cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Effects of Morphine on the Discrimination of Subject-Produced and Experimenter-Imposed Durations
Creators: name: Ward, Ryan D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: Experiments on the effects of drugs on behavior maintained by temporal-discrimination procedures have led to discrepant results. Recent experiments suggest that the effects of drugs may differ depending on whether the subject is timing some aspect of its own behavior or some other stimulus. The present experiment used a multiple-schedule procedure composed of a subject-produced and experimenter-imposed component. In the subject-produced component, pigeons categorized the duration of their most recently emitted interresponse time. In the experimenter-imposed component, pigeons categorized the duration of a key light. Morphine generally produced underestimation of time during the subject-produced component, a result in agreement with other recent experiments. Morphine had no systematic effects on accuracy during the experimenter-imposed component. These results are discussed in terms of procedural interactions and a morphine-induced disruption of stimulus control.
XStar: Cross Study Transcriptomic Analysis Resource
Creators: name: Lobo, Diana
name: Godinho, Raquel
name: Archer, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Conference Details:  XIV Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, 11 October 2018, Lisbon (url) The poster is based on a paper titled "On taming the effect of transcript level intra-condition count variation during differential expression analysis: a story of dogs, foxes and wolves" that is available here. Presented by Diana Lobo. Abstract The recent expansion of RNA-Seq technology has yielded data that possess potential for providing unprecedented insight into the understanding of transcriptome evolution, function and development. The evolution of software that is essential to analysis has occurred more slowly. In a typical experiment, expression profiles based in read counts, are compared in order to identify differentially expressed genes. This is complicated by sources of variation that include sequencing errors and biological variation unassociated with the condition of interest. Current tools work based on read data from samples being allocated to one of two conditions while minimizing all other background variation and compute each genes likelihood of being differentially expressed. This process is susceptible to background noise, which is amplified at an inter-study level. We present a method for filtering out genes that display high intra condition variability based on pairwise distance profiles calculated for each gene across all samples and subsequently perform an inter-study differential expression analysis. We apply the method to datasets containing reads from brain tissues of dogs (n=10), wolves (n=6) and two strains of silver foxes (aggressive and tamed) in order to identify genes involved in domestication. By removing 5% of intra condition variation we were able to exclude 24% of previously ambiguous differentially expressed genes. Using this filtered set, we identified two genes (COL11A2 and ITGA8) that display high potential to be involved in domestication. We provide an open source, user friendly tool, to perform our analysis on any inter study transcriptomic data and feel that this will benefit the research community greatly in comparing data at an inter study level. (The conference abstract book is available from the download section along with a PDF of the poster) Related software to this project are:
 1. CStone
 2. CSReadGen
 3. CView
 4. ChimSim
 5. TVScript < General details of the supporting projects are available here (wolf hybridization) and here (removal of chimeras).
description: This work was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT, projects PTDC/BIA-EVF/2460/2014 and PTDC/BIA-EVL/29115/2017. DL, RG were supported by FCT (PD/BD/132403/2017 to DL, contract under DL57/2016 to RG) and JA was supported by Funds through FCT under the references POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029115 and PTDC/BIA-EVL/29115/2017.
title: How High School Records and ACT Scores Predict College Graduation
Creators: name: Sun, Lianqun
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: This thesis is based on the data analysis of a large public university’s admission and graduation records between 2006 and 2014. Probit regressions were applied to analyze the relationship between high school GPA, class rank, ACT scores, and Advanced Placement (AP) test credits, and college graduation. All of the aforementioned variables were found to be significant predictors to college graduation rates. In both controlled and uncontrolled models, class rank had the largest predictive magnitude power to college graduation compared to other variables at the same significance level, followed by high school GPA, ACT scores and AP credits. In reviewing data from ACT component scores, ACT English and ACT Math were the only significant predictors to college graduation. There was heterogeneity for these variables across race, sex and residency, but at different significance levels.
Reproductive biology of the Tasmanian Bettong (Bettongia Gaimardi)
Creators: name: Rose, Randolph W
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The Tasmanian bettong is a rat-kangaroo found only in Tasmania. Information on this macropodid is extremely scant and the thesis presents a detailed study of the species' reproductive biology. Techniques for accurately estimating the age of the pouch young are reported, together with their application to the analysis of breeding season and growth rates. The bettong is able to breed throughout the year. The growth rate of pouch young is faster than that of other kangaroo species and this mirrors the findings that prenatal growth is also so rapid that the bettong has the shortest gestation of any macropodid. The reproductive biology of the bettong conforms to the pattern found in most kangaroos. Gestation and the oestrous cycle are of similar duration (21-22 days), and a post-partum oestrus may result in the formation of a blastocyst that remains quiescent (embryonic diapause) throughout most of the pouch life. Oestrous cycles including a gestation are shorter (by 1.5 days) than those cycles without a pregnancy. The presence of a fetus also has morphological effects upon the uterus. The uterine glands in the pregnant uterus remain enlarged for a longer period than do those of the non-pregnant uterus. Pouch life is always terminated when a new young is born. In the absence of birth, final pouch emergence is associated with oestrus. Pouch vacation is apparently a consequence of a dramatic tightening of the pouch musculature. Data are presented to support the conclusion that, contrary to expectations b~seu on previous work, it is the physiology of the mother that is most important in the determination of the duration of pouch life. It appears that the duration of pouch life, in effect, may be a compromise between the wellbeing of the existing pouch young and the mother's capacity to maximise reproductive output during her life span. The bettong displays a circadian rhythm in body temperature. The daily fluctuations in body temperature of females vary according to the phases of the reproductive cycle. This is a consequence of a relatively stable daily maximum temperature but a more labile basal body temperature (BBT). Computer analysis of the variations in the BBT demonstrate a cyclical variation whose period corresponded closely with the duration of the oestrous cycle. A profile of the fluctuations in the sex hormone progesterone appears to mirror the changes in basal body temperature.
The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles
Creators: name: Guralnik, Gerald S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I discuss historical material about the beginning of the ideas of spontaneous symmetry breaking and particularly the role of the Guralnik, Hagen Kibble paper in this development. I do so adding a touch of some more modern ideas about the extended solution-space of quantum field theory resulting from the intrinsic nonlinearity of non-trivial interactions.
description: 26 pages, historical review
title: Towards a More Comprehensive View of the Use of Power Between Couple Members in Adolescent Romantic Relationships
Creators: name: Bentley, Charles George
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: This study investigated the construct of power in adolescent romantic couples using multiple measures. The project examined gender differences in power, created models of powerlessness for each gender, and examined relations between power and aggression and relationship quality. Participants were 90 heterosexual couples, aged 14-18 years old, living in rural areas in Utah and Arizona. Couple members completed surveys assessing attitudes and behaviors in their relationships and a video-recall procedure in which partners rated their own and their partner's behaviors during problem solving discussion.
Few gender differences emerged in reports of perpetration of aggression, but boyfriends reported higher levels of emotional vulnerability and lower levels of resource control for several power-related outcomes. Structural equation modeling yielded models that appeared to capture the construct of powerlessness, with different models emerging for boyfriends and girlfriends. Finally, stepwise regressions revealed strong associations between measures of power and relationship outcomes with interesting gender differences.
Symbolic Sequences and Tsallis Entropy
Creators: name: Ribeiro, H. V.
name: Lenzi, E. K.
name: Mendes, R. S.
name: Mendes, G. A.
name: da Silva, L. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address this work to investigate symbolic sequences with long-range correlations by using computational simulation. We analyze sequences with two, three and four symbols that could be repeated $l$ times, with the probability distribution $p(l)\propto 1/ l^μ$. For these sequences, we verified that the usual entropy increases more slowly when the symbols are correlated and the Tsallis entropy exhibits, for a suitable choice of $q$, a linear behavior. We also study the chain as a random walk-like process and observe a nonusual diffusive behavior depending on the values of the parameter $μ$.
description: Published in the Brazilian Journal of Physics
Fluctuation of the Initial Conditions and Its Consequences on Some Observables
Creators: name: Hama, Y.
name: Andrade, R. P. G.
name: Grassi, F.
name: Qian, W. -L.
name: Kodama, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show effects of the event-by-event fluctuation of the initial conditions (IC) in hydrodynamic description of high-energy nuclear collisions on some observables. Such IC produce not only fluctuations in observables but, due to their bumpy structure, several non-trivial effects appear. They enhance production of isotropically distributed high-pT particles, making v2 smaller there. Also, they reduce v2 in the forward and backward regions where the global matter density is smaller, so where such effects become more efficacious. They may also produce the so-called ridge effect in the two large-pT particle correlation.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, presented at the IV Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF2008), Krakow, Poland, 11-14 Sep 2008
D4.1.1 Report on the characterization of the selected Natura 2000 sites
Creators: name: Markov, Martina
name: Partnership, The ECOSS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In this Report, characterization of the seven ECOSS Natura 2000 case studies sites has been done: 4 SCIs - HR3000469 Viški arhipelag, HR3000161 Cres-Lošinj, HR4000015 Malostonski zaljev, IT3330009 Trezze San Pietro e Bardelli, 2 SACs - IT3250047 Tegnue di Chioggia and IT 3270017 Delta del Po: tratto terminale e delta Veneto and 1 SPA IT3270023 Delta del Po. Analysis of the ongoing monitoring activities and conservation strategies was done as well as the analysis of habitats, key ecological processes, the target species and other relevant species of these sites. The Report was developed by using information from questionnaires shared among project partners, Standard Data Forms for selected NATURA2000 sites, other scientific sources and online portals. Some data were collected by direct communication with project partners and relevant scientist. Detail description of each of selected sites as well as SWOT analysis were done. At the end, conclusions and recommendations were done.
description: ECOSS project (Observing System in the Adriatic Sea: oceanographic observations for biodiversity) is an EU 2014–2020 Interreg V-A Italy-Croatia CBC programme ID number 10042301
From Solo to Social: Exploring the Dynamics of Player Cooperation in a Co-located Cooperative Exergame
Creators: name: Wang, Derrick M.
name: Cmentowski, Sebastian
name: Mogavi, Reza Hadi
name: Nathan, Kaushall Senthil
name: Kukshinov, Eugene
name: Tu, Joseph
name: Nacke, Lennart E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Digital games offer rich social experiences and promote valuable skills, but they fall short in addressing physical inactivity. Exergames, which combine exercise with gameplay, have the potential to tackle this issue. However, current exergames are primarily single-player or competitive. To explore the social benefits of cooperative exergaming, we designed a custom co-located cooperative exergame that features three distinct forms of cooperation: Free (baseline), Coupled, and Concurrent. We conducted a within-participants, mixed-methods study (N = 24) to evaluate these designs and their impact on players' enjoyment, motivation, and performance. Our findings reveal that cooperative play improves social experiences. It drives increased team identification and relatedness. Furthermore, our qualitative findings support cooperative exergame play. This has design implications for creating exergames that effectively address players' exercise and social needs. Our research contributes guidance for developers and researchers who want to create more socially enriching exergame experiences.
description: This is a pre-print version of our CHI 2025 paper. Please check out the DOI for the published version: https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713937
title: The Effects of Added Reinforcers on Resistance to Change
Creators: name: Podlesnik, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: The fundamental unit of behavior, defined by the discriminated operant, can be reduced to the three-term contingency, which includes an antecedent stimulus, a response, and a reinforcing consequence. Behavioral momentum theory suggests that resistance to disruption (i.e., resistance to change) of operant behavior is governed by the relation between the antecedent stimulus context and the rate of reinforcement within that context (i.e., Pavlovian stimulus-reinforcer relation). Further, behavior momentum theory suggests that resistance to change is independent of the contingency between the response and the reinforcer (i.e., operant response-reinforcer relation). Thus, although additional response-independent food decreases response rates by greatly degrading the response-reinforcer relation, resistance to change is increased because the stimulus-reinforcer relation is enhanced. Inconsistent with behavioral momentum theory, unsignaled delays decrease response rates and resistance to change by slightly degrading the response-reinforcer relation while maintaining equal stimulus-reinforcer relations. Therefore, it is unclear exactly how degrading response-reinforcer relations with response-independent food and delayed reinforcers affects resistance to change because the stimulus-reinforcer relations have generally differed across components and studies. Thus, the present experiment examined whether differentially degrading response-reinforcer relations affects resistance to change while maintaining equal stimulus-reinforcer relations. In the present experiment, a three-component multiple schedule with equal rates of immediate response-dependent reinforcement (15 per hr) was used with pigeons keypecking for food. Equal rates of response-independent food (60 per hr) and 3-s unsignaled delayed reinforcers (60 per hr) were added to two different components in baseline. Thus, the stimulus-reinforcer relations were equal in the two components with added reinforcers and were greater than in the component without added reinforcers . Any differences in resistance to change across the components with added reinforcers should reflect only differences in the response-reinforcer relations because the stimulus-reinforcer relations were equal. Consistent with behavioral-momentum theory, however, resistance to presession feeding, response-independent food presented during intercomponent intervals , and extinction was greater in the components with added reinforcers. There were no differences in resistance to change between the two components with added reinforcers. These results replicate the finding that adding response-independent food increases resistance to change and extends this finding to the effects of added delayed reinforcement.
Error Scaling Laws for Linear Optimal Estimation from Relative Measurements
Creators: name: Barooah, Prabir
name: Hespanha, Joao P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the problem of estimating vector-valued variables from noisy "relative" measurements. This problem arises in several sensor network applications. The measurement model can be expressed in terms of a graph, whose nodes correspond to the variables and edges to noisy measurements of the difference between two variables. We take an arbitrary variable as the reference and consider the optimal (minimum variance) linear unbiased estimate of the remaining variables. We investigate how the error in the optimal linear unbiased estimate of a node variable grows with the distance of the node to the reference node. We establish a classification of graphs, namely, dense or sparse in Rd,1<= d <=3, that determines how the linear unbiased optimal estimation error of a node grows with its distance from the reference node. In particular, if a graph is dense in 1,2, or 3D, then a node variable's estimation error is upper bounded by a linear, logarithmic, or bounded function of distance from the reference, respectively. Corresponding lower bounds are obtained if the graph is sparse in 1, 2 and 3D. Our results also show that naive measures of graph density, such as node degree, are inadequate predictors of the estimation error. Being true for the optimal linear unbiased estimate, these scaling laws determine algorithm-independent limits on the estimation accuracy achievable in large graphs.
description: 15 pages, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Reduction of non-linear d'Alembert equations to two-dimensional equations
Creators: name: Yehorchenko, Irina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study conditions of reduction of the multidimensional wave equation - a system of the d'Alembert and Hamilton equations. We prove necessary conditions for compatibility of such system of the reduction conditions. Possible types of the reduced equations represent interesting classes of two-dimensional parabolic, hyperbolic and elliptic equations. Ansatzes and methods used for reduction of the d'Alembert (n-dimensional wave) equation can be also used for arbitrary Poincare-invariant equations. This seemingly simple and partial problem involves many important aspects in the studies of the PDE.
description: The published paper with some mistakes corrected
Out of equilibrium dynamics of the spiral model
Creators: name: Corberi, Federico
name: Cugliandolo, Leticia F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relaxation of the bi-dimensional kinetically constrained spiral model. We show that due to the reversibility of the dynamic rules any unblocked state fully decorrelates in finite times irrespectively of the system being in the unjammed or the jammed phase. In consequence, the evolution of any unblocked configuration occurs in a different sector of phase space from the one that includes the equilibrium blocked equilibrium configurations at criticality and in the jammed phase. We argue that such out of equilibrium dynamics share many points in common with coarsening in the one-dimensional Ising model and we identify the coarsening structures that are, basically, lines of vacancies. We provide evidence for this claim by analyzing the behaviour of several observables including the density of particles and vacancies, the spatial correlation function, the time-dependent persistence and the linear response.
description: 14 pages 12 figures
Deliverable 4.1. Proposal for the organisational structure and processes of the SUNRISE large scale initiative
Creators: name: Chandezon, Frédéric
name: Meier, Matthias
name: Groot, Huub De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: deliverable, governance, large initiative

description: This document, D4.1: Proposal for the organisational structure and processes of the SUNRISE
 large scale initiative, is a deliverable of the SUNRISE Project, which is funded by the European
 Union’s H2020 Programme under Grant Agreement No. 816336. The original aim of the
 Deliverable D4.1 was: “Proposal for the organisational structure and processes of the SUNRISE
 large scale initiative”. One key fact led to an adapted D4.1 compared to the original plan: the
 decision of SUNRISE and ENERGY-X consortia, who were both granted under the call
 FETFLAG-01-2018, is to merge in a new initiative, SUNERGY, at the end of the current CSAs as
 both share common challenges and objectives.
description: Revised version following review
Authenticite, ambiguity and freedom : recuperating the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir for a contemporary ethics of ambiguity
Creators: name: Saunders, TM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir has been criticised for being a \rniserablism\"; for throwing us into an absurd universe with no meaning; and for giving an account of freedom which concludes that each can do 'as one pleases' without regard for others due to an inherent lack of meaning in the world. It has been argued that due to its insistence on an irreducible 'radical' freedom it is not possible to develop an ethics based on existentialism and therefore that it is of little use in providing any grounds for an ethics today. In this thesis I argue against such a reading of de Beauvoir' s existentialism and for a recuperation of the existential notion of authenticite for a contemporary ethics. In order demonstrate the importance of the concept of authenticite I make an explicit distinction between two conceptions of the 'authentic' self. The more common understanding is of the decontextualised autonomous and disembodied individual/subject evident in traditional philosophical accounts of the 'authentic' self. The second is what I identify as the authentique self described by de Beauvoir understood as embodied situated and contextualised - the self as related ambiguously to others and the world. A primary aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the important interconnections between the concepts of ambiguity and authenticite and to reveal that the more common notion of 'authenticity' is based (often implicitly) upon a denial of our ambiguous freedom. Taking up the more recent reclamation of the unique philosophical importance of de Beauvoir's account of ambiguity and freedom which has strong affinities with the existential phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty I apply de Beauvoir's account of authenticite based on ambiguous freedom to the examination of limits within feminist theory and within the debate over Aboriginal identity in the Tasmanian context. I argue that both of these debates have been limited by their understandings of 'authenticity' and that both would find within de Beauvoir's philosophy of ambiguous freedom a way to move beyond or at least question this understanding. I conclude that by taking seriously the account of ambiguous freedom described throughout de Beauvoir's texts we are provided with an ethics that allows for openness and joy in our relations with others and which offers a powerful descriptive and explanatory account of some complex contemporary social and political situations."
Deliverable 2.3. Innovation and Exploitation plan fully developed and IPR consortium guidelines updated
Creators: name: Soller, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: innovation, IPR, science to science, science to business, renewable energy, renewable fuels and chemicals

description: This Deliverable Report updates and details the guidelines for Intellectual Property (IP)
 management and the Innovation & Exploitation schemes for the SUNRISE partnership based on
 the previous deliverable D2.2. As outlined there, the proposed IP system on individual project level
 will follow the established framework for funding programs such as Horizon 2020.
description: Revised version following review
On finitely recursive programs
Creators: name: Baselice, Sabrina
name: Bonatti, Piero A.
name: Criscuolo, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Disjunctive finitary programs are a class of logic programs admitting function symbols and hence infinite domains. They have very good computational properties, for example ground queries are decidable while in the general case the stable model semantics is highly undecidable. In this paper we prove that a larger class of programs, called finitely recursive programs, preserves most of the good properties of finitary programs under the stable model semantics, namely: (i) finitely recursive programs enjoy a compactness property; (ii) inconsistency checking and skeptical reasoning are semidecidable; (iii) skeptical resolution is complete for normal finitely recursive programs. Moreover, we show how to check inconsistency and answer skeptical queries using finite subsets of the ground program instantiation. We achieve this by extending the splitting sequence theorem by Lifschitz and Turner: We prove that if the input program P is finitely recursive, then the partial stable models determined by any smooth splitting omega-sequence converge to a stable model of P.
description: 26 pages, Preliminary version in Proc. of ICLP 2007, Best paper award
Relativistic one-dimensional billiards
Creators: name: Artigue, Alfonso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article we study the dynamics of one-dimensional relativistic billiards containing particles with positive and negative energy. We study configurations with two identical positive masses and symmetric positions with two massless particles between them of negative energy and symmetric positions. We show that such systems have finitely many collisions in any finite time interval. This is due to a phenomenon we call \textit{tachyonic collision}, which occur at small scales and produce changes in the sign of the energy of individual particles. We also show that depending on the initial parameters the solutions can be bounded with certain periodicity or unbounded while obeying an inverse square law at large distances.
The Twenty-First Century Conflicts
Creators: name: Marco, Marsili.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: conflict
international law
international humanitarian law
frozen conflict
transnational conflict
hybrid conflict
asymmetric conflict
terrorist
terrorism
insurgents
NATO
EUropean Union
UN
United Nations
Geneva Convention
The Hague Convention
Law of war
Law of armed conflict
traditional conflict
North Atlantic Treaty

description: Alongside non-international and international conflict, a third category of armed conflict is emerging: hybrid, asymmetric, and transnational conflict which involve state and non-state actors such as insurgents or terrorist organizations. Unconventional conflicts are among the trend topics of defense and security, and they pose a threat to the stability of international order. States and international organizations, such as the UN and NATO, face difficulty using legal tools currently provided by international law, in particular international humanitarian law (IHL) and the law of war (Geneva and Hague conventions). The issue is how current international law applies or can be adapted to these conflicts. There are some questions to be fixed. First, we should find whether new rules are required to deal with situations of hybrid conflict, or if current rules are still valid and can be used/adapted. Secondly, we should determine whether IHL applies in transnational armed conflict against non-state groups, and if their members cease to be targetable during a pause in their active involvement, and whether there can be a non-international armed conflict which has no finite territorial boundaries with a non-state armed group operating transnationally. Lastly, we should assess whether attacks carried out by a transnational organisation and its affiliates meet the criteria of qualifying as a state of armed conflict under IHL.
description: A poster (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1992458) has been presented in the Poster Session (10h30–11h00 and 11h40-12h00, 12 Dec. 2018) in the atrium of the Amphitheater General Ivens Ferraz at the Instituto Universitário Militar (IUM), Lisboa, Portugal, and later published in the conference proceedings, together with an extended abstract of this presentation. This work received financial support by the European Social Fund (ESF) and by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, under research grant SFRH/BD/136170/2018.
title: Juvenile Drug Courts: Using Participant Characteristics to Predict Outcome
Creators: name: Boghosian, Sara M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: Juvenile drug courts are becoming an increasingly popular answer to rising rates of substance use-related crime among adolescents in the U.S. However, outcome evidence for the efficacy of juvenile drug courts is limited at this time. Currently, approximately 50% of juvenile drug court participants do not graduate from drug court programs nationwide. However, the nongraduates are believed to have a poor prognosis following termination from drug court. The purpose of this study was to determine if participant characteristics are related to outcome in juvenile drug courts. Neither demographic variables (age, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status) nor substance use variables (age at first use, drug of choice, previous treatment, frequency of use) were significantly related to outcome (graduation status) in this sample. However, several scales on the SASSI-A2, a measure of adolescent substance use, provided a significant predication model for graduation from juvenile drug courts. This finding suggests that adolescents who meet diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders, have profiles similar to other adjudicated youth, and who are consciously aware of both the symptoms and negative consequences of their substance use behavior, are more likely to benefit from juvenile drug court programs.
Understanding How Local-level Environment Stewardship Initiatives Increase Livelihood Resilience to Climate Change: Insights from Rajasthan, India
Creators: name: Chorran, Tenzin
name: Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao
name: Karmakar, Shreya
name: Sharma, Himani
name: Ghosh, Debarupa
name: Priyadarshini, Pratiti
name: Chorran, Tenzin
name: Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao
name: Karmakar, Shreya
name: Sharma, Himani
name: Ghosh, Debarupa
name: Priyadarshini, Pratiti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Common Property Resources
subject: Local Governance
subject: Vulnerability to Climate Change
subject: Collective Management of Natural Resources
subject: Secure Property Rights

description: Common property resources (CPR) are central for the sustenance of biodiversity and rural communities in India. Weak institutional governance and the lack of tenure rights for local communities over CPRs is resulting in degradation and over-exploitation of resources making rural communities vulnerable across India. Climatic variabilities further exacerbate existing socio-ecological imbalances multifold. Within the broader area of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, this paper explores how restoration of CPRs through local environment stewardship initiatives contributes to the resilience of rural livelihoods in the face of climate change. A mixed-methods approach was employed to study this aspect in six villages in two districts in Rajasthan. It was found that secure property rights and collective management of CPRs enhances household resilience and improves ecological health. It concludes that processes supporting local self-governance need to be central to local adaptation to climate change, as they naturally create resilient and sustainable rural livelihoods.
Magnetic circular dichroism in GaMnAs: (no) evidence for an impurity band
Creators: name: Turek, M.
name: Siewert, J.
name: Fabian, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magneto-optical properties of the ferromagnetic semiconductor GaMnAs are studied in a material specific multi-band tight-binding approach. Two realistic models are compared: one has no impurity band while the other shows an impurity band for low Mn concentrations. The calculated magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) is positive for both models proving that, unlike previously asserted, the observed positive MCD signal is inconclusive as to the presence or absence of an impurity band in GaMnAs. The positive MCD is due to the antiferromagnetic p-d coupling and the transitions into the conduction band.
description: 4 pages, 3 figues
title: Predicting School Placement Outcomes of Children with Disabilities Who Was Once Enrolled in Early Intervention
Creators: name: Jesinoski, Mark Stanley
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: From longitudinal data from 223 children with disabilities in Utah, variables collected at entry into Part C early intervention and Part B early childhood special education services were used to differentiate between children and to predict placement outcomes in elementary school. Scores on the Battelle Developmental Inventory, Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale, Parenting Stress Index, Social Skills Rating System, number of hours mothers worked outside the home, and fathers ' education in years were differentiated between children who exited from and children who remained in special education. These same scores were also used to predict whether children would remain in or exit from special education services using discriminant analysis statistical procedures. The use of scores helped differentiate and predict placement for children who entered the original study in Part B preschool special education services.
Integrability and the AdS/CFT correspondence
Creators: name: Rej, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we review the recently discovered asymptotic integrability in the planar N = 4 SYM theory and discuss its breakdown beyond the asymptotic region due to the wrapping interactions. We also discuss novel dynamical tests of the AdS/CFT correspondence one can perform in the special cases when the wrapping interactions may be neglected.
description: v2: minor corrections, references added
The management of wilderness bushwalking in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
Creators: name: Sawyer, NA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines the management problems relating to bushwalking in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Some background information is provided on the World Heritage Area itself, the development of bushwallcing in the area, the concept of wilderness and the existing management structures and policies. The problems caused by bushwalking are examined in some detail. The most obvious physical problem is the deteriorating state of many of the walking tracks but there are many others including the loss of wilderness quality of remote areas as tracks evolve in previously untracked regions, campsite deterioration, campsite proliferation, fire, litter, disposal of faecal waste, pollution and the spread of Phytophthora. Social concerns include possible overcrowding and the impact of unnatural disturbances such as track work, views of distant roads or forestry operations and low-flying aircraft. All may result in a loss of \wilderness experience\" to users of the WHA. The management guidelines for the area are examined in the context of the significance of the World Heritage listing and recommendations made on the priorities for management. In particular the conflict between preservation and use is examined. The various management strategies relevant to the management of wilderness recreation are examined. These include the more sophisticated applications of the concept of \"carrying capacity\" as well as the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum and Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) methodologies. The limitations of the LAC are considered and it is used as a basis for much of the subsequent discussion of available management actions and monitoring techniques. The management actions relevant to the problems caused by bushwallcing are considered. Four broad categories are used as a framework for discussion: the control of distribution of use regulation of use education of users and physical works. A consequence of adopting the LAC methodology is the need to monitor key indicators of environmental and social change to ensure that the acceptable levels of impact are not exceeded. The most appropriate techniques for monitoring environmental change are considered as are the methods for obtaining information about users. Major conclusions include consideration of the practicality of the LAC for both environmental and social monitoring the need for use limitation in two distinct circumstances the need for better control of the information available to users and the ongoing need for education of users."
Helicity detection of the astrophysical magnetic fields from radio emission statistics
Creators: name: Volegova, A.
name: Stepanov, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss inverse problem of detection turbulence magnetic field helical properties using radio survey observations statistics. In this paper, we present principal solution which connects magnetic helicity and correlation between Faraday rotation measure and polarization degree of radio synchrotron emission. The effect of depolarization plays the main role in this problem and allows to detect magnetic helicity for certain frequency range of observable radio emission. We show that the proposed method is mainly sensitive to a large-scale magnetic field component.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
The Scientific Life Of John Bahcall
Creators: name: Haxton, W. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article follows the scientific life of John Norris Bahcall, including his tenacious pursuit of the solar neutrino problem, his contributions to our understanding of galaxies, quasars, and their emissions, and his leadership of and advocacy for astronomy and astrophysics.
description: Prefactory for Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science; 23 pages, 6 figures
Conditions for Vanishing Central-well Population in Triple-well Adiabatic Transport
Creators: name: Opatrny, Tomas
name: Das, Kunal K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analytical expressions are derived for coherent tunneling via adiabatic passage (CTAP) in a triple well system with negligible central-well population at all times during the transfer. It is shown that a manipulation of the depths of the extreme-wells, correlated with the time variation of the \emph{non-adjacent} barriers is essential for maintaining vanishing population of the central well. The validity of our conditions are demonstrated with a numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The transfer process is interpreted in terms of a current through the central well.
description: 7 pages; 3 figures
The EU and the Iran Nuclear Deal: How to Proceed?
Creators: name: Rózsa, Erzsébet N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Iran
EU foreign policy
nuclear deal
geopolitics
MENA region

description: Trump steered the USA away from the diplomatic framework of the nuclear deal in yet another blow to the transatlantic alliance. Indeed the JCPOA represents a landmark achievement for the European Union, a sign of its ability to affect the global stage as a complementary as well as autonomous voice vis-à-vis the US. So far, the deal has been successful in strengthening EU–Iran ties on different levels: the EU could assert essential moral standards and tame vital security issues while Iran was able to preserve the regime and emerge as a credible regional partner. Economically, cooperation has not moved as fast as expected but the JCPOA remains the most promising launch pad for a growing exchange. Even though the EU stood firmly on the legitimacy of the JCPOA, much uncertainty surrounds the kickback of American secondary sanctions and the possibility to keep delivering the terms of the deal.

This publication is part of the MENARA Future Notes series which in the form of policy briefs analyse ongoing events in the SEMCs and Middle East region, emphasising the implications for the EU, suggesting the best policy options and assessing plausible and preferable future scenarios.
Trivial intersection of $σ$-fields and Gibbs sampling
Creators: name: Berti, Patrizia
name: Pratelli, Luca
name: Rigo, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60A05, 60A10, 60J22, 65C05 (Primary)

description: Let $(Ω,\mathcal{F},P)$ be a probability space and $\mathcal{N}$ the class of those $F\in\mathcal{F}$ satisfying $P(F)\in\{0,1\}$. For each $\mathcal{G}\subset\mathcal{F}$, define $\overline{\mathcal{G}}=σ(\mathcal{G}\cup\mathcal {N})$. Necessary and sufficient conditions for $\overline{\mathcal{A}}\cap\overline{\mathcal{B}}=\overline {\mathcal {A}\cap\mathcal{B}}$, where $\mathcal{A},\mathcal{B}\subset\mathcal{F}$ are sub-$σ$-fields, are given. These conditions are then applied to the (two-component) Gibbs sampler. Suppose $X$ and $Y$ are the coordinate projections on $(Ω,\mathcal{F})=(\mathcal{X}\times\mathcal{Y},\mathcal {U}\otimes \mathcal{V})$ where $(\mathcal{X},\mathcal{U})$ and $(\mathcal{Y},\mathcal{V})$ are measurable spaces. Let $(X_n,Y_n)_{n\geq0}$ be the Gibbs chain for $P$. Then, the SLLN holds for $(X_n,Y_n)$ if and only if $\overline{σ(X)}\cap\overline{σ(Y)}=\mathcal{N}$, or equivalently if and only if $P(X\in U)P(Y\in V)=0$ whenever $U\in\mathcal{U}$, $V\in\mathcal{V}$ and $P(U\times V)=P(U^c\times V^c)=0$. The latter condition is also equivalent to ergodicity of $(X_n,Y_n)$, on a certain subset $S_0\subsetΩ$, in case $\mathcal{F}=\mathcal{U}\otimes\mathcal{V}$ is countably generated and $P$ absolutely continuous with respect to a product measure.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-AOP387 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Inverse Diffusion Theory of Photoacoustics
Creators: name: Bal, Guillaume
name: Uhlmann, Gunther
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R30, 82C70, 92C55

description: This paper analyzes the reconstruction of diffusion and absorption parameters in an elliptic equation from knowledge of internal data. In the application of photo-acoustics, the internal data are the amount of thermal energy deposited by high frequency radiation propagating inside a domain of interest. These data are obtained by solving an inverse wave equation, which is well-studied in the literature. We show that knowledge of two internal data based on well-chosen boundary conditions uniquely determines two constitutive parameters in diffusion and Schroedinger equations. Stability of the reconstruction is guaranteed under additional geometric constraints of strict convexity. No geometric constraints are necessary when $2n$ internal data for well-chosen boundary conditions are available, where $n$ is spatial dimension. The set of well-chosen boundary conditions is characterized in terms of appropriate complex geometrical optics (CGO) solutions.
description: 24 pages
Coupled cluster benchmarks of water monomers and dimers extracted from DFT liquid water: the importance of monomer deformations
Creators: name: Santra, Biswajit
name: Michaelides, Angelos
name: Scheffler, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To understand the performance of popular density-functional theory (DFT) exchange-correlation (xc) functionals in simulations of liquid water, water monomers and dimers were extracted from a PBE simulation of liquid water and examined with coupled cluster with single and double excitations plus a perturbative correction for connected triples [CCSD(T)]. CCSD(T) reveals that most of the dimers are unbound compared to two gas phase equilibrium water monomers, largely because monomers within the liquid have distorted geometries. Of the three xc functionals tested, PBE and BLYP systematically underestimate the cost of the monomer deformations and consequently predict too large dissociation energies between monomers within the dimers. This is in marked contrast to how these functionals perform for an equilibrium water dimer and other small water clusters in the gas phase, which only have moderately deformed monomers. PBE0 reproduces the CCSD(T) monomer deformation energies very well and consequently the dimer dissociation energies much more accurately than PBE and BLYP. Although this study is limited to water monomers and dimers, the results reported here may provide an explanation for the overstructured radial distribution functions routinely observed in BLYP and PBE simulations of liquid water and are of relevance to water in other phases and to other associated molecular liquids.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, Submitted to Journal of Chemical Physics, Related information can be found in http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/