cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Property Rights in Seventeenth Century France
Creators: name: Parker, D.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2006

description: A comparative analysis of concepts of property and property rights in Languedoc, Normandy and Burgundy in the late seventeenth century based on investigation of customs, legal commentaries, test cases, court cases, together with a selection of marriage contracts, wills, property transactions, government edicts and other decisions.

 The aims were to (a) clarify an area of considerable confusion by elucidating the character and basis of French property rights (b) demonstrate that modern property rights and a sense of absolute property rights were less developed than is often suggested and that contemporaries (c) show that, despite differences in the customs of different regions and in their legal procedures, particularly between the customary north and the 'Roman' south, property relations and the strategies pursued within them were similar. A further, longer term objective is to use the material to illuminate the differing evolution and formation of English and French society by comparing the emergence of modern concepts of property rights in the two countries.
Forgotten Migrants: A Cultural History of Post-War British Migrants Who Returned 'Home' from Australia, 1920-2000
Creators: name: Thomson, A.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2006

description: Migration histories often neglect return migration. More than a million Britons migrated to Australia in the peak years of migration between 1945 and 1971, the majority using the assisted passage migration scheme. A significant proportion returned to Britain. This research involved the collection and analysis of written and oral life stories by these return migrants. It complemented La Trobe University (Melbourne) research involving the life stories of postwar British migrants still resident in Australia. The research aimed to enrich our understanding of the post war movements of people between Britain and Australia, of the experiences of British migrants in Australia, and of the motivations, processes and meanings of return migration. The research also aimed to develop more general theoretical understandings of the ways in which migrants deal with disjuncture and displacement and construct life stories which make sense of the turbulent interconnections between memory and identity, and between migration, place and nationality.
Grandparents and Teen Grandchildren: Exploring Intergenerational Relationships, 2003-2004
Creators: name: Sweeting, H.
name: Ross, N.
name: Hill, M.
name: Cunningham-Burley, S.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: This research focused on the nature of grandparent-grandchild relationships, exploring the ways in which family and societal contexts are impacting on this kinship relation. The focus was on grandparent-grandchild relations when grandchildren are in their teenage years, as little research has been conducted on this phase of the grandchild-grandparent relationship, particularly on the range of help and support provided by grandparents to older grandchildren, or vice versa. Much previous research on grandparenthood has been based upon large-scale surveys, highlighting various predictors of relationship strength and quality. However, such studies are limited in their ability to shed light on how grandparent-grandchild relationships are actually experienced. Information has mainly been gathered from grandparents, parents and young adults, with few studies including the views of children and young people or containing the perspectives of related grandparents and grandchildren. This research redressed the balance by adopting a qualitative approach to explore the experiences of both grandparents and grandchildren. It considered variations in the same person’s relationships with several grandchildren or grandparents, placing these in the context of each individual’s family, social networks and socio-economic environments. The study emphasised the dynamic nature of grandparent-grandchild relations by examining perceived changes related to life stage and the implications of various family transitions, formations and mobility.
Adding Quality to Quantity: Quality of Life in Older Age, 2000-2002
Creators: name: Bowling, A.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2006

description: The broad aim of the study was to define the constituents of quality of life in older age. The research questions were twofold: how do older people define and prioritise quality of life, and how do they feel it can be improved? While the aim of the exploratory part of the research presented here was to obtain people's values and perceptions of quality of life, it was also hypothesised that, while quality of life is recognised to be an individual, subjective concept, a common core of values could be elicited to enable suggestions to be made on how to improve it. Identification of these values would also enable the identification of pertinent domains for inclusion in measures of quality of life. This study represented a unique multidisciplinary collaboration between investigators with backgrounds in sociology, psychology, social gerontology, transport planning and clinical epidemiology, with collective pooling of expertise and research grant resources (with the consent of the funding bodies). This led to the development of a multidisciplinary quality of life questionnaire. Following the fielding of the questionnaire, 80 respondents were selected for an in-depth interview to probe factors further affecting quality of life. A year after the baseline survey, 38 interviewees had experienced changes, and were re-interviewed to see how these changes had affected their quality of life.

 This qualitative data collection includes the baseline and follow-up interviews described above, but not the initial quality of life questionnaire.
Delivering Financial Services in the Home, 2002-2004
Creators: name: Knights, D.
name: Leyshon, A.
name: Burton, D.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2006

description: The qualitative research aimed to investigate the feasibility of using home service as a means of raising levels of financial literacy and providing support services for the financially excluded. It was recognised in the proposal that home service provision for savings was in decline. However, when the research began, approximately two years after the proposal had been written, very little industrial branch, home service insurance was still in existence. Also, unfortunately, the one large company still operating in the field (which has subsequently closed for new business) refused the researchers access. Therefore the objectives were changed to include an investigation of the demise of industrial branch insurance and its implications. Nevertheless, in-depth research was carried out with three organisations that offered new business to clients. In finding that a sub-prime or near-prime market for credit delivered at the home, either through face-to-face or electronic media, was expanding dramatically, efforts were rebalanced in this area to investigate their implications for financial literacy and social exclusion.

 The research also aimed to examine changes in financial regulation that might balance the aim of improving financial literacy for marginal groups but meet the demands of providers for some margin of profit at the lower end of the market. Researchers followed a pilot for a modified ordinary branch sales process testing out the delivery system for new, lower cost products due to come online later in 2004.
title: Women and nature in contemporary indigenous women's poetry
Creators: name: Quinn, Francesca Lucia
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: Indigenous women experience a unique relationship with nature that is impacted by cultural beliefs, political and social contextual factors, and so on. Contextual factors impacting the female relationship with the natural world include higher rates of sterility caused by the current climate crisis. The gravity of the symptoms of the climate emergency felt by Indigenous women means that their day-to-day experience is affected by this relationship and its contemporary change. Female Indigenous health and creative actions such as writing are impacted by the climate crisis -- thus arising questions about how the female relationship with nature is shown in contemporary literature. To further examine the specificities of the female relationship to nature, I delve into a corpus of contemporary Indigenous women’s poetry, namely Corpse Whale by DG Nanouk Okpik, An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo, and Night is a SharkSkin Drum by Haunani-Kay Trask. As a study of nature and Indigenous literatures, this thesis aims to better identify the Indigenous female relationship to the natural world and the manners in which the climate crisis impacts Indigenous women. Within intersectional ecocriticism, I make this enquiry by conducting close readings and entering the themes of exploration into confrontation with each other. Using these methods, I have identified main themes of interaction between women and nature within this corpus: body, culture, and creativity. As shown in my work, the relationship with nature presented within these collections is one of compassion, solidarity, and respect.
Microscopic studies on nuclear spin-isospin properties---a personal perspective on covariant density functional theory
Creators: name: Liang, Haozhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin and isospin are essential degrees of freedom in nuclear systems, and the relevant studies on their properties play important roles not only in nuclear physics but also in nuclear astrophysics, particle physics, and so on. In this presentation for the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize 2016, I would like to introduce the microscopic studies on nuclear spin-isospin properties in the framework of covariant density functional theory (DFT), by taking a few works that I have been joining in as examples. It is seen that the covariant scheme plays an important role in describing the spin properties in a consistent way, such as the spin-orbit splitting, the pseudospin symmetry, etc. Meanwhile, the Fock terms play important roles in describing the isospin properties fully self-consistently, such as the Gamow-Teller and spin-dipole resonances, the isospin-symmetry-breaking corrections to nuclear superallowed $β$ transitions, etc. To connect the covariant DFT to more fundamental theories, an \textit{ab initio} relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory for finite nuclei is introduced, and a personal perspective for the coming decade is also illustrated.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of INPC2016 (presentation for IUPAP Young Scientist Prize 2016)
Information Quality and its Impact on Enterprise Search Satisfaction
Creators: name: White, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Large Language Model
LLM
Enterprise search
User satisfaction

description: Research undertaken by Cleverley and Burnett in 2018 indicated that issues around technology, content and training play an equal role in achieving enterprise search satisfaction. There are currently around 90 companies offering enterprise search solutions, most of them suggesting that their technology can solve all the issues experienced by users of enterprise search. In this presentation the impact of eight information quality factors on enterprise search satisfaction will be considered in the light of the availability of generational applications such as ChatGPT promising the optimal answer to any searching question. The presentation will conclude with a consideration of the potential role of large language models in enterprise content applications
Mysmenidae
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Mysmenidae

description: Family MYSMENIDAE This is a small, globally-distributed family with 135 species attributed to 13 genera (WSC, 2015). It was not previously reported from Israel.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 379, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015]."]}
British Oral Archive of Political and Administrative History, 1920-1980
Archive of Political History
Creators: name: Seldon, A.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: This study is available via the UK Data Service QualiBank, an online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data collections held at the UK Data Service.

 This is a qualitative data collection. British Oral Archive of Political and Administrative History (BOAPAH) was a pilot project conducted by the British Library of Political and Economic Science in 1979-1980, and financed by a Social Science Research Council grant. The aim of the project was to collect a systematic oral archive of interviews with key figures from politics, the civil service and the armed forces. Interviewees were selected predominantly from former Permanent Secretaries or former Cabinet Ministers, and were asked questions relating to the whole period of their official life, concentrating on the post-war years. The subject matter of the interviews covers the period from 1920 to 1980, and includes details of the lives and work of the following interviewees:
Derick Heathcoat Amory, Viscount Amory

Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley

Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde of Barskimming

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of The Hirsel

Lt Gen Sir Edward Ian Claud Jacob

John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel

Sir Frank Cyril Musgrave

Sir Anthony Alexander Part

Rt Hon John Enoch Powell

Sir Arthur Hilton Poynton

Robert Lowe Roberthall, Baron Roberthall

Sir Robert Heatlie Scott

Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton

Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield
The interview tapes were transcribed, corrected by the interviewee, and retyped into a clean copy. All four versions of the interview were kept, though the clean copies were bound into individual volumes organised by interviewees.
Prevention and Coping in Child and Family Care, 2001-2002
Creators: name: Sheppard, M.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2009

description: This qualitative study focused on vulnerable families with child care problems who did not receive social work support. It examined the ways mothers, who generally take primary responsibility for care of their children, cope with child care problems without this support.

 The researchers interviewed 99 mothers who were the subject of consecutive referrals to two district social services child care teams, but who were seen only briefly and not taken on for longer term help. The researchers collected their accounts of how they sought to cope with their problems.

 The study was concerned with different ways women try to cope with child care difficulties. What kinds of actions did they take? How did coping efforts vary with different kinds of circumstances, such as degree of stress, sense of control over their lives, and people available to help them? What were their own judgements of their coping efforts, in particular, how efficacious did they consider them to be?

 At a theoretical level these data are of interest to the processes of prevention in child and family care. At the policy and practice level the data are relevant to understanding more about vulnerable families.
Context and Motive in the Perpetuation of Racial Harassment and Violence in North Staffordshire, 2004
Creators: name: Jefferson, T.
name: Gadd, D.
name: Dixon, B.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2006

description: This project addressed the question of why some people engage in racially-motivated violence, and how their motivations for doing so intersect and/or conflict with publicly-expressed nationalist, racist/anti-racist, and religious sentiments. The research was conducted in North Staffordshire, and drew on documentary evidence, in-depth interviews with perpetrators and other individuals, and focus groups conducted with members of the local community. The research found that industrial decline had led to many people in North Staffordshire feeling a sense of loss, in that a whole way of life had gone, never to return. Very many white residents saw the presence of migrant and minority ethnic populations as an emblem of the local area's decline, and an uncomfortable reminder of their inability to secure decent lives for themselves and their families. Some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people were trying to cope with their feelings of shame, envy and disgust by projecting them often aggressively, sometimes violently onto migrant and minority ethnic groups and individuals.
Die Zitierung von Psalm 78,51 im Midrasch ha-Gadol des David Ben Amram aus Aden (13./14. Jh.) und in der alt-irischen Vetus Latina (Ps 77,51)
Creators: name: Mutius, Hans-Georg Von
Publisher: name: Biblische Notizen
Year: 1970

description: Biblische Notizen, Bd. 140 (2009): Biblische Notizen, Band 140
title: Moses Dobruska and the Invention of Social Philosophy
title: Utopia, Judaism, and Heresy under the French Revolution
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Greco, Silvana
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soziologie
subject: Anthropologie
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::940 Geschichte Europas::940 Geschichte Europas

description: This book proposes, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of the Philosophie sociale, published in Paris in 1793 by Moses Dobruska (1753-1794). Dobruska was a businessman, scholar, and social philosopher, born into a Jewish family in Moravia, who converted to Catholicism, gained wide recognition at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and then emigrated to France to join the French Revolution. Dobruska, who took on the name Junius Frey during his Parisian sojourn, barely survived his book. Accused of conspiring on behalf of foreign powers, he was guillotined on April 5, 1794, at the height of The Terror, on the same day as Georges Jacques Danton. From Dobruska's ideas, which were widely used between the late eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century without attribution to their author, emerge some of the key concepts of the social sciences as we know them today. An enthusiastic and unfortunate revolutionary and sometimes a brilliant theorist, Moses Dobruska deserves a role of his own in the history of sociology.
title: Aλλοίωση τροφίμων από ζύμες
title: Spoilage yeasts
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Δεληστάθης, Αναστάσιος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Zύμες αλλοίωσης
Τρόφιμα
Zygosaccharomyces
Βιομηχανία τροφίμων
Ανάπτυξη ζυμών
Ωσμόφιλοι
Ξηρόφιλοι

description: Σκοπός της παρούσης βιβλιογραφικής εργασίας είναι μια επισκόπηση αναφορικά με το θέμα της αλλοίωσης των τροφίμων από ζυμομύκητες, εστιάζοντας αρχικά σε πιο γενικευμένα χαρακτηριστικά τους. Ακολούθως, γίνεται εκτενής αναφορά στις συνθήκες ανάπτυξης των ζυμών στα τρόφιμα, δίνοντας έμφαση στις εξής παραμέτρους: την ενεργότητα ύδατος, την θερμοκρασία ανάπτυξης, την τιμή του pHκαι την παρουσία οξυγόνου. Γίνεται ακόμα αναφορά σε συγκεκριμένους ζυμομύκητες οι οποίοι είναι βασικοί παράγοντες αλλοίωσης των τροφίμων. Σ’ ένα μέρος της εργασίας παραθέτονται οι μέθοδοι ανίχνευσης και προσδιορισμού των ζυμών αλλοίωσης εμβαθύνοντας σε πιο σύγχρονες και ταχείες μεθόδους. Επιπρόσθετα, αναλύονται τα μέτρα που έχουν θεσπιστεί για τον περιορισμό των ζυμών αλλοίωσης, καθώς και άλλων μέτρων που αναμένεται να εφαρμοστούν με επιτυχία στην βιομηχανία των τροφίμων.
Observational View of Magnetic Fields in Active Galactic Nuclei Jets
Creators: name: Hovatta, Talvikki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to the currently favored picture, relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are launched in the vicinity of the black hole by magnetic fields extracting energy from the spinning black hole or the accretion disk. In the past decades, various models from shocks to magnetic reconnection have been proposed as the energy dissipation mechanism in the jets. This paper presents a short review on how linear polarization observations can be used to constrain the magnetic field structure in the jets of AGN, and how the observations can be used to constrain the various emission models.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 324, New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics
Cognitive information transformation in functional brain networks
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: The human brain is a flexible information processing system. Across a range of simple and complex tasks, such as walking across the street to playing basketball, the brain transforms sensory information from the environment into corresponding motor actions. This sensory input to motor output transformation likely requires a sequence of complex neural computations implemented by brain networks. Though decades of cognitive neuroscience have made great progress in characterizing the functions of individual brain areas, less progress has been made in understanding exactly how these brain regions work in concert to implement the diverse cognitive computations underlying complex behaviors. In this thesis, I provide an account of how the brain's distributed functional networks implement neurocognitive functions and computations. First, I demonstrate how local cognitive task activations can be computed from the activity of other brain areas through distributed brain network connectivity patterns. This illustrates how intrinsic functional connectivity enables the transfer of task-relevant activations between brain regions. Second, I demonstrate how local cognitive information, such as sensory stimulus activations in sensory cortices, is transformed into motor activations in motor cortex through a sequence of computations governed by intrinsic functional connectivity during cognitive tasks in both humans and non-human primates. This demonstrates that the intrinsic brain network organization can provide insight into how the brain implements neurocognitive computations and transformations. Finally, I investigate the relationship between task activations and functional network connectivity from a dynamical systems perspective. Specifically, I demonstrate that task-state activity quenches ongoing functional correlations and variability, and that this quenching occurs due to a sigmoidal transfer function that describes local mean-field neural activations. This suggests that task-state functional network changes are meaningful, and reflect nonlinear relationships between brain regions. This provides a way forward to improve current models of neural computations and communication by leveraging nonlinear models of neural dynamics. Together, the results presented in this thesis provide a novel understanding of how functional brain network organization shapes cognitive computations.
Mysmena Petrunkevitch 1928
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Mysmenidae
Mysmena

description: Mysmena Petrunkevitch, 1928 This is the largest genus of the family with 24 species (WSC, 2015). Most species are restricted to Southeast Asia. The type species, Mysmena leucoplagiata, is known only from the West Palaearctic.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 379, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015]."]}
title: Διερεύνηση της ικανοποίησης των συνοδών ασθενών παιδιών από τις παρεχόμενες υπηρεσίες των Τοπικών Μονάδων Υγείας. Μελέτη περίπτωσης της 3ης ΤΟΜΥ Κερατσινίου - Δραπετσώνας
title: Research on the satisfaction of companions of children patients from services provided by the Local Health Units. Case study of the 3rd Local Health Unit of Keratsini – Drapetsona
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Πιτσικάλη, Ειρήνη
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Πρωτοβάθμια Φροντίδα Υγείας
Τοπικές Μονάδες Υγείας
Ικανοποίηση ασθενών
Οικογενειακός γιατρός
Primary Health Care
Local Health Units
Patient satisfaction
Family physician

description: Ένα από τα θεμελιώδη ανθρώπινα αγαθά είναι η υγεία. Κάθε κράτος δικαίου αγωνίζεται για τη διασφάλισή της. Ο Παγκόσμιος Οργανισμός Υγείας, (ΠΟΥ), με τις «Διακηρύξεις της «Άλμα -Άτα και της Αστάνα» έθεσαν την Πρωτοβάθμια Φροντίδα Υγείας, (ΠΦΥ), στο επίκεντρο της παγκόσμιας υγείας έχοντας στόχο τη βελτίωση της υγείας όλων των ανθρώπων. Στην Ελλάδα η πιο πρόσφατη προσπάθεια αναβάθμισης της δημόσιας υγείας έγινε το 2019 με την ίδρυση των «Τοπικών Μονάδων Υγείας», (ΤΟΜΥ). Στην παρούσα μελέτη θα μας απασχολήσει η 3η ΤΟΜΥ Κερατσινίου – Δραπετσώνας. Γίνεται προσπάθεια διερεύνησης της ικανοποίησης των συνοδών ασθενών παιδιών από τις παρεχόμενες υπηρεσίες της συγκεκριμένης υγειονομικής μονάδας. Η μελέτη περιλαμβάνει δύο μέρη, το θεωρητικό και το ερευνητικό. Στο θεωρητικό μέρος γίνεται αναφορά στο αγαθό της υγείας και την ΠΦΥ, το θεσμό των ΤΟΜΥ και την έννοια της ικανοποίησης των ασθενών. Το ερευνητικό μέρος απαρτίζεται από δύο έρευνες, μία ποσοτική και μία ποιοτική. Η ποιοτική προέκυψε λόγω των σχεδόν άριστων αποτελεσμάτων της ποσοτικής έρευνας που κατέδειξε την υψηλή ικανοποίηση των πολιτών που επισκέπτονται την 3η ΤΟΜΥ Κερατσινίου – Δραπετσώνας. Οι εργαζόμενοι έδωσαν συνεντεύξεις προσπαθώντας να αναδείξουν τους παράγοντες τους οποίους θεωρούν σημαντικούς για την ικανοποίηση των συνοδών των ασθενών που κάνουν χρήση των υπηρεσιών της συγκεκριμένης υγειονομικής μονάδας. Από τα αποτελέσματα των ερευνών προκύπτει η υψηλή ικανοποίηση των συνοδών ασθενών παιδιών, ο εξαιρετικός τρόπος εργασίας των υπαλλήλων, αλλά και το πρόβλημα της υποστελέχωσης της υγειονομικής μονάδας.
Dynamics of Transformative Ideas in Contemporary Public Discourse, 2002-2003
Creators: name: McLennan, G.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: This project sought to address the changing role of ideas and intellectuals in the public discourses of contemporary 'knowledge societies'. To this end, the ethos and development of two ideas institutions were investigated - the think tank Demos and the LSE. The project sought to reconceptualise the general dynamics of societal ideas and the role of contemporary intellectuals by suggesting that ideas are increasingly 'vehicular' in character, that is, flexible, mobile, pragmatic, inclusive, and geared towards producing an image of their intellectual 'mediators' as agenda-setting agents in an increasingly media-orientated public sphere. Together with the project's analysis of two prominent 'vehicular ideas' - 'Third Way' and 'knowledge society' - the case studies suggest that this perspective is at least fruitful and challenging in understanding contemporary forms of 'ideas work'.

 Another research task was to assess whether think tanks and universities are converging in style and practice, and some evidence for this was found. However, the influence runs in both directions, with think tanks like Demos incorporating several typically academic norms.
 The study produced 33 interview transcripts, 18 research diaries, 14 working papers, 13 possible publications, and a journal special issue. Two successful public meetings were held with the hosts at the LSE and Demos.
From $r$-dual sets to uniform contractions
Creators: name: Bezdek, Karoly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $M^d$ denote the $d$-dimensional Euclidean, hyperbolic, or spherical space. The $r$-dual set of given set in $M^d$ is the intersection of balls of radii $r$ centered at the points of the given set. In this paper we prove that for any set of given volume in $M^d$ the volume of the $r$-dual set becomes maximal if the set is a ball. As an application we prove the following. The Kneser-Poulsen Conjecture states that if the centers of a family of $N$ congruent balls in Euclidean $d$-space is contracted, then the volume of the intersection does not decrease. A uniform contraction is a contraction where all the pairwise distances in the first set of centers are larger than all the pairwise distances in the second set of centers. We prove the Kneser-Poulsen conjecture for uniform contractions (with $N$ sufficiently large) in $M^d$.
description: 8 pages
Similarity and diversity of black holes - view from the Very High Energies
Creators: name: Lindfors, Elina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active galactic nuclei, hosting supermassive black holes and launching relativistic jets, are the most numerous objects on the gamma-ray sky. At the other end of the mass scale, phenomena related to stellar mass black holes, in particular gamma-ray bursts and microquasars, are also seen on the gamma-ray sky. While all of them are thought to launch relativistic jets, the diversity even within each of these classes is enormous. In this review, I will discuss recent very high energy gamma-ray results that underline both the similarity of the black hole systems, as well as their diversity.
description: To appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium No.324, New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics
A dynamical modeling to study the adaptive immune system and the influence of antibodies in the immune memory
Creators: name: de Castro, Alexandre
name: Fronza, Carlos Frederico
name: Alves, Domingos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Immunological systems have been an abundant inspiration to contemporary computer scientists. Problem solving strategies, stemming from known immune system phenomena, have been successfully applied to challenging problems of modern computing (MONROY, SAAB, GODINEZ, 2004). Simulation systems and mathematical modeling are also beginning use to answer more complex immunological questions as immune memory process and duration of vaccines, where the regulation mechanisms are not still known sufficiently (LundegaarD, Lund, Kesmir, Brunak, Nielsen, 2007).In this article we studied in machina a approach to simulate the process of antigenic mutation and its implications for the process of memory. Our results have suggested that the durability of the immune memory is affected by the process of antigenic mutation and by populations of soluble antibodies in the blood. The results also strongly suggest that the decrease of the production of antibodies favors the global maintenance of immune memory.
description: Published in CMES, vol 45(1) pp 83-96 (2009) + revisions
Mysmena leucoplagiata Simon 1879
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Mysmenidae
Mysmena
Mysmena leucoplagiata

description: Mysmena leucoplagiata (Simon, 1879) Mysmena leucoplagiata: Kraus, 1967: 388, f. 1‒11 (♂♀) For a complete synonym listing and references, see the World Spider Catalog (2015). Material. ISRAEL: Haifa, university campus, 32°45’N 35°01’E, 450 m, 29.xii.2010 (YM) – 1♂ 2♀ (IBPN); same locality, 11.ix.2011 (YM) ‒ 1♀ (IBPN). Comments. This is the type species of the genus. Mysmena leucoplagiata is known from Western Europe to Azerbaijan. Israel is the southernmost locality of the species across its entire range.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 379, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Kraus, O. (1967): Zur Spinnenfauna Deutschlands, II. Mysmena jobi n. sp., eine Symphytognathide in Mitteleuropa (Arachnida: Araneae: Symphytognathidae). Senckenbergiana biologica, 48, 387 - 399.", "World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015]."]}
Multilateral Policing in Africa: its Nature and Socio-Political Impact in Uganda and Sierra Leone, 2003-2005
Creators: name: Baker, B.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2006

description: Policing in Africa is not a monopoly of government, but is currently undertaken by a number of formal and informal agencies other than the state police. This research project sought to make a detailed and comparative study of all forms of policing in Uganda and Sierra Leone and to establish the current scale and nature of the various forms of policing in the two countries, and why non-state policing is being used.

 The research documented attitudes to policing in Uganda and Sierra Leone and the degree of multilateral policing in the two countries. In particular it examined who was delivering policing, who was responsible for policing, how many non-state providers of policing existed, what these providers did, and whom they served. Also examined was change in the nature and scope of public policing, whether public police defined their responsibilities differently than in the past, how state and non-state policing agents interact in the field, and whether they plan together, co-ordinate operations, or exchange information. With respect to the commercial security industry, information on how many companies existed was gathered, and how many people they employed.

 This data collection includes extracts from interviews with key stakeholders, including those who authorise policing, those who provide it and those who use it.

 A later qualitative study by the same principal investigator, Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Police Local Partnership Boards in Sierra Leone, 2006, is held at the UK Data Archive under SN 5751. Further information about these studies and other research projects on African policing may be found on the principal investigator's Welcome to African Policing web site.
Short-baseline electron antineutrino disappearance study by using neutrino sources from $^{13}$C + $^{9}$Be reaction
Creators: name: Shin, Jae Won
name: Cheoun, Myung-Ki
name: Kajino, Toshitaka
name: Hayakawa, Takehito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To investigate the existence of sterile neutrino, we propose a new neutrino production method using $^{13}$C beams and a $^{9}$Be target for short-baseline electron antineutrino (${\barν}_{e}$) disappearance study. The production of secondary unstable isotopes which can emit neutrinos from the $^{13}$C + $^{9}$Be reaction is calculated with three different nucleus-nucleus (AA) reaction models. Different isotope yields are obtained using these models, but the results of the neutrino flux are found to have unanimous similarities. This feature gives an opportunity to study neutrino oscillation through shape analysis. In this work, expected neutrino flux and event rates are discussed in detail through intensive simulation of the light ion collision reaction and the neutrino flux from the beta decay of unstable isotopes followed by this collision. Together with the reactor and accelerator anomalies, the present proposed ${\barν}_{e}$ source is shown to be a practically alternative test of the existence of the $Δm^{2}$ $\sim$ 1 eV$^{2}$ scale sterile neutrino.
Statistical analysis of phase formation in 2D colloidal systems
Creators: name: Carstensen, Hauke
name: Kapaklis, Vassilios
name: Wolff, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Colloidal systems offer unique opportunities for the study of phase formation and structure since their characteristic length scales are accessible to visible light. As a model system the two dimensional assembly of colloidal magnetic and non-magnetic particles dispersed in a ferrofluid (FF) matrix is studied by transmission optical microscopy. We present a method to statistically evaluate images with thousands of particles and map phases by extraction of local variables. Different lattice structures and long-range connected branching chains are observed, when tuning the effective magnetic interaction and varying particle ratios.
Housing the Mentally Vulnerable: the Role of Charities, 2003-2004
Creators: name: Glover-Thomas, N.
name: Barr, W.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2006

description: The aims of this project were to provide a better perception of charity involvement in housing the mentally vulnerable and to identify any legal and practical problems these organisations face in providing this accommodation.

 The community care policy emphasises the community as the primary environment for psychiatric care. In the early days of the policy there was inadequate recognition of the fundamental role played by housing, leading to insufficient housing stock being made available to the mentally vulnerable. Since then, a general lack of funding, gaps in legislative provision, problems caused by homelessness and the need for effective multi-agency working have all contributed to the increasing involvement of charities in housing the mentally vulnerable. Alongside this, various factors have influenced the way in which housing is provided to this group. Indeed, the continued fragility of the funding regime, the multiplicity of referral bodies, the particular support demands of the client group, and the confusing legal framework of occupation arrangements all suggest that charities involved in housing and support provision face significant hurdles in delivering such provision.

 In mapping the character of charities’ involvement in housing and support provision, this research sought to provide firm data on the scope and nature of the problem. It is recognised that such data will have potentially wide implications for the support of the mentally vulnerable and policy reform in the future. In particular the work sought to identify the legal and practical problems these organisations face on a regular basis and it is expected that the data collected will also advance the current legal debate on housing law reform and suggest ways of harnessing best practice.

 The principal findings of the research should be read with the full research report, Housing the mentally vulnerable: the role of charities. Project information is available from the  Charity Law Unit based at the University of Liverpool.
Magnon Planar Hall Effect and Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in a Magnetic Insulator
Creators: name: Liu, J.
name: Cornelissen, L. J.
name: Shan, J.
name: Kuschel, T.
name: van Wees, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrical resistivities can be different for charge currents travelling parallel or perpendicular to the magnetization in magnetically ordered conductors or semiconductors, resulting in the well-known planar Hall effect and anisotropic magnetoresistance. Here, we study the analogous anisotropic magnetotransport behavior for magnons in a magnetic insulator Y$_{3}$Fe$_{5}$O$_{12}$. Electrical and thermal magnon injection, and electrical detection methods are used at room temperature with transverse and longitudinal geometries to measure the magnon planar Hall effect and anisotropic magnetoresistance, respectively. We observe that the relative difference between magnon current conductivities parallel and perpendicular to the magnetization, with respect to the average magnon conductivity, i.e. $|(σ_{\parallel}^{\textrm{m}}-σ_{\perp}^{\textrm{m}})/σ_{0}^{\textrm{m}}|$ , is approximately 5% with the majority of the measured devices showing $σ_{\perp}^{\textrm{m}}>σ_{\parallel}^{\textrm{m}}$.
description: 18 pages, 16 figures
Spermophora Hentz 1841
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Spermophora Hentz, 1841 This genus is distributed worldwide (WSC, 2015) and is well-known in the West Palaearctic but was not previously reported in Israel.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 379, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Wunderlich, J. (1992): Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Okologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beitrage zur Araneologie, 1, 1 - 619."]}
Pinner Census, 1901
Creators: name: Kirkman, K.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2006

description: In order to facilitate the study of local history the Pinner Local History Society have transcribed the enumerators' books for Pinner for the census year 1901 in addition to their previous transcriptions of 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891.
Advance Contracts for the Sale of Wool, c. 1200-1330
Creators: name: Bell, A.
name: Dryburgh, P.
name: Brooks, C.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2006

description: The aim of the project was to investigate the scale and scope of advance contracts for the sale of wool in the Middle Ages. The project was primarily interested in data contained within these contracts and took a unique interdisciplinary approach, employing practices from modern finance, to test the pricing methods and structures of these contracts in detail.

 The methodology of the project required the location, transcription and translation of the contracts held at The National Archives. This produced the resource of 228 contracts transcribed and translated from French and Latin. The evidence from within these contracts has widened the dimensions of the wool trade to all major monastic orders and a larger range of merchants from Southern France, the Low Countries and England. Diverse financial details contained within the contracts- prices per sack and advance payments agreed by individual merchant societies dependent on variable wool quality and preparation and prevailing fiscal conditions - principally highlight the ebb and flow of the medieval English wool trade and the European credit economy. The projects findings suggest that there is a much richer document base and evidence of credit relationships across the whole of the monastic sector and the European merchant community than previous research has suggested.
Geometrical frustration yields fiber formation in self-assembly
Creators: name: Lenz, Martin
name: Witten, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Controlling the self-assembly of supramolecular structures is vital for living cells, and a central challenge for engineering at the nano- and microscales. Nevertheless, even particles without optimized shapes can robustly form well-defined morphologies. This is the case in numerous medical conditions where normally soluble proteins aggregate into fibers. Beyond the diversity of molecular mechanisms involved, we propose that fibers generically arise from the aggregation of irregular particles with short-range interactions. Using a minimal model of ill-fitting, sticky particles, we demonstrate robust fiber formation for a variety of particle shapes and aggregation conditions. Geometrical frustration plays a crucial role in this process, and accounts for the range of parameters in which fibers form as well as for their metastable character.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, 1 ancillary movie; to appear in Nature Physics
Spermophora senoculata Duges 1836
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Spermophora
Spermophora senoculata

description: Spermophora senoculata (Dugès, 1836) Spermophora senoculata: Huber, 2002: 105, f. 1‒13 (♂♀) For a complete synonym listing and references, see the World Spider Catalog (2015). Material. ISRAEL: Haifa, university campus, 32°45’N 35°01’E, 450 m, 11.ix.2011 (YM) – 1♀ 4 juv. (ZMMU); Tel Aviv, Ramat-Aviv, botanical gardens 32°06’N 34°48’E, 40 m, 26.xii.2010 (YM) ‒ 1♂ 4 juv. (ZMMU). Comments. This is a well-known species (46 taxonomic entries in Platnick’s catalogue (Platnick 2014)) with a Holarctic distribution. It was not previously reported from Israel.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 379, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Huber, B. A. (2002): Functional morphology of the genitalia in the spider Spermophora senoculata (Pholcidae, Araneae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 241, 105 - 116.", "World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015].", "Platnick, N. (2014): The World Spider Catalog, Version 15. http: // research. amnh. org / iz / spiders / catalog / INTRO 1. html [accessed on 11 January 2015]."]}
Dark Solitons in Waveguide Polariton Fluids Shed Light on Interaction Constants
Creators: name: Walker, P. M.
name: Tinkler, L.
name: Royall, B.
name: Skryabin, D. V.
name: Farrer, I.
name: Ritchie, D. A.
name: Skolnick, M. S.
name: Krizhanovskii, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study exciton-polariton nonlinear optical fluids in a high momentum regime for the first time. Defects in the fluid develop into dark solitons whose healing length decreases with increasing density. We deduce interaction constants for continuous wave polaritons an order of magnitude larger than with picosecond pulses. Time dependent measurements show a 100ps time for the buildup of the interaction strength suggesting a self-generated excitonic reservoir as the source of the extra nonlinearity. The experimental results agree well with a model of coupled photons, excitons and the reservoir.