cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pain description of hospitalized Chinese Canadian and non-Chinese Canadian school-aged children
Creators: name: Tan, Elsie Li Chin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Culture shapes our explanatory systems which influence how we perceive experience, express, and cope with illness and distress. Recognizing and being sensitive to cultural variation in pain perception and responses enhances assessment and management of pain in children. Such assessment not only assists accurate pain management but, also enable nurses to set aside personal values and judgements. Consequently, nurses begin to evaluate the significance of pain from the children's culture perspective, thus enabling therapeutic and effective pain management. A few studies have begun to examine the cultural variation in children's pain perception and expression. This study examining pain description of hospitalized Chinese and non- Chinese Canadian school-aged children, will contribute to the data bank on cultural variations in ethnic culture groups. This descriptive study using a developed questionnaire tool was conducted at three sites in two hospitals. The data was obtained from children aged 7 to 12 years who recalled or recently experienced procedural pain, and prior to surgical procedures or major treatments. Twenty-two children who met the study criteria participated in the study; 10 were Chinese and 12 were non-Chinese Canadian subjects. Demographic data was collected from the families prior to the interview with the children and in a semi-structured interview using a developed questionnaire, each child was asked seven questions. Where appropriate, responses to the questions were categorized in pre-determined categories and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the findings. Content analysis were used in questions where they were not amenable to statistical analysis. Findings from each group were examined for trends in responses, and later were compared between groups to identify differences or similarities in the patterns of responses. Research findings from the questionnaire data revealed some similarities and a few notable differences between the Chinese and non-Chinese children. First, most children described the colour of pain using red. Second, Chinese children selected greater sensory words to describe pain compared to the non-Chinese children. Third, the Chinese children used less overt expressions in expressing feelings related to pain. Other identified patterns of behaviour unrelated to the questionnaire were; 1) the approval-seeking behaviour during the interview in the Chinese children, and 2) the parents' encouragement of their children to participate in the study in the Chinese group versus the parents' seeking permission from the children to participate in the non-Chinese children.
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Bouman, Paul C.
name: Kontogiannis, Spyros C.
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
subject: Mathematics of computing → Discrete mathematics
subject: Mathematics of computing → Combinatorics
subject: Theory of computation → Mathematical optimization
subject: Mathematics of computing → Graph theory
subject: Applied computing → Transportation

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: OASIcs, Vol. 123, 24th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2024), pages 0:i-0:xii
Quantum Analogy of Poisson Geometry, Related Dendriform Algebras and Rota-Baxter Operators
Creators: name: Uchino, Kyousuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17A30 (Primary) 17A32,18D50,18G60 (Secondary)

description: We will introduce an associative (or quantum) version of Poisson structure tensors. This object is defined as an operator satisfying a "generalized" Rota-Baxter identity of weight zero. Such operators are called generalized Rota-Baxter operators. We will show that generalized Rota-Baxter operators are characterized by a cocycle condition so that Poisson structures are so. By analogy with twisted Poisson structures, we propose a new operator "twisted Rota-Baxter operators" which is a natural generalization of generalized Rota-Baxter operators. It is known that classical Rota-Baxter operators are closely related with dendriform algebras. We will show that twisted Rota-Baxter operators induce NS-algebras which is a twisted version of dendriform algebra. The twisted Poisson condition is considered as a Maurer-Cartan equation up to homotopy. We will show the twisted Rota-Baxter condition also is so. And we will study a Poisson-geometric reason, how the twisted Rota-Baxter condition arises.
description: 18 pages. Final version
title: Interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin and continuous interior penalty finite element methods for boundary value problems of strain gradient elasticity as well as of plate theory
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Ασυνεχείς Galerkin μέθοδοι πεπερασμένων στοιχείων εσωτερικής ποινής και συνεχείς μέθοδοι πεπερασμένων στοιχείων εσωτερικής ποινής για την επίλυση προβλημάτων συνοριακών τιμών στο πλαίσιο της θεωρίας βαθμίδας της παραμόρφωσης και της θεωρίας των πλακών
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Eptaimeros, Konstantinos G.
Publisher: name: National Technological University of Athens
Year: 2013
Subjects: Μέθοδοι Πεπερασμένων Στοιχείων
Θεωρία των Πλακών
Ασυνεχείς Galerkin Μέθοδοι Πεπερασμένων Στοιχείων Εσωτερικής Ποινής
Συνεχής Μέθοδος Πεπερασμένων Στοιχείων Εσωτερικής Ποινής
Θεωρία Βαθμίδας της Παραμόρφωσης
Finite Element Methods
Interior Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods
Continuous Interior Penalty Finite Element Methods
Strain Gradient Elasticity
Plate Theory

description: 425 σ.
description: Η συγκεκριμένη διδακτορική διατριβή πραγματεύεται την ανάπτυξη της h- και της hp-εκδοχής των ασυνεχών Galerkin μεθόδων πεπερασμένων στοιχείων εσωτερικής ποινής για τα προβλήματα συνοριακών τιμών της θεωρίας βαθμίδας της παραμόρφωσης, καθώς και της θεωρίας των πλακών. Επιπλέον, πραγματεύεται τον σχεδιασμό της h- και της hp-εκδοχής της συνεχούς μεθόδου πεπερασμένων στοιχείων εσωτερικής ποινής για τα μονοδιάστατα προβλήματα συνοριακών τιμών της θεωρίας βαθμίδας της παραμόρφωσης. Γενικά, η συγκεκριμένη ερευνητική προσπάθεια επικεντρώνεται στη διεξαγωγή ανάλυσης σφάλματος είτε εκ των προτέρων για προβλήματα μίας διάστασης είτε εκ των υστέρων για προβλήματα υψηλότερης διάστασης. Γι' αυτόν τον λόγο, παρουσιάζουμε όλους τους απαραίτητους ορισμούς, καθώς και τα μαθηματικά εργαλεία, των χώρων συναρτήσεων που χρησιμοποιούνται σε αυτές τις μεθόδους, ήτοι τους επονομαζόμενους χώρους Sobolev και τους αντίστοιχους χώρους πεπερασμένων στοιχείων, επίσης.
description: This dissertation revolves around the development of both h- and hp-version interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for boundary value problems of strain gradient elasticity and of plate theory. It also engages with the design of h- and hp- version continuous interior penalty finite element method for one-dimensional boundary value problems of strain gradient elasticity. Overall, this research endeavor focuses on conducting either a priori error analysis for one-dimensional problems or a posteriori error analysis for higher dimensional problems. To that end, a functional, analytic framework is presented employing broken Sobolev spaces as well as corresponding finite element spaces for the above methods.
A Generic and Executable Formalization of Signature-Based Gröbner Basis Algorithms
Creators: name: Maletzky, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a generic and executable formalization of signature-based algorithms (such as Faugère's $F_5$) for computing Gröbner bases, as well as their mathematical background, in the Isabelle/HOL proof assistant. Said algorithms are currently the best known algorithms for computing Gröbner bases in terms of computational efficiency. The formal development attempts to be as generic as possible, generalizing most known variants of signature-based algorithms, but at the same time the implemented functions are effectively executable on concrete input for efficiently computing mechanically verified Gröbner bases. Besides correctness the formalization also proves that under certain conditions the algorithms a-priori detect and avoid all useless reductions to zero, and return minimal signature Gröbner bases. To the best of our knowledge, the formalization presented here is the only formalization of signature-based Gröbner basis algorithms in existence so far.
Διερεύνηση των χρωστικών των τοιχογραφιών του Ναού της Μονής Άβελ (Βήσσανη Ηπείρου)
Creators: name: Στεφανάκη, Ελένη-Χρυσάνθη Στεφάνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2010
Subjects: Φασματοσκοπία υπερύθρου
Τοιχογραφίες
Χρωστικές
FTIR
Wall Paintings
Pigments

description: Η Μονή Άβελ στη Βήσσανη της Ηπείρου είναι ένα από τα παλαιότερα (1770) και πιο σημαντικά μνημεία της περιοχής, υπογεγραμμένο από τους Χιονιαδήτες ζωγράφους Κωνσταντίνο και Μιχαήλ- Μιχαήλ. Οι Χιονιαδίτες ζωγράφοι, μαθητές πιθανόν του Πανσέληνου, ταξιδεύουν σε όλα τα Βαλκάνια και αφήνουν αξιολογότατα έργα σε ναούς αλλά και σε κατοικίες για διάστημα πλέον των δυόμιση αιώνων. Σκοπός της εργασίας αυτής , είναι η μελέτη δειγμάτων από τις τοιχογραφίες της Μονής Άβελ, για τον προσδιορισμό των χρωστικών που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν από τους καλλιτέχνες, της τεχνικής τους στη φιλοτέχνηση της τοιχογραφίας καθώς και τον έλεγχο της κατάστασης διατήρησης και παθολογίας των τοιχογραφιών. Η μελέτη των δειγμάτων έγινε με τη χρήση των μεθόδων της μικρο-φασματοσκοπίας υπερύθρου FTIR, της ηλεκτρονικής μικροσκοπίας σάρωσης (SEM- EDS) με μικροαναλυτή ακτίνων Χ και της οπτικής μικροσκοπίας. Τα πειραματικά αποτελέσματα έδειξαν ότι η χρωματική παλέτα των ζωγράφων αποτελείται από: αιματίτη, κιννάβαρη, λειμονίτη, όμπρα, πράσινη γη, ασβεστίτη, μαύρο του άνθρακα, bone black και σμάλτο, ενώ η παρουσία οργανικού υλικού σε πολλά από τα δείγματα αναδεικνύει την τεχνική του Mezzo fresco ως την πιο πιθανή τεχνική που χρησιμοποιήθηκε.Τέλος ενδείξεις φθοράς εμφανίζονται από την ταυτοποίηση αλάτων γύψου τοπικά στην επιφάνεια των τοιχογραφιών.
description: Abel Monastery at Bessane, in northwest Greece, is the oldest (1770) and most important monument inscribed by Chioniades painters, Konstantinos and Michael-Michael. The Chioniades iconographers, pupils probably of Panselinos, constituted for a significant period of time one of the most numerous and enterprising teams of hagiographers with their range extending throughout the entire Balkans. The aim of this work, the first from a series dedicated to these painters, is the study of numerous samples, in order to clarify the techniques used, identify pigments and ascertain a possible deterioration on the wall paintings. Basic techniques used, were Optical Microscopy, micro-FTIR and SEM-EDS. According to experimental results the identified pigments were: hematite, cinnabar, limonite, umber, green earth, calcite, carbon black, bone black and smalt. Moreover, the presence of an organic material in many samples indicates that a mixed technique of fresco-secco was used. The deterioration of the wall paintings is also discussed.
description: Σε συνεργασία με το Ινστιτούτο Τεχνολογίας Γκρενόμπλ (Γαλλία), το ΕΚΕΦΕ Δημόκριτος, και το CNRS (Centre National de la Researche Scientifique, Γαλλία)
Asteroseismology with the Kepler mission
Creators: name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
name: Arentoft, T.
name: Brown, T. M.
name: Gilliland, R. L.
name: Kjeldsen, H.
name: Borucki, W. J.
name: Koch, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NASA's Kepler mission will fly a photometer based on a wide-field Schmidt camera with a 0.95 m aperture, staring at a single field continuously for at least 4 years. Although the mission's principal aim is to locate transiting extrasolar planets, it will provide an unprecedented opportunity to make asteroseismic observations on a wide variety of stars. Plans are now being developed to exploit this opportunity to the fullest.
description: Proc. Vienna Workshop on the Future of Asteroseismology, 20 - 22 September 2006. Comm. in Asteroseismology, Vol. 150, in the press
Οι Πύλες μέσα στο χρόνο:: Πόλεις – πύλες και Πολυκεντρική Ανάπτυξη του Ευρωπαϊκού χώρου
Creators: name: Κοροκυθάκη, Ανδρομάχη Παναγιώτη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2010
Subjects: Πύλες
Πόλεις πύλες
Πολυκεντρική ανάπτυξη
Gates
Gateway cities
Polycentric development

description: Το μοντέλο πολυκεντρικής ανάπτυξης εστιάζει στη δημιουργία ενός πλέγματος πόλων - δυναμικών αναπτυξιακών κέντρων τα οποία θα συμβάλλουν στη δημιουργία περισσότερων ζωνών οικονομικής ολοκλήρωσης. Καθοριστικό ρόλο στην εφαρμογή του μοντέλου πολυκεντρικής ανάπτυξης καλούνται να διαδραματίσουν οι λεγόμενες “πόλεις – πύλες”, που θα λειτουργήσουν ως σημεία εισόδου στα Ευρωπαϊκά και Παγκόσμια εμπορικά, μεταφορικά, ενεργειακά και πληροφοριακά δίκτυα. Κατά αυτό τον τρόπο οι πόλεις – πύλες μπορούν να προωθήσουν την αστική ανάπτυξη και την κοινωνική συνοχή, δίνοντας ώθηση στις λιγότερο ελκυστικές και ανταγωνιστικές περιφέρειες. Η παρούσα εργασία εστιάζει στην έννοια και το ρόλο των πόλεων – πυλών μέσα από μια σύντομη αναδρομή από τις ιστορικές πύλες των περιτειχισμένων πόλεων, στις διαδικτυακές πύλες του σήμερα.
description: Polycentric development model, focuses on creating a network of poles - strong growth centers which will contribute to creating more economic integration zones. Gateway Cities can play a key role in the implementation of polycentric development model, as entry points into the European and world trade, transport, energy and information networks. In this way, gateway cities can promote urban development and social cohesion, giving impetus to the least attractive and competitive regions. This paper focuses on the meaning and role of gateway cities through a brief overview of the historic walled city gates to modern logic gates.
GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Creators: name: Barathikannan, Kaliyan
name: Chelliah, Ramachandran
name: Vinothkanna, Annadurai
name: Prathiviraj, Ragothaman
name: TYAGI, AKANKSHA
name: Selvakumar, Vijayalakshmi
name: Lim, Min-Jin
name: Jia, Ai-Qun
name: Oh, Deog-Hwan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300603
subject: Food nutritional balance
classificationCode: 300602
subject: Food chemistry and food sensory science
classificationCode: 300607
subject: Food technology

description: There is a substantial rise in the global incidence of obesity. Brown rice contains metabolic substances that can help minimize the prevalence of obesity. This study evaluated nine brown rice varieties using probiotic fermentation using Pediococcus acidilacti MNL5 to enhance bioactive metabolites and their efficacy. Among the nine varieties, FBR-1741 had the highest pancreatic lipase inhibitory efficacy (87.6 ± 1.51%), DPPH assay (358.5 ± 2.80 mg Trolox equiv./100 g, DW), and ABTS assay (362.5 ± 2.32 mg Trolox equiv./100 g, DW). Compared to other fermented brown rice and FBR-1741 varieties, UHPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS demonstrated significant untargeted metabolite alterations. The 17 most abundant polyphenolic metabolites in the FBR-1741 variety and 132 putative targets were assessed for obesity-related target proteins, and protein interaction networks were constructed using the Cystoscope software. Network pharmacology analysis validated FBR-1741 with active metabolites in the C. elegans obesity-induced model. Administration of FBR-1741 with ferulic acid improved lifespan decreased triglycerides and suppressed the expression of fat-related genes. The enhanced anti-obesity properties of FBR-1741 suggest its implementation in obesity-functional food.
Language Contact: Centre and Periphery
Creators: name: Marten, Lutz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Language contact
Bantu languages
Morphosyntax

description: This talk explores the concepts of centripetal and centrifugal convergence in Bantu, whereby language contact in the centre of the Bantu-speaking area leads to increased similarity of the Bantu languages involved, but language contact at the periphery leads to decreased similarity with other Bantu languages (although to increased similarity with the non-Bantu languages involved). To test this hypothesis I will use both qualitative and quantitative evidence, the latter drawing mainly on the Bantu Microvariation Variation database (Marten et al. 2018). The results will raise questions about the nature of language change and language contact, about the classification of Bantu languages, and about the relation between lexicon and grammar.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Marten, Lutz. 2019. Language contact: centre and periphery. Talk given at Workshop on Bantu in contact with non-Bantu, ILCAA, TUFS. 28/07/2019.
Ανάπτυξη αναγνωστικής κατανόησης πληροφοριακών κειμένων σε παιδιά Ε’ Δημοτικού: Μια διδακτική παρέμβαση:
Creators: name: Τσιρονίκου, Γλυκερία Τιμολέοντος
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2010
Subjects: Γραμματισμός
Αναγνωστική Κατανόηση
Διδασκαλία Στρατηγικών Αναγνωστικής Κατανόησης
Literacy
Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension Strategies Instruction

description: Η αναγνωστική κατανόηση αποτελεί σημαντικό κομμάτι του γραμματισμού και παίζει βασικό ρόλο στην ψυχοσυναισθηματική ανάπτυξη και την κοινωνική ένταξη ενός ατόμου στην κοινωνία. Ωστόσο, έρευνες αποδεικνύουν πως οι μαθητές του δημοτικού, παρόλο που έχουν την ικανότητα να αναγνωρίζουν γρήγορα και σωστά τις λέξεις κατά την ανάγνωση ενός κειμένου, υπολείπονται σημαντικά στην ικανότητα κατανόησής του. Με το δεδομένο αυτό, την απουσία επεξεργασίας πληροφοριακών κειμένων στο ελληνικό δημοτικό σχολείο και τα θετικά αποτελέσματα που βιβλιογραφικά αναφέρονται στη διδασκαλία της κατανόησης μέσω παροχής αναγνωστικών στρατηγικών στα παιδιά ξεκινούν και οι προβληματισμοί της παρούσας έρευνας. Έτσι, έγινε αρχικά η προσπάθεια διερεύνησης της κατανόησης των παιδιών σε ένα τμήμα Ε΄ Δημοτικού πάνω σε πληροφοριακά κείμενα και στη συνέχεια έγινε η σχεδίαση διδασκαλίας στρατηγικών αναγνωστικής κατανόησης με στόχο ενισχυτικό ως προς την κατανόηση των παιδιών. Τα παιδιά του δείγματος στις πρώτες μετρήσεις εμφάνισαν μέτρια ποσοστά αναγνωστικής κατανόησης. Έπειτα ακολούθησε η διδασκαλία των στρατηγικών. Στις δεύτερες μετρήσεις που έγιναν, τα παιδιά έφεραν καλύτερα αποτελέσματα στην κατανόηση των κειμένων. Επίσης τα παιδιά κινήθηκαν θετικά προς μια τέτοιου είδους διδασκαλία κι έτσι μπορεί η παρέμβαση αυτή να προταθεί ως μια καλή μορφή διδασκαλίας της κατανόησης και αξιοποίησης των πληροφοριακών κειμένων μέσα στην τάξη.
description: Reading comprehension constitutes an important part of literacy and plays a vital role towards the psycho-emotional development and social integration of the individual. Nevertheless, research has shown that although primary school students have got the ability to recognize the words quickly and correctly while reading a text, their ability in comprehending it, is significantly limited. The present research is based on the existing bibliography documenting on the positive results regarding reading comprehension after providing students with reading strategies, in conjunction with the fact that there is an absence of working with expository texts in Greek primary schools. An initial attempt was made to investigate students’ comprehension on expository texts in a 5th grade class, followed by a planned instruction of reading strategies aimed at boosting students’ comprehension. In the first stage, the findings showed that the students scored an average percentage on reading comprehension. Then the instruction of reading strategies followed. In the second stage, the students scored higher in reading comprehension. In addition, the students were very positive towards this kind of instruction and therefore, this intervention can be proposed as a good way of teaching reading comprehension and make use of expository texts in the classroom.
Η άνοδος στο θρόνο του Βασίλειου Β΄ Βουλγαροκτόνου και οι προσπάθειες για την εδραίωσή του στην εξουσία:
Creators: name: Θεοχαρούδης, Θεοχάρης Χαριστού
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2010
Subjects: Βασίλειος Β'
Μακεδονική δυναστεία
Μικρασιατική αριστοκρατία
Basil II
Macedonian dynasty
Aristocracy of Minor Asia

description: Η διπλωματική εργασία αποτελείται από τέσσερα μέρη, όπου παρατίθενται οι απόψεις ερευνητών για την πολιτικοκοινωνική κατάσταση που επικρατούσε στην αυτοκρατορία τον 10ο αι, μέσα από την βασιλεία του Βασίλειου Β΄, όπως και των προγενέστερων αυτοκρατόρων. Ιδιαίτερα, όμως, ερευνάται η ανάμειξη του Βασίλειου Λεκαπηνού και της Θεοφανώς στην εξέλιξη των ιστορικών γεγονότων, καθώς και ο ρόλος των μικρασιατικών οικογενειών στα πολιτικά πράγματα της αυτοκρατορίας.
description: This assignment consists of four parts, the prologue in which is been presented the sources of the period of 10th century that had been examined and a short flashback of the social-political conditions of the 10th century in the Byzantine Empire.Then, in the first part we take a quick glance of the reign of the three emperors before Basil II that definitely influenced him, such as his father Romanos Lekapenos and the emperors-generals of the east Nikeforos Fokas and Ioannis Tzimiskis. Especially has been examined the great influence and the role that played in the historical facts the eunuch Basil Lekapenos and Basil’s mother Theofano.In the second part we watch emperor’s Basil young age, while he was under the custody of his uncle Basil the Nothos. Great riots then exploded all over the eastern frontier from the great Armenian and Capadocean families of the minor-Asia aristocracy against the central power. Vardas Skleros was the first who declared himself as the emperor but was defeated by Vardas Fokas and the imperial forces.In the third part Basil II managed to get rid of his uncle’s custody and proceeded to a campaign against the Bulgarians that suffered a crushing defeat. Then, the two great generals of the east and lethal enemies united their forces and marched against Basil and the city of Constantinople. Although they managed to get under their authority the eastern part of the empire, they suffered a crushing defeat near Constantinople by Basil and his allies Russians.In the fourth part we watch emperor’s Basil main legal, political and military action after he overwhelmed the riots of the rural aristocracy and reinforced the central power of the empire. He managed to destroy the army of Samuel and conquered all the Bulgarian lands. He also released very important laws in order to protect the minor farmers of the empire against the great land-owners of the east that fought him in the past years. At the Epilogue has been investigated the central role of the army in this period and especially the increasing role of the military titles within the army in order to gain political power or even to become an emperor.
The weak link for phage therapy adoption : government awareness
Creators: name: Bois, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: phage therapy
paradigm
bacteriophage
Babel discourse
health scandal enigma
enquiry
bio entrepreneur
human science
anthropology
health policy comnettee

description: Millions of people are affected by superbugs WHILE phage therapy is not adopted by governments.
 For the human science enquirer, this is an incredible enigma.
 Fake news say that there are technical problems for phage therapy adoption.
 We have seen in previous publications that these assertions a totally unfunded.
 If there is no technical enigma, there is a human enigma.
 After 14 months of publications analysis we have found that there is a huge Babel problem : the existence of 4 phage paradigms is ignored.
 We explore the 4 paradigms and their relationship.
 On the patient side - we call our generic patient " Gloria " - there is a lack of understanding of the "chain" which holds the life of Gloria.
 The life chain - like any chain in the world - has the strength of its weakest link.
 What is the link which will break and let Gloria die, being amputated or invalidated ?
 The weakest link is described in our first point : government awareness.
 So, the present paper was written for scientists and entrepreneurs to help them built their pleadings toward kings, presidents, MP's and civil servants.
Structure of the axial-vector meson $D_{s1}(2460)$ and the strong coupling constant $g_{D_{s1} D^* K}$ with the light-cone QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Wang, Z. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we take the point of view that the charmed axial-vector meson $D_{s1}(2460)$ is the conventional $c\bar{s}$ meson and calculate the strong coupling constant $g_{D_{s1} D^* K}$ in the framework of the light-cone QCD sum rules approach. The numerical values of strong coupling constants $g_{D_{s1} D^* K}$ and $g_{D_{s0} D K}$ are very large, and support the hadronic dressing mechanism. Just like the scalar mesons $f_0(980)$ and $a_0(980)$, the scalar meson $D_{s0}(2317)$ and axial-vector meson $D_{s1}(2460)$ may have small $c\bar{s}$ kernels of the typical $c\bar{s}$ meson size, the strong couplings to the hadronic channels (or the virtual mesons loops) may result in smaller masses than the conventional $c\bar{s}$ mesons in the constituent quark models, and enrich the pure $c\bar{s}$ states with other components.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, revised version. In the first version, I take the value $f_{D_{s1}}= (0.25\pm0.02)GeV$ in numerical calculation, in the revised version, I take a small value $f_{D_{s1}}=(0.225 \pm0.020)GeV$, the value of the strong coupling constant is also changed
Εκτίμηση της τρωτότητας των υπόγειων νερών στη ρύπανση με τη μέθοδο Drastic στη λεκάνη απορροής του Γαλλικού ποταμού:
Creators: name: Κατικαρίδης, Γεώργιος Αγγελου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2010
Subjects: Τρωτότητα
Υπόγεια νερά
Ρύπανση
Vulnerability
Groundwater
Pollution

description: Στην παρούσα διατριβή γίνεται μια προσπάθεια εκτίμησης της τρωτότητας των υπόγειων νερών στη ρύπανση με τη μέθοδο Drastic, στη λεκάνη απορροής του Γαλλικού ποταμού και συγκεκριμένα στο πεδινό τμήμα της. Τα υπόγεια νερά της λεκάνης απορροής δέχονται μεγάλες πιέσεις στο ανατολικό κυρίως τμήμα, λόγω εντατικής γεωργίας. Η μέθοδος Drastic εκτιμά τον κίνδυνο προς ρύπανση των υπόγειων νερών ενός υδροφορέα από εξωτερικά ρυπαντικά φορτία, χρησιμοποιώντας υδρογεωλογικές, εδαφολογικές και υδραυλικές παραμέτρους. Με βάση τις τιμές του δείκτη Drastic, κατασκευάσθηκαν οι χάρτες τρωτότητας, όπου διακρίνονται περιοχές ενδιάμεσης, υψηλής και πολύ υψηλής τρωτότητας στη ρύπανση των υπόγειων νερών της λεκάνης απορροής του Γαλλικού ποταμού. Ο χάρτης τρωτότητας μπορεί να αποτελέσει πολύτιμο εργαλείο για τη χάραξη ζωνών προστασίας, το σχεδιασμό χρήσεων γης και τη διαχείριση των υδατικών πόρων.
description: This paper deals with the assessment of vulnerability of groundwater pollution using the Drastic method in Gallikos basin and in particular in its lowland part. Groundwater in this basin is under many pressures in the eastern part mainly, due to extensive agriculture. This method assesses the potential pollution of groundwater using hydrogeological, soil and hydraulic parameters. Based on the values of the DRASTIC index, vulnerability maps were drawn, showing areas with moderate, high and very high vulnerability to pollution. The vulnerability map is a useful tool for planning, groundwater resources management and protection zoning.
At least three invariants are necessary to model the mechanical response of incompressible, transversely isotropic materials
Creators: name: Destrade, Michel
name: Mac Donald, Brian
name: Murphy, Jerry
name: Saccomandi, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modelling of off-axis simple tension experiments on transversely isotropic nonlinearly elastic materials is considered. A testing protocol is proposed where normal force is applied to one edge of a rectangular specimen with the opposite edge allowed to move laterally but constrained so that no vertical displacement is allowed. Numerical simulations suggest that this deformation is likely to remain substantially homogeneous throughout the specimen for moderate deformations. It is therefore further proposed that such tests can be modelled adequately as a homogenous deformation consisting of a triaxial stretch accompanied by a simple shear. Thus the proposed test should be a viable alternative to the standard biaxial tests currently used as material characterisation tests for transversely isotropic materials in general and, in particular, for soft, biological tissue. A consequence of the analysis is a kinematical universal relation for off-axis testing that results when the strain-energy function is assumed to be a function of only one isotropic and one anisotropic invariant, as is typically the case. The universal relation provides a simple test of this assumption, which is usually made for mathematical convenience. Numerical simulations also suggest that this universal relation is unlikely to agree with experimental data and therefore that at least three invariants are necessary to fully capture the mechanical response of transversely isotropic materials.
The Better Housing Scheme bungalow in 1920 Vancouver: wedding economy and aesthetics in the Craftsman model
Creators: name: Tyner, Janna Nadine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In 1919, the federal government initiated a housing scheme to finance and construct war veterans' and low-cost homes during a period of severe housing shortages and economic recession immediately following the First World War. The Province of British Columbia participated extensively in the program under the auspices of the Better Housing Scheme Act. In Vancouver, the majority of the one hundred and fifty-three houses built under this initiative were modestly priced examples of the Craftsman bungalow. Although the federal housing guidelines defined the scheme's objectives as providing housing to those in greatest need, the choice of the Craftsman bungalow typology for the Vancouver model suggests otherwise. The Craftsman bungalow was appropriated for the Vancouver Better Housing Scheme for economic and ideological purposes, wedding economy and aesthetics with the government's desire to bring morality and family values to all classes through domestic architecture. The Scheme solicited the Arts and Crafts bungalow as its primary model in part because of its adaptability of materials: the Craftsman aesthetic emphasizing natural wood fit well into British Columbia's thriving lumber economy. Moreover, the modest, detached home set on a single lot interspersed in one of Vancouver's existing neighbourhoods bolstered the sagging real estate market, which had stagnated during the First World War, and ensured economic renewal. The Arts and Crafts inspired bungalow addressed notions of the traditional nuclear family with the husband and father as sole wage earner and the wife and mother as housekeeper. Through its plan and design and through its comprehensive marketing strategy, the bungalow reaffirmed the accepted roles of family members during the post-war period of economic recession, instability, and uncertainty with the past and the future. Through the Vancouver Better Housing Scheme, its proponents attempted to establish the detached, single family home as a national goal for everyone which would promote long term social stability and economic growth and recovery from the post-war depression.
Algorithms for Improving the Automatically Synthesized Instruction Set of an Extensible Processor
Creators: name: Sovietov, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Processors with extensible instruction sets are often used today as programmable hardware accelerators for various domains. When extending RISC-V and other similar extensible processor architectures, the task of designing specialized instructions arises. This task can be solved automatically by using instruction synthesis algorithms. In this paper, we consider algorithms that can be used in addition to the known approaches and improve the synthesized instruction sets by recomputing common operations (the result of which is consumed by multiple operations) of a program inside clustered synthesized instructions (common operations clustering algorithm), and by identifying redundant (which have equivalents among the other instructions) synthesized instructions (subsuming functions algorithm).
 Experimental evaluations of the developed algorithms are presented for the tests from the domains of cryptography and three-dimensional graphics. For Magma cipher test, the common operations clustering algorithm allows reducing the size of the compiled code by 9%, and the subsuming functions algorithm allows reducing the synthesized instruction set extension size by 2 times. For AES cipher test, the common operations clustering algorithm allows reducing the size of the compiled code by 10%, and the subsuming functions algorithm allows reducing the synthesized instruction set extension size by 2.5 times. Finally, for the instruction set extension from Volume Ray-Casting test, the additional use of subsuming functions algorithm allows reducing problem-specific instruction extension set size from 5 to only 2 instructions without losing its functionality.
Concentration inequalities for dependent Random variables via the martingale method
Creators: name: Leonid
name: Kontorovich
name: Ramanan, Kavita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E15 (Primary) 60J10, 60G42 (Secondary)

description: The martingale method is used to establish concentration inequalities for a class of dependent random sequences on a countable state space, with the constants in the inequalities expressed in terms of certain mixing coefficients. Along the way, bounds are obtained on martingale differences associated with the random sequences, which may be of independent interest. As applications of the main result, concentration inequalities are also derived for inhomogeneous Markov chains and hidden Markov chains, and an extremal property associated with their martingale difference bounds is established. This work complements and generalizes certain concentration inequalities obtained by Marton and Samson, while also providing different proofs of some known results.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-AOP384 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Probing the Standard Model via rare pion and muon decays
Creators: name: Frlez, Emil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The PIBETA collaboration has used a non-magnetic pure CsI calorimeter operating at the Paul Scherrer Institute to collect the world's largest sample of rare pion and muon decays. We have extracted the absolute pi+ -> pi0 e+ nu decay branching ratio with the 0.55 % total uncertainty. The pi+ -> e + nu gamma data set was used to extract weak axial and vector form factors F_A and F_V, yielding a significant improvement in the precision of F_A and F_V. The mu+ -> e+ nu nu gamma distributions were well described with the two-parameter (rho_SM,eta_bar=0) solution. These results bring major improvements in accuracy over the current Particle Data Group listings and agree well with the predictions of the Standard Model.
description: 5 pages, 5 postscript figures, 2 tables, LaTeX, presented at the International Workshop e+e- Collisions from phi to psi, February 27 - March 2, 2006, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia (http://www.inp.nsk.su/conf/phipsi06), to appear in Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplement)
Boundary resistance in magnetic multilayers
Creators: name: Vodopyanov, B P
name: Tagirov, L R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasiclassical boundary conditions for electrochemical potentials at the interface between diffusive ferromagnetic and non-magnetic metals are derived for the first time. An expression for the boundary resistance accurately accounts for the momentum conservation law as well as essential gradients of the chemical potentials. Conditions are established at which spin-asymmetry of the boundary resistance has positive or negative sign. Dependence of the spin asymmetry and the absolute value of the boundary resistance on the exchange splitting of the conduction band opens up new possibility to estimate spin polarization of the conduction band of ferromagnetic metals. Consistency of the theory is checked on existing experimental data.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, designed using IOPART style
Αξιολόγηση του γεωργοπεριβαλλοντικού μέτρου της πολιτικής της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης για τη «δάσωση γεωργικών γαιών»:
Creators: name: Χονδροπούλου, Μαρία Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2010
Subjects: Αξιολόγηση
Δάσωση
Περιβάλλον
Evaluation
Affrostetion
Environment

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία γίνεται καταγραφή της διαδικασίας αξιολόγησης και των πρώτων αποτελεσμάτων εφαρμογής του μέτρου της δάσωσης γεωργικής γης στην Ευρώπη και την Ελλάδα. Διαπιστώθηκε μεγάλο κενό και πολλά προβλήματα στις προσπάθειες αξιολόγησης όπου αυτές καταγράφηκαν. Επιπρόσθετα για ένα δείγμα δικαιούχων των προγραμμάτων δάσωσης του νομού της Θεσσαλονίκης ερευνήθηκε η επίδραση στο μέγεθος της ενταχθείσας γεωργικής έκτασης έξι παραγόντων και διαπιστώθηκε ότι οι πιο σημαντικοί με θετική επίδραση ήταν η ηλικία των δικαιούχων, το επίπεδο εκπαίδευσης αυτών και το μέγεθος της συνολικής γεωργικής γης που είχαν στη κατοχή τους.
description: The present study records the process of evaluation and the first results from the implementation of the policy measures of afforestation of agricultural land in Europe and Greece. In conclusion, a big gap and a lot of problems were realised in the efforts of evaluation where these were recorded. Moreover, the effects of six factors on the size of afforested agricultural land were examined. The sample of the study was a group of beneficiaries in afforestation programs from the prefecture of Thessaloniki. According to the results, the most important factors with positive effect were the age of beneficiaries, the level of their education and the size of total agricultural land that they had in their possession.
title: Growth and infancy in three contemporary cohorts : selection bias and other methodological issues
Creators: name: Pizzi, C
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2013

description: There is broad recognition that early life growth trajectories are important predictors for the onset of several diseases. This thesis addresses two methodological challenges that arise in life-course studies of infant growth: (i) the bias that may derive from participants’ selection in cohort studies, and (ii) the modelling of individual growth trajectories. Data from socio-economically diverse populations were used to address them: the Italian NINFEA web-based birth cohort, the Portuguese GXXI birth cohort, and the Chilean GOCS cohort. Participants’ selection affects all cohorts, but web-based designs are thought to be more affected than traditional ones. The thesis first examines possible selection mechanisms by Monte Carlo simulations and then uses population registry data to assess evidence of selection bias among NINFEA participants. The simulations show that under sensible scenarios there is only weak bias in the effects estimated from a selected sample. Comparisons of NINFEA participants with their source population (via registry data) show that the confounding patterns present in NINFEA differ from those in the source population, revealing that participants’ restriction may either increase or decrease the confounding bias in an association of interest. Studying individual early life growth data requires dealing with the quality of the growth measurements and the nonlinearity of the trajectories. Alternative models are compared in terms of their ability to address these problems while extracting salient features of weight growth. SITAR results to be the most useful model for life-course enquiries. An extension of this model, that includes explanatory variables, is fitted on the three cohorts to study the effect of prenatal exposures on different biologically defined dimensions of the growth process. This reveals some interesting mechanisms. This thesis contributes to the interpretation of results obtained from cohort studies with restricted participation, and to the implementation of advanced growth models useful for life-course research.
Carrier-wave steepened pulses and gradient-gated high-order harmonic generation using linear ramp waveforms
Creators: name: Radnor, S. B. P.
name: Chipperfield, L. E.
name: Kinsler, P.
name: New, G. H. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how to optimize the process of high-harmonic generation (HHG) by gating the interaction using the field gradient of a driving pulse with a linear ramp waveform. Since maximized field gradients are efficiently generated by self-steepening processes, we first present a generalized theory of optical carrier-wave self-steepened (CSS) pulses. This goes beyond existing treatments, which only consider third-order nonlinearity, and has the advantage of describing pulses whose wave forms have a range of symmetry properties. Although a fertile field for theoretical work, CSS pulses are difficult to realize experimentally because of the deleterious effect of dispersion. We therefore consider synthesizing CSS-like profiles using a suitably phased sub-set of the harmonics present in a true CSS wave form. Using standard theoretical models of HHG, we show that the presence of gradient-maximized regions on the wave forms can raise the spectral cut-off and so yield shorter attosecond pulses. We study how the quality of the attosecond bursts created by spectral filtering depends on the number of harmonics included in the driving pulse.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures; with appendix not present in published version
A method based on encryption and node rating for securing the RPL protocol communications in the IoT ecosystem
Creators: name: Zaminkar, Mina
name: Sarkohaki, Fateme
name: Fotohi, Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Internet of Things (IoT) provides the possibility for milliards of devices throughout the world to communicate with each other, and data is collected autonomously. The big data generated by the devices should be managed securely. Due to security challenges, like malicious nodes, many approaches cannot respond to these concerns. In this paper, a robust hybrid method, including encryption, is used as an efficient approach for resolving the RPL protocol concerns so that the devices are connected securely. Therefore, the proposed DSH-RPL method for securing the RPL protocol comprises the four following phases: The first phase creates a reliable RPL. The second phase detects the sinkhole attack. The third phase quarantines the detected malicious node, and the fourth phase transmits data through encryption. The simulation results show that the DSH-RPL reduces the false-positive rate more than 18.2% and 23.1%, and reduces the false-negative rate more than 16.1% and 22.78%, it also increases the packet delivery rate more than 19.68% and 25.32% and increases the detection rate more than 26% and 31% compared to SecTrust-RPL and IBOOS-RPL.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables
Ultra-high energy cosmic ray investigations by means of EAS muon density measurements
Creators: name: Barbashina, N. S.
name: Bogdanov, A. G.
name: Chernov, D. V.
name: Dmitrieva, A. N.
name: Gromushkin, D. M.
name: Kindin, V. V.
name: Kokoulin, R. P.
name: Kompaniets, K. G.
name: Mannocchi, G.
name: Petrukhin, A. A.
name: Saavedra, O.
name: Shutenko, V. V.
name: Timashkov, D. A.
name: Trinchero, G.
name: Yashin, I. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new approach to investigations of ultra-high energy cosmic rays based on the ground-level measurements of the spectra of local density of EAS muons at various zenith angles is considered. Basic features of the local muon density phenomenology are illustrated using a simple semi-analytical model. It is shown that muon density spectra are sensitive to the spectrum slope, primary composition, and to the features of hadronic interaction. New experimental data on muon bundles at zenith angles from 30 degrees to horizon obtained with the coordinate detector DECOR are compared with CORSIKA-based simulations. It is found that measurements of muon density spectra in inclined EAS give possibility to study characteristics of primary cosmic ray flux in a very wide energy range from 10^15 to 10^19 eV.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures. Presented at CRIS-2006, Catania, Italy, May 29 - June 2, 2006. Accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)
Aspects of cortisol dynamics during the early ontogeny of three species of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus sp.)
Creators: name: Stratholt, Miles Linley
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Seven female coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), in the final stages of oogenesis, were exposed to mechanical disturbance (chased for 60 seconds with hand net), twice daily over a two week period. There was no significant difference in mean gonadosomatic index between disturbed (4.63 ± 0.19) and undisturbed (4.76 ± 0.34) females. Mean plasma Cortisol level in the disturbed females (227.52 ± 61.51 ng/ml) was higher, though not significantly, than that seen in undisturbed females (140.99 ± 42.70 ng/ml). Mean oocyte Cortisol content (22.13 ± 1.32 ng/gm) was significantly higher in the disturbed, than in the undisturbed females (9.90 ± 0.94 ng/gm). It is suggested that the C or tisol content of freshly ovulated oocytes in salmonids is reflective of the level of circulating Cortisol in the adult female during late oogenesis. Oocytes from 5 female coho salmon were split into paired groups and one half exposed to water containing exogenous Cortisol. The Cortisol immersed groups had a mean oocyte Cortisol content (232.68 ± 13.93) that was significantly higher than that in the paired untreated groups (37.03 ± 5.43). Mean oocyte Cortisol content was monitored from 0 to 56 days post fertilization (dpf). Oocyte Cortisol content was seen to decline sharply after fertilization, and there was no significant difference between paired immersed and control groups by 16 dpf. The immersed groups demonstrated no significant difference in terms of mean time to hatch, mean synchrony of hatch, percent mortality, mean yolk sac to body weight ratio at hatch, or mean length and dry weight up to 56 response, as embryos treated with exogenous Cortisol alone did not display reduced growth, while those receiving the emersion treatment alone did show some significant reduction in weight.