cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Probation Workers, their Occupational Cultures and Offender Management, 1960-2011
Creators: name: Worrall, A.
name: Mawby, R. C.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2012

description: This is a qualitative data collection. This research comprised a study of the occupational cultures of probation workers which was conducted between April 2010 and November 2011. A great deal has been written about the historical and policy changes that have shaped the role of the probation worker but there has been little research on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view the impact of changes to their role. Similarly there is little research on the relationships between probation workers and other criminal justice agencies engaged in offender management. The research filled these gaps by identifying and exploring the characteristics of contemporary probation cultures and investigating how probation workers construct their occupational identities. The research makes a contribution not only to the study of probation work but also to the body of knowledge on the occupational cultures of criminal justice practitioners.

 Interviews were conducted with 60 current, former or retired probation workers. the population included a range of people including: those who joined the probation services in the 1960s and in each decade since; people who trained under different regimes; people in all grades from Probation Service Officer to Chief Officer; people with experience of working in different functions (e.g. in hostels, in prisons, community service and case work); and people with experience of working in urban and rural areas. For data storage and analysis purposes, the participants were divided into four categories, namely: 1) 10 Trainee Probation Officers (TPOs); 2) 8 former or retired probation workers (FPWs); 3) 26 current probation workers (PWs); 4) 16 chief probation officer grades (COs).

 Further information about the project and links to publications are available on the ESRC Probation officers, their occupational cultures and offender management award webpage and the University of Leicester Probation Workers and their Occupational Cultures project webpage.
Short-Term Orbital Forcing: A Quasi-Review and a Reappraisal of Realistic Boundary Conditions for Climate Modeling
Creators: name: Cionco, Rodolfo G.
name: Soon, Willie W. -H
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this paper is to provide geoscientists with the most accurate set of the Earth's astro-climatic parameters and daily insolation quantities, able to describe the Short-Term Orbital Forcing (STOF) as represented by the ever-changing incoming solar radiation. We provide an updated review and a pragmatic tool/database using the latest astronomical models and orbital ephemeris, for the entire Holocene and 1 kyr into the future. Our results are compared with the most important database produced for studying long-term orbital forcing showing no systematic discrepancies over the full thirteen thousand years period studied. Our detailed analysis of the periods present in STOF, as perturbed by Solar System bodies, yields a very rich dynamical modulation on annual-to-decadal timescales when compared to previous results. In addition, we addressed, for the first time, the error committed considering daily insolation as a continuous function of orbital longitudes with respect to the nominal values, i.e., calculating the corresponding daily insolation with orbital longitudes tabulated {\it at noon}. We found important relative differences up to $\pm$ 5\%, which correspond to errors of 2.5 W m$^{-2}$ in the daily mean insolation, for exactly the same calendar day and set of astro-climatic parameters. This previously unrecognized error could have a significant impact in both the initial and boundary conditions for any climate modeling experiment.
description: Submitted to Earth-Science Reviews (minor revision)
Behaviour of pf shell under RMF+BCS Description
Creators: name: Saxena, G.
name: Kaushik, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have employed RMF+BCS (relativistic mean-field plus BCS) approach to study behaviour of pf shell with the help of ground state properties of even-even nuclei. Our present investigations include separation energies , deformations, single particle energies, wavefunction, potential as well etc density distribution. As per recent experiments showing neutron magicity at N = 32 for Ca isotopes, our results with mass dependent pairing indicate a shell closure at N = 32 in Ca isotopes and a more strong shell closure at N = 34 in proton deficient 48Si because of reorganization of neutron pf shell. In a similar manner, proton pf shell structure is more likely to produce shell closure at Z = 34 with a doubly magic character for 84,116Se. We have also included N = 40 isotones and Z = 40 isotopes for our study and predicted 60Ca and 68Ni as doubly magic nuclei out of which 60Ca is found near dripline of Ca and a potential candidate for future studies in the chain of Ca isotopes next to doubly magic 52Ca.
Spin-wave excitations in the SDW state of iron pnictides: a comparison between the roles of interaction parameters
Creators: name: Singh, Dheeraj Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the role of Hund's coupling in the spin-wave excitations of the ($π, 0$) ordered magnetic state within a five-orbital tight-binding model for iron pnictides. To differentiate between the roles of intraorbital Coulomb interaction and Hund's coupling, we focus on the self-consistently obtained mean-field SDW state with a fixed magnetic moment obtained by using different sets of interaction parameters. We find that the Hund's coupling is crucial for the description of various experimentally observed characteristics of the spin-wave excitations including the anisotropy, energy-dependent behavior, and spin-wave spectral weight distribution.
Organisational Change, Resistance and Democracy: Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Equalities Initiatives, 2007-2010
Creators: name: Richardson, D.
name: Monro, S.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2012

description: This is a qualitative data collection.

 This research comprised a study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equalities work amongst local authorities which was conducted between March 2008 and September 2009. The field of LGBT equalities work at that time was undergoing a period of rapid change, following the abolishment of Section 28 and fuelled by the introduction of a range of new legislation as well as on-going local government modernisation. This project builds on existing research by exploring the impact of the changing policy environment on LGBT equalities initiatives amongst local authorities and their partner agencies. The research used and developed innovative qualitative Action Learning Set methodologies and interviews with local and national stakeholders.

 The aims of the project were: to examine the impact of recent policy changes on the field of LGBT equalities work in local government; to address key conceptual issues concerning [i] processes of resistance and compliance [ii] organisational cultural change [iii] debates concerning citizenship and democracy; to explore the issues affecting LGBT equalities initiatives through case studies in Northern Ireland, Wales and England; to explore the use of innovative Participatory Action Research methods.

 Further information about the project and links to publications are available on the ESRC Organisational Change, Resistance and Democracy: Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Equalities Initiatives award webpage.
100 years after Smoluchowski: stochastic processes in cell biology
Creators: name: Holcman, David
name: Schuss, Zeev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: G.3; J.3

description: 100 years after Smoluchowski introduces his approach to stochastic processes, they are now at the basis of mathematical and physical modeling in cellular biology: they are used for example to analyse and to extract features from large number (tens of thousands) of single molecular trajectories or to study the diffusive motion of molecules, proteins or receptors. Stochastic modeling is a new step in large data analysis that serves extracting cell biology concepts. We review here the Smoluchowski's approach to stochastic processes and provide several applications for coarse-graining diffusion, studying polymer models for understanding nuclear organization and finally, we discuss the stochastic jump dynamics of telomeres across cell division and stochastic gene regulation.
description: 65 pages, J. Phys A 2016
Co-operation and Consumerism in Interwar Britain, 1918-1939; Transcripts of interviews with Co-operative Society members from Lancashire and Yorkshire
Transcripts of interviews with Co-operative Society members from Lancashire and Yorkshire
Creators: name: Gurney, P.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2012

description: The 12 transcribed interviews made available were produced as part of an oral history project conducted during 1993-4 when the creator of this resource held a Douglas Knoop Research Fellowship in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. The complete research material consists of two folders of correspondence, replies to letters published in local newspapers in Lancashire and Yorkshire. During the research, contact was made with a number of respondents in their 70s and 80s from Leeds, Huddersfield, Bolton, Rochdale and Manchester, who were interviewed in February 1994. The audio versions of the in-depth qualitative interviews and the letters may be made available in the future.
Quanta of Space-Time and Axiomatization of Physics
Creators: name: Chamseddine, Ali H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider Hilbert's sixth problem on the axiomatization of physics starting with a higher degree Heisenberg commutation relation involving the Dirac operator and the Feynman slash of scalar fields. The two sided version of the commutation relation in dimension 4 implies volume quantization and determines a noncommutative space which is a tensor product of continuous and discrete spaces. This noncommutative space predicts the full structure of a unified model of all particle interactions based on Pati-Salam symmetries or, as a special case, the Standard Model. We study implications of this quantization condition on Particle Physics, General Relativity, the cosmological constant and dark matter. We demonstrate that, with little input, noncommutative geometry gives a compelling and attractive picture about the nature and structure of space-time.
description: 47 pages. Contribution to the special issue of IJGMMP celebrating the one century anniversary of the program announced in 1916 by Hilbert entitled " Foundations of Mathematics and Physics", editors, Joseph Kouneiher, John Stachel and Salvatore Capozzieolo
Study of N = 16 shell closure within RMF+BCS approach
Creators: name: Saxena, G.
name: Kaushik, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have employed RMF+BCS (relativistic mean-field plus BCS) ap- proach to study behaviour of N = 16 shell closure with the help of ground state properties of even-even nuclei. Our present investigations include sin- gle particle energies, deformations, separation energies as well as pairing energies etc. As per recent experiments showing neutron magicity at N = 16 for O isotopes, our results indicate a strong shell closure at N = 16 in 22C and 24O. A large gap is found in between neutron 2s1/2 and 1d3/2 states for 22C and 24O. These results are also supported by a sharp increase in two neutron shell gap, zero pairing energy contribution and with excellent agreement with available experimental data. Moreover, our calculations of N = 16 isotones are however found at variance for higher Z isotones like 36Ca, where experiments show high lying first excited 2+ state indicating shell closure at N = 16.
Ontological Infrastructure for Interoperable Research Information Systems – Presentation from "VIVO Talks!"
Creators: name: López-De-Ipiña, Diego
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Semantic Web
Ontologies
Interoperability
Research Information
VIVO
VIVO-DE
Berlin University Alliance

description: Presentation from "VIVO Talks!" with Prof. Diego López-de-Ipiña on "Ontological Infrastructure for Interoperable Research Information Systems". Diego López-de-Ipiña, Professor at University of Deusto, introduces the ontological information infrastructure project of the HÉRCULES project in Spain and provides insights into the great potentials behind this development. “VIVO Talks!” is organized by the project team of VIVO Research Information Platform for the Berlin University Alliance. Within this alliance, a four-member project team is currently developing a federated platform to present information of researchers, their research and activities using the open source software VIVO. This project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the state of Berlin within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder.
Science in the Field: Understanding the Changing Role of Expertise in the Rural Economy, 2008-2011
Creators: name: Proctor, A.
name: Phillipson, J.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2019

description:
This qualitative data collection is part of the Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme.

 ‘Science in the Field’ was a project exploring the working practices and expertise of three different groups of field-level advisors (farm animal vets, applied ecologists and land agents/surveyors). The research involved in-depth interviews with professional/ accreditation bodies, advisors and farmers as well as direct observation (work shadowing) of field level advisors. The project reflected on the role of advisors as knowledge brokers between research and land management practice, with a focus on how their knowledge and expertise is constructed and disseminated.

 Further information for this study may be found through the ESRC Research Catalogue webpage: Science in the field: understanding the changing role of expertise in the rural economy.<a href="http://relu.data-archive.ac.uk/explore-data/search-browse/project/?ID=RES-229-25-0025" title="RELU Knowledge Portal: Science in the field: understanding the changing role of expertise in the rural economy">
Memory and Prediction in Tree Disease Management: a Comparative Analysis of Dutch Elm Disease and Sudden Oak Death in the United Kingdom, 2007-2010
Lessons from Dutch Elm Disease in Assessing the Threat from Sudden Oak Death
Creators: name: Potter, C.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2019

description:
The study is part of the Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme.

This interdisciplinary project investigated the uses of memory and prediction in the current management of the threat to biodiversity and landscapes from tree disease epidemics in the UK. Expanding international trade, increased human movements and climate change are all implicated in the growing threat from tree disease pathogens. Different knowledge sources and historical experiences need to be more widely exploited in order both to raise public awareness of this threat and to ensure policy learning and a more effective policy response. The project specifically compared the historical experience of Dutch Elm Disease (DED) with the present day threat from Sudden Oak Death (SOD), using a combination of archival research, semi-structured interviews, modelling work and economic valuation surveys. The project’s reconstruction of the DEF epidemic of the 1970s is based on an analysis of the DED archives and interviews with key informants involved in managing the epidemic at the time. Spatial models were constructed to map the spread of the outbreak and to explore its sensitivity to alternative management trajectories. These outputs were compared with a related analysis of the still unfolding SOD outbreak, again drawing on interviews with key informants in order to scope the extent, management and likely future trajectory of the disease, followed by modelling work which tested the sensitivity of outcomes to alternative management interventions. Comparisons were drawn between the two disease systems and implications for policy drawn.

Further information for this study may be found through the ESRC Research Catalogue webpage: Memory and Prediction in Plant Disease Management: A comparative analysis of Dutch Elm Disease and 'Sudden Oak Death'.<a href="http://relu.data-archive.ac.uk/explore-data/search-browse/project/?ID=RES-229-25-0005" title="RELU Knowledge Portal: Lessons from Dutch Elm Disease in assessing the threat from Sudden Oak Death">
Barjols, atelier Fabre, fabrication du galoubet, agrandissement du premier trou avec un canif très affûté
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

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Measuring Risk and Time Preferences: Large-Scale Field Experiments, 2009-2011
Creators: name: Choi, S.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2012

description: This project involved two economics experiments conducted using an existing household panel survey. The experiments aimed at understanding possible sources of heterogeneity in important economic outcomes such as saving and wealth accumulation. The two experiments use the CentERpanel, an online, weekly, stratified survey of a sample of over 2,000 households and 5,000 individual members, conducted in the Netherlands (not currently held at the UK Data Archive). The CentERdata DNB Household Survey, 2008 and 2009 provided a unique opportunity to combine experimental data with sociodemographic and economic variables from the survey. The subjects in the experiment were randomly recruited from the CentERpanel sample. The first experiment, concerned with decision-making under uncertainty, was conducted in May 2009 with 1,182 CentERpanel adult members. The second experiment, concerning intertemporal decision making, was conducted in June and September 2011 with 1,425 panel members. Subjects were presented with a sequence of decision problems: under uncertainty in the first experiment and over time in the second experiment. In the first experiment decision problems could be interpreted as the allocation of an endowment between two risky assets, while they are the allocation of an endowment over two payment dates in the second experiment. These decision problems were presented using and adapting a graphical interface introduced by Choi et al. (2007). Because the design was user-friendly, it was possible to present each subject with many choices, allowing analysis of the data at the level of the individual subject. Rich, individual-level information of experimental choices allows the separate measurement of quality and preferences of decision-making under uncertainty and over time. This analysis was then related to socio-demographic information and economic outcomes, such as saving and wealth accumulation in the panel data.

 Further information may be found on the ESRC Measuring Risk and Time Preferences: Large-Scale Field Experiments award webpage. The DNB Household Survey data are publicly available from the CentERdata DNB Household Survey website.
Empire and Civil Society in 20th Century Scotland: Imperial Decline and National Identity, 1918 - 1970
Creators: name: Orr, L.
name: Breitenbach, E.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2012

description: The research investigated interpretations of Scotland's imperial role and its displacement as a dominant representation of national identity between c. 1918 – c. 1970. Key aims of the research were to map civil society organisations concerned with empire in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow; and provide in depth case studies of two key Scottish institutions demonstrating a continuing interest in empire, the Church of Scotland and the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC). The research found that the late 19th and early 20th century represented the high point of imperialist enthusiasm in Scotland, manifested in celebrations of the Scottish contribution to empire. Thereafter attitudes to the empire became more differentiated: anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism became a consistent feature of the labour movement in Scotland, middle-class enthusiasm for the Dominions was pronounced in the inter-war years; in the post-war years adjustments were made to the changing British Commonwealth, the process of decolonisation itself provoked hotly contested positions between certain groups in Scottish society. Connections to and interest in the empire were part of the local identities of all four major Scottish cities. Major institutions such as the Church of Scotland and the Scottish Trades Union Congress moved from having divergent perspectives on empire to occasional parallel support for aspects of decolonisation, such as African independence movements. This laid the ground for the emergence of broad alliances on international issues, such as the Anti-Apartheid Movement. The experience of empire contributed to the development of a Scottish internationalism, which has often been claimed as a positive national characteristic.
Corporate Taxation and United Kingdom Firm Productivity, 1995-2008
Creators: name: Kneller, R.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this project was to consider differences in the reaction of businesses to the same tax change, including the effect of financial constraints on firms, and the drivers of productivity growth for service sector firms. It combined United Kingdom data with that for other European countries, thereby allowing use of the best available techniques to answer some key questions and deliver relevant evidence for the UK.

 Further information may be found on the ESRC Effects of Taxation on Heterogeneous Firms: Micro Level Evidence Across Europe award page.
A model solution of the generalized Langevin equation: Emergence and Breaking of Time-Scale Invariance in Single-Particle Dynamics of Liquids
Creators: name: Mokshin, Anatolii V.
name: Galimzyanov, Bulat N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the solution of generalized Langevin equation can be obtained on the basis of simple comparison of the time scale for the velocity autocorrelation function of a particle (atom, molecule) and of the time scale for the corresponding memory function. The result expression for the velocity autocorrelation function contains dependence on the non-Markovity parameter, which allows one to take into account memory effects of the investigated phenomena. It is demonstrated for the cases of liquid tin and liquid lithium that the obtained expression for the velocity autocorrelation function is in a good agreement with the molecular dynamics simulation results.
description: Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Renat M. Yulmetyev
Optical whispering gallery mode and plasmonic techniques for sensing applications
Creators: name: Hao, Yihua
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: In the past three decades, the optical whispering-gallery mode (WGM) phenomenon in dielectric micro-resonators has attracted increasing attention due to distinct features of small mode volume and extremely high quality factor (Q-factor). Various high-tech applications based on optical WGM have been developed, e.g., biosensing and detection in molecular levels, ultrafine temperature measurement, mechanics measurement, optics and communications, to name a few. A vital sensing principle that was explored is resonant frequency shift. Due to the high Q-factor, high-resolution measurements and ultrafine sensitivity can be realized. Pure silica resonators were demonstrated to have excellent temperature measurement sensitivity at room and cryogenic temperature regimes. The present dissertation contains two parts of research. In part one, the experimental demonstration for the precise measurement and monitoring of superconductor temperature using an optical WGM sensor was carried out for the first time. The WGM sensor is a silica microsphere with Q-factor around 10^6 at low temperature environment (about 100K to 150K) and used to measure the critical temperature of a superconductor tape accurately. The present instrument is small in size, fast in response, low in cost, and high in accuracy and resolution. The measurements were compared with factory-specified results obtained from the costly and bulky cryogenic facility and an excellent agreement was found. In part two, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is integrated into the optical WGM microsensor to augment detection sensitivity. The performance of such WGM ring sensors with an Ag or Au metalcore or thin-film coat separated by a nanoscale gap for detecting small respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 was demonstrated via finite-element modeling. Compared with traditional WGM ring sensors, integrating SPR for silica WGM with metalcore in the air environment enhances sensitivity by 3-5 times to achieve fast, accurate, and specific virus detection. A novel concept of enhancement factor based on the relative electric energy ratio is introduced to analyze and quantify the sensitivity enhancement. In addition, near-field radiation and detection enhancement in aqueous solutions were investigated using silicon nitride (Si3N4) based WGM ring resonator integrated with silver/gold metal film coated SPR. The sensitivity was enhanced about 3-5 times compared to the pure Si3N4 ring resonator. The Si3N4 hybrid biosensor with silver metal film extends the limit of detection (LOD) to 4 virus RNA copies with a wavelength shift of 23 pm in 120 nm sensing gap or 14 pm in 200 nm sensing gap. The Q-factor of the proposed Si3N4 hybrid biosensor is one to two orders of magnitude higher than that of the silica hybrid biosensor and effectively improves the ability to detect nanoentities in aqueous solutions and has outstanding advantages in terms of small size, rapid detection with fewer samples, and high accuracy.
On the connection problem for Painlevé I
Creators: name: Lisovyy, O.
name: Roussillon, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the dependence of the tau function of Painlevé I equation on the generalized monodromy of the associated linear problem. In particular, we compute connection constants relating the tau function asymptotics on five canonical rays at infinity. The result is expressed in terms of dilogarithms of cluster type coordinates on the space of Stokes data.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
Numerical Study of Nonlinear Dynamics of a Population System with Time Delay
Creators: name: Dushkov, Ivan N.
name: Jordanov, Ivan
name: Vitanov, Nikolay K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mathematical models of interacting populations are often constructed as systems of differential equations, which describe how populations change with time. Below we study one such model connected to the nonlinear dynamics of a system of populations in presence of time delay. The consequence of the presence of the time delay is that the nonlinear dynamics of the studied system become more rich, e.g., new orbits in the phase space of the system arise which are dependent on the time-delay parameters. In more detail we introduce a time delay and generalize the model system of differential equations for the interaction of three populations based on generalized Volterra equations in which the growth rates and competition coefficients of populations depend on the number of members of all populations \cite{Dimitrova2001a},\cite{Dimitrova2001b} and then numerically solve the system with and without time delay. We use a modification of the method of Adams for the numerical solution of the system of model equations with time delay. By appropriate selection of the parameters and initial conditions we show the impact of the delay time on the dynamics of the studied population system.
description: 12 pages, no figures
New separated polynomial solutions to the Zernike system on the unit disk and interbasis expansion
Creators: name: Pogosyan, George S.
name: Wolf, Kurt Bernardo
name: Yakhno, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The differential equation proposed by Frits Zernike to obtain a basis of polynomial orthogonal solutions on the the unit disk to classify wavefront aberrations in circular pupils, is shown to have a set of new orthonormal solution bases, involving Legendre and Gegenbauer polynomials, in non-orthogonal coordinates close to Cartesian ones. We find the overlaps between the original Zernike basis and a representative of the new set, which turn out to be Clebsch-Gordan coefficients.
description: Submitted to JOSA A, 2 figures
Public Experiences of Court: How Victims, Defendants and Witnesses Perceive and Make Sense of the Criminal Justice Process, 2011-2012
Creators: name: Jacobson, J.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This project examined the public's experiences of the Crown Court. More specifically, it focused on the extent to which victims, defendants and witnesses understand court proceedings and perceive them to be fair, and believe that they are treated politely and respectfully by the court.

 The research identified the factors which determine levels of understanding and perceptions of fair and respectful treatment. There were three main aims of the study. First, it explored the extent to which personal experiences of court had a bearing on the trust that individuals have in the criminal justice system as a whole. The second aim was to identify the main barriers to individuals' - and particularly defendants' - understanding of, and engagement with, court proceedings. The third aim was to draw out the commonalities in victims', defendants' and witnesses' experiences of court.

 The study entailed fieldwork at two Crown Courts; one in an urban city and the other in a small town. The main component of the fieldwork was in-depth, semi-structured interviews with victims, defendants and witnesses. The research team also undertook observations of court proceedings, including trials and sentencing hearings. In addition, the researchers conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with court professionals and staff at the beginning of the fieldwork which acted as a useful scoping exercise for the remainder of the research.

 Further information and links to publications may be found on the <a href="http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-062-23-2493/read" title="The public's experiences of court: how victims, defendants and witnesses perceive and make sense of the criminal justice process">The public's experiences of court: how victims, defendants and witnesses perceive and make sense of the criminal justice process award webpage.
Pregnancy and Substance Misuse: an Ethnographic Study of Maternity Services, 2008-2009
Creators: name: Radcliffe, P.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2013

description: This is a qualitative data collection. The study set out to address two research questions:
how are pregnant substance-misusing women and their foetuses assessed and monitored?

how do substance-misusing women describe their response to the treatment they are offered and to the supervision and surveillance of their pregnancies?
The results of the study were intended to advance sociological understanding of the medical regulation of women who are considered deviant consumers and of the choices they make in response to the identities and options that are available to them. The study was designed to investigate the competing identities of motherhood and substance misuse and to contribute to the understanding of agency and structural disadvantage. The findings of the study will be of use to clinicians and policy makers in developing and improving services for substance-misusing pregnant and post-partum women.

 The criteria for participation in the study were problem opiate or cocaine using women who were either pregnant or who had given birth within the previous two years. In addition interviews were carried out with midwives, drug workers and sonographers and observations were made of antenatal appointments and scans. The focus of the study was the investigation of how substance-misusing pregnant and postpartum women manage 'spoiled identities'.

 Further information may be found on the ESRC Pregnancy and Substance Misuse: and Ethnographic Study of Maternity Services webpage.
Content-Based Image Retrieval Based on Late Fusion of Binary and Local Descriptors
Creators: name: Ali, Nouman
name: Mazhar, Danish Ali
name: Iqbal, Zeshan
name: Ashraf, Rehan
name: Ahmed, Jawad
name: Khan, Farrukh Zeeshan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the challenges in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is to reduce the semantic gaps between low-level features and high-level semantic concepts. In CBIR, the images are represented in the feature space and the performance of CBIR depends on the type of selected feature representation. Late fusion also known as visual words integration is applied to enhance the performance of image retrieval. The recent advances in image retrieval diverted the focus of research towards the use of binary descriptors as they are reported computationally efficient. In this paper, we aim to investigate the late fusion of Fast Retina Keypoint (FREAK) and Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT). The late fusion of binary and local descriptor is selected because among binary descriptors, FREAK has shown good results in classification-based problems while SIFT is robust to translation, scaling, rotation and small distortions. The late fusion of FREAK and SIFT integrates the performance of both feature descriptors for an effective image retrieval. Experimental results and comparisons show that the proposed late fusion enhances the performances of image retrieval.
Viscous fingering and dendritic growth under an elastic membrane
Creators: name: Ducloue, Lucie
name: Hazel, Andrew
name: Pihler-Puzovic, Draga
name: Juel, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the viscous fingering instability that arises when air is injected from the end of an oil-filled, compliant channel. We show that induced axial and transverse depth gradients foster novel pattern formation. Moreover, the steady propagation of the interface allows us to elucidate the nonlinear saturation of a fingering pattern first observed in a time-evolving system (Pihler-Puzovic et al. PRL 108, 074502, 2012): the wavelength is set by the viscous fingering mechanism, but the amplitude is inversely proportional to the tangent of the compliant wall's inclination angle.
Survey of Diet among Children in Scotland, 2010
Creators: name: Food Standards Agency
name: ScotCen Social Research
name: University Of Hertfordshire
name: University Of Aberdeen
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2013

description: The Survey of Diet Among Children in Scotland, 2010 survey continued the work of the Survey of Sugar Intake among Children in Scotland, 2006 (held at the Archive under SN 6250), to monitor progress towards the Scottish Dietary Target for sugar intake in children. The 2010 survey also aimed to investigate the purchasing behaviours of children around the school day using a newly designed Food Purchasing Module (FPM). The survey was carried out by the University of Aberdeen, ScotCen Social Research, and the University of Hertfordshire.

 Dietary targets for the Scottish population were published in 1996 as part of the Scottish Diet Action Plan. The targets were based on the UK Dietary Reference Values for selected nutrients and on patterns of food consumption in Scotland which were derived from National Food Survey data from 1989-1991. The 2006 survey aimed to monitor progress towards the Scottish Dietary Target for sugar intake in children, and the 2010 survey continued this work. The main aim of the 2010 survey was to estimate the intake of non-milk extrinsic sugars (NMES), total fat and saturated fatty acids and other nutrients and foods and drinks in a nationally representative sample of children aged 3-16 years living in Scotland in 2010. Additional aims were to:
estimate the intake of NMES and other macronutrients and micronutrients in all children and in sub-groups divided by age, sex, deprivation category and urban/rural residence;

estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in all children and in subgroups divided by age, sex, deprivation category and urban/rural residence;

investigate associations between selected nutrients and foods and overweight and obesity in all children;

determine the levels of physical activity and inactivity in all children and in subgroups divided by age, sex, deprivation category and urban/rural residence;

investigate associations between physical activity and inactivity and overweight and obesity in all children and in sub-groups divided by age and sex;

compare intakes of nutrients and foods, the prevalence of overweight and obesity, and levels of physical activity and inactivity with data from the 2006 survey.
 For further information, see the documentation, and the Food Standards Agency Survey of Diet among Children in Scotland webpage.
An explicit symmetric DGLA model of a bi-gon
Creators: name: Gadish, Nir
name: Griniasty, Itay
name: Lawrence, Ruth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B55, 17B01, 55U15

description: We give explicit formulae for a DGLA model of the bi-gon which is symmetric under the geometric symmetries of the cell. This follows the work of Lawrence-Sullivan on the (unique) DGLA model of the interval and its construction uses deeper knowledge of the structure of such models and their localisations for non-simply connected spaces.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Partial Integrability of 3-d Bohmian Trajectories
Creators: name: Contopoulos, George
name: Tzemos, Athanasios C.
name: Efthymiopoulos, Christos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the integrability of 3-d Bohmian trajectories of a system of quantum harmonic oscillators. We show that the initial choice of quantum numbers is responsible for the existence (or not) of an integral of motion which confines the trajectories on certain invariant surfaces. We give a few examples of orbits in cases where there is or there is not an integral and make some comments on the impact of partial integrability in Bohmian Mechanics. Finally, we make a connection between our present results for the integrability in the 3-d case and analogous results found in the 2-d and 4-d cases.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
Horizon thermodynamics in fourth-order gravity
Creators: name: Ma, Meng-Sen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of horizon thermodynamics, the field equations of Einstein gravity and some other second-order gravities can be rewritten as the thermodynamic identity: $dE=TdS-PdV$. However, in order to construct the horizon thermodynamics in higher-order gravity, we have to simplify the field equations firstly. In this paper, we study the fourth-order gravity and convert it to second-order gravity via a so-called " Legendre transformation " at the cost of introducing two other fields besides the metric field. With this simplified theory, we implement the conventional procedure in the construction of the horizon thermodynamics in 3 and 4 dimensional spacetime. We find that the field equations in the fourth-order gravity can also be written as the thermodynamic identity. Moreover, we can use this approach to derive the same black hole mass as that by other methods.
description: 12 pages, no figure
Numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation in two dimensions
Creators: name: van Dijk, Wytse
name: Vanderwoerd, Trevor
name: Prins, Sjirk-Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generalized Crank-Nicolson method is employed to obtain numerical solutions of the two-dimensional time-dependent Schrodinger equation. An adapted alternating-direction implicit method is used, along with a high-order finite difference scheme in space. Extra care has to be taken for the needed precision of the time development. The method permits a systematic study of the accuracy and efficiency in terms of powers of the spatial and temporal step sizes. To illustrate its utility the method is applied to several two-dimensional systems.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Barjols, atelier Fabre, fabrication du galoubet, ajustage final avec remise en place de la languette dans le bec de l'instrument
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Northern Ireland Survey of Activity Limitations and Disability, 2006-2007
NISALD
Creators: name: Northern Ireland Statistics And Research Agency
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2015

description: The main purpose of the research was to establish the prevalence rates of disability within the Northern Ireland household population. That is, the study aimed to provide us with estimates of the numbers of people with different types of disability.

 The definition of disability for the purposes of the NISALD was based on the concepts of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) which was developed and endorsed by the World Health Organisation.

 The NISALD series of questionnaires included an initial set of questions that established the type, nature and severity of disabilities. The survey instrument also included questions dedicated to collecting information on the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents and their perceptions of the environment in which they live. Fieldwork for adults and children living in private households was carried out throughout 2006 and was completed in early 2007.

 Results are planned to be released via a series of bulletins. The first bulletin containing top-line results from NISALD was published on 5 July 2007. Results showed that, in 2006/07, 18% of all people living in private households in Northern Ireland have some degree of disability. The prevalence rate for adults is 21% and 6% for children.

 If researchers or other interested parties require more in-depth analysis to be carried out requiring the use of string variables such as ‘cause of limitation’, which are not included in the UK Data Archive version, they should contact NISRA to discuss their needs. NISRA may be able to complete analysis on their behalf, thus ensuring any sensitive data remains protected.
Transport by Lagrangian Vortices in the Eastern Pacific
Creators: name: Abernathey, Ryan
name: Haller, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotationally coherent Lagrangian vortices (RCLVs) are identified from satellite-derived surface geostrophic velocities in the Eastern Pacific (180$^\circ$-130$^\circ$ W) using the objective (frame-invariant) finite-time Lagrangian-coherent-structure detection method of Haller et al. (2016) based on the Lagrangian-averaged vorticity deviation. RCLVs are identified for 30, 90, and 270 day intervals over the entire satellite dataset, beginning in 1993. In contrast to structures identified using Eulerian eddy-tracking methods, the RCLVs maintain material coherence over the specified time intervals, making them suitable for material transport estimates. Statistics of RCLVs are compared to statistics of eddies identified from sea-surface height (SSH) by Chelton et al. 2011. RCLVs and SSH eddies are found to propagate westward at similar speeds at each latitude, consistent with the Rossby wave dispersion relation. However, RCLVs are uniformly smaller and shorter-lived than SSH eddies. A coherent eddy diffusivity is derived to quantify the contribution of RCLVs to meridional transport; it is found that RCLVs contribute less than 1% to net meridional dispersion and diffusion in this sector, implying that eddy transport of tracers is mostly due to incoherent motions, such as swirling and filamentation outside of the eddy cores, rather than coherent meridional translation of eddies themselves. These findings call into question prior estimates of coherent eddy transport based on Eulerian eddy identification methods.
Observational and Experimental Gravity
Creators: name: Di Virgilio, Angela D. V.
name: Ni, Wei-Tou
name: Ni, Wei-Tou
name: Alighieri, Sperello di Serego
name: Pu, Hung-Yi
name: Pan, Sheau-shi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We indicate the progress of experimental gravity, present an outlook in this field, and summarise the Observational/Experimental Parallel Session together with a related plenary talk on gravitational waves of the 2nd LeCosPA Symposium.
description: 1 figure, Second LeCosPa Simposium, December 2015, Taipei Taiwan