cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ab initio lattice dynamical studies of silicon clathrate frameworks and their negative thermal expansion
Creators: name: Härkönen, Ville J.
name: Karttunen, Antti J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal and lattice dynamical properties of seven silicon clathrate framework structures are investigated with ab initio density functional methods (frameworks I, II, IV, V, VII, VIII, and H). The negative thermal expansion (NTE) phenomenon is investigated by means of quasiharmonic approximation and applying it to equal time displacement correlation functions. The thermal properties of the studied clathrate frameworks, excluding the VII framework, resemble those of the crystalline silicon diamond structure. The clathrate framework VII was found to have anomalous NTE temperature range up to 300 K and it is suitable for further studies of the mechanisms of NTE. Investigation of the displacement correlation functions revealed that in NTE, the volume derivatives of the mean square displacements and mean square relative displacements of atoms behave similarly to the vibrational entropy volume derivatives and consequently to the coefficients of thermal expansion as a function of temperature. All studied clathrate frameworks, excluding the VII framework, possess a phonon band gap or even two in the case of the framework V.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures. Figures with better quality are included in the peer-reviewed manuscript (published in near future)
Magnified image of CK302-6544 with polishing on bone tool from bison rib
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Rib
Polishing
Bone Tool
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Rib medial aspect at 7.9 magnification.
Localized SiO emission triggered by the passage of the W51C SNR shock
Creators: name: Dumas, G.
name: Vaupré, S.
name: Ceccarelli, C.
name: Hily-Blant, P.
name: Dubus, G.
name: Montmerle, T.
name: Gabici, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The region towards W51C is a convincing example of interaction between a supernova remnant and a surrounding molecular cloud. Large electron abundances have been reported towards the position W51C-E located in this interaction region, and it was proposed that the enhanced ionization fraction was due to cosmic ray particles freshly accelerated by the SNR shock. We present PdB interferometer observations of the H$^{13}$CO$^+$(1-0) and DCO$^+$(2-1) emission lines centered at position W51C-E. These observations confirm the previous scenario of cosmic-ray induced ionization at this location. In addition, SiO(2-1) emission has been successfully mapped in the close vicinity of W51C-E, with a spatial resolution of 7". The morphology and kinematics of the SiO emission are analyzed and strongly suggest that this emission is produced by the passage of the SNR primary shock. Put in conjunction with the enhanced ionization fraction in this region, we give a consistent picture in which the W51C-E position is located downstream of the shock, where a large reservoir of freshly accelerated particles is available.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted to ApJL
Magnified image of CK302-16533 with bone tool working surface on bison metacarpal
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Metacarpal
Polishing
Bone Tool
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Metacarpal anterior aspect at 8.3 magnification.
Text Summarization towards Scientific Information Extraction
Creators: name: Keller, Abigail
name: Hastings, Peter
name: Furst, Jacob
name: Stan Raicu, Daniela
name: Tchoua, Roselyne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: paper-presentation

description: Despite the exponential growth in scientific textual content, research publications are still the primary means for disseminating vital discoveries to experts within their respective fields. These texts are predominantly written for human consumption resulting in two primary challenges; experts cannot efficiently remain well-informed to leverage the latest discoveries, and applications that rely on valuable insights buried in these texts cannot effectively build upon published results. As a result, scientific progress stalls. Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) and Information Extraction (IE) are two essential fields that address this problem. While the two research topics are often studied independently, this work proposes to look at ATS in the context of IE, specifically in relation to Scientific IE. However, Scientific IE faces several challenges, chiefly, the scarcity of relevant entities and insufficient training data. In this paper, we focus on extractive ATS, which identifies the most valuable sentences from textual content for the purpose of ultimately extracting scientific relations. We account for the associated challenges by means of an ensemble method through the integration of three weakly supervised learning models, one for each entity of the target relation. It is important to note that while the relation is well defined, we do not require previously annotated data for the entities composing the relation. Our central objective is to generate balanced training data, which many advanced natural language processing models require. We apply our idea in the domain of materials science, extracting the polymer-glass transition temperature relation and achieve 94.7% recall (i.e., sentences that contain relations annotated by humans), while reducing the text by 99.3% of the original document.
Magnified image of CK302-14104 with carnivore gnawing on bison innominate
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Innominate
Carnivore Gnawing
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Innominate medial aspect at 16.9 magnification.
title: The Shape of Things We Won't Say
Creators: name: Lobo, Raoul
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: A collection of short stories that reveal moments of shame, desire and rage in suburban Mumbai, prehistoric jungles and the Indian diaspora. It captures how lovers struggle for power and how larger power struggles come between lovers. It features bad feminists, shamans, the Holy Communion and the occasional sex scene.
Coincidences of a shifted hexagonal lattice and the hexagonal packing
Creators: name: Arias, Jeanine Concepcion H.
name: Gabinete, Evelyn D.
name: Loquias, Manuel Joseph C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C07, 11H06, 82D25, 52C23

description: A geometric study of twin and grain boundaries in crystals and quasicrystals is achieved via coincidence site lattices (CSLs) and coincidence site modules (CSMs), respectively. Recently, coincidences of shifted lattices and multilattices (i.e. finite unions of shifted copies of a lattice) have been investigated. Here, we solve the coincidence problem for a shifted hexagonal lattice. This result allows us to analyze the coincidence isometries of the hexagonal packing by viewing the hexagonal packing as a multilattice.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ICQ12 Conference Proceedings
Magnified image of CK302-770 with polishing on bone tool from bison thoracic vertebra
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Thoracic Vertebra
Polishing
Bone Tool
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Thoracic Vertebra ventral aspect at 8.6 magnification.
48CK302-486, Side Notched Point, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Side Notched
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a pink quartzite side notched projectile point, complete. Provenience: W1-?-2
Magnified image of CK302-12995 with cut marks on bison mandible
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mandible
Cut Marks
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Mandible lingual aspect at 18.2 magnification.
MPEC 2023-E27 : 2023 EB
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 EB

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Aerial river management by smart cross-border reforestation
Creators: name: Weng, Wei
name: Costa, Luís
name: Lüdeke, Matthias
name: Zemp, Delphine Clara
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Bonn Challenge
subject: Moisture recycling
subject: Reforestation sites
subject: Water scarcity
subject: Precipitationshed
subject: 550 Geowissenschaften

description: In the face of increasing socio-economic and climatic pressures in growing cities, it is rational for managers to consider multiple approaches for securing water availability. One often disregarded option is the promotion of reforestation in source regions supplying important quantities of atmospheric moisture transported over long distances through aerial rivers, affecting water resources of a city via precipitation and runoff (‘smart reforestation’). Here we present a case demonstrating smart reforestation’s potential as a water management option. Using numerical moisture back-tracking models, we identify important upwind regions contributing to the aerial river of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia). Simulating the effect of reforestation in the identified regions, annual precipitation and runoff reception in the city was found to increase by 1.25% and 2.30% respectively, while runoff gain during the dry season reached 26.93%. Given the city’s population growth scenarios, the increase of the renewable water resource by smart reforestation could cover 22–59% of the additional demand by 2030. Building on the findings, we argue for a more systematic consideration of aerial river connections between regions in reforestation and land planning for future challenges.
Η επικοινωνιακή διαχείριση από τον Τύπο των παραβιάσεων του διεθνούς δικαίου: Το μεταναστευτικό ζήτημα στα ελληνικά σύνορα
Creators: name: Καζαντζόγλου, Ιωάννης Ματθαίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ελληνικός Τύπος
Πρωτοσέλιδα
Μεταναστευτική Κρίση
Greek Press
Front Pages
Immigration Crisis

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η μελέτη της επικοινωνιακής διαχείρισης της μεταναστευτικής κρίσης στα Ελληνικά σύνορα από τον Ελληνικό Τύπο. Η εργασία χωρίζεται σε τρία μέρη, το θεωρητικό-ιστορικό, το θεωρητικό-νομικό και τέλος στο ερευνητικό. Στο πρώτο μέρος, παρουσιάζεται μία σύντομη ιστορική αναδρομή των όρων του πρόσφυγα, μετανάστη, αιτούντα άσυλο ή διεθνή προστασία και ανιθαγενή. Στο δεύτερο μέρος, παρουσιάζεται το νομικό πλαίσιο προστασίας των δικαιωμάτων, με βάση το διεθνές και το ευρωπαϊκό δίκαιο, όλων των ομάδων ανθρώπων που αναφέρονται στο πρώτο μέρος. Τέλος, στο τρίτο και τελευταίο μέρος, γίνεται η υπαγωγή των πραγματικών περιστατικών στους κανόνες δικαίου έτσι ώστε να βρεθεί εάν αυτά αποτελούσαν παραβιάσεις του διεθνούς δικαίου. Στην συνέχεια, το αποτέλεσμα της υπαγωγής εξετάζεται το αποτέλεσμα της υπαγωγής μέσα από τα πρωτοσέλιδα έξι ημερήσιων ελληνικών εφημερίδων. Από τα πρωτοσέλιδα ερευνάται ποσοτικά μόνο ο αριθμός των αναφορών των εφημερίδων στα εξεταζόμενα γεγονότα.
description: The purpose of the thesis was to study the communication management of the migration crisis at the Greek border by specific representatives of the Greek press. The dissertation is divided into three parts, the theoretical-historical, the theoretical-legal and finally the research. In the first part, a brief historical overview of the terms refugee, immigrant, asylum seeker or international protection and stateless person is presented. In the second part is presented, the legal framework for the protection of the rights, based on international and European law, of all groups of people mentioned in the first part. Finally, in the third and last part, the facts are brought under the rules of law in order to find if they constituted violations of international law. Next, the result of the affiliation is examined through the front pages of six daily Greek newspapers. From the front pages, only the number of newspaper references to the examined events is quantitatively investigated.
Examining the Effect of Implementation Factors on Deep Learning Reproducibility
Creators: name: Coakley, Kevin
name: Kirkpatrick, Christine R.
name: Gundersen, Odd Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: poster-presentation
deep learning
machine learning
reproducibility

description: Reproducing published deep learning papers to validate their conclusions can be difficult due to sources of irreproducibility. We investigate the impact that implementation factors have on the results and how they affect reproducibility of deep learning studies. Three deep learning experiments were ran five times each on 13 different hardware environments and four different software environments. The analysis of the 780 combined results showed that there was a greater than 6% accuracy range on the same deterministic examples introduced from hardware or software environment variations alone. To account for these implementation factors, researchers should run their experiments multiple times in different hardware and software environments to verify their conclusions are not affected.
Approximative properties of diagonal operators in Orlicz spaces
Creators: name: Shidlich, Andriy L.
name: Chaichenko, Stanislav O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.2
subject: 41A46, 46B45, 47A58

description: We obtain the exact values of some important approximative quantities (such as, the best approximation, the basis width, Kolmogorov's width and the best $n$-term approximation) of certain sets of images of the diagonal operators in the Orlicz sequence spaces $l_M$.
Συγκριτική ανάλυση Εκλογικού και Πολιτικού Ανταγωνισμού, Εκλογικές Αναμετρήσεις, Επικοινωνιακή Πολιτική και Πολιτικές Διαχείρισης της πανδημίας COVID-19. Η περίπτωση της Δημοκρατίας της Σλοβενίας
Creators: name: Κεσίσογλου, Παναγιώτης Μιλτιάδη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Σλοβενία
Πολιτικός Ανταγωνισμός
Εκλογές
Επικοινωνιακή Πολιτική
Πολιτικές Διαχείρισης Covid-19
Slovenia
Political Competition
Elections
Communication Policy
Covid-19 Pandemic Management Policies

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η μελέτη και η ανάλυση του πολιτικού ανταγωνισμού, με συγκριτική προσέγγιση, των δύο πιο πρόσφατων εκλογικών αναμετρήσεων στη Σλοβενία. Ακόμη, πραγματοποιήθηκε μελέτη της επικοινωνιακής πολιτικής και των πολιτικών διαχείρισης της πανδημίας Covid-19 και διερευνήθηκε η συσχέτιση μεταξύ των μέτρων που έλαβε η κυβέρνηση για την αντιμετώπιση της πανδημίας και τις επιπτώσεις που αυτά είχαν στους δείκτες θετικότητας και θνησιμότητας και την αναλογία του αριθμού των τεστ, των πλήρως εμβολιασμένων ατόμων και των ατόμων που έλαβαν την ενισχυτική δόση στο σύνολο του πληθυσμού της χώρας. Μετά από ανάλυση των βασικών πυλώνων της κομματικής πολιτικής της Σλοβενίας, ακολουθεί η στατιστική ανάλυση των δεδομένων και στοιχείων που συλλέχθηκαν. Στην παρούσα εργασία η στατιστική ανάλυση έγινε με τη βοήθεια του προγράμματος excel, DIAS excel και των λογισμικών IBM SPSS & M.A.D.
description: The aim of the present thesis is to study and analyze the political competition, with a comparative approach, of the two most recent electoral contests in Slovenia. In addition, a study of the COVID-19 pandemic communication and management policies was conducted and the correlation between the measures taken by the government to confront the pandemic and its impact on the positivity and mortality rates and the ratio of the number of tests, the number of fully vaccinated people and people who received the support dose in the entire population of the country was investigated. After an analysis of the main pillars of Slovenian party politics, the statistical analysis of the collected data and evidence follows. In the present work the statistical analysis was done with the help of excel program, DIAS excel and IBM SPSS & M.A.D software.
48CK302-18633, Tri-Notched Point, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Tri-Notched
Chert
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a translucent chert tri-notched projectile point, complete. Possible Oxbow. Provenience: SE Corner Building
48CK302-387, Side Notched Point, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Side Notched
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a brown quartzite side notched projectile point, complete. Provenience: E1-?-4
Advancing Airborne Hyperspectral Data Processing for Sustainable Agriculture Using Parsl
Creators: name: Friedel, Douglas N
name: Guan, Kaiyu
name: Zhou, Qu
name: Zhang, Chenhui
name: Wang, Sheng
name: Katz, Daniel S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: abstract-presentation

description: Airborne hyperspectral remote sensing data can provide rich spectral signatures and high spatial resolution to accurately quantify diverse agroecosystem variables (such as crop traits, soil properties, and management practices). These quantified agroecosystem variables can inform stakeholders about precision management strategies, which they can use to advance sustainable agriculture. However, airborne hyperspectral data usually have high data dimensions (submeter spatial resolution and hundreds of spectral wavelengths) and require complex procedures with extensive computation for data processing. To overcome the challenges associated with extensive computation, we have leveraged the advanced parallel computation package, Parsl, to enable processing airborne hyperspectral data in a high-throughput manner. Once the raw data are obtained, they are run through a pipeline that processes the raw airborne hyperspectral imagery through radiometric, geometric, and atmospheric corrections to obtain high-quality surface reflectance, which will be further used to quantify agroecosystem variables. The pipeline is written in Python and we parallelized it using Parsl, a library that allows a user to easily parallelize code by tasks and run them on any compute resource. Using Parsl reduced the run time by over 75% using a single 24-core system when compared to a completely serial run on 1 core. This can be reduced further by optimizing the chunking of the data, utilizing in-memory files instead of files on disk, and using multiple systems in parallel.
Interaction quench in a Lieb-Liniger model and the KPZ equation with flat initial conditions
Creators: name: Calabrese, Pasquale
name: Doussal, Pierre Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent exact solutions of the 1D Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation make use of the 1D integrable Lieb-Liniger model of interacting bosons. For flat initial conditions, it requires the knowledge of the overlap between the uniform state and arbitrary exact Bethe eigenstates. The same quantity is also central in the study of the quantum quench from a 1D non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate upon turning interactions. We compare recent advances in both domains, i.e. our previous exact solution, and a new conjecture by De Nardis et al.. This leads to new exact results and conjectures for both the quantum quench and the KPZ problem.
description: 20 pages
Implications of audiovisual media in teaching German as a foreign language: exploring their added value from the teachers' point of view
Creators: name: Κιουρτσίδης, Χρήστος Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digitale Medien
Mehrwert
Audiovisuell
Digital Media
Added value
Audiovisual

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας διατριβής ήταν η διερεύνηση της χρήσης αλλά και της προστιθέμενης αξίας οπτικοακουστικών μέσων στο ξενόγλωσσο μάθημα της γερμανικής, ως ξένης γλώσσας στην Ελλάδα, από τη σκοπιά των εκπαιδευτικών. Αρχικά έγινε αναφορά στην οπτικολεκτική και οπτικοακουστική μέθοδο όπως επίσης και στην εκμάθηση γλωσσών μέσω των μοντέλων του συμπεριφορισμού, του κονεκτιβισμού και γνωστικισμού προκειμένου να γίνει κατανοητή η προστιθέμενη αξία αλλά και να διαφανεί η συμβολή των ψηφιακών μέσων κατά την διαδικασία της πρόσκτησης της μάθησης. Στη συνέχεια ακολούθησε μια αναλυτική παρουσίαση επιχειρημάτων βασισμένα σε δεδομένα της νευρολογικής και διδακτικής επιστήμης αλλά και παραδείγματα εφαρμογής αυτών των μέσων στην εκπαιδευτική διαδικασία. Πιο συγκεκριμένα για την εκμάθηση και εξάσκηση λεξιλογίου, γραμματικής, σύνταξης αλλά και προφοράς. Όσον αφορά στο πρακτικό κομμάτι της εργασίας αξίζει να σημειωθεί ότι διεξήχθη ποσοτική έρευνα με την μορφή ερωτηματολογίου ως μέσο συλλογής δεδομένων. Στην έρευνα συμμετείχαν 106 καθηγητές/τριες γερμανικής γλώσσας. Δόθηκε ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στην εξασφάλιση της εγκυρότητας, και της αξιοπιστίας των αποτελεσμάτων της έρευνας. Για την ανάλυση των αποτελεσμάτων έγινε χρήση πινάκων και ποσοτικών δεδομένων. Τέλος, επισημαίνονται οι δυσκολίες και οι περιορισμοί κατά την διεξαγωγή της έρευνας και δίνεται το έναυσμα για περαιτέρω διερεύνηση του θέματος.
description: The purpose of the present thesis was to investigate the use and added value of audiovisual media in the foreign language course of German as a foreign language in Greece from the teachers' point of view. Firstly, reference was made to the terms audio-visual and audio-visual method, as well as to language learning methods: behaviorism, connectivism , and cognitivism, in order to understand the added value and contribution of digital media during the learning process. This was followed by a detailed presentation of arguments from a neurological and teaching point of view as well as examples of the application of these media in the educational process and more specifically for learning and practicing vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation. Regarding the practical part of the thesis, it is worth noting that a quantitative survey was conducted with a questionnaire as a means of data collection. 106 German language teachers participated in this study. Great emphasis was also placed on ensuring the validity and reliability of the research results. Tables and quantitative data were used to analyze the results. Finally, the limitations of the research are pointed out and suggestions for further research are given.
Libraries in contemporary science fiction novels: uncertain futures or embedded in the fabric of society?
Creators: name: Duxfield, A
name: Liew, Chern
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Purpose: This study aims to examine the imagining of libraries and the depiction of library services in contemporary science fiction novels. Analyses of libraries in contemporary science fiction may reveal expectations of libraries and the roles they play in future societies. These may, in turn, be used by the library profession to innovate and to discover opportunities to design and improve library services that meet the expectations of library users now and in the future. Design/methodology/approach: This research applied a content analysis approach to examine references to libraries in a purposeful sample of science fiction novels published between 2009 and 2019. The sample consists of 29 novels selected from the 2010–2020 winners of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, The Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, The Philip K Dick Award and the Arthur C Clarke Award. Findings: This research finds that libraries are a common feature within contemporary science fiction novels, primarily as part of the background setting of the narratives. Libraries are particularly common in peri-apocalyptic novels, often as “reinvented” libraries. This research identifies considerable differences in the way libraries and information access and use are depicted and documented in science fiction worlds of plenty, compared to those of scarcity. Other key themes discussed include freedom of access to information, and the supposedly common negative stereotyping of libraries. Originality/value: Existing literature indicates anxiety about the future of libraries which the findings of this research do not support. The insights gained suggested instead, the emergence of an image of libraries as being embedded in the fabric of societies. This indicates the expectation of the place and role of libraries in contemporary societies. Libraries and their services must be adeptly placed and woven into the many facets of the societies they serve.
Magnified image of CK302-770 with polishing on bone tool from bison thoracic vertebra
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Thoracic Vertebra
Polishing
Bone Tool
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Thoracic Vertebra dorsal aspect at 8.6 magnification.
Degenerations of submodules and composition series
Creators: name: Nornes, Nils
name: Oppermann, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $M$ and $N$ be modules over an artin algebra such that $M$ degenerates to $N$. We show that any submodule of $M$ degenerates to a submodule of $N$. This suggests that a composition series of $M$ will in some sense degenerate to a composition series of $N$. We then study a subvariety of the module variety, consisting of those representations where all matrices are upper triangular. We show that these representations can be seen as representations of composition series, and that the orbit closures describe the above mentioned degeneration of composition series.
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF CORRUPTION AND ITS EFFECTS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AMONG COMESA COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Kenneth Kibet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Corruption is rampant in most of African countries. This article empirically analysed the effects of corruption on economic growth while controlling for regime change among the COMESA countries. The findings indicate a negative influence of corruption on economic growth. Corruption diverts public funds and resources away from productive investments towards inefficient or non-essential projects, leading to suboptimal economic outcomes. High levels of corruption deter both domestic and foreign investment by increasing the costs and risks associated with doing business. This limits capital inflows necessary for economic expansion. COMESA countries with high levels of corruption face significant challenges in functioning properly and achieving economic prosperity, leading to widespread suffering. In such economies, resources are inefficiently allocated, and government contracts are often awarded to unqualified companies through bribery or kickbacks. This degradation extends to critical sectors like education and healthcare, lowering the overall quality of life for citizens. Furthermore, corruption poses a major barrier to international investment. While investing in emerging economies remains attractive, investors are understandably cautious about risking their capital in countries where corruption is pervasive.
Magnified image of CK302-18197 with excavation damage on bison phalanx
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Phalanx
Excavation Damage
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Medial phalanx superior aspect at 17.6 magnification.
48CK302-598, Side Notched Point, Side 2
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Side Notched
Chert
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a brown chert side notched projectile point, complete. Provenience: O-?-88"
Induced cooperative motions in a medium driven at the nanoscale: Searching for an optimum excitation period
Creators: name: Teboul, Victor
name: Accary, Jean-Baptiste
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results have shown the appearance of induced cooperative motions called dynamic heterogeneity during the isomerization of diluted azobenzene molecules in a host glass-former. In this paper we raise the issue of the coupling between these "artificial" heterogeneities and the isomerization period. How do these induced heterogeneities differ in the saturation regime and in the linear response regime ? Is there a maximum of the heterogeneous motion versus isomerization rate and why ? Are the heterogeneity evolution with the isomerization rate connected with the diffusion or relaxation time evolution ? We use out of equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations to answer these questions. We find that the heterogeneity increases in the linear response regime for large isomerization periods and small perturbations. In contrast the heterogeneity decreases in the saturation regime, i.e. when the isomerization half-period ($τ_{p}/2$) is smaller than the relaxation time of the material ($τ_α$). This result makes possible a test of the effect of cooperative motions on the dynamics using the chromophores as Maxwell demons that destroy or stimulate the cooperative motions. Because the heterogeneities increase in the linear regime and then decrease in the saturation regime, we find a maximum for $τ_{p}/2 \approx τ_α$. The induced excitations concentration follows a power law evolution versus the isomerization rate and then saturates. As a consequence the $α$ relaxation time is related to the excitation concentration with a power law, a result in qualitative agreement with recent findings in constrained models. This result supports a common origin for the heterogeneities with constrained models and a similar relation to the excitation concentration.
BRST-Symmetry Breaking and Bose-Ghost Propagator in Lattice Minimal Landau Gauge
Creators: name: Cucchieri, Attilio
name: Dudal, David
name: Mendes, Tereza
name: Vandersickel, Nele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Bose-ghost propagator has been proposed as a carrier of the confining force in Yang-Mills theories in minimal Landau gauge. We present the first numerical evaluation of this propagator, using lattice simulations for the SU(2) gauge group in the scaling region. Our data are well described by a simple fitting function, which is compatible with an infrared-enhanced Bose-ghost propagator. This function can also be related to a massive gluon propagator in combination with an infrared-free (Faddeev-Popov) ghost propagator. Since the Bose-ghost propagator can be written as the vacuum expectation value of a BRST-exact quantity and should therefore vanish in a BRST-invariant theory, our results provide the first numerical manifestation of BRST-symmetry breaking due to restriction of gauge-configuration space to the Gribov region.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
The embedding tensor of Scherk-Schwarz flux compactifications from eleven dimensions
Creators: name: Godazgar, Hadi
name: Godazgar, Mahdi
name: Nicolai, Hermann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Scherk-Schwarz reduction of D=11 supergravity with background fluxes in the context of a recently developed framework pertaining to D=11 supergravity. We derive the embedding tensor of the associated four-dimensional maximal gauged theories directly from eleven dimensions by exploiting the generalised vielbein postulates, and by analysing the couplings of the full set of 56 electric and magnetic gauge fields to the generalised vielbeine. The treatment presented here will apply more generally to other reductions of $D=11$ supergravity to maximal gauged theories in four dimensions.
description: 27 pages
Magnified image of CK302-940 with rodent gnawing on bison vertebrae
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Vertebrae
Rodent Gnawing
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Vertebrae dorsal aspect at 21.4 magnification.
Magnified image of CK302-16550 with cut marks on bison metacarpal
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Metacarpal
Cut Marks
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Metacarpal cranial aspect at 22.9 magnification.
Molecular Split-Ring Resonators Based on Metal String Complexes
Creators: name: Shen, Yao
name: Ko, Hsin-Yu
name: Ai, Qing
name: Peng, Shie-Ming
name: Jin, Bih-Yaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metal string complexes or extended metal atom chains (EMACs) belong to a family of molecules that consist of a linear chain of directly bonded metal atoms embraced helically by four multidentate organic ligands. These four organic ligands are usually made up of repeating pyridyl units, single-nitrogen-substituted heterocyclic annulenes, bridged by independent amido groups. Here, in this paper, we show that these heterocyclic annulenes are actually nanoscale molecular split-ring resonators (SRRs) that can exhibit simultaneous negative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability in the UV-Vis region. Moreover, a monolayer of self-assembled EMACs is a periodic array of molecular SRRs which can be considered as a negative refractive index material. In the molecular scale, where the quantum-size effect is significant, we apply the tight-binding method to obtain the frequency-dependent permittivity and permeability of these molecular SRRs with their tensorial properties carefully considered.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
48CK302-482, Retouched Flake Tool, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stone Tool
Retouched Flake
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a tan quartzite retouched flake tool, complete. Provenience: W1-4-63"
Music Therapists' Experiences with Clients with Austism Spectrum Disorder Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Creators: name: Finnie, Sara Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Abstract:
Music therapists frequently work with clients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). The purpose of this study was to gather information on music therapists’ current experiences with AAC training as well as music therapists’ perceptions of their own communication abilities when communicating with clients who have ASD using their preferred AAC system. The researcher invited 7,279 board-certified music therapists to participate in this study via email, of which 366 completed the survey. Participants reported most often providing services to children and adolescents with ASD, and frequently using electronic AAC and electronic apps with their clients with ASD. The majority (71.2%) of participants stated that they would like additional training in the use of AAC. Of the music therapists who had participated in previous AAC training, many had received training at work or by an SLP or other certified professional. Results of this study provide information about the current practices and perceptions of board-certified music therapists working with clients with ASD.
Copyright: © Sara Elizabeth Finnie 2018
Band offsets in heterojunctions between cubic perovskite oxides
Creators: name: Lebedev, Alexander I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The band offsets for nine heterojunctions between titanates, zirconates, and niobates with the cubic perovskite structure were calculated from first principles. The effect of strain in contacting oxides on their energy structure, many-body corrections to the position of the band edges (calculated in the GW approximation), and the splitting of the conduction band resulting from spin-orbit interaction were consistently taken into account. It was shown that the neglect of the many-body effects can lead to errors in determination of the band offsets up to 0.36 eV. The failure of the transitivity rule, which is often used to determine the band offsets in heterojunctions, was demonstrated and its cause was explained.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
Establish harmonious and democratic new households with equality of men and women (建立那女平等民主和睦的新家庭)
Creators: name: Wang Yongqiang 王永强
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Domestic relations
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/896646
subject: Households
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/962162
subject: Man-woman relationships
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007080
subject: Social Innovation
subject: New People

description: Price: 16 fen
Control of quantum thermodynamic behaviour of a charged magneto oscillator with momentum dissipation
Creators: name: Rajesh, Asam
name: Bandyopadhyay, Malay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we expose the role of environment, confinement and external magnetic field ($B$) in determining the low temperature thermodynamic behaviour in the context of cyclotron motion of a charged oscillator with anomalous dissipative coupling involving the momentum instead of the much studied coordinate coupling. Explicit expressions for different quantum thermodynamic functions (QTF) are obtained at low temperatures for different quantum heat bath characterized by spectral density function, $μ(ω)$. The power law fall of different QTF are in conformity with third law of thermodynamics. But, the sensitiveness of decay i.e. the power of the power law decay explicitly depends on $μ(ω)$. We also separately discuss the influence of confinement and magnetic field on the low temperature behavior of different QTF. In this process we demonstrate how to control low temperature behaviour of anomalous dissipative quantum systems by varying confining length $a$, $B$ and the temperature $T$. Momentum dissipation reduces effective mass of the system and we also discuss its effect on different QTF at low temperatures.
description: 9 Pages, 3 Figures, Accepted in Phys. Rev. E
X-ray reflection in oxygen-rich accretion discs of ultra-compact X-ray binaries
Creators: name: Madej, O. K.
name: Garcia, J.
name: Jonker, P. G.
name: Parker, M. L.
name: Ross, R.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Chenevez, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectroscopic X-ray data of two candidate ultra-compact X-ray binaries: 4U~0614+091 and 4U~1543$-$624. We confirm the presence of a broad O VIII Ly$α$ reflection line (at $\approx18\ Å$) using {\it XMM-Newton} and {\it Chandra} observations obtained in 2012 and 2013. The donor star in these sources is carbon-oxygen or oxygen-neon-magnesium white dwarf. Hence, the accretion disc is enriched with oxygen which makes the O VIII Ly$α$ line particularly strong. We also confirm the presence of a strong absorption edge at $\approx14$ Å so far interpreted in the literature as due to absorption by neutral neon in the circumstellar and interstellar medium. However, the abundance required to obtain a good fit to this edge is $\approx3-4$ times solar, posing a problem for this interpretation. Furthermore, modeling the X-ray reflection off a carbon and oxygen enriched, hydrogen and helium poor disc with models assuming solar composition likely biases several of the best-fit parameters. In order to describe the X-ray reflection spectra self-consistently we modify the currently available {\sc xillver} reflection model. We present initial grids that can be used to model X-ray reflection spectra in UCXBs with carbon-oxygen-rich accretion disc. We find that the new reflection model provides a better overall description of the reflection spectra of 4U~0614+091 and 4U~1543$-$624 than the reflection models that assume solar abundances. Besides a strong O VIII Ly$α$ line the new reflection model also shows a strong O VIII K-edge (at $14.23$ Å). We find that the absorption edge at $\approx 14$ Å present in the data can be described by a O VIII K-edge formed due to reflection in the accretion disc and a Ne I K-edge originating mostly in the interstellar medium, mitigating the problem of the apparent very high neon abundance.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS
48CK302-409, Side Notched Point, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Side Notched
Chert
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a brown chert side notched projectile point with a concave base, missing the tip. Possible impact fracture. Provenience: N1-1-60"
Αντιλήψεις εκπαιδευτικών μουσικής, εικαστικών και θεατρικής αγωγής σχετικά με τον ρόλο της Παράλληλης Στήριξης στην ένταξη των ανάπηρων μαθητ(ρι)ών
Creators: name: Κομνηνοπούλου, Μελίνα Κυριαζή
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Αντιλήψεις εκπαιδευτικών
Παράλληλη στήριξη
Ένταξη
Αναπηρία
Teachers’ perceptions
Parallel support
Inclusion
Disability

description: Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή διπλωματική εργασία διερευνά τις αντιλήψεις των Εκπαιδευτικών Πρωτοβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης της Μουσικής, των Εικαστικών και της Θεατρικής Αγωγής σχετικά με την ένταξη και τον ρόλο της Παράλληλης Στήριξης στην ένταξη των ανάπηρων μαθητ(ρι)ών. Κεντρικά ερευνητικά ερωτήματα στην έρευνα είναι ο τρόπος που εννοιολογείται η ένταξη από τα συμμετέχοντα άτομα και ο ρόλος που διαδραματίζουν οι εκπαιδευτικοί παράλληλης στήριξης ως προς την ένταξη των ανάπηρων παιδιών. Ακολουθείται η ποιοτική ερευνητική προσέγγιση, το εργαλείο συλλογής δεδομένων είναι οι ημι-δομημένες συνεντεύξεις ενώ η μέθοδος ανάλυσης των δεδομένων είναι η θεματική ανάλυση. Τα δεδομένα εξετάζονται υπό το πρίσμα των επιστημονικών πεδίων των Σπουδών για την Αναπηρία και της Παιδαγωγικής της ένταξης.
description: This thesis explores the perceptions of Primary School Teachers of Music, Visual Arts and Theatre Education regarding inclusion and the role of Parallel Support in the inclusion of disabled students. Central research questions in the study are how inclusion is conceptualized by the participants and the role of parallel support teachers in the inclusion of disabled children. A qualitative research approach is followed, the data collection tool is semi-structured interviews and the method of data analysis is thematic analysis. The data are examined in the light of the disciplines of Disability Studies and Inclusion Pedagogy.
title: Narmada
Creators: name: Sicka, Bhavika
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This novel follows an adventure undertaken by a group of scientists and explorers who undertake a quest in search of knowledge. It is an attempt to explore themes such as loneliness, unfamiliarity, and the boundary (a state of mind, perhaps?) separating reverie and reality, sanity and madness, humanity and animality, and the civilized and savage.
Cluster-based Improved Sorghum Production and Commercialization in Nyangatom Woreda of South Omo Zone, Southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tadesse, Awoke
name: Adicha, Asmera
name: Yoseph, Tekle
name: Tadesse, Anteneh
name: Tadesse, Awoke
name: Adicha, Asmera
name: Yoseph, Tekle
name: Tadesse, Anteneh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Cluster-based
subject: Sorghum
subject: Grain
subject: Agro-pastoralist preference

description: Cluster-based improved sorghum (Melkam variety) production and commercialization was demonstrated in Nyanghtom Woreda of the South Omo Zone for one year (2021) to improve agro-pastoralists’ awareness, enhance the adaptation of full-package production technologies, and increase the economic visibility of improved sorghum cultivation. The production was started in a single kebele with a 7-hectare area of coverage. Twenty-five purposively selected direct beneficiaries and twenty-five randomly selected indirect beneficiaries from a neighbor were involved in the production. Direct beneficiaries cultivated sorghum on 0.28 hectares of land. At various stages of crop growth, monitoring, evaluation, and fieldwork were done by both beneficiaries and indirect beneficiaries. Face-to-face interviews with sorghum producers and non-producers were undertaken. Simple descriptive statistics were used to examine quantitative data, like grain yield, whereas the Likert scale was used for qualitative data such as agro-pastoralists perceptions. The result revealed that 30 quintal sorghum grain yield per hectare was obtained from improved sorghum (Melkam variety). The average return obtained from the sale of sorghum grain per hectare was 120,144 ETB. Agropastoralists’ perception result revealed that the “Melkam” variety is a higher yielder, and early matured as compared to local. Therefore, cluster-based sorghum production should be promoted for local sorghum growers in order to improve sorghum production sustainability and also seed system should take into account the provision of improved Melkam variety seed.