cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Globular Cluster Formation in the Virgo Cluster
Creators: name: Moran, C. Corbett
name: Teyssier, R.
name: Lake, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metal poor globular clusters (MPGCs) are a unique probe of the early universe, in particular the reionization era. Systems of globular clusters in galaxy clusters are particularly interesting as it is in the progenitors of galaxy clusters that the earliest reionizing sources first formed. Although the exact physical origin of globular clusters is still debated, it is generally admitted that globular clusters form in early, rare dark matter peaks (Moore et al. 2006; Boley et al. 2009). We provide a fully numerical analysis of the Virgo cluster globular cluster system by identifying the present day globular cluster system with exactly such early, rare dark matter peaks. A popular hypothesis is that that the observed truncation of blue metal poor globular cluster formation is due to reionization (Spitler et al. 2012; Boley et al. 2009; Brodie & Strader 2006); adopting this view, constraining the formation epoch of MPGCs provides a complementary constraint on the epoch of reionization. By analyzing both the line of sight velocity dispersion and the surface density distribution of the present day distribution we are able to constrain the redshift and mass of the dark matter peaks. We find and quantify a dependence on the chosen line of sight of these quantities, whose strength varies with redshift, and coupled with star formation efficiency arguments find a best fitting formation mass and redshift of $\simeq 5 \times 10^8 \rm{M}_\odot$ and $z\simeq 9$. We predict $\simeq 300$ intracluster MPGCs in the Virgo cluster. Our results confirm the techniques pioneered by Moore et al. (2006) when applied to the the Virgo cluster and extend and refine the analytic results of Spitler et al. (2012) numerically.
description: 13 Pages, 13 Figures, submitted to MNRAS
Supplementary information from Many-to-one function of cat-like mandibles highlights a continuum of sabre tooth adaptions
Creators: name: Chatar, Narimane
name: Fischer, Valentin
name: Tseng, Z. Jack
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Document containing supplementary material & methods and supplementary results (Table S1-S5 and Figure S1-S28)
Contextual Abductive Reasoning with Side-Effects
Creators: name: Pereira, Luís Moniz
name: Dietz, Emmanuelle-Anna
name: Hölldobler, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The belief bias effect is a phenomenon which occurs when we think that we judge an argument based on our reasoning, but are actually influenced by our beliefs and prior knowledge. Evans, Barston and Pollard carried out a psychological syllogistic reasoning task to prove this effect. Participants were asked whether they would accept or reject a given syllogism. We discuss one specific case which is commonly assumed to be believable but which is actually not logically valid. By introducing abnormalities, abduction and background knowledge, we adequately model this case under the weak completion semantics. Our formalization reveals new questions about possible extensions in abductive reasoning. For instance, observations and their explanations might include some relevant prior abductive contextual information concerning some side-effect or leading to a contestable or refutable side-effect. A weaker notion indicates the support of some relevant consequences by a prior abductive context. Yet another definition describes jointly supported relevant consequences, which captures the idea of two observations containing mutually supportive side-effects. Though motivated with and exemplified by the running psychology application, the various new general abductive context definitions are introduced here and given a declarative semantics for the first time, and have a much wider scope of application. Inspection points, a concept introduced by Pereira and Pinto, allows us to express these definitions syntactically and intertwine them into an operational semantics.
description: 14 pages, no figures, 1 table
La guerra, la pace, il compito del giurista. Voci dalla grande letteratura russa dell’Ottocento
Creators: name: Prisco, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2023
Subjects: IUS/08 Diritto costituzionale
IUS/20 Filosofia del diritto

description: [War, peace and the role of the jurist. Voices from the great Russian literature of the 19th century] The essay identifies in the opposite attitude of the main characters of Dostoevskij’s The legend of the Grand Inquisitor the models of realism and utopianism respectively in the relationship between man and power. It brings back into this scheme the opposing positions of Schmitt and Kelsen related to international law in the years following the First World War, identifying the task of the democratic jurist, after the end of the Second World War, in the research and construction of institutions and stages in order to progressively approach, in a solid and concrete way, the goal of global peace looking at the principles without rhetoric and without any illusion of an easy and definitive implementation.
Interaction-powered supernovae: Rise-time vs. peak-luminosity correlation and the shock-breakout velocity
Creators: name: Ofek, E. O.
name: Arcavi, I.
name: Tal, D.
name: Sullivan, M.
name: Gal-Yam, A.
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
name: Nugent, P. E.
name: Ben-Ami, S.
name: Bersier, D.
name: Cao, Y.
name: Cenko, S. B.
name: De Cia, A.
name: Filippenko, A. V.
name: Fransson, C.
name: Kasliwal, M. M.
name: Laher, R.
name: Surace, J.
name: Quimby, R.
name: Yaron, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interaction of supernova (SN) ejecta with the optically thick circumstellar medium (CSM) of a progenitor star can result in a bright, long-lived shock breakout event. Candidates for such SNe include Type IIn and superluminous SNe. If some of these SNe are powered by interaction, then there should be a relation between their peak luminosity, bolometric light-curve rise time, and shock-breakout velocity. Given that the shock velocity during shock breakout is not measured, we expect a correlation, with a significant spread, between the rise time and the peak luminosity of these SNe. Here, we present a sample of 15 SNe IIn for which we have good constraints on their rise time and peak luminosity from observations obtained using the Palomar Transient Factory. We report on a possible correlation between the R-band rise time and peak luminosity of these SNe, with a false-alarm probability of 3%. Assuming that these SNe are powered by interaction, combining these observables and theory allows us to deduce lower limits on the shock-breakout velocity. The lower limits on the shock velocity we find are consistent with what is expected for SNe (i.e., ~10^4 km/s). This supports the suggestion that the early-time light curves of SNe IIn are caused by shock breakout in a dense CSM. We note that such a correlation can arise from other physical mechanisms. Performing such a test on other classes of SNe (e.g., superluminous SNe) can be used to rule out the interaction model for a class of events.
description: Accepted to ApJ, 6 pages
Approximate Strong Equilibrium in Job Scheduling Games
Creators: name: Feldman, Michal
name: Tamir, Tami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A Nash Equilibrium (NE) is a strategy profile resilient to unilateral deviations, and is predominantly used in the analysis of multiagent systems. A downside of NE is that it is not necessarily stable against deviations by coalitions. Yet, as we show in this paper, in some cases, NE does exhibit stability against coalitional deviations, in that the benefits from a joint deviation are bounded. In this sense, NE approximates strong equilibrium. Coalition formation is a key issue in multiagent systems. We provide a framework for quantifying the stability and the performance of various assignment policies and solution concepts in the face of coalitional deviations. Within this framework we evaluate a given configuration according to three measures: (i) IR_min: the maximal number alpha, such that there exists a coalition in which the minimal improvement ratio among the coalition members is alpha, (ii) IR_max: the maximal number alpha, such that there exists a coalition in which the maximal improvement ratio among the coalition members is alpha, and (iii) DR_max: the maximal possible damage ratio of an agent outside the coalition. We analyze these measures in job scheduling games on identical machines. In particular, we provide upper and lower bounds for the above three measures for both NE and the well-known assignment rule Longest Processing Time (LPT). Our results indicate that LPT performs better than a general NE. However, LPT is not the best possible approximation. In particular, we present a polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the makespan minimization problem which provides a schedule with IR_min of 1+epsilon for any given epsilon. With respect to computational complexity, we show that given an NE on m >= 3 identical machines or m >= 2 unrelated machines, it is NP-hard to determine whether a given coalition can deviate such that every member decreases its cost.
Charge-exchange scattering to the isobaric analog state at medium energies as a probe of the neutron skin
Creators: name: Loc, Bui Minh
name: Khoa, Dao T.
name: Zegers, R. G. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge-exchange (3He,t) scattering to the isobaric analog state (IAS) of the target can be considered as "elastic" scattering of 3He by the isovector term of the optical potential (OP) that flips the projectile isospin. Therefore, the accurately measured charge-exchange scattering cross- section for the IAS can be a good probe of the isospin dependence of the OP, which is determined exclusively within the folding model by the difference between the neutron and proton densities and isospin dependence of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. Given the neutron skin of the target is related directly to the same density difference, it can be well probed in the analysis of the charge- exchange (3He,t) reactions at medium energies when the two-step processes can be neglected and the t-matrix interaction can be used in the folding calculation. For this purpose, the data of the (3He,t) scattering to the IAS of 90Zr and 208Pb targets at Elab = 420 MeV have been analyzed in the distorted wave Born approximation using the double-folded charge-exchange form factor. The neutron skin deduced for these two nuclei turned out to be in a good agreement with the existing database.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review C
Valence, sensations and appraisals co-occurring with feeling moved: evidence on kama muta theory from intra-individually cross-correlated time series
Creators: name: Herting, Anders K.
name: Schubert, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Emotional experiences typically labelled “being moved” or “feeling touched” may belong to one universal emotion. This emotion, which has been labelled “kama muta”, is hypothesised to have a positive valence, be elicited by sudden intensifications of social closeness, and be accompanied by warmth, goosebumps and tears. Initial evidence on correlations among the kama muta components has been collected with self-reports after or during the emotion. Continuous measures during the emotion seem particularly informative, but previous work allows only restricted inferences on intra-individual processes because time series were cross-correlated across samples. In the current studies, we instead use a within-subject design to replicate and extend prior work. We compute intra-individual cross-correlations between continuous self-reports on feeling moved and (1) positive and negative affect; (2) goosebumps and subjective warmth and (3) appraisals of closeness and morality. Results confirm the predictions of kama muta theory that feeling moved by intensified communal sharing cross-correlates with appraised closeness, positive affect, warmth and (less so) goosebumps, but not with negative affect. Contrary to predictions, appraised morality cross-correlated with feeling moved as much as appraised closeness did. We conclude that strong inferences on emotional processes are possible using continuous measures, replace earlier findings, and are largely in line with theorising.
Tits rigidity of CAT(0) group boundaries
Creators: name: Chao, Khek Lun Harold
name: Swenson, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C23, 20F67

description: We define Tits rigidity for visual boundaries of CAT(0) groups, and prove that the join of two Cantor sets and its suspension are Tits rigid.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure
Humanities e l’interrogativo di cosa si intenda per diritto. L’orizzonte del giurista oltre la ‘parzialità’ del diritto positivo
Creators: name: Roselli, Orlando
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2023
Subjects: IUS/08 Diritto costituzionale
IUS/20 Filosofia del diritto

description: [Humanities and the question of what is meant by law. The horizon of the jurist beyond the “par-tiality” of positive law] The meritorious IX National Conference of ISLL, through the specific view of narrative dimensions, stimulates a reflection on what should be under-stood by “law”: such a not surprisingly “recurring” question (Hart) is constantly reiter-ated with reference to various historical periods and different latitudes. In its “differ-ent perspectives”, the Law and Humanities binomial goes far beyond a mere cultural ex-ercise: it compels us to reflect on the multifaceted variability and mutability of the constitutive factors of the “legal dimension” (syntagma dear to Paolo Grossi), which go beyond the sole provisions' implementation. The varied artistic and narrative mani-festations represent instruments to understand the human condition with which the law must relate. Multidisciplinarity and attention to artistic expression are a must for a contemporary jurist. The jurist can only be a Siddhartha, a seeker (Hesse) who is not afraid to discover uncharted lands and can sail bravely through the sea storm of unsat-isfied orderly needs.
Malleability of Racism- Socialization
Creators: name: Rose, Hope
name: King, Laura
name: Easley, Ethan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This study will examine how people view racists, and whether these views are altered if they believe the racist was raised that way by racist parents.
Malleability of Racism- Age
Creators: name: Rose, Hope
name: King, Laura
name: Easley, Ethan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This study will examine how people view racists, and whether these views are altered based on how the perceived racist's age.
Peeling-off of the external kink modes at tokamak plasma edge
Creators: name: Zheng, L. J.
name: Furukawa, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is pointed that there is a current jump between the edge plasma inside the last closed magnetic surface and the scrape-off layer and the current jump can lead the external kink modes to convert to the tearing modes, due to the current interchange effects [L. J. Zheng and M. Furukawa, Phys. Plasmas 17, 052508 (2010)]. The magnetic reconnection in the presence of tearing modes subsequently causes the tokamak edge plasma to be peeled off to link to the diverters. In particular, the peeling or peeling-ballooning modes can become the "peeling-off" modes in this sense. This phenomenon indicates that the tokamak edge confinement can be worse than the expectation based on the conventional kink mode picture.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
La fantascienza al servizio del diritto: l’esperienza del Red Team
Creators: name: Scagliarini, Simone
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2023
Subjects: IUS/09 Istituzioni di diritto pubblico
IUS/20 Filosofia del diritto

description: [Science Fiction in the service of the Law: the experience of the Red Team] The contribution of literature and of the overall field of the humanities is functional to jurists not only in order to interpret the law, but also in its planning and drafting phase. The reflection on legal drafting and on the stakeholders’ participation in the elaboration of public policies and regulatory acts has long been mature, but, so far, it has neglected the opportunity of gathering inputs from actors engaged in these sectors, even outside the disciplines in which they are directly concerned. Especially interesting, in this connection, is the contribution that science fiction can provide, in a society characterized by swift technological developments and in which artificial intelligence is extending its possible applications to every area of activity. And indeed, science fiction often allows to imagine future scenarios that should be considered on time. Very significant, in this perspective, is the French government’s experience that, through the Red Team project, involved writers, screenwriters and science fiction designers for the elaboration of military policy for the next decades. An example that could well also be used in other contexts of legislative drafting, where the contribution of the arts could be useful not only in the moment of application of the law, to define the terms of the scenarios in which the operator carries out his activity, but also in the initial stage of the law.
MPEC 2023-G06 : 2023 FS13
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FS13

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Emotion may predict susceptibility to fake news but emotion regulation does not seem to help
Creators: name: Bago, Bence
name: Rosenzweig, Leah R.
name: Berinsky, Adam J.
name: Rand, David G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Misinformation is a serious concern for societies across the globe. To design effective interventions to combat the belief in and spread of misinformation, we must understand which psychological processes influence susceptibility to misinformation. This paper tests the widely assumed – but largely untested – claim that emotionally provocative headlines are associated with worse ability to identify true versus false headlines. Consistent with this proposal, we found correlational evidence that overall emotional response at the headline level is associated with diminished truth discernment, except for experienced anger which was associated with increased truth discernment. The second set of studies tested a popular emotion regulation intervention where people were asked to apply either emotional suppression or emotion reappraisal techniques when considering the veracity of several headlines. In contrast to the correlation results, we found no evidence that emotion regulation helped people distinguish false from true news headlines.
Landscape survey results: RRA practices in 54 research institutions
Creators: name: Pölönen, Janne
name: Rastas, Anni
name: Hyrkkänen, Anna-Kaisa
name: Ivanovic, Dragan
name: Kari, Marita
name: Pylvänäinen, Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This presentation provides the key take-aways and results of the EU Project GraspOS WP2 Landscape survey conducted by TSV. The survey was open 18-29 May 2023 and its purpose was to gain an overview of the state-of-the-art institutional research assessment practices among research performing and funding organisations, and other organisations involved with research assessment, who already are, or could become, signatories of the CoARA Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment. Questionnaire, data and results are published in the OS-aware RRA approaches landscape report submitted for the European Commission review 31 August 2023. The presentation has introduction, key take-aways and four results sections: 1. Respondent orgnisations; 2. Assessment context; 3. Assessment practices; 4. Assessment infrastructures.
Dirac Quasinormal modes of MSW black holes
Creators: name: Sebastian, Saneesh
name: Kuriakose, V. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the Dirac quasinormal modes of an uncharged 2 + 1 black hole proposed by Mandal et. al and referred to as MSW black hole in this work. The quasi- normal mode is studied using WKB approximation method. The study shows that the imaginary part of quasinormal frequencies increases indicating that the oscillations are damping and hence the black hole is stable against Dirac perturbations.
description: 8 page, 3 figure, Appear in MPLA
On equal values of power sums of arithmetic progressions
Creators: name: Bazsó, A.
name: Kreso, D.
name: Luca, F.
name: Pintér, Á.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B68, 11D41

description: In this paper we consider the Diophantine equation \begin{align*}b^k +\left(a+b\right)^k &+ \cdots + \left(a\left(x-1\right) + b\right)^k=\\ &=d^l + \left(c+d\right)^l + \cdots + \left(c\left(y-1\right) + d\right)^l, \end{align*} where $a,b,c,d,k,l$ are given integers. We prove that, under some reasonable assumptions, this equation has only finitely many integer solutions.
description: This version differs slightly from the published version in its exposition
The RNA-seq data of B. pendula, C. illinoinensis, and A. thaliana under cold stress (4oC) at 0 hours (0h), 2h, 24h, and 168h.
Creators: name: 吴文武(Wenwu WU)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Multispecies

description: The RNA-seq data of B. pendula, C. illinoinensis, and A. thaliana under cold stress (4oC) at 0 hours (0h), 2h, 24h, and 168h.
The effect of practice on a specific evaluation on the automatization of evaluation - Study 1
Creators: name: Shechter, Anat
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating role of similarity in surface features of the evaluation practice and the automatic evaluation measure on the effect of practice on automatic evaluation. Our overarching goal is to understand whether (and when) relatively abstract features of the evaluation are automatized. We will start by testing the generalization of the practiced evaluative response to other evaluative responses. In this study, we will examine the effects of practicing an evaluation with different response options on the automaticity of the evaluation on a binary Good/Bad scale. We will examine whether the effect decreases when the practice is different from the automaticity measure, and whether there is still evidence of automatization even when the practice is different than the measure. The critical manipulation would be the response options used in the practice task: a dichotomous scale, 1-4, or a 1-9 scale.
Storie esemplari ed istruttive nelle Intercenali di Leon Battista Alberti, tra letteratura e diritto
Creators: name: Rossi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2023
Subjects: IUS/19 Storia del diritto medievale e moderno
IUS/20 Filosofia del diritto

description: [Exemplary and instructive stories in Leon Battista Alberti’s Intercenals, between literature and law] Leon Battista Alberti in the Intercenales makes original and creative use of the Aesopic model and proposes, between the serious and the facetious, stories that contain a political moral and offer the reader some reflections on the rules for running the state. The narration of the vicissitudes of a variegated bestiary, anthropomorphic in its passions and weaknesses, offers us a penetrating glimpse into the internal dynamics of the civitas, the use of power and the mechanisms that determine the succession of political regimes. In this context, laws must remain unchanged, to ensure the preservation of tradition against the temptation to innovate without criteria and with often disastrous results. Thus, some principles of a philosophical matrix emerge from Alberti’s histories, ready to be translated into positive laws, in the conviction that law can give order and stability to the restless and conflicting becoming of social relations, with a view to achieving the common good of the res publica.
Toward an integrated system for fire, smoke, and air quality simulations
Creators: name: Kochanski, Adam K.
name: Jenkins, Mary Ann
name: Yedinak, Kara
name: Mandel, Jan
name: Beezley, Jonathan D.
name: Lamb, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 86A10

description: In this study, we describe how WRF-Sfire is coupled with WRF-Chem to construct WRFSC, an integrated forecast system for wildfire and smoke prediction. The integrated forecast system has the advantage of not requiring a simple plume-rise model and assumptions about the size and heat release from the fire in order to determine fire emissions into the atmosphere. With WRF-Sfire, wildfire spread, plume and plume-top heights are predicted directly, at every WRF timestep, providing comprehensive meteorology and fire emissions to the chemical transport model WRF-Chem. Evaluation of WRFSC was based on comparisons between available observations to the results of two WRFSC simulations. The study found overall good agreement between forecasted and observed fire spread and smoke transport for the Witch-Guejito fire. Also the simulated PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) peak concentrations matched the observations. However, the NO and ozone levels were underestimated in the simulations and the peak concentrations were mistimed. Determining the terminal or plume-top height is one of the most important aspects of simulating wildfire plume transport, and the study found overall good agreement between simulated and observed plume-top heights, with some (10% or less) underestimation by the simulations. One of the most promising results of the study was the agreement between passive-tracer modeled plume-top heights for the Barker Canyon fire simulation and observations. This simulation took only 13h, with the first 24h forecast ready in almost 3h, making it a possible operational tool for providing emission profiles for external chemical transport models.
description: 28 pages, 12 figures
Exploring the support mechanisms for nurses aspiring to or undertaking clinical academic development – a scoping review
Creators: name: Jennings, Claire
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Scoping review
subject: Clinical academic
subject: Nursing

description: This is a registration for 'Exploring the support mechanisms for nurses aspiring to or undertaking clinical academic development – a scoping review'. This registration includes the protocol for the scoping review and the search strategy.
Ensemble Classifiers and Their Applications: A Review
Creators: name: Rahman, Akhlaqur
name: Tasnim, Sumaira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ensemble classifier refers to a group of individual classifiers that are cooperatively trained on data set in a supervised classification problem. In this paper we present a review of commonly used ensemble classifiers in the literature. Some ensemble classifiers are also developed targeting specific applications. We also present some application driven ensemble classifiers in this paper.
description: Published with International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT)
Implementation of a mindful movement of Qigong exercises as a stress management tool for nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Cruz, Yvonne V.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Purpose: To implement a mindfulness movement of Qigong exercises for stress reduction among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qigong is a simple self-care strategy for nurses to cope with their work environment and maintain stable psychological well-being.Method: This quality improvement project occurred in a nursing professional organization represented by registered and advanced practice nurses in New Jersey. Participants were instructed to watch Qigong exercises via the YouTube video on their home computer for a 30-minute class at least once a week for four consecutive weeks. Participants completed the Perceived Stress Scale survey and its two dimensions of helplessness and self-efficacy pre-and post-intervention. Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to analyze the data.Results: While 50 participants completed the Perceived Stress Scale, only nine, or 18%, completed the survey after four weeks of participating in the Qigong intervention. The means of the overall stress, helplessness, and self-efficacy dimensions of the Perceived Stress Scale from nine participants were not significantly different (p > .05), with a consistent score within the moderate level (30-32, or 60-64%). However, there was a pattern of reduction in the overall stress and helplessness dimension, which may be attributed to the Qigong intervention. The self-efficacy dimension results showed a minimal reduction which can be construed that the Qigong intervention has no effect in improving self-efficacy.Implication for Practice: The study's findings were insignificant due to the small sample size. However, there may be a favorable clinical impact on the participants as there was a reduction in the overall stress and helplessness dimension scores. More rigorous research is needed with larger sample size.
Joined up thinking: linking and sharing Science Museum collections and content
Creators: name: Evans, Daniel
name: Jenkins, Ailsa
Publisher: name: ISKO UK
Year: 2013
Subjects: Museums and art galleries
Cultural heritage
Heritage institutions
London Science Museum
Open linked data
Linked data

description: The Science Museum has much content online featuring its collections, objects  and contextual stories, but this is fragmented across many websites and fails to add up to a credible and coherent online destination. It is known from our analytics that rich engagement with our online content takes place across the internet; on blogs, on twitter etc, but this engagement isn't reflected on our own web presence.
Our user-centred design process told us that users had relatively little interest in the data itself - their goal was content - but that the richness of the linkages our data could drive greatly increased the content's value. We set up a project to create aggregated content on our core website, interlinking it from various domains - archives and images, collections catalogues and content management systems - through its key ideas; allowing it to form a nexus for the wider conversations taking place around it.
As a result we have built a new infrastructure with linked open data at its heart. We have adopted a pragmatic ontological approach to maintain the integrity of our data sources, while leaving open the possibility of translating this for a greater variety of ontologies in the future. The result is an online product with an underlying data structure that combines two networks of linkages: a data-driven, structured, ontological one; and an organic one driven by user behaviour, creating a flexible platform with long term value - the simplest possible solution to a complex problem.
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study
Creators: name: Joshanloo, Mohsen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Self-esteem (a positive attitude toward oneself) and self-efficacy (confidence in one's ability to perform actions that lead to desired outcomes) are predictors of affective well-being. However, there is a lack of longitudinal research on their relative importance in predicting positive and negative affect. This study sought to examine the relative strength of these 2 variables in predicting affective well-being. Data from the German Aging Survey (DEAS), collected in 4 waves between 2008 and 2017, were used. The random-intercept cross-lagged panel model was used for data analysis. Within-person results showed that self-esteem and self-efficacy did not predict future levels of negative affect. Self-esteem, but not self-efficacy, was found to be a predictor of future levels of positive affect. In addition, positive affect predicted future self-efficacy. A longitudinal mediation model showed that self-esteem predicted future self-efficacy via positive affect. Thus, self-esteem contributes directly to future levels of positive affect and indirectly to future levels of self-efficacy.
Entanglement in a quantum annealing processor
Creators: name: Lanting, T.
name: Przybysz, A. J.
name: Smirnov, A. Yu.
name: Spedalieri, F. M.
name: Amin, M. H.
name: Berkley, A. J.
name: Harris, R.
name: Altomare, F.
name: Boixo, S.
name: Bunyk, P.
name: Dickson, N.
name: Enderud, C.
name: Hilton, J. P.
name: Hoskinson, E.
name: Johnson, M. W.
name: Ladizinsky, E.
name: Ladizinsky, N.
name: Neufeld, R.
name: Oh, T.
name: Perminov, I.
name: Rich, C.
name: Thom, M. C.
name: Tolkacheva, E.
name: Uchaikin, S.
name: Wilson, A. B.
name: Rose, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement lies at the core of quantum algorithms designed to solve problems that are intractable by classical approaches. One such algorithm, quantum annealing (QA), provides a promising path to a practical quantum processor. We have built a series of scalable QA processors consisting of networks of manufactured interacting spins (qubits). Here, we use qubit tunneling spectroscopy to measure the energy eigenspectrum of two- and eight-qubit systems within one such processor, demonstrating quantum coherence in these systems. We present experimental evidence that, during a critical portion of QA, the qubits become entangled and that entanglement persists even as these systems reach equilibrium with a thermal environment. Our results provide an encouraging sign that QA is a viable technology for large-scale quantum computing.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, contact corresponding author for Supplementary Information
Computation of the chiral condensate using $N_f=2$ and $N_f=2+1+1$ dynamical flavors of twisted mass fermions
Creators: name: Cichy, Krzysztof
name: Garcia-Ramos, Elena
name: Jansen, Karl
name: Shindler, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the spectral projector method, recently introduced by Giusti and Lüscher, to compute the chiral condensate using $N_f=2$ and $N_f=2+1+1$ dynamical flavors of maximally twisted mass fermions. We present our results for several quark masses at three different lattice spacings which allows us to perform the chiral and continuum extrapolations. In addition we report our analysis on the $O(a)$ improvement of the chiral condensate for twisted mass fermions. We also study the effect of the dynamical strange and charm quarks by comparing our results for $N_f=2$ and $N_f=2+1+1$ dynamical flavors.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures; presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2013), 29 July - 3 August 2013, Mainz, Germany
title: Insect infestation sources in stored maize grain; what is more important resident versus incoming infestation?
Creators: name: Machekano, Honest
name: Mvumi, Brighton M.
Publisher: name: Julius-Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: Most studies targeted pest control inside stores; incognisant of the population dynamics in the store vicinity; leading to product re-infestation. Distinction between storage insect pest source and sink grain patches is important for effective pest management strategies. We examined the role of resident versus incoming insect infestation in phosphine-fumigated closed or open and unfumigated closed or open maize farm stores. Grain quality measurements were recorded over 32 weeks for two storage seasons. Whether open or closed, fumigated grain had significantly lower (p < 0.001) grain damage and lower grain weight loss (p < 0.05) than unfumigated grain. Fumigated open stores had significantly higher (p= 0.004) grain damage and weight loss than closed ones. Grain damage was higher in unfumigated-closed than fumigated-open, evidence that resident infestation inflicted higher food loss than incoming infestation. Prostephanus truncatus, Cryptolestes ferrugineus and Tribolium castaneum had significantly higher populations (p < 0.001, p = 0.018 and p = 0.001; respectively) at bottom levels of unfumigated and fumigated grain (T. castaneum). Sitotroga cerealella and Sitophilus zeamais were significantly higher (p < 0.001) at the top of closed than open unfumigated compartments. Grain suffers less infestation and quality loss when it is a sink patch than when it is a source patch. Population build-up and ‘settling’ to inflict significant food loss takes longer for incoming compared to resident infestation. These results have ecological implications on postharvest IPM.
description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 463, Vol.1 (2018): Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP) in Berlin, Germany, October 7-11, 2018
The congruence relation in the non-PEL case
Creators: name: Bueltel, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G18, 14G35, 11F55, 14K22

description: This work settles the Eichler-Shimura congruence relation of Blasius and Rogawski for certain 5-dimensional Hodge-type Shimura varieties, that were not tractable by previously known methods. In a more general context we introduce a hypothesis called (NVC) on the behavior of Hecke correspondences, and show that it implies the congruence relation. A major ingredient in the proof of this result is a theorem of R.Noot on CM-lifts of ordinary points in characteristic p, along with an analysis of the mod p-reductions of various Hecke translates of that CM-lift. Finally we prove this (NVC)-hypothesis for our particular Shimura 5-folds, and in doing so we obtain an unconditional result for the congruence relation of these non-PEL examples.
description: This corrects a mistake in the appendix of the published version
The influence of incidental emotions on decision-making under risk and uncertainty: a systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental evidence
Creators: name: Bartholomeyczik, Karen
name: Gusenbauer, Michael
name: Treffers, Theresa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Emotions influence human decisions under risk and uncertainty, even when they are unrelated to the decisions, i.e. incidental to them. Empirical findings are mixed regarding the directions and sizes of the effects of discrete emotions such as fear, anger, or happiness. According to the Appraisal-Tendency Framework (ATF), appraisals of certainty and control determine why same-valence emotions can differentially alter preferences for risky and uncertain options. Building upon this framework of emotion-specific appraisals, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 28 experimental studies on the effects of discrete incidental emotions on decision-making under risk and uncertainty. We evaluated potential moderators at the task and study levels. We find emotion-specific, moderately heterogeneous effects partially in line with the expectations of the ATF. The framing and financial consequences of choices, the type of choices, and the presence of other participants during the task do not moderate the effect. Our meta-analytic results support the differential influence of discrete, incidental emotions on decision-making under risk and uncertainty depending on appraisals other than valence. We discuss limited sample sizes and heterogeneity as reasons for the absence of significant moderators and encourage experimental investigations of individual differences in the susceptibility to incidental affective influences.
Investigating the genetic architecture of sleep problems in childhood and adolescence in the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)
Creators: name: Hannigan, Laurie John
name: Havdahl, Alexandra
name: Corfield, Elizabeth
name: Ask, Helga
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Genetics and Genomics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Molecular Genetics
subject: Mental Disorders

description: The overarching objective of this study is to investigate the molecular underpinnings of sleep problems in children and adolescence.
This feels like the right choice: how decision aids may facilitate affect-based valuation
Creators: name: Jaffé, Mariela E.
name: Douneva, Maria
name: Reutner, Leonie
name: Greifeneder, Rainer
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: When individuals cannot make up their mind, they sometimes use a random decision-making aid such as a coin to make a decision. This aid may also elicit affective reactions: A person flipping a coin may (dis)like the outcome, and thus decide according to this feeling. We refer to this process as catalysing decisions and to the aid as catalyst. We investigate whether using a catalyst may not only elicit affect but also result in more affect-based decision making. We used different online studies that examine affect-driven decisions by investigating scope insensitivity (indirect behavioural measure) and self-reported weight given to feelings versus reasons in hypothetical donation decisions. Study 1a showed that a catalyst (a lottery wheel) lead to more scope insensitive (i.e. affect-driven) donations. Study 1b included several changes and did not replicate these results. Study 2 (preregistered) examined scope insensitivity but did not replicate previous results; Study 3 (preregistered) looked at the weight given to feelings versus reason. Although catalyst (compared to control) participants descriptively reported relying more on feelings, this difference did not reach significance. In contrast to lay beliefs, results do not indicate support for the hypothesis that using a catalyst results in more affect-based hypothetical donation decisions.
Perspective: Inverse methods for material design
Creators: name: Jain, Avni
name: Bollinger, Jonathan A.
name: Truskett, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Perspective, we highlight several recent studies that illustrate how inverse strategies using appropriate physical models and computational methods can address complex materials design questions.
description: 5 pages + references, 5 figures
title: Climate change and its implications on stored food grains
Creators: name: Gottlieb, Daphna
name: Qvinn, Elazar
name: Nega, Mula
name: Rapaport, Aviv
name: Doron, Josef
name: Kostyukovsky, Moshe
Publisher: name: Julius-Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: Safe food grain storages are considered as a measure to adapt to the changing global climates and as a channel to food security, particularly in periods when agriculture fails. However, grain storage themselves can be heavily affected by changing global climates. One main aspect of the ‘climate change’ is the rise of global temperature that may lead to an increase in atmospheric humidity. This climate change, warm and humid, are not suitable for grain storage. At such a scenario, stored grain is at a risk due to the favorable conditions developed for the growth of insect pests. Predicting the future ecological impact of climate change drivers requires understanding how these same drivers have acted in the past on the dynamics of insect's population. In the past ten years there has been a detailed documentation on the biotic and abiotic conditions of two storage sites in Israel. This historical ecological data can reveal long-term consequences of multiple drivers of climate change. The changes can be evident at the level of the species and at the level of the societies of insect-pest in the grain storage. The differences between two storages located at different climate regions in Israel further predict the direction current IPM practice may lead to. Following this understanding, we hope to develop feasible mitigation strategies that might overcome the changes ahead of us.
description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 463, Vol.1 (2018): Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP) in Berlin, Germany, October 7-11, 2018