cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Memory span in children with reading disabilities
Creators: name: Gang, Marjorie Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Short term memory span for sounds and symbols and the acquisition of symbol-sound associations were investigated in dyslexic, compensated dyslexic, and normal readers. Tests of memory were administered to the two groups of children with a history of dyslexia and to age matched and reading level matched comparison groups. The memory tests included phonological pre- and posttests, visual iconic memory pre- and posttests, visual span pre- and posttests, and a sound-symbol training procedure. The dyslexic children showed deficits in phonological rehearsal and immediate phonological memory relative to both age and reading level matched comparison groups. They also had deficits in iconic memory relative to the age matched group, and iconic memory as well as visual memory span relative to the reading level matched group when age was used as a covariate. This suggests that both types of deficit may represent a developmental difference rather than a developmental lag. Training scores were significantly lower for dyslexic children than for either comparison group. They were unrelated to visual and phonological memory, but strongly related to reading scores. Following the sound-symbol training, the phonological and visual posttests were administered using only the name-associated sounds and symbols. Scores on phonological memory span increased significantly for all groups, though the increase was significantly smaller for the dyslexic group than either comparison group. Dyslexics are assumed to show a smaller phonological score increase because they do not develop familiarity with the sounds as easily, and do not benefit from the multiple codes. Visual memory scores decreased following the sound symbol training, more for normal than dyslexic readers. This is interpreted as interference of verbal coding with a predominantly visual task. Dyslexic readers may be less inclined than normal readers to attempt to use the phonological strategy for this task. In most respects, the compensated dyslexic group's scores were equivalent to those of the comparison groups. Compensated dyslexics demonstrated superior phonological rehearsal, iconic memory and associative memory to those who were still dyslexic. This may represent gains in phonological rehearsal, development of stronger visual memory, and/or greater ability to form associations between sounds and symbols.
Benchmarking the Variational Quantum Eigensolver through Simulation of the Ground State Energy of Prebiotic Molecules on High-Performance Computers
Creators: name: Lolur, P.
name: Rahm, M.
name: Skogh, M.
name: García-Álvarez, L.
name: Wendin, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) as implemented in the Qiskit software package to compute the ground state energy of small molecules derived from water, H$_2$O, and hydrogen cyanide, HCN. The work aims to benchmark algorithms for calculating the electronic structure and energy surfaces of molecules of relevance to prebiotic chemistry, beginning with water and hydrogen cyanide, and to run them on the available simulated and physical quantum hardware. The numerical calculations of the algorithms for small quantum processors allow us to design more efficient protocols to be run in real hardware, as well as to analyze their performance. Future implementations on accessible quantum processing prototypes will benchmark quantum computers and provide tests of quantum advantage with heuristic quantum algorithms.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables, MIPT2020, Moscow, 7-11 September 2020, AIP Proceedings (Table III corrected; ref. [16] updated)
Commodity Policies and Product Differentiation: the California Milk Marketing Order and the Organic Dairy Sector
Creators: name: Balagtas, Joseph Valdes
name: Kreutzer, Kristina N.
name: Balagtas, Joseph Valdes
name: Kreutzer, Kristina N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: California
subject: cartel
subject: dairy
subject: equilibrium displacement model
subject: milk marketing orders
subject: organic

description: This paper evaluates the economic consequences of milk marketing orders for producers and consumers in organic and conventional milk markets. We develop a multi-market equilibrium displacement model that disaggregates the organic and conventional segments of the California milk market in order to evaluate the economic effects of alternative policies. We find that exemption of organics from marketing order regulation would make organic farmers better off at the expense of conventional farmers, but that complete deregulation would make both organic and conventional farms worse off.
Teze din domeniul economiei susţinute în perioada anilor 2010-2020
Creators: name: Silvia, Habaşescu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: doctoral theses, bibliography, economics

description: Teze din domeniul economiei susţinute în perioada anilor 2010-2020 / Academia de Studii Economice a Moldovei, Bibl. Şt., Şc. Doctorală ; alcăt.: Silvia Habaşescu [et. al.] ; resp. de ed.: Natalia Cheradi ; coord.: Eugenia Feuraş. - Chişinău : [s. n.], 2021. – 29 p. CZU 016:33 “2010/2020”(478)(043) Prezenta cercetare bibliografică a fost elaborată în perioada 01.04.2021-19.05.2021 în conformitate cu standardul interstatal GOST 7.1.2003 „Înregistrarea bibliografică. Descrierea bibliografică: cerinţe şi reguli generale de alcătuire” şi cuprinde circa 300 de teze din domeniul economie, susţinute în perioada anilor 2010-2020. În procesul elaborării prezentei lucrări au fost consultate mai multe resurse electronice cum ar fi: site-ul CNAA, compartimentul „Teze - Economie” http://www.cnaa.md/theses/economy/, catalogul electronic al Bibliotecii Naţionale a Republicii Moldova http://catalog.bnrm.md/opac/search, Catalogul electronic partajat al bibliotecilor universitare din RM http://primo.libuniv.md/ şi Repertoriul tezelor de doctor şi doctor habilitat susţinute în cadrul Academiei de Studii Economice a Moldovei.
Design of an optomagnonic crystal: towards optimal magnon-photon mode matching at the microscale
Creators: name: Graf, Jasmin
name: Sharma, Sanchar
name: Huebl, Hans
name: Kusminskiy, Silvia Viola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We put forward the concept of an optomagnonic crystal: a periodically patterned structure at the microscale based on a magnetic dielectric, which can co-localize magnon and photon modes. The co-localization in small volumes can result in large values of the photon-magnon coupling at the single quanta level, which opens perspectives for quantum information processing and quantum conversion schemes with these systems. We study theoretically a simple geometry consisting of a one-dimensional array of holes with an abrupt defect, considering the ferrimagnet Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) as the basis material. We show that both magnon and photon modes can be localized at the defect, and use symmetry arguments to select an optimal pair of modes in order to maximize the coupling. We show that an optomagnonic coupling in the kHz range is achievable in this geometry, and discuss possible optimization routes in order to improve both coupling strengths and optical losses.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures
Is Willingness to Pay for Farmland Preservation Transferable Across States? Evidence from a Choice Experiment
Creators: name: Johnston, Robert J.
name: Duke, Joshua M.
name: Johnston, Robert J.
name: Duke, Joshua M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: In stated preference assessments of farmland preservation programs, respondents are often told that preservation will occur within a given scale-e.g., community, state, county-but do not know the specific location of parcels in question. Hence, welfare estimates may be available for different scales, providing numerous avenues for benefit transfer. This paper provides a systematic assessment of transfer error, contrasting methods for the transfer of farmland preservation values across states and jurisdictional scales. The data are drawn from choice experiments conducted simultaneously in two different states and at two different scales. Results suggest that transfers across state outperform transfers across scale, and that simpler methods often outperform more complex approaches that calibrate for differences across scale.
Non-Hamiltonian dynamics of indirectly coupled classical impurity spins
Creators: name: Michel, Simon
name: Potthoff, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the emergence of an effective low-energy theory for the real-time dynamics of two classical impurity spins within the framework of a prototypical and purely classical model of indirect magnetic exchange: Two classical impurity spins are embedded in a host system which consists of a finite number of classical spins localized on the sites of a lattice and interacting via a nearest-neighbor Heisenberg exchange. An effective low-energy theory for the slow impurity-spin dynamics is derived for the regime, where the local exchange coupling between impurity and host spins is weak. To this end we apply the recently developed adiabatic spin dynamics (ASD) theory. Besides the Hamiltonian-like classical spin torques, the ASD additionally accounts for a novel topological spin torque that originates as a holonomy effect in the close-to-adiabatic-dynamics regime. It is shown that the effective low-energy precession dynamics cannot be derived from an effective Hamilton function and is characterized by a non-vanishing precession frequency even if the initial state deviates only slightly from a ground state. The effective theory is compared to the fully numerical solution of the equations of motion for the whole system of impurity and host spins to identify the parameter regime where the adiabatic effective theory applies. Effective theories beyond the adiabatic approximation must necessarily include dynamic host degrees of freedom and go beyond the idea of a simple indirect magnetic exchange. We discuss an example of a generalized constrained spin dynamics which does improve the description but also fails for certain geometrical setups.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures, v2 with minor changes, as published
Winners and Losers Post Democracy in Nigeria: A Look at Economic and Labor Market Outcomes
Creators: name: Uwaifo, Ruth
name: Uwaifo, Ruth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: democracy
subject: disparities
subject: gender differences
subject: returns to education
subject: institutional change

description: There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration of the benefit of democracy in subgroups of the population is unknown. In this paper, the question of differential welfare impacts, across interest groups post democracy in Nigeria, is explored. I break down the population into interest groups along the lines of gender, sector, region, age cohort and education. The analysis shows these groups all benefitted from reforms post democracy but the magnitude differed significantly. In addition, the results show that having a tertiary education yields significant benefits. I find that individuals with tertiary education are the big winners post democracy in Nigeria.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper on July 5, 2007.
X-ray Imaging of Planetary Nebulae with Wolf-Rayet-type Central Stars: Detection of the Hot Bubble in NGC 40
Creators: name: Montez, Rodolfo
name: Kastner, Joel H.
name: De Marco, Orsola
name: Soker, Noam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) observations of the planetary nebulae (PNs) NGC 40 and Hen 2-99. Both PNs feature late-type Wolf-Rayet central stars that are presently driving fast ~1000 km/s, massive winds into denser, slow-moving (~10 km/s) material ejected during recently terminated asymptotic giant branch (AGB) evolutionary phases. Hence, these observations provide key tests of models of wind-wind interactions in PNs. In NGC 40, we detect faint, diffuse X-ray emission distributed within a partial annulus that lies nested within a ~40'' diameter ring of nebulosity observed in optical and near-infrared images. Hen 2-99 is undetected. The inferred X-ray temperature (T_X ~10^6 K) and luminosity (L_X ~ 2 X 10^30 ergs/s) of NGC 40 are the lowest measured thus far for any PN displaying diffuse X-ray emission. These results, combined with the ring-like morphology of the X-ray emission from NGC 40, suggest that its X-ray emission arises from a ``hot bubble'' that is highly evolved and is generated by a shocked, quasi-spherical fast wind from the central star, as opposed to AGB or post-AGB jet activity. In constrast, the lack of detectable X-ray emission from Hen 2-99 suggests that this PN has yet to enter a phase of strong wind-wind shocks.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures to appear in The Astrophysical Journal
Score Design for Multi-Criteria Incentivization
Creators: name: Kabra, Anmol
name: Karzand, Mina
name: Lechner, Tosca
name: Srebro, Nathan
name: Wang, Serena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a framework for designing scores to summarize performance metrics. Our design has two multi-criteria objectives: (1) improving on scores should improve all performance metrics, and (2) achieving pareto-optimal scores should achieve pareto-optimal metrics. We formulate our design to minimize the dimensionality of scores while satisfying the objectives. We give algorithms to design scores, which are provably minimal under mild assumptions on the structure of performance metrics. This framework draws motivation from real-world practices in hospital rating systems, where misaligned scores and performance metrics lead to unintended consequences.
description: A condensed version of this paper appeared at Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) 2024
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of structured psycho-oncological counseling for relatives of lung cancer patients based on the CALM approach—study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Dusel, Julia
name: Meng, Karin
name: Arnold, Hanna
name: Rabe, Antonia
name: Jentschke, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Trial registration data.
The Exchange Rate Pass-through into Import Prices: The Case of Japanese Meat Imports
Creators: name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Zhuang, Renan
name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Zhuang, Renan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The effect of exchange rate pass-through on import prices is a question of significant interest to many nations and especially those with permanent trade deficit. Japan is traditional net importer of food products in general and meat products including beef, pork, and poultry in particular. Most of the Japanese meat imports come from a few countries thus making Japan potentially very sensitive to the swings in one or a few bilateral exchange rates. This was the motivation to estimate the exchange rate pass-through effect on meat import prices in Japan. Interestingly, results for different meats differ substantially. For instance, poultry import prices indicate almost complete exchange rate pass-through, while beef import prices indicate partial (relatively high) exchange rate pass-through. Import prices of pork, on the other hand, indicate zero exchange rate pass-through. In terms of competitiveness, these results suggest almost perfectly competitive markets among poultry importing firms, somewhat competitive markets among beef importing firms, and a high degree of market power among the pork importing firms. One of the key contributions of this paper is the use of the meats imports weighted exchange rates in the analysis. The standard practice in previous agricultural trade studies related to either exchange rate pass-through or pricing to market was to use the aggregate trade weighted exchange rates usually provided by the Central Bank authorities or sources. Our approach is novel and is due to recommendations from Goldberg (2004) and Pollard and Coughlin (2006).
Heiser, Lothar, Maria in der Christus-Verkündigung des orthodoxen Kirchenjahres
Creators: name: Basdekis, Athanasios
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 32 Nr. 1 (1983): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 32, Heft 1
Possible multi-orbital ground state in CeCu$_2$Si$_2$
Creators: name: Amorese, Andrea
name: Marino, Andrea
name: Sundermann, Martin
name: Chen, Kai
name: Hu, Zhiwei
name: Willers, Thomas
name: Choukani, Fadi
name: Ohresser, Philippe
name: Herrero-Martin, Javier
name: Agrestini, Stefano
name: Chen, Chien-Te
name: Lin, Hong-Ji
name: Haverkort, Maurits W.
name: Seiro, Silvia
name: Geibel, Christoph
name: Steglich, Frank
name: Tjeng, Liu Hao
name: Zwicknagl, Gertrud
name: Severing, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The crystal-field ground state wave function of CeCu$_2$Si$_2$ has been investigated with linear polarized $M$-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy from 250mK to 250K, thus covering the superconducting ($T_{\text{c}}$=0.6K), the Kondo ($T_{\text{K}}$$\approx$20K) as well as the Curie-Weiss regime. The comparison with full-multiplet calculations shows that the temperature dependence of the experimental linear dichroism is well explained with a $Γ_7^{(1)}$ crystal-field ground-state and the thermal population of excited states at around 30meV. The crystal-field scheme does not change throughout the entire temperature range thus making the scenario of orbital switching unlikely. Spectroscopic evidence for the presence of the Ce 4$f^0$ configuration in the ground state is consistent with the possibility for a multi-orbital character of the ground state. We estimate from the Kondo temperature and crystal-field splitting energies that several percents of the higher lying $Γ_6$ state and $Γ_7^{(2)}$ crystal-field states are mixed into the primarily $Γ_7^{(1)}$ ground state. This estimate is also supported by re-normalized band-structure calculations that uses the experimentally determined crystal-field scheme.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
The Role of Theoretical Restrictions in Price Forecasting with Inverse Demand Models
Creators: name: Klaiber, H. Allen
name: Holt, Matthew T.
name: Klaiber, H. Allen
name: Holt, Matthew T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: In recent years the theoretical restrictions of consumer demand have been examined in post sample forecasting exercises. However, this work has uniformly ignored the concavity restrictions of consumer demand. In this paper we evaluate a series of Normalized Quadratic Inverse Demand System (NQIDS) specifications using rolling windows and generating one-- to four--step ahead forecasts. To estimate the models, eleven categories of South Atlantic fish are used from 1980 through 2001. In addition to the NQIDS, we also examine the forecasting performance of a purely time series model. We find that the best predictions are achieved using a composite forecast.
Superconductivity induced by spark erosion in ZrZn2
Creators: name: Yelland, E. A.
name: Hayden, S. M.
name: Yates, S. J. C.
name: Pfleiderer, C.
name: Uhlarz, M.
name: Vollmer, R.
name: Lohneysen, H. v.
name: Bernhoeft, N. R.
name: Smith, R. P.
name: Saxena, S. S.
name: Kimura, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the superconductivity observed recently in the weak itinerant ferromagnet ZrZn2 [C. Pfleiderer et al., Nature (London) 412, 58 (2001)] is due to remnants of a superconducting layer induced by spark erosion. Results of resistivity, susceptibility, specific heat and surface analysis measurements on high-quality ZrZn2 crystals show that cutting by spark erosion leaves a superconducting surface layer. The resistive superconducting transition is destroyed by chemically etching a layer of 5 microns from the sample. No signature of superconductivity is observed in rho(T) of etched samples at the lowest current density measured, J=675 Am-2, and at T < 45 mK. EDX analysis shows that spark-eroded surfaces are strongly Zn depleted. The simplest explanation of our results is that the superconductivity results from an alloy with higher Zr content than ZrZn2.
description: Final published version
title: Pensare prima di scrivere
title: La battaglia critica sul Fils naturel di Diderot e la questione della «sentence»
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Tocchini, Gerardo
Publisher: name: Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing
Year: 2016

description: The introduction of Diderot’s first drama, Le Fils naturel, unleashed a furious counter-offensive from playwrights and from influential sectors of journalistic criticism (Fréron, Palissot, Collé), who were fighting the theories closed in the armour of standards and of the 'good' rule of playwriting. The heated debate that aroused, allows us to bring back to light the underlying terms of a first, bewildered reaction to the Enlightenment critique on the principle of Autorité dans les discours et dans les écrits. Far from being a merely 'aesthetic' matter, the theme that emerged in the first volume of the Encyclopédie re-connected to the problem of employment at all levels of the highest authority, fitting into a wider cultural battle aimed at affecting, through the arts of entertainment, the authoritarian logic of the old political and social regime. Diderot’s suggestion lends itself to highlight the entrance in the theater of the écriture philosophique logics and the final write-down of the writing procedures from the âge de l'éloquence, highlighting the 'political and criticizing aspects of the origins of our literary modernity.
description: Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie occidentale, 49 | 2015
Creating semiclassical black holes in collider experiments and keeping them on a string
Creators: name: Dvali, G.
name: Sibiryakov, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that a simple modification of the TeV scale quantum gravity scenario allows production of semiclassical black holes in particle collisions at the LHC. The key idea is that in models with large extra dimensions the strength of gravity in the bulk can be higher than on the brane where we live. A well-known example of this situation is the case of warped extra dimensions. Even if the energy of the collision is not sufficient to create a black hole on the brane, it may be enough to produce a particle which accelerates into the bulk up to trans-Planckian energy and creates a large black hole there. In a concrete model we consider, the black hole is formed in a collision of the particle with its own image at an orbifold plane. When the particle in question carries some Standard Model gauge charges the created black hole gets attached to our brane by a string of the gauge flux. For a 4-dimensional observer such system looks as a long-lived charged state with the mass continuously decreasing due to Hawking evaporation of the black hole. This provides a distinctive signature of black hole formation in our scenario.
description: Journal version, a misprint corrected
Intersection numbers with Witten's top Chern class
Creators: name: Shadrin, Sergei
name: Zvonkine, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Witten's top Chern class is a particular cohomology class on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces endowed with r-spin structures. It plays a key role in Witten's conjecture relating to the intersection theory on these moduli spaces. Our first goal is to compute the integral of Witten's class over the so-called double ramification cycles in genus 1. We obtain a simple closed formula for these integrals. This allows us, using the methods of [15], to find an algorithm for computing the intersection numbers of the Witten class with powers of the ψ-classes (or tautological classes) over any moduli space of r-spin structures, in short, all numbers involved in Witten's conjecture.
description: 27 pages
Does Agricultural Trade Liberalization under FTA Reduce Pollution from Agriculture? : The Case of the Japan-Korea FTA
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Yasutaka
name: Sawauchi, Daisuke
name: Masuda, Kiyotaka
name: Yamamoto, Yasutaka
name: Sawauchi, Daisuke
name: Masuda, Kiyotaka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Trade and environment
subject: free trade agreement
subject: computable general equilibrium modeling
subject: agriculture
subject: Japan
subject: Korea

description: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate over agricultural trade and environment by asking: Does agricultural trade liberalization under free trade agreement (FTA) reduce pollution from agriculture? In order to contribute to answering the above research question, we measure the potential impact of environmental pollution from agriculture caused by agricultural trade liberalization under the Japan-Korea FTA (JKFTA), using the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model and the OECD Nitrogen Balance Database. The scenario we model assumes the complete removal of all import tariffs between Japan and Korea, not only in the agricultural sector but in non-agricultural sectors, as well. The results show the JKFTA is likely to lead to an overall increase in the total nitrogen surplus for Japan and Korea. Therefore, our results suggest that agricultural trade liberalization under FTA does not reduce the potential pollution from agriculture in the case of the JKFTA.
Particle-in-Cell modeling of a potential demonstration experiment for double pulse enhanced target normal sheath acceleration
Creators: name: Rahman, Nashad
name: Smith, Joseph R.
name: Ngirmang, Gregory
name: Orban, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra intense lasers are a promising source of energetic ions for various applications. An interesting approach described in Ferri et al. 2019 argues from Particle-in-Cell simulations that using two laser pulses of half energy (half intensity) arriving with close to 45 degrees angle of incidence is significantly more effective at accelerating ions than one pulse at full energy (full intensity). For a variety of reasons, at the time of this writing there has not yet been a true experimental confirmation of this enhancement. In this paper we perform 2D Particle-in-Cell simulations to examine if a milliJoule class, 5x10^18 W cm^-2 peak intensity laser system could be used for such a demonstration experiment. Laser systems in this class can operate at a kHz rate which should be helpful for addressing some of the challenges of performing this experiment. Despite investigating a 3.5 times lower intensity than Ferri et al. 2019 did, we find that the double pulse approach enhances the peak proton energy and the energy conversion to protons by a factor of about three compared to a single laser pulse with the same total laser energy. We also comment on the nature of the enhancement and describe simulations that examine how the enhancement may depend on the spatial or temporal alignment of the two pulses.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
BIOLOGIYA XONALARINI UMUMIY O`RTA TA`LIM MAKTABLARIDA SINI JIHOZLANISH TARTIBI
Creators: name: Aliyeva, Mavjudaxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Umumiy oʻrta taʼlimi maktablarda biologiya xonasini jihozlanishiga qoʻyilgan talablar  hozirgi zamonaviy texnik vositalar bilan birga, pedagogik, sanitariya-gigenik talablarda ham oʻzgarishlar berilgan. Bu talablarning tranformatsiyasi oʻquvchilarda biologiya fanini oʻqitishda kreativlikni rivojlantirish uchun muhim ekanligi xulosa qilingan.
Additional file 1 of Gut microbiome-metabolome interactions predict host condition
Creators: name: Shtossel, Oshrit
name: Koren, Omry
name: Shai, Iris
name: Rinott, Ehud
name: Louzoun, Yoram
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1.
«Å drive misjon kan jo være så mangt»
Creators: name: Omland, Solveig
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Missiology
Year: 2021

description: This study examines young Norwegian Christians’ understanding of missions and the mission assignment. Surveys show that mission is important for this generation. This article explores how young Christians understand missions. 28 young Christians who volunteered in a Christian organisation aboard, are interviewed. The study shows that the interviewees are true to the tradition of understanding missions as “word and deed”. The contribution of this article is greater understanding of how they understand these terms and an analysis of how contemporary religious socialization characterizes their understanding. The findings show that the interviewees believe that showing love and being in social relationships is important, that missions happens everywhere and that they themselves are missionaries.
description: Norwegian Journal of Missiology, Vol 75 Nr 4 (2021): Norsk Tidsskrift for Misjonsvitenskap
Black Hole Glimmer Signatures of Mass, Spin, and Inclination
Creators: name: Wong, George N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational lensing near a black hole is strong enough that light rays can circle the event horizon multiple times. Photons emitted in multiple directions at a single event, perhaps because of localized, impulsive heating of accreting plasma, take multiple paths to a distant observer. In the Kerr geometry, each path is associated with a distinct light travel time and a distinct arrival location in the image plane, producing black hole glimmer. This sequence of arrival times and locations uniquely encodes the mass and spin of the black hole and can be understood in terms of properties of bound photon orbits. We provide a geometrically motivated treatment of Kerr glimmer and evaluate it numerically for simple hotspot models to show that glimmer can be measured in a finite-resolution observation. We discuss potential measurement methods and implications for tests of the Kerr hypothesis.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures; added more detailed discussion of inclination; accepted to ApJ
DNA-strings and GC-content: DISC1 as an example
Creators: name: Praharshit Sharma
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Making the obvious observation that the cardinality of 2x2 "Confusion-Matrix" = 4, which happens to be the same as Number of Nucleotides (nt) in a single-stranded DNA-string (A|C|G|T), our goal is to examine the quantitative characterization upon assigning a one-to-one correspondence between the two Quarternary sets, namely {TP, TN, FP, FN} and {A, C, G, T} and further permute them across all 24 possible such assignments. Further work, taking the form of "BISCUIT= Bioinformatics Involvement of Schools and Colleges Utilizing Information Technology" initiative regarding, is also briefly discussed.
Evaluation of a telephone intervention in community health nursing postpartum care
Creators: name: Hambley, Nancy Elaine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: CHNs were of the opinion that after the call women seemed more aware of self-care, seemed less anxious when caring for themselves or their infants, contacted their physician more appropriately, received more support, were more aware of community resources, used the available resources more, and got out more. It is recommended that the telephone call intervention be implemented for all women following birth, but that it occur earlier than six weeks postpartum, preferably at three to four weeks postpartum. Implications and recommendations for nursing practice, nursing education, nursing administration, and future nursing research are presented.
Don't Forget to Measure $Δs$
Creators: name: Pate, Stephen F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This talk explores our lack of knowledge of the strange quark contribution to the nucleon spin, $Δs$. Data on $Δs$ from inclusive and semi-inclusive polarized deep-inelastic scattering will be reviewed, followed by a discussion of how the ongoing program of parity-violating elastic electron-nucleon scattering experiments, that seek out the strange electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon, need to have an estimate for the strange axial form factor to carry out that program, and how the value of $Δs$ extracted from the DIS experiments has filled that role. It is shown that elastic $νp$, $\barν p$, and parity-violating $\vec{e}p$ data can be combined to extract the strange electric, magnetic $and$ axial form factors simultaneously. A proposed experiment that could address this important issue if briefly previewed.
description: 4 pages, to appear in proceedings in PAVI04, Eur. Jour. Phys
Anticipatory relaxation dynamics
Creators: name: Voss, Henning
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: • Goal: Model free real-time prediction of signals
• Proposed solution: Anticipatory relaxation dynamics (ARD)
• Based on coupling of linear relaxation-delay system to a smooth, stationary signal
• ARD = Frequency-dependent predictor of future signal values
• Explanation: ARD = I/O system with negative group delay
• ARD is characterized by its analytically given frequency response function
An existence result for the sandpile problem on flat tables with walls
Creators: name: Crasta, G.
name: Vita, S. Finzi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35C15

description: We derive an existence result for solutions of a differential system which characterizes the equilibria of a particular model in granular matter theory, the so-called partially open table problem for growing sandpiles. Such result generalizes a recent theorem of Cannarsa and Cardaliaguet established for the totally open table problem. Here, due to the presence of walls at the boundary, the surface flow density at the equilibrium may result no more continuous nor bounded, and its explicit mathematical characterization is obtained by domain decomposition techniques. At the same time we show how these solutions can be numerically computed as stationary solutions of a dynamical two-layer model for growing sandpiles and we present the results of some simulations.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures
Options for Supply Management in Canada with Trade Liberalization
Creators: name: Barichello, Richard R.
name: Cranfield, John A.L.
name: Meilke, Karl D.
name: Barichello, Richard R.
name: Cranfield, John A.L.
name: Meilke, Karl D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Canada
subject: trade liberalization
subject: supply management

description: Following the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations Canada replaced its import quotas on sensitive products with tariff rate quotas. The over-quota tariffs on those products operating under domestic supply management schemes (dairy and poultry products) ranged from a low of 155 percent on turkey to a high of 299 percent on butter. These tariffs have effectively blocked over quota imports and are likely to continue to prevent imports, under most market conditions, given the likely range of tariff cuts proposed for sensitive products following a successful completion of the Doha Round. However, it’s argued that tariff cuts in the post-Doha Round will severely limit Canada’s ability to restrict imports and it is important to use the next 15 years to better position the supply managed industries to compete at that time. The paper reviews a number of reform options that could be pursued ranging from a full buy-out of current marketing quotas, the introduction of two types of marketing quota, to providing partial compensation of short-term income losses. The advantages and disadvantages of each option are discussed with respect to their costs and impacts on income and asset values.
Confessions to the Mirror (16mm, col, 68min, 2016)
Creators: name: Pucill, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016
Subjects: Claude Cahun
intermediality
queer
tableaux vivants
Surrealism feminism
CREAM Portfolio

description: Pucill’s research process involves exploring Cahun’s life in Jersey, together with that of her partner and collaborator Marcel Moore, particularly during the Nazi occupation, and studying Cahun’s posthumously published memoir, Confidences au Miroir, and the photographs Cahun and Moore made on the island. The structure and experimental language of Pucill’s film develops an intermedial form for contemplating artistic legacy and relating to historic works and archives, where celluloid and digital, stillness and movement, black and white and colour are points of intersection in an indeterminate narrative. In its particular use of tableaux vivants, Confessions to the Mirror provides a methodology to bring together the written text and still images of a historic artist, while at the same time bringing what is historical into the present through a material reinvention. The film provided new insights into the shifting critical context around Cahun and her collaboration with Moore whilst privileging both her artistic and political work, and proposing a novel form of collaboration between a historic and a contemporary artist.
Higher spins from exotic dualisations
Creators: name: Boulanger, Nicolas
name: Lekeu, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At the free level, a given massless field can be described by an infinite number of different potentials related to each other by dualities. In terms of Young tableaux, dualities replace any number of columns of height $h_i$ by columns of height $D-2-h_i$, where $D$ is the spacetime dimension: in particular, applying this operation to empty columns gives rise to potentials containing an arbitrary number of groups of $D-2$ extra antisymmetric indices. Using the method of parent actions, action principles including these potentials, but also extra fields, can be derived from the usual ones. In this paper, we revisit this off-shell duality and clarify the counting of degrees of freedom and the role of the extra fields. Among others, we consider the examples of the double dual graviton in $D=5$ and two cases, one topological and one dynamical, of exotic dualities leading to spin three fields in $D=3$.
description: 31 pages. v2: typos corrected, published version
Time-Resolved Ring Structure of Backscattered Circularly Polarized Beams from Forward Scattering Media
Creators: name: Phillips, Kevin G.
name: Xu, Min
name: Gayen, S. K.
name: Alfano, R. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The backscattering of circularly polarized light at normal incidence to a half-space of scattering particles is studied using the Electric Field Monte Carlo (EMC) method. The spatial distribution of the backscattered light intensity is examined for both the time-resolved and continuous-wave cases for large particles with anisotropy factor, g, in the range 0.8 to 0.97. For the time-resolved case, the backscattered light with the same helicity as that of the incident beam (co-polarized) is found to form a ring centered on the point of incidence. The ring expands and simultaneously grows weak as time increases. The intensity of backscattered light with helicity opposite to that of the incident beam (cross-polarized) is found to exhibit a ring behavior for g>=0.85, with significant backscattering at the point of incidence. For the continuous-wave case no such ring pattern is observed in backscattered light for either helicity. The present EMC study suggests that the ring behavior can only be observed in the time domain, in contrast to previous studies of light backscattered from forward scattering media based on the scalar time-independent Fokker-Planck approximation to the radiative transfer equation. The time-dependent ring structure of backscattered light may have potential use in subsurface imaging applications.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures (warning: lots of color figures), submitted to Optics Express
A Comparative Study of Hybrid Models in Health Misinformation Text Classification
Creators: name: Sikosana, Mkululi
name: Ajao, Oluwaseun
name: Maudsley-Barton, Sean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3

description: This study evaluates the effectiveness of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models in detecting COVID-19-related misinformation on online social networks (OSNs), aiming to develop more effective tools for countering the spread of health misinformation during the pan-demic. The study trained and tested various ML classifiers (Naive Bayes, SVM, Random Forest, etc.), DL models (CNN, LSTM, hybrid CNN+LSTM), and pretrained language models (DistilBERT, RoBERTa) on the "COVID19-FNIR DATASET". These models were evaluated for accuracy, F1 score, recall, precision, and ROC, and used preprocessing techniques like stemming and lemmatization. The results showed SVM performed well, achieving a 94.41% F1-score. DL models with Word2Vec embeddings exceeded 98% in all performance metrics (accuracy, F1 score, recall, precision & ROC). The CNN+LSTM hybrid models also exceeded 98% across performance metrics, outperforming pretrained models like DistilBERT and RoBERTa. Our study concludes that DL and hybrid DL models are more effective than conventional ML algorithms for detecting COVID-19 misinformation on OSNs. The findings highlight the importance of advanced neural network approaches and large-scale pretraining in misinformation detection. Future research should optimize these models for various misinformation types and adapt to changing OSNs, aiding in combating health misinformation.
description: 8 pages, 4 tables presented at the OASIS workshop of the ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference 2024
Quintessential Inflation for Exponential Type Potentials: Scaling and Tracker Behavior
Creators: name: Salo, Llibert Areste
name: Haro, Jaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We will show that for exponential type potentials, which are used to depict quintessential inflation, the solutions whose initial conditions take place during the slow roll phase in order to describe correctly the inflationary period do not belong to the basin of attraction of the scaling solution -a solution of the scalar field equation whose energy density scale as the one of the fluid component of the universe during radiation or the matter domination period-, meaning that a late time mechanism to exit this behavior and depict correctly the current cosmic acceleration is not needed.
description: Version accepted for publication in EPJC
Additional file 1 of Blood MMP-9 measured at 2 years after lung transplantation as a prognostic biomarker of chronic lung allograft dysfunction
Creators: name: Tissot, Adrien
name: Durand, Eugénie
name: Goronflot, Thomas
name: Coiffard, Benjamin
name: Renaud-Picard, Benjamin
name: Roux, Antoine
name: Demant, Xavier
name: Mornex, Jean-François
name: Falque, Loïc
name: Salpin, Mathilde
name: Le Pavec, Jérôme
name: Villeneuve, Thomas
name: Boussaud, Véronique
name: Knoop, Christiane
name: Magnan, Antoine
name: Lair, David
name: Berthelot, Laureline
name: Danger, Richard
name: Brouard, Sophie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: S1. COLT study protocol. S2. Description of variables of interest. Figure S1. Study protocol. Figure S2. Comparison of MMP-9 blood levels of Y2 analysis according to CLAD phenotypes. Figure S3. Precision-Recall (A) and ROC (B) curves for the Y1 MMP-9 analysis. Figure S4. Comparison of MMP-9 blood levels of Y2 analysis according to CLAD phenotypes. Figure S5. Longitudinal analysis of MMP-9 blood levels for recipients with available samples before transplantation, at Y1 and Y2.
Fuel and Food Tradeoffs: A Preliminary Analysis of South African Food Consumption Patterns
Creators: name: Mabiso, Athur
name: Weatherspoon, Dave D.
name: Mabiso, Athur
name: Weatherspoon, Dave D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: As oil prices continue to skyrocket and food riots surface across the globe, there are growing concerns that food-fuel tradeoffs are beginning to present serious challenges for food security across the world. In South Africa, where the government is embarking on a biofuels expansion strategy, understanding the nature of food-fuels tradeoffs is imperative for effective policy making and ultimately safeguarding consumers' welfare. Using time series monthly data constructed from various sources, this preliminary study makes a step toward explaining the nature of food-fuel tradeoffs in South Africa. By including fuel prices in the estimation of single-equation and seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) estimates of demands for maize meal (the South African staple food) and wheat bread (which is increasingly accounting for a large proportion of total expenditure in South Africa) the study presents preliminary findings. Further construction of the data used in this preliminary analysis is anticipated in order to allow for a systems approach that entails testing of separability between fuel and food, the estimation of cross-price elasticities and simulations of the expansion in the biofuels industry, for the elicitation of more information on the food-fuel tradeoffs in South Africa.