cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating computer-supported collaborative learning and critical inquiry : a case study of the seeds of possibility--integrating information and communication technologies project in the two-year elementary teacher education program at the University of British Columbia
Creators: name: Zhang, Tianyi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The central question in this thesis is: what were, if any, the relations, tensions, and contradictions that occurred when critical inquiry and Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) were introduced to enhance Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy in the Two-Year Elementary Teacher Education Program (TYETEP) course of study at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The study was guided methodologically using discourse analysis and case study and it was focused on the development of (ICT) literacy within two core courses (Principles o f Teaching and Communication). The data were analyzed in light of contemporary educational issues identified from the overall teacher education program at U B C and a literature review of ICT perspectives, practices, and policies within Canada, British Columbia, and more generally North America. The preliminary findings were based on empirical research I collected and indicated that collaborative learning, critical inquiry and the concept of learning spaces were enhanced when ICT was integrated into the TYETEP. Some social and infrastructure problems were found as tensions during the program. Insufficient ICT hard infrastructure as well as teachers' and students' low attitude towards the integration of ICT were found to contradict the literature review. This thesis reports on one line of research from a more comprehensive research project called "Seeds of Possibility: Integration Information and Communication Technologies." Seeds of Possibility was a pilot program with a research objective that examined how over the course of several years' teacher education students can enhance their ICT literacy and fluency as they engage in using ICT through their program.
Cosmic-Ray Composition analysis at IceCube using Graph Neural Networks
Creators: name: Koundal, Paras
name: IceCube Collaboration
Publisher: name: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Year: 2023

description: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a multi-component detector embedded deep within the South-Pole Ice. This proceeding will discuss an analysis from an integrated operation of IceCube and its surface array, IceTop, to estimate cosmic-ray composition. The work will describe a novel graph neural network based approach for estimating the mass of primary cosmic rays, that takes advantage of signal-footprint information and reconstructed cosmic-ray air shower parameters. In addition, the work will also introduce new composition-sensitive parameters for improving the estimation of cosmic-ray composition, with the potential of improving our understanding of the high-energy muon content in cosmic-ray air showers.
Observation of beta decay of In-115 to the first excited level of Sn-115
Creators: name: Cattadori, C. M.
name: De Deo, M.
name: Laubenstein, M.
name: Pandola, L.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of the LENS R&D solar neutrino project, the gamma spectrum of a sample of metallic indium was measured using a single experimental setup of 4 HP-Ge detectors located underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories (LNGS), Italy. A gamma line at the energy (497.48 +/- 0.21) keV was found that is not present in the background spectrum and that can be identified as a gamma quantum following the beta decay of In-115 to the first excited state of Sn-115 (9/2+ --> 3/2+). This decay channel of In-115, which is reported here for the first time, has an extremely low Q-value, Q = (2 +/- 4) keV, and has a much lower probability than the well-known ground state-ground state transition, being the branching ratio b = (1.18 +/- 0.31) 10^-6. This could be the beta decay with the lowest known Q-value. The limit on charge non-conserving beta decay of In-115 is set at 90% C.L. as tau > 4.1 10^20 y.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
The project of establishing Phu Quoc special economic zone ( Draft_version_vn1)
Creators: name: Long Ngo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: special economic zone
Phu Quoc Island's
Kien Giang Provincial
Viet Nam
administrative - economic
SEZ

description: The project of establishing Phu Quoc special economic zone was proposed by the People's Committee of Kien Giang province to the Government in late 2012 with the desire to develop Phu Quoc island into a special economic-administrative zone directly under the Central Government. In August 2018, the Prime Minister agreed on the policy to allow Kien Giang province to organize the implementation of the Master Plan on socio-economic development of Phu Quoc island under the orientation of Special Administrative - Economic Units.

The province has implemented a number of procedures to implement the planning, but the draft of the Law on Special Administrative - Economic Units has not been approved by the National Assembly until now, so the process of planning implementation Phu Quoc island according to the orientation The special administrative - economic unit faces many difficulties and obstacles when it has not determined the legal basis, the order of procedures, the content of the planning and the evaluation council ...

In August 2019, Kien Giang Provincial People's Committee submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister on the implementation of Phu Quoc island planning in the direction of suspending the formulation of Phu Quoc island's socio-economic development master plan. The direction is to be a special administrative - economic unit until the Law on special administrative - economic unit is passed by the National Assembly.
Polarización y segregación en la distribución del ingreso en el Perú: trayectorias desiguales
Creators: name: Escobal, Javier
name: Ponce, Carmen
name: Escobal, Javier
name: Ponce, Carmen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Distribución del Ingreso
subject: Desigualdad económica
subject: Desigualdad social
subject: Pobreza
subject: Perú
subject: Income distribution
subject: Economic disparity
subject: Social inequality
subject: Poverty
subject: Peru

description: A partir de estimaciones de crecimiento del gasto per cápita, pobreza y desigualdad para los años 1981, 1993 y 2007, el estudio encuentra que si bien la desigualdad del gasto per cápita entre individuos (medida por los coeficientes de Gini o de Theil) muestra una ligera tendencia a la baja, las desigualdades entre grupos (asociadas a procesos desegregación y polarización y vinculadas en la literatura a una mayor conflictividad social) se habrían exacerbado. En particular, se observa una tendencia de largo plazo a la segregación y polarización espacial a favor de las grandes ciudades en contraposición a la dinámica de ciudades pequeñas y pueblos. Esta tendencia hacia una creciente polarización espacial va de la mano de una creciente polarización entre grupos indígenas y no indígenas. Sin embargo, no se observa una tendencia similar entre grupos con niveles educativos distintos.
title: Психологический стресс как патогенетический триггер развития алиментарного ожирения
Creators: name: Салехова, Мария
name: Гулов, Махмадшох
name: Абдуллоев, Саидходжа
name: Корабельников, Александр
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Проведено теоретическое обоснование патогенетического значения психологического стресса в увеличении массы тела и алиментарного ожирения при современном образе жизни. Методология обоснования рассматриваемой концепции была основана на принципе доминанты А.А.Ухтомского, теории функциональных систем П.К.Анохина, концепциях общего адаптационного синдрома Г.Селье и метаболического синдрома Д.Равьена, на особенностях энергетического обеспечения центральной нервной системы в условиях интенсивного хронического психологического стресса. На его фоне основной запрос адресован к центральной нервной системе, что приводит к увеличению ее функциональной активности. Соответственно, возрастает потребление глюкозы и кислорода. Дефицит эндогенной глюкозы в режиме реального времени восполняется в дневное время за счет приема богатой углеводами пищи, что регулируется реципрокным чередованием возбуждения-торможения в вентро-медиальных и вентро-латеральных ядрах гипоталамуса, определяющим пищевое поведение.
Additional file 1 of Characterization of FsXEG12A from the cellulose-degrading ectosymbiotic fungus Fusarium spp. strain EI cultured by the ambrosia beetle
Creators: name: Kiyota Sakai
name: Yamaguchi, Aya
name: Seitaro Tsutsumi
name: Yuto Kawai
name: Tsuzuki, Sho
name: Suzuki, Hiromitsu
name: Sadanari Jindou
name: Suzuki, Yoshihito
name: Kajimura, Hisashi
name: Kato, Masashi
name: Shimizu, Motoyuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Identification of the cellulolytic enzyme produced by Fusarium spp. strain EI. Table S2. Substrate specificity of the purified GH12 enzyme. Figure S1. Nucleotide sequence alignment of 18S rRNA. Figure S2. Nucleotide sequence alignment of EF-1α. Figure S3. Amino acid sequence alignment of GH12 enzymes.
Ambient Intelligence - Jaarverslag 2023
Creators: name: Ambient Intelligence
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The 2023 annual report of the Ambient Intelligence research group highlights its role in supporting companies and institutions in innovating with data and AI. Through applied research, the group develops software prototypes and validation experiments to facilitate innovation across various sectors.

Key achievements in 2023 include projects such as predictive maintenance for Malvern Panalytical (SPRONG Digital Driven Manufacturing), smart sensors for physiotherapy (INSTANT), and an electronic nose for poultry health monitoring (OBSeRVeD). With nearly 40 ongoing projects, the group effectively translates technological insights into applications spanning industry, healthcare, safety, and energy transition.

A notable milestone was the appointment of Jeroen Linssen as Professor of Symbiotic AI, focusing on the integration of AI and human factors. To strengthen regional ties, a second location was established in Deventer. The group also contributed to education by launching a DataOps specialization within the Master in ICT: Software Engineering and supporting the new Bachelor in Applied Data Science & AI.

With a sharpened research strategy, new large-scale projects commenced, including ZORRO (advanced diagnostics in high-tech systems), NOWATT (AI for energy transition), and XAIDHA (explainable AI for digital assistance). The group continues its steady growth in impactful AI research.
Ajustes del mercado laboral ante cambios en el salario mínimo: la experiencia de la década de 2000
Creators: name: Jaramillo, Miguel
name: Jaramillo, Miguel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Mercado de trabajo
subject: Salario mínimo
subject: Análisis econométrico
subject: América Latina
subject: Perú
subject: Labour market
subject: Minimum wage
subject: Econometric analysis
subject: Latin America
subject: Peru

description: La aplicación del salario mínimo (SM) en el Perú, conocido desde 1985 como remuneración mínima vital (RMV), se justifica como una herramienta para reducir la desigualdad laboral. Sin embargo, este estudio -que evalúa los efectos del SM sobre dos importantes variables del mercado laboral: ingresos y empleo en la década del 2000- muestra un piso salarial peruano que ha variado en la misma dirección que la tasa de incumplimiento; es decir, mientras más elevada fue la RMV respecto del salario promedio, más se incumplió. El SM no eleva las remuneraciones de los que ganan menos porque no tiene efecto sobre aquellos que ganan por debajo de este piso salarial, ni sobre los trabajadores del sector informal. Sobre el empleo, sus efectos se concentran en el sector informal y en trabajadores que ganan por encima del SM. No se encuentra evidencia de un impacto general en los salarios causado por el crecimiento del SM –llamado efecto “faro”–; por el contrario, estos efectos tienden a ser bastante focalizados. Tampoco hay efectos significativos sobre la probabilidad de mantener el empleo para los trabajadores que ganan alrededor del salario mínimo; sin embargo, tendrá un efecto positivo para los asalariados informales. Este efecto es de tal magnitud que impacta al grupo de asalariados como conjunto. De los resultados, se concluye que la RMV no es un instrumento efectivo para promover la inclusión social.
L'innovation au service de l’environnement et de la performance économique
Creators: name: Ambec, Stefan
name: Lanoie, Paul
name: Ambec, Stefan
name: Lanoie, Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Productivity Analysis

description: La réduction des impacts environnementaux des activités de l'entreprise se fait-elle au détriment de sa performance économique ? Il n'en est pas toujours ainsi quand on prend en compte les gains de productivité liés aux innovations environnementales. Une série de travaux alliant argumentation théorique, études de cas et analyses empiriques à partir de données d'enquête ont été mobilisés pour savoir si innover pour répondre aux contraintes environnementales peut s'avérer rentable pour la firme. Tout en identifiant les circonstances et mécanismes en cause, les résultats suggèrent que, si les politiques environnementales favorisent l'innovation, elles sont en général coûteuses pour les firmes qui y sont soumises.
THE ARCUATE NUCLEUS OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS IN THE POST-INTENSIVE CARE PERIOD AFTER 10 MINUTES OF CLINICAL DEATH
Creators: name: Karabaev Aminjon Gadaevich  MD, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Physiology, Samarkand State Medical University, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The mechanism of development of post-intensive care disease remains one of the urgent problems of intensive care in the world. The stress reaction that occurs in the body under the influence of extreme factors is not a separate process. First of all, this process is ensured by individual adaptation at the level of the autonomous nervous and neuroendocrine systems of the body. At the same time, in the post-intensive care period, changes in the relationship of hormones of the reproductive system remain a little-studied problem of modern fundamental and clinical medicine. The object of the study was 80 mongrel, white, sexually mature female rats with a weight of 160-180 g., in which the state of clinical death and post-resuscitation disease was modeled according to the method of V.G.Korpachev (1982). The relationship of morphofunctional changes in the NSC of the hypothalamus ARYA with the reactivity of the ANS during clinical death and I-II-III-IV-V stages and long-term periods (1 and 3 months) of post-intensive care disease was determined when modeling 10-minute clinical death.
IMPACTOS POTENCIAIS DA AGRICULTURA DE PRECISÃO SOBRE A ECONOMIA BRASILEIRA
Creators: name: Costa, Cinthia Cabral Da
name: Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins
name: Costa, Cinthia Cabral Da
name: Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: employment
subject: GDP
subject: precision agriculture
subject: productivity
subject: input-output
subject: emprego
subject: PIB
subject: agricultura de precisão
subject: produtividade
subject: insumoproduto

description: O objetivo deste estudo foi estimar o impacto potencial da adoção das principais técnicas de agricultura de precisão na agricultura brasileira sobre fatores econômicos do país. Para isso, inicialmente realizou-se uma revisão bibliográfica dos principais resultados advindos das técnicas de agricultura de precisão. Para simular os impactos destas técnicas na agricultura brasileira, foi considerado o potencial da atividade agrícola que pode ser beneficiada por estas tecnologias para os produtos cana-de-açúcar, milho e soja. Em seguida, os impactos sobre toda a economia foram analisados utilizando a matriz insumo-produto do país. Observou-se que um cenário de aumento de 10% na produtividade destas culturas, com ou sem redução ou aumento de fertilizantes, poderia aumentar em cerca de R$11 bilhões o PIB da economia brasileira e gerar mais de 450 mil empregos. Em contrapartida, um cenário em que ocorre apenas redução no uso de fertilizantes não mostrou impactos econômicos favoráveis, considerando toda a economia do país, embora os benefícios ambientais possam sempre estar presentes......The aim of this study is to measure the potential impact in the Brazilian economy due to an increase in the use precision agriculture. Initially, it makes a literature review about the main advantages of using precision agriculture as compared to the tradition techniques. To estimate the potential impacts of the precision agriculture, first, it is defined the cultures which would most benefit from it, after which, and by using input-output techniques, the impacts over GDP and employment were estimated. The cultures analyzed were: sugarcane, corn and soybeans. It was observed that a scenario of a 10% increase in productivity of all these three crops, with or without reduction or increase in fertilizer, would result in an increased about R$ 11 billion in Brazilian GDP and more than 450.000 new jobs. A scenario in which only the use of fertilizers is reduced did not show any significant economic impacts, however, it should be stressed that this work did not take into consideration the positive environmental impacts which would result from the reduction in the use of fertilizers
An accurate and time-parallel rational exponential integrator for hyperbolic and oscillatory PDEs
Creators: name: Caliari, Marco
name: Einkemmer, Lukas
name: Moriggl, Alexander
name: Ostermann, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Rational exponential integrators (REXI) are a class of numerical methods that are well suited for the time integration of linear partial differential equations with imaginary eigenvalues. Since these methods can be parallelized in time (in addition to the spatial parallelization that is commonly performed) they are well suited to exploit modern high performance computing systems. In this paper, we propose a novel REXI scheme that drastically improves accuracy and efficiency. The chosen approach will also allow us to easily determine how many terms are required in the approximation in order to obtain accurate results. We provide comparative numerical simulations for a shallow water equation that highlight the efficiency of our approach and demonstrate that REXI schemes can be efficiently implemented on graphic processing units.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Journal of Computational Physics
AMAZÔNIA PÓS-CÓDIGO FLORESTAL E PÓSRIO + 20, NOVOS DESAFIOS
Creators: name: Homma, Alfredo Kingo Oyama
name: Homma, Alfredo Kingo Oyama
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Amazon
subject: agricultural development
subject: agricultural policy
subject: environment policy
subject: Amazônia
subject: desenvolvimento agrícola
subject: política agrícola
subject: política ambiental

description: Dar atenção para as áreas com florestas, que representam 83% da Amazônia, ou para os 17% já desmatados, constitui o atual dilema político. A ênfase na biodiversidade como a grande opção futura para a Amazônia carrega equívocos na busca futurística de produtos, esquecendo a biodiversidade do passado e do presente, na qual estão as grandes oportunidades. As atuais políticas do REDD seriam adequadas na geração de tecnologias apropriadas do que a de criar um assistencialismo ambiental. A redução dos desmatamentos e das queimadas precisa estar acompanhada da incorporação do mesmo montante de áreas já desmatadas no passado sob o risco de prejudicar as atividades produtivas da Amazônia......Paying attention to forested areas that represent 83% of the Amazon or to the 17% already deforested areas is the current political dilemma. The emphasis on biodiversity as the great future option for the Amazon carry mistakes in the search of futuristic products, forgetting the biodiversity of the past and present, where the big opportunities are. The current policies of REDD would be appropriate in the generation of suitable technologies that create an environmental welfare. Reducing deforestation and burning must be accompanied by the incorporation of the same amount of already deforested areas at risk of harming the productive activities of the Amazon
Shear viscosity of superfluid 3He-A_1 at low temperatures
Creators: name: Shahzamanian, M. A.
name: Afzali, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The shear viscosity tensor of the A_1-phase of superfluid 3He is calculated at low temperatures and melting pressure, by using Boltzmann equation approach. The two normal and superfluid components take part in elements of the shear viscosity tensor differently. The interaction between normal and Bogoliubov quasiparticles in the collision integrals is considered in the binary, decay and coalescence processes. We show that the elements of the shear viscosities $η_{xy}$, $η_{xz}$ and $η_{zz}$ are proportional to $(T/T_c)^{-2}$. The constant of proportionality is in nearly good agreement with the experimental results of Roobol et al.
description: 16 pages, some typos were corrected
title: Sorgen und Proteste auf dem Land
title: Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung aktueller Bauernproteste
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Heinze, Rolf G.
name: Bieckmann, Rabea
name: Küchler, Armin
name: Kurtenbach, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Seit einiger Zeit erregen Bäuerinnen und Bauern in Deutschland durch Proteste und Blockaden immer wieder öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit. Die Forderungen und Anliegen, die mit den Protesten durchgesetzt werden sollen, sind vielfältig und scheinen zunächst konträr. Zur Erfassung der Hintergründe der Proteste und der zugrundeliegenden Sorgen wurde eine quantitative Online-Befragung im landwirtschaftlichen Protestmilieu durchgeführt (n = 603), deren empirische Ergebnisse in dieser vorab veröffentlichten Kurzfassung vorgestellt werden. Die Daten enthalten dabei u. a. Informationen zu den Teilnehmenden und deren sozioökonomischen Hintergründen, den Beweggründen und Formen der Beteiligung, den Forderungen, den politischen Orientierungen und der Protestorganisation. Zudem werden Fragen für weitergehende Untersuchungen abgeleitet.
AVALIAÇÃO DE IMPACTOS E ADAPTAÇÃO ÀS MUDANÇAS CLIMÁTICAS: MODELOS DE ANÁLISE DO SETOR AGRÍCOLA
Creators: name: Cunha, Dênis Antônio Da
name: Cunha, Dênis Antônio Da
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate Change
subject: Agricultural Sector
subject: Adaptation
subject: Alternative Methodologies
subject: Mudanças Climáticas
subject: Setor Agrícola
subject: Adaptação
subject: Metodologias Alternativas

description: A maior parte dos estudos socioeconômicos que tratam das mudanças climáticas procura explicar qual é o custo associado a esse fenômeno, considerando os diferentes cenários propostos para o futuro. Tratando especificamente do setor agrícola, a literatura é diversificada e apresenta resultados distintos. Essas diferenças se devem, principalmente, aos métodos alternativos de análise, às condições climáticas tomadas como base, às previsões de crescimento econômico e aos cenários climáticos considerados. Neste artigo, procurou-se organizar essa literatura em duas abordagens principais. Uma delas procura entender o impacto sobre o setor agrícola, desconsiderando, ou apenas incluindo, implicitamente, as estratégias adaptativas; a segunda abordagem modela explicitamente a adaptação, analisando seu potencial de mitigar os efeitos negativos das mudanças climáticas. Concluiu-se que, mesmo havendo diferenças de entendimento sobre a forma de mensurar os impactos, a maior parte dos estudos prevê que as nações em desenvolvimento serão as mais afetadas negativamente pelos efeitos das mudanças climáticas globais......Most socioeconomic studies that address climate change aims to explain what is the cost associated with this phenomenon, considering the different scenarios proposed for the future. Taking account specifically the agricultural sector, the literature is quite diverse and presents different results. These differences are mainly due to alternative methods of analysis, climatic conditions, the economic growth outlooks, and climate scenarios used. In this paper I tried to summarize this literature into two major approaches. The first one aims to understand the impact on the agricultural sector, disregarding, or only implicitly including, the adaptive strategies; the second approach is able to model explicitly the adaptation, analyzing their potential to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. It was concluded that, even with differences of understanding on how to measure the impacts, most studies predicts that developing countries will be the most negatively affected by global climate change effects
All-optical switching of magnetic domains in Co/Gd heterostructures with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
Creators: name: Cao, Anni
name: van Hees, Youri L. W.
name: Lavrijsen, Reinoud
name: Zhao, Weisheng
name: Koopmans, Bert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given the development of hybrid spintronic-photonic devices and chiral magnetic structures, a combined interest in all-optical switching (AOS) of magnetization and current-induced domain wall motion in synthetic ferrimagnetic structures with strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) is emerging. In this study, we report a study on single-pulse all-optical toggle switching and asymmetric bubble expansion in specially engineered Co/Gd-based multilayer structures. In the absence of any external magnetic fields, we look into the AOS properties and the potential role of the DMI on the AOS process as well as the stability of optically written micro-magnetic domains. Particularly, interesting dynamics are observed in moon-shaped structures written by two successive laser pulses. The stability of domains resulting from an interplay of the dipolar interaction and domain-wall energy are compared to simple analytical models and micromagnetic simulations.
Influential friends? : impact of social context on young women’s pain expressions
Creators: name: Wang, Tina Chi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Research examining social influences on pain has largely neglected the impact of friends, while studies on the social context of emotional display have demonstrated differences in expressivity in the presence of friends versus strangers. Given that pain is a universal phenomenon with both affective and sensory components, it appeared important to merge and extend research in both pain and emotions domains by examining the role of friends as determinants of pain experience and expression. An experimental investigation was undertaken to examine the impact of friendship, as a feature of audience effects and social modeling, on pain expression, as well as to examine the impact of menstrual factors that have been hypothesized to contribute to young women's current pain experience. Participants were female undergraduate students from the University of British Columbia. They were randomly assigned to undergo the cold pressor task with either a friend or a stranger, resulting in 52 pairs of friends and 52 pairs of strangers. Half of the participants had been exposed to the friend or stranger undertaking the task in advance of their own exposure to the cold pressor, so as to examine social modeling phenomenon. Measures of pain expression included self-rated pain intensity and unpleasantness, behavioural tolerance time, and facial pain activity. Robust social modeling effects were observed in all measures of pain, with the bulk of the modeling effect being expression modality-specific. A differential social modeling effect of friends vs. strangers was observed only in pain facial activity. Women's dysmenorrhea status and its severity, when evident, were unrelated to current pain expression. The presence of friends significantly facilitated expression of disgust but no significant group differences were observed for other emotions. Results are discussed from social communication model of pain and evolutionary perspectives and highlight individuals' apparent innate propensity to evaluate the costs and benefits associated with social communication. Future research is needed to elucidate factors that influence the transmission and reception of social information.
Content-question words in Gija conversations - 2024 - Caroline de Dear
Creators: name: DE DEAR, Caroline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 440105
subject: Linguistic anthropology
classificationCode: 470405
subject: Discourse and pragmatics

description: This study uses conversation analytic methods to examine how content-question words are used to perform three essential social practices: other-initiations of repair, information requests, and word-searches. It uses 3 hours of data to document and describe language use among elderly speakers of Gija, an endangered Australian Aboriginal language from Warmun, Western Australia. The study investigates how grammatical gender is used flexibly in a language ecology that also features Kriol. Findings show how content-question words organise a range of interactional units, and how gender agreement connects turn-components across potentially long stretches of talk.
On certain multiplicity one theorems
Creators: name: Adler, Jeffrey D.
name: Prasad, Dipendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E50; 11F70

description: We prove several multiplicity one theorems in this paper. For k a local field not of characteristic two, and V a symplectic space over k, any irreducible admissible representation of the symplectic similitude group GSp(V) decomposes with multiplicity one when restricted to the symplectic group Sp(V). We prove the analogous result for GO(V) and O(V), where V is an orthogonal space over k. When k is non-archimedean, we prove the uniqueness of Fourier-Jacobi models for representations of GSp(4), and the existence of such models for supercuspidal representations of GSp(4).
title: Small noise spectral analysis for a bistable system in large dimensions
Creators: name: Brooks, Morris
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory
subject: Functional inequalities
subject: Stochastic partial differential equations
subject: Small noise asymptotics
subject: Metastability

description: In this thesis, I am studying the convergence rate to equilibrium of the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation, in the limit of vanishing noise. This convergence rate can be quantified by the spectral gap of the associated diffusion operator. It will be our primary goal, to compute the asymptotic behaviour of the spectral gap for the discretized version of the Allen-Cahn equation, with error terms uniformly controlled in the parameter N of the discrete model.
Momentum distribution in heavy deformed nuclei: role of effective mass
Creators: name: Nesterenko, V. O.
name: Likhachev, V. P.
name: Reinhard, P. -G.
name: Pashkevich, V. V.
name: Kleinig, W.
name: Mesa, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of nuclear deformation on the momentum distributions (MD) of occupied proton states in $^{238}$U is studied with a phenomenological Woods-Saxon (WS) shell model and the self-consistent Skyrme-Hartree-Fock (SHF) scheme. Four Skyrme parameterizations (SkT6, SkM*, SLy6, SkI3) with different effective masses are used. The calculations reveal significant deformation effects in the low-momentum domain of $K^π=1/2^{\pm}$ states, mainly of those lying near the Fermi surface. For other states, the deformation effect on MD is rather small and may be neglected. The most remarkable result is that the very different Skyrme parameterizations and the WS potential give about identical MD. This means that the value of effective mass, being crucial for the description of the spectra, is not important for the spatial shape of the wave functions and thus for the MD. In general, it seems that, for the description of MD at $0\le k \le 300$ MeV/c, one may use any single-particle scheme (phenomenological or self-consistent) fitted properly to the global ground state properties.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
DE DEAR - Thesis - AUGUST2024.pdf
Creators: name: DE DEAR, Caroline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 440105
subject: Linguistic anthropology
classificationCode: 470405
subject: Discourse and pragmatics

description: This study uses conversation analytic methods to examine how content-question words are used to perform three essential social practices: other-initiations of repair, information requests, and word-searches. It uses 3 hours of data to document and describe language use among elderly speakers of Gija, an endangered Australian Aboriginal language from Warmun, Western Australia. The study investigates how grammatical gender is used flexibly in a language ecology that also features Kriol. Findings show how content-question words organise a range of interactional units, and how gender agreement connects turn-components across potentially long stretches of talk.
Server-side Fingerprint-Based Indoor Localization Using Encrypted Sorting
Creators: name: Quijano, Andrew
name: Akkaya, Kemal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: GPS signals, the main origin of navigation, are not functional in indoor environments. Therefore, Wi-Fi access points have started to be increasingly used for localization and tracking inside the buildings by relying on a fingerprint-based approach. However, with these types of approaches, several concerns regarding the privacy of the users have arisen. Malicious individuals can determine a client's daily habits and activities by simply analyzing their wireless signals. While there are already efforts to incorporate privacy into the existing fingerprint-based approaches, they are limited to the characteristics of the homomorphic cryptographic schemes they employed. In this paper, we propose to enhance the performance of these approaches by exploiting another homomorphic algorithm, namely DGK, with its unique encrypted sorting capability and thus pushing most of the computations to the server side. We developed an Android app and tested our system within a Columbia University dormitory. Compared to existing systems, the results indicated that more power savings can be achieved at the client side and DGK can be a viable option with more powerful server computation capabilities.
description: This paper was presented in the IEEE MASS REU workshop, 2019, Monterrey, CA
The discovery of hard X-ray emission in the persistent flux of the Rapid Burster
Creators: name: Falanga, M.
name: Farinelli, R.
name: Goldoni, P.
name: Frontera, F.
name: Goldwurm, A.
name: Stella, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first detection with INTEGRAL of persistent hard X-ray emission (20 to 100 keV) from the Rapid Burster (MXB 1730-335), and describe its full spectrum from 3 to 100 keV. The source was detected on February/March 2003 during one of its recurrent outbursts. The source was clearly detected with a high signal to noise ratio during the single pointings and is well distinguished from the neighboring source GX 354-0. The 3 - 100 keV X-ray spectrum of the persistent emission is well described by a two-component model consisting of a blackbody plus a power-law with photon index ~ 2.4. The estimated luminosity was ~ 8.5x10^{36} erg/s in the 3 - 20 keV energy band and \~ 1.3x10^{36} erg/s in the 20 - 100 keV energy range, for a distance of 8 kpc.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 1 of Shufeng Jiedu capsules for treating acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Xia, Ru-Yu
name: Hu, Xiao-Yang
name: Fei, Yu-Tong
name: Willcox, Merlin
name: Ling-Zi Wen
name: Ming-Kun Yu
name: Zhang, Li-Shan
name: Meng-Yuan Dai
name: Fei, Guang-He
name: Thomas, Mike
name: Francis, Nick
name: Wilkinson, Tom
name: Moore, Michael
name: Liu, Jian-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Herbal compositions of Shufeng Jiedu capsule. Table 2. Definitions of treatment failure in 11 trials. Table 3. Subgroup analyses and sensitivity analyses for treatment failure with Shufeng Jiedu for AECOPD patients. Figure 1. Impact of Shufeng Jiedu capsule on treatment failure in AECOPD patients stratified by mode of administration of antibiotics. Figure 2. Impact of Shufeng Jiedu on treatment failure in AECOPD patients stratified by complications. Figure 3. Impact of Shufeng Jiedu on treatment failure in AECOPD patients stratified by clear or unclear randomization concealment. Figure 4. Impact of Shufeng Jiedu on treatment failure in AECOPD patients stratified by reported loss to follow up or not reported. Figure 5. Impact of Shufeng Jiedu on treatment failure in AECOPD patients used worst plausible assumptions of patients lost to follow up or not used. Figure 6. Impact of Shufeng Jiedu on duration of hospital stay (days) in AECOPD patients. Table 4. Certainty in the estimates rated according to the GRADE.
Transfer of single farm payment entitlements to farm successors: impact on structural change and rental prices in Switzerland
Creators: name: Mack, Gabriele
name: Möhring, Anke
name: Ferjani, Ali
name: Zimmermann, Albert
name: Mann, Stefan
name: Mack, Gabriele
name: Möhring, Anke
name: Ferjani, Ali
name: Zimmermann, Albert
name: Mann, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: rental market
subject: agent-based modelling
subject: agricultural sector model
subject: structural change
subject: single farm payments
subject: farm succession

description: This paper analyses the impact of tradable and non-tradable single farm payment (SFP) entitlements for farm successors on structural change and the lease market. Using the example of Swiss agriculture, the effects on rental-price trends and farm-exit rates are investigated. An ex-ante normative impact analysis is performed with the agent-based agricultural-sector model SWISSland, which simulates structural change processes and income trends in Swiss agriculture over a period of up to 15 years. A land market implemented at municipality level simulates the plot-by-plot leasing of land to surrounding neighbouring agents that is common in Switzerland. Allocation of plots to tenants as well as lease pricing is modelled taking into account the farm-specific land rents. The results show that personalised SFP entitlements which could not be transferred to a farm successor not only cause an intensification of structural change, but would also thus lead to a substantial reduction in rental prices. SFP entitlements which were successfully transferred to farm successors have only a slight impact on structural change and the rental prices of arable land. Only for grassland in the mountain region does a stronger shift result in a significant reduction in rental prices.
title: Молекулярно-генетические изменения ткани червеобразного отростка детей с COVID-19
Creators: name: Демяшкин, Григорий
name: Цибулевский, Александр
name: Горохов, Констанстин
name: Никитин, Павел
name: Зорин, Илья
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Стремительная диссеминация SARS-CoV-2 привела к более 54 миллионам случаев инфицирования и около 1,3 миллионов смертей. SARS-CoV-2 может поражать почки, сердце, кишечник, легкие и другие органы. Вопрос о влиянии SARS-CoV-2 на слизистую червеобразного отростка у детей остается открытым. Цель исследования — оценка молекулярно-генетического профиля цитологических процессов в ткани червеобразного отростка у детей с COVID-19. Фрагменты червеобразных отростков детей с подтвержденным COVID-19 (n = 24) были изучены методом полимеразной цепной реакции в режиме реального времени для определения экспрессии вирусной РНК SARS-CoV-2 и генов, кодирующих белковые комплексы: АПФ-2 и Фурина. У пациентов, пораженных COVID-19, было зафиксировано наличие генетического материала коронавируса в червеобразном отростке. Кроме того, в ткани выявлена повышенная экспрессия АПФ-2 и Фурина, что определяет благоприятные условия для поражения SARS-CoV-2. По результатам ПЦР-РВ на SARS-CoV-2, оценки экспрессии АПФ-2 и Фурина, можно с большой вероятностью утверждать о вирусной нагрузке в червеобразном отростке у детей.
Heterogeneous preferences for water rights reforms among smallholder irrigators in South Africa
Creators: name: Speelman, Stijn
name: Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan
name: Speelman, Stijn
name: Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: choice modelling
subject: latent class model
subject: water rights reforms
subject: smallholder irrigators
subject: South-Africa

description: In the light of growing water scarcity appropriate institutional arrangements are needed to complement technical interventions, in order to ensure more efficient use and allocation of water in agriculture. A theoretically interesting institutional intervention is the installation or improvement of water rights, but the benefits of such intervention and their distribution are insufficiently researched. This paper contributes to the water rights literature by applying a state-of-the-art valuation method to a case study in South Africa. Using a latent class choice modelling approach the heterogeneity in the benefits generated by changes in water rights is investigated. Two segments could be distinguished in the sample population. While one of the segments has a lot to gain from a water rights reform, benefits for the other seem rather limited. Furthermore they clearly differ in preference for specific improvements. Such considerations should be taken into account in policy design.
Dynamical singlets and correlation-assisted Peierls transition in VO2
Creators: name: Biermann, S.
name: Poteryaev, A.
name: Lichtenstein, A. I.
name: Georges, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theory of the metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide from the high-temperature rutile to the low- temperature monoclinic phase is proposed on the basis of cluster dynamical mean field theory, in conjunction with the density functional scheme. The interplay of strong electronic Coulomb interactions and structural distortions, in particular the dimerization of vanadium atoms in the low temperature phase, plays a crucial role. We find that VO2 is not a conventional Mott insulator, but that the formation of dynamical V-V singlet pairs due to strong Coulomb correlations is necessary to trigger the opening of a Peierls gap.
description: 5 pages
Towards a Robust WiFi-based Fall Detection with Adversarial Data Augmentation
Creators: name: Nguyen, Tuan-Duy H.
name: Nguyen, Huu-Nghia H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Recent WiFi-based fall detection systems have drawn much attention due to their advantages over other sensory systems. Various implementations have achieved impressive progress in performance, thanks to machine learning and deep learning techniques. However, many of such high accuracy systems have low reliability as they fail to achieve robustness in unseen environments. To address that, this paper investigates a method of generalization through adversarial data augmentation. Our results show a slight improvement in deep learning-systems in unseen domains, though the performance is not significant.
description: Will appear in Proceedings of the 54th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS2020)
Non-Markovian Stochastic Resonance of Light in a Microcavity
Creators: name: Peters, K. J. H.
name: Geng, Z.
name: Malmir, K.
name: Smith, J. M.
name: Rodriguez, S. R. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first observation of non-Markovian stochastic resonance, i.e., noise-assisted amplification of a periodic signal in a system with memory. Our system is an oil-filled optical microcavity which, driven by a continuous wave laser, has memory in its nonlinear optical response. By modulating the cavity length while adding noise to the driving laser, we observe a peak in the transmitted signal-to-noise ratio as a function of the noise variance. Our experimental observations are reproduced by numerical simulations, which further reveal that the stochastic resonance bandwidth is enlarged by the memory time of the nonlinearity. This frequency range available for noise-assisted amplification is $10^8$ times greater in our oil-filled cavity than in a Kerr nonlinear cavity. Our results pave the way for exploring the interplay of nonlinearity, noise, and memory, in oil-filled cavity arrays, where non-Markovian dynamics could enhance noise-assisted transport and synchronization effects.
description: 10 pages, of which 4 are supplemental material. 10 figures total