cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DYNAMICS OF POVERTY AND FOOD SUFFICIENCY
Creators: name: Ribar, David C.
name: Hamrick, Karen S.
name: Ribar, David C.
name: Hamrick, Karen S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food sufficiency
subject: food insufficiency
subject: food security
subject: food insecurity
subject: poverty
subject: well-being
subject: hunger

description: This study examines dynamics in poverty and food insufficiency using newly available longitudinal data from the 1993 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation SIPP) and the follow-on Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD). The study uses these data to characterize the incidence and dynamics of poverty and food problems for the entire U.S. population and for different subgroups. It also estimates multivariate, discrete-choice regression models to examine the factors associated with transitions into and out of poverty and food insufficiency, and it analyzes the empirical results in the context of a life-cycle model of income and food consumption. Results indicate that the incidence of food insufficiency in the United States is low-less than 3 percent in 1997. There also appears to be little persistence in food problems; 79 percent of people in households with food problems at the start of the study period were in households without problems 2 years later. The multivariate results indicate that female-headed households face an especially high risk of being food insufficient. Low levels of asset income, an indicator of a household's ability to spread out consumption costs over time, are also associated with food sufficiency problems.
CHILDREN'S CONSUMPTION OF WIC-APPROVED FOODS
Creators: name: Oliveira, Victor
name: Chandran, Ram
name: Oliveira, Victor
name: Chandran, Ram
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: WIC
subject: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women
subject: Infants
subject: Children
subject: food packages
subject: WIC-approved foods
subject: Tobit regression analysis
subject: food consumption patterns
subject: child nutrition

description: The WIC program offers supplemental foods to low-income women, infants, and children. This study compared consumption patterns of WIC children with those of three different comparison groups: eligible nonparticipating children living in non-WIC households, eligible nonparticipating children living in WIC households, and children living in households whose income is too high to be eligible for WIC. The study provides strong evidence that participation in the WIC program increases consumption of at least some types of WIC-approved foods. Although WIC-participating children consumed significantly more calories from WIC-approved foods than children in the two comparison groups of eligible nonparticipants, there was no significant difference in total calories consumed. The results suggest that WIC foods replace non-WIC foods in the diets of children participating in WIC rather than adding to their food consumption. This is the first study to examine in detail children's consumption of WIC-approved foods by WIC status. Understanding WIC's effect on the consumption of foods contained in the WIC food packages can help inform decisions on possible changes to the packages.
Prosody interventions for ASD: Systematic review (Holbrook & Israelsen, 2020)
Creators: name: Holbrook, Sarai
name: Israelsen, Megan
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Purpose: Persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may demonstrate abnormal prosodic patterns in conversational speech, which can negatively affect social interactions. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify interventions measuring the improvement of expressive speech prosody in persons with ASD in order to support clinician’s evidence-based decision making.Method: We used 13 electronic databases to search for relevant articles using terms related to autism, intervention, and speech prosody. The databases identified a total of nine articles for the title, abstract, and full-text reviews. Five more articles were included after performing descendant and reference searches. One peer-reviewed article was excluded due to insufficient data received from the authors. We coded the resulting 13 articles for report, setting, intervention, outcome, and results characteristics and methodological quality.Results: Results showed that interventions specifically targeting speech prosody using established and emerging evidence-based practices across more than 1 treatment day resulted in moderate to large improvements in speech prosody in persons with ASD. Interventions that indirectly targeted prosody or were very short resulted in small or nonsignificant effects.Discussion: The results of this literature review suggest that interventions that directly target speech prosody using established evidence-based practices for ASD may be most effective for increasing typical prosodic patterns during speech for persons with ASD. Further research is needed to establish which interventions are most effective for each age range and context.
Supplemental Material S1. Databases searched and search terms.
Supplemental Material S2. Coding master sheet.
Holbrook, S., & Israelsen, M. (2020). Speech prosody interventions for persons with autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00127
Conformable nanowire-in-nanofiber hybrids for low-threshold optical gain in the ultraviolet
Creators: name: Portone, Alberto
name: Borrego-Varillas, Rocio
name: Ganzer, Lucia
name: Di Corato, Riccardo
name: Qualtieri, Antonio
name: Persano, Luana
name: Camposeo, Andrea
name: Cerullo, Giulio
name: Pisignano, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The miniaturization of diagnostic devices that exploit optical detection schemes requires the design of light-sources combining small size, high performance for effective excitation of chromophores, and mechanical flexibility for easy coupling to components with complex and non-planar shapes. Here, ZnO nanowire-in-fiber hybrids with internal architectural order are introduced, exhibiting a combination of polarized stimulated emission, low propagation losses of light modes, and structural flexibility. Ultrafast transient absorption experiments on the electrospun material show optical gain which gives rise to amplified spontaneous emission, with threshold lower than the value found in films. These systems are highly flexible and can conveniently conform to curved surfaces, which makes them appealing active elements for various device platforms, such as bendable lasers, optical networks and sensors, as well as for application in bioimaging, photo-crosslinking, and optogenetics.
description: 50 pages, 17 figures, 1 table, ACS Nano, 2020
ASSESSMENT OF WIC COST-CONTAINMENT PRACTICES: FOOD ASSISTANCE RESEARCH BRIEF
Creators: name: Kaufman, Phillip R.
name: Kaufman, Phillip R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty

description: In an effort to ensure the best use of available funds and to provide benefits to all eligible individuals, State agencies responsible for carrying out the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children(WIC) have implemented one or more cost-containment practices. Do these practices adversely affect WIC participants'food consumption, access to authorized food stores, program participation, and related factors to the extent that overall nutrition and health goals are undermined?
HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY IN THE UNITED STATES, 2002
Creators: name: Nord, Mark
name: Andrews, Margaret S.
name: Carlson, Steven
name: Nord, Mark
name: Andrews, Margaret S.
name: Carlson, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Food security
subject: food insecurity
subject: hunger
subject: food spending
subject: food pantry
subject: soup kitchen
subject: emergency kitchen
subject: material well-being
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: WIC

description: Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year 2002, meaning that they had access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households were food insecure at least some time during that year. The prevalence of food insecurity rose from 10.7 percent in 2001 to 11.1 percent in 2002, and the prevalence of food insecurity with hunger rose from 3.3 percent to 3.5 percent. This report, based on data from the December 2002 food security survey, provides the most recent statistics on the food security of U.S. households, as well as on how much they spent for food and the extent to which food-insecure households participated in Federal and community food assistance programs. Survey responses indicate that the typical food-secure household in the U.S. spent 35 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. Just over one-half of all food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food assistance programs during the month prior to the survey. About 19 percent of food-insecure households- 3.0 percent of all U.S. households- obtained emergency food from a food pantry at some time during the year.
An ultracompact X-ray binary in the globular cluster M15 (NGC7078)
Creators: name: Dieball, A.
name: Knigge, C.
name: Zurek, D. R.
name: Shara, M. M.
name: Long, K. S.
name: Charles, P. A.
name: Hannikainen, D. C.
name: van Zyl, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope to image the core of the globular cluster M15 in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) waveband. Based on these observations, we identify the FUV counterpart of the recently discovered low-mass X-ray binary M15 X-2. Our time-resolved FUV photometry shows a modulation with 0.062+/-0.004 mag semi-amplitude and we clearly detect a period of 22.5806+/-0.0002 min. We have carried out extensive Monte Carlo simulations which show that the signal is consistent with being coherent over the entire observational time range of more than 3000 cycles. This strongly suggests that it represents the orbital period of the binary system. M15 X-2 is FUV bright (approx. 17 mag) and is characterized by an extremely blue spectral energy distribution (F_lambda ~ lambda^{-2.0}). We also find evidence for an excess of flux between 1500 and 1600 Åand probably between 1600 and 2000 Å, which might be due to CIV 1550 and HeII 1640 emission lines. We also show that M15 X-2's X-ray luminosity can be powered by accretion at the rate expected for gravitational-wave-driven mass transfer at this binary period. The observed FUV emission appears to be dominated by an irradiated accretion disk around the neutron star primary, and the variability can be explained by irradiation of the low-mass white dwarf donor if the inclination of the system is approx. 34 degree. We conclude that all observational characteristics of M15 X-2 are consistent with it being an ultracompact X-ray binary, only the third confirmed such object in a globular cluster.
description: 13 pages, including 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Gain-line graphs via $G$-phases and group representations
Creators: name: Cavaleri, Matteo
name: D'Angeli, Daniele
name: Donno, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $G$ be an arbitrary group. We define a gain-line graph for a gain graph $(Γ,ψ)$ through the choice of an incidence $G$-phase matrix inducing $ψ$. We prove that the switching equivalence class of the gain function on the line graph $L(Γ)$ does not change if one chooses a different $G$-phase inducing $ψ$ or a different representative of the switching equivalence class of $ψ$. In this way, we generalize to any group some results proven by N. Reff in the abelian case. The investigation of the orbits of some natural actions of $G$ on the set $\mathcal H_Γ$ of $G$-phases of $Γ$ allows us to characterize gain functions on $Γ$, gain functions on $L(Γ)$, their switching equivalence classes and their balance property. The use of group algebra valued matrices plays a fundamental role and, together with the matrix Fourier transform, allows us to represent a gain graph with Hermitian matrices and to perform spectral computations. Our spectral results also provide some necessary conditions for a gain graph to be a gain-line graph.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Transinklusive offene Jugendarbeit: Trans Jugendliche in der offenen Jugendarbeit
Creators: name: Layritz, Lou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Die Arbeit Transinklusive offene Jugendarbeit - Trans Jugendliche in der offenen Jugendarbeit von Lou Layritz, bearbeitet die Fragestellung, wie eine transinklusive offene Jugendarbeit aussehen könnte und formuliert konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen. Unsere westliche Gesellschaft ist geordnet in zwei Geschlechter, nämlich Frauen und Männer. Doch immer mehr wird diese Geschlechterbinarität durch trans Menschen1 herausgefordert. Obwohl diese in den Medien und der Gesellschaft sichtbarer werden, verfügen trans Menschen noch nicht über dieselben Rechte, sind mit zusätzlichen Schwierigkeiten konfrontiert und erleben diskriminierende Situationen und Strukturen. Bei trans Jugendlichen kommen neben den Herausforderungen, die das Erwachsenwerden mit sich bringen, noch transspezifische hinzu. Aufgrund dessen haben sie spezifische Ressourcen und Strategien entwickelt. Auch die offene Jugendarbeit ist geprägt von der Binarität der Geschlechter. Es ist daher an der Zeit, die Praxis der offenen Jugendarbeit auch für trans Jugendliche zu öffnen, um damit zu beginnen die starren Kategorien Mädchen und Jungen aufzuweichen und eine Unschärfe der Geschlechtergrenzen zuzulassen. Es braucht Anstrengungen in den Bereichen Wissensaufbau, Sensibilisierung und Reflexion der Fachpersonen sowie eine Anpassung der Angebote, der Infrastruktur und der Sprache sowie eine Öffnung bzw. Weiterentwicklung geschlechtsspezifischer Arbeit.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask be 2020 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Soziokultur 2020 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202002
A Dyson-Schwinger model beyond isospin limit prepared for investigating U_A(1)-breaking temperature dependence
Creators: name: Horvatić, Davor
name: Kekez, Dalibor
name: Klabučar, Dubravko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by our earlier findings of sensitive quark-flavor dependence of QCD topological susceptibility on products of current quark masses and corresponding condensates, we allow the breaking of isospin symmetry. For the purpose of future investigations of U_A(1) symmetry breaking and restoration at T > 0, we perform (at T = 0) refitting of the quark-mass parameters of a phenomenologically successful effective model of low-energy QCD. It belongs to the class of separable-interaction models within the Dyson-Schwinger approach to the quark-antiquark substructure of mesons.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables
Der syrische Diatessaronkommentar zu Jo. I 1-5
Creators: name: Beck, Edmund
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 67 (1983): Oriens christianus, Band 67
Shoaling dynamics and abundance estimation : Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
Creators: name: Newlands, Nathaniel K.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is a long-lived, highly migratory species that attains sizes of 2.20 m, and weights of 300 kg or more. Adults undertake cyclic migrations between coastal feeding zones, offshore wintering areas and spawning grounds. During June through October, bluefin tuna are common off the eastern United States and Canada, entering the Gulf of Maine, a semi-enclosed continental shelf area. The population is currently believed to have plummeted to 20% of 1970's levels, yet there is significant uncertainty in their population status and size. This thesis investigates bluefin tuna movement, aggregation and distribution, size and structure of bluefin shoals, and examines how these factors can affect the measurement bias and estimation uncertainty of population abundance. Data analysis methods applied include: interpolation of movement data, Lomb spectral analysis, statistical bootstrap simulation, Kalman filtering, and geostatistics. An automated digital image analysis system (SAIA) is developed for the three-dimensional analysis of fish shoal structure. A theoretical model is also formulated to describe the movement and behaviour of shoaling tuna leading to changes in shoal aggregation, distribution and abundance. The precision in abundance estimation of random, systematic, stratified, and spotter-search aerial survey sampling schemes are simulated under changes in the size, distribution and aggregation of shoals. Correlated and biased random walk models can predict lower and upper limits on displacement and spatial movement range over time. Bluefin tuna move by responding to changes in temperature gradients and to the local abundance of prey, preferring to be situated in the warmest water available, while also showing a weak response to flow and bathymetric gradients. The effect of aggregation on the distribution of shoals considerably reduces precision of population estimates under random transect sampling. Stratified sampling is shown to increase precision to within 5%, with adaptive stratification leading to further increases. Movement and shoal aggregation introduce relatively equal levels of bias and uncertainty in estimating abundance. Results indicate that reliable estimates of abundance can be attained under systematic and stratified survey schemes. However, further reductions in uncertainties associated with the shoal aggregation process are necessary to achieve acceptable precision in abundance estimation.
Low Symmetry Phase in (001) BiFeO$_3$ Epitaxial Constrained Thin Films
Creators: name: Xu, Guangyong
name: Hiraka, H.
name: Shirane, G.
name: Li, Jiefang
name: Wang, Junling
name: Viehland, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lattice of (001)-oriented BiFeO$_3$ epitaxial thin film has been identified by synchrotron x-ray diffraction. By choosing proper scattering zones containing the fixed (001) reflection, we have shown that low-symmetry phases similar to a $M_A$ phase exist in the thin film at room temperature. These results demonstrate a change in phase stability from rhombohedral in bulk single crystals, to a modified monoclinic structure in epitaxial thin films.
A COMPARISON OF FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Gundersen, Craig
name: Yanez, Mara
name: Valdes, Constanza
name: Kuhn, Betsey A.
name: Gundersen, Craig
name: Yanez, Mara
name: Valdes, Constanza
name: Kuhn, Betsey A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Food assistance programs
subject: social safety net
subject: targeting methods
subject: macroeconomy
subject: poverty
subject: Progresa
subject: DICONSA
subject: FIDELIST
subject: LICONSA
subject: DIF
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: WIC
subject: the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs

description: The social safety nets in Mexico and the United States rely heavily on food assistance programs to ensure food security and access to safe and nutritious foods. To achieve these general goals, both countries' programs are exclusively paid for out of internal funds and both target low-income households and/or individuals. Despite those similarities, economic, cultural, and demographic differences between the countries lead to differences in their abilities to ensure food security and access to safe and nutritious foods. Mexico uses geographic and household targeting to distribute benefits while the United States uses only household targeting. U.S. food assistance programs tend to be countercyclical (as the economy expands, food assistance expenditures decline and vice-versa). Mexican food assistance programs appear to be neither counter- nor procyclical. Food assistance programs have little effect on the extent of poverty in Mexico, while the opposite is true in the United States, primarily because the level of benefits as a percentage of income is much lower in Mexico and a much higher percentage of eligible households receive benefits from food assistance programs in the United States.
Floricola Gistel 1848
Creators: name: Bezděk, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Capnodiales
Mycosphaerellaceae
Floricola

description: Floricola Gistel, 1848
 Floricola Gistel, 1848a: 404; GISTEL (1848b): xi, 123; GISTEL (1851): xi, 123.
 Current status. Valid genus name in Eumolpinae (MON- RÓS & BECHYNÉ 1956, SEENO & WILCOX 1982, LÖBL & SMETANA 2011).
 Comments. Floricola Gistel, 1848 was proposed as a new replacement name for Pales Chevrolat, 1836 (a junior homonym of Pales Meigen, 1800 in Diptera) (see BOUSQUET & BOUCHARD 2013).
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Jan, 2020, Review of the genus-level names proposed by Johannes Gistel in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), pp. 173-188 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 178, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.011, http://zenodo.org/record/3879369
Adult advantages in nonnative speech learning (Fuhrmeister et al., 2020)
Creators: name: Fuhrmeister, Pamela
name: Schlemmer, Brianna
name: Myers, Emily B.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Language

description: Purpose: Children and early adolescents seem to have an advantage over adults in acquiring nonnative speech sounds, supported by evidence showing that earlier age of acquisition strongly predicts second language attainment. Although many factors influence children’s ultimate success in language learning, it is unknown whether children rely on different, perhaps more efficient learning mechanisms than adults.Method: The current study compared children (aged 10–16 years) and adults in their learning of a nonnative Hindi contrast. We tested the hypothesis that younger participants would show superior baseline discriminability or learning of the contrast, better memory for new sounds after a delay, or improved generalization to a new talker’s voice. Measures of phonological and auditory skills were collected to determine whether individual variability in these skills predicts nonnative speech sound learning and whether these potential relationships differ between adults and children.Results: Adults showed superior pretraining sensitivity to the contrast compared to children, and these pretraining discrimination scores predicted learning and retention. Even though adults seemed to have an initial advantage in learning, children improved after a period of off-line consolidation on the trained identification task and began to catch up to adults after an overnight delay. Additionally, perceptual skills that predicted speech sound learning differed between adults and children, suggesting they rely on different learning mechanisms.Conclusions: These findings challenge the view that children are simply better speech sound learners than adults and suggest that their advantages may be due to different learning mechanisms or better retention of nonnative contrasts over the broader language learning trajectory.
Supplemental Material S1. Relationships between age and nonnative learning; Individual differences.
Fuhrmeister, P., Schlemmer, B., & Myers, E. B. (2020). Adults show initial advantages over children in learning difficult nonnative speech sounds. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00358
CCD photometry of 23 minor planets
Creators: name: Székely, P.
name: Kiss, L. L.
name: Szabó, Gy. M.
name: Sárneczky, K.
name: Csák, B.
name: Váradi, M.
name: Mészáros, Sz.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present CCD photometric observations of 23 main-belt asteroids, of which 8 have never been observed before thus the data of these objects are the first in the literature. The majority showed well detectable light variations, exceeding 0.1 mag. We have determined synodic periods for 756 Lilliana (9.36h), 1270 Datura (3.4h), 1400 Tirela (13.36h), 1503 Kuopio (9.98h), 3682 Welther (3.59h), 7505 Furushu (4.14h) and 11436 1969 QR (2.6h), while uncertain period estimates were possible for 469 Argentina (12.3h), 546 Herodias (10.4h) and 1026 Ingrid (5.3h). The shape of the lightcurves of 3682 Welther changed on a short time-scale and showed dimmings that might be attributed to eclipses in a binary system. For the remaining objects, only lower limits of the periods and amplitudes were concluded.
description: Accepted for publication in Planetary and Space Science, 25 pages, 3 tables, 30 figures
Lyapunov exponent of random dynamical systems on the circle
Creators: name: Malicet, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider products of a i.i.d. sequence in a set $\{f_1,\ldots,f_m\}$ of preserving orientation diffeomorphisms of the circle. we can naturally associate a Lyapunov exponent $λ$. Under few assumptions, it is known that $λ\leq 0$ and that the equality holds if and only if $f_1,\ldots,f_m$ are simultaneously conjugated to rotations. In this paper, we state a quantitative version of this fact in the case where $f_1,\ldots,f_m$ are $C^k$ perturbations of rotations with rotation numbers $ρ(f_1),\ldots,ρ(f_m)$ satisfying a simultaneous diophantine condition in the sense of Moser: we give a precise estimate on $λ$ (Taylor expansion) and we prove that there exists a diffeomorphism $g$ and rotations $r_i$ such that $\mbox{dist}(gf_ig^{-1},r_i)\ll |λ|^{\frac{1}{2}}$ for $i=1,\ldots m$. We also state analog results for random products of matrices $2\times 2$, without diophantine condition.
title: 5-Year Review of the Ringed Seal, Saimaa Subspecies (Pusa hispida saimensis)
Creators: name: Parsons, Edward Christien Michael
name: Schultz, Jennifer
Publisher: name: NOAA Office of Protected Resources
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03fy33a80
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: During a 5-year review, we determine whether a species should be removed from the list (i.e., delisted), reclassified from an endangered species to a threatened species (i.e., downlisted), or reclassified from a threatened species to an endangered species (i.e., uplisted; 16 U.S.C. 1533(c)(2)). Section 4(b)(1)(A) of the ESA requires us to make the determination based solely on the best scientific and commercial data available at the time of the review and after taking into account efforts to protect the species (16 U.S.C. 1533(b)(1)(A)).
Akzeptanzorientierte und niederschwellige Drogenarbeit: Grenzen und Spannungsfelder aus der Sicht von Sozialarbeitenden in Kontakt- und Anlaufstellen der deutschsprachigen Schweiz
Creators: name: Meier, Neshrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Die vorliegende Bachelor-Arbeit widmet sich der Sozialen Arbeit in Kontakt- und Anlaufstellen der deutschsprachigen Schweiz. Ziel ist es, herauszufinden wo Sozialarbeitende in Kontakt- und Anlaufstellen auf Spannungsfelder und Grenzen in ihrer Arbeit stossen. Um dieser Frage nachzugehen wurden Leitfadeninterviews mit Expert*innen aus der Praxis geführt. Die Arbeit gibt zunächst einen Überblick über die Ausgangslage dieser Forschung und die zugrundelie-gende Forschungsfrage. In den darauffolgenden Theoriekapiteln wird der Ansatz der akzep-tanzorientierten Drogenarbeit erläutert. In diesem Zusammenhang wird ausserdem auf die Thematik der Schadensminderung und die Bedeutung der Niederschwelligkeit eingegangen. Auch werden die Kontakt- und Anlaufstellen sowie die Soziale Arbeit als Profession in diesem Arbeitsfeld ausführlich beschrieben. Im Forschungsteil werden nach einer Beschreibung der verwendeten Forschungsmethode die geführten Leitfadeninterviews ausgewertet. Es zeigen sich dabei diverse Spannungsfelder auf der persönlichen, der institutionellen und der gesell-schaftlich-politischen Ebene sowie Grenzen akzeptanzorientierter, niederschwelligen Drogen-arbeit in der Schweiz. Diese Ergebnisse werden mit ergänzenden Zitaten aus den Interviews beschrieben und anschliessend in Bezug zur Theorie gesetzt. Schliesslich wird die Forschungs-frage in einem letzten Kapitel zusammenfassend beantwortet und die Praxisrelevanz der vorliegenden Arbeit wird dargelegt.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa be 2020 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialarbeit 2020 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202002
Multimode theory of measurement-induced non-Gaussian operation on wideband squeezed light
Creators: name: Sasaki, M.
name: Suzuki, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multimode theory of non-Gaussian operation induced by an imperfect on/off-type photon detector on a splitted beam from a wideband squeezed light. The events are defined for finite time duration $T$ in the time domain. The non-Gaussian output state is measured by the homodyne detector with finite bandwidh $B$. Under this time- and band-limitation to the quantm states, we develop a formalism to evaluate the frequency mode matching between the on/off trigger channel and the conditional signal beam in the homodyne channel. Our formalism is applied to the CW and pulsed schemes. We explicitly calculate the Wigner function of the conditional non-Gaussian output state in a realistic situation. Good mode matching is achieved for $BT\alt1$, where the discreteness of modes becomes prominant, and only a few modes become dominant both in the on/off and the homodyne channels. If the trigger beam is projected nearly onto the single photon state in the most dominant mode in this regime, the most striking non-classical effect will be observed in the homodyne statistics. The increase of $BT$ and the dark counts degrades the non-classical effect.
description: 20 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A
Beneath (or beyond) the surface: Discovering voice-leading patterns with skip-grams
Creators: name: Sears, David R. W.
name: Widmer, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Recurrent voice-leading patterns like the Mi-Re-Do compound cadence (MRDCC) rarely appear on the musical surface in complex polyphonic textures, so finding these patterns using computational methods remains a tremendous challenge. The present study extends the canonical n-gram approach by using skip-grams, which include sub-sequences in an n-gram list if their constituent members occur within a certain number of skips. We compiled four data sets of Western tonal music consisting of symbolic encodings of the notated score and a recorded performance, created a model pipeline for defining, counting, filtering, and ranking skip-grams, and ranked the position of the MRDCC in every possible model configuration. We found that the MRDCC receives a higher rank in the list when the pipeline employs 5 skips, filters the list by excluding n-gram types that do not reflect a genuine harmonic change between adjacent members, and ranks the remaining types using a statistical association measure.
description: This is an original manuscript / preprint of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Journal of Mathematics and Music, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17459737.2020.1785568. 26 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
Jugendliche auf Kurve: Entweichungen aus dem Heim: Eine qualitative Forschung mit Jugendlichen im Zwangskontext
Creators: name: Schöb, Anja
name: Vonwyl, Katrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Für Kinder- und Jugendheime ist das „auf Kurve gehen“ – also das Davonlaufen oder Ausreissen – eine Realität im pädagogischen Alltag. Eine Entweichung aus dem Heim stellt alle Beteiligten vor grosse Herausforderungen und aktiviert administrative, strukturelle sowie emotionale Prozesse. Das Ziel dieser Forschungsarbeit ist es, subjektive Perspektiven von Jugendlichen zum Thema zu erfassen und theoretisch zu verorten. Die Fragestellungen beziehen sich auf die auslösenden Faktoren, Funktionen und Auswirkungen von Entweichungen aus dem Heim. Innerhalb dieser qualitativen Forschungsarbeit wurden, in Anlehnung an das problemzentrierte Interview nach Witzel, Befragungen mit Jugendlichen im geschlossenen Setting der Jugendhilfe durchgeführt. Die Datenauswertung erfolgte in Anlehnung an die qualitative Inhaltsanalyse nach Mayring. Die Erkenntnisse aus den Befragungen wurden unter anderem mit Theorien abweichenden Verhaltens, Bindungstheorien und der Reaktanztheorie verknüpft. Die ursprüngliche Fragestellung konnte beantwortet, Diskussionsansätze und mögliche Handlungsempfehlungen für die Praxis herausgearbeitet werden. Wichtige Ansatzpunkte scheinen dabei unter anderem die subjektiv als mangelnd empfundenen Partizipationsmöglichkeiten im Hilfeprozess, wechselnde Platzierungen, sowie der eingeschränkte Zugang zu Bezugspersonen aus Familie und der Peergroup zu sein. Diese Arbeit soll einen Anstoss zum Diskurs über die genannten Faktoren in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe geben und Professionelle der Sozialen Arbeit für die Thematik von Entweichungen sensibilisieren.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basp be 2020 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialpädagogik 2020+ NL-Code: NLLUHSA202002
Distribution sensitive estimators of the index of regular variation based on ratios of order statistics
Creators: name: Jordanova, Pavlina K.
name: k, Milan Stehlí
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F10

description: Ratios of central order statistics seem to be very useful for estimating the tail of the distributions and therefore, quantiles outside the range of the data. In 1995 Isabel Fraga Alves investigated the rate of convergence of three semi-parametric estimators of the parameter of the tail index in case when the cumulative distribution function of the observed random variable belongs to the max-domain of attraction of a fixed Generalized Extreme Value Distribution. They are based on ratios of specific linear transformations of two extreme order statistics. In 2019 we considered Pareto case and found two very simple and unbiased estimators of the index of regular variation. Then, using the central order statistics we showed that these estimators have many good properties. Then, we observed that although the assumptions are different, one of them is equivalent to one of Alves's estimators. Using central order statistics we proved unbiasedness, asymptotic consistency, asymptotic normality and asymptotic efficiency. Here we use again central order statistics and a parametric approach and obtain distribution sensitive estimators of the index of regular variation in some particular cases. Then, we find conditions which guarantee that these estimators are unbiased, consistent and asymptotically normal. The results are depicted via simulation study.
POLICY CONCERNS FOR ONLINE B2B EXCHANGES
Creators: name: Hooker, Neal H.
name: Rha, Jong-Youn
name: Ernst, Stanley C.
name: Widdows, Richard
name: Hooker, Neal H.
name: Rha, Jong-Youn
name: Ernst, Stanley C.
name: Widdows, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Policy concerns arise as e-business activities become increasingly common. This paper discusses important elements of such concerns, particularly the pro- and anti-competitive assessment of online business-to-business (B2B) exchanges. The definition of markets, the role of quality management and communication, and join purchasing implications within such environments are related to food distribution systems. Other online business-to-consumer (B2C) and consumer-to-business (C2B) policy concerns are also raised.
Obtaining Nanocarbon from Local Raw Materials and Studying Its Textural and Sorption Properties
Creators: name: Xolmirzayeva, Hilola N.
name: Fayzullayev, Normurot I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article studied the influence of various factors on the synthesis of nano carbons from walnut shells, apricot kernels, methane, natural gas and propane-butane fractions, and also checked the textural and sorption characteristics of the obtained nanocarbon. The catalytic activity of a catalyst containing (CuO)x*(CoO)y*(NiO)z*(Fe2O3)k*(MoO3)m/HSZ prepared based on "sol-gel" technology for the implementation of processes was studied under differential reactor conditions. The morphological composition of the samples was performed by scanning electron microscopy on an LEO EVO 50 HVP instrument equipped with a part of energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis. Energy-dispersive X-ray spectra were recorded at a working distance of 10 mm at 20 kV. The microstructure of the samples was investigated by the method of a glowing electron microscope on a Jem-2000 CX device. Using the BET method, the specific surface area of the carbon nanotubes was measured. Statistical and morphological characteristics of material porosity were calculated. The specific surface area is 168.7 m2/g, the specific pore volume is 0.456 cm3/g, and the average hole diameter is 2.58 nm. In the case of walnut shells, this absorption band was observed at 1376 cm-1 and 1064 cm-1. When examining samples based on apricot kernels in the infrared spectrum at various temperatures in an inert nitrogen atmosphere, it can be seen that cellulose and lignin are characterized by a strong absorption band, and the treatment decreases with increasing temperature.
description: 9 pages, 18 figures, 1 table
Search for non-SM Light Higgs Boson in the h -> to gamma gamma Channel at D0 in Run II
Creators: name: Melnitchouk, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for non-SM light Higgs boson with an enhanced branching fraction into photons in ppbar collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron is presented using Run II DO data taken between April 2002 and September 2003. We set 95% CL limits on the diphoton branching fraction as a function of Higgs mass for Fermiophobic and Topcolor Higgs scenarios.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, DPF2004 conference
Enhanced optical cooling of particle beams in storage rings
Creators: name: Bessonov, E. G.
name: Mikhailichenko, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of enhanced optical cooling (EOC) of particle beams in storage rings beyond the Robinson's damping criterion is discussed.
description: 3 pages, LaTeX
Optical properties of small polarons from dynamical mean-field theory
Creators: name: Fratini, S.
name: Ciuchi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical properties of polarons are studied in the framework of the Holstein model by applying the dynamical mean-field theory. This approach allows to enlighten important quantitative and qualitative deviations from the limiting treatments of small polaron theory, that should be considered when interpreting experimental data. In the antiadiabatic regime, accounting on the same footing for a finite phonon frequency and a finite electron bandwidth allows to address the evolution of the optical absorption away from the well-understood molecular limit. It is shown that the width of the multiphonon peaks in the optical spectra depends on the temperature and on the frequency in a way that contradicts the commonly accepted results, most notably in the strong coupling case. In the adiabatic regime, on the other hand, the present method allows to identify a wide range of parameters of experimental interest, where the electron bandwidth is comparable or larger than the broadening of the Franck-Condon line, leading to a strong modification of both the position and the shape of the polaronic absorption. An analytical expression is derived in the limit of vanishing broadening, which improves over the existing formulas and whose validity extends to any finite-dimensional lattice. In the same adiabatic regime, at intermediate values of the interaction strength, the optical absorption exhibits a characteristic reentrant behavior, with the emergence of sharp features upon increasing the temperature -- polaron interband transitions -- which are peculiar of the polaron crossover, and for which analytical expressions are provided.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
COMPARISONS OF HISPANIC HOUSEHOLDS' DEMAND FOR MEATS WITH OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS
Creators: name: Lanfranco, Bruno A.
name: Ames, Glenn C.W.
name: Huang, Chung L.
name: Lanfranco, Bruno A.
name: Ames, Glenn C.W.
name: Huang, Chung L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis

description: The objective of this research was to analyze the demand patterns of Hispanic households for meats in comparison with other ethnic groups using data from the 1998 Consumer Expenditure Survey. A system of demand equations of the LinQuad form were estimated for ten meat products using an incomplete system of censored equations. Hispanic households showed a clear preference for beef. Price, income, and household-size elasticities were estimated for each meat product by ethnic group. The demand for ground beef was the most income-inelastic product regardless of ethnicity. Household size had a positive effect on the probability of consuming a particular meat product but a negative effect on actual item expenditures.
Soziokultur und Performancekunst: Braucht es eine dramaturgisch orientierte Soziokulturelle Animation?
Creators: name: Ugolini, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit untersucht die Performancekunst nach anschlussfähigen Eigenschaften für die Soziokulturelle Animation. Eine Gegenüberstellung beider Disziplinen zeigt verschiedene Parallelen, Potentiale und Spannungsfelder auf. Wie die Soziokulturelle Animation, bewegt sich auch die Performancekunst zwischen verschiedenen Polen und wirkt intermediär. Auch wenn es zu Beginn den Anschein macht, dass sich die Ziele beider Disziplinen womöglich nicht vereinbaren lassen, so lässt sich eine künstlerischästhetische Methode erkennen, welche im Rahmen einer interdisziplinaren Zusammenarbeit in der integralen Projektmethodik ihren Platz rechtfertigt. Durch die irritierende Kraft und die dahinterstehenden dramaturgischen Überlegungen der Performancekunst können Projekte der Soziokulturellen Animation aufgewertet werden. Durch dramaturgische Überlegungen in allen Projektphasen kann so die Aufmerksamkeit aller Beteiligten gesteigert werden. Wichtige Voraussetzungen für eine transdisziplinare Zusammenarbeit sind das gegenseitige Verständnis der jeweiligen Profession und die Bereitschaft, ergebnissoffen zu bleiben. Ein stetiges Reflektieren der Rollen und Funktionen von Professionellen der Soziokulturellen Animation und der Performancekunst sind unabdingbar. Durch das gemeinsame künstlerische Schaffen im urbanen Raum können neue Identitäten erschaffen, Bedürfnisse thematisiert und Missstände aufgedeckt werden. Der urbane Raum gilt als gemeinsames Bindeglied für alle Beteiligten. Mit Performancekunst im urbanen Raum wird über die Projektarbeit ein Beitrag zur zivilgesellschaftlichen Kohäsion geleistet.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask be 2020 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Soziokultur 2020 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202002
PARTS OR WHOLE? EFFICIENT BROILER PRODUCTION RESPONSES TO CONSUMER-DRIVEN MARKETS
Creators: name: Costa, Ecio De Farias
name: Houston, Jack E.
name: Gunter, Lewell F.
name: Pesti, Gene M.
name: Costa, Ecio De Farias
name: Houston, Jack E.
name: Gunter, Lewell F.
name: Pesti, Gene M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agribusiness
Consumer/Household Economics

description: Adoption of consumer-market-oriented production on broiler profit-maximizing modeling generates results that differ from those traditionally used in profit maximization for broiler production. This model shows that the adoption of step-pricing and marketing options (examples of consumer-market-oriented decisions) modify the optimal levels and types of broiler production to generate maximum profitability. Thus optimal protein levels in the feed formulated exceed currently recommended levels and alternative protein sources are also allocated. The adoption of step-pricing to respond to consumer-market-oriented decisions shows that higher profits can be obtained for targeted weights only if premium prices for output are allocated.
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Creators: name: Helena.Gunnarsson@Lnu.Se Helena.Gunnarsson@Lnu.Se
name: Agerström, Jens
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Translated tasks from the Cogntive Reflection Test, the Belief Bias Syllogisms Task and the Conditional Inference Task from English to Swedish in shortened versions used in the study " Is clinical, musculoskeletal pain associated with poorer logical reasoning?"