cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of self-consistent extended Hubbard interactions and spin-orbit couplings on energy bands of semiconductors and topological insulators
Creators: name: Yang, Wooil
name: Son, Young-Woo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A first-principles computational method with self-consistent on-site and inter-site Hubbard functionals is able to treat local and non-local Coulomb interactions on an equal footing. To apply the method to understand solids with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we have extended a psuedohybrid functional approach developed by Agapito-Curtarolo-Buongiorno Nardelli to implement self-consistent extended Hubbard energy functionals for noncollinear spin states. With this, energy bands of semiconductors with various SOC strengths such as Si, Ge, GaAs, GaSb, CdSe and PdO are obtained, agreeing with results from fully relativistic $GW$ approximation (FR-GWA) as well as experiments. We also compute energy gaps of HgTe, CuTlS$_2$, and CuTlSe$_2$ and assign them to be topological insulators correctly, unlike characteristic failures for judging topological properties from typical hybrid functionals. We demonstrate feasibility of our method to handle large systems by computing surface bands of topological insulators, Bi$_{\text{2}}$Se$_{\text{3}}$ and Bi$_2$Te$_3$ with varying thickness up to eight quintuple layers. Considering its low computational cost comparable to conventional {\it ab intio} methods and improved accuracy to FR-GWA, we expect that our method provides an opportunity to study large scale correlated systems with the strong SOC efficiently and reliably.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
title: Indonesian Journal on Computing (Indo-JC), Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021): April
title: April
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Indonesian Journal On Computing (Indo-JC)
Publisher: name: Indonesian Journal on Computing (Indo-JC)
Year: 2021

description: Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis of Indonesian Language Student Feedback Evaluation...1-12 Analysis and Implementation of Signature Based Method and Structure File Based Method for File Carving ...13-22 Quality Comparison of WebRTC and SIP Audio and Video Communication with PNSR...73-84 The Implementation of f(x) = 3(x 3 − x 2 − x) + 2 as CSPRNG Chaos-Based Random Number Generator...41-52 Analysis of Website Portal Rumah Belajar Using WebQual 4.0 Method and Important Performance Analysis...61-72 Implementation of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Determining Priority of Software Assessment in West Java Provincial Government Based on ISO/IEC 25010 (Case Study: Sapawarga Application)...23-40 Implementation of K-Means++ Algorithm for Store Customers Segmentation Using Neo4J...53-60
Active gel segment behaving as an active particle
Creators: name: Recho, Pierre
name: Putelat, Thibaut
name: Truskinovsky, Lev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reduce a one-dimensional model of an active segment (AS), which is used, for instance, in the description of contraction driven cell motility on tracks, to a zero-dimensional model of an active particle (AP) characterized by two internal degrees of freedom: position and polarity. Both models give rise to hysteretic force-velocity relations showing that an active agent can support two opposite polarities under the same external force and that it can maintain the same polarity while being dragged by external forces with opposite orientations. This double bi-stability results in a rich dynamic repertoire which we illustrate by studying static, stalled, motile and periodically re-polarizing regimes displayed by an active agent confined in a visco-elastic environment. We show that the AS and AP models can be calibrated to generate quantitatively similar dynamic responses.
description: accepted to PRE
A hybrid approach to decolonize formal water law in Africa
Creators: name: Van Koppen, Barbara
name: Schreiner, B.
name: Van Koppen, Barbara
name: Schreiner, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: Legislation
subject: Legal pluralism
subject: Customary law
subject: Water law
subject: Water resources
subject: Water users
subject: Water use
subject: Water rights
subject: Water management
subject: Water allocation
subject: Water policy
subject: Water governance
subject: Water distribution
subject: Water security
subject: Colonialism
subject: Economic aspects
subject: State intervention
subject: Authorities
subject: Investment
subject: Rural population
subject: Political aspects
subject: Regulations
subject: Small scale systems
subject: Equity
subject: Marginalization
subject: Africa
subject: South Africa
subject: Kenya
subject: Malawi
subject: Uganda
subject: Zimbabwe

description: In recent decades, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have pursued national water permit systems, derived from the colonial era and reinforced by “global best practice.” These systems have proved logistically impossible to manage and have worsened inequality in water access. A new study conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Pegasys Institute, with support from the UK government, traces the origins of these systems, and describes their implementation and consequences for rural smallholders in five countries – Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The authors of this report propose a hybrid water use rights system to decolonize Africa’s water law, lighten the administrative burden on the state and make legal access to water more equitable. This would strengthen smallholder irrigation, which is vital for boosting Africa’s food production and making it more resilient in the face of worsening drought.
Unraveling the degradation mechanism in FIrpic based Blue OLEDs: II. Trap and detect molecules at the interfaces
Creators: name: Penconi, Marta
name: Cazzaniga, Marco
name: Panzeri, Walter
name: Mele, Andrea
name: Cargnoni, Fausto
name: Ceresoli, Davide
name: Bossi, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) in modern life is witnessed by their wide employment in full-color, energy-saving, flat panel displays and smart-screens; a bright future is likewise expected in the field of solid state lighting. Cyclometalated iridium complexes are the most used phosphorescent emitters in OLEDs due to their widely tunable photophysical properties and their versatile synthesis. Blue-emitting OLEDs, suffer from intrinsic instability issues hampering their long term stability. Backed by computational studies, in this work we studied the sky-blue emitter FIrpic in both ex-situ and in-situ degradation experiments combining complementary, mutually independent, experiments including chemical metathesis reactions, in liquid phase and solid state, thermal and spectroscopic studies and LC-MS investigations. We developed a straightforward protocol to evaluate the degradation pathways in iridium complexes, finding that FIrpic degrades through the loss of the picolinate ancillary ligand. The resulting iridium fragment was than efficiently trapped "in-situ" as BPhen derivative 1. This process is found to be well mirrored when a suitably engineered, FIrpic-based, OLED is operated and aged. In this paper we (i) describe how it is possible to effectively study OLED materials with a small set of readily accessible experiments and (ii) evidence the central role of host matrix in trapping experiments.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
The role of dynamical polarization of the ligand to metal charge transfer excitations in {\em ab initio} determination of effective exchange parameters
Creators: name: Gellé, Alain
name: Munzarová, Marketa L.
name: Lepetit, Marie-Bernadette
name: Illas, Francesc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of the bridging ligand on the effective Heisenberg coupling parameters is analyzed in detail. This analysis strongly suggests that the ligand-to-metal charge transfer excitations are responsible for a large part of the final value of the magnetic coupling constant. This permits to suggest a new variant of the Difference Dedicated Configuration Interaction (DDCI) method, presently one of the most accurate and reliable for the evaluation of magnetic effective interactions. This new method treats the bridging ligand orbitals mediating the interaction at the same level than the magnetic orbitals and preserves the high quality of the DDCI results while being much less computationally demanding. The numerical accuracy of the new approach is illustrated on various systems with one or two magnetic electrons per magnetic center. The fact that accurate results can be obtained using a rather reduced configuration interaction space opens the possibility to study more complex systems with many magnetic centers and/or many electrons per center.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Meeting the nutrition and water targets of the Sustainable Development Goals: achieving progress through linked interventions
Creators: name: Ringler, C.
name: Choufani, J.
name: Chase, C.
name: McCartney, Matthew
name: Mateo-Sagasta, Javier
name: Mekonnen, D.
name: Dickens, Chris
name: Ringler, C.
name: Choufani, J.
name: Chase, C.
name: McCartney, Matthew
name: Mateo-Sagasta, Javier
name: Mekonnen, D.
name: Dickens, Chris
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Research and development
subject: Learning
subject: Sustainable Development Goals
subject: Nutrition
subject: Integrated management
subject: Water resources
subject: Water management
subject: Water supply
subject: Water quality
subject: Water security
subject: Water pollution
subject: Water use
subject: Water availability
subject: Waterborne diseases
subject: Sanitation
subject: Food security
subject: Food production
subject: Diet
subject: Sustainable agriculture
subject: Agricultural systems
subject: Drinking water
subject: Climate change
subject: Policy making
subject: Economic aspects
subject: Equity
subject: Landscape
subject: Public health
subject: Wastewater treatment
subject: Ecosystem services
subject: Communities
subject: Risk management
subject: Irrigation water

description: Water and nutrition are linked in multiple ways, but few of these interlinkages are well understood. What is, for example, the exact relationship between water pollution and health or between water resource management and nutrition? Even less is known about the interactions across these various linkages. The importance of better understanding these connections has been highlighted as we pursue the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which challenge mankind to meet both water security as well as food and nutrition security goals, while also improving water-based ecosystems. It has become increasingly clear that progress toward these goals can only be achieved if measures in the food and nutrition space (SDG 2) do not constrain progress on water (SDG 6) and if measures undertaken to support targets under one of these SGDs also support the outcomes of the other. This paper provides an overview of water–nutrition linkages as reflected in the SDGs, and it identifies key gaps in these linkages and suggests a way forward to support the achievement of both water and nutrition goals and targets.
description: Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Washington, DC, USA: The World Bank
Exalphus leuconotus
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Exalphus
Exalphus leuconotus

description: 10. Exalphus leuconotus (Thomson, 1860)
Type locality — Brazil. (MNHN). Distribution — Brazil (Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Bahia to Santa Catarina).
 Alphus leuconotus Thomson, 1860: 10; Chevrolat, 1861: 187; Bates, 1862: 122; Thomson, 1864: 15; 1878: 15 (type); Bruch, 1912: 213 (cat.); Zajciw, 1958a: 18 (distr.); 1972a: 66 (distr.); 1974a: 76 (distr.).
 Exalphus leuconotus; Restello et al., 2001: 298, figs. 9­11.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Exalphus malleri
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Exalphus
Exalphus malleri

description: 12. Exalphus malleri (Lane, 1955)
Type locality — Peru, Junin: Satipo. (MNRJ). Distribution — Ecuador, Peru, Brazil (Pará, Rondônia, Mato Grosso).
 Alphus malleri Lane, 1955b: 287, fig. 4; Tavakilian et al., 1997: 309­311 (hosts); Julio et al., 2000: 32 (holotype); Monné, 2001b: 40 (cat. hosts).
 Exalphus malleri; Restello et al., 2001: 298.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Radikalisierung erkennen und verstehen: Grundlagenwissen zur Früherkennung von Radikalisierung bei Jugendlichen und dem Umgang damit im Kontext der Offenen Jugendarbeit
Creators: name: Rindlisbacher, Sandra
Publisher: name: Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2025

description: In der Bachelorarbeit «Radikalisierung erkennen und verstehen» untersucht die Autorin Sandra Rindlisbacher die Früherkennung von Radikalisierung im Kontext der Offenen Jugendarbeit. Ziel ist es, ein besseres Verständnis für Radikalisierung in Verbindung mit Extremismus und Terrorismus zu gewinnen und herauszufinden, wie Jugendarbeitende Anzeichen einer Radikalisierung bei Jugendlichen erkennen können. Die zentrale Fragestellung lautet, inwiefern die Offene Jugendarbeit als Frühintervention fungieren kann. Durch eine Literaturarbeit wird der Begriff der Radikalisierung kritisch analysiert und von Extremismus sowie Terrorismus abgegrenzt. Zu diesem Zweck werden Forschungsstudien sowie theoretische und rechtliche Ansätze herangezogen, um ein umfassendes Bild der Radikalisierung während der Jugendphase zu zeichnen. Es werden verschiedene Risikofaktoren erörtert, die zur Radikalisierung führen können. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass problematische Radikalisierungsverläufe zur Festigung extremistischer Überzeugungen und Gewaltanwendung führen können. Präventive Ansätze sollten sich auf spezifische problematische Haltungen konzentrieren, anstatt Jugendliche auf den Extremismusbegriff zu reduzieren. Die Adoleszenz wird als entscheidender Lebensabschnitt identifiziert, in dem Identitätsbildung stattfindet. Die Offene Jugendarbeit kann durch Beziehungsarbeit und Akzeptanz die Resilienz der Jugendlichen stärken und ihr kritisches Denken fördern. Insgesamt zeigt die Arbeit, dass eine proaktive Herangehensweise in der Offenen Jugendarbeit erforderlich ist, um gefährdete Jugendliche frühzeitig zu unterstützen und ihre Entwicklung positiv zu beeinflussen.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask be + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Soziokultur, 2025 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202502
High Contrast Imaging with Gaussian Aperture Pupil Masks (GAPMs)
Creators: name: Debes, J. H.
name: Ge, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gaussian aperture pupil masks (GAPMs) can in theory achieve the contrast requisite for directly imaging an extrasolar planet around a nearby solar type star. We outline the process of designing, fabricating, and testing a GAPM for use on current telescopes and specifically the Penn State near-IR Imager and Spectrograph (PIRIS) at the Mt. Wilson 100$^{\prime\prime}$ telescope. We find that the initial prototype observations are quite successful, achieving a contrast similar to a traditional Lyot coronagraph without blocking any light from a central object and useful for finding faint companions to nearby young solar analogues. In the lab we can reproduce the expected PSF reasonably well and with a single aperture design which achieves $\sim4 \times 10^{-5}$ contrast at 10$λ/D$. We find that small inaccuracies in the mask fabrication process and insufficient correction of the atmosphere contribute the most degradation to contrast at these levels.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, accepted to PASP
Simulation and Optimization of Scheduling Policies in Dynamic Stochastic Resource-Constrained Multi-Project Environments
Creators: name: Satic, Ugur
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022
Subjects: dynamic programming
approximate dynamic programming
reactive scheduling
genetic algorithm
dynamic
stochastic
resource constrained project scheduling problem
scheduling policies
DSRCMPSP

description: The goal of the Project Management is to organise project schedules to complete projects before their completion dates, specified in their contract. When a project is beyond its completion date, organisations may lose the rewards from project completion as well as their organisational prestige. Project Management involves many uncertain factors such as unknown new project arrival dates and unreliable task duration predictions, which may affect project schedules that lead to delivery overruns. Successful Project Management could be done by considering these uncertainties. In this PhD study, we aim to create a more comprehensive model which considers a system where projects (of multiple types) arrive at random to the resource-constrained environment for which rewards for project delivery are impacted by fees for late project completion and tasks may complete sooner or later than expected task duration. In this thesis, we considered two extensions of the resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem (RCMPSP) in dynamic environments. RCMPSP requires scheduling tasks of multiple projects simultaneously using a pool of limited renewable resources, and its goal usually is the shortest make-span or the highest profit. The first extension of RCMPSP is the dynamic resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem. Dynamic in this problem refers that new projects arrive randomly during the ongoing project execution, which disturbs the existing project scheduling plan. The second extension of RCMPSP is the dynamic and stochastic resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem. Dynamic and stochastic represent that both random new projects arrivals and stochastic task durations. In these problems, we assumed that projects generate rewards at their completion; completions later than a due date cause tardiness costs, and we seek to maximise average profits per unit time or the expected discounted long-run profit. We model these problems as infinite-horizon discrete-time Markov decision processes.
Stellar population astrophysics (SPA) with the TNG. Characterization of the young open cluster ASCC 123
Creators: name: Frasca, A.
name: Alonso-Santiago, J.
name: Catanzaro, G.
name: Bragaglia, A.
name: Carretta, E.
name: Casali, G.
name: D'Orazi, V.
name: Magrini, L.
name: Andreuzzi, G.
name: Oliva, E.
name: Origlia, L.
name: Sordo, R.
name: Vallenari, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Star clusters are key to understand the stellar and Galactic evolution. ASCC 123 is a little-studied, nearby and very sparse open cluster. We performed the first high-resolution spectroscopic study of this cluster in the framework of the SPA (Stellar Population Astrophysics) project with GIARPS at the TNG. We observed 17 stars, five of which turned out to be double-lined binaries. Three of the investigated sources were rejected as members on the basis of astrometry and lithium content. For the remaining single stars we derived the stellar parameters, extinction, radial and projected rotational velocities, and chemical abundances for 21 species with atomic number up to 40. From the analysis of single main-sequence stars we found an average extinction $A_V\simeq 0.13$ mag and a median radial velocity of about $-5.6$ km/s. The average metallicity we found for ASCC 123 is [Fe/H]$\simeq+0.14\pm 0.04$, which is in line with that expected for its Galactocentric distance. The chemical composition is compatible with the Galactic trends in the solar neighborhood within the errors. From the lithium abundance and chromospheric H$α$ emission we found an age similar to that of the Pleiades, which agrees with that inferred from the Hertzsprung-Russell and color-magnitude diagrams.
description: Accepted by A&A 19 pages, 16 figures
Lassen sich regulatorische Eingriffe in Bodenmärkte mit Marktmacht und Flächenkonzentration empirisch begründen?
Creators: name: Balmann, Alfons
name: Odening, Martin
name: Balmann, Alfons
name: Odening, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: In mehreren deutschen Bundesländern gibt bzw. gab es Initiativen, landwirtschaftliche Bodenmärkte stärker als bisher zu regulieren. Die in den Gesetzesinitiativen vorgeschlagenen Maßnahmen stützen sich auf verschiedene Ziele, darunter die Vermeidung einer marktbeherrschenden Stellung sowie eine breite Streuung von Bodeneigentum. Es ist weitgehend unstrittig, dass Marktmacht ein Marktversagen hervorrufen und zu Wohlfahrtsverlusten führen kann. Weitaus weniger offensichtlich ist, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen Marktmacht auf landwirtschaftlichen Bodenmärkten, seien es Kauf- oder Pachtmärkte, tatsächlich in einem Maße vorliegt, um damit regulatorische Eingriffe zu rechtfertigen. Bedingt durch die Immobilität und Heterogenität von landwirtschaftlichen Flächen stellt Marktmacht auf Bodenmärkten ein lokales Phänomen auf dezentralisierten Teilmärkten mit einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Akteure dar. Daraus folgt, dass der empirische Nachweis von Marktmacht lokal und einzelfallabhängig erfolgen muss. Derartige Analysen liegen weder für Deutschland insgesamt noch für einzelne Bundesländer flächendeckend vor. Indikatoren für potenzielle Marktmacht, wie Konzentrationsmaße für Flächenbewirtschaftungen oder Bodeneigentum sowie darauf aufbauende Preisregressionen, geben keinen Hinweis darauf, dass Bodenmarktmacht in größerem Umfang und hoher Intensität vorliegt. Insbesondere ist der häufig suggerierte Zusammenhang zwischen Marktmacht auf der Angebotsseite und den im letzten Jahrzehnt angestiegenen Bodenpreisen nicht belegt. Insofern lässt sich die Frage, ob sich die vorgeschlagenen Eingriffe in den Bodenmarkt durch empirische Belege für das Vorhandensein von Marktmacht rechtfertigen lassen, verneinen. Damit erfüllen die vorgeschlagenen Instrumente zur Bodenmarktregulierung nicht den Anspruch, evidenzbasiert zu sein.
Recovering bioenergy in Sub-Saharan Africa: gender dimensions, lessons and challenges
Creators: name: Njenga, M.
name: Mendum, R.
name: Njenga, M.
name: Mendum, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Resource recovery
subject: Resource management
subject: Bioenergy
subject: Gender
subject: Role of women
subject: Equity
subject: Poverty
subject: Energy generation
subject: Energy demand
subject: Energy resources
subject: Renewable energy
subject: Cooking
subject: Heating
subject: Waste management
subject: Human wastes
subject: Excreta
subject: Fuels
subject: Briquettes
subject: Business enterprises
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Sanitation
subject: Urban areas
subject: Households
subject: Refugees
subject: Supply chain
subject: Production factors
subject: Health hazards
subject: Economic impact
subject: Biogas
subject: Biochar
subject: Biomass
subject: Investment
subject: Empowerment
subject: Living standards
subject: Farmers organizations
subject: Biodigesters
subject: Gasifiers
subject: Community involvement
subject: Research and development
subject: Case studies
subject: Africa South of Sahara
subject: Uganda
subject: Ghana
subject: Kenya

description: There is a strong link between gender and energy in view of food preparation and the acquisition of fuel, especially in rural areas. This is demonstrated in a range of case studies from East and West Africa, where biochar, human waste and other waste resources have been used to produce briquettes or biogas as additional high-quality fuel sources. The synthesis of the cases concludes that resource recovery and reuse for energy offers an alternative to conventional centralized grid projects which, while attractive to investors and large-scale enterprises, do not necessarily provide job opportunities for marginalized communities. Reusing locally available waste materials for energy production and as soil ameliorant (in the case of biochar) in small enterprises allows women and youth who lack business capital to begin modest, locally viable businesses. The case studies offer concrete examples of small-scale solutions to energy poverty that can make a significant difference to the lives of women and their communities.
description: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
Weight Reduction as an Intervention for Low Back Pain: Systematic Review and Implications for Physical Therapy Practice
Creators: name: Woolner, Jodie E.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Study Purpose: To review the most current literature on treatment interventions for low back pain and determine if weight management is among the interventions used. Background and Significance: Low back pain is the number two reason Americans see their healthcare professional –second only to colds and flu. Low back pain is defined as, “acute or chronic pain in the lumbar or sacral regions, which may be associated with musculo-­ligamentous sprains and strains; intervertebral disk displacement; and other conditions”. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours are primary contributors to the prevalence of lifestyle-­related conditions, including low back pain, this century. New theories suggest weight loss may reduce the harmful effects of added load on the spine that cause altered biomechanics and increased potential for early degeneration. Current treatment for low back pain does not involve the use of weight management as an intervention. MPT Systematic Reviews and Research Projects.
Exalphus simplex
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Exalphus
Exalphus simplex

description: 13. Exalphus simplex (Galileo & Martins, 1998)
Type locality — Ecuador, Napo­Pastaza: Ruta Sarayacu­Loreto, km 11,1. (CMNH). Distribution — Ecuador.
 Alphus simplex Galileo & Martins, 1998c: 152, fig. 11.
 Exalphus simplex; Restello et al., 2001: 298.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Impact of E-plane Misalignment on THz Diagonal Horn Antennas
Creators: name: Jayasankar, Divya
name: Koj, Andre
name: Hesler, Jeffrey
name: Stake, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A key challenge in developing terahertz front-ends is achieving high coupling efficiency between the waveguide feed horn and the optical beam. In this paper, we have quantified the alignment requirements for the widely used E-plane split diagonal horn antenna through theoretical analysis, electromagnetic simulation, and experimental validation within the 325-500 GHz frequency range. The results from our analytical models, simulations, and measurements are consistent and shows good agreement. They reveal that even minor geometric asymmetries can cause significant increases in fractional power radiated to the cross-polar component due to amplitude and phase imbalances in the TE10 and TE01 modes. Furthermore, a misalignment of approximately 8% of the wavelength was observed to result in a 3-dB degradation in the optical coupling to a Gaussian beam (Gaussicity) in middle of the waveguide band. These findings highlight the critical importance of precise alignment and feed horn machining for the successful implementation of terahertz front-end systems.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology 2024
The Damping Wing of the Gunn-Peterson Absorption and Lyman-Alpha Emitters in the Pre-Reionization Era
Creators: name: Gnedin, Nickolay Y.
name: Prada, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a numerical simulation of cosmological reionization to estimate the likelihood of detecting Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies during the pre-reionization era. We show that it is possible to find galaxies even at z~9 that are barely affected by the dumping wing of the Gunn-Peterson absorption from the neutral IGM outside of their HII regions. The damping wing becomes rapidly more significant at z>9, but even at z>10 is it not inconceivable (although quite hard) to see a Lyman-alpha emission line from a star-forming galaxy.
description: submitted to ApJ
Criminology A Race Past Time.
Creators: name: Vagmee Mishra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160204 Criminological Theories
subject: FOS: Law

description: criminology is a diverse and broad spectrum branch of social science which can improve the conception of the theories of crime in the society but unfortunately the old parameters of the criminology has not kept pace with the modern criminology and therefore the methodology crime study/analysis needs to be evolved this brief article laser focus on this basic aspect as to why it needs to be evolved
Adoption and economic impact of briquettes as cooking fuel: the case of women fish smokers in Ghana
Creators: name: Gebrezgabher, Solomie
name: Amewu, S.
name: Njenga, M.
name: Gebrezgabher, Solomie
name: Amewu, S.
name: Njenga, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Economic impact
subject: Briquettes
subject: Cooking
subject: Heating
subject: Energy sources
subject: Fuels
subject: Role of women
subject: Food processing
subject: Food preservation
subject: Fish
subject: Fuelwood
subject: Charcoal
subject: Biomass
subject: Rural areas
subject: Socioeconomic environment
subject: Household consumption
subject: Local communities
subject: Health hazards
subject: Climate change
subject: Policy making
subject: Case studies
subject: Ghana

description: In Njenga, M.; Mendum, R. (Eds.). Recovering bioenergy in Sub-Saharan Africa: gender dimensions, lessons and challenges. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
Zwangsernährung bei Anorexia nervosa: Eine rechtliche Analyse und Überlegungen zur Legitimation aus professionsethischer Sicht der klinischen Sozialarbeit.
Creators: name: Stäheli, Angelina
Publisher: name: Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2025

description: Die vorliegende Bachelor-Arbeit befasst sich mit der klinischen Sozialarbeit und der Zwangsernährung
von erwachsenen anorektischen Personen. Die Anorexia nervosa ist eine Form der Essstörung
und eine schwere psychische Erkrankung, die oft mit vielfältigen physischen Folgeerscheinungen
einhergeht. Ein zentrales Merkmal der Erkrankung ist das extreme Untergewicht.
Unter einer Zwangsernährung verstehen wir die Ernährung über eine Sonde, die zur Erhaltung
oder Wiederherstellung der Gesundheit dient und gegen den Willen der betroffenen Person
unter Zwang durchgeführt wird. Bei fürsorgerisch in einer psychiatrischen Einrichtung untergebrachten
Personen können Zwangsbehandlungen, die der Behandlung der psychischen Störung
dienen, gestützt auf Art. 434 des Schweizerischen Zivilgesetzbuches (ZGB) vom 10. Dezember
1907, SR 210, unter spezifischen Voraussetzungen durch chefärztliches Personal angeordnet
werden. Da Zwangsernährungen bei anorektischen Personen aufgrund der hohen vitalen Gefährdung
in Akutspitälern durchgeführt werden, sind die Art. 433 ff. ZGB nicht anwendbar. Stattdessen
greifen in solchen Fällen die gesetzlichen Vertretungsrechte nach Art. 377 ff. ZGB. Da die
Anorexie häufig auch soziale Folgen mit sich bringt, ist die klinische Sozialarbeit im Akutspital
oft Teil des interprofessionellen Behandlungsteams und hat dadurch ebenfalls Berührungspunkte
mit der Thematik der Zwangsernährung. Die Zwangsernährung stellt das interprofessionelle
Behandlungsteam vor eine ethische Herausforderung, da diese Massnahme vielfältige medizinische,
psychische und soziale Auswirkungen auf die betroffene Person haben kann.
Für die klinische Sozialarbeit stellt sich die Frage, wie die Massnahme der Zwangsernährung aus
professionsethischer Sicht beurteilt werden kann. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit zeigen, dass eine
pauschale Beurteilung der Zwangsernährung aus Sicht der klinischen Sozialarbeit nicht möglich
ist und immer der Einzelfall betrachtet werden muss.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa be + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Sozialarbeit, 2025 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202502
Quantum walk transport on carbon nanotube structures
Creators: name: Mareš, Jan
name: Novotný, Jaroslav
name: Jex, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study source-to-sink excitation transport on carbon nanotubes using the concept of quantum walks. In particular, we focus on transport properties of Grover coined quantum walks on ideal and percolation perturbed nanotubes with zig-zag and armchair chiralities. Using analytic and numerical methods we identify how geometric properties of nanotubes and different types of a sink altogether control the structure of trapped states and, as a result, the overall source-to-sink transport efficiency. It is shown that chirality of nanotubes splits behavior of the transport efficiency into a few typically well separated quantitative branches. Based on that we uncover interesting quantum transport phenomena, e.g. increasing the length of the tube can enhance the transport and the highest transport efficiency is achieved for the thinnest tube. We also demonstrate, that the transport efficiency of the quantum walk on ideal nanotubes may exhibit even oscillatory behavior dependent on length and chirality.
An assessment of the business environment for waste-to-energy enterprises and how it affects women entrepreneurs in Kenya
Creators: name: Gebrezgabher, Solomie
name: Taron, A.
name: Odero, J.
name: Njenga, M.
name: Gebrezgabher, Solomie
name: Taron, A.
name: Odero, J.
name: Njenga, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Business enterprises
subject: Business management
subject: Waste management
subject: Energy management
subject: Gender
subject: Entrepreneurs
subject: Role of women
subject: Resource recovery
subject: Investment
subject: Infrastructure
subject: Financing
subject: Loans
subject: Kenya

description: In Njenga, M.; Mendum, R. (Eds.). Recovering bioenergy in Sub-Saharan Africa: gender dimensions, lessons and challenges. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
The Effective Halo Model: Creating a Physical and Accurate Model of the Matter Power Spectrum and Cluster Counts
Creators: name: Philcox, Oliver H. E.
name: Spergel, David N.
name: Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a physically-motivated model of the matter power spectrum, based on the halo model and perturbation theory. This model achieves 1\% accuracy on all $k-$scales between $k=0.02h\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$ to $k=1h\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$. Our key ansatz is that the number density of halos depends on the non-linear density contrast filtered on some unknown scale $R$. Using the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure to evaluate the two-halo term, we obtain a model for the power spectrum with only two fitting parameters: $R$ and the effective `sound speed', which encapsulates small-scale physics. This is tested with two suites of cosmological simulations across a broad range of cosmologies and found to be highly accurate. Due to its physical motivation, the statistics can be easily extended beyond the power spectrum; we additionally derive the one-loop covariance matrices of cluster counts and their combination with the matter power spectrum. This yields a significantly better fit to simulations than previous models, and includes a new model for super-sample effects, which is rigorously tested with separate universe simulations. At low redshift, we find a significant ($\sim 10\%$) exclusion covariance from accounting for the finite size of halos which has not previously been modeled. Such power spectrum and covariance models will enable joint analysis of upcoming large-scale structure surveys, gravitational lensing surveys and cosmic microwave background maps on scales down to the non-linear scale. We provide a publicly released Python code.
description: 40 pages, 13 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. D. Python package and tutorial available at http://EffectiveHalos.readthedocs.io
Fine Structure of the Age-Chromospheric Activity Relation in Solar-Type Stars: II. H$α$ Line
Creators: name: Santos, Paulo V. Souza dos
name: de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto
name: Costa-Bhering, Erica
name: Lorenzo-Oliveira, Diego
name: Almeida-Fernandes, Felipe
name: Dutra-Ferreira, Letícia
name: Ribas, Ignasi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excess chromospheric emissions within deep photospheric lines are effective proxies of stellar magnetism for FGK stars. This emission decays with stellar age and is a potential determinant of this important stellar quantity. We report absolutely calibrated H$α$ chromospheric fluxes for 511 solar-type stars in a wide interval of precisely determined masses, $[$Fe/H$]$, ages, and evolution states from high S/N, moderately high$-$resolution spectra. The comparison of H$α$ and H+K chromospheric fluxes reveals a metallicity bias (absent from H$α$) affecting Ca II H+K fluxes thereby metal-rich stars with deep line profiles mimic low chromospheric flux levels, and vice versa for metal-poor stars. This bias blurs the age-activity relation, precluding age determinations for old, inactive stars unless mass and $[$Fe/H$]$ are calibrated into the relation. The H+K lines being the most widely studied tool to quantify magnetic activity in FGK stars, care should be exercised in its use whenever wide ranges of mass and $[$Fe/H$]$ are involved. The H$α$ age-activity-mass-metallicity calibration appears to be in line with the theoretical expectation that (other parameters being equal) more massive stars possess narrower convective zones and are less active than less massive stars, while more metal-rich stars have deeper convective zones and appear more active than metal-poorer stars. If regarded statistically in tandem with other age diagnostics, H$α$ chromospheric fluxes may be suitable to constrain ages for FGK stars with acceptable precision.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, Published on MNRAS
Additional file 3 of Using intervention mapping to develop an outpatient nursing nutritional intervention to improve nutritional status in undernourished patients planned for surgery
Creators: name: Noort, Harm
name: Heinen, Maud
name: Asseldonk, Monique
name: Ettema, Roelof
name: Vermeulen, Hester
name: Getty Huisman-De Waal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3. Interview guide for patientsâ€™ perspectives.
Infinite family of persistence exponents for interface fluctuations
Creators: name: Constantin, M.
name: Sarma, S. Das
name: Dasgupta, C.
name: Bondarchuk, O.
name: Dougherty, D. B.
name: Williams, E. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show experimentally and theoretically that the persistence of large deviations in equilibrium step fluctuations is characterized by an infinite family of independent exponents. These exponents are obtained by carefully analyzing dynamical experimental images of Al/Si(111) and Ag(111) equilibrium steps fluctuating at high (970K) and low (320K) temperatures respectively, and by quantitatively interpreting our observations on the basis of the corresponding coarse-grained discrete and continuum theoretical models for thermal surface step fluctuations under attachment/detachment (``high-temperature'') and edge-diffusion limited kinetics (``low-temperature'') respectively.
description: LaTeX, 4 pages, 2 figures
Nonequilibrium pion dynamics near the critical point in a constituent quark model
Creators: name: Boyanovsky, D.
name: de Vega, H. J.
name: Wang, S. -Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study static and dynamical critical phenomena of chiral symmetry breaking in a two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio constituent quark model. We obtain the low-energy effective action for scalar and pseudoscalar degrees of freedom to lowest order in quark loops and to quadratic order in the meson fluctuations around the mean field. The \emph{static} limit of critical phenomena is shown to be described by a Ginzburg-Landau effective action including \emph{spatial} gradients. Hence \emph{static} critical phenomena is described by the universality class of the O(4) Heisenberg ferromagnet. \emph{Dynamical} critical phenomena is studied by obtaining the equations of motion for pion fluctuations. We find that for $T
description: 22 pages 5 figures. to appear in Nucl. Phys. A
Additional file 4 of Using intervention mapping to develop an outpatient nursing nutritional intervention to improve nutritional status in undernourished patients planned for surgery
Creators: name: Noort, Harm
name: Heinen, Maud
name: Asseldonk, Monique
name: Ettema, Roelof
name: Vermeulen, Hester
name: Getty Huisman-De Waal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 4. Food Diary.
PPGAN: Privacy-preserving Generative Adversarial Network
Creators: name: Liu, Yi
name: Peng, Jialiang
name: Yu, James J. Q
name: Wu, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants serve as a perfect representation of the data generation model, providing researchers with a large amount of high-quality generated data. They illustrate a promising direction for research with limited data availability. When GAN learns the semantic-rich data distribution from a dataset, the density of the generated distribution tends to concentrate on the training data. Due to the gradient parameters of the deep neural network contain the data distribution of the training samples, they can easily remember the training samples. When GAN is applied to private or sensitive data, for instance, patient medical records, as private information may be leakage. To address this issue, we propose a Privacy-preserving Generative Adversarial Network (PPGAN) model, in which we achieve differential privacy in GANs by adding well-designed noise to the gradient during the model learning procedure. Besides, we introduced the Moments Accountant strategy in the PPGAN training process to improve the stability and compatibility of the model by controlling privacy loss. We also give a mathematical proof of the differential privacy discriminator. Through extensive case studies of the benchmark datasets, we demonstrate that PPGAN can generate high-quality synthetic data while retaining the required data available under a reasonable privacy budget.
description: This paper was accepted by IEEE ICPADS 2019 Workshop. This paper contains 10 pages, 3 figures
5 years of Dataverse evolution
Creators: name: Tykhonov, Vyacheslav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: dataverse, data repositories, innovations, open science, open data

description: DANS seminar on the innovations in the development of Dataverse data repository both on the national and international levels. The recording is available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcQk6ykxjis
Exalphus spilonotus Restello, Iannuzzi & Marinoni 2001
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Exalphus
Exalphus spilonotus

description: 14. Exalphus spilonotus Restello, Iannuzzi & Marinoni, 2001
Type locality — Brazil, Pará: Jacarecanga. (MNRJ). Distribution — Brazil (Pará, Rondônia, Mato Grosso).
 Exalphus spilonotus Restello, Iannuzzi & Marinoni, 2001: 298, fig. 13.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553