cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Nature, Form And Purpose Of Contemporary Professional Associations: An Extended Case Study Of The British Association For Counselling And Psychotherapy
Creators: name: Holmes, Cristian S.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis is an exploration of the nature, form and purpose of contemporary professional associations. The research focuses on a single primary case, the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Through an adaptation of an Extended Case Method, the research draws on 34 interviews, both from inside the organisation and other associations. It triangulates interview data by drawing on over 1,500 articles and letters published in BACP’s journal.The research explores professional associations as hybrid organisations, home to four primary institutional logics: to the member; the profession; the public; and to the organisation. These logics change and vary their centrality overtime. Dominant logics towards the membership and profession are consistently central, but at different points in the associations’ history, the logics of public and organisation have competed for centrality. Hybridity and institutional logics effectively describe the nature of the association and why there is often a perceived conflict between its roles. Literature is often inattentive to the role of associations in this regard and has a tendency to underplay an associations importance and agency. The thesis suggests associations plays central roles in the organisation of a profession and its articulation of jurisdictional claims and defences. These roles are complicated by the inherent heterogeneity within a profession. These two roles, that create central institutional logics within an association, are explored more fully. Finally, the thesis explores the strength of institutional isomorphism as an adequate explanation for perceived high degrees of conformity between associations. It suggests associations are isomorphic at functional and structural levels, but are plurally isomorphic at a cultural level.
Isoprenylated phenolic compounds with tyrosinase inhibition from Morus nigra
Creators: name: Hu, Xiao
name: Yu, Mei-Hua
name: Yan, Gui-Rui
name: Wang, He-Yao
name: Hou, Ai-Jun
name: Lei, Chun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology

description: A new isoprenylated sanggenon-type flavanone, nigrasin K (1), together with three known analogs (2–4) and five known Diels–Alder adducts (5–9), were isolated from the twigs of Morus nigra. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods. Sanggenon M (2), chalcomoracin (5), sorocein H (6), kuwanon J (7), sanggenon C (8), and sanggenon O (9) showed significant inhibitory effects on mushroom tyrosinase.
Role of Non-Farm Sector in Sustaining Rural Livelihoods in Punjab
Creators: name: Pavithra, S.
name: Vatta, Kamal
name: Pavithra, S.
name: Vatta, Kamal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Non-farm sector
subject: poor farmers
subject: income inequality
subject: rural livelihoods
subject: Punjab
subject: J40

description: The role of non-farm sector has been examined in promoting rural livelihoods in the state of Punjab, especially of the landless and marginal farm households who are often poor and derive a sizeable proportion of their income from non-farm activities. The non-farm income sources have been found to contribute towards reduction in income inequality. Owing to their lower level of education, lack of skills and capital, these households are engaged in relatively less-remunerative activities. The determinants of participation in non-farm activities have been identified and it has been found that larger family size, higher dependency ratio, small landholdings and social backwardness motivate farm households to participate more in the non-farm sector. Improvement in education and skills and creation of productive assets are crucial for enhancing their participation in more remunerative income-generating non-farm activities.
q-deformed KZB heat equation: completeness, modular properties and SL(3,Z)
Creators: name: Felder, Giovanni
name: Varchenko, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the properties of one-dimensional hypergeometric integral solutions of the q-difference ("quantum") analogue of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard equations on tori. We show that they also obey a difference KZB heat equation in the modular parameter, give formulae for modular transformations, and prove a completeness result, by showing that the associated Fourier transform is invertible. These results are based on SL(3,Z) transformation properties parallel to those of elliptic gamma functions.
description: 39 pages
Dynamics of Labour Demand and its Determinants in Punjab Agriculture
Creators: name: Devi, Y. Latika
name: Singh, Jasdev
name: Vatta, Kamal
name: Kumar, Sanjay
name: Devi, Y. Latika
name: Singh, Jasdev
name: Vatta, Kamal
name: Kumar, Sanjay
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Labour employment
subject: labour demand
subject: agriculture
subject: Punjab
subject: J43

description: The study on dynamics of labour demand in Punjab agriculture has revealed that between 1985-86 and 2006-07, the per-hectare labour use has declined by about 23 per cent; more so, in the case of dominant crops like wheat and paddy that have experienced large-scale mechanization. Wheat and paddy had together accounted for about 52 per cent of the gross cropped area in 1985-86, which further increased to 73 per cent in 2006-07. However, increase in labour use in cotton cultivation has been only marginal. The positive effect of agricultural growth on labour use has got neutralized due to the significant displacement of human labour by machines and also due to rising wage rates. The elasticity of labour use in agriculture has fallen drastically during the past two decades indicating little potential for absorption of additional labour in agriculture.
Assessment of climate change effects on mountain ecosystems through a cross-site analysis in the Alps and Apennines
Creators: name: Rogora, M.
name: Frate, L.
name: Carranza, M. L.
name: Freppaz, M.
name: Stanisci, A.
name: Bertani, I.
name: Bottarin, R.
name: Brambilla, A.
name: Canullo, R.
name: Carbognani, M.
name: Cerrato, C.
name: Chelli, S.
name: Cremonese, E.
name: Cutini, M.
name: Di Musciano, M.
name: Erschbamer, B.
name: Godone, D.
name: Iocchi, M.
name: Isabellon, M.
name: Magnani, A.
name: Mazzola, L.
name: di Cella, U. Morra
name: Pauli, H.
name: Petey, M.
name: Petriccione, B.
name: Porro, F.
name: Psenner, R.
name: Rossetti, G.
name: Scotti, A.
name: Sommaruga, R.
name: Tappeiner, U.
name: Theurillat, J. -P.
name: Tomaselli, M.
name: Viglietti, D.
name: Viterbi, R.
name: Vittoz, P.
name: Winkler, M.
name: Matteucci, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Mountain ecosystems are sensitive indicators of climate change. Long-term studies may be extremely useful in assessing the responses of high-elevation ecosystems to climate change and other anthropogenic drivers. Mountain research sites within the LTER (Long-Term Ecosystem Research) network are representative of various types of ecosystems and span a wide bioclimatic and elevational range. Here, we present a synthesis and a review of the main results from long-term ecological studies in mountain ecosystems at 20 LTER sites in Italy, Switzerland and Austria. We analyzed a set of key climate parameters, such as temperature and snow cover duration, in relation to vascular species composition, plant traits, abundance patterns, pedoclimate, nutrient dynamics in soils and water, phenology and composition of freshwater biota. The overall results highlight the rapid response of mountain ecosystems to climate change. As temperatures increased, vegetation cover in alpine and subalpine summits increased as well. Years with limited snow cover duration caused an increase in soil temperature and microbial biomass during the growing season. Effects on freshwater ecosystems were observed, in terms of increases in solutes, decreases in nitrates and changes in plankton phenology and benthos communities. This work highlights the importance of comparing and integrating long-term ecological data collected in different ecosystems, for a more comprehensive overview of the ecological effects of climate change. Nevertheless, there is a need for i) adopting co-located monitoring site networks to improve our ability to obtain sound results from cross-site analysis, ii) carrying out further studies, with fine spatial and temporal resolutions to improve understanding of responses to extreme events, and iii) increasing comparability and standardizing protocols across networks to clarify local from global patterns.
description: 30 pages plus references, 7 figures, 23 tables Paper from the LTER Europe and ILTER network
Additional file 16 of Genome-wide profiling of G protein-coupled receptors in cerebellar granule neurons using high-throughput, real-time PCR
Creators: name: Maurel, Benjamin
name: Digarcher, Anne Le
name: Dantec, Christelle
name: Journot, Laurent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 1
Modelling and Forecasting of Meat Exports from India
Creators: name: Paul, Ranjit Kumar
name: Panwar, Sanjeev
name: Sarkar, Susheel Kumar
name: Kumar, Anil
name: Singh, K.N.
name: Farooqi, Samir
name: Choudhary, Vipin Kumar
name: Paul, Ranjit Kumar
name: Panwar, Sanjeev
name: Sarkar, Susheel Kumar
name: Kumar, Anil
name: Singh, K.N.
name: Farooqi, Samir
name: Choudhary, Vipin Kumar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Forecasting
subject: meat export
subject: SARIMA model
subject: seasonality
subject: stationarity

description: In the present study, seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) methodology has been applied for modelling and forecasting of monthly export of meat and meat products from India. Augmented Dickey-Fuller test has been used for testing the stationarity of the series. Autocorrelation (ACF) and partial autocorrelation (PACF) functions have been estimated, which have led to the identification and construction of SARIMA models, suitable in explaining the time series and forecasting the future export. The evaluation of forecasting of export of meat and meat preparations has been carried out with root mean squares prediction error (RMSPE), mean absolute prediction error (MAPE) and relative mean absolute prediction error (RMAPE). The residuals of the fitted models were used for the diagnostic checking. The best identified model for the data under consideration was used for out-of-sample forecasting along with the upper and lower 95 per cent confidence interval up to the year 2013.
Agricultural Price Forecasting Using Neural Network Model: An Innovative Information Delivery System
Creators: name: Jha, Girish K.
name: Sinha, Kanchan
name: Jha, Girish K.
name: Sinha, Kanchan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Hybrid model
subject: neural networks
subject: price forecasting
subject: agriculture

description: Forecasts of food prices are intended to be useful for farmers, policymakers and agribusiness industries. In the present era of globalization, management of food security in the agriculture-dominated developing countries like India needs efficient and reliable food price forecasting models more than ever. Sparse and time lag in the data availability in developing economies, however, generally necessitate reliance on time series forecasting models. The recent innovation in Artificial Neural Network (ANN) modelling methodology provides a potential price forecasting technique that is feasible given the availability of data in developing economies. In this study, the superiority of ANN over linear model methodology has been demonstrated using monthly wholesale price series of soybean and rapeseed-mustard. The empirical analysis has indicated that ANN models are able to capture a significant number of directions of monthly price change as compared to the linear models. It has also been observed that combining linear and nonlinear models leads to more accurate forecasts than the performances of these models independently, where the data show a nonlinear pattern. The present study has aimed at developing a user-friendly ANN based decision support system by integrating linear and nonlinear forecasting methodologies.
Entanglement production by interaction quenches of quantum chaotic subsystems
Creators: name: Pulikkottil, Jethin J.
name: Lakshminarayan, Arul
name: Srivastava, Shashi C. L.
name: Bäcker, Arnd
name: Tomsovic, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement production in bipartite quantum systems is studied for initially unentangled product eigenstates of the subsystems, which are assumed to be quantum chaotic. Based on a perturbative computation of the Schmidt eigenvalues of the reduced density matrix, explicit expressions for the time-dependence of entanglement entropies, including the von Neumann entropy, are given. An appropriate re-scaling of time and the entropies by their saturation values leads a universal curve, independent of the interaction. The extension to the non-perturbative regime is performed using a recursively embedded perturbation theory to produce the full transition and the saturation values. The analytical results are found to be in good agreement with numerical results for random matrix computations and a dynamical system given by a pair of coupled kicked rotors.
description: 18 pages, 16 figures , custom bibstyle file
Investment in Wheat Research in Nepal – An Empirical Analysis
Creators: name: Shrestha, Hari Krishna
name: Manandhar, Hira Kaji
name: Regmi, Punya Prasad
name: Shrestha, Hari Krishna
name: Manandhar, Hira Kaji
name: Regmi, Punya Prasad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Congruency
subject: equity
subject: full time equivalent
subject: production environment
subject: research investment
subject: wheat research
subject: Nepal

description: Investment in wheat research in Nepal has been examined through estimation of full time equivalent of researchers on the basis of their time spent on wheat crop research. The information about full time equivalent was collected through questionnaire survey of the researchers involved in various disciplines of wheat research. The research investment has been compared with production share in value-terms using congruency model in the major production domains, such as development regions, eco-zones and environments. The model comparing actual production share with full time equivalent of researchers has revealed a moderately low congruency percentage indicating discrepancies in research investment across production domains. On adjusting the production share with both research progress and equity factors at the same time, the congruency percentage increased in production environments and decreased in ecozones and geographic regions, highlighting the mismatch in research investments. Some policy measures have been suggested to mitigate the mismatch in resource allocations to wheat research in Nepal.
Additional file 17 of Genome-wide profiling of G protein-coupled receptors in cerebellar granule neurons using high-throughput, real-time PCR
Creators: name: Maurel, Benjamin
name: Digarcher, Anne Le
name: Dantec, Christelle
name: Journot, Laurent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 2
A Note on Trimedial Quasigroups
Creators: name: Kinyon, Michael K.
name: Phillips, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20N05

description: The purpose of this brief note is to sharpen a result of Kepka about the axiomization of the variety of trimedial quasigroups.
description: 2 pages, AMS-LaTeX, submitted to_Quasigroups and Related Systems_
Additional file 1 of The Gastrodia menghaiensis (Orchidaceae) genome provides new insights of orchid mycorrhizal interactions
Creators: name: Jiang, Yan
name: Hu, Xiaodi
name: Yuan, Yuan
name: Guo, Xuelian
name: Chase, Mark W.
name: Ge, Song
name: Li, Jianwu
name: Fu, Jinlong
name: Li, Kui
name: Hao, Meng
name: Wang, Yiming
name: Jiao, Yuannian
name: Jiang, Wenkai
name: Jin, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Novel mathematical approaches to CT image analysis in asthma
Creators: name: Bell, Alexander J.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Asthma is a complex respiratory disease characterised by spatial ventilation heterogeneity (VH) in the lung. Multiple breath washout (MBW) and forced oscillation technique (FOT) testing has been shown to quantify VH at the mouth. Methods to provide fresh insight into the mechanisms driving VH are urgently needed to support treatment development. Computed tomography (CT) with parametric response map (PRM) analysis provides spatial and functional lung data. Integrated data sets of imaging features and VH markers present the problem of extracting meaningful information from high dimensional objects; topological data analysis (TDA) has demonstrated recent success in solving this problem. In this thesis topological methods are applied to extract information about lung anatomy and function from imaging data to study association with VH in innately high dimensional integrated data sets. It was sought to describe the spatial distributions of voxel based metrics, visualise the lungs using TDA methods, and combine PRM with simulated airway tree models to improve computational modelling of FOT. Data was obtained from a clinical trial involving 52 subjects, 41 asthmatic (11 healthy). An algorithm was developed to quantify directional Hounsfield unit change (ΔHU) gradients. TDA was applied to integrated data sets and voxel sets with measures of airway tree depth. FOT modelling was augmented with ΔHU about simulated acinar airways.Inferior-to-superior ΔHU gradient best differentiated VH markers. Visualisations of the lungs illustrated gradient reversal and increased heterogeneity in ΔHU in asthmatics. FOT modelling using ΔHU parameterisation showed increased correlation between clinically measured and simulated FOT small airway resistance (R5-R20). In this thesis additional insight is presented into mechanisms affecting VH markers derived from MBW and FOT. Topological methods to analyse imaging data were developed and implemented, including workflows to visualise the lungs and lung function. Linking simulated airway tree geometry with ΔHU showed improvement in FOT modelling.
Greedy Algorithms in Datalog
Creators: name: Greco, Sergio
name: Zaniolo, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1.6; F.3.1; F.4.1

description: In the design of algorithms, the greedy paradigm provides a powerful tool for solving efficiently classical computational problems, within the framework of procedural languages. However, expressing these algorithms within the declarative framework of logic-based languages has proven a difficult research challenge. In this paper, we extend the framework of Datalog-like languages to obtain simple declarative formulations for such problems, and propose effective implementation techniques to ensure computational complexities comparable to those of procedural formulations. These advances are achieved through the use of the "choice" construct, extended with preference annotations to effect the selection of alternative stable-models and nondeterministic fixpoints. We show that, with suitable storage structures, the differential fixpoint computation of our programs matches the complexity of procedural algorithms in classical search and optimization problems.
description: 27 pages
Structural Transformation in Dairy Sector of India
Creators: name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Parappurathu, Shinoj
name: Joshi, P.K.
name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Parappurathu, Shinoj
name: Joshi, P.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Milk production
subject: dairy sector
subject: sources of growth
subject: structural transformation

description: The paper has looked into the process of structural transformation of India’s dairy sector. During the past two decades, the sector grew at the rate of 4 per cent per year, making milk as the single largest agricultural commodity in the country. The growth in dairying has primarily been driven by yield improvement. A conspicuous shift has been observed in the composition of dairy herd from traditional to crossbred cows and buffaloes, and this led to improvements in milk-yield. Genetic enhancement, better management of stock and farmers’ improved access to milk markets have driven the process of transformation. Nevertheless, the status of dairy infrastructure and the delivery of veterinary services in the country are still poor and concerted efforts are required to bring about further transformation.
Characteristic classes of flat bundles and determinant of the Gauss-Manin connection
Creators: name: Esnault, Hélène
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C22, 14C25, 14C40, 14C35, 14C99

description: The purpose of this note is to give a survey on recent progress on characteristic classes of flat bundles, and how they behave in a family.
Integrated Approach to Human Resource Forecasting: An Exercise in Agricultural Sector
Creators: name: Agrawal, Rashmi
name: Nanda, S.K.
name: Rao, D. Rama
name: Rao, B.V.L.N.
name: Agrawal, Rashmi
name: Nanda, S.K.
name: Rao, D. Rama
name: Rao, B.V.L.N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Manpower forecasting
subject: human capital assessment
subject: human resource planning
subject: mixed method forecasting
subject: manpower supply & demand

description: This paper has described methodological framework for human resource forecasting in agriculture, especially for transforming human resource needs to educational requirements. It has provided a detailed description of methodological adaptations applied to human resource assessment in Indian agriculture. It has offered a mixed method with a brief revisit to classical Parnes manpower requirements approach and its adaptation to Indian agriculture. The method is perhaps suitable to many developing countries, where data needed for applications of more sophisticated forecasting methods adopted in the developed countries have limitations in terms of quality and quantity.
The Effects Of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids On Pancreatic Cancer And Pancreatic Stellate Cells In Vitro
Creators: name: Haqq, Jonathan T. C.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly malignant disease with a very poor prognosis. The tumour environment has been demonstrated to consist of an abundance of stroma containing many cells but predominantly pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs). Recent research has focused on understanding the interaction between PSCs and PDAC cells in vitro and in vivo. Omega-3 fatty acids have shown clinical benefit in PDAC, and their potential for mechanistic efficacy is under investigation.Methods: Here, we investigated the efficacy of docosahexanoic acid (DHA), eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) and the DHA/EPA combination (Lipidem™) alone and in combination with gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer and a pancreatic stellate cell line. Cells were cultured 2-dimensionally and in a 3-dimensional organotypic co-culture.Results: Pancreatic stellate cells showed a dose dependant reduction in proliferation with omega-3 fatty acids in particular LipidemTM and there was G1 cell cycle arrest. This effect may have been mediated by the downregulation of cytokine receptor PDGFR which is responsible for the proliferative pathway. Pancreatic stellate cells are necessary for PDAC invasion into the underlying extracellular matrix in an organotypic co-culture model. LipidemTM treatment decreased the invasive of pancreatic cancer cells in monoculture and in co-culture and this was reflected by downregulation of the cytokine ß-catenin. Markers of migration and extracellular matrix synthesis were also downregulated by treatments with omega-3 fatty acids.Conclusion: Omega-3 fatty acids in particular the compound LipidemTM exerts anti proliferative effects on pancreatic cancer and pancreatic stellate cells and this is mediated by downregulation of the PDGF proliferative pathway. The omega-3 fatty acids also downregulate cytokines involved in epithelial mesenchymal transition and further research with different cell lines and strains in various clinically relevant models is needed to validate the mechanistic effects of omega-3 fatty acids on the pancreatic tumour microenvironment.
Additional file 18 of Genome-wide profiling of G protein-coupled receptors in cerebellar granule neurons using high-throughput, real-time PCR
Creators: name: Maurel, Benjamin
name: Digarcher, Anne Le
name: Dantec, Christelle
name: Journot, Laurent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 3
Linking the parameters of diquark-quark model to the Cabibbo angle
Creators: name: Gavrilik, A. M.
name: Kachurik, I. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From two different modifications of the Gell-Mann-Okubo mass relation for (1/2)^+ baryons: the first one given by a version of diquark-quark model and the second one being the optimal mass sum rule obtained by using quantum groups U_q(su_n) for the role of hadronic flavor symmetries, we find direct connection of the mass parameters of the diquark-quark model of Lichtenberg, Tassie and Keleman to the (proper value of) q-parameter and then to the Cabibbo angle.
description: 4 pages, revtex4
Delensing Degree-Scale $B$-Mode Polarization with High-Redshift Line Intensity Mapping
Creators: name: Karkare, Kirit S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments that constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ are now approaching the sensitivity at which delensing---removing the $B$ modes induced by the gravitational lensing of large-scale structure---is necessary. We consider the improvement in delensing that maps of large-scale structure from tomographic line intensity mapping (IM) experiments targeting $2 < z < 10$ could provide. Compared to a nominal baseline of cosmic infrared background and internal delensing at CMB-S4 sensitivity, we find that the addition of high-redshift IM data could improve delensing performance by ~11%. Achieving the requisite sensitivity in the IM data is feasible with next-generation experiments that are now being planned. However, these results are contingent on the ability to measure low-$k$ modes along the line of sight. Without these modes, IM datasets are unable to to correlate with the lensing kernel and do not aid in delensing.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Matches version published in Phys. Rev. D
Teachers’ Orchestration of Mathematics for Different Groups of Students
Creators: name: Baldry, Fay
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Class composition for secondary mathematics lessons in England is often decided by measures related to prior attainment, with students grouped with others of similar ‘ability’ and referred to as ‘setting’. Research suggests setting does not raise overall attainment and disadvantages students placed in lower attaining sets, with those students experiencing an impoverished curriculum, such as more ‘drill and practice’ (Wiliam and Bartholomew, 2004). This classroom-based video study explores mathematics teachers’ practice in ‘typical’ classrooms and changes that come about when they teach sets with different attainment profiles. The Orchestration of Mathematics Framework (OMF) was developed to interpret classroom activities; this framework integrates a range of theoretical perspectives, including variation theory (Marton and Pang, 2006) and classroom norms (Cobb et al., 2009). The application of the OMF in different settings demonstrated it facilitated cross-class comparisons, and while further research is needed, this evidenced the potential of the OMF as an analytical tool. Three teachers participated in this study; for each teacher two sets with different attainment profiles were studied. When the findings were analysed, a complex picture of teachers’ practice emerged. There were differences between sets, but many facets of teachers’ practice were relatively stable across classes. Some differences reflected previously reported characteristics associated with low attaining sets, such as tighter control over classroom talk (Kutnick et al., 2006), but others were absent; for example, there were no discernible shifts to ‘drill and practice’. One common thread was the low frequency of attention being drawn to mathematical concepts beyond that provided by examples. One question raised is whether students in higher attaining sets are those better placed to read the implicit mathematical meanings available in the act of ‘doing’ tasks.
Studying Rare Events using Forward-Flux Sampling: Recent Breakthroughs and Future Outlook
Creators: name: Hussain, Sarwar
name: Haji-Akbari, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rare events are processes that occur upon the emergence of unlikely fluctuations. Unlike what their name suggests, rare events are fairly ubiquitous in nature, as the occurrence of many structural transformations in biology and material sciences is predicated upon crossing large free energy barriers. Probing the kinetics and uncovering the molecular mechanisms of possible barrier crossings in a system is critical to predicting and controlling its structural and functional properties. Due to their activated nature, however, rare events are exceptionally difficult to study using conventional experimental and computational techniques. In recent decades, a wide variety of specialized computational techniques-- known as advanced sampling techniques-- have been developed to systematically capture improbable fluctuations relevant to rare events. In this perspective, we focus on a technique called forward flux sampling (Allen~\emph{et al.,}~\emph{J. Chem. Phys.}, {\bf 124}: 024102, 2006), and overview its recent methodological variants and extensions. We also provide a detailed overview of its application to study a wide variety of rare events, and map out potential avenues for further explorations.
description: 56 pages, 33 figures
title: A Translation and Study of the Influence of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and Mulla Sadra on Nusrat Amin’s Commentary of the Light Verse (Qur’an 24:35) in Makhzan al-Irfan
Creators: name: Spinnenweber, Emma Grace
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Shi'i Islam
subject: Tafsit
subject: Nusrat Amin
subject: Shi'a
subject: Qur'an
subject: Shi'ism

description: Nusrat Amin was a 20th-century Shi'a mujtahida (religious legal authority), Qur'an commentator, and educator. She rose to prominence at a time when women had limited educational opportunities in the male-dominated fields of the religious sciences. Women who had access to religious training tended to be from known families of Shi’i religious scholars, but none of the men in Amin’s family were religious scholars. Nevertheless, Amin came to be regarded as a pre-eminent scholar, even rising to the highest level of religious legal authority in the Shi’i tradition. Despite her pathbreaking accomplishments as a female scholar, Amin was a religiously and socially conservative woman living in a time in Iran dominated by modernist and secularist ideologies. While she typically expressed conservative views regarding traditional gender norms, her own personal status as an advanced and authoritative religious scholar challenged perceptions of women as religious authorities. Amin would go on to found a network of religious schools for women and girls, which served to facilitate other women’s access to religious learning in a traditionally male-dominated domain. In addition to her Qur’an commentary, Makhzan-i ‘Irfan, which is the focus of my study here, Amin was also the author of eight other scholarly works on ethics, hadith, and the spiritual path. Makhzan al-Irfan has not yet been extensively studied, but the influence of the 17th-century Shi’i philosopher Mulla Sadra (Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi, d. 1636) on her metaphysical thought has been noted by early studies of her work by Travis Zadeh (2015) and Maria Dakake (2022). Through a translation and textual analysis of Amin's commentary on the well-known Qur’anic passage known as the “Light Verse” (Qur’an 24:35), this thesis will further demonstrate the influence of Mulla Sadra on her exegetical writing and also show the influence Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111), a major Sunni theologian and mystic, on her commentary here. Both Mulla Sadra and al-Ghazali authored extensive works on the Light Verse. This study will examine the influence of these two works – Mulla Sadra's Tafsir Ayat al-Nur (Mulla Sadra 2004) and al-Ghazali's Mishkat al-Anwar (al-Ghazali 1998) – on Amin’s own commentary on this verse.
A self-consistent QRPA study of quadrupole collectivity around 32Mg
Creators: name: Yamagami, Masayuki
name: Van Giai, Nguyen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On the basis of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) plus quasiparticle random phase approximation method (QRPA) based on the Green's function approach with Skyrme force, we discuss the anomalous E2 properties of the first 2+ states in neutron-rich nuclei 32Mg and 30Ne. The B(E2) values and the excitation energies of the first 2+ states are well described within HFB plus QRPA calculations with spherical symmetry. We conclude that pairing effects account largely for the anomalously large B(E2) values and the low excitation energies in 32Mg and 30Ne.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of the international symposium "A new era of nuclear structure physics", 19-22 November 2003, Niigata, Japan
The DiStoMusInq framework: Digital storytelling for students’ inquiry-based museum learning
Creators: name: Tsiviltidou, Zoi
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Digital storytelling gains momentum in museum practice, being increasingly applied to enrich the programs for schools. In this thesis I probe into how the digital storytelling process could frame students’ explorations of museum content in the context of inquiry-based school museum trips. The DiStoMusInq framework was developed to articulate the three-staged mapping between the inquiry-based learning process and the process of crafting a digital story. The methodology was exploratory, having a series of three trials designed with previsit, on-visit and post-visit activities that involved 70 middle school and high school students of an international school in Thessaloniki, Greece. The objective was to examine three different ways in which digital stories could be the objective and outcome of student group museum inquiries. Students conducted museum investigations structured around personally set questions using their own smartphones, tablets and laptops, and produced a digital story to present their findings. The research revealed that there is a synergy between the two processes, and increased self-reported confidence in student research skills, but the interplay is not linear; it is dialectic, with each stage feeding into the others and with inquiry and digital storytelling driving each other. The findings fed into a refined version of the DiStoMusInq framework and the identification of benefits of its integration with school museum trip planning. This study furthers our understanding of inquiry-based museum learning embedded in school curricula because it shows us how and why to use digital stories as outputs of self-initiated and self-directed inquiries. The thesis concludes with proposing directions for further research to broaden the scope of this inquiry beyond school trips towards web-based museum visits. The research reported here thus paves the way for newly envisioned applications of digital stories in the twenty-first century museum.
Anomalous dimensions of Wilson operators in N=4 SYM theory
Creators: name: Kotikov, A. V.
name: Lipatov, L. N.
name: Velizhanin, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of two-loop calculations of the anomalous dimension matrix for the Wilson twist-2 operators in the N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory for polarized and unpolarized cases. This matrix can be transformed to a triangle form by the same similarity transformation as in the leading order. The eigenvalues of the anomalous dimension matrix are expressed in terms of an universal function with its argument shifted by integer numbers. In the conclusion we discuss relations between the weak and strong coupling regimes in the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence.
description: LaTeX file, 10 pages, no figures
Analysis of the London penetration depth in Ni-doped CaKFe4As4
Creators: name: Torsello, D.
name: Cho, K.
name: Joshi, K. R.
name: Ghimire, S.
name: Ummarino, G. A.
name: Nusran, N. M.
name: Tanatar, M. A.
name: Meier, W. R.
name: Xu, M.
name: Budko, S. L.
name: Canfield, P. C.
name: Ghigo, G.
name: Prozorov, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report combined experimental and theoretical analysis of superconductivity in CaK(Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_x$)$_4$As$_4$ (CaK1144) for $x=$0, 0.017 and 0.034. To obtain the superfluid density, $ρ=\left(1+Δλ_L(T)/λ_L(0) \right)^{-2}$, the temperature dependence of the London penetration depth, $Δλ_L (T)$, was measured by using tunnel-diode resonator (TDR) and the results agreed with the microwave coplanar resonator (MWR) with the small differences accounted for by considering a three orders of magnitude higher frequency of MWR. The absolute value of $λ_L (T \ll T_c) \approx λ_L(0)$ was measured by using MWR, $λ_L (\mathrm{5~K}) \approx 170 \pm 20$ nm, which agreed well with the NV-centers in diamond optical magnetometry that gave $λ_L (\mathrm{5~K}) \approx 196 \pm 12$ nm. The experimental results are analyzed within the Eliashberg theory, showing that the superconductivity of CaK1144 is well described by the nodeless s$_{\pm}$ order parameter and that upon Ni doping the interband interaction increases.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 19 of Genome-wide profiling of G protein-coupled receptors in cerebellar granule neurons using high-throughput, real-time PCR
Creators: name: Maurel, Benjamin
name: Digarcher, Anne Le
name: Dantec, Christelle
name: Journot, Laurent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 4
Rotating disks in high-mass young stellar objects
Creators: name: Beltran, Maria T.
name: Cesaroni, Riccardo
name: Neri, Roberto
name: Codella, Claudio
name: Furuya, Ray S.
name: Testi, Leonardo
name: Olmi, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the detection of four rotating massive disks in two regions of high-mass star formation. The disks are perpendicular to known bipolar outflows and turn out to be unstable but long lived. We infer that accretion onto the embedded (proto)stars must proceed through the disks with rates of ~10E-2 Msun/yr.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication by ApJL
The General O(n) Quartic Matrix Model and its application to Counting Tangles and Links
Creators: name: Zinn-Justin, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The counting of alternating tangles in terms of their crossing number, number of external legs and connected components is presented here in a unified framework using quantum field-theoretic methods applied to a matrix model of colored links. The overcounting related to topological equivalence of diagrams is removed by means of a renormalization scheme of the matrix model; the corresponding ``renormalization equations'' are derived. Some particular cases are studied in detail and solved exactly.
description: 21 pages
Alignment Tolerant Broadband Compact Taper for Low-Loss Coupling to a Silicon-on-Insulator Photonic Wire Waveguide
Creators: name: Sethi, Purnima
name: Selvaraja, Shankar Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate a broadband, fabrication tolerant, CMOS compatible compact silicon waveguide taper (34.2 um) in silicon-on-insulator wire waveguides. The taper works on multi-mode interference along the length of the taper. A single taper design has a broadband operation with coupling efficiency >70% over 700 nm that can be used in O, C and L-band. The compact taper is highly tolerant to fabrication variations; >100 nm change in the taper and end waveguide width varies the taper transmission by <5%. The footprint of the device i.e. taper along with the linear gratings is ~ 442 m2; i.e. 11.5X smaller than the adiabatic taper. The taper with linear gratings provides comparable coupling efficiency as standardly used focusing gratings. We have also compared the translational and rotational alignment tolerance of the focusing grating with the linear grating.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1705.01698
CITP SOP Thermotolerance Assays
Creators: name: Caenorhabditis Intervention Testing Program
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biological Techniques

description: The Caenorhabditis Intervention Testing Program (CITP) is a multi-institutional program that seeks robust and reproducible pro-longevity interventions that are efficacious across genetically diverse cohorts in the Caenorhabditis genus. The project features a unique design in which multiple experimental replicates are collected by three different laboratories at discrete locations for all candidate compounds tested. To limit confounding factors that may influence experimental reproducibility, we develop standardized operating procedures (SOPs) for all experimental procedures. Here we provide the CITP's SOPs for a thermotolerance health assay.
On the Difference Between the Information Bottleneck and the Deep Information Bottleneck
Creators: name: Wieczorek, Aleksander
name: Roth, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Combining the Information Bottleneck model with deep learning by replacing mutual information terms with deep neural nets has proved successful in areas ranging from generative modelling to interpreting deep neural networks. In this paper, we revisit the Deep Variational Information Bottleneck and the assumptions needed for its derivation. The two assumed properties of the data $X$, $Y$ and their latent representation $T$ take the form of two Markov chains $T-X-Y$ and $X-T-Y$. Requiring both to hold during the optimisation process can be limiting for the set of potential joint distributions $P(X,Y,T)$. We therefore show how to circumvent this limitation by optimising a lower bound for $I(T;Y)$ for which only the latter Markov chain has to be satisfied. The actual mutual information consists of the lower bound which is optimised in DVIB and cognate models in practice and of two terms measuring how much the former requirement $T-X-Y$ is violated. Finally, we propose to interpret the family of information bottleneck models as directed graphical models and show that in this framework the original and deep information bottlenecks are special cases of a fundamental IB model.
ВЛИЯНИЕ МАГНИТНОЙ ОБРАБОТКИ НА КАЧЕСТВЕННЫЕ ПОКАЗАТЕЛИ БИТУМА
Creators: name: БАКАЕВ МАГОМЕД-АМИН ЭМХАТОВИЧ
name: АБДУЛАЕВ МАГОМЕД КАЗБЕКОВИЧ
name: ТАКАЕВА МАДИНА АТЛАЕВНА
Publisher: name: Вестник науки и образования
Year: 2021
Subjects: БИТУМ
ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНОЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ
МАГНИТНОЕ ВОЗДЕЙСТВИЕ
ТЕХНИЧЕСКИЕ ПОКАЗАТЕЛИ
ПОСТОЯННЫЕ МАГНИТЫ

description: В статье рассмотрено влияние магнитного поля на основные технические показатели битума. Волновая технология приобретает широкое распространение в самых различных отраслях промышленности. Разрабатываются и внедряются новые способы интенсификации действующих технологий, а также новые технологии, основанные на использовании волновых явлений. Представленные данные экспериментальных исследований дают возможность судить о времени пребывания реакционной смеси в среде воздействия магнитным полем. Чем дольше время обработки, тем качественнее выход получаемой продукции.
Discreteness of spectrum and strict positivity criteria for magnetic Schrödinger operators
Creators: name: Kondratiev, Vladimir
name: Maz'ya, Vladimir
name: Shubin, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35J10, 35P05, 47F05

description: We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the discreteness of spectrum and strict positivity of magnetic Schrödinger operators with a positive scalar potential. They are expressed in terms of Wiener's capacity and the local energy of the magnetic field. The conditions for the discreteness of spectrum depend on two functional parameters. One of them is a decreasing function of one variable whose argument is the normalized local energy of the magnetic field. This function enters the negligibility condition of sets for the scalar potential. We give a description for the range of admissible functional parameters which is precise in a certain sense. In case when there is no magnetic field, our results extend the discreteness of spectrum and positivity criteria by A.Molchanov (1953) and V.Maz'ya (1973).
description: Final version, a small error corrected. To appear in Communications in Partial Differential Equations, v. 29, no. 3 & 4 (2004), 489-521