cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hand hygiene compliance by direct observation in physicians and nurses: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Bredin, D.
name: O’Doherty, D.
name: HANNIGAN, AILISH
name: KINGSTON, LIZ
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Direct observation of hand hygiene compliance is the gold standard despite limitations and potential for bias. Previous literature highlights poorer hand hygiene compliance among physicians than nurses and suggests that covert monitoring may give better compliance estimates than overt monitoring. Aim: To explore differences in compliance between physicians and nurses further, and to determine whether compliance estimates differed when observations were covert rather than overt. Methods: A systematic search of databases PubMed, Embase, CENTRAL and CINAHL was performed. Experimental or observational studies in hospital settings in high-income countries published in English from 2010 onwards were included if estimates for both physicians and nurses using direct observation were reported. The search yielded 4814 studies, of which 105 were included. Findings: The weighted pooled compliance rate for nurses was 52% (95% CI: 47e57) and for doctors was 45% (95% CI: 40e49%). Heterogeneity was considerable (I 2 ¼ 99%). Themajority of studies were at moderate or high risk of bias. Random-effects meta-analysis of low risk of bias studies suggests higher compliance for nurses than physicians for both overt (difference of 7%; 95% CI for the difference: 0.8e13.5; P ¼ 0.027) and covert (difference of 7%; 95% CI: 3e11; P ¼ 0.0002) observation. Considerable heterogeneity was found in all analyses. Conclusion: Wide variability in compliance estimates and differences in the methodological quality of hand hygiene studies were identified. Further research with meta-regression should explore sources of heterogeneity and improve the conduct and reporting of hand hygiene studies.
Marktverkäuferinnen in Corona-Zeiten
Creators: name: Haokip, Hoipi
name: Gangte, Tingneichong
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Die Märkte im Bundesstaat Manipur im Nordosten Indiens werden traditionell von Frauen betrieben. Als im Zuge der Covid-19-Pandemie und des Lockdowns alle Märkte in Manipur schließen mussten, sahen sich die Marktfrauen großen Herausforderungen ausgesetzt. Wie sollten sie ihren Lebensunterhalt bestreiten? Eine Studie schildert die vielfältigen Probleme und gleichzeitig die Widerstandsfähigkeit der Verkäuferinnen des New Lambulane Tribal Market in Imphal.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (2020): Auf-Rüsten
Approximation of full-boundary data from partial-boundary electrode measurements
Creators: name: Hauptmann, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N21 (Primary), 94A08, 65K10, 35J25 (Secondary)

description: Measurements on a subset of the boundary are common in electrical impedance tomography, especially any electrode model can be interpreted as a partial boundary problem. The information obtained is different to full-boundary measurements as modeled by the ideal continuum model. In this study we discuss an approach to approximate full-boundary data from partial-boundary measurements that is based on the knowledge of the involved projections. The approximate full-boundary data can then be obtained as the solution of a suitable optimization problem on the coefficients of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map. By this procedure we are able to improve the reconstruction quality of continuum model based algorithms, in particular we present the effectiveness with a D-bar method. Reconstructions are presented for noisy simulated and real measurement data.
Pollution Vulnerability Assessment of Arborea Coastal Aquifer (Sardinia, Italy) by Modified AHP-DRASTICLu Model Using GIS
Creators: name: Yıldırım Umit
name: Mehmet, Ali Kurt
name: Cüneyt, Güler
name: Carletti Alberto
name: Roggero Pier Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: DRASTIC
Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
AHP-DRASTICLu
Vulnerability

description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the vulnerability of groundwater to contamination in the Arborea Coastal Aquifer (ACA) on the Sardinia Island (Italy), which is a part of the Mediterranean basin, using the modified AHP-DRASTICLu method based on the Geographical Information System (GIS). In this context, in addition to the criteria, namely; depth to water table (D), net recharge (R), aquifer media (A), soil media (S), topography (T), impact of vadose zone (I) and hydraulic conductivity (C), used in the classical DRASTIC method, the land-use class (Lu) criterion has been added. Pairwise comparisons of these main criteria and their sub-criteria were made using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method and the weight values of each sub- and main criteria were calculated. Weighted criteria layers were created by assigning these weight values to the cells in the relevant raster layers in the GIS environment. Finally, these layers were combined in the GIS environment with the Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) method and the final vulnerability map was created. Eventually, the final map was reclassified into five classes namely "Very low", "Low", "Moderate", "High" and "Very high". These classes occupied 5%, 11%, 32%, 40%, and 12% of the study area, respectively. Areas of very high vulnerability are mostly irrigated crop areas. Considering the fertilizers used in agriculture, integrated water management needs to be more careful, especially for these highly sensitive areas.
Leben in der Schwebe
Creators: name: Wienold, Hanns
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Die Pandemie schärfte den Blick für die sozialen Folgen einer wesentlich auf Informalität beruhenden Ökonomie. Der Autor beleuchtet die schon vor der Pandemie angelegte Struktur im Beschäftigungssektor und der gewerkschaftlichen Interessenvertretung.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (2020): Auf-Rüsten
Checking consistency and completeness of production rules
Creators: name: Floratos, Angelo.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Die Atommächte Indien und China
Creators: name: Falter, Fabian
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Seit mehreren Monaten verstricken sich die beiden bevölkerungsreichsten Staaten der Erde Indien und China immer wieder in Scharmützel an der gemeinsamen Grenze. In der SÜDASIEN-Ausgabe 2-2020 (S. 65) skizzierte Bruce Riedel die beunruhigenden sicherheitspolitischen Konstellationen des Konflikts. Nun blickt Fabian Falter auf die Soft Powers beider Staaten und die lange Geschichte ihrer sozio-kulturellen Beziehungen.
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Presentation: Study of Giving Various EC Values and Pruning on the Growth and Yield of Watermelon Plants with Substrate Hydroponic System
Creators: name: Endah Budi Irawati
name: Oktavia Sarhesti Padmini
name: Sasmita, Ellen Rosyelina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This material has presented on 1st International Conference on Advance Research in Agriculture and Food. October 25, 2022
Zwei Verschwörungen und eine Einäscherung
Creators: name: Roy, Arundhati
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Die Schriftstellerin brachte im Herbst 2020 ihre Bitterkeit über Indien zum Ausdruck, die nicht allein von den Folgen der Corona-Pandemie bestimmt war – in der ihr eigenen Deutlichkeit. Es handelt sich um eine von der Autorin autorisierte Erstübersetzung in deutscher Sprache. Die Zwischentitel entstammen der Redaktion.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (2020): Auf-Rüsten
Analytic Few Photon Scattering in Waveguide QED
Creators: name: Hurst, David L.
name: Kok, Pieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an approach to light-matter coupling in waveguide QED based upon scattering amplitudes evaluated via Dyson series. For optical states containing more than single photons, terms in this series become increasingly complex and we provide a diagrammatic recipe for their evaluation, which is capable of yielding analytic results. Our method fully specifies a combined emitter-optical state that permits investigation of light-matter entanglement generation protocols. We use our expressions to study two-photon scattering from a $Λ$-system and find that the pole structure of the transition amplitude is dramatically altered as the two ground states are tuned from degeneracy.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
An object-oriented design for resource allocation problems
Creators: name: Ramakrishnan, Sita.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey: Emerging from the Dark, a Massive Proto-Cluster at z~4.57
Creators: name: Lemaux, B. C.
name: Fèvre, O. Le
name: Cucciati, O.
name: Ribeiro, B.
name: Tasca, L. A. M.
name: Zamorani, G.
name: Ilbert, O.
name: Thomas, R.
name: Bardelli, S.
name: Cassata, P.
name: Hathi, N. P.
name: Pforr, J.
name: Smolčić, V.
name: Delvecchio, I.
name: Novak, M.
name: Berta, S.
name: McCracken, H. J.
name: Koekemoer, A.
name: Amorín, R.
name: Garilli, B.
name: Maccagni, D.
name: Schaerer, D.
name: Zucca, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using spectroscopic observations taken for the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS) we report here on the discovery of PCl J1001+0220, a massive proto-cluster located at $z_{spec}\sim4.57$ in the COSMOS field. The proto-cluster was initially detected as a $\sim12σ$ overdensity of typical star-forming galaxies in the blind spectroscopic survey of the early universe ($2
description: 27 pages, 14 figures, 1 table, accepted to A&A, minor changes from v1
Preduals for spaces of operators involving Hilbert spaces and trace-class operators
Creators: name: Thiel, Hannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47L05, 47L10 (primary), 47L45, 46B10, 46B20 (secondary)

description: Continuing the study of preduals of spaces $\mathcal{L}(H,Y)$ of bounded, linear maps, we consider the situation that $H$ is a Hilbert space. We establish a natural correspondence between isometric preduals of $\mathcal{L}(H,Y)$ and isometric preduals of $Y$. The main ingredient is a Tomiyama-type result which shows that every contractive projection that complements $\mathcal{L}(H,Y)$ in its bidual is automatically a right $\mathcal{L}(H)$-module map. As an application, we show that isometric preduals of $\mathcal{L}(\mathcal{S}_1)$, the algebra of operators on the space of trace-class operators, correspond to isometric preduals of $\mathcal{S}_1$ itself (and there is an abundance of them). On the other hand, the compact operators are the unique predual of $\mathcal{S}_1$ making its multiplication separately weak* continuous.
description: 8 pages
A learning strategy using knowledge-based systems : the learner in the role of knowledge engineer
Creators: name: Firth, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Ethical dilemmas and privacy issues in emerging technologies: a review
Creators: name: Luxmi Dhirani, Lubna
name: Mukhtiar, Noorain
name: Chowdhry, Bhawani Shankar
name: NEWE, THOMAS
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: Industry 5.0 is projected to be an exemplary improvement in digital transformation allowing for mass customization and production efficiencies using emerging technologies such as universal machines, autonomous and self-driving robots, self-healing networks, cloud data analytics, etc., to supersede the limitations of Industry 4.0. To successfully pave the way for acceptance of these technologies, we must be bound and adhere to ethical and regulatory standards. Presently, with ethical standards still under development, and each region following a different set of standards and policies, the complexity of being compliant increases. Having vague and inconsistent ethical guidelines leaves potential gray areas leading to privacy, ethical, and data breaches that must be resolved. This paper examines the ethical dimensions and dilemmas associated with emerging technologies and provides potential methods to mitigate their legal/regulatory issues.
Probing dark matter with star clusters: a dark matter core in the ultra-faint dwarf Eridanus II
Creators: name: Contenta, Filippo
name: Balbinot, Eduardo
name: Petts, James A.
name: Read, Justin I.
name: Gieles, Mark
name: Collins, Michelle L. M.
name: Peñarrubia, Jorge
name: Delorme, Maxime
name: Gualandris, Alessia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new technique to probe the central dark matter (DM) density profile of galaxies that harnesses both the survival and observed properties of star clusters. As a first application, we apply our method to the `ultra-faint' dwarf Eridanus II (Eri II) that has a lone star cluster ~45 pc from its centre. Using a grid of collisional $N$-body simulations, incorporating the effects of stellar evolution, external tides and dynamical friction, we show that a DM core for Eri II naturally reproduces the size and the projected position of its star cluster. By contrast, a dense cusped galaxy requires the cluster to lie implausibly far from the centre of Eri II (>1 kpc), with a high inclination orbit that must be observed at a particular orbital phase. Our results, therefore, favour a dark matter core. This implies that either a cold DM cusp was `heated up' at the centre of Eri II by bursty star formation, or we are seeing an evidence for physics beyond cold DM.
description: Minor changes to match the version in press in MNRAS
title: The relationship between hand grip strength and mediolateral torso movement in five times sit-to-stand
Creators: name: Beebe, Claire A.
Publisher: name: Colorado School of Mines Repository
Year: 2023

description: Balance regulation during daily activities is a key component of movement performance and fall risk as we age. There is a well-defined correlation between lower limb muscle strength and hand grip strength (HGS) and lower limb muscle strength is critical for balance regulation. The Five Times Sit-To-Stand test (5xSTS) is an evaluation of muscle strength and mobility during transitions that helps identify individuals at risk of fall. Thus, we aimed to determine if mediolateral movement biomechanics during the 5xSTS test, which are important for balance performance, were correlated with HGS. Ten young and healthy participants completed a 5xSTS trial where they rose from the seat to a standing position and returned to the seat five consecutive times as quickly as possible. We performed a Pearson correlation analysis (α ± < 0.05) between range of mediolateral torso center of mass (COM) displacement, dominant HGS and time to completion of 5xSTS. There was not a significant correlation between time to completion and HGS (rho (ρ) = -0.515, p = 0.127). A moderate negative correlation that approached significance (0.05 < p < 0.10) was found between mediolateral torso COM displacement and HGS (rho (ρ) = -0.558, p = 0.094). There was no correlation between mediolateral torso COM displacement and time to completion (rho (ρ) = 0.143, p = 0.693). HGS could help indicate mediolateral balance performance during 5xSTS and improve the lower limb strength assessment due to its correlation with torso motion. Recording dominant HGS alongside 5xSTS completion time may provide insight into mediolateral dynamic balance performance.
Die schwere Suche nach Gerechtigkeit
Creators: name: Penna, Ludwig
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Geschichtlich betrachtet sind 30 Jahre eine kurze Zeit, doch 30 Jahre in und mit Ungerechtigkeit zu leben ist lang – zu lang. Indien wollte mit einer umfassenden Gesetzgebung unter anderem für mehr Gerechtigkeit und die strafrechtliche Ächtung von Gewalt gegen Minderheiten, Dalits und Adivasi sorgen. Der Autor zieht eine erste Bilanz.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (2020): Auf-Rüsten
Konzeptionierung und Auslegung einer Röntgentarget-Struktur für die Hochleistungs-Strahlentherapie
Creators: name: Janes, Andre
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022

description: Masterarbeit, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 2022; 91 pp. (2022). = Masterarbeit, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 2022
description: Microbeam radiation therapy offers great potential to revolutionize cancer therapy. To enablethe clinical use of microbeams, new compact devices are needed. The “Line focus x-ray tube” (LFXT)is a promising concept. By introducing the usage of the heat capacity limit, the development of a newx-ray target structure for an LFXT will be realized.The presented work pursues the question of how to realize an X-ray target structure with an electronbeam power load of 1.5 MW. For this purpose, different designs and concepts are compared and onthe basis of this comparison, a potential solution is developed. Based on this concept, the componentsof the target are designed. The material selection of the components is carried out with the variousAshby plots, in consideration of specific material requirements. The following dimensioning of thecomponents is based on both analytical calculations and numerical simulations (Ansys). In addition,the well-known problem of carbon diffusion and the associated embrittlement of the focal track isdiscussed.The results of the material selection indicate Carbon fiber reinforced Carbon (CFRC) to be the mostsuitable material for the carrier structure and tungsten-rhenium alloys as the best material for thefocal track. The performed calculations and simulations indicate a CFRC-Structure with a diameterof 660 mm and a quasi-isotropic laminate is a promising solution. A minimum thickness of 1 mm isrecommended for the focal track. This constellation should ensure operation with a 1.5 MW electronbeam and a rotation frequency of 200 Hz for at least 1 second. To reduce the carbon diffusion betweenCFRC and Tungsten common techniques like coating with SiC and Al2O3 and the use of rheniumtungstenmultilayers are discussed. It can be concluded that the use of rhenium-tungsten multilayers isa promising application. This thesis goes on to discuss whether replacing the tungsten interlayers withtantalum provides additional benefits. The results suggest that tantalum can be an effective diffusionbarrier and could increase the lifetime of the focal track.
Constructing exact symmetric informationally complete measurements from numerical solutions
Creators: name: Appleby, Marcus
name: Chien, Tuan-Yow
name: Flammia, Steven
name: Waldron, Shayne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recently, several intriguing conjectures have been proposed connecting symmetric informationally complete quantum measurements (SIC POVMs, or SICs) and algebraic number theory. These conjectures relate the SICs and their minimal defining algebraic number field. Testing or sharpening these conjectures requires that the SICs are expressed exactly, rather than as numerical approximations. While many exact solutions of SICs have been constructed previously using Gröbner bases, this method has probably been taken as far as is possible with current computer technology (except in special cases where there are additional symmetries). Here we describe a method for converting high-precision numerical solutions into exact ones using an integer relation algorithm in conjunction with the Galois symmetries of a SIC. Using this method we have calculated 69 new exact solutions, including 9 new dimensions where previously only numerical solutions were known, which more than triples the number of known exact solutions. In some cases the solutions require number fields with degrees as high as 12,288. We use these solutions to confirm that they obey the number-theoretic conjectures and we address two questions suggested by the previous work.
description: 22 pages + 19 page appendix with many data tables. v2: published version
A comparison of signature trees and partitioned signature files
Creators: name: Somerville, Peter Clifford.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Pressure and Flow of Exponentially Self-Correlated Active Particles
Creators: name: Sandford, Cato
name: Grosberg, Alexander Y.
name: Joanny, Jean-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microscopic swimming particles, which dissipate energy to execute persistent directed motion, are a classic example of a non-equilibrium system. We investigate the non-interacting Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Particle (OUP), which is propelled through a viscous medium by a force which is correlated over a finite time. We obtain an exact expression for the steady state phase-space density of a single OUP confined by a quadratic potential, and use the result to explore more complex geometries, both through analytical approximations and numerical simulations. In a "Casimir"-style setup involving two narrowly-spaced walls, we describe a particle-trapping phenomenon, which leads to a repulsive effective interaction between the walls; while in a two-dimensional annulus geometry, we observe net stresses which resemble the Laplace pressure.
description: Main text six pages, four figures
Project INDIGO
Creators: name: Verhoeven, Geert J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cultural heritage
Danube channel
Disseminate
Donaukanal
Graffiti
Inventory
Vienna

description: This presentation introduces project INDIGO. It was made for the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) meeting of the LBI ArchPro
description: The INDIGO graffiti project is funded by the Heritage Science Austria programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
The evolution of a machine portable data management system for meteorological and climatological data "CICADA"
Creators: name: O'Brien, Russell C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Propagation estimates in the one-commutator theory
Creators: name: Golenia, Sylvain
name: Mandich, Marc-Adrien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the abstract framework of Mourre theory, the propagation of states is understood in terms of a conjugate operator $A$. A powerful estimate has long been known for Hamiltonians having a good regularity with respect to $A$ thanks to the limiting absorption principle (LAP). We study the case where $H$ has less regularity with respect to $A$, specifically in a situation where the LAP and the absence of singularly continuous spectrum have not yet been established. We show that in this case the spectral measure of $H$ is a Rajchman measure and we derive some propagation estimates. One estimate is an application of minimal escape velocities, while the other estimate relies on an improved version of the RAGE formula. Based on several examples, including continuous and discrete Schrödinger operators, it appears that the latter propagation estimate is a new result for multi-dimensional Hamiltonians.
description: With the use of minimal escape velocity, we improve our previous result and show that the spectral measure of a Rajchman measure
Memory Effects in Active Particles with Exponentially Correlated Propulsion
Creators: name: Sandford, Cato
name: Grosberg, Alexander Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Particle (OUP) model imagines a microscopic swimmer propelled by an active force which is correlated with itself on a finite time-scale. Here we investigate the influence of external potentials on an ideal suspension of OUPs, in both one and two spatial dimensions, with particular attention paid to the pressure exerted on "confining walls". We employ a mathematical connection between the local density of OUPs and the statistics of their propulsion force to demonstrate the existence of an equation of state in one dimension. In higher dimensions we show that active particles generate a non-conservative force field in the surrounding medium. A simplified far-from-equilibrium model is proposed to account for OUP behaviour in the vicinity of potentials. Building on this, we interpret simulations of OUPs in more complicated situations involving asymmetrical and spatially curved potentials, characterising the inhomogeneous local stresses which result in terms of competing active length-scales.
description: Main text 11 pages
Quantum Noise in Bright Soliton Matterwave Interferometry
Creators: name: Haine, Simon A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been considerable recent interest in matterwave interferometry with bright solitons in quantum gases with attractive interactions, for applications such as rotation sensing. We model the quantum dynamics of these systems and find that the attractive interactions required for the presence of bright solitons causes quantum phase-diffusion, which severely impairs the sensitivity. We propose a scheme that partially restores the sensitivity, but find that in the case of rotation sensing, it is still better to work in a regime with minimal interactions if possible.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, plus supplemental material
Auf gute Zusammenarbeit
Creators: name: Reinhardt, Dieter
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Der Stellenwert Indiens in der deutschen Außenpolitik ist seit 2011 deutlich gestiegen. Das Jahr markiert den Beginn der alle zwei Jahre stattfindenden „Deutsch-Indischen Regierungskonsultationen“. Ein kurzer Überblick aus der Perspktive des Waffenhandels.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (2020): Auf-Rüsten
Rheology of dilute cohesive granular gases
Creators: name: Takada, Satoshi
name: Hayakawa, Hisao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rheology of a dilute cohesive granular gas is theoretically and numerically studied. The flow curve between the shear viscosity and the shear rate is derived from the inelastic Boltzmann equation for particles having square-well potentials in a simple shear flow. It is found that (i) the stable uniformly sheared state only exists above a critical shear rate and (ii) the viscosity in the uniformly sheared flow is almost identical to that for uniformly sheared flow of hard core granular particles. Below the critical shear rate, clusters grow with time, in which the viscosity can be approximated by that for the hard-core fluids if we replace the diameter of the particle by the mean diameter of clusters.
description: 14 pages, 16 figures
Strategic management support systems : general development requirements
Creators: name: Oosthuizen, Majola J. H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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On Optimizing Feedback Interval for Temporally Correlated MIMO Channels With Transmit Beamforming And Finite-Rate Feedback
Creators: name: Mamat, Kritsada
name: Santipach, Wiroonsak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A receiver with perfect channel state information (CSI) in a point-to-point multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel can compute the transmit beamforming vector that maximizes the transmission rate. For frequency-division duplex, a transmitter is not able to estimate CSI directly and has to obtain a quantized transmit beamforming vector from the receiver via a rate-limited feedback channel. We assume that time evolution of MIMO channels is modeled as a Gauss-Markov process parameterized by a temporal-correlation coefficient. Since feedback rate is usually low, we assume rank-one transmit beamforming or transmission with single data stream. For given feedback rate, we analyze the optimal feedback interval that maximizes the average received power of the systems with two transmit or two receive antennas. For other system sizes, the optimal feedback interval is approximated by maximizing the rate difference in a large system limit. Numerical results show that the large system approximation can predict the optimal interval for finite-size system quite accurately. Numerical results also show that quantizing transmit beamforming with the optimal feedback interval gives larger rate than the existing Kalman-filter scheme does by as much as 10% and than feeding back for every block does by 44% when the number of feedback bits is small.
description: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications
Sicherheit in Südasien
Creators: name: Rathgeber, Theodor
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Laut dem Stockholmer Friedensforschungsinstitut SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) ereigneten sich im Jahr 2019 sieben aktive bewaffnete Konflikte in der Region Asien und Ozeanien. Drei davon betrafen Südasien: Afghanistan (internationalisierter Bürgerkrieg), Indien und Pakistan jeweils in Form von Grenz- und subnationalen bewaffneten Konflikten. Indien nahm bei der Liste der international größten Waffenimporteure den zweiten Rang ein.1 Was dies für die politische Ordnung in der Region bedeutet, soll kursorisch anhand zweier Länderbeispiele beleuchtet werden.
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Turbulent shear layers in confining channels
Creators: name: Benham, GP
name: Castrejon-Pita, AA
name: Hewitt, IJ
name: Please, CP
name: Style, RW
name: Bird, P
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple model for the development of shear layers between parallel flows in confining channels. Such flows are important across a wide range of topics from diffusers, nozzles and ducts to urban air flow and geophysical fluid dynamics. The model approximates the flow in the shear layer as a linear profile separating uniform-velocity streams. Both the channel geometry and wall drag affect the development of the flow. The model shows good agreement with both particle-image-velocimetry experiments and computational turbulence modelling. The low computational cost of the model allows it to be used for design purposes, which we demonstrate by investigating optimal pressure recovery in diffusers with non-uniform inflow.
title: Health Literacy: Determinant of Health or Status Indicator?
Creators: name: Rüegg, René Alexander
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 360 Social problems & social services
subject: 610 Medicine & health

description: An increasing burden of preventable diseases, persistent health inequalities, and new infectious diseases call for responsible citizens to take care of their health and health decisions. Therefore, health literacy appears to be a promising concept to foster better health behaviours. However, health literacy is a broad concept and interventions targeting health literacy show mixed results. Against this background, this thesis’ aim is twofold. First, it explores health literacy as determinant of health. Secondly, and entwined with the first, it aims to provide a better conceptual understanding of health literacy.
For the empirical analyses, data from Swiss male young adults were used. Three studies were carried out, each with different statistical approaches, to obtain a better understanding of the pathways between health literacy, its contextual factors, and favourable health outcomes. The studies’ results do not support the notion that health literacy – as a distinct phenomenon – has a causal importance to health. Rather, the findings suggest that health literacy should be acknowledged as a multifactorial phenomenon with many different dimensions, dependencies, and conversion factors. The latter either amplify or impede health literacy’s positive effects on health. Finally, the results indicate that potential health literacy interventions are likely to only address a selection of these aspects and may have limited or no benefit on health depending on personal and contextual factors.
This umbrella text also presents conceptual work that could not be presented in the three journal articles. The health literacy staircase model (HL-SM) introduced here, describes the embeddedness of health literacy in contextual factors and addresses the complex path from knowledge to decision-making and decision-implementation. Further, it discusses several shortcomings of previous health literacy definitions and conceptualizations that are presented in the introduction section. The HL-SM was developed after the second publication and inspired the third study that explores the role of decision-making ability as a mediator from health literacy to health.
This thesis calls for more health literacy research focussing on informed health decision-making in everyday contexts. Further, health literacy research is urged to give more emphasis to the concept’s boundaries, dependencies, and conversion factors. Without paying attention to prevailing contextual factors, there is considerable danger towards an individualization of a primarily societal problem.
Friedensinitiativen durch Frauen
Creators: name: Taveras, Cristel
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Beim Begriff „Friedensbewegung“ kommt man an Mahatma Gandhi nicht vorbei. Im Nordosten Indiens gibt es zwar keinen ausgewiesenen Bezug auf Gandhi. Aber Gandhis prominent gewordene Denkfiguren finden sich in heutigen Friedensbewegungen, die im Nordosten Indiens dominant von Frauen angeleitet werden.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (2020): Auf-Rüsten
Cooling of trapped ions by resonant charge exchange
Creators: name: Dutta, Sourav
name: Rangwala, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two most widely used ion cooling methods are laser cooling and sympathetic cooling by elastic collisions (ECs). Here we demonstrate another method of cooling ions that is based on resonant charge exchange (RCE) between the trapped ion and the ultracold parent atom. Specifically, trapped Cs$^{+}$ ions are cooled by collisions with co-trapped, ultracold Cs atoms and, separately, by collisions with co-trapped, ultracold Rb atoms. We observe that the cooling of Cs$^{+}$ ions by Cs atoms is more efficient than cooling of Cs$^{+}$ ions by Rb atoms. This signals the presence of a cooling mechanism apart from the elastic ion-atom collision channel for the Cs-Cs$^{+}$ case, which is cooling by RCE. The efficiency of cooling by RCE is experimentally determined and the per-collision cooling is found to be two orders of magnitude higher than cooling by EC. The result provides the experimental basis for future studies on charge transport by electron hopping in atom-ion hybrid systems.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Geschürte Feindbilder
Creators: name: Gugler, Thomas K.
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Der Pakistaner, der Ende September 2020 in der Nähe des ehemaligen Redaktionssitzes von Charlie Hebdo in Paris zwei Menschen schwer verletzte, verstand sich als Aktivist der islamischen Missionsbewegung Dawat-e Islami. Nachfolgend eine Chronik eines islampolitischen Kulturkrieges, der aus bestehenden mentalen Tiefenstrukturen schöpft und der gewaltförmigen Konfliktaustragung die Hand reicht. Unbeschadet der notwendigen Differenzierungen: So werden Feindbilder „gepflegt“.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (2020): Auf-Rüsten
Constraints on dark matter models from the observation of Triangulum-II with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Creators: name: Biswas, Sayan
name: Bhattacharjee, Pooja
name: Majumdar, Pratik
name: Das, Subinoy
name: Das, Mousumi
name: Joarder, Parthasarathi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Triangulum-II, a newly discovered dwarf spheroidal galaxy, is a strong candidate for the indirect search of dark matter through the detection of $γ$-ray emission that could originate from the pair- annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). We here report on the analysis of almost seven years Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope data of Triangulum-II which was taken during its all sky survey operation mode. No excess $γ$-ray emission has been detected above 100 MeV from Triangulum-II. We derive the upper limits on $γ$-ray flux assuming both the power-law spectra and the spectra related to WIMP annihilation. In this work, we have considered several theoretical WIMP (neutralinos here) models envisioning both thermal and non-thermal production of WIMPs, and put limits on pair-annihilation cross-section of WIMPs to constrain the parameter space related to those theoretical models.
description: It has been accepted for publication in JCAP. 12 pages, 4 tables, 7 figures
Identitätsbehauptung durch Atomwaffen
Creators: name: Singh, Shivani
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Im Nuklearwaffendiskurs nimmt Südasien eine gewisse Sonderstellung ein, weil dort mit Indien und Pakistan zwei Atomwaffenmächte beheimatet sind, die nukleare Brennpunkte bilden. Diese Feststellung klingt simpel, solange davon ausgegangen werden kann, dass Rationalität die politischen Entscheidungen leitet. Dient das Atomwaffenarsenal aber zur Identitätsbildung der Nation, wird es kritisch, wie unsere Autorin darlegt.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (2020): Auf-Rüsten
The development of a prototype knowledge base system to select an appropriate systems development method
Creators: name: Zwar, Eric.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Infragestellung der Rüstungskontrolle
Creators: name: Khalid, Asma
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Die Entscheidung der Trump-Administration, zwei bilaterale Rüstungskontrollpakte mit Russland aufzugeben, den Vertrag über nukleare Mittelstreckenwaffen (INF) und den Open-Skies-Vertrag (OST), wurde mit Besorgnis aufgenommen. Aber was hat das mit Südasien zu tun? Eine Menge, meint die Autorin, weil ein solches Vorgehen die Sicherheitsarchitektur auch in diesem Teil der Welt erschüttert.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (2020): Auf-Rüsten
Foreign Visitors’ Satisfaction towards English Oral Communication with Thai Vendors in Khon Kaen Province
Creators: name: Sattra Sahatsathatsana
Publisher: name: English Program (ELP) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSOC) Buriram Rajabhat University (BRU) Thailand
Year: 2023
Subjects: English
Foreign visitors
Oral communication
Satisfaction
Thai vendors

description: Journal of English Language and Linguistics, 4, 1, 30-45
Document allocation in a multiprocessor information retrieval system
Creators: name: Ghazfan, Desra Firza.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Light interaction with photonic and plasmonic resonances
Creators: name: Lalanne, Philippe
name: Yan, Wei
name: Vynck, Kevin
name: Sauvan, Christophe
name: Hugonin, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Review, the theory and applications of optical micro and nanoresonators are presented from the underlying concept of their natural resonances, the so-called quasi-normal modes (QNMs). The latter are the basic constituents governing the response of resonators. Characterized by complex frequencies, QNMs are initially loaded by a driving field and then decay exponentially in time due to power leakage or absorption. Here, the use of QNM-expansion formalisms to model these basic effects is explored. Such modal expansions that operate at complex frequencies distinguish from the current user habits in electromagnetic modeling, which rely on classical Maxwell equation solvers operating at real frequencies or in the time domain; they also bring much deeper physical insight into the analysis. An extensive overview of the historical background on QNMs in electromagnetism and a detailed discussion of recent relevant theoretical and numerical advances are therefore presented. Additionally, a concise description of the role of QNMs on a number of examples involving electromagnetic resonant fields and matter, including the interaction between quantum emitters and resonators (Purcell effect, weak and strong coupling, superradiance...), Fano interferences, the perturbation of resonance modes, and light transport and localization in disordered media is provided.
description: 38 pages, 18 figures, review article
Solidary and Collective Practices of Resistance: How civil society organizations challenge the migration regime in the city of Iquique, Chile
Creators: name: Groos, Marielena
Publisher: name: HCIAS Working Papers on Ibero-America
Year: 2023

description: The city of Iquique is currently experiencing a new migration phenomenon characterized by migrants entering through unauthorized border crossings since the closure of the border legitimized by pandemic prevention. While previous studies have analyzed the negotiation of the global migration regime at the local level, they overlook the role of civil society organizations in this process. Nevertheless, pro-migrant CSOs play a crucial role in improving the situation of “irregular” immigrants. This study focuses on how CSOs challenge the global migration regime at the local level andwhat practices of resistance can be identified. For this purpose, six interviews were conducted with CSOs actively involved in migrant struggles in the city. The study reveals that the migration regime is challenged at the local level through various practices of solidary and collective resistance from below. However, the study also identifies that the governmental response to this local challenge of the migration regime is the criminalization of solidarity as a new tool for migration control.
description: HCIAS Working Papers on Ibero-America, HCIAS Working Papers on Ibero-America, Volume II (2023)
Prototyping distributed application development
Creators: name: Zhao, Weigang.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Derivation of the Boltzmann Equation for Financial Brownian Motion: Direct Observation of the Collective Motion of High-Frequency Traders
Creators: name: Kanazawa, Kiyoshi
name: Sueshige, Takumi
name: Takayasu, Hideki
name: Takayasu, Misako
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A microscopic model is established for financial Brownian motion from the direct observation of the dynamics of high-frequency traders (HFTs) in a foreign exchange market. Furthermore, a theoretical framework parallel to molecular kinetic theory is developed for the systematic description of the financial market from microscopic dynamics of HFTs. We report first on a microscopic empirical law of traders' trend-following behavior by tracking the trajectories of all individuals, which quantifies the collective motion of HFTs but has not been captured in conventional order-book models. We next introduce the corresponding microscopic model of HFTs and present its theoretical solution paralleling molecular kinetic theory: Boltzmann-like and Langevin-like equations are derived from the microscopic dynamics via the Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon hierarchy. Our model is the first microscopic model that has been directly validated through data analysis of the microscopic dynamics, exhibiting quantitative agreements with mesoscopic and macroscopic empirical results.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures + Appendices
Geopolitik, Sicherheit und Handel
Creators: name: Murthy, Ganga
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2023

description: Nach der Unabhängigkeit sah sich Indien mit geopolitischen Entwicklungen konfrontiert, die seine Beziehungen zum Nachbarn China mitbestimmt haben. Territoriale Herausforderungen entlang Indiens Grenzen mit China im Himalaya-Gebirge dominieren die Sicherheitsfragen, die aber wiederum eingebunden sind in Handels- und Investitionsfragen. Die Autorin erlaubt einen knappen Einblick.
description: Südasien, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (2020): Auf-Rüsten