cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Richly Activated Graph Convolutional Network for Robust Skeleton-based Action Recognition
Creators: name: Song, Yi-Fan
name: Zhang, Zhang
name: Shan, Caifeng
name: Wang, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current methods for skeleton-based human action recognition usually work with complete skeletons. However, in real scenarios, it is inevitable to capture incomplete or noisy skeletons, which could significantly deteriorate the performance of current methods when some informative joints are occluded or disturbed. To improve the robustness of action recognition models, a multi-stream graph convolutional network (GCN) is proposed to explore sufficient discriminative features spreading over all skeleton joints, so that the distributed redundant representation reduces the sensitivity of the action models to non-standard skeletons. Concretely, the backbone GCN is extended by a series of ordered streams which is responsible for learning discriminative features from the joints less activated by preceding streams. Here, the activation degrees of skeleton joints of each GCN stream are measured by the class activation maps (CAM), and only the information from the unactivated joints will be passed to the next stream, by which rich features over all active joints are obtained. Thus, the proposed method is termed richly activated GCN (RA-GCN). Compared to the state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, the RA-GCN achieves comparable performance on the standard NTU RGB+D 60 and 120 datasets. More crucially, on the synthetic occlusion and jittering datasets, the performance deterioration due to the occluded and disturbed joints can be significantly alleviated by utilizing the proposed RA-GCN.
description: Accepted by IEEE T-CSVT, 11 pages, 6 figures, 10 tables
Pauli spin susceptibility of a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron liquid
Creators: name: Shashkin, A. A.
name: Anissimova, S.
name: Sakr, M. R.
name: Kravchenko, S. V.
name: Dolgopolov, V. T.
name: Klapwijk, T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamic measurements reveal that the Pauli spin susceptibility of strongly correlated two-dimensional electrons in silicon grows critically at low electron densities - behavior that is characteristic of the existence of a phase transition.
description: As published
8343: Joseph Laurie Nelson - Memorial Book
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Mr Nelson shared the bound memorial book. Name of soldier is Joseph Laurie Nelson (Uncle). Comes from Manchester, was in the Manchester Regiment, 2nd Lt. Killed on the Somme in 1916. Two days before having been recommended for the MC for a raid on something. Some letters from him to his parents from France.

Asked who made the book:
"My grandparents presumably. He was shot by his batman cleaning a rifle. And there is a letter from the batman in the book, so presumably my grandmother had written to him and had received a reply which is in the book. Was unclear whether this was something that would be of interest for the project."
Pure nuclear quadrupole resonance determination of the electric field gradient asymmetry for broad lines (and application to YBa2Cu3O7)
Creators: name: Levy, Shahar
name: Keren, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an angle dependent nuclear quadrupole resonance (ADNQR) method to determine the electric field gradient asymmetry parameter eta in systems where the resonance line is so broad that the radio frequency field can excite only a portion of the nuclear spins. In this situation the recently developed spectroscopic methods are not applicable. ADNQR is useful for single crystals and oriented powders, and, for small eta determines eta^4. Therefore, it can be used to evaluate fluctuations in eta due to inhomogeneities. We demonstrate the application of ADNQR experimentally to oriented superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 powder.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Gromov Rigidity of Bi-Invariant Metrics on Lie Groups and Homogeneous Spaces
Creators: name: Sun, Yukai
name: Dai, Xianzhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Gromov asked if the bi-invariant metrics on a compact Lie group are extremal compared to any other metrics. In this note, we prove that the bi-invariant metrics on a compact connected semi-simple Lie group $G$ are extremal (in fact rigid) in the sense of Gromov when compared to the left-invariant metrics. In fact the same result holds for a compact connected homogeneous manifold $G/H$ with $G$ compact connect and semi-simple.
The Global Economic Barometers: Composite indicators for the world economy
Creators: name: Abberger, Klaus
name: Graff, Michael
name: Campelo, Aloisio Jr.
name: Lemos Gouveia, Anna Carolina
name: Müller, Oliver
name: Sturm, Jan-Egbert
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020
Subjects: business cycle
Growth rate cycles
composite indicators
leading indicators
coincident indicators
partial least squares
real-time simulations

description: KOF Working Papers, 471
The Growth of the Earliest Supermassive Black Holes and Their Contribution to Reionization
Creators: name: Haiman, Zoltan
name: Dijkstra, Mark
name: Mesinger, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss currently available observational constraints on the reionization history of the intergalactic medium (IGM), and the extent to which accreting black holes (BHs) can help explain these observations. We show new evidence, based on the combined statistics of Lyman alpha and beta absorption in quasar spectra, that the IGM contains a significant amount of neutral hydrogen, and is experiencing rapid ionization around redshift z=6. However, we argue that quasar BHs, even faint ones that are below the detection thresholds of existing optical surveys, are unlikely to drive the evolution of the neutral fraction around this epoch, because they would over-produce the present-day soft X-ray background. On the other hand, the seeds of the quasar BHs around z=6 likely appeared at much earlier epochs (around z=20), and produced hard ionizing radiation by accretion. These early BHs are promising candidates to account for the high redshift ionization (around z=15) implied by the recent cosmic microwave anisotropy data from WMAP. Using a model for the growth of BHs by accretion and mergers in a hierarchical cosmology, we suggest that the early growth of quasars must include a super-Eddington growth phase, and that, although not yet optically identified, the FIRST radio survey may have already detected several thousand BHs at z>6 with Mbh>10^8 Msun.
description: 12 pages, invited contribution to Proceedings of the Conference on "Growing Black Holes" held in Garching, Germany, on June 21-25, 2004, edited by A. Merloni, S. Nayakshin and R. Sunyaev, Springer-Verlag series of "ESO Astrophysics Symposia"
Tunability of electrical and thermoelectrical properties of monolayer MoS$_2$ through oxygen passivation
Creators: name: Deb, Swarup
name: Bhattacharyya, Pritam
name: Chakrabarti, Poulab
name: Chakraborti, Himadri
name: Gupta, Kantimay Das
name: Shukla, Alok
name: Dhar, Subhabrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electric and thermoelectric properties of strictly monolayer MoS$_2$ films, which are grown using a novel micro-cavity based CVD growth technique, have been studied under diverse environmental and annealing conditions. Resistance of a thermoelectric device that is fabricated on a continuous monolayer MoS$_2$ layer using photolithography technique has been found to reduce by about six orders of magnitudes upon annealing in vacuum at 525 K. Seebeck coefficient of the layer also reduces by almost an order of magnitude upon annealing. When the sample is exposed to oxygen atmosphere, these parameters return to their previous values. In fact, it has been found that the electron concentration, mobility as well as the thermoelectric power of the material can be tuned by controlling the temperature of annealing and oxygen exposure. Once established, these values are maintained as long as the layer is not exposed to oxygen environment. This can offer a unique way to control doping in the material provided an effective encapsulation method is devised. Such control is an important step forward for device application. The effect has been attributed to the passivation of di-sulfur vacancy donors present in the MoS$_2$ film by physisorbed oxygen molecules. Band structural calculations using density functional theory have been carried out, results of which indeed validate this picture.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
8344: James Lee - Garlick maternal relative
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Contributor: Grandfather was called James Lee. Gets a little confusing because there was more than one James Lee. Some of the war he got exempted from because they were nursery men but he was in the Army Service Corps. Grew fruit and vegetables, so as far as the war was concerned that was an important job. No service records for him. Know he went out to France. Shared a photocopy taken by Dad. Written by grandfather, James Lee, known as Jim, to Ivy, married at that time. Shared the wedding photos.

"Darling, will give Mother one and keep the other when I come home, will tell you what it is. Alls well Love Jim."

Contributor: So he obviously did make it to the Front and back again. Got married - looked at back of photograph - photographer-based Courtenay Street, Plymouth.

When they got married, they obviously had photos to give away. Have the original photo on the wall in their house. Discussed the photo - couple are stood on a carpet on top of gravel.

Elburton family. Contributor's mum, right hand side coming out of Elburton , Mum born in cottages on the right hand side 1922.

Looked at cards sent for the wedding.
Looked at the dog tags. Made of resin. Probably why they survived.
Looked at two telegrams - February 1918 - comeback to get married.
Found Wedding announcement - by special licence at Mamhead - February 18th James Lee AFC, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), to Ivy S Underhay of Mamhead, youngest daughter of Frederick Underhay of Ashcombe. GG said first time she had seen the telegrams and wedding announcement.
title: ‘It’s a problem with the brain’: A discursive analysis of parents’ constructions of ADHD
Creators: name: Davies, Alison Jayne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis takes a discursive approach to the talk of parents of children with an ADHD diagnosis. It uses data from 2 focus groups, 10 individual interviews and 3 mother/father interviews. The thesis adopts a synthetic approach to discourse and draws on the analytic concepts associated with both conversation analysis and with discursive approaches more concerned with the wider social context. The concepts of interpretative repertoires and subject positions are used to argue that prevalent understandings of ADHD place parents of children with ADHD at the centre of a highly moralised debate. Specifically, the prevalent psychosocial repertoire is identified as aligning ADHD with ineffective parenting. The research explores how parents talk about their experiences of ADHD, and how, through discursive action parents construct their identities in relation to ADHD. It does this, firstly, by identifying and analysing the discursive resources parents deploy in their constructions of ADHD, and their accounts of having a child with ADHD; secondly, by considering the ways in which parents manage their moral positioning in relation to their children’s ADHD diagnosis; thirdly, by identifying the cultural discourses that mothers and fathers use in the formation of their identities as ‘good’ parents. Analysis suggests that parents attend to issues of responsibility and accountability in their constructions of ADHD. ADHD can be understood as a social category which is fluid, contradictory, and imbued with a moral discourse that is linked to competing subject positions. The thesis demonstrates that parenting identities are not fixed, but are fluid and flexible depending on what is at stake. By using different discursive resources, mothers and fathers construct distinct parenting identities. Significantly, these resources often make relevant gendered subject positions, such as the valorised/blameworthy mother and the disciplining, out-at-work father. However, overall, these distinct parenting identities are formulated to convey the idea of a morally adequate and balanced parenting team.
Depopulacja na obszarach wiejskich województwa opolskiego w latach 2002-2011
Creators: name: Dybowska, Joanna
name: Dybowska, Joanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: depopulation
subject: rural areas
subject: autochthonous population
subject: immigrant population
subject: real population
subject: non-registered migration

description: Depopulation, is the process of a decrease in the number of population in rural areas, which poses a serious threat to the existence of smaller establishments and results in considerable areas being left uninhabited. Spatial differentiation as regards the depth of depopulation is connected with territorial deployment of native and immigrant inhabitants of the Opole Voivodeship. The paper attempts to prove that more severe depopulation affects the areas dominated by the autochthonous population as they are characterised by established traditions of going abroad. On the basis of the data obtained from the last two national censuses conducted in Poland in 2002 and 2011, as well as data from the running records, it was possible to assess the size of non-registered migration which – as it has turned out only in the case of a few districts – was a non-registered inflow of inhabitants. Despite the fact that following Poland’s accession to the European Union the immigrant population can participate freely in the process of leaving abroad, the extent of the non-registered outflow is much greater for the districts which are dominated by the autochthonous population.
Effects of rice prices on agricultural wage rates in Vietnam
Creators: name: Nguyen, Diem Kieu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The thesis aims to examine the relationship between agricultural wage rates and rice prices in Vietnam. This study is inspired in part by the fact that agricultural wage rates and rice prices are important factors affecting rural welfare; especially the rural poor who have little land holdings and rely on labor markets for the dominant share of their incomes. Rice farming does not only provide the staple food for over 90 percent of Vietnamese households, but also absorbs the greatest portion of the rural labor force in Vietnam. It is also of substantial interest how rural wage rates are actually determined, and to what extent rural versus urban factors are involved. In other words, to what extent are rural and urban labour markets integrated? We hypothesize that changes in rice prices will have a significant impact on agricultural wage rates. Furthermore, many previous studies show that there has been in some periods a significant gap between the domestic and world prices of rice due to the control over rice exports of the Vietnam government. These regulations have been relaxed since 2001, and therefore the domestic price of rice would now be more affected by external fluctuations. To answer how rice price changes affect agricultural wage rates, we make use of data at the colnmune level in Vietnam over the period from 1993-2002. We found that the effects of rice prices on real agricultural wage rates vary by year and from region to region. Generally, the regression results provide empirical evidence to support that agricultural factors have a sizeable effect on agricultural wage rates in Vietnam. But we found that non-agricultural factors also play an important role in increasing the wage rate for agricultural laborers. The nonagricultural wage rate, urban unemployment rate and the economy’s real growth rate were found to have significant, albeit smaller, effects on the agricultural wage rate in Vietnam.
KOMPOZITSION MATERIALLARI TAYYORLASHNING ZAMONAVIY TEXNOLOGIYALARI
Creators: name: Rasulova, Nargiza
name: Islomova, Nufuza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada kompozitsion materiallarning klassifikatsiyasi, kompozitsion materiallarini ishlab chiqarishning hozirgi kundagi usullari , ularning afzallikllari,ular uchun materiallar  va mamlakatimiz hududida kompozitsion materiallarini ishlab chiqarishni rivojlantirish.
Confluence : a masterplan for Riverside Park
Creators: name: Menard, Elise Patricia Maureen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Riverside Park located in downtown Kamloops began developing as Citys’ premiere park in the early 1900’s. At this time there was an emphasis on programming for sport. Through the years the Park’s focus has shifted from sport to a gathering space for community events and celebrations.This transition, however, has occurred in the absence of an overarching vision for Riverside Park as a vital cultural space for Kamloops’ citizens. As a result, the Park lacks cohesiveness not only within its boundaries, but also with regard to the adjacent river system and downtown area. Riverside Park, therefore, fails to meet its full potential as the premiere park for the City of Kamloops. By addressing three important issues of connectivity: 1) within Riverside Park itself, 2) between Riverside Park and the Thompson Rivers, and 3) between Riverside Park and downtown Kamloops, this design proposal consists of a masterplan concept for Riverside Park which explores how this urban park can benefit from strengthened connections between the natural river system, park and urban fabric.
title: Linking Textual Resources to Support Information Discovery
Creators: name: Knoth, Petr
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: A vast amount of information is today stored in the form of textual documents, many of which are available online. These documents come from different sources and are of different types. They include newspaper articles, books, corporate reports, encyclopedia entries and research papers. At a semantic level, these documents contain knowledge, which was created by explicitly connecting information and expressing it in the form of a natural language. However, a significant amount of knowledge is not explicitly stated in a single document, yet can be derived or discovered by researching, i.e. accessing, comparing, contrasting and analysing, information from multiple documents. Carrying out this work using traditional search interfaces is tedious due to information overload and the difficulty of formulating queries that would help us to discover information we are not aware of. In order to support this exploratory process, we need to be able to effectively navigate between related pieces of information across documents. While information can be connected using manually curated cross-document links, this approach not only does not scale, but cannot systematically assist us in the discovery of sometimes non-obvious (hidden) relationships. Consequently, there is a need for automatic approaches to link discovery. This work studies how people link content, investigates the properties of different link types, presents new methods for automatic link discovery and designs a system in which link discovery is applied on a collection of millions of documents to improve access to public knowledge.
Addressing Missing Labels in Large-Scale Sound Event Recognition Using a Teacher-Student Framework With Loss Masking
Creators: name: Fonseca, Eduardo
name: Hershey, Shawn
name: Plakal, Manoj
name: Ellis, Daniel P. W.
name: Jansen, Aren
name: Moore, R. Channing
name: Serra, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The study of label noise in sound event recognition has recently gained attention with the advent of larger and noisier datasets. This work addresses the problem of missing labels, one of the big weaknesses of large audio datasets, and one of the most conspicuous issues for AudioSet. We propose a simple and model-agnostic method based on a teacher-student framework with loss masking to first identify the most critical missing label candidates, and then ignore their contribution during the learning process. We find that a simple optimisation of the training label set improves recognition performance without additional computation. We discover that most of the improvement comes from ignoring a critical tiny portion of the missing labels. We also show that the damage done by missing labels is larger as the training set gets smaller, yet it can still be observed even when training with massive amounts of audio. We believe these insights can generalize to other large-scale datasets.
description: Accepted in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, openly accessible at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9130823
Response Theory and Phase Transitions for the Thermodynamic Limit of Interacting Identical Systems
Creators: name: Lucarini, Valerio
name: Pavliotis, G. A.
name: Zagli, Niccolò
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82C26, 82C2, 82C22

description: We study the response to perturbations in the thermodynamic limit of a network of coupled identical agents undergoing a stochastic evolution which, in general, describes non-equilibrium conditions. All systems are nudged towards the common centre of mass. We derive Kramers-Kronig relations and sum rules for the linear susceptibilities obtained through mean field Fokker-Planck equations and then propose corrections relevant for the macroscopic case, which incorporates in a self-consistent way the effect of the mutual interaction between the systems. Such an interaction creates a memory effect. We are able to derive conditions determining the occurrence of phase transitions specifically due to system-to-system interactions. Such phase transitions exist in the thermodynamic limit and are associated with the divergence of the linear response but are not accompanied by the divergence in the integrated autocorrelation time for a suitably defined observable. We clarify that such endogenous phase transitions are fundamentally different from other pathologies in the linear response that can be framed in the context of critical transitions. Finally, we show how our results can elucidate the properties of the Desai-Zwanzig model and of the Bonilla-Casado-Morillo model, which feature paradigmatic equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase transitions, respectively.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures, final accepted version
Symmetry and entropy of black hole horizons
Creators: name: Dreyer, Olaf
name: Markopoulou, Fotini
name: Smolin, Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue, using methods taken from the theory of noiseless subsystems in quantum information theory, that the quantum states associated with a Schwarzchild black hole live in the restricted subspace of the Hilbert space of horizon boundary states in which all punctures are equal. Consequently, one value of the Immirzi parameter matches both the Hawking value for the entropy and the quasi normal mode spectrum of the Schwarzchild black hole. The method of noiseless subsystems thus allows us to understand, in this example and more generally, how symmetries, which take physical states to physical states, can emerge from a diffeomorphism invariant formulation of quantum gravity.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure, some criticisms of the result are answered
Additional file 1 of The statistical importance of P-POSSUM scores for predicting mortality after emergency laparotomy in geriatric patients
Creators: name: Cao, Yang
name: Bass, Gary A.
name: Ahl, Rebecka
name: Pourlotfi, Arvid
name: Geijer, Håkan
name: Montgomery, Scott
name: Mohseni, Shahin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Demographics and clinical outcome of the included and excluded patients. Figure S1. Performance measures of the logistic regression and random forest models, with data transformed by Min-Max scaler. Acc, accuracy; Spe, specificity; Sen, sensitivity; AUC, area under ROC curve. Figure S2. Relative variable importance of logistic regression and random forest models, with data transformed by Min-Max scaler. Figure S3. Performance measures of the logistic regression and random forest models, with data transformed by Robust scaler. Acc, accuracy; Spe, specificity; Sen, sensitivity; AUC, area under ROC curve. Figure S4. Relative variable importance of logistic regression and random forest models, with data transformed by Robust scaler.
Zróżnicowanie jakości życia na obszarach wiejskich Unii Europejskiej
Creators: name: Hadyński, Jakub
name: Hadyński, Jakub
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: the quality of life
subject: rural regional competitiveness

description: The research undertaken in the article concerns the regional diversification of rural areas at NUTS 2 level in the European Union in the context of quality of life measures and the evolution of territorial development. A modified HDI index was used to allow for the determination of the regional synthetic indicator of the quality of life. Thus, a huge gap between the most developed and underdeveloped areas was shown. The results indicate a real need for a variety of instruments to support rural areas in the EU.
Dielectric breakdown by electric-field induced phase separation
Creators: name: Fraggedakis, Dimitrios
name: Mirzadeh, Mohammad
name: Zhou, Tingtao
name: Bazant, Martin Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The control of the dielectric and conductive properties of device-level systems is important for increasing the efficiency of energy- and information-related technologies. In some cases, such as neuromorphic computing, it is desirable to increase the conductivity of an initially insulating medium by several orders of magnitude, resulting in effective dielectric breakdown. Here, we show that by tuning the value of the applied electric field in systems { with variable permittivity and electric conductivity}, e.g. ion intercalation materials, we can vary the device-level electrical conductivity by orders of magnitude. We attribute this behavior to the formation of filament-like conductive domains that percolate throughout the system, { which form only when the electric conductivity depends on the concentration}. We conclude by discussing the applicability of our results in neuromorphic computing devices and Li-ion batteries.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Dostępność do ambulatoryjnej opieki zdrowotnej na wsi w Polsce. Ujęcie przestrzenno-czasowe
Creators: name: Krawczyk-Sołtys, Agnieszka
name: Krawczyk-Sołtys, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: health care institution
subject: medical practice
subject: rural areas

description: The purpose of this article was to determine changes in the availability of outpatient health care in rural areas in Poland in terms of space-time. Among the subjects of ambulatory care healthcare institutions and medical practices providing health care services exclusively within the framework of public funds were analysed. Summing up the results of the analysis it can be concluded that the availability of health care facilities and medical practices in the country in the investigated period increased. This growth was much slower than in the city, which was particularly evident in the case of health care institutions. Despite the increasing number of these entities per 10 thous. population, their percentage in the country during the period was steadily decreasing. Regional differences in terms of access to outpatient care were also meaningful. In the case of medical practices, the percentage in the country and their number per 10 thous. population was increasing during the period.
Convergence analysis of collocation methods for computing periodic solutions of retarded functional differential equations
Creators: name: Andò, Alessia
name: Breda, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65L03, 65L10, 65L20, 65L60

description: We analyze the convergence of piecewise collocation methods for computing periodic solutions of general retarded functional differential equations under the abstract framework recently developed in [S. Maset, Numer. Math. (2016) 133(3):525-555], [S. Maset, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. (2015) 53(6):2771--2793] and [S. Maset, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. (2015) 53(6):2794--2821]. We rigorously show that a reformulation as a boundary value problem requires a proper infinite-dimensional boundary periodic condition in order to be amenable of such analysis. In this regard, we also highlight the role of the period acting as an unknown parameter, which is critical since it is directly linked to the course of time. Finally, we prove that the finite element method is convergent, while we limit ourselves to commenting on the infeasibility of this approach as far as the spectral element method is concerned.
description: 52 pages, 0 figures, short version to appear on SIAM J. Numer. Anal
Gauge fixing in Causal Dynamical Triangulations
Creators: name: Markopoulou, Fotini
name: Smolin, Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We relax the definition of the Ambjorn-Loll causal dynamical triangulation model in 1+1 dimensions to allow for a varying lapse. We show that, as long as the spatially averaged lapse is constant in time, the physical observables are unchanged in the continuum limit. This supports the claim that the time slicing of the model is the result of a gauge fixing, rather than a physical preferred time slicing.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Practice guidelines on migrants’ health: assessment of their quality and reporting
Creators: name: Lotfi, Tamara
name: Itani, Mohamad I.
name: Howeiss, Pamela
name: Kilzar, Lama
name: Rizk, Nesrine A.
name: Akl, Elie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search Strategy.
Additional file 2 of Practice guidelines on migrants’ health: assessment of their quality and reporting
Creators: name: Lotfi, Tamara
name: Itani, Mohamad I.
name: Howeiss, Pamela
name: Kilzar, Lama
name: Rizk, Nesrine A.
name: Akl, Elie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Checklist of the Reporting Items for practice Guidelines in HealThcare (RIGHT) items.
8336: Albert Edward Moore
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Albert Edward Lord was the youngest of 6 children, born in Halifax, Yorkshire. The chess set was used in the trenches and there is also a sketchbook with drawings by Albert Lord which he drew during the war. There is a photograph which was torn into pieces and pieced back together.

He served in France and Belgium and was wounded in action and repatriated to a hospital in Sheffield where he died of his wounds (April 1918). He was later buried in Halifax.
Zawód rolnik – rolnictwo jako kierunek studiów i forma pozyskania kwalifikacji rolniczych
Creators: name: Mijal, Anna
name: Mijal, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: agricultural qualifications
subject: higher education
subject: fields of studies

description: Requirement of having (supplementing) agricultural qualifications has an impact on the future choice of didactic path, including its level, field of study, major or even particular educational institution in regard to subjects receiving an agricultural holding in exchange for structural pension or interested in founding an agricultural holding. Qualifications are a formal outcome of assessment and validation process based on the established procedure by achieving learning goals compliant with defined standards (e.g. qualifications framework). Regulatory professional qualifications for farmers can be obtained, i.a. through participation in educational tracks of higher education system allowing to gain the necessary licence. Elaboration is an attempt to identify, analyse and assess interest in education in the fields of studies related to agriculture at the level of higher education as a way of obtaining regulatory qualifications for farmers. Article uses research method in form of analysis of public statistics in higher education of Central Statistical Office and Agricultural Census 2010.
Wybrane współzależności międzygałęziowe w sektorze rolno-żywnościowym w krajach Unii Europejskiej
Creators: name: Mrówczyńska-Kamińska, Aldona
name: Mrówczyńska-Kamińska, Aldona
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: input-output method
subject: agriculture
subject: food industry
subject: interdependence intermodal

description: The aim of this article is to present the possibilities of the use of input-output balances to determine the interdependence of branch based on selected indicators: profitability and labour consumption of agri-food sector in the countries of the European Union in the years 1995, 2000 and 2007. The primary research method was a method of input-output. The main test materials were input-output balances for individual countries of the European Union, which was calculated on the basis of profitability and labour consumption in the food industry. Input-output model allows for in-depth analysis of the macro-economy and is an important instrument for the evaluation and interpretation of economic phenomena. It also allows you to carry out comprehensive evaluations of basic economic relationships that characterise the structure of the studied phenomena occurring between them and interdependences, also in comparisons, in dynamic and international system. In developed countries, mainly in the EU-15 the presented dependencies are at a lower level than in the new Member States.
Wigner Friend scenarios with non-invasive weak measurements
Creators: name: Matzkin, A.
name: Sokolovski, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wigner Friend scenarios -- in which an external agent describes quantum mechanically a laboratory in which a Friend is making a measurement -- give rise to possible inconsistencies due to the ambiguous character of quantum measurements. In this work, we investigate Wigner Friend scenarios in which the external agents can probe in a non-invasive manner the dynamics inside the laboratories. We examine probes that can be very weakly coupled to the systems measured by the Friends, or to the pointers or environments inside the laboratories. These couplings, known as Weak Measurements, are asymptotically small and do not change the outcomes obtained by the Friends nor their probabilities. Within our scheme, we show that the weakly coupled probes indicate to the external agents how to obtain consistent predictions, irrespective of the possible inconsistencies of quantum measurement theory. These non-invasive couplings could be implemented with present-day technologies.
description: Slightly extended Discussion Section, as well as minor changes for improved readability. Similar to published version. To be published in PRA
8337: Mr Jones - MM and Bar
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: His grandfather (Jones) served in the army as a soldier - Royal Cheshires (France 1915 - 1918), survived the war and became a bricklayer.
title: Mentoring Student Teachers' Professional Thinking and Classroom Practice on an 11-18 Distance Learning PGCE: A Case Study of Post-16 Teaching and Challenge as a Mentor Strategy
Creators: name: Butcher, John Stephen
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2001

description: This research investigates the mentoring needs and experiences of students on a part-time distance learning secondary PGCE in England and Wales. A case study of post-16 teaching was conducted on a sample of English students and mentors over a six month period, during which challenge was problematised as a mentor strategy. five research instruments were developed and used iteratively to generate qualitative data revealing student perceptions about post-16 teaching and mentor responses. The study reveals significant problems for student teachers as they learn to teach post-16, which were confirmed by mentors. First, that mentoring in relation to post-16 is inconsistent. What support is given varies greatly, and there is only limited evidence of challenge being used in a context which appears to warrant it as a training strategy. Second, and as a consequence, students feel underprepared at the end of the 11-18 PGCE for the demands of post-16 teaching. This is because mentors focus their training in areas other than post-16, reflecting the lack of attention to post-16 teaching in the Standards. Third, students invariably possess a false preconception of post-16 teaching, which mentors have not always been able to challenge. Little attention is given to effective post-16 teaching strategies in the lieterature, and mentors have shied away from discussing the contentions nature of the English canon post-16. fourth, students and mentors describe the demands of learning to teach post-16 differently to pre-16. the main issue is the need for students to be trained to differentiate their subject knowledge by effective teaching strategies, particularly in the divide between Year 11 and Year 12. The results impact on my own professional practice as a teacher educator, and illuminate more effective models of post-16 mentoring. The study concludes that a shared discourse about learning to teach post-16 needs to be in place. Challenge could then be used by mentors to develop student teacher professional thinking and classroom practice post-16. If students were consistently trained to teach post-16 more effectively, it is possible that pupils would benefit, leading to improved results.