cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE BEHAVIOR OF BAKERY CONSUMERS
Creators: name: Souki, Gustavo Quiroga
name: Reis, Viviane Costa
name: Moura, Luiz Rodrigo Cunha
name: Souki, Gustavo Quiroga
name: Reis, Viviane Costa
name: Moura, Luiz Rodrigo Cunha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Baked goods
subject: bread
subject: costumer buying decision
subject: food
subject: willingness to pay

description: The purpose of this study was to understand the behavior of bakery consumers as well as their purchase decision process. A survey was carried out in two stages. The first was a qualitative approach, based in interview involving 10 proprietors and/or managers of bakeries and 10 consumers based in Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The second stage consisted of a quantitative and descriptive characterization. A survey was also performed involving 465 bakery consumers. Results show that consumers attend bakeries mostly to buy perishable food or food for immediate consumption. Besides, the consumers demonstrated positive mental associations about bread, bakeries and baked products, including those produced by other companies than bakeries. In addition, consumers are not willing to pay more for baked products than for products from other industries, although they have been showing preference for baked products. This preference was based on the following parameters: a) minimum or basic attributes; b) differentiating attributes for the general public and; c) differentiating attributes for specific publics. Therefore, the work includes various management and academic implications.
LISA astronomy of double white dwarf binary systems
Creators: name: Stroeer, A.
name: Vecchio, A.
name: Nelemans, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will provide the largest observational sample of (interacting) double white dwarf binaries, whose evolution is driven by radiation reaction and other effects, such as tides and mass transfer. We show that, depending on the actual physical parameters of a source, LISA will be able to provide very different quality of information: for some systems LISA can test unambiguously the physical processes driving the binary evolution, for others it can simply detect a binary without allowing us to untangle the source parameters and therefore shed light on the physics at work. We also highlight that simultaneous surveys with GAIA and/or optical telescopes that are and will become available can radically improve the quality of the information that can be obtained.
description: accepted for publication in ApJLetters
Salmonella Cost Estimate Updated Using FoodNet Data
Creators: name: Frenzen, Paul D.
name: Riggs, T. Lynn
name: Buzby, Jean C.
name: Breuer, Thomas
name: Roberts, Tanya
name: Voetsch, Drew
name: Reddy, Sudha
name: FoodNet Working Group
name: Frenzen, Paul D.
name: Riggs, T. Lynn
name: Buzby, Jean C.
name: Breuer, Thomas
name: Roberts, Tanya
name: Voetsch, Drew
name: Reddy, Sudha
name: FoodNet Working Group
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Health Economics and Policy

description: Salmonella infections due to contaminated food products make many people ill each year and are responsible for substantial economic costs. Salmonella infections are potentially serious and may be fatal, particularly for the elderly and people with weak immune systems (see box on Salmonella infections). However, most salmonellosis cases do not result in a visit to a medical facility and are never reported to public health agencies. The high proportion of unreported cases makes it difficult to determine the true incidence of salmonellosis, and has resulted in a wide range of estimates of the annual economic costs of foodborne Salmonella infections. Many Salmonella infections are caused by undercooked shell eggs, which may be contaminated by hens infected by Salmonella serotype Enteritidis, one of the most common Salmonella strains. Effective August 1999, Federal regulations will require that shell eggs packed for retail sale to consumers be stored and transported at or below 45 degrees Fahrenheit to reduce the risk of Salmonella infections. USO A was unable to make a definitive estimate of the potential economic benefits of this rule, partly because of the uncertainty about the economic costs of Salmonella infections. USDA shares federal regulatory responsibility for egg safety with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which recently proposed requiring safe handling labels on egg cartons to warn consumers about the risk of illness associated with Salmonellacontaminated shell eggs. Previous estimates of the economic costs due to foodborne Salmonella infections by USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) were based on the best available estimates of the annual number of infections and the associated medical expenses and productivity losses. New information about the incidence, severity, and medical consequences of salmonellosis has since become available from the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) and other sources, allowing us to refine the previous estimates
On twisted microdifferential modules I. Non-existence of twisted wave equations
Creators: name: D'Agnolo, Andrea
name: Schapira, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A27, 32C38, 14A20

description: Using the notion of subprincipal symbol, we give a necessary condition for the existence of twisted D-modules simple along a smooth involutive submanifold of the cotangent bundle to a complex manifold. As an application, we prove that there are no generalized massless field equations with non trivial twist on grassmannians, and in particular that the Penrose transform does not extend to the twisted case.
description: LaTeX, 18 pages
Depressions by stacking faults in nanorippled graphene on metals
Creators: name: Förster, Georg Daniel
name: Artaud, Alexandre
name: Mazaleyrat, Estelle
name: Förster, Georg
name: Tonnoir, Charlène
name: Gilles, Bruno
name: David, Philippe
name: Guisset, Valérie
name: Magaud, Laurence
name: Calvo, Florent
name: Chapelier, Claude
name: Coraux, Johann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A broad variety of defects has been observed in two-dimensional materials. Many of these defects can be created by top-down methods such as electron irradiation or chemical etching, while a few of them are created along bottom-up processes, in particular during the growth of the material, in which case avoiding their formation can be challenging. This occurs e.g. with dislocations, Stone-Wales defects, or atomic vacancies in graphene. Here we address a defect that has been observed repeatedly since 2007 in epitaxial graphene on metal surfaces like Ru(0001) and Re(0001), but whose nature has remained elusive thus far. This defect has the appearance of a vacant hill in the periodically nanorippled topography of graphene, which comes together with a moir{é} pattern. Based on atomistic simulations and scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy measurements, we argue that such defects are topological in nature and that their core is a stacking fault patch, either in graphene, surrounded by loops of non-hexagonal carbon rings, or in the underlying metal. We discuss the possible origin of these defects in relation with recent reports of metastable polycyclic carbon molecules forming upon graphene growth. Like other defects, the vacant hills may be considered as deleterious in the perspective of producing high quality graphene. However, provided they can be organized in graphene, they might allow novel optical, spin, or electronic properties to be engineered.
A New Approach to Stochastic State selections in Quantum Spin Systems
Creators: name: Munehisa, Tomo
name: Munehisa, Yasuko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new type of Monte Carlo approach in numerical studies of quantum systems. Introducing a probability function which determines whether a state in the vector space survives or not, we can evaluate expectation values of powers of the Hamiltonian from a small portion of the full vector space. This method is free from the negative sign problem because it is not based on importance sampling techniques. In this paper we describe our method and, in order to examine how effective it is, present numerical results on the 4x4, 6x6 and 8x8 Heisenberg spin one-half model. The results indicate that we can perform useful evaluations with limited computer resources. An attempt to estimate the lowest energy eigenvalue is also stated.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, 8 tables
Co-precipitation approach to measure amount of $^{238}$U in copper to sub-ppt level using ICP-MS
Creators: name: Ding, Ya-Yun
name: Liu, Meng-Chao
name: Zhao, Jie
name: Yan, Wen-Qi
name: Wei, Liang-Hong
name: Zhang, Zhi-Yong
name: Wen, Liang-Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inductively coupled plasma mass (ICP-MS) spectroscopy is widely used for screening materials of low background detectors in dark matter and double beta decay searches due to its high sensitivity to trace $^{238}$U and $^{232}$Th. This work describes a novel co-precipitation approach to measure the amount of $^{238}$U in high-purity copper to sub-ppt level. Such an approach allows the pre-concentration of U and removal of the matrix, by selecting a proper precipitator to co-precipitate with $^{238}$U and using excess ammonia water to separate the uranium hydroxide from copper by forming water-soluble tetra-amminecopper (II). The isotope dilution method and standard addition method were both used to mitigate the matrix effect and cross-check each other. The latter was also used to measure the recovery efficiency of $^{238}$U by using $^{233}$U as the tracer. The method detection limit (MDL) reached $\sim$0.1 pg $^{238}$U /g Cu for both methods while the recovery efficiency of uranium robustly remains 65\%--85\%. Various sources of interference in the ICP-MS analysis were thoroughly evaluated, and the contamination from reagents were found to be the dominant factor that affected the MDL. Further purification will allow significant improvements in the MDL. This co-precipitate approach can be easily extended to measure $^{232}$Th by using $^{229}$Th as the tracer.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables
Fluctuations of Single Confined Actin Filaments
Creators: name: Köster, Sarah
name: Stark, Holger
name: Pfohl, Thomas
name: Kierfeld, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper withdrawn since it has been published in an updated version in Biophysical Reviews and Letter Vol. 2, No. 2 (2007) 155-166
description: This paper has been withdrawn
Depth Extraction from Video Using Non-parametric Sampling
Creators: name: Karsch, Kevin
name: Liu, Ce
name: Kang, Sing Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe a technique that automatically generates plausible depth maps from videos using non-parametric depth sampling. We demonstrate our technique in cases where past methods fail (non-translating cameras and dynamic scenes). Our technique is applicable to single images as well as videos. For videos, we use local motion cues to improve the inferred depth maps, while optical flow is used to ensure temporal depth consistency. For training and evaluation, we use a Kinect-based system to collect a large dataset containing stereoscopic videos with known depths. We show that our depth estimation technique outperforms the state-of-the-art on benchmark databases. Our technique can be used to automatically convert a monoscopic video into stereo for 3D visualization, and we demonstrate this through a variety of visually pleasing results for indoor and outdoor scenes, including results from the feature film Charade.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2001.00987
New Juice Regulations Underway
Creators: name: Buzby, Jean C.
name: Crutchfield, Stephen R.
name: Buzby, Jean C.
name: Crutchfield, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: E ach year Americans experience 16,000 to 48,000 cases of foodborne illness from fruit and vegetable juices, according to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates. Increasing public concern and recent outbreaks from bacteria such as E. coli O157:H7 have led to new regulations designed to reduce the risk of juice contamination. In October 1996, at least 66 people in the Western United States and Canada became ill and a 16-monthold girl died after drinking unpasteurized apple juice contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The company that produced the juice pleaded guilty to violating Federal food safety laws and will pay a record $1.5 million fine. The outbreaks from contaminated juice, particularly this 1996 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, led regulators to examine the safety of juice. In April 1998, FDA proposed two regulations to increase the safety of fresh and processed juices. The first would require all domestic and foreign fruit and vegetable juice processors to use Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) procedures to prevent, reduce, or eliminate haz-ards in juice. The second rule, requiring warning labels on all juice that has not been pasteurized or otherwise treated to control illnesscausing pathogens, was finalized by FDA in July 1998. Its purpose is to provide consumers with information to lessen their risk until the HACCP rule is enacted.
title: Tragic Apollo in Fifth-Century Athens : Text and Contexts
Creators: name: Peake, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2011

description: This thesis investigates the presentation of Apollo in Greek tragedy. Apollo is chosen as a particularly important tragic god because of his uniquely high profile in extant plays, and because of the continuing critical debate over his characterisation. Existing approaches to studying the god figure will be challenged. Traditionally these often found a 'negative' god but gave limited consideration to the fifth-century context and were often judgemental in terms of twentieth-century morality. Recent studies have been more nuanced and against a wider contextual base but have generally been limited to studying Apollo in a single play. There will be new emphases in the questions asked, focusing on how the Apollo figures are created in the texts, how these figures are experienced by an Athenian audience, and how and why Apollo's presentation changes through the fifth century. The methodology is new in examining Apollo across all extant tragedies in which he has significant textual presence; also in showing how we can relate Apollo's tragic presentation to a wide range of aspects of the socio-cultural and religious contexts. The figure of Apollo is thus seen as being constructed within both the dynamics of tragedy and the social and religious contexts of Athens, bringing internal and external together in the experience of the spectators. Apollo is found to have potential for certain kinds of problematic tragic treatment. His morality and effectiveness are questioned in the earliest extant plays, but representations of the god in tragedy continue to shift and develop through the fifth century, in the distinctive approaches of new tragedians, and in engagement with new aspects of the Athenian context. The approach in this thesis aims to add to our understanding of how Apollo, and religion, function in tragedy for the fifth-century Athenians for whom the plays were produced
Non(anti)commutative Superspace, UV/IR Mixing & Open Wilson Lines
Creators: name: Britto, Ruth
name: Feng, Bo
name: Rey, Soo-Jong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum aspects of field theories defined on N=1/2 superspace, where both bosonic and fermionic coordinates are made non(anti)commutative. We compute the one-loop effective superpotential, and we find that planar and nonplanar contributions exhibit markedly different behavior. Planar diagrams yield an effective superpotential proportional to N_c Φ\log Φ. For nonplanar diagrams, we show that ultraviolet-infrared mixing takes place and explain why some nonplanar diagrams are ultraviolet-divergent when bosonic noncommutativity is turned off. Each nonplanar diagram is not expressible as a star product of background fields, but, once resummed appropriately, they are expressed as a star product involving open Wilson lines in superspace. The open Wilson lines are responsible for ultraviolet-infrared mixing. We comment on an intriguing relation of our result to the Dijkgraaf-Vafa correspondence between gauge theories and matrix models.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure; V2: references added
Additional file 2 of Parents’ perceived barriers and enablers to providing optimal infant oral care
Creators: name: Walsh, Olivia
name: Chauhan, Amrit
name: Trinh, My-Van
name: Lin, Clare
name: Marshall, Sarah
name: Gray-Burrows, Kara A
name: Silva, Mihiri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2: Supplementary Table 2. Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) Domain and Definitions. Description: Table of TDF domains and definitions
Operator-Norm Convergence of the Trotter Product Formula on Hilbert and Banach Spaces: A Short Survey
Creators: name: Neidhardt, Hagen
name: Stephan, Artur
name: Zagrebnov, Valentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a review of results on the operator-norm convergence of the Trotter product formula on Hilbert and Banach spaces, which is focused on the problem of its convergence rates. Some recent results concerning evolution semigroups are presented in details.
Review of "Mister Pulitzer and the Spider : Modern News from Realism to the Digital"
Creators: name: Aufderheide, Patricia
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Book review of: Kevin G. Barnhurst, Mister Pulitzer and the Spider: Modern News from Realism to the Digital, Urbana, Chicago and Springfield, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016, 312 pp., $30.84 (hardcover).
Dynamic criticality in glass-forming liquids
Creators: name: Whitelam, Stephen
name: Berthier, Ludovic
name: Garrahan, Juan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that the dynamics of supercooled liquids and the formation of glasses can be understood from the existence of a zero temperature dynamical critical point. To support our proposal, we derive from simple physical assumptions a dynamic field theory for supercooled liquids, which we study using the renormalization group (RG). Its long time behaviour is dominated by a zero temperature critical point, which for dimensions d > 2 belongs to the directed percolation universality class. Molecular dynamics simulations confirm the existence of dynamic scaling behaviour consistent with the RG predictions.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Review of "Mister Pulitzer and the Spider : Modern News from Realism to the Digital"
Creators: name: Aufderheide, Patricia
Publisher: name: International Journal of Communication
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: Book review of: Kevin G. Barnhurst, Mister Pulitzer and the Spider: Modern News from Realism to the Digital, Urbana, Chicago and Springfield, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016, 312 pp., $30.84 (hardcover).
title: An investigation into the effectiveness of computer mediated conferences, focusing on aspects of student teacher reflective practices and professional socialisation
Creators: name: Quirke-Bolt, Nigel Peter
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: This study investigated how effectively student teachers engaged in reflective practices within on-line discussion forums, and the potential of these forums to encourage professional socialisation. The participants in this study were a cohort of post-graduate students at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, who were studying a full-time one-year course, the Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE), with the aim of becoming qualified teachers in post-primary schools. This study used both quantitative and qualitative research methods within a case study approach and utilised on-line questionnaires, focus group discussions, semi-formal interviews and an examination of the messages posted in the tutorial on-line forums using the analytic methods of interpretative phenomenology, discourse analysis and grounded theory. This project referenced a number of methods used in other studies to identify, measure and categorise the reflective activities of the student teachers in the on-line forums. The result of this work has led to a modified approach that identified additional categories to more appropriately identify and measure the student teachers' reflective practices. The outcome of identifying these new reflective categories could offer the on-line tutor an alternative focus for their on-line teaching of reflection and their encouragement and development of the students' reflective activities. In addition, this study identified how the student teachers' experience and socialisation within the on-line discussion forums helped them to develop their thoughts, values, attitudes and beliefs about the profession they hoped to join and so developed and supported their professional socialisation. The findings from this study highlight implications for the use of on-line forums as a pedagogic tool in developing reflective and professional socialisation practices and a number of recommendations are presented. This is followed by some suggestions and directions for future research.
title: Programme de la réunion LabexWeek 2014
Creators: name: LabexMed
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Programme de la LabexWeek, réunion du Collège postdoctoral LabexMed de 2014
description: Relation: http://labexmed.hypotheses.org/664
Centris unifasciata
Creators: name: Vivallo, Felipe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Centris
Centris unifasciata

description: Centris unifasciata (Schrottky, 1913)
 Hemisia garleppi var. unifasciata Schrottky, 1913: 708.
 Type data: The holotype of C. garleppi var. unifasciata was also collected by Otto Garlepp in the same locality that C. garleppi. The holotype is housed at DZUP, but according to Moure (1999) it also belongs to the MZSP.The specimen has the following data label: Apurimac Peru [handwritten]\ [black‑rimmed] Hemisia garleppi Schrot. f. unifasciata Schr. ♀ [handwritten] C.S. Schrottky det. 19 [printed] 12 [handwritten]\ M. Zool. USP [handwritten]\ [black‑rimmed] Centris unifasciata Schr. ♀ [handwritten] P. Moure det. [printed] 1948 [handwritten]\ C. (Paracentris) v. unifasciata Schr. [handwritten with blue ink].
 Comments: This is a rare species of the subgenus C. (Paracentris) only known from the type specimen. It was erroneously cited to Chile by Zanella (2002). Unfortunately, nothing is known about its bionomy or distribution range.
description: Published as part of Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, The species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Curt Schrottky (Hymenoptera: Apidae), pp. 1-6 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 5, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.33, http://zenodo.org/record/4614958
title: Genetic, Cellular and Molecular Defects in Mouse Mutants with Severe Neural Tube Defects
Creators: name: Paudyal, Anju
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2011

description: Neural tube defects are one of the most common birth defects. This thesis includes genetic, molecular and cellular analysis of three mouse mutants with neural tube defects. chuzhoi was identified from an ENU G3 screen and exhibits craniorachischisis through failure to initiate neural tube closure. In this thesis, I show that chuzhoi carries a point mutation affecting a splice-site in the Ptk7 gene, leading to addition of three extra amino acids in the protein. Through phenotypic analysis I show that chuzhoi has a wider midline and a smaller length to width ratio, suggesting a defect in convergent extension. Previous work has shown that the Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) signalling pathway is required for the initiation of neural tube closure. Through genetic crosses between chuzhoi and mutants of PCP signalling, I show that Ptk7 can influence the PCP pathway without being a direct component of the pathway. Carrying a mutation in Scribble, Circletail is another mutant displaying craniorachischisis. Scribble in Drosophila is required for the establishment of apical-basal polarity and to control the rate of cell proliferation. I show that mouse Scribble is not required for the establishment of apical-basal polarity nor to control proliferation, during neural tube closure. Previous work in zebrafish has shown that the axis elongation of an embryo requires PCP-dependent orientation of cell division. Here, I show that the orientation of cell division is random in mice during the shaping of the neural plate prior to the initiation of the neural tube closure. Mouse mutants of Tulp3 exhibit spina bifida and exencephaly. The molecular role of Tulp3 is largely unknown; however, domains present in the Tulp3 protein suggest that it may act as a transcription factor and/or be involved in protein-protein interactions. I provide evidence to suggest that Tulp3 is not likely to function as a transcription factor but may participate in many protein-protein interactions to deliver its role during mouse embryogenesis.
Tensions and transformations: an ethnographic account of disability sport in the United Arab Emirates
Creators: name: Perkin, Seth
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has experienced rapid social and economic growth since its formation in 1971. These developments have resulted in the repositioning of the UAE in the global hierarchy of power built on their success in the oil industry and their ability and desire to establish themselves as an international sporting and tourist destination. Because of its newfound influence, the UAE has come under surveillance concerning various social concerns, one of which includes the treatment of people with disabilities. Using a Foucauldian lens, this thesis ethnographically examines how the government of the UAE has harnessed its increasing financial and political influences to enhance the lives of people with disabilities from the grassroots, to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) where the nation is becoming increasingly influential. Building upon the existing literature by analysing the construction of disability through local influences, such as Islam and Arab Culture and external Western forces, this thesis will examine the cultural landscape of disability sport in the UAE and address the ethnocentric nature of previous studies. By utilising Foucauldian theoretical concepts, in particular, disciplinary power, biopolitics and governmentality, the thesis addresses three main areas of investigation. Firstly, the extent to which the relationship between the UAE and the West has influenced the developments of the UAE. Secondly, the degree to which global and local factors influence the construction of disability. While the final question examines the internal and external forces that influence the provision of disability sport both within the UAE and the nations increased global influence. Ultimately, this thesis highlights that Disability sport within the UAE has become a vehicle for global demonstrations of the success of the country and in turn is utilised to maintain political and economic stability.
Extended equipartition in a mechanical system subject to a heat flow: the case of localised dissipation
Creators: name: Fontana, Alex
name: Pedurand, Richard
name: Bellon, Ludovic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Statistical physics in equilibrium grants us one of its most powerful tools: the equipartition principle. It states that the degrees of freedom of a mechanical system act as a thermometer: temperature is equal to the mean variance of their oscillations divided by their stiffness. However, when a non-equilibrium state is considered, this principle is no longer valid. In our experiment, we study the fluctuations of a micro-cantilever subject to a strong heat flow, which creates a highly non-uniform local temperature. We measure independently the temperature profile of the object and the temperature yielded from the mechanical thermometers, thus testing the validity of the equipartition principle out of equilibrium. We demonstrate how the fluctuations of the most energetic degrees of freedom are equivalent to the temperature at the base of the cantilever, even when the average temperature is several hundreds of degrees higher. We then present a model based on the localised mechanical dissipation in the system to account for our results, which correspond to mechanical losses localised at the clamping position.
U.S. Firms Invest in Mexico's Processed Food Industry
Creators: name: Bolling, Chris
name: Elizalde, Javier Calderon
name: Handy, Charles
name: Bolling, Chris
name: Elizalde, Javier Calderon
name: Handy, Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Development
International Relations/Trade

description: The 1994 North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada, and Mexico was established to enhance trade. The successfulincrease in trade was accompanied by an even more important sharp increase in foreign direct investment (FOi) between the partners, especially between the United States and Mexico. U.S. exports of processed foods to Mexico, mostly processed meats, poultry, animal fats, and vegetable oil, increased from $1.1 billion in 1990 to $2.8 billion in 1998. U.S. processed food imports from Mexico grew from $1 billion to $2.5 billion in the same years, and were mostly malt beverages, prepared fresh and frozen fish, and distilled spirits (table 1). At the same time, foreign direct investment (FOi) between the United States, Canada, and Mexico increased sharply, paving the way for a regional food system. FOi, or substantial ownership investments in foreign businesses, allows the investing firm to exercise control over the use of those assets (unlike foreign portfolio investment, which is passive and does not seek control over decisionmaking). The $6.5 billion in sales generated by U.S. food processing affiliates in Mexico overshadowed U.S. exports of processed food products to Mexico by more than a 2-to-l ratio in 1998, making FOi more responsible than direct exports for the increasing presence of U.S. food processing firms in Mexico (fig. 1). U.S. FOi in Mexico's $47 billion processed food industry increased from $210 million in 1987 to $5 billion in 1997 (fig. 2). Mexico is now the third largest host country for U.S. FOi after the United Kingdom and Canada. Nearly three-fourths of the U.S. FOi in Mexico's food processing sector is in firms producing a wide variety of highly processed foods including snack foods, edible vegetable oils, mayonnaise and salad dressing, meat and poultry, concentrates and flavorings, confectionery products, and pasta and related products. About one-tenth of the U.S. FOi is in flour mills or bakery product companies; about 15 percent is in breweries and soft drink bottlers. Less than 5 percent is in fruit and vegetable processors.
Marketing Dropship Based On Cloud Computing
Creators: name: Alfonsius Egi Wijaya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: DROPSHIP SALES SYSTEM DESIGN BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING

Nama : Alfonsius Egi Wijaya
Nim : 20171000027
Universitas : Universitas Buddhi Dharma
On the theory of pseudogap anisotropy in the cuprate superconductors
Creators: name: Loktev, V. M.
name: Turkowski, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show by means of the theory of the order parameter phase fluctuations that the temperature of "closing" (or "opening") of the gap (and pseudogap) in the electron spectra of superconductors with anisotropic order parameter takes place within a finite temperature range. Every Fourier-component of the order parameter has its own critical temperature.
Expanding the utility of fair use in copyright : The best practices model
Creators: name: Aufderheide, Patricia
Publisher: name: VU University Amsterdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies

description: Published in: Amsterdam Law Forum, [S.l.], v. 2, n. 1, p. 11-18, dec. 2009. ISSN 1876-8156. Available at: . Date accessed: 21 july 2017.
Gamma-ray Burst Spectrum with a Time-dependent Injection Rate of High-energy Electrons
Creators: name: Liu, Kuan
name: Lin, Da-Bin
name: Wang, Kai
name: Zhou, Li
name: Wang, Xiang-Gao
name: Liang, En-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although the physical origin of prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains inconclusive, previous studies have considered the synchrotron radiation of relativistic electrons as a promising mechanism. These works usually adopted a invariable injection rate of electrons ($Q$) which may be discordant with that in a Poynting-flux dominated jet. In a Poynting-flux dominated jet (e.g., ICMART model, Zhang & Yan 2011), the number of magnetic reconnections occurred simultaneously may grow rapidly with time and results in an increase of $Q$ with time. This paper is dedicated to study the synchrotron radiation spectrum in this scenario. It is found that the radiation spectrum would obviously get harder if an increasing $Q$ is adopted and a Band-like radiation spectrum can be obtained if the increase of $Q$ is fast enough. The latter is related to the fact that a bump-shape rather than a power-law spectrum appears in the low-energy regime of the obtained electron spectrum. This effect can strongly harden the low-energy radiation spectrum. It indicates that an increasing $Q$ can help to alleviate the "fast-cooling problem" of synchrotron radiation for GRBs. Our studies also reveal that a Poynting-flux dominated jet with a large emission radius, a small length of the magnetic reconnection region, or a low-minimum energy of injected electron would prefer to form a Band-like radiation spectrum. We suggest that the Band spectrum found in GRBs may be the synchrotron emission of the electrons with a bump-shape distribution in its low-energy regime.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Additional file 3 of Parents’ perceived barriers and enablers to providing optimal infant oral care
Creators: name: Walsh, Olivia
name: Chauhan, Amrit
name: Trinh, My-Van
name: Lin, Clare
name: Marshall, Sarah
name: Gray-Burrows, Kara A
name: Silva, Mihiri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3: Supplementary Table 3. Demographics of potential participants excluded or declined an interview. Description: Demographics table of potential participants
AstroSat/LAXPC view of GX 17+2: Spectral Evolution along the Z-track
Creators: name: Agrawal, V. K.
name: Nandi, Anuj
name: Ramadevi, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present the first results obtained using $\sim$ 50 ks observations of the bright low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) GX 17+2 with Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) onboard {\it AstroSat}. The source traced out a complete Z-track in the hardness intensity diagram (HID). The spectra at different sections of the Z-diagram are well described by either a combination of a thermal Comptonization component, a power-law and a relativistic iron line or a model consisting of a thermal disk component, a single temperature blackbody, a power-law and a relativistic iron line. Fitting the spectra with both phenomenological models suggests that the power-law component is strong in the horizontal branch (HB), becomes weaker as the source moves down the normal branch (NB) and then again becomes stronger as the sources moves up the flaring branch (FB). However, we find that the strength of the power-law component is model dependent, although the trend in the variation of the power-law strength along the Z-track is similar. A simple model composed by a Comptonized emission and power-law component, convolved with the ionized reflection, also describes the spectra very well. A normal branch oscillation (NBO) with a centroid frequency 7.42$\pm$0.23 Hz, quality factor (Q) $\sim$ 4.88, rms 1.41$\pm$0.29\% and significance 5.1$σ$ is detected at the middle of the NB. The parameters of the Comptonized emission show a systematic evolution along the Z-diagram. The optical depth of the corona increases as the source moves up along the FB, suggesting possible trigger of an outflow or dumping of the disc material in to the corona by radiation pressure.
Additional file 4 of Parents’ perceived barriers and enablers to providing optimal infant oral care
Creators: name: Walsh, Olivia
name: Chauhan, Amrit
name: Trinh, My-Van
name: Lin, Clare
name: Marshall, Sarah
name: Gray-Burrows, Kara A
name: Silva, Mihiri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 4: Oral Health and Your Child– Interview Research Study. Description: Participant consent and demographic survey.
title: Creep and Anelastic Deformation in Austenitic Steels
Creators: name: Rao, Ashwin
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: This study examines the creep behaviour of austenitic steels under service temperatures, to determine the effect of creep on material performance. Nuclear power plant components are in regular use at temperatures greater than 450°C, where creep deformation plays a dominant role in limiting the lifetime of the material. The prime aim of this study was to characterise the effect of load-reductions on the creep behaviour of austenitic steels (AISI type 316H). In-service materials seldom operate at a constant load and/or temperature. The supply demand, maintenance operations, refuelling, etc. will result in large variation of load and temperature acting on the material. Experiments where load/temperature removals during a creep test were therefore conducted. These unloading procedures result in material recovery of the accumulated creep strain (anelasticity). This phenomenon will influence the material properties such as creep life and ductilities. Creep life was found to increase by 2-3 times whereas creep ductilities decreased by 50% when compared to steady-load creep data under identical conditions. The occurrence of anelasticity suggested the presence of a material backstress. The origin and evolution of this internal stress was investigated using neutron diffraction and TEM microscopy. Lattice strain measurements were conducted in-situ using neutron diffraction during a creep test which consisted of load/unload cycles. Experimental results suggest that creep strain is equivalent to plastic strain at a granular level. The data also shows intergranular micro-stresses are introduced into the material by primary creep. Anisotropic behaviour of the individual crystal planes results in formation of tensile and compressive intergranular stresses in individual grain families. Residual compressive stresses drive this anelastic deformation. TEM examinations of samples stopped during the unload show changes in dislocation and precipitate morphologies during the plastic strain recovery phase. Evidence of a changing dislocation substructure during the load-reduction period was found. Examinations have also shown carbide densities change during the unload. Pipe diffusion is a possible mechanism which can be used to explain this occurrence. The changing precipitate and dislocation state will influence the strengthening mechanisms, which in-turn will affect the deformation characteristics. These microstructural observations were introduced into a damage mechanics model. Predictions of material behaviour using this model have shown good agreement with experimental data. Outcomes of this project, have established that changes in creep deformation mechanisms will greatly influence material properties. Deformation history of the material will affect the intergranular stress state which in turn will affect the elastic and plastic response of the material. The effect of plastic strain history must be considered and incorporated accounted in any design and assessment procedure.
Fabrication and surface stochastic analysis of enhanced photoelectrochemical activity of a tuneable MoS2–CdS thin film heterojunction
Creators: name: Moradlou, Omran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 30604 Electrochemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A very simple and well-controlled procedure was employed to prepare CdS nanoparticle/few-layer MoS2nanosheet/Indium tin oxide (ITO) thin film heterostructures. To tune and fabricate the CdS/MoS2(t)/ITOthin films with various surface topographies, first electrophoretic deposition (EPD) was used to depositMoS2 nanosheets on the ITO substrate under an optimized applied potential difference (8 V) for differentdeposition times (t) of 30, 60, 120 and 240 s. Then, CdS nanoparticles were deposited via a successiveion layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) technique. The highest photo-current density of 285 mA cm?2was measured for the CdS/MoS2(60 s)/ITO sample, which was about 2.3 times higher than the valueobtained for bare CdS/ITO. The photo-enhancement mechanism of the CdS/MoS2(t)/ITOheterostructures was described using a stochastic model. The results show that the CdS/MoS2(60 s)/ITOelectrode exhibits the highest roughness exponent (2a ¼ 0.67) with the smoothest nanometricfluctuations, resulting in the best wetting properties, and thus, the highest interaction between theelectrolyte and the sample surface, leading to the highest PEC activity. On the other hand, the sampleswith small a possess rough and nanometric-jagged fluctuations. The air trapping inside thesemicroscopic surface fluctuations reduces the wettability as well as surface interaction between thesample and the electrolyte, resulting in low photo-current density
Centris xanthocnemis subsp. perflava Schrottky 1902
Creators: name: Vivallo, Felipe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Centris
Centris xanthocnemis
Centris xanthocnemis perflava schrottky, 1902

description: Centris xanthocnemis perflava Schrottky, 1902
 Centris xanthocnemis var. perflava Schrottky, 1902b: 576. Junior synonym of C. xanthocnemis (Perty, 1833) (Moure et al., 2007).
 Type data: This variety of Centris xanthocnemis was described based on a single male specimen collected in “Jundiahy” (= Jundiaí), southeastern Brazil (Figs. 3A, B). The holotype is housed at MZSP and it has the following data label: 97262 [printed]\ 1376 [handwritten]\ [red label without text].
 Comments: The type specimen was caught by the insect collector Max Beron. It is a male of C. xanthocnemis with yellow pubescence on the mesosoma and hind legs instead of the blackish hairs found in most males. According to the accession book at MZSP the number 1,376 refers to the following data: “ Brazil, São Paulo, Jundiaí, M. Beron col” (Ramos et al., 2015).
description: Published as part of Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, The species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Curt Schrottky (Hymenoptera: Apidae), pp. 1-6 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 5, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.33, http://zenodo.org/record/4614958
Expanding the utility of fair use in copyright : The best practices model
Creators: name: Aufderheide, Patricia
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Published in: Amsterdam Law Forum, [S.l.], v. 2, n. 1, p. 11-18, dec. 2009. ISSN 1876-8156. Available at: . Date accessed: 21 july 2017.
Per Capita Food Supply Trends: Progress Toward Dietary Guidelines
Creators: name: Putnam, Judy
name: Kantor, Linda Scott
name: Allshouse, Jane
name: Putnam, Judy
name: Kantor, Linda Scott
name: Allshouse, Jane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: F ederal dietary guidance outlined in the 2000 edition of Dietary Guidelines for Americans and depicted in the Food Guide Pyramid is intended to help consumers choose diets that improve health, reduce their risk for dietrelated chronic disease, and meet their nutritional needs (fig. 1). The Food Guide Pyramid helps consumers put the Dietary Guidelines into practice by recommending the type and quantity of foods to eat from five major food groupsgrains (bread, cereals, rice, and pasta), vegetables, fruit, dairy (milk, yogurt, and cheese), and meat (red meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, and nuts). The Pyramid also suggests that consumers use fats, oils, and sweets sparingly. The Dietary Guidelines recommend that Americans limit total fat intake to no more than 30 percent of calories, saturated fat intake to less than 10 percent of calories, and dietary cholesterol to less than the Daily Value of 300 milligrams a day listed on the Nutrition Facts Label. Information about consumers' eating patterns, if different from these recommendations, helps consumers make dietary adjustments and helps policymakers and nutrition educators target educational messages effectively. For example, analyses of food supply data, adjusted for spoilage and waste, by USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) suggest that the average American diet is heavily weighted to added fats and sugars found at the tip of the Pyramid and falls short of recommendations for fruits and dairy products. And many consumers need to change the mix of foods in the meat, vegetable, and grain groups to meet recommendations for dietary variety and selected food components, such as fiber, total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol.