cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The feminization of serial killing: A gender identity study of male and female serialists using covert methods of murder
Creators: name: Kirby, Patricia Lee
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This research explores the gender identities of males and females convicted of serial killing in the United States, who used covert methods of murder. The existing literature concerning male and female serialists indicates that the greatest differences are their methods of murder and the levels of violence associated with the killings. Gender is proposed as the explanation. Men use overt methods of murder (shooting, stabbing, bludgeoning) and women choose covert (poisoning, suffocation, lethal injection). A review of past and present serial murderers indicates that males and a female using overt methods of murder were in traditionally masculine occupations. But males and females using covert murder methods were in traditionally feminine roles and occupations. To date this observation has not been studied. Thus, a theoretical sample of three females and five males convicted of killing in a serial manner, and using covert methods, was interviewed to generate a conceptual understanding about the gender identities of these individuals. This group of male and female serialists is atypical. First, it is unusual for women to commit serial murder. Second, gender is believed to determine the methods used in killing. And third, "real" men do not engage in occupations perceived as "women's" work. The question guiding the research is: Does the gender identity of male and female serialists explain their use of covert methods of murder? In-depth face-to-face interviews with the eight subjects were the primary source of data collection. Additional document analysis included trial transcripts, and journal and media articles. The study indicated that gender identity influenced the male and female serialists in their selection of female-dominated occupations. While engaged in these occupations, the men practiced masculinity and the women practiced femininity. Since the victim selection and murderous behavior occurred while working in these caregiver roles, the use of covert methods was more consistent with the feminine roles and occupations rather than their gendered behaviors. A conceptual model was constructed to reflect these findings.
Additional file 1 of High levels of viral repression, malnutrition and second-line ART use in adolescents living with HIV: a mixed methods study from Myanmar
Creators: name: Murray, Jillian
name: Whitehouse, Katherine
name: Ousley, Janet
name: Elkin Bermudez
name: Theint Thida Soe
name: Adelene Hilbig
name: Kyi Pyar Soe
name: Phyu Ei Mon
name: Kyaw Tint Tun
name: Ei, Win Le Shwe Sin
name: Cyr, Joanne
name: Deglise, Carole
name: Iza Ciglenecki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Baseline characteristics of adolescents aged 10–19 years old on ART and enrolled in the cross-sectional survey at an MSF clinic in Myanmar, by age group.
Electronic structural critique of interesting thermal and optical properties of C$_{17}$Ge germagraphene
Creators: name: Datta, Sujoy
name: Jana, Debnarayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this communication, we report a theoretical attempt to understand the involvement of electronic structure in determination of optical and thermal properties of C$_{17}$Ge germagraphene, a buckled two dimensional material. The structure is found to be a direct bandgap semiconductor with low carrier effective mass. Our study has revealed that the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the band structure and in appearance of spin Hall current in the material. A selectively high blue to ultraviolet light absorption and a refractive index comparable to flint glass open up the possible applicability of this material for optoelectronic devices. From electronic structural point of view, we investigate the reason behind its moderately high Seebeck coefficient and power factor comparable to traditional thermoelectric materials. Besides its narrow bandgap, relatively smaller work function of C$_{17}$Ge ($4.361 ~eV$) than graphene ($4.390 ~eV$) and germanene ($4.682 ~eV$) assures more easily removal of electron from the surface. This material is turned out to be an excellent alternative for futuristic semiconductor application from optical to thermal device regime.
The Role of Antimatter Searches in the Hunt for Supersymmetric Dark Matter
Creators: name: Profumo, Stefano
name: Ullio, Piero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the antimatter yield of supersymmetric (SUSY) models with large neutralino annihilation cross sections. We introduce three benchmark scenarios, respectively featuring bino, wino and higgsino-like lightest neutralinos, and we study in detail the resulting antimatter spectral features. We carry out a systematic and transparent comparison between current and future prospects for direct detection, neutrino telescopes and antimatter searches. We demonstrate that often, in the models we consider, antimatter searches are the only detection channel which already constrains the SUSY parameter space. Particularly large antiprotons fluxes are expected for wino-like lightest neutralinos, while significant antideuteron fluxes result from resonantly annihilating binos. We introduce a simple and general recipe which allows to assess the visibility of a given SUSY model at future antimatter search facilities. We provide evidence that upcoming space-based experiments, like PAMELA or AMS, are going to be, in many cases, the unique open road towards dark matter discovery.
description: 34 pages, 18 figures; V2: misprints in the labels of fig. 2,3 and 5 corrected
Thermodynamic geometry of the novel 4-D Gauss Bonnet AdS Black Hole
Creators: name: Mansoori, Seyed Ali Hosseini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the new formalism of thermodynamic geometry proposed in [1] is employed in investigating phase transition points and the critical behavior of a Gauss Bonnet-AdS black hole in four dimensional spacetime. In this regard, extrinsic and intrinsic curvatures of a certain kind of hypersurface immersed in the thermodynamic manifold contain information about stability/instability of heat capacities. We, therefore, calculate the intrinsic curvature of the $Q$-zero hypersurface for a four-dimensional neutral Gauss Bonnet black hole case in the extended phase space. Interestingly, intrinsic curvature can be positive for small black holes at low temperature, which indicates a repulsive interaction among black hole microstructures. This finding is in contrast with the five-dimensional neutral Gauss Bonnet black hole with only dominant attractive interaction between its microstructures.
description: 28 pages, 15 figures, accepted by Physics of the Dark Universe
An evaluative study of the school improvement process in Prince George's County Public Schools, Maryland
Creators: name: Moseley, Theresa Ann
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The problem. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the school improvement process in Prince George's County Public Schools. The study sought answers to the following six questions. During the period of implementation of the Comer Process and the School Improvement Program, to what extent is high school attendance and dropout rate meeting or exceeding state standards? To what extent do Scholastic Aptitude Test scores meet or exceed state standards? During the period of implementation of the School Improvement Process, to what extent are students meeting or exceeding state standards on the Maryland Functional Tests in reading, mathematics, writing, and citizenship? During the period of implementation of Effective Schools Process and Comer Process, to what extent are elementary schools meeting or exceeding state standards for student attainment and attendance? During the period of implementation of Effective Schools Process and Comer Process, to what extent are students in meeting or exceeding state standards in reading, writing, language usage, mathematics, science and social studies? To what extent do school improvement projects/programs impact student performance? Methodology. Descriptive statistics were used to evaluate data from the Maryland State Performance Report. The student performances on the Maryland State Performance Assessment Program, Maryland Functional Tests, as well as student dropout rate, attendance, and attainment, were compared to state standards. The student performances in the Authentic Teaching Learning and Assessments for all students (ATLAS) school, Milliken II schools, and a university high school program were compared with the average student performance in Prince George's County Public Schools. Results. The findings indicated student performance in Prince George's County Public Schools did not meet or exceed state standards in most categories. The ATLAS project student performance was below the average of Prince George's County Public Schools. The Milliken II High Schools performed below state standards on most categories. The university high school met or exceeded state standard percentage in all categories except attendance. Conclusion. The School Improvement Process in Prince George's County Public Schools has not made a positive impact on student performance, despite the plan's stated primary goal: "Student achievement will meet or exceed state standards." The evaluation of the School Improvement Process in this study was made solely on the basis of the failure of student performance to meet state standards in most categories.
The Clifford group, stabilizer states, and linear and quadratic operations over GF(2)
Creators: name: Dehaene, Jeroen
name: De Moor, Bart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe stabilizer states and Clifford group operations using linear operations and quadratic forms over binary vector spaces. We show how the n-qubit Clifford group is isomorphic to a group with an operation that is defined in terms of a (2n+1)x(2n+1) binary matrix product and binary quadratic forms. As an application we give two schemes to efficiently decompose Clifford group operations into one and two-qubit operations. We also show how the coefficients of stabilizer states and Clifford group operations in a standard basis expansion can be described by binary quadratic forms. Our results are useful for quantum error correction, entanglement distillation and possibly quantum computing.
description: 9 pages
Additional file 7 of Phylogenetic relationship between Australian Fusarium oxysporum isolates and resolving the species complex using the multispecies coalescent model
Creators: name: Saidi R. Achari
name: Kaur, Jatinder
name: Dinh, Quang
name: Mann, Ross
name: Sawbridge, Tim
name: Summerell, Brett A.
name: Edwards, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Supplementary Figure 4. One Way ANOVA and Fisher test for Least Significant Difference between the length of the conserved region of different variant types present in the Fusarium oxysporum isolates used for phylogenetic analyses
The Birth of Binary Direct-Collapse Black Holes
Creators: name: Latif, Muhammad A.
name: Khochfar, Sadegh
name: Whalen, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supermassive primordial stars forming during catastrophic baryon collapse in atomically-cooling halos at $z \sim$ 15 - 20 may be the origin of the first quasars in the universe. However, no simulation to date has followed the evolution of these halos at resolutions that are high enough or for times that are long enough to determine if collapse actually produces SMSs. Here we report new cosmological simulations of baryon collapse in atomically-cooled halos for times that are long enough for SMSs to form and die as direct-collapse black holes (DCBHs). We find that the high infall rates required to build up such stars do persist until the end of their lives and could fuel the rapid growth of their BHs thereafter. Our simulations also demonstrate that binary and even small multiples of SMSs can form in low-spin and high-spin halos, respectively. This discovery raises the exciting prospect of detecting gravitational waves from DCBH mergers with LISA and tidal disruption events in the near infrared with the {\em James Webb Space Telescope} and ground-based telescopes in the coming decade.
description: Published in ApJL, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7c61
An Investigation into Creating Accessibility on Campus for Disabled and Seniors
Creators: name: Belozerov, Anton
name: Mazaheri, Noojan
name: Rajic, Nina
name: Zhou, Howard
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The University of British Columbia is a major hub for pedestrian travel with thousands of people arriving to and from the campus on a daily basis. Many of these individuals who park on the university grounds are people with disabilities or the elderly, who struggle to travel from one location to another. There is no vehicle access or bus routes to many of these locations. With a campus area of 400 hectares (UBC Vancouver Campus, 2016), UBC needs a program that can assist these individuals with travel once they have already reached the university. The goal was to develop a solution using a small budget (relative to a new parking lot), to target seniors and the disabled, and to ensure ease of use. Using existing programs as a reference and estimating costs based on the products and services needed, the idea of a shuttle service was developed. The service is planned to use mainly golf carts for cost and navigation purposes as well as a few hybrid vehicles to ensure service during all weather conditions. The goal is to have volunteers to drive the golf carts and cars in order to minimize cost. To ensure ease of use, users will be able to call for a pickup or use automated buttons located across campus if they are not technologically proficient. This plan will allow for accessibility around campus, while maintaining budget goals and promoting sustainable solutions. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
An evaluative study of the school improvement process in Prince George's County Public Schools, Maryland
Creators: name: Moseley, Theresa Ann
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The problem. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the school improvement process in Prince George's County Public Schools. The study sought answers to the following six questions. During the period of implementation of the Comer Process and the School Improvement Program, to what extent is high school attendance and dropout rate meeting or exceeding state standards? To what extent do Scholastic Aptitude Test scores meet or exceed state standards? During the period of implementation of the School Improvement Process, to what extent are students meeting or exceeding state standards on the Maryland Functional Tests in reading, mathematics, writing, and citizenship? During the period of implementation of Effective Schools Process and Comer Process, to what extent are elementary schools meeting or exceeding state standards for student attainment and attendance? During the period of implementation of Effective Schools Process and Comer Process, to what extent are students in meeting or exceeding state standards in reading, writing, language usage, mathematics, science and social studies? To what extent do school improvement projects/programs impact student performance? Methodology. Descriptive statistics were used to evaluate data from the Maryland State Performance Report. The student performances on the Maryland State Performance Assessment Program, Maryland Functional Tests, as well as student dropout rate, attendance, and attainment, were compared to state standards. The student performances in the Authentic Teaching Learning and Assessments for all students (ATLAS) school, Milliken II schools, and a university high school program were compared with the average student performance in Prince George's County Public Schools. Results. The findings indicated student performance in Prince George's County Public Schools did not meet or exceed state standards in most categories. The ATLAS project student performance was below the average of Prince George's County Public Schools. The Milliken II High Schools performed below state standards on most categories. The university high school met or exceeded state standard percentage in all categories except attendance. Conclusion. The School Improvement Process in Prince George's County Public Schools has not made a positive impact on student performance, despite the plan's stated primary goal: "Student achievement will meet or exceed state standards." The evaluation of the School Improvement Process in this study was made solely on the basis of the failure of student performance to meet state standards in most categories.
Ranking, and other Properties, of Elite Swimmers using Extreme Value Theory
Creators: name: Spearing, Jess
name: Tawn, Jonathan
name: Irons, David
name: Paulden, Tim
name: Bennett, Grace
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The International Swimming Federation (FINA) uses a very simple points system with the aim to rank swimmers across all Olympic events. The points acquired is a function of the ratio of the recorded time and the current world record for that event. With some world records considered "better" than others however, bias is introduced between events, with some being much harder to attain points where the world record is hard to beat. A model based on extreme value theory will be introduced, where swim-times are modelled through their rate of occurrence, and with the distribution of the best times following a generalised Pareto distribution. Within this framework, the strength of a particular swim is judged based on its position compared to the whole distribution of swim-times, rather than just the world record. This model also accounts for the date of the swim, as training methods improve over the years, as well as changes in technology, such as full body suits. The parameters of the generalised Pareto distribution, for each of the 34 individual Olympic events, will be shown to vary with a covariate, leading to a novel single unified description of swim quality over all events and time. This structure, which allows information to be shared across all strokes, distances, and genders, improves the predictive power as well as the model robustness compared to equivalent independent models. A by-product of the model is that it is possible to estimate other features of interest, such as the ultimate possible time, the distribution of new world records for any event, and to correct swim times for the effect of full body suits. The methods will be illustrated using a dataset of the best 500 swim-times for each event in the period 2001-2018.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures, to be published in JRSS series A
Exchange rate pass-through for exports: A cross-country, cross-product analysis
Creators: name: Rahman, Jesmin
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation investigates exchange rate pass-through behavior of exports at both aggregate and SITC 2-digit product levels using a model of monopolistic competition with variable markups and applying it to a sample of 9 European and 6 East Asian countries for a total of 367 SITC 2-digit products over 1979-96. It estimates aggregate and product-level pass-through coefficients for these countries and shows that aggregate pass-through has generally been incomplete for exports and that product-level pass-through varies considerably across countries for the same product. In explaining variations in pass-through, the dissertation looks at how market share in foreign destinations, product differentiation, export dependence and exchange rate volatility affect the markup adjustments by producers following exchange rate movements.
Exchange rate pass-through for exports: A cross-country, cross-product analysis
Creators: name: Rahman, Jesmin
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation investigates exchange rate pass-through behavior of exports at both aggregate and SITC 2-digit product levels using a model of monopolistic competition with variable markups and applying it to a sample of 9 European and 6 East Asian countries for a total of 367 SITC 2-digit products over 1979-96. It estimates aggregate and product-level pass-through coefficients for these countries and shows that aggregate pass-through has generally been incomplete for exports and that product-level pass-through varies considerably across countries for the same product. In explaining variations in pass-through, the dissertation looks at how market share in foreign destinations, product differentiation, export dependence and exchange rate volatility affect the markup adjustments by producers following exchange rate movements.
Population status and natural localities of Rhodiola rosea in Rila Mts.
Creators: name: Boriana Sidjimova
name: Aneva, Ina
name: Zhelev, Petar
name: Nikolova, Milena
name: Savev, Slavcho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Rhodiola rosea L., a member of Crassulaceae family, is an alpine plant that grows in specific and sensitive high-mountain habitat and is, therefore, a very suitable for studying the effect of climate change. This study aimed to evaluate the population size and the conservation status of six natural localities of R. rosea in Rila Mts: 1) Seven Rila Lakes; 2) Skakavitsa's waterfall; 3) Kalin Dam; 4) Rusaliite; 5) Belmeken; 6) Musala hut.
title: Immigrant Health PubMed Search Filters
title: Immigrant PubMed Search Filters
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Wafford, Q. Eileen
name: Miller, Corinne H
name: Wescott, Annie B
name: Kubilius, Ramune K
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: search filters
subject: filter
subject: search strategy
subject: literature search
subject: immigrant health
subject: Emigrants and Immigrants
subject: Refugees
subject: PubMed
subject: Delivery of Health Care
subject: Health Disparate Minority and Vulnerable Populations
subject: Searching, Bibliographical
subject: Emigrants
subject: Immigrants
subject: Health Disparity, Minority and Vulnerable Populations [MeSH -2022]

description: Final, validated search filters for searching PubMed: immigrant-focused filter and immigrant-broad filter. Last updated November 2022. Developed by: Q. Eileen Wafford, MSt, MLIS, AHIP; Corinne Miller, MLIS; Annie Wescott, MLIS; Ramune K. Kubilius, MALS, AHIP. Future updated filters available at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/B6EMH.  
description: original_citation: Citation: Wafford QE, Miller CH, Wescott AB, Kubilius RK. Immigrant Health PubMed Search Filters. Galter Health Sciences Library and Learning Center. 2022 Nov.
The party faithful: Religion in politics in late nineteenth century Ireland and Germany
Creators: name: Cowell, Kimberly Beth
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation considers the ways intense communal conflicts can be shaped and altered. Its purpose is to understand better the contemporary conflict in Ireland and to uncover the forces which manage conflict in deeply divided societies. In the nineteenth century the flames of sectarian conflict flared in Europe. Despite the intensity of these nineteenth century conflicts, in most of Western Europe today Catholic-Protestant conflict is significantly diminished. In Ireland, however, religion has never disappeared as a principal cleavage in society. Sectarian conflict remains intense and deadly, particularly in the six counties of Northern Ireland. This dissertation considers the problem of continued conflict on the island of Ireland from a comparative and historical framework. Using the pattern of Germany Catholic political mobilization in the late nineteenth century as a Weberian "ideal-type" of the process through which sectarian conflict was managed on the continent, this study identifies the unique evolution of the Irish situation. Whereas German Catholics developed an institutional pillar to defend themselves and protect their interests in the modern plural state, Irish Catholics developed a radical nationalist movement in this same period. Absent an institutionalized minority (Catholic) voice, the Union of Great Britain and Ireland lacked the means for channeling the sectarian conflict. Without addressing the issues of accommodation within the plural society in the nineteenth century, the Irish continue to be plagued by them north and south of the partitioned border. This study contends that much conflict resolution literature, liberal and pluralist theory neglects or mischaracterizes the role of exclusive voluntary associations in the amelioration of conflict. It asserts that voluntary organizations, if they are encouraged to do so, can provide the channels through which intense conflicts are managed. Exclusive mobilizations, even those which reinforce social cleavages, may be constructive political formations which allow for the channeling of differences. This argument enhances consociationalist theory by emphasizing that it is more than just parties which facilitate conflict management and by contending that the kinds of arrangements which bridge communal divisions in plural societies need not be conscious, formal or conciliatory.
Orbital angular momentum dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in two stacked rings
Creators: name: Nicolau, Eloi
name: Mompart, Jordi
name: Juliá-Díaz, Bruno
name: Ahufinger, Verònica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stability and dynamics of the orbital angular momentum modes of a repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in two tunnel-coupled rings in a stack configuration. Within mean-field theory, we derive a two-state model for the system in the case in which we populate equally both rings with a single orbital angular momentum mode and include small perturbations in other modes. Analyzing the fixed point solutions of the model and the associated classical Hamiltonian, we characterize the destabilization of the stationary states and the subsequent dynamics. By populating a single orbital angular momentum mode with an arbitrary population imbalance between the rings, we derive analytically the boundary between the regimes of Josephson oscillations and macroscopic quantum self-trapping and study numerically the stability of these solutions.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Signatures of topological ground state degeneracy in Majorana islands
Creators: name: Vayrynen, Jukka I.
name: Feiguin, Adrian E.
name: Lutchyn, Roman M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a mesoscopic superconducting island hosting multiple pairs of Majorana zero-energy modes. The Majorana island consists of multiple p-wave wires connected together by a trivial (s-wave) superconducting backbone and is characterized by an overall charging energy $E_C$; the wires are coupled to normal-metal leads via tunnel junctions. We calculate the average charge on the island as well as non-local conductance matrix as a function of a p-wave pairing gap $Δ_P$, charging energy $E_C$ and dimensionless junction conductances $g_i$. We find that the presence of a topological ground-state degeneracy in the island dramatically enhances charge fluctuations and leads to the suppression of Coulomb blockade effects. In contrast with conventional (s-wave) mesoscopic superconducting islands, we find that Coulomb blockade oscillations of conductance are suppressed in Majorana islands regardless of the ratio $E_C/Δ_P$ or the magnitude of the conductances $g_i$. We also discuss our findings in relation to the so-called topological Kondo effect.
description: 27 pages, 6 figures. Submitted version
The party faithful: Religion in politics in late nineteenth century Ireland and Germany
Creators: name: Cowell, Kimberly Beth
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation considers the ways intense communal conflicts can be shaped and altered. Its purpose is to understand better the contemporary conflict in Ireland and to uncover the forces which manage conflict in deeply divided societies. In the nineteenth century the flames of sectarian conflict flared in Europe. Despite the intensity of these nineteenth century conflicts, in most of Western Europe today Catholic-Protestant conflict is significantly diminished. In Ireland, however, religion has never disappeared as a principal cleavage in society. Sectarian conflict remains intense and deadly, particularly in the six counties of Northern Ireland. This dissertation considers the problem of continued conflict on the island of Ireland from a comparative and historical framework. Using the pattern of Germany Catholic political mobilization in the late nineteenth century as a Weberian "ideal-type" of the process through which sectarian conflict was managed on the continent, this study identifies the unique evolution of the Irish situation. Whereas German Catholics developed an institutional pillar to defend themselves and protect their interests in the modern plural state, Irish Catholics developed a radical nationalist movement in this same period. Absent an institutionalized minority (Catholic) voice, the Union of Great Britain and Ireland lacked the means for channeling the sectarian conflict. Without addressing the issues of accommodation within the plural society in the nineteenth century, the Irish continue to be plagued by them north and south of the partitioned border. This study contends that much conflict resolution literature, liberal and pluralist theory neglects or mischaracterizes the role of exclusive voluntary associations in the amelioration of conflict. It asserts that voluntary organizations, if they are encouraged to do so, can provide the channels through which intense conflicts are managed. Exclusive mobilizations, even those which reinforce social cleavages, may be constructive political formations which allow for the channeling of differences. This argument enhances consociationalist theory by emphasizing that it is more than just parties which facilitate conflict management and by contending that the kinds of arrangements which bridge communal divisions in plural societies need not be conscious, formal or conciliatory.
Standard and geometric approaches to quantum Liouville theory on the pseudosphere
Creators: name: Menotti, Pietro
name: Tonni, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the standard and geometric approaches to quantum Liouville theory on the pseudosphere by performing perturbative calculations of the one and two point functions up to the third order in the coupling constant. The choice of the Hadamard regularization within the geometric approach leads to a discrepancy with the standard approach. On the other hand, we find complete agreement between the results of the standard approach and the bootstrap conjectures for the one point function and the auxiliary two point function.
description: 31 pages, LaTeX, 8 figures
title: A new approach to the assessment of odour nuisance
Creators: name: Beaman, A L
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1988

description: After reviewing the current situation with regard to the assessment of odour nuisance, the development of a new approach is presented. Descriptions are given of the new techniques, which have been developed for quantifying odour intensity, concentration, hedonic tone and annoyance. Statistical analyses of laboratory and field test data collected using these techniques provided mathematical relationships 1 for the assembly of the odour nuisance assessment model. .The nuisance criteria adopted was derived from various guidelines and standards from the U.S. and Europe. For completeness an atmospheric dispersion model was developed for estimating the behaviour of odours downwind of the source. This made it possible to assess the probability of an odour nuisance occurring, using any one of a number of different points of knowledge, e.g. existing or future situations. The assessment method has been tested against independent historical data and been demonstrated to be an effective tool in predicting odour nuisance with a consistency better than any existing method. A listing is provided for a computer program to enable the user to apply the model both quickly and effectively.
PiP: Planning-informed Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving
Creators: name: Song, Haoran
name: Ding, Wenchao
name: Chen, Yuxuan
name: Shen, Shaojie
name: Wang, Michael Yu
name: Chen, Qifeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is critical to predict the motion of surrounding vehicles for self-driving planning, especially in a socially compliant and flexible way. However, future prediction is challenging due to the interaction and uncertainty in driving behaviors. We propose planning-informed trajectory prediction (PiP) to tackle the prediction problem in the multi-agent setting. Our approach is differentiated from the traditional manner of prediction, which is only based on historical information and decoupled with planning. By informing the prediction process with the planning of ego vehicle, our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance of multi-agent forecasting on highway datasets. Moreover, our approach enables a novel pipeline which couples the prediction and planning, by conditioning PiP on multiple candidate trajectories of the ego vehicle, which is highly beneficial for autonomous driving in interactive scenarios.
description: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020; Project page at http://haoran-song.github.io/planning-informed-prediction
Additional file 4 of Severe hydroxymethylbilane synthase deficiency causes depression-like behavior and mitochondrial dysfunction in a mouse model of homozygous dominant acute intermittent porphyria
Creators: name: Berger, Stefanie
name: Stattmann, Miranda
name: Cicvaric, Ana
name: Monje, Francisco J.
name: Pierluca Coiro
name: Hotka, Matej
name: Ricken, Gerda
name: Hainfellner, Johannes
name: Greber-Platzer, Susanne
name: Yasuda, Makiko
name: Desnick, Robert J.
name: Pollak, Daniela D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S2. Neuropathohistological evaluation of hippocampal coronal sections stained with hematoxylin-eosin (H&E), SMI-31 (phosphorylated epitope in neurofilament) and SMI-32 (non-phosphorylated epitope in neurofilament) of HMBS-deficient (KI) and wildtype (WT) mice; n = 8–12 per genotype.
Perceptions of psychotherapeutic response modes: The role of attachment style
Creators: name: Gillis, Martha M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This analog study explored a theoretical link between attachment style and reactions to psychotherapy interventions. The level of intervention chosen for analysis was the verbal response mode. Excerpts were edited and spliced from full-length demonstrations of different types of psychotherapy in such a way that various response modes were grouped in theoretically meaningful ways: responses clarifying the therapist's expectations, those more ambiguous about the therapist's expectations, those providing general supportiveness, and those conveying overt approval. Subjects' scores were obtained after they viewed each of six excerpts--two contrasting excerpts for each of three therapist/patient dyads. Specific scoring differences were predicted for four subscales from the Checklist of Psychotherapy Transactions-Revised (CLOPT-R: Kiesler, Goldston & Schimdt, 1991): dominance, submission, friendliness, and unassuredness. The predictions were based on the currently known impact of specific response modes and on the characteristics of individuals falling into each of four currently accepted categories of adult attachment style. For example, subjects classified as Fearful and Preoccupied, because of their high need for approval, were predicted to rate responses that clarified therapist expectations as more assured and friendlier than responses that left therapist expectations ambiguous compared to Secure and Dismissing subjects. There were significant differences in the way subjects scored the response modes (main effect for response mode) for only two of the three contrasts. Response mode and attachment style interacted (interaction effect) significantly for the targeted dependent variables only for the contrast between generally supportive response modes and overtly approving ones. As predicted, there was a group difference along the submission/dominance axis; however, it was not in the predicted direction. Moreover, when general neuroticism was included as a covariate, the interaction lost significance. Secondary analyses revealed unpredicted group differences but no clear pattern. Methodological and theoretical reasons for the unexpected results are discussed, including the possibility that attachment schema may not have been activated in subjects or that attachment may be relationship specific rather than a global personality trait.
The SEDs of the revised 200 mJy sample
Creators: name: Anton, S.
name: Browne, I. W. A.
name: Marcha, M. J. M.
name: Bondi, M.
name: Polatidis, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the question of why low-luminosity radio sources with similar flat radio spectra show a range of optical activity. The investigation is based on the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of objects from the 200 mJy sample. We gathered new data from the VLA at 43 GHz, from SCUBA in the JCMT at 2000, 1350 and 850 micron and from the ISOPHOT instrument on ISO at 170, 90, 60 and 25 micron. There is considerable diversity amongst the SEDs of the objects: there are objects with steep broadband spectra between centimetre and millimetre bands (14% of the sample), there are those with flat broadband spectra over most of the spectral range (48% of the sample) and there are those which show pronounced sub-mm/infrared excesses (27% of the sample). Some objects of the first group have two sided radio morphology indicating that their pc-scale emission is not dominated by beamed jet emission. Amongst the objects that have smooth broadband spectra from the radio to the infrared there are passive elliptical galaxies as well as the expected BL Lacs objects. The most pronounced sub-mm/infrared excesses are shown by the broad emission line objects.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Perceptions of psychotherapeutic response modes: The role of attachment style
Creators: name: Gillis, Martha M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: This analog study explored a theoretical link between attachment style and reactions to psychotherapy interventions. The level of intervention chosen for analysis was the verbal response mode. Excerpts were edited and spliced from full-length demonstrations of different types of psychotherapy in such a way that various response modes were grouped in theoretically meaningful ways: responses clarifying the therapist's expectations, those more ambiguous about the therapist's expectations, those providing general supportiveness, and those conveying overt approval. Subjects' scores were obtained after they viewed each of six excerpts--two contrasting excerpts for each of three therapist/patient dyads. Specific scoring differences were predicted for four subscales from the Checklist of Psychotherapy Transactions-Revised (CLOPT-R: Kiesler, Goldston & Schimdt, 1991): dominance, submission, friendliness, and unassuredness. The predictions were based on the currently known impact of specific response modes and on the characteristics of individuals falling into each of four currently accepted categories of adult attachment style. For example, subjects classified as Fearful and Preoccupied, because of their high need for approval, were predicted to rate responses that clarified therapist expectations as more assured and friendlier than responses that left therapist expectations ambiguous compared to Secure and Dismissing subjects. There were significant differences in the way subjects scored the response modes (main effect for response mode) for only two of the three contrasts. Response mode and attachment style interacted (interaction effect) significantly for the targeted dependent variables only for the contrast between generally supportive response modes and overtly approving ones. As predicted, there was a group difference along the submission/dominance axis; however, it was not in the predicted direction. Moreover, when general neuroticism was included as a covariate, the interaction lost significance. Secondary analyses revealed unpredicted group differences but no clear pattern. Methodological and theoretical reasons for the unexpected results are discussed, including the possibility that attachment schema may not have been activated in subjects or that attachment may be relationship specific rather than a global personality trait.
Ethnic conflict and development resource allocation: The case of Ghana
Creators: name: Tetteh, Joshua Teye
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study grew out of the need for academic contributions to the reconceptualization of national society and its development, especially as it pertains to multiethnic developing nations in sub-Saharan Africa. It attempts to explain what happens when ethnic conflict becomes linked with national development policy making, using Ghana as a case study. Between 1951 and 1981, Ghana, a multiethnic nation with considerable development potential, fell into the commotion of ethnic conflict over regional allocation of development resources. This study examines the manner in which ethnic and regional particularism gained force in the development process in Ghana and how that issue has contributed to its development inertia during that period. It highlights the following themes in nation-building in Ghana--ethnicity, ethnic conflict, socio-economic inequality, regionalism, and ethnic competition--seen as distinguishing characteristics of ethnic conflict in development in Ghana. Twisted development thinking (which associates development more with region of ethnic origin than with national society), cultivated largely by sensitizing the various ethnic groups through the policy process to regional consciousness, is the underlying factor of disorderly development in Ghana. This places enormous pressure on scarce resources, and, hence, conflict over allocation is intensified. The methodology used in this dissertation is the analysis of existing data. Main sources include library holdings, archival materials, government documents and Ghanaian newspapers. The study concludes that ethnic conflict over resource allocation in Ghana is not an end in itself. It is the means by which various ethnic groups secure resources for their separate development interests. The resulting uneven development resource allocation increases poverty and vulnerability to socio-economic hardships, while it heightens inter-group antagonisms, ethnic mobilization, and ethnic polarization. Ghana cannot achieve orderly development on the foundations of fragmented ethnic interests. As a crucial step towards societal change, Ghanaians need to rethink development in the terms of consensus-building and pursuit of mutual interests.