cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
OIL PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN: A PLANNING APPROACH
Creators: name: Abrishami, Hamid
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The significance of this study is that it examines the functions of the most important element in the public sector of the economy of Iran--the Ministry of Oil. Oil is the main source of Iran's foreign earnings and the commodity most crucial to the country's economy as its prime export. Furthermore, it plays a vital role in meeting domestic energy demands. The distribution of oil products affects, on the one hand, households, small businesses, and larger industries while, on the other, it affects the allocation, in general, of other national resources. Accordingly, the effects of the Ministry of Oil's policies with regard to its production-distribution system cannot be overemphasized. The research entailed has elicited certain factors: The Ministry of Oil's present system suffers from a number of weaknesses in its production-distribution design. These deficiencies involved, among others, terminal location, number of terminals, assignment of terminals to customers, substitution of other major sources of energy for major oil products, the middle distillates problem, and an outmoded distribution method and techniques. This dissertation addresses alternatives which will eliminate faults in the present system. This system has carefully evaluated the efficiency of the distribution system in the past, and makes recommendations for optimum efficiency in the future. The major recommendations include the following: The proposed refinery in the Arak region is not an optimum option; an optimum terminal for domestic use of products in the Lavan area to supply the southeast of the country should be allocated; increasing the availability of natural gas, liquid petroleum gas, and hydroelectric power must be seriously considered. Discussed also are possible changes in energy pricing; the imbalances between production and consumption; and the nature of the improvements to be introduced into the distribution network of major petroleum products, given the present and prospective economic conditions in Iran. The approach and conclusions of this research have the potential of application to any type of industry in Iran--oil or otherwise, whether in the private or public sector--that has a similar intricate distribution-system design subject to similar variables.
A Possible Origin of Dark Energy
Creators: name: Lee, T. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the possibility that the existence of dark energy may be due to the presence of a spin zero field $ϕ(x)$, either elementary or composite. In the presence of other matter field, the transformation $ϕ(x)\to ϕ(x) +$ constant can generate a negative pressure, like the cosmological constant. In this picture, our universe can be thought as a very large bag, similar to the much smaller MIT bag model for a single nucleon.
description: 4 pages, no figure, typos corrected
Additional file 2 of “What will my child think of me if he hears I gave him HIV?”: a sequential, explanatory, mixed-methods approach on the predictors and experience of caregivers on disclosure of HIV status to infected children in Gombe, Northeast Nigeria
Creators: name: Oghenebrume Wariri
name: Ayomikun Ajani
name: Mercy Poksireni Raymond
name: Asabe Iliya
name: Olatoke Lukman
name: Okpo, Emmanuel
name: Isaac, Elon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Qualitative interview guide
OIL PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN: A PLANNING APPROACH
Creators: name: Abrishami, Hamid
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The significance of this study is that it examines the functions of the most important element in the public sector of the economy of Iran--the Ministry of Oil. Oil is the main source of Iran's foreign earnings and the commodity most crucial to the country's economy as its prime export. Furthermore, it plays a vital role in meeting domestic energy demands. The distribution of oil products affects, on the one hand, households, small businesses, and larger industries while, on the other, it affects the allocation, in general, of other national resources. Accordingly, the effects of the Ministry of Oil's policies with regard to its production-distribution system cannot be overemphasized. The research entailed has elicited certain factors: The Ministry of Oil's present system suffers from a number of weaknesses in its production-distribution design. These deficiencies involved, among others, terminal location, number of terminals, assignment of terminals to customers, substitution of other major sources of energy for major oil products, the middle distillates problem, and an outmoded distribution method and techniques. This dissertation addresses alternatives which will eliminate faults in the present system. This system has carefully evaluated the efficiency of the distribution system in the past, and makes recommendations for optimum efficiency in the future. The major recommendations include the following: The proposed refinery in the Arak region is not an optimum option; an optimum terminal for domestic use of products in the Lavan area to supply the southeast of the country should be allocated; increasing the availability of natural gas, liquid petroleum gas, and hydroelectric power must be seriously considered. Discussed also are possible changes in energy pricing; the imbalances between production and consumption; and the nature of the improvements to be introduced into the distribution network of major petroleum products, given the present and prospective economic conditions in Iran. The approach and conclusions of this research have the potential of application to any type of industry in Iran--oil or otherwise, whether in the private or public sector--that has a similar intricate distribution-system design subject to similar variables.
INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THE EXPERIENCE OF POST-INDEPENDENCE ALGERIA, 1962-1984
Creators: name: Houiti, Ahmed
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study deals with the problem of industrialization and economic development in a Third World country, Algeria. The main thesis of the study is that Algeria, like most other Third World countries, is witnessing major economic development and industrialization. Throughout this process of industrialization Algeria is experiencing dependent capitalist economic development. This thesis is discussed through a detailed case study of the process of industrialization and economic development over a period of twenty-two years (1962-1984). Moreover, the process of industrialization and economic development is analyzed from a political economy perspective and viewed within the international economic order, whereby the major external political and economic factors in shaping Algerian industrialization are discussed.
Towards a real-time fully-coherent all-sky search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences using particle swarm optimization
Creators: name: Normandin, Marc E.
name: Mohanty, Soumya D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While a fully-coherent all-sky search is known to be optimal for detecting gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences, its high computational cost has limited current searches to less sensitive coincidence-based schemes. Following up on previous work that has demonstrated the effectiveness of Particle Swarm Optimization in reducing the computational cost of this search, we present an implementation that achieves near real-time computational speed. This is achieved by combining the search efficiency of PSO with a significantly revised and optimized numerical implementation of the underlying mathematical formalism along with additional multi-threaded parallelization layers in a distributed computing framework. For a network of four second-generation detectors with $60$~min data from each, the runtime of the implementation presented here ranges between $\approx 1.4$ to $\approx 0.5$ times the data duration for network signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of $\gtrsim 10$ and $\gtrsim 12$, respectively. The reduced runtimes are obtained with small to negligible losses in detection sensitivity: for a false alarm rate of $\simeq 1$~event per year in Gaussian stationary noise, the loss in detection probability is $\leq 5\%$ and $\leq 2\%$ for SNRs of $10$ and $12$, respectively. Using the fast implementation, we are able to quantify frequentist errors in parameter estimation for signals in the double neutron star mass range using a large number of simulated data realizations. A clear dependence of parameter estimation errors and detection sensitivity on the condition number of the network antenna pattern matrix is revealed. Combined with previous work, this paper securely establishes the effectiveness of PSO-based fully-coherent all-sky search across the entire binary inspiral mass range that is relevant to ground-based detectors.
description: Revised following referee comments, to be published, 13 pages, 12 figures
INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THE EXPERIENCE OF POST-INDEPENDENCE ALGERIA, 1962-1984
Creators: name: Houiti, Ahmed
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This study deals with the problem of industrialization and economic development in a Third World country, Algeria. The main thesis of the study is that Algeria, like most other Third World countries, is witnessing major economic development and industrialization. Throughout this process of industrialization Algeria is experiencing dependent capitalist economic development. This thesis is discussed through a detailed case study of the process of industrialization and economic development over a period of twenty-two years (1962-1984). Moreover, the process of industrialization and economic development is analyzed from a political economy perspective and viewed within the international economic order, whereby the major external political and economic factors in shaping Algerian industrialization are discussed.
OLD METHODOLOGY/NEW INTERVENTION: JOB SATISFACTION AND PERFORMANCE REVISITED (SOCIOTECHNICAL, SYSTEMS, OFFICE AUTOMATION)
Creators: name: Clair Randall, Carl St.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: There are two basic purposes to this study. The first is a revisit of the classical approach to the study of the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. The second is an assessment of technological changes in an organization. A sociotechnical systems approach is used. Automation is the intervention. The study specifically provides data on the factors that affect the strength of the relationship between performance and satisfaction. A second significant contribution from the study is providing information on the impact of automation on the variables work stress, job satisfaction, job dissatisfaction, and worker performance/productivity. These two factors contribute to the furthering of our knowledge of human behavior in an organizational setting. The variables stress, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, and performance/productivity are examined in a correlation model. Both simple and partial correlation are used to manipulate the data. The impact of automation on the dependent variables is measured by way of an analysis of variance and t-test. The participants in the study are Internal Revenue Service (IRS) desk bound employees. They are located in three different IRS offices across three districts--Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia districts. The study reveals two principal findings. First, there is a low and negative relationship between satisfaction and performance when the classical model is applied. There is a strong relationship among stress, satisfaction, and dissatisfaction. The second finding as it relates to the sociotechnical system approach, notes that automation, the intervention, impacts the dependent variables in a negative way. The impact of automation among the treatment group leads to increased job dissatisfaction, reduced job satisfaction, and a decrease in worker performance/productivity.
Additional file 1 of Experimental evidence on biodiversity impacts of variable retention forestry, prescribed burning, and deadwood manipulation in Fennoscandia
Creators: name: Koivula, Matti
name: Vanha-Majamaa, Ilkka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Papers from Fennoscandian retention and restoration experiments, sorted according to experiment acronym (compare Table 1) followed by first author and publication year.
SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE: A STUDY ON DISRUPTION AND RECOVERY STRATEGIES
Creators: name: Narassima, M.S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150309 Logistics and Supply Chain Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 80110 Simulation and Modelling
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The simulation models and the code developed as a part of my doctoral research have been uploaded here.
Non-universal Critical Quantities from Variational Perturbation Theory and Their Application to the BEC Temperature Shift
Creators: name: Kastening, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For an O(N) symmetric scalar field theory with Euclidean action integral d^3x [1/2 |nabla phi|^2 + 1/2 r phi^2 + 1/4! u phi^4], where phi = (phi_1,...,phi_N) is a vector of N real field components, variational perturbation theory through seven loops is employed for N = 0,1,2,3,4 to compute the renormalized value of r/(N+2)u^2 at the phase transition. Its exact large-N limit is determined as well. We also extend an earlier computation of the interaction-induced shift Delta/Nu for N = 1,2,4 to N = 0,3. For N = 2, the results for the two quantities are used to compute the second-order shift of the condensation temperature of a dilute Bose gas, both in the homogenous case and for the wide limit of a harmonic trap. Our results are in agreement with earlier Monte Carlo simulations for N = 1,2,4. The appendix contains previously unpublished numerical seven-loop data provided to us by B.Nickel.
description: 19 pages
OLD METHODOLOGY/NEW INTERVENTION: JOB SATISFACTION AND PERFORMANCE REVISITED (SOCIOTECHNICAL, SYSTEMS, OFFICE AUTOMATION)
Creators: name: Clair Randall, Carl St.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: There are two basic purposes to this study. The first is a revisit of the classical approach to the study of the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. The second is an assessment of technological changes in an organization. A sociotechnical systems approach is used. Automation is the intervention. The study specifically provides data on the factors that affect the strength of the relationship between performance and satisfaction. A second significant contribution from the study is providing information on the impact of automation on the variables work stress, job satisfaction, job dissatisfaction, and worker performance/productivity. These two factors contribute to the furthering of our knowledge of human behavior in an organizational setting. The variables stress, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, and performance/productivity are examined in a correlation model. Both simple and partial correlation are used to manipulate the data. The impact of automation on the dependent variables is measured by way of an analysis of variance and t-test. The participants in the study are Internal Revenue Service (IRS) desk bound employees. They are located in three different IRS offices across three districts--Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia districts. The study reveals two principal findings. First, there is a low and negative relationship between satisfaction and performance when the classical model is applied. There is a strong relationship among stress, satisfaction, and dissatisfaction. The second finding as it relates to the sociotechnical system approach, notes that automation, the intervention, impacts the dependent variables in a negative way. The impact of automation among the treatment group leads to increased job dissatisfaction, reduced job satisfaction, and a decrease in worker performance/productivity.
Geometric and combinatorial realizations of crystal graphs
Creators: name: Savage, Alistair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16G10, 17B37

description: For irreducible integrable highest weight modules of the finite and affine Lie algebras of type A and D, we define an isomorphism between the geometric realization of the crystal graphs in terms of irreducible components of Nakajima quiver varieties and the combinatorial realizations in terms of Young tableaux and Young walls. For affine type A, we extend the Young wall construction to arbitrary level, describing a combinatorial realization of the crystals in terms of new objects which we call Young pyramids.
description: 34 pages, 17 figures; v2: minor typos corrected; v3: corrections to section 8; v4: minor typos corrected
Non-positivity of the Wigner function and bounds on associated integrals
Creators: name: Bracken, A. J.
name: Ellinas, D.
name: Wood, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Wigner function shares several properties with classical distribution functions on phase space, but is not positive-definite. The integral of the Wigner function over a given region of phase space can therefore lie outside the interval [0,1]. The problem of finding best-possible upper and lower bounds for a given region is the problem of finding the greatest and least eigenvalues of an associated Hermitian operator. Exactly solvable examples are described, and possible extensions are indicated.
description: 5 pages, Latex2e file
On the importance sampling of self-avoiding walks
Creators: name: Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In a 1976 paper published in Science, Knuth presented an algorithm to sample (non-uniform) self-avoiding walks crossing a square of side k. From this sample, he constructed an estimator for the number of such walks. The quality of this estimator is directly related to the (relative) variance of a certain random variable X_k. From his experiments, Knuth suspected that this variance was extremely large (so that the estimator would not be very efficient). But how large? For the analogous Rosenbluth algorithm, which samples unconfined self-avoiding walks of length n, the variance of the corresponding estimator is believed to be exponential in n. A few years ago, Bassetti and Diaconis showed that, for a sampler à la Knuth, that generates walks crossing a k\times k square and consisting of North and East steps, the relative variance is only O(\sqrt k). In this note we take one step further and show that, for walks consisting of North, South and East steps, the relative variance jumps to 2^{k(k+1)}/(k+1)^{2k}. This is quasi-exponential in the average length of the walks, which is of order k^2. We also obtain partial results for general self-avoiding walks crossing a square, suggesting that the relative variance could be exponential in k^2 (which is again the average length of these walks). Knuth's algorithm is a basic example of a widely used technique called sequential importance sampling. The present paper, following Bassetti and Diaconis' paper, is one of very few examples where the variance of the estimator can be found.
description: 19 pages
Machine Learning ${\cal N}=8, D=5$ Gauged Supergravity
Creators: name: Krishnan, Chethan
name: Mohan, Vyshnav
name: Ray, Soham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Type IIB string theory on a 5-sphere gives rise to ${\cal N}=8, SO(6)$ gauged supergravity in five dimensions. Motivated by the fact that this is the context of the most widely studied example of the AdS/CFT correspondence, we undertake an investigation of its critical points. The scalar manifold is an $E_{6(6)}/USp(8)$ coset, and the challenge is that it is 42-dimensional. We take a Machine Learning approach to the problem using TensorFlow, and this results in a substantial increase in the number of known critical points. Our list of 32 critical points contains all five of the previously known ones, including an ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric point identified by Khavaev, Pilch and Warner.
description: v3: precision of gravitino masses at three of the critical points tightened, other minor improvements. Published version + a note added + refs
Traces of stimulated bosonic exciton-scattering in semiconductor luminescence
Creators: name: Haegele, D.
name: Pfalz, S.
name: Oestreich, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observe signatures of stimulated bosonic scattering of excitons, a precursor of Bose-Einstein-Condensation (BEC), in the photoluminescence of semiconductor quantum wells. The optical decay of a spinless molecule of two excitons (biexciton) into an exciton and a photon with opposite angular momenta is subject to bosonic enhancement in the presence of other excitons. In a spin polarized gas of excitons the bosonic enhancement breaks the symmetry of two equivalent decay channels leading to circularly polarized luminescence of the biexciton with the sign opposite to the excitonic luminescence. Comparison of experiment and many body theory proves stimulated scattering of excitons, but excludes the presence of a fully condensed BEC-like state.
description: 5 pages
POLICY AS PROCESS: A PROPOSED MODEL OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AMERICAN SOCIAL POLICY DIRECTED TOWARD THE LOW-INCOME AGED AND DISABLED (HOLOCAUST, REPARATIONS)
Creators: name: Cristofar, Sharron Phyllis
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The research presents a dialectic analysis of social welfare and emphasizes the importance of assessing the dynamics of change within an historical context. The concept of poverty as a social issue which must be viewed in its social-historical context is the major focus. By using the qualitative and historical techniques that have their origins in Marx's historical materialism, and the modeling techniques that provide strategies for investigating process as an ongoing dynamic synchronistic open system, the research provides a methodological approach and research design that allows for the integration of process and data analysis. This type of approach adapts Marxist philosophy and theory so that one can apply it to all aspects of social change and organization. It expands the domain of social conflict to include any issue in which conflict can be identified. In order to trace the development of social welfare policy in the United States, a hypothetical model of social change was constructed that takes into account the dynamic nature as well as the social and historical context in which policy development exists. The model attempts to show that factors independent of the policy content contribute to its formation by examining process as a set of possible relationships and by emphasizing the mathematical representation of social relations. To apply the concept of policy as process, current Supplemental Security Income Policy for participation eligibility criteria was examined. Emphasis was on program policy related to compensatory indemnifications as tort awards. Holocaust Reparations were used as a representative case to illustrate the policy orientation associated with such awards.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer physical activity access and engagement
Creators: name: Allan, Kate
name: Wilson, Emily
name: Busayong, Denise
name: Fischer, Olivia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer (hereafter referred to as LGBQ) students face many obstacles in university campus recreation and physical activities. The project outlines inclusion and participation for LGBQ students in physical activity on campus. We worked with two community partners, Liska Richer and Rachael Sullivan. In Spring of 2014 the project was created by Kat Cureton and former fourth year kinesiology students after they recommended its construction. The project is important because the University of British Columbia (hereafter referred to as UBC) strives to be a culturally diverse and inclusive place. Sexual orientation should not be a barrier to participation and all students should feel comfortable to self-identify as LBGQ, while prospering in the UBC community. Fostering and accepting an open environment is implicitly related to interculturalism. We discuss LGBQ issues with 11 participants (5 male, 6 female; mean age 23). Transgender individuals were not included in the discussion due to the limited scope of the project. Information was gathered through discussion questions. After the discussions were completed, using our literature review as reference, we performed a thematic analysis of the qualitative information. The study yields a wide variety of findings; making physical activity a unique experience for each participant on campus. Not one participant felt that there were any physical activity initiatives on campus that were targeted towards LGBQ individuals. Our findings show that a majority of participants want to see an increase in LGBQ advertising. Although a majority do not perceive their gender identity or expression to have affected their participation in physical activity, all males commented on the hegemonic masculinity inherent in sport. The project suggests four general recommendations. Incorporating queer content and competency training into staff orientation, creating a queer-friendly sport and social league, creating more safe spaces, and partnering with UBC Pride Collective would be all be steps to promoting LGBQ inclusion in campus recreation and physical activities. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Additional file 3 of Treating AO/OTA 44B lateral malleolar fracture in patients over 50 years of age: periarticular locking plate versus non-locking plate
Creators: name: Chien-An Shih
name: I-Ming Jou
name: Lee, Pei-Yuan
name: Chin-Li Lu
name: Su, Wei-Ren
name: Yeh, Ming-Long
name: Po-Ting Wu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Literature review on the use of locking plates for lateral malleolar fractures.
Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate in the D+iD superconducting state: implications for CoO superconductor
Creators: name: Bang, Yunkyu
name: Graf, M. J.
name: Balatsky, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculated the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_1$ for the D+iD superconducting state with impurities. We found that small amount of unitary impurities quickly produces the residual density of states inside the gap. As a result, the T-linear behavior in 1/T$_1$ is observed at low temperatures. Our results show that the D+iD pairing symmetry of the superconducting state of Na$_{0.35}$CoO$_{2} \cdot y$H$_2$ O is compatible with recent $^{59}$Co 1/T$_1$ experiments of several groups.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, minor changes
Additional file 1 of “What will my child think of me if he hears I gave him HIV?”: a sequential, explanatory, mixed-methods approach on the predictors and experience of caregivers on disclosure of HIV status to infected children in Gombe, Northeast Nigeria
Creators: name: Oghenebrume Wariri
name: Ayomikun Ajani
name: Mercy Poksireni Raymond
name: Asabe Iliya
name: Olatoke Lukman
name: Okpo, Emmanuel
name: Isaac, Elon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Pretested quantitative data collection questionnaire
POLICY AS PROCESS: A PROPOSED MODEL OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AMERICAN SOCIAL POLICY DIRECTED TOWARD THE LOW-INCOME AGED AND DISABLED (HOLOCAUST, REPARATIONS)
Creators: name: Cristofar, Sharron Phyllis
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The research presents a dialectic analysis of social welfare and emphasizes the importance of assessing the dynamics of change within an historical context. The concept of poverty as a social issue which must be viewed in its social-historical context is the major focus. By using the qualitative and historical techniques that have their origins in Marx's historical materialism, and the modeling techniques that provide strategies for investigating process as an ongoing dynamic synchronistic open system, the research provides a methodological approach and research design that allows for the integration of process and data analysis. This type of approach adapts Marxist philosophy and theory so that one can apply it to all aspects of social change and organization. It expands the domain of social conflict to include any issue in which conflict can be identified. In order to trace the development of social welfare policy in the United States, a hypothetical model of social change was constructed that takes into account the dynamic nature as well as the social and historical context in which policy development exists. The model attempts to show that factors independent of the policy content contribute to its formation by examining process as a set of possible relationships and by emphasizing the mathematical representation of social relations. To apply the concept of policy as process, current Supplemental Security Income Policy for participation eligibility criteria was examined. Emphasis was on program policy related to compensatory indemnifications as tort awards. Holocaust Reparations were used as a representative case to illustrate the policy orientation associated with such awards.
The Legacy of MTL
Creators: name: Irving-Bell, Dawne
name: Wooff, David
name: Hughes, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori)
subject: 130103 Higher Education

description: Ensuring teachers develop throughout their career is essential in maintaining a high-quality education system. The aim of the round table is to provide a forum that will facilitate and encourage discussion between colleagues from a range of backgrounds to engage in lively debate around the session’s title and focus question; Is teaching still going to become a master’s level profession?
Measuring Node Contribution to Community Structure with Modularity Vitality
Creators: name: Magelinski, Thomas
name: Bartulovic, Mihovil
name: Carley, Kathleen M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Community-aware centrality is an emerging research area in network science concerned with the importance of nodes in relation to community structure. Measures are a function of a network's structure and a given partition. Previous approaches extend classical centrality measures to account for community structure with little connection to community detection theory. In contrast, we propose cluster-quality vitality measures, i.e., modularity vitality, a community-aware measure which is well-grounded in both centrality and community detection theory. Modularity vitality quantifies positive and negative contributions to community structure, which indicate a node's role as a community bridge or hub. We derive a computationally efficient method of calculating modularity vitality for all nodes in O(M + NC) time, where C is the number of communities. We systematically fragment networks by removing central nodes, and find that modularity vitality consistently outperforms existing community-aware centrality measures. Modularity vitality is over 8 times more effective than the next-best method on a million-node infrastructure network. This result does not generalize to social media communication networks, which exhibit extreme robustness to all community-aware centrality attacks. This robustness suggests that user-based interventions to mitigate misinformation diffusion will be ineffective. Finally, we demonstrate that modularity vitality provides a new approach to community-deception.
description: Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
Deliverable 3.5 Report EURAKNOS workshop 2
Creators: name: Burssens, Sylvia
name: Harinck, Lies
name: Feo, Elena
name: Spanoghe, Pieter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: reports
thematic networks
multi-actor approach
knowledge reservoirs

description: Report EURAKNOS workshop 2: a series of webinars that took place between 11 and 20 May 2020
Additional file 2 of Treating AO/OTA 44B lateral malleolar fracture in patients over 50 years of age: periarticular locking plate versus non-locking plate
Creators: name: Chien-An Shih
name: I-Ming Jou
name: Lee, Pei-Yuan
name: Chin-Li Lu
name: Su, Wei-Ren
name: Yeh, Ming-Long
name: Po-Ting Wu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Multiple regression analysis for 1-year FAOS total scores and VAS in patients with lateral malleolar fracture (n = 72).
Conditional preparation of a quantum state in the continuous variable regime: generation of a sub-Poissonian state from twin beams
Creators: name: Laurat, Julien
name: Coudreau, Thomas
name: Treps, Nicolas
name: Maitre, Agnes
name: Fabre, Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first experimental demonstration of conditional preparation of a non classical state of light in the continuous variable regime. Starting from a non degenerate OPO which generates above threshold quantum intensity correlated signal and idler "twin beams", we keep the recorded values of the signal intensity only when the idler falls inside a band of values narrower than its standard deviation. By this very simple technique, we generate a sub-Poissonian state 4.4dB below shot noise from twin beams exhibiting 7.5dB of noise reduction in the intensity difference.
description: 4 pages, Accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett
THE CULT OF PERSONALITY OF KIM IL-SONG: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF A STATE MYTH (NORTH KOREA)
Creators: name: Hatch, David Allen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A Cult of Personality in a communist nation appears to be an incongruity, the aggrandizement of an individual in a society committed to the role of the masses and a theory of historical determinism. However, a Cult has practical functions: patriotic agitation, legitimization of a regime, policy promotion, or factional weapon. A Cult may also derive from the ego needs of a strong leader. The Cult figure usually adopts a charismatic leadership style and uses personality projection as a leadership strategy. Five characteristics differentiate a Cult of Personality from mere positive image-making or hero-worship: (1) it exists under an authoritarian regime; (2) special virtue is attributed to the subject; (3) the subject is hailed as an authority on any and all matters; (4) the subject has a "canon" of authorized writings; (5) most important, national experience or history is interpreted through the object's life. Social properties which abet a Cult of Personality include weak institutionalization, lack of opposition by intellectuals, strong foreign enemies, and disruptive social changes. Content analysis was applied to North Korean publications to determine the core of the mythology about Kim Il-song, to ascertain how the Cult images developed and changed over time, and to discover which images might be correlated to specific events or policy changes. The Cult of Personality of Kim Il-song of North Korea underwent three distinct phases: from 1945-50, when basic images were developed and hero worship fostered; the Korean War and era of reconstruction, until about 1965, when hero worship progressed to a genuine Cult of Personality; and the modern period, when the Cult assumed international dimensions and prepared for transfer to a new leadership generation. The Kim Cult performed the following functions: legitimization of the regime, policy promotion, generation of national and personal pride, attraction of support for reunification policies, and easing of leadership succession to Kim's son. The Cult of Kim was artificially maintained and adopted characteristics and techniques from the Cults of Stalin and Mao. However, it succeeded because it appealed to basic Korean societal patterns, which may have derived from Confucian ideals still prevalent in social and family organization.
THE CULT OF PERSONALITY OF KIM IL-SONG: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF A STATE MYTH (NORTH KOREA)
Creators: name: Hatch, David Allen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: A Cult of Personality in a communist nation appears to be an incongruity, the aggrandizement of an individual in a society committed to the role of the masses and a theory of historical determinism. However, a Cult has practical functions: patriotic agitation, legitimization of a regime, policy promotion, or factional weapon. A Cult may also derive from the ego needs of a strong leader. The Cult figure usually adopts a charismatic leadership style and uses personality projection as a leadership strategy. Five characteristics differentiate a Cult of Personality from mere positive image-making or hero-worship: (1) it exists under an authoritarian regime; (2) special virtue is attributed to the subject; (3) the subject is hailed as an authority on any and all matters; (4) the subject has a "canon" of authorized writings; (5) most important, national experience or history is interpreted through the object's life. Social properties which abet a Cult of Personality include weak institutionalization, lack of opposition by intellectuals, strong foreign enemies, and disruptive social changes. Content analysis was applied to North Korean publications to determine the core of the mythology about Kim Il-song, to ascertain how the Cult images developed and changed over time, and to discover which images might be correlated to specific events or policy changes. The Cult of Personality of Kim Il-song of North Korea underwent three distinct phases: from 1945-50, when basic images were developed and hero worship fostered; the Korean War and era of reconstruction, until about 1965, when hero worship progressed to a genuine Cult of Personality; and the modern period, when the Cult assumed international dimensions and prepared for transfer to a new leadership generation. The Kim Cult performed the following functions: legitimization of the regime, policy promotion, generation of national and personal pride, attraction of support for reunification policies, and easing of leadership succession to Kim's son. The Cult of Kim was artificially maintained and adopted characteristics and techniques from the Cults of Stalin and Mao. However, it succeeded because it appealed to basic Korean societal patterns, which may have derived from Confucian ideals still prevalent in social and family organization.
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS AND DECISION-MAKING AMONG AFRICAN MEN MARRIED TO AMERICAN WOMEN
Creators: name: Hepie, Marcellin
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: African men and their American wives share at least one characteristic: they have "married out." Different in their social and cultural backgrounds, African/American couples are forever faced with household decisions. Although the couples in this study are currently living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, this current residence may not be the final one. This study concerns itself with the household decision-making and economic organization among African men married to American women. Findings reveal that African/American couples defy many of the conventional patterns of behavior. The couples live in a relative isolation. Time is an important factor for these couples who are struggling to establish their own norms of behavior. Length of time in the United States and length of marriage create more harmony among the couples. However, cultural misunderstandings persist even among older couples. Spouses are willing to tolerate the lack of time they can allocate to each other for a short period of time. Husbands allocate more in household tasks than do men in other family arrangements. However, the African husbands are still concerned about the site of the tasks. Financial obligations to kin are common among the husbands, while among the wives obligations to kin are expressed through gifts and news exchanges. Unlike the typical African households, most African/American household expenses are shared by husbands and wives, even those who hold separate bank accounts. The African/American couple has separate social networks: the African deals with fellow Africans and the American deals with fellow Americans. The African complains about his inability to befriend both Black and White Americans. This results in his becoming very vocal in returning to Africa even though he is not ready to do so. Nevertheless, it appears that Africans share more in common with Black Americans in the forms of hospitality and diet. This, however, must be supported by further studies.
The representation of the symmetric group on m-Tamari intervals
Creators: name: Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille
name: Chapuy, Guillaume
name: Préville-Ratelle, Louis-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An m-ballot path of size n is a path on the square grid consisting of north and east unit steps, starting at (0,0), ending at (mn,n), and never going below the line {x=my}. The set of these paths can be equipped with a lattice structure, called the m-Tamari lattice and denoted by T_n^{m}, which generalizes the usual Tamari lattice T_n obtained when m=1. This lattice was introduced by F. Bergeron in connection with the study of diagonal coinvariant spaces in three sets of n variables. The representation of the symmetric group S_n on these spaces is conjectured to be closely related to the natural representation of S_n on (labelled) intervals of the m-Tamari lattice, which we study in this paper. An interval [P,Q] of T_n^{m} is labelled if the north steps of Q are labelled from 1 to n in such a way the labels increase along any sequence of consecutive north steps. The symmetric group S_n acts on labelled intervals of T_n^{m} by permutation of the labels. We prove an explicit formula, conjectured by F. Bergeron and the third author, for the character of the associated representation of S_n. In particular, the dimension of the representation, that is, the number of labelled m-Tamari intervals of size n, is found to be (m+1)^n(mn+1)^{n-2}. These results are new, even when m=1. The form of these numbers suggests a connection with parking functions, but our proof is not bijective. The starting point is a recursive description of m-Tamari intervals. It yields an equation for an associated generating function, which is a refined version of the Frobenius series of the representation. This equation involves two additional variables x and y, a derivative with respect to y and iterated divided differences with respect to x. The hardest part of the proof consists in solving it, and we develop original techniques to do so, partly inspired by previous work on polynomial equations with "catalytic" variables.
description: 29 pages --- This paper subsumes the research report arXiv:1109.2398, which will not be submitted to any journal
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS AND DECISION-MAKING AMONG AFRICAN MEN MARRIED TO AMERICAN WOMEN
Creators: name: Hepie, Marcellin
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: African men and their American wives share at least one characteristic: they have "married out." Different in their social and cultural backgrounds, African/American couples are forever faced with household decisions. Although the couples in this study are currently living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, this current residence may not be the final one. This study concerns itself with the household decision-making and economic organization among African men married to American women. Findings reveal that African/American couples defy many of the conventional patterns of behavior. The couples live in a relative isolation. Time is an important factor for these couples who are struggling to establish their own norms of behavior. Length of time in the United States and length of marriage create more harmony among the couples. However, cultural misunderstandings persist even among older couples. Spouses are willing to tolerate the lack of time they can allocate to each other for a short period of time. Husbands allocate more in household tasks than do men in other family arrangements. However, the African husbands are still concerned about the site of the tasks. Financial obligations to kin are common among the husbands, while among the wives obligations to kin are expressed through gifts and news exchanges. Unlike the typical African households, most African/American household expenses are shared by husbands and wives, even those who hold separate bank accounts. The African/American couple has separate social networks: the African deals with fellow Africans and the American deals with fellow Americans. The African complains about his inability to befriend both Black and White Americans. This results in his becoming very vocal in returning to Africa even though he is not ready to do so. Nevertheless, it appears that Africans share more in common with Black Americans in the forms of hospitality and diet. This, however, must be supported by further studies.