cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tunable Birefringence in Silica Mediated Magnetic Fluid
Creators: name: Soni, Urveshkumar
name: Ruparelia, Nidhi
name: Padsala, Abhay
name: Desai, Rucha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present study reports magnetic and optical properties of silica mediated lauric acid stabilized magnetic fluids. The tunable birefringence (Δn) and other properties are investigated as a function of (i) concentrations of silica suspension, and (ii) saturation magnetization (MS) 0.5099 kA/m (FN30) and 1.2855 kA/m (F30) of magnetite magnetic fluid (MF). The study reveals that Δn suppresses on addition of silica in FN30, whereas enhances (up to critical concentrations of silica) in F30. The magnetic field induced chain observed in the FN30 based fluids are long, thick and scattered, while short, thin and dense chains emerges in F30 based fluid. The magnetic field induced assembly and the magnetic parameters correlates with the results of Δn. The particle size analysis indicates increment of particle size on addition of silica nanoparticles. The thermogravimetry analysis confirms the direct interaction of silica nanoparticles and the lauric acid coated magnetite particles. This is the first report of direct interaction of silica - magnetite magnetic fluids, and its subsequent effect on tunable birefringence and other properties.
description: Mater. Res. Express 2019
Navigation Instruction Validation Tool and Indoor Wayfinding Training System for People with Disabilities
Creators: name: Ding, Linlin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: According to World Health Survey, there are 785 million (15.6%) people in the world that live with a disability. It is a well-known fact that lack of access to public transportation is a barrier for people with disabilities in seeking work or accessing health care. In this research, we seek to increase access to public transportation by introducing a virtual pre-travel training system that enables people with disabilities to get familiar with a public transportation venue prior to arriving at the venue. Using this system, users establish a mental map of the target environment prior to their arrival to the physical space, increasing their confidence and therefore increasing their chances of using public transportation.
First, we have to guarantee that all navigation instructions sent to our training system are correct. Since the number of navigation instruction increases dramatically, instruction validation becomes a challenge. We propose a video game based validation tool which includes a game scene that represents in 2D the physical environment and uses a game avatar to verify the navigation instructions automatically in the game scene. The avatar traverses the virtual space following the corresponding navigation instructions. Only in case that it successfully reaches the planned destination, the current navigation instruction can be considered as correct.
Then, we introduce a virtual reality based pre-travel wayfinding training system to assist people with disabilities to get familiar with a venue prior to their arrival at the physical space, which provides two modes: 1) Self-Guided mode in which the path between a source and a destination is shown to the user from third person perspective, and 2) Exploration mode in which the user explores and interacts with the environment.
In the end, we have implemented visual analytics tools that track and evaluate trainees’ performance and help us optimize the game. These tools identify the difficulties faced by the trainees as well as obtain overall statistics on the trainees’ behavior in the indoor environment, helping us understand how to modify the system and adjust it to different classes of disabilities.
Financial technology and regulation: the competitive impact of open banking
Creators: name: Borgogno, Oscar
name: Manganelli, Antonio
Publisher: name: Market and Competition Law Review
Year: 2021

description: Financial technology (FinTech) raises significant expectations in terms of ameliorated consumer welfare and competitive dynamics. A wide range of players is trying to harness the potential of this transition (including incumbents, startups, and so-called BigTechs with extensive customer networks, such as the Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple). In the light of this, regulators and scholars are increasingly interested in new regulatory tools to address the challenges brought by technological innovation in the financial sector to consumer welfare and competition. The article contributes to these discussion by shedding light on the regulatory approaches to FinTech emerged so far. Further, the piece focuses on the pro-competitive effect of the access-to-account rule enshrined in the EU Directive 2015/2366 on payment services in the internal market (PSD2). This mechanism represents a very early sectorspecific regulatory attempt to nurture competition in the digital economy and effectively implement data sharing. In this regard, the on-going UK Open Banking market investigation remedy shows how the antitrust enforcement can be deployed to complement the regulatory toolkit
description: Market and Competition Law Review, v. 5 n. 1 (2021)
Problems and Recommendations for Rural Statistics and Survey Methods
Creators: name: Zhang, Chengjun
name: Zhang, Chengjun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural areas
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Survey
subject: Methods
subject: Problems and recommendations

description: With constant deepening of the reform and opening-up, national economic system has changed from planned economy to market economy, and rural survey and statistics remain in a difficult transition period. In this period, China needs transforming original statistical mode according to market economic system. All levels of government should report and submit a lot and increasing statistical information. Besides, in this period, townships, villages and counties are faced with old and new conflicts. These conflicts perplex implementation of rural statistics and survey and development of rural statistical undertaking, and also cause researches and thinking of reform of rural statistical and survey methods.
Interventions for Occupational Stress Management in Air Traffic Providers
Creators: name: Sartzetaki, Maria
name: Koltsikoglou, Ifigeneia
name: Konstantinidis, Theodoros
name: Dimitriou, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 220207 History and Philosophy of the Humanities
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 130205 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics, Business and Management)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Last decade, the aviation industry was fast-growing, and air traffic providers are under pressure to manage and accommodate demands for more flights. Therefore, aerospace capacity management is anticipated by the air traffic controller's performance, and it's a key success factor towards air transport industry resilience productivity. On the other hand, air traffic controller tasks are very complicated and high demand, resulting in occupation stress affecting air transport providers employees. This paper deals with the challenges to identify occupational health in the work environment of air traffic providers, focusing on traffic controllers. According to a system of system approach, the key resources of stress are reviewed, and the interventions to manage occupational stress upon the quality of services and human resources performance are highlighted. The paper outputs provide key messages to managers and decision-makers upon stress management to high demanded workplaces and especially regarding air traffic controllers, providing the framework for comparisons with other high demanded occupational conditions.
Quantum dephasing induced by non-Markovian random telegraph noise
Creators: name: Cai, Xiangji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the dynamical dephasing of a quantum two level system interacting with an environment exhibiting non-Markovian random telegraph fluctuations. The time evolution of the conditional probability of the environmental noise is governed by a generalized master equation depending on the environmental memory effect. The expression of the dephasing factor is derived exactly which is closely associated with the memory kernel in the generalized master equation for the conditional probability of the environmental noise. In terms of three important types memory kernels, we discuss the quantum dephasing dynamics of the system and the non-Markovian character exhibiting in the dynamical dephasing induced by non-Markovian random telegraph noise. We show that the dynamical dephasing of the quantum system does not always exhibit non-Markovian character which results from that the non-Markovian character in the dephasing dynamics depends both on the environmental non-Markovian character and the interaction between the system and environment. In addition, the dynamical dephasing of the quantum system can be modulated by the external modulation frequency of the environment. This result is significant to quantum information processing and helpful for further understanding non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems.
The velocity field of the Lyra complex
Creators: name: Girardi, M.
name: Boschin, W.
name: De Grandi, S.
name: Longhetti, M.
name: Clavico, S.
name: Eckert, D.
name: Gastaldello, F.
name: Ghizzardi, S.
name: Nonino, M.
name: Rossetti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of cosmic structure culminates with the assembly of galaxy clusters, a process quite different from cluster to cluster. We present the study of the structure and dynamics of the Lyra complex formed of the two clusters RXC J1825.3+3026 and CIZA J1824.1+3029, very recently studied using both X-ray and radio data. This is the first analysis based on kinematics of member galaxies. New spectroscopic data for 285 galaxies were acquired at the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and used in combination with PanSTARRS photometry. The result of our member selection is a sample of 198 galaxies. For RXCJ1825 and CIZAJ1824 we report the redshifts, z=0.0645 and z=0.0708, the first estimates of velocity dispersion, sigmav=995 and 700 km/s, and dynamical mass, M200=1.1E15 and 4E14 Msun. The past assembly of RXCJ1825 is traced by the two dominant galaxies, both aligned with the major axis of the galaxy distribution along the East-West direction, and by a minor North-East substructure. We also detect a quite peculiar high velocity field in the South-West region of the Lyra complex. This feature is likely related to a high velocity, very luminous galaxy, suggested to be the central galaxy of a group in interaction with RXCJ1825 by very recent studies based on X-ray and radio data. The redshift of the whole Lyra complex is z=0.067. Assuming that the redshift difference between RXCJ1825 and CIZAJ1824 is due to the relative kinematics, the projected distance between the cluster centers is 1.3 Mpc and the los velocity difference is 1750 km/s. A dynamical analysis of the system shows that the two clusters are likely to be gravitationally bound, in a pre-merger phase, with CIZAJ1824 in front of RXCJ1825 and going toward it. Our results corroborate a picture where the Lyra region is the place of a very complex scenario of cluster assembly.
description: A&A accepted, 17 pages, 17 figures, minor revision
Cicurina (Cicurella) wartoni Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina wartoni

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) wartoni Gertsch 1992
(Figs 122–123, 131)
 Cicurina wartoni Gertsch 1992: 101, figs 75–76 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162, 171.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Travis County: Pickle Pit Cave. 21 May 1990. J. Reddell, M. Reyes, L. Sherod ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 4.23; carapace length: 1.90; carapace width: 1.40. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (2 large, 5 small), left side with 6 denticles (2 large, 4 small). Leg I: total length: 6.20; femur: 1.78; patella: 0.70; tibia: 1.43; metatarsus: 1.40; tarsus: 0.85; leg IV: total length: 7.23; femur: 1.85; patella: 0.70; tibia: 1.68; metatarsus: 1.95; tarsus: 1.05. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum: 0.518 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit, bearing medial, deep, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium squared, completely intruded by domeshaped dorsal plate, atrial aperture minuscule; bursa not enlarged nor fused; copulatory ducts separated at midpoint, reaching over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores not visible; stalk, short, straight or procurved, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore elongated; primary lobe elongated; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, reaching over dictynoid pore; fertilization duct internally attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only reported from Pickle Pit, the type locality (Travis County, Texas, Fig. 131).
 Remarks. Male unknown.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 55
Between Values and Power; Ideological Orientation of Santri-Based Parties in Indonesia
Creators: name: Chalik, Abdul
name: Achmad Room Fitrianto
name: Ma’shum .
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 220208 History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 160808 Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Political parties in Indonesia have evolved from time to time, including santri-based political parties. The management board changes, constituent demands, and the impact of power relation are the factors that influence the political parties' changes. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between values and power in the santri-based parties, in relation with the consistency of the parties and the politicians in a struggle for supporting ideology practices. The methods of this study are literature review and participant observation by using content analysis, discourse analysis and self-reflective. The findings indicate that the santri-based parties face a dilemma and burden in practicing Islamic values when they had been elected for house representative or executive position. As a result, the elected politicians often act pragmatically beyond the platform of the party. This study classifies the santri-based parties into two groups: out-of-the-law party and disorientation party. The former means that the party neglecting and not comply with the principles, values, and norm that stated in the party constitution in obtaining power. PKB, PAN and PKS are examples. While the latter means the party actions and program has developed beyond the party goals and constitution. PPP is an example. The major cause is the internal vulnerable condition the party encountering that triggered by conflict in gaining mass basis support. Furthermore, the Islamic parties also experience external competition with nationalist religious party in gaining votes. However, even though the Islamic parties have internal and external challenges, santri-based parties remain acknowledged as a significant political force. This is because the Islamic party has significant and real social support from Muslim voters and strong bargaining power in the political arena in Indonesia.
Energy Efficient Loop Unrolling for Low-Cost FPGAs
Creators: name: Dumpala, Naveen Kumar
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Many embedded applications implement block ciphers and sorting and searching algorithms which use multiple loop iterations for computation. These applications often demand low power operation. The power consumption of designs varies with the implementation choices made by designers. The sequential implementation of loop operations consumes minimal area, but latency and clock power are high. Alternatively, loop unrolling causes high glitch power. In this work, we propose a low area overhead approach for unrolling loop iterations that exhibits reduced glitch power. A latch based glitch filter is introduced that reduces the propagation of glitches from one iteration to next. We explore the optimal number of filters to be inserted for different applications that give a good balance between area and power. We also implement partial unrolling with glitch filters. This approach consumes less area while still giving energy savings comparable to the fully unrolled implementation.
Our approach is targeted to Xilinx and Altera FPGAs. We simulate different implementation choices and compare energy results to evaluate the savings. We demonstrate our approach on SIMON-128 and AES-256 block ciphers and a sorting algorithm. We prototype our design on Xilinx Artix-7 and Altera Cyclone-IV-GX FPGA development boards and measure the actual power savings. Results show up-to 90% dynamic energy reduction in Xilinx designs, and 97% reduction in Altera designs with our glitch filtering approach due to glitch power reduction.
A Review of Rural Policy-favored Petty Loan Forest Property Certificate Mortgage
Creators: name: ZHOU, Li
name: LI, Yuhui
name: ZHOU, Li
name: LI, Yuhui
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Forest Property certificate
subject: Small Loan Mortgage
subject: Fund-raising in Forestry Industry

description: Studying petty loan forestry property mortgage mode has significant practical meaning in fund-raising and income-increasing in the forest-agriculture industry, restructuring and expanding the industry as well as setting up scientific industrial public policies. On the basis of literature analysis and field research data, this paper will classify and analyze research papers studying in forestry, property mortgage, and therefore draws conclusions on relevant concepts of petty loan forestry property mortgage, economics and property rights theory as well. At present, the studies of petty loan forestry property mortgage are more practical that are lack of an overall theoretical framework. Considering China's real situation of petty loan forestry property mortgage mode, we have investigated some foreign cases in operating forestry property mortgage systemically and some challenges and difficulties confronted by stakeholders in real cases. Therefore, we put forward that in the current period the fund-raising in forestry industry should focus on establishing and improving an overall rural petty loan forestry property mortgage mode.
Flavor structure of magnetized $T^2/\mathbb{Z}_2$ blow-up models
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Tatsuo
name: Otsuka, Hajime
name: Uchida, Hikaru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the flavor structure in a resolutions of magnetized $T^2/\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifold models. The flavor structure of Yukawa couplings among chiral zero-modes is sensitive to radii of the resolved fixed points of $T^2/\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifold. We show in concrete models that the realistic mass hierarchy and mixing angles of the quark sector can be realized at certain values of blow-up radii, where the number of parameters in the blow-up model can be smaller than toroidal orbifold one.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Extractable and Non-Extractable Polyphenols from Apples: Potential Anti-inflammatory Agents
Creators: name: Gennette, MaKenzi
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: With diet being such a huge factor in the development of diseases, emerging research has supported that apple consumption is a promising candidate for disease prevention due to the high phenolic content it possesses. These polyphenols can be found in two forms: extractable polyphenols (EP) and non-extractable polyphenols (NEP). Polyphenols have been shown to have strong anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties, but up until this point, most researchers focus on EP fractions, while NEP are neglected. After the EP extraction using acetone and acetic acid (99:1) from the Apple Boost powder, three additional extraction methods were conducted on the remaining powder residue to extract the NEP. These extractions put the residue in three different environments for hydrolysis to compare their extraction abilities: enzyme, alkaline, and acid. After analyzing the EP and NEP total phenolic content (TPC) levels, oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay was conducted to measure anti-oxidation capacity of each extraction, and in vitro anti-inflammatory assay was performed to evaluate the anti-inflammation capacity of each extraction where inflammation was induced by LPS. The results showed that the NEP obtained from acid hydrolysis had the highest readings in both the TPC and ORAC assay, but did not show any anti-inflammatory effects in vitro. The EP extraction had the second highest readings in the TPC, ORAC and anti-inflammatory assays. The NEP enzyme extraction had the second lowest TPC and ORAC assay performance, but highest performance in the anti-inflammatory assay. The NEP alkaline extraction had the lowest TPC and performed poorly in both the anti-inflammatory assay and ORAC assay.
Why Class Matters: Understanding the Relationship Between Class, Family Involvement, and Asian American College Students’ Success
Creators: name: Harrington, Blair
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Drawing on intensive interviews with 61 Asian American undergraduates from diverse class and ethnic backgrounds, this paper investigates the relationship between class, family involvement, and student success. I assess three hypotheses derived from the literature. First, social reproduction theorists suggest that parents from advantaged class backgrounds provide more support—economic and cultural capital—to their children than parents from disadvantaged class backgrounds, which leads to greater success for these advantaged offspring. Second, some research challenges this view, arguing instead that class does not impact students’ receipt of support or their resulting success. Third, some now suggest that larger amounts of support may undermine success. Employing a trichotomous class design and model of family that includes parents and non-parents, analysis of the interviews reveal that students from advantaged class backgrounds do receive far more economic as well as cultural capital than students from disadvantaged class backgrounds. Yet, how the receipt of that capital impacts student success yields mixed results. Quantitative analysis reveals that the receipt of large amounts of various forms of capital had little or no impact or a slightly negative impact on students’ GPAs. Analysis of the intensive interviews, however, suggests the provision of capital created substantially less stress and struggle for students as they navigated the college environment. These findings challenge popular stereotypes concerning Asian Americans, highlight the complexity of class, and call for broader definitions of family and a reconceptualization of “success”.
MPEC 2024-B55 : 2024 BG1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 BG1

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.
Economic dependence in digital markets: EU remedies and tools
Creators: name: Scalzini, Silvia
Publisher: name: Market and Competition Law Review
Year: 2021

description: While the application of the abuse of dominant position struggles to face some exclusionary and exploitative abuses in digital markets, new tools and remedies are being explored within the EU multi-level context to address the abusive behaviours towards economically dependent businesses. This article discusses whether the doctrine of abuse of economic dependence may constitute a flexible remedy to complement the application of the abuse of dominant position and face the increasing economic dependence and imbalance of bargaining power in digital markets. Although not harmonised at EU level, this tool has been enhanced in national realms to tackle some abusive conducts in digital markets, such as the refusal to share datasets, the sudden interruption of commercial relationships, and the imposition of unfair conditions for the use of online intermediation services. Starting from a comparative analysis of some recent national applications of this tool in digital markets, the article questions whether an EU doctrine of abuse of economic dependence in digital markets may represent a feasible option, at the same time avoiding the risk of interpretative fragmentation among Member States. The article then compares different ex ante regulatory options proposed at the EU level to tackle (among others) the problems arising from the “dependence” of businesses on large online platforms, followed by a discussion on the possible role of the abuse of economic dependence among the spectrum of different ex ante and ex post EU remedies and tools for behaviours of abuse of economic power in digital markets.
description: Market and Competition Law Review, v. 5 n. 1 (2021)
Non-Equispaced Fast Fourier Transforms in Turbulence Simulation
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Aditya M.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Fourier pseudo-spectral method on equispaced grid is one of the approaches in turbulence simulation, to compute derivative of discrete data, using fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and gives low dispersion and dissipation errors. In many turbulent flows the dynamically important scales of motion are concentrated in certain regions which requires a coarser grid for higher accuracy. A coarser grid in other regions minimizes the memory requirement. This requires the use of Non-equispaced Fast Fourier Transform (NFFT) to compute the Fourier transform, by solving a system of linear equations.
To achieve similar accuracy, the NFFT needs to return more Fourier coefficients than the number of non-equispaced gridpoints, making it an under-determined system. The minimum L2 norm solution of the system is refined using an iterative reconstruction algorithm, FOCUSS.
The NFFT and FOCUSS algorithms yield accurate results with smaller test case of a Direct Numerical Simulation on a grid of 64 gridpoints in each dimension, using Taylor green initial condition. The computational speed for this case was found to be unacceptably slow and few methods to improve the performance have been discussed.
The approach of NFFT and FOCUSS was tested on a line extracted from 3-dimensional turbulent flow field. Fourier transform of the extracted line, sampled on 1024 non-equispaced gridpoints, computed for 2048 coefficients and the corresponding numerical derivative are found to be inaccurate. It can be observed that the NFFT and FOCUSS approach works for sparse Fourier transform, but not for turbulent fields having a wideband Fourier transform.
Study on Growth of China’s Agricultural Industrial Chain from the Perspective of Large Scale
Creators: name: Liu, Jianhui
name: Zhang, Yingliang
name: Yang, Taiyan
name: Liu, Jianhui
name: Zhang, Yingliang
name: Yang, Taiyan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural industrial chain
subject: Large scale
subject: Measures

description: The growth of agricultural industrial chain is the result of market demand, fund, technology, industrial development and policy guidance. At present, separate and small peasant operating model has become one of important factors restricting growth of agricultural industrial chain. From growth mechanism of agricultural industrial chain and actual situation of China, this paper analyzed actual factors restricting growth of agricultural industrial chain, and believed that it is required to break system bottleneck of large scale agricultural production, match management conditions of large scale agricultural production, and orient towards large scale organization, large scale service, large scale industrial distribution, and large scale chain.
Redevelopment of Urban Village in Shenzhen
Creators: name: Zhou, Hang
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Urban Villages are a specific phenomenon raised in modern China due to the high-speed economic development and urbanization in recent three decades. And there are social, economic, cultural and architectural transformations happened in these villages during these years. They appear on both the outskirts and the downtown segments of major cities, and surrounded by skyscrapers, transportation infrastructures, and other modern urban constructions. They are commonly inhabited by the poor and transient.
Most of Urban Villages are heavily populated, overdeveloped, and lack of basic infrastructure. Some villages' building density is higher than 70%. They are composed of overcrowded multi-story buildings from three to five (or more) floors, also with narrow alleys, which are difficult for vehicles to pass through. Inside these villages, it is dark and damp year round and the lights have to be kept on during daytime. However, they are also among the liveliest areas in some cities and are notable for affording economic opportunity for newcomers to the city.
However, Urban Villages are rejected by the governor and face demolition–redevelopment programs in order to replace them with formal urban neighborhoods. But the demolition-redevelopment approach would be devastating not only for the rural migrants, but also for the city’s economy which is largely based on labor-intensive sectors.
In my study, I take Gangsha Village, a typical urban village in Shenzhen City, as a study case, to explore an appropriate reformation approach that combines urban design and architectural strategy to solve social, economic and cultural problems in Urban Village. To provide them a better living condition, and make the village better serves the city.
Cicurina (Cicurella) watersi Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina watersi

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) watersi Gertsch 1992
(Figs 124–125, 135)
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Uvalde County; Frio Queen Cave. Summer 1983, Randy M. Waters ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 4.15; carapace length: 2.00; carapace width: 1.20; opisthosoma length 2.15. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (2 large, 5 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 7.10; femur: 2.00; patella: 0.70; tibia: 1.80; slit, bearing medial, deep, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium squared, two-thirds intruded by rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts slightly separated at midpoint, reaching top of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores not visible; stalk short, procurved, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe kidney-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, externally positioned from the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Frio Queen Cave (Uvalde County, Texas, Fig. 135).
 Remarks. Male unknown.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on pages 55-57
the impact of early childhood education on later academic success.
Creators: name: Nur Hassan Ayub Mustaf, Ayub Mustaf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Early Childhood
subject: Childhood Education
subject: Early Childhood Education
subject: Academic Success

description: Early childhood education holds promise for improving long-term educational outcomes. Reflecting this promise, enrollment rates in state-funded early childhood programs more than doubled between 2002 and 2016 (McCoy et al., 2017). As program enrollment increases, questions arise regarding whether early childhood education is fulfilling the promise of leveling the playing field for all students. As stated by Solano and Weyer (2017), “Achieving equity in early childhood education—making sure all children have the resources to be successful in school—is a fundamental goal” of all leaders in education (p. 1). Achieving this goal is a challenge as growing numbers of students live in poverty and speak languages other than English. Currently, one in four children under the age of 18 in the United States is Latinx (Bachman, Elliott, Scott, & Navarro, 2016). English language learners (ELLs) account for more than 15% of the student population in Texas (National Clearinghouse English Language Acquisition [NCELA], 2018). Thirty-eight percent of African American children live below the poverty line and are four times more likely to be poor than their White or Asian peers (Patten & Krogstad, 2015). African American children are at-risk for being unprepared for kindergarten at rates disproportionate to their White peers (Lee, Auty, & Williams, 2008; Lee & Bowen, 2006).
Group Differences in Compassion Fade and Prosocial Behavior
Creators: name: Larsen, Greg
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: When people learn about a large-scale crisis, they often feel more compassion for its victims when they can fixate on a single, identifiable victim, compared to many victims - a phenomenon known as ‘compassion fade.’ However, throughout the growing compassion fade literature, researchers have mostly given a face to large groups using a single child - a face which may be particularly stirring because children are seen as both likable and incapable of fending for themselves. I conducted two experiments to determine whether the magnitude of this phenomenon varied as a function of characteristics of the victims - namely, how stereotypically likable or capable they are. While these studies indicated that likability stereotypes, rather than capability stereotypes, are more likely to moderate the ‘fade’ of compassion and helping intentions, further replication is necessary to verify these findings.
The economics of the German investigation of Facebook’s data collection
Creators: name: Budzinski, Oliver
name: Grusevaja, Marina
name: Noskova, Victoriia
Publisher: name: Market and Competition Law Review
Year: 2021

description: The importance of digital platforms and related data-driven business models is ever increasing and poses challenges to the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead of traditional money, privacy concerns, etc.). Due to such challenges, investigations of such markets are of high interest. One of the recent cases is the investigation of Facebook’s data collection practices by German competition authorities. Our article, in contrast to the wide stream of legal studies on this case, aims to analyse whether Facebook’s practices regarding data collection could constitute an abuse of market power from an economic perspective, more specifically against the background of modern data economics. In doing so we summarise the state of the advanced theories, including influences from behavioural economics addressing such markets, and discuss four potential theories of harm.
description: Market and Competition Law Review, v. 5 n. 1 (2021)
MOBILE MONEY SERVICES AND SALES PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN KUMBA
Creators: name: Negou, Ernest
name: Lobhet, Badel Chancel
Publisher: name: HTTTC Kumba
Year: 2023

description: Mobile money services have been dominating the financial environment of Cameroon for years. Many small businesses are using these services in their operations. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine the effect of mobile money services on the sales performance of SMEs in Kumba. Specifically, the research aims to assess the effect of mobile payments, and mobile financial services on the sales performance of SMEs in Kumba. An explanatory research design was employed to conduct the study. The quantitative data was collected using questionnaires administered to a sample of 75 respondents chosen through a combination of quota and purposive sampling techniques among the owners and/or Managers of small businesses. The findings indicate that there is a strong effect of mobile payments on the sales performance of SMEs in Kumba. The findings also indicate that only 10.7 percent (not enough to be analysed of SMEs in Kumba used mobile financial services. In light of the results, the researcher recommended that owners and managing directors of SMEs in Kumba should make full use of mobile money services. Also, the government should ease access to credit for SMEs. Finally, the researcher recommended mobile money services providers to educate users to only validate transactions that carry the name of the company so as to solve the issue of scamming. Keywords — mobile money services, sales performance, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.
Electroweak Breaking and Higgs Boson Profile in the Simplest Linear Seesaw Model
Creators: name: Fontes, Duarte
name: Romao, Jorge C.
name: Valle, Jose W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the simplest realization of the linear seesaw mechanism within the Standard Model gauge structure. Besides the standard scalar doublet, there are two lepton-number-carrying scalars, a nearly inert SU2 doublet and a singlet. Neutrino masses result from the spontaneous violation of lepton number, implying the existence of a Nambu-Goldstone boson. Such "majoron" would be copiously produced in stars, leading to stringent astrophysical constraints. We study the profile of the Higgs bosons in this model, including their effective couplings to the vector bosons and their invisible decay branching ratios. A consistent electroweak symmetry breaking pattern emerges with a compressed spectrum of scalars in which the "Standard Model" Higgs boson can have a sizeable invisible decay into the invisible majorons.
description: 28 pages, 15 Figures in PDF. v2: version matching published version on JHEP. References added
TRANSgressive Acts: Adapting Applied Theatre Techniques For A Transgender Community
Creators: name: Lefevre, Theo F
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: This MFA Thesis traces my work as a joker (a la Theatre of the Oppressed) and facilitator through a three-year-long project with a trans applied theatre troupe. The troupe explored several techniques, including Image Theatre, Playback Theatre, storytelling exercises, and somatic movement. In three semester-long workshops, the troupe focused work around three sets of techniques. In the first workshop, the troupe explored the community-based interview process of Undesirable Elements, as designed by Ping Chong in collaboration with Talvin Wilks and Sara Zatz. These techniques were interrogated using queer and trans temporalities. In the second unit, the troupe practiced Augusto Boal’s “Cops in the Head” techniques from The Rainbow of Desire, utilizing a sociological perspective to examine the “ghosts” these techniques produce. In the final semester, I devised techniques specifically for and about transgender people, invoking trans theory and queer theory to explore issues of naming, trauma, and trans possibilities. Through this work I argue that techniques designed for cisgender bodies require adaptation to find success in transgender communities. I argue that the future of this work is not transforming existing techniques to suit our needs, rather it is creating techniques with transgender bodies and identities at the core.
Between the Lines: A Qualitative Phenomenological Analysis of the Therapeutic Alliance in Pediatric Physical Therapy
Creators: name: Crom, Astrid
name: Paap, Davy
name: Amarins Wijma
name: Dijkstra, Pieter U.
name: Pool, Grieteke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Aim: To explore perceptions and preferences of children, parents, and physical therapists regarding the therapeutic alliance in pediatric physical therapy in a rehabilitation setting. Methods: Qualitative phenomenological analysis of interviews with children (n = 10), their parents (n = 10), and physical therapists (n = 10). Results: Three themes were identified: importance of trust in the physical therapist, transparency in sharing information, and negotiation concerning goals and tasks of treatment. Parents considered trust in the therapist’s relational skills of greater importance to the therapeutic alliance than the therapist’s technical skills. Although the physical therapists showed a strong willingness to meet the needs of children and parents, they seemed unaware of the emotional impact of positional inequality and the differences in roles and tasks of children, parents, and therapists during the treatment. Conclusion: All participants emphasized the importance of the quality of the therapeutic alliance. Nevertheless, positional inequality and differences in roles and tasks appeared to influence negotiation about goals and tasks of treatment. Children and parents are in a dependent relationship with the physical therapist. Physical therapists are challenged to find the right balance between their professional position and input on the one hand, and the emotional needs of child and parents on the other hand.
title: Experiences with Flood and Perceptions of Flood Risk among Members of the Filipino American Community in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Creators: name: Petsch, Anjelica Pascual
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The Filipino Americans living in Hampton Roads, Virginia have comprised of almost 2% of the region’s overall population, and 5.3% of the population in Virginia Beach, Virginia (United States Census Bureau, 2019) (Greater Hampton Roads Connects, 2021). Filipino Americans in Hampton Roads, like the rest of the population, are equally vulnerable to experiencing flooding when commuting to and from work or simply traveling around town, but previous research and surveys from the Hampton Roads Region have failed in their ability to capture this cultural diversity within perception of flood risk. In this paper, a qualitative research design was used to conduct a survey of Filipino American residents in Virginia Beach regarding their flood risk perceptions and experiences. The results of the survey were then compared to existing flood risk research and to results of previous surveys of Hampton Roads residents. The results are useful for understanding the baseline perception of flooding within Virginia Beach’s Filipino American community and how they compare against the total Hampton Roads’ population. The results indicate that despite most survey results came from a younger age group than previous research and not fully representative of the overall Filipino population, the collected Filipino American’s flood experiences and flood risk perceptions were generally similar, with some varying differences, to existing survey collection in the Hampton Roads region. Therefore, regardless of racial identity, the overall cultural experiences are based more closely with shared geographic location and perceptions are developed by these experiences and personal knowledge regarding causes and impacts of flooding in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Accountability of algorithms in data management of data subjects and business users
Creators: name: Mula, Davide
Publisher: name: Market and Competition Law Review
Year: 2021

description: This paper intends to investigate the processing and exploitation of data (whether personal and not) through algorithms to understand the profiles of responsibility and the related mechanisms of accountability. In particular, the paper will try to understand how the security of automated and algorithmic decision-making processes can be verified ex post, due to their impact on privacy of both public and private entities.
description: Market and Competition Law Review, v. 5 n. 1 (2021)
Quasi-Normal Modes of Hairy Scalar Tensor Black Holes: Odd Parity
Creators: name: Tattersall, Oliver J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The odd parity gravitational Quasi-Normal Mode spectrum of black holes with non-trivial scalar hair in Horndeski gravity is investigated. We study `almost' Schwarzschild black holes such that any modifications to the spacetime geometry (including the scalar field profile) are treated as small quantities. A modified Regge-Wheeler style equation for the odd parity gravitational degree of freedom is presented to quadratic order in the scalar hair and spacetime modifications, and a parameterisation of the modified Quasi-Normal Mode spectrum is calculated. In addition, statistical error estimates for the new hairy parameters of the black hole and scalar field are given.
description: Updated to match Classical and Quantum Gravity accepted version
Calculation Of Secondary Particles In Atmosphere And Hadronic Interactions
Creators: name: Battistoni, G.
name: Ferrari, A.
name: Sala, P. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Calculation of secondary particles produced by the interaction of cosmic rays with the nuclei of Earth's atmosphere pose important requirements to particle production models. Here we summarize the important features of hadronic simulations, stressing the importance of the so called ``microscopic'' approach, making explicit reference to the case of the FLUKA code. Some benchmarks are also presented.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures. Extended version of report given at the IInd Workshop on Matter and anti-Matter, Trento, Oct. 2001