cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Infection with the Respiratory Syncytial Virus in The Gambia: Epidemiology, Clinical Spectrum, Risk Factors and Sequelae
Creators: name: Weber, Martin Willi
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1998

description: The inportance of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as a pathogen for acute lower respiratory tract infections in young children has been evaluated in a series of studies undertaken in The Gambia, West Africa. During the years 1993 to 1996, RSV occurred in yearly outbreaks in the rainy season. Mainly young children were affected, but the age distribution varied between years (median ages 3, 7, 8, and 5 months in the 4 years respectively). The estimated annual incidence of RSV infection leading to admission to hospital was 2.3% for children under 1 year of age; the proportion of all ALRI admissions due to RSV 19%. In a case control study of potential risk factors for severe RSV infection, it was found that cases came from larger or more crowded households than controls; risk was particularly associated with larger numbers of children in the age group 3-5 years living in the extended household. Cases more frequently had a sibling who had died than controls. Controls were more likely to have been exposed to smoke from cooking fires than cases. Other protective factors were father’s nationality and profession. Vegetables were included in the diet of controls more frequently than in the diet of cases. The number of asthmatic mothers was small in both groups. In a prospective cohort study which compared RSV-ALRI cases with 2 control cohorts, it was found that the incidence of pneumonia was approximately 3% times higher in cases than in controls. For wheezing, the rate was 7 times higher, but wheezing was less common than pneumonia. At 3 years of age, pneumonia and wheezing were uncommon in all groups. Incidence rates of ALRI were approximately twofold higher in the wet season than in the dry season. In conclusion, RSV is an important cause of ALRI leading to hospital admission in the Gambia. Acute and subsequent morbidity is considerable, so prevention by vaccination would be worthwhile.
Secure State Estimation and Attack Reconstruction in Cyber-Physical Systems: Sliding Mode Observer Approach
Creators: name: Nateghi, Shamila
name: Shtessel, Yuri
name: Edwards, Christopher
name: Barbot, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a tight coupling of computational resources, network communication, and physical processes. They are composed of a set of networked components, including sensors, actuators, control processing units, and communication agents that instrument the physical world to make smarter. However, cyber components are also the source of new, unprecedented vulnerabilities to malicious attacks. In order to protect a CPS from attacks, three security levels of protection, detection, and identification are considered. In this chapter, we will discuss the identification level, i.e., secure state estimation and attack reconstruction of CPS with corrupted states and measurements. Considering different attack plans that may assault the states, sensors, or both of them, different online attack reconstruction approaches are discussed. Fixed-gain and adaptive-gain finite-time convergent observation algorithms, specifically sliding mode observers, are applied to the online reconstruction of sensor and state attacks. Next, the corrupted measurements and states are to be cleaned up online in order to stop the attack propagation to the CPS via the control signal. The proposed methodologies are applied to an electric power network, whose states and sensors are under attack. Simulation results illustrate the efficacy of the proposed observers.
description: Published by IntechOpen
title: Audit of appropriate imaging: the value of vetting and justification in an acute UK hospital
Creators: name: Siddiqi, Safa
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Audit and standards
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: The UK Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017 based on the Council Directive, Euratom 2013/59 states that imaging must only be carried out if ‘it has been justified by the practitioner as showing a sufficient net benefit’ [1,4]....
Sisyrophanus minor Bezzi 1924
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Sisyrophanus
Sisyrophanus minor

description: Sisyrophanus minor Bezzi
 Sisyrophanus minor Bezzi, 1924: 87.
 Distribution. Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Study of the Charmless Inclusive B -> eta' X Decay
Creators: name: The CLEO Collaboration
name: Bonvicini, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a measurement of high momentum eta' production in B decays, we determine the charmless inclusive B -> eta'X_(nc) branching fraction in the lab-frame momentum interval 2.0 eta'X_(nc)) = (4.6 +- 1.1 +- 0.4 +- 0.5)x 10^(-4) in the 2.0
description: 9 pages postscript, also available through http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS, submitted to PRD
ImmersiveSmallMultiples_IEEEVR.pdf
Creators: name: Jiazhou Liu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80111 Virtual Reality and Related Simulation
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 100504 Data Communications
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We explore the adaptation of traditional 2D small-multiples visualisation to 3D immersive spaces. We use a ”shelves” metaphor and consider a design space across several layout and interaction dimensions. We demonstrate a prototype system and perform two user studies comparing the effect of the shelf curvature dimension on users’ ability to perform comparison and trend analysis tasks. Our results suggest that, with fewer multiples, a flat layout is more performant. With an increasing number of multiples, this performance difference is diminished. However, a semi-circular layout is more prefered by users than full-circular and flat layouts.
Quantum control of electron--phonon scatterings in artificial atoms
Creators: name: Hohenester, Ulrich
name: Stadler, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phonon-induced dephasing dynamics in optically excited semiconductor quantum dots is studied within the frameworks of the independent Boson model and optimal control. We show that appropriate tailoring of laser pulses allows a complete control of the optical excitation despite the phonon dephasing, a finding in marked contrast to other environment couplings.
description: to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
title: Progress in the optimization of radiation protection in paediatric interventional radiology and cardiology in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPRIPALC project)
Creators: name: Vano, Eliseo
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Paediatric
subject: Interventional vascular

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: Only a few patient dose values have been collected from the initial group of 36 paediatric hospitals from 10 different countries that initially declared their interest in the programme. During the period 2020-2021, the efforts will be concentrated...
Systoechus Loew 1855
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Systoechus

description: Systoechus Loew
 Systoechus Loew, 1855: 5.
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 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Do Grocery (Food Sales) Taxes Cause Food Insecurity?
Creators: name: Wilson, Norbert L. W.
name: Zheng, Yuqing
name: Burney, Shaheer
name: Kaiser, Harry
name: Wilson, Norbert L. W.
name: Zheng, Yuqing
name: Burney, Shaheer
name: Kaiser, Harry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food security
subject: grocery food
subject: sales tax
subject: SNAP

description: Grocery (food sales) taxes exist in over one-third of U.S. counties but do not apply to purchases made with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). We examine the impact of grocery tax rates on food insecurity, and its differential impact on SNAP participants and non-participants. By using data from the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement matched with county-level grocery tax rates, we found that grocery taxes had a positive impact on increasing only the probability of non-SNAP households being food insecure. Such result implies that the SNAP program also indirectly reduces food insecurity by shielding participants from the negative effects of grocery taxes. Policy makers should target eligibility of non-participating SNAP households in states that tax food in order to reduce food insecurity.
Disordered mesoscopic systems with interactions: induced two-body ensembles and the Hartree-Fock approach
Creators: name: Alhassid, Y.
name: Weidenmueller, H. A.
name: Wobst, 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: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a generic approach to study interaction effects in diffusive or chaotic quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime. The randomness of the single-particle wave functions induces randomness in the two-body interaction matrix elements. We classify the possible induced two-body ensembles, both in the presence and absence of spin degrees of freedom. The ensembles depend on the underlying space-time symmetries as well as on features of the two-body interaction. Confining ourselves to spinless electrons, we then use the Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation to calculate HF single-particle energies and HF wave functions for many realizations of the ensemble. We study the statistical properties of the resulting one-body HF ensemble for a fixed number of electrons. In particular, we determine the statistics of the interaction matrix elements in the HF basis, of the HF single-particle energies (including the HF gap between the last occupied and the first empty HF level), and of the HF single-particle wave functions. We also study the addition of electrons, and in particular the distribution of the distance between successive conductance peaks and of the conductance peak heights.
description: 25 pages, 16 figures
Improved PAC-Bayesian Bounds for Linear Regression
Creators: name: Shalaeva, Vera
name: Esfahani, Alireza Fakhrizadeh
name: Germain, Pascal
name: Petreczky, Mihaly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we improve the PAC-Bayesian error bound for linear regression derived in Germain et al. [10]. The improvements are twofold. First, the proposed error bound is tighter, and converges to the generalization loss with a well-chosen temperature parameter. Second, the error bound also holds for training data that are not independently sampled. In particular, the error bound applies to certain time series generated by well-known classes of dynamical models, such as ARX models.
Lophochoristiti
Creators: name: Ban, Xiaoshuang
name: Jiang, Nan
name: Cheng, Rui
name: Xue, Dayong
name: Han, Hongxiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae

description: LOPHOCHORISTITI AND HELIOTHEITI
Ferguson (1969) erected the tribe Lophochoristini by including the genera Lophochorista Warren and Eueana Prout. Cook (1993) gave a detailed revision of the neotropical genus Oospila Warren, defined this monophyletic group by the presence of an anellar complex and suggested that Oospila and Lophochorista may be sister taxa. Pitkin (1996) added Anomphax Warren, Telotheta Warren and Oospila to the tribe Lophochoristini. Heliotheini, a tribe erected based on Heliothea Boisduval and another Afrotropical genus, Petovia, was described as a subfamily, but its rank was challenged by Vives Moreno (1994), Müller (1996) and Viidalepp (1996). Later, it was subordinated under Geometrinae by Holloway (1996) and Hausmann (1996). Holloway (1996) suggested Lophochoristini and Heliotheini as junior synonyms of Rhomboristini on the basis of their similar genitalic features.
In this study, both Oospila and Petovia are grouped in the tribe Hemitheini, with their positions not resolved. Although Oospila is not the type genus of Lophochoristini, it shares some features with Lophochorista, such as a similar wing pattern, bearing abdominal tufts and possessing a medio-ventral sclerite in the valva (Pitkin, 1996). In addition, Pitkin (1996) pointed out that the ventral sclerite on the valva of the Lophochoristini also occurred in the Rhomboristini and Chlorissa (Hemitheini), which implied a relationship with Hemitheini. Beljaev (2016) also included Lophochoristini in his broad concept of Hemitheini. Thus, it is reasonable to treat Lophochoristini as a subtribe of Hemitheini. However, the position of the tribe Heliotheini is in doubt, as it has some unique features within Geometrinae, such as the shape of the ansa in the tympanal organ, the yellow wing colour and some unusual larval features (Hausmann, 2001). Considering that Heliotheini has similar genitalic features with Hemistoliti (Hausmann, 2001: fig. 11; Han & Xue, 2009: figs 58–61), and Petovia is clustered in Hemitheini in this study, though not as type genus, we tentatively retain Heliotheini as a subtribe. Further study, including Lophochorista and Heliothea, is needed to resolve the phylogenetic position of the Lophochoristiti and Heliotheiti.
description: Published as part of Ban, Xiaoshuang, Jiang, Nan, Cheng, Rui, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2018, Tribal classification and phylogeny of Geometrinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) inferred from seven gene regions, pp. 653-672 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 (3) on page 664, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly013, http://zenodo.org/record/14825023
Systoechus affinis Hesse 1938
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Systoechus
Systoechus affinis

description: Systoechus affinis Hesse
 Systoechus affinis Hesse, 1938: 452.
 Distribution. South Africa (Free State, Western Cape).
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 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Functioning Model of Human Resource Management on the Example of Hotel "Holiday Inn" in Belgrade
Creators: name: Demirovic, Dunja
name: Desivojevic
name: Pejanovic, Radovan
name: Demirovic, Dunja
name: Desivojevic
name: Pejanovic, Radovan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Human Resource Management
subject: Hotel Holiday Inn
subject: Belgrade
subject: Serbia

description: Human resources with their knowledge and competencies have become the main drivers of economic development, and increasing productivity, as the basis for the success of the organization, is based on human capital. Modern organizations have realized that only satisfied employees mean satisfied end-users, so they understood care about the employees as a necessary part of management. The paper analyzes, on the example of the hotel “Holiday Inn” in Belgrade, the connection between caring for employees and the degree of success of the organization, measured also by the number of loyal and new guests. The ways in which the company invests in its employees, and how they take care of the overall satisfaction of employees and their motivation, will depend the satisfaction of the guests, and the survival of organizations in the market.
Permeability Enhancement of Conventional Geothermal Wells
Creators: name: Aqui, Arvin
name: Sadiq Zarrouk
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91305 Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: All geothermal systems require some degree of permeability to create heat convection and allow transport of this heat from below the earth to the surface..
title: Imaging and radiation exposure for suspected VTE in pregnancy: improving patient safety
Creators: name: Balaji, Nikita
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Education and training
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Education
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is one of the UK’s leading cause of maternal mortality. According to the most recent MBRRACE report, VTE is the third leading causing of maternal death during pregnancy and perinatal period (1). The absolute risk is...
Transition matrix Monte Carlo and flat-histogram algorithm
Creators: name: Wang, Jian-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In any valid Monte Carlo sampling that realizes microcanonical property we can collect statistics for a transition matrix in energy. This matrix is used to determine the density of states, from which most of the thermodynamical averages can be calculated, including free energy and entropy. We discuss single-spin-flip algorithms, such as flat-histogram and equal-hit algorithms, that can be used for simulations. The flat-histogram algorithm realizes multicanonical ensemble. We demonstrate the use of the method with applications to Ising model and show its efficiency of search for spin-glass ground states.
description: 6 LaTeX pages, Metropolis algorithm conference (Los Alamos)
Cubic spline approximation of the reliability polynomials of two dual hammock networks
Creators: name: Cristescu, Gabriela
name: Drăgoi, Vlad-Florin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The property of preserving the convexity and concavity of the Bernstein polynomial and of the Bézier curves is used to generate a method of approximating the reliability polynomial of a hammock network. The mutual behaviour of the reliability polynomials of two dual hammock networks is used to generate a system of constraints since the initial information is not enough for using a classical approximation scheme. A cubic spline function is constructed to generate approximations of the coefficients of the two reliability polynomials. As consequence, an approximation algorithm is described and tested through simulations on hammocks with known reliability, comparing the results with the results of approximations attempts from literature.
description: 14 pages, published in Transylvanian Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics
Systoechus bombycinus Hesse 1938
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Systoechus
Systoechus bombycinus

description: Systoechus bombycinus Hesse
 Systoechus bombycinus Hesse, 1938: 407.
 Distribution. Mozambique, Namibia *, South Africa (Eastern & Northern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu­Natal, Limpopo), Zimbabwe.
 Material examined. 1♂, Otjiwarongo District, Waterberg Pl. Park, 20°23’S 17°18’E, 31.iii.1992, M. Pusch, pres. pitf. traps.
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 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Efficient mesh deformation using radial basis functions with a grouping-circular-based greedy algorithm
Creators: name: Fang, Hong
name: Zhang, He
name: Shan, Fanli
name: Tie, Ming
name: Zhang, Xing
name: Sun, Jinghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A grouping-circular-based (GCB) greedy algorithm is proposed to promote the efficiency of mesh deformation. By incorporating the multigrid concept that the computational errors on the fine mesh can be approximated with those on the coarse mesh, this algorithm stochastically divides all boundary nodes into $m$ groups and uses the locally maximum radial basis functions (RBF) interpolation error of each group as an approximation to the globally maximum one of all boundary nodes in each iterative procedure for reducing the RBF support nodes. For this reason, it avoids the interpolation conducted at all boundary nodes and thus reduces the corresponding computational complexity from $O\left({N_c^2{N_b}} \right)$ to $O\left( {N_c^3} \right)$. Besides, after $m$ iterations, the interpolation errors of all boundary nodes are computed once, thus allowing all boundary nodes can contribute to error control. Two canonical deformation problems of the ONERA M6 wing and the DLR-F6 Wing-Body-Nacelle-Pylon configuration are computed to validate the GCB greedy algorithm. The computational results show that the GCB greedy algorithm is able to remarkably promote the efficiency of computing the interpolation errors in the data reducing procedure by dozens of times. Because an increase of $m$ results in an increase of $N_c$, an appropriate range of $\left[ {{N_b}/{N_c},{\rm{ }}2{N_b}/{N_c}}\right]$ for $m$ is suggested to prevent too much additional computations for solving the linear algebraic system and computing the displacements of volume nodes induced by the increase of $N_c $. The results also show that the GCB greedy algorithm tends to generate a more significant efficiency improvement for mesh deformation when a larger-scale mesh is applied.
Η Συνοδικότητα της Εκκλησίας με βάση το Περί Συνόδων έργο του Μ. Αθανασίου
Creators: name: Κακαβέλης, Γεώργιος Φιλίππου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Μέγας Αθανάσιος
Α΄ Οικουμενική Σύνοδος
Συνοδικότητα
Athanasios the Great
First Ecumenical Council
Synodality

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας μεταπτυχιακής εργασίας είναι η μελέτη αφενός της αδικαιολόγητης συνοδικής δραστηριότητας των Αρειανών μετά την Α΄ Οικουμενική σύνοδο και αφετέρου η καταγραφή των χαρακτηριστικών της γνήσιας συνοδικότητας, με βάση το «Περί Συνόδων» έργο του Μ. Αθανασίου. Το μεγαλειώδες συγγραφικό έργο του Μ. Αθανασίου συνέβαλε τα μέγιστα τόσο στην αντιμετώπιση της αρειανικής κακοδοξίας, όσο και στην ανάδειξη εκείνων των κριτηρίων τα οποία εξασφαλίζουν τη γνησιότητα της συνοδικότητας. Η προσπάθειά του να προβάλλει την αρειανική τακτική των συνεχόμενων συνόδων για την επιβολή της αιρέσεως οδηγεί και στην ανάδειξη των χαρακτηριστικών τα οποία προσδίδουν εγκυρότητα στην εκάστοτε Οικουμενική σύνοδο. Τα χαρακτηριστικά αυτά, η ύπαρξη επιτακτικής ανάγκης και η διατύπωση της αλήθειας, θέτουν το όριο ανάμεσα στην αλήθεια και στην αίρεση. Σύνοδοι οι οποίες εξυπηρετούν είτε πολιτικά είτε προσωπικά οφέλη είναι καταδικαστέες και σε καμία περίπτωση δεν οδηγούν στη διατύπωση της εν Χριστώ αλήθειας, παρά μόνο στη διαβρωμένη αλήθεια, η οποία δεν προσφέρει στον άνθρωπο τη σωτηρία του, αλλά την καταστροφή
description: The aim of this postgraduate dissertation is, on the one hand, the study of the unjustified synodality of Arians after the First Ecumenical Council and, on the other hand, the presentation of the authentic synodality's characteristics, according to the «De Synodis» study of Athanasios’s the Great. The magnificent literary work of Gr. Athanasios contributed greatly to the confrontation of Arian’s heresy, as well as to the emergence of those criteria, which ensure the synodality’s authenticity. His attempt to promote the Arian’s tactics of consecutive councils for the heresy’s infliction, also leads to the emergence of those characteristics, which give validity to the Ecumenical Council. These characteristics, the existence of an imperative requirement and the formulation of truth, set the boundary between truth and heresy. Councils which serve either political or personal benefits are condemnable and in no way lead to the formulation of truth in Christ, except to the damaged truth, which doesn’t offer to the people their salvation, but their destruction
Η μεταχείριση των κάθετων συμφωνιών από το δίκαιο του ελεύθερου ανταγωνισμού, ιδίως υπό το πρίσμα του Κανονισμού (ΕΕ) 330/2010
Creators: name: Μπαντή, Φωτεινή Θωμά
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Κάθετες συμφωνίες
Κανονισμός Ομαδικής Απαλλαγής για τους κάθετους περιορισμούς 330/2010
Περιορισμοί ιδιαίτερης σοβαρότητας
Vertical agreements
Vertical Block Exemption Regulation 330/2010
Hardcore restrictions

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής ήταν η μελέτη της νομικής αξιολόγησης των κάθετων συμφωνιών από το Δίκαιο του Ελεύθερου Ανταγωνισμού, ενωσιακού και εθνικού, ιδίως υπό το φως των διατάξεων του Κανονισμού Ομαδικής Απαλλαγής 330/2010 (στο εξής: KOA). Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο, αρχικά αναλύθηκαν θεματικές, όπως η σχέση που συνδέει το δίκαιο του ελεύθερου ανταγωνισμού με τα περισσότερο διαδεδομένα είδη συστημάτων διανομής (συστήματα αποκλειστικής ή επιλεκτικής διανομής, συμφωνίες δικαιόχρησης κ.λπ.), καθώς επίσης και οι θετικές ή αρνητικές οικονομικές προεκτάσεις των κάθετων συμφωνιών από πλευράς ανταγωνισμού. Στη συνέχεια, ιδιαίτερη έμφαση δόθηκε στην ανάλυση των επιμέρους διατάξεων του KOA, όσον αφορά, μεταξύ άλλων, τις προϋποθέσεις εφαρμογής του, τους προβλεπόμενους στα άρθρα 4 και 5 περιορισμούς ιδιαίτερης σοβαρότητας και απαλλασσόμενους περιορισμούς αντίστοιχα και την ανάλυση συγκεκριμένων κάθετων περιορισμών εντός και εκτός πεδίου εφαρμογής του ΚΟΑ. Επιπρόσθετα, ενόψει της επικείμενης αναθεώρησης του ενωσιακού νομοθετικού πλαισίου για τις κάθετες συμφωνίες, έγινε μια συγκριτική επισκόπηση του υφιστάμενου ΚΟΑ και των προτεινόμενων από την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή αλλαγών, όπως οι τελευταίες παρουσιάστηκαν μέσα από το προσφάτως εκδοθέν Σχέδιο Κανονισμού Ομαδικής Απαλλαγής και Σχέδιο κατευθυντήριων γραμμών για τις κάθετες συμφωνίες
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of the legal assessment of vertical agreements under both european and greek Competition (antitrust) Law, in particular in the light of the provisions of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation 330/2010 (hereinafter “VBER”). Within this context, certain topics were first analysed, such as the relationship between competition law and the most common types of distribution systems (exclusive or selective distribution systems, franchising agreements etc.) as well as the positive and negative economic effects of vertical agreements competition-wise. Then, specific emphasis was given on the analysis of the provisions of the VBER, regarding its scope of application, the hardcore and excluded restrictions pursuant to Article 4 and 5 VBER respectively and the analysis of specific vertical restraints both within and outside the scope of the VBER, to name but a few. Furthermore, given the upcoming revision of the european legal framework applicable to vertical agreements, a comparative overview was made concerning the existing VBER and the proposed by the European Commission changes, as the latter were introduced by the recently published drafts of the revised Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (“VBER”) and Vertical Guidelines
Social accountability and service delivery: Experimental evidence from Uganda
Creators: name: Fiala, Nathan
name: Premand, Patrick
name: Fiala, Nathan
name: Premand, Patrick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Social accountability
subject: community training
subject: scorecards
subject: corruption
subject: service delivery

description: Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth. Can citizens in poor communities be empowered to demand better-quality public investments? We look at whether providing social accountability training and information on project performance can lead to improvements in local development projects. The program we study is unique in its size and integration in a national program. We find that offering communities a combination of training and information on project quality leads to significant improvements in household welfare. However, providing either social accountability training or project quality information by itself has no welfare effect. These results are concentrated in areas that are reported by local officials as more corrupt or mismanaged, suggesting local agents have significant information about where corruption and mismanagement is worse. We show evidence that the impacts come in part from community members increasing their monitoring of local projects, making more complaints to local and central officials and increasing cooperation. We also find modest improvements in people’s trust in the central government. The results suggest that government-led, large-scale social accountability programs can strengthen communities’ ability to address corruption and mismanagement as well as improve services.
title: Constructions Of Equality In A Mathematics Classroom.
Creators: name: Ollerton, Mike
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1998

description: This thesis is a personal research journey, made through reflective anecdotes about notable events in classrooms. Explicit statements of my values as a teacher emerge from this analysis of my practice.

 There are four main chapters:
 Classroom Atmosphere identifies elements inherent in my interactions with children;
 Curriculum Development accounts for the change in my pedagogy from a scheme-based to a problem-solving approach;
 Teaching and Learning examines my perceptions of the different ways children learn mathematics and the types of strategies I have developed to support their learning;
 Issues on working with un-settled groups provides a historical perspective on my mixed-ability teaching and explores my rationale in differentiating children's learning outcomes through accessible starting points and a range of extension tasks.

 Throughout my research I pay attention both to children's academic and emotional development, and consider how issues relating to the content of the curriculum, to differential rates of learning, to how learning is fostered, and issues of non-selectivity of children within learning groups are inextricably linked. A key task has been to show the interconnectedness of issues, whilst demonstrating my understanding of each as a separate issue.

 The evidence from my research demonstrates that it is both feasible and valid to provide children with their entitlement to equal opportunities in learning mathematics without separating them into pre-determined ability groups which are self-fulfilling, limiting and inherently discriminatory.
Magnetic breakdown spectrum of a Kramers-Weyl semimetal
Creators: name: Lemut, G.
name: Vela, A. Donís
name: Pacholski, M. J.
name: Tworzydło, J.
name: Beenakker, C. W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the Landau levels of a Kramers-Weyl semimetal thin slab in a perpendicular magnetic field $B$. The coupling of Fermi arcs on opposite surfaces broadens the Landau levels with a band width that oscillates periodically in $1/B$. We interpret the spectrum in terms of a one-dimensional superlattice induced by magnetic breakdown at Weyl points. The band width oscillations may be observed as $1/B$-periodic magnetoconductance oscillations, at weaker fields and higher temperatures than the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations due to Landau level quantization. No such spectrum appears in a generic Weyl semimetal, the Kramers degeneracy at time-reversally invariant momenta is essential.
description: 13 pages, 18 figures
Possible Observation of Photon Speed Energy Dependence
Creators: name: Gharibyan, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current constraints on photon velocity variability are summarized and displayed in terms of an energy dependent vacuum refraction index. It is shown that the energy-momentum balance of high energy Compton scattering is very sensitive to the outgoing photon speed. A missing energy observation in HERA Compton polarimeter data indicates that photons with 12.7 GeV energy are moving faster than light by 5.1(1.4)mm/s. An asymmetry spectrum measured by the SLC longitudinal polarimeter implies however an effect which is 42 times smaller, although the interpretation of the data is less clear here.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Systoechus kalaharicus Hesse 1936
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Systoechus
Systoechus kalaharicus

description: Systoechus kalaharicus Hesse
 Systoechus kalaharicus Hesse, 1936: 165.
 Distribution. Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Normalized Quantization Aware Training For Photonic Neural Networks
Creators: name: Οικονόμου, Αθηνά Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Φωτονικά Νευρωνικά Δίκτυα
Κβάντιση
Βαθιά Μάθηση
Photonic Neural Networks
Quantization
Deep Learning

description: Στη συγκεκριμένη διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζεται η επιρροή της ομοιόμορφης κβάντισης των νευρωνικών φωτονικών δικτύων στην επίδοση τους. Πραγματοποιούνται, συγκρίνονται και εξετάζονται διαφορετικοί τρόποι ομοιόμορφης κβάντισης ολόκληρων των φωτονικών δικτύων πριν και κατά τη διάρκεια της εκπαίδευσης. Οι μέθοδοι κβάντισης εφαρμόζονται σε ένα φωτονικό νευρωνικό δίκτυο πρόσθιας τροφοδότησης, ένα συνελικτικό φωτονικό νευρωνικό δίκτυο και ένα αναδρομικό φωτονικό νευρωνικό δίκτυο. Τέλος, προτείνεται η κανονικοποιημένη ομοιόμορφη κβάντιση κατά τη διάρκεια της εκπαίδευσης των φωτονικών δικτύων, η οποία λαμβάνει υπόψη την κατανομή της εισόδου και των παραμέτρων του μοντέλου, οδηγώντας σε σημαντική βελτίωση της επίδοσης του μοντέλου σε κάθε πειραματική αξιολόγηση
description: In this master thesis is studied how uniform quantization affects the performance of photonic neural networks. Different methods of uniform quantization post or aware training applied at the photonic neural network are performed and compared with each other. These quantization methods are implemented in a fully connected feed forward photonic neural network, a convolutional photonic neural network and a recurrent photonic neural network. Finally, it is proposed a normalized uniform quantization aware training method that considers the distributions of the inputs and the parameters of the model which leads to significant improvement of their performance in every experimental evaluation
Local quenches, bulk entanglement entropy and a unitary Page curve
Creators: name: Agón, Cesar A.
name: Lokhande, Sagar F.
name: Pedraza, Juan F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum corrections to the entanglement entropy of matter fields interacting with dynamical gravity have proven to be very important in the study of the black hole information problem. We consider a one-particle excited state of a massive scalar field infalling in a pure AdS$_3$ geometry and compute these corrections for bulk subregions anchored on the AdS boundary. In the dual CFT$_2$, the state is given by the insertion of a local primary operator and its evolution thereafter. We calculate the area and bulk entanglement entropy corrections at order $\mathcal{O}(N^0)$, both in AdS and its CFT dual. The two calculations match, thus providing a non-trivial check of the FLM formula in a dynamical setting. Further, we observe that the bulk entanglement entropy follows a Page curve. We explain the precise sense in which our setup can be interpreted as a simple model of black hole evaporation and comment on the implications for the information problem.
description: 52 pages + 2 appendices. Multiple figures. v2: new title, significantly improved introduction and minor changes in the text. v3: extended discussion on interpretation. Version to appear in JHEP
title: Experience of Patient Contact Shields amongst Consultant Radiologists and Radiology Trainees – An Irish Perspective
Creators: name: Whiriskey, Robert
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Safety
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: A 25-item questionnaire was created which investigated the training, use and complications of patient contact shields. This was disseminated by means of online questionnaire to radiology consultants and trainee radiologists practicing in the...
title: Radiographic contrast reactions: A retrospective review
Creators: name: Dillon, Henry
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Audit and standards
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agents

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: We performed a retrospective review of all documented hypersensitivity reactions to radiocontrast media in the radiology department at St James’s Hospital, Dublin over a ten year period (2008 to 2018). We sub-classified our results into allergy...
Aggressive Implementation of Digitization in the Modern Business
Creators: name: Gijic, Nebojsa
name: Dimitrijevic, Oliver
name: Jovic, Adriana
name: Gijic, Nebojsa
name: Dimitrijevic, Oliver
name: Jovic, Adriana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: business
subject: digitization
subject: management
subject: marketing
subject: customers

description: The global economic crisis business environment pressures companies to streamline their operations and thus forcing them to significantly speed up the process of digitizing, creating a kind of digital markets. It becomes clear that those who recognize the moment and who are willing to think a modern and unconventional, in terms of innovation, customer and business partners engagement, corporative organization, strategies, business models and the role of technology in their business enterprise, will be those who will be well-positioned in this new market, which will enable them to significant revenue growth. On the other hand, there is a significant business risk of fatal business loss in case of inaction, slowness, neglect and lack of understanding of this very important process in the business.
Splitting With Continuous Control in Algebraic K-theory
Creators: name: Rosenthal, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18F25

description: In this work, the continuously controlled assembly map in algebraic $K$-theory, as developed by Carlsson and Pedersen, is proved to be a split injection for groups $Γ$ that satisfy certain geometric conditions. The group $Γ$ is allowed to have torsion, generalizing a result of Carlsson and Pedersen. Combining this with a result of John Moody, $K_0(kΓ)$ is proved to be isomorphic to the colimit of $K_0(kH)$ over the finite subgroups $H$ of $Γ$, when $Γ$ is a virtually polycyclic group and $k$ is a field of characteristic zero.
description: 22 pages
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, AND USAGE OF CONJUNCTIONS IN THE MODERN UZBEK AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES
Creators: name: Rasulova, Inobat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper provides a thorough examination of conjunctions, focusing on their meanings, various types, and functions within the English and Uzbek languages. Conjunctions serve as essential components that connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences in both spoken and written communication. Classified as one of the eight parts of speech in traditional grammar, conjunctions encompass several categories, including coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. Additionally, the author investigates other noteworthy types of conjunctions that may enrich the reader's understanding of their role in language.
Niobium doping induced mirror twin boundaries in MBE grown WSe2 monolayers
Creators: name: Wang, Bo
name: Xia, Yipu
name: Zhang, Junqiu
name: Komsa, Hannu-Pekka
name: Xie, Maohai
name: Peng, Yong
name: Jin, Chuanhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mirror twin boundary (MTB) brings unique 1D physics and properties into two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), but they were rarely observed in non-Mo-based TMDCs. Herein, by post-growth Nb doping, high density 4|4E-W and 4|4P-Se MTBs were introduced into molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown WSe2 monolayers. Of them, 4|4E-W MTB with a novel structure was discovered experimentally for the first time, while 4|4P-Se MTBs present a random permutations of W and Nb, forming a 1D alloy system. Comparison between the doped and non-doped WSe2 confirmed that Nb dopants are essential for MTB formation. Furthermore, quantitative statistics reveal the areal density of MTBs is directly proportional to the concentration of Nb dopants. To unravel the injection pathway of Nb dopants, first-principles calculations about a set of formation energies for excess Nb atoms with different configurations were conducted, based on which a model explaining the origin of MTBs introduced by excess metal was built. We conclude that the formation of MTBs is mainly driven by the collective evolution of excess Nb atoms introduced into the lattice of host WSe2 crystal and subsequent displacement of metal atoms (W or Nb). This study provides a novel way to tailor the MTBs in 2D TMDC materials via proper metal doping and presents a new opportunities for exploring the intriguing properties.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures
Systoechus mixtus
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Systoechus
Systoechus mixtus

description: Systoechus mixtus (Wiedemann)
 Bombylius mixtus Wiedemann, 1821: 165.
 Distribution. ? Mozambique, South Africa (Eastern & Western Cape).
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 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
title: Contrast Enhancement Digital Mammography dosimetry: preliminary evaluation of dose increase in thick/dense breast
Creators: name: Levrero, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Mammography
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Breast

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: As is known, CEDM consists of two exposures: The first realized with low energy due to W/Rh or W/Ag (Anode/Filter combination) The second at high energy due to W/Cu. The internal protocol provides for the injection of the iodinated contrast agent...
title: The QuADRANT Initiative – Establishing and Promoting Clinical Audit Activity Across Europe
Creators: name: Umolu, Akhabue
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Management

description: Methods or background Purpose or learning objective Conclusion Results or findings References
description: Methods or background: QuADRANT is a pan-European project on behalf of the European Commission, running over 30 months, it commenced in January 2020 Qu ality Improvement Through A udit in D iagnostic and Interventional Radiology, R adiotherapy A nd N uclear Medicine...