cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cost estimates for safe drinking water in schools and healthcare centres in Khulna District, Bangladesh
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

description: In rural Bangladesh, the responsibility for managing drinking water infrastructure and water safety is allocated to individual schools and healthcare centres. In response to uneven service delivery performance and increasing climate and environmental risks, the Government of Bangladesh has published its first National Operation and Maintenance Guidelines for Water and Sanitation. The guidelines recognise the role of professional service delivery models working at scale to ensure safe, reliable, and affordable drinking water services for all public schools in a defined service area. We estimated the annual costs of professional water services for 1,700 primary and secondary schools and 300 healthcare centres in Khulna district, based on observed data from a pilot in 171 schools and 33 healthcare centres in eight unions. The estimated cost is Tk 33.5 million (c. USD 350,000) per year for a district population of over 320,000 students and thousands of daily patient visits, equating to less than USD 1 per person per year.
title: Skew-symmetric distributions and Fisher information
title: The double sin of the skew-normal
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hallin, Marc
name: Ley, Christophe
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Consistency rates
subject: Singular Fisher information
subject: Skewing function
subject: Skew-normal distributions
subject: Skew-symmetric distributions
subject: Symmetric kernel
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Hallin and Ley (2012) investigate and fully characterize the Fisher singularity phenomenon in univariate and multivariate families of skew-symmetric distributions. This paper proposes a refined analysis of the (univariate) Fisher degeneracy problem, showing that it can be more or less severe, inducing n1/4 (“simple singularity”), n1/6 (“double singularity”), or n1/8 (“triple singularity”) consistency rates for the skewness parameter. We show, however, that simple singularity (yielding n1/4 consistency rates), if any singularity at all, is the rule, in the sense that double and triple singularities are possible for generalized skew-normal families only. We also show that higher-order singularities, leading to worse-than-n1/8 rates, cannot occur.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;37/2012
Higgs production in bottom-quark fusion: matching beyond leading order
Creators: name: Forte, Stefano
name: Napoletano, Davide
name: Ubiali, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the total cross-section for Higgs boson production in bottom-quark fusion using the so-called FONLL method for the matching of a scheme in which the $b$-quark is treated as a massless parton to that in which it is treated as a massive final-state particle, and extend our previous results to the case in which the next-to-next-to-leading-log five-flavor scheme result is combined with the next-to-leading-order O(as^3) four-flavor scheme computation.
description: Typos in version published in Phys. Lett. B corrected in Eqs.(2), (4), (12), (18), (20), (21) and (A.3). Note that the public code unaffected by typos, only present in paper. Public code available from http://bbhfonll.hepforge.org
Poverty reduction strategy papers: policies, paradigms, and impacts
Creators: name: Elkins, Meg
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Economics, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The introduction of the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in September 2000 promised a new focus on poverty reduction with national ownership driving the process. With a decade passing since their introduction, quantitative evaluations have been relatively sparse. This thesis examines the content of 79 PRSPs from 58 countries and an alignment to the following development paradigms: Washington Consensus, Post- Washington Consensus, and New York Consensus and also their alignment to the social protection agenda. A unique scorecard system is used to devise an index to assess each PRSP’s alignment to the respective paradigms. The index then identifies common factors that explain the variation in alignment scores. The previous research has not focused on how different development paradigms are influencing policy adoption in PRSPs and in turn how these policies are driving well-being outcomes. This research uses treatment and control groups with propensity score matching techniques and fixed effects modelling to analyse whether having a PRSP influences changes in poverty and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. It also tests whether alignment to a respective paradigm has further influence on well-being and poverty outcomes. The research finds that countries under PRSP treatment have achieved better well-being outcomes than those in the control group. Furthermore, PRSPs aligned with the New York Consensus have higher primary school enrolment, better gender balance within schools, lower rates of infant mortality and a lower prevalence of HIV/AIDS.
Policy brief on assessment of GHG emissions implied by the latest round of NDCs under the Paris Agreement, their plausible temperature implications, and CDR deployment scales in associated pathways
Creators: name: Rogelj, Joeri
name: Prütz, Ruben
name: Lamboll, Robin
name: Fuss, Sabine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: A method to analyze the global warming implications of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and other long-term emissions reduction targets is described. In addition, a method to understand the potential Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) consequences of the implied emissions pathways is presented.
(201000) Herbert Charles Redknap
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(201002) William Redknap
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Food television: constructions of authenticity in Australian culinary programs
Creators: name: Lynch, Bernardine
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Television programs about food are now a main stay of prime time viewing schedules on both public and commercial broadcasting networks in Australia. Given the current popularity and variety of the genre, these programs provide important and unique insights into the aspirations and lifestyle choices of contemporary Australians. This thesis examines four food series produced by public broadcasting networks in the last decade. It investigates the common theme of „authenticity‟ and argues that in the era of late modernity the appeal of food television lies in connecting audiences with vicarious experiences of „real‟ food and related culinary traditions. In examining the various ways authenticity is constructed in these programs, the thesis reveals that although it is a concept widely used in food based discourses, its use can be problematic. Authenticity is often an assertion made about particular foods frequently without substantiation. The programs examined include Food Safari, Luke Nguyen‟s Vietnam, Gourmet Farmer and Poh‟s Kitchen. Each series is scrutinised in the context of the development of lifestyle television in Australia and the broader societal shift towards lifestyles as ways of living which are consciously chosen rather than determined by tradition. This necessitates an investigation into the changing role food plays in contemporary industrialised societies. Food now functions as a significant factor in the production of identity. Choices made relating to what one eats and in what manner, can be indicative of one‟s aspirations and sense of self. This thesis argues that the desire for authentic food as mediated through culinary television is intrinsically linked to the need to experience connectedness and tradition, albeit vicariously.
Accretion in Radiative Equipartition (AiRE) Disks
Creators: name: Yazdi, Yasaman K.
name: Afshordi, Niayesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standard accretion disk theory (Shakura & Sunyaev 1973) predicts that the total pressure in disks at typical (sub-)Eddington accretion rates becomes radiation pressure dominated. However, radiation pressure dominated disks are thermally unstable. Since these disks are observed in approximate steady state over the instability time-scale, our accretion models in the radiation pressure dominated regime (i.e. inner disk) need to be modified. Here, we present a modification to the SS model, where radiation pressure is in equipartition with gas pressure in the inner region. We call these flows Accretion in Radiative Equipartition (AiRE) Disks. We introduce the basic features of AiRE disks and show how they modify disk properties such as the Toomre parameter and central temperature. We then show that the accretion rate of AiRE disks is limited from above and below, by Toomre and nodal sonic point instabilities, respectively. The former leads to a strict upper limit on the mass of supermassive black holes as a function of cosmic time (and spin), while the latter could explain the transition between hard and soft states of X-ray binaries.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures. Further discussion and figure added on the thermal stability of our model in terms of S-curves of the disk. Discussions expanded on findings of simulations, as well as the predictions of our model for the hard to soft transition observed in black hole X-ray binaries. Minor other changes
Decoupling limit and throat geometry of non-susy D3 brane
Creators: name: Nayek, Kuntal
name: Roy, Shibaji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous work, we have shown that, like BPS Dp branes, bulk gravity gets decoupled from the brane even for the non-susy Dp branes of type II string theories indicating a possible extension of AdS/CFT correspondence for the non-supersymmetric case. In that work, the decoupling of gravity on the non-susy Dp branes has been shown numerically for the general case as well as analytically for some special case. Here we discuss the decoupling limit and the throat geometry of the non-susy D3 brane when the charge associated with the brane is very large. We show that in the decoupling limit the throat geometry of the non-susy D3 brane, under appropriate coordinate change, reduces to the Constable-Myers solution and thus confirming that this solution is indeed the holographic dual of a (non-gravitational) gauge theory discussed there. We also show that when one of the parameters of the solution takes a specific value, it reduces, under another coordinate change, to the five-dimensional solution obtained by Csaki and Reece, again confirming its gauge theory interpretation.
description: 5 pages, no figures; v2: two-column ReVTeX format, shortened with more clarifications and references, version to appear in Phys Lett B
Refitting a past: A comparison of late Pleistocene and Terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene stone tool technology at Lake Mungo, southwestern New South Wales, Australia
Creators: name: Spry, Caroline
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
A Lagrangian fluctuation-dissipation relation for scalar turbulence, I. Flows with no bounding walls
Creators: name: Drivas, Theodore D.
name: Eyink, Gregory L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An exact relation is derived between scalar dissipation due to molecular diffusivity and the randomness of stochastic Lagrangian trajectories for flows without bounding walls. This "Lagrangian fluctuation-dissipation relation" equates the scalar dissipation for either passive or active scalars to the variance of scalar inputs associated to initial scalar values and internal scalar sources, as those are sampled backward in time by the stochastic Lagrangian trajectories. As an important application, we reconsider the phenomenon of "Lagrangian spontaneous stochasticity" or persistent non-determinism of Lagrangian particle trajectories in the limit of vanishing viscosity and diffusivity. Previous work on the Kraichnan (1968) model of turbulent scalar advection has shown that anomalous scalar dissipation is associated in that model to Lagrangian spontaneous stochasticity. There has been controversy, however, regarding the validity of this mechanism for scalars advected by an actual turbulent flow. We here completely resolve this controversy by exploiting the fluctuation-dissipation relation. For either a passive or active scalar advected by any divergence-free velocity field, including solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation, and away from walls, we prove that anomalous scalar dissipation requires Lagrangian spontaneous stochasticity. For passive scalars we prove furthermore that spontaneous stochasticity yields anomalous dissipation for suitable initial scalar distributions, so that the two phenomena are there completely equivalent. These points are illustrated by numerical results from a database of homogeneous, isotropic turbulence, which provide both additional support to the results and physical insight into the representation of diffusive effects by stochastic Lagrangian particle trajectories.
Away, A Novel, And a Critical Essay on Narrative Space with Reference of Paul Auster's Fiction
Creators: name: Capelo, Maria Jose De Brito
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2012
Subjects: Creative Writing
Novel
Paul Auster
Space

description: I opted to keep some short quotations, for which I was unable to gain permission yet, as the longest has 32 words, only. Please let me know if you think it's best to withdraw them. Thank You.
description: ABSTRACT Name of Candidate: Maria José de Brito Capelo Title of thesis: Away, a novel, and a critical essay on narrative space with reference of Paul Auster’s fiction My novel, Away, is mainly the story of a woman travelling alone, leaving all friends and relatives behind. She seeks out remote, beautiful and difficult places where, firstly, she has travelled to before and, then, different locations that she hasn’t known in the past. We discover that, through trauma, she has lost her sense of identity – she is in the midst of a psychological crisis that becomes clear only after the journey has been underway for some time, when circumstances force her to accept help from others. With the protagonist my aim was to portray a permanent and continuous possibility of ending, stretching endlessly. This idea is irretrievable from the notion of space, as conceived here. In Part I, I explore how not only this main character, but also, Fred embody space. Here, I examine the conception of space, taking in various perspectives raging from philosophy, geography, culture and literature studies, where we find an interdisciplinary approach to space. My contention, drawing on mainly Lefebvre’s and Massey’s investigations, is that space is produced and is simultaneously a product embodied by the characters. In addition, I analyse how a particular territory – the desert – enacts the nature of space, as defined before, in selected works by T. E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger and Paul Bowles. Also, I argue that this conception of space is explored in some narratives of Paul Auster - CG, MC and CLT - in part II. Further, I examine other features of space. I contend that Auster’s writing explores space as a realm upon which Auster’s characters engage in a process of construction and disintegration both of space and their identity. Therefore, here, space is considered as a sphere constituted by a process of an ever-opened, changing and ongoing interrelation with the characters and the text. Finally, although space is presented in this essay as the major tool for investigation through composition and critical analysis, other tools, intrinsically, and I argue inseparable in fact, I proceed to an investigation, in part III, of notions of time, identity, writing and narrator in my creative work. Beside these, I investigate particularly the relationships between characters. The thesis concludes by demonstrating that writing as space evolves in more subtle, more transient and labyrinthian ways through the reference to other writers whose writing has significantly influenced my creative work.
On concentration inequalities and their applications for Gibbs measures in lattice systems
Creators: name: Chazottes, J. -R.
name: Collet, P.
name: Redig, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider Gibbs measures on the configuration space $S^{\mathbb{Z}^d}$, where mostly $d\geq 2$ and $S$ is a finite set. We start by a short review on concentration inequalities for Gibbs measures. In the Dobrushin uniqueness regime, we have a Gaussian concentration bound, whereas in the Ising model (and related models) at sufficiently low temperature, we control all moments and have a stretched-exponential concentration bound. We then give several applications of these inequalities whereby we obtain various new results. Amongst these applications, we get bounds on the speed of convergence of the empirical measure in the sense of Kantorovich distance, fluctuation bounds in the Shannon-McMillan-Breiman theorem, fluctuation bounds for the first occurrence of a pattern, as well as almost-sure central limit theorems.
description: 58 pages. Some typos corrected. Section 7.4 improved (better bound in the lemma). A point in Section 8.3 was clarified about epsilon-entropy. To appear in J. Stat. Phys
SafePani: Improving drinking water safety for schools and healthcare centres in Khulna district, Bangladesh
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

description: By 2019, over 98% of the population of Bangladesh had access to improved drinking water sources (BBS/UNICEF, 2019).1 However, drinking water safety remains a challenge, with hazards including faecal contamination, geogenic contaminants such as arsenic and manganese, and increasing salinity. The SafePani model uses a professional water service provider operating with a Water Safety Plan (WSP) approach to improve drinking water safety in schools and healthcare centres in Khulna district, Bangladesh. This brief sets out how the WSP approach is incorporated in the SafePani model.
Measurement of the Beam-Spin Azimuthal Asymmetry Associated with Deeply-Virtual Compton Scattering
Creators: name: Airapetian, A.
name: Akopov, N.
name: Akopov, Z.
name: Amarian, M.
name: Aschenauer, E. C.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Evolution of states and mesoscopic scaling for two-component birth-and-death dynamics in continuum
Creators: name: Friesen, Martin
name: Kutoviy, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q84, 35Q83, 47D06, 60K35, 82C22

description: Two coupled spatial birth-and-death Markov evolutions on $\mathbb{R}^d$ are obtained as unique weak solutions to the associated Fokker-Planck equations. Such solutions are constructed by its associated sequence of correlation functions satisfying the so-called Ruelle-bound. Using the general scheme of Vlasov scaling we are able to derive a system of non-linear, non-local mesoscopic equations describing the effective density of the particle system. The results are applied to several models of ecology and biology.
description: Published in Methods of Functional Analysis and Topology (MFAT), available at http://mfat.imath.kiev.ua/article/?id=914
title: Professor Dr. Johannes Häne
title: 6. März 1862 - 18. August 1931
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wirz, Hans Georg
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1931
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Häne, Johannes
subject: Zürich

description: Sonderdruck aus: Berner Tagblatt Nr. 391, 24. August 1931.
A superhedging approach to stochastic integration
Creators: name: Łochowski, Rafał M.
name: Perkowski, Nicolas
name: Prömel, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H05, 91G99

description: Using Vovk's outer measure, which corresponds to a minimal superhedging price, the existence of quadratic variation is shown for "typical price paths" in the space of càdlàg functions possessing a mild restriction on the jumps directed downwards. In particular, this result includes the existence of quadratic variation of "typical price paths" in the space of non-negative càdlàg paths and implies the existence of quadratic variation in the sense of Föllmer quasi surely under all martingale measures. Based on the robust existence of the quadratic variation, a model-free Itô integration is developed.
description: 25 pages
The work of policy in Australian health authorities: A systems approach to aligning capacity and process
Creators: name: Hughes, Alison Louisa
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Travo: Gestion des devoirs étudiants avec GitLab
Creators: name: Thiéry, Nicolas M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Teaching
Managing assignment
Forge
GitLab
Travo

description: Enseigner la programmation ou le calcul est une forme de collaboration
 sur du code; cela qui suggère d'utiliser les outils collaboratifs
 usuels: gestionnaires de version et forges. C'est le principe des
 GitHub ClassRoom qui aident à la gestion des devoirs: distribution,
 collecte, correction automatique ou assistée. Est-ce utilisable à large échelle pour l'enseignement? Utiliser Git,
 GitHub, en L1, vraiment? Notre expérience à large échelle à Paris-Saclay et l'UQÀM depuis 2000,
 dans des dizaines de cours, dont certain en L1 avec plusieurs
 centaines d'étudiants débutant en informatique montre que oui. Cela a
 été rendu possible par l'utilisation d'une forge institutionnelle
 (GitLab) et l'automatisation des interactions avec le gestionnaire de
 version et la forge pour fournissant aux étudiants (et enseignants!)
 un processus simplifié. Pour cela, nous avons développé une petite
 bibliothèque Python libre, Travo. Pour des devoirs sous Jupyter, elle
 offre quelques fonctionnalités supplémentaires: tableau de bord,
 correction assistée avec nbgrader, etc. https://gitlab.com/travo-cr/travo/
description: Full sources with assets: https://gitlab.com/travo-cr/travo/-/tree/master/talks
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title: Ð¼Ð¾Ð½Ð¾Ð³ÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ñ
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: ÐÐµÑÑÐºÐ¾Ð²Ð°, ÐÐ°ÑÐ³Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÐ°
name: ÐÐ¾Ð»ÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð²Ð°, ÐÑÐ´Ð¼Ð¸Ð»Ð°
name: ÐÐ°Ð´Ð¸Ðº, ÐÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð°
Publisher: name: ÐÐÐÐÐ¢ÐÐ¥-ÐÐ ÐÐ¡Ð¡
Year: 2024
Subjects: ÐÑÑ Ð¸ÑÐµÐºÑÑÑÐ° Ð Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸Ð¸
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description: ÐÐ¾Ð½Ð¾Ð³ÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð° Ð²ÑÑÐ²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐµÐ¹ Ð¸ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ¾-ÐºÑÐ»ÑÑÑÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð½Ð°ÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¸Ñ Ð°ÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÐºÑÑÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÑÐµÐ´Ñ Ð¼Ð°Ð»ÑÑ Ð³Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¾Ð² ÐÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐ°, ÐÐ¸ÑÑÑ Ð¸ ÐÑÐ°Ð¹Ð²Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð½ ÐÐµÐ»Ð³Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð´ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¾Ð±Ð»Ð°ÑÑÐ¸. Ð Ð°ÑÑÐ¼Ð¾ÑÑÐµÐ½Ñ ÑÑÐ°Ð¿Ñ ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ð»Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÑÑÑÐºÑÑÑÑ Ð¸ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð·Ð°ÑÑÑÐ¾Ð¹ÐºÐ¸, Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½ Ð»Ð°Ð½Ð´ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ½Ð¾-Ð²Ð¸Ð·ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½ÑÐ¹ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð· ÑÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸Ð¹ Ð³Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð´ÑÐºÐ¸Ñ ÑÐµÐ½ÑÑÐ¾Ð² Ð² ÑÐ°Ð·Ð½ÑÐµ Ð¸ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ðµ Ð¿ÐµÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð´Ñ. ÐÐ°Ð½Ð° ÑÐ°ÑÐ°ÐºÑÐµÑÐ¸ÑÑÐ¸ÐºÐ° ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ°Ð½Ð¸Ð²ÑÐ¸ÑÑÑ Ð¾Ð±ÑÐµÐºÑÐ¾Ð² ÐºÑÐ»ÑÑÑÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð½Ð°ÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¸Ñ Ð½Ð° ÑÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸Ð¸ Ð¸ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ñ ÑÐµÐ½ÑÑÐ¾Ð² ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÑÐ¸Ð²Ð°ÐµÐ¼ÑÑ Ð¼Ð°Ð»ÑÑ Ð³Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¾Ð². ÐÑÐµÐ´Ð½Ð°Ð·Ð½Ð°ÑÐµÐ½Ð° Ð´Ð»Ñ ÑÑÑÐ´ÐµÐ½ÑÐ¾Ð² Ð¸ ÑÐ¿ÐµÑÐ¸Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÑÐ¾Ð², ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð² ÑÑÐµÑÐµ Ð°ÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÐºÑÑÑÑ, Ð³ÑÐ°Ð´Ð¾ÑÑÑÐ¾Ð¸ÑÐµÐ»ÑÑÑÐ²Ð° Ð¸ Ð´Ð¸Ð·Ð°Ð¹Ð½Ð° Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÑÑÐ°Ð½ÑÑÐ²ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÑÐµÐ´Ñ.
Report on the Developed and Validated Space Thematic Services (Release #2)
Creators: name: Sciacca, Eva
name: Pio Rossi, Angelo
name: Brandt, Carlos
name: Tudisco, Giuseppe
name: Vitello, Fabio
name: Bufano, Filomena
name: Bordiu, Cristobal
name: Molinaro, Marco
name: Pino, Carmelo
name: Riggi, Simone
name: Schisano, Eugenio
name: Topa, Eugenio
name: Vettorello, Laura
name: Krokos, Mel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Services
Space
Astrophysics
Planetary Science
2nd Release

description: This document reports on the 2nd release of the space services and the software underlying each service. This report, NEANIAS deliverable 4.6, comes out right after the second thematic space services release, deliverable D4.5.
 The S1 Service “SPACE-VIS” provides an advanced operational solution for data management and visualization of astrophysics and planetary data adopting FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) principles. The S2 Service “SPACE-MOS” makes high quality images from the raw data captured by instruments (map making) and for assembling those images into custom mosaics (mosaicking). Finally, the S3 Service “SPACE-ML” performs pattern and structure detection in astronomical surveys as well as in planetary surface composition, topography and morphometry.
 For each released service a point-of-access is provided, as well as an interface which interacts with other services and documentation explaining how to use it. Documentation of all NEANIAS space services is organized under NEANIAS docs service at https://docs.neanias.eu/en/latest/#space-services.
 Services reported here have gone through the second release round, services have been integrated to NEANIAS authentication system service, NEANIAS logging system, documentation workflow, and are provided through the GARR infrastructure and MEEO cloud services. As expected, this second services milestone has the services integrated to NEANIAS core services, have achieved stability in cloud environments and are currently scaling for growing user demands, datasets increment, and output products publication.
Improving management of intermittent piped water systems in Ethiopian small towns
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

description: Ethiopia has achieved 75% access to piped water in urban areas, up from 33% in 2000 (JMP, 2021). However, most water supply systems are intermittent, providing water for only a few hours per week in some settings.
Intermittency has multiple causes related to the water production capacity, leakages or weaknesses in the piped distribution network, insufficient power supply and financial and governance limitations.
Based on long-term research engagement in Wukro, Tigray, a REACH Water Security Observatory, we present three recommendations for inclusive water services in intermittent piped water systems in small towns in Ethiopia. At the national level, there needs to be more attention to the intermittency of urban water supply systems in policy and management and what this means for climate resilient urban WASH planning.
A simple centrality index for scientific social recognition
Creators: name: Kinouchi, Osame
name: Soares, Leonardo D. H.
name: Cardoso, George C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new centrality index for bipartite network of papers and authors that we call $K$-index. The $K$-index grows with the citation performance of the papers that cite a given researcher and can seen as a measure of scientific social recognition. Indeed, the $K$-index measures the number of hubs, defined in a self-consistent way in the bipartite network, that cites a given author. We show that the $K$-index can be computed by simple inspection of the Web of Science platform and presents several advantages over other centrality indexes, in particular Hirsch $h$-index. The $K$-index is robust to self-citations, is not limited by the total number of papers published by a researcher as occurs for the $h$-index and can distinguish in a consistent way researchers that have the same $h$-index but very different scientific social recognition. The $K$-index easily detects a known case of a researcher with inflated number of papers, citations and $h$-index due to scientific misconduct. Finally, we show that, in a sample of twenty-eight physics Nobel laureates and twenty-eight highly cited non-Nobel-laureate physicists, the $K$-index correlates better to the achievement of the prize than the number of papers, citations, citations per paper, citing articles or the $h$-index. Clustering researchers in a $K$ versus $h$ plot reveals interesting outliers that suggest that these two indexes can present complementary independent information.
description: 3 figures, 1 table
The making of the director: moulding or unwrapping?
Creators: name: Gutteridge, Tom
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This thesis addresses the problem of how theatre directors might be trained and developed to fit them for the contemporary performing arts. At the core of the study is an online survey of, and a number of face-to face interviews with, current professional Australian directors. The findings are analysed alongside research from the existing literature in an attempt to arrive at an informed and up-to-date set of recommendations for future training regimes. Directors come to their vocation by many pathways. The majority have not emerged from formal ‘director training’ but from other roles in the performing arts: acting, writing, stage management; from informal ‘self-taught’ environments such as student theatre or ‘the fringe’; or from other art forms entirely (renowned director, Robert Wilson, is an architect and painter by training). As this research will show, even in the last ten years when director training has been increasingly available at drama schools and universities, a large number of successful directors have not taken this route into the profession. These factors mean that not only is the skill set of a theatre director hard to define, but the way that skill set is acquired and honed is also opaque. At the centre of the problem is the question of whether the skills of the director can be taught or whether they can only be nurtured by providing opportunities, resources and stimulus. Moulding or unwrapping? This investigation tests these questions and attempts to develop insights and recommendations that will help inform director-training regimes in Australia and enrich the ways in which those seeking to enter the profession can frame their journey.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts to the School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Bridging the Pressure Gap in Surface Science at the Atomic Level: H/Cu(110)
Creators: name: Besenbacher, F.
name: Lægsgaard, E.
name: Rasmussen, P. B.
name: Stensgaard, I.
name: Thostrup, P.
name: Österlund, L.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Mise en place de l’entretien des sols sans chimie : retour d’expérience d’un centre hospitalier
Creators: name: Fondrinier, Caroline
name: Lafargue, Camille
name: Eymard, Laurence
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2022
Subjects: Désinfectant
Détergent
Hygiène hospitalière
Lavage
Gestion des surfaces
Bionettoyage

description: Le développement durable est un enjeu d’importance croissante pour les centres hospitaliers (CH). L’innovation et l’évolution des connaissances permettent de repenser certains paradigmes et de faire évoluer nos pratiques de façon écoresponsable. C’est le cas pour l’entretien des locaux et plus particulièrement pour celui des sols. Les biocides utilisés ont un impact négatif sur l’environnement, jouent un rôle dans l’antibiorésistance, et sont toxiques pour la santé humaine. L’emploi de bandeaux en microfibres permet de s’en passer. L’objectif de cet article est de synthétiser la réflexion ayant conduit au retrait des détergents-désinfectants et à l’introduction de bandeaux en microfibres pour l’entretien des sols dans notre CH, avec les mêmes exigences de qualité. Nous y décrivons les intérêts humains, environnementaux et économiques pour notre CH, ainsi que la mise en place du projet.
The Effect of Pokémon Go on The Pulse of the City: A Natural Experiment
Creators: name: Graells-Garrido, Eduardo
name: Ferres, Leo
name: Caro, Diego
name: Bravo, Loreto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pokémon Go, a location-based game that uses augmented reality techniques, received unprecedented media coverage due to claims that it allowed for greater access to public spaces, increasing the number of people out on the streets, and generally improving health, social, and security indices. However, the true impact of Pokémon Go on people's mobility patterns in a city is still largely unknown. In this paper, we perform a natural experiment using data from mobile phone networks to evaluate the effect of Pokémon Go on the pulse of a big city: Santiago, capital of Chile. We found significant effects of the game on the floating population of Santiago compared to movement prior to the game's release in August 2016: in the following week, up to 13.8\% more people spent time outside at certain times of the day, even if they do not seem to go out of their usual way. These effects were found by performing regressions using count models over the states of the cellphone network during each day under study. The models used controlled for land use, daily patterns, and points of interest in the city. Our results indicate that, on business days, there are more people on the street at commuting times, meaning that people did not change their daily routines but slightly adapted them to play the game. Conversely, on Saturday and Sunday night, people indeed went out to play, but favored places close to where they live. Even if the statistical effects of the game do not reflect the massive change in mobility behavior portrayed by the media, at least in terms of expanse, they do show how "the street" may become a new place of leisure. This change should have an impact on long-term infrastructure investment by city officials, and on the drafting of public policies aimed at stimulating pedestrian traffic.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures. Published at EPJ Data Science
(200984) Stephen Stonham Knight
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(200983) James Anthony Knight
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Visceral pleasure, and the nature of abhorrent sexuality: power, sadomasochism and the eroticization of fascism
Creators: name: Burgio, Cara Anna-Marie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts to the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanity and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
title: Anti-dumping actions in international trade
Creators: name: Dale, Richard
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: The intellectual foundations of modern anti-dumping action were laid by Jacob Viner in his classic study of the subject ("Dumping: A Problem in International Trade") published in 1923. Since then the dumping issue has been largely ignored by economists despite the passage of much new remedial legislation (including negotiation in 1967 of the GATT Anti-dumping Code), the development of a voluminous body of caselaw and extensive experience with parallel legislation, such as the United States Robinson-Patman Act, aimed at price discrimination in the domestic field. The present study re-examines the arguments against dumping within the general context of price discrimination theory and concludes that so far as there is a problem in this area it relates to predatory rather than discriminatory pricing. At the same time recent theoretical and empirical work on pricing behaviour is drawn upon to show that predatory pricing in international trade cannot properly be regarded as a real-world phenomenon demanding remedial legislation - a conclusion supported also by the mass of documentation on individual anti-dumping investigations which has accumulated during the last decade. The main body of the study is taken up with a detailed examination of post-war anti-dumping laws and their operation. This analysis suggests that modern anti-dumping policy is not merely misconceived in theory but has highly damaging trade-inhibiting effects in practice. The penalties imposed on importers discourage both dumped and undumped imports; special anti-dumping procedures for steel have strengthened the tendency towards cartelisation of the steel sector; attempted application of anti-dumping laws to East-West trade have yielded perverse results; and, more generally, the complexity, cost and unpredictability of anti-dumping actions pose (so it is argued) an increasingly serious threat to legitimate commercial transactions. The overall conclusion is that anti-dumping laws should be repealed and that where a protectionist safety-valve is considered necessary resort should be had to other, purpose-built, safeguard mechanisms such as GATT Article XIX.
title:   LIGNIN VALORIZATION VIA REDUCTIVE DEPOLYMERIZATION USING PROMOTED NICKEL CATALYSTS AND SUB- AND SUPERCRITICAL METHANOL
Creators: name: Parker, Julia
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: While lignin has been regarded as the most promising renewable feedstock for the sustainable manufacture of aromatic compounds, lignin valorization is necessary to improve the economic viability of biorefineries. Reductive catalytic fractionation (RCF), which combines delignification and lignin depolymerization into a single stage while maintaining the structure and integrity of the cellulose component, has evolved as an effective method for processing biomass. The ability of Cu and Fe to promote the performance of a 20% Ni/alumina catalyst when converting native lignin to alkylphenols by RCF in sub- and supercritical methanol was tested. The effectiveness of lignin extraction as measured by lignin oil production, the quantity and distribution of identifiable monomers in lignin oil, and the yield of residual solids were examined. All Ni-based catalysts tested performed similarly in terms of product distribution and monomer yields, offering improved yields of lignin oil and detectable monomers along with reduced char formation in conditions relative to blank (sans catalyst) runs. Ni-Cu catalyst in the presence of supercritical methanol, with a monomer yield of 51%, performed better than Ni-Fe and Ni-only formulations. Several catalyst characterization methods were employed to identify the structure-activity relationships underpinning the performance of these catalysts in lignin valorization.
description: © 2022 Julia Parker
SAHAJA YOGA: AN ANCIENT PATH TO MODERN MENTAL HEALTH?
Creators: name: MORGAN, ADAM
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1999

description: The present study looks to evaluate the effectiveness of the meditative practice of Sahaja Yoga as a treatment for the symptoms of anxiety and depression. Whilst there is a small research literature that has investigated the efficacy of meditation (usually based upon the Buddhist Vipassana tradition) for the treatment of such symptoms, and a smaller literature looking at the effectiveness of Sahaja Yoga in the treatment of a number of physical health problems, no published studies have looked at the effectiveness of Sahaja Yoga as a treatment for mental health problems. The present study therefore compared three independent groups, these being a 'waiting list' control group, a cognitive-behavioural (CBT) based stress management group and a Sahaja Yoga meditation group. Both treatment groups consisted of six, two hourly sessions, once per week, with symptom severity being measured at pre- and post-treatment using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADs) and the 12 item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). Data were analysed using MANOV A and repeated measures AN OVA tests. The results show that, compared to controls, the participants in the Sahaja Yoga group reported significant reductions on all measures of symptomology, however, surprisingly, the CBT based group showed no such reductions. Limitations of the study, barriers to the use of Sahaja Yoga in clinical practice and the need for future research, particularly regarding process, are considered.
Identifying Designs from Incomplete, Fragmented Cultural Heritage Objects by Curve-Pattern Matching
Creators: name: Zhou, Jun
name: Yu, Haozhou
name: Smith, Karen
name: Wilder, Colin
name: Yu, Hongkai
name: Wang, Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Study of cultural-heritage objects with embellished realistic and abstract designs made up of connected and intertwined curves crosscuts a number of related disciplines, including archaeology, art history, and heritage management. However, many objects, such as pottery sherds found in the archaeological record, are fragmentary, making the underlying complete designs unknowable at the scale of the sherd fragment. The challenge to reconstruct and study complete designs is stymied because 1) most fragmentary cultural-heritage objects contain only a small portion of the underlying full design, 2) in the case of a stamping application, the same design may be applied multiple times with spatial overlap on one object, and 3) curve patterns detected on an object are usually incomplete and noisy. As a result, classical curve-pattern matching algorithms, such as Chamfer matching, may perform poorly in identifying the underlying design. In this paper, we develop a new partial-to-global curve matching algorithm to address these challenges and better identify the full design from a fragmented cultural heritage object. Specifically, we develop the algorithm to identify the designs of the carved wooden paddles of the Southeastern Woodlands from unearthed pottery sherds. A set of pottery sherds from the Snow Collection, curated at Georgia Southern University, are used to test the proposed algorithm, with promising results.
description: In Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2017
(200980) Eliza Ann Knight
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Novel Superconducting Semiconducting Superlattices: Dislocation-Induced Superconductivity?
Creators: name: Bomze, Yu. V.
name: Fedorenko, A. I.
name: Fogel, N. Ya.
name: Pokhila, A. S.
name: Shekhter, R. I.
name: Sipatov, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters