cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: An investigation into the social integration of Young Adult Carers who are undergraduate students into Higher Education Institutions in England
Creators: name: McBain, Lynn
Publisher: name: Oxford Brookes University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis investigates the social integration of young adult carers (YACs) who are undergraduates in a higher education institution (HEI) in England. This study recognises the increasingly neoliberal nature of higher education (HE) and that it was carried out during a pandemic. YACs are defined as ‘young people aged 16–25 who care, unpaid, for a family member or friend with an illness or disability, mental health condition or an addiction’ (Carers Trust, 2022). It has been estimated that there are 376,000 YACs in the UK (Carers Trust, 2022), but there are no definitive figures for how many of these young people are studying at university. It is widely acknowledged that YACs are an under-researched student group, and it is the intention of this thesis to contribute to the growing body of knowledge about them. Following an initial review of documentary evidence from 50 HEIs on the levels of support for YACs from an institutional perspective, this study takes an interpretive approach employing narrative inquiry as the research methodology. Participants (n=5) were recruited from HEIs across England and interviewed at three points across the academic year. They were also invited to keep a reflective journal of their experiences. Findings and discussion chapters were presented as a combined narrative, in order to represent the student life cycle in terms of transition into, through and potentially out of university. Findings indicated that YACs felt there were a limited number of named contacts, no personalised support plans, varying financial support, and an absence of acknowledgement of the challenges this group of young people encountered on a daily basis. The study also found that family and friends were, and are the most important groups of people in a YAC’s social network. It also found that academics could be more supportive in terms of understanding YACs and their different situations and how these impact their educational journey. It concluded that both HEIs and students’ unions could do more to recognise YACs, and therefore ensure they feel more socially integrated into their respective universities.
Stability Results for Idealised Shear Flows on a Rectangular Periodic Domain
Creators: name: Dullin, Holger
name: Worthington, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a new linearly stable solution of the Euler fluid flow on a torus. On a two-dimensional rectangular periodic domain $[0,2π)\times[0,2π/ κ)$ for $κ\in\mathbb{R}^+$, the Euler equations admit a family of stationary solutions given by the vorticity profiles $Ω^*(\mathbf{x})= Γ\cos(p_1x_1+ κp_2x_2)$. We show linear stability for such flows when $p_2=0$ and $κ\geq |p_1|$ (equivalently $p_1=0$ and $κ{|p_2|}\leq{1}$). The classical result due to Arnold is that for $p_1 = 1, p_2 = 0$ and $κ\ge 1$ the stationary flow is {nonlinearly} stable via the energy-Casimir method. We show that for $κ\ge |p_1| \ge 2, p_2 = 0$ the flow is linearly stable, but one cannot expect a similar nonlinear stability result. Finally we prove nonlinear instability for all equilibria satisfying $p_1^2+κ^2{p_2^2}>\frac{3(κ^2+1)}{4(7-4\sqrt{3})}$. The modification and application of a structure-preserving Hamiltonian truncation is discussed for the $κ\neq 1$ case. This leads to an explicit Lie-Poisson integrator for the truncated system.
MENTAL REENGINEERING THOUGH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE FOR FLOOD MITIGATION IN BAYELSA STATE NIGERIA
Creators: name: Kosioma E, Owede
Publisher: name: ZAP Journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Flooding
Community Development
Mental-Re-engineering
Resilience
Capacity Building

description: Flooding is a recurring natural disaster in Nigeria, resulting in significant human, material, and economic losses. Although infrastructural measures are essential, they are often insufficient to mitigate the psychological trauma and distress caused by flooding. This article explores the potential of community development initiatives to promote mental engineering as a resilience strategy against flooding in Nigeria. This article examines the nexus between community development projects/programmes and psychosocial wellbeing, coping mechanisms and flood risk perception. This highlights the critical role of community development in fostering mental resilience, promoting collective efficacy, and enhancing flood risk management. The paper concludes by emphasising the need for a holistic approach to flood risk management, integrating community leadership into community development practice, mental engineering, and infrastructural measures to promote sustainable resilience in flood-prone communities.
Wormholes and black universes without phantom fields in Einstein-Cartan theory
Creators: name: Bronnikov, K. A.
name: Galiakhmetov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain a family of regular static, spherically symmetric solutions in Einstein--Cartan theory with an electromagnetic field and a nonminimally coupled scalar field with the correct sign of kinetic energy density. At different values of its parameters, the solution, being asemptotically flat at large values of the radial coordinate, describes (i) twice asemptotically flat symmetric wormholes, (ii) asymmetric wormholes with an AdS asymptotic at the "far end", (iii) regular black holes with an extremal horizon or two simple horizons, and (iv) black universes with a de Sitter asymptotic at the "far end". As in other black universe models, it is a black hole as seen by a distant observer, but beyond its horizon there is a nonsingular expanding universe. In all these cases, both the metric and the torsion are regular in the whole space.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
CACDU-Net: A novel DoubleU-Net based semantic segmentation model for skin lesions detection in images
Creators: name: Hao, Shengnan
name: Wu, Haotian
name: Du, Chengyuan
name: Zeng, Xinyi
name: GANCHEV, IVAN
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: Skin lesion segmentation is a critical task in the field of dermatology as it can aid in the early detection and diagnosis of skin diseases. Deep learning techniques have shown great potential in achieving accurate lesion segmentation. With the help of these techniques, the lesion segmentation process can be automated, thus reducing the impact of manual operations and subjective judgments. This aids in improving the work efficiency of medical professionals by saving their time and lowering their corresponding effort, and in enabling better allocation of healthcare resources. This paper proposes a novel CACDU-Net model, based on the DoubleU-Net model, for performing skin lesion segmentation better. For this, firstly, the proposed model adopts a pre-trained ConvNeXt-T as an encoding backbone network to provide rich image features. Secondly, specially designed ConvNeXt Attention Convolutional Blocks (CACB) are utilized by CACDU-Net to refine feature extraction by combining ConvNeXt blocks with multiple attention mechanisms. Thirdly, the proposed model utilizes a specially designed Asymmetric Convolutional Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ACASPP) module between the encoding and decoding parts, using atrous convolutions at different scales to capture contextual information at different levels. The image segmentation performance of the proposed model is evaluated against existing mainstream models on two skin lesion public datasets, ISIC2018 and PH2, as well as on a private dataset. The obtained results demonstrate that CACDU-Net achieves excellent results, especially based on the two core metrics used for the evaluation of image segmentation, namely the Intersection over Union (IoU) and Dice similarity coefficient (DSC), according to which it surpasses all other models. Moreover, experiments conducted on the PH2 dataset show that CACDU-Net has strong generalization ability.
Comparison between experimental and numerical methods for the optimal design of automotive cooling systems
Creators: name: Johannessen, Kristian John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Creators: name: Finocchiaro, F.
name: Guinea, F.
name: San-Jose, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by a recent experiment (Sanchez-Yamagishi et.al, arXiv:1602.06815) reporting evidence of helical spin-polarized edge states in layer-biased twisted bilayer graphene under a magnetic flux, we study the possibility of stabilising a Quantum Spin Hall (QSH) phase in such a system, without Zeeman or spin-orbit couplings, and with a QSH gap induced instead by electronic interactions. We analyse how magnetic flux, electric field, interlayer rotation angle, and interactions (treated at a mean field level) combine to produce a pseudo-QSH with broken time-reversal symmetry, and spin-polarized helical edge states. The effect is a consequence of a robust interaction-induced ferrimagnetic ordering of the Quantum Hall ground state under an interlayer bias, provided the two rotated layers are effectively decoupled at low energies. We discuss in detail the electronic structure, and the constraints on system parameters, such as the angle, interactions and magnetic flux, required to reach the pseudo-QSH phase. We find, in particular, that purely local electronic interactions are not sufficient to account for the experimental observations, which demand at least nearest-neighbour interactions to be included.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Minimization of Akaike's Information Criterion in Linear Regression Analysis via Mixed Integer Nonlinear Program
Creators: name: Kimura, Keiji
name: Waki, Hayato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Akaike's information criterion (AIC) is a measure of the quality of a statistical model for a given set of data. We can determine the best statistical model for a particular data set by the minimization of the AIC. Since we need to evaluate exponentially many candidates of the model by the minimization of the AIC, the minimization is unreasonable. Instead, stepwise methods, which are local search algorithms, are commonly used to find a better statistical model though it may not be the best. We propose a branch and bound search algorithm for a mixed integer nonlinear programming formulation of the AIC minimization by Miyashiro and Takano (2015). More concretely, we propose methods to find lower and upper bounds, and branching rules for this minimization. We then combine them with SCIP, which is a mathematical optimization software and a branch-and-bound framework. We show that the proposed method can provide the best statistical model based on AIC for small-sized or medium-sized benchmark data sets in UCI Machine Learning Repository. Furthermore, we show that this method finds good quality solutions for large-sized benchmark data sets.
description: We modified abstract, introduction and the beginning of section 3 from the first version
D2.2 OWC Cell-Free Network Architecture
Creators: name: Béchadergue, Bastien
name: Cosmas, John
name: Lartigue, Clément
name: Koffman, Israël
name: Globen, Baruch
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical wireless communication
cell-free network
positioning
system architecture
building blocks

description: This deliverable provides an overview of the OPTI-6G cell-free optical wireless communication and positioning system. It details its architecture with a block diagram illustrating the links between its various core blocks, which are briefly described and about which further details can be found in dedicated sections (listed here) of deliverables D3.1 (for the cell-free communication function) and D4.1 (for the positioning function). The components and know-how already available at the start of the project and on which the system will thus be built are also described, along with a proposed timetable for system integration and testing.
Troubled Refuge: Southeast Asian Resettlement and the Carceral Empire
Creators: name: Nguyen, Kacey
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: refugees
subject: resettlement
subject: Southeast Asian
subject: policing
subject: crimmigration
subject: incarceration
subject: border regime
subject: empire

description: Discourses on Southeast Asian refugees in the United States commonly depict resettlement as deliverance from the perils of war, persecution, and displacement. However, a closer look at the realities of resettlement reveals systemic poverty, criminalization, and racialized violence for many Southeast Asian refugees and second generation youth. Through a historical lens, this thesis poses questions about the confluence of policing, imperial warfare, and Southeast Asian resettlement into the U.S. in the post-Vietnam War era. In light of a contemporary Southeast Asian criminal deportation crisis, I excavate entangled histories of racial violence on both imperial and domestic fronts–arguing that Southeast Asian resettlement onto American soil is an extension of imperial warfare rather than purported “refuge” from it. In unsettling the discourses and realities of resettlement, this essay contributes to the field of critical refugee studies by connecting contemporary issues of mass incarceration and criminal deportation to histories of racialized policing, border regimes, and American imperialism that fundamentally produced precarious conditions for Southeast Asian refugee subjectivities.
Customer Churn in Mobile Markets A Comparison of Techniques
Creators: name: Hassouna, Mohammed
name: Tarhini, Ali
name: Elyas, Tariq
name: AbouTrab, Mohammad Saeed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The high increase in the number of companies competing in mature markets makes customer retention an important factor for any company to survive. Thus, many methodologies (e.g., data mining and statistics) have been proposed to analyse and study customer retention. The validity of such methods is not yet proved though. This paper tries to fill this gap by empirically comparing two techniques: Customer churn-decision tree and logistic regression models. The paper proves the superiority of decision tree technique and stresses the needs for more advanced methods to churn modelling.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, Journal paper (2015, Vol 8 No 6, 224-237)
Identification of heat integration retrofit opportunities for crude distillation and residue cracking units
Creators: name: Querzoli, Adrian.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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On the orthogonal rank of Cayley graphs and impossibility of quantum round elimination
Creators: name: Briët, Jop
name: Zuiddam, Jeroen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94A05, 05C15, 90C22

description: After Bob sends Alice a bit, she responds with a lengthy reply. At the cost of a factor of two in the total communication, Alice could just as well have given the two possible replies without listening and have Bob select which applies to him. Motivated by a conjecture stating that this form of "round elimination" is impossible in exact quantum communication complexity, we study the orthogonal rank and a symmetric variant thereof for a certain family of Cayley graphs. The orthogonal rank of a graph is the smallest number $d$ for which one can label each vertex with a nonzero $d$-dimensional complex vector such that adjacent vertices receive orthogonal vectors. We show an exp$(n)$ lower bound on the orthogonal rank of the graph on $\{0,1\}^n$ in which two strings are adjacent if they have Hamming distance at least $n/2$. In combination with previous work, this implies an affirmative answer to the above conjecture.
description: 13 pages
The possible detection of a binary companion to a Type Ibn supernova progenitor
Creators: name: Maund, J. R.
name: Pastorello, A.
name: Mattila, S.
name: Itagaki, K.
name: Boles, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present late-time observations of the site of the Type Ibn supernova (SN) 2006jc acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys. A faint blue source is recovered at the SN position with brightness $m_{F435W}=26.76\pm0.20$, $m_{F555W}=26.60\pm0.23$ and $m_{F625W} = 26.32\pm0.19$ mags, although there is no detection in a contemporaneous narrow-band $\mathrm{Hα}$ image. The spectral energy distribution of the late-time source is well fit by a stellar-like spectrum ($\log T_{eff} > 3.7$ and $\log L / L_{\odot} > 4$) subject to only a small degree of reddening consistent with that estimated for SN~2006jc itself at early-times. The lack of further outbursts after the explosion of SN~2006jc suggests that the precursor outburst originated from the progenitor. The possibility of the source being a compact host cluster is ruled out on the basis of the source's faintness, however the possibility that the late-time source maybe an unresolved light echo originating in a shell or sphere of pre-SN dust (within a radius $1\mathrm{pc}$) is also discussed. Irrespective of the nature of the late-time source, these observations rule out a luminous blue variable as a companion to the progenitor of SN~2006jc.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, ApJ accepted
Reply to "Rebuttal of "The multicaloric effect in multiferroic materials", [arXiv:1602.04238]"
Creators: name: Vopson, Melvin M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vopson first published the multicaloric effect in multiferroics in 2012. However, a closer examination of the multicaloric effect and its derivation leads to a contradiction, in which the predicted changes in one of the order phase at a constant applied field are due to the excitation by the same field. This apparent paradox has triggered the publication of Rebuttal of The multicaloric effect in multiferroic materials by Starkov et al. This article is the response to their rebuttal.
Electronic structure and ultrafast dynamics of FeAs-based superconductors by angle- and time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
Creators: name: Avigo, I.
name: Thirupathaiah, S.
name: Rienks, E. D. L.
name: Rettig, L.
name: Charnukha, A.
name: Ligges, M.
name: Cortes, R.
name: Nayak, J.
name: Jeevan, H. S.
name: Wolf, T.
name: Huang, Y.
name: Wurmehl, S.
name: Gegenwart, P.
name: Golden, M. S.
name: Büchner, B.
name: Vojta, M.
name: Wolf, M.
name: Felser, C.
name: Fink, J.
name: Bovensiepen, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we review our angle- and time-resolved photoemission studies (ARPES and trARPES) on various ferropnictides.
Formation of NOx and SOx precursors during the pyrolysis and gasification of coal
Creators: name: Xie, Zongli.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Detecting Topological Superconductivity with $φ_{0}$ Josephson Junctions
Creators: name: Schrade, Constantin
name: Hoffman, Silas
name: Loss, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay of superconductivity, magnetic fields, and spin-orbit interaction lies at the heart of topological superconductivity. Remarkably, the recent experimental discovery of $φ_{0}$ Josephson junctions by Szombati et al., Nat. Phys. 12, 568 (2016), characterized by a finite phase offset in the supercurrent, require the same ingredients as topological superconductors, which suggests a profound connection between these two distinct phenomena. Here, we theoretically show that a quantum dot $φ_{0}$ Josephson junction can serve as a new qualitative indicator for topological superconductivity: Microscopically, we find that the phase shift in a junction of $s-$wave superconductors is due to the spin-orbit induced mixing of singly occupied states on the qantum dot, while for a topological superconductor junction it is due to singlet-triplet mixing. Because of this important difference, when the spin-orbit vector of the quantum dot and the external Zeeman field are orthogonal, the $s$-wave superconductors form a $π$ Josephson junction while the topological superconductors have a finite offset $φ_{0}$ by which topological superconductivity can be distinguished from conventional superconductivity. Our prediction can be immediately tested in nanowire systems currently used for Majorana fermion experiments and thus offers a new and realistic approach for detecting topological bound states.
Environmental Governance Meets Reality
Creators: name: Martens, Katrin
name: Kunz, Yvonne
name: Rosyani, Ir.
name: Faust, Heiko
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Farmer group
subject: governance
subject: independent smallholders
subject: power mapping
subject: smallholder certification
subject: social network analysis
subject: Southeast Asia
subject: 333.7 Natürliche Resourcen, Energie und Umwelt
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: 630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Multi-stakeholder sustainability certification schemes have become a favorite instrument for applying good governance, though studies indicate their inefficiency at the producer level. In this study, we used a mixed-method approach to first, map the institutional context of independent oil-palm smallholders in rural Sumatra while, second, reflecting upon the impact of the Smallholder Standard proposed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil on smallholder management practices. We hold that non-recognition of micro-scale perspectives within governance processes may partially explain noncompliance with certification principles among smallholders. The Smallholder Standard appears unable to mitigate challenges important for smallholders, who in turn cannot properly comply with it, due to problems including weather instability and high management costs. We suggest that certification schemes need to work on some overlooked but essential preconditions of good governance, namely gaining micro-level visibility and acceptance.
A high mass progenitor for the Type Ic Supernova 2007gr inferred from its environment
Creators: name: Maund, Justyn
name: Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of late-time Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 observations of the site of the Type Ic SN 2007gr in NGC 1058. The SN is barely recovered in the late-time WFPC2 observations, while a possible detection in the later WFC3 data is debatable. These observations were used to conduct a multiwavelength study of the surrounding stellar population. We fit spatial profiles to a nearby bright source that was previously proposed to be a host cluster. We find that, rather than being an extended cluster, it is consistent with a single point-like object. Fitting stellar models to the observed spectral energy distribution of this source, we conclude it is A1-A3 Yellow Supergiant, possibly corresponding to a star with $M_{ZAMS} = 40M_{\odot}$. SN 2007gr is situated in a massive star association, with diameter of $\approx 300\,\mathrm{pc}$. We present a Bayesian scheme to determine the properties of the surrounding massive star population, in conjunction with the Padova isochrones. We find that the stellar population, as observed in either the WFC3 and WFPC2 observations, can be well fit by two age distributions with mean ages: ~6.3 Myr and ~50 Myr. The stellar population is clearly dominated by the younger age solution (by factors of 3.5 and 5.7 from the WFPC2 and WFC3 observations, respectively), which corresponds to the lifetime of a star with $M_{ZAMS} \sim 30M_{\odot}$. This is strong evidence in favour of the hypothesis that SN 2007gr arose from a massive progenitor star, possibly capable of becoming a Wolf-Rayet star.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
A Novel Boundary Matching Algorithm for Video Temporal Error Concealment
Creators: name: Marvasti-Zadeh, Seyed Mojtaba
name: Ghanei-Yakhdan, Hossein
name: Kasaei, Shohreh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the fast growth of communication networks, the video data transmission from these networks is extremely vulnerable. Error concealment is a technique to estimate the damaged data by employing the correctly received data at the decoder. In this paper, an efficient boundary matching algorithm for estimating damaged motion vectors (MVs) is proposed. The proposed algorithm performs error concealment for each damaged macro block (MB) according to the list of identified priority of each frame. It then uses a classic boundary matching criterion or the proposed boundary matching criterion adaptively to identify matching distortion in each boundary of candidate MB. Finally, the candidate MV with minimum distortion is selected as an MV of damaged MB and the list of priorities is updated. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm improves both objective and subjective qualities of reconstructed frames without any significant increase in computational cost. The PSNR for test sequences in some frames is increased about 4.7, 4.5, and 4.4 dB compared to the classic boundary matching, directional boundary matching, and directional temporal boundary matching algorithm, respectively.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1610.07386
title: Development and Testing of the Stress Adaptation Scale for Parents with Chronically Ill Children (SASP)
Creators: name: Rutledge, Carolyn M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1988

description: This research study consisted of four phases used to develop and test the Stress Adaptation Scale for Parents with Chronically Ill Children (ASP). The first phase dealt with developing the items on the SASP from a review of the literature and the researcher's professional experience. The SASP was then divided into the six categories of health care, social, personal, familial, financial, and spiritual. In phase II, content validity was evaluated by a panel of experts. In phase III, stability over time and face validity was demonstrated using 26 parents of chronically ill children. The SASP achieved a Pearson's r=.85 with p{.000. In phase IV, the SASP was tested for internal consistency using scores from 110 parents of chronically ill children. The entire tool and each category obtained a Cronbach's alpha >.70. Based on the results of the study, the SASP appears to have potential as a valid and reliable instrument for use in research and clinical settings.
A INTERDISCIPLINARIDADE NAS AULAS EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA COMO UMA FERRAMENTA PARA REDUÇÃO DA EVASÃO ESCOLAR NO EJA: UM ESTUDO VOLTADO PARA ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS
Creators: name: Dieison Batista dos Santos BARRETO
name: Maria José de PINHO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Interdisciplinaridade
Educação Física
Inclusão Social
Evasão Escolar
EJA

description: RESUMO

 

Este estudo tem como finalidade investigar por meio de uma revisão bibliográfica os principais autores que contribuíram de forma significativa para o desenvolvimento da Educação no Brasil, tais como: Paulo Freire, Ivani Fazenda, Hilton Japiassu e Edgar Morin. Neste contexto, analisaremos como a interdisciplinaridade nas aulas de educação física pode contribuir para uma aula mais atrativa e eficaz, resultando no engajamento dos alunos na escola e consequentemente refletindo na diminuição da Evasão Escolar. Ivani Fazenda (2003), destaca que a interdisciplinaridade é um método que transforma a educação ao integrar diferentes áreas do conhecimento, promovendo uma compreensão mais ampla e conectada da realidade. Ela acredita que a interdisciplinaridade é fundamental para superar a fragmentação do conhecimento e enriquecer a prática pedagógica. A metodologia adotada foi uma revisão bibliográfica, com foco em obras de autores renomados e estudos relevantes no meio acadêmico, artigos científicos, livros e teses que possam trazer à tona as contribuições teóricas e práticas da interdisciplinaridade na Educação Física para a manutenção dos alunos na escola.
The hydrogen embrittlement of SAE E4340 ultra high strength steel induced by pitting corrosion
Creators: name: Gerrard, Darren R. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Microscopic Mechanism and Kinetics of Ice Formation at Complex Interfaces: Zooming in on Kaolinite
Creators: name: Sosso, Gabriele C.
name: Li, Tianshu
name: Donadio, Davide
name: Tribello, Gareth A.
name: Michaelides, Angelos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most ice in nature forms thanks to impurities which boost the exceedingly low nucleation rate of pure supercooled water. However, the microscopic details of ice nucleation on these substances remain largely unknown. Here, we have unraveled the molecular mechanism and the kinetics of ice formation on kaolinite, a clay mineral playing a key role in climate science. We find that the formation of ice at strong supercooling in the presence of this clay is twenty orders of magnitude faster than homogeneous freezing. The critical nucleus is substantially smaller than that found for homogeneous nucleation and, in contrast to the predictions of classical nucleation theory (CNT), it has a strong 2D character. Nonetheless, we show that CNT describes correctly the formation of ice at this complex interface. Kaolinite also promotes the exclusive nucleation of hexagonal ice, as opposed to homogeneous freezing where a mixture of cubic and hexagonal polytypes is observed.
Homophobic Law and the Ghanaian Society: Understanding the Impact of Anti-LGBTQ+ Proposed Bill on LGBTQ+ People and their Supporters
Creators: name: Nuer Dorcas
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: LGBTQ+, Un-African, criminalization, Sexuality, Criminal code, Anti-LGBTQ+ proposed law, Rights

description: This study examines the impact of the Anti-LGBTQ+ proposed bill on LGBTQ+ people and their supporters in Ghana if passed. It has been identified in Ghana that, there is an argument that LGBTQ+ is not Ghanaian. In addition to the above argument, other factors such as religious beliefs, health factors, and concerns about morality have contributed to the passing of homophobic laws in Ghana and some African countries. These homophobic laws resulted in the violation of the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals in Ghana and these African countries. In Ghana, these beliefs and ideologies have led to the proposal of the anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which aims to strengthen the already existing criminal code (laws). By relying on primary sources of data, which were gathered through a documentary review online, the findings suggested that passing the anti-LGBTQ+ proposal bill will contribute to three main effects on LGBTQ+ individuals and their supporters. These effects include higher rates of violence, police abuse and over-incarceration; health discrimination; and disparities. Theoretically, these findings lend support to the proposition that the government and policymakers should create and put into practice policies and laws intending to eliminate LGBTQ+ discrimination rather than passing the Anti-LGBTQ+ proposed bill, thereby creating a safe space for these minorities.
title:  Perceived Job Stress in Critical Care Nursing in a Military Setting
Creators: name: Theriault, Jeannette
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: The purposes of this study. were: to explore job-related perceptions of stress in a group of military critical care nurses; and to determine if differences in anxiety and stress levels existed between nurses working in coronary care (CCCU) and medical/surgical intensive care (ICU) settings using the State/Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Questionnaire of Stressful Factors in Intensive Care. A free response question and a force-response checklist were also used to identify and rank work-related stressors. The sample of Navy nurses (n=105) consisted of 39 CCU nurses, 62 medical/surgical ICU nurses and 4 critical care supervisors. The results of the mailed survey revealed no significant differences between CCU and medical/surgical ICU nurse groups. Management of the unit, in particular inadequate numbers of staff, was identified as the number one source of stress by both the ICU and CCU nurses, while critical care supervisors ranked patient care activities as the number one source of stress. Nursing implications and stress management strategies were discussed and recommendations for instrument revision and future research were suggested.
Nutzung persistenter Identifikatoren in Forschungsinformationssystemen (CRIS)
Creators: name: Schrader, Antonia C.
name: Czerniak, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Vortrag im Rahmen der Initiative „Stärkung von Forschungsinformationssystemen (CRIS) in den Einrichtungen der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft“
 CRIS Tage, 18. - 19. September 2023, Berlin
description: Vortragsfolien auf Deutsch und Englisch
The use of electro-magneto therapy for the healing of soft tissue injuries
Creators: name: Baldi, Emilio.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Rúbrica para la evaluación del análisis de Juego Motor 1 Mecanismos y Dinámicas
Creators: name: Fernández-Revelles, Andrés B.
name: Cueto-Martín, Belén
name: García-Ramos, Amador
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Motor Games; Juegos Motores; Juegos Motores Tradicionales; traditional motor games; rúbrica; rubric; evaluación; evaluation; infografía; infographic; póster; poster; Mecánicas; Mechanics; Dynamics; Dinámicas; Diseño de Juegos; Game design

description: Rúbrica para la evaluación del análisis de Juego Motor 1 Mecanismos y Dinámicas Realizada por los profesores de la asignatura Juegos Motores en el curso 2019-2020: Fernández-Revelles, Andrés B., Cueto-Martín, Belén y García-Ramos, Amador  Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva; Facultad de Ciencias del Deporte; Universidad de Granada
Cores of imprimitive symmetric graphs of order a product of two distinct primes
Creators: name: Rotheram, Ricky
name: Zhou, Sanming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A retract of a graph $Γ$ is an induced subgraph $Ψ$ of $Γ$ such that there exists a homomorphism from $Γ$ to $Ψ$ whose restriction to $Ψ$ is the identity map. A graph is a core if it has no nontrivial retracts. In general, the minimal retracts of a graph are cores and are unique up to isomorphism; they are called the core of the graph. A graph $Γ$ is $G$-symmetric if $G$ is a subgroup of the automorphism group of $Γ$ that is transitive on the vertex set and also transitive on the set of ordered pairs of adjacent vertices. If in addition the vertex set of $Γ$ admits a nontrivial partition that is preserved by $G$, then $Γ$ is an imprimitive $G$-symmetric graph. In this paper cores of imprimitive symmetric graphs $Γ$ of order a product of two distinct primes are studied. In many cases the core of $Γ$ is determined completely. In other cases it is proved that either $Γ$ is a core or its core is isomorphic to one of two graphs, and conditions on when each of these possibilities occurs is given.
title: Trait Anxiety in Female Heads of Household
Creators: name: Wheeler, Bonnie Martinetta
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1984

description:
The purpose of this investigation was to determine if being the female head of a single-parent household was associated with increased trait anxiety. Ninety-four female nurses completed the Trait portion of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory developed by Spielberger, Gorsuch, and Lushene (1964) and a demographic inventory. The demographic inventory provided the information regarding marital status and presence or absence of children needed to delineate the sample into four groups: Group I (n=31) married females with dependent children in the home; Group II (n=10) married females with no dependent children in the home; Group III (n=26) single, separated or divorced females with dependent children in the home; Group IV (n=27) single, separated or divorced females with no dependent children in the home. A one-way analysis of variance indicated no significant differences in the groups as designated by marital status and presence or absence of children and trait anxiety.
Partial transpose criteria for symmetric states
Creators: name: Bohnet-Waldraff, Fabian
name: Braun, Daniel
name: Giraud, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We express the positive partial transpose (PPT) separability criterion for symmetric states of multi-qubit systems in terms of matrix inequalities based on the recently introduced tensor representation for spin states. We construct a matrix from the tensor representation of the state and show that it is similar to the partial transpose of the density matrix written in the computational basis. Furthermore, the positivity of this matrix is equivalent to the positivity of a correlation matrix constructed from tensor products of Pauli operators. This allows for a more transparent experimental interpretation of the PPT criteria for an arbitrary spin-j state. The unitary matrices connecting our matrix to the partial transpose of the state generalize the so-called magic basis that plays a central role in Wootters' explicit formula for the concurrence of a 2-qubit system and the Bell bases used for the teleportation of a one or two-qubit state.
description: 8 pages
Car ownership of residents living in high-density apartment developments
Creators: name: McNally, Kate.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Influence of personal values and the adoption of analytical tools using laddering methodology
Creators: name: Barahona, Igor
name: Riba, Alex
name: Freeman, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Analytical tools in business management are understood as a combination of information technologies and quantitative methods used to assist stakeholders to make better decisions. The contemporary business environment is dramatically changing by the massive accumulation of data. Now, as never before, the use of analytical tools must be expanded to take advantage of this growing digital universe. This article will apply the laddering technique to see how personal values (or managerial functions) influence a companys adoption of analytical tools. A set of ten in-depth interviews are conducted with CEOs, analytics consultants, academics and businessmen in order to establish quantitative relations among attributes, consequences and personal values. Two easy-to-read outputs are provided to interpret our results. The most important links are quantitatively associated through an implication matrix, and then visually represented on a hierarchical value map. Guidelines for improving the use of analytical tools are provided in the last section
description: laddering technique; personal values; business performance; analytical tools in Int. J. Intercultural Information Management (2015)
Differentially Rotating White Dwarfs I: Regimes of Internal Rotation
Creators: name: Ghosh, Pranab
name: Wheeler, J. Craig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most viable models of Type Ia supernovae (SN~Ia) require the thermonuclear explosion of a carbon/oxygen white dwarf that has evolved in a binary system. Rotation could be an important aspect of any model for SN~Ia, whether single or double degenerate, with the white dwarf mass at, below, or above the Chandrasekhar limit. {\sl Differential rotation} is specifically invoked in attempts to account for the apparent excess mass in the super--Chandrasekhar events. Some earlier work has suggested that only uniform rotation is consistent with the expected mechanisms of angular momentum transport in white dwarfs, while others have found pronounced differential rotation. We show that if the baroclinic instability is active in degenerate matter and the effects of magnetic fields are neglected, both nearly-uniform and strongly-differential rotation are possible. We classify rotation regimes in terms of the Richardson number, Ri. At small values of Ri $\leq$ 0.1, we find both the low-viscosity Zahn regime with a non-monotonic angular velocity profile and a new differential rotation regime for which the viscosity is high and scales linearly with the shear, $σ$. Employment of Kelvin-Helmholtz viscosity alone yields differential rotation. Large values of Ri $\gg$ 1 produce a regime of nearly-uniform rotation for which the baroclinic viscosity is of intermediate value and scales as $σ^3$. We discuss the gap in understanding of the behavior at intermediate values of Ri and how observations may constrain the rotation regimes attained by nature.
description: Accepted for publication by the Astrophysical Journal
Asymptotic Behavior and Decay Estimates of the Solutions for a Nonlinear Parabolic Equation with Exponential Nonlinearity
Creators: name: Furioli, Giulia
name: Kawakami, Tatsuki
name: Ruf, Bernhard
name: Terraneo, Elide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a nonlinear parabolic equation with an exponential nonlinearity which is critical with respect to the growth of the nonlinearity and the regularity of the initial data. After showing the equivalence of the notions of weak and mild solutions, we derive decay estimates and the asymptotic behavior for small global-in-time solutions.
Stratifying On-Shell Cluster Varieties: the Geometry of Non-Planar On-Shell Diagrams
Creators: name: Bourjaily, Jacob L.
name: Franco, Sebastian
name: Galloni, Daniele
name: Wen, Congkao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correspondence between on-shell diagrams in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and cluster varieties in the Grassmannian remains largely unexplored beyond the planar limit. In this article, we describe a systematic program to survey such 'on-shell varieties', and use this to provide a complete classification in the case of $G(3,6)$. In particular, we find exactly 24 top-dimensional varieties and 10 co-dimension one varieties in $G(3,6)$---up to parity and relabeling of the external legs. We use this case to illustrate some of the novelties found for non-planar varieties relative to the case of positroids, and describe some of the features that we expect to hold more generally.
description: 35 pages, 70 figures, and 1 table; also included is a file with explicit details for our classification. Signs corrected in two residue theorems, and a new interpretation (and formula) given for the last
Accretion regimes in the X-ray pulsar 4U 1901+03
Creators: name: Reig, P.
name: Milonaki, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The source 4U 1901+03 is a high-mass X-ray pulsar than went into outburst in 2003. Observation performed with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer showed spectral and timing variability, including the detection of flares, quasi-periodic oscillations, complex changes in the pulse profiles, and pulse phase dependent spectral variability. We re-analysed the data covering the 2003 X-ray outburst and focused on several aspects of the variability that have not been discussed so far. These are the 10 keV feature and the X-ray spectral states and their association with accretion regimes, including the transit to the propeller state at the end of the outburst. We find that 4U 1901+03 went through three accretion regimes over the course of the X-ray outburst. At the peak of the outburst and for a very short time, the X-ray flux may have overcome the critical limit that marks the formation of a radiative shock at a certain distance above the neutron star surface. Most of the time, however, the source is in the subcritical regime. Only at the end of the outburst, when the luminosity decreased below ~10^{36} (d/10 kpc)^2 erg/s, did the source enter the propeller regime. Evidence for the existence of these regimes comes from the pulse profiles, the shape of the hardness-intensity diagram, and the correlation of various spectral parameters with the flux. The 10 keV feature appears to strongly depend on the X-ray flux and on the pulse phase, which opens the possibility to interpret this feature as a cyclotron line.
description: accepted for publication in A&A. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:astro-ph/9704084 by other authors