cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Solar Energetic Particle Events in the 23rd Solar Cycle: Interplanetary Magnetic Field Configuration and Statistical Relationship with Flares and CMEs
Creators: name: Miteva, R.
name: Klein, K. -L.
name: Malandraki, O.
name: Dorrian, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the influence of the large-scale interplanetary magnetic field configuration on the solar energetic particles (SEPs) as detected at different satellites near Earth and on the correlation of their peak intensities with the parent solar activity. We selected SEP events associated with X and M-class flares at western longitudes, in order to ensure good magnetic connection to Earth. These events were classified into two categories according to the global interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) configuration present during the SEP propagation to 1AU: standard solar wind or interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). Our analysis shows that around 20% of all particle events are detected when the spacecraft is immersed in an ICME. The correlation of the peak particle intensity with the projected speed of the SEP-associated coronal mass ejection is similar in the two IMF categories of proton and electron events, $\approx 0.6$. The SEP events within ICMEs show stronger correlation between the peak proton intensity and the soft X-ray flux of the associated solar flare, with correlation coefficient $r=\,$0.67$\pm$0.13, compared to the SEP events propagating in the standard solar wind, $r=\,$0.36$\pm$0.13. The difference is more pronounced for near-relativistic electrons. The main reason for the different correlation behavior seems to be the larger spread of the flare longitude in the SEP sample detected in the solar wind as compared to SEP events within ICMEs. We discuss to which extent observational bias, different physical processes (particle injection, transport, etc.), and the IMF configuration can influence the relationship between SEPs and coronal activity.
description: http://adsabs.harvard.edu.ezproxy.obspm.fr/abs/2013SoPh..282..579M
New collaboration in a virtual world: studying Vtubers through identity, gender and fan engagement
Creators: name: Byron, James
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Following the debut of Kizuna Ai, the self-proclaimed first Virtual YouTuber in 2016, a new market and genre of online content creators exploded in popularity. Vtubers are distinguished from their predecessors through livestreaming and performing under the guise of a 2D or 3D virtual avatar. These characters are inspired by Japanese anime and manga, animated using motion-capture and facial tracking software. Through livestreaming and performing a fictional persona, Vtubers create the illusion of interacting with a real-time anime character, blended together with the real human performer. Since the field of Vtubers is rapidly evolving, there is an unexplored gap in research about this emerging media phenomenon. This gap can be found in the existing literature on YouTubers and Twitch streamers, because Vtubers are situated in livestreaming media. Additionally, how do Vtubers perform and enact aspects of Japanese pop-culture and media for international audiences? My research and thesis focus on Hololive English, an all-female ensemble of Vtubers that performs for English speaking audiences. Beginning with examining Hololive English as a transnational media project, I draw from the literature of Japanese cultural studies and media studies. This is followed by studies of avatars and persona in relation to Hololive English. This informs my first research question, how Vtubers provide new affordances for identity in online cultures. I then contextualise Hololive English within gender studies and online gender performance, exploring how Vtubers challenge, reproduce or deviate from gender norms. I also challenge the one-sided understanding of parasocial relationships between Vtubers and fans. Utilising audience reception theories, fandom and participatory culture studies, I propose a new term, ‘symbiotic co-creativity’ to examine mutually beneficial collaborations between Hololive English and their fans. By examining the symbiotic co-creativity that exists between Vtubers and fans, it prompts a re-thinking of how parasocial relationships emerge between online media stars and their creative fans. This new type of collaboration reflects the contemporary field of online fandom cultures, and contributes to the literature of collaborative and co-creative media works in fan culture.
Robert Hoyland, In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
Creators: name: Donner, Fred M.
Publisher: name: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
Year: 2015

description: Robert Hoyland’s In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire is the most recent attempt to make sense of the worldchanging developments associated with the rise of Islam. It offers an attractive, well-informed, and readily comprehensible account of the geopolitical background in the Near East, the conquests, and the rise of the first Islamic empire up to the fall of the Umayyad dynasty in 750.
description: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta, Vol. 23 No. 1 (2015): Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Stephennie Mulder, The Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria
Creators: name: Antrim, Zayde
Publisher: name: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
Year: 2015

description: By surveying and interpreting major ʿAlid shrines in Syria from the eleventh century to today, Stephennie Mulder has produced a timely work of great value and insight. Based on over a decade of fieldwork in Syria and extensive engagement with Arabic texts, Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria makes a convincing case for the emergence of an architecture of ecumenism between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, in which Muslims of different sectarian orientations came together to mourn, commemorate, and supplicate descendants of the Prophet Muḥammad through his son-in-law ʿAlī (the ʿAlids). Mulder argues that the form this ecumenical architecture took – the shrine (mashhad) – is uniquely suited to inclusive and polyvalent devotional practices, but at the same time, because of its very flexibility and popularity, presents a particular challenge to the architectural historian.
description: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta, Vol. 23 No. 1 (2015): Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Solving the Petri-Nets to Statecharts Transformation Case with UML-RSDS
Creators: name: Lano, K.
name: Kolahdouz-Rahimi, S.
name: Maroukian, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper provides a solution to the Petri-Nets to statecharts case using UML-RSDS. We show how a highly declarative solution which is confluent and invertible can be given using this approach.
description: In Proceedings TTC 2013, arXiv:1311.7536
Ψηφιακές εφαρμογές, δημόσια αρχαιολογία και η ελληνική πραγματικότητα την εποχή του COVID-19: το παράδειγμα του myELeusis στο πεδίο της ψηφιακής ανάδειξης αρχαιολογικών χώρων
Creators: name: Τσιαφάκη, Δέσποινα
name: Παπαγγελή, Καλλιόπη
name: Μότσιου, Παρασκευή
name: Μούρθος, Γιάννης
name: Μιχαηλίδου, Νατάσα
name: Τζαβαλή, Χρυσάνθη
name: Καζαζάκη, Χριστίνα
name: Κουτσούδης, Ανέστης
name: Κιούρτ, Χαϊρί
name: Σταυρόγλου, Κωνσταντίνος
name: Ιωαννάκης, Γιώργος-Αλέξης
name: Αρναούτογλου, Φώτης
name: Γκιόκας, Παναγιώτης
Publisher: name: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ελευσίνα; myELeusis; δημόσια αρχαιολογία; ψηφιακή αρχαιολογία; COVID-19; προσωποποιημένη εμπειρία;

description: Ο κοινωνικός αποκλεισμός και τα περιοριστικά μέτρα λόγω της πανδημίας του COVID-19 οδήγησαν το κοινό στη διαδικτυακή αναζήτηση του πολιτισμού ως ένα είδος διεξόδου. Οι αρχαιολογικοί χώροι και τα μουσεία προβλήθηκαν, μέσω ποικίλων ψηφιακών εφαρμογών, ως χώροι όπου η ψυχαγωγία και η μάθηση μπορούν να συνδυαστούν ιδανικά, προσφέροντας έντονες εμπειρίες σε συνθήκες εγκλεισμού. Μέσα σε αυτό το κλίμα, στο εμβληματικό Ιερό της Δήμητρας και της Κόρης στην Ελευσίνα υλοποιείται το έργο myELeusis. Η ενιαία σύλληψη και συνδυαστική ανάπτυξη και χρήση των διαφορετικών ψηφιακών εφαρμογών που συναποτελούν το έργο αποτελεί τη βασική καινοτομία του, καθώς δημιουργεί ένα πρωτοποριακό μοντέλο συνολικής ψηφιακής διαχείρισης και ανάδειξης αρχαιολογικών χώρων και μουσείων. Το myELeusis, ως ολοκληρωμένο σύνολο εφαρμογών, δε θίγει μόνο ζητήματα ψηφιακής και δημόσιας αρχαιολογίας, ούτε δίνει απλά μια αξιόπιστη λύση σε καιρούς πανδημίας, αλλά μας εισάγει και στην ανάγκη για μια ολοκληρωμένη (πολύ-)αισθητηριακή εμπειρία των επισκεπτών ενός αρχαιολογικού χώρου και μουσείου, πριν, κατά και μετά την ίδια την επίσκεψη. Απώτερος στόχος του έργου είναι η «μύηση» των σύγχρονων επισκεπτών της Ελευσίνας, φυσικών και ψηφιακών, καθώς και η εξυπηρέτηση των αναγκών των αρχαιολόγων της Εφορείας Αρχαιοτήτων.
description: Περιοδικό του Τομέα Αρχαιολογίας και Ιστορίας της Τέχνης (AURA), Vol 5 (2022)
Fernunterricht in der Primar- und Sekundarschule & Sozialhilfe: Eine kleine Forschung über die Ausrichtung zusätzlicher finanziellen Mittel während der Coronapandemie in der Stadt Zürich
Creators: name: Kugler, Liliane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Die Corona Pandemie im Jahr 2020 hat die Schweizer Gesellschaft vor viele Herausforderungen gestellt. So wurden die Schulen am 13. März 2020 als Massnahme gegen die Verbreitung des Virus geschlossen, sodass alle Schüler/-innen vorerst von zuhause aus unterrichtet wurden. Die Fallzahlen der wirtschaftlichen Sozialhilfe, aufgrund von Erwerbsausfall, sind während der Pandemie allerdings nicht wie erwartet gestiegen. Ob sich in der Ausrichtung von Sozialhilfe für Familien mit Kindern im Homeschooling etwas geändert hat, soll in dieser Bachelorarbeit eruiert werden. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob und wie sich die Ausrichtung wirtschaftlicher Sozialhilfe in Zusammenhang mit dem eingeführten Homeschooling von Primar- und Sekundarschulkindern ausgewirkt hat. Der Fokus liegt insbesondere auf den situationsbedingten Leistungen, welche gemäss SKOS-Richtlinien finanzielle Mittel sind, die neben dem sozialen Existenzminimum in der wirtschaftlichen Sozialhilfe zusätzlich vom zuständigen Sozialdienst bezahlt werden können. Sie werden im Einzelfall bemessen und müssen in einer konkreten Lebenssituation zwingend notwendig sein. Im Rahmen einer qualitativen Forschung wurden Sozialarbeitende zu ihrer Haltung und ihrem Vorgehen bei der Entscheidung für zusätzliche Leistungen für Kinder und Jugendliche sowie zum Spannungsfeld von Sozialhilfe und Berufskodex befragt. Die daraus gewonnenen Erkenntnisse sollen ein Bild der Auswirkungen des Homeschoolings auf die wirtschaftliche Sozialhilfe vermitteln und Handlungsempfehlungen für künftige vergleichbare Situationen für die Profession der Sozialen Arbeit ermöglichen.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Sozialarbeit, 2022 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202209
Resilient and Transition strategies for the post-pandemic city A multi-criteria analytical approach for the case of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria
Creators: name: Pizzimenti, Pasquale
name: Bevilacqua, Carmelina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Presentation at the International Symposium New Metropolitan Perspective 2022 within the Focus Session "TREnD - Cities as Resilience Machines: Driving the Urban Transition"
Can Doctoral Dissertations Disappear? A Look at Ibrahim al‐Hafsi’s “Correspondance officielle et privée d’al‐Qāḍī al‐Fāḍil” and its Prospects in a Digital Age
Creators: name: Smarandache, Bogdan C.
Publisher: name: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
Year: 2015

description: I have recently had the opportunity to examine a remarkable doctoral dissertation completed in 1979 under the supervision of Prof. Charles Pellat and now housed at the Bibliothèque Orient - Monde arabe of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III. Dr. al-Hafsi’s dissertation is, according to his title and introductions (French and Arabic), a study of the “official and private correspondence” of Mūḥyī al‐Dīn Abū ʿAlī ʿAbd al‐Raḥīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al‐Ḥasan al‐Lakhmī al‐Baysānī al‐ʿAsqalānī “al‐Qāḍī al‐Fāḍil” (529‐596/1135‐1200), secretary and private scribe (kātib al-sirr) for the Fāṭimid caliph, Nūr al-Dīn ibn Zankī’s deputy in Egypt, and Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, founder of the Ayyūbid Dynasty.
description: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta, Vol. 23 No. 1 (2015): Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Ibn Aʿtham and His History
Creators: name: Conrad, Lawrence I.
Publisher: name: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
Year: 2015

description: The editors of al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā are delighted to publish this long-awaited piece by Lawrence I. Conrad on Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī and his Kitāb al-futūḥ. The article was written on the basis of two papers presented in 1992 (see initial note) and subsequently prepared for publication. It has circulated among colleagues, but, for various reasons, never appeared in print. Professor Conrad, with characteristic generosity, has given us permission to publish the text. It stands as a monumental piece of scholarship and the most comprehensive study on the subject to date. By way of introduction, a few historiographical comments are in order. Limited attention has been devoted to Ibn Aʿtham since the early 1990s. Conrad himself wrote a brief entry for The Routledge Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature [London and New York: Routledge, 1998, 314], summarizing his findings and arguing that Ibn Aʿtham flourished in the early third/ninth century. There he rejects Ibn Aʿtham’s conventional death date of 314/926-7 as “an old Orientalist error.”
description: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta, Vol. 23 No. 1 (2015): Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Māwardī’s Legal Thinking
Creators: name: Melchert, Christopher
Publisher: name: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
Year: 2015

description: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb al-Māwardī was a Muslim polymath, born in Basra, 364/974, died in Baghdad, 30 Rabīʿ I 450/27 May 1058. He is most famous today for al-Aḥkām al-sulṭānīyah, a review of the law as it affects or requires the action of the caliph. His extensive handbook of Shāfiʿi law, al-Ḥāwī al-kabīr (of which al-Aḥkām al-sulṭānīyah is effectively an abstract), was much quoted in succeeding centuries. He also wrote a major Qur’an commentary and various shorter works, some in the Perso-Hellenistic wisdom tradition. Most of this study is devoted to three sample passages from the Ḥāwī in translation with commentary: on the ritual law, particularly the salutation at the close of the ritual prayer; on the law of waqf (pious foundations), particularly whether a waqf property is subject to division among heirs; and, finally, on penal law, particularly whether the stoning and flogging penalties for adultery are to be combined. They are sometimes opportunistic, seizing on any argument at hand, whether or not it is foreseen in the literature of jurisprudence (uṣūl alfiqh). They are sometimes indeterminate, leaving questions of what to do unanswered. They sometimes refute obsolete positions, sometimes seem to expect to convert no one. They suggest that Māwardī’s purpose in writing was not mainly practical, to persuade people to execute the rules of the Shāfiʿi school. Equally important, they suggest, were Māwardī’s religious vision of a faithful community (distinguished more by its theory and ritual practice than, say, particular patterns of property transfer) and the ludic pleasure of argument within the learned élite for whom he was writing.
description: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta, Vol. 23 No. 1 (2015): Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
The contribution of CHONS particles to the diffuse high Galactic latitude IR emission
Creators: name: Papoular, Renaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work purports to model the far infrared gray-body emission in the spectra of high-Galactic-latitude clouds. Several carbonaceous laboratory materials are tested for their fitness as carriers of this modified-black-body emission which, according to data delivered by the Planck satellite, and others before, is best fit with temperature 17.9 K and spectral index beta=1.78. Some of these materials were discarded for insufficient emissivity, others for inadequate beta. By contrast, CHONS clusters (beta=1.4, T=19 K) combine nicely with magnesium silicate (beta=2, T=18.7 K) to give a spectrum which falls well within the observational error bars (total emission cross-section at 250 mum: 8.6 10^{-26} cm^{2} per H atom). Only 15 % of all Galactic carbon atoms are needed for this purpose. The CHONS particles that were considered and described have a disordered (amorphous) structure but include a sizable fraction of aromatic rings, although they are much less graphitized than a-C:H/HAC. They can be seen as one embodiment of ``astronomical graphite" deduced earlier on from the then available astronomical observations. Grain heating by H atom capture is proposed as a contributor to the observed residual emissions that do not follow the dust/HI correlation.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures To be published in MNRAS
Muḥammad’s Deputies in Medina
Creators: name: Cook, Michael
Publisher: name: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
Year: 2015

description: It would be a reasonable inference from our sources that each time Muḥammad was away from Medina he left behind a deputy. The object of this paper is to collect and interpret the information our sources provide about these deputies. After a brief introduction, the second and third sections assemble and contextualize the data. The fourth section then discusses questions of interpretation: how far we can rely on the information in our sources, what this information can tell us about the kind of people Muḥammad would appoint as deputies, and how the emerging pattern might be explained historically. The main finding is that the data, if at all reliable, indicate that deputies were frequently people with little ability to cope with emergencies, and that Muḥammad must have been giving priority to political considerations in choosing them. Readers interested only in the interpretative questions could skip the second and third sections.
description: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta, Vol. 23 No. 1 (2015): Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
“The Shape of a Career” Remarks by the Recipient of the 2013 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
Creators: name: Humphreys, R. Stephen
Publisher: name: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
Year: 2015

description: I must begin by expressing my thanks to the officers and board of Middle East Medievalists for bestowing on me the honor of a Lifetime Achievement Award. It comes from a group of colleagues whose work I greatly admire, and who have been at the heart of the extraordinary progress in studies on the medieval Middle East over the past two decades. No less important, they have also ensured that this field has remained a visible and sometimes even influential presence in an area where contemporary issues threaten to dominate if not obliterate all other perspectives. I have found it deeply rewarding to be part of the common enterprise during such a dynamic and creative period.
description: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta, Vol. 23 No. 1 (2015): Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Remarks by the Recipient of the 2014 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
Creators: name: Crone, Patricia
Publisher: name: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
Year: 2015

description: When I discussed with Matthew what I should talk about, he said he’d like to hear some manner of reflection on my work, career, books, students, and the state of the field, or some combination of these things. Well, I doubt that I shall be able to talk about all these things, but let me start by telling you a story.
description: Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta, Vol. 23 No. 1 (2015): Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Enhancing the Education of Community Health Workers on Health Literacy and Cultural Humility in Times of COVID-19
Creators: name: Allen-Meares, Paula
name: Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda
name: Brazil, Eryn
name: Garcia, Olga
name: Dickens, Carolyn
name: Biggers, Alana
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: ABSTRACTBackground: Community Health Workers (CHW) play a critical role in promoting the health of their communities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to educate CHW on health literacy and cultural humility became pivotal. Purpose: The purpose of this paper was twofold: First, to evaluate the impact of training CHW on health literacy and cultural humility and second, to explore the views of CHW regarding their experience. Methods: A multi-method approach that included a pre- and post-evaluation questionnaire and several open-ended questions was utilized to gather data. Seventy-three CHW participated in the training and a small group participated in a follow-up consultation session. Results: Confidence in defining health literacy and Social Determinants of Health and identifying health literacy and cultural humility practices improved after the training. CHW also identified action steps they plan to implement in their daily work, as well as some challenges in implement?ing strategies. Discussion: The authors make a call to providing CHW with ongoing training and support to enhance their capacity to impact their communities. Translation to Health Education Practice: This article emphasizes several sub-competencies of the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Inc. (NCHEC), such as creating an environment conducive to learning and developing culturally responsive content.
X-ray reverberation in BH systems
Creators: name: De Marco, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: X-ray reverberation lags are due to the delayed response of the accretion disc to irradiation from a rapidly variable hard X-ray flux. These lags scale with the relative distance between the X-ray source and the reprocessing region in the disc, therefore they are powerful diagnostics of the geometry of the innermost accretion flow. I will review results obtained from studies of X-ray reverberation in BH systems, and discuss how these studies will benefit from the large collecting area and instrumental capabilities of Athena.
PN2SC Case Study: An EMF-IncQuery solution
Creators: name: Izsó, Benedek
name: Hegedüs, Ábel
name: Bergmann, Gábor
name: Horváth, Ákos
name: Ráth, István
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper presents a solution for the Petri-Net to Statecharts case study of the Transformation Tool Contest 2013, using EMF-IncQuery and Xtend for implementing the model transformation.
description: In Proceedings TTC 2013, arXiv:1311.7536
Weighted Moore-Penrose invertible and weighted EP Banach algebra elements
Creators: name: Boasso, Enrico
name: Djordjevic, Dragan S.
name: Mosic, Dijana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 46H05, Secondary 15A09

description: The weighted Moore-Penrose inverse will be introduced and studied in the context of Banach algebras. In addition, weighted EP Banach algebra elements will be characterized. The Banach space operator case will be also considered.
description: 18 pages; original research article
Developing a holistic model for digital library evaluation
Creators: name: Zhang, Ying
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: The objective of the research is to develop a holistic model for digital library (DL) evaluation. To develop such a model, a three-stage research approach was applied: exploration, confirmation, and verification. During the exploration stage, a literature review was conducted, and then an interview along with card sorting technique was employed to collect perceptions from DL experts with emphasis on determining what criteria should be used in DL evaluation. Then, the criteria identified from the exploration were used for developing an online survey during the confirmation stage. Heterogeneous DL stakeholders were asked to rate the importance of each criterion to DL evaluation. The holistic model was constructed by utilizing descriptive and inference statistical techniques. Its holistic nature was ensured through: (1) incorporation of various DL stakeholders' perspectives in light of Marchionini's multifaceted evaluation approach, and (2) inclusion of all digital library levels suggested by Saracevic's stratified information retrieval model. Eventually, in the verification stage, selected criteria from the model were tested in real DL use setting. Some significant findings include: (1) consistently perceived important criteria for DL evaluation. DL stakeholders care more about premise (e.g., accessibility and sustainability of a DL), process (e.g., ease of use, technology reliability, and service responsiveness), and direct performance (e.g., usefulness of information, successfulness and efficiency of task completion), whereas less concerned about indirect factors (e.g., personalization, behavior change, service courtesy, and extended social effects); (2) inter-group divergence in importance perception for some evaluation criteria. The divergence primarily exists between the user and other DL stakeholder groups; (3) some promising criteria (e.g., comprehensiveness of collection, integrity of information, integration of service to information seeking path, collaboration/sharing) augment the existing DL evaluations whereby important criteria have essentially been covered; and (4) most importantly, the core dissertation objective is fulfilled, that is the construction of the holistic evaluation model, in which heterogeneous stakeholders' perspectives at all DL levels are presented. The proposed model fills a lacuna in the DL domain, that is the lack of a comprehensive and flexible framework to guide and benchmark evaluations and the uncertainty about what divergence exists among heterogeneous DL stakeholder groups.
Figure S1. byday_sexratio_byspecies from Widespread sex ratio polymorphism in Caenorhabditis nematodes
Creators: name: Huang, Yun
name: Lo, Yun-Hua
name: Hsu, Jung-Chen
name: Le, Tho Son
name: Yang, Fang-Jung
name: Chang, Tiffany
name: Braendle, Christian
name: Wang, John
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Although equal sex ratio is ubiquitous and represents an equilibrium in evolutionary theory, biased sex ratios are predicted for certain local conditions. Cases of sex ratio bias have been mostly reported for single species, but little is known about its evolution above the species level. Here, we surveyed progeny sex ratios in 23 species of the nematode genus Caenorhabditis, including 19 for which we tested multiple strains. For the species with multiple strains, 5 species had female-biased and 2 had non-biased sex ratios in all strains, respectively. The other 12 species showed polymorphic sex ratios across strains. Female-biased sex ratios could be due to sperm competition whereby X-bearing sperm outcompete nullo-X sperm during fertilization. In this model, when sperm are limited allowing all sperm to be used, sex ratios are expected to be equal. However, in assays limiting mating to a few hours, most strains showed similarly biased sex ratios compared to unlimited mating experiments, except that one C. becei strain showed significantly reduced female bias compared to unlimited mating. Our study shows frequent polymorphism in sex ratios within Caenorhabditis species and that sperm competition alone cannot explain the sex ratio bias.
title: Analyses of Diet and Geographic Variation in Leaf-Nosed Snakes, Phyllorhynchus
Creators: name: Gardner, Stephanie A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2002

description: This study revealed that P. decurtatus primarily eat squamate eggs, and that the diet of P. browni appears to consist entirely of squamate eggs; gecko tails constitute a very small proportion of the diet of P. decurtatus. Feeding in both species occurred throughout their active seasons and both species increased prey consumption in August. The sexes of P. browni, but not P. decurtatus showed different monthly feeding patterns. Desert-of-collection did not affect P. decurtatus monthly feeding patterns. Phyllorhynchus decurtatus collected from the Sonoran Desert and P. browni, which is found only in the Sonoran Desert, showed similar monthly patterns of prey consumption. The mean number of eggshells consumed per individual P. browni increased significantly in August, but this was not the case for P. decurtatus. Both species seemed to slash the eggs at one end, probably with their enlarged maxillary teeth, and swallowed this end first.

The previously recognized subspecies artificially compartmentalize the inconsistent variation in this species. There was extensive overlap in all morphological characters examined between four subspecies and intergrades of P. decurtatus. ANOVA revealed that there were significant differences between mean scale and blotch counts between putative subspecies, but they did not represent discrete differences among the subspecies. Discriminant functions analysis revealed that individuals could often be classified correctly, but that misclassified animals were not classified by the analysis in a geographically consistent manner. Principal components analysis revealed that phenotypes did not group together in a geographically consistent manner. Regression analysis revealed a longitudinal cline in ventral scale number, as well as some weaker clinal trends in other characters.
Symmetries of Multipartite Entanglement Evolution in Many-Sided Local Channels
Creators: name: Siomau, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetries of the initial state of a quantum system and the quantum channels, which simultaneously affect parts of the system, can significantly simplify the description of the entanglement evolution. Using concurrence as the entanglement measure, we study the entanglement evolution of few qubit systems, when each of the qubits is affected by a local channel independently of the others. We show that, for low-rank density matrices of the final quantum state, such complex entanglement dynamics can be completely described by a combination of independent factors representing the evolution of entanglement of the initial state, when just one of the qubits is affected by a local channel.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, 30 references
Analysis of economic and social factors associated with trafficking in women
Creators: name: Jahic, Galma
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this research was to address the issue of trafficking for sexual exploitation by using macro-quantitative analysis to identify the characteristics of source and destination countries, and by studying the micro-level context in which human trafficking emerges. In the macro-quantitative component of the study, data on a range of variables were compiled from national indicator databases developed by intergovernmental organizations, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and similar agencies. The trafficking status of each country was determined based on ratings developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2006) through content analysis of third sources. Data were analyzed separately for source and for destination country status using logistic regression analysis as well as different visual representations of the data. For the micro-level component, an in-depth case study that focused on Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country identified as a destination for trafficking for sexual exploitation, was conducted, using various sources of data. Interviews with representatives of numerous agencies, governmental and non-governmental, (total N = 25) were conducted. Furthermore, databases (MIMOSA database, and Counter Trafficking Module Database) developed by the International Organization for Migration that contain data on victims identified in Bosnia and Herzegovina were used. Finally, information from various reports complemented the findings. All this information was used to understand why this country has become a destination for trafficking for sexual exploitation. Further, who traffickers and pimps are, how victims are recruited and exploited, how responses to trafficking affect the trafficking problem, and how macro-level variables translate into behaviors at the micro-level were explored as well. Results of the macro-quantitative analysis indicate that low GDP and negative Population Growth were good predictors of a county’s status as a source country, while country’s status as an immigration country and high Human Development Indicators Index values were associated with country’s status as a destination country. The case study revealed that very complex economic, social, and political processes contributed to the emergence of trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina, partly as a result of the war and post war economy, indicating that simple economic explanations are insufficient in explaining human trafficking.
Effective Field Theory Beyond the Standard Model
Creators: name: Willenbrock, Scott
name: Zhang, Cen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the effective field theory approach to physics beyond the Standard Model using dimension-six operators. Topics include the choice of operator basis, electroweak boson pair production, precision electroweak physics (including one-loop contributions), and Higgs physics. By measuring the coefficients of dimension-six operators with good accuracy, we can hope to infer some or all of the features of the theory that lies beyond the Standard Model.
description: 34 pages, 4 figures. Prepared for Volume 64 of the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
Cultural Protection and Inheritance of Red Buildings from the Perspective of Rural Revitalization : A Case Study of the Former Site of "Third Line" Military Factory in Pengfang, Jiangxi Province
Creators: name: HE Jianjian
name: YANG Xidi
name: NING Yuanmin
name: GAO Jie
name: RAO Zhaokang
name: HE Jianjian
name: YANG Xidi
name: NING Yuanmin
name: GAO Jie
name: RAO Zhaokang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural revitalization, Red buildings, Tourism development

description: This paper makes an investigation and analysis of the existing red buildings in Pengfang Township, and puts forward the circular development model of "Red Building + Rural Tourism" after systematic arrangement. And through the dialectical perspective of the protection, inheritance, development and utilization of architectural culture under the revitalization of the countryside, this paper observes how the villages with red buildings help to boost the rural economy by integrating its own internal and external resources under the background of the great revival of the national rural traditional culture, so as to realize the protective development of rural red buildings.
New Vacuum Solar Telescope observations of a flux rope tracked by a filament activation
Creators: name: Yang, Shuhong
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Liu, Zhong
name: Xiang, Yongyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One main goal of the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) which is located at the \emph{Fuxian Solar Observatory} is to image the Sun at high resolution. Based on the high spatial and temporal resolution NVST H$α$ data and combined with the simultaneous observations from the \emph{Solar Dynamics Observatory} for the first time, we investigate a flux rope tracked by a filament activation. The filament material is initially located at one end of the flux rope and fills in a section of the rope, and then the filament is activated due to magnetic field cancellation. The activated filament rises and flows along helical threads, tracking out the twisted flux rope structure. The length of the flux rope is about 75 Mm, the average width of its individual threads is 1.11 Mm, and the estimated twist is 1$π$. The flux rope appears as a dark structure in H$α$ images, a partial dark and partial bright structure in 304 Å, while as bright structures in 171 Å and 131 Å images. During this process, the overlying coronal loops are quite steady since the filament is confined within the flux rope and does not erupt successfully. It seems that, for the event in this study, the filament is located and confined within the flux rope threads, instead of being suspended in the dips of twisted magnetic flux.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJL
To be or not to be intrusive? The solution of parametric and stochastic equations --- Proper Generalized Decomposition
Creators: name: Giraldi, Loïc
name: Liu, Dishi
name: Matthies, Hermann G.
name: Nouy, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65K10, 65D30, 65M70, 15A69, 60H35

description: A numerical method is proposed to compute a low-rank Galerkin approximation to the solution of a parametric or stochastic equation in a non-intrusive fashion. The considered nonlinear problems are associated with the minimization of a parameterized differentiable convex functional. We first introduce a bilinear parameterization of fixed-rank tensors and employ an alternating minimization scheme for computing the low-rank approximation. In keeping with the idea of non-intrusiveness, at each step of the algorithm the minimizations are carried out with a quasi-Newton method to avoid the computation of the Hessian. The algorithm is made non-intrusive through the use of numerical integration. It only requires the evaluation of residuals at specific parameter values. The algorithm is then applied to two numerical examples.
What Happens When SAV Fleets Compete: A Fare-Based Analysis
Creators: name: Sambasivam, Balasubramanian
name: Gurumurthy, Krishna Murthy
name: Kockelman, Kara M.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: high performance computing

description: In cities across the world, especially under dense settings, transportation network companies (TNCs) account for a non-trivial mode share. With the introduction of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs), ridehailing will become more common. When multiple TNCs or SAV fleets compete for customers, fares, wait times, and other performance metrics are affected. This study simulates competition between two SAV operators for the Bloomington, Illinois region with a profit-maximization objective. Fare strategies such as a time-of-day (TOD) factor, zone- based surge pricing (ZSP), and a combination of the two are simulated. Customers are assumed to choose operators based on low fares, after accounting for bias in operator preference. Results from a large-scale agent-based simulator called POLARIS suggest that the implementation of the TOD and ZSP simultaneously appears to be advantageous for fleet operators, as it helps increase their profit. While dynamic ridesharing is beneficial for passengers by reducing their fares, it leads to losses for SAV operators. Fleet size and, consequently, coverage for request assignment impacts profit.
Complete Tidal Evolution of Pluto-Charon
Creators: name: Cheng, W. H.
name: Lee, Man Hoi
name: Peale, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Both Pluto and its satellite Charon have rotation rates synchronous with their orbital mean motion. This is the theoretical end point of tidal evolution where transfer of angular momentum has ceased. Here we follow Pluto's tidal evolution from an initial state having the current total angular momentum of the system but with Charon in an eccentric orbit with semimajor axis $a \approx 4R_P$ (where $R_P$ is the radius of Pluto), consistent with its impact origin. Two tidal models are used, where the tidal dissipation function $Q \propto$ 1/frequency and $Q=$ constant, where details of the evolution are strongly model dependent. The inclusion of the gravitational harmonic coefficient $C_{22}$ of both bodies in the analysis allows smooth, self consistent evolution to the dual synchronous state, whereas its omission frustrates successful evolution in some cases. The zonal harmonic $J_2$ can also be included, but does not cause a significant effect on the overall evolution. The ratio of dissipation in Charon to that in Pluto controls the behavior of the orbital eccentricity, where a judicious choice leads to a nearly constant eccentricity until the final approach to dual synchronous rotation. The tidal models are complete in the sense that every nuance of tidal evolution is realized while conserving total angular momentum - including temporary capture into spin-orbit resonances as Charon's spin decreases and damped librations about the same.
description: 36 pages, including 18 figures; accepted for publication in Icarus
title: The Effect of Chromosomal Position on Dosage Compensation and Ontogenic Expression of the V+ Gene in D. Melanogaster
Creators: name: Tobler, Jack E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Two manifestations of gene regulation-- dosage compensation and ontogenic regulation--were examined in normally positioned and relocated v+ genotypes in Drosophila melanogaster to determine the role of gene position in these control functions. Enzyme assays, used as criteria of gene activity, were performed on various genotypes containing different doses of v+ in normal and relocated positions in male and female flies. The results indicate that although differently positioned v+ genes may specify different tryptophan pyrrolase activities, they still show dosage compensation. In each case, the enzyme activity associated with each gene, either on the X, Y, or third chromosome, is twice as much in males as it is in females. This indicates that dosage compensation is not confined to the gene when located on the X chromosome.

In order to determine if the pattern of activity of the gene during ontogeny is altered by relocation, T(l; 3)rasv genotypes and wild type controls were assayed at the same stages of development. The experimental design allowed a comparison of the ontogenic expression of three different genes--v+, Zw, and Pgd--through the activities of their associated enzymes. The results indicate that changing the gene's position may alter its ontogenic expression. Animals with v+ on the third chromosome have a unique peak of tryptophan pyrrolase activity in larvae which is not present in wild type. The activity in this peak is at l east 10 times higher than that observed in 72-hour wild type larvae, in fact, higher than that observed in any normal genotype at any time during development. With the exception of this peak, the developmental curves of enzyme activity are similar, although the relocated genes specify consistently lower enzyme activities than do normally positioned genes. The unique peak is not the result of a general physiological effect since the patterns of Zw and Pgd activity appear to be the same in wild type and translocated v+ genotypes. The relevance of the data to earlier studies and to models for gene regulation is discussed.
Applying AOSE Concepts to Model Crosscutting Variability in Variant-Rich Processes
Creators: name: Martínez-Ruiz, Tomás
name: García, Félix
name: Piattini, Mario
name: Münch, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software process models need to be variant-rich, in the sense that they should be systematically customizable to specific project goals and project environments. It is currently very difficult to model Variant-Rich Process (VRP) because variability mechanisms are largely missing in modern process modeling languages. Variability mechanisms from other domains, such as programming languages, might be suitable for the representation of variability and could be adapted to the modeling of software processes. Mechanisms from Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) and concepts from Aspect- Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) show particular promise when modeling variability. This paper presents an approach that integrates variability concepts from SPLE and AOSE in the design of a VRP approach for the systematic support of tailoring in software processes. This approach has also been implemented in SPEM, resulting in the vSPEM notation. It has been used in a pilot application, which indicates that our approach based on AOSE can make process tailoring easier and more productive.
description: 5 pages. The final version of this paper is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6068365
Near-integrability as a numerical tool in solar system dynamics
Creators: name: Kaasalainen, Mikko
name: Laakso, Teemu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple choice of integration variables that can be used to exploit the near-integrable character of problems in celestial mechanics. The approach is based on the well-known principle of variation of parameters: instead of orbital elements, we use the phase-space coordinates the object would have at a given point in its (Keplerian) orbit if the perturbing forces were removed. This formulation is suitable for almost any numerical integrator; thus, multistep schemes are easy to build, stepsize can be adjusted, and dissipative forces are allowed. Compared with traditional non-symplectic N-body integrators, the approach often offers increase in speed or accuracy if perturbations are small.
Investigating Vibrio Cholerae ToxT-Ligand Interactions Using GROMACS
Creators: name: Castellanos, Hugo Villar
name: Touhami, Ahmed
name: Hanke, Andreas
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: high performance computing

description: Vibrio cholerae is a bacterium responsible for the potentially fatal disease known as Cholera, and the ToxT protein is responsible for the transcription of most virulence genes in the bacterium. The purpose of this preliminary study is to investigate the binding affinity of a ligand that attaches to the DNA binding domain in ToxT using the GROMACS molecular dynamics package. Based on a literature review, a drug-like ligand (ZINC database id 14749003) was selected for this study. Docking of the ligand to ToxT using Molegro Virtual Docker (MVD) showed two prevalent binding sites (residues Arg214 and Arg187); the ligand binds to the protein via two hydrogen bonds with each site, with binding energies of -1.35 kcal/mol and -0.8 kcal/mol for Arg214, -1.6 kcal/mol and -1.46 kcal/mol for Arg187. Then analysis of a 1-ns molecular dynamics run (on Lonestar6) of the docked ligand-protein complex showed that the attachment of the ligand to the protein was relatively stable, with a maximum hydrogen bond occupancy rate of 31.7% and with the top donor-acceptor pairs involving residues Arg214 and Arg187, which validates the result from MVD. The conformation of the complex was also stable with a radius of gyration fluctuating around a value of 1.9 nm.