cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Social and economic life in Cumbria during the First World War ? Foreword
Creators: name: Crowe, Hilary
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 16, 5-8
description: If history could be folded where would you put the crease? This arresting question from British Artist Richard Wentworth was his response to the invitation from Art on the Underground to produce a work to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War. Indeed, many people would choose to fold their paper at some point between 1914 and 1918. The Great War marked a sudden and dramatic break with the Victorian past, a delayed start to a new century which would bring change on an unimaginable scale: technological progress, although not always harnessed for the good of mankind, political experimentation and shifts in power often short lived along with a fundamental redefinition of the relationship between the individual and the state.
Rural America at a Glance, 2010 Edition
Creators: name: Kusmin, Lorin D.
name: Hertz, Thomas
name: Kusmin, Lorin D.
name: Hertz, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Rural indicators
subject: population
subject: employment
subject: rural unemployment
subject: nonmetropolitan
subject: nonmetro
subject: rural economy
subject: metro
subject: rural America
subject: Census data
subject: population growth
subject: unemployment
subject: poverty
subject: demographics
subject: ERS
subject: USDA

description: Rural America At A Glance, 2010 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2010 edition focuses on the U.S. rural economy, including employment trends, poverty, and demographics.
Women and leisure in Cumbria and South-West Scotland 1916-1918: War workers, the pubs and the cinema
Creators: name: Brader, Chris
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 16, 9-23
description: Women war workers had unprecedented access to leisure in Cumberland and southwest Scotland during the First World War. Thousands of young females came into the Borders area to work at the Gretna munitions factory between 1916 and 1918 and took advantage of leisure facilities provided by both the State and private industry. This article focuses on two areas where women were much more publically visible ? the pub and the cinema ? and analyses the different reactions to this phenomenon that was often justified as helping the war effort but, paradoxically, challenged traditional cultural values.
Housing the Munitions Workers: Gretna, Eastriggs and Barrow-in Furness
Creators: name: Caffrey, Helen
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 16, 25-50
description: World War One has often been seen as a hiatus, but in terms of housing the infl uential Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 arose not only from tentative pre-war beginnings but from wartime opportunities for experimentation. The need for massive munitions production in specifi c locations generated a demand for housing which was provided either directly by the government or via subsidy in the case of government-controlled factories. The ministries concerned included key fi gures from the garden city, housing reform and town planning movements. Thus government need provided the opportunity for development of decent working-class housing and garden city communities. Gretna and Eastriggs were fully independent communities, while Barrow-in-Furness built in the context of an existing company town amidst the complexity of national and local government and business agendas. This article explores these contrasted models for the future acceptance of social housing as a state responsibility and for the type of housing and planning which was to become so familiar on post-war local authority estates.
Photonic flywheel in a monolithic fiber resonator
Creators: name: Jia, Kunpeng
name: Wang, Xiaohan
name: Kwon, Dohyeon
name: Wang, Jiarong
name: Tsao, Eugene
name: Liu, Huaying
name: Ni, Xin
name: Guo, Jian
name: Yang, Mufan
name: Jiang, Xiaoshun
name: Kim, Jungwon
name: Zhu, Shi-ning
name: Xie, Zhenda
name: Huang, Shu-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the first compact photonic flywheel with sub-fs time jitter (averaging times up to 10 μs) at the quantum-noise limit of a monolithic fiber resonator. Such quantum-limited performance is accessed through novel two-step pumping scheme for dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) generation. Controllable interaction between stimulated Brillouin lasing and Kerr nonlinearity enhances the DKS coherence and mitigate the thermal instability challenge, achieving a remarkable 22-Hz intrinsic comb linewidth and an unprecedented phase noise of -180 dBc/Hz at 945 MHz carrier at free running. The scheme can be generalized to various device platforms for field-deployable precision metrology.
title: Behavior of a phase field model for wetting on structured surfaces
Creators: name: Kunz, Jana
name: Leroux, Louise
name: Hasse, Hans
name: Müller, Ralf
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2025

description: Technical surfaces are generally not perfectly smooth, but usually exhibit roughness. Additionally, as micro production techniques continue to evolve, geometrical surface structures at the micro scale can be manufactured, which presents a challenge for wetting models that are commonly formulated for smooth surfaces. A phase field model for surface wetting, proposed by Diewald et al., serves as a basis for this investigation. On smooth surfaces, the width of the gas‐liquid interface can be widened for scale bridging purposes, as this allows for accurate computations on coarse grids. However, it was observed that this interface scaling impacts the results when the model is applied to rough surfaces, and therefore a free choice of the interface width is not always sensible. In this work, the ability of the model to deal with sinusoidally shaped surfaces is investigated. An Allen–Cahn evolution equation is used to determine static equilibrium configurations for droplets on such surfaces.
title: Сети и системы радиосвязи
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2018

description: Как показывает опыт развития линий передачи информации, радиорелейные, кабельные, волоконно-оптические, подвижные и спутниковые линии связи не вытесняют друг друга, а сосуществуют на обширном рынке телекоммуникационных средств связи. Система связи, в которой основные задачи передачи сообщений решаются с использованием радиоволн, называется системой радиосвязи. Несмотря на большое разнообразие систем радиосвязи (СРС), основные принципы их построения являются общими.
Measuring the cophasing state of a segmented mirror with a wavelength sweep and a Zernike phase contrast sensor
Creators: name: Cheffot, Anne-Laure
name: Vigan, Arthur
name: Leveque, Samuel
name: Hugot, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The demand for higher resolution telescopes leads to segmented primary mirrors which need to be phased for operation. A phasing sensor applying a wavelength sweep technique provides a large capture range without modulating the position of individual mirror segments. This technique offers the potential to monitor the phasing state of a segmented telescope in parallel to the science observations. We evaluate the performance of the wavelength sweep technique using a Zernike phase contrast sensor for coarse phasing. Tests results on a dedicated bench show 112 nm rms precision. With the help of a simulation, we explain a known error of the method and we suggest ways for improvements.
description: 23 pages, 14 figures
'Homes Fit for Heroes': Carlisle Corporation and the 1919 Housing Act
Creators: name: Turnbull, Jean
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 16, 51-72
description: The 1919 Housing Act was passed in the aftermath of the First World War and heralded a key change in the pattern of social housing provision. Although the act was short-lived, and contributed far fewer houses than had been hoped, it provided the model for social housing provision for the next half century and beyond - one in which local authorities were the principal housing providers supported by government subsidies. This article is focused on Carlisle where a comprehensive census of the city's housing stock in 1917 identifi ed a large proportion of older sub-standard properties and highlighted the high incidence of overcrowding in the city due to a substantial shortage of housing ? problems which needed urgent attention in the post-war years. This is the background which infl uenced Carlisle Corporation's response to the 1919 Housing Act and which is explored in detail in the following pages.
Two Contrasting Building Plans for Kendal's New Market Hall, 1881-1891
Creators: name: Tyson, Blake
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 17, 223-234
description: In these Transactions (2016), my article on 'Common Gardens of Kendal...' included details of how the latest common garden and its florist business passed into the control of Clarence Webb. However, the town council wanted to develop the former florist's shop premises to become the main entry for their new market hall, so that Webb had to take on a fresh shop at 18 Highgate in about 1888. The market hall was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887. Its opening coincided with the 700th anniversary of Kendal's market charter, granted by Richard I in 1189. To find how the florist's shop at 16 Market Street may have been adapted for its new use, clues in the surviving building control plans will be examined to inform much of this article because they provide useful details of intentions and instructions on how work was to be done. Several early intentions will be shown to have been changed or abandoned. Since a prize-winning earlier attempt to design a new market hall, mainly for fish, meat and vegetables, had been made in 1881 but was not successful, that scheme will be examined first.
Early Coloured Photographic Images of Annie Garnett's Garden at Fairfield, Bowness-on-Windermere
Creators: name: Ingram, D S
name: Roberts, R
name: Clarke, K J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 17, 235-256
description: The principal subjects are ten, pre-1918 coloured Autochrome Lumiere images of Annie Garnett's Garden at Fairfield, Bowness-on-Windermere, recently identified in the Garnett Archive, Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry (Lakeland Arts), Kendal. As background, Annie Garnett's role in the revival of hand spinning and weaving in Lakeland during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the establishment of The Spinnery, the garden at Fairfield and the importance of the latter to the work of The Spinnery are outlined. The Autochrome Lumiere process is described, as are details of the Autochrome plates from the Garnett Archive. The principal plants depicted are identified, references to them in the Garnett Archive and elsewhere are summarised and the use of their colours and forms in Annie Garnett's textile designs is discussed. Finally, it is proposed that the images were made by Henry Herbert, a professional photographer based in Bowness-on-Windermere.
Renegotiating the pedagogic contract : teaching in digitally enhanced secondary science classrooms
Creators: name: Ajayi, Ajibola Oluneye
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This qualitative case study explores the effects of emerging digital technology as a teaching and learning tool in secondary school science classrooms. The study examines three teachers' perspectives on how the use of technology affects the teacher-student pedagogic relationship. The "pedagogic contract" is used as a construct to analyze the changes that took place in these teachers' classrooms amid the use of this new technology. The overarching question for this research is: How was the pedagogic contract renegotiated in three secondary science teachers' classrooms through the use of digitally enhanced science instruction. To answer this question, data was collected via semi-structured teacher interviews, classroom observations, and analysis of classroom documents such as student assignments, tests and Study Guides. This study reveals that the everyday use of digital technologies in these classrooms resulted in a re-negotiated pedagogic contract across three major dimensions: content of learning, method and management of learning activities, and assessment of learning. The extent to which the pedagogic contract was renegotiated varied with each of the teachers studied. Yet in each case, the content of learning was extended to include new topics, and greater depth of learning within the mandated curriculum. The management of learning was reshaped around metacognitive strategies, personal goal-setting, individual pacing, and smallgroup learning activities. With the assessment of learning, there was increased emphasis on self-directed interactive testing as a formative assessment tool. This study highlights the aspects of science classrooms that are most directly affected by the introduction of digital technologies and demonstrates how those changes are best understood as a renegotiation of the teacher-student pedagogic contract.
Publications on Cumbrian History and Archaeology, 2015-16
Creators: name: Hughes, Ruth
name: Winstanley, Michael
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 17, 289-298
description: This year we have decided to extend the range and number of publications listed and to include a supplement to the previous year's entries. We have also included articles published in Transactions in order to provide a comprehensive coverage. The bibliography is arranged in four sections, Books, Chapters in Books, Theses and Journal Articles.
Cumbria's Roman Roads - A Lidar Update
Creators: name: Ratledge, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 17, 1-22
description: The use of Lidar data to reveal the course of Roman roads is now being employed with great success throughout the country. Imagery derived from these data is often able to show clearly the surviving remains of the road agger, terraces, side ditches and cuttings, often where they cannot be identified easily on the ground through traditional fieldwork. Cumbria has some of the most spectacular Roman roads in the country and yet there are still many gaps in our knowledge and understanding of their highway network. Lidar data are beginning to fi ll in some of the missing pieces and the following is very much a 'work in progress' update report. Several roads have been revealed, including what is almost certainly a strategic route to the north, right through the centre of the county.
On the Scalability of Cooperative Time Synchronization in Pulse-Connected Networks
Creators: name: Hu, An-swol
name: Servetto, Sergio D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of time synchronization in dense wireless networks is considered. Well established synchronization techniques suffer from an inherent scalability problem in that synchronization errors grow with an increasing number of hops across the network. In this work, a model for communication in wireless networks is first developed, and then the model is used to define a new time synchronization mechanism. A salient feature of the proposed method is that, in the regime of asymptotically dense networks, it can average out all random errors and maintain global synchronization in the sense that all nodes in the multi-hop network can see identical timing signals. This is irrespective of the distance separating any two nodes.
description: Final version, to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. This replacement version contains some non-trivial revisions made in two rounds of reviews
Prehistoric and Romano-British Settlement in the Lune Valley, Cumbria: an assessment of recent aerial and field survey
Creators: name: Hardwick, Ian
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 17, 23-42
description: This paper outlines selected results from English Heritage's 'National Archaeological Identification Survey Upland Pilot' - a project which used aerial mapping to record all visible archaeology from the later prehistoric period to the 20th century in a project area covering parts of southern Cumbria and small areas of northern Lancashire, supported by site-based ground observation, limited analytical field survey, geophysical survey and archaeological excavation. This paper reports on the results from the middle part of the Lune Valley (between Middleton and Kirkby Lonsdale) relating solely to later prehistoric and Romano-British settlement sites, focussing on some examples in detail, and aiming to shed new light on their morphological variation and geographical distribution.
title: Structural and biochemical insights into FKBP51 as a Hsp90 co‐chaperone
Creators: name: Baischew, Asat
name: Engel, Sarah
name: Geiger, Thomas M.
name: Taubert, Martha C.
name: Hausch, Felix
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2025

description: The FK506‐binding protein 51 (FKBP51) is a high‐molecular‐weight immunophilin that emerged as an important drug target for stress‐related disorders, chronic pain, and obesity. It has been implicated in a plethora of molecular pathways but remains best characterized as a co‐chaperone of Hsp90 in the steroid hormone receptor (SHR) maturation cycle. However, the mechanistic and structural basis for the regulation of SHRs by FKBP51 and the usually antagonistic function compared with its closest homolog FKBP52 remains enigmatic. Here we review recent structural and biochemical studies of FKBPs as regulators in the Hsp90 machinery. These advances provide important insights into the roles of FKBP51 and FKBP52 in SHR regulation.
Cohomology of bifunctors
Creators: name: Franjou, Vincent
name: Friedlander, Eric M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G10; 20C; 19D

description: We initiate the study of the cohomology of (strict polynomial) bifunctors by introducing the foundational formalism, establishing numerous properties in analogy with the cohomology of functors, and providing computational techniques. Since one of the initial motivations for the study of functor cohomology was the determination of the cohomology of GL(k) with coefficients in a tensor product of a symmetric and an exterior power of the adjoint representation, we keep this challenging example in mind as we achieve numerous computations which illustrate our methods.
description: Published version in PLMS, typos corrected. 31 pages
The boundary motive: definition and basic properties
Creators: name: Wildeshaus, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F42 (14C25; 19E15)

description: We introduce the notion of the boundary motive of a scheme X over a perfect field. By definition, it measures the difference between the motive X and the motive with compact support of X. We develop three tools to compute the boundary motive in terms of the geometry of a compactification of X: co-localization, invariance under abstract blow-up, and analytical invariance. We then prove auto-duality of the boundary motive of a smooth scheme X. As a formal consequence of this, and of co-localization, we obtain a fourth computational tool, namely localization for the boundary motive.
description: 33 pages; accepted for publication in Comp. Math. Following the request of the referee, a section on the case of normal crossings was added
Hopf Bifurcation and Chaos in Tabu Learning Neuron Models
Creators: name: Li, Chunguang
name: Chen, Guanrong
name: Liao, Xiaofeng
name: Yu, Juebang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the nonlinear dynamical behaviors of some tabu leaning neuron models. We first consider a tabu learning single neuron model. By choosing the memory decay rate as a bifurcation parameter, we prove that Hopf bifurcation occurs in the neuron. The stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions and the direction of the Hopf bifurcation are determined by applying the normal form theory. We give a numerical example to verify the theoretical analysis. Then, we demonstrate the chaotic behavior in such a neuron with sinusoidal external input, via computer simulations. Finally, we study the chaotic behaviors in tabu learning two-neuron models, with linear and quadratic proximity functions respectively.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, Accepted by International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
V1647 Orionis (IRAS 05436-0007) : A New Look at McNeil's Nebula
Creators: name: Ojha, D. K.
name: Kusakabe, N.
name: Tamura, M.
name: Nakajima, Y.
name: Fukagawa, M.
name: Sugitani, K.
name: Baba, D.
name: Kato, D.
name: Kurita, M.
name: Nagashima, C.
name: Nagayama, T.
name: Nagata, T.
name: Sato, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the newly discovered McNeil's nebula in Orion using the JHKs-band simultaneous observations with the near-infrared (NIR) camera SIRIUS on the IRSF 1.4m telescope. The cometary infrared nebula is clearly seen extending toward north and south from the NIR source (V1647 Orionis) that illuminates McNeil's nebula. The compact nebula has an apparent diameter of about 70 arcsec. The nebula is blue (bright in J) and has a cavity structure with two rims extending toward north-east and north-west. The north-east rim is brighter and sharp, while the north-west rim is diffuse. The north-east rim can be traced out to ~ 40 arcsec from the location of the NIR source. In contrast, no cavity structure is seen toward the south, although diffuse nebula is extended out to ~ 20 arcsec. New NIR photometric data show a significant variation in the magnitudes (> 0.15 mag) of the source of McNeil's nebula within a period of one week, that is possibly under the phase of eruptive variables like FUors or EXors.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures in JPEG format. Accepted for the publication in PASJ Letters
Additional file 1 of Comparing video-based versions of Halsted’s ‘see one, do one’ and Peyton’s ‘4-step approach’ for teaching surgical skills: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Seifert, Lukas B.
name: Schnurr, Benedikt
name: Maria-Christina Stefanescu
name: Sader, Robert
name: Ruesseler, Miriam
name: Sterz, Jasmina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplement 1. OSCE Checklist CMF – Structured Facial Examination
The Determinants of Agricultural Export Growth in South Africa
Creators: name: Idsardi, Ernst
name: Idsardi, Ernst
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agricultural exports
subject: diversification
subject: South Africa
subject: augmented gravity model
subject: determinants of trade

description: South Africa has relatively not been affected that significantly by the global food end economic crises. Although, the exports of South Africa’s traditional agricultural exports showed a moderate dip over the last two years. However, the country’s agricultural export base that earns valuable foreign currency is quite shallow. Against this background the study indentified ten agricultural export products which showed a significant increase in exports over the last years. These emerging agricultural exports form the basis for the analysis of the determinants of export growth. The identified determinants will provide a guideline for future trade diversification. An augmented gravity model was applied to investigate factors such as transaction cost, market size, the stage of economic development, exchange rate fluctuations and the impact of trade agreements on the export flows of the selected products. Various factors were found to have an significant impact on trade flows amongst which: economic market size, supply capacity and physical market size.
The thermal and gravitational energy densities in the large-scale structure of the Universe
Creators: name: Chiang, Yi-Kuan
name: Makiya, Ryu
name: Komatsu, Eiichiro
name: Ménard, Brice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As cosmic structures form, matter density fluctuations collapse gravitationally and baryonic matter is shock-heated and thermalized. We therefore expect a connection between the mean gravitational potential energy density of collapsed halos, $Ω_{W}^{\rm halo}$, and the mean thermal energy density of baryons, $Ω_{\rm th}$. These quantities can be obtained using two fundamentally different estimates: we compute $Ω_{W}^{\rm halo}$ using the theoretical framework of the halo model which is driven by dark matter statistics, and measure $Ω_{\rm th}$ using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect which probes the mean thermal pressure of baryons. First, we derive that, at the present time, about 90% of $Ω_{W}^{\rm halo}$ originates from massive halos with $M>10^{13}\,M_\odot$. Then, using our measurements of the SZ background, we find that $Ω_{\rm th}$ accounts for about 80% of the kinetic energy of the baryons available for pressure in halos at $z\lesssim 0.5$. This constrains the amount of non-thermal pressure, e.g., due to bulk and turbulent gas motion sourced by mass accretion, to be about $Ω_{\rm non-th}\simeq 0.4\times 10^{-8}$ at $z=0$.
description: 11 pages + references, 4 figures, 2 tables. (v2) Expanded discussion on the modelling uncertainty. (v3) Fixed a minor typo in Eq.(22). Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Julia codes to reproduce the figures and tables are available in https://github.com/komatsu5147/OmegaGrav.jl
Enhancing food and livelihood security in the context of the food and financial crisis: challenges and opportunities for small scale rainwater harvesting and conservation
Creators: name: Baiphethi, Mompati N.
name: Viljoen, Machiel F.
name: Kundhlande, Godfrey
name: Ralehlolo, N.G.
name: Baiphethi, Mompati N.
name: Viljoen, Machiel F.
name: Kundhlande, Godfrey
name: Ralehlolo, N.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: food security
subject: livelihoods
subject: rainwater harvesting
subject: household
subject: yield

description: The world recently experienced the food and financial crisis. The food crisis was an indicator of the challenges towards sufficiently feeding an increasing world population. Food production through rainfed and irrigated agriculture account for the bulk of the freshwater used globally but the water is still sufficient to meet the MDG goal on hunger reduction. Agricultural water management is thus an important challenge for feeding humanity; creates the need to find sustainable methods of managing water that will include all water users. Some of these methods include rainwater harvesting which has great potential in increasing food production as compared to irrigation. This paper aims to identify challenges and opportunities for small scale rainwater harvesting in enhancing food and livelihoods security. Given the large array of practices that are classified as rainwater harvesting, infield rainwater harvesting (IRWH) developed and mainly practised in the Free State Province, South Africa is used. The technique has been in use in villages around Thaba Nchu for a couple of years. Previous studies have shown that the technique increased yield significantly, reduced risk and thus improved household food security. The paper traces the evolution of the technique based of previous studies and recent data, to identify the potential and challenges faced by adopting households. It is concluded that IRWH has great potential to improve household food security as well as contribute to sustainable rural livelihoods mainly as it can reduce dependence on market sourced food supplies.
title: Создание и работа с облачными базами данных SQL Azure
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2019

description: В пособии рассматриваются вопросы создания облачных баз данных в среде SQL Azure и работы с ними. Описываются процедуры создания облачных серверов, баз данных, таблиц и хранимых процедур как непосредственно на портале Windows Azure, так и из сред SQL Server Management Studio и Visual Studio .Net. Изложение сопровождается конкретными примерами. Для студентов-бакалавров направлений подготовки 09.03.03 «Прикладная информатика» и 38.03.05 «Бизнес-информатика», изучающих вопросы управления информационными системами и администрирования баз данных.
Transaction Costs and Cattle Farmers' Choice of Marketing Channels in North-Central Namibia
Creators: name: Shiimi, T.
name: Taljaard, Pieter R.
name: Jordaan, Henry
name: Shiimi, T.
name: Taljaard, Pieter R.
name: Jordaan, Henry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Cattle marketing
subject: decision-making
subject: formal markets
subject: transaction costs

description: About 70% of the Namibian population depends on agricultural activities for their livelihood. Moreover, agriculture remains an important sector to Namibia because its national economy is widely dependent on agricultural production. Cattle producers in the Northern Communal Areas (NCAs) have an option to market their cattle via the formal or informal markets. Efforts have been made to encourage producers to market their cattle through the formal market; however, limited improvement has been observed. In this study a number of factors have been analysed to determine its influences on cattle marketing decisions. Factors influencing the marketing decision of whether or not to sell through the formal market are analysed using the Probit model. Factors influencing the proportion of cattle sold through the formal market on condition that a producer uses the formal markets to sell cattle are analysed with the Truncated model. Testing the Tobit model against the alternative of a two-part model is done using Cragg’s model. Empirical results revealed that problems with transport to MeatCo, improved productivity, accessibility to market-related information and access to new information technology, are some factors significantly affecting the decision of whether or not to sell through the formal market. Payment arrangements by MeatCo, animal handling, accessibility to new information technology, age of respondents and lack of access to marketing expertise, are some factors influencing the proportional number of cattle sold through the formal market. The results suggest that substantially more information is obtained by modelling cattle marketing behaviour as a two decision-making instead of a single decision-making framework.
Additional file 2 of Comparing video-based versions of Halsted’s ‘see one, do one’ and Peyton’s ‘4-step approach’ for teaching surgical skills: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Seifert, Lukas B.
name: Schnurr, Benedikt
name: Maria-Christina Stefanescu
name: Sader, Robert
name: Ruesseler, Miriam
name: Sterz, Jasmina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplement 2. OSCE Checklist CMF – Placement of a Bellocq’s tamponade
Phase transition in gauge theories, monopoles and the Multiple Point Principle
Creators: name: Das, C. R.
name: Laperashvili, L. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This review is devoted to the Multiple Point Principle (MPP), according to which several vacuum states with the same energy density exist in Nature. The MPP is implemented to the Standard Model (SM), Family replicated gauge group model (FRGGM) and phase transitions in gauge theories with/without monopoles. Lattice gauge theories are reviewed. The lattice results for critical coupling constants are compared with those of the Higgs Monopole Model (HMM), in which the lattice artifact monopoles are replaced by the point-like Higgs scalar particles with a magnetic charge. Considering our (3+1)-dimensional space-time as discrete, for example, as a lattice with a parameter a=λ_P, equal to the Planck length, we have investigated the additional contributions of monopoles to beta-functions of renormalization group equations in the FRGGM extended beyond the SM at high (the Planck scale) energies. We have reviewed that, in contrast to the Anti-grand unified theory (AGUT), there exists a possibility of unification of all gauge interactions (including gravity) near the Planck scale due to monopoles. The unifications [SU(5)]^3 and [SO(10)]^3 at the GUT-scale \sim 10^{18} GeV are briefly discussed.
description: 100 pages, 25 figures, typos corrected
Sharing mentoring experiences of elementary teachers : moving towards collaborative learning communities
Creators: name: Pachler, Richard Kurt
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This qualitative, illustrative study inquired into the mentoring experiences of six teachers in the Lower Mainland of Greater Vancouver. The purpose of this study was to examine factors that enhanced or hindered the mentoring relationships. Data consisted of transcripts from semi-structured interviews. The constant comparative method (Denzin & Lincoln, 1994) was used to analyze data. Many teachers preferred hierarchical mentoring, where one person was more experienced than the other. Participants also preferred mentoring that was informal, friendly and reciprocal, and strongly favoured working with someone of similar background and educational platform, with diversity, conflict and negativity avoided. Participants also expressed a preference for mentoring that was non-evaluative, practical, safe and respectful. Teachers described characteristics that hindered mentoring relationships as being assigned to or experiencing a negative mentoring situation, workload and stress. Furthermore, the lack of time and financial support for mentoring and professional development was an issue. The participants' preference for more experienced teachers as mentors, which suggests a hierarchical relationship, contradicted findings that suggested participants also want mentoring relationships that are nonhierarchical and collaborative, based on treating each other as 'equals'. I suggest that collaborative mentoring can occur if more innovative, truly collaborative partnerships between universities and schools are encouraged, which may include teachers engaging in action research. I also suggest that collaborative mentoring coupled with action research may provide practical, timely, ongoing support for the professional development and the life-long inquiry into the practice of student, novice and experienced teachers. Finally, the study suggests the need for addressing and reducing teacher workload and stress, combined with a drastic change in the culture of educational organizations for collaborative mentoring to succeed.
title: Средства разработки реляционных баз данных в СУБД Access 2010
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2017

description: В учебном пособии рассматриваются основные возможности и средства СУБД MS Access 2010 по организации баз данных. Пособие не предназначено для изучения теоретических основ организации реляционных баз данных, и основные сведения о них лишь в сжатом виде изложены в первом разделе пособия. Пособие предназначено для студентов, выполняющих цикл лабораторных работ с использованием лабораторного практикума. Для студентов МТУСИ, обучающихся по направлениям 09.03.01, 09.03.02, 01.03.04.
Best fit model selection for spatial differences (regression) in the profitability analysis of precision phosphate (P) application to winter cereals in Precision Agriculture (PA)
Creators: name: Hough, Ella Christina
name: Nell, Wilhelm T.
name: Maine, Ntsikane
name: Groenewald, Jan A.
name: Van Der Rijst, M.
name: Hough, Ella Christina
name: Nell, Wilhelm T.
name: Maine, Ntsikane
name: Groenewald, Jan A.
name: Van Der Rijst, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Precision agriculture
subject: variable-rate phosphate application
subject: single rate phosphate application
subject: profitability
subject: spatial differences
subject: restricted maximum-likelihood model (RELM)
subject: spatial regression
subject: best fit model selection
subject: South Africa

description: Phosphates (P) are an important nutrient required by every living plant and animal cell, and deficiencies in soils could cause limited crop production, thereby reducing profitability. Phosphates are also a primary nutrient essential for root development and crop production, and are needed in the tissues of a plant where cells rapidly divide and enlarge. Precision agriculture (PA) could assist the farmer in applying the correct amount of P to the part of the field where it is required most. Variable rate technology (VRT) is a potential tool that can help with the development of strategies for phosphate fertilizer management. On-field trials were conducted on a commercial farm in the Western Cape Province; As many as five soil types occur on each field studied, and three crops – wheat, canola and barley - are grown in rotation. One half of each field was planted using VRT (PA), while constant application (SR) was used on the other half. The objective was to determine whether spatial econometric models are more accurate than traditional ordinary least squares (OLS) models in predicting the profitability impact of P on PA. There are significant differences to be observed between the results obtained with the OLS, Spatial Error (SER) and restricted maximum-likelihood (REML) models. All the measures of goodness of fit indicated an increase in fit from the OLS to the SER model, with the best fit being achieved with the REML model, implying that the use of this model resulted in more accurate estimates.
title: Теория телетрафика. Конспект лекций
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2015

description: Теория телетрафика (от греческого Tele – далеко и английского Traffik движение) — движение и обслуживание потоков сообщений в телекоммуникационных системах и сетях. Под термином «трафик» обычно понимают поток сообщений в сети. В общем случае сообщение – это форма представления информации (голосовое сообщение, видео сообщение и т.д.). В теории телетрафика под сообщением понимается некоторое одномерное представление информации с выделенным началом и концом. Появление в системе обслуживания каждого сообщения отождествляется с требованием на обслуживание (заявкой, вызовом).
Evaluation of Beckfoot Roman Cemetery, 2006
Creators: name: Howard-Davis, Christine
name: Leary, Ruth
name: Ward, Margaret
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 17, 43-84
description: The Roman cemetery at Beckfoot, c. 350m to the south-west of the auxiliary fort (NY 0876 4868), and in the proximity of Milefortlet 15, was subject to evaluatory excavation in 2006 by Oxford Archaeology North, in advance of increasing coastal erosion. Although relatively well known, the site had hitherto seen only small-scale rescue excavation, as burials were exposed by erosion and dune collapse. The 12 evaluation trenches revealed general evidence for a prehistoric presence, and more detailed information on three phases of cremation burials dating to the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, artefact evidence suggesting that the cemetery had been in use as late as the 4th century. There was, however, no evidence to confirm the position of Milefortlet 15. Importantly, the finds, environmental evidence and scientific dating were able to elucidate funerary practice at the site, and add significantly to the still scant information for this in Cumbria and the wider region.
Relax-Tighten-Round Algorithm for Optimal Placement and Control of Valves and Chlorine Boosters in Water Networks
Creators: name: Pecci, Filippo
name: Stoianov, Ivan
name: Ostfeld, Avi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, a new mixed integer nonlinear programming formulation is proposed for optimally placing and operating pressure reducing valves and chlorine booster stations in water distribution networks. The objective is the minimization of average zone pressure, while penalizing deviations from a target chlorine concentration. We propose a relax-tighten-round algorithm based on tightened polyhedral relaxations and a rounding scheme to compute feasible solutions, with bounds on their optimality gaps. This is because off-the-shelf global optimization solvers failed to compute feasible solutions for the considered non-convex mixed integer nonlinear program. The implemented algorithm is evaluated using three benchmarking water networks, and they are shown to outperform off-the-shelf solvers, for these case studies. The proposed heuristic has enabled the computation of good quality feasible solutions in most instances, with bounds on the optimality gaps that are comparable to the order of uncertainty observed in operational water network models.
title: Технология полнотекстового поиска Microsoft SQL Server
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2018

description: В пособии подробно на конкретных примерах изучаются методы повышения производительности запросов и расширения функциональных возможностей Microsoft SQL Server за счет использования технологии полнотекстового поиска. Дается представление о том, как активизировать, настроить и администрировать полнотекстовый поиск в объеме, необходимом для практической работы. Подробно рассматриваются полнотекстовые запросы, которые, в отличие от традиционной команды SELECT с предикатом LIKE, выполняют лингвистический поиск данных. Для студентов-бакалавров направления подготовки 09.03.03 «Прикладная информатика», изучающих вопросы управления информационными системами и администрирования баз данных SQL Server.
Levies on Agricultural Commodities: Who Benefits? A Rapid Assessment
Creators: name: Mwiinga, Billy
name: Shawa, Julius J.
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Shaffer, James D.
name: Mwiinga, Billy
name: Shawa, Julius J.
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Shaffer, James D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: agricultural commodity taxes
subject: Zambia

description: This report provides an initial assessment of the impact of agricultural commodity taxes levied by local district authorities on the national objectives of food security, poverty alleviation and economic growth. A study was undertaken to provide government with a better understanding of the effects of the grain levy on the national policy objectives of promoting food security, poverty alleviation, and economic growth in Zambia.
title: Физика. Волновые процессы
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2018

description: Данное пособие представляет собой расширенный конспект лекций по такому важному разделу курса физики как ВОЛНЫ. В этом пособии излагаются свойства волновых процессов, которыми наполнен окружающий нас мир. Объем представленного материала ограничен необходимостью его восприятия в курсе общей физики для технических специальностей вузов. Известно, что представления о волнах и способах их математического описания используются для адекватного анализа самых разнообразных явлений в природе. Это обстоятельство в значительной степени определило методику изложения, в которой отражено стремление к описанию волн с единых позиций. Однако содержательная часть пособия не претендует на всеобщность, так как оно предназначено, в первую очередь, для студентов, подготовка которых ведется по направлению «Телекоммуникации».
Serving the Needs of a Lakeland Parish: Kendal in the Later Middle Ages
Creators: name: Asquith, Richard
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 17, 85-106
description: This essay aims to do two things: firstly, to assess the parish of Kendal in light of recent changes in the historiography of the later medieval Church and the Reformation; and, secondly, to uncover and examine the ways in which the parish and the institutional Church coped with the difficulties faced by such a large and remote parish.
Macroscopic coherence of a single exciton state in a polydiacetylene organic quantum wire
Creators: name: Dubin, F.
name: Melet, R.
name: Barisien, T.
name: Grousson, R.
name: Legrand, L.
name: Schott, M.
name: Voliotis, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a single exciton state in an individual ordered conjugated polymer chain exhibits macroscopic quantum spatial coherence reaching tens of microns, limited by the chain length. The spatial coherence of the k=0 exciton state is demonstrated by selecting two spatially separated emitting regions of the chain and observing their interference.
description: 12 pages with 2 figures
Taxing the North-West: Cumberland, Westmorland and the Knights' Fees Subsidy of 1428
Creators: name: Brayson, Alex
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 17, 107-120
description: This article examines the contribution of Cumberland and Westmorland, counties which were typically exempted from later medieval lay taxation, towards the parliamentary knights' fees subsidy of 1428. Exchequer returns demonstrate that local officials experienced a number of administrative problems in bringing Cumberland and Westmorland back into the payment of lay taxation. Officials failed to administer exemptions in the manner stipulated by parliament, particularly as far as the minimum tax threshold was concerned, and they took an unlawful period of time to assess landholders in an effort to ensure that the county elite were equitably assessed. It was in recognition of these problems, as well as of the low yield of the 1428 tax in Cumbria, that the exchequer reverted to the traditional exemption of Cumbria from subsequent lay taxes.