cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: ‘Burning’ borders: migration, death and dignity in a Tunisian coastal town
Creators: name: Zagaria, Valentina
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2023

description: This thesis interrogates what constitutes and delimits dignity, responsibility and belonging in a Tunisian emigrants’ town in times of political change and illegalised border crossings. Zarzis, the southernmost Tunisian fishing and commercial port close to the Libyan border, is known for its generations of male emigrants to France and for the harga: the undocumented “burning” of the Mediterranean to reach “Europe”. During the 2011 revolution, it was the first city from which boats started leaving for the Italian island of Lampedusa. Young men especially continue seeking the harga and a future abroad, despite accusations of immorality waged at them – and at sisters, mothers, and wives-to-be – by older generations of men. While some local youth have gone missing on the crossing, their bodies never to be found, Zarzis, like many other Mediterranean coastal cities, hosts a cemetery of unknown migrants, testimony to ever more deadly European Union border policies. Also not unlike other Mediterranean seaside towns, Zarzis is a destination for retired Europeans, some of whom, particularly women, marry younger Tunisian men, in what are often viewed as “visa weddings”. Being simultaneously a place some wish to leave, others move to, some visit as tourists, others inhabit only temporarily on their way north, and where the bodies of unknown would-be migrants are laid to rest, migration in all of its various configurations is part of everyday life in Zarzis, while still remaining a morally difficult matter for all, albeit for different reasons. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Zarzis between August 2015 and October 2017, the thesis traces different notions of what is worth living for, and, conversely, what is worth dying for. Strategies for enacting dignity result in temporary, collective ways of fixing meaning and place in a context perceived as unstable and unjust. By exploring what the search for a dignified life through mobility means to different people, and what dignifying the dead involves for the living, responsibility for the care of others at local, national, and transnational levels is negotiated, as is what it means to belong and to stake claims to places and people.
Public Space as a Tool for Community Agency in Vancouver's Chinatown
Creators: name: Li, Josephine
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Part One: Chinatown frequently emerges as a distinctive neighbourhood in major North American cities. Transforming into a unique urban typology, Chinatowns serve as an entry point into Asian culture, providing Asian cuisine and a diverse array of programs. Beyond the lively lights, vibrant colours, and the romanticization of oriental architecture, lies a nuanced history endured by successive generations of immigrants, which will be meaningfully defined and analyzed in this scope of research. This intricate history of marginalization, exclusion, and xenophobia serves as the backdrop for the present realities of Chinatowns. Masked by the re-imagining of Chinese aesthetics as cultural identity and tradition, Chinatowns present an array of distinctive socio-spatial characteristics that define their essence beyond surface-level aesthetics. These neighbourhoods have historically served and continue to serve as sanctuaries for the Chinese populations in North America, bringing together individuals with cultural affinities, fostering networks of mutual support and commerce. This urban phenomenon will be studied through the lens of three Chinatowns: San Francisco’s, Montreal’s, and Vancouver’s. Through these cities, patterns between their Chinatowns will be identified while also discovering what makes them specific to their respective urban fabric. Understanding that, though there is a sameness in most Chinatowns, their local Chinese community takes initiative for their own needs and adapts for everyday cultural living. Part Two: The Chinese Cultural Centre was designed to be the heart of Vancouver’s Chinatown. As of current, it is extremely under utilized, only open for the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden and Park and the occasional meeting point for cultural celebrations. Chinatown is home to a large community that has social capital in the neighbourhood but lacks ownership, making it difficult for them to have a space that feels like a place for them. This project aims to re-imagine the Cultural Centre through public space and programmatic adjacencies to reactivate the Cultural Centre as the heart of Chinatown and be a tool for community agency. Agency in this context means to give space to take action and have a sense of control. This is done through understanding the programs and infrastructures needed to provide the opportunity for organic gathering, selling, and other cultural activities without the need to be a member at a local society or a patron at a cafe.
Berry connection induced anomalous wave-packet dynamics in non-Hermitian systems
Creators: name: Silberstein, Navot
name: Behrends, Jan
name: Goldstein, Moshe
name: Ilan, Roni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Berry phases strongly affect the properties of crystalline materials, giving rise to modifications of the semiclassical equations of motion that govern wave-packet dynamics. In non-Hermitian systems, generalizations of the Berry connection have been analyzed to characterize the topology of these systems. While the topological classification of non-Hermitian systems is being developed, little attention has been paid to the impact of the new geometric phases on dynamics and transport. In this work, we derive the full set of semiclassical equations of motion for wave-packet dynamics in a system governed by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, including corrections induced by the Berry connection. We show that non-Hermiticity is manifested in anomalous weight rate and velocity terms that are present already in one-dimensional systems, in marked distinction from the Hermitian case. We express the anomalous weight and velocity in terms of the Berry connections defined in the space of left and right eigenstates and compare the analytical results with numerical lattice simulations. Our work specifies the conditions for observing the anomalous contributions to the semiclassical dynamics and thereby paves the way to their experimental detection, which should be within immediate reach in currently available metamaterials.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures; v3: accepted manuscript
title: Biodiversity in the Anthropocene : quantifying assemblage level change
Creators: name: Jones, Faith Ann
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: Humans are altering ecosystems at alarming rates, but we do not fully know how anthropogenic pressures are affecting local biodiversity. This knowledge gap poses problems for understanding ecological systems and for undertaking effective conservation initiatives. The aim of this thesis was to increase our understanding of local scale biodiversity change by focusing on assemblages, which are groups of species from the same taxonomic group that live in the same place. I focused on assemblage size, structure and species composition, with the end-goal of making informed suggestions on how to monitor change effectively. First, I asked whether sampling approach was highly influential when estimating species richness and composition of Trinidadian freshwater fish assemblages. I compared assemblage composition of two very different data collections: a systematic survey endeavour and the historical museum records of The University of West Indies. Both datasets provided comparable estimates of species richness, and they both contained mostly the same species. Where they did differ in species lists, they did so among the locally uncommon or specialist species. Next, I asked how closely changes in assemblage size measured in the currencies of numerical abundance and biomass relate. My analysis showed that neither assemblage size quantified in terms of numerical abundance, nor in terms of biomass, is systematically changing across systems, but that change in one currency usually predicted change in the other currency. Thirdly, I asked whether there is evidence for other directional changes across assemblages. There was no evidence of changes in the dominance structure or dominant species body size. There was, however, evidence from increasing numbers of rare species entering assemblages and driving up local species richness, as well as a suggestion of increased turnover among dominant species. Local assemblages therefore are displaying measurable change, but not all metrics capture these changes.
A new possibility for light-quark Dark Matter
Creators: name: Bashkanov, M.
name: Watts, D. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite many decades of study the physical origin of "dark matter" in the Universe remains elusive. In this letter we calculate the properties of a completely new dark matter candidate - Bose-Einstein condensates formed from a recently discovered bosonic particle in the light-quark sector, the $\mathbf{ d^*(2380)}$ hexaquark. In this first study, we show stable $\mathbf{ d^*(2380)}$ Bose-Einstein condensates could form in the primordial early universe, with a production rate sufficiently large that they are a plausible new candidate for dark matter. Some possible astronomical signatures of such dark matter are also presented.
Attracting Investments Using Tax Incentives in Uganda: The Effective Tax
Creators: name: Lakuma, Corti Paul
name: Lakuma, Corti Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Financial Economics
Political Economy
Production Economics

description: Uganda operates a wide array of tax incentives schemes to attract investments like other countries in East Africa. However, due to significant amount of revenue foregone due to such schemes, Uganda has embarked on the process of rationalizing its overall incentive regime. This study examines the tax burden of various tax incentives schemes operational in Uganda by estimating the effective marginal tax rates (EMTR) and effective average tax rates (EATR). We find sectoral variations in effective average tax rates due to a selective tax holiday and preferential income tax. Overall, tax holidays and preferential income tax rates lower the effective tax burden to a single digit percent and encourage individual tax avoidance strategies. We find that the surge inflation registered during 2010/11 had an adverse effect on effective tax rates. Furthermore, our results confirm in previous findings that tax holidays effectively reduce EATR and favour high-profit short-lived (less than 5 years) investment projects raising doubts about their overall rationale.
Theory of excitonic spectra and entanglement engineering in dot molecules
Creators: name: Bester, Gabriel
name: Shumway, J.
name: Zunger, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of correlated pseudopotential calculations of an exciton in a pair of vertically stacked InGaAs/GaAs dots. Competing effects of strain, geometry, and band mixing lead to many unexpected features missing in contemporary models. The first four excitonic states are all optically active at small interdot separation, due to the broken symmetry of the single-particle states. We quantify the degree of entanglement of the exciton wavefunctions and show its sensitivity to interdot separation. We suggest ways to spectroscopically identify and maximize the entanglement of exciton states.
description: To be published in PRL
Remote Deictic Communication: Simulating Deictic Pointing Gestures across Distances Using Electro Muscle Stimulation
Creators: name: Medrano, Samuel Navas
name: Pfeiffer, Max
name: Kray, Christian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Deictic expressions – such as uttering ”this tool” and pointing at a hammer – are important and frequent elements of everyday communication. They are used, for example, when conveying location and orientation information, or when identifying objects. Pointing gestures exist among all known cultures, languages and ethnicities, but they depend on parties to be collocated. When communicating across distances, deictic expressions are usually lost. In this paper, we introduce an approach for communicating deictic pointing across distances by simulating the sender hand posture in the receiver’s hand using electrical muscle stimulation (EMS). We describe our prototypical implementation of this approach and report on a lab-based user study evaluating it. Our results indicate that it is technically feasible to use EMS for communicating deictic pointing gestures across distances. Participants in our study were successful in resolving deictic expressions consisting of verbal and gestural components. Furthermore, our results provide initial insights into user behavior, user satisfaction and specific challenges in this context. Our contributions can inform the design of future interfaces for naturally transmitting pointing gestures across distances.
Cosmological anti-deSitter space-times and time-dependent AdS/CFT correspondence
Creators: name: Cvetic, Mirjam
name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study classes of five-dimensional cosmological solutions with negative curvature, which are obtained from static solutions by an exchange of a spatial and temporal coordinate, and in some cases by an analytic continuation. Such solutions provide a suitable laboratory to address the time-dependent AdS/CFT correspondence. For a specific example we address in detail the calculation of the boundary stress-energy and the Wilson line and find disagreement with the standard AdS/CFT correspondence. We trace these discrepancies to the time-dependent effects, such as particle creation, which we further study for specific backgrounds. We also identify specific time-dependent backgrounds that reproduce the correct conformal anomaly. For such backgrounds the calculation of the Wilson line in the adiabatic approximation indicates only a Coulomb repulsion.
description: LaTeX file, 47 pages, discussion is extended, version to appear in PRD
Additional file 1 of Treatment recommendations made by a consultant psychiatrist to improve the quality of care in a collaborative mental health intervention in rural Nepal
Creators: name: Rimal, Pragya
name: Maru, Duncan
name: Chwastiak, Lydia
name: Agrawal, Pawan
name: Rao, Deepa
name: Sikhar Swar
name: Citrin, David
name: Bibhav Acharya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Frequency of recommendations made by the psychiatrist to improve mental healthcare delivered by primary care providers. Additional file 1 lists frequency of recommendation including breakdown of themes under “other” category.
On the Origin of the Global Schmidt Law of Star Formation
Creators: name: Kravtsov, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most puzzling properties of observed galaxies is the universality of the empirical correlation between the star formation rate and average gas surface density on kiloparsec scales (the Schmidt law). In this study I present results of self-consistent cosmological simulations of high-redshift galaxy formation that reproduce the Schmidt law naturally, without assuming it, and provide some clues to this puzzle. The simulations incorporate the main physical processes critical to various aspects of galaxy formation and have a dynamic range high enough to identify individual star forming regions. The results indicate that the global Schmidt law is a manifestation of the overall density distribution of the interstellar medium (ISM). In particular, the density probability distribution function (PDF) in the simulated disks is similar to that observed in recent state-of-the-art modeling of the turbulent ISM and has a well-defined generic shape. The shape of the PDF in a given region of the disk depends on the local average surface density Sigma_g. The dependence is such that the fraction of gas mass in the high-density tail of the distribution scales as Sigma_g^{n-1} with n~1.4, which gives rise to the Schmidt-like correlation. The high-density tail of the PDF is remarkably insensitive to the inclusion of feedback and details of the cooling and heating processes. This indicates that the global star formation rate is determined by the supersonic turbulence driven by gravitational instabilities on large scales, rather than stellar feedback or thermal instabilities on small scales.
description: submitted to ApJL, 5 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX (uses emulateapj5.sty)
The effect of hydrodynamics alone on the subhalo population in a $Λ$CDM rich cluster sized dark matter halo
Creators: name: Jia, Junyi
name: Gao, Liang
name: Qu, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a set of non-radiative hydro-dynamical (NHD) simulations of a rich cluster sized dark matter halo from the Phoenix project with 3 different numerical resolutions, to investigate the effect of hydrodynamics alone on the subhalo population in the halo. Compared to dark matter only (DMO) simulations of the same halo, subhaloes are less abundant for relatively massive subhaloes ($M_{sub} > 2.5 \times 10^9h^{-1}M_{\odot}$, or $V_{max} > 70 kms^{-1}$) but more abundant for less massive subhaloes in the NHD simulations. This results in different shapes in the subhalo mass/$V_{max}$ function in two different sets of simulations. At given subhalo mass, the subhaloes less massive than $10^{10} h^{-1}M_{\odot}$ have larger $V_{max}$ in the NHD than DMO simulations, while $V_{max}$ is similar for the subhaloes more massive than the mass value. This is mainly because the progenitors of present day low mass subhaloes have larger concentration parameters in the NHD than DMO simulations. The survival number fraction of the accreted low mass progenitors of the main halo at redshift 2 is about 50 percent higher in the NHD than DMO simulations.
description: 8 pages, 6 figres
title: Comparison of an Optimised Multiresolution Segmentation Approach with Deep Neural Networks for Delineating Agricultural Fields from Sentinel-2 Images
Creators: name: Tetteh, Gideon Okpoti
name: Schwieder, Marcel
name: Erasmi, Stefan
name: Conrad, Christopher
name: Gocht, Alexander
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Agriculture
subject: Image segmentation
subject: Deep learning
subject: Semantic segmentation
subject: Instance segmentation
subject: 550 Geowissenschaften

description: Effective monitoring of agricultural lands requires accurate spatial information about the locations and boundaries of agricultural fields. Through satellite imagery, such information can be mapped on a large scale at a high temporal frequency. Various methods exist in the literature for segmenting agricultural fields from satellite images. Edge-based, region-based, or hybrid segmentation methods are traditional methods that have widely been used for segmenting agricultural fields. Lately, the use of deep neural networks (DNNs) for various tasks in remote sensing has been gaining traction. Therefore, to identify the optimal method for segmenting agricultural fields from satellite images, we evaluated three state-of-the-art DNNs, namely Mask R-CNN, U-Net, and FracTAL ResUNet against the multiresolution segmentation (MRS) algorithm, which is a region-based and a more traditional segmentation method. Given that the DNNs are supervised methods, we used an optimised version of the MRS algorithm based on supervised Bayesian optimisation. Monotemporal Sentinel-2 (S2) images acquired in Lower Saxony, Germany were used in this study. Based on the agricultural parcels declared by farmers within the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) framework, the segmentation results of each method were evaluated using the F-score and intersection over union (IoU) metrics. The respective average F-score and IoU obtained by each method are 0.682 and 0.524 for Mask R-CNN, 0.781 and 0.646 for U-Net, 0.808 and 0.683 for FracTAL ResUNet, and 0.805 and 0.678 for the optimised MRS approach. This study shows that DNNs, particularly FracTAL ResUNet, can be effectively used for large-scale segmentation of agricultural fields from satellite images.
Investigating the Relationship between Web Object Characteristics and Cognitive Conflict Using Mouse-tracking
Creators: name: Ericson, Jonathan D.
name: Albert, William S.
name: Bernard, Benjamin P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The present study used mouse-tracking to investigate the impacts of web object characteristics on cognitive conflict during a naturalistic website use task. An online survey (N = 191) gathered baseline location typicality ratings for common web objects. An in-person laboratory study (N = 101) presented images of popular websites with target objects in expected (e.g., Cart, top right) or unexpected (e.g., Cart, top left) locations. Participants searched for and clicked on targets while continuous mouse trajectories were recorded. Mouse-tracking measures revealed evidence for cognitive conflict for three of the targets when they appeared in unexpected locations (Menu, Cart, Account). Response times and error rates were unaffected, and results were robust to variability in familiarity with targets and websites. These results suggest that mouse-tracking can be used to examine the relationship between target characteristics and cognitive conflict, and that cognitive conflict depends on the identity and location of web objects.
SUPPLEMENTARY–Graphite phases in CVD grown ZrC-25-2-2021 from Graphite phases in chemical vapour deposited grown ZrC/graphite layers
Creators: name: Pretorius, Jan A.
name: Malherbe, Johan B.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 91308 Solid Mechanics
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: SUPPLEMENTARY–Graphite phases in CVD grown ZrC-25-2-2021
Bounds on the cosmogenic neutrino flux
Creators: name: Fodor, Z.
name: Katz, S. D.
name: Ringwald, A.
name: Tu, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under the assumption that some part of the observed highest energy cosmic rays consists of protons originating from cosmological distances, we derive bounds on the associated flux of neutrinos generated by inelastic processes with the cosmic microwave background photons. We exploit two methods. First, a power-like injection spectrum is assumed. Then, a model-independent technique, based on the inversion of the observed proton flux, is presented. The inferred lower bound is quite robust. As expected, the upper bound depends on the unknown composition of the highest energy cosmic rays. Our results represent benchmarks for all ultrahigh energy neutrino telescopes.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Parvulastra exigua
Creators: name: Jangoux, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Asterinidae
Parvulastra
Parvulastra exigua

description: calcar var. quinqueangula Lamarck, 1816, Asterias
Asterias calcar var. quinqueangula Lamarck, 1816: 557.
Parvulastra exigua ‒ Jangoux 2021: 217, 228.
CURRENT STATUS. — Parvulastra exigua (Lamarck, 1816).
TYPE MATERIAL. — Australia • 4 syntypes; King George Sound (Albany); Baudin expedition; 1800-1804; Péron & Lesueur leg.; MNHN-IE-2014-30.
REMARK
Photographs and drawings of A. calcar var. quinqueangulata type specimens are presented in Jangoux (2021: 228, fig. 15).
description: Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 272, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
Energy spectrum and current-phase relation of a nanowire Josephson junction close to the topological transition
Creators: name: Murthy, Chaitanya
name: Kurilovich, Vladislav D.
name: Kurilovich, Pavel D.
name: van Heck, Bernard
name: Glazman, Leonid I.
name: Nayak, Chetan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A semiconducting nanowire proximitized by an $s$-wave superconductor can be tuned into a topological state by an applied magnetic field. This quantum phase transition is marked by the emergence of Majorana zero modes at the ends of the wire. The fusion of Majorana modes at a junction between two nanowires results in a $4π$-periodic Josephson effect. We elucidate how the $4π$-periodicity arises across the topological phase transition in a highly-transparent short nanowire junction. Owing to a high transmission coefficient, Majorana zero modes coming from different wires are strongly coupled, with an energy scale set by the proximity-induced, field-independent pairing potential. At the same time, the topological spectral gap---defined by competition between superconducting correlations and Zeeman splitting---becomes narrow in the vicinity of the transition point. The resulting hybridization of the fused Majorana states with the spectral continuum strongly affects the electron density of states at the junction and its Josephson energy. We study the manifestations of this hybridization in the energy spectrum and phase dependence of the Josephson current. We pinpoint the experimentally observable signatures of the topological phase transition, focusing on junctions with weak backscattering.
description: 26 pages, 11 figures
Quick Assessment of Web Content Perceptions
Creators: name: Meinald T. Thielsch
name: Hirschfeld, Gerrit
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: In digital media and on the World Wide Web, content is king. As such, users’ subjective perceptions of content can influence a variety of their evaluations, thereby altering their attitudes and behavioral outcomes. Thus, users’ content perceptions need to be assessed using a valid measure, but this often has to be done while keeping the survey time as short as possible. For these situations, we created a four-item short version of the Web-CLIC questionnaire. We tested this version, called the Web-CLIC-S, in a series of three studies, including 1,414 participants and 33 fully functional websites of different content domains. Confirmatory factor analysis confirms that the Web-CLIC-S reflects an unidimensional g-factor of subjective web content. The Web-CLIC-S also demonstrates high internal consistencies and high short- to medium-term retest reliabilities. Furthermore, we find strong evidence for construct validity in terms of convergent, divergent, discriminative, concurrent, incremental, and predictive validity. In a fourth study, encompassing 12,568 ratings on 183 websites, we provide benchmarks for 12 different content domains and optimal cut points. Overall, the present research suggests that the Web-CLIC-S can serve as a sound screening tool to assess users’ subjective perception of content in research and practice settings.
Commitment, devotion and belonging in the world with particular reference to the work of two Indian contemporary artists
Creators: name: Hoyne, Hanna
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: N7310.G86 H69 2009
subject: Gupta, Shilpa, 1976- Criticism and interpretation
subject: Joag, Tushar, 1966- Criticism and interpretation
subject: Art 21st centuryIndia
subject: Sculpture 21st centuryIndia
subject: Art, Modern 21st century

description: Commitment, Devotion and Belonging in the World with Reference to Indian Contemporary Art: Research into the ethical and political concerns in the work of two urban contemporary artists from Bombay/ Mumbai, Shilpa Gupta and Tushar Joag. The descriptive analysis of artworks explores the motivations evidenced in their strategic uses of audience interactivity, masquerade and social activism. The artists' quest for an ethical identity is framed in the greater theoretical context of Indian and global contemporary art. A study taking the form of an exhibition of sculpture exhibited at the ANU Bergman College Multidenominational Prayer space from August 24 to 29, 2009 which comprises the outcome of the Studio Practice component, together with the Exegesis which documents the nature of the course of study undertaken, and the Dissertation, which comprises 33% (or 66%) of the Thesis.
description: v.1 Text -- v.2. Exegesis
Entanglement of electron spins of non-interacting electron gases
Creators: name: Oh, Sangchul
name: Kim, Jaewan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study entanglement of electron spins in many-body systems based on the Green's function approach. As an application we obtain the two-particle density matrix of a non-interacting electron gas and identify its two-spin density matrix as a Werner state. We calculate entanglement measures, a classical correlation, mutual information, and a pair distribution function of two electrons at zero and finite temperatures. We find that changes of entanglement measures are proportional to $T^2$ at low temperatures.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A
Munidopsis parfaiti
Creators: name: Published, First
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Galatheidae
Munidopsis
Munidopsis parfaiti

description: Munidopsis parfaiti ( Filhol, 1885)
 Elasmonotus parfaiti Filhol, 1885: pl. 7.
 Munidopsis parfaiti.— Macpherson & Segonzac, 2005: 37, figs. 10, 11 (list of occurences).
 Material examined. NW Madagascar, BENTHEDI, Stn CH 82, 3450 m: 1 M 13.8 mm (MNHN-Ga1593). S Madagascar, SAFARI 1, Stn 13 (CP07), 4245–4400 m: 1 F 34.8 mm (MNHN-Ga1427).
 Distribution. Previously known from the Atlantic Ocean, between Ireland to South Africa, at depths between 2895 and 5330 m (Macpherson & Segonzac 2005). The present records extend its distribution to the southeast Indian Ocean (3450–4400 m).
description: Published as part of Published, First, 2007, Species of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans and reestablishment of the genus Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae), pp. 1-135 in Zootaxa 1417 on page 89
Does Corporate Citizenship Influence Financial Reporting Credibility?
Creators: name: Binti Azizan, Sarini
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Corporate citizenship, financial reporting credibility, audit fees, value relevance, cost of equity capital, voluntary responsibility, social trust and Theory of Source Credibility

description: The role of financial reporting in the efficient functioning of capital markets depends on investors’ perceptions of its credibility. This thesis examines whether superior corporate citizenship enhances the perceived credibility of financial reporting. It argues that corporate citizenship performance affects the accumulation of social trust, which affects the credibility of the firm or its managers as the source of financial reporting information. Consequently, this thesis hypothesises a positive relation between corporate citizenship performance and the perceived credibility of financial reporting information. It examines three components of corporate citizenship that are not widely considered in prior literature that relates corporate citizenship or social responsibility to financial reporting: tax fairness, wage unfairness and philanthropy. Further, this study evaluates the perceived credibility of financial reports from the perspectives of auditors (who must assess risks attached to management’s financial reports) and investors (as users of the audited financial reports). The study measures differences in auditors’ perceptions of credibility, or information risk, using differences in audit fees. It measures investors’ perceptions of financial reporting credibility in two ways: (1) valuation relevance, which is the extent to which reported earnings explain stock prices (using the Ohlson Model); and (2) information risk, which is implied by the cost of equity capital. Consistent with source credibility hypothesis, this thesis finds evidence that higher citizenship performance, using all three measures, is positively related to auditors’ perceived credibility of financial reporting information, as reflected in audit fees. The tests using corporate citizenship performance based on corporate philanthropy scores do not provide persuasive evidence in relation to investors’ perceptions of financial reporting credibility. However, the findings show that citizenship performance based on tax fairness and wage unfairness is significantly associated with investors’ perceived information relevance (using the Ohlson test) and perceived information risk (using the cost of equity test). Overall, the analysis provides strong evidence that corporate citizenship performance is positively associated with the credibility of financial reporting.
Patiriella calcarata
Creators: name: Jangoux, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Asterinidae
Patiriella
Patiriella calcarata

description: calcaratus, Perrier 1869, Asteriscus
(Fig. 6)
Asteriscus calcaratus Perrier 1869: 100.
Patiriella calcarata – Clark 1993: 225.
CURRENT STATUS. — Patiriella calcarata (Perrier, 1869).
TYPE MATERIAL. — Chile • holotype; Valparaiso; Gay leg.; 1828; MNHN-IE-2014-443.
description: Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 272, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
title: Essays in urban and development economics
Creators: name: Regan, Tanner
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2020

description: This thesis studies the economics of cities in developing countries. It combines empirical methods using satellite and administrative data, controlled experiments, and primary surveys to study the economics of property development, urban planning, and public finance in developing country cities. The thesis is organised into four independent chapters. The first chapter studies how valuation for the purpose of property tax affects revenues and equity in Kampala, Uganda. I show generally that any assessment procedure that consistently estimates mean value conditional on observables will be regressive. I document that this regressivity is also empirically important in Kampala; on average, the poorest landlords would face an effective tax rate that is 42% higher than the policy rate. The second chapter studies the demand for title deeds in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. There is significant willingness-to-pay for formal documents that protect property rights. This willingness-to-pay can be predicted at the individual level by traditional local leaders. The third chapter describes the role of slums in Nairobi. While slums are very dense areas with poor-quality buildings and lacking access to key services, measures such as child health and school attendance have caught up or are on pace to catch up with the formal sector. The fourth chapter models the building of a city with informal and formal construction technologies. Using data on individual buildings in Nairobi for 2003 and 2015, a novel set of facts are developed that support assumptions of the model, estimate all parameters of the model, and calculate welfare losses of conversion frictions. For slums in older areas near the centre, even after buying out slumlords, overcoming institutional frictions would yield gains amounting to about $18,000 per slum household, 30 times typical annual slum rent payments.
Global General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Accretion Tori
Creators: name: De Villiers, Jean-Pierre
name: Hawley, John F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents an initial survey of the properties of accretion flows in the Kerr metric from three-dimensional, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion tori. We consider three fiducial models of tori around rotating, both prograde and retrograde, and nonrotating black holes; these three fiducial models are also contrasted with axisymmetric simulations and a pseudo-Newtonian simulation with equivalent initial conditions to delineate the limitations of these approximations.
description: Submitted to ApJ. 30 pages, 21 figures. Animations and high-resolution version of figures available at http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~jd5v
The Dipping Point : Cold Thresholds, Convective Films; Cold Plunge Practice and Joy in the Pacific Northwest
Creators: name: LaFrance, Daniel Palmer
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Water, and how we interact with water is innately human. It is essential, it is nourishing to the body and soul. Cold plunging is not a new element of the human experience, yet it is underrepresented in architecture as a distinct activity. Cold water, and its opportune richness, is often used in contrast to or as relief from intense heat. There is space in the cold water, space to discover oneself and to find reprieve. Cold water has the incredible ability to bring us closer to ourselves. Analysing the elements of cold plunging, and developing an understanding of the rich historical bathing rituals from the Pacific Northwest will reveal guiding principles of optimal water exposure. The work seeks to facilitate cold water exposure by bridging the threshold from shoreline to submersion. Through a controlled descent into naturally frigid water, one experiences the glorious convective threshold of still, cold water, and the benefits of bathing in the landscape. By using our bodies as the drivers of warmth, we can isolate cold plunging from various practices within the broad world of bathing. Sensation, community, and fun have guided this work, elevating the cold water experience by designing and building a floating plunge pool. The Dipping Point was influenced by the landscape of the west coast, its resilient materials and traditional methods of bathing. The formal sensibility came from the dimensions of cedar boards, and recycled food safe floatation barrels. Intuitive modular building, human scale, and considerate detailing have not only resulted in an enhanced plunge, but a newfound appreciation for architecture in a coastal context. This project will move to its final home, facilitating the cold plunging journey of a small community, on a little lake, somewhere in BC.
CMHSU: An R Statistical Software Package to Detect Mental Health Status, Substance Use Status, and their Concurrent Status in the North American Healthcare Administrative Databases
Creators: name: Soltanifar, Mohsen
name: Lee, Chel Hee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The concept of concurrent mental health and substance use (MHSU) and its detection in patients has garnered growing interest among psychiatrists and healthcare policymakers over the past four decades. Researchers have proposed various diagnostic methods, including the Data-Driven Diagnostic Method (DDDM), for the identification of MHSU. However, the absence of a standalone statistical software package to facilitate DDDM for large healthcare administrative databases has remained a significant gap. This paper introduces the R statistical software package CMHSU, available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN), for the diagnosis of mental health (MH), substance use (SU), and their concurrent status (MHSU). The package implements DDDM using hospital and medical service physician visit counts along with maximum time span parameters for MH, SU, and MHSU diagnoses. A working example using a simulated real-world dataset is presented to examine various analytical aspects, including three key dimensions of MHSU detection based on the DDDM framework, as well as temporal analysis to demonstrate the package's application for healthcare policymakers. Additionally, the limitations of the CMHSU package and potential directions for its future extension are discussed.
description: 21 pages; 7 figures; version 4.0
Additional file 6 of A mitogenomic phylogeny of chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora)
Creators: name: Irisarri, Iker
name: Uribe, Juan
name: Eernisse, Douglas
name: Zardoya, Rafael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 6. Time-calibrated trees and correlation coefficients. Time-calibrated trees from all 24 experimental conditions (MCMCTree) and matrix of correlation coefficients among mean posterior ages.
Additional file 4 of A mitogenomic phylogeny of chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora)
Creators: name: Irisarri, Iker
name: Uribe, Juan
name: Eernisse, Douglas
name: Zardoya, Rafael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 4. Additional phylogenetic trees. Additional results from partitioned and unpartitioned maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses.
Three particle Lévy HBT from PHENIX
Creators: name: Kurgyis, Bálint
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bose-Einstein correlations of identical bosons reveal information about the space-time structure of particle emission from the sQGP formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Previous measurements of two particle correlations have shown that the source can best be described by a symmetric Levy distribution. Here we report on the measurement of three-particle correlations in 0-30 % centrality Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_\text{NN}}} = 200$ GeV, and describe them with a Levy type source. This measurement may shed light on hadron creation mechanisms beyond chaotic emission. We measure three particle correlation strength ($λ_3$) as a function of pair transverse momentum. This parameter, combined with two-particle correlation strength $λ_2$ may reveal the level of chaoticity and coherence in particle production.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, Presented at XIV Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, 3-7 June 2019, Dubna, Russian Federation
SU(N) Geometries and Topological String Amplitudes
Creators: name: Iqbal, Amer
name: Kashani-Poor, Amir-Kian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been conjectured recently that the field theory limit of the topological string partition functions, including all higher genus contributions, for the family of CY3-folds giving rise to N=2 4D SU(N) gauge theory via geometric engineering can be obtained from gauge instanton calculus. We verify this surprising conjecture by calculating the partition functions for such local CYs using diagrammatic techniques inspired by geometric transitions. Determining the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants for these geometries to all orders in the fiber wrappings allows us to take the field theory limit.
description: 30 pages
Order and disorder in the triangular-lattice t-J-V model at 2/3 electron density
Creators: name: Zheng, W.
name: Oitmaa, J.
name: Hamer, C. J.
name: Singh, R. R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent discovery of superconductivity in Na$_x$CoO$_2\cdot y$H$_2$O, we use series expansion methods and cluster mean-field theory to study spontaneous charge order, Neel order, ferromagnetic order, dimer order and phase-separation in the triangular-lattice t-J-V model at 2/3 electron density. We find that for t<0, the charge ordered state, with electrons preferentially occupying a honeycomb lattice, is very robust. Quite surprisingly, hopping to the third sublattice can even enhance Neel order. At large negative t and small V, the Nagaoka ferromagnetic state is obtained. For large positive t, charge and Neel order vanish below a critical V, giving rise to an itinerant antiferromagnetically correlated state.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Hipatia: Solução Tecnológica de Preservação Digital alinhada ao Modelo Oais
Creators: name: Viela Rodrigues Rezende, Laura
name: Oliveira, Alexandre
name: Silva, Fabiano
name: Siebra, Sandra
name: Araújo, Denise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão “O meu Póster em 1 minuto”, da 15ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, na Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto (ESEP), de 01 a 04 de outubro de 2024.