cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of instruction in groups on individual equation writing
Creators: name: Underwood, Barry Richard
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study was motivated by the writer's belief that youngsters do have a tendency to group, and that this propensity, no matter how emphemeral and vacillating it may be at times, should be taken into account in the design of teacher strategies. Grade four students were assigned to two groups at random, and then, in one group, subgroups of four students were randomly made up. All students were instructed by film loops for three days on writing an equation for a division problem. On the fourth day of the experiment, the students wrote a criterion test of twenty-five division problems. The investigation of student-student interaction was done by comparing the effects of instruction to groups of four students with those of instruction to the individually taught students. A two-tailed t-test was used to test the significance between the means of the two groups and a F-test was employed to test the difference in the variances of the two groups. There was no significant difference between the individual-taught group and the group-taught group in terms of either mean or variance. The conclusion was drawn that the use of small groups to teach students to write equations for division problems did not improve the instruction. But it was felt that further research using different dependent variables is both warranted and desirable.
title: Optimalisatie overloopdijk GOG Bastenakkers: scenarioberekeningen
Creators: name: Coen, Leen
name: Nossent, Jiri
Publisher: name: Flanders Hydraulics Research
Year: 2022

description: Title : WL Rapporten. Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium: Antwerpen. Volume : 21_087_1 Issue : Pagination : VII, 27
The phase diagram of Lévy spin glasses
Creators: name: Neri, I.
name: Metz, F. L.
name: Bollé, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Lévy spin-glass model with the replica and the cavity method. In this model each spin interacts through a finite number of strong bonds and an infinite number of weak bonds. This hybrid behaviour of Lévy spin glasses becomes transparent in our solution: the local field contains a part propagating along a backbone of strong bonds and a Gaussian noise term due to weak bonds. Our method allows to determine the complete replica symmetric phase diagram, the replica symmetry breaking line and the entropy. The results are compared with simulations and previous calculations using a Gaussian ansatz for the distribution of fields.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures
Mercury's capture into the 3/2 spin-orbit resonance including the effect of core-mantle friction
Creators: name: Correia, Alexandre C. M.
name: Laskar, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rotation of Mercury is presently captured in a 3/2 spin-orbit resonance with the orbital mean motion. The capture mechanism is well understood as the result of tidal interactions with the Sun combined with planetary perturbations. However, it is now almost certain that Mercury has a liquid core, which should induce a contribution of viscous friction at the core-mantle boundary to the spin evolution. This last effect greatly increases the chances of capture in all spin-orbit resonances, being 100% for the 2/1 resonance, and thus preventing the planet from evolving to the presently observed configuration. Here we show that for a given resonance, as the chaotic evolution of Mercury's orbit can drive its eccentricity to very low values during the planet's history, any previous capture can be destabilized whenever the eccentricity becomes lower than a critical value. In our numerical integrations of 1000 orbits of Mercury over 4 Gyr, the spin ends 99.8% of the time captured in a spin-orbit resonance, in particular in one of the following three configurations: 5/2 (22%), 2/1 (32%) and 3/2 (26%). Although the present 3/2 spin-orbit resonance is not the most probable outcome, we also show that the capture probability in this resonance can be increased up to 55% or 73%, if the eccentricity of Mercury in the past has descended below the critical values 0.025 or 0.005, respectively.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
The epidemiology of Salmonella serovars in Tasmania
Creators: name: Ball, A
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The incidence of human salmonellosis and the distribution of Salmonella serovars in Tasmania was investigated to provide epidemiological information on Salmonella occurrence in Tasmania. This baseline data was not available previously and could contribute information to Australia-wide surveys of Salmonella and related enteric pathogens and, more specifically, aid in the prevention of enteric diseases in Tasmania. In addition, the relationship between Salmonella and indicator organisms in drinking water was investigated. The incidence of human salmonellosis in Tasmania is 2% in patients with diarrhoea and 0.13% of the general (asymptomatic) population. This is comparable to rates on the Australian mainland and in other developed countries. The disease is most prevalent in summer which is also similar to seasonal distribution patterns elsewhere. However, the distribution of salmonellae in Tasmania is unusual in the prevalence of Salmonella mississippi, a serovar rarely encountered in mainland Australia. This serovar is not particularly invasive and is unremarkable in the age and sex distribution of its human hosts or its seasonal variation. Epidemiological investigation of foods, domestic and wild animals, reticulated and natural waters, sea water and effluent were undertaken. No particular food type was implicated as a major source of Salmonella mississippi. Domestic animals, while having many Salmonella serovars in common with those seen in the human population, are not a significant source of S.mississippi. Human infection is likely to be frequently water-borne as 1.6% of 500 reticulated drinking waters and 8.2% of 250 natural fresh waters contained Salmonella of which 53% were S.mississippi. The peak incidence of Salmonella in water occurs in early summer and precedes the summer maximum of human cases. Salmonella mississippi was isolated from several species of carnivorous and insectivorous mammals and reptiles but not herbivores. Fifty percent of 120 native cats (Dasyurus viverrinus) sampled were infected with Salmonella and S.mississippi comprised 97% of these. There was no apparent seasonal variation of the presence of S.mississippi in native cats. This serovar persisted in native cats for at least 2-3 months while on a Salmonella-free diet. During this time no symptoms or ill effects were apparent. To establish how native cats became infected, components of their diet were tested. Salmonella mississippi was not isolated from the common pasture pests which compose the bulk of their diet. However, it was isolated from 62% of 34 metallic skinks (Niveoscincus metallicus) sampled on which they sometimes prey. This is the commonest of 16 Tasmanian skink species and is endemic to Tasmania and south east Victoria. The reservoir of Salmonella mississippi in Tasmania appears to be the native animal population which contaminates water supplies leading to sporadic human infections.
The Evolution of Massive YSOs in the LMC: Part I. Identification and Spectral Classification
Creators: name: Seale, Jonathan P.
name: Looney, Leslie W.
name: Chu, You-Hua
name: Gruendl, Robert A.
name: Brandl, Bernhard
name: Chen, C. -H. Rosie
name: Brandner, Wolfgang
name: Blake, Geoffrey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and categorize Spitzer IRS spectra of 294 objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to create the largest and most complete catalog of massive young stellar object (YSO) spectra in the LMC. Target sources were identified from infrared photometry and multi-wavelength images indicative of young, massive stars highly enshrouded in their natal gas and dust clouds. Our sample primarily consists of 277 objects we identify as having spectral features indicative of embedded YSOs. The remaining sources are comprised of 7 C-rich evolved sources, 8 sources dominated by broad silicate emission, and 1 source with multiple broad emission features. Those with YSO-like spectra show a range of spectral features including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission, deep silicate absorption, fine-structure lines, and ice absorption features. Based upon the relative strengths of these features, we have classified the YSO candidates into several distinct categories using the widely-used statistical procedure known as principal component analysis. We propose that these categories represent a spectrum of evolutionary stages during massive YSO formation. We conclude that massive pre-main sequence stars spend a majority of their massive, embedded lives emitting in the UV. Half of the sources in our study have features typical of compact HII regions, suggesting that massive YSOs can create a detectable compact HII region half-way through the formation time present in our sample. This study also provides a check on commonly used source-selection procedures including the use of photometry to identify YSOs. We determine a high success rate (>95%) of identifying objects with YSO-like spectra can be achieved through careful use of infrared CMDs, SEDs, and image inspections.
description: Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal
RELATIONSHIP OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS IN FORMING THE VIRTUAL LITERACY OF THE YOUNG GENERATION
Creators: name: TATU Urganch branch Uzbek language and Associate Professor of the Department of Social Sciences Tursunova Shahnoza Bekchanovna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article is related to the formation of pedagogical culture of parents in the virtual world in the information society and a number of reasons: changes in the system of moral values due to information, traditions and their loss, disruption of the family structure, changes in young people's ideas about the role of the family in human life have a virtual level of literacy.

Key words: virtualization, literacy, pedagogue, truthfulness, impartiality, information security, family integration, information.
Analysis of visitor impact on the environments of the Cradle Mountain Lake St. Clair National Park and implications for recreational management
Creators: name: Calais, Satwant Singh
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The Cradle Mountain - Lake.St. Clair National Park is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the state, having 135,000 day visitors and 16,000 daywalkers and back-country walkers in 1979/80. The majority of visitors were well educated and were either in professional.and administrative positions or were students. 'Seventy percent of the backcountry visitors were from the mainland states. The large number of walkers in the park have contributed towards the deterioration of the track system, with 29% of the tracks in a poor state. Badly damaged tracks are concentrated at high altitudes and on ill-drained areas where user intensity exceeds 1500 persons per annum. Track rehabilitation and relocation to allow comfort near the vehicle access points and to avoid further environmental damage elsewhere will cost approximately $700,000. The rate of recolonization of alpine areas bared and eroded by trampling is extremely slow and active rehabilitation may be required. Recolonization of subalpine heaths, sedgelands and grasslands seems to be adequate. The problems of littering and track deterioration recognised by the questionnaire respondents seem partly susceptible to solution through manipulatory techniques of park management. A fee system, overwhelmingly supported by questionnaire respondents, could easily cover the costs of solving the physical problems of track deterioration. The key to successful park management is the education of actual and potential park users. Without their support and appreciation of management problems and strategies, the most well thought out management plan would not realize its goals.
title: The Church of England as an international actor in southern Africa 1970-1980.
Creators: name: Austin, Virginia
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 1991

description: This thesis considers the Church of England as an International Actor operating in the geographical area of Southern Africa during the period 1970 to 1980. The central hypothesis, outlined in Section I, is that in a Transnational and Interdependency paradigm the Church of England is capable of operating as an International Actor, that it does so and that environment, history, domestic and foreign social involvement and theology all incline if to particular forms of involvement in particular geographical areas. Sections II and III, which form the main body of the work, test this hypothesis. They are empirical in that they use archival evidence and, to a lesser extent, the testimony of many of those concerned to examine the Church of England's attitudes -towards and attempts to affect outcomes in Rhodesial Zimbabwe and South Africa during the 1970's. In Section 1V it is demonstrated that the Church of England does operate as an International Actor, though the form and extent of that action is determined and modified by the factors outlined above. Moreover much of its effort in this respect is directed towards what may loosely be termed 'Establishment'. It is further suggested that though the very fact of its operation depends upon a Transnational paradigm the form of that operation demonstrates the existence of a predominantly Realist view of International Relations amongst those responsible for Church of England foreign policy during the 1970's.
The thickness of a liquid layer on the free surface of ice as obtained from computer simulation
Creators: name: Conde, M. M.
name: Vega, C.
name: Patrykiejew, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular dynamic simulations were performed for ice Ih with a free surface by using four water models, SPC/E, TIP4P, TIP4P/Ice and TIP4P/2005. The behavior of the basal plane, the primary prismatic plane and of the secondary prismatic plane when exposed to vacuum was analyzed. We observe the formation of a thin liquid layer at the ice surface at temperatures below the melting point for all models and the three planes considered. For a given plane it was found that the thickness of a liquid layer was similar for different water models, when the comparison is made at the same undercooling with respect to the melting point of the model. The liquid layer thickness is found to increase with temperature. For a fixed temperature it was found that the thickness of the liquid layer decreases in the following order: the basal plane, the primary prismatic plane, and the secondary prismatic plane. For the TIP4P/Ice model, a model reproducing the experimental value of the melting temperature of ice, the first clear indication of the formation of a liquid layer appears at about -100 Celsius for the basal plane, at about -80 Celsius for the primary prismatic plane and at about -70 Celsius for the secondary prismatic plane.
description: 41 pages and 13 figures
Casimir-Lifshitz Interaction between Dielectric Heterostructures
Creators: name: Azari, Arash
name: Samanta, Himadri S.
name: Golestanian, Ramin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction between arbitrary dielectric heterostructures is studied within the framework of a recently developed dielectric contrast perturbation theory. It is shown that periodically patterned dielectric or metallic structures lead to oscillatory lateral Casimir-Lifshitz forces, as well as modulations in the normal force as they are displaced with respect to one another. The strength of these oscillatory contributions increases with decreasing gap size and increasing contrast in the dielectric properties of the materials used in the heterostructures.
description: 7 pages, 3 combined figures
title: Group Therapy: A Play
Creators: name: Earl, Eleanor L.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: Group Therapy is a modem drama set in Portsmouth, Virginia, a small Naval town which is part of a larger area called Hampton Roads. Hampton Roads is best known for its Naval shipyards, Naval bases, and historic landmarks. The year is 1994.

The play focuses on interpersonal communication in a setting that serves as a surrogate family. In the play, seven men and women from varied walks of life come together and share their most intimate joys and sorrows in group therapy. Together, with the assistance of a dedicated psychologist, they struggle to confront and overcome depression and anxiety.
An exploration of CUDA and CBEA for a gravitational wave data-analysis application (Einstein@Home)
Creators: name: Breitbart, Jens
name: Khanna, Gaurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed approach for making use of two new computer hardware architectures -- CBEA and CUDA -- for accelerating a scientific data-analysis application (Einstein@Home). Our results suggest that both the architectures suit the application quite well and the achievable performance in the same software developmental time-frame, is nearly identical.
description: Accepted for publication in International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2009)
Error-free milestones in error prone measurements
Creators: name: Small, Dylan S.
name: Rosenbaum, Paul R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A predictor variable or dose that is measured with substantial error may possess an error-free milestone, such that it is known with negligible error whether the value of the variable is to the left or right of the milestone. Such a milestone provides a basis for estimating a linear relationship between the true but unknown value of the error-free predictor and an outcome, because the milestone creates a strong and valid instrumental variable. The inferences are nonparametric and robust, and in the simplest cases, they are exact and distribution free. We also consider multiple milestones for a single predictor and milestones for several predictors whose partial slopes are estimated simultaneously. Examples are drawn from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, in which a BA degree acts as a milestone for sixteen years of education, and the binary indicator of military service acts as a milestone for years of service.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOAS233 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
On the kinematic age of brown dwarfs: Radial velocities and space motions of 43 nearby L dwarfs
Creators: name: Seifahrt, Andreas
name: Reiners, Ansgar
name: Almaghrbi, Khiria A. M.
name: Basri, Gibor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present radial velocity measurements of a sample of L0-L8 dwarfs observed with VLT/UVES and Keck/HIRES. We combine these measurements with distance and proper motion from the literature to determine space motions for 43 of our targets. We identify nine candidate members of young moving groups, which have ages of 50-600 Myr according to their space motion. From the total velocity dispersion of the 43 L dwarfs, we calculate a kinematic age of ~5 Gyr for our sample. This age is significantly higher than the ~3 Gyr age known for late M dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood. We find that the distributions of the U and V velocity components of our sample are clearly non-Gaussian, placing the age estimate inferred from the full space motion vector into question. The W-component exhibits a distribution more consistent with a normal distribution, and from W alone we derive an age of ~3 Gyr, which is the same age found for late-M dwarf samples. Our brightness-limited sample is probably contaminated by a number of outliers that predominantly bias the U and V velocity components. The origin of the outliers remain unclear, but we suggest that these brown dwarfs may have gained their high velocities by means of ejection from multiple systems during their formation.
description: 8 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
CMB anisotropies from acausal scaling seeds
Creators: name: Scodeller, Sandro
name: Kunz, Martin
name: Durrer, Ruth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate models where structure formation is initiated by scaling seeds: We consider rapidly expanding relativistic shells of energy and show that they can fit current CMB and large scale structure data if they expand with super-luminal velocities. These acausally expanding shells provide a viable alternative to inflation for cosmological structure formation with the same minimal number of parameters to characterize the initial fluctuations. Causally expanding shells alone cannot fit present data. Hybrid models where causal shells and inflation are mixed also provide good fits.
description: 9 pages,13 figures, revised version accepted for publication in PRD
Community college concepts : a comparative educational analysis of the nature and development of community colleges in the U.S.A., Canada, U.K. and Australia
Creators: name: Cini, Leo
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Through comparative methods the thesis will concentrate on the common features in the nature and development of community colleges in the United States of America, Canada and England. The insights gained will then be used to examine the influences behind the origins and developments of Australian community colleges. In the case of the U.S.A. and Canada the study inevitably makes considerable reference to developments within the broader tertiary educational contexts in which their community colleges operate. English community colleges, when compared with North American community colleges, present difficulties as they operate within the secondary sector. The difficulties are not insuperable as all\community colleges\" regard themselves in varying degrees as having some kind of special relationship however nebulous or well-defined with a \"community\" particularly its adult componentand at a general level experience similar problems in attempting to cope with this relationship. Further the thesis assumes that unlike the U.S.A. and Canada where the basic institutional patterns at the postsecondary level have been established in most cases for at least a decade England is in the process of evolving new institutional patterns partly in response to the increased demands for access to further and higher education particularly from the 16-19 age group. There is material in this transitional process for comparison albeit speculative between North American community colleges and some institutions such as the tertiary colleges which show signs of adopting parallel functions at similar levels within the broader tertiary educational sectors of England."
A 3-local characterization of M_12 and SL_3(3)
Creators: name: Astill, Sarah
name: Parker, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20D08

description: We identify the sporadic simple group $\mathrm{M}_{12}$ and the simple group $\mathrm{SL}_3(3)$ from some part of their 3-local structure and give a graph theoretic analogue of the resulting theorem.
Απομόνωση και ποσοτικός προσδιορισμός λιπαρών οξέων βραχείας αλυσίδας σε καλλιέργειες επιλεγμένων στελεχών προβιοτικών βακτηρίων με HPLC-DAD
Creators: name: Κούπα, Κωνσταντίνα Κίμωνα
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Λιπαρά οξέα βραχείας αλυσίδας
Προβιοτικά
Υγρή χρωματογραφία
SCFAs
Probiotics
HPLC

description: Σκοπός της εργασίας ήταν η ποσοτικοποίηση των οργανικών οξέων των βακτηρίων L.lactis και B.subtilis στις φάσεις ανάπτυξης τους και μετά από ενίσχυση με χιτίνη και χιτοζάνη. Αναπτύχθηκε πρωτόκολλο κατεργασίας του CFS που περιλαμβάνει παραγωγοποίηση των οξέων και ανάλυση σε HPLC-DAD. Η προσθήκη των πολυσακχαριτών στο υπόστρωμα οδήγησε σε βέλτιστη ανάπτυξη των βακτηρίων και σε αύξηση της παραγωγής των οξέων. Στο L.lactis, γαλακτικό και οξικό ανιχνεύθηκαν σε όλα τα στάδια ανάπτυξης, ενώ στο B.subtilis ανιχνεύθηκε οξικό στην αρχή, στο μέσο και στο τέλος της στατικής φάσης.
description: The aim of the present study was to quantify the organic acids secreted by the bacterium L.lactis and B.subtilis at various growth phases. The effect of polysaccharides on SCFAs production was examined through supplementation of bacterial culture media with chitin and chitosan. A protocol employing pre-column derivatization of acids in the CFS and HPLC-DAD analysis was developed and validated. The supplementation of polysaccharides to the substrate led to optimal bacterial growth and increased acid production. Lactate and acetate were detected at all growth stages in L.lactis culture and acetate was detected at the beginning, middle and end of the stationary phase in B.subtilis culture.
Koopman-SPCL
Creators: name: y, yuhan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370401
subject: Computational modelling and simulation in earth sciences
classificationCode: 370402
subject: Earth and space science informatics

description: 的动态演化规律PM2.5并准确预测，对于公共卫生管理和预警决策活动的实施具有重要意义。本研究利用Koopman算子的谱特性来解释复数PM2.5的内在演化规律并利用深度学习实现从非线性状态空间到Koopman不变子空间的映射，以考虑直线距离PM2.5关系状态空间转换期间的站点。本研究揭示了PM2.5不同尺度上呈现出时空变化规律，对本文具有重要意义。该研究还阐明PM2.5 复杂非线性动力系统解释性质。
The chemical composition of Tasmanite shale oil : with special reference to the nitrogen and sulphur compounds.
Creators: name: Cane, Reginald Frank
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Petroleum, both as a source of fuel and as a means of locomotion, has become one of the chief commodities vitally necessary to our civilisation. Australia is particularly unfavoured by nature, in that she is totally dependent upon outside sources for her supply of it, and, therefore, it is apparent that, living as we do in the fear of international strife, the need for research into this all-important element of our nation is very great. In a time of warfare, we would be wholly dependent upon the Imported supply, which, in the year 1936-37 amounted to 282 million gallons of petroleum spirit valued at ¬¨¬£4,525,939. It can be seen that the need for adequate internal resources of fuel is a very pressing question. As it appears that well-petroleum does not occur to any great extent in Australia, we should turn to the nearest substitute, i.e. the oil obtained during the distillation of oil-shale. The \Shale Bounty Act\" was passed in 1917 in order to stimulate the production of this oil and allows payment up to ¬¨¬£67500 per year based on a gallon production. Shales occur in several regions in Australia the chief of which are around the Newnes district in New South Wales and also in isolated patches in Queensland and Western Australia."
The universal galaxy cluster pressure profile from a representative sample of nearby systems (REXCESS) and the Y_SZ-M_500 relation
Creators: name: Arnaud, M.
name: Pratt, G. W.
name: Piffaretti, R.
name: Boehringer, H.
name: Croston, J. H.
name: Pointecouteau, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (abridged) We investigate the regularity of cluster pressure profiles with REXCESS, a representative sample of 33 local clusters observed with XMM-Newton. The sample spans a mass range of 10^14 M_sun
description: 20 pages, 16 figures, submitted for publication in A&A
A Fast Impurity Solver Based on Gutzwiller variational approach
Creators: name: Zhuang, Jia-Ning
name: Wang, Lei
name: Fang, Zhong
name: Dai, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fast impurity solver for the dynamical mean field theory(DMFT) named Two Mode Approxi- mation (TMA) is proposed based on the Gutzwiller variational approach, which captures the main features of both the coherent and incoherent motion of the electrons. The new solver works with real frequency at zero temperature and it provides directly the spectral function of the electrons. It can be easily generalized to multi-orbital impurity problems with general on-site interactions, which makes it very useful in LDA+DMFT. Benchmarks on one and two band Hubbard models are presented, and the results agree well with those of Exact Diagonalization (ED).
description: 29 pages, 14 figures
Additional file 1 of The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission across 130 countries and territories
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: Morgenstern, Christian
name: Kelly, James
name: Lowe, Rachel
name: Jit, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1: Metadata on Policy Code in the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. Table S2: Peak timing of stringency indices by region. Table S3: Results of hierarchical clustering of time-series using the any effort scenario. Table S4: Results of hierarchical clustering of time-series using the maximum effort scenario. Table S5: Lowest performance model fit by country. Table S6: Highest performance model fit by country. Table S7: Statistical interpretation worksheets. Table S8: Review of existing literature. Figure S1: The number of countries and regions with available data in the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. Figure S2: The pair-wise scatter plot of NPI timing under the Any Effort Scenario. Figure S3: The pair-wise scatter plot of NPI timing under the Maximum Effort Scenario. Figure S4: Deviance from panel analyses using different temporal lags between effective reproduction number and policy interventions based on full time-series. Figure S5: Deviance from panel analyses using different temporal lags between effective reproduction number and policy interventions based on the truncated time-series. Figure S6: Univariable panel analyses – effect sizes. Figure S7: Univariable panel analyses – p-values. Figure S8: The sequential order of different NPIs under any effort scenario. Figure S9: The sequential order of different NPIs under maximum effort scenario. Figure S10: Hierarchical cluster analysis of NPIs time-series using the multilevel scenario. Figure S11: Effect sizes for each NPI from the selected models based on multilevel scenario.
title: Feminisms in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut
Creators: name: Brown, Emily G.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: With Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick examines the causes and conditions in which men are more powerful and men's production, ideas and activities are seen as having greater value and higher status than women's. Eyes Wide Shut's (EWS) renders the tension between Bill (Tom Cruise) and Alice Hartford (Nicole Kidman) in the modem struggle to find balance between the institution of marriage and their autonomous selves visible. As Bill's travels dominate the film, little beyond the first scene of Alice's disrobed body and the last scene highlighting her psychological stability are shown. We follow Bill as he meets several women; all are highly sexual, aggressive women. However, the film employs a highly intriguing treatment of Alice, for she is more psychologically complete than Bill. Alice's confession of female desire drives the plot, which, for Bill, is out of the socially assigned role of wife. As he states it, "women simply don't think like that." This action highlights the condition of women's remote complete identity outside of men's imposed public and private definition. If she is not implicitly a wife, mother or highly sexualized, she is out of man's peripheral of socially assigned identities for women. EWS highlights the powerless condition of women to define their own unique identities by situating Bill in a modem woman's position. Alice and Bill perform a role-reversal illustrating how male society has yet to allow women to move beyond one-dimensional icons of wife, mother or whore. The film presents a visual starting place to examine the constructs on women from multiple perspectives of feminism. Ultimately, EWS transposes a woman's subjugation on to a man in order to validate her views. If it takes this transference of the female condition to a man, no longer preserving masculine power by allowing the cultural repression of females to be felt, we must rebalance the larger picture to include women's self-chosen identity.
APPLICATION OF THE ADOPTED ECONOMIC TERMS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Creators: name: TATU Urgench branch Teacher of the Uzbek language and  Social sciences department  Bekberganova Munira Shokirovna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: in this article information about the emergence of new terms, the sources of the formation of new economic terms, the scope of their general use, the shortcomings of this system and ways to eliminate them is provided.

Key words: term, terminology, neologism, word acquisition, ownership, product exchange.
Self-Templated Nucleation in Peptide and Protein aggregation
Creators: name: Auer, Stefan
name: Dobson, Christopher M.
name: Vendruscolo, Michele
name: Maritan, Amos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Peptides and proteins exhibit a common tendency to assemble into highly ordered fibrillar aggregates, whose formation proceeds in a nucleation-dependent manner that is often preceded by the formation of disordered oligomeric assemblies. This process has received much attention because disordered oligomeric aggregates have been associated with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Here we describe a self-templated nucleation mechanism that determines the transition between the initial condensation of polypeptide chains into disordered assemblies and their reordering into fibrillar structures. The results that we present show that at the molecular level this transition is due to the ability of polypeptide chains to reorder within oligomers into fibrillar assemblies whose surfaces act as templates that stabilise the disordered assemblies.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Governing Through Resilience? Exploring Flood Protection in Dresden, Germany
Creators: name: Hutter, Gérard
name: Leibenath, Markus
name: Mattissek, Annika
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: neoliberal forms of governing
subject: rationality
subject: subjectivity
subject: technology
subject: 710
subject: Deutschland
subject: Gouvernementalität
subject: Rationalität
subject: Subjektivität
subject: Technologie
subject: Hochwasserschutz

description: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
The technology of the New South Wales torbanite : including an introduction on oil shale.
Creators: name: Cane, Reginald Frank
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Although the nature of the products of thermal decomposition of oil shale has attracted the attention of both scientist and industrialist, oil shale possibly ranks as one of the least ‚ÄövÑvÆinvestigated substances which occur naturally and which yield valuable products on decomposition. Scientists may approach the subject of oil shale from different aspects;-for instance, the geologist may be interested in its rock structure and stratiography; the chemist may explore its fundamental character, or the nature of its' decomposition; while the botanist may be required to explain its origin. The interest of the industrialist is aroused because the decomposition products of oil shale have extensive commercial value. Unfortunately, most of the published work on oil shale has been based on geological observation or microscopical examination, and while these investigations have produced interesting data, very little information is available on the properties of oil shale, per se, and of its reactions during decomposition. As frequently observed in processes of similar nature, industry has progressed without obtaining full knowledge, of the structure of its raw material and the types of reaction which occur during the commercial process. Especially is this so In the oil-shale Industry where practically every operation is based on empirical knowledge. In order to achieve an effective end economic procedure, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of the nature of the raw substance and of the reactions which occur during its decomposition. In the present case, this knowledge should include as much information as can be made available on the chemical and physical properties of oil shale and a knowledge of the reactions which take place during the decomposition of oil shale, to produce oil, gas and residue. The results here presented are offered as an attempt at such a study of one oil shale - The New South Wales Torbanite - in the hope that the industrialist end the scientist will progress together in the development of one of Australia's potentialIy rich resources - Oil Shale.
Quantum Jump Approach to Switching Process of a Josephson Junction Coupled to a Microscopic Two-Level System
Creators: name: Wen, Xueda
name: Wang, Yiwen
name: Dong, Ning
name: Sun, Guozhu
name: Chen, Jian
name: Kang, Lin
name: Xu, Weiwei
name: Wu, Peiheng
name: Yu, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With microwave irradiation, the switching current of a Josephson junction coupled to a microscopic two-level system jumps randomly between two discrete states. We modeled the switching process of the coupled system with quantum jump approach that was generally used in quantum optics. The parameters that affect the character of the quantum jumps between macroscopic quantum states are discussed. The results obtained from our theoretical analysis agree well with those of the experiments and provide a clear physical picture for the macroscopic quantum jumps in Josephson junctions coupled with two-level systems. In addition, quantum jumps may serve as a useful tool to investigate the microscopic two-level structures in solid-state systems.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures; Invited article for special issue (ISEC 09) in Supercond. Sci. Technol. (2009)
On `maximal' poles of zeta functions, roots of b-functions and monodromy Jordan blocks
Creators: name: Melle-Hernández, A.
name: Torrelli, T.
name: Veys, Willem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14B05, 32S25, 11S80, 32S45

description: The main objects of study in this paper are the poles of several local zeta functions: the Igusa, topological and motivic zeta function associated to a polynomial or (germ of) holomorphic function in n variables. We are interested in poles of maximal possible order n. In all known cases (curves, non-degenerate polynomials) there is at most one pole of maximal order n which is then given by the log canonical threshold of the function at the corresponding singular point. For an isolated singular point we prove that if the log canonical threshold yields a pole of order n of the corresponding (local) zeta function, then it induces a root of the Bernstein-Sato polynomial of the given function of multiplicity n (proving one of the cases of the strongest form of a conjecture of Igusa-Denef-Loeser). For an arbitrary singular point we show under the same assumption that the monodromy eigenvalue induced by the pole has a Jordan block of size n on the (perverse) complex of nearby cycles.
description: 8 pages, to be published in Journal of Topology
Form factors in relativistic quantum mechanics: constraints from space-time translations
Creators: name: Desplanques, B.
name: Dong, Y. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The comparison of form factors calculated from a single-particle current in different relativistic quantum mechanic approaches evidences tremendous discrepancies. The role of constraints coming from space-time translations is considered here with this respect. It is known that invariance under these translations implies the energy-momentum conservation relation that is usually assumed to hold globally. Transformations of the current under these translations, which lead to this result, also imply constraints that have been ignored so far in relativistic quantum mechanic approaches. An implementation of these constraints is discussed in the case of a model with two scalar constituents. It amounts to incorporate selected two-body currents to all orders in the interaction. Discrepancies for form factors in different approaches can thus be removed, contributing to restore the equivalence of different approaches. Results for the standard front-form approach ($q^+=0$) are found to fulfill the constraints and are therefore unchanged. The relation with results from a dispersion-relation approach is also made.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures; to be published in the proceedings of LC2008; Light Cone 2008. Relativistic Nuclear and Particle Physics, Mulhouse : France (2008)
Towards the Quantum Geometry of the M5-brane in a Constant C-Field from Multiple Membranes
Creators: name: Chu, Chong-Sun
name: Smith, Douglas J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Nahm equation which describes a fuzzy D3-brane in the presence of a B-field can be derived as a boundary condition of the F1-strings ending on the D3-brane, and that the modifications of the original Nahm equation by a B-field can be understood in terms of the noncommutative geometry of the D3-brane. Naturally this is consistent with the alternative derivation by quantising the open strings in the B-field background. We then consider a configuration of multiple M2-branes ending on an M5-brane with a constant 3-form C-field. By analogy with the case of strings ending on a D3-brane with a constant B-field, one can expect that this system can be described in terms of the boundary of the M2-branes moving within a certain kind of quantum geometry on the M5-brane worldvolume. By repeating our analysis, we show that the analogue of the B-field modified Nahm equation, the C-field modified Basu-Harvey equation can also be understood as a boundary condition of the M2-branes. We then compare this to the M5-brane BIon description and show that the two descriptions match provided we postulate a new type of quantum geometry on the M5-brane worldvolume. Unlike the D-brane case, this is naturally expressed in terms of a relation between a 3-bracket of the M5-brane worldvolume coordinates and the C-field.
description: LaTeX, 38 pages, 2 figures. v2: additional discussion of D1 boundary couping, typos corrected and references added. v3: additional discussion on p.10, typos corrected, references added. version published in JHEP
Enabling pupils to conceive part-whole relations of numbers and develop number sense: Year one of primary schools in Malaysia
Creators: name: Sinnakaudan, Santi
name: Kuldas, Seffetullah
name: Hashim, Shahabuddin
name: Ghazali, Munirah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390304
subject: Primary education
classificationCode: 390109
subject: Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy

description: This review examines reasons for Malaysian pupils’ underperformance in solving
mathematics problems that demand numerical estimation and mental
computation. Their underdeveloped number sense appears to be the major reason.
According to the Ministry of Education, the national mathematics curriculum is
unlikely to account for this underachievement. By contrast, this article argues
that the curriculum largely focusing on written computation skills, is likely to
account for the underperformance, given that the development of number sense
has yet to become the focus of attention. This review further suggests teaching
and learning activities that may enable the Malaysian pupils, in year one of
primary schools, to conceive part-whole relations of numbers and thus develop
number sense. The earlier they understand the part-whole relationship, the
stronger they may develop number sense and thus the better can be their
performance.
The targum (1942:May 2)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1942

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.