cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Role and Importance of International Agreements in Regulating International Relations in Modern Countries
Creators: name: Nesovic, Dragana
name: Jerotijevic, Dusan
name: Nesovic, Dragana
name: Jerotijevic, Dusan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: international agreements
subject: international relations
subject: international subjects
subject: member state
subject: international organization
subject: unification

description: All international subjects acting on the international scene are obliged to respect generally accepted norms and basic principles of international law. The basic acts containing these norms on which the international legal system primarily relies are international agreements, whether contracts concluded between states and / or international organizations, bilateral or multilateral. In that respect, starting from the position of international agreements in the generally accepted hierarchy of international law sources, this paper analyses the role of international agreements and the importance that they, as the basic instruments of regulating international relations and cooperation among contemporary subjects of international law, have in the international legal system. The aim of this paper is to highlight the manner and consequences of the influence on the legal process in this field, given the legal nature of the international agreements impact in the context of varying international relations, under the influence of a omnipresent globalisation.
Predstavljanje projekta "Leksičko-semantička obrada kod pacijenata oboljelih od prve epizode shizofrenije"
Creators: name: Gabrić, Petar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: lexical-semantic processing
schizophrenia
semantic fluency

description: U ovom ćemo radu predstaviti studentski istraživački projekt „Leksičko-semantička obrada kod pacijenata s prvom epizodom shizofrenije“ u kojem smo istraživali leksičko- semantičke deficite kod pacijenata s prvom epizodom psihoze s simptomima/obilježjima shizofrenije. Shizofrenija je kronična psihička bolest koju obilježavaju i specifični deficiti u jezičnoj obradi. Fokus u dosadašnjim istraživanjima bio je na leksičko-semantičkim deficitima u shizofreniji i općenito psihozama. U našem su projektu kao ispitanici sudjelovali pacijenti iz Klinike za psihijatriju „Vrapče“ kojima je dijagnosticiran akutni polimorfni psihotični poremećaj sa simptomima shizofrenije ili akutni psihotični poremećaj nalik na shizofreniju (prema MKB-10). Ispitanici su rješavali leksičko-semantičke testove koji su uključivali verbalnu fluentnost, produkciju asocijacija, semantičku odluku, semantičku kategorizaciju te produkciju i recepciju metafora. Uz to, ispitanici su rješavali bateriju neuropsiholoških testova CANTAB. Projekt je ostvaren suradnjom Odsjeka za lingvistiku Filozofskog fakulteta (prof. dr. sc. Vlasta Erdeljac) i Klinike za psihijatriju „Vrapče“ (prof. dr. sc. Ninoslav Mimica MD). Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Projekt je financiran iz sredstava Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu za sufinanciranje studentskih projekata, i Odsjeka za lingvistiku Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Voditelj projekta bio je Petar Gabrić. Provoditelji projekta bili su Buga Bosanac, Iva Kužina i Mija Vandek. Suradnici na projektu bili su dr. sc. Martina Sekulić Sović (Odsjek za lingvistiku) i Aleksandar Savić MD (Klinika za psihijatriju „Vrapče“).
Using Wavelets Based on B-splines for Calculation of the Hankel Transform
Creators: name: Postnikov, Eugene B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 44A15; 65R10

description: The purpose of this paper is to represent the integral Hankel transform as a series. If one uses B-spline wavelet this series is a linear combination of the hypergeometrical functions. Numerical evaluation of the test function with known analytical Hankel transform of the null kind illustrates the proposed results.
Additional file 1 of Two monogenic disorders masquerading as one: severe congenital neutropenia with monocytosis and non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss
Creators: name: Parvathy Venugopal
name: Gagliardi, Lucia
name: Forsyth, Cecily
name: Jinghua Feng
name: Phillips, Kerry
name: Babic, Milena
name: Poplawski, Nicola
name: Rienhoff, Hugh
name: Schreiber, Andreas
name: Hahn, Christopher
name: Brown, Anna
name: Scott, Hamish
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Neutrophil and monocyte counts of individuals where data was available. Table S2. Genes known to be mutated in congenital neutropenia. Table S3. Genes known to be mutated in non-syndromic hearing loss. Table S4. Computational predictions, variant annotation and classification.
Beyond Distance : Exploring the availability of Metro Vancouver’s bus system and who can access it
Creators: name: Chow, Laura
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: In recent years, public transit agencies have expressed an interest in finding ways to address inequities in the transportation system. Unlike the inclusion of a high-level health lens (which would simply support increased investment in public transportation, cycling, and walking infrastructure), addressing inequities requires a thorough understanding of social justice, local economics and job creation, health, and transportation. The purpose of this project is to consider a way to look at how well the public transportation system serves populations most in need. While it uses a measure of income to identify Census tracts of interest, it is recognized that equity impacts are felt across a variety of spectrums and a more fulsome measure may be required for future analyses. Therefore, this project does not provide any conclusive recommendations to changes to the public transportation system, but rather suggests a way to incorporate a measure of equity to public transportation evaluation.
Identifying and Interpreting Market Information when Making Business Decision
Creators: name: Stamenkovic, Sasa
name: Stamatovic, Milan
name: Stamenkovic, Sasa
name: Stamatovic, Milan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: globalization
subject: information
subject: environment
subject: market signals
subject: information overload

description: This paper makes reference to the identification, origin, and method of creation of market information which, in its short life, represents market signals of different values and the manner in which it is perceived by the companies’ managements. The impacts of globalisation, the development of transport, and IT technologies have given a multidimensional line to the market signals and their complexity. The paper presents some of the challenges arising from the growing amounts of information available and exhausting the managements when defining the direction of future development of a company. Actually, the paper aims at making closer the understanding of the difference between data and information, from today’s point of view, the interpretation of market signals and their further use in making business decisions, looking through the prism of the constant increase in the quantity of information available in the light of globalisation and IT technologies, as well as possible challenges posed by the increasing amount of information. Finally, the paper presents a part of research that was used for the preparation of a doctoral thesis on information and its role in business decision-making.
Impact of Sino-US Trade Friction on Import and Export Trade Pattern of Soybean in Heilongjiang
Creators: name: HAN, Junde
name: SONG, Junjie
name: QI, Tianzhen
name: HAN, Junde
name: SONG, Junjie
name: QI, Tianzhen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Sino-US trade friction, Soybean, Import and export, Trade pattern

description: Under the background of Sino-US trade friction, soybean, as an important variety in the important and export trade of agricultural products, has become a key bargaining chip. After the Ministry of Commerce of China announced the counter list of agricultural products including soybean, the price fluctuations of domestic soybean and related agricultural products are rapidly expanding. Under the background of Sino-US trade friction, taking the soybean-producing areas in Heilongjiang as an example, the impact of Sino-US trade friction on the important and export pattern of soybean in Heilongjiang was explored to provide a certain theoretical basis for the development of soybean industry in Heilongjiang.
Kaon B Parameter in Quenched QCD
Creators: name: DeGrand, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I calculate the kaon B-parameter with a lattice simulation in quenched approximation. The lattice simulation uses an action possessing exact lattice chiral symmetry, an overlap action. Computations are performed at two lattice spacings, about 0.13 and 0.09 fm (parameterized by Wilson gauge action couplings beta=5.9 and 6.1) with nearly the same physical volumes and quark masses. I describe particular potential difficulties which arise due to the use of such a lattice action in finite volume. My results are consistent with other recent lattice determinations using domain-wall fermions.
description: 23 pages, Revtex, 16 postscript figures
The effect of interorbital scattering on superconductivity in doped Dirac materials
Creators: name: Dentelski, David
name: Kozii, Vladyslav
name: Ruhman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unconventional superconductivity has been discovered in a variety of doped materials, including topological insulators, semimetals and twisted bilayers. A unifying property of these systems is strong orbital hybridization, which involves pairing of states with non-trivial Bloch wave functions. In contrast to naive expectation, many of these superconductors are relatively resilient to disorder. Here we study the effects of a generic disorder on superconductivity in doped 3D Dirac systems, which serve as a paradigmatic example for the dispersion near a band crossing point. We argue that due to strong orbital hybridization, interorbital scattering processes are naturally present and must be taken into account. We calculate the reduction of the critical temperature for a variety of pairing states and scattering channels using Abrikosov-Gor'kov theory. In that way, the role of disorder is captured by a single parameter $Γ$, the pair scattering rate. This procedure is very general and can be readily applied to different band structures and disorder configurations. Our results show that interorbital scattering has a significant effect on superconductivity, where the robustness of different pairing states highly depends on the relative strength of the different interorbital scattering channels. Our analysis also reveals a protection, analogous to the Anderson's theorem, of the odd-parity pairing state with total angular momentum zero (the B-phase of superfluid $^3$He). This odd-pairty state is a singlet of partners under $\mathcal{CT}$ symmetry (rather than $\mathcal{T}$ symmetry in the standard Anderson's theory), where $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{T}$ are chiral and time-reversal symmetries, respectively. As a result, it is protected against any disorder potential that respects $\mathcal{CT}$ symmetry, which includes a family of time-reversal odd (magnetic) impurities.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, 5 appendices; Including mass term in the Hamiltonian. Extensive revisions in Appendix A. New figure 4
title: Smart online εξατομικευμένο τουριστικό γραφείο
title: Smart online personalized travel agency web app
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Φωτοπούλου, Μαριάμ
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Web application
subject: Spring Boot
subject: React.js
subject: MySQL
subject: Personalization
subject: User roles
subject: User statistics

description: Ο σκοπός της παρούσας πτυχιακής εργασίας είναι η ανάπτυξη ενός smart online εξατομικευμένου τουριστικού γραφείου ως web εφαρμογή, χρησιμοποιώντας Spring Boot, και συγκεκριμένα Spring Security και Data JPA για την υλοποίηση του back-end, React.js για το front-end και μία βάση MySQL. Ο στόχος είναι η δημιουργία μιας πλατφόρμας που επιτρέπει στους χρήστες να κλείνουν ταξιδιωτικά πακέτα ή ξενοδοχεία, να κάνουν αξιολογήσεις, να βλέπουν τα προσωπικά τους στατιστικά και να λαμβάνουν εξατομικευμένες προτάσεις βάσει των ενδιαφερόντων τους. Επιπλέον, υπάρχει διάκριση των ρόλων χρηστών, με λειτουργίες τόσο για χρήστες όσο και για διαχειριστές. Ο διαχειριστής έχει επιπλέον πρόσβαση σε λειτουργίες, όπως η προσθήκη ή διαγραφή πακέτων και χρηστών, καθώς και η προβολή στατιστικών σε ένα πίνακα ελέγχου.
Rényi entropy and subsystem distances in finite size and thermal states in critical XY chains
Creators: name: Arias, Raúl
name: Zhang, Jiaju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Rényi entropy and subsystem distances on one interval for the finite size and thermal states in the critical XY chains, focusing on the critical Ising chain and XX chain with zero transverse field. We construct numerically the reduced density matrices and calculate the von Neumann entropy, Rényi entropy, subsystem trace distance, Schatten two-distance, and relative entropy. As the continuum limit of the critical Ising chain and XX chain with zero field are, respectively, the two-dimensional free massless Majorana and Dirac fermion theories, which are conformal field theories, we compare the spin chain numerical results with the analytical results in CFTs and find perfect matches in the continuum limit.
description: v1, 32 pages, 15 figures; v2, 35 pages, 15 figures, published version
Upper bounds on the mass of the lightest neutralino
Creators: name: Huitu, K.
name: Laamanen, J.
name: Pandita, P. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the general upper bounds on the mass of the lightest neutralino, as a function of the gluino mass, in different supersymmetry breaking models with minimal particle content and the standard model gauge group. This includes models with gravity mediated supersymmetry breaking (SUGRA), as well as models with anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking (AMSB). We include the next-to-leading order corrections in our evaluation of these bounds. We then expand the mass matrix in powers of M_Z/mu, and find the upper bound on the mass of the lightest neutralino from this expansion. By scanning over all of the parameter space, we find that the bound we have obtained can be saturated. We compare the general upper bound on the lightest neutralino mass to the upper bound that is obtained when the radiative electroweak symmetry breaking scenario is assumed.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, LaTex; added a reference and changed the title and abstract to plural. Version published in PRD
Phlegmariurus lancifolius B. Ollg. 2012, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Øllgaard, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Lycopodiopsida
Lycopodiales
Lycopodiaceae
Phlegmariurus
Phlegmariurus lancifolius

description: Phlegmariurus lancifolius (Maxon) B.Øllg., comb. nov.
 Basionym: Lycopodium lancifolium Maxon (1913: 177).
 Synonym: Huperzia lancifolia (Maxon) Holub (1985: 74).
description: Published as part of Øllgaard, Benjamin, 2012, New combinations in Neotropical Lycopodiaceae, pp. 10-22 in Phytotaxa 57 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5061289
Relation between bottom-quark MS-bar Yukawa coupling and pole mass
Creators: name: Kniehl, Bernd A.
name: Piclum, Jan H.
name: Steinhauser, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the O(alpha alpha_s) corrections to the relationships between the MS-bar Yukawa couplings and the pole masses of the first five quark flavours in the standard model. We also present the corresponding relationships between the MS-bar and pole masses, which emerge as by-products of our main analysis. The occurring self-energies are evaluated using the method of asymptotic expansion.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
title: The Role of Networking in Supporting Headteachers' Professional Development and Practice in Ghana
Creators: name: Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2020

description: This thesis is about headteacher professional development in Ghana and headteachers’ capacity to harness professional capital within their peer network to advance their practice. It is set against recent developments in Ghana around headteacher capacity building and the need to improve leadership practice in government basic schools where resources have been limited. Although networking and the notion of collaborative learning in professional learning communities are well-developed practices in some of the world’s best education systems, very little is known about such developments in Ghana and how the professional capital embedded in these network relations is contributing to practice. The research strategy is underpinned by pragmatic beliefs that research questions are the principal determinants of the research philosophy. Therefore, rather than committing to a research philosophy at the start of the study, the questions posed determined the methodological framework. Through a mixed-methods design, this empirical study deploys a two-phase sequential and exploratory strategy drawing on qualitative and quantitative datasets. The study finds evidence of a learning community of headteachers who, through frequent network interactions, build professional capital to enhance their practice. Headteachers indicated five key content-specific types of information and professional advice they exchange in this peer network. For these types of information and professional advice, the study reveals that age, experience, type of school or academic qualifications do not significantly influence headteacher choice of who to go to for information and professional advice. However, the data indicate a positive and significant relationship between headteacher gender and their likelihood of seeking information and professional advice about how to help ineffective teachers improve their practice and how to deliver the national curriculum effectively. The findings imply that policymakers should recognise network relations that exist among headteacher groups and direct resources to supporting peer learning and collaboration rather than the over-reliance on trainer-led workshops for headteacher professional development.
Study of the Discount on Private Placements and Risk of Stock Market Crash in Listed Companies
Creators: name: HU, Qi
name: XU, Botan
name: HU, Qi
name: XU, Botan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Private placement, Discount issuance, Information asymmetry, Risk of stock market crash

description: With the gradual completion of the split-share structure reform, private placement has gradually become the mainstream of refinancing. One of the points that the practical and theoretical circles are widely concerned about is that the private placement price is often higher than the market price at the time of the private placement. High discounts are often accompanied by the transmission of benefits, and the increase in insider information will lead to the risk of a stock market crash? This paper intends to use the data of A-share listed companies from 2006 to 2015 to empirically study the relationship between the discount on private placements and the risk of stock market crash. At the same time, this paper examines whether the degree of information asymmetry plays a regulatory role in the relationship between the discount on private placements and the risk of stock market crash. This paper provides a certain reference for the regulatory authorities to improve the relevant laws and regulations in the private placement, and to provide a certain reference for the protection of the interests of small and medium-sized investors.
Additional file 1 of Is marijuana use associated with decreased use of prescription opioids? Toxicological findings from two US national samples of drivers
Creators: name: Guohua Li
name: Chihuri, Stanford
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Estimated adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of prescription opioid positivity according to driver demographic characteristics, 2011–16 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and 2013–14 National Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers (NRS).
Study on Communication Effect of Food Safety Risk in Social Media: the Influence of Response Effort Level on Consumption Willingness Change
Creators: name: FANG, Wenlin
name: SHI, Fengyuan
name: FANG, Wenlin
name: SHI, Fengyuan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food safety, Communication effect, Social media, Effort level, Purchase willingness

description: By constructing influence model for communication effect of food safety risk in social media environment, the influences of different response manners taken by relevant enterprises on consumers’ cognition and purchasing intention are analyzed, and influence mechanisms of response effort level, interaction and content reliability on consumers’ attitudes are revealed. Based on quasi-experimental study with three kinds of response effort levels, it is found that content reliability, interaction and effort degree of enterprise response under negative information of food safety event have significant impacts on communication effect and consumers’ purchasing intention.
Additional file 1 of Metatranscriptomic dynamics after Verticillium dahliae infection and root damage in Olea europaea
Creators: name: Martí, Jose
name: Arias-Giraldo, Luis
name: Díaz-Villanueva, Wladimiro
name: Arnau, Vicente
name: Rodríguez-Franco, Antonio
name: Garay, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary Figures.
Broken Time Reversal Symmetry and Superconducting States in the Cuprates
Creators: name: Kaur, R. P.
name: Agterberg, D. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Kaminski et al. have reported that time reversal symmetry is broken in the pseudogap phase in the high temperature superconducting material Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{2+δ} (Bi-2212). Here we examine the role of translationally invariant broken time reversal states on d_{x^2-y^2} superconductors. In particular, we determine the change in the superconducting order parameter structure. We find that the broken time reversal pseudogap state that is consistent with the experiment of Kaminski et al., gives rise to a novel mixed singlet-triplet pairing d+ip phase. This d+ip state is shown to give rise to a helical superconducting phase. Consequences of this d+ip state on Josephson experiments are discussed.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Venture Capital and the Transformation of Private R&D for Agriculture
Creators: name: Graff, Gregory D.
name: De Figueiredo Silva, Felipe
name: Zilberman, David
name: Graff, Gregory D.
name: De Figueiredo Silva, Felipe
name: Zilberman, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: Presentation ID 16782
Controlling spatiotemporal chaos in oscillatory reaction-diffusion systems by time-delay autosynchronization
Creators: name: Beta, C.
name: Mikhailov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffusion-induced turbulence in spatially extended oscillatory media near a supercritical Hopf bifurcation can be controlled by applying global time-delay autosynchronization. We consider the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in the Benjamin-Feir unstable regime and analytically investigate the stability of uniform oscillations depending on the feedback parameters. We show that a noninvasive stabilization of uniform oscillations is not possible in this type of systems. The synchronization diagram in the plane spanned by the feedback parameters is derived. Numerical simulations confirm the analytical results and give additional information on the spatiotemporal dynamics of the system close to complete synchronization.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures submitted to Physica D
Nonconcave penalized likelihood with a diverging number of parameters
Creators: name: Fan, Jianqing
name: Peng, Heng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F12 (Primary) 62J02, 62E20 (Secondary)

description: A class of variable selection procedures for parametric models via nonconcave penalized likelihood was proposed by Fan and Li to simultaneously estimate parameters and select important variables. They demonstrated that this class of procedures has an oracle property when the number of parameters is finite. However, in most model selection problems the number of parameters should be large and grow with the sample size. In this paper some asymptotic properties of the nonconcave penalized likelihood are established for situations in which the number of parameters tends to \infty as the sample size increases. Under regularity conditions we have established an oracle property and the asymptotic normality of the penalized likelihood estimators. Furthermore, the consistency of the sandwich formula of the covariance matrix is demonstrated. Nonconcave penalized likelihood ratio statistics are discussed, and their asymptotic distributions under the null hypothesis are obtained by imposing some mild conditions on the penalty functions.
Women's Access to Improved Seed: Does it Matter for Small- Scale Maize Farms' Productivity in Nigeria
Creators: name: Ayinde, Opeyemi E.
name: Abdoulaye, Tahirou
name: Miranda, Mario J.
name: Sam, Abdoul G.
name: Olaoye, Gbadebo
name: Ayinde, Opeyemi E.
name: Abdoulaye, Tahirou
name: Miranda, Mario J.
name: Sam, Abdoul G.
name: Olaoye, Gbadebo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: Presentation ID 16905
title: Retention of At-Risk Students: a Case Study from a Tertiary Education Institution in the Middle East
Creators: name: Bourchak, Mokhtar
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2020

description: This study investigates the engagement and retention of higher education students in the Middle East. It focuses on a group of students who have been identified as ‘at-risk’ of leaving before completing their course in a government-funded tertiary education institution, one of a group of 17 male and female colleges spread across one country in the Middle East. The study reflects growing concern over the need to improve students’ retention and success levels in this part of the world and contributes theoretically and practically to the field. More specifically, it addresses two research questions: 1) What are the main reasons for poor student engagement and retention in this context? and 2) How can faculty through their formal and informal interaction with students contribute to the retention and engagement of at-risk students? An interpretive method of inquiry was adopted and conducted through a qualitative case study focusing on a single institution. The empirical data were collected through focus groups with students and staff. The focus groups were conducted in Arabic with students, and English with teachers, reflecting the linguistic preferences of the participants. The qualitative focus group data were analysed thematically and then considered in relation to existing institutional quantitative data. This process helped triangulate and extend the qualitative data findings to enhance the validity of this investigation. The study was informed by existing literature on student persistence regarding course completion. To develop a theoretical framework, Tinto's model of departure (1975) was utilised initially, as it recognises the importance of both social and academic integration, and the contribution of the attributes that students bring with them to the institution, such as prior education and personal circumstances. The second phase of the empirical work homed in on the role of academic staff in contributing to the engagement and success of students. Findings from the case study research reaffirmed the consensus in the literature that retention is a multidimensional issue; students leave for a range of reasons (Sanders et al., 2016). The thematic analysis of the empirical data identified additional issues that contribute to early departure, which are specific to the cultural and geographical context of the Middle East. Following on from this, a new conceptual model for students’ engagement and retention in the Middle East, which identifies practical ways to improve the outcomes of students in this part of the world, is presented.
Random-field Ising and $O(N)$ models: Theoretical description through the functional renormalization group
Creators: name: Tarjus, Gilles
name: Tissier, Matthieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the theoretical description of the random field Ising and $O(N)$ models obtained from the functional renormalization group, either in its nonperturbative implementation or, in some limits, in perturbative implementations. The approach solves some of the questions concerning the critical behavior of random-field systems that have stayed pending for many years: What is the mechanism for the breakdown of dimensional reduction and the breaking of the underlying supersymmetry below $d=6$? Can one provide a theoretical computation of the critical exponents, including the exponent ψcharacterizing the activated dynamic scaling? Is it possible to theoretically describe collective phenomena such as avalanches and droplets? Is the critical scaling described by 2 or 3 independent exponents? What is the phase behavior of the random-field $O(N)$ model in the whole ($N$, $d$) plane and what is the lower critical dimension of quasi-long range order for $N=2$? Are the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium critical points of the RFIM in the same universality class?
description: Review submitted to the topical issue of EPJB on "Recent advances in the theory of disordered systems"; 19 pages, 7 figures
The Test Planning for the SIMBIO-SYS Near Earth Commissioning Phase
Creators: name: ZUSI, MICHELE
name: POLITI, ROMOLO
name: SIMIONI, EMANUELE
name: DELLA CORTE, VINCENZO
name: CICCHETTI, ANDREA
name: NOSCHESE, RAFFAELLA
Publisher: name: IAPS Roma
Year: 2020

description: In this document we describe all the tests to be performed during the Near Earth Commissioning Phase (NECP) for the Spectrometers and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem (SIMBIO-SYS).
Assessing the benefits of Green Super Rice in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Mozambique
Creators: name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Pede, Valerien O.
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Pede, Valerien O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: Presentation ID 15390
Ficha informativa RIVEAL #1 - O projeto RIVEAL
Creators: name: Aguiar, FC
name: Rivaes, R
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Serviços de ecossistema
Coordenação de projeto
Entregável de projeto
Biodiversidade fluvial
Regulação hidrológica

description: Primeira ficha informativa do projeto RIVEAL. Faz uma apresentação concisa do projeto na sua generalidade, realçando os seus objetivos, casos de estudo, atividades e, resultados e alcance esperados.
Heavy Fermion Quantum Effects in SU(2)_L Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Farhi, E.
name: Graham, N.
name: Jaffe, R. L.
name: Khemani, V.
name: Weigel, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the effects of a heavy fermion doublet in a simplified version of the standard electroweak theory. We integrate out the doublet and compute the exact effective energy functional of spatially varying gauge and Higgs fields. We perform a variational search for a local minimum of the effective energy and do not find evidence for a soliton carrying the quantum numbers of the decoupled fermion doublet. The fermion vacuum polarization energy offsets the gain in binding energy previously argued to be sufficient to stabilize a fermionic soliton. The existence of such a soliton would have been a natural way to maintain anomaly cancellation at the level of the states. We also see that the sphaleron energy is significantly increased due to the quantum corrections of the heavy doublet. We find that when the doublet is slightly heavier than the quantum--corrected sphaleron, its decay is exponentially suppressed owing to a new barrier. This barrier exists only for an intermediate range of fermion masses, and a heavy enough doublet is indeed unstable.
description: 30 pages LaTeX, 3 eps-figures
Additional file 4 of Improving post-partum family planning services provided by female community health volunteers in Nepal: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Thapa, Kusum
name: Dhital, Rolina
name: Sameena Rajbhandari
name: Mishra, Sangeeta
name: Subedi, Shanti
name: Bhogendra Dotel
name: Sapana Vaidya
name: Pande, Saroja
name: Emily-Anne Tunnacliffe
name: Makins, Anita
name: Arulkumaran, Sabaratnam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. FGD checklists for FCHVs.
Does Crop Insurance Inhibit Climate Change Irrigation-Technology Adaption?
Creators: name: Sellars, Sarah C.
name: Thompson, Nathanael M.
name: Wetzstein, Michael E.
name: Bowling, Laura C.
name: Cherkauer, Keith A.
name: Frankenberger, Jane R.
name: Prokopy, Linda S.
name: Hemler, Michelle R.
name: Lee, Charlotte I.
name: Reinhart, Benjamin D.
name: Sellars, Sarah C.
name: Thompson, Nathanael M.
name: Wetzstein, Michael E.
name: Bowling, Laura C.
name: Cherkauer, Keith A.
name: Frankenberger, Jane R.
name: Prokopy, Linda S.
name: Hemler, Michelle R.
name: Lee, Charlotte I.
name: Reinhart, Benjamin D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: Presentation ID 15659
Ground state and collective excitations of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate in a bubble trap
Creators: name: Diniz, Pedro de Castro
name: Oliveira, Eduardo Amâncio Barbosa
name: Lima, Aristeu Rosendo Pontes
name: Henn, Emanuel Alves de Lima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the ground state and the low-lying excitations of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates in a bubble trap, i.e., a shell-shaped spherically symmetric confining potential. By means of an appropriate Gaussian ansatz, we determine the ground-state properties in the case where the particles interact by means of both the isotropic and short-range contact and the anisotropic and long-range dipole-dipole potential in the thin-shell limit. Moreover, with the ground state at hand, we employ the sum-rule approach to study the monopole, the two-, the three-dimensional quadrupole as well as the dipole modes. We find situations in which neither the virial nor Kohn's theorem can be applied. On top of that, we demonstrate the existence of anisotropic particle density profiles, which are absent in the case with repulsive contact interaction only. These significant deviations from what one would typically expect are then traced back to both the anisotropic nature of the dipolar interaction and the novel topology introduced by the bubble trap.
Assessing salt-tolerant rice variety adoption in the Mekong River Delta
Creators: name: Paik, SongYi
name: Mills, Bradford F.
name: Le, Dung Thi Phuong
name: Nhu, Lien Thi
name: Paik, SongYi
name: Mills, Bradford F.
name: Le, Dung Thi Phuong
name: Nhu, Lien Thi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: Presentation ID 15931
Nuclear Symmetry Energy and Neutron Skin Thickness of $^{208}Pb $ using a finite range effective interaction
Creators: name: Behera, D.
name: Tripathy, S. K.
name: Routray, T. R.
name: Behera, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a finite range simple effective interaction to construct nuclear equations of state for the study of the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy. The EoSs provide good descriptions of the nuclear symmetry energy at a subsaturation density $ρ_c=0.11$ fm$^{-3}$ and at a density around two times the saturation density $ρ_0$. We obtain a correlation between the neutron skin thickness in $^{208}$Pb and the density slope parameter at the subsaturation density. A linear relation is obtained between the neutron skin thickness and the parameter $β^{\prime}=\frac{L(ρ_c)}{3E_s(ρ_0)}$, where $E_s(ρ_0)$ and $L(ρ_c)$ are respectively the nuclear symmetry energy at saturation density and the density slope parameter at the subsaturation density.
description: 17 pages, 17figures, accepted version of Physica Scripta
New apparatus for DTA at 2000 bar: thermodynamic studies on Au, Ag, Al and HTSC oxides
Creators: name: Garnier, V.
name: Giannini, E.
name: Hugi, S.
name: Seeber, B.
name: Flukiger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new DTA (Differential Thermal Analysis) device was designed and installed in a Hot Isostatic Pressure (HIP) furnace in order to perform high-pressure thermodynamic investigations up to 2 kbar and 1200C. Thermal analysis can be carried out in inert or oxidising atmosphere up to p(O2) = 400 bar. The calibration of the DTA apparatus under pressure was successfully performed using the melting temperature (Tm) of pure metals (Au, Ag and Al) as standard calibration references. The thermal properties of these metals have been studied under pressure. The values of DV (volume variation between liquid and solid at Tm), ROsm (density of the solid at Tm) and ALPHAm (linear thermal expansion coefficient at Tm) have been extracted. A very good agreement was found with the existing literature and new data were added. This HP-DTA apparatus is very useful for studying the thermodynamics of those systems where one or more volatile elements are present, such as high TC superconducting oxides. DTA measurements have been performed on Bi,Pb(2223) tapes up to 2 kbar under reduced oxygen partial pressure (p(O2) = 0.07 bar). The reaction leading to the formation of the 2223 phase was found to occur at higher temperatures when applying pressure: the reaction DTA peak shifted by 49C at 2 kbar compared to the reaction at 1 bar. This temperature shift is due to the higher stability of the Pb-rich precursor phases under pressure, as the high isostatic pressure prevents Pb from evaporating.
description: 6 figures, 3 tables, Thermodynamics, Thermal property, Bi-2223, fundamental value
Soleus responses to Achilles tendon stimuli are suppressed by heel and enhanced by metatarsal cutaneous stimuli during standing
Creators: name: Mildren, Robyn
name: Peters, Ryan M.
name: Carpenter Mark, G.
name: Blouin, Jean-Sébastien
name: Inglis, J. Timothy
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Cutaneous feedback from the foot sole provides balance relevant information and has the potential to interact with spinal reflex pathways. In this study, we examined how cutaneous feedback from the foot sole (heel and metatarsals) influenced the soleus response to proprioceptive stimuli during standing. We delivered noisy vibration (10-115 Hz) to the right Achilles tendon while we intermittently applied electrical pulse trains (five 1 ms pulses at 200 Hz, every 0.8-1.0 s) to the skin under the heel or metatarsals of the ipsilateral foot sole. We analyzed time-dependent (referenced to cutaneous stimuli) coherence and cross- correlations between the vibration acceleration and rectified soleus EMG. Vibration-EMG coherence was observed across a bandwidth of ~10-80 Hz, and coherence was suppressed by heel but enhanced by metatarsal cutaneous stimuli. Cross-correlations showed soleus EMG was correlated with the vibration (~40 ms lag) and cross-correlations were also suppressed by heel (from 104-155 ms) but enhanced by metatarsal (from 76-128 ms) stimuli. To examine the neural mechanisms mediating this reflex interaction, we conducted two experiments to probe potential contributions from 1) presynaptic inhibition, and 2) modulations at the ⍺- and 𝛾-motoneuron pools. Results suggest the cutaneous interactions with the stretch reflex pathway required a modulation at the ⍺-motoneuron pool and were likely not mediated by presynaptic inhibition. These findings demonstrate that foot sole cutaneous information functionally tunes the stretch reflex pathway during the control of upright posture and balance.
Efficiency as a Criterion for Optimizing Routes: A two-stage DEA-Routing approach
Creators: name: Alves Junior, Paulo Nocera
name: Bartholomeu, Daniela B.
name: Cruz, José C.
name: Caixeta-Filho, José V.
name: Alves Junior, Paulo Nocera
name: Bartholomeu, Daniela B.
name: Cruz, José C.
name: Caixeta-Filho, José V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: Presentation ID 16666
Additional file 1 of Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile
Creators: name: Salinas-Oñate, Natalia
name: Baeza-Rivera, María
name: Ortiz, Manuel
name: Betancourt, Héctor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Original SBPP (and English translation in italics).
title: Characterisation of Plasmodium Sexual Stage Antigens as Targets of Transmission Blocking Immunity
Creators: name: Muthui, Michelle Kathini
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: A promising strategy to achieve malaria elimination is by interrupting transmission using transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs). TBVs target the sexual or mosquito stages of the malaria parasite to inhibit parasite development within the mosquito. To date, however, there are only three lead TBV candidate antigens Pfs230, Pfs48/45 and Pfs25 in various stages of clinical development. This project sought to identify novel antigens expressed on gametocytes, gametes and ookinetes with potential as TBV candidates. Furthermore, naturally acquired immune responses (NAI) to gametocytes have been described and have the potential to guide the development and the implementation of TBVs Therefore, this work also sought to improve our understanding of NAI to gametocytes. This was achieved by (1) carrying out a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies investigating NAI to the lead gametocyte-stage TBV candidates, and (2) assessing the changing patterns of gametocyte carriage at the Kenyan coast over time.

 Key indicators of gametocytaemia and anti-gametocyte immunity were identified and evaluated against a novel panel of gametocyte antigens. These antigens, together with a separate set of gamete and ookinete stage antigens, were identified as potential TBV candidates using a combination of bioinformatic tools and laboratory investigations. Immunoprofiling of the identified gametocyte candidates provided evidence that stable responses can be generated to sexual stage antigens. Moreover, antigens that could serve as serological markers of recent gametocyte exposure, in particular PEB-P (PF3D7_0303900), were also identified. The ability of the sexual stage antigens to induce transmission-blocking immunity was also assessed. Promising candidates identified included PBCPP2 (PBANKA_0719100), a novel conserved and uncharacterised P. berghei protein), and SOAP (PBANKA_1037800). Further characterisation of these antigens may yield new candidates to add to the TBV development pipeline.
Recent Advances in Semileptonic B Decays
Creators: name: Uraltsev, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aspects of the OPE-based QCD theory of B decays are discussed. We have at least one nontrivial precision check of the OPE at the nonperturbative level in inclusive decays. The data suggest proximity to the `BPS' limit for B mesons. Its consequences are addressed and their accuracy qualified. It is suggested that theory-wise B->D \ellνnear zero recoil offers an accurate alternative way to measure |V_{cb}|. It is shown that the OPE is in a good standing when confronted by experiment. The alleged controversy between theory and data on certain decay channels is found to be an artefact of oversimplifying the OPE in presence of high experimental cuts severely degrading the effective hardness. The effects exponential in the latter are missed in the traditionally used expressions, yet they do not signify a breakdown of the 1/m_b expansion proper. They typically increase the apparent b quark mass in B->X_s+γby 70 MeV or more, together with an even more dramatic downward shift in the kinetic expectation value. The utility of the second moment of E_γis emphasized once the aforementioned effects have been included. Incorporating them brings different measurements into a good agreement, provided the OPE-based theory employs the robust approach.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX, two figures. Invited talk given at FPCP 2003, Paris, June 3-6, 2003