cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Food Choice and Nutrition in Fiji
Creators: name: Hone, Phillip
name: Hone, Phillip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food policy
subject: externalities
subject: nutrition

description: Obesity related health problems are a potentially significant cost to Fiji. The factors driving the trend towards increased obesity are analysed. The potential for reducing the rate of increase in obesity by influincing individual food choice decisions is evaluated and a policy framework is developed for considering this issue. The analysis points to some tentative policy recommendations for food policy in fiji. The role of a systems perspective on the policy problem is highlighted and specific attention is focused on the role of a nutrient based food tax in a wider nutrition-health policy system.
On the Integration Theory of Equations of Nonholonomic Mechanics
Creators: name: Kozlov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper deals with the problem of integration of equations of motion in nonholonomic systems. By means of well-known theory of the differential equations with an invariant measure the new integrable systems are discovered. Among them there are the generalization of Chaplygin's problem of rolling nonsymmetric ball in the plane and the Suslov problem of rotation of rigid body with a fixed point. The structure of dynamics of systems on the invariant manifold in the integrable problems is shown. Some new ideas in the theory of integration of the equations in nonholonomic mechanics are suggested. The first of them consists in using known integrals as the constraints. The second is the use of resolvable groups of symmetries in nonholonomic systems. The existence conditions of invariant measure with analytical density for the differential equations of nonholonomic mechanics is given.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
title: Protection of cultural rights of national minorities: critical analysis of the Council of Europe legal framework under the capabilities approach
Creators: name: Kovalyova , Yelena
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2021

description: The dynamics characterizing the coexistence of numerous cultural systems within the European continent have been put under the test with increasing globalization, resulting in unprecedental scale and pace in the movement of people. Besides positive outcomes, these phenomena endangered the existence of grass-roots cultures of groups in vulnerable positions, including the national minorities. The challenges that minority groups face are not only triggered by counteractions from majority groups, state-driven resistence and growing fundamentalism, but also by modern mass-culture driven unification. That all require support for sustainable development of minority cultures. As a human rights organization with jurisdiction over 47 states, characterized with diverse cultural profiles, the Council of Europe, is the agent expected to develop the effective solution for the protection mechanism. This research examines the Council of Europe legal framework as to its capacity to provide effective protection to cultural rights of national minorities. This question is approached from two perspectives. The legal entitlements and their normative scopes are examined based on the analysis of the four leading Council of Europe conventions, two of which are specifically dedicated to cultural rights, one to human rights and one is specific to minority rights. The research deconstructs the good practices and standards, including the requirements to the domestic legal frameworks and policy instruments, posed by the Council of Europe to ensure effective protection of cultural rights of national minorities nationally. The convergencies between invoked rights are examined under capability theory to establish the fertile functions facilitating the cultural capabilities of the rights-holders, including in cases when such fertile functionings are used by the implementing bodies to cover the legislative lacunae. The analysis is conducted using historical, contextual, semantic and teleological interpretations of legal acts, based on the travaux preparatoires to the primary regulatory sources and the implementation practice, based on reports, country opinions, and the ECtHR case-law. The research determines strategy for the lex ferenda and future cultural policy frameworks. The thesis examines the changing approach of the Council of Europe to safeguard the uniqueness of the cultural identities of national minorities internationally and within the States domestic systems, and examines how it correlates with the European identity concept and the value systems that constitute the corner stone of the Council of Europe statutory system.
Viscoelastic and poroelastic relaxations of soft solid surfaces
Creators: name: Xu, Qin
name: Wilen, Lawrence A.
name: Jensen, Katharine E.
name: Style, Robert W.
name: Dufresne, Eric R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding surface mechanics of soft solids, such as soft polymeric gels, is crucial in many engineering processes, such as dynamic wetting and adhesive failure. In these situations, a combination of capillary and elastic forces drives the motion, which is balanced by dissipative mechanisms to determine the rate. While shear rheology (i.e. viscoelasticity) has long been assumed to dominate the dissipation, recent works have suggested that compressibility effects (i.e. poroelasticity) could play roles in swollen networks. We use fast interferometric imaging to quantify the relaxation of surface deformations due to a displaced contact line. By systematically measuring the profiles at different time and length scales, we experimentally observe a crossover from viscoelastic to poroelastic surface relaxations.
Beyond Framing: Influences of subject–photographer interactions on visual journalism
Creators: name: Thomson, T.J.
name: Greenwood, Keith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 190301 Journalism Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Visual news media's framing has been well studied; however, production factors and cultural conditions involved in photographer–subject interactions have attracted less scholarly attention although they are no less influential in determining the depiction. Guided by social constructionism theory, in-depth interviews with staff photojournalists at a daily community newspaper in the Midwest and an analysis of their work revealed 22 variables that impact how and why images look the way they do. Photojournalists have complete control of only two of these variables, share partial control of 13, but have no control over the remaining seven. The photographers also shared insights into how to improve their journalism's verisimilitude when dealing with reactive subjects. The results support concepts of social constructionism that the subjects of photographs are most comfortable with photographers who share similar characteristics, but that some characteristics can have greater influence. The results also highlight areas where photographers might focus in pursuit of authenticity in journalistic photographs.
Time-independent approximations for periodically driven systems with friction
Creators: name: Rahav, Saar
name: Geva, Eli
name: Fishman, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical dynamics of a particle that is driven by a rapidly oscillating potential (with frequency $ω$) is studied. The motion is separated into a slow part and a fast part that oscillates around the slow part. The motion of the slow part is found to be described by a time-independent equation that is derived as an expansion in orders of $ω^{-1}$ (in this paper terms to the order $ω^{-3}$ are calculated explicitly). This time-independent equation is used to calculate the attracting fixed points and their basins of attraction. The results are found to be in excellent agreement with numerical solutions of the original time-dependent problem.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Revised version. Minor changes
Hispano-American Mentality: Samuel Ramos Before the Construction of the Situated Concept of Man
Creators: name: Morandin-Ahuerma, Fabio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ethnic Studies

description: The main theme of this work is rescue the Samuel Ramos proposal for a philosophical anthropology from his new humanism. Two main issues dis- cussed: the dichotomy material-spiritual world; and the sense of complexity that resizes the man as ideal being or identity in response to the Kantian question: Was ist der Mensch?
Risk Factors Associated with Birth Asphyxia of Neonate at Faculty of Medicine, Vajira Hospital
Creators: name: Adjima Soongsatitanon
name: Sasiwan Suthasmalee
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: birth asphyxia
risk factors

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 6, 433-440
ИЧКИ ИШЛАР ОРГАНЛАРИНИ КАДРЛАР БИЛАН ТАЪМИНЛАШ  ФАОЛИЯТИНИНГ ТИЗИМИ, ТАСНИФИ ВА ЎЗИГА ХОС ХУСУСИЯТЛАРИ
Creators: name: Холматов, Бекмирза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Мамлакатимизда барча соҳалар учун сифатли кадрларни тайёрлаш, уларни тўғри танлаш ва жой-жойига қўйиш масаласи давлат сиёсатининг энг устувор йўналишлардан бири бўлиб ҳисобланади. Чунки, жамият ривожи, эртанги куни, унинг жаҳон ҳамжамиятида тутган ўрни айнан қандай даражада тайёрланадиган кадрларга боғлиқ.
Forest owners' acceptance of incentive based policy instruments in forest biodiversity conservation - A choice experiment based approach
Creators: name: Horne, Paula
name: Horne, Paula
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: forest owners
subject: heterogeneity
subject: compensation

description: Finland has launched a new policy programme to encourage conservation of forest biodiversity, based on economic incentives and voluntarism on the part of non-industrial private forest owners. This study examined the factors that affect the acceptability of biodiversity conservation contracts and the amount of compensation needed in private forests, using the choice experiment method. Data were collected by surveying 3000 Finnish private forest owners. Analysing separately those respondents who were willing to enter into a conservation contract allowed an assessment of the impact of forest owners' heterogeneity on compensation amount.
Developmental and Behavioral Risks in Children Raised at Home, Compared with Children Who Attend Child Care Centers
Creators: name: Leelarapin Chongwatanasawat
name: Chanyut Suphakunpinyo
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: developmental and behavioral risks
parenting
child care center

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 6, 441-454
Spatial snowdrift game with myopic agents
Creators: name: Sysi-Aho, Marko
name: Saramaki, Jari
name: Kertesz, Janos
name: Kaski, Kimmo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied a spatially extended snowdrift game, in which the players are located on the sites of two-dimensional square lattices and repeatedly have to choose one of the two strategies, either cooperation (C) or defection (D). A player interacts with its nearest neighbors only, and aims at playing a strategy which maximizes its instant pay-off, assuming that the neighboring agents retain their strategies. If a player is not content with its current strategy, it will change it to the opposite one with probability $p$ next round. Here we show through simulations and analytical approach that these rules result in cooperation levels, which differ to large extent from those obtained using the replicator dynamics.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
The Highest-Energy Photons Seen by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
Creators: name: Thompson, D. J.
name: Bertsch, D. L.
name: O'Neal, R. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During its nine-year lifetime, the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) detected 1506 cosmic photons with measured energy E>10 GeV. Of this number, 187 are found within 1 degree of sources that are listed in the Third EGRET Catalog and were included in determining the detection likelihood, flux, and spectra of those sources. In particular, five detected EGRET pulsars are found to have events above 10 GeV, and together they account for 37 events. A pulsar not included in the Third EGRET Catalog has 2 events, both with the same phase and in one peak of the lower-energy gamma-ray light-curve. Most of the remaining 1319 events appear to be diffuse Galactic and extragalactic radiation based on the similarity of the their spatial and energy distributions with the diffuse model and in the E>100, MeV emission. No significant time clustering which would suggest a burst was detected.
description: 30 pages, 4 figures, to be published in ApJ Supp
Health-Related Quality of Life among Children with Language Impairment at the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine Vajira Hospital: a Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
Creators: name: Natwipa Wanicharoen
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: health-related quality of life
children
language impairment

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 6, 455-468
Environmental regulatory arrangements and aquaculture production
Creators: name: Hughes, Phil
name: Schuele, Michael
name: Weier, Annette
name: Hughes, Phil
name: Schuele, Michael
name: Weier, Annette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: aquaculture
subject: regulatory arrangements
subject: environmental management

description: Aquaculture production in Australia is subject to an unnecessarily complex array of legislation and agencies - covering environmental protection, land use planning, marine and coastal management, land tenure, and quarantine and translocation. Unwarranted, or poorly developed and implemented, arrangements can impose unnecessary costs on producers, consumers and the community, affect competitiveness, and adversely affect management of the environment. This paper assess environmental regulatory arrangements for aquaculture, identifies potential constraints on the aquaculture industry, and opportunities for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of environmental regulatory arrangements.
The economics of land fragmentation in the north of Vietnam
Creators: name: Hung, Pham Van
name: MacAulay, T. Gordon
name: Marsh, Sally P.
name: Hung, Pham Van
name: MacAulay, T. Gordon
name: Marsh, Sally P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Land fragmentation, in which a single farm household operates more than one separate piece of land, is significant issue in Vietnamese agriculture, especially in the North. For the whole country, there are about 75 million plots of land, an average of 7-8 plots per farm household. Such fragmentation can be seen to have negative and positive benefits for farm households and the community generally. The negative impacts can be reduced mechanisation, higher cost, loss of land due to boundaries, increased negative externalities, and more limited application of new technologies. On the other hand, land fragmentation may have some benefits to farmers such as spreading output risk, seasonal labour use, and crop diversification. Comparative static analysis and analysis of survey data have led to the conclusion that small sized farms are likely to be more fragmented and the number of plots held by a household is not a significant determinant of yield and output risk spreading but is a significant factor in crop diversification. Policies which allow the appropriate opportunity cost of labour to be reflected at the farm level may provide appropriate incentives to trigger farm size change and land consolidation. Policies which tip the benefits in favour of fewer and larger plots such as strong and effective research and development, an active extension system and strong administrative management may also lead to land consolidation and thus allow some of the benefits which will accrue to the economy more generally to be obtained by farmers.
The V1647 Ori (IRAS 05436-0007) Protostar and its Environment
Creators: name: McGehee, Peregrine M.
name: Smith, J. Allyn
name: Henden, Arne A.
name: Richmond, Michael W.
name: Knapp, Gillian R.
name: Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
name: Ivezic, Zeljko
name: Brinkmann, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Sloan Digital Sky Survey and United States Naval Observatory observations of the V1647 Ori protostar and surrounding field near NGC 2068. V1647 Ori, the likely driving source for HH 23, brightened significantly in November 2003. Analysis of SDSS imaging acquired in November 1998 and February 2002 during the quiescent state, recent USNO photometry, and published 2MASS and Gemini data shows that the color changes associated with brightening suggest an EXor outburst rather than a simple dust clearing event.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, Figure 1 available as color JPEG, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal
Freelance Photojournalists and Photo Editors: Learning and adapting in a (mostly faceless) virtual world
Creators: name: Thomson, T.J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 190301 Journalism Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 190104 Visual Cultures
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Since 2005, journalism has experienced a series of seismic changes due to economic factors, technological changes, and shifting priorities and news values. Photojournalism has been particularly affected by technology and business model changes, leading more outlets to rely on often geographically remote freelancers at the expense of dedicated photo staffs. These remote working environments and the mediated communication they necessitate have profound impacts for photojournalists’ development, roles, and responsibilities. Through in-depth interviews with photo editors and freelancers at top media outlets in the United States and guided by professional socialization, mentoring, and learning theories, this study explores what happens when the photojournalist–editor relationship is strained, mediated, or severed. It also seeks to examine what impact mediated interactions have on photographers’ learning and the quality of the media they produce. The findings reveal that the post-digital freelance model is more linear than the hierarchical staffer model and has a positive influence on workforce diversity, albeit at the expense of freelancers’ professional development and their opportunities to receive feedback from editors.
Understanding polarized dust emission from $ρ$ Ophiuchi A in light of grain alignment and disruption by radiative torques
Creators: name: Tram, Le Ngoc
name: Hoang, Thiem
name: Lee, Hyeseung
name: Santos, Fabio
name: Soam, Archana
name: Lesaffre, Pierre
name: Gusdorf, Antoine
name: Reach, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The alignment of dust grains with the ambient magnetic field produces polarization of starlight as well as thermal dust emission. Using the archival SOFIA/HAWC+ polarimetric data observed toward $ρ$ Ophiuchus (Oph) A cloud hosted by a B association star at 89 $μ$m and 154 $μ$m, we find that the fractional polarization of thermal dust emission first increases with the grain temperature and then decreases once the grain temperature exceeds $\simeq$ 25-32 K. The latter trend differs from the prediction of the popular RAdiative Torques (RATs) alignment theory which implies a monotonic increase of the polarization fraction with the grain temperature. We perform numerical modeling of polarized dust emission for the $ρ$ Oph-A cloud and calculate the degree of dust polarization by simultaneously considering the dust grain alignment and rotational disruption by RATs. Our modeling results could successfully reproduce both the rising and declining trends of the observational data. Moreover, we show that the alignment of only silicate grains or a mixture of silicate-carbon grains within a composite structure can reproduce the observational trends, assuming that all dust grains follow a power-law size distribution. Although there are a number of simplifications and limitations to our modeling, our results suggest grains in $ρ$ Oph-A cloud have a composite structure, and the grain size distribution has steeper slope than the standard size distribution for the interstellar medium. Combination of SOFIA/HAWC+ data with JCMT observations 450 $μ$m and 850 $μ$m would be useful to test the proposed scenario based on grain alignment and disruption by RATs.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, accepted to ApJ
Comparison of The Emergency Department Length of Stay Before and After Using the Vajira Hospital Asthmatic Care Guidelines
Creators: name: Prakit Janngarm
name: Chunlanee Sungketchon
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: asthmatic attack
asthma guideline implementation
emergency department length of stay

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 6, 469-478
I “Like” That: Exploring the Characteristics That Promote Social Media Engagement With News Photographs
Creators: name: Thomson, T.J.
name: Greenwood, Keith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies

description: While business models and technological innovations continue to disrupt journalistic practice, global image culture has never been stronger. Developed society is inundated daily with a torrent of images. Yet some of these are barely seen, while others almost instantly accrue scores of likes, shares, and comments. What, then, are the factors that constitute engaging, social photojournalism? Using Q methodology, which bridges qualitative and quantitative approaches, 30 participants ranked photos published on Instagram by news organizations or photographers and shared insight through interviews on what factors affect their engagement. In this way, the users' and the images' characteristics were both studied to shed light on why certain photos accrue more engagement and why certain types of people “like” certain types of content. The findings identify three types of users—feature lovers, newshounds, and optimists—and describe their motivations for interacting on the platform. Insights on how the number of people in the frame, the visibility of facial features, the presence of watermarks, and the post type affect user engagement were also gathered and discussed.
Tayloring Bose-Einstein condensate environments for a Rydberg impurity
Creators: name: Rammohan, S.
name: Chauhan, A. K.
name: Nath, R.
name: Eisfeld, A.
name: Wüster, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments have demonstrated that atoms excited to specific Rydberg states within Bose-Einstein condensates cause significant excitation of phonons. If the Rydberg atom is brought into an electronic superposition state, this coupling to phonons leads to decoherence. We provide the theoretical basis for the treatment of the latter. To this end, we evaluate Rydberg-phonon coupling coefficients using a combination of analytical and numerical techniques. From these coefficients, we calculate bath correlation functions, spectral densities and re-organisation energies. All these quantify the influence of the environment and form essential inputs for follow up open quantum system techniques. We find that the amplitude of bath correlations scales like the power law $ν^{-5}$ with the principal quantum number $ν$, while re-organisation energies scale like $ν^{-3}$, reflecting the extreme tunability of Rydberg atomic properties. Rydberg impurities in condensates thus constitute a non-trivial open-quantum system with exceptionally controlled system, coupling and environmental Hamiltonians.
description: 14 Pages, 6 figures
MENSURAÇÃO E ANÁLISE DE CUSTOS DE TRANSAÇÃO ARCADOS POR PRODUTORES DE LEITE NOS MERCADOS FORMAL E INFORMAL DA REGIÃO DE SÃO CARLOS, SP
Creators: name: Bankuti, Ferenc Istvan
name: Souza Filho, Hildo Meirelles De
name: Bankuti, Sandra Mara Schiavi
name: Bankuti, Ferenc Istvan
name: Souza Filho, Hildo Meirelles De
name: Bankuti, Sandra Mara Schiavi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Transaction cost
subject: milk agri-chain
subject: informal market

description: The analysis and measurement of production and transaction costs is an important tool in guiding decisions and in comprehending the behavior of the agents in a particular institutional environment. Although production costs have been widely studied in the literature, transaction costs have not been so extensively analyzed, especially empirically. Based on 125 questionnaires and on theoretical review, this work presents an analysis and a measurement of the transaction costs for two groups of rural producers in the region of São Carlos, in São Paulo state. The groups were defined using cluster analysis, considering the amount of milk sold in the informal market as the analysis variable. The theoretical reference includes the New Institutional Economics and Transaction Cost Economics theories. It was concluded that, although transaction costs are low for both groups, they are relatively higher for producers inserted mainly in the informal market than for producers inserted in the formal market. Moreover, a small number of formal contracts were observed, which can be explained by the high frequency of transactions and the consequent establishment of reliability.
Multi-criteria Analysis for Evaluation of Adaptive Radar Resource Management algorithms on a Naval setting with and without clutter
Creators: name: Labreuche, Christophe
name: Buron, Cédric
name: Moo, Peter
name: Barbaresco, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Multifunction radars (MFR) are met with complex capability requirements, involving various kinds of targets and saturating scenarios. In order to achieve these goals, radar systems use Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) to switch between their functions. This complexity makes it difficult to assess their performance both taking into account their functional requirements and the induces cost. In this paper, we first introduce Figures of Merit for phased array radar operation and performance. We compute these metrics on a set of test scenarios of varying complexity, involving different kinds of targets, and we aggregate them into a global notation of MFR radar performances. To achieve our purpose, we rely on the domain of Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), and more precisely 2-additive Choquet integral.
Reverse AD at Higher Types: Pure, Principled and Denotationally Correct
Creators: name: Vákár, Matthijs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We show how to define forward- and reverse-mode automatic differentiation source-code transformations or on a standard higher-order functional language. The transformations generate purely functional code, and they are principled in the sense that their definition arises from a categorical universal property. We give a semantic proof of correctness of the transformations. In their most elegant formulation, the transformations generate code with linear types. However, we demonstrate how the transformations can be implemented in a standard functional language without sacrificing correctness. To do so, we make use of abstract data types to represent the required linear types, e.g. through the use of a basic module system.
Re-placing ethnicity : literature in English by Canada’s Ukrainians
Creators: name: Grekul, Lisa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study traces the development of prose, poetry, drama, and (creative) nonfiction written in English by Canadians of Ukrainian descent during the twentieth century. The thesis argues that, although Ukrainian Canadian literature has been underrepresented in Canadian and Ukrainian Canadian studies, it makes a substantial contribution to ongoing debates about the ways in which individuals (re)define their sense of self, community, history, and home in the process of writing. Chapter One provides an overview of Ukrainian Canadian history, and outlines the development of a Ukrainian Canadian literary tradition. Chapter Two examines the assimilationist rhetoric articulated by such non-Ukrainian Canadian writers as Ralph Connor, Sinclair Ross, and Margaret Laurence, as well as that of Vera Lysenko (author of Yellow Boots, 1954, the first English-language novel by a Ukrainian Canadian). Chapter Three focuses on Maara Haas's novel The Street Where I Live (1976), George Ryga's play A Letter to My Son (1981), and Andrew Suknaski's poetry (published in Wood Mountain Poems, 1976; the ghosts call you poor, 1978; and In the Name of Narid, 1981), and explores these writers' responses to the policies and practices of multiculturalism. Chapter Four identifies the shift toward transnational or transcultural discourses of individual- and group-identity formation in Janice Kulyk Keefer's and Myrna Kostash's writing, especially that which records their travels "back" to Ukraine. The central argument of the thesis is that if Ukrainian Canadians are to maintain meaningful ties to their ethnic heritage, they must constantly—if paradoxically—reinvent themselves as Ukrainians and as Canadians. In examining this paradox, the study draws parallels between Lysenko and Kulyk Keefer, both of whom rely on conventional narrative techniques in their writing and privilege nation-based models of identity that marginalize the experiences of ethnic minorities. Haas, Ryga, Suknaski, and Kostash, by contrast, experiment with multiple languages and genres: shaped, thematically and formally, by their experiences as hybrid subjects, their texts illustrate that ethnicity is less product than process; less fixed than fluid; constantly under construction and open to negotiation. The concluding chapter of the thesis, reflecting on the past and the present of Ukrainians in Canada, calls for the next generation of writers to continue re-imagining their communities by pushing the boundaries of existing language and forms.
Comparing Oral Status between Non-Chronic Kidney Disease and Chronic Kidney Disease in Diabetic Patients Attending Health Center 67 Thaweewatthana
Creators: name: Chawasri Poonvutikul
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: oral status
chronic kidney disease (CKD)
diabetes

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 6, 485-500
Magnetic and chemical properties of Cr-based films grown on GaAs(001)
Creators: name: Mosca, D. H.
name: de Camargo, P. C.
name: Guimaraes, J. L.
name: Schreiner, W. H.
name: de Oliveira, A. J. A.
name: Souza, P. E. N.
name: Eddrief, M.
name: Etgens, V. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the magnetic and chemical properties of very thin Cr films, CrAs, and arsenized Cr grown by molecular beam epitaxy on Ga As (001), using x-ray photoemission spectroscopy and SQUID magnetometry. Distintic preparation procedures have been used with the purpose to undestand the origin of the ferromagneti signal observed for this system. It results that Ga segregation and chemical reactivity between Ga and Cr have negligible contribution in the formation of different thi films. A clear ferromagnetic response even at room temperature suggests the existence of a very thin interfacial layer formed that can eventually be burid during the growth process.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Diagrammatic Thinking in Architecture, Criticism, Form and Culture
Creators: name: Sequeira, João B. Menezes de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article investigates the role of the diagram in contemporary architecture through a critical reading of the essay Diagram: An Original Scene of Writing by Peter Eisenman — a seminal text that shifts the diagram from the technical domain into the field of architectural writing and criticism. This analysis is developed in dialogue with contributions from authors such as Deleuze and Guattari, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, and Andrea Palladio. The article proposes that the diagram has ceased to be merely a representational tool and has become a conceptual, autonomous, and generative operator, capable of mediating between theory and practice by defining concrete formal strategies and articulating conceptual abstraction with specific constructive decisions. Five principal dimensions are addressed: autonomy, process, temporality, relationship with construction, and critique of representation. The study further discusses the limits and ambiguities of Eisenman’s approach, proposing a reading of the diagram as a theoretical-practical medium rooted in formal, contextual, and pedagogical decisions. By integrating different traditions — classical, modern, deconstructivism, and digital — that inform distinct ways of conceiving form and space, and diverse temporal scales, it is argued that diagrammatic thinking enables a more open, indeterminate, and reflective architectural practice.
ГИЁҲВАНДЛИК ВОСИТАЛАРИ ВА ПСИХОТРОП МОДДАЛАР БИЛАН ҚОНУНГА ХИЛОФ РАВИШДА МУОМАЛА ҚИЛИШДАН ИБОРАТ  ЖИНОЯТЛАРНИНГ ТУШУНЧАСИ ВА ТАСНИФИ
Creators: name: Каримов, Жахонгир
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ички ишлар органлари аҳолининг тинч ва фаровон ҳаёт кечиришини таъминлаш, жиноятчилик ва бошқа ҳуқуқбузарликларга қарши курашиш, жамоат тартибини сақлаш, шунингдек, бошқа ҳаётий муҳим вазифаларни амалга оширишда алоҳида ўрин эгаллайди. Мустақиллик йилларида ички ишлар органларини жазоловчи, назорат қилувчи органдан халқ, жамият ва давлат манфаатларини ҳимоя қиладиган тузилмага айлантириш бўйича самарали ишлар амалга оширилди.
Decoherence dynamics of a qubit coupled to a quantum two-level system
Creators: name: Ashhab, S.
name: Johansson, J. R.
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the decoherence dynamics of a qubit coupled to a quantum two-level system (TLS) in addition to its weak coupling to a background environment. We analyze the different regimes of behaviour that arise as the values of the different parameters are varied. We classify those regimes as two weak-coupling regimes, which differ by the relation between the qubit and TLS decoherence times, and a strong-coupling one. We also find analytic expressions describing the decoherence rates in the weak-coupling regimes, and we verify numerically that those expressions have a rather wide range of validity. Along with obtaining the above-mentioned results, we address the questions of qubit-TLS entanglement and the additivity of multiple TLS contributions. We also discuss the transition from weak to strong coupling as the parameters are varied, and we numerically determine the location of the boundary between the two regimes.
description: 9 pages (two-column), 3 figures
Do Low Prices for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Increase Children's Weight?
Creators: name: Wendt, Minh
name: Todd, Jessica E.
name: Wendt, Minh
name: Todd, Jessica E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Childhood obesity
subject: food prices

description: This paper tests whether prices of soda, fruit drinks, and other selected foods influence children’s BMI measures. Child and household data are drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Kindergarten cohort (ECLS-K), which is merged with market prices available from the Quarterly Food at Home Price Database (QFAHPD) by county of residence. The results show that lagged prices for foods and drinks have more significant effects on children’s BMI compared to contemporaneous prices. This indicates that policies that affect food prices such as taxing or subsidizing would take time to have an effect on children’s weight.
Accuracy of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Thyroid Lesions: An 8-year Experience in Urban-based Tertiary Medical Center in Bangkok, Thailand
Creators: name: Nontawat Benjakul
name: Supasan Sripodok
name: Tanapong Tungjitsirisun
name: Pattara Pattaravoratham
name: Thararat Soiphet
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: the Bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology (TBSRTC)
fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC)
thyroid nodule.

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 6, 501-512
Would Subsidizing a Food Pathogen Vaccine Upset the Food Policy Applecart
Creators: name: Marette, Stephan
name: Roe, Brian E.
name: Teisl, Mario F.
name: Marette, Stephan
name: Roe, Brian E.
name: Teisl, Mario F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Food safety
subject: vaccine
subject: partial equilibrium
subject: welfare analysis
subject: stated preference
subject: food policy

description: Vaccines against several common foodborne pathogens are being developed and could substantially alter the policy tools available to address foodborne illness. However, little analysis is available to suggest how social welfare would be affected by these new vaccines. To address this void, we use stated preference data to estimate consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for food safety vaccines and then simulate the welfare impacts on related commodity markets of subsidizing consumer purchases of the vaccine within a partial equilibrium framework. To obtain consumer demand for the vaccine from the stated preference data, we simultaneously estimate model parameters in an econometrically coherent manner that recognizes the recursive nature of responses to questions probing respondents’ willingness to purchase vaccines and perceptions of the probability and severity of possible foodborne illness incidents and the joint distribution of unobservable components. Based on this econometric estimation, we integrate the average proportion of consumers purchasing the vaccine in a partial equilibrium model linked to a particular food product. Our simulation shows that subsidizing the vaccine is likely to lead to a higher welfare than stricter pathogens standards when the marginal cost of public funds is relatively low.
Point-to-Point Stabilised Optical Frequency Transfer with Active Optics
Creators: name: Dix-Matthews, Benjamin P.
name: Schediwy, Sascha W.
name: Gozzard, David R.
name: Savalle, Etienne
name: Esnault, François-Xavier
name: Lévèque, Thomas
name: Gravestock, Charles
name: D'Mello, Darlene
name: Karpathakis, Skevos
name: Tobar, Michael
name: Wolf, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Timescale comparison between optical atomic clocks over ground-to-space and terrestrial free-space laser links will have enormous benefits for fundamental and applied science, from measurements of fundamental constants and searches for dark matter, to geophysics and environmental monitoring. However, turbulence in the atmosphere creates phase noise on the laser signal, greatly degrading the precision of the measurements, and also induces scintillation and beam wander which cause periodic deep fades and loss of signal. We demonstrate phase stabilized optical frequency transfer over a 265 m horizontal point-to-point free-space link between optical terminals with active tip-tilt mirrors to suppress beam wander, in a compact, human-portable set-up. A phase stabilized 715 m underground optical fiber link between the two terminals is used to measure the performance of the free-space link. The active optics terminals enabled continuous, coherent transmission over periods of up to an hour. We achieve an 80 dB suppression of atmospheric phase noise to $3\times10^{-6}$ rad$^{2}$Hz$^{-1}$ at 1 Hz, and an ultimate fractional frequency stability of $1.6\times10^{-19}$ after 40 s of integration. At high frequency this performance is limited by the residual atmospheric noise after compensation and the frequency noise of the laser seen through the unequal delays of the free space and fiber links. Our long term stability is limited by the thermal shielding of the phase stabilization system. We achieve residual instabilities below those of the best optical atomic clocks, ensuring clock-limited frequency comparison over turbulent free-space links.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures. In appendix: 4 pages, 2 figures
A real-space grid implementation of the Projector Augmented Wave method
Creators: name: Mortensen, J. J.
name: Hansen, L. B.
name: Jacobsen, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A grid-based real-space implementation of the Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method of P. E. Blochl [Phys. Rev. B 50, 17953 (1994)] for Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations is presented. The use of uniform 3D real-space grids for representing wave functions, densities and potentials allows for flexible boundary conditions, efficient multigrid algorithms for solving Poisson and Kohn-Sham equations, and efficient parallelization using simple real-space domain-decomposition. We use the PAW method to perform all-electron calculations in the frozen core approximation, with smooth valence wave functions that can be represented on relatively coarse grids. We demonstrate the accuracy of the method by calculating the atomization energies of twenty small molecules, and the bulk modulus and lattice constants of bulk aluminum. We show that the approach in terms of computational efficiency is comparable to standard plane-wave methods, but the memory requirements are higher.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review B
title: Looking beyond health halos: exploring the impact of salience and goal activation on the perception of sugary beverages and related behavioural outcomes
Creators: name: Sah, Anumeha
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: The present study responds to calls in the literature to explore the role of salience and goal activation in food choices by investigating the impact of these concepts on perceptions of fruit juices and related behavioural outcomes. Fruit juice is chosen as the context of the research as it is considered healthy, despite high sugar content. The presence of fruit in the beverage makes the beverage appear healthy, thus attributing a health halo to the product. This health halo effect often leads consumers to make misinformed choices. As such, a key contribution to the literature includes a novel approach to understanding the effects of interactions between salient sugar information and activated goals on health perception and appeal of the beverages. The finding suggests that consumers perceive sugar information on labels differently based on the activated goals at the given moment. Adapting aspects of salience and goal activation, the study employs an online experiment to prime consumers into specific groups (high/low salience and enjoyment/responsibility/self/other goals) and measures the effects of these manipulations on the perception of beverages. A number of behavioural outcomes are also measured. The findings demonstrate first, that salient sugar labels are effective in making consumers look beyond health halos of sugary beverages. Second, particularly strong links between salience and responsibility motivation show that salient sugar information is perceived more strongly (sugary product is considered unhealthier) when consumers are primed for responsibility, both in the context of significant others and themselves. Third, the link between salience and enjoyment is a counterintuitive finding, suggesting that sugar information is perceived differently (sugary product is considered healthier) when consumers are primed to think of enjoyment in the context of significant others rather than enjoyment in the context of oneself. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this study is the first of its kind to test a novel approach that makes consumers look beyond health halos of beverages, in order to encourage healthy behaviour. The combined presentation of salience as well as enjoyment/responsibility/self/other goal activation in the context of sugary beverages, along with the development of a new ERSO (Enjoyment Responsibility Self Other) scale provides an original contribution to both theory and practice.
ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ВЫЗОВЫ В МАРКЕТИНГОВОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ МАЛЫХ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙ
Creators: name: Ражабова, Умида
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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