cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How does change occur in psychotherapy? Innovative moments predict stronger therapeutic alliance and functional improvement in a psychodynamic case study
Creators: name: Sheena, Leeav
name: Kivity, Yogev
name: Shimshi, Sharon
name: Tuval-Mashiach, Rivka
name: Peri, Tuvia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Cell Biology
Science Policy

description: Innovative moments (IMs) in psychotherapy contradict or challenge clients’ maladaptive patterns of meaning associated with their suffering. IMs are receiving increased theoretical and empirical attention in psychotherapy research and are associated with symptomatic improvement. However, little is known about possible predictors of IMs and their impact beyond their association with outcomes. A therapeutic alliance (TA) that implies a collaborative bond between clients and therapists might set the stage for the occurrence of IMs. Additionally, the occurrence of IMs could serve as a relational experience within the session that strengthens the TA. Thus, in the present study, we examined the association over time between IMs and (i) TA, and (ii) functioning, in a time-limited case study with a good outcome. Furthermore, this study is one of the first to explore IMs in psychodynamic therapy (PDT). Transcriptions of ten randomly selected sessions of PDT of a 43-year-old male with dysthymia were coded using the innovative moment coding system. Self-report measures of function and TA were collected at each session. Data were analyzed using simulation modeling analysis. Consistent with good-outcome cases in other therapeutic approaches, high-level IMs (H-IMs) increased while low-level IMs (L-IMs) decreased throughout treatment. H-IMs predicted a change in functioning in the following session. Finally, H-IMs were associated with higher TA post-session, and specifically with agreement on treatment tasks. To conclude, moments of change in the client’s pattern of meaning are related to stronger TA and better treatment outcome. If replicated, these findings may provide important insights regarding the unfolding of therapeutic change.
The Dynamics of COVID-19 spread: Evidence from Lebanon
Creators: name: Deeb, Omar El
name: Jalloul, Maya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the spread of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Lebanon by adopting two different approaches: the STEIR model, which is a modified SEIR model accounting for the effect of travel, and a repeated iterations model. We fit available daily data since the first diagnosed case until the end of June 2020 and we forecast possible scenarios of contagion associated with different levels of social distancing measures and travel inflows. We determine the initial reproductive transmission rate in Lebanon and all subsequent dynamics. In the repeated iterations (RI) model we iterate the available data of currently infected people to forecast future infections under several possible scenarios of contagion. In both models, our results suggest that tougher mitigation measures would slow down the spread of the disease. On the other hand, the current relaxation of measures and partial resumption of international flights, as the STEIR reveals, would trigger a second outbreak of infections, with severity depending on the extent of relaxation. We recommend strong institutional and public commitment to mitigation measures to avoid uncontrolled spread.
description: The final preprint of the published paper that covers data from February 21 until July 1, 2020 and incorporates travel effects. 15 pages, 7 figures
Sociological Dimensions of Human-Elephant Conflict with Trans-boundary Herds in Northern Bangladesh
Creators: name: Palash, Anwar
name: Muntasir Akash
name: Md. Anwarul Islam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60201 Behavioural Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: 60304 Ethology and Sociobiology

description: Bangladesh is a tenacious frontier of human-elephant conflict (HEC), with conflict in the country escalating over the last 20 years. HEC in the northern region involves trans-boundary herds and the sociological dimension of HEC there is understudied. We, therefore, conducted a simple randomized household survey (n = 234) in 22 borderline villages of the Central North that is subject to intense HEC. The respondents showed a mixed response. Most of the respondents were tolerant towards elephants. Our results suggested that people tend to be retaliatory and want to kill elephants only if human life is threatened by direct elephant attack
Ferromagnetism at 300 K in spin-coated films of Co doped anatase and rutile TiO2
Creators: name: Suryanarayanan, R.
name: Naik, Vaman
name: Kharel, Parasuram
name: Talgala, Punya
name: Naik, Ratna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin films of Ti1-xCoxO2 (x=0 and 0.03) have been prepared on sapphire substrates by spin-on technique starting from metalorganic precursors. When heat treated in air at 550 and 700 C respectively, these films present pure anatase and rutile structures as shown both by X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. Optical absorption indicate a high degree of transparency in the visible region. Such films show a very small magnetic moment at 300 K. However, when the anatase and the rutile films are annealed in a vacuum of 1x10-5 Torr at 500 oC and 600 oC respectively, the magnetic moment, at 300 K, is strongly enhanced reaching 0.36 B/Co for the anatase sample and 0.68 B/Co for the rutile one. The ferromagnetic Curie temperature of these samples is above 350 K.
description: 31 july 2004
Role of TGIF in cell cycle control and establishment of laterality
Creators: name: Mar, Lynn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is the most common structural anomaly of the human brain, resulting from incomplete cleavage of the developing forebrain during embryogenesis. Haploinsufficient mutations in TG-Interacting Factor (TGIF) were previously identified in a subset of HPE families and sporadic patients, and this gene is located within a region of Chromosome 18 that is associated with non-random chromosomal aberrations in HPE patients. TGIF is a transcription factor that contains a three amino acid loop extension (TALE) homeodomain and functions both as a co-repressor of the TGF-β pathway and as a competitor of the retinoic acid pathway. Mice made deficient for Tgif exhibited laterality defects and growth retardation, and developed kinked tails. Analysis of Tgif⁻ʹ⁻ mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) in vitro demonstrated that Tgif regulates proliferation and progression through the G₁ cell cycle phase. Wild-type human TGIF was able to rescue this proliferative defect in MEFs. In contrast, a subset of human Tgif mutations detected in HPE patients was unable to rescue the proliferative defect. However, an absence of Tgif did not alter the normal inhibition of proliferation caused by treatment with TGF-β or retinoic acid. Developmental control of proliferation by Tgif may play a role in the pathogenesis of HPE.
Past, present and future of Trashumancia in Spain: nomadism in a developed country
Creators: name: Manzano, Pablo
name: Casas, Raquel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Geography

description: Spain presents exceptional ecological conditions for mobile pastoralism. Its semiarid climate and its geography combine large biomass production in different places of the country at different times of the year. This creates an ecological rationale for the migration of large herbivores that was continued after the domestication of ruminants. Mobile livestock herding in Spain, known as transhumance, has been especially related to sheep husbandry and fi ne wool production and has been very important in the country’s past. In spite of a decline in mobile pastoralism from the
19th century onwards, its traces are still clear in Spanish legislation as well as in Spanish animal husbandry practices.
But what are the reasons for this past importance? Why has mobile pastoralism declined and why, nevertheless, has it survived? In this paper we analyse the causes for its existence and for its past importance in Spain, and we describe the decline experienced in the two last centuries and present the present situation of transhumance and its future prospects.
Art Gallery of New South Wales Time-based Art Tool Kit: practical resources for the documentation and preservation of time-based artworks
Creators: name: Sherring, Asti
name: Barnott-Clement, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) has been engaged in a collaborative and interdepartmental approach to the development and implementation of time-based art (TBA) collection management over the last six years. During this time the TBA conservation department has overseen, contributed to and composed documentation formats, such as questionnaires, artwork Pro Forma, iteration and iteration history reports, touring and artwork loan guides and analogue/digital media condition reports to support the conservation of non-traditional and changeable artworks from the Gallery’s collection. This paper provides practical TBA resources developed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales with the goal to support staff at other institutions and organisations working with TBA collections. The purpose, formation, practical application and value of the resources are discussed in the paper, along with sample templates provided as supplemental materials, for further use by museum professionals who manage and care for TBA works.
Resonant gravitational waves in dynamical Chern-Simons-axion gravity
Creators: name: Fujita, Tomohiro
name: Obata, Ippei
name: Tanaka, Takahiro
name: Yamada, Kei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we consider dynamical Chern-Simons gravity with the identification of the scalar field coupled though the Pontryagin density with the axion dark matter, and we discuss the effects of the parametric resonance on gravitational waves (GWs). When we consider GWs in a coherently oscillating axion cloud, we confirm that significant resonant amplification of GWs occurs in a narrow frequency band, and the amplification is restricted to the late epoch after the passage of the incident waves. We also identify the condition that an axion cloud spontaneously emits GWs. Once we take into account the randomness of the spatial phase distribution of the axion oscillations, we find that the amplification is suppressed compared with the coherent case, but significant amplification of GWs can still occur. We also examine whether or not the amplification of GWs is possible in the present universe, taking into account the history of the universe. We find that resonant amplification is difficult to be tested from GW observations in the standard scenario of the axion DM model, in which the axion is the dominant component of DM. However, there is some parameter window in which the resonant amplification of GWs might be observed, if the axion is subdominant component of DM, and the axion cloud formation is delayed until the Hubble rate becomes much smaller than the axion mass.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures
Efficient compressive and Bayesian characterization of biphoton frequency spectra
Creators: name: Simmerman, Emma M.
name: Lu, Hsuan-Hao
name: Weiner, Andrew M.
name: Lukens, Joseph M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequency-bin qudits constitute a promising tool for quantum information processing, but their high dimensionality can make for tedious characterization measurements. Here we introduce and compare compressive sensing and Bayesian mean estimation for recovering the spectral correlations of entangled photon pairs. Using a conventional compressive sensing algorithm, we reconstruct joint spectra with up to a 26-fold reduction in measurement time compared to the equivalent raster scan. Applying a custom Bayesian model to the same data, we then additionally realize reliable and consistent quantification of uncertainty. These efficient methods of biphoton characterization should advance our ability to use the high degree of parallelism and complexity afforded by frequency-bin encoding.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
On the probability distribution function of small scale interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations
Creators: name: Bruno, R.
name: Bavassano, B.
name: Carbone, V.
name: Primavera, L.
name: Malara, F.
name: Sorriso-Valvo, L.
name: Veltri, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In spite of a large number of papers dedicated to study MHD turbulence in the solar wind there are still some simple questions which have never been sufficiently addressed like: a)do we really know how the magnetic field vector orientation fluctuates in space? b) what is the statistics followed by the orientation of the vector itself? c) does the statistics change as the wind expands into the interplanetary space? A better understanding of these points can help us to better characterize the nature of interplanetary fluctuations and can provide useful hints to investigators who try to numerically simulate MHD turbulence. This work follows a recent paper presented by the same authors. This work follows a recent paper presented by some of the authors which shows that these fluctuations might resemble a sort of random walk governed by a Truncated Leevy Flight statistics. However, the limited statistics used in that paper did not allow final conclusions but only speculative hypotheses. In this work we aim to address the same problem using a more robust statistics which on one hand forces us not to consider velocity fluctuations but, on the other hand allows us to establish the nature of the governing statistics of magnetic fluctuations with more confidence. In addition, we show how features similar to those found in the present statistical analysis for the fast speed streams of solar wind, are qualitatively recovered in numerical simulations of the parametric instability. This might offer an alternative viewpoint for interpreting the questions raised above.
description: 25pag, 20 jpg small size figures. In press on "ANnales Geophysicae" (September 2004)
Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey: Findings from students and staff who teach in higher education
Creators: name: :: National Forum For The Enhancement Of Teaching And Learning In Higher Education
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey: Findings from students and staff who teach in higher education
Second-Harmonic Young Interference in Atom-Thin Heterocrystals
Creators: name: Kim, Wontaek
name: Ahn, Je Yhoung
name: Oh, Juseung
name: Shim, Ji Hoon
name: Ryu, Sunmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a nonlinear parametric process that doubles the frequency of incoming light. Only allowed in non-centrosymmetric materials, it has been widely used in frequency modulation of lasers, surface scientific investigation, and label-free imaging in biological and medical sciences. Two-dimensional crystals are ideal SHG-materials not only for their strong light-matter interaction and atomic thickness defying the phase-matching requirement but also for their stackability into customized hetero-crystals with high angular precision and material diversity. Here we directly show that SHG in hetero-bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is governed by optical interference between two coherent SH fields with material-dependent phase delays using spectral phase interferometry. We also quantify the frequency-dependent phase difference between MoS2 and WS2, which also agrees with polarization-resolved data and first-principles calculations on complex susceptibility. The second-harmonic analogue of Young double-slit interference shown in this work demonstrates the potential of custom-designed parametric generation by atom-thick nonlinear optical materials.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Axial-tensor Meson Family at $T\neq0$
Creators: name: Süngü, J. Y.
name: Türkan, A.
name: Sertbakan, E.
name: Veliev, E. Veli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass and decay constant of the axial-tensor meson nonets $ρ_2,~ω_2$ and a missing member and also their first excited states are analyzed by the Thermal QCD sum rules model including QCD condensates up to dimension five. Mass and decay constant values in terms of variations of temperature are very well stable from $T=0$ up to ~$T \cong 120 ~\mathrm{MeV}$. However nearly after these threshold, our numerical analysis indicate that they begin to diminish with increasing temperature. Mass value of these mesons and their first excited states decrease about $(1-13\%)$ compared to vacuum values and $(10-26\%)$ for the decay constants according to PDG data and $(9-26\%)$ and $(2-34\%)$ respectively concerning Regge Trajectory Model in the corresponding Thermal QCD sum rules calculations. The experimental results are already copious, but expected to grow up at ongoing and future heavy-ion experimental programs allowing us to compare our results.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Aperiodic Tilings: Breaking Translational Symmetry
Creators: name: Levin, Leonid A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.1.1; G.2.1

description: Classical results on aperiodic tilings are rather complicated and not widely understood. Below, an alternative approach is discussed in hope to provide additional intuition not apparent in classical works.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, minor changes
Nonreciprocity as a generic route to traveling states
Creators: name: You, Zhihong
name: Baskaran, Aparna
name: Marchetti, M. Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine a non-reciprocally coupled dynamical model of a mixture of two diffusing species. We demonstrate that nonreciprocity, which is encoded in the model via antagonistic cross diffusivities, provides a generic mechanism for the emergence of traveling patterns in purely diffusive systems with conservative dynamics. In the absence of non-reciprocity, the binary fluid mixture undergoes a phase transition from a homogeneous mixed state to a demixed state with spatially separated regions rich in one of the two components. Above a critical value of the parameter tuning non-reciprocity, the static demixed pattern acquires a finite velocity, resulting in a state that breaks both spatial and time translational symmetry, as well as the reflection parity of the static pattern. We elucidate the generic nature of the transition to traveling patterns using a minimal model that can be studied analytically. Our work has direct relevance to nonequilibrium assembly in mixtures of chemically interacting colloids that are known to exhibit non-reciprocal effective interactions, as well as to mixtures of active and passive agents where traveling states of the type predicted here have been observed in simulations. It also provides insight on transitions to traveling and oscillatory states seen in a broad range of nonreciprocal systems with non-conservative dynamics, from reaction-diffusion and prey-predators models to multispecies mixtures of microorganisms with antagonistic interactions.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
title: 01_2669
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Farmgate versus retail prices and supermarkets’ pricing decisions: an integrated approach
Creators: name: Russo, Carlo
name: Goodhue, Rachael
name: Russo, Carlo
name: Goodhue, Rachael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Price distribution
subject: price transmission
subject: supermarket pricing
subject: basket shoppers

description: Food and agricultural commodity prices exhibit several empirical regularities, including asymmetric price transmission, higher farmgate price volatility, and relatively low correlation between farmgate and retail prices. Supermarket pricing behaviors include promotions, loss-leaders, and unadvertised sales. Existing explanations tend to focus on either the behavior of farmgate and retail prices or on supermarkets’ pricing decisions. We develop a model that integrates them. It has three core assumptions: consumers are basket shoppers, each consumer has a preferred store, and consumers cannot observe the full set of prices freely before entering the store. The phenomena listed above are all outcomes of the model.
Tracing the simulated high-redshift circum-galactic medium with Lyman alpha emission
Creators: name: Mitchell, Peter
name: Blaizot, Jérémy
name: Cadiou, Corentin
name: Dubois, Yohan
name: Garel, Thibault
name: Rosdahl, Joakim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), it is now possible to detect spatially extended Lyman alpha emission from individual faint (M_UV ~ -18) galaxies at redshifts, 3 < z < 6, tracing gas out to circum-galactic scales comparable to the dark matter halo virial radius. To explore the implications of such observations, we present a cosmological radiation hydrodynamics simulation of a single galaxy, chosen to be typical of the Lyman alpha-emitting galaxies detected by MUSE in deep fields. We use this simulation to study the origin and dynamics of the high-redshift circum-galactic medium (CGM). We find that the majority of the mass in the diffuse CGM is comprised of material infalling for the first time towards the halo center, but with the inner CGM also containing a comparable amount of mass that has moved past first-pericentric passage, and is in the process of settling into a rotationally supported configuration. Making the connection to Lyman alpha emission, we find that the observed extended surface brightness profile is due to a combination of three components: scattering of galactic Lyman alpha emission in the CGM, in-situ emission of CGM gas (mostly infalling), and Lyman alpha emission from small satellite galaxies. The weight of these contributions vary with distance from the galaxy such that (1) scattering dominates the inner regions (r < 7 kpc), at surface brightness larger than a few 10^-19 cgs, (2) all components contribute equally around r ~ 10 kpc (or SB ~10^-19), and (3) the contribution of small satellite galaxies takes over at large distances (or SB ~10^-20). Our simulation fails to reproduce the characteristic observed Lyman alpha spectral morphology that is red-shifted with respect to the systemic velocity, with the implication that the simulation is missing an important component of neutral outflowing gas.
description: MNRAS accepted, 20 pages, 10 figures
title: Inflation from a simple model based on Weyl invariance
Creators: name: Mezgolits, Paul
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inflation
subject: Inflation
subject: Conformal gravity

description: Despite the many successes of the big bang model of the universe, it lacks the power to explain some key features of the universe including the fact that it is homogeneous, isotropic and spatially flat. A possible explanation of these are given by inflation, a short period before the onset of standard big bang evolution during which the universe expanded exponentially. This thesis starts with an introduction to single field inflation models and explains how they produce primordial fluctuations and then calculates their power spectrum, which can be observed in the cosmic microwave background. Following this discussion, a model based on conformal gravity and conformal coupling of a scalar field is introduced. The tensor and vector perturbations in this model are discussed both classically and quantum mechanically and their power spectra are calculated and are found to share key features with the power spectra of single field inflation.
Farmers’ willingness to vaccinate against endemic animal diseases: A theoretical approach
Creators: name: Rault, Arnaud
name: Krebs, Stephane
name: Rault, Arnaud
name: Krebs, Stephane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Animal health economics
subject: disease control
subject: risk management
subject: vaccination
subject: model simulation

description: The aim of this paper is to propose an analytical framework to explore farmers’ vaccination decisions against endemic animal diseases. First, a theoretical model is developed to highlight how the characteristics of the vaccine influence the farmer’s vaccination decisions over time and the resulting disease dynamics. Numerical simulations are then performed to illustrate the impacts of the different vaccine effectiveness parameters on these dynamics.
Is animal welfare better on small farms? Evidence from veterinary inspections on Swedish farms
Creators: name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Bolos, Laura A.
name: Hoffmann, Ruben
name: Surry, Yves
name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Bolos, Laura A.
name: Hoffmann, Ruben
name: Surry, Yves
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Farm animal welfare
subject: Zero-inflated Negative Binominal Model
subject: Agro-Industrialisation
subject: Propensity-Score Matching

description: Structural change towards more ‘industrialised’ pig farming is widely criticised for having adverse effects on farm animal welfare (FAW). This criticism implies that larger farms might be less concerned with animal welfare than smaller, more diversified farms, e.g. since small farmers would value FAW more. Based on data from veterinary pig farm inspections, various aspects of this standard criticism were empirically tested. The results showed that FAW violations were less frequent on larger farms and more frequent on pig farms with dairy cows. Violations were no less frequent in areas with more organic production, but on average less severe.
Revealing the Dark Threads of the Cosmic Web
Creators: name: Burchett, Joseph N.
name: Elek, Oskar
name: Tejos, Nicolas
name: Prochaska, J. Xavier
name: Tripp, Todd M.
name: Bordoloi, Rongmon
name: Forbes, Angus G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern cosmology predicts that matter in our Universe has assembled today into a vast network of filamentary structures colloquially termed the Cosmic Web. Because this matter is either electromagnetically invisible (i.e., dark) or too diffuse to image in emission, tests of this cosmic web paradigm are limited. Wide-field surveys do reveal web-like structures in the galaxy distribution, but these luminous galaxies represent less than 10% of baryonic matter. Statistics of absorption by the intergalactic medium (IGM) via spectroscopy of distant quasars support the model yet have not conclusively tied the diffuse IGM to the web. Here, we report on a new method inspired by the Physarum polycephalum slime mold that is able to infer the density field of the Cosmic Web from galaxy surveys. Applying our technique to galaxy and absorption-line surveys of the local Universe, we demonstrate that the bulk of the IGM indeed resides in the Cosmic Web. From the outskirts of Cosmic Web filaments, at approximately the cosmic mean matter density (rho_m) and approx. 5 virial radii from nearby galaxies, we detect an increasing H I absorption signature towards higher densities and the circumgalactic medium, to approx. 200 rho_m. However, the absorption is suppressed within the densest environments, suggesting shock-heating and ionization deep within filaments and/or feedback processes within galaxies.
description: Published in ApJL, 891, L35
Live stock disease surveillance system evaluation: a cost-effectiveness study for dutch classical swine fever surveillance
Creators: name: Guo, Xuezhen
name: Claassen, G.D.H.
name: Lansink, Oude A.G.J.M.
name: Loeffen, W.
name: Saatkamp, H.W.
name: Guo, Xuezhen
name: Claassen, G.D.H.
name: Lansink, Oude A.G.J.M.
name: Loeffen, W.
name: Saatkamp, H.W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: classical swine fever
subject: surveillance system
subject: economic analysis
subject: stochastic simulation modelling

description: This paper presents a comprehensive economic analysis of CSF surveillance in the Netherlands, taking into account the specialized structure of Dutch pig production and a complete list of possible surveillance activities. The results of the cost-effectiveness analysis show that conducting PCR tests on rendered animals was effective whereas routine serology in slaughterhouses or on sow farms was not. The results of the cost-benefit analysis indicate that the current surveillance system in the Netherlands is adequate. From an economic perspective there is little to be gained from intensifying surveillance.
A symmetry invariant integral on kappa-deformed spacetime
Creators: name: Moeller, Lutz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we present an approach using both constructive and Hopf algebraic methods to contribute to the not yet fully satisfactory definition of an integral on kappa-deformed spacetime. The integral presented here is based on the inner product of differential forms and it is shown that this integral is explicitly invariant under the deformed symmetry structure.
description: 16 pages
Escherichia coli O157 control on cattle farms: A structural equation model applied to survey data
Creators: name: Toma, Luiza
name: Low, J.C.
name: Vosough, Ahmadi B.
name: Matthews, Louise
name: Stott, Alistair W.
name: Toma, Luiza
name: Low, J.C.
name: Vosough, Ahmadi B.
name: Matthews, Louise
name: Stott, Alistair W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: E. coli O157 on-farm control
subject: UK cattle farmers
subject: structural equation modelling
subject: attitudes and behaviour
subject: information and knowledge

description: The paper uses structural equation modelling applied to survey data to test determinants’ influence on UK cattle farmers’ intentions towards Escherichia coli O157 control. Results suggest that farmers more likely to be willing to control Escherichia coli O157 are those who think that farmers are most responsible for controlling disease; whose income depends more on opening farms to public; with stronger disease control attitudes; who were affected by outbreaks; with better knowledge and more frequent information access; with stronger perceptions towards practicality of biosecurity measures; who use health plans; who think farmers are main beneficiaries of controlling disease; whose farm is dairy rather than beef.
Did Bosworth Go Too Far? Paul Rader and other Alliance leaders initially accused him of placing too much emphasis on divine healing
Creators: name: Barnes, Roscoe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210304 Biography
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220402 Comparative Religious Studies
subject: History
subject: 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: Religious Studies
subject: 220499 Religion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 220405 Religion and Society

description: F.F. Bosworth confronted criticism in one form or another throughout his many years of ministry. In the early 1920s, he faced criticism by Paul Rader and other leaders in the Christian & Missionary Alliance. They initially accused him of placing too much emphasis on divine healing. Were they justified in making this accusation?#FFBosworth #BosworthMatters
Twin-field quantum key distribution with discrete-phase-randomized sources
Creators: name: Zhang, Chun-Mei
name: Xu, Yi-Wei
name: Wang, Rong
name: Wang, Qin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thanks to the single-photon interference at a third untrusted party, the twin-field quantun key distribution (TF-QKD) protocol and its variants can beat the well-known rate-loss bound without quantum repeaters, and related experiments have been implemented recently. Generally, quantum states in these schemes should be randomly switched between the code mode and test mode. To adopt the standard decoy-state method, phases of coherent state sources in the test mode are assumed to be continuously randomized. However, such a crucial assumption cannot be well satisfied in experimental implementations. In this paper, to bridge the gap between theory and practice, we propose a TF-QKD variant with discrete-phase-randomized sources both in the code mode and test mode, and prove its security against collective attacks. Our simulation results indicate that, with only a small number of discrete phases, the performance of discrete-phase-randomized sources can overcome the rate-loss bound and approach that of continuous-phase-randomized sources.
description: appendix added
Going global with the locals : internationalization activity at the university colleges in British Columbia
Creators: name: Evans, Karen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study is about internationalization activity in the British Columbia university colleges. It discusses the environmental context, identifies the types of internationalization activities which occur and discusses the impact of this activity on faculty, staff and administrative work. The investigation employs a nested case study with units of analysis occurring at five levels. The university college sector is the first level; second, its senior officers; third, its deans and directors; fourth, faculty members; and fifth, staff members. Data collection involved individual and focus group interviews, compiling documentary and historical records, participant-observation and on-site visits to each university college. M y intent was to learn about internationalization, to identify the factors influencing its activity and to discover how the activity influences the university college environment. The research provided six key findings on internationalization in the university colleges: (1) the meaning of internationalization is heavily influenced by the external environment; (2) the university college workplace is shaped by growing numbers of international students; ( 3) the university colleges have been very successful in attracting international students to their programs; (4) internationalization work is both under-valued and under-supported at the university colleges; (5) a separation exists between international education and faculty areas and results in a number of misperceptions; (6) the university colleges are faced with leadership challenges. The key findings presented five general conclusions about internationalization in the university colleges: (1) internationalization efforts do not have a legitimate voice nationally, provincially or locally; (2) an institutional discussion and debate regarding the role and purpose of internationalization has not happened at the university colleges; (3) the university colleges run the risk of becoming overly dependent on a 'soft money' source to fund ongoing financial commitments; (4) the university colleges face some ethical challenges as they grapple with the economic imperative of internationalization; (5) the university colleges face an inherent structural challenge that creates tension within and between their internal and external communities. Policy and practice recommendations are made to government, to higher educators and in particular to the university colleges. The limitations of the study and suggestions for further research are provided.
Shape Transition to a Rare Shape Phase of Prolate Non-collective in A = 100 Isobars
Creators: name: Aggarwal, Mamta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical investigation on the shape transitions with neutron number, temperature and spin for A $=$100 isobars of Z$=$42 to 50 is presented. A variety of shape transitions are observed while moving from neutron rich 100 Mo to proton rich 100 Sn with predominant triaxial shapes. Temperature and spin induced shape transitions are explored within the microscopic theoretical framework of and statistical theory of hot rotating nuclei. Prolate non-collective which is a rare shape phase is reported in this mass region on the proton rich side of the nuclear chart.
title: Cellulase production by Trichoderma : a crosstalk between the fungus and bacteria
Creators: name: Grandits, Melanie
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Trichoderma - Bakterien
subject: Trichoderma - bacteria

description: In recent years research concerning interactions of fungi and bacteria increased, due to the awareness that these might greatly influence properties of both organisms, such as antibiotics resistance or enzyme production. Fungal-bacterial interactions are not limited to specific species but can be found in different taxonomic groups. We recently found that Trichoderma spp. might form associations with Achromobacter sp. (esp. Trichoderma harzianum) and Burkholderia spp. (esp. Trichoderma reesei). Up to this point there is not much known about the impact of these relations; however, they are of great interest because of the industrial and agricultural importance of Trichoderma spp.. The ability of Trichoderma reesei to secrete large amounts of cellulases has long been known, but as a result of a continuously growing demand for cellulases in industrial applications, further improved strains are required in order to maximize efficiency, yield and minimize costs of cellulase production. In this thesis we investigated the effect of naturally associated bacteria on secretion of cellulases by Trichoderma. For this purpose T. reesei strains were cured of bacteria by a mixture of imipenem and ceftazidime and the success of the procedure was proven by molecular techniques. The effect on cellulase production was studied by fermenting two high cellulase producers of Trichoderma with and without their naturally associated bacteria, namely B. tropica and A. xylosoxidans, for 4 days in liquid medium with microcrystalline cellulose or lactose as carbon source. Samples were analyzed with regard to biomass production, secreted protein concentration and endo- and exocellulase activity. The results of this thesis show that T. reesei can be cured from B. tropica without visibly affecting or harming the fungus. Furthermore naturally associated bacteria do have an effect on cellulase production; however this effect is not uniform, but depends on the involved species and the available carbon-source. Results also suggest that the ratio of bacterial to fungal biomass is essential for optimal and probably beneficial interaction.
Gestión del diseño estructural de cubiertas ligeras ante fuertes vientos con enfoque de sistemas de ingeniería
Creators: name: Reyes-Ramírez, Anabel
name: Zuñiga Igarza, Libys Martha
name: Estrada Cingualbres, Roberto Andrés
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In recent decades, the gradual reduction of vulnerability to extreme natural phenomena, especially hurricanes and tropical cyclones that affect Cuba and the Caribbean region, has been a priority in the development of construction projects. For design companies and design teams, the management of the design of safe and resistant buildings, using mathematical tools and simulation models, is of paramount importance. However, there are shortcomings in structural design management, especially for light roofs, considered one of the most vulnerable building elements. The objective of this research is to develop a procedure for the management of the structural design of light roofs, based on the foundations of engineering systems as an interdisciplinary approach, providing a robust base and coherent structure that allows reducing its vulnerability to strong winds. Likewise, an indicator is proposed to measure the level of vulnerability, as well as a computer tool for its evaluation in the design phase. The reliability and relevance of the proposed tool were also verified through Petri nets and expert criteria. The application in the National Agricultural Projects Company of the Municipality of Holguín, demonstrated its feasibility and convenient use as a methodological tool, allowing the reduction of the vulnerability index to strong winds of the light roof solution variants from the conceptual design stage, aspect that validates the research hypothesis.
Flux and energy modulation of redshifted iron emission in NGC3516: implications for the black hole mass
Creators: name: Iwasawa, K.
name: Miniutti, G.
name: Fabian, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the tentative detection of the modulation of a transient, redshifted Fe Kalpha emission feature in the X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert galaxy NGC3516. The detection of the spectral feature at 6.1 keV, in addition to a stable 6.4 keV line, has been reported previously. We find on re-analysing the XMM-Newton data that the feature varies systematically in flux at intervals of 25 ks. The peak moves in energy between 5.7 keV and 6.5 keV. The spectral evolution of the feature agrees with Fe K emission arising from a spot on the accretion disc, illuminated by a corotating flare located at a radius of (7-16) rg, modulated by Doppler and gravitational effects as the flare orbits around the black hole. Combining the orbital timescale and the location of the orbiting flare, the mass of the black hole is estimated to be (1-5)e+7 Msun, which is in good agreement with values obtained from other techniques.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Investigating the inclusive transverse spectra in high-energy $pp$ collisions in the context of geometric scaling framework
Creators: name: Moriggi, L. S.
name: Peccini, G. M.
name: Machado, M. V. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of geometric scaling within the $p_T$ spectra of produced hadrons at high energy $pp$ collisions using small-$x$ $k_T$-factorization is investigated. It is proposed a phenomenological parameterization for the unintegrated gluon distribution in the scaling range which reproduces the features of the differential cross section both in the saturated and dilute perturbative QCD regimes. As the saturation scale acts as an effective regulator of the infrared region (IR), the extension of the model to quantities usually associated to soft physics is studied. The approach is applied to compute the average $p_T$ and the rapidity distribution of produced gluons at high energies.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Questionning pricing-to-market linearity: partial sum decomposition approach applied to beer exports
Creators: name: Fedoseeva, Svetlana
name: Werner, Laura M.
name: Fedoseeva, Svetlana
name: Werner, Laura M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Asymmetry
subject: beer exports
subject: hysteresis
subject: NARDL
subject: pricing-to-market

description: Pricing decisions of exporters, who are facing imperfect competition in their destination markets, might depend on exchange rate changes. While empirical literature often assumes that the impact of the exchange rate on the exporters’ prices is linear and the markup adjustment does not depend on magnitude or direction of the exchange rate, we question this statement and test for hysteresis and asymmetry of pricing-to-market (PTM). By means of the partial sum decomposition approach of Shin et al. (2013) using the beer market as an example, we show that both types of nonlinearities play an important role in PTM decisions.