism and national minorities in Western Europe : a case study of Brittany
Creators: name: Logan, Denise Coral.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Principled Option Learning in Markov Decision Processes
Creators: name: Fox, Roy
name: Moshkovitz, Michal
name: Tishby, Naftali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is well known that options can make planning more efficient, among their many benefits. Thus far, algorithms for autonomously discovering a set of useful options were heuristic. Naturally, a principled way of finding a set of useful options may be more promising and insightful. In this paper we suggest a mathematical characterization of good sets of options using tools from information theory. This characterization enables us to find conditions for a set of options to be optimal and an algorithm that outputs a useful set of options and illustrate the proposed algorithm in simulation.
A 9.52 dB NCG FEC scheme and 164 bits/cycle low-complexity product decoder architecture
Creators: name: Condo, Carlo
name: Giard, Pascal
name: Leduc-Primeau, François
name: Sarkis, Gabi
name: Gross, Warren J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Powerful Forward Error Correction (FEC) schemes are used in optical communications to achieve bit-error rates below $10^{-15}$. These FECs follow one of two approaches: concatenation of simpler hard-decision codes or usage of inherently powerful soft-decision codes. The first approach yields lower Net Coding Gains (NCGs), but can usually work at higher code rates and have lower complexity decoders. In this work, we propose a novel FEC scheme based on a product code and a post-processing technique. It can achieve an NCG of 9.52~dB at a BER of $10^{-15}$ and 9.96~dB at a BER of $10^{-18}$, an error-correction performance that sits between that of current hard-decision and soft-decision FECs. A decoder architecture is designed, tested on FPGA and synthesized in 65 nm CMOS technology: its 164 bits/cycle worst-case information throughput can reach 100 Gb/s at the achieved frequency of 609~MHz. Its complexity is shown to be lower than that of hard-decision decoders in literature, and an order of magnitude lower than the estimated complexity of soft-decision decoders.
title: Basiskompetenzen
title: Was sollte jeder am Ende der allgemeinen Schulpflicht in Mathematik können?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Drüke-Noe, Christina
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Aus empirischer und normativer Perspektive hat eine Arbeitsgruppe in Kooperation auch mit der Wirtschaft mathematische Basiskompetenzen für Alltag und Berufseinstieg konkretisiert. Über diese Kompetenzen, die mit Bezug zu den Leitideen der Bildungsstandards erarbeitet wurden, sollten alle Schüler(innen) am Ende der allgemeinen Schulpflicht mindestens verfügen. Entwicklungsprozess und Resultat werden zusammen mit ausgewählten Aufgabenbeispielen präsentiert und offene Fragen angesprochen.
Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) for Canada: assessment of probability distributions
Creators: name: Tam, Benita Y.
name: Cannon, Alex J.
name: Bonsal, Barrie R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: Candidate probability distributions for the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) for Canada were examined using the Canadian Gridded (CANGRD) temperature and precipitation dataset and CMIP5 projections. The probability distribution is a core component to the calculation of standardized values. For SPEI, a continuous probability distribution is fitted to the water balance time series so that the resulting transformed index follows a standard normal distribution. Selection of an appropriate distribution is therefore important as an inappropriate distribution may lead to biased values and subsequently affect the interpretation of SPEI results. Candidate distributions considered for SPEI included the generalized logistic (GLO), generalized extreme value (GEV), Pearson Type III (PE3) and normal (NOR) distributions. A range of goodness of fit tests were used to assess how well the distributions fit SPEI. Differences in CANGRD SPEI time series between three pairs of distributions, GLO-GEV, GLO-PE3, and GEV-PE3, showed that there were larger differences in SPEI values between GLO and the other two distributions than the difference between GEV and PE3. SPEI results fitted with GLO resulted in lower threshold exceedances of extreme SPEI (-/+2) than GEV and GLO. A comparison between CMIP5 SPEI values fitted with GLO (SPEI-GLO) and PE3 (SPEI-PE3) showed that there were seasonal and spatial variations in results, although the use of multi-model ensembles reduced these differences. As was the case for CMIP5 SPEI-GLO projections, projected annual changes in CMIP5 SPEI-PE3 show an increase in drying at the surface in central/southern Canada. Overall, the study recommends using PE3 or GEV for SPEI analysis for Canada.
Experimental Observation of Topological Superconductivity and Majorana Zero Modes on beta-Bi2Pd Thin Films
Creators: name: Lv, Yan-Feng
name: Wang, Wen-Lin
name: Zhang, Yi-Min
name: Ding, Hao
name: Li, Wei
name: Wang, Lili
name: He, Ke
name: Song, Can-Li
name: Ma, Xu-Cun
name: Xue, Qi-Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a cryogenic scanning tunneling microscopy, we report the observation of topologically nontrivial superconductivity on a single material of β-Bi2Pd films grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The superconducting gap associated with spinless odd-parity pairing opens on the surface and appears much larger than the bulk one due to the Dirac-fermion enhanced parity mixing of surface pair potential. Majorana zero modes (MZMs), supported by such superconducting states, are identified at magnetic vortices. The superconductivity and MZMs exhibit resistance to nonmagnetic defects, characteristic of time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors. Our results demonstrate a simple platform to generate, manipulate and braid MZMs for quantum computation.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Online Behavior Modification for Expressive User Control of RL-Trained Robots
Creators: name: Sheidlower, Isaac
name: Murdock, Mavis
name: Bethel, Emma
name: Aronson, Reuben M.
name: Short, Elaine Schaertl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an effective method for robots to learn tasks. However, in typical RL, end-users have little to no control over how the robot does the task after the robot has been deployed. To address this, we introduce the idea of online behavior modification, a paradigm in which users have control over behavior features of a robot in real time as it autonomously completes a task using an RL-trained policy. To show the value of this user-centered formulation for human-robot interaction, we present a behavior diversity based algorithm, Adjustable Control Of RL Dynamics (ACORD), and demonstrate its applicability to online behavior modification in simulation and a user study. In the study (n=23) users adjust the style of paintings as a robot traces a shape autonomously. We compare ACORD to RL and Shared Autonomy (SA), and show ACORD affords user-preferred levels of control and expression, comparable to SA, but with the potential for autonomous execution and robustness of RL.
description: This work was published and presented at HRI 2024