cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Dynamic simulation of the Impact of risk events and risk cost in KSA PPP projects
Creators: name: Alzahrani, Saleh
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: The majority of risk events in Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects are due to the complexity of these projects. It requires the best of risk allocation to the appropriate party that is able to manage and control the allocated risks in order to achieve best value for money. Many researchers stated that the influence of a risk might trigger another risk event. Sterman (1992) identified that large-scale projects are complex and they have extremely dynamic and interdependent risks and uncertainties over their life cycle. Williams (2002) also state that in a large scale construction project the risk generally interact with each other in a nonlinear manner over time. Investigating the interaction between risk factors can help to decrease uncertainties. Dey and Ogunlana (2004) state that there it is necessity to analyse the interactions between risk events in complex projects. In recent approaches to risk management in PPP projects, experts tend to consider risk factors as being independent and ignore the influence of interaction between risk events over the project life cycle. This undermines the effectiveness of project risk estimation. In this work, further investigation on the interaction between risk factors and their impact on the risk cost in PPP projects will be investigated in Saudi Arabia based on first hand data collected from practitioner working in the kingdom. A questionnaire was designed and sent to a representative set of 250 practitioners in the field of Saudi PPP projects. 68 practitioners completed and returned the questionnaire with a 27% response rate. The collected data was pre-processed, processed and analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Using this statistical tool, regression analysis was carried out to build the equation of impact of risk events in each risk category. After that, the BestFit software was used to find best probability distribution fit for each risk factor. In This study, a new modelling approach for mapping risks and analysing the impact of risk events interaction considering the best distribution fit for each risk factor is developed using System Dynamics (SD) techniques (VENSIM software). This proposed model can help to estimate outturn construction unit cost of PPP projects and risk cost that is influenced by risk events interaction. Based on comprehensive prototyping and validation, the proposed approach is found to be robust valid tool for addressing real impact of risk events and evaluating the expected risk cost, which can help to improve risk allocation in PPP projects.
On First-Order Model-Based Reasoning
Creators: name: Bonacina, Maria Paola
name: Furbach, Ulrich
name: Sofronie-Stokkermans, Viorica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reasoning semantically in first-order logic is notoriously a challenge. This paper surveys a selection of semantically-guided or model-based methods that aim at meeting aspects of this challenge. For first-order logic we touch upon resolution-based methods, tableaux-based methods, DPLL-inspired methods, and we give a preview of a new method called SGGS, for Semantically-Guided Goal-Sensitive reasoning. For first-order theories we highlight hierarchical and locality-based methods, concluding with the recent Model-Constructing satisfiability calculus.
description: In Narciso Marti-Oliet, Peter Olveczky, and Carolyn Talcott (Eds.), "Logic, Rewriting, and Concurrency: Essays in Honor of Jose Meseguer" Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9200, September 2015, 24 pages. Version v4 in arxiv fixes a typo on page 15 that remains in the version published in the Springer book
Properties and Collapse of the Ferromagnetism in UCo1-xRuxAl Studied in Single Crystals
Creators: name: Pospisil, Jiri
name: Opletal, Petr
name: Valiska, Michal
name: Tokunaga, Yo
name: Stunault, Anne
name: Haga, Yoshinori
name: Tateiwa, Naouki
name: Gillon, Beatrice
name: Honda, Fuminori
name: Yamamura, Tomoo
name: Niznansky, Vojtech
name: Yamamoto, Etsuji
name: Aoki, Dai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the ferromagnetic (FM) phase which suddenly develops in UCo1-xRuxAl and is isolated by paramagnetic regions on both sides from the parent UCoAl and URuAl. For that purpose we have grown high quality single crystals with x = 0.62, 0.70, 0.74, 0.75 and 0.78. The properties of the FM phase have been investigated by microscopic and macroscopic methods. Polarized neutron diffraction on a single crystal with x = 0.62 revealed the gradual growth of the hybridization between U and T-site in the U - T plane with increasing x. Hybridization works here as a mediator of the strong indirect interaction, while the delocalized character of the 5 f states is still conserved. As a result very weak spontaneous magnetic moments are observed for all alloys with magnitude nearly in proportion to the TC for x < 0.62, while an enormous disproportion exists between them near xcrit.. The magnetization, specific heat, electrical resistivity, and Hall effect measurements confirmed that the FM transition is suppressed continuously at the critical concentration xcrit. = 0.77. Two quantum critical points are then expected on both sides of the FM dome. We propose a scenario that the order of the FM/PM transition differs at opposite boundaries of the FM dome. We conclude that both criticalities are influenced by disorder. Criticality on the UCoAl side has the character of a clean FM metal, while on the Ru rich side it has the character of a magnetically inhomogeneous system involving a Griffiths phase.
description: We have updated discussion in the new version of the manuscript. To determine the criticality in the UCoRuAl system we have employed a novel scenario of the magnetic disorder effect which much better explains experimental observations. The manuscript is accepted in the current state for publication to Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Lotka Volterra in fluctuating environment or "how switching between beneficial environments can make survival harder"
Creators: name: Benaïm, Michel
name: Lobry, Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J99, 34A60

description: We consider two dimensional Lotka-Volterra systems in fluctuating environment. Relying on recent results on stochastic persistence and piecewise deterministic Markov processes, we show that random switching between two environments both favorable to the same species can lead to the extinction of this species or coexistence of the species.
description: 40 pages, 8 figures. This is a revised version of a paper previously entitled Lotka Volterra in a fluctuating environment or "how good can be bad". 09/02/16: Reference to a recent paper by Malrieu and Zitt (http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.08151) has been added
title: The perspective of families and services in early psychosis
Creators: name: Day, Christine
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: This thesis contains two chapters, the first is a literature review and the second an empirical paper. This introductory section aims to provide a background context for the area of study and outline the key elements of the thesis. Both chapters highlight barriers to family inclusion and the implementation of family interventions for early psychosis. Service users, family members and case managers are diverse groups. Therefore clear boundaries and pathways of care are necessary and require prioritisation from an organisational level. This could enable all families to receive consistent care opportunities and choice that is then translated into individualised intervention to address their needs.
title: Regulation of protein kinase CbetaII (PKCbetaII) gene expression in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) cells
Creators: name: Al-Sanabra, Ola
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) cells are derived from mature B lymphocytes and are distinctive with respect to overexpression of the classical protein kinase C isoform protein kinase CβII (PKCβII), which is encoded by PRKCB. Expression of PKCβII in CLL plays a vital role in the pathogenesis of the malignant cells in this disease, and within the microenvironment cells where it provides signals for the production of factors which support the survival of CLL cells. In CLL cells PRKCB transcription is stimulated by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) through a mechanism involving activated PKCβII. However, at the beginning of this thesis the molecular regulatory mechanism(s) governing expression of the PKCβ gene were poorly described. Thus, to characterise the factors regulating PRKCB transcription in CLL cells I used different approaches including mithramycin treatment, a drug which intercalates into GC-rich areas of DNA to inhibit binding of specificity protein 1 (Sp1), specific Sp1 siRNA, promoter function assays and site directed mutagenesis and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP). Experiments using these techniques showed that Sp1 has a direct role in driving expression of the gene coding for PKCβII in CLL cells. My results also show that Sp1 is highly associated with the PRKCB promoter in CLL cells compared to that in normal B cells, and suggest that this is likely because of the presence of histone marks permissive of gene activation. Examination of other transcription factors such as Sp3, MITF, RUNX1 and E2F1 that potentially bind the PRKCB promoter showed that they have static or indirect effects in regulating transcription of this gene. The exception to this is STAT3 which my data suggests plays a role in suppressing PKCβ gene expression in CLL cells. Exploration of the mechanism through which VEGF induces PRKCB transcription revealed that this growth factor stimulates increased association of Sp1 and decreased association of STAT3 with the PRKCB promoter. Thus, VEGF-stimulated activation of PKCβII may play a role in this process. Taken together, Sp1 is the major driver for overexpression of PKCβII in CLL cells, and because this transcription factor is also overexpressed in these cells, the mechanisms I describe controlling PRKCB transcription potentially provide a foundation for further study of other genes contributing to the phenotype of CLL cells that are regulated by this pleiotropic transcription factor.
title: Impact of pseudomonas aeruginosa Liverpool epidemic strain (LES) on cystic fibrosis patients
Creators: name: Ashish, Abdul
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the commonest life limiting inherited disease illness in the western world. Over the last few decades there have been many advances in the diagnosis and management of this condition. Patients born with the disease now are living into their fourth decade, which is a statement to the progress made over time. Along with the progress there have been new challenges in the world of CF. In the last two decades there have been several studies reporting the presence of transmissible Pseudomonas Aeruginosa (Psa) strains in CF clinics worldwide. The first one to be reported in UK Liverpool paediatric clinic was later identified as the Liverpool Epidemic Strain (LES). Previous studies have demonstrated chronic infection with LES can result in accelerated fall in lung function, increased hospitalisation and antibiotic requirements. This thesis looks at the effect of chronic infection of adults with CF and its implications on healthcare institutions caring for such patients. In particular on an individual level i investigated the health related quality of life associated with patients chronically infected with LES and compared it those with unique or no Psa strains. I have demonstrated that chronic infection with LES strain significantly worsens health related quality of life compared to those with unique or no Psa strains. Patients infected by transmissible Psa strains had worse physical functioning, respiratory symptoms, treatment burden, vitality, role, health perception and emotion than those with unique Psa strains (p
title: Synthesis and characterization of ZIF-8 and ZIF-8/polymer composites
Creators: name: Milburn, Kate
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: In this project we carried out a systematic study into the synthesis of ZIF-8 using different experimental conditions to find the most suitable ZIF-8 particle morphologies. We then investigated the preparation of aligned porous ZIF-8-polymer composites via the freeze drying method. For the purposes of our project, we decided that particles between 100nm and 2um would be a suitable size for the preparation of polymer composite materials. And smaller would lead to the particles not being visible in the polymer framework and any larger they would be difficult to disperse homogenously throughout the framework. We used several different methods from literature, finally focusing on a method that was used by Cravillon which used an auxiliary ligand to modulate their reaction. The two auxiliary ligands were sodium formate and 1-methyl imidazole. We used water as the solvent to prepare these size-controllable ZIF-8 particles. This was carried out in a much lower volume of solvent than the corresponding methanol reactions. We carried out a systematic study into a wide range of conditions wrt 2-MeIM and 1-MeIM concentration as well as temperature- using room temperature, heating the reaction and solvothermal conditions. Three ZIF-8 conditions were identified as being promising for taking forward and these were all in water 1:20:20 Zn:2-MeIM:1-MeIM RT ~350nm, 1:10:2 80C ~400nm and 1:3:1 80C ~2.5um. The 1:3:1 had a very low conc of 2-MeIM and formed interesting nano-aggregate particles. We then investigated the preparation of aligned porous ZIF-8-polymer composites via the freeze drying method. These three particles were used to prepare aligned porous ZIF-8@PSS composite materials with three different ratio’s of ZIF:PSS 1:1, 1:3, and 3:1. These were directionally frozen in liquid nitrogen slowly ~1mm/10 seconds and then placed in a freeze drier to sublime the solvent and leave the porous structure intact. These structures were all successful and we characterised the two most successful, 1:2:20 and 1:10:2 for the BET surface area, pore size and volume and BJH average pore size. For 1:20:20 RT 3:1 ZIF-8:PSS we found a BET surface area of 440m squred per gram. This reduced as the ratio of zif:pss decreased as expected. The 1:10:2 case had a larger surface area of 521 m squared per gram. These two composite structures were aligned porous frameworks with high surface areas and tunable particle sizes. The next steps would be to test them for the applications.
title: This joke is [MASK]: Recognizing Humor and Offense with Prompting
Creators: name: Li, Junze
name: Zhao, Mengjie
name: Xie, Yubo
name: Maronikolakis, Antonis
name: Pu, Pearl
name: Schütze, Hinrich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2023

description: Humor is a magnetic component in everyday human interactions and communications. Computationally modeling humor enables NLP systems to entertain and engage with users. We investigate the effectiveness of prompting, a new transfer learning paradigm for NLP, for humor recognition. We show that prompting performs similarly to finetuning when numerous annotations are available, but gives stellar performance in low-resource humor recognition. The relationship between humor and offense is also inspected by applying influence functions to prompting; we show that models could rely on offense to determine humor during transfer.
Issues & Challenges Faced by Warehouse Management in the FMCG Sector of Pakistan
Creators: name: Qazi, Asad Ali
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Warehouse Efficiency
Warehouse Planning
Labor Management
Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)
Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
Warehouse Management
Third-party logistics (3PL).

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15L: 1-9
Meditational Effects of Personal Strategies in Relationship of Causes and Outcomes of Occupational Stress: A Survey of Judiciary in KP Pakistan
Creators: name: Tehseen Ahmad, Qamar Afaq Qureshi
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Job stress reduction
Individual Stressors
Collective stressors
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Depression
Absenteeism.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15M: 1-8
title: Understanding the self-assembly process and tunability of the final properties of dipeptide-based low molecular weight hydrogels
Creators: name: Raeburn, Jaclyn
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Reported in this thesis is the ability to prepare a number of dipeptide-conjugate hydrogels with tunable final properties, through judicious choice of the assembly conditions and gelator structure. Gelation of these materials can be triggered by solvent-mediated, pH-triggered, UV-triggered and electrochemically-induced means to give different mechanical properties. Subtle changes in the assembly conditions can evoke changes in the final properties - something that was evident across a range of gelator systems and methods of triggering gelation. UV and electrochemical methods demonstrated the ability to spatially and temporally control gelation, which could be of potential use to biosensor and cell culturing applications. Molecular rotors could be employed to monitor the kinetics of the gelation process, indicating an evolution in self-assembled structure around the pKa of a gelator. This thesis highlights the importance of the self-assembly process on the final properties of dipeptide-conjugate gels. A better understanding of this process will be beneficial for gelator design. Where specific hydrogel properties are needed, the gelator will be tunable for a desired application by manipulating the assembly conditions.
Convergence of the two-dimensional random walk loop soup clusters to CLE
Creators: name: Lupu, Titus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 60G15, 60J67, 60K35, 82B20, Secondary 82B27

description: We consider the random walk loop soup on the discrete half-plane corresponding to a central charge c in (0, 1]. We look at the clusters of discrete loops and show that the scaling limit of the outer boundaries of outermost clusters is the CLE(kappa) loop ensemble, with the same relation between kappa and c as in the continuum Brownian setting.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures
Parklet Ideas Making Small Street Urban Spaces with Big Impacts
Creators: name: Shokry, Hanaa Mahmoud
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Urban street design
Design considerations
Community life
Jazan City
Metered parking
Parklet design
Cityscape
Streetscape.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15N: 1-6
Augmentations are Sheaves
Creators: name: Ng, Lenhard
name: Rutherford, Dan
name: Shende, Vivek
name: Sivek, Steven
name: Zaslow, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the set of augmentations of the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebra of a Legendrian link underlies the structure of a unital A-infinity category. This differs from the non-unital category constructed in [BC], but is related to it in the same way that cohomology is related to compactly supported cohomology. The existence of such a category was predicted by [STZ], who moreover conjectured its equivalence to a category of sheaves on the front plane with singular support meeting infinity in the knot. After showing that the augmentation category forms a sheaf over the x-line, we are able to prove this conjecture by calculating both categories on thin slices of the front plane. In particular, we conclude that every augmentation comes from geometry.
description: 109 pages; v2: added Legendrian mirror example in section 4.4.4, corrected typos and other minor changes; v3: accepted version
title: On ergodic theory in non-archimedean settings
Creators: name: Jassova, Alena
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: In this thesis we use tools from ergodic theory to study ergodic and metric properties of Schneider's continued fraction map in non-Archimedean settings. We show that the natural extension of this map is isomorphic to a Bernoulli shift with entropy #(k) #(k)
Initiating an Experiment
Creators: name: Nabavi, Noushin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: experimentation
policy
experiment
public sector
science

description: This book is developed as part of a chapter for Government of Canada's experimentation course. This course provides an introduction to experimentation and how it can be used as a powerful tool to address complex issues. It is not meant to turn beginners into experts, but will inform public servants who would like to take part in or set up an experiment. The overall objectives is to make public servants informed consumers of evidence, and knowledgeable partners in experimental projects. More specifically, it will provide a degree of clarity on what experiments are, and how experiments should be planned and designed. # Initiating an Experiment Module This module is specifically designed to cover topics on **Initiating an Experiment**. The themes explored in this module are:
 (i) identifying opportunities to experiment in government activities - be it policy, program, regulatory, service, or internal services,
 (ii) designing experiments as part of existing programs/services.
description: https://noushinn.github.io/experimentation_course/
title: The role of ultra-orthodox political parties in Israeli democracy
Creators: name: Howson, Luke
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: This thesis focuses on the role of ultra-orthodox party Shas within the Israeli state as a means to explore wider themes and divisions in Israeli society. Without underestimating the significance of security and conflict within the structure of the Israeli state, in this thesis the Arab–Jewish relationship is viewed as just one important cleavage within the Israeli state. Instead of focusing on this single cleavage, this thesis explores the complex structure of cleavages at the heart of the Israeli political system. It introduces the concept of a ‘cleavage pyramid’, whereby divisions are of different saliency to different groups. At the top of the pyramid is division between Arabs and Jews, but one rung down from this are the intra-Jewish divisions, be they religious, ethnic or political in nature. In the case of Shas, the religious and ethnic elements are the most salient. The secular–religious divide is a key fault line in Israel and one in which ultra-orthodox parties like Shas are at the forefront. They and their politically secular counterparts form a key division in Israel, and an exploration of Shas is an insightful means of exploring this division further, its history and causes, and how these groups interact politically. Focusing on Shas can also shine a light on the intra-Jewish ethnic politics of Israel. Many of these divisions rest on the history of the Israeli state and the failure of the early state and its Zionist pioneers to create the society they envisioned – a unified, civic-nationalist state with an ethnic but not religious Jewish identity. The ultra-orthodox in Israel represent a self-isolating community whose interaction with the state – while paradoxical in seeking distance from the state – has become that of a sophisticated political actor.
title: Parity and generalised Büchi automata - determinisation and complementation
Creators: name: Methrayil Varghese, Praveen Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: In this thesis, we study the problems of determinisation and complementation of finite automata on infinite words. We focus on two classes of automata that occur naturally: generalised Büchi automata and nondeterministic parity automata. Generalised Büchi and parity automata occur naturally in model-checking, realisability checking and synthesis procedures. We first review a tight determinisation procedure for Büchi automata, which uses a simplification of Safra trees called history trees. As Büchi automata are special types of both generalised Büchi and parity automata, we adjust the data structure to arrive at suitably tight determinisation constructions for both generalised Büchi and parity automata. As the parity condition describes combinations of Büchi and CoBüchi conditions, instead of immediately modifying the data structure to handle parity automata, we arrive at a suitable data structure by first looking at a special case, Rabin automata with one accepting pair. One pair Rabin automata correspond to parity automata with three priorities and serve as a starting point to modify the structures that result from Büchi determinisation: we then nest these structures to reflect the standard parity condition and describe a direct determinisation construction. The generalised Büchi condition is characterised by an accepting family with 'k' accepting sets. It is easy to extend classic determinisation constructions to handle generalised Büchi automata by incorporating the degeneralization algorithm in the determinisation construction. We extend the tight Büchi construction to do exactly this. Our determinisation constructions go to deterministic Rabin automata. It is known that one can determinise to the more convenient parity condition by incorporating the standard Latest Appearance Record construction in the determinisation procedure. We determinise to parity automata using this technique. We prove lower bounds on these constructions. In the case of determinisation to Rabin automata, our constructions are tight to the state. In the case of determinisation to parity, there is a constant factor ≤ 1.5 between upper and lower bounds reducing to optimal(to the state) in the case of Büchi and 1-pair Rabin. We also reconnect tight determinisation and complementation and provide constructions for complementing generalised Büchi and parity automata by starting withour data structure for determinisation. We introduce suitable data structures for the complementation procedures based on the data structure used for determinisation. We prove lower bounds for both constructions that are tight upto an O(n) factor where 'n' is the number of states of the nondeterministic automaton that is complemented.
Den Sterbenden und Trauernden beistehen...
Creators: name: Maas-Ewerd, Theodor
name: Türk, Hans Joachim
name: Weß, Paul
Publisher: name: Diakonia
Year: 1970

description: Diakonia, Bd. 6 Nr. 6 (1975): Diakonia, Band 6, Heft 6
Word learning under infinite uncertainty
Creators: name: Blythe, Richard A.
name: Smith, Andrew D. M.
name: Smith, Kenny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Language learners must learn the meanings of many thousands of words, despite those words occurring in complex environments in which infinitely many meanings might be inferred by the learner as a word's true meaning. This problem of infinite referential uncertainty is often attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine. We provide a mathematical formalisation of an ideal cross-situational learner attempting to learn under infinite referential uncertainty, and identify conditions under which word learning is possible. As Quine's intuitions suggest, learning under infinite uncertainty is in fact possible, provided that learners have some means of ranking candidate word meanings in terms of their plausibility; furthermore, our analysis shows that this ranking could in fact be exceedingly weak, implying that constraints which allow learners to infer the plausibility of candidate word meanings could themselves be weak. This approach lifts the burden of explanation from `smart' word learning constraints in learners, and suggests a programme of research into weak, unreliable, probabilistic constraints on the inference of word meaning in real word learners.
description: 30 pages, 4 figures, contains considerable extra discussion and relaxation of original model assumptions. Version to appear in Cognition
Additional file 1: of A perspective on Chiropractic Councils on Education accreditation standards and processes from the inside: a narrative description of expert opinion, part 1: Themes
Creators: name: Innes, Stanley
name: Cope, Vicki
name: Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte
name: Walker, Bruce
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Aide de Memoire / Interview questions. (DOCX 17 kb).
title: A crisis of legitimacy for humanitarianism: In conflict situations how does the close relationship between Western power and humanitarian aid affect emergency response capacity and access for aid organisations?
Creators: name: Whittall, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Humanitarian aid faces a crisis of legitimacy in many conflicts as a result of a close relationship with Western power, which can result in both its failure and rejection. The rise of institutional humanitarian aid has been a part of the rise of Western power. Humanitarian aid has been used as a tool to advance hegemonic power and as rhetoric to justify intervention. However, power is changing. Western norms and institutions are being contested in an emerging global multi-polarity and diffusion of power, often misconceived as shrinking humanitarian space. Institutional humanitarian aid has been so intertwined with Western power that as the West declines humanitarian organisations are either retreating with the tide or being left exposed. The relationship between humanitarian aid and Western power means humanitarian space is actually a Western space. In the places where aid can be deployed – within the realms of the West's influence - its effectiveness is in question due to its incorporation into longer-term processes of liberal democratic state-building that overlooks the basics of emergency response. This is demonstrated in the findings of this qualitative doctoral thesis. Case-study research took place in South Sudan and Syria. In South Sudan, a breakdown of emergency-response capacity as a result of the incorporation of aid into a state-building agenda is demonstrated. In Syria, the relationship between humanitarian aid and Western power is a key justification for the Syrian government to limit emergency-response access. However, changing global power is challenging the conceptualisation and practice of humanitarian aid. If liberal democracy underpins current approaches to humanitarian aid, in emerging states like Brazil and South Africa – where interviews were conducted – the politics of aid are linked more to counter-hegemony, both from the state and diffused forms of power. Changes in global power may not present solutions to the challenges of humanitarian effectiveness and access, but the ongoing affiliation between humanitarian aid and Western power hampers its ability to negotiate a dynamic landscape. This research demonstrates that institutional humanitarianism must disentangle itself from Western power to remain effective and to access the most vulnerable.
title: Developing building design resilience strategies to climate change risks
Creators: name: Alfraidi, Yahya
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: A resilient building design assessment tool is developed and presented to assist architects in preparing designs to meet the challenges of climate change. The tool incorporates a set of resilience factors that have been selected as a result of information gathered from an extensive literature review (from 1980 on) and a detailed questionnaire sent out to a sample of architects working in the field, together with a statistical analysis of the collected data. Climate change poses the built environment with an increasing threat of more frequent and severe meteorological events, including heavy precipitation, flooding, powerful storms and winds, lengthy and intense heat waves, and globally rising temperatures. The literature review revealed that there have as yet been few attempts to develop systematically models that integrate climate change risks (CCRs) with corresponding resilience factors in order that CCR resilience can be included in all aspects of a building and its site from the outset. The methodology adopted in this research is based on a critical analysis of the literature and the development of a prototype assessment model. Central to the success of this model is the capture of a set of resilience factors (SFs). As a first step, the researcher clustered climate change risks (CCRs) into four categories: physical, social, economic and management. Next, six aspects of resilience as applied to buildings were identified: site, layout, structure, envelope, system and operation. To ensure that appropriate resilience factors were chosen and incorporated into the model, the author extracted the most relevant factors from the review and divided them among the six key building aspects. In total 85 SFs were incorporated into the model. A questionnaire was prepared and sent out to a large number of practicing and academic architects of differing levels of experience. A statistical analysis of the replies, which included a scoring by the respondents of the effectiveness of each resilience factor, was used to refine and reduce the number of resilience factors, to 28, for inclusion in the assessment tool. The tool was then trialled on three projects to demonstrate its capabilities and effectiveness in assessing the resilience of a building against CCRs. It is hoped that the tool described here will, with further refinements and improvements, become a practical aid to architects faced with designing buildings in a world of increasingly severe hydro-meteorological events.
Additional file 1: of A perspective on Chiropractic Councils on Education accreditation standards and processes from the inside: a narrative description of expert opinion
Creators: name: Innes, Stanley
name: Cope, Vicki
name: Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte
name: Walker, Bruce
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Aide de Memoire / Interview questions. (DOCX 17 kb).
title: Multi-robotic teamwork in AgentSpeak
Creators: name: Bojarpour, Ali
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Within the multiagent community, agent programming languages and theories of agent teamwork are used together to create teams of cooperative agents to achieve goals in dynamic environments. Multi-robotic research studies robots working together in a team to perform a task and achieve a goal. In this thesis we propose a set of programming constraints for multi-robotic cooperation. We then use these programming constraints to build a multi-robotic cooperation framework. This framework is a bridge between multiagent programming languages and multi-robotic teamwork. The framework uses the natural and intuitive programming style that AgentSpeak provides for multiagent cooper ation to create multi-robotic teams. We then use a group of LEGO® NXT 2.0 robots to test the proposed programming constraints, implemented in AgentSpeak, to operate a search and rescue scenario.
An Analysis of Self-Concept between Homeless and Common Women in Pakistan
Creators: name: Samra Maqbool, Zhao Wei
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Self-concept
Beliefs, Homeless shelter
Sentiments
Homelessness
Social stigma
Shelter homes
Family violence.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15O: 1-9
Malas noticias y noticias falsas. Estudio y edici�n de relaciones de sucesos (siglos XVI-XVII)
Creators: name: Nider, Valentina
name: Pena Sueiro, Nieves
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento. Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
Year: 2019

description: Malas noticias y noticias falsas. Relaciones de sucesos en los siglos XVI y XVII es una antolog�a de este tipo de Relaciones de sucesos, un producto editorial de consumo masivo en el Siglo de Oro. Con el fin de acercar a un p�blico m�s amplio a la lectura de esta literatura informativa, se ha reunido un peque�o conjunto de Relaciones, editado con criterios modernizadores y complementado con una serie de notas aclaratorias; precede, adem�s, a cada texto una breve introducci�n para facilitar la reconstrucci�n del contexto hist�rico y literario. El volumen ofrece, tras un novedoso trabajo sobre las necrol�gicas en los avisos, una selecci�n de relaciones de sucesos con malas noticias o noticias falsas tra�das de diversas partes del mundo, editadas en espa�ol o italiano (algunas se�alan, adem�s, que han sido traducidas de otros idiomas), ejemplificando un nutrido abanico de temas y de formas textuales en prosa y verso (especialmente romances y ?coplas de ciego?). El horizonte geogr�fico que se reconstruye a partir de estos textos es muy amplio: aparecen Barcelona y Sevilla, pero tambi�n Logro�o, Salamanca, Sierra Morena, y naturalmente Portugal y las colonias. Las noticias llegan bien desde pa�ses europeos (Inglaterra, Flandes, Francia, Italia) donde se ubican sucesos terribles, prueba del error o ambig�edad religiosos que los dominan, bien de ciudades lejanas como Constantinopla, o de lugares imaginarios como la dist�pica isla de Bembos. Otra geograf�a paralela emerge de los datos editoriales que restituyen tupidas redes de editores, informantes, autores y traductores. Se incluyen textos impresos en Sevilla, Barcelona, Valencia, Logro�o, Roma, Venecia o Lima, as� como otros sin datos de edici�n. Esta antolog�a ha sido realizada por catorce especialistas de universidades espa�olas e italianas, coordinados por Valentina Nider (Universit� di Trento) y Nieves Pena Sueiro (Universidade da Coru�a), y es el primer volumen de un proyecto editorial de mayor calado, que pretende continuar publicando ediciones de Relaciones de sucesos.
Measuring nonclasicality of single-mode systems
Creators: name: Tasgin, Mehmet Emre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A beam splitter can generate entanglement if the input field is nonclassical, e.g. squeezed. Thus, beam splitter transformation can be utilized for obtaining single-mode nonclassicality conditions from two-mode entanglement criteria. Here, we demonstrate that (i) the generalized quadrature-squeezing condition $\langle\hat{a}^\dagger\hat{a}\rangle < |\langle \hat{a}^2\rangle|$ can be obtained from the two-mode entanglement criterion of Duan-Giedke-Cirac-Zoller~[PRL 84, 2722]. (ii) Single-mode nonclassicality condition, obtained from the two-mode entanglement criterion of Simon~[PRL, 84 2726], can detect (also accompanies) the nonclassicality of a superradiant ground state where no quadrature-squeezing takes place. (iii) We present an explicit form for a single-mode nonclassicality measure, for Gaussian states, via maximization of the beam splitter output with respect to the beam splitter parameters. We measure the nonclassicality of a squeezed state and the one generated by a damped second harmonic crystal cavity. We determine pump strengths where single-mode nonclassicality onsets, i.e. resists against the vacuum noise.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
L'Open Access alle pubblicazioni scientifiche: una nuova speranza
Creators: name: Caso, Roberto
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2009

description: Sia nel campo commerciale sia in quello scientifico si pone il problema del controllo dell?informazione (pi� sinteticamente, ma perdendo in esattezza, si parla anche di �controllo dell?accesso all?informazione�). Tuttavia, esiste una divaricazione tra il controllo dell?informazione che, in ambito commerciale, fa leva sulla propriet� intellettuale e quello che, nel perimetro della comunit� scientifica, si basa sulle norme informali. Qual � l?impatto delle tecnologie digitali su queste diverse concezioni del controllo dell?informazione e sulle relazioni che tra esse si pongono? Per cercare di dare risposta al quesito il saggio si struttura secondo la seguente scansione logica. Nel paragrafo 2 vengono riassunti i termini della diversit� tra propriet� intellettuale e norme informali della comunit� scientifica. Nel paragrafo 3 si accenna al sistema tradizionale delle pubblicazioni scientifiche ed al problema dell?aumento esponenziale del prezzo dei periodici. Nel paragrafo 4 si descrivono brevemente alcuni caratteri fondamentali delle tecnologie digitali e la loro ricaduta sulle forme di controllo dell?informazione. Nel paragrafo 5 si pone l?accento sugli abusi a cui si presta il potere generato dal controllo rigido ed accentrato dell?informazione. Nel paragrafo 6 si denuncia il rischio che il controllo rigido ed accentrato dell?informazione improntato a logiche commerciali colonizzi la conoscenza scientifica rendendola meno accessibile agli scienziati ed al pubblico. Nel paragrafo 7 si illustra come la comunit� scientifica stia cercando di contrastare questo rischio con il movimento che va sotto il nome di Open Access (OA) e come tale movimento sia supportato da dichiarazioni, policies e linee-guida di istituzioni pubbliche nazionali ed internazionali. Nel paragrafo 8 si passano in rassegna alcuni ostacoli che si frappongono alla definitiva affermazione dell?OA come modello alternativo (o complementare) alla forma tradizionale di editoria scientifica.
Diagnoses of Leptospirosis in Animals
Creators: name: Gulnara Nurlygayanova, Vasily Belousov
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Dark-Field Microscopy
Microagglutination Reaction
PCR
Bacteriological studies
Infectious jaundice
Microscopic agglutination test (MAT)

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15P: 1-9
Ökobilanz-Bericht für den Flugzeugvorentwurf von Flugtransportalternativen eines 19-Sitzer Kleinflugzeugs
Creators: name: Hanesch, Susanne
name: Schebek, Liselotte
name: TU Darmstadt
Publisher: name: Technical University of Darmstadt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Projekt GNOSIS
subject: 407-04 Verkehrs- und Transportsysteme, Intelligenter und automatisierter Verkehr
subject: 407-04 Traffic and Transport Systems, Intelligent and Automated Traffic
subject: 380

description: Life Cycle Assessment of electrified aircraft transportation
Iris Pattern Recognition: A Quantitative Review on How to Improve Iris-Based Pattern Recognition Security System
Creators: name: G Malathi, Dinesh Mavaluru
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Iris pattern recognition
Unimodal Biometrics
Multi-model Biometrics
Score-level fusion
Orientation recognition
Iris centre.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15Q: 1-13
Development of Information Competencies of Engineering Students
Creators: name: Fokina, Elena N.
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Engineering education, information competences
CDIO, digitalization
educational environment
learning model
DigComp.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15R: 1-11
Gene-Mating Dynamic Evolution Theory II: Global stability of N-gender-mating polyploid systems
Creators: name: Wang, Juven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extending the previous 2-gender dioecious diploid gene-mating evolution model [arXiv:1410.3456], we attempt to answer "whether the Hardy-Weinberg global stability and the exact analytic dynamical solutions can be found in the generalized N-gender N-polyploid gene-mating system with an arbitrary number of alleles?" For a 2-gender gene-mating evolution model, a pair of male and female determines the trait of their offspring. Each of the pair contributes one inherited character, the allele, to combine into the genotype of their offspring. Hence, for an N-gender N-polypoid gene-mating model, each of N different genders contributes one allele to combine into the genotype of their offspring. We exactly solve the analytic solution of N-gender-mating $(n+1)$-alleles governing highly-nonlinear coupled differential equations in the genotype frequency parameter space for any positive integer N and $n$. For an analogy, the 2-gender to N-gender gene-mating equation generalization is analogs to the 2-body collision to the N-body collision Boltzmann equations with continuous distribution functions of "discretized" variables instead of "continuous" variables. We find their globally stable solution as a continuous manifold and find no chaos. Our solution implies that the Laws of Nature, under our assumptions, provide no obstruction and no chaos to support an N-gender gene-mating stable system.
description: 11 pages. A sequel to arXiv:1410.3456. v2: Refs added, comments welcome, to appear on Theory in Biosciences - Springer
Evaluation Lactic Acid Bacteria Autostrains with Anti-Campylobacter Jejuni Activity on Broiler Chickens Productivity
Creators: name: Yuri Kuznetsov, Ilya Nikonov
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cross Cobb-500
C. jejuni
Campylobacteriosis
Growing chickens
Intestinal microbiota
Zooanthroponotic infections.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 15, 11A15S: 1-5