cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Η αισθητική του Georges Bataille
Creators: name: Κότσαλα, Αναστασία Σωτηρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Αισθητική
Ερωτισμός
Καταραμένο απόθεμα
Aesthetics
Erotism
Accursed Share

description: Η αισθητική του Georges Bataille είναι μια αισθητική της αντί-αισθητικής. Δεν παρουσιάζει αυτό που παραδοσιακά ή κατά κοινή αποδοχή θεωρείται ωραίο αλλά αυτό που είναι άλλο από αυτό που γνωρίζουμε ή συνειδητοποιούμε. Τον αφορούν το αποκρουστικό, το βρώμικο, το αποτέλεσμα μιας αποθεωτικής παράβασης. Η ομορφιά και το άξιο προσοχής βρίσκονται στην καταπάτηση της απαγόρευσης που μας κάνει να υπερβούμε την πραγματικότητα, να αποτάξουμε τη νοησιαρχία. Αυτή η ετερογένεια είναι μόνο ένα από τα ζητήματα που θα παρουσιαστούν στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία παράλληλα με την αισθητική που αναγνωρίζουμε μέσα στις έννοιες της απαγόρευσης και της παράβασης, της δαπάνης, του Άμορφου, της άρνησης, στον ερωτισμό και τη θρησκεία, την κυριαρχία, την πολιτική καθώς και σε άλλες έννοιες που διαμορφώνουν την αισθητική του. Η διερεύνηση αυτή θα κινηθεί στο πλαίσιο της παραγωγής αισθητικής στο φιλοσοφικό και λογοτεχνικό έργο του Georges Bataille αλλά όπου δίνεται η ευκαιρία και στις γενικότερες θέσεις του για την έννοια της τέχνης και για το τι είναι αυτό που την καθορίζει και οδηγεί τους καλλιτέχνες στη δημιουργία, απόψεις που κατέθεσε σε άρθρα, δοκίμια, ποιήματα κ.α. Βασικό corpus της εργασίας είναι το θεωρητικό έργο Το Καταραμένο Απόθεμα και το λογοτεχνικό μυθιστόρημα Το Γαλάζιο του Ουρανού με συμπληρωματικές και διευκρινιστικές αναφορές στο έργο του Ερωτισμός και Μοναξιά άλλα και σε άλλα γραπτά του, κάθε φορά που αυτό κρίνεται αναγκαίο.
description: The aesthetics of Georges Bataille is the aesthetics of anti-aesthetics. He does not present what is traditionally or commonly accepted as beautiful but rather the unmet or the unrealized. He is concerned with what is disgusting, dirty and resulting to a divine transgression. The beautiful and the remarkable are hidden in the violation of the prohibition that can make us go beyond reality, to dispel intellectualism. This heterogeneity is just one of the issues that will be discussed in this study alongside with the aesthetics that are met in the concepts of prohibition and transgression, expenditure, formless, denial, eroticism and religion, sovereignty, politics as well as in other concepts that shape his aesthetics. This study will examine the aesthetics in the philosophical and literary work of Georges Bataille alongside with his views on the concepts of art and the mechanism of artistic creation that are presented in his articles, essays, poems etc. The main corpus of the study are the theoretical book The Accursed Share and the novel The Blue of Noon with complementary and clarifying references from his study Erotism Death and Sensuality as well as from other writings, whenever necessary.
Schottky barrier heights at polar metal/semiconductor interfaces
Creators: name: Berthod, C.
name: Binggeli, N.
name: Baldereschi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a first-principle pseudopotential approach, we have investigated the Schottky barrier heights of abrupt Al/Ge, Al/GaAs, Al/AlAs, and Al/ZnSe (100) junctions, and their dependence on the semiconductor chemical composition and surface termination. A model based on linear-response theory is developed, which provides a simple, yet accurate description of the barrier-height variations with the chemical composition of the semiconductor. The larger barrier values found for the anion- than for the cation-terminated surfaces are explained in terms of the screened charge of the polar semiconductor surface and its image charge at the metal surface. Atomic scale computations show how the classical image charge concept, valid for charges placed at large distances from the metal, extends to distances shorter than the decay length of the metal-induced-gap states.
description: REVTeX 4, 11 pages, 6 EPS figures
Additional file 8 of Integrity, use and care of long-lasting insecticidal nets in Kirinyaga County, Kenya
Creators: name: Nyangi, Mary
name: Kigondu, Elizabeth
name: Irungu, Beatrice
name: Nganga, Margaret
name: Gachanja, Anthony
name: Murigi, Martin
name: Nyangacha, Ruth
name: Erastus Muniu
name: Kamau, Luna
name: Gathirwa, Jeremiah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 8. Repeatability testing chromatogram 1
Agricultural extension students' perception of career prospects in rural development broadcasting
Creators: name: Badiru, I. O.
name: Aboluwarin, T. O.
name: Adejumo, A. A.
name: Badiru, I. O.
name: Aboluwarin, T. O.
name: Adejumo, A. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Career prospects
subject: rural development broadcasting
subject: agricultural extension students

description: Rural development broadcasting is crucial in the dissemination of improved technology and sustained livelihood among rural dwellers. Agricultural extension students are positioned to become future rural development broadcasters. Hence, the study examined agricultural extension students’ perception on career prospects in rural development broadcasting. The study was carried out in the University of Ibadan, Oyo state. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a total of 170 respondents. Data were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire. Data analysis was done using chi-square and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation. The results showed that most of the respondents were male (51.8%), single (60.0%) with an average age of 32 years. Poor funding of agriculture by government (x =1.64), inadequate sponsorship in agricultural broadcasting (x = 1.58), uncertainty of job availability in rural broadcasting (x =1.56) and poor awareness on career prospects in rural development broadcasting (x = 1.54) were major constraints to students taking up career prospects in rural development broadcasting. Most (55.0%) of the respondents had favourable disposition towards career prospects in rural development broadcasting. Respondents’ age (r=-0.342, p ≤ 0.05), membership of campus press organisations (χ2=0.650, p≤ 0.05) and constraints to career prospects in rural development broadcasting (r=-0.238, p≤ 0.05) were significantly related to students’ perception of career prospects in rural development broadcasting. Efforts should be made by various stakeholders in increasing the awareness of students on the career prospects of rural development broadcasting.
Doliogethes trivergatus Hesse 1938
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Doliogethes
Doliogethes trivergatus

description: Doliogethes trivergatus Hesse
 Doliogethes trivergatus Hesse, 1938: 568.
 Distribution. Namibia, South Africa (Northern Cape).
 Material examined. 2♂♂, 2♀♀, Windhoek, SE2217Da, 16–18.xi.1973, H150991; ♂, Lüdertitz, Namaskluft 88, SE2716 Dd, 12–15.ix.1973, H14198; 1♂, 1♀, Lüderitz District, Skerpioenkop, 27°46’00”S 16°29’56”E, 20–22.ix.1997, A.H. Kirk­Spriggs & E. Marais, yellow trays.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Evolution of the bilayer nu = 1 quantum Hall state under charge imbalance
Creators: name: Clarke, W. R.
name: Micolich, A. P.
name: Hamilton, A. R.
name: Simmons, M. Y.
name: Hanna, C. B.
name: Rodriguez, J. R.
name: Pepper, M.
name: Ritchie, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use high-mobility bilayer hole systems with negligible tunneling to examine how the bilayer nu = 1 quantum Hall state evolves as charge is transferred from one layer to the other at constant total density. We map bilayer nu = 1 state stability versus imbalance for five total densities spanning the range from strongly interlayer coherent to incoherent. We observe competition between single-layer correlations and interlayer coherence. Most significantly, we find that bilayer systems that are incoherent at balance can develop spontaneous interlayer coherence with imbalance, in agreement with recent theoretical predictions.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 9 of Integrity, use and care of long-lasting insecticidal nets in Kirinyaga County, Kenya
Creators: name: Nyangi, Mary
name: Kigondu, Elizabeth
name: Irungu, Beatrice
name: Nganga, Margaret
name: Gachanja, Anthony
name: Murigi, Martin
name: Nyangacha, Ruth
name: Erastus Muniu
name: Kamau, Luna
name: Gathirwa, Jeremiah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 9. Repeatability testing chromatogram 2
Comparative analysis of rural households' wellbeing in selected states of the Niger Delta zone of Nigeria
Creators: name: Etuk, E. E.
name: Odebode, S. O.
name: Etuk, E. E.
name: Odebode, S. O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Household well-being
subject: Oil producing communities
subject: Poverty

description: The wellbeing of a household is determined by the level of utility accessed by individual members of that household. This study examined the level of household wellbeing in rural communities of selected Niger Delta states. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select respondents for the study. A total of 454 respondents were selected from the four sampled local government areas of Akwa Ibom (Ibeno and Ibesikpo Asutan) and Abia state (Ukwa west and Ikwuano) oil and non oil communities. Quantitative data was collected using interview schedule, while qualitative data was collected through focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. About 37.4 (OPC) and 26.8% (NOPC) households always had access to material living conditions, while access to quality of life were 46.6 (OPC) and 38.9% (NOPC. Most severe constraint faced by households in OPC was poor access to poverty alleviation programmes (422), and unavailability of credit in NOPC (483). The result also indicated that majority of the households in both communities had low levels of wellbeing and consequently fell below the community poverty line. The study recommends that efforts to improve household wellbeing in the study area should focus on improving agricultural activities as it was discovered that these activities were still the dominant livelihood activities in the communities. These farm activities form the base for household food supply, capital for other livelihood activities and overall wellbeing.
Hysteretic characteristics of a double stripline in the critical state
Creators: name: Ainbinder, R M
name: Maksimova, G M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analytical investigations of the critical state are carried out for a superconducting stripline consisting of two individual coplanar strips with an arbitrary distance between them. Two different cases are considered: a stripline with transport current and strips exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. In the second case, the obtained solutions correspond to "fieldlike" (for unclosed strips) and "currentlike" (for a long rectangular superconducting loop) states in an isolated strip to which both a transport current and a magnetic field are applied with constant ratio.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures. accepted by SST
Higher-order QED corrections to W-boson mass determination at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Calame, C. M. Carloni
name: Montagna, G.
name: Nicrosini, O.
name: Treccani, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of higher-order final-state photonic corrections on the precise determination of the W-boson mass at the Tevatron and LHC colliders is evaluated. In the presence of realistic selection criteria, the shift in the W mass from a fit to the transverse mass distribution is found to be about 10 MeV in the $W \to μν$ channel and almost negligible in the $W \to e ν$ channel. The calculation, which is implemented in a Monte Carlo event generator for data analysis, can contribute to reduce the uncertainty associated to the W mass measurement at future hadron collider experiments.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, RevTeX
Additional file 1 of A maximum flow-based network approach for identification of stable noncoding biomarkers associated with the multigenic neurological condition, autism
Creators: name: Varma, Maya
name: Paskov, Kelley M.
name: Chrisman, Brianna S.
name: Sun, Min Woo
name: Jae-Yoon Jung
name: Stockham, Nate T.
name: Washington, Peter Y.
name: Wall, Dennis P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. SRS Variant Annotations. This extended table includes chromosomal coordinates and additional details for the 55 variants identified in this work.
Φιλοσοφία και Εκπαιδευτική πολιτική. Η περίπτωση της μεταρρύθμισης του 1964
Creators: name: Κλοκίδου, Γεωργία Μιλτιάδη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Φιλοσοφία
subject: Παιδεία
subject: Εκπαιδευτική μεταρρύθμιση
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Education
subject: Educational reform

description: Σκοπός της μεταπτυχιακής διπλωματικής εργασίας ήταν να διερευνηθεί η σχέση της Φιλοσοφίας με την Εκπαιδευτική πολιτική στην Ελλάδα μέσω του παραδείγματος της Εκπαιδευτικής Μεταρρύθμισης του 1964 και των αντιδράσεων που προκάλεσε κατά την προπαρασκευή και την εισήγησή της. Ήταν μία προσπάθεια να αναδειχθεί το γεγονός ότι, για πρώτη φορά στην ιστορία της Εκπαιδευτικής πολιτικής του 20ου αιώνα, ο Παπανούτσος ως νέος Cousin, μιλά για την αδήριτη ανάγκη φιλοσοφικής παιδείας στην χώρα μας και ως εκ τούτου για τη στενή σχέση που θα πρέπει να συνδέει Φιλοσοφία και Εκπαιδευτική πολιτική στην Ελλάδα. Η εργασία καταλήγει σε συμπεράσματα, τα οποία αποκομίζονται από την κατ’ αντιπαραβολή έκθεση της φιλοσοφικής, πολιτικής και παιδαγωγικής σκέψης του Παπανούτσου που εισηγείται την μεταρρύθμιση και του Θεοδωρακόπουλου που επιχειρηματολογεί εναντίον της. Ουσιαστικά αποτελεί μία προσπάθεια να διερευνηθούν τα αίτια για την ανάγκη μίας εισηγητικής πρότασης για εκπαιδευτική μεταρρύθμιση την συγκεκριμένη περίοδο που μελετάται, με απώτερο σκοπό να συνεισφέρει στη συζήτηση για την θέση της Φιλοσοφίας στην Εκπαιδευτική πολιτική στην χώρα μας τώρα αλλά και στο μέλλον.
description: The purpose of the master's thesis was to investigate the relationship between Philosophy and Educational Policy in Greece through the example of the Educational Reform of 1964 and the reactions it provoked during its preparation and presentation. It was an attempt to highlight the fact that, for the first time in the history of educational policy of the 20th century, Papanoutsos as a young Cousin, talks about the insurmountable need for philosophical education in our country and therefore about the close relationship that should connect Philosophy and Educational policy in Greece. The paper concludes with conclusions drawn from the comparative report of the philosophical, political and pedagogical thought of Papanoutsos who suggests reform and Theodorakopoulos who argues against it. It is essentially an attempt to investigate the reasons for the need for a presentation proposal for educational reform in the specific period under study, with the ultimate goal of contributing to the debate on the place of Philosophy in Educational policy in our country now and in the future.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Φιλοσοφίας, Παιδαγωγικής και Ψυχολογίας (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών), Φιλοσοφικών και Κοινωνικών Σπουδών (Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης)
The Urysohn universal metric space is homeomorphic to a Hilbert space
Creators: name: Uspenskij, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54F65, 54C55, 54D70, 54E35, 54E50

description: The Urysohn universal metric space U is characterized up to isometry by the following properties: (1) U is complete and separable; (2) U contains an isometric copy of every separable metric space; (3) every isometry between two finite subsets of U can be extended to an isometry of U onto itself. We show that U is homeomorphic to the Hilbert space l_2 (or to the countable power of the real line).
description: 5 pages
Additional file 1 of Playing sport injured is associated with osteoarthritis, joint pain and worse health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Bullock, Garrett
name: Collins, Gary
name: Peirce, Nick
name: Arden, Nigel
name: Filbay, Stephanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Questions and potential responses
Education and three-dimensional virtual worlds : a critical review and analysis of applying second life in higher education
Creators: name: Gong, Wenyi
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Three-dimensional (3D) virtual world Second Life was launched in 2003 and has since become one of the most frequently used 3D virtual worlds in education. Educational practices supported by 3D virtual worlds might continue to be a part of the educational discussion in the near future. In the light of the increasing popularity of the 3D virtual world Second Life in higher education, a review of the existing literature appears to be necessary in order to provide educators with insights into their in-world and real-life educational practices. To that end, this study provides a clear summary of the previous research on the Second Life as a learning tool in higher education. It also explores its affordances, advantages and drawbacks. There is a growing body of research showing that Second Life can support authentic learning and self-directed learning, enhance collaboration, engage learners, create alternative space for educational activities, encourage communities for practice and foster cross-cultural competencies. Despite the issues concerning technology, cost, time, identity and culture, the benefits of application in education outweigh its drawbacks. Practitioners and participants in higher education need to be aware of the potential challenges when incorporating Second Life in education, and actively seek strategies to optimize their educational practices in 3D virtual worlds.
Advancing serious illness communication skills for palliative home care nurses : a critical analysis
Creators: name: Park, Sungyou
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Conversations between patients and home care nurses (HCNs) regarding patients’ values, priorities and goals of care are considered an essential component of all healthcare, in particular, quality palliative care and advance care planning. The unique relationship between HCNs and patients with serious illnesses place nurses in an ideal position for facilitating and initiating serious illness conversations. These vital conversations are often considered challenging which can result in missed opportunities for improving quality of care. Many tools are available to enhance communication practice in palliative care. One tool being implemented in BC and North America is the Serious Illness Conversation Program. I will argue that it holds promise, but needs adaptation for nursing practice. I will use the Theory of Planned Behaviour to critically analyze how the Serious Illness Conversation Program could be integrated into nursing practice in the home care setting.
Charge dynamics and Kondo effect in single electron traps in field effect transistors
Creators: name: Martin, I.
name: Mozyrsky, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study magneto-electric properties of single electron traps in metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors. Using a microscopic description of the system based on the single-site Anderson-Holstein model, we derive an effective low energy action for the system. The behavior of the system is characterized by simultaneous polaron tunneling (corresponding to the charging and discharging of the trap) and Kondo screening of the trap spin in the singly occupied state. Hence, the obtained state of the system is a hybrid between the Kondo regime, typically associated with single electron occupancy, and the mixed valence regime, associated with large charge fluctuations. In the presence of a strong magnetic field, we demonstrate that the system is equivalent to a two level-level system coupled to an Ohmic bath, with a bias controlled by the applied magnetic field. Due to the Kondo screening, the effect of the magnetic field is significantly suppressed in the singly occupied state. We claim that this suppression can be responsible for the experimentally observed anomalous magnetic field dependence of the average trap occupancy in ${\rm Si-Si0_2}$ field effect transistors.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Melanoma Detection using Adversarial Training and Deep Transfer Learning
Creators: name: Zunair, Hasib
name: Hamza, A. Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Skin lesion datasets consist predominantly of normal samples with only a small percentage of abnormal ones, giving rise to the class imbalance problem. Also, skin lesion images are largely similar in overall appearance owing to the low inter-class variability. In this paper, we propose a two-stage framework for automatic classification of skin lesion images using adversarial training and transfer learning toward melanoma detection. In the first stage, we leverage the inter-class variation of the data distribution for the task of conditional image synthesis by learning the inter-class mapping and synthesizing under-represented class samples from the over-represented ones using unpaired image-to-image translation. In the second stage, we train a deep convolutional neural network for skin lesion classification using the original training set combined with the newly synthesized under-represented class samples. The training of this classifier is carried out by minimizing the focal loss function, which assists the model in learning from hard examples, while down-weighting the easy ones. Experiments conducted on a dermatology image benchmark demonstrate the superiority of our proposed approach over several standard baseline methods, achieving significant performance improvements. Interestingly, we show through feature visualization and analysis that our method leads to context based lesion assessment that can reach an expert dermatologist level.
description: Published in the Journal of Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB), April 2020. Codes at https://github.com/hasibzunair/adversarial-lesions
The complementarity of education and productive inputs among smallholder farmers in Africa
Creators: name: Kirui, Oliver Kiptoo
name: Kirui, Oliver Kiptoo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: skill development
subject: education
subject: vocational training
subject: smallholder farmers
subject: poverty
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa
subject: PARI

description: This study seeks to assess the complementarity of education and use of use of agricultural inputs–improved seeds, fertilizers, access to credit facilities (loans)), and the incremental effects of education on intermediate to longer-term economic outcomes (consumption expenditure and poverty) among smallholder farmers in four countries in SSA Africa (Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania). We apply a multinomial endogenous treatment model with education as our ‘treatment’ variable (variable of interest) with four possible levels (no-schooling, primary, secondary, post-secondary). The empirical model jointly estimates ‘treatment’ and selection effects and by this corrects for selection into one or the other education level. Using nationally representative LSMS panel data allows us to comprehensively assess the impact of education on the outcome variables. Overall results suggest that higher education (secondary and post-secondary level) significantly increases the use of improved seed varieties and fertilizers, access to credit services, and per capita consumption expenditure and consequently reduces household poverty. Specifically, findings suggests that post primary education (secondary and post-secondary levels) is by far the most important factor in use of productive inputs than mere introductory literacy and primary learning. For instance, having completed post-secondary education – compared to secondary level of education – increases access to credit services by 49% in Ethiopia, 41% in Nigeria and a whopping 126% in Tanzania. Similarly, completing secondary level of education (compared to primary level) would increase log per capita consumption expenditure by 14% in Ethiopia, 22% Malawi, 9% in Nigeria and 21% in Tanzania but completing tertiary level would further increase household per capita consumption expenditure by about 14% in Ethiopia, 20% in Malawi, 15% in Nigeria, and 45% in Tanzania. These findings augment the conclusion that schooling have positive impacts for the farmers and their households’ well-being. Our findings are of policy relevance to most SSA countries currently grappling with rising urbanization, high youth unemployment, and acute skills shortage.
The pure effect of social preferences on regional location choices: The evolving dynamics of convergence to a steady state population distribution
Creators: name: Stark, Oded
name: Budzinski, Wiktor
name: Kosiorowski, Grzegorz
name: Stark, Oded
name: Budzinski, Wiktor
name: Kosiorowski, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Social preferences
subject: Distaste for low relative income
subject: A cardinal measure of income relative deprivation
subject: Interregional locational choices
subject: Relocation dynamics
subject: Steady-state spatial distribution

description: This paper tracks the consequences of individuals’ desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. Location is conceived as social space, with individuals choosing to relocate if, as a result, their relative deprivation will be reduced, holding their incomes constant. Conditions are provided under which the associated dynamics reaches a spatial steady state, the number of periods it takes to reach a steady state is specified, and light is shed on the robustness of the steady state outcome. By way of simulation it is shown that for large populations, a steady state of the relocation dynamics is almost always reached, typically in one period, and that cycles are more likely to occur when the populations’ income distributions are more equal.
Machine Translation Evaluation Meets Community Question Answering
Creators: name: Guzmán, Francisco
name: Màrquez, Lluís
name: Nakov, Preslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7
subject: 68T50

description: We explore the applicability of machine translation evaluation (MTE) methods to a very different problem: answer ranking in community Question Answering. In particular, we adopt a pairwise neural network (NN) architecture, which incorporates MTE features, as well as rich syntactic and semantic embeddings, and which efficiently models complex non-linear interactions. The evaluation results show state-of-the-art performance, with sizeable contribution from both the MTE features and from the pairwise NN architecture.
description: community question answering, machine translation evaluation, pairwise ranking, learning to rank
Additional file 1 of Perception of quality of life in people experiencing or having experienced a Clostridioides difficile infection: a US population survey
Creators: name: Lurienne, Lise
name: Pierre-Alain Bandinelli
name: Galvain, Thibaut
name: Charles-Alexis Coursel
name: Oneto, Caterina
name: Feuerstadt, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Survey Questionnaire.
Additional file 1 of Effects of evolocumab in individuals with type 2 diabetes with and without atherogenic dyslipidemia: An analysis from BANTING and BERSON
Creators: name: Lorenzatti, Alberto J.
name: Monsalvo, Maria Laura
name: J. Antonio G. López
name: Wang, Huei
name: Rosenson, Robert S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Patient demographic and disease characteristics at baseline by treatment group and dosing regimen. Table S2. Percentage change from baseline lipid values with evolocumab vs placebo treatment (mean of weeks 10 and 12). Table S3. Change from baseline lipid values with evolocumab vs placebo treatment (mean of weeks 10 and 12). Table S4. Percentage of patients who met each lipid goal with evolocumab vs placebo treatment (mean of weeks 10 and 12).
An Analysis of Efficiency of Environmentally-Friendly Rice Production
Creators: name: Kang, Changyong
name: Kang, Changyong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: environmentally friendly rice
subject: production efficiency
subject: environmentally friendly agriculture
subject: DEA

description: In environmentally-friendly rice farming, the production efficiency is very important because it is directly connected with farmers income and environmental agriculture development. The objectives of this study are to estimate the Efficiency Index to express the efficiency of environmentally-friendly rice production by using DEA, and to suggest the policies to boost the production efficiency. As the results of this estimation, there are large differences in the Efficiency Indexes among farmers under the same environmentally- friendly farming system. It is also found Efficiency Indexes of environmentally-friendly rice production smaller than its of traditional rice production. So it is necessary for development of environmentally-friendly rice production to systematize a production technology system, and the extension system of environmentally-friendly rice production.
Post-collapse dynamics of self-gravitating Brownian particles in D dimensions
Creators: name: Sire, Clement
name: Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the post-collapse dynamics of a self-gravitating gas of Brownian particles in D dimensions, in both canonical and microcanonical ensembles. In the canonical ensemble, the post-collapse evolution is marked by the formation of a Dirac peak with increasing mass. The density profile outside the peak evolves self-similarly with decreasing central density and increasing core radius. In the microcanonical ensemble, the post-collapse regime is marked by the formation of a ``binary''-like structure surrounded by an almost uniform halo with high temperature. These results are consistent with thermodynamical predictions.
Bacteria to Brains in Backyard Coyotes: An Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Case Study
Creators: name: Kleinschmit, Adam
name: Bixler, Andrea
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2024

description: Our interdisciplinary pedagogical case study explores the differences between rural and urban coyotes at the levels of organismal and community ecology. The focus is on how coyotes’ gut microbiomes could affect their behavior via changes in the immune, endocrine, and nervous systems. The health and fitness of rural and urban coyote populations vary dramatically. Urban coyote health is poor as a result of their consumption of carbohydrate-rich anthropogenic food, compared to the natural protein-rich diet found in natural food sources. This case explores how altered microbiomes resulting from differences in diet can influence behavioral changes through the gut-brain axis, involving multiple physiological systems. The case showcases the interdisciplinary nature of science by having students explore the connection between macro- (whole organisms and communities of organisms) and micro-level (cellular and molecular interactions within an organism) systems. The case study is designed for introductory biology undergraduate students but can be adapted for more advanced and subdiscipline-focused courses within the life sciences.

CourseSource DOI: https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2024.3
On photoexcitation of baryon antidecuplet
Creators: name: Polyakov, M. V.
name: Rathke, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the photoexcitation of the baryon antidecuplet, suggested by the soliton classification of low-lying baryons, is strongly suppressed on the proton target. The process occurs mostly on the neutron target. This qualitative prediction can be useful in identifying the non-exotic members of the antidecuplet in the known baryon spectrum. We also analyze the interrelation between photocouplings of various baryon multiplets in the soliton picture and in the nonrelativistic quark model.
description: 9 pages, one Latex figure
Environmental and economic comparison between organic and conventional viticulture, applied in vineyards located in Chalkidiki, combining Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) methodology
Creators: name: Κίκας, Αντώνιος Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Αμπελουργία
Περιβάλλον
Οικονομία
Viticulture
Environment
Economy

description: The present postgraduate thesis examined the environmental and economic performance of vineyards cultivated in Chalkidiki, Greece using two different methodologies, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and the Life Cycle Costing (LCC). The chosen functional unit for both LCA & LCC was the 1 kg of grapes. The environmental analysis has shown that both organic and conventional practices applied have flaws and contribute to environmental degradation from different perspectives. Out of the eight different impact categories that were examined through this thesis the organic system performed better in five, while the conventional system in three. The result was affected by the functional unit which seems to be a detrimental factor when comparing alternate systems, while also there were software limitations in certain categories. In the economic analysis the conventional system has proven to be sustainable, scoring positive rating in both the Net Present Value and the Internal Rate of Return formulas. The organic system on the other hand was only sustainable and able to repay the investment costs when subsidies were provided constantly, scoring negative scores when subsidies were absent, hinting that organic practices need external aid in order to be profitable.
description: Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή εργασία εξέτασε την περιβαλλοντική και οικονομική απόδοση αμπελώνων που καλλιεργήθηκαν στη Χαλκιδική, χρησιμοποιώντας δύο διαφορετικές μεθοδολογίες, την Ανάλυση Κύκλου Ζωής (ΑΚΖ) και την Ανάλυση Κόστους Κύκλου Ζωής (ΑΚΚΖ). Η επιλεγμένη λειτουργική μονάδα τόσο για την ΑΚΖ όσο και για την ΑΚΚΖ ήταν το 1 κιλό σταφυλιών. Η περιβαλλοντική ανάλυση έδειξε ότι τόσο οι βιολογικές όσο και οι συμβατικές πρακτικές που εφαρμόζονται έχουν ελαττώματα και συμβάλλουν στην περιβαλλοντική υποβάθμιση από διαφορετικές οπτικές γωνίες. Από τις οκτώ διαφορετικές κατηγορίες επιπτώσεων που εξετάστηκαν μέσω αυτής της διατριβής, το βιολογικό σύστημα είχε καλύτερη απόδοση σε πέντε, ενώ το συμβατικό σύστημα στο τρείς. Το αποτέλεσμα επηρεάστηκε από τη λειτουργική μονάδα που φαίνεται να είναι καθοριστικός παράγοντας κατά τη σύγκριση διαφορετικών συστημάτων, ενώ υπήρξαν περιορισμοί λόγω λογισμικού σε ορισμένες κατηγορίες. Στην οικονομική ανάλυση το συμβατικό σύστημα έχει αποδειχθεί ότι είναι βιώσιμο, σημειώνοντας θετική βαθμολογία τόσο στους τύπους καθαρής παρούσας αξίας όσο και στο εσωτερικό ποσοστό απόδοσης. Το βιολογικό σύστημα από την άλλη πλευρά ήταν βιώσιμο και ικανό να αποπληρώσει το επενδυτικό κόστος όταν οι επιδοτήσεις παρέχονταν συνεχώς, σημειώνοντας αρνητικά αποτελέσματα όταν απουσίαζαν επιδοτήσεις, υπονοώντας ότι οι βιολογικές πρακτικές χρειάζονται εξωτερική βοήθεια για να είναι κερδοφόρες.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Πανεπιστήμιο Φιλίας των Λαών (Ρωσσία)
An Analysis of Female Farmers' Quality of Living Related to Role Expansion and Their Health Management
Creators: name: Park, Chaekyu
name: Park, Chaekyu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: women farmer
subject: agricultural activity
subject: housework
subject: quality of life
subject: health management

description: The purpose of this study is to analyze the differences of women farmers' quality of life by their participation in agricultural and housework activities and the conditions of their health management. To explore this goal, it used sample data collected by a local research institute. From data analysis, this study found that women farmers who had excessively worked and have husband not share houseworks are less healthy, less satisfied with social relations, leisure and economic lives. And women farmers who had a poor management after childbirth and hypersensitivity are also less satisfied with their quality of life.
High Resolution HI Observations of the Galaxy NGC404: a dwarf S0 with abundant Interstellar gas
Creators: name: del Rio, M. S.
name: Brinks, E.
name: Cepa, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We present HI maps of the S0 galaxy NGC404, at a spatial resolution of 15.2" x 14.4" and a velocity resolution of 2.6km/s. The HI has been traced out to a radius R~8R_25 or 48 disc scale-lengths, making it one of the largest HI extents reported (800" or 12.6kpc at the assumed distance of 3.3Mpc). Approximately 75% of the HI resides in a doughnut which is seen close to face-on and the optical galaxy fits snugly within the hole of the doughnut. The remaining 25% of the neutral gas is found in an annulus concentric with the doughnut and with a somewhat larger ellipticity. A total HI mass of 1.52 x 10^8 Msol is found, which implies an M(HI)/L_B = 0.22 in solar units. We argue that most if not all of this gas is of external origin, most likely due to the merger of a dwarf irregular galaxy with M_B ~ -15.5mag. The velocity field shows a steeply declining observed rotation curve, compatible with Keplerian decline. However, because the galaxy is close to face-on there is a degeneracy in the determination of the intrinsic rotation curve and inclination. We therefore analysed two extreme cases, producing tilted-ring model fits forcing either a Keplerian or a Flat rotation curve through the observations; both approaches result in equally plausible fits. Assuming a distance of 3.3Mpc, a total mass of 3 x 10^10 Msol is found on the basis of the Keplerian rotation curve. This implies a global M/L_B ratio of ~44 in solar units which is high and likely a reflection of the low blue luminosity of the galaxy (~15 times lower than the average S0 luminosity). Values for a Flat rotation curve are a factor of 4 higher.
description: 30 pages, 10 figures, accepted by The Astronomical Journal
A Review of Approaches Used in Agro-food Quality Studies
Creators: name: Kim, Jeongseop
name: Kim, Jeongseop
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: quality
subject: agro-food
subject: approach

description: It is clear that quality issues have become more central features of agro-food studies. The studies have been conducted in several disciplines with different approaches respectively. Four major approaches of agro-food quality were reviewed in this paper. Consumer interface approaches focus on the interface between the consumer and the manufacturer or seller of the agro-food product. These approaches seek to explain how consumers' perceptions and information environments influence the way that agro-food market works. Quality perception approaches were developed within the studies of marketing, consumer behavior, and applied psychology. The aim of these studies is to understand the process in which consumers perceive quality of agro-foods and then make decisions to purchase. Rural sociologists have given attention to the social process in which the quality of agro-food is constructed. In the discourse of rural development, the effects of quality certification on the agro-foods, whose special quality attributes are embedded in particular geographical contexts, have mainly been discussed.
Behaviour of observables for neutral meson decaying to two vectors in the presence of $T$, $CP$ and $CPT$ violation in mixing only
Creators: name: Karan, Anirban
name: Nayak, Abinash Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a neutral meson $(P^0 \text{ or } \bar P^0)$ decays to two vector particles, a large number of observables can be constructed from differential decay rate based on the polarization of final state. But, theoretically, all of them are not independent to each other and hence, some relations among observables emerge. These relations have been well studied in the scenario with no $T$ and $CPT$ violation in neutral meson mixing and no direct $CP$ violation as well. In this paper, we have studied the relations among observables in the presence of $T$, $CP$ and $CPT$ violating effects in mixing only. We find that except four of them, all the other old relations get violated and new relations appear if $T$ and $CPT$ violations in mixing are present. Invalidity of these relation will signify the presence of direct violation of $T$, $CP$ and $CPT$ (i.e. violation in the decay itself).
description: 11 pages; accepted in Phys. Rev. D
Étude de cas en docimologie : Les examens de grec, langue étrangère, organisés par le centre de langue grecque
Creators: name: Χατζηπέτρου, Χρυσάφω-Άννα Αντωνίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Δοκιμολογία
Αξιολόγηση
Ελληνική γλώσσα
Docimologie
Evaluation certificative
Langue grecque

description: Le présent mémoire étudie le phénomène de la docimologie et examine spécifiquement la qualité et la validité d’examens de langue grecque du niveau B2, construit sur les normes du Cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues (2003). La validité, la fiabilité et la pertinence de l’instrument certificatif ont été plus particulièrement examinées, à travers l’analyse des questions de l’examen de certification des compétences linguistiques en grec des années 2017 et 2018, distribuées au hasard à des candidats potentiels, tous étrangers. Les cahiers d’examen ont été distribués deux fois aux candidats avec un décalage de 15 jours, afin que la conclusion soit plus sûre. Vu la petitesse de l’échantillon des candidats, nous avons aussi procédé à une revue critique des examens du dispositif de certification. Les résultats ont montré dans certains cas un faible degré de validité, de fiabilité et de pertinence, ce qui a conduit à la révision d’activités. Dans le respect du contexte des activités originales et de leur degré de difficulté, de nouveaux items améliorés ont été proposés ainsi que quelques activités alternatives qui pourraient assurer un plus grand degré de fiabilité et de validité aux épreuves.
description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία μελετά το φαινόμενο της δοκιμολογίας και συγκεκριμένα εξετάζει την ποιότητα και την εγκυρότητα της εξέτασης της ελληνικής γλώσσας σε επίπεδο Β2 με βάση το Κοινό Ευρωπαϊκό Πλαίσιο Αναφοράς για τις γλώσσες (2003). Ειδικότερα, μέσα από την ανάλυση των εξεταστικών θεμάτων πιστοποίησης επάρκειας της ελληνομάθειας για τα έτη 2017 και 2018, τα οποία μοιράστηκαν τυχαία σε πιθανούς μελλοντικούς αλλοδαπούς υποψηφίους, διερευνήθηκε η εγκυρότητα, αξιοπιστία και συνάφεια των δραστηριοτήτων και κατά πόσο χρήζουν βελτίωσης ή όχι. Τα εξεταστικά θέματα μοιράστηκαν στους υποψηφίους με διαφορά 15 ημερών, ώστε η εξαγωγή συμπερασμάτων να είναι πιο ασφαλής. Λόγω του ότι το δείγμα ήταν τελικά πολύ μικρό, προχωρήσαμε σε μια κριτική θεώρηση των εξετάσεων πιστοποίησης της ελληνομάθειας. Όπως προέκυψε από τα αποτελέσματα, ένα μέρος των δραστηριοτήτων, άλλοτε ολόκληρη η δραστηριότητα και άλλοτε μόνο μερικά στοιχεία (items) αυτής στερούνταν ενός υψηλού βαθμού εγκυρότητας, αξιοπιστίας και συνάφειας, γεγονός που οδήγησε στην αναθεώρηση των δραστηριοτήτων. Σεβόμενοι το πλαίσιο των αρχικών δραστηριοτήτων και το βαθμό δυσκολίας τους, προτάθηκαν κατά κύριο λόγο νέα βελτιωμένα στοιχεία (items) καθώς και ορισμένες νέες πιθανές δραστηριότητες που εξασφάλιζαν ένα μεγαλύτερο βαθμό αξιοπιστίας και εγκυρότητας στα θέματά μας.