cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploring the broad impacts of continuing professional development in the health professions
Creators: name: LOUISE MARJORIE ALLEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: 130101 Continuing and Community Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This PhD research explored the range of impacts of continuing professional development programs in the health professions. It showed that a range of impacts are possible, but that many existing evaluations focus on only a small number of the possible impacts. A new survey was developed, the first of its kind, that captures these broad impacts. The results of this PhD research informed the development of a new framework that will allow future evaluations of continuing professional development programs to direct funding to programs that are providing benefit to health professionals, and ultimately their patients, learners, colleagues, and organisations.
title: A shanty town of tenants : The commercialization of unauthorized housing in Nairobi 1960-1980
Creators: name: Amis, P. H
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 1983

description: This thesis concerns itself with the provision and commercialization of unauthorized housing in unauthorized settlements within Nairobi. It is based on fieldwork carried out between 1979-1981 and is of relevance to the literature on African studies and third world urbanization. It traces the political and economic factors that have transformed housing provision. In 1960 the housing in such settlements was self-built but by 1980 it was characterized, by the operation of a capitalist housing market, albeit illegal. It is this commercialization process that is the central focus of this thesis. It is related to general developments in Kenya's political economy; namely the development of capitalism and the emergence of African property relations in Nairobi. The 'changing responses of the administration to the growth of unauthorized settlements between 1960 and 1980 are studied, and in particular the shift in policy from demolition towards the tacit acceptance of unauthorized areas. This change encourages the commercialization of unauthorized housing by allowing security for capital investment. - The resulting private housing sector is then examined in one specific area in Nairobi, Kibera. The organization, profitability, distribution of ownership and landlord-tenant relations are all studied. It is shown to be characterized by ruthless operation and by large-scale and small-scale capitalist intervention. The international agencies involvement in low-income housing and the implementation of site and service schemes within Kenya are examined.
Pesquisa reproduzível aberta: evidenciando as tendências para adoção dos cadernos abertos de laboratório a partir da produção indexada na Scopus e na Web of Science (WoS)
Creators: name: Silva, Marcela Lino da
name: Santos, Raimundo Nonato Macedo dos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão Pecha Kucha VI da 12ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira de Ciência Aberta, formato híbrido, de 13 a 15 de outubro de 2021.
Scalar fluid in scalar-tensor gravity from an equivalent picture of thermodynamic and fluid descriptions of gravitational dynamics
Creators: name: Seenivasan, Abhinove Nagarajan
name: Chakrabarti, Sayan
name: Majhi, Bibhas Ranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the thermodynamic description of fluid, represented by scalar field in scalar-tensor gravity theory through a general approach to study the thermodynamics of relativistic fluids. In order to identify the fluid energy-momentum tensor, contrary to the existing way, we use equivalent description of gravitational dynamics both in Jordan and Einstein frames as thermodynamical identity and fluid equation on a generic null surface. Such an approach provides the energy-momentum tensors for scalar fluid as that of an ideal fluid in both the frames. We then mention few issues in the existing way of using Eckart's formalism for an ideal fluid. Our investigation suggests that the Eckart's frame may not be suitable to consider ideal fluid. Consequently a possible alternative description, valid in other than Eckart's frame, is being suggested for a general ideal fluid. Based on this we obtain a unified thermodynamic description in both Jordan and Einstein frames from our identified energy-momentum tensors. Finally, the relations between thermodynamic entities on different frames are being put forwarded. Thus, the description in either of the frames is enough to provide the complete picture.
description: Comments added, published in Phys. Rev. D
Virtual patients, non-technical skills and undergraduate health professionals
Creators: name: MONICA RUTH PEDDLE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 80111 Virtual Reality and Related Simulation
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Education
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Cognitive, social and interpersonal skills are an important part of implementing quality and safe healthcare, but there is limited representation and education regarding these critical skills in some undergraduate health professional curricula. This thesis investigates the influence of an innovative education resource, a virtual patient, on the cognitive, social and interpersonal skill knowledge, attitudes and practice of undergraduate nursing students. This thesis identifies recommendations for consideration when using virtual patients to teach cognitive, social and interpersonal skills to ensure learning opportunities are maximised.
Classical Processing Requirements for a Topological Quantum Computing System
Creators: name: Devitt, Simon J.
name: Fowler, Austin G.
name: Tilma, Todd
name: Munro, W. J.
name: Nemoto, Kae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dedicated research into the design and construction of a large scale Quantum Information Processing (QIP) system is a complicated task. The design of an experimentally feasible quantum processor must draw upon results in multiple fields; from experimental efforts in system control and fabrication through to far more abstract areas such as quantum algorithms and error correction. Recently, the adaptation of topological coding models to physical systems in optics has illustrated a possible long term pathway to truly large scale QIP. As the topological model has well defined protocols for Quantum Error Correction (QEC) built in as part of its construction, a more grounded analysis of the {\em classical} processing requirements is possible. In this paper we analyze the requirements for a classical processing system, designed specifically for the topological cluster state model. We demonstrate that via extensive parallelization, the construction of a classical "front-end" system capable of processing error correction data for a large topological computer is possible today.
description: 14 Pages, 14 Figures (Revised version in response to referee comments)
Potential of Voice Recording Tools in Language Instruction
Creators: name: Aoki, Sachiko
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2014

description: One of the most prevailing difficulties I have faced as an English instructor is students’ dependence on teachers even though many language classes have been shifting from teachercentered to student-centered influenced by the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach. Class evaluations and needs analyses often reveal that many students expect every single one of their errors to be corrected by teachers. Some students even attribute their lack of improvement to not being corrected promptly. Prompt error correction or individualized feedback from teachers may be beneficial for students, but it is unlikely to be feasible for teachers to listen and respond to students individually all the time, especially given constraints such as large numbers of students and limited class time.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2014)
Postsecular Conflicts and the Global Struggle for Traditional Values (Lecture)
Creators: name: Stoeckl, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: postsecular
Russian Orthodox Church
Habermas
religion
norm entrepreneurship

description: This is the text of a lecture that Dr. Kristina Stoeckl (University of Innsbruck, Austria) gave in RANEPA on the 2nd of March 2016. She presented the research project “Postsecular Conflicts” (2016–21). This project in the field of sociology of religion and political theory explores conflicts over questions of public morality (i.e., visibility of religious symbols, definitions of family and gender). It starts from the observation that in today’s world these conflicts no longer take place in national contexts, but have a global appeal. How can we understand this global struggle for traditional values? In order to answer this question two steps need to be taken: (1) a revised political sociology of traditionalist religious actors; (2) a revised political conception of moral conflict. The Postsecular Conflicts research project wants to achieve both of these steps, specifically through a thorough analysis of the role of Russian Orthodox traditionalist actors in the global struggle for traditional values.
Progressive Intracranial Stenoses of the Young
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: A 30-year old Chinese man initially presented in 2009 with left subcortical ischemic stroke. Patient had borderline hypertension but no history of diabetes mellitus or hyperlipidemia. The case illustrates the occurrence of progressive intracranial stenosis in young patients, which is unlikely to be atherosclerotic in nature. The manifestation is relatively common in Asian population
Assessment and Feedback: Examining the Relationship Between Self-assessment and Blind Peer- and Teacher-assessment in TOEFL Writing
Creators: name: Odsliv Bratkovich, Meghan
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2014

description: This study investigated the nature of self-assessment and blind peer- and teacher-assessment in L2 writing. The type of feedback students gave to themselves and peers, the type of feedback used in the revision process, and the source of the feedback used were all analyzed. Additionally, student perceptions of self- and peer-assessment, feedback, and their relationships to perceived writing improvement were also studied. Findings revealed that students in this study did not use teacher feedback significantly more than feedback from themselves or their peers, but they did give different types of feedback than the teacher and favored using feedback related to language use in the revision process. Students perceived their writing abilities to have increased due to self- and peer-assessment but responded more positively to peer-assessment than selfassessment. Surprisingly, students also perceived their abilities to have increased in rubric areas in which the feedback they received was not used and not regarded as useful, and the highest perceived gains in writing ability were in areas which accounted for the lowest amounts of feedback given.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2014)
Experimental full network nonlocality with independent sources and strict locality constraints
Creators: name: Gu, Xue-Mei
name: Huang, Liang
name: Pozas-Kerstjens, Alejandro
name: Jiang, Yang-Fan
name: Wu, Dian
name: Bai, Bing
name: Sun, Qi-Chao
name: Chen, Ming-Cheng
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Yu, Sixia
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Lu, Chao-Yang
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlocality arising in networks composed of several independent sources gives rise to phenomena radically different from that in standard Bell scenarios. Over the years, the phenomenon of network nonlocality in the entanglement-swapping scenario has been well investigated and demonstrated. However, it is known that violations of the so-called bilocality inequality used in previous experimental demonstrations cannot be used to certify the non-classicality of their sources. This has put forward a stronger concept for nonlocality in networks, called full network nonlocality. Here, we experimentally observe full network nonlocal correlations in a network where the source-independence, locality, and measurement-independence loopholes are closed. This is ensured by employing two independent sources, rapid setting generation, and space-like separations of relevant events. Our experiment violates known inequalities characterizing non-full network nonlocal correlations by over five standard deviations, certifying the absence of classical sources in the realization.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX 4.2. V2: Updated to match published version
On the Soft-Gluon Resummation in Top Quark Pair Production at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Czakon, M.
name: Mitov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We uncover a contribution to the NLO/NLL threshold resummed total cross section for top quark pair production at hadron colliders, which has not been taken into account in earlier literature. We derive this contribution - the difference between the singlet and octet hard (matching) coefficients - in exact analytic form. The numerical impact of our findings on the Sudakov resummed cross section turns out to be large, and comparable in size to the current estimates for the theoretical uncertainty of the total cross section. A rough estimate points toward a few percent decrease of the latter at the LHC.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
Second Language Pragmatic Competence: Individual Differences in ESL and EFL Environments
Creators: name: Wyner, Lauren
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2014

description: Pragmatic competence is as an essential aspect of communicative competence. Does environment have an effect on developing pragmatic competence? Do levels of pragmatic competence differ between English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) students? Most studies have shown greater pragmatic awareness among ESL students than EFL students, indicating that the target language (TL) environment has a positive influence on the appropriate use of sociopragmatics. Some studies, however, have yielded a different outcome that not only challenges previous research but defies the assumption that living in the TL environment allows pragmatic competence to better develop. This review of the literature finds that input alone is insufficient for pragmatic competence; learners must notice linguistic forms in their use. A deeper analysis also reveals that individual factors such as pragmatic transfer and learner motivation have a more complex role to play than exposure.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2014)
LEGAL MEASURES TO INCREASE THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE TERRITORY'S INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT
Creators: name: Khoshimov, Jakhongir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The creation and improvement of the investment environment of the regions, ensuring its attractiveness, depends primarily on the legal conditions of the investment environment. It should be said that Uzbekistan has created a base of legal documents aimed at creating a favorable investment environment for the economy of the entire country and regions, including direct foreign investment, and protecting the legal rights and interests of investors and business units.
Thermodynamics of the Quantum Critical Point at Finite Doping in the 2D Hubbard Model: A Dynamical Cluster Approximation Study
Creators: name: Mikelsons, K.
name: Khatami, E.
name: Galanakis, D.
name: Macridin, A.
name: Moreno, J.
name: Jarrell, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the thermodynamics of the two-dimensional Hubbard model within the dynamical cluster approximation. We use continuous time quantum Monte Carlo as a cluster solver to avoid the systematic error which complicates the calculation of the entropy and potential energy (double occupancy). We find that at a critical filling, there is a pronounced peak in the entropy divided by temperature, S/T, and in the normalized double occupancy as a function of doping. At this filling, we find that specific heat divided by temperature, C/T, increases strongly with decreasing temperature and kinetic and potential energies vary like T^2 ln(T). These are all characteristics of quantum critical behavior.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. B Rapid Communications on June 27, 2009
Link between the Optical and Radio Frames from Gaia DR3 Data and VLBI Measurements
Creators: name: Bobylev, Vadim V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on published data, we have assembled a sample of 126 radio stars with the trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions measured by VLBI and available in the Gaia DR3 catalogue (in fact, Gaia EDR3). Our analysis of the Gaia--VLBI proper motion differences for 84 radio stars based on the model of solid-body mutual rotation has revealed no rotation components differing significantly from zero, $(ω_x,ω_y,ω_z)=(0.06,0.08,-0.10)\pm(0.06,0.07,0.08)$ mas yr$^{-1}.$ Based on the trigonometric parallax differences for 90 stars, we have obtained a new estimate of the systematic offset between the optical and radio frames, $Δπ=-0.022\pm0.017$~mas, and showed that the parallax scale factor is close to unity, $b=1.001\pm0.002$.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables
Odderon in Gauge/String Duality
Creators: name: Brower, Richard C.
name: Djurić, Marko
name: Tan, Chung-I
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At high energies, elastic hadronic cross sections, such as $pp, \overline p p, π^{\pm} p$, are dominated by vacuum exchange, which in leading order of the $1/N_c$ expansion has been identified as the BFKL Pomeron or its strong AdS dual the closed string Reggeized graviton \cite{Brower:2006ea}. However the difference of particle anti-particle cross sections are given by a so-called Odderon, carrying C = -1 vacuum quantum numbers identified in weak coupling with odd numbers of exchanged gluons. Here we show that in the dual description the Odderon is the Reggeized Kalb-Ramond field ($B_{μν}$) in the Neveu-Schwartz sector of closed string theory. To first order in strong coupling, the high energy contribution of Odderon is evaluated for ${\cal N} = 4$ Super Yang-Mills by a generalization of the gravity dual analysis for Pomeron in Ref. \cite{Brower:2006ea}. The consequence of confinement on the Odderon are estimated in the confining QCD-like $AdS^5$ hardwall model of Polchinski and Strassler \cite{Polchinski:2001tt}.
description: 69 pages, 6 figures. Title change to better reflect the content of the paper. More discussion added in the Comments section. To be published in JHEP
A New Draining or Emissary Vein Originating from Terminal Segment of Sigmoid Venous Sinus?
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The venous efflux from cerebral dural venous sinus into the extracranial venous drainage is predominantly based on sigmoid venous sinus draining into the internal jugular vein. In the fetal stage, the rapid growth of cerebral hemispheres leads to an enlargement of transverse venous sinuses in somewhat disproportionate manner to growth of sigmoid venous sinus and internal jugular vein. Therefore, emissary veins are necessary to ensure adequate efflux pathways for intracranial venous drainage. A variable number of emissary veins may persist after the fetal stage [2–4]. Some of the important emissary veins include the mastoid emissary vein [2,3] that connect the transverse sinus with the posterior auricular or occipital veins, and the anterior and posterior condylar veins that connect the terminal sigmoid venous sinus with suboccipital cavernous sinus and internal vertebral venous plexus [3,4]. In our observation, there is another vein that connects the terminal sigmoid venous sinus with the ipsilateral external jugular vein. The vein appears to originate at the horizontal section of the terminal segment of sigmoid venous sinus as it enters the internal jugular vein (see Figure). This vein appears to exit from a dorsal foramen within the wall of the jugular foramen. The vein can be prominent even in the presence of a large patent internal jugular vein and posterior condylar vein (see Figure). Occasionally, individuals with such a vein report tinnitus which may be self-limiting. The vein may also become noticeable after internal jugular vein thrombosis or fibrosis subsequent to intravascular catheter placement(s). The prevalence and physiological importance of this vein requires further study
On the Richness of Calibration
Creators: name: Höltgen, Benedikt
name: Williamson, Robert C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Probabilistic predictions can be evaluated through comparisons with observed label frequencies, that is, through the lens of calibration. Recent scholarship on algorithmic fairness has started to look at a growing variety of calibration-based objectives under the name of multi-calibration but has still remained fairly restricted. In this paper, we explore and analyse forms of evaluation through calibration by making explicit the choices involved in designing calibration scores. We organise these into three grouping choices and a choice concerning the agglomeration of group errors. This provides a framework for comparing previously proposed calibration scores and helps to formulate novel ones with desirable mathematical properties. In particular, we explore the possibility of grouping datapoints based on their input features rather than on predictions and formally demonstrate advantages of such approaches. We also characterise the space of suitable agglomeration functions for group errors, generalising previously proposed calibration scores. Complementary to such population-level scores, we explore calibration scores at the individual level and analyse their relationship to choices of grouping. We draw on these insights to introduce and axiomatise fairness deviation measures for population-level scores. We demonstrate that with appropriate choices of grouping, these novel global fairness scores can provide notions of (sub-)group or individual fairness.
Paired and Group Oral Assessment
Creators: name: Sun, Haimei
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2014

description: The assessment of second language (L2) speaking has long been an important yet challenging area of research in language testing. L2 testers are often concerned with designing authentic speaking tasks that resemble real-life speaking activities so that score interpretations are generalizable to non-test contexts. The conversational nature of speaking skills has promoted the widespread integration of more authentic and interactive assessment tasks, such as paired or group orals. Such direct test formats typically “involve candidates interacting together to perform a task while one or more examiners observe their performances and rate their language proficiency” (Van Moere, 2013, p. 1).
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2014)
Seeking improved insight into Vairimorpha's pathogenesis of the honey bee midgut
Creators: name: Akinlaja, Mopelola O.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This thesis describes several experiments aiming to improve the understanding of Vairimorpha ceranae’s pathology in the honey bee midgut epithelium. Using high resolution mass spectrometry-based methods, I assessed global changes in the honey bee midgut proteome and phosphoproteome, identifying host processes impacted during infection such as heme binding and carbohydrate metabolism. I also adapted a high throughput mass spectrometry-based protein interaction mapping technique to obtain a first draft of the honey bee midgut protein interaction network. With this resource, I was able to experimentally assemble protein interactions occurring in the host, and some host-pathogen protein interactions in infected samples, providing new insight into protein arrangement in honey bees and how these interactions can change in the context of disease. Finally, I conducted a field-based experiment to evaluate the effects of using a bee product, propolis, to treat honey bees that were naturally infected with V. ceranae. Using bottom-up proteomics, we were able to find evidence indicating that propolis treatment might improve honey bees’ response to V. ceranae infection. Altogether, in this dissertation, I highlight the versatility of mass spectrometry-based proteomics for understanding disease in non-model organisms, and I show new insight into Vairimorpha’s infection processes in honey bees that can form the basis of future studies aimed at elucidating mechanisms of action in the infection process of this pathogen.
Gluon Tree Amplitudes in Open Twistor String Theory
Creators: name: Dolan, Louise
name: Goddard, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how the link variables of Arkani-Hamed, Cachazo, Cheung and Kaplan (ACCK), can be used to compute general gluon tree amplitudes in the twistor string. They arise from instanton sectors labelled by d, with d=n-1, where n is the number of negative helicities. Read backwards, this shows how the various forms for the tree amplitudes studied by ACCK can be grouped into contour integrals whose structure implies the existence of an underlying string theory.
description: 36 pages
"Graphene-Like" Exfoliation of Atomically-Thin Bismuth Telluride Films
Creators: name: Teweldebrhan, Desalegne
name: Goyal, Vivek
name: Rahman, Muhammad
name: Balandin, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on graphene-like exfoliation of the large-area crystalline films and ribbons of bismuth telluride with the thicknesses of a few atoms. It is demonstrated that bismuth telluride, the most important material for thermoelectric industry, can be mechanically separated into its building blocks -[Te-Bi-Te-Bi-Te]- atomic five-folds with the thickness of ~1 nm and even further - to subunits with smaller thicknesses. The atomically-thin crystals can be structured into suspended crystalline ribbons providing quantum confinement in two dimensions. The quasi two-dimensional (2-D) crystals of bismuth telluride revealed high electrical conductivity. The proposed atomic-layer engineering of bismuth telluride opens up a principally new route for drastic enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, to be presented at MRS Spring 2010
FIFA players' Value analysis
Creators: name: HungChun Lin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Abstract:

This project is developing how the different factors affect FIFA players' value. According to utilize the analyzing results from the real world cup, the video game company could make the game getting more realistic. From the body type of the FIFA players to how the skill they contain and also the wage the FIFA players deserve, that the video game player can completely feel the real FIFA game.

From the beginning, I divided the factors into two main parts, which are demographic factors and skill factors. Next, I took a look for the correlation between those factors and the players' value.

Furthermore, I analyzed the countries which have won the prizes in the FIFA world cup from 1930 to 2014. I counted the rank by calculating their converted awards points, then we would get the 19 countries. To see how the skill factors those 19 countries performed, I drew radar plots to visualize the skill distribution.

Conclusion:

The conclusion we got:

•1. The demographic factors do not affect the players’ value much.

•2. The peak of a player’s wage is 3 years later than the peak of value.

•3. The reactions in the skill factors are the most influential factors to a player’s value.

•4. The right foot preferred players are much more than left foot preferred, but the values do not have big differences.

•5. The country which has the higher rank does have a higher point at each capacity.

Reference website:

https://www.goal.com/en/news/best-fifa-19-players-global-series-ranks-best-pro-esports/9njxq7lmpzmb1nmckdswjhghq

https://stackoverflow.com/

https://matplotlib.org/index.html#

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/

https://www.kaggle.com/

https://www.fifa.com/the-best-fifa-football-awards/news/the-best-fifa-football-awardstm-to-introduce-two-new-women-s-football-honours
DFSZ-Type Axions and Where to Find Them
Creators: name: Diehl, Johannes
name: Koutsangelas, Emmanouil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically calculate the axion-photon coupling for non-minimal DFSZ models. Thereby we can classify every calculated model and study the resulting distributions, relevant for axion experiments like haloscopes, helioscopes or light-shining-through-a-wall experiments. By adding more than one additional Higgs doublet, these non-minimal DFSZ models extend the viable axion parameter space and lead to a large range of axion-photon couplings. We find couplings almost three orders of magnitude larger than the ones of the minimal models. Most of the possible axion-photon couplings, however, lie in the vicinity of the values dictated by the minimal models. We quantify this by introducing a theoretical prior probability distribution for DFSZ-type axions and giving $68\%$ and $95\%$ lower bounds as well as two-sided bands. We compare our results for the DFSZ axion-photon coupling distributions with the KSVZ case, for which a similar analysis has been conducted. Both display similar values as well as a very specific pattern. In order to identify preferred models, we discuss the role of flavour changing neutral currents and the domain wall problem as possible selection criteria. It is possible to construct a large number of non-minimal DFSZ models with a domain wall number of unity and thereby avoiding the domain wall problem. This subset also has a significantly enhanced axion-photon coupling compared to the minimal DFSZ models.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Supplementary data files available at https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7620202 . For the generating code, see https://github.com/jhbdiehl/DFSZforest . v2 implements minor changes in presentation and comparison with KSVZ models. v3 corresponds to the published version
Single monkey-saddle singularity of a Fermi surface and its instabilities
Creators: name: Aksoy, Ömer M.
name: Chandrasekaran, Anirudh
name: Tiwari, Apoorv
name: Neupert, Titus
name: Chamon, Claudio
name: Mudry, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fermi surfaces can undergo sharp transitions under smooth changes of parameters. Such transitions can have a topological character, as is the case when a higher-order singularity, one that requires cubic or higher-order terms to describe the electronic dispersion near the singularity, develops at the transition. When time-reversal and inversion symmetries are present, odd singularities can only appear in pairs within the Brillouin zone. In this case, the combination of the enhanced density of states that accompany these singularities and the nesting between the pairs of singularities leads to interaction driven instabilities. We present examples of single $n=3$ (monkey saddle) singularities when time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken. We then turn to the question of what instabilities are possible when the singularities are isolated. For spinful electrons, we find that the inclusion of repulsive interactions destroys any isolated monkey-saddle singularity present in the noninteracting spectrum by developing Stoner or Lifshitz instabilities. In contrast, for spinless electrons and at the mean-field level, we show that an isolated monkey-saddle singularity can be stabilized in the presence of short-range repulsive interactions.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Observable consequences of kinetic and thermal AGN feedback in elliptical galaxies and galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Pope, Edward C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have constructed an analytical model of AGN feedback and studied its implications for elliptical galaxies and galaxy clusters. The results show that momentum injection above a critical value will eject material from low mass elliptical galaxies, and leads to an X-ray luminosity, $L_{\rm X}$, that is $\propto$ $σ^{8-10}$, depending on the AGN fuelling mechanism, where $σ$ is the velocity dispersion of the hot gas. This result agrees well with both observations and semi-analytic models. In more massive ellipticals and clusters, AGN outflows quickly become buoyancy-dominated. This necessarily means that heating by a central cluster AGN redistributes the intracluster medium (ICM) such that the mass of hot gas, within the cooling radius, should be $ \propto L_{\rm X}(
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 11 pages, 2 figures and 2 tables
Unified Discourse Analysis: Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds, and Video Games
Creators: name: Heil, Catherine
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2014

description: James Paul Gee’s Unified Discourse Analysis: Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds, and Video Games not only offers a comprehensive theoretical framework that can be used to analyze discourse, video games, and action, but also explores the underlying commonalities that unite these seemingly disparate domains. The root of Gee’s theory is that “conversations” are not limited to talk, but also include text and action (what he calls “conversations with the world”). In life, humans have conversations with the world by taking on various identities (avatars) and “playing” as themselves through their interactions. Readers, too, interact with text by conversing with it in their minds, gleaning what they see as relevant based on the objectives of their avatars. Gee argues that video games, as a new multimodal communicative form, ought to be granted the same consideration that literary critics have given to texts and discourse analysts have given to discourse. Throughout this book, Gee weaves together illustrative examples from history and experience, images and analyses of video games, segments of classroom discourse, and even excerpts from literature and poetry to support this expansive framework.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2014)
Criteria Of Turbulent Transition In Parallel Flows
Creators: name: Dou, Hua-Shu
name: Khoo, Boo Cheong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the energy gradient method, criteria for turbulent transition are proposed for pressure driven flow and shear driven flow, respectively. For pressure driven flow, the necessary and sufficient condition for turbulent transition is the presence of the velocity inflection point in the averaged flow. For shear driven flow, the necessary and sufficient condition for turbulent transition is the existence of zero velocity gradient in the averaged flow profile. It is shown that turbulent transition can be effected via a singularity of the energy gradient function which may be associated with the chaotic attractor in dynamic system. The role of disturbance in the transition is also clarified in causing the energy gradient function to approach the singularity. Finally, it is interesting that turbulence can be controlled by modulating the distribution of the energy gradient function.
description: The Third International Symposium on Physics of Fluids (ISPF3) 15-18 June, 2009, Jiuzhaigou, China. 6 pages; 1 figure
Imaging the essential role of spin-fluctuations in high-Tc superconductivity
Creators: name: Jenkins, N.
name: Fasano, Y.
name: Berthod, C.
name: Maggio-Aprile, I.
name: Piriou, A.
name: Giannini, E.
name: Hoogenboom, B. W.
name: Hess, C.
name: Cren, T.
name: Fischer, Ø.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used scanning tunneling spectroscopy to investigate short-length electronic correlations in three-layer Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O(10+d) (Bi-2223). We show that the superconducting gap and the energy Omega_dip, defined as the difference between the dip minimum and the gap, are both modulated in space following the lattice superstructure, and are locally anti-correlated. Based on fits of our data to a microscopic strong-coupling model we show that Omega_dip is an accurate measure of the collective mode energy in Bi-2223. We conclude that the collective mode responsible for the dip is a local excitation with a doping dependent energy, and is most likely the (pi,pi) spin resonance.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Exploring Language Assessment and Testing: Language in Action
Creators: name: Voss, Eril
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2014

description: Many of the current textbooks on language testing in use today take a broad approach covering theory of language ability, test development, and test evaluation, including statistical computations. In his new book, Exploring Language Assessment and Testing, Anthony Green successfully presents an overview of past and current issues in language testing with a focus on classroom-based assessment. With an eye toward promoting assessment literacy, Green has written in a way that is easy to understand as well as intellectually engaging. This book is part of the Introductions to Applied Linguistics series by Routledge, which is intended for graduate students in teacher-education courses. Without a doubt, the novice reader will find the material informative and useful.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2014)
Influence of carbon on intraband scattering in Mg(B1-xCx)2
Creators: name: Matusiak, M.
name: Rogacki, K.
name: Zhigadlo, N. D.
name: Karpinski, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report data on the Hall coefficient (RH) of the carbon substituted Mg(B1-xCx)2 single crystals with x in the range from 0 to 0.1. The temperature dependences of RH obtained for the substituted crystals differ systematically at low temperatures, but all of them converge to the value of 1.8 x 10^-10 m^3/C at room temperature. The RH(T) data together with results of the thermoelectric power and electrical resistivity measurements are interpreted within a quasi-classical transport approach, where the presence of four different conducting sheets is considered. The main influence of the carbon substitution on the transport properties in the normal state is associated with enhanced scattering rates, rather than modified concentration of charge carriers. Presumably the carbon substitution increases the electron-impurity scattering mainly in the pi band.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Study of the Ultraviolet Behavior of an O($N$) $|\vec ϕ|^6$ Theory in $d=3$ Dimensions
Creators: name: Shrock, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the ultraviolet (UV) behavior of an O($N$) $|\vec ϕ|^6$ theory in $d=3$ spacetime dimensions, focusing on the question of the range in $N$ over which the perturbative beta function exhibits robust evidence of a UV zero in the $|\vec ϕ|^6$ coupling, $g$. The four-loop $(4\ell)$ beta function is known to have a (scheme-independent) UV zero at $g=g_{_{UV,4\ell}}$, which is reliably calculable for large $N$. For our analysis we use the six-loop beta function calculated in the minimal subtraction scheme. We find that this six-loop beta function has a UV zero, $g_{_{UV,6\ell}}$, if $N > N_c$, where $N_c \simeq 796$, and we calculate $g_{_{UV,6\ell}}$. To investigate the reliability of the result in the region of $N \gtrsim N_c$, we apply three methods: (i) calculation of the fractional difference between $g_{_{UV,4\ell}}$ and $g_{_{UV,6\ell}}$, (ii) a Padé approximant, and (iii) an assessment of scheme dependence. Our results provide quantitative measures of the range of $N$ over which the six-loop beta function has a UV zero and of the $1/N$ corrections to the value of $g$ at the UV zero for large but finite $N$. If one imposes a benchmark requirement that the fractional difference between $g_{_{UV,4\ell}}$ and $g_{_{UV,6\ell}}$ must be less than 15 \%, then our results show that this requirement is satisfied for $N \gtrsim 2 \times 10^3$. The possible role of nonperturbative effects is also noted.
description: 10 pages, latex
Learning-Oriented Assessment in Large-Scale Testing
Creators: name: Morgan, Siân
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2014

description: This paper reports two presentations from the TCCRISLS 2014 which address a newly emerging area of inquiry - the interface between Learning-oriented assessment (LOA) and large-scale summative assessments. The surveyed papers propose that LOA should be introduced into summative testing to help test-takers to demonstrate their best performance. The report will also make links between the papers and the dimensions of Turner and Purpura’s (2015) framework of LOA.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2014)
Canal de divulgação ciêntífica 'Ciência da Informação Express' e a aquiescência da escola de pensamento público da Ciência Aberta
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Nivaldo Calixto
name: Oliveira, Dalgiza Andrade
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão Pecha Kucha VI da 12ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira de Ciência Aberta, formato híbrido, de 13 a 15 de outubro de 2021.
Elevated blood and cerebrospinal fluid glucose levels affect the severity and short-term prognosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome
Creators: name: Gong, Qiaoyu
name: Liu, Shuping
name: Xiao, Zheman
name: Fu, Xiujuan
name: Lu, Zuneng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Hematology

description: This study aimed to explore the correlation of elevated glucose levels in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid with the progression and short-term prognosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). The medical records of 982 patients who were diagnosed with GBS in 31 representative tertiary hospitals, located in 14 provinces in southern China, were collected and retrospectively reviewed. Patients were grouped according to the levels of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) glucose, as well as the concentration of blood hemoglobinAlc (HbA1c). The Hughes grade scale was used to quantify functional outcomes. Compared to patients with normal FPG and CSF glucose levels, those in the high FPG and high CSF glucose groups were characterized by a higher proportion of severe patients (HFGS ≥ 3) at admission (58.8 vs. 73.1, P = 0.000; 57.6 vs. 71.2, P = 0.000), at nadir (67.4 vs. 83.0, P = 0.000; 66.2 vs. 80.4, P = 0.000), and at discharge (29.8 vs. 46.3, P = 0.000; 26.4 vs. 45.0, P = 0.000). Patients in the high HbA1c group also had more severe disability at admission (74.6 vs. 56.1, P = 0.005) and at nadir (80.3 vs. 64.3, P = 0.012) compared to the normal HbA1c group. Moreover, elevated levels of FPG and CSF glucose were significantly correlated with more severe disability at admission, at nadir, and at discharge. The present study showed that elevated glucose levels in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid were associated with the severity and short-term prognosis of GBS. chicTR-RRc-17,014,152. GBS, Guillain-Barré syndrome; FPG, fasting plasma glucose; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; HFGS, Hughes Functional Grading Scale; HbA1c, hemoglobin A1c. DM, diabetes mellitus; NCS, nerve conduction study; AIDP, acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; AMAN, acute motor axonal neuropathy; AMSAN, acute motor sensory axonal neuropathy; MV, mechanical ventilation.
High-performance steel-timber composite rocking shear-wall system for the next generation of tall mass timber buildings : seismic design for system acceptability
Creators: name: Al Samouly, Aly
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The use of sustainable design methodology in construction has seen major traction due to numerous regional and worldwide net zero emissions targets. These methods have advanced the technological development of systems in innovative ways, resulting in systems that reduce the carbon footprint of structures through the materials used, construction sequences, and end-of-life processes. Furthermore, particularly in seismically prone areas, the advent of resilient systems has seen a surge in ingenious solutions. In this study, a novel high-performance hybrid steel-timber rocking shear wall system is introduced for the next generation of resilient, sustainable structures. The wall system combines the favourable properties of steel plates and CLT panels, resulting in a composite CLT-steel wall section. This wall is pinned at the base and incorporates Resilient Slip Friction Joint dampers to effectively dissipate energy during rocking behavior. The cross-section of the walls is designed using readily available plates and panels, ensuring commercial viability. Through optimization of the composite modules and construction methodology, a modular system that delivers exceptional resilient structural performance, streamlines the prefabrication process, and provides a rapid construction process has been developed. The shear wall system is applied to a benchmark structure located in Vancouver, BC, and the composite section is modelled analytically using ANSYS, where modeling parameters, material thicknesses, strength and other design parameters are varied to determine the most favourable combination for the load scenario. The behaviour of the system is then implemented and calibrated in OpenSees, where a series of nonlinear seismic analyses were executed using selected crustal, subcrustal, and subduction ground motions present in the region according to NBCC 2020 guidelines. Results confirm that system performance exceeds drift requirements as per the current NBCC 2020 building code and yields an adjusted collapse margin ratio of 7.07, 5.61, and 3.90 for crustal, subcrustal, and subduction hazards respectively, resulting in a weighted average of 4.63, exceeding FEMA P-695 guidelines.