cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DEVELOPMENT POLICIES FOR SMALL COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF PUERTO RICO
Creators: name: Curet, Eliezer
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study attempts to explain the economic development of Puerto Rico, particularly the nature and causal relations of the rapid rate of economic growth which was experienced from 1950 to 1973 and the slowdown that has been observed since then. An examination of the factors which have shaped that growth was undertaken with an hypothesis that the results were determined principally by the nature of the development strategy: industrial specialization for export markets and integration with the U.S. economy. This hypothesis was subjected to empirical testing by an econometric model consisting of a multiple regression equation in which the dependent variable was real annual growth rates of GDP and the explanatory variables were the production factor inputs, some of the policy instruments, and some relevant external factors. The regression equation explained 55 percent of the variations in GDP growth rates, leaving a large unexplained variance. The results did not support the postulated hypothesis, meaning that there are other important factors besides the development strategy and the links to the U.S. economy, which have determined the pattern of growth. On the basis of this model and other analyses of the Puerto Rican economy which were undertaken, the conclusion was reached that the most important long-run determinants of economic growth have been: the export oriented industrialization and the inputs of labor and capital. Others factors which have also contributed significantly were tax exemption, the government economic and fiscal policies, demographic changes, and the value of imported oil. The events since 1973 have been interpreted to represent a long-term trend: the Puerto Rican economy seems to have reached a level of maturity in which it is subject to wide cyclical fluctuations with a very low net long-term growth rate of per capita output. This conclusion was based on the changes in the trend and composition of capital investment, the shifts in migratory movements, and the physical limits to a substantial future industrial growth. It was finally argued that these trends can not be reversed without substantial changes in the economic and political structure.
DEVELOPMENT POLICIES FOR SMALL COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF PUERTO RICO
Creators: name: Curet, Eliezer
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This study attempts to explain the economic development of Puerto Rico, particularly the nature and causal relations of the rapid rate of economic growth which was experienced from 1950 to 1973 and the slowdown that has been observed since then. An examination of the factors which have shaped that growth was undertaken with an hypothesis that the results were determined principally by the nature of the development strategy: industrial specialization for export markets and integration with the U.S. economy. This hypothesis was subjected to empirical testing by an econometric model consisting of a multiple regression equation in which the dependent variable was real annual growth rates of GDP and the explanatory variables were the production factor inputs, some of the policy instruments, and some relevant external factors. The regression equation explained 55 percent of the variations in GDP growth rates, leaving a large unexplained variance. The results did not support the postulated hypothesis, meaning that there are other important factors besides the development strategy and the links to the U.S. economy, which have determined the pattern of growth. On the basis of this model and other analyses of the Puerto Rican economy which were undertaken, the conclusion was reached that the most important long-run determinants of economic growth have been: the export oriented industrialization and the inputs of labor and capital. Others factors which have also contributed significantly were tax exemption, the government economic and fiscal policies, demographic changes, and the value of imported oil. The events since 1973 have been interpreted to represent a long-term trend: the Puerto Rican economy seems to have reached a level of maturity in which it is subject to wide cyclical fluctuations with a very low net long-term growth rate of per capita output. This conclusion was based on the changes in the trend and composition of capital investment, the shifts in migratory movements, and the physical limits to a substantial future industrial growth. It was finally argued that these trends can not be reversed without substantial changes in the economic and political structure.
Quantum computation based on d-level cluster states
Creators: name: Zhou, D. L.
name: Zeng, B.
name: Xu, Z.
name: Sun, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of qudit (a d-level system) cluster state is proposed by generalizing the qubit cluster state (Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{86}, 910 (2001)) according to the finite dimensional representations of quantum plane algebra. We demonstrate their quantum correlations and prove a theorem which guarantees the availability of the qudit cluster states in quantum computation. We explicitly construct the network to show the universality of the one-way computer based on the defined qudit cluster states and single-qudit measurement. And the corresponding protocol of implementing one-way quantum computer can be suggested with the high dimensional "Ising" model which can be found in many magnetic systems.
description: Revtex4, 15 pages, 3 eps figures
Keto-enol tautomerization drives the self-assembly of Leucoquinizarin on Au(111)
Creators: name: Costantini, Roberto
name: Colazzo, Luciano
name: Batini, Laura
name: Stredansky, Matus
name: Mohammed, Mohammed S. G.
name: Achilli, Simona
name: Floreano, Luca
name: Fratesi, Guido
name: de Oteyza, Dimas G.
name: Cossaro, Albano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The self-assembly of Leucoquinizarin molecule on Au(111) surface is shown to be characterized by the molecules mostly in their keto-enolic tautomeric form, with evidences of their temporary switching to other tautomeric forms. This reveals a metastable chemistry of the assembled molecules, to be considered for their possible employment in the formation of more complex hetero-organic interfaces
Discrete Spectrum of Inflationary Fluctuations
Creators: name: Hogan, Craig J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is conjectured that inflation, taking account of quantum gravity, leads to a discrete spectrum of cosmological perturbations, instead of the continuous Gaussian spectrum predicted by standard field theory in an unquantized background. Heuristic models of discrete spectra are discussed, based on an inflaton mode with self gravity, a lattice of amplitude states, an entangled ensemble of modes, and the holographic or covariant entropy bound. Estimates are given for the discreteness observable in cosmic background anisotropy, galaxy clustering, and gravitational wave backgrounds.
description: 9 pages, LaTex, submitted to Phys. Rev. D. Discussion shortened, notation changed, references updated
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DESCRIPTORS OF AEROBIC DANCE INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENT REENROLLMENT IN AEROBIC DANCE CLASSES (TEACHER BEHAVIOR, CHARACTERISTICS, SUCCESS, EFFECTIVE TEACHING)
Creators: name: Hasko, Lillian Susanne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between each of six descriptors of aerobic dance instructors and student reenrollment in aerobic dance classes. The descriptors are: presentational skills, interest in and concern for students, enthusiasm, sense of humor, class management, and appearance. The study hypothesis proposed that a significant relationship exists between student reenrollment percentage and each descriptor. It was treated operationally as two sets of six hypotheses, one set dealing with the six descriptors in terms of investigator observations and the other student evaluations. The study population consisted of 30 aerobic dance instructors in Jacki Sorensen's Aerobic Dancing, Inc. and 346 reenrolled students in their classes. The two instruments used for the study were the Adapted Teacher Observation List (ATOL) and the Aerobic Dance Student Form (ADSF). The ATOL consisted of 21 items defining the six descriptors, with three response alternatives (frequently, sometimes and never) for use in recording observations of instructor teaching behavior. Two observations were made of each of the 30 instructors. A numerical value was assigned to each observation and a mean score for each descriptor was calculated; the mean score and reenrollment percentage were the data for the oneway analysis of variance, the statistic chosen to test the first set of six hypotheses. The Pearson product-moment correlation was used to test the second set of six hypotheses, student reenrollment percentage and a mean student-ranking on the ADSF of the six descriptors were the data for the test. The level set for statistical significance for both tests was 0.05. Of the six aerobic dance instructor descriptors, one, "appearance," was found to bear a significant relationship with student reenrollment percentage. This led the investigator to conclude that factors other than instructor characteristics, such as time or location of instructor, may exert the deciding influence on a student's decision to reenroll in an aerobic dance class. In addition, because reenrollment percentage was significant when correlated with only one descriptor, it may be that reenrollment is not a valid indicator of effective teaching or perhaps the reenrollment effect occurs at random.
Breaking the trade-off between fast control and long lifetime of a superconducting qubit
Creators: name: Kono, Shingo
name: Koshino, Kazuki
name: Lachance-Quirion, Dany
name: Van Loo, Arjan F.
name: Tabuchi, Yutaka
name: Noguchi, Atsushi
name: Nakamura, Yasunobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rapid development in designs and fabrication techniques of superconducting qubits has helped making coherence times of qubits longer. In the near future, however, the radiative decay of a qubit into its control line will be a fundamental limitation, imposing a trade-off between fast control and long lifetime of the qubit. In this work, we successfully break this trade-off by strongly coupling another superconducting qubit along the control line. This second qubit, which we call a Josephson quantum filter (JQF), prevents the qubit from emitting microwave photons and thus suppresses its relaxation, while faithfully transmitting large-amplitude control microwave pulses due to the saturation of the quantum filter, enabling fast qubit control. We observe an improvement of the qubit relaxation time without a reduction of the Rabi frequency. This device could potentially help in the realization of a large-scale superconducting quantum information processor in terms of the heating of the qubit environments and the crosstalk between qubits.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures, 1 table
Charity Care Disparities in Illinois Hospitals: A Policy Review
Creators: name: Bundra, Sarah
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: charity care
subject: Cook County
subject: health inequity
subject: health disparities
subject: Charities
subject: Health Inequities
subject: Hospitals
subject: Illinois Territory

description: Illinois Cook County Health system has, since the mid 1800s, prided itself in the care it provides for Chicagolands underserved. However, for several decades the County system and Cook County taxpayers have borne the brunt of assisting these populations, especially in regards to supplying charity care, or free medical care that doctors provide to patients who are uninsured. A large gap exists in the charity care being contributed by Cook County Health and all other Chicago area hospitals which, as non-profit institutions, receive tens of millions in foregone property and sales taxes. This paper seeks to explore why that disparity exists, as well as what the Illinois health care system could do to better allocate resources for indigent populations.
民族主义的崛起：从犹太教到如今身份政治的猖獗Rise of Nationalism: From Judaic Roots to the Primacy of Identities in the Contemporary World
Creators: name: Tianyu Zhou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Traces the history of Nationalism, warning against the primacy of diversifying identities in contemporary politics
First evidence for different freeze-out conditions for kaons and antikaons observed in heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Foerster, A.
name: Uhlig, F.
name: Boettcher, I.
name: Debowski, M.
name: Dohrmann, F.
name: Grosse, E.
name: Koczon, P.
name: Kohlmeyer, B.
name: Laue, F.
name: Menzel, M.
name: Naumann, L.
name: Oeschler, H.
name: Scheinast, W.
name: Schwab, E.
name: Senger, P.
name: Shin, Y.
name: Stroebele, H.
name: Sturm, C.
name: Surowka, G.
name: Wagner, A.
name: Walus, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Differential production cross sections of K- and K+ mesons have been measured in Ni+Ni and Au+Au collisions at a beam energy of 1.5 AGeV. The K-/K+ ratio is found to be nearly constant as a function of the collision centrality and system size. The spectral slopes and the polar emission pattern differ for K- and K+ mesons. These observations indicate that K+ mesons decouple earlier from the fireball than K- mesons.
description: accepted by PRL, 12 pages, 4 figures, v2 shortened by 25 lines due to page restrictions
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DESCRIPTORS OF AEROBIC DANCE INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENT REENROLLMENT IN AEROBIC DANCE CLASSES (TEACHER BEHAVIOR, CHARACTERISTICS, SUCCESS, EFFECTIVE TEACHING)
Creators: name: Hasko, Lillian Susanne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between each of six descriptors of aerobic dance instructors and student reenrollment in aerobic dance classes. The descriptors are: presentational skills, interest in and concern for students, enthusiasm, sense of humor, class management, and appearance. The study hypothesis proposed that a significant relationship exists between student reenrollment percentage and each descriptor. It was treated operationally as two sets of six hypotheses, one set dealing with the six descriptors in terms of investigator observations and the other student evaluations. The study population consisted of 30 aerobic dance instructors in Jacki Sorensen's Aerobic Dancing, Inc. and 346 reenrolled students in their classes. The two instruments used for the study were the Adapted Teacher Observation List (ATOL) and the Aerobic Dance Student Form (ADSF). The ATOL consisted of 21 items defining the six descriptors, with three response alternatives (frequently, sometimes and never) for use in recording observations of instructor teaching behavior. Two observations were made of each of the 30 instructors. A numerical value was assigned to each observation and a mean score for each descriptor was calculated; the mean score and reenrollment percentage were the data for the oneway analysis of variance, the statistic chosen to test the first set of six hypotheses. The Pearson product-moment correlation was used to test the second set of six hypotheses, student reenrollment percentage and a mean student-ranking on the ADSF of the six descriptors were the data for the test. The level set for statistical significance for both tests was 0.05. Of the six aerobic dance instructor descriptors, one, "appearance," was found to bear a significant relationship with student reenrollment percentage. This led the investigator to conclude that factors other than instructor characteristics, such as time or location of instructor, may exert the deciding influence on a student's decision to reenroll in an aerobic dance class. In addition, because reenrollment percentage was significant when correlated with only one descriptor, it may be that reenrollment is not a valid indicator of effective teaching or perhaps the reenrollment effect occurs at random.
FIXED CAPITAL AND THE LABOR THEORY OF VALUE (TECHNICAL CHANGE)
Creators: name: Colvin, Jeffrey Lee
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In recent years, it has been claimed that fixed capital plays a key role in Marxian crisis theory. Some have argued that when fixed capital is brought into the analysis of Marx's law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, that law is no longer subject to refutation by the Okishio theorem. Others have maintained that it is the obsolescence of used equipment, caused by technical progress, which precipitates economic crisis. Still others have pointed to the paradoxes associated with the relation of values to prices in fixed capital systems, arguing that, when fixed capital is considered, the labor theory of value becomes meaningless. It is the task of this dissertation to evaluate these claims. To this end, the Sraffian static choice of technique analysis is generalized to include fixed capital. The question of the effect of the introduction of a superior technique on the rate of profit is pursued in different systems, each defined by the assumptions made about the distribution of the aggregate surplus. It emerges that investment criteria are tied logically to such assumptions. Further, while the rate of profit can fall, as a result of technical progress, in systems in which the surplus is distributed according to capital consumed (not advanced), such a result is obtained only by rendering the rate of profit irrelevant to the determination of prices. Consequently, the falling rate of profit theory receives no support from the analysis of fixed capital. However, when the choice of technique analysis is extended to cover the case where obsolete machines make up a part of the capital stock, it is shown that the static effect of the introduction of new equipment can be the scrapping of old machines, causing some firm owners to suffer windfall losses. This result suggests a new direction for the theory of crisis. Finally, the claim that the labor theory of value is rendered meaningless by the analysis of fixed capital is rejected, since value imputations can be formulated which give vectors of strictly positive values.
FIXED CAPITAL AND THE LABOR THEORY OF VALUE (TECHNICAL CHANGE)
Creators: name: Colvin, Jeffrey Lee
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: In recent years, it has been claimed that fixed capital plays a key role in Marxian crisis theory. Some have argued that when fixed capital is brought into the analysis of Marx's law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, that law is no longer subject to refutation by the Okishio theorem. Others have maintained that it is the obsolescence of used equipment, caused by technical progress, which precipitates economic crisis. Still others have pointed to the paradoxes associated with the relation of values to prices in fixed capital systems, arguing that, when fixed capital is considered, the labor theory of value becomes meaningless. It is the task of this dissertation to evaluate these claims. To this end, the Sraffian static choice of technique analysis is generalized to include fixed capital. The question of the effect of the introduction of a superior technique on the rate of profit is pursued in different systems, each defined by the assumptions made about the distribution of the aggregate surplus. It emerges that investment criteria are tied logically to such assumptions. Further, while the rate of profit can fall, as a result of technical progress, in systems in which the surplus is distributed according to capital consumed (not advanced), such a result is obtained only by rendering the rate of profit irrelevant to the determination of prices. Consequently, the falling rate of profit theory receives no support from the analysis of fixed capital. However, when the choice of technique analysis is extended to cover the case where obsolete machines make up a part of the capital stock, it is shown that the static effect of the introduction of new equipment can be the scrapping of old machines, causing some firm owners to suffer windfall losses. This result suggests a new direction for the theory of crisis. Finally, the claim that the labor theory of value is rendered meaningless by the analysis of fixed capital is rejected, since value imputations can be formulated which give vectors of strictly positive values.
Nonequilibrium dynamics and thermodynamics of a degenerate Fermi gas across a Feshbach resonance
Creators: name: Andreev, A. V.
name: Gurarie, V.
name: Radzihovsky, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-species degenerate Fermi gas coupled by a diatomic Feshbach resonance. We show that the resulting superfluid can exhibit a form of coherent BEC-to-BCS oscillations in response to a nonadiabatic change in the system's parameters, such as for example a sudden shift in the position of the Feshbach resonance. In the narrow resonance limit, the resulting soliton-like collisionless dynamics can be calculated analytically. In equilibrium the thermodynamics can be accurately computed across the full range of BCS-BEC crossover, with corrections controlled by the ratio of the resonance width to the Fermi energy.
Predefined-Time Consensus of High-Order Multi-Agent Systems
Creators: name: Colunga, J. Armando
name: Becerra, Héctor M.
name: Vázquez, Carlos R.
name: Gómez-Gutiérrez, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper addresses the distributed prescribed-time leader-following consensus problem for a class of high-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with perturbed nonlinear agents dynamics and where the topology of the network contains a directed spanning tree, with the leader as the root. Prescribed-time consensus means that an agreement state of the MAS is achieved in a preset time, introduced as a parameter of the control law, and this constant settling time is achieved independently of the agents' initial state. The proposed control method exhibits three main advantages: first, to our best knowledge, it is the first time that prescribed-time convergence in a consensus problem is achieved for agents with high-order nonlinear dynamics, using a robust leader-following protocol, which allows an effective rejection of matched disturbances in the agents' model. Second, the proposed controller provides control signals of lower magnitude than existing approaches. Third, the proposed consensus protocol does not have parameters to be adjusted depending on the connectivity of the considered communication graph.
Registration of multi-view point sets under the perspective of expectation-maximization
Creators: name: Zhu, Jihua
name: Zhang, Jing
name: Lu, Huimin
name: Li, Zhongyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Registration of multi-view point sets is a prerequisite for 3D model reconstruction. To solve this problem, most of previous approaches either partially explore available information or blindly utilize unnecessary information to align each point set, which may lead to the undesired results or introduce extra computation complexity. To this end, this paper consider the multi-view registration problem as a maximum likelihood estimation problem and proposes a novel multi-view registration approach under the perspective of Expectation-Maximization (EM). The basic idea of our approach is that different data points are generated by the same number of Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). For each data point in one point set, its nearest neighbors can be searched from other well-aligned point sets. Then, we can suppose this data point is generated by the special GMM, which is composed of each nearest neighbor adhered with one Gaussian distribution. Based on this assumption, it is reasonable to define the likelihood function including all rigid transformations, which requires to be estimated for multi-view registration. Subsequently, the EM algorithm is utilized to maximize the likelihood function so as to estimate all rigid transformations. Finally, the proposed approach is tested on several bench mark data sets and compared with some state-of-the-art algorithms. Experimental results illustrate its super performance on accuracy, robustness and efficiency for the registration of multi-view point sets.
Additional file 6 of Burden of disease study of overweight and obesity; the societal impact in terms of cost-of-illness and health-related quality of life
Creators: name: Hecker, J.
name: Freijer, K.
name: Hiligsmann, M.
name: Evers, S. M. A. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Subgroup analysis of patient and family costs.
Ultra Low-Power All-Optical Switching
Creators: name: Soljacic, Marin
name: Lidorikis, Elefterios
name: Joannopoulos, J. D.
name: Hau, Lene Vestergaard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using analytical modeling and detailed numerical simulations, we investigate properties of hybrid systems of Photonic Crystal micro-cavities which incorporate a highly non-linear Ultra Slow Light medium. We demonstrate that such systems, while being miniature in size (order wavelength), and integrable, could enable ultra-fast non-linear all-optical switching at single photon energy levels.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
A COMPARISON OF THE ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS OF FOUR GROUPS OF IRANIAN STUDENTS AFTER THE 1978 REVOLUTION (COUNSELING)
Creators: name: Khayat-Mofid, Farzaneh
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to compare the adjustment problems of four groups of Iranian students attending an American university following the 1978 revolution in Iran. A basic premise was Iranian students are not homogeneous in either their backgrounds or needs; consequently, their problems of adjustment would vary according to their political orientation. A questionnaire developed by the researcher was administered through interviews and by mail to forty American University graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in Spring 1983 and Fall 1983 terms. All respondents were volunteers who were on F1 visas. The sample was evenly divided into four politically-oriented groups: Islamists, who adhere to the practices of the Muslim religion and are loyal to Khomeni and his government; Mujaheddin, who are pro-Islamic and neither support the Khomeni regime nor strictly adhere to the Islamic religion; Leftists, who have adopted Marxist or communist ideologies and view the Revolution as having failed them; Others, who are monarchists and pro-Shah, strongly anti-Khomeni, and oppose the present Islamic republic. The research approach was both a descriptive comparison and a case study method. The dependent variables were arranged in three categories: social adjustment, economic adjustment, and psychological (stress-related) adjustment. The basic findings showed there were varying degrees of social, emotional and psychological problems following the revolution among the four student groups, and adjustment was related to the students' political orientation. The Islamist were the most well adjusted of the four groups while those classified as Other were least well adjusted. The other two groups, Mujaheddin and Leftist, displayed adjustment patterns between these two extremes.
Work Life Balance & Job Satisfaction: A Literature Review
Creators: name: Dubey, Pushkar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: The profitability and productivity of organization depends on the performance and commitment of its employees. Every employee has a personal and professional life; both of these are very difficult to separate. If an organization wishes to have better productivity and more commitment from employees then they have to be committed and satisfied. This can be achieved by an individual when have a fulfilled life inside and outside and his work and is accepted and respected for the mutual benefit of the individual and the organization. Organizations are social systems where human resources are the most important factors for effectiveness and efficiency and need effective managers and employees to achieve their objectives. Work life balance is partly employer’s and partly individual responsibility. The present article deals with surveying the past literatures on work life balance and job satisfaction in various sectors of Industries in India and abroad.
It's Food Fight! Introducing the Chef's Hat Card Game for Affective-Aware HRI
Creators: name: Barros, Pablo
name: Sciutti, Alessandra
name: Bloem, Anne C.
name: Hootsmans, Inge M.
name: Opheij, Lena M.
name: Toebosch, Romain H. A.
name: Barakova, Emilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Emotional expressions and their changes during an interaction affect heavily how we perceive and behave towards other persons. To design an HRI scenario that makes possible to observe, understand, and model affective interactions and generate the appropriate responses or initiations of a robot is a very challenging task. In this paper, we report our efforts in designing such a scenario, and to propose a modeling strategy of affective interaction by artificial intelligence deployed in autonomous robots. Overall, we present a novel HRI game scenario that was designed to comply with the specific requirements that will allow us to develop the next wave of affective-aware social robots that provide adequate emotional responses.
description: Accepted by the Workshop on Exploring Creative Content in Social Robotics at HRI2020
A COMPARISON OF THE ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS OF FOUR GROUPS OF IRANIAN STUDENTS AFTER THE 1978 REVOLUTION (COUNSELING)
Creators: name: Khayat-Mofid, Farzaneh
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to compare the adjustment problems of four groups of Iranian students attending an American university following the 1978 revolution in Iran. A basic premise was Iranian students are not homogeneous in either their backgrounds or needs; consequently, their problems of adjustment would vary according to their political orientation. A questionnaire developed by the researcher was administered through interviews and by mail to forty American University graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in Spring 1983 and Fall 1983 terms. All respondents were volunteers who were on F1 visas. The sample was evenly divided into four politically-oriented groups: Islamists, who adhere to the practices of the Muslim religion and are loyal to Khomeni and his government; Mujaheddin, who are pro-Islamic and neither support the Khomeni regime nor strictly adhere to the Islamic religion; Leftists, who have adopted Marxist or communist ideologies and view the Revolution as having failed them; Others, who are monarchists and pro-Shah, strongly anti-Khomeni, and oppose the present Islamic republic. The research approach was both a descriptive comparison and a case study method. The dependent variables were arranged in three categories: social adjustment, economic adjustment, and psychological (stress-related) adjustment. The basic findings showed there were varying degrees of social, emotional and psychological problems following the revolution among the four student groups, and adjustment was related to the students' political orientation. The Islamist were the most well adjusted of the four groups while those classified as Other were least well adjusted. The other two groups, Mujaheddin and Leftist, displayed adjustment patterns between these two extremes.
Lepton Flavor Violation at muon-electron colliders
Creators: name: Bossi, Fabio
name: Ciafaloni, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lepton Flavor Violating (LFV) processes are clear signals of physics beyond the Standard Model. We investigate the possibility of measuring this kind of processes at present and foreseeable future muon-electron colliders, taking into account present day bounds from existing experiments. As a model of new physics we consider a Z' boson with a $U'(1)$ gauge symmetry and generic couplings. Processes that violate lepton flavor by two units seem to be particularly promising.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures. Final version published on JHEP
Mental Health Legislation after the 2018 Election in Illinois
Creators: name: Tessier, Robert
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: public health
subject: health crisis
subject: mental health
subject: Illinois
subject: health insurance
subject: Mental Health Services
subject: Public Policy
subject: Adolescent
subject: Child
subject: Illinois Territory

description: Background and Significance Mental health problems represent a significant and growing public health crisis in Illinois, with suicide being the 11th leading cause of death and 683,000 adults receiving mental health treatment each year. Following the 2018 election, the Illinois Democratic Party gained control of all three houses of government and the newly sworn-in Governor, JB Pritzker, expressed interest in following through on his campaign promises to address mental health in the state.  HB2154 The Children and Youth Mental Health Crisis Act (HB2154), signed into law in August 2019, was the most significant mental health legislative effort of the 2018-2019 legislative session. The bill created an insurance mandate that will require private insurance plans purchased by individuals and corporations to cover integrated mental health services for children and adults under the age of 26. The bill also reinvents the states Individual Care Grant Program as the Family Support Program to better support families in paying for residential mental health treatment for those under the age of 26. Finally, the bill creates a process for redefining Medicaid billing rules to increase utilization of preventive mental health services.Implications of Legislation for Mental Health Screening and Treatment HB2154 grew from a collaborative effort between mental health care providers and legislators and garnered the broad support it will need for its implementation to be successful. Going forward, IL should take efforts to increase the number of mental health care providers and how many accept health insurance payments.
Entanglement distillation for three-particle W class states
Creators: name: Cao, Zhuo-Liang
name: Yang, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we propose two general entanglement distillation protocols, which can concentrate the non-maximally entangled pure W class state. The general protocols are mainly based on the unitary transformation on the auxiliary particle and one of the three entangled particles, and in the second protocol, the entanglement distillation includes two meanings, namely, extracting the concentrated tripartite entangled W state and obtaining the maximally entangled bipartite state from the garbage state, which gives no contribution to the distillation of non-maximally entangled pure W class state. We can make use of the garbage in the distillation process, and make the entanglement waste in quantum communication as small as possible. A feasible physical scheme is suggested based on the cavity QED.
description: 15 pages 2 figures
Additional file 7 of Burden of disease study of overweight and obesity; the societal impact in terms of cost-of-illness and health-related quality of life
Creators: name: Hecker, J.
name: Freijer, K.
name: Hiligsmann, M.
name: Evers, S. M. A. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. Subgroup analysis of other costs.
Noise and disturbance in quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Busch, P.
name: Heinonen, T.
name: Lahti, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The operational meaning of some measures of noise and disturbance in measurements is analyzed and their limitations are pointed out. The cases of minimal noise and least disturbance are characterized.
Binary-binary scattering in the secular limit
Creators: name: Hamers, Adrian S.
name: Samsing, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binary-binary interactions are important in a number of astrophysical contexts including dense stellar systems such as globular clusters. Although less frequent than binary-single encounters, binary-binary interactions lead to a much richer range of possibilities such as the formation of stable triple systems. Here, we focus on the regime of distant binary-binary encounters, i.e., two binaries approaching each other on an unbound orbit with a periapsis distance Q much larger than the internal binary separations. This `secular' regime gives rise to changes in the orbital eccentricities and orientations, which we study using analytic considerations and numerical integrations. We show that `direct' interactions between the three orbits only occur starting at a high expansion order of the Hamiltonian (hexadecupole order), and that the backreaction of the outer orbit on the inner two orbits at lower expansion orders is weak. Therefore, to good approximation, one can obtain the changes of each orbit by using previously-known analytic results for binary-single interactions, and replacing the mass of the third body with the total mass of the companion binary. Nevertheless, we find some dependence of the `binarity' of the companion binary, and derive explicit analytic expressions for the secular changes that are consistent with numerical integrations. In particular, the eccentricity and inclination changes of orbit 1 due to orbit 2 scale as \eps_{SA1} (a_2/Q)^2 [m_3 m_4/(m_3+m_4)^2], where \eps_{SA1} is the approximate quadrupole-order change, and a_2 and (m_3,m_4) are the companion binary orbital semimajor axis and component masses, respectively. Our results are implemented in several Python scripts that are freely available.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 19 pages, 9 figures. Code can be found at https://github.com/hamers/flybys_bin
Additional file 9 of Burden of disease study of overweight and obesity; the societal impact in terms of cost-of-illness and health-related quality of life
Creators: name: Hecker, J.
name: Freijer, K.
name: Hiligsmann, M.
name: Evers, S. M. A. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 9. Subgroup analysis utility score derived from the five-dimensional, five-level EuroQol.
A STUDY TO DETERMINE THE PRESENCE OR NONPRESENCE OF CHOLESTEROL IN THE PLANT KINGDOM (STEROLS)
Creators: name: Mehrjardi, Parvin Yasaei
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Cholesterol has been positively identified in the oils extracted from several plant seeds. The existence of cholesterol in the plant kingdom is significant because it has been one of the classic indexes for the differentiation of vegetable and animal oils. In this study, oil was extracted from sunflower chips, soybeans, cocoa beans, and two varieties of tobacco seeds. The oils were saponified and the unsaponifiables were extracted. Preparative thin-layer chromatography was used to separate total sterols from other lipid components. The sterols were then analyzed by analytical gas-liquid chromatography. Tobacco seed sterols were the richest source of the suspect compound studied. The tobacco seed sterol fraction obtained by preparative thin-layer chromatography was subjected to preparative gas-liquid chromatography to collect the compound with the retention time of cholesterol. The collected compound was verified to be (DELTA)('5)-cholesten-3 (beta)-ol (cholesterol). The supporting data were obtained using ('13)C-nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry, electron-ionization mass spectrometry, mass-analyzed ion kinetic spectrometry, infrared spectrometry, melting point, digitonin precipitation, and analytical gas chromatography. The cholesterol content of the samples was found to be in the following ranges: (1) 67-137 mg per 100 g of oil for tobacco seeds; (2) 3.7-4.9 mg per 100 g for cocoa bean oil; and (3) less than 1 mg per 100 g for soybean and sunflower seed oils.
Self-dual intervals in the Bruhat order
Creators: name: Gaetz, Christian
name: Gao, Yibo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Björner-Ekedahl prove that general intervals $[e,w]$ in Bruhat order are "top-heavy", with at least as many elements in the $i$-th corank as the $i$-th rank. Well-known results of Carrell and of Lakshmibai-Sandhya give the equality case: $[e,w]$ is rank-symmetric if and only if the permutation $w$ avoids the patterns $3412$ and $4231$ and these are exactly those $w$ such that the Schubert variety $X_w$ is smooth. In this paper we study the finer structure of rank-symmetric intervals $[e,w]$, beyond their rank functions. In particular, we show that these intervals are still "top-heavy" if one counts cover relations between different ranks. The equality case in this setting occurs when $[e,w]$ is self-dual as a poset; we characterize these $w$ by pattern avoidance and in several other ways.
description: 22 pages; v2: minor edits and journal reference
A STUDY TO DETERMINE THE PRESENCE OR NONPRESENCE OF CHOLESTEROL IN THE PLANT KINGDOM (STEROLS)
Creators: name: Mehrjardi, Parvin Yasaei
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Cholesterol has been positively identified in the oils extracted from several plant seeds. The existence of cholesterol in the plant kingdom is significant because it has been one of the classic indexes for the differentiation of vegetable and animal oils. In this study, oil was extracted from sunflower chips, soybeans, cocoa beans, and two varieties of tobacco seeds. The oils were saponified and the unsaponifiables were extracted. Preparative thin-layer chromatography was used to separate total sterols from other lipid components. The sterols were then analyzed by analytical gas-liquid chromatography. Tobacco seed sterols were the richest source of the suspect compound studied. The tobacco seed sterol fraction obtained by preparative thin-layer chromatography was subjected to preparative gas-liquid chromatography to collect the compound with the retention time of cholesterol. The collected compound was verified to be (DELTA)('5)-cholesten-3 (beta)-ol (cholesterol). The supporting data were obtained using ('13)C-nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry, electron-ionization mass spectrometry, mass-analyzed ion kinetic spectrometry, infrared spectrometry, melting point, digitonin precipitation, and analytical gas chromatography. The cholesterol content of the samples was found to be in the following ranges: (1) 67-137 mg per 100 g of oil for tobacco seeds; (2) 3.7-4.9 mg per 100 g for cocoa bean oil; and (3) less than 1 mg per 100 g for soybean and sunflower seed oils.
Association of Maternal Obesity with Infant Gut Microbiota: Evidence from Cebu, Philippines
Creators: name: Kane, Lauren
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: maternal obesity
subject: infant gut microbiota
subject: Philippines
subject: Obesity, Maternal
subject: Gastrointestinal Microbiome
subject: Infant
subject: Philippines

description: Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the correlation between maternal obesity and infant gut microbiota. It was designed to test the hypothesis that infants born from obese mothers have different gut microbiotas than those born from non-obese mothers, which may impact the health of the infant during later stages of their life.Methods: The study was conducted on a cohort of Filipino women and their newborn children taking part in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS). Fecal samples from pregnant and non-pregnant index children of the cohort were collected from November 2017 through February 2020, resulting in a total of 106 distinct samples. When these pregnant women gave birth, infant fecal samples were taken both at two weeks of age and six months of age for a total of 93 samples. DNA was extracted from ethanol-preserved fecal samples and a two-step PCR was used to amplify the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene in order to generate amplicon data describing microbial communities. Sequence data were quality-filtered and denoised using the bioinformatic platform QIIME2, and the resulting data were analyzed using the statistical programming software R with the goal of associating infant gut microbiota with maternal obesity.Results: PERMANOVA tests comparing infant microbiome composition across maternal BMI groups (i.e. underweight, normal, overweight/obese) were not statistically significant (p=.28), and the association only slightly increases when controlling for geography (p=.25). ANOVA tests revealed no statistically significant differences in infant gut microbiota diversity between the maternal BMI groups (F2 = 0.778). While these findings do not support a largescale effect of maternal BMI on the infant gut microbiome, a few individual taxa were affected by overweight/obese and underweight maternal BMI status.Conclusion: The effect of maternal BMI on the infant gut microbiome does not appear to be substantial in this sample of Filipino mothers and infants. While some individual taxa do appear to be impacted by maternal BMI status, the mechanisms through which this occurs remains unclear.