cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Protection of Ecological Environment in Territorial Spatial Planning
Creators: name: BAO Chen
name: LI Xiaoyun
name: LE Meipeng
name: BAO Chen
name: LI Xiaoyun
name: LE Meipeng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Territorial space, Planning ,Ecological environment

description: According to the fundamental foundation of China’s economic and social development, it is necessary to consider the state of the land and resources. This has caused great concern about the sustainable development of land and resources. The economy has been developing steadily, bringing China into a new stage. At this stage, we should plan the land and resources more reasonably, so as to achieve the goal of ensuring economic development and long-term social stability. Therefore, the management of land and resources needs to be improved. Using scientific planning methods, the original technology is improved to reasonably protect and develop China’s land and resources, thus contributing to the sustainable development of China and even the world.
PENERAPAN MANAJEMEN KURIKULUM DALAM MENINGKATKAN MUTU PENDIDIKAN DI SMA DHARMAWANGSA MEDAN
Creators: name: Dr. Suhendri, M.A.
name: Zamakhsyari Zamakhsyari
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education
subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130101 Continuing and Community Education

description: Manajemen kurikulum menjadi hal penting untuk meningkatkan mutu pendidikan pada satuan pendidikan.
Modulating Functions Method application in MISO industrial process control
Creators: name: Michal, Drapala
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: continuous systems,
modulating function method
exact state observer
glass forehearths control

description: The presentation shows the application of the modulation function method for identification of parameters in MISO linear continous models which describe the dynamics of a nonlinear process at its operating points. The linear model is used for predictive control strategy. This approach is tested in an industrial process of conditioning of melten glass in a long channel of foreheath. The structure of forehearth consists of four sections, in which the local temperatutes are controlled by PID regulators. For simulation of the state in each section the exact state observer is used. The implemented predictive controller works much better than the PID algorithm for a temperature control problem in the single forehearth’s zone.
A Hedonic Metric Approach to Estimating the Demand for Differentiated Products: An Application to Retail Milk Demand
Creators: name: Gulseven, Osman
name: Wohlgenant, Michael K.
name: Gulseven, Osman
name: Wohlgenant, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Hedonic Metrics
subject: Distance Metrics
subject: Rotterdam Model
subject: Almost Ideal Demand System
subject: Differentiated Products
subject: Milk Demand.

description: This article introduces the Hedonic Metric (HM) approach as an original method to model the demand for differentiated products. Using this approach, initially we create an n-dimensional hedonic space based on the characteristic information available to consumers. Next, we allocate products into this space and estimate the elasticities using distances. What distinguishes our model from traditional demand models such as Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and Rotterdam Model is the way we link elasticities with product characteristics. Moreover, our model significantly reduces the number of parameters to be estimated, thereby making it possible to estimate large number of differentiated products in a single demand system. We applied our model to estimate the retail demand for fluid milk products. We also compared our results with the Distance Metric (DM) approach of Rojas and Peterson (2008) using the estimation results from traditional models as a benchmark point. Our approach is shown to give superior results and better approximations to original models.
title: Taxonomy and distribution of Aesculus species in the British Isles
Creators: name: Alshamrani, Rahma
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: Aesculus L. is a small genus of horticulturally important trees and shrubs comprising 13 species. Frequent hybridization among species, particularly in cultivation, has contributed to taxonomic confusion and difficulties in identification of plants. At the same time, disease is threatening the future of some species in horticulture. One species, A. hippocastanum, is emerging as a model for documenting phenological responses to climate change, but it is unclear whether there is significant intraspecific variation in this species. These factors have prompted the morphological and molecular reconsideration ofAesculus taxonomy, with emphasis on plants in horticulture in the UK, and the investigation of the inter-and intra-specific variation in phenology for these species. A detailed morphological study based on 101 morphological characters scored 48 plants. Multivariate analyses and scrutiny of the data against the existing descriptions of species, varieties and cultivars, including hybrids, were used to identify plants, but highlighted the deficiencies of current identification tools .. The plants from the morphological study were included In a molecular survey. New sequence data for one nuclear (ITS) and two chloroplast regions (trnHK, matK) were generated. Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of these sequence data, along with published data, supported previously existing infra-generic lineages. However, no evidence for intraspecific lineages of A. hippocastanum was found in the morphological or molecular analyses. A phenological survey of plants on the University of Reading Whiteknights campus was made for 51 plants, 34 of A. hippocastanum and 17 representing other species. For two years, each plants' phenological stage (budburst, leaf development, shoot development, flowering, fruiting and beginning of dormancy) was recorded. Consistently early trees and early species were identified. For A. hippocastanum the number of days between the first tree's bud burst and the last tree's budburst was 29 days in 2013 and 38 days in 2014; the time between the earliest bud burst in 2013 and in 2014 was 13 days. Thus, intraspecific variation in budburst time within years is much greater than inter-annual differences.
4402: Pte Leonard James Taylor
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Leonard Taylor was born on the 8th July, 1894 in Lye near Stourport. As he could drive and was employed as a mechanical engineer, when he enlisted, he was selected to join the Army Service Corps, and by September 1915, found himself in Egypt. Two years later, possibly due to his suffering with malaria, Leonard was invalided out of the army and sent home having also spent some time serving in Palestine. As a result, in addition to his three campaign medals, Leonard was also awarded a Silver War Badge. He talked little of his time in the army, but did share the constant need to run a lighted candle along the seams of his uniform to kill bugs and insects.
Electron spin tomography through counting statistics: a quantum trajectory approach
Creators: name: Schaefers, Holger
name: Strunz, Walter T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of electron spin qubits in quantum dots. Measurement of the qubit state is realized by a charge current through the dot. The dynamics is described in the framework of the quantum trajectory approach, widely used in quantum optics, and we show that it can be applied successfully to problems in condensed matter physics. The relevant master equation dynamics is unravelled to simulate stochastic tunneling events of the current through the dot.Quantum trajectories are then used to extract the counting statistics of the current. We show how, in combination with an electron spin resonance (ESR) field, counting statistics can be employed for quantum state tomography of the qubit state. Further, it is shown how decoherence and relaxation time scales can be estimated with the help of counting statistics, in the time domain. Finally, we discuss a setup for single shot measurement of the qubit state without the need for spin-polarized leads.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures, RevTeX4, submitted to PRB
Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Household Consumption and Poverty
Creators: name: Martin, Amory
name: Markhvida, Maryia
name: Hallegatte, Stéphane
name: Walsh, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive economic shock across the world due to business interruptions and shutdowns from social-distancing measures. To evaluate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on individuals, a micro-economic model is developed to estimate the direct impact of distancing on household income, savings, consumption, and poverty. The model assumes two periods: a crisis period during which some individuals experience a drop in income and can use their precautionary savings to maintain consumption; and a recovery period, when households save to replenish their depleted savings to pre-crisis level. The San Francisco Bay Area is used as a case study, and the impacts of a lockdown are quantified, accounting for the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) and the CARES Act federal stimulus. Assuming a shelter-in-place period of three months, the poverty rate would temporarily increase from 17.1% to 25.9% in the Bay Area in the absence of social protection, and the lowest income earners would suffer the most in relative terms. If fully implemented, the combination of UI and CARES could keep the increase in poverty close to zero, and reduce the average recovery time, for individuals who suffer an income loss, from 11.8 to 6.7 months. However, the severity of the economic impact is spatially heterogeneous, and certain communities are more affected than the average and could take more than a year to recover. Overall, this model is a first step in quantifying the household-level impacts of COVID-19 at a regional scale. This study can be extended to explore the impact of indirect macroeconomic effects, the role of uncertainty in households' decision-making and the potential effect of simultaneous exogenous shocks (e.g., natural disasters).
Resident Relocation of Wulingyuan World Natural Heritage Site Based on Community Participation Theory
Creators: name: FAN Qindan
name: WU Yuhui
name: FAN Qindan
name: WU Yuhui
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community participation, Community residents, Migrant relocation, Wulingyuan World Heritage Site

description: Migrant relocation is an important measure for the scenic spot to effectively protect the ecological environment. The problem of migrant relocation of Wulingyuan World Heritage Site is the most serious and difficult problem in the development of Wulingyuan, and it is a very representative case of migrant relocation in tourist attractions of China. Based on the community participation theory, this paper made a detailed analysis of the panel data on the relocation of residents in Wulingyuan World Heritage Site. Combining the first-hand information obtained from the field interviews, starting from the reasons for the relocation, the resettlement plan, and the effects of the relocation, it also analyzed the problems existing in the relocation of residents in Wulingyuan World Heritage Site. Finally, it came up with recommendations in line with the interests of residents from the perspective of community participation.
Adverse Selection in the Environmental Stewardship Scheme: Evidence in the Higher Level Stewardship Scheme?
Creators: name: Quillerou, Emmanuelle
name: Fraser, Rob W.
name: Fraser, Iain
name: Quillerou, Emmanuelle
name: Fraser, Rob W.
name: Fraser, Iain
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Adverse selection
subject: agri-environment
subject: Environmental Stewardship
subject: principal-agent
subject: contract

description: The Environmental Stewardship Scheme provides payments to farmers for the provision of environmental services based on foregone agricultural income. This creates a potential incentive compatibility problem which, combined with an information asymmetry on farm land heterogeneity, could lead to adverse selection of farmers into the Scheme and therefore reduced cost-effectiveness of the Scheme. This reduced cost-effectiveness would be represented by a systematic overpayment of farmers for the land enrolled into the Scheme, compared to the opportunity cost of production. This paper examines the potential adverse selection problem affecting the higher tier of the Environmental Stewardship, the Higher Level Stewardship, using a principal agent framework combined with farm-level data on participation in the HLS. Empirically, it is found that, at the farm level, HLS participation is negatively related to cereal yields, suggesting the existence of adverse selection in the HLS and farmer overcompensation from entering the scheme.
Refined Kirby calculus for integral homology spheres
Creators: name: Habiro, Kazuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27

description: A theorem of Kirby states that two framed links in the 3-sphere produce orientation-preserving homeomorphic results of surgery if they are related by a sequence of stabilization and handle-slide moves. The purpose of the present paper is twofold: First, we give a sufficient condition for a sequence of handle-slides on framed links to be able to be replaced with a sequences of algebraically canceling pairs of handle-slides. Then, using the first result, we obtain a refinement of Kirby's calculus for integral homology spheres which involves only +/-1-framed links with zero linking numbers.
description: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology on 18 September 2006
AGRICULTURAL FINANCING POLICIES AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Eze, Christopher C.
name: Lemchi, J.I.
name: Ugochukwu, Albert I.
name: Eze, V.C.
name: Awulonu, C.A.O.
name: Okon, A.X.
name: Eze, Christopher C.
name: Lemchi, J.I.
name: Ugochukwu, Albert I.
name: Eze, V.C.
name: Awulonu, C.A.O.
name: Okon, A.X.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Agricultural financing
subject: policies
subject: institutions
subject: rural
subject: development

description: The study examined the agricultural financing policies of the government of Nigeria and effects on rural development .The study found that though the government has made serious efforts at making good agricultural policies through schemes, programmes and institutions, it has not been able to back them up with adequate budgetary allocation and financing coupled with corruption in the execution of the policies. It is recommended that for the government agricultural financing policies to achieve its target of rural development, Nigeria will need an adequate level of strategically targeted investment in agriculture, upgrade rural infrastructure, boost productivity, and increase competitiveness of the farm output, in addition to fighting corruption.
POLA BIMBINGAN GURU DALAM MENUMBUHKAN PERCAYA DIRI ANAK BERKEBUTUHAN KHUSUS DI SLB YPAC MEDAN
Creators: name: Dr. Suhendri, M.A.
name: Zamakhsyari Zamakhsyari
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education
subject: 130305 Educational Counselling

description: Anak berkebutuhan khusus membutuhkan bimbingan yang intens dari guru. Tanpa bimbingan guru, anak berkebutuhan khusus tidak memiliki percaya diri yang optimal
SUQULIB KIRISHLARNI ANIQLASH TIZIMI TURLARI
Creators: name: Islomov Dostonbek Uktamjon o'g'li Muhammad al-Xorazmiy nomidagi Toshkent axborot texnologiyalari universiteti Nurafshon filiali, Axborot texnologiyalari kafedrasi assistenti
name: G'ulomov Sherzod Rajaboyevich Muhammad al-Xorazmiy nomidagi Toshkent axborot texnologiyalari universiteti Kiberxavfsizlik fakulteti dekani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Suqulib kirishlarni aniqlash tizimi bu nima? Bu xavfsizlik tizimi ruxsatsiz harakatlar, tizim faoliyati va muammolarini  nazorat qiluvchi va tekshiruvchi shuningdek aniqlash tizimidir. Tarmoqqa suqulib kirish bu maxfiylik va yaxlitlikni buzishga urinishlar va harakatlar majmui sifatida tavsiflanadi. Suqulib kirishlarni aniqlash tizim(IDS)lari odatda boshqa xavfsizlik texnikasi, yaʻni autentifikatsiya va kirishni boshqarish tizimlari bilan birgalikda ishlatiladi[1]. Tarmoqqa suqulib kirishlarni aniqlash tizim(IDS)lari butun xavfsizlik tizimining muhim qismi ekanligi bir nechta tadqiqot ishlarida allaqachon koʻrib chiqilgan. Birinchidan xavfsizlik tizimlari, turli anʻanaviy tizimlar va ilovalar ishlab chiqilgan
Limits on the Transverse Velocity of the Lensing Galaxy in Q2237+0305 from the Lack of Strong Microlensing Variability
Creators: name: Gil-Merino, Rodrigo
name: Wambsganss, Joachim
name: Goicoechea, Luis J.
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for the determination of upper limits on the transverse velocity of the lensing galaxy in the quadruple quasar system Q2237+0305, based on the lack of strong microlensing signatures in the quasar lightcurves. The limits we derive here are based on four months of high quality monitoring data, by comparing the low amplitudes of the lightcurves of the four components with extensive numerical simulations. We make use of the absence of strong variability of the components (especially components B and D) to infer that a "flat" time interval of such a length is only compatible with an effective transverse velocity of the lensing galaxy of v_bulk <=630 km/s for typical microlenses masses of M_microlens=0.1 M_solar (or v_bulk <=2160 km/s for M_microlens=1.0 M_solar) at the 90% confidence level. This method may be applicable in the future to other systems.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Successive Cancellation Inactivation Decoding for Modified Reed-Muller and eBCH Codes
Creators: name: Coşkun, Mustafa Cemil
name: Neu, Joachim
name: Pfister, Henry D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A successive cancellation (SC) decoder with inactivations is proposed as an efficient implementation of SC list (SCL) decoding over the binary erasure channel. The proposed decoder assigns a dummy variable to an information bit whenever it is erased during SC decoding and continues with decoding. Inactivated bits are resolved using information gathered from decoding frozen bits. This decoder leverages the structure of the Hadamard matrix, but can be applied to any linear code by representing it as a polar code with dynamic frozen bits. SCL decoders are partially characterized using density evolution to compute the average number of inactivations required to achieve the maximum a-posteriori decoding performance. The proposed measure quantifies the performance vs. complexity trade-off and provides new insight into dynamics of the number of paths in SCL decoding. The technique is applied to analyze Reed-Muller (RM) codes with dynamic frozen bits. It is shown that these modified RM codes perform close to extended BCH codes.
description: Accepted at the 2020 ISIT
Untitled Item
Creators: name: Md Fahimuzzman Sohan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80303 Computer System Security
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This dataset is a part of a journal article named "A Systematic Literature Review and Quality Analysis of JavaScript Malware Detection". This dataset contains scores of Quality Analysis questionnaire conducted in the SLR.
The hard X-ray view of Giga-Hertz Peaked Spectrum Radio Galaxies
Creators: name: Guainazzi, M.
name: Siemiginowska, A.
name: Stanghellini, C.
name: Grandi, P.
name: Piconcelli, E.
name: Azibuke, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first broadband X-ray observations of four Giga-Hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) radio galaxies at redshift 2 keV) X-rays. All sources were detected. Their radio-to-X-ray spectral energy distributions are similar, except for PKS0941-080, which is X-ray under-luminous by about two orders of magnitude. The comparison between the full sample of GPS galaxies with measurements in hard X-rays and a control sample of radio galaxies rules out intrinsic X-ray weakness as causing a lower detection rate of GPS sources in X-ray surveys. Four out of seven GPS galaxies exhibit high X-ray column densities, whereas for the remaining three this measurement is hampered by the poor spectral statistics. Bearing in mind the low number statistics in both the GPS and the control sample, the average column density measured in GPS galaxies is larger than in FRI or Broad Line Region FR II radio galaxies, but consistent with that measured in High-Excitation FRII galaxies. This leads to a location the absorbing gas in an obscuring ``torus'', which prevents us from observing the nuclear region along lines-of-sight perpendicular to the radio axis. This interpretation is supported by the discovery of rapid (timescale ~1000 s) X-ray variability in the GPS galaxy COINSJ0029+3456, and by an almost order-of-magnitude difference between the HI column density measured in radio and X-rays in PKS0500+019.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 11 pages, 8 figures. Minor editorial changes
3614: 2nd Lt. George Bridge
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: George Bridge was killed on the 15th April, 1918 and is buried in Aire Communal Cemetery in Northern France. During his service in the First World War, which dates back to 1915, he kept an autograph book in which he collected poems, drawings and words of wisdom from the many fellow officers and soldiers he met in various locations in England and France. These included many Australians in artillery units based around Salisbury Plain. Some are amusing, others are more poignant including the final entry dated the 13th April, 1918: "Edith now, Edith ever, Butcher now but not forever."
Analysis on Laakso graphs with application to the structure of transportation cost spaces
Creators: name: Dilworth, Stephen J.
name: Kutzarova, Denka
name: Ostrovskii, Mikhail I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 46B03, Secondary: 30L05, 42C10, 46B07, 46B85

description: This article is a continuation of our article in [Canad. J. Math. Vol. 72 (3), (2020), pp. 774--804]. We construct orthogonal bases of the cycle and cut spaces of the Laakso graph $\mathcal{L}_n$. They are used to analyze projections from the edge space onto the cycle space and to obtain reasonably sharp estimates of the projection constant of $\operatorname{Lip}_0(\mathcal{L}_n)$, the space of Lipschitz functions on $\mathcal{L}_n$. We deduce that the Banach-Mazur distance from TC$(\mathcal{L}_n)$, the transportation cost space of $\mathcal{L}_n$, to $\ell_1^N$ of the same dimension is at least $(3n-5)/8$, which is the analogue of a result from [op. cit.] for the diamond graph $D_n$. We calculate the exact projection constants of $\operatorname{Lip}_0(D_{n,k})$, where $D_{n,k}$ is the diamond graph of branching $k$. We also provide simple examples of finite metric spaces, transportation cost spaces on which contain $\ell_\infty^3$ and $\ell_\infty^4$ isometrically.
Foundation of Transmathematical Logic (FTL)
Creators: name: Anderson, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 10107 Mathematical Logic, Set Theory, Lattices and Universal Algebra
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Draft for comment and collaboration. Contact the author using the email link in the paper.
Transmathematics goes beyond the usual mathematics by totalising all functions. Previously Trans-Dedekind Cuts were established as the foundation of transreal arithmetic and hence of all numerical transmathematics. Now we seek a deeper foundation by adopting a paraconsistent transet theory, with unlimited comprehension, that totalises the whole of mathematics.
A transet is partitioned into four parts: an inside, corresponding to the members of a set; an outside, corresponding to the members of the complement of a set; a border, corresponding to antinomies or gluts of the usual set theories; and a background corresponding to the gaps of the usual set theories.
We construct the usual set antinomies as transets. Thus we obtain the Russell Antinomy as the transet of all transets that do not contain themselves and we obtain the greatest ordinal as the antinomous transet of all von Neumann ordinals. We discuss how the insides of these transets can be aserted as oracles in Zermelo Fraenkel set theory, without (ZF) or with the Axiom of Choice (ZFC).
We observe that the Trans-Dedekind Cuts are transets, whence transreal nullity, being the unordered transordinal, is the transet with an empty inside and outside and all other transets in its background. Similarly, transordinal infinity is the transet with all non-terminal von Neumann ordinals in its inside, an empty outside and border, and all other transets in its background.
 Thus we obtain the set of transordinal numbers which we can assert, as an oracle, in ZF and ZFC. Having obtained the transordinal numbers, we observe that they totalise order type over all ordered and unordered transets.
We call our transet theory, Foundation of Transmathematical Logic (FTL).
Limbic and paralimbic cortex dysfunction during salient stimulus processing in schizophrenia
Creators: name: Laurens, Kristin Robyn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Schizophrenia is characterised by difficulties in processing and responding to incoming information. Accumulating evidence suggests that the core problem may represent a difficulty in focusing limited processing resources on salient exogenous stimuli so that an appropriate response to the stimuli can be performed. The present thesis comprises four event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments that are designed to elucidate the neural sites that support the processing of salient exogenous stimuli in healthy individuals, and further, to characterise functional abnormality present during salient stimulus processing by patients with schizophrenia. Experiment One characterises the neural response elicited in healthy participants and patients during the processing of infrequent target stimuli that prescribe a subsequent motor response (Part A) and during the processing of infrequent novel stimuli that automatically reorient processing resources away from the ongoing target detection task (Part B). Experiment Two elucidates the supramodal network of brain areas that supports the processing of frequent target stimuli presented in the auditory and visual modalities in healthy participants. The auditory version of that task is subsequently employed in Experiment Three to compare the healthy participant and patient response during frequent target stimulus processing. Finally, Experiment Four examines the brain response evoked in healthy participants and patients when salient stimuli are processed incorrectly and an error ensues. The results demonstrate that, in healthy participants, a distributed corticolimbic network of brain areas is active during the processing of salient exogenous events. This network incorporates limbic cortex (i.e., amygdala-hippocampus), paralimbic cortex in the cingulate gyrus and frontal operculum, frontoparietal association cortex, and subcortical structures in the basal ganglia, thalamus, midbrain, and cerebellum. The network is particularly engaged during the processing of stimuli that signal the need to perform an overt behavioural response. Despite relatively preserved behavioural performance on all tasks, patients with schizophrenia were characterised by functional abnormality throughout the corticolimbic network during both accurate and inaccurate (i.e., erroneous) salient stimulus processing. Particular abnormality was apparent in limbic and paralimbic cortex. Dysfunction within the corticolimbic network during information processing in schizophrenia suggests that there may be insufficient biasing of limited resources to processing salient features of the environment.
3271: Gnr. George "Harry" Briggs (medals, battlefield artefacts)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: George "Harry" Briggs was born in Cookley near Kidderminster on the 1st December, 1894. He enlisted in his home town in 1916 joining the Royal Field Artillery. He later transferred into the 27th Brigade, R. F. A. and was killed in action during the Spring Offensive of 1918 on the 27th March. George is remembered on the walls of the Pozieres Memorial in France. Although not a member of the Roman Catholic Church, he carried a rosary whilst serving.
BennyLienata.20171000007.RisetTeknologiInformasi.pdf
Creators: name: Lienata, Benny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80611 Information Systems Theory
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Research on the Effect of E-Commerce on Small andMedium Enterprises (SME)In the current era of globalization, the SME industry sector is expected to compete in the business market. The development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has become very strategic, because of the great potential in driving economic activity, and at the same time is the income foundation for most people to improve their welfare. SMEs are asked to make changes to improve their competitiveness. One way to compete in competition in this globalization era is to utilize information technology in the form of internet media.
Goodbye to projects? The institutional impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on development interventions
Creators: name: Franks, Tom
name: Toner, Anna
name: Goldman, Ian
name: Howlett, David
name: Kamuzora, Faustin
name: Muhumuza, Fred
name: Tamasane, Tsiliso
name: Franks, Tom
name: Toner, Anna
name: Goldman, Ian
name: Howlett, David
name: Kamuzora, Faustin
name: Muhumuza, Fred
name: Tamasane, Tsiliso
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Political Economy
subject: Livelihoods
subject: Projects
subject: Economic development
subject: EPRC
subject: Muhumuza
subject: Sustainable development

description: The research goodbye to projects grew out of the increasing interest in sustainable livelihoods approaches (SLA) and growing disillusion with projects as mechanisms for addressing the development needs of the poor. Its aim was to investigate the implication of the adoption of SLA on the management of development interventions and in particular of the future of development projects. The underlying research questions were: a) How are elements of the sustainable livelihoods principles being applied in practice b) What are the problems and challenges for managing livelihoods-oriented development interventions? c) What is the future for development projects, given the increase in direct budget and sectoral assistance?
Enhanced mu-e conversion in nuclei in the inverse seesaw model
Creators: name: Deppisch, F.
name: Kosmas, T. S.
name: Valle, J. W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate nuclear mu-e conversion in the framework of an effective Lagrangian arising from the inverse seesaw model of neutrino masses. We consider lepton flavour violation interactions that arise from short range (non-photonic) as well as long range (photonic) contributions. Upper bounds for the LFV parameters characterizing mu-e conversion are derived in the inverse seesaw model Lagrangian using the available limits on the mu-e conversion branching ratio, as well as the expected sensitivities of upcoming experiments. We comment on the relative importance of these two types of contributions and their relationship with the measured solar neutrino mixing angle theta_12 and the dependence on theta_13. Finally we show how the LFV mu-e conversion and the mu -> e gamma rates are strongly correlated in this model.
description: 17 pages, Latex, 5 figures
Welfare distribution and poverty in Uganda, 1992 to 2000
Creators: name: Okidi, John A.
name: Okwi, Paul O.
name: Ddumba-Ssentamu, John
name: Okidi, John A.
name: Okwi, Paul O.
name: Ddumba-Ssentamu, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Political Economy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Uganda
subject: Inequality
subject: Stochastic dominance
subject: Poverty reduction
subject: Poverty elasticities
subject: Okidi
subject: EPRC

description: This study covers a period of far-reaching economic reform policies and programs in Uganda. Measures of inequality and stochastic dominance analysis are applied to a series of regionally representatives national household surveys data to shed light on the patterns of inter-temporal changes in levels and distribution of welfare in Uganda. Stochastic dominance analysis of welfare distribution reveals that Ugandan households were better off in 2000 and 1997 than in 1992 irrespective of the choice of a poverty line. Using a sub-regional panel data set that was constructed on the basis of rural/urban categorization we estimate elasticities of poverty with respect to growth to illustrate that deliberate policies focusing on welfare distribution would significantly enhance the poverty-reducing impact of growth. Using the estimated elasticities we highlighted the scenarios under which Uganda can achieve either the income-poverty Millennium Development Goal or the more ambitious national goal of reducing absolute poverty to less than 10 percent of the population by 2017
Stressors modulating granulosa cell functionality, ovulation and oocyte competence in bovines
Creators: name: Sharma, Arpna
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 570 Life science

description: Ovarian follicles are exposed to stressors such as higher levels of non-esterified free fatty acids (NEFAs) or hypoxia. High follicular levels of NEFA severely affect granulosa cells (GCs) by targeting key genes of estradiol biosynthesis. Cultured GCs exposed to hypoxia showed specific regulation of genes that initiate luteinization. These effects were partly mediated by hypoxia inducible factor1 (HIF1). Thus, ovarian follicles are susceptible to elevated NEFA levels, but cope up with severe hypoxia prevailing during late folliculogenesis through specific transcription factors such as HIF1.
Transverse Radiation realized as Deformed Harmonic Oscillators
Creators: name: Swamy, P. Narayana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory of quantized radiation fields described in terms of q-deformed harmonic oscillators. The creation and annihilation operators satisfy deformed commutation relations and the Fock space of states is constructed in this formalism in terms of basic numbers familiar from the theory of quantum groups. Expressions for the Hamiltonian and momentum arising from deformed Heisenberg relations are obtained and their consequences investigated. The energy momentum properties of the vacuum state are studied. The commutation relation for the fields is shown to involve polarization sums more intricate than those encountered in standard quantum electrodynamics, thus requiring explicit representations of polarization vectors. The electric field commutation rules are investigated under simplifying assumptions of polarization states, and the commutator in the deformed theory in this case is shown to be reminiscent of the coordinate-momentum uncertainty relation in the theory of q-deformed quantum oscillators.
description: 14 pages, LateX, submitted for publication
Fractal Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Creators: name: Monsoriu, Juan A.
name: Zapata-Rodriguez, Carlos J.
name: Silvestre, Enrique
name: Furlan, Walter D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new class of one-dimensional (1D) photonic waveguides: the fractal photonic crystal waveguides (FPCWs). These structures are photonic crystal waveguides (PCWs) etched with fratal distribution of grooves such as Cantor bars. The transmission properties of the FPCWs are investigated and compared with those of the conventional 1D PCWs. It is shown that the FPCW transmission spectrum has self-similarity properties associated with the fractal distribution of grooves. Furthermore, FPCWs exhibit sharp localized transmissions peaks that are approximately equidistant inside the photonic band gap.
Disentangling the roles of roughness, friction and adhesion in discontinuous shear thickening by means of thermo-responsive particles
Creators: name: Hsu, Chiao-Peng
name: Mandal, Joydeb
name: Ramakrishna, Shivaprakash N.
name: Spencer, Nicholas D.
name: Isa, Lucio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dense suspensions of colloidal or granular particles can display pronounced non-Newtonian behaviour, such as discontinuous shear thickening (DST) and shear jamming (SJ). The essential contribution of particle surface roughness and adhesive forces confirms that stress-activated contacts can play a key role in these phenomena. By employing a system of microparticles coated by responsive polymers that allow friction, adhesion, and surface roughness to be selectively and independently tuned as a function of temperature, we offer a way to disentangle these contributions. We find that DST occurs at lower shear rates when friction and adhesion between particles are enhanced at high temperatures. Additionally, the temperature-responsive polymers provide lubricity at low temperatures that can mask surface roughness. The link between single-particle properties and macroscopic rheology is elucidated via lateral force microscopy, which reveals the nature of rheologically relevant contact conditions. In situ temperature tuning during shear allows contact conditions to be modified, and DST to be switched on and off on demand. These findings strengthen our understanding of the microscopic parameters affecting DST and identify new routes for the design of smart, non-Newtonian fluids.
4411: Tom Taylor's Pith Helmet
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Tom Taylor served with the British Army in South and East Africa during the First World War. The pith helmet he was issued with was used to record the various locations he served in as he wrote them down on the inside, including periods of time in hospital during 1918. His wife, Jessie, recorded every letter she sent to Tom and every letter she received from him in some detail in a notebook from 1916 onwards.
Microscopic and Macroscopic Simulation of Competition between Languages
Creators: name: Stauffer, Dietrich
name: Schulze, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The similarity of the evolution of human languages (or alphabets, bird songs, >...) to biological evolution of species is utilized to study with up to $10^9$ people the rise and fall of languages either by macroscopic differential equations similar to biological Lotka-Volterra equation, or by microscopic Monte Carlo simulations of bit-strings incorporating the birth, maturity, and death of every individual. For our bit-string model, depending on parameters either one language comprises the majority of speakers (dominance), or the population splits into many languages having in order of magnitude the same number of speakers (fragmentation); in the latter case the size distribution is log-normal, with upward deviations for small sizes, just as in reality for human languages. On a lattice two different dominating languages can coexist in neighbouring regions, without being favoured or disfavoured by different status. We deal with modifications and competition for existing languages, not with the evolution or learning of one language.
description: 39 pages including 19 figures for Physics of Life Reviews
Socioeconomic determinants of primary school dropout: The logistic model analysis
Creators: name: Okumu, Ibrahim Mike
name: Nakajjo, Alex
name: Isoke, Doreen
name: Okumu, Ibrahim Mike
name: Nakajjo, Alex
name: Isoke, Doreen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: School dropouts
subject: Primary education
subject: education
subject: EPRC

description: This paper describes the socioeconomic determinants of primary school dropout in Uganda with the aid of a logistic model analysis using the 2004 National Service Delivery Survey data. The Objectives were to establish the; household socioeconomic factors that influence dropout of pupils given free education and any possible policy alternatives to curb dropout of pupils. Various logistic regressions of primary school dropout were estimated and these took the following dimensions; rural-urban, gender, and age-cohort. After model estimation, marginal effects for each of the models were obtained. The analysis of the various coefficients was done across all models. The results showed the insignificance of distance to school, gender of pupil, gender of household head and total average amount of school dues paid by students in influencing dropout of pupils thus showing the profound impact Universal Primary Education has had on both access to primary education and pupil dropout. Also the results vindicated the importance of parental education, household size and proportion of economically active household members in influencing the chances of pupil dropout. The study finally calls for government to; keep a keen eye on non-school fees payments by parents to schools as these have the potential to increase to unsustainable levels by most households especially in rural areas; roll-out adult education across the entire country; and expand free universal education to secondary and vocational levels as it would allow some of those who can not afford secondary education to continue with schooling. This has the effect of reducing the number of unproductive members in the household.
1097: Pte Alfred Herbert Roby (medals; letter; certificate)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Alfred Herbert Roby, born in February 1873 in Knowsley, Lancashire, served with the 11th Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry late on in the First World War from May 1918 until March 1919. Having originally enlisted in September, 1915, he was primarily employed as a stretcher bearer with the 11th Somerset Light Infantry and was awarded the Military Medal in March 1919 for his service in this role.
Piercing through Highly Obscured and Compton-thick AGNs in the Chandra Deep Fields. II. Are Highly Obscured AGNs the Missing Link in the Merger-Triggered AGN-Galaxy Coevolution Models?
Creators: name: Li, Junyao
name: Xue, Yongquan
name: Sun, Mouyuan
name: Brandt, William N.
name: Yang, Guang
name: Vito, Fabio
name: Tozzi, Paolo
name: Vignali, Cristian
name: Comastri, Andrea
name: Shu, Xinwen
name: Fang, Guanwen
name: Fan, Lulu
name: Luo, Bin
name: Chen, Chien-Ting
name: Zheng, Xuechen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using a large highly obscured ($N_{\rm H} > 10^{23}\ \rm cm^{-2}$) AGN sample (294 sources at $z \sim 0-5$) selected from detailed X-ray spectral analyses in the deepest Chandra surveys, we explore distributions of these X-ray sources in various optical/IR/X-ray color-color diagrams and their host-galaxy properties, aiming at characterizing the nuclear obscuration environment and the triggering mechanism of highly obscured AGNs. We find that the refined IRAC color-color diagram fails to identify the majority of X-ray selected highly obscured AGNs, even for the most luminous sources with ${\rm log}\,L_{\rm X}\, \rm (erg\ s^{-1}) > 44$. Over 80% of our sources will not be selected as heavily obscured candidates using the flux ratio of $f_{\rm 24 μm}\, /\,f_R > 1000$ and $R - K > 4.5$ criteria, implying complex origins and conditions for the obscuring materials that are responsible for the heavy X-ray obscuration. The average star formation rate of highly obscured AGNs is similar to that of stellar mass- ($M_*$-) and $z$-controlled normal galaxies, while the lack of quiescent hosts is observed for the former. Partial correlation analyses imply that highly obscured AGN activity (traced by $L_{\rm X}$) appears to be more fundamentally related to $M_*$, and no dependence of $N_{\rm H}$ on either $M_*$ or SFR is detected. Morphology analyses reveal that 61% of our sources have a significant disk component, while only 27% of them exhibit irregular morphological signatures. These findings together point toward a scenario where secular processes (e.g., galactic-disk instabilities), instead of mergers, are most probable to be the leading mechanism that triggers accretion activities of X-ray-selected highly obscured AGNs.
description: 23 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, resubmitted to ApJ after addressing referee's comments