cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Host specificity and ovipositor characteristics of adventive parasitoids proposed for the biological control of Drosophila suzukii
Creators: name: Earley, Nathan Gibson
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: In importation biological control, natural enemies (aka biocontrol agents) are released into the invaded range of a target pest species to regulate pest populations. Evaluating host specificity of candidate biocontrol agents is central to investigating agent suitability for release into target localities. Fundamental host range testing is a valuable tool for evaluating ecological risks associated with agent release. However, these tests often overestimate non-target attack in nature because laboratory testing fails to account for all natural processes limiting non-target host acceptance. In the Drosophila suzukii Matsumura (Diptera: Drosophilidae) biocontrol system, two parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) with differing fundamental host range specificity are promising candidates for the control of this small fruit pest. Adventive populations of both parasitoids have recently been detected in southwestern British Columbia, offering a unique opportunity to investigate the ecological host range of the parasitoids before their proposed release. In Chapter 2, I extend host-specificity testing moving from classic fundamental host range testing towards more ecological host range testing. Here, I exposed non-target hosts to parasitoids in the laboratory in both artificial and more natural rearing media, and in field assays using recently established populations of the parasitoids. I show that parasitism rate is not affected by media type, but is affected by host species. Additionally, I quantify the host ranges of three potential D. suzukii biocontrol agents, using literature records. In Chapter 3, I investigate adventive parasitoid ovipositor morphology to identify possible morpho- logical constraints to host exploitation that may influence host specificity. Ovipositor morphology influences parasitoid access to hosts, and therefore influences parasitoid success. I dissected and measured ovipositors from populations of two adventive parasitoids reared from different sites and different fruits. I report differ- ences in ovipositor morphology between parasitoid species and discuss possible competitive outcomes that these differences impose. Quantifying the host specificity of biocontrol agents, and the factors that drive host specificity, is at the crux of effective biological control programs. My work improves our understanding of both, and contributes to global agro-ecosystem sustainability.
Additional file 1 of Application of artificial intelligence in chronic liver diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pakanat Decharatanachart
name: Chaiteerakij, Roongruedee
name: Thodsawit Tiyarattanachai
name: Sombat Treeprasertsuk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV and DOR of AI-assisted diagnosis of advanced fibrosis (F3-4), significant fibrosis (F2-4) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, Deeks funnel plot, quality assessment (QUADAS-2), sensitivity-focused and specificity-focused analyses, subgroup analysis according to AI classifiers, search strategy.
Additional file 6 of Oxytocin use in trial of labor after cesarean and its relationship with risk of uterine rupture in women with one previous cesarean section: a meta-analysis of observational studies
Creators: name: ZHANG, Huan
name: Haiyan LIU
name: Shouling LUO
name: Weirong GU
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6.
Additional file 7 of Oxytocin use in trial of labor after cesarean and its relationship with risk of uterine rupture in women with one previous cesarean section: a meta-analysis of observational studies
Creators: name: ZHANG, Huan
name: Haiyan LIU
name: Shouling LUO
name: Weirong GU
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7.
Wathawurrung: The Language of the Geelong-Ballarat Area
Creators: name: Blake, Barry (Ed.)
name: Clark, Ian (Ed.)
name: Krishna-Pillay, Sharnthi (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1998

description: WATHAWURRUNG: THE LANGUAGE OF THE GEELONG-BALLARAT AREA. 59Map 2: Wathawurrung language area 154
The optimal sink and the best source in a Markov chain
Creators: name: Bakhtin, Yuri
name: Bunimovich, Leonid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J10, 37D20

description: It is well known that the distributions of hitting times in Markov chains are quite irregular, unless the limit as time tends to infinity is considered. We show that nevertheless for a typical finite irreducible Markov chain and for nondegenerate initial distributions the tails of the distributions of the hitting times for the states of a Markov chain can be ordered, i.e., they do not overlap after a certain finite moment of time. If one considers instead each state of a Markov chain as a source rather than a sink then again the states can generically be ordered according to their efficiency. The mechanisms underlying these two orderings are essentially different though.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Adaptive lighting for inhomogeneous reflectivity compensation in applications for 3D shape measurements
Creators: name: Casavola, Caterina
name: Pappalettera, Giovanni
Publisher: name: The Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Year: 2019
Subjects: fringe projection, structured light projection, surface reflectivity, 3D contouring

description: OPTICA APPLICATA; 01/2019; ISSN 1429-7507
Output-input properties of incident light on a defect dielectric slab with quantum dot nanostructure
Creators: name: Jafarzadeh, Hossein
Publisher: name: The Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Year: 2019
Subjects: quantum dot nanostructure, optical bistability and multistability

description: OPTICA APPLICATA; 01/2019; ISSN 1429-7507
Additional file 8 of Oxytocin use in trial of labor after cesarean and its relationship with risk of uterine rupture in women with one previous cesarean section: a meta-analysis of observational studies
Creators: name: ZHANG, Huan
name: Haiyan LIU
name: Shouling LUO
name: Weirong GU
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 8.
A review of how cannabinoids affect motoneuron output
Creators: name: Haynes, Elijah Michael Keays
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Alpha motor neurons (motoneurons) contain many ion channels and receptors upon which various cannabinoids are known to act upon. This scoping review involved the synthesis of evidence from literature published before July 2021 about the effects of cannabinoids on quantifiable measures of motoneuron output. Four databases (MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO and Web of Science CoreCollection) were queried and 3864 unique articles were retrieved. Twenty-two studies were ultimately included, and the findings from these studies were grouped according to four emergent themes: fictive locomotion, afferent feedback integration, membrane excitability, and neuromuscular junction transmission. From the synthesis of evidence, it can be suggested that CB1 agonists can increase the frequency of cyclical patterns of motoneuron output (fictive locomotion). Furthermore, a majority of the evidence indicates that activating CB1 receptors at motoneuron synapses promotes excitation of motoneurons by enhancing excitatory synaptic transmission and depressing inhibitory synaptic transmission. It was also revealed that although six of the included studies investigated cannabinoid effects on neuromuscular junction transmission, findings between studies were equivocal, thus, the specific nature of this influence remains unclear. Altogether, these reports indicate the endocannabinoid system is integrated along the final common pathway, and that cannabinoids might interfere with its normal function. Additional research about how cannabinoids affect alpha motoneurons and the neurophysiological mechanisms of movement control could benefit the growing number of cannabis users as well as neuro-adaptive populations that require novel treatment strategies for motor symptoms.
The Stellar Abundances for Galactic Archaeology (SAGA) Database II - Implications for Mixing and Nucleosynthesis in Extremely Metal-Poor Stars and Chemical Enrichment of the Galaxy
Creators: name: Suda, Takuma
name: Yamada, Shimako
name: Katsuta, Yutaka
name: Komiya, Yutaka
name: Ishizuka, Chikako
name: Aoki, Wako
name: Fujimoto, Masayuki Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the characteristics of known extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars in the Galaxy using the Stellar Abundances for Galactic Archaeology (SAGA) database (Suda et al. 2008, PASJ, 60, 1159).The analyses of carbon-enhanced stars in our sample suggest that the nucleosynthesis in AGB stars can contribute to the carbon enrichment in a different way depending on whether the metallicity is above or below [Fe/H] ~ -2.5, which is consistent with the current models of stellar evolution at low metallicity. We find the transition of the initial mass function at [Fe/H] ~ -2 in the viewpoint of the distribution of carbon abundance and the frequency of carbon-enhanced stars. For observed EMP stars, we confirmed that some, not all, of observed stars might have undergone at least two types of extra mixing to change their surface abundances. One is to deplete the lithium abundance during the early phase of red giant branch. Another is to decrease the C/N ratio by one order of magnitude during the red giant branch phase. Observed small scatters of abundances for alpha-elements and iron-group elements suggest that the chemical enrichment of our Galaxy takes place in a well-mixed interstellar medium. We find that the abundance trends of alpha-elements are highly correlated with each other, while the abundances of iron-group elements are subject to different slopes relative to the iron abundance. This implies that the supernova yields of alpha-elements are almost independent of mass and metallicity, while those of iron-group elements have a metallicity dependence or mass dependence with the variable initial mass function.The occurrence of the hot bottom burning in the mass range of 5
description: 35 pages, 27 figures, 6 tables, accepted by MNRAS, database to reproduce figures is available at http://saga.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Additional file 2 of Patterns of yeast diversity distribution and its drivers in rhizosphere soil of Hami melon orchards in different regions of Xinjiang
Creators: name: Zhu, ShanShan
name: Lei, YongHui
name: Wang, Chong
name: Wei, YuMei
name: Wang, ChunCheng
name: Sun, YanFei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2.
Liberating Efimov physics from three dimensions
Creators: name: Nishida, Yusuke
name: Tan, Shina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When two particles attract via a resonant short-range interaction, three particles always form an infinite tower of bound states characterized by a discrete scaling symmetry. It has been considered that this Efimov effect exists only in three dimensions. Here we review how the Efimov physics can be liberated from three dimensions by considering two-body and three-body interactions in mixed dimensions and four-body interaction in one dimension. In such new systems, intriguing phenomena appear, such as confinement-induced Efimov effect, Bose-Fermi crossover in Efimov spectrum, and formation of interlayer Efimov trimers. Some of them are observable in ultracold atom experiments and we believe that this study significantly broadens our horizons of universal Efimov physics.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, contribution to a special issue of Few-Body Systems devoted to Efimov Physics
Additional file 1 of A randomised controlled trial of expressive arts-based intervention for young stroke survivors
Creators: name: Chan, Caitlin Kar Pui
name: Temmy Lee Ting Lo
name: Wan, Adrian Ho Yin
name: Leung, Pamela Pui Yu
name: Pang, Marco Yiu Chung
name: Ho, Rainbow Tin Hung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Problems on averages and lacunary maximal functions
Creators: name: Seeger, Andreas
name: Wright, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove three results concerning convolution operators and lacunary maximal functions associated to dilates of measures. First, we obtain an $H^1$ to $L^{1,\infty}$ bound for lacunary maximal operators under a dimensional assumption on the underlying measure and an assumption on an $L^p$ regularity bound for some $p>1$. Secondly, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for $L^2$ boundedness of lacunary maximal operator associated to averages over convex curves in the plane. Finally we prove an $L^p$ regularity result for such averages. We formulate various open problems.
description: To appear in the Marcinkiewicz Centenary Volume (Banach Center Publications 95)
Nonlinear dynamos at infinite magnetic Prandtl number
Creators: name: Alexakis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamo instability is investigated in the limit of infinite magnetic Prandtl number. In this limit the fluid is assumed to be very viscous so that the inertial terms can be neglected and the flow is slaved to the forcing. The forcing consist of an external forcing function that drives the dynamo flow and the resulting Lorentz force caused by the back reaction of the magnetic field. The flows under investigation are the Archontis flow, and the ABC flow forced at two different scales. The investigation covers roughly three orders of magnitude of the magnetic Reynolds number above onset. All flows show a weak increase of the averaged magnetic energy as the magnetic Reynolds number is increased. Most of the magnetic energy is concentrated in flat elongated structures that produce a Lorentz force with small solenoidal projection so that the resulting magnetic field configuration was almost force-free. Although the examined system has zero kinetic Reynolds number at sufficiently large magnetic Reynolds number the structures are unstable to small scale fluctuations that result in a chaotic temporal behavior.
Technicolor at the Tevatron
Creators: name: Eichten, Estia J.
name: Lane, Kenneth
name: Martin, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that the 3.2 sigma excess at ~150 GeV in the dijet mass spectrum of W + jets reported by CDF is the technipion $π_T$ of low-scale technicolor. Its relatively large cross section is due to production of a narrow $Wjj$ resonance, the technirho, which decays to W + $π_T$. We discuss ways to enhance and strengthen the technicolor hypothesis and suggest companion searches at the Tevatron and LHC.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures. Note added regarding Z(l+l-)+jj signals at the Tevatron and LHC
Humorous tendentious poetics : Bruce Andrews, Marie Annharte Baker, and Dorothy Trujillo Lusk
Creators: name: Inniss, Scott
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Humorous Tendentious Poetics interrogates tendentious humour as it operates as a textual-political strategy in the poetry of three contemporary poets. The term tendentious humour derives from Freud, who uses it to describe humour that is offensive and obscene—but also at times critical—in its intent and outcome. In the work of these poets, humour is highly fractious, rebarbative, and intransitive, at the level of its formal organization and syntax, as well as in terms of its language and socio-semantics. Typically, it functions by mobilizing, foregrounding, and eliding problematic or unconscious forms of knowing, thinking, or enjoyment, especially as these relate to the underlying “real” of social antagonism and alterity. Drawing on humour theory and poetics scholarship, this dissertation argues that this mode of humour functions differentially in the work of these poets as a means to navigate, circumvent, and intensify the socio-textual complexities and double binds particular to their respective poetic projects. In his work from the 1980s and 1990s, the Language poet Bruce Andrews arrives at a politically and analytically difficult form of humour qua textuality. Emerging within a cultural milieu in which radical feminist, queer, and racialized writers are persuasively contesting dominant discourses, Andrews’ aggressive poetic fragmentation and reconfiguration of “injurious” speech acts is legible at times as a critique of oppressive forms of subjectivization. But it also registers forcefully as a repetition of these oppressive logics, as well as a strategy for absorbing cultural “crisis” into the body of Andrews’ own writing and recoding it as a formal analogy for the (ostensible) superiority of avant-garde transgression and irrecuperability. In texts like Indigena Awry, the Anishinaabe poet Annharte uses contentious humour as a vehicle of anti-colonial struggle, exploiting its logic of misprision and misrecognition to solicit but ultimately refuse colonial enjoinders to reconciliation as these operate within both settler and Indigenous populations. Like Annharte, KSW poet Dorothy Lusk yokes humorous ire and provocation to a recalcitrant politics of difference. Yet here tendentious joking operates as a mechanism for travestying and attacking the classist and anti-maternal ideologies underlying patriarchal capitalist social formations, including that of the “avant-garde” cultural community.
title: Χωρικός ανταγωνισμός και ισορροπία της αγοράς εκπαίδευσης
title: Spatial competition and educational market balance
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μάμαλης, Θωμάς
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Συγχωνεύσεις
subject: Κάθετη συγχώνευση
subject: Χωρικός ανταγωνισμός
subject: Μεταφορικό κόστος
subject: Ισορροπία στην αγορά εκπαίδευσης
subject: Ιδιωτικοποιήσεις
subject: Μικτό ολιγοπώλιο

description: Η παρούσα εργασία παρουσιάζει μία πρακτική εφαρμογή του μοντέλου των Eleftheriou, K. & Michelacakis, N. J., 2016 “A comment on 'Vertical mergers and downstream spatial competition with different product varieties. Economics Letters 143, pp. 84-86” επί της αγοράς εκπαίδευσης. Περαιτέρω, με την παρούσα εργασία επιχειρείται να εξεταστεί η ισορροπία του αδιάφορου καταναλωτή καθώς και των δύο επιχειρήσεων, οι οποίες προσφέρουν το ίδιο αγαθό W, πριν και αφότου συγχωνευτεί η μία εκ των δύο επιχειρήσεων με τον μοναδικό προμηθευτή του βασικού αγαθού w, απαραίτητου για τη παραγωγή του προσφερόμενου W. Η διαφορά από το άρθρο των Eleftheriou, K. & Michelacakis, N. J., 2016, είναι το γεγονός ότι το κόστος για τη μεταφορά του αγαθού προς τον καταναλωτή εξαρτάται είναι σε τετραγωνική σχέση με την απόσταση, και όχι γραμμική. Το συμπέρασμα είναι ότι ενώ πριν τη κάθετη συγχώνευση η αγορά είναι μοιρασμένη μεταξύ των δύο επιχειρήσεων, μετά τη συγχώνευση η συγχωνευόμενη επιχείρηση κερδίζει μερίδιο της αγοράς πιέζοντας τη δεύτερη μέσω της αύξησης του κόστους του βασικού αγαθού w2 (για το οποίο πλέον η συγχωνευόμενη δεν επιβαρύνεται).
Psychology and Truth Behind Cults
Creators: name: Shakh Makhmud, Leyla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Science
subject: Social Science
subject: Cults

description: This research will focus on understanding the reason behind individuals joining cults, the resulting psychological affects of those who joined cults, and approaches used by professionals to treat the resulted traumas that people who have came out of cults experience.
Development of a novel self-centering balloon-type CLT shear wall system for tall buildings
Creators: name: Lepine-Lacroix, Sebastien
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The use of mass timber structures has considerably grown in recent years. This has increased the demand for sustainable, resilient, and high-performance mass timber structural systems. In this thesis, a novel self-centering balloon-type cross-laminated timber (CLT) shear wall system named the dual-pinned self-centering coupled CLT shear wall (DSCW) is proposed for tall buildings. The DSCW consists of two sets of CLT panels that are pinned at their base and coupled to one another using self-centering friction dampers. Optional V-shaped truss assemblies can also be used at the base of the panels. This thesis also presents a procedure that can be used to design the DSCW. This procedure is a modified version of the equivalent energy design procedure (EEDP). It ensures that the DSCW meets different roof displacements targets and performance objectives at various shaking intensities. The procedure was used to design the DSCWs of a 12-story prototype building located in the high-seismicity region of Vancouver (Canada). The DSCWs of the prototype building were numerically modeled and subjected to nonlinear time history analyses as well as to an incremental dynamic analysis. The results of these various analyses demonstrate that the DSCWs of the prototype building achieve the target roof displacements and performance objectives. The results also show that the DSCWs meet the seismic performance requirements of FEMA P695.
Random graphs with few disjoint cycles
Creators: name: Kurauskas, Valentas
name: McDiarmid, Colin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C80

description: The classical Erdős-Pósa theorem states that for each positive integer k there is an f(k) such that, in each graph G which does not have k+1 disjoint cycles, there is a blocker of size at most f(k); that is, a set B of at most f(k) vertices such that G-B has no cycles. We show that, amongst all such graphs on vertex set {1,..,n}, all but an exponentially small proportion have a blocker of size k. We also give further properties of a random graph sampled uniformly from this class; concerning uniqueness of the blocker, connectivity, chromatic number and clique number. A key step in the proof of the main theorem is to show that there must be a blocker as in the Erdős-Pósa theorem with the extra `redundancy' property that B-v is still a blocker for all but at most k vertices v in B.
CRISIS MANAGEMENT FOR A CHAIN RESTAURANT TOWARD RUMOR DISSEMINATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Creators: name: Pornmit Kulkalyuenyong
name: Siriwan Wongcharoen
name: Annapa Saithong
Publisher: name: วิทยาลัยเซาธ์อีสท์บางกอก
Year: 2019
Subjects: Chain restaurant
Crisis management
Crisis response
Rumor
Social media

description: วารสารวิชาการวิทยาลัยเซาธ์อีสท์บางกอก, 5, 1, 116-131
On gravity as an entropic force
Creators: name: Chaichian, Masud
name: Oksanen, Markku
name: Tureanu, Anca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider E. Verlinde's proposal that gravity is an entropic force -- we shall call this theory entropic gravity (EG) -- and reanalyze a recent claim that this theory is in contradiction with the observation of the gravitationally-bound ground state of neutrons in the GRANIT experiment. We find that EG does not necessarily contradict the existence of gravitationally-bound quantum states of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field, since EG is equivalent to Newtonian gravity in this case. However, certain transitions between the gravitationally-bound quantum states of neutrons, in particular spontaneous decays of excited states, which can hopefully be observed in future experiments, cannot be explained in the framework of EG, unless essential ingredients are introduced into it. Otherwise, a quantized description of gravity will be required.
description: 6 pages, v2: the possibility that graviton may appear as an emergent concept in EG is noted, few improvements in arguments and presentation, some typos and grammar corrected. To appear in Phys. Lett. B
Εκπαίδευση και πολιτιστική διπλωματία στην Ελλάδα. Η δυνατότητα ύπαρξης και οργάνωσης ενός ενιαίου εθνικού φορέα για την ελληνική γλώσσα
Creators: name: Ενφιετζόγλου, Ελένη
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ελληνική γλώσσα
subject: Ενιαίος εθνικός φορέας
subject: Ελληνογλωσσία
subject: Ελληνομάθεια
subject: Δημόσια διπλωματία
subject: Εκπαιδευτική διπλωματία
subject: Πολιτιστική διπλωματία
subject: Ήπια ισχύς
subject: Πολυγλωσσία

description: Το αντικείμενο της παρούσας εργασίας αφορά τη συμβολή της προώθησης της ελληνικής γλώσσας ως μέρος της εκπαιδευτικής διπλωματίας στο πλαίσιο της άσκησης πολιτιστικής διπλωματίας και συγκεκριμένα την αναζήτηση της δυνατότητας δημιουργίας και λειτουργίας ενός ενιαίου εθνικού φορέα για την ελληνική γλώσσα. Αρχικά, τίθεται το γενικό πλαίσιο των σχέσεων εκπαίδευσης και πολιτιστικής διπλωματίας, οριοθετείται εννοιολογικά η Δημόσια Διπλωματία, η Πολιτιστική Διπλωματία, η Εκπαιδευτική Διπλωματία και η Ήπια ισχύς ως συνιστώσα της εικόνας και του «branding» των εθνών. Στη συνέχεια μέσα από την παράθεση διεθνών πρακτικών και υπαρχόντων φορέων προώθησης των εθνικών γλωσσών γίνεται μία συγκριτική αξιολόγηση των δομών και των στόχων των εκπαιδευτικών πολιτικών ως μέρους της πολιτιστικής διπλωματίας διαφόρων κρατών. Έπειτα, παρουσιάζονται διεξοδικά αφενός οι δράσεις της ελληνικής κρατικής εκπαιδευτικής και πολιτιστικής διπλωματίας στην ελληνική διασπορά και αφετέρου η παρουσία της ελληνικής γλώσσας και του πολιτισμού σε πολιτικές και δράσεις άλλων χωρών. Εν τέλει αναλύεται το προτεινόμενο πλαίσιο δράσης για την ελληνομάθεια στο εσωτερικό και το εξωτερικό μέσα από μοντέρνα εκπαιδευτικά εργαλεία και καινοτόμες πολιτικές. Υπό αυτό το πρίσμα, ο οργανισμός που προτείνεται εξυπηρετεί τη διάδοση της εθνικής μας γλώσσας και μέσω αυτής και του ελληνικού πολιτισμού συλλήβδην σε συνεργασία με άλλους κρατικούς και μη φορείς, στο πλαίσιο της Εκπαιδευτικής και Πολιτιστικής Διπλωματίας ως υποκατηγορίες πάντα της ευρύτερης έννοιας της Δημόσιας Διπλωματίας και με πρότυπα άλλους διαχρονικά επιτυχημένους οργανισμούς και ινστιτούτα άλλων χωρών σε ευρωπαϊκό και διεθνές επίπεδο.
MOESM1 of Immunological characterization of Plasmodium vivax Pv32, a novel predicted GPI-anchored merozoite surface protein
Creators: name: Cheng, Yang
name: Wang, Bo
name: Lu, Feng
name: Han, Jin-Hee
name: Ahmed, Md
name: Han, Eun-Taek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Origin of pv32 gene sequences from worldwide isolates.
Coupling the inflaton to an expanding aether
Creators: name: Donnelly, William
name: Jacobson, Ted
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Lorentz-violating theory of inflation consisting of Einstein-aether theory with a scalar inflaton coupled bilinearly to the expansion of the aether. We determine the conditions for linearized stability, positive energy, and vanishing of preferred-frame post-Newtonian parameters, and find that all these conditions can be met. In homogeneous and isotropic cosmology, the inflaton-aether expansion coupling leads to a driving force on the inflaton that is proportional to the Hubble parameter. This force affects the slow-roll dynamics, but still allows for a natural end to inflation.
description: 13 pages. v2: matches PRD version
Πολιτικές και δράσεις της ΕΕ για την ανάπτυξη επιχειρηματικότητας των ΑμεΑ
Creators: name: Λουκά, Αντωνία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Επιχειρηματικότητα
subject: ΑμεΑ

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας έρευνας είναι η μελέτη της επιχειρηματικότητας και της απασχόλησης των ΑμεΑ μέσα στα πλαίσια της ΕΕ. Γίνεται αναφορά σε προγράμματα στήριξης των ΑμεΑ για την εξάλειψη του κοινωνικού αποκλεισμού, όπως το «ΕΥΡΩΠΗ2020» αλλά και την ενίσχυση της επιχειρηματικής απασχόλησης και των χρηματοδοτήσεων, οι οποίες προέρχονται τόσο από ευρωπαϊκό επίπεδο όσο και σε εθνικό. Επίσης γίνεται αναφορά σε πολιτικές και νομοθεσίες, που χρησιμοποιεί η ΕΕ για να εδραιώσει την αποκατάσταση των ΑμεΑ επαγγελματικά. Τέλος γίνεται αναφορά για την αλληλέγγυα κοινωνική οικονομία και σε διάφορα επενδυτικά προγράμματα.
Current-voltage characteristic and electroluminescence of UV LEDs 365 nm at liquid nitrogen temperature
Creators: name: Veleschuk, Vitaly
name: Vlasenko, Alexander
name: Vlasenko, Zoya
name: Petrenko, Ihor
name: Malyi, Yevhen
name: Borshch, Vladimir
name: Borshch, Olena
name: Shefer, Alexander
Publisher: name: The Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Year: 2019
Subjects: S-shaped current-voltage characteristic, UV LED

description: OPTICA APPLICATA; 01/2019; ISSN 1429-7507
Watch Where You Head: A View-biased Domain Gap in Gait Recognition and Unsupervised Adaptation
Creators: name: Habib, Gavriel
name: Barzilay, Noa
name: Shimshi, Or
name: Ben-Ari, Rami
name: Darshan, Nir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Gait Recognition is a computer vision task aiming to identify people by their walking patterns. Although existing methods often show high performance on specific datasets, they lack the ability to generalize to unseen scenarios. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) tries to adapt a model, pre-trained in a supervised manner on a source domain, to an unlabelled target domain. There are only a few works on UDA for gait recognition proposing solutions to limited scenarios. In this paper, we reveal a fundamental phenomenon in adaptation of gait recognition models, caused by the bias in the target domain to viewing angle or walking direction. We then suggest a remedy to reduce this bias with a novel triplet selection strategy combined with curriculum learning. To this end, we present Gait Orientation-based method for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (GOUDA). We provide extensive experiments on four widely-used gait datasets, CASIA-B, OU-MVLP, GREW, and Gait3D, and on three backbones, GaitSet, GaitPart, and GaitGL, justifying the view bias and showing the superiority of our proposed method over prior UDA works.
Το χρήμα από τα μάτια των παιδιών
Creators: name: Κοσμαδάκη, Ειρήνη Πελαγία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Χρήματα
subject: Παιδιά
subject: Αποταμίευση

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία εξετάζεται ο τρόπος που αντιμετωπίζουν τα παιδιά την έννοια του χρήματος και την αξία του αλλά και της αποταμίευσης. Επιπλέον, πως αντιλαμβάνονται το ψηφιακό χρήμα το οποίο τη σημερινή εποχή έχει ήδη εδραιωθεί στην καθημερινότητα των ανθρώπων. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, θα αναλυθεί το πως σχετίζεται η ανάπτυξη των παιδιών με το χρήμα, νοητικά και ψυχικά, ποιοι είναι οι παράγοντες που επηρεάζουν τη χρηματοοικονομική τους συμπεριφορά, τι ακριβώς θεωρείται ψηφιακό χρήμα και πως το αντιλαμβάνονται τα παιδιά, αλλά και ποια είναι η σχέση τους με την τεχνολογία. Η προσέγγιση του συγκεκριμένου θέματος έγινε μέσω ποικίλων βιβλιογραφικών αναφορών και διαδικτυακών άρθρων, καθώς και μέσω διαμοιρασμού ενός ερωτηματολογίου που φτιάχτηκε για την εξυπηρέτηση των παραπάνω σκοπών. Να σημειωθεί πως στον τομέα που συνδέεται η ψυχολογία των παιδιών με την οικονομία τα στοιχεία ήταν περιορισμένα, για αυτό και το ερωτηματολόγιο που διανεμήθηκε ήταν ένα πολύ χρήσιμο εργαλείο στην εξαγωγή συμπερασμάτων.
Additional file 1 of The apple MdCOP1-interacting protein 1 negatively regulates hypocotyl elongation and anthocyanin biosynthesis
Creators: name: Kang, Hui
name: Zhang, Ting-Ting
name: Fu, Lu-Lu
name: Yao, Yu-Xin
name: You, Chun-Xiang
name: Wang, Xiao-Fei
name: Hao, Yu-Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used in this study.
Slicing convex sets and measures by a hyperplane
Creators: name: Barany, Imre
name: Hubard, Alfredo
name: Jeronimo, Jesus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We generalize the ham sandwich theorem for the case of well separated measures. Given convex bodies $K_1,...,K_d$ in $\mathbb{R_d}$ and numbers $α_1,...,α_d \in [0, 1]$, we give a sufficient condition for existence and uniqueness of an (oriented)halfspace H with Vol($H \cap K_i$)= $α_i \dot$ Vol$K_i$ for every i. The result is extended from convex bodies to measures.
Additional file 4 of HZ08 suppresses RelB-activated MnSOD expression and enhances Radiosensitivity of prostate Cancer cells
Creators: name: Zhang, Yanyan
name: Xu, Zhi
name: Ding, Jiaji
name: Tan, Chunli
name: Hu, Weizi
name: Li, Yunman
name: Huang, Wenlong
name: Xu, Yong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: : Figure S4. The effect of HZ08 on radiosensitization of PC-3 cell bearing tumors in nude mice. The tumor volumes of mice with different treatments were indicated above. (PDF 228 kb)
Encoding and decoding V1 fMRI responses to natural images with sparse nonparametric models
Creators: name: Vu, Vincent Q.
name: Ravikumar, Pradeep
name: Naselaris, Thomas
name: Kay, Kendrick N.
name: Gallant, Jack L.
name: Yu, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Functional MRI (fMRI) has become the most common method for investigating the human brain. However, fMRI data present some complications for statistical analysis and modeling. One recently developed approach to these data focuses on estimation of computational encoding models that describe how stimuli are transformed into brain activity measured in individual voxels. Here we aim at building encoding models for fMRI signals recorded in the primary visual cortex of the human brain. We use residual analyses to reveal systematic nonlinearity across voxels not taken into account by previous models. We then show how a sparse nonparametric method [J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 71 (2009b) 1009-1030] can be used together with correlation screening to estimate nonlinear encoding models effectively. Our approach produces encoding models that predict about 25% more accurately than models estimated using other methods [Nature 452 (2008a) 352--355]. The estimated nonlinearity impacts the inferred properties of individual voxels, and it has a plausible biological interpretation. One benefit of quantitative encoding models is that estimated models can be used to decode brain activity, in order to identify which specific image was seen by an observer. Encoding models estimated by our approach also improve such image identification by about 12% when the correct image is one of 11,500 possible images.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS476 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Additional file 2 of The apple MdCOP1-interacting protein 1 negatively regulates hypocotyl elongation and anthocyanin biosynthesis
Creators: name: Kang, Hui
name: Zhang, Ting-Ting
name: Fu, Lu-Lu
name: Yao, Yu-Xin
name: You, Chun-Xiang
name: Wang, Xiao-Fei
name: Hao, Yu-Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1–4. The data of hypocotyl length and anthocyanin content presented in this study.
Dark Matter decay and annihilation in the Local Universe: CLUES from Fermi
Creators: name: Cuesta, A. J.
name: Jeltema, T. E.
name: Zandanel, F.
name: Profumo, S.
name: Prada, F.
name: Yepes, G.
name: Klypin, A.
name: Hoffman, Y.
name: Gottloeber, S.
name: Primack, J.
name: Sanchez-Conde, M. A.
name: Pfrommer, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present all-sky simulated Fermi maps of gamma-rays from dark matter decay and annihilation in the Local Universe. The dark matter distribution is obtained from a constrained cosmological simulation of the neighboring large-scale structure provided by the CLUES project. The dark matter fields of density and density squared are then taken as an input for the Fermi observation simulation tool to predict the gamma-ray photon counts that Fermi would detect in 5 years of all-sky survey for given dark matter models. Signal-to-noise sky maps have also been obtained by adopting the current Galactic and isotropic diffuse background models released by the Fermi collaboration. We point out the possibility for Fermi to detect a dark matter gamma-ray signal in local extragalactic structures. In particular, we conclude here that Fermi observations of nearby clusters (e.g. Virgo and Coma) and filaments are expected to give stronger constraints on decaying dark matter compared to previous studies. As an example, we find a significant signal-to-noise ratio in dark matter models with a decay rate fitting the positron excess as measured by PAMELA. This is the first time that dark matter filaments are shown to be promising targets for indirect detection of dark matter. On the other hand, the prospects for detectability of annihilating dark matter in local extragalactic structures are less optimistic even with extreme cross-sections. We make the dark matter density and density squared maps available online at http://www.clues-project.org/articles/darkmattermaps.html
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Matches version published in ApJ Letters. High-resolution version of Figure 1 together with FITS files of the dark matter density and density squared maps at: http://www.clues-project.org/articles/darkmattermaps.html ; Version 3 includes 1-page ApJL Erratum: S/N values corrected, conclusions now point to a better detectability of Virgo and Coma in gamma-rays
An Energy Efficient Scheme for Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Ayon
name: Chakraborty, Kaushik
name: Mitra, Swarup Kumar
name: Naskar, M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial sign error in equation 1
description: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial sign error in equation 1
The N=4 effective action of type IIA supergravity compactified on SU(2)-structure manifolds
Creators: name: Danckaert, Thomas
name: Louis, Jan
name: Martínez-Pedrera, Danny
name: Spanjaard, Bastiaan
name: Triendl, Hagen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study compactifications of type IIA supergravity on six-dimensional manifolds with SU(2) structure and compute the low-energy effective action in terms of the non-trivial intrinsic torsion. The consistency with gauged N=4 supergravity is established and the gauge group is determined. Depending on the structure of the intrinsic torsion, antisymmetric tensor fields can become massive.
description: 29 pages, latex, v2: minor corrections, added references, published version
Additional file 3 of The apple MdCOP1-interacting protein 1 negatively regulates hypocotyl elongation and anthocyanin biosynthesis
Creators: name: Kang, Hui
name: Zhang, Ting-Ting
name: Fu, Lu-Lu
name: Yao, Yu-Xin
name: You, Chun-Xiang
name: Wang, Xiao-Fei
name: Hao, Yu-Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. The coding and protein sequences of MdCIP1, MdCOP1, AtCIP1 and AtCOP1.
On the Security of Non-Linear HB (NLHB) Protocol Against Passive Attack
Creators: name: Abyaneh, Mohammad Reza Sohizadeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As a variant of the HB authentication protocol for RFID systems, which relies on the complexity of decoding linear codes against passive attacks, Madhavan et al. presented Non-Linear HB(NLHB) protocol. In contrast to HB, NLHB relies on the complexity of decoding a class of non-linear codes to render the passive attacks proposed against HB ineffective. In this paper, we show that passive attacks against HB protocol can still be applicable to NLHB and this protocol does not provide the desired security margin. In our attack, we first linearize the non-linear part of NLHB to obtain a HB equivalent for NLHB, and then exploit the passive attack techniques proposed for the HB to evaluate the security margin of NLHB. The results show that although NLHB's security margin is relatively higher than HB against similar passive attack techniques, it has been overestimated and, in contrary to what is claimed, NLHB is vulnerable to passive attacks against HB, especially when the noise vector in the protocol has a low weight.
description: This paper is withdrwan due to duplication in DBLP site
title: EU Member States’ Responsibility Under International Law for Breaching Human Rights When Cooperating with Third Countries on Migration: Grey Zones of Law in Selected Scenarios
Creators: name: Molnár, Tamás
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: externalisation
subject: EU migration law and policy
subject: human rights
subject: Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA)
subject: aiding or assisting
subject: positive obligations

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023 8(2), 1013-1035
description: I. Setting the scene. – II. Challenges of EU Member States’ extraterritorial border management measures in select scenarios. – III. Allocating international responsibility of EU Member States for their extra-territorial border management activities: Twilight zone. – III.1. First scenario: Activities carried out by EU Member States within third countries or for their benefit. – III.2. Second scenario: Activities of EU Member State officials carried out on board of third country vessels with the aim to prevent irregular entry to the EU. – III.3. Third scenario: EU Member States sharing information with neighbouring third countries. – IV. Assessment and outlook to the future.
description: EU Member States are ever more involved in border management activities in cooperation with third countries. Such activities entail risks of violating various human rights of the people on the move, such as the right to leave any country, the principle of non-refoulement, and the prohibitions of ill-treatment and arbitrary detention. When Member States carry out various cooperative border control activities outside their sovereign territory, their responsibility is unclear. Under international law, responsibility may also arise when a State aids or assists another State to engage in conduct that violates international obligations (art. 16 of the Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts – ARSIWA). Member States’ responsibility can thus emerge via “derived responsibility” flowing from an internationally wrongful act committed by a third country. The Article seeks to discuss selected extraterritorial border management scenarios, which are in the “grey zone” in terms of State responsibility from the perspective of various human rights violations. More legal clarity is needed in such (and similar) concrete scenarios, especially when Member States “aid or assist” third countries in their efforts to manage migration flows. The Article submits that it is still debated whether related conduct entails State responsibility in such specific externalised border management situations, which involve activities carried out under the umbrella of international cooperation, but with the aim of preventing migrants from reaching the EU. Nevertheless, this piece argues that complicity of Member States under the ARSIWA can be established under certain circumstances as the presented scenarios demonstrate.
An Optimized Lifetime Enhancement Scheme for Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Ayon
name: Chakraborty, Kaushik
name: Mitra, Swarup Kumar
name: Naskar, M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial sign error in equation 1
description: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial sign error in equation 1