cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Black Immigrants to Britain, 1890-1975
Black Immigrants
Creators: name: Thompson, P.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2004

description: This study is available via the UK Data Service QualiBank, an online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data collections held at the UK Data Service.

 Life-history interviews with black immigrants born before 1911 focusing on family life, community and work experience in England and Wales before 1918. The interview schedule covered first impressions of Britain; domestic routine, including the roles of husbands, wives and children; meals; the upbringing of children; emotional relationships and values in the family; leisure; religion; politics; race discrimination; culture; school; courtship and marriage; the wider family; relationships with neighbours and perception of the community structure.

 The collection comprises 17 interviews on 32 open-reel tapes. There are transcriptions of ten of these interviews.
An Outcome-Oriented, Social-Ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness
Creators: name: Ghoddousi, Arash
name: Loos, Jacqueline
name: Kuemmerle, Tobias
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Aichi Target 11
subject: area-based conservation
subject: impact evaluation
subject: national park
subject: social–ecological systems
subject: 570 Biologie

description: Both the number and the extent of protected areas have grown considerably in recent years, but evaluations of their effectiveness remain partial and are hard to compare across cases. To overcome this situation, first, we suggest reserving the term effectiveness solely for assessing protected area outcomes, to clearly distinguish this from management assessments (e.g., sound planning). Second, we propose a multidimensional conceptual framework, rooted in social–ecological theory, to assess effectiveness along three complementary dimensions: ecological outcomes (e.g., biodiversity), social outcomes (e.g., well-being), and social–ecological interactions (e.g., reduced human pressures). Effectiveness indicators can subsequently be evaluated against contextual and management elements (e.g., design and planning) to shed light on management performance (e.g., cost-effectiveness). We summarize steps to operationalize our framework to foster more holistic effectiveness assessments while improving comparability across protected areas. All of this can ensure that protected areas make real contributions toward conservation and sustainability goals.
Mothers and Daughters: Accounts of Health in the Grandmother Generation, 1945-1978
Mothers and Daughters
Creators: name: Blaxter, M.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2004

description: This study is available via the UK Data Service QualiBank, an online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data collections held at the UK Data Service.
 This enhanced qualitative collection looked at beliefs and attitudes to health and medical care, inter-generational relationships, and social history of members of a grandmother generation. Blaxter was working on the hypothesis that ‘perceptions of health experiences might, in poor socioeconomic circumstance, create attitudes of apathy towards health care and conflict with health professionals, and that these attitudes might be transmitted through generations, especially among the female members of the family’ (Blaxter, 1982: 3).

 This collection contains all the interviews with grandmothers, but the original study also included interviews with daughters. The interviews covered health and social history, beliefs and attitudes to medical care, and intergenerational relationships.

 The grandmothers were asked extensive questions about their backgrounds including what jobs they had and where they lived. They were asked about their own health, childhood diseases, the health of other family members, episodes of illness and various remedies used. They also covered subjects including accidents, nutrition, dental care, and immunisation. More generally, grandmothers were asked about their views of their personal doctors and the National Health Service, including how medical care changed after the introduction of the NHS.

 The grandmother-daughter relationships were also explored, focusing on whether the grandmothers offered medical advice, and if they did, whether it was accepted by their daughters.
Counselling and Society: a Case Study of Voluntary Sector Counselling Provision in Scotland, 1960-2002
Creators: name: Bondi, L.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2004

description: This research project examined the changing place of voluntary sector counselling in Scottish society by investigating the extent and character of voluntary sector counselling services, and by exploring the meaning and nature of counselling work to those involved in its provision. Over 100 in-depth qualitative interviews were carried out, 55 of which are archived in this collection.
Chief Probation Officers : a Criminal Justice Elite, 2000-2002
Creators: name: Mair, G.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2004

description: The project aimed to carry out the first detailed empirical study of Chief Probation Officers (CPOs) in England and Wales. The objectives of the study were:

to investigate the social and educational backgrounds and career histories of CPOs;

to explore their perceptions of community penalties, developments in these over the course of their careers and potential changes in the future;

to examine the role of CPOs as managers and their relationships with central government, local agencies and their probation committees.

 The study consisted of 47 qualitative interviews with CPOs, lasting on average around two hours each.
Weak composition quasi-symmetric functions, Rota-Baxter algebras and Hopf algebras
Creators: name: Guo, Li
name: Thibon, Jean-Yves
name: Yu, Houyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05, 16W99, 16T33

description: We introduce the Hopf algebra of quasi-symmetric functions with semigroup exponents generalizing the Hopf algebra QSym of quasi-symmetric functions. As a special case we obtain the Hopf algebra WCQSym of weak composition quasi-symmetric functions, which provides a framework for the study of a question proposed by G.-C.~Rota relating symmetric type functions and Rota-Baxter algebras. We provide the transformation formulas between the weak composition monomial and fundamental quasi-symmetric functions, which extends the corresponding results for quasi-symmetric functions. Moreover, we show that QSym is a Hopf subalgebra and a Hopf quotient algebra of WCQSym. Rota's question is addressed by identifying WCQsym with the free commutative unitary Rota-Baxter algebra of weight 1 on one generator, which also allows us to equip this algebra with a Hopf algebra structure.
description: 25 pages
Agroeca parva Bosmans 2011
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Liocranidae
Agroeca
Agroeca parva

description: Agroeca parva Bosmans, 2011 (Figures 2a‒f) Agroeca parva Bosmans, 2011: 19, f. 11‒14 (♂♀) Material. ISRAEL: Mt. Carmel, 2.5 km S Haifa, 32°45’N 35°02’E, 500 m, 7.x.2014 (SZ) – 1 ♀ (TAU); Upper Galilee, N Slope of Mt. Meron, 33°00’N 35°24.05’E 1100 m, forest litter, 27.x.2013 (SZ) ‒ 4♂ 1♀ (TAU); Ziv’on, 773 m recent woodland 33°02’N 35°25’ E, 16.iv.2005 (A. Timm & T. Assmann) ‒ 1♀ (TAU); Carmel Ridge, Shuni Park 1 km N Binyamina, 32°32’N 34°57’E, 60 m, 27.xii.2010 (YM) ‒ 1♀ (ZMMU). Comments. This species is known by the original description from Lesbos. Females of A. parva are nearly indistinguishable from A. inopinata O. P.-Cambridge, 1886; howev- er, the males are easily distinguished by the large tibial apophysis and the shape of the tegular apophysis (Figs 2b‒c).
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 376, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Bosmans, R. (2011): On some new or rare spider species from Lesbos, Greece (Araneae: Agelenidae, Amaurobiidae, Corinnidae, Gnaphosidae, Liocranidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 40, 15 - 22."]}
Comparison of Gaia and asteroseismic distances
Creators: name: Yıldız, M.
name: Orhan, Z. Çelik
name: Örtel, S.
name: Roth, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asteroseismology provides fundamental properties (mass, radius and effective temperature) of solar-like oscillating stars using so-called scaling relations. These properties allow the computation of the asteroseismic distance of stars. We compare the asteroseismic distances with the recently released Gaia distances for 74 stars studied in Yıldız et al. There is a very good agreement between these two distances; for 64 of these stars, the difference is less than 10 per cent. However, a systematic difference is seen if we use the effective temperature obtained by spectroscopic methods; the Gaia distances are about 5 per cent greater than the asteroseismic distances.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Aulonia C. L. Koch 1847
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Aulonia C. L. Koch, 1847 Comments. This genus is known from the West Palaearctic and encompasses two species (WSC, 2015). It was not previously reported from Israel. Israel is the southern limit of the distribution of the genus.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 376, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015]."]}
Atomic Data and Neutron-Capture Element Abundances in Planetary Nebulae
Creators: name: Sterling, N. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron(n)-capture elements are produced by s-process nucleosynthesis in low- and intermediate-mass AGB stars, and therefore can be enriched in planetary nebulae (PNe). In the last ten years, n-capture elements have been detected in more than 100 PNe in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. In some objects, several different n-capture elements have been detected, providing valuable constraints to models of AGB nucleosynthesis and evolution. These detections have motivated theoretical and experimental investigations of the atomic data needed to derive accurate n-capture element abundances. In this review, I discuss the methods and results of these atomic data studies, and their application to abundance determinations in PNe.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. Invited review to appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symp. 323: "Planetary nebulae: Multi-wavelength probes of stellar and galactic evolution". Eds. X.-W. Liu, L. Stanghellini and A. Karakas
title: Open Access Week 2019: Reflections on open access, OER, and community of practice
Creators: name: McFarland, Dana
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Open scholarship
subject: Open educational resources
subject: Scholarly publishing
subject: Vancouver Island University (Nanaimo, B.C.)

description: Blog post from The CIEL Blog
description: The International Open Access Week theme for 2019 “Open for Whom” asks us to consider what is at stake when we don’t prioritize Open and when we don’t think about the outcomes of scholarly and educational practices.
Live Visualization of GUI Application Code Coverage with GUITracer
Creators: name: Molnar, Arthur-Jozsef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.2

description: The present paper introduces the initial implementation of a software exploration tool targeting graphical user interface (GUI) driven applications. GUITracer facilitates the comprehension of GUI-driven applications by starting from their most conspicuous artefact - the user interface itself. The current implementation of the tool can be used with any Java-based target application that employs one of the AWT, Swing or SWT toolkits. The tool transparently instruments the target application and provides real time information about the GUI events fired. For each event, call relations within the application are displayed at method, class or package level, together with detailed coverage information. The tool facilitates feature location, program comprehension as well as GUI test creation by revealing the link between the application's GUI and its underlying code. As such, GUITracer is intended for software practitioners developing or maintaining GUI-driven applications. We believe our tool to be especially useful for entry-level practitioners as well as students seeking to understand complex GUI-driven software systems. The present paper details the rationale as well as the technical implementation of the tool. As a proof-of-concept implementation, we also discuss further development that can lead to our tool's integration into a software development workflow.
description: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7332434/
Exploring the Performance Benefit of Hybrid Memory System on HPC Environments
Creators: name: Peng, Ivy Bo
name: Gioiosa, Roberto
name: Kestor, Gokcen
name: Laure, Erwin
name: Markidis, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hardware accelerators have become a de-facto standard to achieve high performance on current supercomputers and there are indications that this trend will increase in the future. Modern accelerators feature high-bandwidth memory next to the computing cores. For example, the Intel Knights Landing (KNL) processor is equipped with 16 GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) that works together with conventional DRAM memory. Theoretically, HBM can provide 5x higher bandwidth than conventional DRAM. However, many factors impact the effective performance achieved by applications, including the application memory access pattern, the problem size, the threading level and the actual memory configuration. In this paper, we analyze the Intel KNL system and quantify the impact of the most important factors on the application performance by using a set of applications that are representative of scientific and data-analytics workloads. Our results show that applications with regular memory access benefit from MCDRAM, achieving up to 3x performance when compared to the performance obtained using only DRAM. On the contrary, applications with random memory access pattern are latency-bound and may suffer from performance degradation when using only MCDRAM. For those applications, the use of additional hardware threads may help hide latency and achieve higher aggregated bandwidth when using HBM.
Spin-polarized local density of states in the vortex state of helical p-wave superconductors
Creators: name: Tanaka, Kenta K.
name: Ichioka, Masanori
name: Onari, Seiichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Properties of the vortex state in helical p-wave superconductor are studied by the quasi-classical Eilenberger theory. We confirm the instability of the helical p-wave state at high fields and that the spin-polarized local density of states M(E,r) appears even when Knight shift does not change. This is because the vorticity couples to the chirality of up-spin pair or down-spin pair of the helical state. In order to identify the helical p-wave state at low fields, we investigate the structure of the zero-energy M (E = 0, r) in the vortex states, and also the energy spectra of M (E, r).
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
title: Health promotion: strategies for supporting students with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Creators: name: Perry, Naomi
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health promotion

description: The health of today's youth is a growing concern and students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) are at greater risk due to sensory issues and pre-existing health issues that impact food related behaviours. Home Economics teachers face many challenges when it comes to supporting health promotion efforts in their schools and classrooms yet their role in these efforts is crucial in order to effectively foster and promote healthy eating and healthy habits. This study explored the question: What do Home Economics teachers know and need to know about supporting health promotion for students with IDD? Using a needs assessment methodology, I explored participants' current practice and compared the results with knowledge about 'best practice' from current literature in the field in order to investigate what could be done to improve health promotion for students with IDD. Themes investigated through coding and descriptive statistics were knowledge about students with IDD, the role of health and healthy food choices, long term health outcomes, teaching strategies and lessons, food literacy and essential skills, challenges and barriers to health promotion, and curriculum and guidelines related to food and health. One of the study's key findings is that in order to implement effective health promotion strategies and interventions, Home Economics teachers need more opportunities to collaborate with colleagues, families, and the community, as well as more professional development specific to addressing health, healthy eating, and cooking skills for students with IDD through the use of Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs).
Aulonia kratochvili Dunin, Buchar & Absolon 1986
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Aulonia
Aulonia kratochvili

description: Aulonia kratochvili Dunin, Buchar & Absolon, 1986 (Figures 3a‒c) Aulonia kratochvili Dunin et al., 1986: 28, f. 1‒7 (♂♀); Kronestedt 1997: 77, f. 1‒2 (♂). Material (only selected localities are shown). ISRAEL: Eastern Galilee: Lake Hula, 8.iv.2010 (L. Friedman & C. Drees) – 6♂ (TAU); Jordan Valley: 1.iv.1943 (A. Shulov) – 1♀ (TAU); Central Coastal Plain: Berekhat Ya’ar, 4.iv.2010 (L. Friedman & C. Drees) – 11♂ 7♀ (TAU); Nahal Poleg (32°15.5’N 34°50.3’E), 18.iii.2013 – 1♀ (TAU). Comments. This species was previously known from Greece to western Turkmenistan (Mikhailov 2013; WSC 2015). It is very easily distinguished from other lycosid genera in Israel because of the characteristic habitus, pattern, the huge tegular apophysis of the males (Figs 3 a-b) and the very hairy epigyne lacking fovea (Fig. 3c). Aulonia kratochvili was not previously reported from Israel. The record from Nahal Poleg is the southernmost in the entire range.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 377, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Dunin, P. M., Buchar, J., & Absolon, K. (1986): Die dritte Palaarktische Aulonia - Art: Aulonia kratochvili sp. n. (Araneida, Lycosidae). Vestnik Ceskoslovenske Zoologicke Spolecnosti v Praze, 50, 28 - 32.", "Kronestedt, T. (1997): First record of Aulonia kratochvili (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 14, 77 - 80.", "Mikhailov, K. G. (2013): The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta. Supplement, 3.", "World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015]."]}
Kratz, Reinhard G. / Spieckermann, Hermann (Hg.): Divine Wrath and Divine Mercy in the World of Antiquity
Creators: name: Schöpflin, Karin
Publisher: name: Biblische Notizen
Year: 1970

description: Biblische Notizen, Bd. 142 (2009): Biblische Notizen, Band 142
Dusty spirals versus gas kinematics in the inner kiloparsec of Four Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Brum, Carine
name: Riffel, Rogemar A.
name: Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa
name: Robinson, Andrew
name: Schnorr-Muller, Allan
name: Lena, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph Integral Field Unit to map the gas distribution, excitation and kinematics within the inner kiloparsec of four nearby low-luminosity active galaxies: NGC3982, NGC4501, NGC2787 and NGC4450. The observations cover the spectral range 5600-7000Å at a velocity resolution of 120km/s and spatial resolution ranging from 50 to 70pc at the galaxies. Extended emission in Hα, [NII]λλ6548,6583, [SII]λλ6716,6730 over most of the field-of-view is observed for all galaxies, while only NGC3982 shows [OI]λ6300 extended emission. The Hα equivalent widths combined with the [NII]/Hα line ratios reveal that NGC3982 and NGC4450 harbor Seyfert nuclei surrounded by regions with LINER excitation, while NGC2787 and NGC4501 harbor LINER nuclei. NGC3982 shows a partial ring of recent star-formation at 500pc from the nucleus, while in NGC4501 a region at 500pc west of the nucleus shows LINER excitation but has been interpreted as an aging HII region with the gas excitation dominated by shocks from supernovae. The line-of-sight velocity field of the gas shows a rotation pattern for all galaxies, with deviations from pure disk rotation observed in NGC3982, NGC4501 and NGC4450. For NGC4501 and NGC4450, many of these deviations are spatially coincident with dust structures seen in optical continuum images, leading to the interpretation that the deviations are due to shocks in the gas traced by the dust. A speculation is that these shocks lead to loss of angular momentum, allowing the gas to be transferred inwards to feed the AGN. In the case of NGC2787, instead of deviations in the rotation field, we see a misalignment of 40{^\circ} between the orientation of the line of nodes of the gas rotation and the photometric major axis of the galaxy. Evidence of compact nuclear outflows are seen in NGC4501 and NGC4450.
description: 20 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Hogna ferox Lucas 1838
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Hogna ferox (Lucas, 1838) (Figures 2h‒i) Tarentula iaffa Strand, 1913: 161 (holotype ♀ from "Jaffa-Rehoboth"(SMF 2232-138), examined). Syn. n. Geolycosa iaffa: Roewer, 1955: 241 Hogna ferox: Wunderlich 1992: 458, f. 716‒719 (♂♀) For a complete synonym listing and references, see World Spider Catalog (2015). Material (only selected localities are shown). ISRAEL: Eastern Galilee: Lake Kinneret, Degania, 26.iv.2010 (L. Friedman & C. Drees) – 1♂ (TAU); Northern Negev: HaBesor, 2.viii.2010 (L. Friedman & C. Drees) – 4♂, 3♀ (TAU). Comments. This species was previously known from across nearly the entire Mediterranean (Canary Islands, Iberian Peninsula, Malta to Western Egypt). A comparison of recently collected material with the holotype of Tarentula iaffa described from “Jaffa- Rehoboth” (Jaffa now is part of Tel Aviv), as well as male specimens from Israel with figures of Hogna ferox reveals that the two names should be synonymised. The record of H. ferox from Israel is the easternmost in the entire range, although species may occur in other countries in the Middle East.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 377, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Strand, E. (1913): Erste Mitteilung uber Spinnen aus Palastina, gesammelt von Herrn Dr J. Aharoni. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 79 (A 10), 147 - 162.", "Wunderlich, J. (1992): Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Okologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beitrage zur Araneologie, 1, 1 - 619.", "World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015]."]}
Skills Survey, 2001
SES; Skills Survey
Creators: name: Green, F.
name: Gallie, D.
name: Felstead, A.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2004

description: ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) was commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills to conduct a second survey on the skills of the employed British workforce. The Skills Survey, 2001 surveyed individuals in employment aged 20 to 60 in Britain. The focus of the survey was the skills that individuals use in their jobs, and its major purpose was to measure how those skills are utilised in British workplaces. It also aimed to enable analyses of the relationship of skills with individual and job characteristics, and of the association of skills with labour market rewards. As well as being representative of the point in time at which the study was undertaken, another aim of the research was to track changes over time, using previous studies in which the research team had been involved. The survey thereby enabled an updating of the picture of the distribution and trend of broad skill requirements, and for the first time gave measures of the trends in utilisation of generic skills. The survey extended the work of the Skills Survey, 1997 (held at the UKDA under SN 3993) by including a richer set of measures of other aspects of job quality that allowed comparisons with the Employment in Britain Survey, 1992 (held at the UKDA under 5368).
Holograms of a Dynamical Top Quark
Creators: name: Clemens, Will
name: Evans, Nick
name: Scott, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present holographic desciptions of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking models that incorporate the top mass generation mechanism. The models allow computation of the spectrum in the presence of large anomalous dimensions due to walking and strong NJL interactions. Technicolour and QCD dynamics are described by the bottom-up Dynamic AdS/QCD model for arbitrary gauge groups and numbers of quark flavours. An assumption about the running of the anomalous dimension of the quark bilinear operator is input and the model then predicts the spectrum and decay constants for the mesons. We add NJL interactions responsible for flavour physics from extended tecnhicolour, top-colour etc using Witten's multi-trace prescription. We show the key behaviours of a top condensation model can be reproduced. We study generation of the top mass in (walking) one doublet and one family technicolour models and with strong ETC interactions. The models clearly reveal the tensions between the large top mass and precision data for delta rho. The neccessary tunings needed to generate a model compatible with precision constraints are simply demonstrated.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures
International Influences on United Kingdom Crime Control and Penal Policy in the 1990s
Creators: name: Newburn, T.
name: Jones, T.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2020

description:
The aim of the study was to describe and analyse the extent and nature of United States influence on United Kingdom criminal justice policy during the 1990s. More specifically, the researchers set out to:

develop detailed case histories of policy change in the key areas associated with the UK learning from US developments (such as privatized corrections, zero tolerance policing, and 'two' and 'three strikes' sentencing);

assess critically the extent to which these developments were actually informed and shaped by US influences;

analyse the key processes of policy transfer between the US and UK, and

to describe and analyse the development of transnational policy networks in criminal justice.

 The first stage of the research involved a detailed collation and review of documentary sources in each of the key areas of policy change -- government publications, parliamentary and congressional debates and reports, newspaper archives, pressure group and think tank publications, and academic books and journals. Following this initial mapping of case histories of policy change, around 100 semi-structured interviews were conducted with key players in the policy process, both in the UK and in the USA, including politicians, policy makers, journalists, representatives of pressure groups and NGOs, academics and criminal justice professionals.
Capillary wave dynamics and interface structure modulation in binary Bose-Einstein condensate mixtures
Creators: name: Indekeu, Joseph O.
name: Van Nguyen, Thu
name: Lin, Chang-You
name: Phat, Tran Huu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The localized low-energy interfacial excitations, or Nambu-Goldstone modes, of phase-segregated binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates are investigated analytically by means of a double-parabola approximation (DPA) to the Lagrangian density in Gross-Pitaevskii theory for a system in a uniform potential. Within this model analytic expressions are obtained for the excitations underlying capillary waves or "ripplons" for arbitrary strength $K\,(>1)$ of the phase segregation. The dispersion relation $ω\propto k^{3/2}$ is derived directly from the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations in limit that the wavelength $2π/k$ is much larger than the healing length $ξ$. The proportionality constant in the dispersion relation provides the static interfacial tension. A correction term in $ω(k)$ of order $k^{5/2}$ is calculated analytically, entailing a finite-wavelength correction factor $(1+\frac{\sqrt{K-1} \,kξ}{4\sqrt{2}\,(\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{K-1})})$. This prediction may be tested experimentally using (quasi-)uniform optical-box traps. Explicit expressions are obtained for the structural deformation of the interface due to the passing of the capillary wave. It is found that the amplitude of the wave is enhanced by an amount that is quadratic in the ratio of the phase velocity $ω/k$ to the sound velocity $c$. For generic asymmetric mixtures consisting of condensates with unequal healing lengths an additional modulation is predicted of the common value of the condensate densities at the interface.
description: submitted to Physical Review A
Credit, Class and Community: Working Class Belfast, 1930-2000
Creators: name: O'Connell, S.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2004

description: The project aimed to collect detailed oral testimony from 40 retired working-class people on their experiences of credit, debt and consumerism. The interviews were to designed to gather innovative historical information on the changing circumstances of financial management in working-class homes. Information was sought on the impact of family gender, generation, neighbourhood, occupation, income, and religion on financial decision making. The project also set out to identify and describe the various forms of credit used by working-class consumers in Belfast and to explain changes over time. Amongst these forms of credit was the credit union and information was sought on this form of financial institution. However, as very few of the interviewees provided detailed information on credit unions, it was necessary to conduct a small number of interviews with individuals below retirement age. This also helped to establish factors of change and continuity within the working class economies of Belfast. The opportunity also arose to interview two licensed moneylenders from families with long experience of providing loans to working-class communities in Northern Ireland. As well as aiming to gather testimony on experiences of, and attitudes towards, credit and debt, the project was designed to excavate and explore the forms of social memory that exist within working-class Belfast. The examination of credit and debt, with their association with factors such as levels of poverty or affluence and respectability offered an excellent vehicle through which to pursue this aim. Interviewees addressed issues of money management in families, pawnbroking, moneylending, check trading, the role of the Co-op, mail order catalogues, hire puchase, banking, credit unions, mortgages, credit cards amongst other methods of financial management.
Qualitative Study of Democracy and Participation in Britain, 1925-2003
Creators: name: Devine, F.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: The main aim of the study was to undertake a new empirical study of voluntary activists in Britain. More specifically, the objectives were to undertake a qualitative study to (1) generate a deeper understanding of the processes by which people become activists, (2) describe citizens’ experiences of activism and (3) understand their evaluations of participation and democracy.
 A further aim of the study was to evaluate existing rival theories of civic voluntarism from the US, Europe and the UK and to contribute to theoretical explanations of why some citizens participate while others do not. The work of Robert Putnam and his concept of social capital was the particular focus of attention given its prominence in government and policy-making circles.
 A third aim of the study was to work with colleagues – Professors Seyd and Pattie at the University of Sheffield – by generating a subsample of activists from a Citizens’ Audit comprising a postal survey of nearly 10,000 respondents. In this way, the quantitative and qualitative studies would be linked as they will be in subsequent analysis and publications. However, Study Number 5017 is made up of the qualitative interview transcripts only.
 A fourth aim was to contribute to current political debates on disillusionment and disengagement by highlighting the opportunities and constraints on participation and examine satisfactions and dissatisfactions with democracy in Britain. It is anticipated that an in-depth knowledge of activism could contribute to policy development seeking to enhance activism in Britain.
 The final aim of the study was to locate the project alongside European research on citizenship, involvements and democracy and thereby add a comparative dimension to our understanding of the changing relationship between citizens and government. This is feasible at a time when European and American governments are tackling the same issues around disillusionment and disengagement.
Polariton condensation in photonic crystals with high molecular orientation
Creators: name: Karpov, D. V.
name: Savenko, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Frenkel exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensation in a two-dimensional defect-free triangular photonic crystal with an organic semiconductor active medium containing bound excitons with dipole moments oriented perpendicular to the layers. We find photonic Bloch modes of the structure and consider their strong coupling regime with the excitonic component. Using the Gross- Pitaevskii equation for exciton polaritons and the Boltzmann equation for the external exciton reservoir, we demonstrate the formation of condensate at the points in reciprocal space where photon group velocity equals zero. Further, we demonstrate condensation at non-zero momentum states for TM-polarized photons in the case of a system with incoherent pumping, and show that the condensation threshold varies for different points in the reciprocal space, controlled by detuning.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Building Institutions in a Vacuum: Devolution and England’s South East, 2002
Creators: name: Tickell, A.
name: John, P.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2004

description: The South East region has long been seen as peripheral to the process of devolution in England. Claims that the region lacks a clear identity of its own, that it is in fact a series of economic sub-regions and that London, although governed separately, is the cultural and economic core of the South East, are easy to make and to substantiate. This research project moved beyond these preliminary analyses of the ‘problem region’ of English Devolution. It focused on the process through which the region is constructed as a network of institutions. It considered the emergent relationship between the three institutions of regional government, the Regional Development Association (RDA), the Government Office and the Regional Assembly, to be critical in the formation and operation of the region. This triad of regional institutions has had an immediate and significant impact on local and county government in the South East. However, the effectiveness of their promotion of the South East’s interests on the inter-regional and national scale is more questionable.

 The research found that institutions of regional government in all parts of England are concerned primarily with physical regeneration and economic development initiatives. However, the policy imperatives for South East England are to address the problems of economic success such as transport congestion, labour shortages and a lack of affordable housing. As such, the regional government of the UK’s core economic area is failing to address the fundamental requirements of the regional economy. Institutional links between the South East region and London remain under-developed and as such inter-regional policy on important common issues such as housing and transport are fragmented. There is much scope for London government to develop common strategies with their counterparts in the South East and the East of England, although as yet they have achieved relatively little in this respect.

 This qualitative data collection comprises six transcriptions from interviews with key informants from county councils and regional government organisations in South East England. The interviews were carried out by the project team between May and August 2002. Each of the six interviews was carried out face-to-face by one or more interviewers. The interviews each lasted between 45 minutes and one hour. A common series of issues was raised in each interview and a prompt list is included in the background documentation. However, a relatively unstructured approach was adopted and scope allowed in each interview for new themes and issues to emerge. The data collection has been anonymised prior to deposit at the UK Data Archive; the anonymisation process has involved the removal of names and locations that could allow interviewees to be identified. A common system of replacement has been adopted and as such ‘District X’ in Interview 1 refers to the same location as ‘District X’ in Interview 6.
Innovative Health Technologies at Women's Midlife: Theory and Diversity among Women and 'Experts', 2001-2003
Creators: name: Tsouroufli, M.
name: Griffiths, F. E.
name: Bendelow, G.
name: Backett-Milburn, K.
name: Thompson, D.
name: Green, E.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: Innovative Health Technologies (IHTs) in the context of women's midlife, have been defined as hormone replacement therapy (HRT), breast screening and osteoporosis screening. The research questions that this project aimed to answer were:

how are the IHTs defined, assessed and communicated by women from diverse backgrounds, community ethnic and special interest groups and experience of the use of IHTs?

what are the risk discourses used by women in their assessment of IHTs, their interaction with health care professionals and their decisions about IHTs, and what influences them?

what are the risk discourses used by health care professionals practising in diverse health care settings, in their assessment of IHTs, in their interactions with patients and in their clinical management decisions related to IHTs, and what influences them?

how do status, power and life situations impinge upon the development of joint accounts of risk and risk managment strategies in health care settings?

 The defined objectives of the research were as follows:

to provide a rich qualitative account of women's and health professionals' awareness of and views about IHTs;

to explore the diversity in midlife women's awareness, experience and views of these IHTs (the main strands of diversity being ethnicity, able-bodiedness, sexuality and socio-economic context);

to explore the diversity in health professionals' awareness of and views on specific IHTs used by midlife women;

to examine the attitudes and strategies used by health professionals and women in discussing the risks and benefits of these IHTs and the discourses that are drawn upon in developing joint accounts of decisions about health management strategies;

to generate new understanding and theory about the interaction between 'expert' and lay views, which has implications for policy, planning, professional practice and the future design and sustainability of IHTs.
Astronomical technology - the past and the future
Creators: name: Appenzeller, Immo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The past fifty years have been an epoch of impressive progress in the field of astronomical technology. Practically all the technical tools, which we use today, have been developed during that time span. While the first half of this period has been dominated by advances in the detector technologies, during the past two decades innovative telescope concepts have been developed for practically all wavelength ranges where astronomical observations are possible. Further important advances can be expected in the next few decades. Based on the experience of the past, some of the main sources of technological progress can be identified.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, Review article associated with the Karl Schwarzschild Award Lecture 2015, Published in Astron. Nachrichten; doi: 10.1002/asna.201612360
Changing Organisational Forms and the Re-shaping of Work : Case Study Interviews, 1999-2002
Creators: name: Willmott, H.
name: Marchington, M.
name: Rubery, J.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2004

description: This research into changing organisational forms and the re-shaping of work was prompted by the recognition that, despite an apparent increase in the number and importance of 'new' organisational forms, their implications for the future of work had yet to be fully explored. Current accepted frameworks for analysing organisations, work and employment tend to be founded upon one of two premises. The first, prevalent in human resources management (HRM), industrial relations, occupational psychology and employment law literature, takes work and employment to be organised and shaped by a single employing organisation, having well-defined boundaries and considerable control over its internal policies. This approach largely ignores the growth of inter-organisational relationships and the permeability of organisational boundaries, even in situations where work is sub-contracted. The second, associated with much organisational analysis, strategic management and industrial economics literature, attends to inter-organisational relationships, but also treats each organisation as an essentially coherent and unitarist entity, capable of displaying entity-wide attitudes and values such as organisational trust. Analysis of the employment relationship and its well-known contested nature is widely disregarded.

 In a context of increasing fragmentation and permeability of organisations, and evidence that human resources (HR) policies are unable to resolve the potential conflicts and contradictions inherent in the employment relationship, a fresh approach is needed. This departs from methodological traditions focused on the single organisation as the unit of analysis, with data often gathered through the lens of a single respondent, and with a lack of attention to inter-organisational relations. This research built on work in the ESRC Contracts and Competition Programme that has analysed trust between firms (for example, the work of Deakin and Michie), to include a more specific analysis of the role of employment relations. It also extended work that has focused on the employment aspects of specific types of 'new organisational form' - franchising, employment agencies, public sector subcontracting, for example - by developing a broader and more comprehensive analysis. The project was designed to collect data, via in-depth qualitative case studies of inter-organisational networks, on how these new organisational forms operate in practice, and to subject existing literature - particularly that based on speculative and normative theorising - to more critical analysis.

 The project adopted a case study approach using documentary analysis, in-depth interviews with a range of individuals at different levels of the hierarchy and a limited amount of participant observation. A key feature of the approach was its focus on inter-organisational relations.
The entropy of Taub-Bolt-AdS from an improved action principle
Creators: name: Aros, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article the study of four dimensional spaces with NUT charges and their ground states is continued. In particular, through the introduction of an improved action principle containing topological densities, it is shown that these spaces have simple and sound thermodynamic relations. As an example the entropy of Taub-Bolt-AdS solution is computed in terms of a Noether charge.
description: 11 pages
title: GEOBEST Baseline Seismic Monitoring Networks for Deep Geothermal Energy Projects in Switzerland.
Creators: name: Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2006

description: Long-term GEOBEST deployments associated with baseline seismic monitoring for deep geothermal projects in Switzerland. GEOBEST stations comprise high-gain and strong-motion sensors  installed in underground shelters, dedicated seismic vaults, or shallow boreholes. GEOBEST stations complete the National Seismic Networks of Switzerland (CH) in the vicinity (app. 10km distance range) of deep geothermal project locations.