cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High-Q photonic resonators and electro-optic coupling using silicon-on-lithium-niobate
Creators: name: Witmer, Jeremy D.
name: Valery, Joseph A.
name: Arrangoiz-Arriola, Patricio
name: Sarabalis, Christopher J.
name: Hill, Jeff T.
name: Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future quantum networks in which superconducting quantum processors are connected via optical links, will require microwave-to-optical photon converters that preserve entanglement. A doubly-resonant electro-optic modulator (EOM) is a promising platform to realize this conversion. Here, we present our progress towards building such a modulator by demonstrating the optically-resonant half of the device. We demonstrate high quality factor ring, disk and photonic crystal resonators using a hybrid silicon-on-lithium-niobate material system. Optical quality factors up to 730,000 are achieved, corresponding to propagation loss of 0.8 dB/cm. We also use the electro-optic effect to modulate the resonance frequency of a photonic crystal cavity, achieving a electro-optic modulation coefficient between 1 and 2 pm/V. In addition to quantum technology, we expect that our results will be useful both in traditional silicon photonics applications and in high-sensitivity acousto-optic devices.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Multimedia and its implications for the news message
Creators: name: Stevens, Meghan C. S.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis is about meanings in multimedia, and how the interaction of multiple media affects those meanings and the messages they create. In other words, the structure of the multimedia and the intermedia perturbations generated by that structure create the message. It is not about communication or the communication of communication. While meaning does involve interpretation and different people interpret meanings differently, meanings here are based on the social norms of a target audience. An important focus is the effects of intermedia perturbations that are generated by the relationships between the media. These intermedia perturbations are critical in determining the news message and understanding the way changes in meanings result from intermedial relationships and, in addition, whether or not these changes are overt or covert as occurs when using subliminal or liminal techniques. This understanding is a prerequisite to creating multimedia that communicates the intended message. The project includes a survey undertaken to better understand current use of multimedia in online news. In addition, it looks at how the construction of meaning in multimedia can be understood drawing on a number of different theories and models from various fields. These theories and models include autopoietic theory, systems theory, complexity science, emergence theory, added value, the generalized theoretical framework for the analysis of multimedia with its three models of multimedia, and the model of film music perception. A proposed model of multimedia that incorporates aspects of these various theories and models is constructed to enable analysis of an existing multimedia text or creation of a new multimedia text with the message determined for a target audience.
Clustering Methods for Electricity Consumers: An Empirical Study in Hvaler-Norway
Creators: name: Dang-Ha, The-Hien
name: Olsson, Roland
name: Wang, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The development of Smart Grid in Norway in specific and Europe/US in general will shortly lead to the availability of massive amount of fine-grained spatio-temporal consumption data from domestic households. This enables the application of data mining techniques for traditional problems in power system. Clustering customers into appropriate groups is extremely useful for operators or retailers to address each group differently through dedicated tariffs or customer-tailored services. Currently, the task is done based on demographic data collected through questionnaire, which is error-prone. In this paper, we used three different clustering techniques (together with their variants) to automatically segment electricity consumers based on their consumption patterns. We also proposed a good way to extract consumption patterns for each consumer. The grouping results were assessed using four common internal validity indexes. We found that the combination of Self Organizing Map (SOM) and k-means algorithms produce the most insightful and useful grouping. We also discovered that grouping quality cannot be measured effectively by automatic indicators, which goes against common suggestions in literature.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
On the Accuracy of Edge Detectors in Number Plate Extraction
Creators: name: Sadiq, Bashir Olaniyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Edge detection as a pre-processing stage is a fundamental and important aspect of the number plate extraction system. This is due to the fact that the identification of a particular vehicle is achievable using the number plate because each number plate is unique to a vehicle. As such, the characters of a number plate system that differ in lines and shapes can be extracted using the principle of edge detection. This paper presents a method of number plate extraction using edge detection technique. Edges in number plates are identified with changes in the intensity of pixel values. Therefore, these edges are identified using a single based pixel or collection of pixel-based approach. The efficiency of these approaches of edge detection algorithms in number plate extraction in both noisy and clean environment are experimented. Experimental results are achieved in MATLAB 2017b using the Pratt Figure of Merit (PFOM) as a performance metric
Socioeconomic drivers of land mobility in Irish agriculture
Creators: name: Geoghegan, Cathal
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
name: Geoghegan, Cathal
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Ireland
subject: land use
subject: land tenure
subject: dairy
subject: socio-economic determinants

description: Land mobility is becoming an increasingly important issue for European agriculture given the so-called ‘‘greying’’ of the farming population. This is especially the case in Ireland where meeting current and future policy goals will pose challenges to current agricultural land use and land structures. One of the most important of these policy goals is Food Harvest 2020 (FH2020), which envisages an increase in dairy milk volume of 50% by the year 2020. In order to facilitate this expansion, changes in Irish agricultural land use and land structures may be required. Increased land mobility may be required to reach the FH2020 target. Currently, Ireland has the lowest rate of agricultural land rental in Europe and less than 1% of farmland is transferred by sale or inheritance annually. Although efforts have been made by policy makers to improve rates of land mobility, little improvement has occurred. Given the current land structures, our analysis concludes that dairy farmers will require more land than is currently available to meet FH2020 targets. This extra land may come from non-dairy farmers. Cattle farmers are seen as most likely to transfer to dairy farming in the future but structural and demographic issues may mean that a far smaller amount of switching between cattle and dairy systems will occur than is expected by policy makers. This may impinge upon future growth in the Irish agri-food industry. In order to achieve policy objectives, better incentives may have to be developed to encourage the mobility of land between farmers.
Extremely large non-saturating magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility due to topological surface states in metallic Bi2Te3 topological insulator
Creators: name: Shrestha, K.
name: Chou, M.
name: Graf, D.
name: Yang, H. D.
name: Lorenz, B.
name: Chu, C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weak antilocalization (WAL) effects in Bi2Te3 single crystals have been investigated at high and low bulk charge carrier concentrations. At low charge carrier density the WAL curves scale with the normal component of the magnetic field, demonstrating the dominance of topological surface states in magnetoconductivity. At high charge carrier density the WAL curves scale with neither the applied field nor its normal component, implying a mixture of bulk and surface conduction. WAL due to topological surface states shows no dependence on the nature (electrons or holes) of the bulk charge carriers. The observations of an extremely large, non-saturating magnetoresistance, and ultrahigh mobility in the samples with lower carrier density further support the presence of surface states. The physical parameters characterizing the WAL effects are calculated using the Hikami-Larkin-Nagaoka formula. At high charge carrier concentrations, there is a greater number of conduction channels and a decrease in the phase coherence length compared to low charge carrier concentrations. The extremely large magnetoresistance and high mobility of topological insulators have great technological value and can be exploited in magneto-electric sensors and memory devices.
description: 5 figures, 6 pages
Intravitreal Bevacizumab Followed by Ranibizumab for Neovascular Age Related Macular Degeneratıon
Creators: name: Yuksel N
name: Ozdek S
name: Gurelık G
name: Hasanreısoglu B
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: To compare the outcomes after switching from intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) to intravitreal ranibizumab (IVR) in patients with neovascular age related macular degeneration (ARMD). Material and Methods: A retrospective review of patients with neovascular ARMD, who were switched from treatment with Pro Re Nata (PRN) IVB to PRN IVR, was conducted in a university clinic. IVB (1.25 mg/0.05 ml) and IVR (0.5 mg/0.05 ml) were used. Retreatment criteria were defined based on an activity scoring (AS) system developed in our clinic. An AS was calculated for each lesion at each visit. AS results and the number of injections before and after switching treatment to IVR were compared. Results: 32 eyes of 31 patients with neovascular ARMD were included in the study. The mean follow-up period was 12.3±4.7 months. The mean duration of IVB treatment was 8.1±3.1 months followed by 4.2±1.6 months with IVR. At the beginning of the study the mean AS was 8.9, (Visual Acuity) VA : 0.99 logMAR, and Central Foveal Thickness (CFT): 312.7±81.1µ. A month after the last IVB injection, AS became 5.1, VA: 0.69 logMAR, and CFT: 210.4±80.4µ (p<0.05). Likewise, a month after the last IVR injection, AS, VA and CFT were 5.8, 0.78 logMAR, and 199.9±60.9µ, respectively. Comparison of post-injection results of IVB and IVR treatments did not reveal a statistically significant difference. Mean injection rates per patient while receiving IVB and IVR treatments were 0.46/month and 0.44/ month, respectively (p>0.05). Conclusions: This study shows that the improvement in AS, CFT, and VA, achieved with the PRN IVB treatment, seems to be maintained after switching to IVR.
Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study: Effectiveness of Guidelines in Cases of Endophthalmitis Following Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery
Creators: name: Shah M
name: Shah S
name: Shah A
name: P, Kalyani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Objective: To validate Endophthalmitis vitrectomy study guidelines in cases of post-operative endophthalmitis following Manual small incision cataract surgery. Setting: Tertiary eye care centre in western central India Participants: 36 eyes with endophthalmitis following Manual small incision cataract surgery. Methods: We enrolled all post cataract endophthalmitis patients following manual small incision cataract surgery with specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Treatment planned according to severity as in Endophthalmitis vitrectomy study, all eyes are given intra vitrealvancomycine+ceftazidim injection using standard protocol and dosages. Patients who have visual acuity more than hand motion were treated only with intravitreal injections and patients who had only perception of light undergone vitrectomy. Patients who were not ready for surgical intervention excluded from analyses of visual outcome. Patients were followed up according to standard schedule and protocol. Results: Our cohort consisted of total 36 cases of acute post-operative endophthalmitis following manual small incision cataract surgery within six weeks. Our cohort consisted of 20(55.6%) male 16(44.4%) female;the age range was 44 - 85 years with mean age of 56.9 +/- 19.5 years. The mean duration of presentation and duration following cataract surgery was 6.7 +/- 8.1 days and 7.1 +/- 10.9 days respectively. Visual outcome 11 eyes (42.3%) regained vision more than 20/40 and 15 eyes (57.7%) regained more than 20/60, 20 eyes(76.9%) regained more than 20/200 and 23 eyes (88.4%) regained more than 20/400 Conclusion: Results and recommendations of Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study are very effective and useful in treatment post cataract surgery endophthalmitis by manual small incision cataract surgery.
English-only policy in an Australian ELICOS setting: perspectives of English students, teachers and academic management
Creators: name: Kharchenko, Yulia
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Beliefs in the advantages of target language-only instruction in English language teaching are widespread and often result in an English-only policy (EOP) in educational settings. Such policies rarely take into account the perspectives of all stakeholders. Situated within the critical and transformative paradigm, the study explored the perceptions of the EOP and its impact on students and teachers in an Australian English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) college. The mixed-methods study collected data using a student survey, group interviews with teachers, and a written response from academic managers in order to compare different perspectives. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis revealed an overall positive perception of the policy and its impact on English learning, mainly based on the beliefs about increased communication opportunities in the language. The realities of day-to-day EOP implementation, however, included negative psychological impact on some students and increased demands on teachers, sometimes leading to confusion as to their professional role. Research also revealed the limitations of framing a linguistic strategy as a policy, including the potential for conflict between the academic staff and the students. The study provides a foundation for future language policy decisions in the given setting and can be of interest to the wider ELICOS sector, particularly with regards to issues of language regulation. It contributes to the growing research on multilingual pedagogy and first language use in English teaching and learning, while drawing attention to the rights and needs of international students in Australia.
Pictures to objects: transitioning to object oriented programming
Creators: name: Heimlich, Sarah
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Teaching programming is considered hard, but transitioning from procedural to object oriented programming is even harder. Yet, this is what the new National Digital Technologies curriculum expects of every Australian student. An examination of the literature reveals that transitioning to object oriented programmingis diffcult, but for unknown reasons. Here, we examine and study this transition through the literature and a survey. The survey results help us identify programming concepts which are easier, and other concepts which are more diffcult, tolearn. The data gathered suggests that fourteen years old is the optimal age for learning object oriented programming. Based on the information gathered through the literature review and survey, a new visual programming language for the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 that can assist in the transition to object oriented programming is created. We propose a new measure to determine how hard an object oriented programming language is to learn and discover five potential threshold object oriented concepts. It is hoped this project will provide insight into the transition to object orientation and ease the diffcult transition to object oriented programming.
Unravelling local spin polarization of Zhang-Rice singlet in lightly hole-doped cuprates using high-energy optical conductivity
Creators: name: Santoso, Iman
name: Ku, Wei
name: Shirakawa, Tomonori
name: Neuber, Gerd
name: Yin, Xinmao
name: Enoki, M.
name: Fujita, Masaki
name: Liang, Ruixing
name: Venkatesan, T.
name: Sawatzky, George A.
name: Kotlov, Aleksei
name: Yunoki, Seiji
name: Rübhausen, Michael
name: Rusydi, Andrivo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unrevealing local magnetic and electronic correlations in the vicinity of charge carriers is crucial in order to understand rich physical properties in correlated electron systems. Here, using high-energy optical conductivity (up to 35 eV) as a function of temperature and polarization, we observe a surprisingly strong spin polarization of the local spin singlet with enhanced ferromagnetic correlations between Cu spins near the doped holes in lightly hole-doped La$_{1.95}$Sr$_{0.05}$Cu$_{0.95}$Zn$_{0.05}$O$_{4}$. The changes of the local spin polarization manifest strongly in the temperature-dependent optical conductivity at ~7.2 eV, with an anomaly at the magnetic stripe phase (~25 K), accompanied by anomalous spectral-weight transfer in a broad energy range. Supported by theoretical calculations, we also assign high-energy optical transitions and their corresponding temperature dependence, particularly at ~2.5 ~8.7, ~9.7, ~11.3 and ~21.8 eV. Our result shows the importance of a strong mixture of spin singlet and triplet states in hole-doped cuprates and demonstrates a new strategy to probe local magnetic correlations using high- energy optical conductivity in correlated electron systems.
description: 38 pages, 11 figures
Approaching the Bottom Using Fine Lattices With Domain-Wall Fermions
Creators: name: Fahy, Brendan
name: Cossu, Guido
name: Hashimoto, Shoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the heavy-quark mass region above the charm mass using Möbius domain-wall fermions on fine lattices at $a = 0.080$, $0.055$, and $0.044$ fm. We examine masses and decay constants using a series of heavy quark masses up to 3 times the charm quark. We analyze the cutoff effects for heavy quarks above the charm and account for the leading order discretization effects using ideas from HQET. We extrapolate to the bottom quark mass and report preliminary results for $f_{B}$ and $f_{B_s}$
title: „Trafficking Chains“ – Moderne Sklaverei auf allen Ebenen bekämpfen
Creators: name: Sickelmann, Sarah
Publisher: name: DuEPublico
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Gender studies

description: Menschenhandel und Sklaverei sind keine Phänomene aus längst vergangenen Zeiten, sondern höchst aktuelle und weltweit auftretende Probleme, die sich nicht durch ökonomischen Fortschritt in der modernen Gesellschaft aufgelöst haben. Im Gegenteil: Wie das Buch Trafficking Chains (2024) von Sylvia Walby und Karen Shire verdeutlicht, gilt es nicht einige wenige „böse“ Kriminelle zu bekämpfen, sondern die intersektionalen und systemischen Ungleichheiten in den Blick zu nehmen, die sie hervorbringen. Walby und Shire plädieren für einen umfassenden Blick auf die gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen, die moderne Sklaverei begünstigen oder verhindern und veranschaulichen dies auch am Beispiel Deutschlands.
Second-order temporal coherence of polariton lasers based on an atomically thin crystal in a microcavity
Creators: name: Shan, Hangyong
name: Drawer, Jens-Christian
name: Sun, Meng
name: Anton-Solanas, Carlos
name: Esmann, Martin
name: Yumigeta, Kentaro
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Tongay, Sefaattin
name: Höfling, Sven
name: Savenko, Ivan
name: Schneider, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bosonic condensation and lasing of exciton-polaritons in microcavities is a fascinating solid-state phenomenon. It provides a versatile platform to study out-of-equilibrium many-body physics and has recently appeared at the forefront of quantum technologies. Here, we study the photon statistics via the second-order temporal correlation function of polariton lasing emerging from an optical microcavity integrated with an atomically thin MoSe2 crystal. Furthermore, we investigate the macroscopic polariton phase transition for varying excitation powers and temperatures. The lower-polariton exhibits photon bunching below the threshold, implying a dominant thermal distribution of the emission, while above the threshold, the second-order correlation transits towards unity, which evidences the formation of a coherent state. Our findings are in agreement with a microscopic numerical model, which explicitly includes scattering with phonons on the quantum level.
description: This manuscript was published in Phys. Rev. Lett., see https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.206901
A New Pseudo-color Technique Based on Intensity Information Protection for Passive Sensor Imagery
Creators: name: Khosravi, Mohammad Reza
name: Rostami, Habib
name: Ahmadi, Gholam Reza
name: Mansouri, Suleiman
name: Keshavarz, Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Remote sensing image processing is so important in geo-sciences. Images which are obtained by different types of sensors might initially be unrecognizable. To make an acceptable visual perception in the images, some pre-processing steps (for removing noises and etc) are preformed which they affect the analysis of images. There are different types of processing according to the types of remote sensing images. The method that we are going to introduce in this paper is to use virtual colors to colorize the gray-scale images of satellite sensors. This approach helps us to have a better analysis on a sample single-band image which has been taken by Landsat-8 (OLI) sensor (as a multi-band sensor with natural color bands, its images' natural color can be compared to synthetic color by our approach). A good feature of this method is the original image reversibility in order to keep the suitable resolution of output images.
On the skew-spectral distribution of randomly oriented graphs
Creators: name: Shang, Yilun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The randomly oriented graph $G_{n,p}^σ$ is an Erdős-Rényi random graph $G_{n,p}$ with a random orientation $σ$, which assigns to each edge a direction so that $G_{n,p}^σ$ becomes a directed graph. Denote by $S_n$ the skew-adjacency matrix of $G_{n,p}^σ$. Under some mild assumptions, it is proved in this paper that, the spectral distribution of $S_n$ (under some normalization) converges to the standard semicircular law almost surely as $n\rightarrow\infty$. It is worth mentioning that our result does not require finite moments of the entries of the underlying random matrix.
Cataract How Important Is Age of Intervention?
Creators: name: Shah M
name: Shah S
name: Shah A
name: Pandya J
name: Bardoloi G
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: To study effect of age of intervention on visual outcome following treatment of pediatric patients with cataract. Setting: Tertiary eye care centre in Dahod at the trijunction of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan states in central western India. Participants: 705 eyes of 1047 patients Methods: This is a prospective cohort study. We studied a consecutive series of pediatric patients with congenital, developing, or COMPLICATED cataracts who underwent surgery between January, 1999 and April, 2012 at our center. Patient demographics, cataract type, presenting symptoms, surgical intervention, postoperative visual acuity, and follow-up refractive changes were recorded. Primary Outcome measures: vision. Results: In total, 1305 eyes of 1047 children were included: unilateral cataracts were present in 786 (60.2%) eyes. There were 600 (46.7%) traumatic and 705 (53.3%) non-traumatic cases. Ages at surgery ranged from 1 to 215 months. Eyes were grouped by the age of surgical intervention performed: Group 1,5 years, including 528 (74.9%) eyes either by anterior or pars plana route ± IOL placement. The mean follow-up time was 117 days. Ultimately, 128 (18.2%) Group 1 and 213 (30.2%) Group 2 patients achieved a visual acuity better than 20/80 (P < 0.001). Age at intervention was significantly related (all P < 0.001) to visual outcome. Conclusions: Age of intervention affects visual outcome significantly (p<0.001).
How is the Presence of Horizons and Localized Matter Encoded in the Entanglement Entropy?
Creators: name: Cadoni, Mariano
name: jain, Parul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the new theoretical paradigm that views spacetime geometry as emerging from the entanglement of a pre-geometric theory, we investigate the issue of the signature of the presence of horizons and localized matter on the entanglement entropy (EE) S_E for the case of three-dimensional AdS (AdS_3) gravity. We use the holographically dual two-dimensional CFT on the torus and the related modular symmetry in order to treat bulk black holes and conical singularities (sourced by pointlike masses not shielded by horizons) on the same footing. In the regime where boundary tori can be approximated by cylinders we are able to give universal expressions for the EE of black holes and conical singularities. We argue that the presence of horizons/localized matter in the bulk is encoded in the EE in terms of (i) enhancement/reduction of the entanglement of the AdS_3 vacuum, (ii) scaling as area/volume of the leading term of the perturbative expansion of S_E, (iii) exponential/periodic behaviour of S_E, (iv) presence of unaccessible regions in the noncompact/compact dimension of the boundary cylinder. In particular, we show that the reduction effect of matter on the entanglement of the vacuum found by Verlinde for the de Sitter vacuum extends to the AdS_3 vacuum
description: 16 pages, no figures
Socio-economic factors affecting the adoption of GHG emission abatement practices; the case of spring slurry spreading
Creators: name: Tzemi, Domna
name: Breen, James Patrick
name: Tzemi, Domna
name: Breen, James Patrick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: probit model
subject: technology adoption
subject: dairy farmers

description: The agricultural sector in Ireland contributes almost 33% of Ireland’s total Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions with dairy cows and beef cattle being the biggest source of these emissions (EPA, 2016). Several studies exist indicating that changing the timing of slurry spreading from summer to early spring, would reduce the levels of ammonia emissions (Lalor and Schulte, 2008; Stettler et al., 2003). A knowledge gap, however, exists on the extent to which Irish farmers would be willing to change the time they spread slurry. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the influence of selected personal, farm and economic characteristics on farmers’ willingness to spread most of their slurry in early spring. In order to achieve that a binary probit model was used. The results showed that 50% of slurry spread in early spring in Ireland was positively influenced by advisory contact, investment in machinery per hectare and profitability of the farm. While off-farm income and the date farmers turn their cows out to grass had a significant negative effect. The findings of this study could assist advisors and policy makers in relation to the adoption of new practices by farmers.
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515) (11 H 1162), f. 00033
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: comptes
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1162). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1162), f. 00033, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Epicurean arts: the aesthetic theory of Philodemus of Gadara
Creators: name: Westenberg, Thomas William Anthony
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The aesthetic trilogy of Philodemus of Gadara, an Epicurean philosopher who lived and taught in the first century B.C., is made up of the treatises On music, On poems and On rhetoric. Recent studies have indicated that Philodemus' aesthetic philosophy differs from that of traditional Epicureanism. However, these studies have examined each of the three aesthetic arts as distinct entities. This study proposes a single, unified aesthetic theory as presented in the aesthetic trilogy; a theory which is founded on the concept of the arts as the linguistic expression of philosophy.
The Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. II. Young Ultracool Field Dwarfs
Creators: name: Liu, Michael C.
name: Dupuy, Trent J.
name: Allers, Katelyn N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We present a large, uniform analysis of young (~10-150 Myr) ultracool dwarfs, based on new high-precision IR parallaxes for 68 objects. We find that low-gravity (VL-G) late-M and L dwarfs form a continuous sequence in IR color-magnitude diagrams, separate from field objects and current theoretical models. VL-G objects also appear distinct from young substellar (brown dwarf and exoplanet) companions, suggesting the two populations have a different range of physical properties. In contrast, at the L/T transition, young, old, and peculiar objects all span a narrow range in near-IR absolute magnitudes. At a given spectral type, the IR absolute magnitudes of young objects can be offset from ordinary field dwarfs, with the largest offsets occurring in the Y and J bands for late-M dwarfs (brighter than the field) and mid/late-L dwarfs (fainter than the field). Overall, low-gravity (VL-G) objects have the most uniform photometric behavior while intermediate-gravity (INT-G) objects are more diverse, suggesting a third governing parameter beyond spectral type and gravity class. We examine the moving group memberships for all young ultracool dwarfs with parallaxes, changing/refuting the status of 23 objects and fortifying the status of another 28 objects. We use our resulting age-calibrated sample to establish empirical young isochrones and find a declining frequency of VL-G objects relative to INT-G objects with increasing age. Notable objects in our sample include high-velocity INT-G objects; very red, late-L dwarfs with high surface gravities; candidate disk-bearing members of the MBM20 cloud and beta Pic moving group; and very young distant interlopers. Finally, we provide a comprehensive summary of the absolute magnitudes and spectral classifications of 102 young ultracool dwarfs, found in the field and as substellar companions to young stars.
description: ApJ, in press, 138 pages including 33 figures and 15 tables. Compilation of young ultracool dwarfs and young substellar (brown dwarf and exoplanet) companions available at the Database of Ultracool Parallaxes (see http://www.as.utexas.edu/~tdupuy/plx)
title: 02_1847
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Are farming companies emerging from non-agricultural sector better managed than conventional farms in Japan?
Creators: name: Kinoshita, Yukio
name: Kimura, Nobuo
name: Kinoshita, Yukio
name: Kimura, Nobuo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Entry of non-agricultural companies
subject: Modernisation of management
subject: Farm management styles
subject: Managerial capabilities
subject: Farm business growth

description: Conventional Japanese farmers have faced a longstanding challenge in adapting to a changing business environment.While the deregulation of the Agricultural Land Act in 2009 has led to the entry of companies from the non-agricultural sector into agriculture, another reason seems to be the general capitalisation of the agricultural industry into the wider economy. However, few management studies have analysed these new companies. An important question is whether the corporatisation of farm business is accompanied by the modernisation of farm management techniques. Our study examines crop-farming companies and compares farm management styles of these newly emerging farming entities with those of family-farmbased entities. It is based on 124 questionnaire responses from a sample of 577 posted in 2016. The questions covered human and organisational factors, as well as operational factors. We find no notable advantages in the way companies are managed. Probably because of their inexperience and low dependence on the farming business in terms of sales, our comparison highlights improvements that they need to make for further modernisation of farm management. Both types of entities face similar challenges in raising managerial capabilities.
Characterising the functional domains of the candidate ALS protein, cyclin F
Creators: name: Duncan, Kimberley
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by the rapid degeneration of motor neurons leading to muscle paralysis and death. The only known causes of ALS are gene mutations, several of which are intrinsic to protein degradation pathways. Dysfunctional protein degradation could lead to abnormal protein accumulation in neurons, a hallmark of ALS pathology. Our laboratory recently identified ALS-linked mutations in CCNF, which encodes cyclin F, an E3 ubiquitin ligase that mediates the destruction of aberrant proteins by the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS). The overall aim of this project was to characterise the function of cyclin F domains and predict the effect of ALS-linked mutations on protein function. First, bioinformatic modelling was performed to visualise the proximity of cyclin F mutations to active sites and predict their effect on protein function. Next, a series of CCNF deletion clones were generated for expression in neuronal cell lines to assess the effect of deleting functional domains on sub-cellular localisation of cyclin F as well as toxicity. 3D modelling of the mutations within the cyclin box show that they may affect substrate binding, while deletion cloning studies show that mutations within PEST could affect protein stability and cause mis-localisation, leading to protein aggregation. This could lead to the enhanced cytotoxicity that was found in PEST cyclinF-transfected cells. These deletion constructs can be utilised in future in vitro studies to further examine the effects of individual domains on protein binding, stability and UPS function, to elucidate the potentail mechanisms that cause neuronal death.
Strained topological insulator spin-orbit torque random access memory (STI-SOTRAM) bit cell for energy-efficient Processing in Memory
Creators: name: Morshed, Md Golam
name: Vakili, Hamed
name: Sakib, Mohammad Nazmus
name: Ganguly, Samiran
name: Stan, Mircea R.
name: Ghosh, Avik W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel design of a strained topological insulator spin-orbit torque random access memory (STI-SOTRAM) bit cell comprising a piezoelectric/magnet (gating)/topological insulator (TI)/magnet (storage) heterostructure that leverages the TI's high charge-to-spin conversion efficiency coupled with the piezo-induced strain-based gating mechanism for low-power in-memory computing. The piezo-induced strain effectively modulates the conductivity of the topological surface state (TSS) by altering the gating magnet's magnetization from out-to-in-plane, facilitating the storage magnet's spin-orbit torque (SOT) switching. Through comprehensive coupled stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) simulations, we explore the device dynamics, anisotropy-stress phase space for switching, and write conditions and demonstrate a significant reduction in energy dissipation compared to conventional heavy metal (HM)-based SOT switching. Additionally, we project the energy consumption for in-memory Boolean operations (AND and OR). Our findings suggest the promise of the STI-SOTRAM for low-power, high-performance edge computing.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Ferroelectrically tunable topological phase transition in In$_2$Se$_3$ thin films
Creators: name: Tian, Zhiqiang
name: Zhu, Ziming
name: Zeng, Jiang
name: Liu, Chao-Fei
name: Yang, Yurong
name: Pan, Anlian
name: Chen, Mingxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Materials with ferroelectrically switchable topological properties are of interest for both fundamental physics and practical applications. Using first-principles calculations, we find that stacking ferroelectric $α$-In$_2$Se$_3$ monolayers into a bilayer leads to polarization-dependent band structures, which yields polarization-dependent topological properties. Specifically, we find that the states with interlayer ferroelectric couplings are quantum spin Hall insulators, while those with antiferroelectric polarizations are normal insulators. We further find that In$_2$Se$_3$ trilayer and quadlayer exhibit nontrivial band topology as long as in the structure the ferroelectric In$_2$Se$_3$ bilayer is antiferroelectrically coupled to In$_2$Se$_3$ monolayers or other ferroelectric In$_2$Se$_3$ bilayer. Otherwise the system is topologically trivial. The reason is that near the Fermi level the band structure of the ferroelectric In$_2$Se$_3$ bilayer has to be maintained for the nontrivial band topology. This feature can be used to design nontrivial band topology for the thicker films by a proper combination of the interlayer polarization couplings. The topological properties can be ferroelectrically tunable using the dipole locking effect. Our study reveals switchable band topology in a family of natural ferroelectrics, which provide a platform for designing new functional devices.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
Infrared ellipsometry study of the photo-generated charge carriers at the (001) and (110) surfaces of SrTiO$_3$ crystals and the interface of corresponding LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ heterostructures
Creators: name: Yazdi-Rizi, M.
name: Marsik, P.
name: Mallett, B. P. P.
name: Sen, K.
name: Cerreta, A.
name: Dubroka, A.
name: Scigaj, M.
name: Sánchez, F.
name: Herranz, G.
name: Bernhard, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With infrared (IR) ellipsometry and DC resistance measurements we investigated the photo-doping at the (001) and (110) surfaces of SrTiO$_3$ (STO) single crystals and at the corresponding interfaces of LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ (LAO/STO) heterostructures. In the bare STO crystals we find that the photo-generated charge carriers, which accumulate near the (001) surface, have a similar depth profile and sheet carrier concentration as the confined electrons that were previously observed in LAO/STO (001) heterostructures. A large fraction of these photo-generated charge carriers persist at low temperature at the STO (001) surface even after the UV light has been switched off again. These persistent charge carriers seem to originate from oxygen vacancies that are trapped at the structural domain boundaries which develop below the so-called antiferrodistortive transition at T* = 105 K. This is most evident from a corresponding photo-doping study of the DC transport in STO (110) crystals for which the concentration of these domain boundaries can be modified by applying a weak uniaxial stress. The oxygen vacancies and their trapping by defects are also the source of the electrons that are confined to the interface of LAO/STO (110) heterostructures which likely do not have a polar discontinuity as in LAO/STO (001). In the former, the trapping and clustering of the oxygen vacancies also has a strong influence on the anisotropy of the charge carrier mobility. We show that this anisotropy can be readily varied and even inverted by various means, such as a gentle thermal treatment, UV irradiation, or even a weak uniaxial stress. Our experiments suggest that extended defects, which develop over long time periods (of weeks to months), can strongly influence the response of the confined charge carriers at the LAO/STO (110) interface.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
Developing early childhood advocates: the role of undergraduate teacher education programs in New South Wales
Creators: name: Velez, Anna Victoria
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The early childhood education sector in Australia is currently the focus of significant government policy reviews. Early childhood teachers are well positioned to actively participate in such policy development processes by advocating for the rights and best interests of young children at this political or systems level. However, the undertaking of systems advocacy is complicated by multiple constructions of professionalism that can hinder teachers to view advocacy as a core professional responsibility. This study investigated undergraduate early childhood teacher education programs as constructors of teacher professionalism that support or promote the practice of systems advocacy.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven academics who convened units with advocacy content within programs in New South Wales. The study found that advocacy, particularly systems advocacy, is incorporated to a varied and generally limited extent. Participants utilised different approaches to develop an advocacy disposition in their students, some by encouraging students to reflect on their values and beliefs and others by developing critical thinking skills. These findings can be attributed to multiple constructions of professionalism - from accreditation bodies, pre-service teachers, and the participating academics - that present opportunities and constraints to the inclusion of advocacy in teacher education programs. This study offers a theoretical framework for the development of an advocacy disposition using the constructions of teacher professionalism. This framework could be used in undergraduate programs to strengthen critical thinking skills that may enable teachers’ development as advocates for children, families and the early childhood profession.
'injyl al-Masyḥ ḥasaba al-bashyr Mattâ
Creators: name: Ayuch, Daniel
name: Loay Hanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gospel of Matthew
The Synoptic Gospels
Christian Arabic Literature
Arab Christian Studies

description: The attached file shows some pages from the commentary on the Gospel of Matthew as in the Arabic Contemporary Commentary. This book is the first of its kind in the Middle East, written in Arabic, by Arabic Christian scholars, which offers Arab theological thinking with a great deal of diversity and pluralism to interpreters. This work is the result of an effort over many years, with 48 writers from six Arab countries: Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, and Kuwait.