cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The association between exposure to particulate matter of 2.5 µm or less and cancer
Creators: name: Yu, Pei
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420203
subject: Environmental epidemiology

description: There is strong evidence of the adverse effects of fine particulate matter with diameters that are 2.5 micrometres and smaller (PM2.5) on lung cancer, but the impact of PM2.5 at other body sites remains scarce. In this thesis, long-term PM2.5 exposure in Brazil was observed to be associated with increased cancer hospitalizations, mortality and years of life lost from most cancer sites. Cancer accounts for a large proportion of loss of life expectancy attributable to PM2.5 exposure. Higher risks of cancers were also observed from wildfire-related PM2.5 than non-wildfire, while the impact of coal-mine fires still needs further investigation.
On the possible solution of the doublet-triplet problem in extended $SU(\geq 8)$ SUSY GUTs
Creators: name: Kobakhidze, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generalization of the "custodial symmetry" mechanism which leads to the natural (without fine tuning) explanation of the doublet-triplet hierarchy is suggested in the frames of extended $SU(N\geq 8)$ SUSY GUTs. It is shown also that such type of SUSY GUT can predict the value of strong gauge coupling constant $α_S(M_Z)$ consistent with present experimental data.
description: 8 pages, latex, 2 latex figures included
Looking After Children in Ontario: Good Parenting Good Outcomes Ontario Provincial Report (Year 11)
Creators: name: Miller, Meagan
name: Flynn, Robert J.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: child welfare
looking after children
children
child development
outcome monitoring

description: This report is designed for use by child welfare organizations as a performance measurement system.The Assessment and Action Record (AAR) outcome data available in this report should assist child welfare organizations in the development of an internal evaluation program. The AAR findings are intended to help supervisors, program managers, executive directors and board members within child welfare organizations monitor children’s outcomes on a regular basis by comparing children’s and youths’ developmental progress with intended goals. A second intended use of the AAR is to inform decision-makers as to possible means of improving the quality and relevance of services on an ongoing basis. This report is also designed to provide policy-makers with accurate, up-to-date knowledge of system-wide outcomes thereby fulfilling an accountability function and a guiding function in identifying policies and practices that promote continuous improvements in child welfare.
Hypernuclear No-Core Shell Model
Creators: name: Wirth, Roland
name: Gazda, Daniel
name: Navrátil, Petr
name: Roth, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the No-Core Shell Model (NCSM) methodology to incorporate strangeness degrees of freedom and apply it to single-$Λ$ hypernuclei. After discussing the transformation of the hyperon-nucleon (YN) interaction into Harmonic-Oscillator (HO) basis and the Similarity Renormalization Group transformation applied to it to improve model-space convergence, we present two complementary formulations of the NCSM, one that uses relative Jacobi coordinates and symmetry-adapted basis states to fully exploit the symmetries of the hypernuclear Hamiltonian, and one working in a Slater determinant basis of HO states where antisymmetrization and computation of matrix elements is simple and to which an importance-truncation scheme can be applied. For the Jacobi-coordinate formulation, we give an iterative procedure for the construction of the antisymmetric basis for arbitrary particle number and present the formulae used to embed two- and three-baryon interactions into the many-body space. For the Slater-determinant formulation, we discuss the conversion of the YN interaction matrix elements from relative to single-particle coordinates, the importance-truncation scheme that tailors the model space to the description of the low-lying spectrum, and the role of the redundant center-of-mass degrees of freedom. We conclude with a validation of both formulations in the four-body system, giving converged ground-state energies for a chiral Hamiltonian, and present a short survey of the $A\le7$ hyper-helium isotopes.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures; accepted version
Advection-Dominated Accretion Model of the Black Hole V404 Cyg in Quiescence
Creators: name: Narayan, Ramesh
name: Barret, Didier
name: McClintock, Jeffrey E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed archival ASCA data on the soft X-ray transient source V404 Cyg in quiescence. We find that in the energy range 0.7 to 8.5 keV the spectrum is a hard power-law with a photon spectral index between 1.8 and 2.6 (90% confidence limits). We present a model of V404 Cyg in which the accretion flow has two components: (1) an outer thin disk with a small annular extent, and (2) a large interior region where the flow is advection-dominated. Nearly all the radiation in the infrared, optical, UV and X-ray bands is from the advection-dominated zone; the thin disk radiates primarily in the infrared where it contributes about ten percent of the observed flux. The spectrum we calculate with this model is in excellent agreement with the ASCA X-ray data presented here, as well as with previous optical data. Moreover, the fit is very insensitive to the choice of parameters such as black hole mass, orbital inclination, viscosity coefficient $α$, and magnetic field strength. We consider the success of the model to be strong support for the advection-dominated accretion paradigm, and further evidence of the black hole nature of V404 Cyg. We discuss strategies whereby systems with advection-dominated accretion could be used to prove the reality of event horizons in black holes.
description: Final version to appear in The Astrophysical Journal. Includes two new subsections, 2 new Figures and 2 new Tables
Emergent Dark Energy from Dark Matter
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Takeshi
name: Ferreira, Pedro G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the cosmological dynamics of a scalar field in a potential with multiple troughs and peaks. We show that the dynamics of the scalar field will evolve from light dark matter-like behaviour (such as that of a light axion) to a combination of heavy dark matter-like and dark energy-like behaviour. We discuss the phenomenology of such a model, explaining how it can give rise to the cosmological constant, as well as how it can decouple the dark sector densities between the time of recombination and today, for both the homogeneous background and perturbations. The final form of the dark matter is axion-like, but with abundance and primordial isocurvature modes taking very different values from traditional, axionic, dark matter.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; v2: published in PRD
Children Stories 01
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Duoxu
subject: ers
subject: Chinese, Mandarin
subject: cmn

description: Praat TextGrid annotations for the audio files with the same name. These TextGrids only include the Chinese layer (elicitation part of the recording: Han Zhengkang and conversation between Han Zhengkang and Wu Rongfu). The remaining layers are to be added at a later date
description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
Linear response, susceptibility and resonances in chaotic toy models
Creators: name: Cessac, Bruno
name: Sepulchre, Jacques-Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider simple examples illustrating some new features of the linear response theory developed by Ruelle for dissipative and chaotic systems [{\em J. of Stat. Phys.} {\bf 95} (1999) 393]. In this theory the concepts of linear response, susceptibility and resonance, which are familiar to physicists, have been revisited due to the dynamical contraction of the whole phase space onto attractors. In particular the standard framework of the "fluctuation-dissipation" theorem breaks down and new resonances can show up oustside the powerspectrum. In previous papers we proposed and used new numerical methods to demonstrate the presence of the new resonances predicted by Ruelle in a model of chaotic neural network. In this article we deal with simpler models which can be worked out analytically in order to gain more insights into the genesis of the ``stable'' resonances and their consequences on the linear response of the system. We consider a class of 2-dimensional time-discrete maps describing simple rotator models with a contracting radial dynamics onto the unit circle and a chaotic angular dynamics $θ_{t+1} = 2 θ_t (\mod 2π)$. A generalisation of this system to a network of interconnected rotators is also analysed and related with our previous studies \cite{CS1,CS2}. These models permit us to classify the different types of resonances in the susceptibility and to discuss in particular the relation between the relaxation time of the system to equilibrium with the {\em mixing} time given by the decay of the correlation functions. Also it enables one to propose some general mechanisms responsible for the creation of stable resonances with arbitrary frequencies, widths, and dependency on the pair of perturbed/observed variables.
description: 36 pages, 11 Figures, to appear in Physica D
title: ADCO, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0371r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, C
art. 186 (11 H 71). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la
 Côte-d'Or, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0371r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-
project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Smoothing-based Optimization
Creators: name: Leordeanu, Marius
name: Hebert, Martial
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an efficient method for complex optimization problems that often arise in computer vision. While our method is general and could be applied to various tasks, it was mainly inspired from problems in computer vision, and it borrows ideas from scale space theory. One of the main motivations for our approach is that searching for the global maximum through the scale space of a function is equivalent to looking for the maximum of the original function, with the advantage of having to handle fewer local optima. Our method works with any non-negative, possibly non-smooth function, and requires only the ability of evaluating the function at any specific point. The algorithm is based on a growth transformation, which is guaranteed to increase the value of the scale space function at every step, unlike gradient methods. To demonstrate its effectiveness we present its performance on a few computer vision applications, and show that in our experiments it is more effective than some well established methods such as MCMC, Simulated Annealing and the more local Nelder-Mead optimization method.
Spectral Energy Distributions for Disk and Halo M--Dwarfs
Creators: name: Leggett, S. K.
name: Allard, F.
name: Dahn, Conard
name: Hauschildt, P. H.
name: Kerr, T. H.
name: Rayner, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained infrared (1 to 2.5 micron) spectroscopy for 42 halo and disk dwarfs with spectral type M1 to M6.5. These data are compared to synthetic spectra generated by the latest model atmospheres of Allard & Hauschildt. Photospheric parameters metallicity, effective temperature and radius are determined for the sample. We find good agreement between observation and theory except for known problems due to incomplete molecular data for metal hydrides and water. The metal-poor M subdwarfs are well matched by the models as oxide opacity sources are less important in this case. The derived effective temperatures for the sample range from 3600K to 2600K; at these temperatures grain formation and extinction are not significant in the photosphere. The derived metallicities range from solar to one-tenth solar. The radii and effective temperatures derived agree well with recent models of low mass stars.
description: 24 pages including 13 figures, 4 Tables; accepted by ApJ
Sliding Autonomy for Peer-To-Peer Human-Robot Teams
Creators: name: M. Bernardine  Dias
name: Balajee  Kannan
name: Browning, Brett
name: Jones, Gil
name: Argall, Brenna
name: M. Freddie Dias
name: Zinck, Marc
name: Veloso, Manuela M.
name: Stentz, Anthony
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The vision of humans and robots working together as peers to accomplish complex tasks has motivated many recent research endeavors with a variety of applications ranging from lunar construction to soccer. However, much of this research is still at an early stage, and many challenges still remain in realizing this vision. A key requirement for enabling robustness and efficiency in human-robot teams is the ability to dynamically adjust the level of autonomy to optimize the use of resources and capabilities as conditions evolve. While sliding autonomy is well defined and understood in applications where a single human is working with a single robot, it is largely unexplored when applied to teams of humans working with multiple robots. This paper highlights the challenges of enabling sliding autonomy in peer-to-peer human-robot teams and extends the current literature to identify and extend six key capabilities that are essential for overcoming these challenges. These capabilities are requesting help, maintaining coordination, establishing situational awareness, enabling interactions at different levels of granularity, prioritizing team members, and learning from interactions. We demonstrate the importance of several of these characteristics with results from a peer-to-peer human-robot team engaged in a treasure hunt task.
ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННО-ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ НЕОДНОРОДНОСТЬ ПОСТВЫРУБОЧНЫХ СООБЩЕСТВ В ЮЖНОЙ ТАЙГЕ (ЦЕНТРАЛЬНО-ЛЕСНОЙ ЗАПОВЕДНИК)
Creators: name: Т. Ю. Ивлева
name: Н. Б. Леонова
Publisher: name: Экосистемы: экология и динамика
Year: 2019
Subjects: поствырубочные сообщества
пространственная структура
функциональная структура
экотопическая дифференциация
фитомасса.

description: Статья содержит результаты исследования пространственно-функциональной неоднородности растительности на вырубке на ранних стадиях сукцессии в подзоне южной тайги на основе крупномасштабного картографирования. Изучены поствырубочные сообщества и проведен учет их фитомассы на зарастающей вырубке в буферной зоне в Центрально-Лесном государственном биосферном заповеднике (Тверская область). Для составления картосхемы растительности вырубки проведена классификация растительных сообществ с группировкой по возобновляющемуся древесно-кустарниковому ярусу с учетом напочвенного покрова. Впервые для данной территории проведен анализ экотопических различий растительных сообществ вырубки на основе экологических шкал Л.Г. Раменского и составлены картосхемы среднего увлажнения и богатства почв в экотопах вырубки. Рассмотрена взаимосвязь проективного покрытия, высоты и прироста растений с их фитомассой, оценены запасы фитомассы на исследованной вырубке в целом и в разных типах сообществ, составлена картосхема распределения фитомассы на вырубке и рассчитаны суммарные значения запасов фитомассы для каждого типа. Максимальные значения фитомассы характерны для разнотравно-кипрейных и поствырубочных сообществ с подростом березы и осины в тех частях вырубки, которые расположены ближе к кромке леса. Полученные данные по приростам и по фитомассе в дальнейшем будут использованы для сопряженного анализа с данными пульсационных измерений составляющих параметров баланса углерода на вырубке, проводимых метеорологами. Таким образом, предполагается оценить вклад отдельных сообществ и видов растений в депонирование углерода на вырубке.
Wolf and Horse
Creators: name: Zhengkang, Han
name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Duoxu
subject: ers
subject: Chinese, Mandarin
subject: cmn

description: Han Zhengkang translates with Wu Rongfu from Chinese a children story 'Lang he ma' (Wolf and Horse). Han Zhengkang reads in Chinese, Wu Rongfu translates into Duoxu and repeats three times
description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
SPATIAL-FUNCTIONAL HETEROGENEITY OF POST-CUTTING COMMUNITIES IN THE CENTRAL FOREST STATE BIOSPHERE RESERVE
Creators: name: T. Yu. Ivleva
name: N. B. Leonova
Publisher: name: Экосистемы: экология и динамика
Year: 2019
Subjects: post-cutting communities
spatial structure
functional structure
ecotopic differentiation
vegetation phytomass

description: The article contains the results of a case study devoted to spatial and functional heterogeneity of postcutting vegetation during early succession stages in southern taiga subzone. The study is based on large scale mapping of clear-cutting area and its vegetation communities. Post-cutting communities and their phytomass surveys were carried out within overgrowing cutting in buffer zone of the Central Forest Biosphere State Reserve (Tver region). In order to compose a schematic map of local vegetation, we implemented a classification of communities, grouping them by the regenerating layer of trees and shrubs and taking into account ground cover dominants. For the first time for this territory the analysis of ecotopic differentiation of post-cutting vegetation was conducted on the base of L.G. Ramensky ecological scales. The maps of average humidity and average nutrient status in postcutting ecotopes had been composed. The correlation connections between projective cover, height, and plants increments and their phytomass were discussed. The phytomass stocks were accounted within studied cutting area as total and for each type of communities. The map of phytomass distribution within cutting area was made, where average phytomass values were showed for different types of communities. Maximal phytomass values were observed in forb and great willow herb communities and in communities with aspen and birch undergrowth near forest edge. Received data on plants increments and phytomass and their distribution would be used for conjugative analysis of pulsar measurements data on carbon balance parameters in cutting area which had obtained by meteorologists. Thus, it can be possible to evaluate the contribution of each communities’ type and dominating plants in carbon sequestration.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire du prieuré de Saint-Vivant-sous-Vergy, dépendant de l’abbaye de Cluny (XIVe siècle), Cart. 231 (21 H), 40 folios, f. 0035r
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2010
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire du prieuré de Saint-Vivant-sous-Vergy, dépendant de l’abbaye de Cluny (XIVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 231 (21 H), 40 folios. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire du prieuré de Saint-Vivant-sous-Vergy, dépendant de l’abbaye de Cluny (XIVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 231 (21 H), 40 folios, f. 0035r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Vivant de Vergy
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945018
SPYTHIA, A Supersymmetric Extension of PYTHIA 5.7
Creators: name: Mrenna, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SPYTHIA is an event level Monte Carlo program which simulates particle production and decay at lepton and hadron colliders in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). It is an extension of PYTHIA 5.7, with all of its previous capabilities. This paper is meant to supplement the PYTHIA/JETSET user manual, providing a description of the new particle spectrum, hard scattering processes, and decay modes. Several examples of using the program are provided.
description: 12 pages, Latex2e, also available at http://www.hep.anl.gov/theory/mrenna/
Acceleration of Solar Wind Ions by Nearby Interplanetary Shocks: Comparison of Monte Carlo Simulations with Ulysses Observations
Creators: name: Baring, Matthew G.
name: Ogilvie, Keith
name: Ellison, Donald
name: Forsyth, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most stringent test of theoretical models of the first-order Fermi mechanism at collisionless astrophysical shocks is a comparison of the theoretical predictions with observational data on particle populations. Such comparisons have yielded good agreement between observations at the quasi-parallel portion of the Earth's bow shock and three theoretical approaches, including Monte Carlo kinetic simulations. This paper extends such model testing to the realm of oblique interplanetary shocks: here observations of proton and alpha particle distributions made by the SWICS ion mass spectrometer on Ulysses at nearby interplanetary shocks are compared with test particle Monte Carlo simulation predictions of accelerated populations. The plasma parameters used in the simulation are obtained from measurements of solar wind particles and the magnetic field upstream of individual shocks. Good agreement between downstream spectral measurements and the simulation predictions are obtained for two shocks by allowing the the ratio of the mean-free scattering length to the ionic gyroradius, to vary in an optimization of the fit to the data. Generally small values of this ratio are obtained, corresponding to the case of strong scattering. The acceleration process appears to be roughly independent of the mass or charge of the species.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures, AASTeX format, to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, February 20, 1997
FUV line emission, gas kinematics, and discovery of [Fe XXI] $λ$1354.1 in the sightline towards a filament in M87
Creators: name: Anderson, Michael E.
name: Sunyaev, Rashid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new HST-COS G130M spectroscopy for a sightline toward a filament projected 1.9 kpc from the nucleus of M87. The combination of the sensitivity of COS and the proximity of M87 allows us to study the structure of this filament in unparalleled detail. We propose that the filament is composed of many cold clumps, each surrounded by an FUV-emitting boundary layer, with the filament having a radius $r_c \sim 10$ pc and the clumps filling the cylinder with a low volume filling factor. The observed velocity dispersion in emission lines from the filament results from the random motions of these clumps within the filament. We measure fluxes and kinematics for emission lines of Ly$α$, C II $λ$1335, and N V $\lambda1238$. We associate these three lines, as well as archival measurements of H$α$, C IV $λ$1549, and He II $λ$1640, with a multitemperature boundary layer around clumps which are moving with supersonic random motions in the filament. This boundary layer is a significant coolant of the hot gas. We show that the [C II] $λ$158$μ$m flux observed by Herschel-PACS from this region implies the existence of a massive cold ($T \sim 10^3$ K) component in the filament which contains significantly more mass than the FUV-emitting boundary layer. We also detect [Fe XXI] $λ$1354 in emission at $4-5σ$. This line is emitted from 1 keV ($T \approx 10^7$ K) plasma, and we use it to measure the bulk radial velocity and velocity dispersion of the plasma at this temperature. In contrast to the intermediate-temperature FUV lines, [\ion{Fe}{xxi}] is blueshifted relative to M87 and matches the bulk velocity of a nearby filament to the south. We hypothesize that this line arises from the approaching face of the radio bubble expanding through this sightline, while the filament lies on the receding side of the bubble. (abstract is abridged)
description: 27 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Nepal: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion: Avenues and Insights
Creators: name: Copp, Bryn
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: The fifth goal of the 2030 United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) is gender equality. Nepal has signed on and committed to the SDGs, and has developed several policy commitments in support of gender equality. The approach to women’s empowerment and gender equality in Nepal is unique and specific to the region, as it uses the language of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI). The constitution of Nepal (2015) articulates Nepal as an inclusive State and guarantees the right to equality for all citizens. The government is legally committed to gender equality and social inclusion. The GESI policies and guidelines are adopted in seven sectors and provide two key elements which are vital to reconstructing the country into an inclusive State. The two elements are the demonstration of government commitment to GESI, and practical guidance to industries on how to support GESI. The Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Working Group (2017) explain GESI as "… a method of targeting, but it is much more than that. GESI is a mindset, a process, and a set of desired outcomes - a way of doing development with a focus on ensuring that no one is left out of development programs and government services, that are intended to be universal" (p. 3). The constitution most notably includes the rights of women, right to equality, right to social justice and positive provisions which include affirmative action to address historical disadvantage and a ban on sex/caste/ethnicity-based discrimination.
Sliding Autonomy for Complex Coordinated Multi-Robot Tasks: Analysis & Experiments
Creators: name: Heger, Frederik W.
name: Singh, Sanjiv
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous systems are efficient but often unreliable. In domains where reliability is paramount, efficiency is sacrificed by putting an operator in control via teleoperation. We have investigated a mode of shared control called Sliding Autonomy that combines the efficiency of autonomy and the reliability of human control in the performance of complex tasks, such as the assembly of large structures by teams of robots. Our system is modeled using Markov models to gain a general understanding of the interdependencies between the autonomous robots abilities, those of the operator, and overall system performance. We report results from a study in which three robots work cooperatively with an operator to assemble a structure. Assembly in this case requires high precision and has a large number of failure modes. Our results show that under the Sliding Autonomy paradigm, our combined robot-human team is able to perform the assembly at a level of efficiency approaching that of fully autonomous operation while increasing overall reliability to near-teleoperation levels. This increase in performance is achieved with the additional benefit of significantly reduced mental workload placed on the operator as compared to pure teleoperation. The results of the study support both our expectations and modeling results and show that Sliding Autonomy provides an increase in efficiency over teleoperation together with an increase in reliability over autonomous operation.
Crisis Communication in Professional Football: An Exploratory Study of the NFL’s Concussion Crisis
Creators: name: Castonguay, Sabrina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021

description: This study analyzes the crisis response strategies used by the National Football League in its external communications to address the concussion crisis spanning 2015 to 2020. The analysis focused on describing the crisis communication strategies, tactics and buffers used by the League. To do so, this research first used Coomb’s situational crisis communication theory to analyze crisis response strategies. It then used the buffering effect to analyze buffers. This was accomplished by conducting a deductive thematic analysis of 25 publications published by the NFL on nflcommunications.com. The results indicate that the NFL focused on the primary crisis strategies of rebuilding and diminishing, employing tactics such as organizational change and shared responsibility. The NFL also used the bolstering strategies of reminder and ingratiation. The NFL leveraged three buffers in its communications: corporate social responsibility reputation, prior relationship reputation and sports fan communities. The results show an interrelation between situational crisis communication theory and the concept of buffers.
CCD Photometry of the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri. I. Metallicity of RR Lyrae Stars from Caby Photometry
Creators: name: Rey, Soo-Chang
name: Lee, Young-Wook
name: Joo, Jong-Myung
name: Walker, Alistair
name: Baird, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new measurements of the metallicity of 131 RR Lyrae stars in the globular cluster Omega Centauri, using the hk index of the Caby photometric system. The hk method has distinct advantages over Delta-S and other techniques in determining the metallicity of RR Lyrae stars, and has allowed us to obtain the most complete and homogeneous metallicity data to date for the RR Lyrae stars in this cluster. For RR Lyrae stars in common with the Delta-S observations of Butler et al. (1978) and Gratton et al. (1986), we have found that our metallicities, [Fe/H](hk), deviate systematically from their Delta-S metallicity, while our [Fe/H](hk) for well observed field RRab stars are consistent with previous spectroscopic measurements. We conclude that this is due to the larger errors associated with the previous Delta-S observations for this cluster. The Mv(RR) - [Fe/H] and period-shift - [Fe/H] relations obtained from our new data are consistent with the evolutionary models predicted by Lee (1991), confirming that the luminosity of RR Lyrae stars depends on evolutionary status as well as metallicity. Using the period - amplitude diagram, we have also identified highly evolved RRab stars in the range of -1.9 < [Fe/H] < -1.5, as predicted from the synthetic horizontal-branch models.
description: 36 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables, Accepted to the Astronomical Journal, April 2000
Bayesian Regression on segmented data using Kernel Density Estimation
Creators: name: Hönel, Sebastian
name: Ericsson, Morgan
name: Löwe, Welf
name: Wingkvist, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Bayes Theorem
Classification
Regression

description: The challenge of having to deal with dependent variables in classification and regression using techniques based on Bayes' theorem is often avoided by assuming a strong independence between them, hence such techniques are said to be naive. While analytical solutions supporting classification on arbitrary amounts of discrete and continuous random variables exist, practical solutions are scarce. We are evaluating a few Bayesian models empirically and consider their computational complexity. To overcome the often assumed independence, those models attempt to resolve the dependencies using empirical joint conditional probabilities and joint conditional probability densities. These are obtained by posterior probabilities of the dependent variable after segmenting the dataset for each random variable's value. We demonstrate the advantages of these models, such as their nature being deterministic (no randomization or weights required), that no training is required, that each random variable may have any kind of probability distribution, how robustness is upheld without having to impute missing data, and that online learning is effortlessly possible. We compare such Bayesian models against well-established classifiers and regression models, using some well-known datasets. We conclude that our evaluated models can outperform other models in certain settings, using classification. The regression models deliver respectable performance, without leading the field.
Supercurrent Induced Charge-Spin Conversion in Spin-Split Superconductors
Creators: name: Aikebaier, Faluke
name: Silaev, Mihail A.
name: Heikkilä, T. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in a mesoscopic superconductor with a spin- splitting field in the presence of co-flowing supercurrent. In such a system, the nonequilibrium state is characterized by charge, spin, energy and spin energy modes. Here we show that in the presence of both spin splitting and supercurrent, all these modes are mutually coupled. As a result, the supercurrent can convert charge imbalance, that in the presence of spin splitting decays on a relatively short scale, to a long-range spin accumulation decaying only via inelastic scattering. This effect enables coherent charge-spin conversion controllable by a magnetic flux, and it can be detected by studying different symmetry components of the nonlocal conductance signal.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Complete and Consistent Chiral Transport from Wigner Function Formalism
Creators: name: Huang, Anping
name: Shi, Shuzhe
name: Jiang, Yin
name: Liao, Jinfeng
name: Zhuang, Pengfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently there has been significant interest in understanding the macroscopic quantum transport in a many-body system of chiral fermions. A natural framework for describing such a system which is generally out of equilibrium, is the transport equation for its phase space distribution function. In this paper, we obtain a complete solution of the covariant chiral transport for massless fermions, by starting from the general Wigner function formalism and carrying out a complete and consistent semiclassical expansion up to $\hat{\mathbf{O}}(\hbar)$ order. In particular, we clarify certain subtle and confusing issues surrounding the Lorentz non-invariance and frame dependence associated with the 3D chiral kinetic theory. We prove that such frame dependence is uniquely and completely fixed by an unambiguous definition of the $\hat{\mathbf{O}}(\hbar)$ correction to the distribution function in each reference frame.
Children Stories 03
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Duoxu
subject: ers
subject: Chinese, Mandarin
subject: cmn

description: Praat TextGrid annotations for the audio files with the same name. These TextGrids only include the Chinese layer (elicitation part of the recording: Han Zhengkang and conversation between Han Zhengkang and Wu Rongfu). The remaining layers are to be added at a later date
description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
A study of the factors affecting the total fertility rate in South Korea
Creators: name: Lim, Juyoung
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017

description: In 2014, the total fertility rate (TFR) of South Korea was 1.21 children per woman, which was the lowest level among OECD member countries, and also one of the lowest in the world. As the decline of the total fertility rate has been so rapid and the morality rate has also declined sharply, the population of South Korea has been aging at a fast speed. If these circumstances persist, the financial burden of supporting aging people will place heavy pressure on young people, and the labour market will be strained by the decreasing productive population. To solve the low fertility problem, it is very important to find out what are the cause of low fertility. In this study, the model divides the factors causing a low fertility rate into two categories - demographic and values factors (the entry rate into tertiary education of women, the age at first marriage of women, and the crude divorce rate) and economic and social factors (the nominal GNI per capita, the female employment rate, and the ratio of educational cost to household consumption expenditure). Through correlation analysis and univariate regression analysis I find that each of the six independent variables has a negative correlation with the total fertility rate. Also, the results of the multiple regression analysis indicate that the three variables which are related to women have negative effects on the total fertility rate. However, the coefficients of the other three variables are not statistically significant. Thus, I suggest that the Korean government focus on support policies that help women to balance work and child-rearing to increase the total fertility rate.
Maternità surrogata: nodi critici tra logica del dono e preminente interesse del minore
Creators: name: Chini, Camilla
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2016
Subjects: Surrogacy; Exploitation; Prohibition of financial gain; Offence principle; Best interest of the child

description: This paper considers the commercial and altruistic nature of surrogacy in the light of the offence principle, analysing the legal interests protected by the Italian absolute prohibition of surrogacy, as laid down by the law on medically assisted procreation no. 40/2004. It starts by examining the exploitation of the surrogate mothers on the basis of the prohibition of financial gain provided for in Article 21 of the Oviedo Convention and it then deals with the position of the unborn, in order to investigate the consequences for it. The conclusion is a rebuttal of the logic of the gift: when adopting a child-prospective, all forms and arrangements of surrogacy are called into question. Moreover, the Author argues for the need of an international regulation on the practice, which must take into account the best interest of the child as a third and external party in such conducts, without having to take second place to the intended parents’ reproductive destre.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2016)
On the $Q^2$ dependence of nuclear structure functions
Creators: name: Indumathi, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent high statistics NMC data on the Tin to Carbon structure function ratio seems to indicate, for the first time, a significant $Q^2$ dependence, especially at small values of Bjorken $x$, $x < 0.05$, and $Q^2 > 1 GeV^2$. Pure leading twist, perturbative QCD--based predictions, which are consistent with the free nucleon data, yield a fairly flat ratio with little or no $Q^2$ dependence. In view of this seeming contradiction, we re-examine the applicability of such a perturbative model to nuclear structure functions in such a kinematical regime. We find that the model is consistent with all data, within experimental errors, without any need for introducing additional higher twist contributions. The model correctly reproduces the $Q^2$ dependence of the Carbon structure function as well. We also critically examine the $Q^2$ dependence of the corresponding spin dependent structure functions.
description: 11 pages LaTeX, with 3 figures of encapsulated postscript files
On the Saxl graph of a permutation group
Creators: name: Burness, Timothy C.
name: Giudici, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $G$ be a permutation group on a set $Ω$. A subset of $Ω$ is a base for $G$ if its pointwise stabiliser in $G$ is trivial. In this paper we introduce and study an associated graph $Σ(G)$, which we call the Saxl graph of $G$. The vertices of $Σ(G)$ are the points of $Ω$, and two vertices are adjacent if they form a base for $G$. This graph encodes some interesting properties of the permutation group. We investigate the connectivity of $Σ(G)$ for a finite transitive group $G$, as well as its diameter, Hamiltonicity, clique and independence numbers, and we present several open problems. For instance, we conjecture that if $G$ is a primitive group with a base of size $2$, then the diameter of $Σ(G)$ is at most $2$. Using a probabilistic approach, we establish the conjecture for some families of almost simple groups. For example, the conjecture holds when $G=S_n$ or $A_n$ (with $n>12$) and the point stabiliser of $G$ is a primitive subgroup. In contrast, we can construct imprimitive groups whose Saxl graph is disconnected with arbitrarily many connected components, or connected with arbitrarily large diameter.
description: 27 pages; to appear in Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc
Monkey borrowing a book
Creators: name: Zhengkang, Han
name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Duoxu
subject: ers
subject: Chinese, Mandarin
subject: cmn

description: Han Zhengkang translates with Wu Rongfu from Chinese a children story 'Houzi Jieshu' (Monkey borrowing a book). Han Zhengkang reads in Chinese, Wu Rongfu translates into Duoxu and repeats three times
description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
VOXES: a high precision X-ray spectrometer for diffused sources with HAPG crystals in the 2-20 keV range
Creators: name: Scordo, A.
name: Curceanu, C.
name: Miliucci, M.
name: Shi, H.
name: Sirghi, F.
name: Zmeskal, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bragg spectroscopy is one of the best established experimental methods for high energy resolution X-ray measurements and has been widely used in several fields, going from fundamental physics to quantum mechanics tests, synchrotron radiation and X-FEL applications, astronomy, medicine and industry. However, this technique is limited to the measurement of photons produced from well collimated or point-like sources and becomes quite inefficient for photons coming from extended and diffused sources like those,for example, emitted in the exotic atoms radiative transitions. The VOXES project's goal is to realise a prototype of a high resolution and high precision X-ray spectrometer, using Highly Annealed Pyrolitic Graphite (HAPG) crystals in the Von Hamos configuration, working also for extended sources. The aim is to deliver a cost effective system having an energy resolution at the level of eV for X rays energies from about 2 keV up to tens of keV, able to perform sub-eV precision measurements with non point-like sources. In this paper, the working principle of VOXES, together with first results, are presented.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1709.06503
First LIGO events: binary black holes mergings
Creators: name: Lipunov, V. M.
name: Postnov, K. A.
name: Prokhorov, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on evolutionary scenarios for binary stellar evolution we study the merging rates of relativistic binary stars (NS+NS, NS+BH, BH+BH) under different assumptions of BH formation. We find the BH+BH merging rate in the range one per 200,000 -- 500,000 year in a Milky-Way type galaxy, while the NS+NS merging rate $R_{ns}$ is approximately 10 times as high, which means that the expected event rate even for high mean kick velocities of NS up to 400 km/s is at least 30-50 binary NS mergings per year from within a distance of 200 Mpc. As typical BH is formed with a mass 3-10 times the NS mass (assumed 1.4 M$_\odot$), the rates obtained imply that the expected detection rate of binary BH by a LIGO-type gravitational wave detector is 10-100 times higher than the binary NS merging rate for a wide range of parameters.
description: 15 pages with 3 eps figures, LaTeX, elsart.sty + epsf.sty, New Astronomy, in press
Simulation and Characterization of a CMOS Z-axis Microactuator with Electrostatic Comb Drives
Creators: name: Huikai  Xie
name: Erdmann, Lars
name: Jing, Qi
name: Fedder, Gary K.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper reports the first design and its simulation and experimental results of a CMOS z-axis microactuator that utilizes the vertical electrostatic forces existing between multi-conductor comb fingers. The measured maximum displacement of the z-axis microactuator is 3.5 mm, and resonant frequency 6.17 kHz, which are in good agreement with the field simulation and the behavioral simulation results using the NODAS library [1]. The advantages of the z-axis actuator include compatibility with standard CMOS processes and easy implementation of 3-axis microstages, integrated position sensing components and motion control circuits.