cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chinese economic transformation, uneven regional development, and the Shenshen special economic zone
Creators: name: Rigo, C. Lorraine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines the role played by cities in the People's Republic of China's (PRC) economic development and urbanization trends over the last 45 years or so, with special reference to uneven regional development and the growth of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SSEZ). The Chinese government has developed an extensive, modern external sector in the economy which has been actively implemented in fourteen cities along China's Pacific coastline and in the four Special Economic Zones. It has also opened three huge deltas in the Pacific coastal areas to further direct investment. After a review of the relevant theoretical literature, a comparison is made between the role of cities in the Maoist period of development and the post-1978 Dengist regime. Since the political and economic reforms of 1978, China's coastal cities, including the SSEZ, have served as a catalyst of economic development. The Renaissance of the coastal regions in the 1980s through the prominence of the Special Economic Zones has been particularly instructive in explaining inland-to-coastal migration and the persistence of uneven regional development in China. For the most part, Chinese economic reform in the post-Maoist era has meant regional discontinuities, a high concentration of growth in a few large urban areas, and a lagging rural economy that remains in many respects backward. Thus, the 'economic gap’ in wealth and incomes between the hinterland and the coast has widened. Moreover, the rapid development of Shenzhen has led to exponential economic growth which has been accompanied by inequalities that have impacted on the living and working situations of migrant workers in the area. From the empirical evidence provided, the thesis concludes that cities have played a key role in the post-reform era, as demonstrated by the way in which the People's Republic has opened up to the outside world. With China's efforts to court the inflow of foreign direct investment and technology, the development of cities in every class size will prove to be more crucial to Chinese economic transformation and regional development. However, special attention is needed to ameliorate the problems associated with rapid urban growth and regional inequality.
Classification of the separable maps which preserve Werner states
Creators: name: Yuan, Haidong
name: Masanes, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify the completely-positive maps acting on two $d$-dimensional systems which commute with all $U\otimes U$ unitaries, where $U\in SU(d)$. This set of operations map Werner states to Werner states. We find a simple condition for a map being implementable by stochastic local operations and classical communication (SLOCC). We show that all PPT-preserving maps can be implemented by SLOCC. This can be used to prove that the entanglement of Werner states cannot be stochastically increased, even if we allow PPT entanglement for free.
description: 4 pages
Stories and miscellaneous content
Creators: name: Caster, Amelia
name: Halpern, Abraham M.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: yum

description: 2 WAV files. For associated notebooks, see Margaret Langdon Papers (Bancroft Library), carton 10, folders 6 and 9. Digitization by The Audio Archive (Burlingame, California).
Characteristics and Production Costs of U.S. Soybean Farms, 1986
Creators: name: McBride, William D.
name: McBride, William D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: The average economic cost of producing soybeans was $4.53 per bushel in 1986, while individual farm costs ranged from $1.93 to more than $15.00 per bushel. Acreage, yields, and regional differences among farms appear to be the principal factors influencing soybean production costs. Producers with the lowest costs of production planted more acreage to soybeans and obtained higher yields than producers with higher costs. Much of the cost differences were associated with region. This report compares selected characteristics and costs of production among soybean producers. Producers are grouped on the basis of economic costs, enterprise sizes, and production regions. Characteristics of producers in each group are examined for sources of cost differences among groups.
Recovering a Sicilian Family : Researching and Writing a Story of Anger, Shame and Family Breakdown in the Ingham-Halifax Area of North Queensland (1926–1945)
Creators: name: Boyne, Kerry
Publisher: name: Australian Catholic University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Emigration
Family breakdown
Sugar industry
North Queensland
Sicilian migrants
Internment
Canecutters

description: This PhD research project comprises a fact-informed historical novel and an exegesis. The novel tells the story of the emigration of a Sicilian family to the Herbert River district of North Queensland during the interwar period. It is loosely based on the life of my anti-Fascist grandfather who arrived in Queensland in 1926, his wife, who never left Italy, and his two children, who emigrated a decade later. This family was fractured from the beginning by geographical separation, but catastrophic events in their lives in both Sicily and Queensland only deepened the fracture. The research reveals how becoming a canecutter in Queensland and the hardships, politics and prejudice that accompanied that choice, particularly in the Ingham area where there was a concentration of southern Italians, led to further family breakdown, exacerbated by the weight of secrets and shame. It also addresses the hardships experienced by the women who remained in the home country.
Italian immigration in Queensland is inextricably tied to the sugar industry and the canefields culture, which contributed enormously to the economic, social and cultural development of Queensland and its non-Indigenous settlement. Chain migration to the sugarlands saw the growth of concentrated communities of Italians as they found work with established, land-owning paesani or parenti. This led to a steady rise in land ownership by Italians in North Queensland, which in turn triggered deep resentment in the wider Anglo society of their economic success and perceived domination of the sugar industry, culminating in the injustice of internment of naturalised Italians during World War Two.
The exegesis reflects on the creative practice-led narrative inquiry research method adopted for this project and reviews a previously overlooked subgenre of Australian literature and popular culture I identify as ‘canecutter narrative’. A second literature review of the archival primary sources on which the semi-fictional story is built provides a hermeneutic analysis of these sources in their historical and cultural context. The exegesis establishes how the novel belongs in and uniquely contributes to the canecutter narrative subgenre.
An S-shaped arc in the galaxy cluster RXJ0054.0-2823
Creators: name: Faure, C.
name: Giraud, E.
name: Melnick, J.
name: Quintana, H.
name: Selman, F.
name: Wambsganss, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The center of the galaxy cluster RX J0054.0-2823 at z = 0.292 is a dynamically active region which includes an interacting system of three galaxies surrounded by a large halo of intra-cluster light. We report here the discovery of an S-shaped feature of total length 11 arcsec in the central region of this cluster and discuss its physical nature. We test the gravitational lensing assumption by doing a mass modelling of the central part of the galaxy cluster. We very naturally reproduce position and form of this S-shape feature as a gravitationally lensed background object at redshift between 0.5 and 1.0. We conclude that the lensing nature is the very probable explanation for this S-shaped arc; the ultimate proof will be the spectroscopic confirmation by measuring the high redshift of this elongated feature with surface brightness V~24mag/arcsec2.
description: 6 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
Constrained scaling : calibrating individual subjects in magnitude estimation
Creators: name: West, Robert Lawrence
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Magnitude estimation, although a very valuable technique for the study of sensory systems, suffers from the problems of excessive intersubject variability and interlab variability (Marks, 1974). Assuming that healthy normal subjects experience approximately the same levelof perceived stimulus magnitude when presented with the same stimulus under the same conditions, the seemingly excessive intersubject variability revealed by magnitude estimation techniques must be due to factors left free to vary during the magnitude estimation procedure. In this dissertation I explore a methodology called constrained scaling, which is an attempt to establish a methodology for magnitude estimation that exerts greater control over the scaling process. Constrained scaling consists of using feedback to train subjects to respond to a set of stimuli according to a power function with a particular exponent and then asking them to respond to a different set of stimuli using the response scale they have learned, but without feedback. Thus this dissertation was an investigation of the degree to which, and under what conditions, subjects could extend a learned scale to novel stimuli. The results indicate that under the right conditions subjects can perform this task with a level of precision sufficient to significantly reduce intersubject variability as compared to standard magnitude estimation results. The consequences of constraining subjects to answer according to a predetermined function are discussed in terms of the type of scale that is produced. Also, the conceptual implications of constrained scaling for modeling sensory systems and conscious perception are discussed.
Species cycling and the enhancement of ammonia in prestellar cores
Creators: name: von Procházka, Azrael A.
name: Millar, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantity of NH3 produced on grain surfaces in the prestellar core is thought to be one of the determining factors regarding the chemical complexity achievable at later stages of stellar birth. In order to investigate how this quantity might be influenced by the gas-grain cycling of molecular material within the cloud, we employ a modified rates gas-grain chemical code and follow the time-dependent chemistry of NH3 as the system evolves. Our models incorporate an updated version of the most recent UDfA network of reaction rate coefficients, desorption from the grains through standard thermal and non-thermal processes, and physisorbed and chemisorbed binding of atomic and molecular hydrogen to a population of carbonaceous and siliceous grains. We find that 1.) observable abundances of NH3 can exist in the gas phase of our models at early times when the N atom is derived from CN via an efficient early-time hydrocarbon chemistry, 2.) a time-dependent gradient exists in the observational agreement between different species classes in our models, consistent with possible physical substructures within the TMC-1 Cyanopolyyne Peak, and 3.) the gaseous and solid-state abundances of NH3 are sensitive to the presence of gas-grain cycling within the system. Our results suggest that the degree of chemical complexity achievable at later stages of the cloud's chemical evolution is indeed influenced by the manner in which the gas-grain cycling occurs.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Certificate of Incorporation for the Rainbow Ranche issued by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, July 13, 1908
Creators: name: Joint Stock Companies, Registrar Of
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: A certificate of incorporation for the Rainbow Ranche issued by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, dated July 13, 1908, under the Companies Act of 1897, recognizing the capital of one hundred thousand dollars, divided into one thousand shares, one hundred dollars.
Accurately determining the number of Auger electrons per nuclear decay for medical isotopes
Creators: name: Alotiby, Mohmmed
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: Auger-emitting radionuclides have great potential in cancer treatment as low-energy Auger electrons (below 5 keV) deposit a high radiation dose over a very short distance. Auger-based therapy is attractive as, in contrast to alpha and beta particles, the affected volume around the decaying radionuclides is much smaller than the volume of a cell. Moreover, low-energy electrons (3-20 eV) have been shown to be very effective in causing DNA cleavage. In this study, a monolayer of 125I was deposited on a gold surface and the energy of the emerging electrons was measured. 125I decays by electron capture to a nuclear excited state of 125Te. A core hole, which is created in the electron capture, relaxes via an Auger cascade that produces multiple Auger electrons in the process. Subsequently, the nuclear excited state of 125Te internally decays to the nuclear ground state and the excess energy can also eject an atomic electron (the conversion electron), which also leaves a core hole behind, and the newly created core hole will relax by an Auger cascade as well. The conversion electron and the Auger electrons have similar energies, and thus their intensities can be compared, linking the nuclear- and atomic-physics parts of the decay of 125I. A Monte Carlo model (BrIccEmis) was used to simulate the spectrum. BrIccEmis is based on the known intensity of the conversion electron line and estimates of the decay rates for Auger and X-ray emission. In order to fit the spectrum one has to assume a line shape model describing among others, the effects of shake off. We discuss whether one can get a good description of the spectrum of 125I absorbed on Au, based on the calculated one for atomic 125I decay with reasonable assumptions for the line shape. The measurements of the very low-energy Auger electrons (below 1 keV), which are particularly relevant to medical physics applications, are even more difficult to quantify, and preliminary results in this energy range are also discussed.
On Decompositions of the KdV 2-Soliton
Creators: name: Benes, Nicholas
name: Kasman, Alex
name: Young, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The KdV equation is the canonical example of an integrable non-linear partial differential equation supporting multi-soliton solutions. Seeking to understand the nature of this interaction, we investigate different ways to write the KdV 2-soliton solution as a sum of two or more functions. The paper reviews previous work of this nature and introduces new decompositions with unique features, putting it all in context and in a common notation for ease of comparison.
MixTwice: large-scale hypothesis testing for peptide arrays by variance mixing
Creators: name: Zheng, Zihao
name: Mergaert, Aisha M.
name: Ong, Irene M.
name: Shelef, Miriam A.
name: Newton, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Peptide microarrays have emerged as a powerful technology in immunoproteomics as they provide a tool to measure the abundance of different antibodies in patient serum samples. The high dimensionality and small sample size of many experiments challenge conventional statistical approaches, including those aiming to control the false discovery rate (FDR). Motivated by limitations in reproducibility and power of current methods, we advance an empirical Bayesian tool that computes local false discovery rate statistics and local false sign rate statistics when provided with data on estimated effects and estimated standard errors from all the measured peptides. As the name suggests, the \verb+MixTwice+ tool involves the estimation of two mixing distributions, one on underlying effects and one on underlying variance parameters. Constrained optimization techniques provide for model fitting of mixing distributions under weak shape constraints (unimodality of the effect distribution). Numerical experiments show that \verb+MixTwice+ can accurately estimate generative parameters and powerfully identify non-null peptides. In a peptide array study of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), \verb+MixTwice+ recovers meaningful peptide markers in one case where the signal is weak, and has strong reproducibility properties in one case where the signal is strong. \verb+MixTwice+ is available as an R software package. \href{https://github.com/wiscstatman/MixTwice}{https://github.com/wiscstatman/MixTwice}
Regularizing QCD with staggered fermions and the fourth root trick
Creators: name: Bernard, Claude
name: Golterman, Maarten
name: Shamir, Yigal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of staggered-fermion lattice QCD in which the fourth root of the fermion determinant is taken. We show that this theory is non-local at non-zero lattice spacing $a$, and that the non-locality is caused by the breaking of taste symmetry at $a\ne 0$. We then present a renormalization-group based argument that the theory restores taste symmetry in the continuum limit. As a consequence the theory is local in that limit, and falls into the correct universality class. Finally, we argue that the correct effective theory for the physics of Goldstone bosons at $a\ne 0$ is given by staggered chiral perturbation theory with the replica trick.
description: 21 pages, combined contribution to Lattice 2006 proceedings
A catalogue of micro-Jy radio sources in northern legacy fields
Creators: name: Biggs, A. D.
name: Ivison, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present catalogues of faint 1.4-GHz radio sources from extremely-deep Very Large Array pointings in the Lockman Hole, the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N) and ELAIS N2. Our analysis of the HDF-N data has produced maps that are significantly deeper than those previously published and we have used these to search for counterparts to submm sources. For each of the fields we have derived normalised differential source counts and in the case of the HDF-N find no evidence for the previously-reported under-density of sources; our counts are entirely consistent with those found for the majority of other fields. The catalogues are available as an online supplement to this paper and the maps are also available for download.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Full resolution versions of Fig. 3 are available from ftp://ftp.roe.ac.uk/pub/adb/vla_deep_fields/ . Catalogues and maps can be obtained from the same url
AGILE detection of a strong gamma-ray flare from the blazar 3C 454.3
Creators: name: Vercellone, S.
name: Chen, A. W.
name: Giuliani, A.
name: Bulgarelli, A.
name: Donnarumma, I.
name: Lapshov, I.
name: Tavani, M.
name: Argan, A.
name: Barbiellini, G.
name: Caraveo, P.
name: Cocco, V.
name: Costa, E.
name: D'Ammando, F.
name: Del Monte, E.
name: De Paris, G.
name: Di Cocco, G.
name: Evangelista, Y.
name: Feroci, M.
name: Fiorini, M.
name: Froysland, T.
name: Fuschino, F.
name: Galli, M.
name: Gianotti, F.
name: Labanti, C.
name: Lazzarotto, F.
name: Lipari, P.
name: Longo, F.
name: Marisaldi, M.
name: Mauri, F.
name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Morselli, A.
name: Pacciani, L.
name: Pellizzoni, A.
name: Perotti, F.
name: Picozza, P.
name: Prest, M.
name: Pucella, G.
name: Rapisarda, M.
name: Soffitta, P.
name: Trifoglio, M.
name: Trois, A.
name: Vallazza, E.
name: Vittorini, V.
name: Zambra, A.
name: Zanello, D.
name: Pittori, C.
name: Verrecchia, F.
name: Gasparrini, D.
name: Cutini, S.
name: Giommi, P.
name: Antonelli, L. A.
name: Colafrancesco, S.
name: Salotti, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first blazar detection by the AGILE satellite. AGILE detected 3C 454.3 during a period of strongly enhanced optical emission in July 2007. AGILE observed the source with a dedicated repointing during the period 2007 July 24-30 with its two co-aligned imagers, the Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector and the hard X-ray imager Super-AGILE sensitive in the 30 MeV-50 GeV and 18-60 keV, respectively. Over the entire period, AGILE detected gamma-ray emission from 3C 454.3 at a significance level of 13.8-$σ$ with an average flux (E$>$100 MeV) of $(280 \pm 40) \times 10^{-8}$ photons cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. The gamma-ray flux appears to be variable towards the end of the observation. No emission was detected by Super-AGILE in the energy range 20-60 keV, with a 3-$σ$ upper limit of $2.3 \times 10^{-3}$ photons cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. The gamma-ray flux level of 3C 454.3 detected by AGILE is the highest ever detected for this quasar and among the most intense gamma-ray fluxes ever detected from Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars.
description: Accepted by Astrophysical Journal Letters; 14 pages, 3 EPS Figures, 1 Table
Additional file 1 of Methanolobus use unspecific methyltransferases to produce methane from dimethylsulphide in Baltic Sea sediments
Creators: name: Tsola, S. L.
name: Zhu, Y.
name: Chen, Y.
name: Sanders, I. A.
name: Economou, C. K.
name: Brüchert, V.
name: Eyice, Ö.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Map of Himmerfjärden and the Baltic Sea showing the three sampling stations H2, H3 and H5. The Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre is located on the Askö Island. Inset map shows the entire Baltic Sea. Supplementary Figure 2. Average concentrations of DMS and methane in DMS-amended incubations from seven sediment layers (0-1 cm, 1-2 cm, 2-5 cm, 5-12 cm, 19-22 cm, 39-43 cm, 60-65 cm). Black lines: DMS; Red lines: Methane. Supplementary Figure 3. Average sulfate concentrations at the start and the end of the incubation period in the samples D1: 0-1 cm; D2: 1-2 cm; D3: 2-5 cm; D4: 9-12 cm; D5: 19-22 cm; D6: 39-43 cm; D7: 60-65 cm. Supplementary Figure 4. Mean copy number of the mcrA gene per gram of wet sediment in the original and DMS-amended sediments. Error bars represent standard error above and below the average of three replicates. Supplementary Figure 5. Presence and absence of the genes involved in methane production in the four Methanolobus MAGs constructed using the metagenomics datasets. (a) Distinct genes involved in acetoclastic, hydrogenotrophic and methylotrophic methanogenesis pathways; (b) Genes common to all methanogenesis pathways. Supplementary Figure 6. Heatmap showing the normalised copy numbers of the genes common in all methanogenesis pathways. (a) Metagenomics datasets; (b) Metatranscriptomics datasets. CPM: Copies per million reads; FPKM: fragments per kilobase of gene per million reads. Supplementary Figure 7. Heatmap showing the normalised copy numbers of the genes involved in acetoclastic and hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis pathways. (a) Metatranscriptomics datasets; (B) Metagenomics datasets. FPKM: fragments per kilobase of gene per million reads. CPM: Copies per million reads. Supplementary Table 1. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients (rs) between total DMS consumed, total methane and CO2 produced, depth, initial and end point sulfate amounts and the first two principal coordinates obtained by the mcrA sequence analysis. Statistically significant values are in bold. ***: p<0.001; **: p<0.01; *: p<0.05.  Supplementary Table 2. The list of 78 methanogenesis-related genes searched within metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. Supplementary Table 3. Metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) constructed from metagenome datasets from each sampling station at 19-22 cm of depth. Quality is based on the MIMAG (Bowers et al., 2017). Comp: Completeness; Cont: Contamination. Methanogen MAGs are in bold. Supplementary Table 4. Analysis of the mtsgenes within the whole genome sequences of Methanolobus strains available on JGI and NCBI databases. mtsA and mtsB have < 8 identity, whilst mtsF had < V identity at the amino acid level.
Long-range Josephson effect controlled by temperature gradient and circuit topology
Creators: name: Kalenkov, Mikhail S.
name: Zaikin, Andrei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the supercurrent can be strongly enhanced in cross-like superconducting hybrid nanostructures (X-junctions) exposed to a temperature gradient. At temperatures T exceeding the Thouless energy of our X-junction the Josephson current decays algebraically with increasing T and can be further enhanced by a proper choice of the circuit topology. At large values of the temperature gradient the non-equilibrium contribution to the supercurrent may become as large as the equilibrium one at low T. We also predict a variety of transitions between 0- and $π$-junction states controlled by the temperature gradient as well as by the system geometry. Our predictions can be directly verified in modern experiments.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Miscellaneous verb forms
Creators: name: Caster, Amelia
name: Halpern, Abraham M.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: yum

description: 2 WAV files. For associated notebook, see Margaret Langdon Papers (Bancroft Library), carton 10, folder 6. Digitization by The Audio Archive (Burlingame, California).
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ETHICAL LEADERSHIP PRACTICES, POSITIVE SCHOOL CLIMATE AND TRUST IN LEADERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF LAHORE
Creators: name: KAUSAR RASHEED
name: Dr. QURRATULAIN REHAN
name: TOOBA KHAN
name: Dr. RABIA TABBASSUM
name: MARYAM IRFAN
name: KHADIJA KHAN
name: ZOBIA KIRAN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Leader's Ethical Practices, Positive School Climate, Trust in Leaders.

description: Abstract

Integrating values into school management is critical for balancing school administrator’s roles as both leaders and administrators. The aim of present research was to explore association amongst ethical headship practices, positive school climate and trust in leaders as alleged by the public-school teachers of Lahore. The present study employed a correlational research design and data were gathered using ethical leadership at workplace, trust in leader and organizational climate description questionnaire questionnaires. 150 female respondents were selected from the 14 public schools of Lahore, by using convenience sampling technique. The correlation among the three parameters: Ethical leadership practices by the principals, positive school climate and trust in leaders was computed through spearman's rank difference correlation and pearson's product moment correlation. The findings of the present study revealed a highly significant correlation among all three parameters for teachers at primary level. However, in comparison to the primary and high school levels, no significant relation was reported between ethical leadership practices and positive school climate at the middle level. Instead, a significant relationship was observed between ethical headship practices and trust in leaders as perceived by the middle school teachers. Furthermore, at the high school level, the findings showed a highly significant relationship amongst ethical headship practices and trust in leaders as perceived by the teachers at high school level whereas significant relationship was found between ethical leadership practices and positive school climate. Therefore, significant relationships were determined among all the three parameters except for ethical leadership practices and positive school climate at middle school. The findings revealed statistically significant differences in perceptions of ethical leadership, positive school climate and trust in leadership across three groups of schools i.e elementary, middle and high school. The results of this study propose that ethical management performs are of foremost importance for generating a positive school learning environment and fostering trust in leaders among teachers.
Microwave losses of bulk CaC6
Creators: name: Cifariello, G.
name: Di Gennaro, E.
name: Lamura, G.
name: Andreone, A.
name: Emery, N.
name: Herold, C.
name: Mareche, J. F.
name: Lagrange, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a study of the temperature dependence of the surface resistance RS in the graphite intercalated compound (GIC) CaC6, where superconductivity at 11.5 K was recently discovered. Experiments are carried out using a copper dielectrically loaded cavity operating at 7 GHz in a "hot finger" configuration. Bulk CaC6 samples have been synthesized from highly oriented pyrolytic graphite. Microwave data allows to extract unique information on the quasiparticle density and on the nature of pairing in superconductors. The analysis of RS(T) confirms our recent experimental findings that CaC6 behaves as a weakly-coupled, fully gapped, superconductor.
description: 2 pages, submitted to Physica C (M2S-HTSC 2006 Proceedings)
Additional file 1 of Appropriate medication use in Dutch terminal care: study protocol of a multicentre stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial (the AMUSE study)
Creators: name: van Hylckama Vlieg, M.A.M.
name: Pot, I.E.
name: Visser, H.P.J.
name: Jong, M.A.C.
name: van der Vorst, M.J.D.L.
name: van Mastrigt, B.J.
name: Kiers, J.N.A.
name: van den Homberg, P.P.P.H.
name: Thijs-Visser, M.F.
name: Oomen-de Hoop, E.
name: van der Heide, A.
name: van der Kuy, P.H.M.
name: van der Rijt, C.C.D.
name: Geijteman, E.C.T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1: Supplementary S1 - Detailed explanation of the Delphi Study
Effervescent heating: constraints from nearby cooling flow clusters observed with XMM-Newton
Creators: name: Piffaretti, Rocco
name: Kaastra, Jelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used deprojected radial density and temperature profiles of a sample of 16 nearby CF clusters observed with XMM-Newton to test whether the effervescent heating model can satisfactorily explain the dynamics of CF clusters. For each cluster we derived the required extra heating as a function of cluster-centric distance for various values of the unknown parameters $\dot M$ (mass deposition rate) and $f_c$ (conduction efficiency). We fitted the extra heating curve using the AGN effervescent heating function and derived the AGN parameters $L$ (the time-averaged luminosity) and $r_0$ (the scale radius where the bubbles start rising in the ICM). While we do not find any solution with the effervescent heating model for only one object, we do show that AGN and conduction heating are not cooperating effectively for half of the objects in our sample. For most of the clusters we find that, when a comparison is possible, the derived AGN scale radius $r_0$ and the observed AGN jet extension have the same order of magnitude. The AGN luminosities required to balance radiative losses are substantially lowered if the fact that the AGN deposits energy within a finite volume is taken into account. For the Virgo cluster, we find that the AGN power derived from the effervescent heating model is in good agreement with the observed jet power.
description: Final version accepted for publication in A&A. Conclusions on effervescent heating model changed
The word made flesh : an ethnographic history of Eskayan, a utopian language and script in the southern Philippines
Creators: name: Kelly, Piers
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Eskayan language Philippines Bohol
subject: Eskayan language Written Eskayan
subject: Philippines LanguagesBohol

description: In 1980, news of an uncontacted 'Eskaya tribe' began emanating from the island of Bohol in the southern Philippines. Early visitors were fascinated by the group's unique language and complex writing system, which are still used today by some 500 people for song, prayer, teaching and the reproduction of a large corpus of traditional literature. Though few have attempted to analyse the Eskayan language, exotic theories of its origins are widely circulated by outsiders. It has been claimed variously that Eskayan is a fossilised indigenous language, that it is displaced from Europe or the Middle East, or that it was invented in order to encourage government development. According to the speakers own account, however, the language and script were created by the ancestral 'pope' Pinay who used the human body as inspiration. A systematic comparison shows that its syllabic script has a Roman influence and that Eskayan grammar is adapted from Visayan, the language of Bohol. The vocabulary, meanwhile, shows almost no relationship to languages of the region. I argue that the putative creator Pinay coined new words for Visayan and that he took partial inspiration from the lexicons and sound systems of Spanish and English. An analysis of the traditional literature, oral histories and archival sources suggests that Pinay's identity is bound up in the biography of Mariano Datahan (ca. 1875-1949) a Messianic rebel soldier who founded a utopian community in southeast Bohol in the aftermath of the Philippine-American War (1899-1902). With his flair for the miraculous Datahan resurrected Pinay's lost language which was to become, for his followers, the embodiment of a recuperated indigenous 'nationhood' in Bohol. As a unique case of constructed indigeneity 'from below', the extraordinary history of Eskayan draws attention to the special importance of language and writing in the reimagination of postcolonial identities.
How accurately can 21 cm tomography constrain cosmology?
Creators: name: Mao, Yi
name: Tegmark, Max
name: McQuinn, Matthew
name: Zaldarriaga, Matias
name: Zahn, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is growing interest in using 3-dimensional neutral hydrogen mapping with the redshifted 21 cm line as a cosmological probe, as it has been argued to have a greater long-term potential than the cosmic microwave background. However, its utility depends on many assumptions. To aid experimental planning and design, we quantify how the precision with which cosmological parameters can be measured depends on a broad range of assumptions. We cover assumptions related to modeling of the ionization power spectrum and associated nonlinearity, experimental specifications like array layout and noise, cosmological assumptions about reionization history and inter-galactic medium (IGM) evolution, and assumptions about astrophysical foregrounds. We derive simple analytic approximations for how various assumptions affect the results, and find that ionization power modeling is most important, followed by array layout (crudely, the more compact, the better). We also present an accurate yet robust method for measuring cosmological parameters in practice, separating the physics from the astrophysics by exploiting both gravitationally induced clustering anisotropy and the fact that the ionization power spectra are rather smooth functions that can be accurately fit by 7 phenomenological parameters. For example, a future square kilometer array optimized for 21 cm tomography could improve the sensitivity of the Planck CMB satellite to spatial curvature and neutrino masses by up to two orders of magnitude, to Delta-Omega_k ~ 0.0002 and Delta m_nu ~ 0.007 eV, and give a 4 sigma detection of the spectral index running predicted by the simpliest inflation models.
description: 20 PRD pages, 9 figures, 13 tables, matches published PRD version, including new explanatory materials
Spatial Correlation Functions of one-dimensional Bose gases at Equilibrium
Creators: name: Proukakis, N. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dependence of the three lowest order spatial correlation functions of a harmonically confined Bose gas on temperature and interaction strength is presented at equilibrium. Our analysis is based on a stochastic Langevin equation for the order parameter of a weakly-interacting gas. Comparison of the predicted first order correlation functions to those of appropriate mean field theories demonstrates the potentially crucial role of density fluctuations on the equilibrium coherence length. Furthermore,the change in both coherence length and shape of the correlation function, from gaussian to exponential, with increasing temperature is quantified. Moreover, the presented results for higher order correlation functions are shown to be in agreeement with existing predictions. Appropriate consideration of density-density correlations is shown to facilitate a precise determination of quasi-condensate density profiles, providing an alternative approach to the bimodal density fits typically used experimentally.
The Spectrum of tmLQCD with Quark and Link Smearing
Creators: name: Abdel-Rehim, Abdou M.
name: Lewis, Randy
name: Petry, Robert G.
name: Woloshyn, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of using smeared sink operators on the hadron spectrum is studied for quenched twisted mass lattice QCD with up, down, and strange quarks. Gaussian smearing is used for quark fields, and stout link smearing for gauge fields. Smeared correlators are found to be dominated by the ground state with a small contribution from excited states, leading to an improved determination of some ground state masses.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, Lattice 2006 (Spectrum)
Disguising the Oblique Parameters
Creators: name: Grojean, Christophe
name: Skiba, Witold
name: Terning, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out a set of operator identities that relate the operators corresponding to the oblique corrections to operators that modify fermion couplings to the gauge bosons as well as operators that modify triple gauge boson couplings. Such identities are simple consequences of the equations of motion. Therefore the contributions from new physics to the oblique parameters can be disguised as modifications of triple gauge boson couplings provided the fermion couplings to the gauge bosons are suitably modified by higher dimensional operators. Since the experimental constraints on triple gauge boson couplings are much weaker than the constraints on the oblique parameters this observation allows extra room for model building. We derive operator relations in effective theories of the Standard Model with the electroweak symmetry either linearly or nonlinearly realized and discuss applications of our results.
description: 12 pages. v2: two references added
Localized Magnetic States in Graphene
Creators: name: Uchoa, Bruno
name: Kotov, Valeri N.
name: Peres, N. M. R.
name: Neto, A. H. Castro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the conditions necessary for the presence of localized magnetic moments on adatoms with inner shell electrons in graphene. We show that the low density of states at the Dirac point, and the anomalous broadening of the adatom electronic level,lead to the formation of magnetic moments for arbitrarily small local charging energy. As a result, we obtain an anomalous scaling of the boundary separating magnetic and non-magnetic states. We show that, unlike any other material, the formation of magnetic moments can be controlled by an electric field effect.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Pain management in German hospices: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Volberg, Christian
name: Schmidt-Semisch, Henning
name: Maul, Julian
name: Nadig, Jens
name: Gschnell, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Mana Whenua, Mataawaka, and Local Government. An Examination of Relationships Between Maori and Local Government in Wellington and the Hutt Valley
Creators: name: Te One, Annie
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: This thesis is about governance relationships between Maori and local governments. The research has used a Kaupapa Maori methodology which has aimed at identifying areas of ongoing colonial practice, while also highlighting Maori values, rules and institutions. The thesis has been grounded in Wellington and the Hutt Valley, and investigated the historical and contemporary relationships between British-informed local government and Taranaki Whanui ki te Upoko o te Ika. A key focus has examined how local government legislation has failed to meet Maori te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti/ the Treaty) expectations of partnership, resulting in on going debate over how Maori are involved in local decision-making. In particular, the thesis has analysed the Local Government Act 2002, and the Local Electoral Act 2001, both pieces of legislation which are meant to support Te Tiriti / the Treaty. Examination of the Local Government Act 2002, reveals that partnership remains a contentious proposition for local governments. Examination of the Local Electoral Act 2001, demonstrates how local governments are unwilling and unable to support Maori as local decision-makers. I argue that neither of these pieces of legislation can produce Te Tiriti / the Treaty partnership as they are only informed by western legal ideas which are sourced in colonial practices of local governance. Although these arguments are also true in Wellington and the Hutt Valley, by examining local government relationships with both mana whenua (iwi) and mataawaka (Maori from outside of Wellington and the Hutt Valley) there is clear evidence of how Maori governing rules and institutions continue to influence how Maori and local governments engage.
Fitting very flexible models: Linear regression with large numbers of parameters
Creators: name: Hogg, David W.
name: Villar, Soledad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There are many uses for linear fitting; the context here is interpolation and denoising of data, as when you have calibration data and you want to fit a smooth, flexible function to those data. Or you want to fit a flexible function to de-trend a time series or normalize a spectrum. In these contexts, investigators often choose a polynomial basis, or a Fourier basis, or wavelets, or something equally general. They also choose an order, or number of basis functions to fit, and (often) some kind of regularization. We discuss how this basis-function fitting is done, with ordinary least squares and extensions thereof. We emphasize that it is often valuable to choose far more parameters than data points, despite folk rules to the contrary: Suitably regularized models with enormous numbers of parameters generalize well and make good predictions for held-out data; over-fitting is not (mainly) a problem of having too many parameters. It is even possible to take the limit of infinite parameters, at which, if the basis and regularization are chosen correctly, the least-squares fit becomes the mean of a Gaussian process. We recommend cross-validation as a good empirical method for model selection (for example, setting the number of parameters and the form of the regularization), and jackknife resampling as a good empirical method for estimating the uncertainties of the predictions made by the model. We also give advice for building stable computational implementations.
description: all code used to make the figures is available at https://github.com/davidwhogg/FlexibleLinearModels
Observation of $e^+e^-$ Annihilations into the $\boldmath{C=+1}$ Hadronic Final States $ρ^0ρ^0$ and $ϕρ^0$
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
name: Aubert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first observation of $e^+e^-$ annihilations into states of positive $C$-parity, namely $ρ^0 ρ^0$ and $ϕρ^0$. The two states are observed in the $\pip\pim\pip\pim$ and $K^+K^-\pip\pim$ final states, respectively, in a data sample of 225~$fb^{-1}$ collected by the $BaBar$~experiment at the $PEP-II$ $e^+e^-$ storage rings at energies near $\sqrt{s} ~=$ 10.58~$GeV$. The distributions of $\cosθ^*$, where $θ^*$ is the center-of-mass polar angle of the $ϕ$ meson or the forward $ρ^0$ meson, suggest production by two-virtual-photon annihilation. We measure cross sections within the range $|\cosθ^*| ~
description: 7 pages, 6 postscript figues, submitted to Physical Review Letter
A new approach for extracting the conceptual schema of texts based on the linguistic Thematic Progression theory
Creators: name: Suárez, Elena del Olmo
name: Cesteros, Ana María Fernández-Pampillón
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The purpose of this article is to present a new approach for the discovery and labelling of the implicit conceptual schema of texts through the application of the Thematic Progression theory. The underlying conceptual schema is the core component for the generation of summaries that are genuinely consistent with the semantics of the text.